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Mahmood, Ambreen, and Masroor Sibtain. "Exploring Feminism and Marital Relations in “The Optimist” by Bina Shah: A Transitivity Analysis." Global Language Review V, no. IV (December 30, 2020): 113–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2020(v-iv).12.
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The current research paper tries to explore feminism and marital relations in an English short story by Bina Shah in a Pakistani context. Halliday's Trnsitivity System (2004) as textual analysis supported to identify the feminine and feminist traits in English fiction. The high frequency of material process (66) out of 200 clauses presented Raheela as a feminist, whereas the Relational process (56) reflected her feminine traits. The participants of the processes and circumstances made the institution of marriage clear; the desire and choice for marriage, sending marriage proposal and accepting proposal were all by the groom, his parents and bride's parents, but the bride had no right to express her choice and is generally supposed to follow her parents. Marital relation was built without the compatibility of the participants of marriage. The research helped to identify the writer's reflection of feminism and unfolded Asian culture with respect to marriage.
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Koenig, Fredrick. "Sex Attribution to Hypothetical Persons Described by an Adjective Trait List: A Replication." Perceptual and Motor Skills 81, no. 3 (December 1995): 723–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1995.81.3.723.
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This paper is a replication of the author's 1969 study, “Sex Attribution to Hypothetical Persons Described by Adjective Trait Lists.” In both studies the trait lists were made up of four masculine traits, four feminine traits, four neutral traits, and four traits which were half masculine and half feminine. In the 1969 study most of the figures described, 81%, were male. In the intervening years, the feminist movement, emphasis on changing sexist elements in language, and similar social phenomena influenced the author to hypothesize that female figures would be more highly represented in a replication. In the repetition of the study 25 years later, 53% of the responses were of female figures, 26% were male figures, and 21% were either male or female.
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Li, Jianhua. "Evaluating the Intersectionality of Women Liberation Movements." Learning & Education 9, no. 2 (November 10, 2020): 124. http://dx.doi.org/10.18282/l-e.v9i2.1423.
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The paper focuses on how women’s liberation movements overlook women from minority race groups. The rise of feminism, for example, ignores the unique challenges faced by queer women and women of color. Additionally, women liberation movements do not highlight the plight of women from minority race groups, who are thought of as less feminine. For instance, feminist movements do not highlight the discrimination against black women, who tend to be assertive and confident, traits associated with masculinity. Moreover, women’s suffrage protests were subjects of criticism for segregating women based on race. The paper criticizes the women’s liberation movements take on intersectionality of race, strengthening the need to revisit their primal objectives, particularly feminist campaigns that ought to address plights for vulnerable women in society.
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Jackson, J. Kasi. "Science Studies Perspectives on Animal Behavior Research: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Gendered Impacts." Hypatia 29, no. 4 (2014): 738–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12091.
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This case study examines differences between how the animal‐behavior‐research fields of ethology and sociobiology account for female ornamental traits. I address three questions: 1) Why were female traits noted in early animal‐behavior writings but not systematically studied like male traits? 2) Why did ethology attend to female signals before sexual‐selection studies did? 3) And why didn't sexual‐selection researchers cite the earlier ethological literature when they began studying female traits? To answer these questions, I turn to feminist and other science‐studies scholars and philosophers of science. My main framework is provided by Bruno Latour, whose model I position within relevant feminist critique (Latour 1999). This approach provides an interactive account of how scientific knowledge develops. I argue that this embedded approach provides a more compelling reading of the relationship between gender and science than does focusing on androcentric biases. My overall aim is to counter arguments by some feminist biologists that feminist tools should emphasize the correction and removal of biases, and to address their fears that more rigorous critiques would lead to relativism or otherwise remove science as a tool for feminist use.
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Bataineh, Adnan. "Analysis of Personal Traits in 16 Omani English Language School Textbooks." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 5, no. 8 (August 3, 2022): 39–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2022.5.8.5.
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This paper aims to analyze 16 English language school textbooks used in the Omani government schools. Quantitative and qualitative content analyses are used to investigate personality traits found in the textbooks. The analysis included all personal traits implied by images and texts in the textbooks. According to Hawkins’s (2007) classification of personal traits, personal traits are examined: traditional and feminist gender traits. The study results have indicated that there is a balanced representation of males and females in terms of personal traits. The study has also shown that the majority of masculine personal traits are stereotypical. Females were portrayed in different situations that conveyed masculine and feminine traits. Males were portrayed as risk-takers, self-reliant, nurturing, adventurous, decisive, competitive, and aggressive. Females were portrayed in a variety of personal traits such as nurturing, understanding, affectionate, risk-taker, self-reliant, competitive, aggressive, adventurous, and decisive.
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Snyder, Rita, and Lynn Hasbrouck. "Feminist Identity, Gender Traits, and Symptoms of Disturbed Eating Among College Women." Psychology of Women Quarterly 20, no. 4 (December 1996): 593–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1996.tb00324.x.
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This study explored relationships among feminist identity, gender traits, and symptoms of disturbed eating. Seventy-one college women completed the following: weight-related questions, Feminist Identity Development Scale, Personal Attributes Questionnaire, Figure Rating Scale, and Eating Disorders Inventory. Identification with feminist values negatively correlated with body dissatisfaction, bulimic symptoms, and feelings of ineffectiveness. Identification with stereotypical masculine traits was inversely related to perfectionist tendencies and feelings of ineffectiveness, but was unrelated to body concerns. These results suggest factors promoting body dissatisfaction and disturbed eating may have less impact on college women identifying with feminist values, such as commitment to nonsexist roles and personal empowerment.
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Mikkola, Mari. "Gender Concepts and Intuitions." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 39, no. 4 (December 2009): 559–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cjp.0.0060.
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This paper has two goals: it takes issue with a revisionary analysis of the concept woman and it defends certain linguistic intuitions about the use of the term ‘woman’. A number of contemporary feminists have been concerned with how to best define the concept woman: how best to cash out under which conditions someone counts as a woman. This concern strikes non-feminist philosophers and ordinary language users as surprising since (ordinarily) cashing out the said conditions doesn't appear to be problematic: aren't women simply human females? Most feminists disagree. They standardly understand woman as a gender concept and gender ascriptions are taken to depend on some social traits (like one's social role or position). These are distinct from sex ascriptions that are thought to depend on anatomical traits (like chromosomes and genitalia).
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Koolwal, Priti. "Feminism in Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence and Anita Desai's Cry, the Peacock: A Comparative Study." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 9, no. 5 (May 28, 2021): 154–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v9i5.11055.
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Feminism is a rapidly developing critical ideology of great promise. In the words of M.K. Bhatnagar, "Feminism in the Indian context is a by product of western liberalism in general and feminist thoughts in particular". With the social and cultural change in post independence India, women find themselves standing at the cross-roads. On one hand it is the consciousness of a changed time and on the other, the socio-cultural modes and values that have given them defined role towards themselves, have led to the fragmentation of the very psyche of these women. Caught between two worlds, they need to define themselves, their place in society and their relationship with surroundings. Anita Desai and Shashi Deshpande have constantly sought to come to grips with these problems of Indian womanhood and vividly and realistically portrayed the 'women question' and 'feministic traits' in their novels. If comparative study is the study of literature across national, political and linguistic boundaries, feminism is the comparative work across boundaries of gender and culture. The main concern of this paper is to present a comparative study of the note of feminism in the best words of both these feministic writers, i.e. Anita Desai's Cry, The Peacock and Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence.
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Persson, Sofia, and Thomas J. Hostler. "When Men Who Dislike Feminists Feel Proud: Can Self-Affirmation and Perspective-Taking Increase Men’s Empathy Toward Feminists?" Psychology of Women Quarterly 45, no. 3 (May 28, 2021): 372–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03616843211017472.
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Abuse against women’s rights activists is a serious concern, but there is a lack of research into strategies on how to reduce this. Past research has identified self-affirmation (i.e., thinking about one’s valued traits) and perspective-taking as promising strategies to reduce minority target backlash. Through one pilot study ( n = 98), and one two-part experimental study ( n = 202), we tested the effect of perspective-taking and self-affirmation on empathy toward feminism among men. Fictional Facebook profiles were manipulated to encourage perspective-taking, perspective-taking with self-affirmation, or were neutral in content. Participants then rated feelings toward individual feminists as well as feelings (in the context of perspective-taking emotions) toward abuse faced by feminists more generally. Results indicated that perspective-taking combined with self-affirmation promoted empathetic feelings (as represented by perspective-taking emotions) toward feminists experiencing abuse. The impact on empathy was particularly strong among men with high initial prejudice toward feminists. These results suggest that self-affirmation could potentially reduce online abuse of feminists through an increase in empathetic feelings. This research has broader implications for male engagement within feminism, and we recommend that educators and male allies of feminism promote positive, affirming roles for men (e.g., as fathers), as this may encourage empathy toward feminist issues. Policy makers could consider this strategy in the context of promoting policies such as shared parental leave. Online slides for instructors who want to use this article for teaching are available on PWQ's website at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/03616843211017472
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Uddin, Md Abu Saleh Nizam. "Feminism and Its Impact on the Literature of Love." Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature 16, no. 2 (April 26, 2022): 364–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/lc.v16i2.33108.
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Writers, readers and critics of literature have long been engaged with the appreciation of Feminist characters and Feminist themes in literary texts. But analyzing Feminism itself, to know about its impact on the literature of love is also an area to be explored. When Feminism is studied, we find in it traits opposing the love of mankind, which increases misery for women and others resulting in the decrease and even disappearance of the literature of love, a priceless possession of human beings. Thus, this paper aims at exploring how Feminism is antagonistic to the love of mankind by being prone to exclusionist and utilitarian politics, hostile to men and children, catalytic to separation in family, and indifferent towards rape and illegal men-women physical relationship eventually contributing to the increase of human misery reflected by and resulting in the gradual extinction of the literature of love. In this research thematic analysis was followed applying Bowen Family Systems Theory, Reader-Response Theory and Theory of Phenomenology. The finding of the research may ignite the search of a love-based, family-centric and holistic approach to ensure a misery-free happy life to women which will be reflected in the rejuvenation of the literature of love.
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DeWall, C. Nathan, T. William Altermatt, and Heather Thompson. "Understanding the Structure of Stereotypes of Women: Virtue and Agency as Dimensions Distinguishing Female Subgroups." Psychology of Women Quarterly 29, no. 4 (December 2005): 396–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.2005.00239.x.
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A two-part study investigated the dimensional structure of stereotypes of women. In one sample ( n = 258), participants sorted traits according to the likelihood that they would co-occur in the same woman. In a separate sample ( n = 102), participants were given the same traits and were asked to judge the traits' desirability and to judge the moral virtue, sexual liberalism/conservatism, warmth, competence, and power of a woman who possessed high levels of each trait. Results from hierarchical cluster analysis indicated that participants perceived women in terms of six subgroups: professional, feminist, homemaker, female athlete, beauty, and temptress. Large differences among these subgroups were identified based on ratings of their moral virtue and sexual conservatism (i.e., virtue) and competence and power (i.e., agency). The implications of a virtue-agency model of female subgroups for gender stereotyping research are discussed.
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Eke, Gloria Ori, and Anthony Njoku. "African women in search of global identity: An exploration of feminism and Afropolitanism in Chimamanda Adichie’s works." Journal of Gender and Power 13, no. 1 (June 1, 2020): 151–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jgp-2020-0009.
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AbstractMany variants of feminism have been branded over time and that has given feminism a multiple identity. One of the new revelations of feminism in recent times is “Afropolitan Feminism”, a branch of African feminism conceived in this research to deal with the story of African women in the homeland and the Diaspora trying to assume the status of world citizens (Metropolites) to de-emphasize their origins. What is the nature of Afropolitan Feminism? What is the link between Feminism and Afropolitanism? To what extent do Adichie’s characters show the attributes of Afropolitans? This paper illuminates the concepts of feminism and Afropolitanism and the latter’s traits in Adichie’s characters in Americanah and The Thing Around Your Neck. It deals with Diaspora issues and the way African women in literary fictions try to stem the effects of global maladies like African patriarchy, Western racism and sexism. The paper further discusses social awareness and feminist tendencies displayed by the characters. It ends by noting that feminism which assumes the dimension of Afropolitanism in Adichie’s works is a becoming trend rather than a fixed norm.
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Habib, Hussam, Padmini Srinivasan, and Rishab Nithyanand. "Making a Radical Misogynist." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6, CSCW2 (November 7, 2022): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3555551.
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The algorithms and the interactions facilitated by online platforms have been used by radical groups to recruit vulnerable individuals to their cause. This has resulted in the sharp growth of violent events and deteriorating online discourse. The Manosphere, a collection of radical anti-feminist communities, is one such group that has attracted attention due to its rapid growth and increasingly violent real-world outbursts. In this paper, we examine the social engagements between Reddit users who have participated in feminist discourse and the Manosphere communities on Reddit to understand the process of development of traits associated with the adoption of extremist ideologies. By using existing research on the psychology of radicalization we track how specific types of social engagement with the Manosphere influence the development of traits associated with radicalization. Our findings show that: (1) participation, even by the simple act of joining the Manosphere, has a significant influence on the language and outlook traits of a user, (2) Manosphere elites are extremely effective propagators of radical traits and cause their increase even outside the Manosphere, and (3) community perception can heavily influence a user's behavior. Finally, we examine how our findings can help draft community and platform moderation policies to help mitigate the problem of online radicalization.
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Stone-Mediatore, Shari. "Epistemologies of Discomfort: What Military-Family Anti-War Activists Can Teach Us About Knoweldge of Violence." Studies in Social Justice 4, no. 1 (March 12, 2010): 25–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v4i1.1007.
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This paper extends feminist critiques of epistemic authority by examining their particular relevance in contexts of institutionalized violence. By reading feminist criticism of "experts" together with theories of institutionalized violence, I argue that typical expert modes of thinking are incapable of rigorous knowledge of institutionalized violence because such knowledge requires a distinctive kind of thinking-within-discomfort for which conventionally trained experts are ill-suited. I turn to a newly active group of epistemic agents-anti-war relatives of soldiers-to examine the role that undervalued epistemic traits can play in knowledge of war and other forms of structural violence.
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Arnott, Ian. "Marxist or Feminist Approaches to Sports Management Are There Traits in A Modern Days Society." International Business Research 1, no. 4 (September 10, 2008): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v1n4p19.
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Many scholars have attempted to apply various theories in the field of sport (Bordieu, 1984 & Brainer 2007). This particular area looks at the relationship between Marxism to the sociology of sport and how it has influenced societal structures as well as the impact it has had on the economy. Though these theories are useful on exploring the general nature of sport, questions may be raised on have they influenced the way sports is managed today also? It is widely accepted that management theories have been influenced by industry and that many scholars have used Marxism and feminist approaches to form some sort of construct of this. However does one or two apply to all? And are they appropriate to areas such as the service industry that sport falls in too? This paper attempts to look at how Marxism may have had some influence on sports management through capitalists, masculinity and power and the weld it has had on females developing in such a field because of its deeply held roots. And more importantly possibly oppressed feminism in this field. There are also arguments made because of such oppression by the male domination that they have used sports as a vehicle to segregate society and influence the direction of sports management. Therefore the discussion in its true entirety at most is a snapshot of how one theory dominates the area of sports management and how it impinges on others both on their application and development.
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Dev, Shampa. "Gender Justice in India: A Feminist Jurisprudential Perspective." Tattva - Journal of Philosophy 10, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 69–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.12726/tjp.19.5.
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A perusal of the criminal laws and personal laws reveal that laws adopt a protectionist and paternalistic approach for empowering and providing autonomy to women. This paper initiates a discussion on issues at the core of gender justice. It questions the man-woman dichotomy and asserts that if men and women are fundamentally different as categories, then a single yardstick for measuring justice is wrong. And, if they are not class wise different, and evince only personal traits, then the whole idea of gender justice based on the dichotomy is flawed. This paper further argues that social conditioning restricts the possibility of autonomous decisions. In conclusion, it is argued that laws need to create just social conditions and institutions that guarantee freedom from socially imposed disabilities, and subsequently, strengthen autonomy in decision making.
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Lashkova, Galina V., and Yuliya A. Belonozhko. "Gender as one of the social factors and its impact on the politicians’ speech (Based on the interviews of Theresa May, the former British Prime Minister)." Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philology. Journalism 22, no. 3 (August 24, 2022): 278–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1817-7115-2022-22-3-278-284.
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Current research studies the concept of “gender” as one of the social factors that determine the choice of language means defined as more typical for female or male speech. The study focuses on the speech of Theresa May, the former British Prime Minister, the second female Prime Minister after M. Thatcher. The analysis of 10 interviews with male and female journalists is based on the classifications of masculine and feminine language means described in the studies of such linguists as R. Lakoff, a representative of feminist criticism of language, W. O’Barr and B. Atkins, who highlighted the influence of the speaker’s social status, D. Tannen, J. Holmes and D. Hyde. This study characterizes the features of T. May’s speech as masculine or feminine, depending on the communicative situation when the Prime Minister uses such markers as the 1st person pronouns, etiquette clichés, intensifiers, modal verbs “must” and “can”, as well as the tendency to interrupt the interlocutor. T. May’s speech features both feminine and masculine traits, notably feminine ones are more frequent in interviews with female journalists, due to the discussion topics, while masculine indicators are more typical for her communication with male interviewers, whose questions were addressed to T. May as the leader of the state and concerned social and political life of the UK. The feminine traits in such a situation indicate emotionality and seeking for the support of the speaker’s opinion. They might be considered as factors weakening T. May’s status of an appropriate leader, especially when criticized by an interviewer.
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Suwastini, Ni Komang Arie, I. Dewa Ayu Ogik Vira Juspita Banjar, Luh Putu Cornea Arya Tienty, I. Made David Garcia Sasmita, and Putu Kerti Nitiasih. "RACHEL CHU AS LIBERAL FEMINIST IN KEVIN KWAN’S CRAZY RICH ASIANS (2013)." International Journal of Language and Literature 4, no. 3 (December 7, 2020): 123. http://dx.doi.org/10.23887/ijll.v4i3.30297.
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This study aims to identify the characterization of Rachel Chu as a liberal feminist in Crazy Rich Asians, written by Kevin Kwan, published in 2013. By employing McKee's textual analysis with liberal feminism's perspective, the present study was designed in Miles' and Huberman's interactive model of qualitative data analysis. Through the repetitive and simultaneous process of data collection, data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing, the present study elaborates on the characterizations of Rachel Chu as an attractive, intelligent, and independent woman representing Rachel Chu as a liberal feminist. Thus, it is implied that although the novel may be fairy-tale-like in the sense that it is centered in a romantic love story with a glamorous setting of the affluent society in Singapore, the novel also inserts feminist traits that can inspire its reader to be intelligent and independent like Rachel Chu as the main character in this novel.
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Ali, Yasir, Muhammad Shoaib, and Haris Ahsan. "Feminist Waves and Gender Discrimination in Pakistan." Global Sociological Review VII, no. III (September 30, 2022): 31–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2022(vii-iii).04.
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Females, for centuries have been suppressed and their feminist traits have been manipulated in various ways, whether it's sexualizing, objectifying, subduing, and confiscating them. Despite the war against gender discrimination, gender inequality continues to entrench the world, where women are deprived of their fundamental rights, specifically in developing countries. The study will evaluate the multidimensional facets of the three feminist waves, illustrating their causes and subsequent effects, with a viewpoint of Pakistan's chronology of gender discrimination. Moreover, the study will also elaborate on several efforts made in Pakistan to combat gender discrimination. The research is based on primary data, involving reflexive interviews, semi-structured questionnaires conducted by the social activist fighting against gender inequality, and a desk survey. The conclusion of the research is based on the solution to fight gender discrimination and reforms that can be brought in Pakistan to resolve the dilemma. Hence, the study will of significant importance for young females all across the globe, specifically in Pakistan, giving them the motivation to stand for their basic rights.
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Gunawati, Pande Made, Dewa Komang Tantra, and Putu Adi Krisna Juniarta. "AN ANALYSIS OF LIBERAL FEMINISM IN THE NOTEBOOK NOVEL (1996) BY NICHOLAS SPARKS." International Journal of Language and Literature 4, no. 4 (February 12, 2021): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.23887/ijll.v4i4.32100.
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In The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, Allison Nelson was characterized as an inspiring woman who fought for her dreams. Meanwhile, Noah Calhoun was described as a loving man that respected Allison as a woman. This novel contained traits of rich liberal feminism. The purpose of the present research was to find out the traits of Noah Calhoun and Allison Nelson as the main characters that represented liberal feminism in the novel. The method of this research was textual analysis to analyze the traits. Data collection was linguistics unit corpora recorded in written forms. The finding of this research can be stated that Noah Calhoun and Allison Nelson were categorized as liberal feminists. Their traits were a combination of positive feminine and masculine traits. The traits of the main characters as liberal feminists were appreciative, forceful, strong, devoted, firm, sensitive, confident, patient, carefree, responsible, and independent.
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Dibavar, Aytak. "(Re)Claiming gender: A case for feminist decolonial social reproduction theory." Global Constitutionalism 11, no. 3 (November 2022): 450–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2045381721000216.
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AbstractThis article argues that the tokenistic appropriation of categories such as gender and race have deprived them of their radical and transformative political and practical roots while facilitating their commodification as a luxury product that is consumed by the depoliticized and privileged. Such (ab)use of gender, as an analytical tool, similar to race and class, has been on the rise within progressive circles. However, with the rise of alt-right populism claiming to know and fight ‘feminism’, as well as the commodification of feminism by progressives, now more than ever a decolonial social reproductive theory is needed to help understand and delineate how women are oppressed in a plethora of intersectional ways based on race, class and ability among other traits, while engaging the specific material historical-constitutive structures, judicial-political and socio-economic dimensions of the world order, as well as the emergence of right-wing populism as white heteronormative backlash. This article argues for a feminist decolonial social reproductive theory that sees gender and racial hierarchy as part of capital’s dynamism (a product), which transforms the natural, social and material world, restructuring and evolving for the ordered extraction of surplus. Although this process may differ temporally and geographically, it nonetheless results in a constellation of class exploitation, governance and struggle that facilitates right-wing backlash and undermines the left’s response, thus obviating the need for decolonial social reproductive theory.
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Basow, Susan A., and Joanna Willis. "Perceptions of Body Hair on White Women: Effects of Labeling." Psychological Reports 89, no. 3 (December 2001): 571–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.2001.89.3.571.
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This study examined 118 college students' perceptions of a White woman with body hair as a function of two different possible attributions. Participants reacted to a video of a young woman described as being either a feminist or as having a medical condition that hindered shaving. Students rated the woman on a variety of interpersonal traits. Analysis showed a main effect for body hair and for description but no interaction. The woman with body hair, whether for feminist or alternative reasons, was rated as significantly less friendly, moral, and relaxed, as well as more aggressive, unsociable, strong, nonconformist, dominant, assertive, independent, and in better physical condition than the same woman without body hair. Implications and directions for research are suggested.
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Pentecost, Samantha. "Gendering the Boy Scouts: Examining Hegemonic Masculinity at a Co-Ed Backpacking Camp." Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography 10, no. 2 (October 19, 2020): 3–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.15273/jue.v10i2.10350.
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Masculinity has been studied in various outdoor settings, including the industries of ecotourism, outdoor education, and forestry. However, few studies have examined how physical space contributes to the construction of hegemonic masculinity in organizations associated with nature and the outdoors. This study relies on nine in-depth interviews conducted with outdoor educators and sixteen hours of ethnographic research completed at Mountain View Scout Camp, a backpacking program for youth operated by the Boy Scouts of America. Findings indicate that Mountain View is gendered both through its organizational aesthetics, which valorize a hegemonically masculine ideal, and via sta members’ conception of nature as feminine and forestry work and tools as masculine. Results also suggest that men employed at Mountain View will occasionally embody a hybrid masculine gender performance by utilizing non-hegemonic traits of masculinity such as pro-feminist ideas. However, these episodic masculine performances also serve to subtly reproduce gender inequalities by accepting only a speci c type of woman and rewarding men for super cial allyship.
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Derosa, Allestisan Citra, and Irwansyah Irwansyah. "Resisting Silence towards Women." Humaniora 12, no. 3 (November 28, 2021): 201–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/humaniora.v12i3.6951.
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The research provided a descriptive analysis of six articles published by Magdalene, an Indonesian publication that resonated with feminists, pluralists, and progressive voices, to identify the subtle tactics men used to silence women. The idea of neutrality in language endured a long-standing debate between scholars in the communication field. In the perspective of feminist thinkers, language served a function of sexual division, placing men in domination and women in oppression. Women were constrained by a social system governed and communicated through a language that did not represent their experience and perspective. Men’s language denied and negated women’s authenticity. Women were only authentic when their voice was narrated by the language unfamiliar to the scream of their anguish and struggles. The language was not only a medium of expression but also a method of silence. In order to resist oppression, one must be critical of the technique men use in silencing women. Using silence methods from Muted Group Theory provided by Cheris Kramare, the research finds that silence dominantly occurs in the form of violence. The overlap of silence methods is mostly followed by censorship towards women. In one case of sexual harassment towards a female university student, the educational institution is considered the embodiment of patriarchal social construction for coercing silence to victims and doubling its function as sources of knowledge and sexual harassment perpetrators. Lastly, another finding suggests that men who strongly associate with feminist traits and whose sexual identification is against the dominant masculine norm are also disempowered.
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Nurminen, Matias. "Narrative warfare." Narrative Inquiry 29, no. 2 (October 16, 2019): 313–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.19019.nur.
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Abstract This article studies the use of literature and narrative strategies of online antifeminist movements. These movements classified under the umbrella term the manosphere, wage ideological narrative warfare to endorse a misogynistic worldview. The case at hand concentrates on the radical faction of neomasculinity and its attempts to reinterpret the Western canon of literature. I propose that neomasculine readings of novels such as Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita are careless interpretations that ground themselves on specific traits of the texts while ignoring others. These readings attempt to evoke a sense of recognition in the community that believes in an alleged feminist conspiracy against men. Careless interpretations borrow from post-truth rhetoric and the feminist literary theory tradition of reading against the grain. When confronted over their controversial views, neomasculine figures renarrativize readings to benefit the promotion of neomasculine perspectives. This strategic use of literature is part of the narrative warfare discussed in detail.
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Bayard de Volo, Lorraine. "Masculinity and the Cuban Missile Crisis: gender as pre-emptive deterrent." International Affairs 98, no. 4 (July 4, 2022): 1211–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiac121.
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Abstract Sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, academics and policy-makers still pore over the details for lessons in foreign policy. In those details, participants and observers regularly remark on the gendered dynamics of the crisis. Despite such observations and the vastness of the missile crisis literature, there remains little explicitly gendered research. This study takes up the feminist IR question ‘What work is gender doing here?’ by comparing the masculine performances of Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy. It finds that the three leaders embraced similar masculine traits in themselves that they denied in each other and that gender operated as a preemptive deterrent to mindsets and approaches considered feminine, such as diplomacy and negotiation. The ongoing pursuit of masculinity, particularly toughness and cool-headed rationality, were powerful though underappreciated motivations that introduced biases and counterproductive decisions, whereas purportedly feminine options—cooperation and negotiation—were rejected out of hand, never arose, or were concealed from the public. Gender analysis of security events challenges claims to rationally-driven brinkmanship and the counterproductive limitation of options. As crisis unfolds, awareness of how gender can operate as a preemptive deterrent can serve to keep more options and negotiable details on the table.
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Magnet, Shoshana, and Celeste Orr. "Feminist Surveillance Studies and the Institutionalization of Interphobia." Surveillance & Society 20, no. 4 (December 16, 2022): 420–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ss.v20i4.15825.
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Though sex, gender, and sexuality have been subject to ongoing forms of state scrutiny and, therefore, concern surveillance studies scholars—one can think of McCarthy and the policing of homosexuality and the current forms of homophobia and cisgenderism structuring bathroom, sport, and “Don’t Say Gay” laws in the US—there is a glaring lack of attention paid to the violent (colonial) state, legal, and medical projects that surveil intersex people’s body-minds with the (eugenic) goal of eradicating intersex variations to make sex, gender, and sexuality “legible,” dyadic. There is a lack of attention paid to intersex issues in mainstream media as well as from surveillance studies scholars. As a result, as scholars reflect backward over the decades of scholarship in surveillance studies in this anniversary issue of Surveillance & Society, we posit that it is time to use the refined tools surveillance studies offers in service of opposing the often-ignored ongoing surveillance—and killing project—of intersex people’s unique sex traits. In doing so, we focus our attention on surgical interventions, medical photography, and the reproductive technology preimplantation genetic diagnosis. These three case studies offer a sampling of the various ways intersex variations are surveilled and eradicated, and, therefore, signal the importance of integrating intersex issues into feminist surveillance studies. To conclude, we address how intersex activists find each other and propel their activism—activism that combats the surveiling and regulating nature of state and medical-sanctioned interphobia—into the mainstream via information and communication technologies. And yet, there remains so much work to be done. We end on the cautionary note that the ways that intersex activists’ work is routinely stymied and undermined by state and medical forces must be considered.
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Saunders, Daniel G. "Feminist-Cognitive-Behavioral and Process-Psychodynamic Treatments for Men Who Batter: Interaction of Abuser Traits and Treatment Models." Violence and Victims 11, no. 4 (January 1996): 393–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.11.4.393.
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At a community-based domestic violence program, 218 men with a history of partner abuse were randomly assigned to either feminist-cognitive-behavioral or process-psychodynamic group treatments. The treatments were not hypothesized to differ in outcome. However, men with particular characteristics were expected to have lower recidivism rates depending on the type of treatment received. Treatment integrity was verified through audio-taped codings of each session. The partners of 79% of the 136 treatment completers gave reports of the men’s behavior an average of 2 years post-treatment. These reports were supplemented with arrest records and self-reports. Rates of violence did not differ significantly between the two types of treatment nor did reports from the women of their fear level, general changes perceived in the men, and conflict resolution methods. However, interaction effects were found between some offender traits and the two treatments. As predicted, men with dependent personalities had better outcomes in the process-psychodynamic groups and those with antisocial traits had better outcomes in the cognitive-behavioral groups. The results suggest that more effective treatment may occur if it is tailored to specific characteristics of offenders.
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Hunt, Anne. "Paschal-Eucharistic Soundings: Intimations and Challenges." Irish Theological Quarterly 76, no. 4 (September 29, 2011): 357–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021140011416285.
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The founding paschal narrative in the New Testament and the liturgy of the Eucharist continue to afford fresh insights into the mystery of the Trinity. This article first re-visits this mystery as gleaned from these two privileged sources. Having examined the hypostatic traits manifest there in the paschal drama, notably the self-giving, self-surrendering love, which characterizes the trinitarian communion and the receptivity, obedience, and Fatherwardness of the Son, the article proceeds to consider some of the challenges that these trinitarian soundings pose to contemporary theology, in particular, for feminist theologies and the values espoused therein.
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Nye, Robert A. "How Sex Became Gender." Psychoanalysis and History 12, no. 2 (July 2010): 195–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/pah.2010.0005.
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This article argues that ‘sex’ which had been commonly assumed in the West to refer to a permanent set of biological and behavioural traits particular to men and women, is gradually being replaced in general usage by ‘gender’. Though feminist theorists attempted to attach a constructivist meaning to gender, a generation of developmental theorists, clinicians and analysts has imbued the term with the determinism and biological qualities formerly ascribed to ‘sex’. The triumph of this materialist conception of gender is not assured, but it threatens our ability to think about gender identity as a historically-constructed category.
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Asiegbu, Perp’ st Remy. "Orara as a symbol of feminine beauty and meekness in select novels of Igbo female writers." AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies 9, no. 1 (April 28, 2020): 55–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/laligens.v9i1.5.
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The similitude that exists in the depiction of the major characters of pioneer Nigerian female writers (who are, incidentally, Igbo) tasks the mind as it reflects on a possible cause of this semblance. This paper located a double pronged characteristic that is shared by all the major characters in the works under study – one of beauty and gentle spirit. These features have a symbolic significance (Ọrara) in an Igbo sub-culture (Mbaise). Ọrara, a snake, is one of the symbols in Mbari representing feminine beauty and meekness in repressed strength – traits that womanism upholds. Text analysis, oral tradition and interviews provide points that aid the study of the relationship between these concepts – female characters, Ọrara and womanism. It is deduced that the identical characterization in the works of Igbo female writers - Nwapa’s Efuru and Idu; Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood and The Bride Price; and Okoye’s Behind the Clouds and Chimere - has its root in the writers’ re-creation of the real experiences of the ordinary woman in the Igbo society whose natural reactions to her plight gravitates more to the womanist than the feminist angle, producing traits that are similar to those of Ọrara. And while womanism is not new in relation to the study of the works of Igbo female writers, it has not been studied against a significant symbol in the Igbo tradition. Ọrara is, thus, seen as the ideological locus for womanism and may be put under further scrutiny to establish it as the muse of Igbo female writers.
Key Words: Womanism, Characters, Beauty, Meekness, Symbol, Ọrara, Igbo.
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Καρούνια (Katerina Karounia), Κατερίνα. "Το γυναικείο ζήτημα κατά τη Hannah Arendt." Conatus 1, no. 1 (April 5, 2017): 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/conatus.11843.
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According to Hannah Arendt, into the earthly world of phenomenality, where reality depends on visibility and is identified with it, people appear in their “plurality”. Therefore, it is the concrete public personalities, speaking and acting in concert, that belong to the "arendtian world"— and not the purely private beings, or bodies as natural objects, or any empirical traits and indisputable facts, including sex. Based on these assumptions, Arendt apportions a character of abstraction to the claims of the feminist movement of her time. Respectively, it can be argued that the rationalistic feminist take-up of belonging to humanity converges, paradoxically, with the essentialistic view of the female sex, as follows: both tendencies seek to understand “what is” the woman. Arendt, however, is interested in the question of “who is” he or she who acts. Sex, just like every (biological) identity of the lonely self, is horizontally overridden by spontaneous initiatives and acting within the equalizing public sphere. Although politics is not based on empirical characteristics, these same facts filter out the citizens' unique perspective whenever their individual opinion is publicly expressed and, therefore, jointly perceived, and real.
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Rösing, Lilian Munk. "At frigøre (sig fra) mors begær - Om Lars von Triers Antichrist." Slagmark - Tidsskrift for idéhistorie, no. 61 (March 9, 2018): 153–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/sl.v0i61.104065.
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Lars von Trier’s chef-d’oeuvre Antichrist (2009) was immediately criticized, especially by pronounced feminist reviewers, for being misogynistic and excessivelyviolent. The article discusses these criticisms and argues that they bound in a failure to appreciate the aesthetic dimensions of the film. Instead, it is claimed that Antichrist can essentially be read as a dream that unfolds the primal scene (the child observing his parents having sex); in the prologue its angelic, liberating side, and throughout the rest of the movie its brutal and traumatic side. As such, Antichrist is an attempt at traversing the impossible relation between the sexes much more than it is a portrait of any particular traits of men or women.
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Rajasakran, Thanaseelen, Santhidran Sinnappan, Thinavan Periyayya, and Sridevi Balakrishnan. "Muslim male segmentation: the male gaze and girl power in Malaysian vampire movies." Journal of Islamic Marketing 8, no. 1 (March 6, 2017): 95–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jima-01-2015-0007.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose and develop a distinct perspective from the consumer culture theory in the context of Muslim consumers, marketing and the feminist theory. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on a critical review of the literature for insights into the consumer culture theory in the context of Muslim consumers, Islamic marketing paradigm and the feminist theory. Findings The study suggests that scholars in the area of marketing may consider drawing on the theory of Islamic consumer culture, film and feminist theory. This theory can be used as a platform to understand the Muslim mind and the related cultural traits to create greater engagement and interest in Malaysian horror genres among local and international audience. The Malaysian local horror genres currently have an interesting blend of Islam, local culture and gender biases addressing the universal concept of good against the evil forces, and this has the potential of offering new experiences to especially international audiences. Research limitations/implications This study is purely theory-based and is aimed at knowledge development in this field of Islamic consumer culture. It also invites academics to engage in scholarly activities toward theory building in this area. Practical implications The study provides directions for areas of possible future research in Islamic marketing, consumer culture and film studies. Social implications This study intends to broaden the research efforts in Islamic consumer culture marketing in terms of innovative ways to serve this growing Muslim market. Originality/value This study contributes to the discipline by providing new perspectives in Islamic consumer culture inquiry in the context of film studies.
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González Canalejo, Carmen. "ANÁLISIS HISTÓRICO DE LA SITUACIÓN DE LAS ENFERMERAS Y MATRONAS EN ESPAÑA. UNA PERSPECTIVA GLOBAL." RAUDEM. Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres 1 (May 22, 2017): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/raudem.v1i0.566.
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ResumenAl ser la enfermería y la matronería profesiones ejercidas mayoritariamente por mujeres en todos los países del mundo, nos hemos centrado en el análisis histórico de su práctica, poniendo el foco en los factores que han influido en la desigualdad de oportunidades para optar a puestos de gestión sanitaria y, en un menor reconocimiento científico de su práctica. Conocer la seña de identidad femenina y feminista de las que optaron por estas profesiones, valorar su estatus laboral y analizar las reminiscencias patriarcales que hoy día se mantienen en el ámbito de la salud, es el objeto de este estudio.Palabras clave: Enfermeras, matronas, invisibilidad, cuidados de salud, androcentrismo, sistema sanitario.English title: Historical Analysis of the Situation of Nurses and Midwives in Spain. A Global PerspectiveAbstract: Globally, nursing and midwifery are professions carried out mainly by women. This historical analysis of the praxis of nurses and midwives focuses on the factors that contribute to discrimination against them, both in terms of opportunities to attain health management jobs,and in terms of scientific recognition for their praxis. The goals of this study are, therefore, to determine the female identity traits and the feminist ideas of those who opt for these professions, to evaluate their work status, and to analyse the patriarchal traditions that stillprevail nowadays in the area of health. Key words: Nurses, midwives, health care, invisibility, androcentricity, health system
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Sakwa, Mediatrix M., and Oluoch Obura. "Femme Fatale Poetics in Elechi Amadi’s the Concubine and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood." East African Journal of Education Studies 5, no. 2 (September 7, 2022): 435–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/eajes.5.2.829.
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In this article, we focus on unravelling the femme fatale poetics in Elechi Amadi’s and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s, The Concubine and Petals of Blood, respectively. It is premised on the knowledge that the femme fatale is a shifting personage in interpreting feminist politics beyond national borderlines and the social procedures that frame relational contradistinctions of gender and its convergence with sexuality. It is believed that the term femme fatale refers to an archetypal female personality whose wicked features compel her to either unknowingly be destructed or consciously seek retribution. In light of this, Jung additionally submits that a femme fatale is often depicted as a lady who is stunningly gorgeous, has a sexually enchanting voice, is a thought-provoking figure, and has multiple character traits. She is both attractive and intelligent, and she frequently articulates in a soft voice and dresses in unconventional and attractive ways to attract men’s admiration. In line with Jung’s submission, the central concern of this paper is to unravel how the femme fatale has become a source of anxiety in the male domain. This article reveals that the femme fatale quest for individual sexual equality is emphasized as the fundamental source of conflict between patriarchal and feminist conceptions. Therefore, this article concludes that in order to solve the puzzling conundrum paused by the femme fatale, a need for a gender-equal regime should be advocated among all the gender cadres. The principal assertions made in this study serve to highlight an adequate solution to the problem of essentialism by the post-modern and post-feminist view context concerning the modern femme fatale as a threat to male dominance. This work was carried out by the use of close textual analysis to gather sufficient data for the phenomena under investigation and description of the significant claims.
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Meier, Petra, and Eline Severs. "The Dark Side of Descriptive Representation: Bodies, Normalisation and Exclusion." Politics and Governance 6, no. 3 (September 14, 2018): 31–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v6i3.1412.
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This contribution elaborates on the role model function of descriptive representatives. We seek to elaborate on potentially negative effects of role models, as we think they can endanger a feminist project of dismantling hierarchical power relations. When society attributes descriptive representatives the position of role models, the former no longer simply stand for their groups in a socio-demographic manner. Role models also stand for them in an exemplary manner, allowing them to prescribe a set of appropriate or desirable traits and behaviours. The presence and performance of role models, thus, powerfully shapes the context to the representation of disadvantaged groups. Because of their exemplary function, the personal experiences and life trajectory of descriptive representatives may be elevated to a standard; potentially causing the interests and demands of other group members to be considered abnormal or marginal. Also, role models may, paradoxically, promote exclusion. Representatives’ social differences provide them with powerful symbolic resources to speak on behalf of their group. While such authority may help them put previously overlooked interests on the agenda, their personal take on things may limit the terms of the debate, as it cuts out alternative intersections of social positions; making it difficult to voice alternative group perspectives. In this regard, role models may hamper the feminist project which precisely implies giving voice to excluded groups so as to broaden the range of voices articulated.
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Panayiotou, Alexia. "Teaching leadership the “Day After”, with care." Gender in Management: An International Journal 35, no. 7/8 (September 24, 2020): 629–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gm-07-2020-0223.
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Purpose This paper aims to share the author’s thoughts and reflections on teaching leadership in “pandemic times”. The author has been teaching leadership for nearly 20 years, both to undergraduate and graduate students, always stressing the importance of humility and compassion, traits that were often doubted and questioned vis-à-vis more traditional, masculine, perceptions of leadership. Yet, local and international leadership during the pandemic brought to surface the need and effectiveness of such characteristics, or what the author calls “the need for a feminist ethics of care” in leadership. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a thought piece stemming from the author’s experiences and reflections. Findings The paper discusses the fact that the most successful handling of the pandemic was largely carried out by female leaders, while also asking “why did so many male leaders do badly?” Research limitations/implications With this thought piece, the author hopes to not only engage the readers in a discussion about effective leadership but also on how to teach leadership in today’s schools of management. Originality/value The paper hopes to serve as a springboard for opening the discussion around traditional masculinist modes of leadership that have proven to be detrimental in managing the COVID-19 pandemic while also proposing that feminist leadership embedded in an ethics of care is what the world needs today.
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Maganda, Carmen, Edith Kauffer, Julia Ros-Cuellar, Citlalli A. González H., and Harlan Koff. "Leadership and development." Regions and Cohesion 12, no. 2 (June 1, 2022): v—x. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/reco.2022.120201.
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Since the Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion-Social Elevation (RISC-RISE) was founded in 2007 (RISC at the time), it has been characterized by two important traits: (1) a commitment to the principle of leadership within discussions of sustainable development; and (2) the presence of strong women leaders in the consortium’s governance structures and scientific initiatives. Neither RISC-RISE nor Regions & Cohesion would have thrived without the leadership shown throughout their decade of existence by a cross-regional community of strong women leaders. These women contributed to the success of these initiatives through the promotion of a people-based vision of sustainability (including gendered perspectives), an inclusive academic dialogue (including feminist approaches), and community engagement (including women leaders). Women engaged and directed this dialogue.
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Parr, Joy. "Disaggregating the Sexual Division of Labour: A Transatlantic Case Study." Comparative Studies in Society and History 30, no. 3 (July 1988): 511–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500015358.
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Sexual division has been an obvious and enduring characteristic of wage work, much studied on both sides of the Atlantic. Gender roles, household forms, and community welfare have been made and remade by changing access to paid work. The theoretical literature on gender segregation in the labour force is rich, but economists and feminist theorists have been interested in sexual divisions as general features of the economic or sex/gender system rather than as boundaries between tasks forged in defined contexts by particular clashes of interest. Whether in specifying the social groups that benefited by gender division, the systematic relationships that generated the boundaries, or the traits upon which lines of partition were drawn, most analysts have dealt with gender division as a characteristic of the work force as a whole.
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Keating, Michaela. "Victims and Survivors in the Rape-Revenge Narrative: A Comparison of Black Christmas (2019) and I May Destroy You (2020)." CINEJ Cinema Journal 10, no. 1 (December 19, 2022): 59–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/cinej.2022.436.
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The rape-revenge narrative is fertile ground to explore and contextualize the experience of sexual violence and its aftermath. While typically a trope in genre films seen through the male gaze, female filmmakers are reclaiming this narrative. Two recent entries from female filmmakers into the canon of the rape-revenge fantasy are the 2019 horror remake Black Christmas, and the 2020 HBO drama-comedy series I May Destroy You. This article will compare the ways that these two examples construct characters who experience rape, and how their personality traits and behaviors are infused with the cultural perceptions of "rape victims" or "rape survivors." This analysis will be grounded in ongoing feminist discourse around the use of the term applied to those who experience rape, and how this impacts our understanding of these characters.
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Saif Al-Nakeeb, Ohood Ali Mohammed. "Fragmentation of the fe/male characters in Final Flight from Sanaa: A corpus-based feminist stylistic analysis." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 7, no. 3 (May 1, 2018): 221. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.7n.3p.221.
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This paper examines the fragmentation of the fe/male characters in a one-novel corpus (henceforth, FFFS Corpus). The text is Final Flight From Sanaa, a Yemeni novel written by Qais Ghanem and published in 2011. The paper unfolds how the fe/male characters are introduced and talked about as anatomical parts in order to describe differences or similarities in gender representation, and to explore power relations and cultural differences between the eastern and western men and women. The analysis is done qualitatively using the feminist stylistic approach set out in Mills (1995) and quantitatively with the help of the corpus linguistic tool Wmatrix. Results have demonstrated that although the female and male bodies are almost equally fragmented, they are depicted differently. For example, female characters are introduced in terms of their physical attractiveness and sexuality while their male counterparts are focalized via their colors, physical deficiencies, skills, personality traits and the level of power they possess (whether physical or social).
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Runyan, Anne Sisson. "Conceptus interruptus: Forestalling sureties about violence and feminism." Review of International Studies 46, no. 3 (February 20, 2020): 325–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210520000030.
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AbstractForestalling sureties about what constitutes violence and feminism and the relationships between violence and feminism have been significant themes in the work of feminist International Relations theorist Marysia Zalewski. I follow how Zalewski, through her work and work with others including myself, interrupts well-trodden ‘trails’ of violence and feminism to open up thinking about both. I consider how her provocative work on violence and particularly feminist violence prefigures and advances cutting-edge critical thought on violence as represented in the ‘Histories of Violence’ project. What I call her ‘palimpsestic’ or multilayered and intertextual approach to violence reveals it as not only destructive, but also productive in terms of breaking with deadening conventions. I also consider her conceptualisation of feminist violence as both epistemic and militant over time in relation to some contemporary feminist insurgencies, the kinds of insurgencies that serve as her muses for breaking out of forms of ‘secured’ feminism and opening space for unbounded feminist thought. Consistent with her insistence that theory (and writing) should provide uncomfortable openings, not comforting foreclosures, I end not with a conclusion about her work, but rather echo her call to resist the kind of ‘knowing’ that suffocates critical thinking and (re)generative feminist thought.
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Grasselli, Fabiana, and Sabrina Soledad Yañez. "Los vínculos entre lenguajes/experiencias/genealogías en escritos de dos autoras feministas del sur = Exploring the links among languages/experiences/genealogies in the writings of two feminist authors from the South." Cuestiones de género: de la igualdad y la diferencia, no. 13 (June 19, 2018): 265. http://dx.doi.org/10.18002/cg.v0i13.5375.
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<p class="Cuerpodetexto"><strong>Resumen</strong></p><p>Interrogar los vínculos entre experiencia, lenguaje y política ha sido central para la teoría y la política feministas puesto que ha permitido repensar las vivencias de lxs subalternizadxs, los anudamientos de las dimensiones subjetiva y colectiva de lo vivido, y las posibilidades para decirlo en clave propia que habilitan prácticas transformadoras. En ese sentido este trabajo se propone abordar textos de dos pensadoras feministas del Sur, Gilda Luongo (Chile) y val flores (Argentina), tras las huellas de sus conceptualizaciones acerca de las formas en que mujeres y lesbianas articulan sus narrativas. Indagamos en nuestro ejercicio de interpretación en las apuestas/propuestas de las dos autoras explorando las modulaciones de la tensión entre experiencias y lenguaje feministas y la función genealógica de la intertextualidad feminista/lesbiana.</p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p class="Standard">Inquiring about the linkages among experiences, language and politics has been a central task in feminist theory and politics. The exploration of those linkages enables a critical revision of subaltern lives, revealing the interconnectedness of the subjective and collective dimensions of experience, and the possibilities of enunciating them in a language crafted in search of transformative practices. Taking into account these considerations, we focus on the writings of two feminist thinkers located in the global South - Gilda Luongo (Chile) and val flores (Argentina) - on the lookout for the trails of their conceptualizations regarding the ways in which women and lesbians inscribe their experiential narratives. Our interpretive exercise explores the authors’ endeavors/suggestions around the tension between feminist experience and language, and the genealogical function of feminist/lesbian intertextuality.</p>
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Volsche, Shelly. "A Comparison of Mothers and Childfree Women on the Common Characteristics of Romantic Love." SAGE Open 7, no. 1 (January 2017): 215824401770152. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244017701529.
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Since 2009, de Munck, Korotayev, and Khaltourina’s pioneering survey has been used to investigate the cognitive qualities of love across cultures, including Russia, Lithuania, the United States, and China. To date, this survey has not been used to probe these values at a subcultural level. Mothers and childfree women were surveyed with an expanded version of the original survey designed to target potential variations in ideology based upon parental status. Both mothers and childfree women reportedly adhere to the cultural norms of romantic love previously found in the United States, but childfree women were more likely to value pragmatic characteristics of love ( p = .011). Despite this, both groups disagreed with the statement “Career is more important than love,” suggesting norms of romantic love overcome feminist ideals. This is further supported by agreement from both groups on the previously identified “core attributes” that correspond with Fisher’s affective traits of romantic love.
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Pérez-Ramos, M. Isabel. "Breaking the Silence." International Journal of English Studies 22, no. 1 (June 30, 2022): 63–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/ijes.477221.
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This article analyzes the strange eco-cosmopolitan detective attributes of Ivon, the protagonist in Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s 2005 novel Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders. Through this willful, queer, and feminist mestiza character, who continually trespasses and transgresses cultural borders, Gaspar de Alba challenges the standards of crime fiction in numerous ways, as argued in this paper. Moreover, she also manages to expose the transnational dimension of the exploitation, mistreatment, and even murder of women in Ciudad Juárez. Simultaneously, Ivon’s eco-cosmopolitanism acknowledges how the expendability thinking of free trade that partly sanctions the murder of women, also results in the environmental degradation of, and the free flow of toxins and pollution in the border. Ultimately, Ivon’s strange, eco-cosmopolitan investigative traits, serve as the tools to break the silence and start confronting the feminicides in Ciudad Juárez as well as the socio-environmental exploitation of the US-Mexico border region, fostering a positive socio-environmental change.
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Howard, Vickie. "(Gas)lighting Their Way to Coercion and Violation in Narcissistic Abuse." Journal of Autoethnography 3, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 84–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.1.84.
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Narcissistic abuse is a hidden form of abuse and remains under-recognized in society and within the helping professions, partly due to victim difficulties in articulating the manipulative behaviors they have experienced. Though research focusing on narcissism is extensive, there is a distinct lack of research into the abusive behaviors individuals with severe narcissistic traits use against others and subsequent victim experiences. With the aim of raising awareness of this form of abuse, the following evocative account utilizes autoethnographic memory work and portrays personal experiences of narcissistic abuse—specifically, gaslighting behavior, pathological dishonesty, and intimate abuse. The autoethnographic methods of this article are aligned with social justice and feminist epistemologies. Suppositions are offered to the reader centered upon trauma, loss, and healing in the context of the author’s personal experiences and inherent values as a mental health nurse and educator. Key reflections regarding the use of memory as method along with procedural, relational, and ethical considerations determine how the autoethnography and its portrayal may have been shaped.
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O’Connell, Karen. "Can Law Address Intersectional Sexual Harassment? The Case of Claimants with Personality Disorders." Laws 8, no. 4 (December 5, 2019): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/laws8040034.
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Sexual harassment across multiple grounds, including race, disability, sexuality and age, remains an entrenched problem that is poorly dealt with in law. Prevalence rates for intersectional sexual harassment are higher for certain groups, while legal redress is low. This paper examines case law on sexual harassment in Australia where there are intersectional factors and asks whether the “intersectionality” section inserted into the federal Sex Discrimination Act in 2011 has impacted legal practice and decision-making. In particular, it considers the situation of sexual harassment claimants with behavioural and personality traits that are considered “disordered” and the specifically gendered disability stereotypes that shape their treatment in law. Recent cases in Australia dealing with the sexual harassment of people with personality disorders show that intersectionality provisions of sexual harassment laws may in fact be used to undermine a legal claim by a person with disability rather than strengthen it. This article argues that an intersectional legal feminist perspective on harassment is needed for the law to work.
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Piechucka, Alicja. "“You Avenge the Others”: The Portrait of a Femme Fatale in Gladys Huntington’s Madame Solario." Text Matters, no. 5 (November 17, 2015): 111–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/texmat-2015-0009.
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The article deals with the concept of femme fatale as presented in Gladys Huntington’s 1956 novel Madame Solario. The eponymous protagonist, Natalia Solario, displays several characteristics of this female archetype, omnipresent in literature, culture and visual iconography. As a femme fatale, Natalia is beauty, danger and mystery incarnate. The cause of tragedies, but also a tragic figure herself, Madame Solario is both victim and victimizer. The article explores the interplay between innocence and experience, life and death, the erotic and the thanatic, as well as the motifs of transgression, ambiguity, love, passion, desire, perversion, dominance and control crucial to Huntington’s novel. Madame Solario reminds us that, paradoxically, the femme fatale usurps certain stereotypically masculine traits. This, in turn, brings us to the novel’s feminist dimension: the femme fatale is victimized by men, but she is also the agent of female revenge and, ultimately, liberation, symbolically marking the transition from patriarchy to women’s emancipation.
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Aprilia, Fitria, and Neisya Neisya. "Women’s Stereotypes in “Pretty Girl” Song Lyrics: A Critical Discourse Analysis Study." ENGLISH FRANCA : Academic Journal of English Language and Education 6, no. 2 (November 30, 2022): 461. http://dx.doi.org/10.29240/ef.v6i2.4902.
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One of the components in music or song which can be used as an access to the image of women is song lyrics. Woman image presents mental, spiritual, and daily behavior expression by women in many aspects; physical and psychological as women's self-image, family as well as community traits as part of social images. Through language written as song lyrics, a discourse can be expressed according to what the songwriter feels and thinks. The objective of this study is to find out how the image of women which becomes a stereotype is represented in the lyrics of the song "Pretty Girl" by Maggie Lindemann. This study was a qualitative study using the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach with Norman Fairclough's model. The model was used to analyze the feminist discourses contained in the lyrics of the song "Pretty Girl" by Maggie Lindemann. The analysis found that the song "Pretty Girl" sung by Maggie Lindemann contained discourses about Maggie Lindemann's rebuttal of women stereotypes.