Examines three principles of the poetry of two Latinas, Sandra Cisneros and Judith Ortiz Cofer: the expression of dual language heritage, the highlighting of women's issues as a means of self-affirmation, and the importance of creating time and space for writing. Explains that writing is a way of disrupting learned and expected roles and allows…

Discusses several articles in this issue that demonstrate the influence of gender and power on family medicine education. These articles show that both clinical and learning environments are influenced by gender and power. Recommends the study of gender and power as an overt component in the family medicine curriculum. (SLD)

Investigates the formative life experiences of nine women and how they perceived their roles as students, artists, art teachers, and family members in relation to the dominant discourses of their lives. Summarizes the typologies of the artists, the strategies for sustaining careers in the visual arts, and the implications for art education. (CMK)

Analysis of surveys of land-grant agricultural scientists in 1979 and 1996 found significant gender differences in postdoctoral work experience, academic rank, employment of graduate students, book publication, and links with private industry. Gender differences were found in attitudes toward biotechnology and university-industry links, but not in…

Examines university student motivation and goals related to preferences for course requirements and evaluation methods in introductory psychology courses. Reports that student expectations of preferences were sometimes contradictory, were different across subgroups (goal, age, and gender), and did not match faculty goals. Includes references. (CMK)

Highlights Hispanic mothers' discussions about moral family education. Narratives involved claiming the home space in the midst of the English-speaking community's attempts to define their families and childrearing practices as "problematic." Uses a race-based feminist perspective to examine how mothers' counternarratives helped contest…

Argues that post-structuralist discourse analysis has a strong contribution to make to feminist and educational research, examining how the use of feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis (FPDA) can be tricky. Highlights an ethnographic study of secondary school girls' and boys' speech in class. Suggests that FPDA can produce powerful…

Examined how Asian American actors coped with the constraints of being minorities in an industry where physical appearance is crucial to success. Respondents' narratives reflected such coping strategies as not confronting issues of race, rationalizing that things are much better now for Asian American actors than in previous years, and believing…

Explores why gender studies--implicated in wider conflicts over modernization, democracy, and tradition--has become a flash point for academic freedom in Egyptian universities. (EV)

Explores gender construction through school interactions. Views gender as a socially produced category by analyzing various theoretical approaches. Develops the genderism of school conduct using two examples from German instruction stating that confusion with sexual orientation arises through the deconstruction of the assumed role and active…

Presents a comparison of the Schwartz typology of values and the Spranger-Allport-Vernon typology. Investigates the differences among students in business, social science, and technology in emotional empathy and the relationships of value priorities and emotional empathy in different fields. Includes references. (CMK)

Addresses how poverty information is packaged as the intersection of class, race, and gender and how this depiction has changed from the 1980s to the early 1990s using a sample of 45 introductory sociology textbooks. Discusses the implications of and strategies for overcoming the conventional topic-chapter format of textbooks. (CMK)

Investigated the effects of teacher gender, student gender, and classroom subject (mathematics or English) on teacher-student interactions. Observations of high school students and teachers indicated that female mathematics teachers and male and female English teachers tended to interact somewhat more with male students. This was not the result of…

Evaluated three alternative theories of the continuity of delinquent behavior throughout childhood and into adolescence with a series of nested structural equation models. Longitudinal analyses of 840 middle adolescents revealed that childhood behavior problems directly and indirectly related to adolescent delinquency among boys and had unmediated…

Investigated how gender-consistent and -inconsistent portrayals of athletes would affect people's perceptions. College students read fictitious newspaper articles that focused on either a male or female Olympic athlete's physical attractiveness or athleticism. Respondents had neither favorable impressions of nor liked articles about female and…