This book describes the political, social, and economic connections between gender and the Covid-19 pandemic. The authors offer innovative ideas for recovery that will build a more prosperous, healthy, equitable, and sustainable future for African women and girls, targets identified under Goal 5 (Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment) of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals s…
This book provides a fresh overview on the debate about the remarkable regression of gender equality in the Balkans and South Caucasus caused by the fall of socialism and by the revitalization of religion in Turkey. Contrary to the prevailing opinion of researchers who state continuous male domination, the book presents strong arguments for an alternative outlook. By contrasting the realia of g…
Women have always been inextricably linked to food, especially in its production and preparation. This link, which applies cross-culturally, has seldom been fully acknowledged or celebrated. The role of women in this is usually taken for granted and therefore often rendered unimportant or invisible. This book presents a wide-ranging, interdiscplinary and comprehensive feminist analysis of wome…
This book provides cross-cultural ethical exploration of sex robots and their social impact. What are the implications of sex robots and related technological innovations for society and culture? How should we evaluate the significance of sexual relations with robots that look like women, men or children? Critics argue that sex robots present a clear risk to real persons and a social degradatio…
This book contributes to timely debates on the conditions of resistance and changes with the aim to offer a ray of hope in times of ecological, economic, social and democracy crisis worldwide. In the context of the crisis of social reproduction, impoverishment and growing inequalities, myriads of women-led grass-root initiatives are bubbling up. They reorganize social reproduction; redefine the…
Drawing upon law, politics, sociology, and gender studies, this volume explores the ways in which the Muslim body is stereotyped, interrogated, appropriated and demonized in Western societies and subject to counter-terror legislation and the suspension of human rights. The author examines the intense scrutiny of Muslim women’s dress and appearance, and their experience of hate crimes, as well…
This textbook provides students across Social Sciences, Humanities, Politics, and International Studies with an in-depth understanding of the issues, policies, and strategies for addressing the symptoms and root causes of violence against women (VAW) in sub-Saharan Africa. This text uses the United Nations Security Council’s Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325) on Women, Peace and Security in Eastern…
This book focuses on the role of the indigenous system of medicine or traditional medicines in gender selection in India. Issues such as the harmful effects of traditional practices on the health of the woman and the foetus during early pregnancy are explored in this book. It analyses the social and cultural practices and establishes linkages with modern methods of scientific investigations. It…
This book explores the nature and type of prevalent collective behavior that influences women empowerment, women workforce participation and behavior change in sanitation. The influence of collective norms and customs have been investigated through a series of studies throughout India. There are very few research works on understanding social norms that distinguishes it from a range of other c…
This book examines men, masculinities and sexualities in Western theatrical dance, offering insights into the processes, actions and interactions that occur in dance institutions around gender-transgressive acts, and the factors that set limits to transgression. This text uses interview and observation data to analyze the conditions that encourage some boys and young men to become involved in t…
Challenging the simplistic story by which feminism has become complicit in neoliberalism, this book traces the course of globalization of women’s economic empowerment from the Global South to the Global North and critically examines the practice of empowering low-income women, primarily migrant, indigenous and racialised women. The author argues that women’s economic empowerment organizatio…
This book analyzes Nancy Chodorow’s canonical book The Reproduction of Mothering, bringing together an original essay from Nancy Chodorow and a host of outstanding international scholars—including Rosemary Balsam, Adrienne Harris, Elizabeth Abel, Madelon Sprengnether, Ilene Philipson, Meg Jay, Daphne de Marneffe, Alison Stone and Petra Bueskens—in a mix of memoir, festschrift, reflection,…
This edited volume discusses how deeply entrenched gender norms in work environments, even in welfare economies, can affect women’s health in an adverse way. The volume provides a broad overview of contributing factors. It derives specific answers from case studies in Sweden, a welfare state where women’s labour market participation is very high, but where horizontal and vertical gender seg…
This edited volume draws upon work from a wide range of established and emerging international scholars to provide an interdisciplinary analysis of sport’s complex relationship with masculinity. With a particular focus on Latin America, it examines the changing relationship between a range of contemporary sport and sexuality and gender expression, as related to lesbian, gay and/or trans athle…
DM sufferers must undergo many lifestyle changes such as adjusting diet, physical activity and having to control blood sugar regularly. Sudden life changes make DM sufferers experience psychological disorders such as stress. The stress experienced by DM sufferers will have an impact on the treatment process. One effort to deal with stress in DM sufferers is by providing a combination of autogen…
This book brings together the expertise of two authors involved in initiating the development of Online Family Dispute Resolution (OFDR), while also examining the unique Australian system. The family arena generally comprises property or child-related disputes arising between parents, whether married or not, and whether the parties have lived together or not. A special feature of Australia’s …
This study aims to describe the form of gender injustice and the implications of the results of research on gender injustice in the novel Hilda by Muyassarotul Hafidzoh in learning Indonesian literature in schools. This research is a qualitative research using a descriptive method using feminist literary criticism studies. The source of the data was obtained from the novel Hilda written by Muya…
This research utilizes lauric acid and CoMo/Al-PiLC to synthesize bioavtur. This study aims to determine the characteristics of CoMo/Al-PiLC catalysts after modification, determine optimization conditions for the hydrodeoxygenation reaction of lauric acid into vegetable avtur, determine the conversion value and yield at optimum conditions after the verification stage. The methods used in this s…
This book argues that we are living in an era of deep mutation, and the anthropocentric model no longer fits our way of living and behaving on Earth. Climate change is upsetting our relationship with nature and the environment, while artificial intelligence scenarios undermine the foundations of human life. As the pressure to re-align based on new modes of living and consuming increases, the fi…
The face is a unique part that every human individual has. For that face can be a reference to recognize someone. Maybe to recognize a person's face in small amounts can be said to be easy. However, it is difficult to recognize faces in large numbers and remember their names for a long time, given the limitations of each individual human being. The purpose of this study is to develop a group fa…
Human face recognition has become a challenge for researchers to facilitate the human-machine interface. In this study, the Self Organizing Map method was used to recognize 45 human faces who have different poses. Before the recognition process, the preprocessing stage is carried out on the input image, it is face detection process by using the Viola Jones method and the greyscaling image proce…
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Stroke is the second leading cause of death globally. A lack of knowledge regarding stroke risk factors results in high incidence and mortality rates. Using a classification approach can effectively address this issue. Classification involves grouping categories or classes based on patterns or characteristics found in the data. By classifying stroke patient data, we can identify patterns of str…
Thalassemia is a genetic disorder that inhibits the production of normal hemoglobin. One variant, alpha thalassemia, results from mutations in the alpha chain gene. Diagnosing thalassemia involves blood tests that include red blood cell morphology analysis, hemoglobin quantification, and genetic testing which are often difficult, expensive, and time-consuming, especially in areas with limited m…
Finding the shortest route in delivering is an important aspect in logistics efficiency, especially in urban environments such as Palembang City. Genetic algorithm was chosen due to its flexibility in handling optimization problems involving many variables. The research was conducted by varying the values of genetic algorithm parameters such as population size, iterations, crossover rate, and m…