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“A battle between lust and loathing”: The interplay between masculinity and femininity in Zakes Mda’s The Madonna of Excelsior

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2017
In this essay the emphasis is on the interplay between masculinity and femininity and in particular that of white masculinity versus black femininity, as well as the role played by black female sexuality in the formation of masculine identity in a rural ...
Marius Crous
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Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership,
Maya Maor, Nehemia Stern, Guy Nagar, Uzi Ben Shalom   +3 more
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Female Facial Appearance and Health

Evolutionary Psychology, 2012
The current study addressed whether rated femininity, attractiveness, and health in female faces are associated with numerous indices of self-reported health history (number of colds/stomach bugs/frequency of antibiotic use) in a sample of 105 females ...
Alan W. Gray, Lynda G. Boothroyd
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Colonial and gendered peace: Decolonial perspectives on peace in Nagorno‐Karabakh

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critically interrogates peace processes in the aftermath of the First Nagorno‐Karabakh War by centering the lived experiences and political voices of Armenian and Azerbaijani internally displaced and refugee women, based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews conducted in 2019.
Ramil Zamanov
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MASCULINITY/FEMININITY AS A GENDER CHARACTERISTIC IN THE PREDICTION OF VARIOUS PERSONALITY DEPENDENCES

Social Inquiry into Well-Being
This article examines the results of research on the relationship between the tendency towards various addictions and masculinity/femininity as gender characteristics of the individual.
Iryna Pospelova
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Weaving strength and care: Situated reflections on women's work and the epistemology of care in biological anthropology

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay examines how gendered expectations, structural precarity, and institutional hierarchies shape research practices, knowledge production, and career trajectories in biological anthropology. Taking the figure of the “strong woman” as an entry point, it questions celebratory narratives of resilience that frame endurance as an individual
Lumila Paula Menéndez
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Who is a responsible woman? Understanding the scope and characteristics of responsible womanhood amongst women in Karachi

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we will construct and analyze intersecting definitions of womanhood among middle‐class women living in Karachi, Pakistan. Women are agents of their lives and are not passive voices. In this paper, we present narratives of women who resist “societal” narratives of womanhood to live a life of their choosing.
Urooba Ahmed Fatima, Kathryn B. H. Clancy, Alexandra Brewis, Neetu Choudhary, Mohammad Jobayer Hossain, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Sarah Trainer, Amber Wutich   +7 more
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The Fragile Home of a Precarious Girl: A Butlerian Study of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. Part Two [PDF]

Dialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și Literatură
This section of the article consists of three analytic discussions (“Illusion,” “Unemployment,” “Absence of a Father Figure”) and further probes into social and cultural factors that make the protagonist of Williams’s play precarious in Butlerian sense ...
Ladan Farah BAKHSH
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Practice adoption in MNCS: A multi‐level interactionist model of trait activation

Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Sharing knowledge through organizational practices is an important source of advantage for multinational corporations (MNCs). While prior research on practice adoption by subsidiaries of MNCs has identified several individual and organizational factors, this study examines their interplay in the context of HQ‐mandated ...
Sven Kunisch, Ulrich Leicht‐Deobald, Tomi Laamanen, Adrian Schulte Steinberg, Björn Ambos   +4 more
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Autoimmune Hashimoto's Disease and Feminization Level—Testing

Evolutionary Psychology
Morphological femininity depends mainly on estrogen levels at puberty and is perceived as a cue of a woman's biological condition. Due to the immunostimulant properties of estradiol, estradiol-dependent feminine traits are expected to be positively ...
Malwina Goździk, Agnieszka Żelaźniewicz, Judyta Nowak-Kornicka, Katarzyna Pawłowska-Seredyńska, Wioleta Umławska, Bogusław Pawłowski   +5 more
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