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ItemGender, Economics, and Unpaid Work(Springer, 2017)To understand work from a gender perspective, it is essential to acknowledge and value both paid employment and unpaid work. Paid employment garners wages; unpaid work is the production of goods or services that are consumed by those within or outside a household, but not for sale in the market (OECD 2016). Unpaid work includes housework, home maintenance, gardening, crop growing, and caring for children, elders, and those who are sick or are living with a disability. It is productive activity that contributes to the wealth of nations and the economic welfare and well-being of households, but is not remunerated. Because the distribution of labor reflects and creates financial disparity, how market and nonmarket work is divided by gender is a critical social issue.
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ItemHeterosexuality/Heteronormative(Wiley - John Wiley & Sons, 2018-08-01)Heterosexuality is the expression of sexual desire and orientation toward a person of the opposite biological sex. It refers to emotional attachments, sexual acts and practices, and a sense of identity. Since the 1990s, the term “heteronormativity” has gained currency, highlighting those aspects of social life beyond heterosexual erotic practice. Heteronormativity is a concept that aims to illustrate how social institutions and policy, ranging from marriage to citizenship, reinforce and privilege heterosexuality as both normal and morally right.
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ItemSexuality(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2018-08-01)Sexuality is a complex amalgam of drives, desires, practices, and identities. Across the social sciences, sexuality has come to be understood first and foremost as socially constructed; even the most intimate and private acts are shaped by social norms that inform ideas about reproduction, kinship, love, and pleasure. Anthropology has been at the forefront of recording how sexuality is organized in specific locales and increasingly shaped by macrolevel and global factors. Anthropology's contribution to the study of human sexuality is through documentation of how sex is experienced and categorized differently across cultures. This is in contrast to approaches in other disciplines, such as psychology and sexology, that tend to treat sexual behaviors as psychological and physical instincts rather than as social phenomena.
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ItemP ortugal, Families in(Wiley, 2016)Abstract Portugal is a European country located on the Iberian Peninsula and has been a member of the European Union since 1986. Portugal is a semipresidential constitutional republic, a democratic state based on the rule of law. It has a population of 10.5 million (2012), 48 percent male and 52 percent female. As are most developed countries, in the early twenty‐first century Portugal is experiencing an aging population trend based on low birth, fertility, and mortality rates and high life expectancy rates. Most Portuguese families are nuclear or conjugal, followed by couples without children and single‐person families. The average number of people per family has been decreasing, from 4.2 in 1920 to 2.6 in 2011. After the 1974 revolution, which ended a long‐term dictatorship, the Portuguese Constitution expressed the principle of equal gender rights. Compared to other European countries, Portugal has a high rate of full‐time female employment, in part because low salaries created the need for dual‐earner households.