Advancing Gender Research from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries

Introduction: Advancing gender research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
Witch hunts and enlightenment: Harriet Martineau's critical reflections on Salem.
Harriet Martineau's Irish romance: The Lady Oracle and the Young Repealer.
Harriet Martineau and the sociology of health: England and her soldiers.
Harriet Martineau: The forerunner of cultural studies.
Some things are not negotiable: Gender, sovereignty, and Poland's integration into the European Union.
Breaking their way in: women jockeys at the racetrack in Brazil.
Exercising social power: The case of marriage.
Evangelicals, invested individualism and gender.
Fundamentalist feminists spar with the patriarchy: Interpretive strategies of Israeli rabbinic court pleaders.
Surviving widowhood: Gender and race effects on health-related coping strategies.
Re-examining the meanings of childbirth: Beyond gender and the "Natural" versus "Medical" dichotomy.
Redefining "reproductive rights": An ecofeminist perspective on in vitro fertilization, egg markets and surrogate motherhood.
How advertising for psychotropics constructs an enhanced gendered self.
About the Authors.
Acknowledgment.
Information for Authors.
Advances In Gender Research.
Advancing Gender Research from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries.
List of Contributors.
Subject Index.
Copyright page.

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• Os estudos de gênero, grupos de gênero