Роль женщины в обществе, истории и культуре

Аннотация: Happiness has become a serious business. Where twentiethcentury psychology focused on depression and illness, in the new millennium scientists have begun focusing on "positive psychology"—the study of happiness. Ariel Gore first became intrigued by this subject when she discovered that Positive Psychology was the most popular course on the Harvard campus. As she read deeper into the topic, she noticed something disturbing: everyone in this happy land was a man. Worse still, some of these new "experts" seemed hell-bent on proving that women with traditional values and breadwinning husbands—those who had made "an effort to expect less," according to one sociologist—were more content than women with feminist values. The more she read the more she wondered: Can a woman be smart, empowered, and happy? Determined to find out, Gore began her own "study in living"— a journey into the feminine history, science, and experience of happiness. Her results, chronicled with humor and curiosity in Bluebird, are by turns fascinating and enriching. A woman’s happiness may not come easy, and it may not take the forms prescribed by popular culture. But, as Gore discovers, it is not only possible but necessary. Bluebird is a smart, no-nonsense, uplifting study of the real secret of joy, and whether it’s truly at odds with the goals of modern women.

Аннотация: A vehement attack on the latest pseudo-scientific claims about the differences between the sexes. Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. Yet popular books, magazines and even scientific articles increasingly defend inequalities by citing immutable biological differences between the male and female brain. That's the reason, we're told, that there are so few women in science and engineering, so few men in the laundry room - different brains are just better suited to different things. Drawing on the latest research in developmental psychology, neuroscience, and social psychology, Delusions of Gender powerfully rebuts these claims, showing how old myths, dressed up in new scientific finery, are helping perpetuate the sexist status quo.

Аннотация: Warum lachen Manner uber frauenfeindliche Witze, wenn doch die Frauen darin diskriminiert und gedemutigt werden? - Auf der Basis von literaturwissenschaftlichen, psychologischen, soziologischen und kommunikationstheoretischen Ansatzen untersucht die Autorin an uber 250 Witzbeispielen die Beziehung zwischen Form, innerer Struktur, Inhalt, potenzieller Intention und Wirkung der Witze, um auf die Orientierungs- und Interessenstrukturen sowie auf die psychischen Dispositionen der mannlichen Autoren bzw. Erzahler und Rezipienten zu schliessen.

Аннотация: Die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Frauen und Mannern wird haufig durch unterschiedliche Kommunikationsstile erschwert. Dieser Ratgeber entschlusselt die verschiedenen Sprachmuster. Sie erfahren, was fur eine zielfuhrende Kommunikation hinderlich und was Erfolg versprechend ist.

Аннотация: Shere Hite stellt eine wichtige neue Frage: Werden die Frauen ihre Gefuhlsrolle auch weiterhin spielen, obwohl die Rolle der Hausfrau fast schon der Vergangenheit angehort? Wird der Mann die Rolle der Frau ubernehmen? Oder werden wir ganz ohne sie auskommen mussen? Anders als Simone de Beauvoir, die die Frau als von der Geschichte bestimmtes Objekt, als das andere Geschlecht beschrieb, fordert Shere Hite die Frauen auf, ihr soziales Umfeld aktiv zu erfassen und mitzupragen. Sie glaubt, dass die Welt eine bessere Welt ware, wenn Manner so lieben konnten wie Frauen. Dies ist ein kuhner und glanzender Anspruch.

Аннотация: The book draws together for the first time the main current methodological approaches to the study of language and gender. These include sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis and queer theory.

Аннотация: Gender and Spoken Interaction presents a diverse collection of language and gender research with an exclusive focus on spoken interaction. The volume explores how gender is accomplished and reflected in spoken interaction, in relation to other situational and larger-scale sociocultural practices, identities and structures. Contributors present a wide range of lively data from private as well as institutional contexts, produced by speakers across all life stages and from a number of different ethnic, social, national and linguistic backgrounds.