Германия: гендерная политика как основа гендерной культуры
The article analyzes German national gender policy that forms the basis of citizens’ gender culture exemplified by acts of legislation passed in the recent decades
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The article analyzes German national gender policy that forms the basis of citizens’ gender culture exemplified by acts of legislation passed in the recent decades
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The article is based on interregional survey and examines self-estimations of men in four age cohorts. The authors demonstrate how men evaluate the fulfillment of their social role in different fields of social life
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Khaled Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns spans two decades of Afghan history, from the Soviet rule in the 1970s to the Talibans’ rise to power in the 1990s, seen through the eyes of two women. The paper deals with the female characters’ struggle to escape subordination imposed upon them by the politics and culture of Afghanistan.
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The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, an Indian novelist, has been transformed in a movie by the director Mira Nair, also, of Indian descent. The paper focuses on analyzing such issues as cultural and racial representation, gender diversity and otherness in the American society from the point of view of these two Indian feminine artists living in the USA. It will compare their way of emphasizing the feelings of migrants through words and images.
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Though most contemporary British women writers follow Woolf’s recommendation “to look within”, Figes seems to stand closest to the great modernist. In her novel Waking she re-creates Woolf’s The Waves in postmodern terms. The paper dwells on some similarities between the two works concerning structure, the idea of universality, the blending of the conscious and unconscious, the significance of “moments of being”, the effects of light, rhythm, verbal poetry, etc. However, unlike Woolf, Figes depicts the life of the body explicitly and presents the subject as fluid and centreless rather than as stable. Thus Figes extends modernism.
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This paper studies the emotional sterility in the characters’ lives in Ravenhill’s Shopping and Fucking and Some Explicit Polaroids. The plays portray mainly a world of homosexuality, where women are not needed sexually, but where their presence is required to nourish the morally and physically disaffected male figures. Thus women assume the role of substitute mothers to give “these boys” parental guidance and affection, to the detriment of their own happiness.
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In the article the author interprets the essence of positions of the adherents and opponents of the modernization of the pupils’ «sexual upbringing» and of the introduction of the modern sexual education program, discussed in the pedagogical periodicals in the end of the 1990s — beginning of the 2000s. The tendency to the clericalisation of pupils’ upbringing, which contradicts the goals of education in the postindustrial society is underlined.
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The concept of «family» in the changing historical situation, the tendencies in change of USA family politics direction are considered in the article, the reasons of changes of functions and family structure are analyzed
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The characteristic of the gender approach in the sphere of education which is based on the processes of the gender socialization and the personal adaptation during the most important communications — education and upbringing is presented in the article.
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The attempt to reconstruct the basic structure elements of the desired stereotype of a Chuvash woman’s behavior in the family and in the society is made in the article. Chuvash woman’s psychological sets, value system and pattern of the behavior described in fairy plots are analyzed
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The analysis of works of Russian sociologists studying gender relations in family is made. The main tendencies of gender relations transformations from the middle of XX century till present time are analyzed
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Referring to the archival documents and the newspaper articles women’s role in the realization of the tax policy of the Soviet State within the years of the national economy modernization is observed in the article. Taking Ivanovo and Moscow industrial regions as the examples the peculiarities of women’s participation in mass campaigns for the tax payments mobilization to the state budget are studied
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The institutional aspect of the gender modernization of the Soviet political system through the analysis of zhenotdels RCP(b) activities is examined. The author demonstrates the uniqueness of the Soviet model, in which the Bolsheviks sought to combine the solution of «woman’s question» and the questions of socialist construction.
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The article examines the literacy and educational level of the Russian population at the turn of XIX—XX centuries. These figures are given in comparison to age, socio-professional and age-sex composition — for men, women and children. The factors which influenced the status and the development of literacy in different regions and provinces of the country are identified
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Gender transformations of everyday life in particular transformations of food culture in Soviet Russia in 1920-s are analyzed in the article.
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The article attempts to identify the interrelation between wedding cycle rituals and the model of gender ranking in the family. The main female and male characters of the traditional wedding ritualism of Mari and their gender and functional meaning are also described
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The article is devoted to the ‘work/life balance’ problem that women with children-preschoolers have to reconcile. The review of statistical data is presented. It shows that phenomenon of postponed motherhood is very popular in Moscow and shortage of preschooler municipal centers. The results of representative survey of 1250 women that have preschooler-age children are given in the second part of the article. The survey shows that the life style of working mothers in Moscow is deliberated. At the same time, labor conditions in companies are insufficient for working mothers
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The prominent features of the synthesis of the Russian noble wedding ceremonialism at the beginning of the Peter’s epoch which were developing under the influence of the traditional domestic patriarchal rules of Moskovia and the public canons of Europe entered by Peter the Great are considered in the article. The importance of studying of everyday life’s gender as-pects revealing in the feelings and experiences of the noble class’ representatives is proved.
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The methods of gender courses teaching are examined in the article. The special attention is given to the interactive methods and the ways of implementation of the gender-equal approach to students
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The features of social health state of foreign students studying at Russian high schools are considered. Different definitions of social state of health are given. On the materials of author's sociological research made in high schools of Moscow and Ivanovo in spring 2010, personal and social state of health are analyzed
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