Research Catalog

Title

Engendering difference : sexism, power and politics / edited by Michelle Gadpaille, Vesna Kondrič Horvat and Victor Kennedy.

Publication

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

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Additional Authors

• Gadpaille, Michelle
• Horvat, Vesna Kondrič
• Kennedy, Victor

Description

xi, 307 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"Constructing difference where there should be none is the main subject of this collection of essays about gender and its cultural manifestations and representations. From the pronouns we use, through the titles and positions we hold in our workplaces, to the more salient issues concerning abuse of power and exertion of violence, gender runs as a seemingly inevitable divide. This volume addresses the continuing relevance of the quest to diminish that gap, from the perspectives of literature, language, film, law, employment, aging and agency, both social and political." -- Publisher's description

Subjects

• Sex differences
• Gender expression
• Gender identity
• Sex role

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Božidar Kante -- Verbal and physical harassment: the power of word and the word of power / Božidar Kante -- "Hawk's shadow": confronting the signs and the significance of sexual predation on U.S. college campuses and beyond / Sarah Wyman -- Gender and the polis in Aristophanes / Jeff Miller -- Women and science: feminist shifts in theory and practice / Valerija Vendramin -- The projected effect of banning public face coverings on the quality of life among veiled Muslim women in Slovenia / Maja Pucelj -- Ethnic minority women in decision-making positions in Serbian academia--illusion or reality? / Karolina Lendák-Kabók -- The female face of academia in Kazakhstan: attrition among male staff / Anastassiya Lipovka -- Gender fluidity in Ruby Rose's "break free" / Matea Lacmanović -- The absence of grey-haired women / Nataša Pivec -- Beyond patriarchal historiography: Swiss literary history before and after 1971 / Vesna Kondrič Horvat -- "Liebe is immer gut": lesbian identities and sexuality in GDR literature / Sina Meissgeier -- Body and aging: (re)lighting old age stereotypes in Dubravka Ugrešić's Baba Yaga laid an egg / Ana Penjak -- The role of women in fictional terrorist organizations / Špela Logar -- Gender issues in Roald Dahl's novel Matilda / Ester Vidović and Silvia Vidović -- Gender and political correctness in Slovenian translation / Barbara Majcenovič Kline -- Alternative personal pronouns: progress for transgender people or regression for all? / Tina Ritlop -- Less difference: taking gender critique to the non-western world / Michelle Gadpaille -- Gender-related issues in Minnan district: No more than skin by Cai Chongda and an on-line attitudes survey / Xiofang Liu -- Two women, two ways: Medea and Qin Xianglian / Yili Luo.

Call Number

JFD 18-3342

ISBN

• 1527509192
• 9781527509191

OCLC

1031455317

Title

Engendering difference : sexism, power and politics / edited by Michelle Gadpaille, Vesna Kondrič Horvat and Victor Kennedy.

Publisher

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Gadpaille, Michelle, editor.

Horvat, Vesna Kondrič, editor.

Kennedy, Victor, editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 18-3342