... and produce IDs as receipts of their presence in the state’s population registries and proofs of their citizenship. This paper contributes to a deeper understanding of how women in rural areas – marginalized along the lines of gender, class, caste and rural-urban gap – manage and navigate the state’s...

... even as it serves to reproduce the academy. Design/methodology/approach The research question informing this paper asks, In what ways does spatial thinking help us to better understand the immaterial, invisible and gendered labour of academic librarians' public service work in the context...

...Aira Huttunen; Noora Hirvonen; Lotta Kähkönen Gender Minorities Identity Embodiment In this study, we examine identity-related early-stage information needs as described by transgender individuals. Early-stage information needs have been described as embodied, intuitive emotions...

...Boryung Ju; Brenton Stewart The purpose of this paper is to examine motivators that drive Black Wikipedia contribution. The authors explore motivations around content contribution, effects of gender on motivations and self-perceptions of Black Wikipedia labor. A total of 318 Black...

... of about 14 authors and 19 books that Goodreads book club members are likely to have read. Gender Goodreads Book groups Fiction authors Fiction cannon Fiction genres Fiction reading Reading groups Book reading groups provide a recreational, educational, social and/or therapeutic forum...

... individual differences selected for inclusion in the present study consisted of gender, experience, and wholist/analytic and verbaliser/imager cognitive styles. These particular individual differences were selected in view of previous research findings, which have suggested that they may influence...

...Ziming Liu; Xiaobin Huang Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore gender differences in the online reading environment. Design/methodology/approach Survey and analysis methods are employed. Findings Survey results reveal that female readers have a stronger preference for paper...