VOLUME 5(1) • 2015
THE BOOMERANG EFFECT OF LIBERAL ABORTION LAWS IN PATRIARCHAL SOCIETIES: THE CASE OF GENDER BIASED SEX-SELECTION IN THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN
ABSTRACT. The women are still facing many challenges while exercising their civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights despite the series of concerted efforts undertaken by the international community within the last half a century to ensure better protection and promotion of women’s hum..
GANGSTA RAP LYRICS AND EARLY CHILDHOOD CRUELTIES: ARE THESE ARTISTS SEARCHING FOR ENLIGHTENED WITNESSES AND SEEKING TO REVEAL THE REAL TRUTH OF BLACK MOTHER-SON LOVE?
ABSTRACT. Author argues that few writers, feminists, and cultural commentators have actually understood why gangsta rap artists vilify women, especially blacks, with demeaning lyrics, often decrying words that wound as patriarchal oppression. Such critiques deny access to the deeper, more repressed ..
GENDER ROLE BELIEFS AND ATTITUDES TOWARD ABORTION: A CROSS-NATIONAL EXPLORATION
ABSTRACT. In this exploratory study of mass opinion, the following question is addressed: Given the importance of gender role attitudes in elite-level discourse on abortion, why is the relationship between gender role egalitarianism and support for abortion so weak at the level of mass opinion. This..
SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND POVERTY IN THE UK: A REVIEW AND TOP-LINE FINDINGS FROM THE UK HOUSEHOLD LONGITUDINAL STUDY
ABSTRACT. Is there a link between sexuality and poverty in the UK? If so, has this relationship changed over time? This review synthesizes British and international literature while adding top-line findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) to address these questions. It focuses not o..