Sentence examples for gender understandings from inspiring English sources

The power of symbolic orders to invoke and reinscribe implicit gender understandings works in varied and complex ways, as shown in studies by Bynum (1986), Fulkerson (1994), and Hollywood (1995, 2002).

Although her activism and accomplishments were widely lauded by her contemporaries, Addams' work was mapped onto conventional gender understandings: male philosophers such as John Dewey, William James, and George Herbert Mead were regarded as providing original progressive thought while Addams was seen as brilliantly administering their theories.

During the British colonization of India (which then included Pakistan and Bangladesh), rulers suppressed the fluidity of gender understanding and outlawed all such practices in their territories.

This section undertakes a gender understanding of cleaning the available shared sanitation facilities.

Understanding gender means understanding the differences, in particular the economic, social, political and cultural attributes, constraints and opportunities that are associated with being female and male, and in some places, a third (or other) gender.

This is a new world of cross-gender understanding, and a very welcome one.

Part of reconciling my thoughts about gender is understanding that gender, sex and sexuality are all not binaries we make them out to be and they just aren't as clear cut as we've all been lead to believe.

This study highlights the role of gender in understanding normative beliefs about multiple sexual partners in China and its relationship with sexual risk behavior.

Though the tested theoretical frameworks were not supported, we feel the study still adds to the literature by illustrating the possible shortcomings of gender in understanding the relationship between parenting and psychopathology.

Perhaps the quicker we give up this facile gender-based understanding of happiness – women need children and a husband while men need to work – the better it will be for us all.

Our intention is to build upon the body of evidence to better develop a gender-sensitive understanding of diabetes self-management and discover ways to better integrate gender-specific care into current interventions and clinical practice.