The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters between Maasai and Missionaries

The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters between Maasai and Missionaries . Dorothy L. Hodgson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.     

The Right Kind of Women Things: Changing Compositions of Gendered Subjectivity in New Caledonia

Drawing upon life histories compiled in New Caledonia, this article examines the ways in which some women inscribed and contested their gendered subjectivities. Anchored in the perception that ‘gender’ can be recognised as historically and culturally constituted in contingent human practices, it proffers testimonies to reason that women's composition and expression of their lived experience can be understood as modes of embodied consciousness. By situating each woman's discursive strategy into the complex interplay of historical processes, structured social organisations, and the anomalies, ambiguities and contradictions revealed through their conversations, the relationships and practices which inscribed the self-making of some Kanak and Caledonienne women are explored.     

Weaving New Worlds: Southeastern Cherokee Women and Their Basketry

Weaving New Worlds: Southeastern Cherokee Women and Their Basketry. Sarah H. Hill. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 414pp.     

Women Plantation Workers: International Experiences

Women Plantation Workers: International Experiences. Shobhita Jain and Rhoda Reddock. eds. New York: Berg. 1998.186 pp.     

Chromosome studies: Latin American Compositae

Chromosome observations reported here from 98 collections representing 91 species from 58 genera of Compositae provide taxonomically useful information. First counts for 52 species, including first counts for eight genera (Alepidocline [n = 8], Damnxanthodium [n = 12], Dyscritothamnus [n = 20 in both species], Idiopappus [n = ca. 31–33], Oblivia [n = 16], Oteiza [n = 17 + 0–3 f], Rensonia [n = 17], and Viguethia [n = 19]), may prove to be especially interesting in relation to generic alignments of the species and tribal or subtribal alignments of the genera.     

On the Compliance of Women Engineers with a Gendered Scientific System

There has been considerable effort in the last decade to increase the participation of women in engineering through various policies. However, there has been little empirical research on gender disparities in engineering which help underpin the effective preparation, co-ordination, and implementation of the science and technology (S&T) policies. This article aims to present a comprehensive gendered analysis of engineering publications across different specialties and provide a cross-gender analysis of research output and scientific impact of engineering researchers in academic, governmental, and industrial sectors. For this purpose, 679,338 engineering articles published from 2008 to 2013 are extracted from the Web of Science database and 974,837 authorships are analyzed. The structures of co-authorship collaboration networks in different engineering disciplines are examined, highlighting the role of female scientists in the diffusion of knowledge. The findings reveal that men dominate 80% of all the scientific production in engineering. Women engineers publish their papers in journals with higher Impact Factors than their male peers, but their work receives lower recognition (fewer citations) from the scientific community. Engineers—regardless of their gender—contribute to the reproduction of the male-dominated scientific structures through forming and repeating their collaborations predominantly with men. The results of this study call for integration of data driven gender-related policies in existing S&T discourse.     

拉美城市景观：一种强化的拼贴

拉丁美洲是自然和文化多样性很强的地区。自1492年欧洲殖民者到来至今,这片次大陆像一块“海绵”,持续受到各个时期主导世界经济发展的其他国家的影响。这一过程在某些境况下完全改变了这个地区先前存在的文化景观,而在另一些境况下,则表现为外来模式对本土条件的适应。其结果是城市、景观和建筑形成丰富多样的拼贴,它们共同存在、相互交融,形成了十分独特、变幻万千的拉美色彩。研究这种外国文化对本土的适应和混合过程,可以让其他新兴经济体更好地应对全球化的挑战。值得注意的是,拉美地区在20世纪40—60年代的现代主义运动时期开展了一系列大尺度城市、景观和建筑设计的经典探索。尽管如此,这里依然被认为是社会不平等现象最严重的地区,富人区与贫民窟共存,又形成空间分异。这种社会断裂表现为正规与非正规（自我建构）城市之间的形态和居住标准差异。20世纪80年代以来,通过城市整体规划来调和这些非正规聚落与上层阶级的景观和建筑的实践探索,引起了人们的关注。     

Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice

Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice. Mary Taylor Huber and Nancy C. Lutkehaus. eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 252 pp.