Childhood Gender Roles: Social Context and Organisation

Eugenio Hernández Espinosa'sMaría Antonia(1967) is regarded as one of the most important theatrical works to be produced during the first decade of the Cuban Revolution. Although most readings of the play tend to emphasize its investment in possession ceremonies (the use ofsanteríarituals and symbols provoked a strong reaction from both audiences and critics), Hernández Espinosa's conflicted presentation of gender roles is what claims my attention in this article. By showing how María Antonia is unable to alter the strictures of machismo or successfully challenge hegemonic discourses of race and class, I argue that the play suggests thatsanteríasupports a social context in which female agency is seriously restricted, and may even be reduced to a utopian and self-destructive fantasy.

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Toward an Historical Anthropology of the ‘Ethical State’: Articulations among Gender, Class and Education in an Irish Parish, 1860–1910

Irish Journal of Sociology ◽

10.1177/079160350101000202 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 13-32

Author(s):

Marilyn Cohen

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Social Context ◽

Gender Roles ◽

Social Relations ◽

Social Space ◽

Historical Anthropology ◽

Historical Ethnography ◽

Cultural Processes ◽

Institutional Differentiation ◽

And Gender

The cultural formation of citizens and the hegemony of the ‘ethical state’ in England emerged in the mid-nineteenth century, a period when capitalist social relations were consolidating, operating through the processes of bourgeois institutional differentiation and the regulation of culture and social space from above. This paper employs the methods of historical ethnography to address the historical vertities of these cultural processes in colonial Ireland. It focuses on one institution—education—in one north of Ireland parish to explore how class and gender mediated the process and experience of the institutional separation of education in the second half of the nineteenth century. The rigid ‘culture of control’ orchestrating gender roles and material survival in working-class households framed distinctions in the attainment of schooled knowledges and created divergent uses and functions for such knowledge in the broader social context.

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Social Context in Development Communication: Reflecting on Gender and Information and Communication Technologies for Development in Ghana

Asia Pacific Media Educator ◽

10.1177/1326365x19856139 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 106-122

Author(s):

H. Leslie Steeves ◽

Janet D. Kwami

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Social Context ◽

Gender Roles ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Collaborative Research ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Development Communication ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Women And Girls

This essay, an example of work that builds on Dr. Ascroft’s lessons, reports collaborative research on information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) in Ghana. We highlight two parallel dialogues—on ICT and on gender—that have been advanced globally. New ICTs are prone to the same biases as the older ICTs. Further, the dialogue on ICTs may use the rhetoric of inclusivity; but in practice, women and girls remain at the margins of decision-making and implementation. This research addresses the promise of new ICTs and the need to account for gender roles. We summarize the major events that helped spark global and regional attention to ICT4D, as well as Ghana’s initiatives in relation to these events. We include critiques and initiatives resistant to facets of ICT4D, emphasizing gender critiques.

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The Social Context of Mental Health and Illness: Introduction to Part II

A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health ◽

10.1017/9781316471289.012 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 173-179

Author(s):

Teresa L. Scheid ◽

Eric R. Wright

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Context ◽

Mental Health And Illness ◽

The Social ◽

Health And Illness

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Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Reactivity

Journal of Psychophysiology ◽

10.1027/0269-8803.23.2.77 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 77-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Matthew C. Whited ◽

Kevin T. Larkin

Keyword(s):

Blood Pressure ◽

Heart Rate ◽

Sex Differences ◽

Gender Roles ◽

Cardiovascular Reactivity ◽

Task Type ◽

Conflict Task ◽

Men And Women ◽

Conflicting Evidence ◽

Blood Pressure Responses

Sex differences in cardiovascular reactivity to stress are well documented, with some studies showing women having greater heart rate responses than men, and men having greater blood pressure responses than women, while other studies show conflicting evidence. Few studies have attended to the gender relevance of tasks employed in these studies. This study investigated cardiovascular reactivity to two interpersonal stressors consistent with different gender roles to determine whether response differences exist between men and women. A total of 26 men and 31 women were assigned to either a traditional male-oriented task that involved interpersonal conflict (Conflict Task) or a traditional female-oriented task that involved comforting another person (Comfort Task). Results demonstrated that women exhibited greater heart rate reactions than men independent of the task type, and that men did not display a higher reactivity than women on any measure. These findings indicate that sex of participant was more important than gender relevance of the task in eliciting sex differences in cardiovascular responding.

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