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Book SynopsisThis book deals with the interplay between identities, codes, stereotypes and politics governing the various constructions and deconstructions of gender in several Western and non-Western societies (Germany, Italy, Serbia, Romania, Cameroon, Indonesia, Vietnam, and others). Readers are invited to discover the realm of gender studies and to reflect upon the transformative potentialities of globalisation and interculturality.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents Sexual Bodies and Gender Identities around the World • Gender and Asexuality in Academic Sources • Speaking to the Spirits: Thinking Comparatively about Women in Asian Indigenous Beliefs • The Bissu: Study of a Third Gender in Indonesia • How Globalization and the Neoliberal Turn Are Shaping Gender Relations in Hanoi Codes within Women’s Auto- and Hetero-Representations Communist Dictatorship vs. Romanian Women Poets’ Discourse of Resistance in the 70’s and 80’s • Corporeality and Sexuality in Women’s Autofictions. A Few Romanian Examples • Diffused Gender Codes and Transcultural Outcomes in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland • The Politics of the Feminine Body: A Manifesto and Three TV Series Gender Stereotypes, Couple/Family Configurations and Reproduction • Gender Stereotypes in Emmanuel Lévinas’s Concept of Subject • The Division of Labour within the Family and Altruism. A Feminist Critique of Becker’s Models • Consequences of Intimacy and Violence in the Couple Relationships of Romanian Women and Men on Their Future Life Plans • Is My Reproductive Body Rightfully Mine? About Abortion and Individual Choice in Post-communist Romania Social and Political Constraints on Women • Gender Rules: The Role of Representation Rules in Changing the Place of Women in Science • The Influence of Academic Self-concept on the Program Choice of Computer Scientists • Women in Academic Medicine: The Leaking Process in Italy • Female Labour Market Participation in Serbia • Socio-cultural Factors Structuring Women’s Access to Land and Natural Resources in Northwest Cameroon
