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Engendered Representations: Exploring Sexuality through Symbols and Myths
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2009 This article reflects the findings of a project that was conducted by the Institute for Women s and Gender Studies at the University of Pretoria. In particular, the project sought to dialogue with religious and cultural leaders on the taboos, myths ...
Rory du Plessis, Marinda Maree
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Al-Adabiya: Jurnal Kebudayaan dan Keagamaan, 2022 The endeavor of the present study is to describe the impacts of covid-19 on the life of eunuchs (hijra) in district Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan. In order to investigate the impacts of covid-19 on the life of eunuch’s in-depth interviews were performed on
Darya Khan Sanjrani +5 more
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Bumbling idiots or evil masterminds? Challenging cold war stereotypes about women, sexuality and state socialism [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2016 In academic writing, facts about the past generally require the citation of relevant sources unless the fact or idea is considered “common knowledge:” bits of information or dates upon which there is a wide scholarly consensus.
Ghodsee Kristen, Lišková Kateřina
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Impact of Civic Responsibility on Decision to Vote among Adults
Journal of Research in Social Sciences, 2022 Globally, the engagement of citizens in civic responsibility and politics is considered critical for the nurturance of democratic culture. In this context, this study was conducted to understand the citizens’ attitude toward civic responsibility and the ...
Heeba Nashmena +2 more
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African Journal of Disability, 2018 Background: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities came into place in 2006, as the main instrument for advancing the human rights of persons with disabilities.
Cowen Dziva +2 more
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Gender Inflected or Bias Inflicted: On Using Grammatical Gender Cues for Bias Evaluation in Machine Translation [PDF]
, 2023 Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models are state-of-the-art for machine translation. However, these models are known to have various social biases, especially gender bias. Most of the work on evaluating gender bias in NMT has focused primarily on English as the source language.
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Discourse analysis of gender equality and non-discrimination laws and strategies [PDF]
Temida, 2017 Based on the contemporary research on gender and language, using the method of discourse analysis applied to the laws and policies, this article explains how certain linguistic practice, in the context of the administrative discourse, produces ...
Antonijević Zorana, Beker Kosana
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Adolescents’ sexual health: Elucidating the paradoxical influence of Christianity in School Sexuality Education Programmes in King Cetshwayo District, South Africa [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2023 Despite the implementation of a school-based sexuality education programme meant to promote learners' sexual and reproductive health (SRH), the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STI) and teenage pregnancy is increasing rapidly in South Africa.
Ayobami Precious Adekola +1 more
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Gender and Robots: A Literature Review [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Here, I ask what we can learn about how gender affects how people engage with robots. I review 46 empirical studies of social robots, published 2018 or earlier, which report on the gender of their participants or the perceived or intended gender of the robot, or both, and perform some analysis with respect to either participant or robot gender.
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