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In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women. Geary describes the often marginal role women played in origin legends from antiquity until the twelfth century. Not confining himself to one religious tradition or region, he probes the tensions between women in biblical, classical, and medieval myths (such as Eve, Mary, Amazons, princesses, and countesses), and actual women in ancient and medieval societies. Using these legends as a lens through which to study patriarchal societies, Geary chooses moments and texts that illustrate how ancient authors (all of whom were male) confronted the place of women in their society. Unlike other books on the subject, Women at the Beginning attempts to understand not only the place of women in these legends, but also the ideologies of the men who wrote about them. The book concludes that the authors of these stories were themselves struggling with ambivalence about women in their own worlds and that this struggle manifested itself in their writings.

Comparative religion --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Women --- Beginning --- Femmes --- Commencement (Philosophie) --- Mythology. --- Mythologie --- 316.371 --- Gender --- 316.371 Gender --- Commencement --- Women (in religion, folklore, etc.) --- anno 500-1499 --- Antiquity --- Cosmology --- Creation --- Space and time --- Mythology --- Religious texts --- Images of women --- Book

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A particular dark triumph of modern nationalism has been its ability to persuade citizens to sacrifice their lives for a political vision forged by emotional ties to a common identity. Both men and women can respond to nationalistic calls to fight that portray muscular warriors defending their nation against an easily recognizable enemy. This “us versus them” mentality can be seen in sectarian violence between Hindus and Muslims, Tamils and Sinhalas, Serbs and Kosovars, and Protestants and Catholics. In Muscular Nationalism, Sikata Banerjee takes a comparative look at India and Ireland and the relationship among gender, violence, and nationalism. Exploring key texts and events from 1914-2004, Banerjee explores how women negotiate “muscular nationalisms” as they seek to be recognized as legitimate nationalists and equal stakeholders in their national struggles.Banerjee argues that the gendered manner in which dominant nationalism has been imagined in most states in the world has had important implications for women’s lived experiences. Drawing on a specific intersection of gender and nationalism, she discusses the manner in which women negotiate a political and social terrain infused with a masculinized dream of nation-building. India and Ireland—two states shaped by the legacy of British imperialism and forced to deal with modern political/social conflict centering on competing nationalisms—provide two provocative case studies that illuminate the complex interaction between gender and nation.

Nationalism --- Masculinity --- Women --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Men --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- History. --- Great Britain --- British Empire --- Colonies. --- 316.371 --- 323.1 <417> --- 323.1 <540> --- 316.371 Gender --- Gender --- 323.1 <417> Nationale bewegingen. Nationalisme. Rassenpolitiek--Republiek Ierland --- Nationale bewegingen. Nationalisme. Rassenpolitiek--Republiek Ierland --- History --- Nationale bewegingen. Nationalisme. Rassenpolitiek--India

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Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Thematology --- Psychological study of literature --- Photoabsorption. --- Absorption --- Electromagnetic waves --- Radiation --- Sex role. --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Developmental psychology --- Sexology --- Sociology of literature --- Sex role --- 316.371 --- 396 --- 82:316 --- 82:396 --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Literatuur en feminisme --- 82:316 Literatuursociologie --- Literatuursociologie --- 316.371 Gender --- Gender --- Gender role --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij --- Feminism --- Homosexuality --- Masculinity --- Literary criticism --- Féminité --- Book

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As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conflict. Yet we belong to the most cooperative species on the planet. Isn't there a way we can use this capacity to achieve greater harmony and equality between the sexes? In The War of the Sexes, Paul Seabright argues that there is--but first we must understand how the tension between conflict and cooperation developed in our remote evolutionary past, how it shaped the modern world, and how it still holds us back, both at home and at work. Drawing on biology, sociology, anthropology, and economics, Seabright shows that conflict between the sexes is, paradoxically, the product of cooperation. The evolutionary niche--the long dependent childhood--carved out by our ancestors requires the highest level of cooperative talent. But it also gives couples more to fight about. Men and women became experts at influencing one another to achieve their cooperative ends, but also became trapped in strategies of manipulation and deception in pursuit of sex and partnership. In early societies, economic conditions moved the balance of power in favor of men, as they cornered scarce resources for use in the sexual bargain. Today, conditions have changed beyond recognition, yet inequalities between men and women persist, as the brains, talents, and preferences we inherited from our ancestors struggle to deal with the unpredictable forces unleashed by the modern information economy. Men and women today have an unprecedented opportunity to achieve equal power and respect. But we need to understand the mixed inheritance of conflict and cooperation left to us by our primate ancestors if we are finally to escape their legacy.

Interpersonal relations. --- Men - Psychology. --- Sex (Psychology). --- Sex differences (Psychology). --- Women - Psychology. --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Interpersonal relations --- Men --- Women --- Social Sciences --- Psychology --- Psychology. --- Human relations --- Interpersonal relationships --- Personal relations --- Relations, Interpersonal --- Relationships, Interpersonal --- Social behavior --- Social psychology --- Object relations (Psychoanalysis) --- Mental health --- Psychology, Sexual --- Sex --- Sexual behavior, Psychology of --- Sexual psychology --- Sensuality --- Psychological aspects --- E-books --- 159.922.1-055.1 --- 159.922.1-055.2 --- 316.371 --- -Women --- -Human relations --- 316.371 Gender --- Gender --- 159.922.1-055.2 Psychologie van de vrouw --- Psychologie van de vrouw --- 159.922.1-055.1 Psychologie van de man --- Psychologie van de man --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Human males --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity --- -Human females --- Developmental psychology --- Economic order --- -Sex (Psychology) --- -Psychology --- Labour --- Relationships --- Sexuality --- Seduce --- Book --- Sex differences --- Emotions

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Wie heeft het voor het zeggen inbewonersorganisaties en waarom?Sinds de jaren zestig hebben bewonersvan een wijk, woongroep of kraakpandzich vaak verenigd om tegenwicht tekunnen bieden aan de verschillendeoverheden. Met de hoogstedemocratische idealen togen debewonersorganisaties aan het werk.In de jaren tachtig blijkt van de directedemocratie in werkelijkheid weinigterug te vinden. Machtsverhoudingenen -mechanismen werken vaker in hetvoordeel van beroepskrachten endeskundigen dan van bewoners, vakerin het voordeel van mannelijke dan vanvrouwelijke bewoners.Verloo komt tot deze conclusie op basisvan een gedegen onderzoek naar dewerking van de macht inbewonersgroepen. Behalve de klassiekevragen wie de belangrijkste positiesbezet en wie bepaalt wat er beslotenwordt, onderzoekt de auteur welkemacht werkelijkheidsdefinities,interpretaties en normen hebben.Observaties en interviews makentevens duidelijk hoe vrouwelijke ledenvan bewonersorganisaties zélf hundeelname interpreteren, wat zebelangrijk vinden en aan welke normenze zich willen houden.Ook theoretisch biedt dit onderzoeknieuwe inzichten. De auteur draagt eenoplossing aan voor de problematischeverbinding tussen gender eh machtdoor deze twee begrippen voor heteerst in een coherent kader te plaatsen.Hierbij combineert zij het op Giddensgebaseerde theoretisch kader metideeën van Scott, Harding enHagemann-White.

316.423 --- 316.371 --- 316.334.54 --- 316.344.4 --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social movements --- Social structure --- Women in community development --- -#SBIB:316.8H52 --- #GGSB: Sociale wet. essays --- #GGSB: Sociale bewegingen --- bewonersparticipatie --- macht --- gender --- sociale bewegingen --- Opbouwwerk --- participatie --- opbouwwerk --- Nederland --- 498 --- Community development --- Women volunteers in social service --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Sociology --- Social institutions --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Sociale bewegingen --- Gender --- Sociologie van het buurtleven. Sociale participatie. Sociologie van het wonen --- Macht. Sociale structuren --(sociale stratificatie) --- Case studies. --- Case studies --- Sociaal beleid: actiegroepen en sociale bewegingen, zelfhulp --- 301.18 --- samenlevingsopbouw, opbouwwerk, buurtwerk, streekontwikkeling --- Theses --- Social structure. --- Power (Social sciences). --- 316.344.4 Macht. Sociale structuren --(sociale stratificatie) --- 316.334.54 Sociologie van het buurtleven. Sociale participatie. Sociologie van het wonen --- 316.371 Gender --- 316.423 Sociale bewegingen --- Developmental psychology --- Environmental planning --- Community organization --- Sociology of environment --- Netherlands --- Sociale wet. essays --- -Case studies --- Squatters movement --- Power --- Spatial planning --- Féminité --- Housing --- Communes --- Book --- Action groups