Gender Issues articles from January 1999

Gender Issues archives from January 1999

Gender, refugee status and permanent settlement.
January 1, 1999... Introduction During the closing quarter of the twentieth century, the size of the world's refugee population has grown considerably as a result of social, economic, and political instabilities associated with such factors as the...

Gender in language and life: A Dutch American example.
January 1, 1999... Change language, change perception. Sociolinguists and linguistic anthropologists have chronicled such shifts extensively, and at times have sought to describe the meaning of such shifts in terms of changing social relations within the...

A dynamic view of Mexican migration to the United States.
January 1, 1999... Introduction For most of the twentieth century, the principal mechanism that has connected Mexico with the United States has been immigration northward. The idea of going north for opportunity has resulted in the arrival of many Mexicans...

Women and immigrants: strangers in a strange land.
January 1, 1999... A stubborn problem that has been recently examined by researchers Concerning the changing composition of the labor force is that despite women's increased participation, their entry into male-dominated occupations, and reduction of the...

Femmes, Culture et Societe au Maghreb, 2 vols.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Rahma Bourquia, Mounira Charrad, Nancy Gallagher, eds., Femmes, Culture et Societe au Maghreb, Vol. I Culture, femmes et famille, Vol. II Femmes, pouvoir politique et developpement. Editions Afrique Orient: Casablanca, 1996. Vol. I 183 pp.,...

Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign Against Woman Suffrage.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Susan Marshall, Splintered Sisterhood. Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. Susan Marshall has written an outstanding monograph on the female antisuffragists, or...