Robotic Knitting : Re-Crafting Human-Robot Collaboration Through Careful Cobo…

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Compliance and resistance within neoliberal academia : biographical stories, …

This open access book reflects on academic life under a neoliberal regime. Through collaborative autoethnographies, the authors share stories about the everyday experiences, dilemmas and conflicts of three academics: the struggle for promotion, teaching’s challenges, the race to publish, confronting bureaucracy and institutional politics, as well as the resulting emotional stress. These stori…

Kesetaraan gender dalam pelaku iptek, mungkinkah?

Maraknya ketidakadilan yang dialami kaum perempuan berdasarkan kacamata keilmuan gender dan feminisme, khususnya mereka yang berkecimpung dalam bidang iptek, bukanlah sesuatu yang baru. Menjadi menarik manakala di hadapan kita tersaji wacana empiris mengenai pola dan struktur sosial masyarakat yang berkontribusi mengonstruksi suatu pandangan sehingga mengondisikan terciptanya tatanan masyarakat…

Milenial literasi damai : tentang literasi, milenial, dan Indonesia

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Women’s activism and "second wave" feminism transnational histories

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Mainstreaming Politics: Gendering Practices and Feminist Theory

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Negotiating women’s veiling : politics & sexuality in contemporary Indonesia

This study will focus on the Indonesian jilbab, an ubiquitous piece of cloth that covers the hair and neck of women tightly, leaving no skin unconcealed. Achievement and role of jilbab after the authoritarian regime of Soeharto in 1998 is hardly known. The author examines women perception but also the Sharia Ordinances and the narratives of censorship. Voices of both women and sexual minorities…

Gender equality in context

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9783847409373

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264 p.; 23 cm.

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305.309494 LIE g

Language, cognition and gender

Gender inequality remains an issue of high relevance, and controversy, in society. Previous research shows that language contributes to gender inequality in various ways: Gender-related information is transmitted through formal and semantic features of language, such as the grammatical category of gender, through gender-related connotations of role names (e.g., manager, secretary), and through …