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Gender alert: Scarcity and fear: A gender analysis of the impact of the war in Gaza on vital services essential to women’s and girls’ health, safety, and dignity – Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)

Publication year: 2024As the war on Gaza reached its six-month mark, it continues to be a war on women. According to UN Women estimates, more than 10,000 women have been killed to date, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers who left 19,000 orphan children behind. Women who have survived have been

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(Re)producing sex/gender normativities: LGB alliance, political whiteness and heteroactivism

by Helen ClarkePublished online: 21 Jan 2024LGB Alliance, as a prime example of gender-critical feminism, argues that the ‘sex-based’ rights of those who are ‘same-sex attracted’ are threatened by the inclusion of trans individuals, and trans lesbians especially. In seeking to exclude trans women

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Artificial intelligibility: the role of gender in assigning humanness to natural language processing systems

by Jenny Carla MoranPublished online: 06 May 2024In place of ‘Artificial Intelligence’, this article proposes artificial intelligibility as the more accurate term for describing the mistaken assignment of humanness to non-living objects. Artificial Intelligibility is manifested when a user assumes

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Enculturating Men, Cultivating Masculinity

by Sam de BoisePages 57-62 | Published online: 16 Apr 2024Very few terms are as fiercely fought over and so readily used but so causally underdeveloped as that of ‘culture’. The concept has a range of different interpretations but can be broadly divided between aesthetic and anthropological uses.

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The teaching body in sexuality education – intersections of age, gender, and sexuality

On September 23, 2023 the international magazine Sex Education published the paper written by Rebecka Fingalsson entitled "The teaching body in sexuality education - intersections of age, gender, and sexuality".The paper illustrates how teachers are influenced by age, gender, and sexuality in

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