In line with Connell [ 22], the paper acknowledges the 'crisis in masculinity' and sees it as also arising from the heterogeneous and contradictory configurations of gender.
While much writing has explored how place shapes health (6, 11, 12, 29), little has considered how the public nature of life in urban informal settlements and the lack of private spaces may contribute to certain configurations of gender practices emerging.
Domestic abuse occurs in different relationship configurations, irrespective of gender or sexuality [ 4].
There are also other three factors that affect learners' interactional exchanges in peer review, two of which are gender and configuration of peer review dyads that were identified and reported in two different studies, while the third factor, context of peer review, was analyzed by us.
These various configurations of religion, politics, gender and power point to the complexity of the issues she raises – and the book gives little sense of how greatly they vary geographically and historically.
Another argument is that in informal settlements there is less social cohesion, caused by poverty and mobility, creating less stable forms of power, in which violence becomes a necessary resource to wield as previously stable configurations of power – particularly gender power – get challenged (3, 11).
Using two Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) algorithms, ALSCAL and PREFMAP analysis, the perceptual space of user blog interface preferences was plotted to explore the hidden perceptual configuration of users as well as examine gender related ideal points.
However, peer interactional feedback is affected by several factors: training learners on feedback, mode of peer review, type of written tasks, learners' roles in peer review activties, learners' proficiency in English and other factors, including learners' gender differences and configuration of peer review dyads as well as context of peer review.
The concept of hegemonic masculinity is part of a theory of gender order proposed by R.W. Connell, and it can be defined as any current configuration of practices that legitimize men's dominant position and justify the subordination of women and other marginalized men.
