Advancing gender research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries / edited by Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : advancing gender research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries / Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos -- Witch hunts and enlightenment : Harriet Martineau's critical reflections on Salem / Susan Hoecker-Drysdale -- Harriet Martineau's Irish romance : the lady oracle and the young repealer / Deborah A. Logan -- Harriet Martineau and the sociology of health : England and her soldiers (1859) Health, husbandry, and handicraft (1861) / Mary Jo Deegan -- Harriet Martineau : the forerunner of cultural studies / Anna Dryjanska -- Some things are not negotiable : gender, sovereignty, and Poland's integration into the European Union / Alexandra Gerber -- Breaking their way in : women jockeys at the racetrack in Brazil / Miriam Adelman and Fernanda Azeredo Moraes -- Exercising social power : the case of marriage / Kathryn A. Sweeney -- Evangelicals, invested individualism and gender / Sally K. Gallagher -- Fundamentalist feminists spar with the patriarchy : interpretive strategies of Israeli Rabbinic court pleaders / Susan Weiss -- Surviving widowhood : gender and race effects on health-related coping strategies / Tariqah A. Nuriddin and Carolyn C. Perrucci -- Re-examining the meanings of childbirth : beyond gender and the "natural" versus "medical" dichotomy / Sarah Jane Brubaker and Heather E. Dillaway -- Redefining "reproductive rights" : an ecofeminist perspective on in vitro frertilization, egg markets and surrogate motherhood / Laura Corradi -- How advertising for psychotropics constructs an enhanced gendered self / Elianne Riska and Thomas Heikell.