The article analyzes the Institute of the First Lady in the United States, which has become a significant factor in politics and was being spread throughout all the „civilized‟ world. We investigate such terms and concepts as the «Institute of the First Lady», and «The First Lady». The center piece […]
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In the 2000ies the countries of Southern Africa made significant progress in establishing so-called «gender symmetry» due to the growing role of women in the political process. The modern concept of women and men equality in South African politics is actualized in practice through quota system to ensure female representation […]
Prokopenko L. Ya. Representation of women in structures of state ...
The article dwells upon the role of representations of Europe‟s gender order in practices of political mobilization in today‟s Russia. The authors examine how hegemonic discourse exploits the concept «Gayropa» in strengthening Russian collective identity, shaping the national idea, and legitimating power.read in PDF>>>
Riabova T. B., Riabov O. V. «Gayropa»: gender dimension of ...
The article comments on data from sociological study «Recruiting of the political leaders to the municipal and regional level in modern Russia: problems of optimization and improvement of the socio-political effectiveness» (2012). The conclusions are based on 22 non-standardized expert interviews and questionnaires assessing importance of various factors for career […]
Popova О. V. Gender aspects of the political career of ...
The article considers the changes in the Russian state policy on gender equality. The author proves that the Soviet model of formal legal equality was mostly used in the beginning of the 1990ies. From 1995 (Beijing Conference) till 2003 Russian state policy used international principles and practices of gender equality. […]
Voronina О. А. Gender politics in modern Russia: issues and ...
The article deals with the problem of representing Russian Other as a factor of the European identity formation. Analyzing European media coverage on contemporary gender order, the author comes to the conclusion on the ambivalence of the role of Russia in the process of the «Europeanness» formation. On the one […]
Riabov D. O. The Russian Other in the identity of ...
The article touches upon the urgent issue — the study of a psychological stress in the teens. Special attention is paid to the gender aspect. The results of the empiric study of school stress among older pupils are given. The differences between females’ and males’ stress manifestations and survival are […]
Belova E. A. The specifics of the high school pupils’ ...
Such a complicated phenomenon as consciousness needs to be studied within a complex approach. Two philosophers criticize the physicalist understanding of the consciousness. D. Chalmers dividing the consciousness into the phenomenal and the psychological attempts to justify the irreducibility of the phenomenal to the psychological (or brain) processes. N. Sheman, […]
Blokhina N. A. Critics of the physicalist understanding of the ...
The article offers the review of the recent theories of the social creativeness determination by the gender factor. The authors reveal the compatibility of the methodological approaches mentioned in the article to the Russian scholarly tradition to interconnection the study of gender factor and creativity. It is concluded that the […]
Maltsev K. G., Popel A. A. The problem of the ...
The article studies the factors determining woman’s status in traditional society and family of the Lower Amur region native ethnies, the ways they have been transforming from the late XIX c. till nowadays. The analysis of the mentioned materials allows to conclude that women despite their unequal position in the […]
Fadeeva E. V. Woman’s status and role in society and ...
The gender aspect of the implementation of the legislation concerning religious sphere in the USSR in 1929—1990 is considered. The authors point out that the specifics of the atheistic propaganda among women and men differed, as did the methods of pressure implied against them. These specifics are analyzed in the […]
Polozova K. A., Fedotov A. A. The gender aspect of ...
The social and age group of old maids is considered, and the specifics of their position in Russian peasantry in the late XIX — the early XX c. are revealed. On the base of the historical and ethnographical data collected by the informers of the Ethnographic office headed by Prince […]
Mukhina Z. Z. Old maids in Russian peasantry (the late ...
The article is devoted to the detection and substantiation of the source potential of the literary works of the late XIX — the early ХХ centuries collected in the so-called «pictures of merchant life», for the research of the Russian merchant class women’s history. The limits of the usage of […]