As a geographical concept, Greater China consists of mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. Mainland China has been under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since 1949 and is internationally known as the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Taiwan, or the Republic of China, is a separate political entity under the rule […]
День: 10.11.2015
Institutional Studies
Individual universities and colleges have often conducted institutional research on salary, climate, or gender equity. One of the more well-known, but certainly not the first, gender equity studies was conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1999. In recent years, more and more schools have conducted standalone gender equity reports.[112] Such reports typically […]
The marketing of sex hormones
You don’t have to be a very keen observer to notice that today hormones are everywhere: not only in our language but also in hospitals, chemists’ shops, even in women’s dressing-cases. The introduction of the hormonal model of the body has been very successful, particularly for women. Women all over the world take hormonal pills […]
Mechanizrny neuroendokrynne
W sensie funkcjonalnym ukiad nerwowy jest tak scisle sprz? zony z ukiadem wewnqtrzwydzielniczym, ze jedynie w celu wi? kszej przejrzystosci omawia si? te uklady osobno, Czynnosc ukiadu nerwowego polega na sterowaniu funkejami і przekazie informaeji w organizmie {со odbywa si? za posrednictwem mi? dzyneuro- nowych transmiterow), na neurosekreeji (wydzielaniu mediatorow przez wszystkie komorki nerwowe і […]
A Healthy Pregnancy
Once a woman becomes pregnant, her previous lifestyle and her health habits and medical care during pregnancy play an important part in the development of a healthy fetus (Melhado, 2011). Fetal Development The 9-month (40-week) span of pregnancy is customarily divided into three 13-week segments, called trimesters. Characteristic changes occur in each trimester. First-Trimester Development […]
Preserving a Domestic Tradition?
But many women of every social class and in every kind of job are faced with a common problem: how shall I preserve the domestic culture of my mother and grandmother in the age of the nine-to — five or eight-to-six job? In some ways, the experience of Chicana women condenses the experience of all […]
Masculinity/ies and sexuality
Masculinity (and femininity)—just like gender and sexuality[128]—does not simply reflect a biological ‘given’—but is largely a product of cultural and social processes (Ortner and Whitehead 1981; Connell 1995; Gagnon and Parker 1995, Bourdieu 1998 and many more). Thus, neither masculinity nor sexuality are constant factors but change along with different historical and social structures, the […]
Psychofizjologiczne podloze seksualnosci
Niektorzy badacze poslugujq si? terminem „bioseksuologia”. Jest to dziaf seksuologii zajmujqcy si? wszelkimi czynnikami biologicznymi warunkujqcymi, seksualnosc; obejmuje on zarowno ogolne procesy biologiczne, jak і specyficzne fizjologiczne reakcje seksualne, zwiqzki mi? dzy morfologiq і anatomic a fizjologiq seksualnq oraz mi? dzy uktadem nerwowym і hormonami a reakcjami і odczuciami seksualnymi. Niewielkie roznice biologiczno-morfologiczne w budowie […]
Children as Linguistic Mediators
Consider the impact of children’s linguistic skills for their immigrant parents. Even when young, children educated and brought up in the receiving country often have far greater skills in the new country’s language than their parents (see Portes and Hao 2002). In one crucial way, this reverses the usual skill distribution within the household. Studying […]
Model ekologiczny
Motywacja seksualna, mimo duzego zainteresowania, jakie budzi, nie zostala zbadana w takim stopniu, aby mozna bylo bez zastrzezen wyjasnic jej powstawanie, W dobie obecnej modelem seksualnosci najbardzej zblizonym do poznanych faktow naukowych jest model dwoch komponentow Whalena (1966), ktory w postaci zmodyfikowanej przez Schmidta (1974) przedstawia si? nast? pujj|co (rozwazania dotyezq. przy tym jedynie aspektu […]