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Gender-Specific Manipulations? by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional

A series of articles highlighting some anthropology research which explains why women don't tip over when... of knee-replacement manufacturers and design a gender-specific manipulation for the female specific vertebrae

Baby Gender Mentor™: At Home Gender Test by Dr. Aniruddha M. Medical Doctor

Baby Gender Mentor™: At Home Gender Test Who could ever have dreamt that home testing would evolve so rapidly and quickly !

Edge: THE SCIENCE OF GENDER AND SCIENCE by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

If you like considering back-and-forth debate, check out the Edge as it takes on Science and Gender. GENDER AND SCIENCE

Gender "Mentor" -- hmmm, I'm not so sure about that... by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Gender testing is now available in a home test, raising concerns about sex selection -- in India, Pakistan, and other places in the world, sex selection in early pregnancy has resulted in a skewed population.

Gender Budgeting by Lyn S. Patient Expert

MS Magazine article on "Gender Budgeting", a way of analyzing national budgets that shows who's not getting the money. Surprise! It's women and children.

Marriage and The New Gender Roles by Sig Y. Patient Expert

Gender roles are learned behaviors that have been reinforced in social groups, especially family. For Sean and Debby, the difference in their learned Gender roles played a large part in the disruption of their marriage. Debby

Not Equal - Gender Differences in Learning from Male or Female Teachers by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

A teacher's gender affects students' learning efficiency - whether for social, emotional, or biological reasons... will be no quick fix, as gender differences among teachers are fairly steady. It might be that the gender divide among teachers

Gender: Love It or Kill It? by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

is "Overcoming Gender" , and it's a quick summary of a formal paper he and James Hughes are co-authoring on postgenderism... was, "how typically male it is to see gender as something that has to be overcome, rather than something to be embraced

Gender Bias in the US Back Onstage by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Somehow the candidacy of Hilary Clinton and the resignation of Gov. Spitzer have converged this week to bring gender bias (aka "feminism") back to the consciousness of Americans. This excellent article in the NY Times by Kate

Something for the male gender to ... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Something for the male gender to ponder? BDWhen a woman is contemplating a long-term relationship, she is less likely to opt for macho men and seems to prefer males with more feminine traits, according to an article

Web Resources

Other Recommended Resources - Our Bodies Ourselves
Cecil, Rosanne ed. The Anthropology of Pregnancy Loss: Comparative Studies in Miscarriage, ... Technologies on the Experience of Pregnancy Loss" in Women, Gender and Technology. ...

Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth - Our Bodies Ourselves
Her dissertation concerns sex, gender-role orientation, and health behavior engagement. ... Her master's degree in anthropology is from Stanford University, ...

The Nutcracker's Eats – and More Recent PLoS ONE News ...
PLoS Journals Outage - January 19, 2010. Announcing a new PLoS Collection, Tagging of ... gender perception), The Times of India ('Beautiful people are healthier'), Anthropology. ...

Maternal and Child Health Journal special issue; The Social ...
Maternal and Child Health Journal special issue; The Social Context of Pregnancy for African-American Women ... Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, ...

Division of STD Prevention, NCHSTP 1
A gender specific intervention for at-risk women ... Anthropology 1991, Case Western Reserve University; Ph.D. Anthropology 1996, Case Western ...

HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS CREATIVE MATERIALS TESTING
by gender, race/ethnicity, language (English and Spanish), and geography. ... the locations where the groups were held; the race/ethnicity and gender of ...

Bushmeat Hunting, Deforestation, and Zoonoses | CDC EID
... virology, wildlife biology, disease ecology, and anthropology that enables better understanding of how ... articulated along lines of gender and ethnicity and within cultural ...

Other Recommended Resources - Our Bodies Ourselves
Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation. Relationships with Men. Relationships with Women ... Medical Anthropology Quarterly. March 1991; 5:1:29-47. Shushan, A et ...

PLoS ONE in the Media " everyONE – the PLoS ONE community blog
Anthropology.net – The Astronomical Orientation of Ancient Greek Temples – by ... Anthropology.net – Biomechanics of Running Indicates Endothermy in Bipedal ...

Infertility and Assisted Reproduction - Emerging ...
Genetics is neither gender neutral nor color-blind. Even if all women had access to these ... chair of the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction for six years ...

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Sexuality Education Resources for Professionals - The Body
This bibliography is designed to help professionals develop a core sexuality library. ... book examines ways in which sexuality, gender roles, and power imbalances in intimate ...

Sexuality in Men of Color: The Impact of Culture - The Body
The HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to have a disproportionate impact on Black and Latino ... In an article in Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Nina Schiller states that one of the ...

Is Religion a Barrier to HIV Prevention? - The Body
Is Religion a Barrier to HIV Prevention?, at The Body, the complete HIV/AIDS resource. ... and received her Master's degree in social anthropology. She completed a post doctoral ...

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News

Drinking, Smoking Often Intertwine for Students
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mark and Mimi Nichter have published a series of articles recently about the smoking behaviors of college students, offering important insights about smoking related to drinking, gender and stress.

Expand cultural output
At the last faculty meeting, I suggested University Provost Marty Krauss convene a "Small Ideas Committee" alongside her "Bold Ideas Group," which considers ideas that could provide $2 million or so annually in revenue for the University.

From Student To Professor: Henry Goldschmidt ‘91
Professor Henry Goldschmidt ’91 began teaching religion and anthropology on campus in the fall of 2004.

Gender Studies program to host lecture featuring speaker on practices of foot binding, veiling
The Gender Studies program will co-sponsor "Hidden Women," a lecture on the practices of veiling and foot binding, from 6 to 7 o'clock tonight in Room 131 of the McKibben Education Building. Dr. Claire Phelan, assistant professor of history at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, will be giving the lecture.

Nigeria : The Value of 'Progressive' Politics (2)
The modern nation is characterized by border crossings and intermingling, by a necessarily mobile, overt and covert copulation of beings in its domain of reality which must subvert traditional affiliations if a nation must grow.

Article about on-campus dating draws criticism from UNC students
“I think in general the ratio is skewed, but the implications about dating are not true.” “I think it’s a little over-the-top. I think of Carolina girls as classier than that.”

Wednesday Martin: Love Stories: Is Marriage Necessary?
While marital and couples therapists tell us how to save our marriages, sociology, anthropology, and human behavioral ecology suggest that it isn't so much married couples as Marriage itself.

A different kind of sorority
By: Sarah Kassem, CORRESPONDENT AN UNCONVENTIONAL SISTERHOOD IS TRYING TO CHANGE HOW PEOPLE VIEW GREEK LIFE They have piercings and tattoos and they dress in worn jeans and colorful sweatshirts. The women of Theta Nu Pi (TNPi) say they do not fit the typical “sorority girl” image, and they couldn’t be happier. “We’re not those...

American Muslims more American than perceived, panel says
By: Meaghan Beatley American Muslims form a community that is largely invisible to the rest of mainstream America, a fact that casts them under a shadow of distrust and apprehension, speakers said in a lecture Tuesday at Harvard University....

Juniors picked as Adel Mahmoud scholars
While many students scrounge and scramble for summer internships and jobs, this year’s eight Adel Mahmoud Global Health Scholars already have research grants lined up.