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THE THIRD GENDER FROM A MULTI-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

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Arcimowicz K.
Kultura i Społeczeństwo
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2006
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vol. 50
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issue 4
87-106
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The paper examines alternative forms of gender in five contemporary societies: hijra in India, fa'afafine from Samoa, kathoey in Thailand, travesti in Brazil, and xanith in Oman. The term 'third gender' refers to males fulfilling roles which are traditionally connected with femininity, as well as looking like and behave like women, while being neither a man nor a woman. What is of importance is that the term 'third gender' may also be linked with alternative models of femininity, but in this paper they are not analyzed. The author focus on several relatively well-documented patterns of transgender men. These forms of gender diversity come from cultures in which the following religions dominate: Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity. His main aim is to show that modern Western sex and gender ideologies which are based on binary opposites - man vs. woman, masculinity vs. femininity, heterosexuality vs. homosexuality - are not universal. The anthropological perspective makes it clear that there are many different ways of creating gender and sexuality. The examples of gender diversity in this article encourage us to rethink our understanding of what is normal and natural.
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Wybrane czynniki ryzyka instytucjonalizacji poszpitalnej

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Perehubka I., Rębisz M., Marczewski K.
Zamojskie Studia i Materiały. Seria: Fizjoterapia
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2012
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issue 1 (ZSiM 35)
85-89
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Institutionalization is the concept of a wider as exercising the care of persons who are not capable of independent operation. The work includes observation of medium size hospital and the review of the literature that describes the risk factors of institutionalization. On the basis of data from the first half of 2011 and 2012, it has been demonstrated that the risk of finding themselves in a social assistance is greater for men and increases in the age. The main reason for this state of affairs is likely socio-economic factors Our results are slightly different from the known in other countries, which shows the regional variability problem of social support.. Further studies are needed that will help somewhat more accurately determine the risk factors listed above, so on the one hand can be useful in the prevention of institutionalization and, on the other hand, reduced to waiting time for people most in need of this type of provision.
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DIMENSIONS OF READING MOTIVATION AND READING ACHIEVEMENT IN 3RD AND 7TH GRADE STUDENTS

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Pecjak S., Peklaj C.
Studia Psychologica
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2006
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vol. 48
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issue 1
11-30
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Our study was based on recent research on reading motivation that emerged from strategic learning theory and focused on connections between cognitive, motivational and social aspects of reading (Baker, Afflerbach, Reinking, 1996; Guthrie, Alvermann, 1999; Baker, Wigfield, 1999). The purpose of the study was twofold: first, to develop and adapt the instruments for measuring the dimensions of reading motivation for younger and older primary school students, and second, to find the differences in motivational dimensions according to students' reading achievement and their sex in both groups. 1042 third grade (509 girls and 533 boys) and 1124 seventh grade (592 girls and 532 boys) students from different Slovene primary schools participated in the study. A 26-item questionnaire was constructed to measure reading motivation in younger students. Factor analysis (varimax rotation, screen test) revealed three factors: interest in reading, lack of self-efficacy and self-efficacy in oral reading. Further statistical analysis (ANOVA) showed significant main effects for reading achievement and sex in interest and in lack of self-efficacy in reading. Good readers had the highest results in both factors and poor readers the lowest results. In addition, girls had higher results than boys in both factors. Motivation for Reading Questionnaire (Guthrie, Wigfield, 1997) was adapted for older students. Factor analysis (varimax rotation, screen test) of 54-item questionnaire revealed four reading motivation factors: external motivation, interest and reading in social context, involvement and immersion in reading, and lack of self-efficacy. Further analysis (ANOVA) showed significant main effects according to students' reading achievement in all four factors. Good readers had the highest and poor readers the lowest results in external motivation, in interest and reading in social context and in involvement and immersion in reading. The results for lack of self-efficacy were reversed. Significant differences were also found according to students' sex. Girls constantly showed higher results in external motivation, in interest and reading in social context and in involvement and immersion in reading than boys. Implications for educational practice as well as future research are discussed.
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Miłość erotyczna w kilku rosyjskojęzycznych utworach Vladimira Nabokova. Nabokov i Władimir Sołowjow

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Engelking L.
Slavica Wratislaviensia
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2011
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vol. 153
369-379
EN
Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, as well as his Ada, are considered classics of erotic fiction. Nevertheless, he does not glorify carnal love and sexual freedom. His attitude towards love seems to be similar to that of the Russian religious philosopher Vladimir Solovyov, who considers erotic love as the highest kind of love. However, Solovyov sees its meaning not simply in the act of sexual intercourse, but rather in the justification and salvation of an individual through the sacrifice of their egoism. In Mary (Mashenka), his first novel, Nabokov describes first love as remembered by his main character, now a Russian émigré in Berlin. Love reconstructed through memories is, in a way, a platonic one. The process of remembering makes the hero happy. Before this process began, we had seen him in a state of depression and inertia into which he was plunged by a sexually fulfilling love affair with another woman. At the end of the novel the hero realizes that it is senseless to meet the real girl from his memories when she comes to Berlin. The whole beauty of his love is its memory. Love for a dead person is devoid of the carnal element. We can see such love in Nabokov’s short story The Return of Chorb (Vozvrashchenie Chorba). A young Russian émigré marries a girl who dies during the honeymoon. To make her image immortal and replace her forever, the hero decides to pass in reverse order through all the places they had visited during their journey back to the hotel where they had spent their wedding night. It resembles the ancient legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. Chorb might be seen as an Orpheus who has succeeded. Vladimir Solovyov’s poem Tri podviga (Three Fulfillments) shows an Orpheus to whom Eurydice has been given back. It is possible that the poem is a subtext of Nabokov’s story. The novel Invitation to a Beheading is full of gnostic motives (gnostic ideas, it should be reminded, also influenced Solovyov). Love for his unfaithful wife and vague hopes connected with his jailer’s erotically charged daughter bind the hero to the jail of his awful totalitarian world as well as to the jail of the flesh (gnostic topoi). The last of Nabokov’s Russian works, the poem Vliublionnost' (Being in Love), which appears in his English-language novel, Look at the Harlequins!, suggests that a state of being in love slightly opens the door to the hereafter. According to Nabokov’s statements, art also connects us to the transcendental realm. Not only Nabokov, but Solovyov as well, think that both art and the state of being in love bring us closer to a better reality.
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Od dyskryminacji do równouprawnienia. Kobieta a polityka

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Piechaczek-Kaszczyniec A.
Archeus. Studia z bioetyki i antropologii filozoficznej
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2013
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vol. 14
182-197
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This article constitutes an attempt at examining the changes in the position of women in the modern society and their current role in political life. Do women – against the general view – fulfill any important functions or is this particular area reserved for men? It is frequently heard that during the last years women have got easier access to various positions. Women do not face any barriers apart from their own weaknesses and lack of self-confidence. Even though the opinions differ, generally it can be stated that discrimination still exists. Even though women manage to enter the world of politics, they are not taken seriously enough. Thus, is it true that the roles they play in their lives are only a matter of choice? Some people believe that the problem is only a matter of stereotypes. Then, what is the sense of efforts aimed at equality of rights? Although the article focuses on the issue of equality, the rights and the general position of women is also presented. The article brings up issues connected with equality of rights – whether one can really maintain that equal chances exist. It also presents a variety of stereotypes and struggles against them, and discusses the presence of contemporary women in the political arena.
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Mорфологія сексу в дзеркалі української барокової літератури [пролегомени])

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Uszkałow Ł.
Slavica Wratislaviensia
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2011
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vol. 153
509-524
EN
The article investigates the major forms of the manifestation of sexuality in various genres in the Ukrainian literature of the 17th-18th cc., from penitentialities via hagiography to indicent poetry. The author argues that, in spiritual genres, sexuality problems were largely raised in the discussion of the mistery of marriage and the sin of “uncleanness.” yet the true nature of sex is exposed in the indicent poetry of “wandering priests” which gave rise to specific “poetics of the body.”
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CHANGES IN THE FARMING POPULATION'S EMPLOYMENT AND SOURCES OF INCOME IN 2005-2007 (Zmiany zatrudnienia i zródel utrzymania ludnosci w gospodarstwach rolnych w latach 2005-2007)

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Frenkel I.
Wieś i Rolnictwo
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2009
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issue 4(145)
50-66
EN
The article presents the results of an analysis of changes in the employment and sources of incomes of the population of private farms in light of the data of representative surveys of the structure of agricultural farms conducted by the Central Statistical Office (GUS) in 2005 and 2007. The employment analysis was focussed on changes in the number of working persons among the farms' population, examined in accordance with its division into the group of persons working exclusively, chiefly and additionally on a farm, and on changes in the demographic and educational structure of each of these groups. The analysis of incomes was focussed on changes in the structure of households assessed from the point of view of the main sources of income such as income from agricultural activity, income earned through work done under contract, income from non-agricultural economic activity and non-earned income, including old age and disability pensions. Changes in both employment and incomes were analysed in accordance with the division of farms into acreage groups. The assessment of the revealed tendencies permits to state that the direction of the analysed changes was generally desirable: the overall number of persons working on farms diminished, the proportion of persons working outside agriculture and having incomes from such work increased, the educational level of the farms' users improved. The main factors of the recorded changes were: a decline in the number of farms and an improvement in their acreage structure, a rise in the demand for labour outside agriculture and the development of education at secondary and higher levels.
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Logika tego samego, czyli o zasadzie to(z)samości – od Luce Irigaray do Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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Marzec A.
Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
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2014
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vol. 42
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issue 3
107-132
EN
This article focuses on the mechanisms of the formation of homogeneous and hegemonic social structures based on predominance of one sex, exclusion of difference, and otherness. Reflecting on Luce Irigaray's thought, the author describes hom(m)o-sexual society with the use of the concepts of sameness and specula(risa)tion. He also shows how the exchange of women plays a constitutive role in creating an illusion of change and movement, and how it enables male-male relations in the homogeneous, identical male community. The author develops this approach by referring to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's concept of homosocial desire. In the phallic economy, men desire women only indirectly, and the latter serve as vehicles between men. In such a society a woman is located outside the symbolic order, or becomes an object of exchange, a currency or commodity. She is a mirror (speculum) which enables the male subject to look at himself and his desires, having no reflection or representation of herself. Therefore, following Irigaray, the author attempts to show the possibility of a different subjectivity from the one built on the rule of sameness. The French philosopher finds the cause of the lack of difference in the symbolic murder of the mother, which was committed in the history of European philosophy and which laid foundations for logocentrism.
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Kobiecość odzyskana? Pomiędzy sex a gender i esencją a konstruktem, czyli historia zgubnych dualizmów

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Małecka M.
Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
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2014
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vol. 42
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issue 3
89-106
EN
The aim of the article is to depict the basic categories and problems concerning philosophical thought about femininity, as well as to offer a critique of dualisms assumed to be self-evident and necessary for an analysis of femininity and masculinity. These dualisms were created according to “either-or” logic and suggest that reality is based on hierarchical pairs of opposites (i.e. woman—man, sex—gender, essence—construct, nature—culture, body—mind), which lead to an ostensible alternative of essentialism - constructivism. This article traces the consequences of taking for granted a binary-oriented construction of reality, which determines the direction of analysis and leads to reductionist conclusions. Moreover, the article suggests a scheme of philosophical anthropology called “feminology”, which on the one hand aims to study femininity without political references or a reductionist approach, and on the other analyzes femininity not as opposed to masculinity, but as “different from” it.
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DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES IN RURAL AREAS IN 2006-2009 (Przemiany demograficzne na wsi w latach 2006-2009)

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Frenkel I.
Wieś i Rolnictwo
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2011
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issue 1(150)
55-74
EN
The article presents an analysis of the main trends in the changing number of rural population in Poland, the demographic determinants of these trends and changes in the demographic and educational structures of this population in 2006-2009 against the background of respective changes in the earlier years of the present century. Changes observable in the countryside have been compared with those recorded in the urban areas in Poland and in other EU countries. The statistical data for the analysis have been derived mainly from current demographic statistics and Labour Force Surveys (BAEL) conducted by the Central Statistical Office (GUS). For international comparisons the Eurostat data have been used.
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POZITÍVNE OPATRENIA ZAMERANÉ NA RODOVÚ ROVNOSŤ V KONTEXTE EURÓPSKEHO PRÁVA

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Magurová Z.
Právny obzor. Teoretický časopis pre otázky štátu a práva (Juridical Review. Theoretical journal for the questions of state and law)
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2012
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vol. 95
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issue 3
237 – 252
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The author deals in the article with the issue of gender equality and positive measures aimed to gender equality. She briefly describes the terms of sex, gender, equality, and in particular positive measure, whose content depends on the individual forms of equality. She pays special attention to the regulation of positive measures in the context of European law. In the context of Slovak law she concentrates on a definition of the term „provisional compensatory measure“, a brief analysis of the Ruling of the Constitutional Court of SR PL. ÚS 8/04 and, in particular, criticises the absence of embodiment of any gender-based positive measures in Slovak legislation.
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Aspekty cielesności w prozie Lubka Deresza

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Nowacki A., ASPECTS IN LUBKO DERESH’S PROSE C.
Slavica Wratislaviensia
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2011
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vol. 153
663-670
EN
The subject of the article are the deliberations on the prose of one of contemporary Ukrainian writers — Lubko Deresh. It turns out that the young author has become part of the current of the European prose at the turn of the centuries, deciding to defy many conventions persisting in Ukrainian literature to date. The aim of the author was, as it seems, to shock the reader by using the subjects from the scope of man’s corporeality, absent or rarely appearing in Ukrainian literature. It turns out that Lubko Deresh can, in an extremely interesting way, present a human body in all its natural beauty. Apart from delicate eroticism, the author also focuses on the surroundings of love scenes, imbuing them with colours or creating an appropriate mood. His ideal of the feminine body is a young slim woman with long hair, small breasts and white complexion without a tan. One can see the echoes of adolescent desires of a teenager — after all the author was this age at the time of his literary debut. However, the reading of the following books shows that presenting man’s corporeality Lubko Deresh gives in to pressure of times and follows the most catchy themes in contemporary culture, that is sex and vulgarity, sometimes there also appears cold biologism and obscenities.
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IS SEX A BLESSING OR A COURSE? A CASE STUDY OF SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS AFFECTING WOMEN´S INCOME IN KURDISTAN

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Hedayatzadeh S., Khodaparasti R.
Človek a spoločnosť. Internetový časopis pre pôvodné teoretické a výskumné štúdie z oblasti spoločenských vied
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2010
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vol. 13
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issue 1
-
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Undoubtedly the socioeconomic development of each and every country is dependent on its human resources and work force. The more skilled and professional the human resources of a society are, the higher the efficiency and profitability of the country will be. However, women who populate almost half of the world do not fairly favour equal opportunities to play their function in the development of their country. Unfortunately our country, Iran, more or less suffers from this inequity in its both individual and social dimensions. Therefore, the present study aims to delineate socioeconomic factors affecting women's low income in the Province of Kurdistan in Iran, during 1384 - 1385 (2005 - 2006). For this purpose the necessary data was gathered via three different questionnaires. The results of the data analyses indicated that women in Kurdistan usually have a marginal role in the society. They have limited jobs. They are usually poor or underpaid and employed in posts unrelated to their expertise and/or academic education, and of no/little interest to them. Sex unfortunately plays a negative role in their income. To alleviate their poverty, unemployment, gender inequity and other socioeconomic injustice, some practical suggestions have been made.
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Fantastička preobraženja tela u erotskoj prozi savremenih slovenskih autora (Viničuk, Jastrun, Aćin, Goralik i Kuznjecov)

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Ajdačić D.
Slavica Wratislaviensia
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2011
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vol. 153
161-169
EN
The author analises the fantastic transformations of the body in the contemporary erotic Slavic prose — the novel Malva Landa (2003) by Ukrainian writer Jurij Vinichuk, the short novel Dnevnik izgnane duše (2005) by Serb Jovica Aćin, the novel Net (2004) by Russians Linor Goralik i Sergej Kuznecov, stories Gorący lód (2002) by Polish author Tomasz Jastrun. The erotic fantastic prose of these authors presents the literary view of desired and unperfect body, demonic disembodiment, metaphors of animal and human body.
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