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Moi, Toril. "“I Am Not a Feminist, But…”: How Feminism Became the F-Word." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 121, no. 5 (October 2006): 1735–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2006.121.5.1735.
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If PMIA invites us to reflect on the state of feminist theory today, it must be because there is a problem. Is feminist theory thought to be in trouble because feminism is languishing? Or because there is a problem with theory? Or—as it seems to me—both? Theory is a word usually used about work done in the poststructuralist tradition. (Luce Irigaray and Michel Foucault are “theory” Simone de Beauvoir and Ludwig Wittgenstein are not.) The poststructuralist paradigm is now exhausted. We are living through an era of “crisis,” as Thomas Kuhn would call it, an era in which the old is dying and the new has not yet been born (74–75). The fundamental assumptions of feminist theory in its various current guises (queer theory, postcolonial feminist theory, transnational feminist theory, psychoanalytic feminist theory, and so on) are still informed by some version of poststructuralism. No wonder, then, that so much feminist work today produces only tediously predictable lines of argument.
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Sekulic, Nada. "Identity, sex and 'women's writing' in French poststructural feminism." Sociologija 52, no. 3 (2010): 237–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/soc1003237s.
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The paper discusses political implications of the feminist revision of psychoanalysis in the works of major representatives of 1970s French poststructuralism, and their current significance. The influence and modifications of Lacan's interpretation of imaginary structure of the Ego and linguistic structure of the unconscious on explanations of the relations between gender and identity developed by Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray and H?l?ne Cixous are examined. French poststructuralist feminism, developing in the 1970s, was the second major current in French feminism of the times, different from and in a way opposed to Simone de Beauvoir's approach. While de Beauvoir explores 'women's condition' determined by social and historical circumstances, French feminists of poststructuralist persuasion engage with problems of unconscious psychological structuring of feminine identity, women's psychosexuality, theoretical implications of gendered visions of reality, especially in philosophy, semiology and psychology, as well as opening up new discursive possibilities of women's and feminine self-expression through 'women's writing'. Political implications of their approach have remained controversial to this day. These authors have been criticized for dislocating women's activism into the sphere of language and theory, as well as for reasserting the concept of women's nature. Debates over whether we need the concept of women's nature - and if yes, what kind - and over the relation between theory and political activism, have resulted in the split between the so-called 'essentialist' and 'anti-essentialist' approaches in feminist theory, and the subsequent division into American (non-essentialist) and French (partly labeled as essentialist) strands. The division is an oversimplification and overlooks concrete historical circumstances that produced the divergence between 'materialist' and 'linguistic' currents in France.
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CULLIS, A. "Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory." Journal of Design History 2, no. 4 (January 1, 1989): 313–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jdh/2.4.313.
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RIBEIRO (UFPA), Joyce Otânia Seixas. "DIVERGÊNCIAS E CONVERGÊNCIAS ENTRE O FEMINISMO DECOLONIAL DE MARÍA LUGONES, A HISTORIOGRAFIA FEMINISTA E O FEMINISMO PÓS-ESTRUTURALISTA." Margens 16, no. 26 (June 30, 2022): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.18542/rmi.v16i26.11154.
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Our intention is to carry out an introductory comparative analysis of three relevant feminist approaches that divide the gender studies scene. Despite the risks, the methodological decision was made by theoretical research (Salvador, 1986; Apple, 1994), aware that it is politically informed, as theories reveal interests of the class, gender, sexuality, nation, race/ethnicity, generation, and are linked to social practice. To proceed with the study, we highlight three aspects, which are: the assumptions, the notion of gender, and the political commitment. The results we have reached inform about the existence of divergences and convergences between these feminist approaches, confirming the irreconcilable divergence between feminist historiography and poststructuralist feminism, inconsistent convergence between poststructuralist feminism, and decolonial feminism, and convergence between feminist historiography and decolonial feminism.Keywords: Feminist historiography. Poststructuralist feminism. Decolonial feminism.
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Gavey, Nicola. "Feminist Poststructuralism and Discourse Analysis: Contributions to Feminist Psychology." Psychology of Women Quarterly 13, no. 4 (December 1989): 459–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1989.tb01014.x.
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In this article I suggest that feminist poststructuralism (Weedon, 1987) is of great potential value to feminist psychologists seeking more satisfactory ways of theorizing gender and subjectivity. Some key elements of this theoretical perspective are discussed, including an understanding of knowledge as socially produced and inherently unstable, an emphasis on the importance of language and discourse, and a decentering of the subject. Discourse analysis is discussed as one way of working that is consistent with feminist poststructuralist theory. To illustrate this approach, an example is presented from my work on the sexual coercion of women within heterosexual relationships.
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Smart, Carol. "Law, Feminism and Sexuality: From Essence to Ethics?" Canadian journal of law and society 9, no. 01 (1994): 15–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0829320100003495.
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AbstractThis paper explores current thinking on the meanings of sex, gender and sexuality and on the relationship between each of these concepts. It suggests that whilst feminist theory has adopted a social constructionist view of gender and, to a lesser extent, sexuality, it has left sex to the conceptual domain of biology. It has also prioritised gender over sexuality conceptually. These issues are explored in the specific area of sexuality and law where it is argued that recent theoretical developments on sex and sexuality within poststructuralist thought have, as yet, failed to influence the dominant understanding of heterosexual relations. Arguably in the field of law and sexuality, feminism has remained wedded to a notion of binary sex and identity politics. The paper then works through two specific instances, namely rape and S/M sexual practice, to identify some of the problems associated with the latter approach. Ultimately it raises questions about whether a poststructuralist politics imbued with feminist ethics might provide us with less essentialist models of masculine/male and feminine/female sexuality without either abandoning feminist political action or falling into a new sexual conservatism.
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Al-Mahfedi, Mohammed. "The Laugh of the Medusa and the Ticks of Postmodern Feminism: Helen Cixous and the Poetics of Desire." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 1, no. 1 (June 30, 2019): 54–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v1i1.20.
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This paper aims to explore Helen Cixous’ postmodernist trends in her formulations of a new form of writing known as ecriture feminine. The paper attempts to validate the view that Cixous’ “The Laugh of the Medusa” is regarded as the manifesto of postmodern feminism. This is done by attempting a critical discourse analysis of Cixous' narrative of ecriture feminine. Deploying a multifaceted-framework, ranging from postmodernism to psychoanalysis through poststructuralist theory and semiotics, the study reveals Cixous' metamorphosing and diversified trend of feminist writing that transposes the subversion of patriarchy into a rather bio-textual feminism, known as bisexuality. The paper highlights the significance of Cixous’ essay as a benchmark of postmodern feminism.
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Schaefer, Donovan O. "Embodied Disbelief: Poststructural Feminist Atheism." Hypatia 29, no. 2 (2014): 371–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12039.
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“I quite rightly pass for an atheist,” Jacques Derrida announces in Circumfession. Grace Jantzen's suggestion that the poststructuralist critique of modernity can also be trained on atheism helps us make sense of this playfully cryptic statement: although Derrida sympathizes with the “idea” of atheism, he is wary of the modern brand of atheism, with its insistence on rationally arranging—straightening out—religion. In this paper, I will argue that poststructural feminism, with its focus on embodied epistemology, offers a way to re‐explain Derrida's “I rightly pass,” and also to carry it forward. Poststructural feminist atheism leads us through Derrida to an embodied disbelief drawing on three dimensions of poststructural feminism: feminist epistemology and material feminism, relationality, and affect theory.
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Petrushikhina, Svetlana V. "THE QUESTION OF FEMALE BODY IN ARCHITECTURAL THEORY IN THE LATE 20TH CENTURY." Articult, no. 2 (2021): 91–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2227-6165-2021-2-91-96.
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This article is devoted to the phenomenon of female body in the foreign theory of architecture in the 1980‑s–90‑s. The works of D. Agrest, E. Grosz, D. Bloomer and D. Fausch are examined in the present paper. There are two perspectives on the problem of female corporeality: poststructuralist and phenomenological. Jennifer Bloomer and Diane Agrest adopt a poststructuralist critical strategy in which the notion of the feminine is considered as the “Other” of the logocentric architectural discourse. Elisabeth Gross notes that women have always been displaced from the realm of architecture. This is indicated not only by the absence of female architects, but also by the fact that the inherent attributes of female corporeality have been completely disregarded. Diane Agrest suggests that these attributes were appropriated by male architects. The phenomenological perspective on the female corporeality is reflected in Deborah Fausch's concept of “feminist architecture”. “Feminist architecture” brings back the value of concrete, sensual bodily experience in the perception of architecture. The subject's perceptual experience through the body allows the semantic dimension to unfold in the building.
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Moi, Toril. "What Can Literature Do? Simone de Beauvoir as a Literary Theorist." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 124, no. 1 (January 2009): 189–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.1.189.
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The past twenty years have seen a beauvoir revival in feminist theory. Feminist philosophers, political scientists, and historians of ideas have all made powerful contributions to our understanding of her philosophy, above all The Second Sex. Literary studies have lagged somewhat behind. Given that Beauvoir always defined herself as a writer rather than as a philosopher (Moi, Simone de Beauvoir 52–57), this is an unexpected state of affairs. Ursula Tidd's explanation is that Beauvoir's existentialism is theoretically incompatible with the poststructuralist trends that have dominated feminist criticism:Viewed as unsympathetic to “écriture féminine” and to feminist differentialist critiques of language, Beauvoir's broadly realist and “committed” approach to literature has been deemed less technically challenging than experimental women's writing exploring the feminine, read through the lens of feminist psychoanalytic theory.(“État Présent” 205)
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Ahmad, Mumtaz, Umar Hayat, and Nasir Iqbal. "Language, Women and Discourse in Toni Morrison’s Fiction." Global Social Sciences Review IV, no. I (March 30, 2019): 425–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(iv-i).55.
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The present study, grounded in the qualitative research paradigm, is an interpretive and explanatory analysis of Toni Morrison's fiction from the critical perspective of post structuralist feminist literary theory and fiction. In my reading of Toni Morrison's fiction as the manifestation/materialization of the knowledge in terms of discursive (re)configuration of women and to analyze their works from "feminine sentence" perspective, I have used Feminist poststructuralist theories in the discourse-theoretical/methodological background. As part of the methodology, this project draws extensively upon feminist theories, particularly those propounded by French Feminists Helene Cixous and Julia Kristeva, which I have used in the backdrop of discourse analysis methods proposed by Michel Foucault. This fusion of Feminist theories as a theoretical framework and discourse analysis as a methodology has illuminated systematically the process of the discursive formation, dissemination, and institutionalization of the knowledge about women. For my analysis of the discourse spectrum of the texts-to-be-analyzed, I have used extensively Foucault's notions about discourse and knowledge as discussed comprehensively in his books, articles, and interviews.
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de la Campa, Roman. "Mainstreaming Poststructuralist and Feminist Thought: Jonathan Culler's Poetics." Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 18, no. 2 (1985): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1315183.
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Foster, Emma. "Ecofeminism revisited: critical insights on contemporary environmental governance." Feminist Theory 22, no. 2 (February 7, 2021): 190–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700120988639.
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Echoing other articles in this special issue, this article re-evaluates a collection of feminist works that fell out of fashion as a consequence of academic feminism embracing poststructuralist and postmodernist trends. In line with fellow contributors, the article critically reflects upon the unsympathetic reading of feminisms considered to be essentialising and universalistic, in order to re-evaluate, in my case, ecofeminism. As an introduction, I reflect on my own perhaps unfair rejection of ecofeminism as a doctoral researcher and early career academic who, in critiquing 1990s international environmental governance, sought to problematise the essentialist premise on which it appeared to be based. The article thereafter challenges this well-rehearsed critique by carefully revisiting a sample of ecofeminist work produced between the late 1970s and the early 1990s. In an effort to avoid wholesale abandonment of the wealth of feminist theory often labelled as second wave, or the rendering of feminisms of the past as redundant as feminist theory changes over time, this article re-reads the work of ecofeminists, such as Starhawk, Susan Griffin and Vandana Shiva, to demonstrate their contemporary relevance. In so doing, the article argues that a contemporary re-reading of ecofeminism offers insights allowing for a radical rethinking of contemporary environmental governance.
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Schutte, Ofelia. "Cultural Alterity: Cross-Cultural Communication and Feminist Theory in North-South Contexts." Hypatia 13, no. 2 (1998): 53–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1998.tb01225.x.
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How to communicate with “the other” who is culturally different from oneself is one of the greatest challenges facing North-South relations. This paper builds on existential-phenomenological and poststructuralist concepts of alterity and difference to strengthen the position of Latina and other subaltern speakers in North-South dialogue. It defends a postcolonial approach to feminist theory as a basis for negotiating culturally differentiated feminist positions in this age of accelerated globalization, migration, and displacement.
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Holmes, Pamela M. S. "Toward Useable Categories of “Women’s Experiences” and “Power”: A Canadian Feminist Pentecostal Considers the Work of Margaret Kamitsuka and Kwok Pui-lan." Pneuma 35, no. 1 (2013): 9–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700747-12341272.
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Abstract This article explores the potential of, and problems associated with, the use of the concept of “women’s experiences” within feminist Pentecostalism, including the ways in which “power” is being exercised by, for, and against Pentecostal women. The exploration unfolds in dialogue with Margaret D. Kamitsuka’s Feminist Theology and the Challenge of Difference, which utilizes poststructuralist theory and Foucault’s work to demonstrate the potential of difference, and Kwok Pui-lan’s Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology, which highlights the realities that many majority-world feminists face as they seek to address their own realities using the category of “strategic essentialism.” As the argument unfolds, Caucasian, first-world feminist Pentecostals are encouraged to make it explicit within their work that no one particular, located subset of Pentecostal women and their experiences can be generalized to speak for all. Rather, more privileged feminist Pentecostal theologians are encouraged to intentionally include diverse Pentecostal women’s voices in their scholarship.
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Fong, Grace S. "Feminist Theories and Women Writers of Late Imperial China: Impact and Critique." Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 9, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 105–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9681176.
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Abstract Feminism, feminist theory, feminist literary theory were already highly contentious in what they represented to Euro-American critics and theorists in the 1980s, when scholars in Chinese literary studies began sustained research on women writers in late imperial China (ca. 1600–1911). Their research drew on developments in Western feminist theories while problematizing certain applications. In this article, I review major debates in 1980s and 1990s Western feminist literary theory, divided by the different approaches of Anglo-American and French feminist critics and gender studies, examining why specific arguments on women and language, genres studied, and theoretical underpinnings did not hold significant relevance to the study of similar issues when applied to women's writing in pre-twentieth-century China. Yet certain concepts were highly fruitful in critical analysis. Feminist theory was never monolithic, even when it was Eurocentric; theories were drawn from a plurality of different disciplines and schools. Concepts that came into currency—gender, gaze, voice, agency, subjectivity, authorship, and so on—from poststructuralist, postcolonial, cultural, and film studies proved to be useful tools in feminist literary studies. Some came to be deployed in scholarship on women's literature in historical China. In this context, I reflect on theoretical approaches in significant studies of women's writing of late imperial China and consider the impact or critique this subfield of Chinese literary studies posed to Western feminist theories and broader questions of the applicability of modern/postmodern feminist theories to literature of earlier periods and other cultures before the globalization of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Friedman, Susan Stanford. "Post/Poststructuralist Feminist Criticism: The Politics of Recuperation and Negotiation." New Literary History 22, no. 2 (1991): 465. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/469049.
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Mchugh, Susan. "Bitch, Bitch, Bitch: Personal Criticism, Feminist Theory, and Dog‐writing." Hypatia 27, no. 3 (2012): 616–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2012.01289.x.
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By the turn of the twenty‐first century, women writing about electing to share their lives with female canines directly confront a strange sort of backlash. Even as their extensions of the feminist forms of personal criticism contribute to significant developments in theories of sex, gender, and species, they become targets of criticism as “indulgent” for focusing on their dogs. Comparing these elements in and around popular memoirs like Caroline Knapp's Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond between People and Dogs (1998) and Deirdre McCloskey's Crossing: A Memoir (1999), as well as academic studies like Alice Kuzniar's Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship (2006) and Donna Haraway's When Species Meet (2007), this essay elaborates the ways in which living with and writing about female canine companions informs poststructuralist and feminist questions about the embodiment and performance of structures of authority, including those of academic writers, “dog‐mom” stereotypes, and reproductively silenced bodies. Situating these texts amid discussions of form in and around feminist/dog‐writing, I argue that together they move narrative beyond the abstract model of the lone “authoritative” human individual, reframing feminist politics as intra‐active, even trans‐species, from the ground up.
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Porter, Gaby. "Seeing through Solidity: A Feminist Perspective on Museums." Sociological Review 43, no. 1_suppl (May 1995): 105–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.1995.tb03427.x.
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Applying poststructuralist and feminist theory to museums, this chapter traces the gendered relations of representation in museums. The author takes the relation of text, author and reader from poststructuralist studies and translates these to the museum forms of exhibition, curator and visitor. She examines the relations between men and women, masculine and feminine as they are constituted in museums, tracing a series of gendered, hierarchical oppositions. These are central to the ways in which museums organize their identity, space, collections and exhibitions to make meanings. She concludes that the roles of women as they are represented are relatively passive, shallow, undeveloped, muted and closed; the roles of men are, in contrast, relatively active, deep, highly developed, fully pronounced and open. Together, these provide a thread for the museums in the stories and narratives they construct. The author addresses the challenge of applying abstract and theoretical ‘readings’ to museums – where the collections appear to resist such readings through their concrete and solid presence, and where the prevailing professional culture is empirical and anti-theoretical. This challenge was also her own, as a museum worker struggling to develop a theoretical critique. Finally, she describes exhibitions in Britain and northern Europe which are more productive, diverse and open to re-reading. They are interdisciplinary and irreverent, breaking new ground in museum exhibition-making, developing new methods, forms of expression and themes.
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Hopkins, Lekkie. "Teaching Group Facilitation Processes in the Feminist Classroom: From Poststructuralist Theory to Activist Practice." International Journal of Learning: Annual Review 12, no. 9 (2006): 331–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1447-9494/cgp/v12i09/48073.
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Midttun, Birgitte Huitfeldt. "Crossing the Borders: An Interview with Julia Kristeva." Hypatia 21, no. 4 (2006): 164–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2006.tb01133.x.
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In this June 2004 interview, Julia Kristeva takes us through her long and extraordinary career as a writer, an intellectual, and an academic. She speaks of her early years as a radical poststructuralist, postmodern feminist, and discusses how her scope has broadened with the addition of psychoanalytical theory and practice. She answers questions about her work on the abject, melancholy, motherhood, and love, and reveals how personal experiences, like the death of her father, have shaped parts of her literary output.
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Ireland, Ruby. "Choreographing theory: an analysis of Édouard Lock'sAmelia(2002) questioning the limits of feminist and poststructuralist perspectives." Research in Dance Education 10, no. 1 (March 2009): 49–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14647890802697213.
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Ferretti, Amanda Soares Zambelli, and Eloisio Moulin de Souza. "Queer theory and entrepreneurial discourses: gender inequalities and alternative forms of analysis toward entrepreneuring." Cadernos EBAPE.BR 20, no. 2 (March 2022): 276–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1679-395120210100x.
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Abstract Traditionally, entrepreneurial discourses present entrepreneurship as gender-neutral, positioning the male entrepreneur as “normal” and the female as the “other.” These discourses contribute to a reproduction of whom may become the successful entrepreneur, showing relations of inequalities and logic of binary comparison among men and women. Supported by poststructuralist feminist approaches about gender and entrepreneurship using queer theory, this conceptual paper aims to problematize how gender inequalities are exacerbated by the relations of power in entrepreneurship and what are the resistance possibilities that may reduce such inequalities? Propositions for possible remedy is an alternative way to understand the identity of the female entrepreneur and the analysis of the entrepreneurial practices, allowing entrepreneurship to be viewed as organizing, queering identities, and queering entrepreneurship based on entrepreneuring.
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Jordaan, D. J., and W. Mulder. "Maar net nog ’n butch? ’n Feministiese lesing van die Halewijnlied." Literator 16, no. 1 (April 30, 1995): 67–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v16i1.587.
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Just another butch? A feminist reading of the HalewijnliedIn this article the authors argue that a form of covert feminism is present in the Halewijnlied (Song of Halewijn), an important Middle Dutch text. Utilizing the poststructuralist notion of écriture rather than lecture, the latent content of the text is explored, enabling the authors to (re-)construct the ‘meaning' of the text within the context of Kristeva's notion that the Virgin cult constitutes "a triumph of the unconscious in monotheism This "triumph of the unconscious "amounts to a form of female power which is the “underhand double of explicit phallic power" and sets up a temporary "commonality of the sexes" within the patriarchal system. By means of the personage of the Princess, Freudian displacement in terms of social sex roles occurs, negating some of the binary oppositions characterising the man:woman dichotomy. This process results in an 'androgenic’ space in which both sexes are temporarily set free from the sexual roles forced upon them by a patriarchal system.
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Azzarito, Laura, and Melinda A. Solmon. "A Feminist Poststructuralist View on Student Bodies in Physical Education: Sites of Compliance, Resistance, and Transformation." Journal of Teaching in Physical Education 25, no. 2 (April 2006): 200–225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jtpe.25.2.200.
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The study of the social construction of the body has become crucial to contemporary academic discourses in education and physical education. Employing feminist poststructuralist theory and a qualitative ethnographic design, this study investigated how high school students identified themselves with images of bodies drawn from fitness and sports magazines, and how their body narratives were linked to their participation in physical education. Students’ body narratives reflected notions of comfortable, bad, and borderland bodies that influenced students’ physical activity choices and engagement in physical education. Girls’ narratives of their physicality were found to be significantly less comfortable than boys’. Critical pedagogy to destabilize gendered dominant discourses of mass media body culture and to develop positive, meaningful, and empowering student physicality is discussed.
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Mihaylova, Stefka. "Whose Performance Is It Anyway? Performed Criticism as Feminist Strategy." New Theatre Quarterly 25, no. 3 (August 2009): 255–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x09000438.
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By the 1990s, the feminist contention that gender norms inform the production and reception of art had become widely accepted in academia. Many theatre journalists, however, continued to insist on the possibility of writing about performance from an apolitical, gender-neutral position. This article examines the gendered history of this insistence from the early 1700s to the present, its effects on the production and reception of plays by women, and its implications for theatre scholarship. Focusing on Carolee Schneemann's critique of a masculine bias in art criticism in her performance Interior Scroll and the Guerrilla Girls' actions against gender discrimination in the art world, this article examines strategies adopted by female and feminist journalists in Britain and the US to counter women's inequitable status in art journalism and playwriting. By engaging with the gendered binaries mind–body and text–performance, Schneemann and the Guerrilla Girls help clarify how reviewing practices have informed critical thinking about femininity and performance. In doing so, these artists anticipate poststructuralist feminist critiques of visibility and the performing body. Stefka Mihaylova holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from Northwestern University. Her research focuses on performance theory, especially gender and racial aspects of spectatorship in contemporary American and British feminist and radical theatre and performance art.
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Kanwal, Nagina, and Qamar Khushi. "Construction Of Subversive Gender Identities: A Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis Of A Television Play, Chal Jhooti." Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies 15, no. 1 (September 8, 2017): 81–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/pjgs.v15i1.129.
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This article examines the women’s construction of gender identities as a form of resistance in the presence of dominant discourses. Firstly, it aims to analyze the construction of gender identities which are not approved by the societal norms and yet helps women gain a position of power needed to survive in a male dominated society. Secondly, it seeks to describe and interpret the socio-cultural discursive practices responsible for inequities and the strategies adopted by the women for resistance and change. The data for the present study consists of a single episode television play “Chal Jhooti”. Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis (FPDA) and theory of performativity are employed to deconstruct the cross identities and to reveal the discourses underlying the mechanism of power in sustaining repressive social structures and hegemonic social relations. The findings reveal that women are multiply located in discourse as they adopt particular ways to resist certain dominant social practices. It also reveals that women’s construction and performance of masculine gender identity is not merely construed as their power but at the same time it is a reinforcement of men’s power as generally these gender crossings aggravate the essential dualism of the gender structure. The current study suggests that the presence of existing discourse of gender differentiation results in deviations from gender appropriate norms which are policed and intended as a mean to defy it.
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Coloma, Roland Sintos. "Setting theory to work in history of education." History of Education Review 47, no. 1 (June 4, 2018): 40–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/her-05-2017-0009.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between theory and history, or more specifically the role and use of theory in the field of history of education. It will explore the following questions: What is theory, and what is it for? How do historians and, in particular, historians of education construe and use theory? And how do they respond to openly theoretical work? The author poses these questions in light of ongoing discussions in the field of history of education regarding the role, relevance, and utility of theory in historical research, analysis, and narratives. Design/methodology/approach The explicit use of theory in historical research is not altogether new, tracing an intellectual genealogy since the mid-1800s when disciplinary boundaries among academic fields were not so rigidly defined, developed and regulated. The paper analyzes three books that are geographically located in North America (USA), Australia, Europe (Great Britain) and Asia (India), thereby offering a transnational view of the use of theory in history of education. It also examines how historians of education respond to explicitly theoretical work by analyzing, as a case study, a 2011 special issue in History of Education Quarterly. Findings First, the paper delineates theory as a multidimensional concept and practice with varying and competing meanings and interpretations. Second, it examines three book-length historical studies of education that employ theoretical frameworks drawing from cultural, feminist poststructuralist and postcolonial approaches. The author’s analysis of these manuscripts reveals that historians of education who explicitly engage with theory pursue their research in reflexive, disruptive and generative modes. Lastly, it utilizes a recent scholarly exchange as a case study of how some historians of education respond to theoretically informed work. It highlights three lenses – reading with insistence, for resistance, and beyond – to understand the responses to the author’s paper on Foucault and poststructuralism. Originality/value Setting theory to work has a fundamentally transformative role to play in our thinking, writing and teaching as scholars, educators and students and in the productive re-imagining of history of education.
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Lee-Thomas, Kerrin, Jennifer Sumsion, and Susan Roberts. "Teacher Understandings of and Commitment to Gender Equity in the Early Childhood Setting." Australasian Journal of Early Childhood 30, no. 1 (March 2005): 21–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/183693910503000105.
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Despite considerable examination of gender and gender equity within early childhood education, gender inequity remains problematic in many early childhood settings. Using qualitative methods, the study reported in this article investigated four early childhood teachers' understandings about gender and their commitment to promoting gender equity. It adopted a triangulated investigation of the teachers' understandings, attitudes and commitment to gender equity that involved talking with the teachers about their practice, observing their pedagogic practice, and inviting them to reflect on gender-based scenarios. While the participants believed gender to be a significant issue for early childhood teachers, their understandings about many aspects of gender and gender equity were heavily grounded in socialisation theory. In addition, their reliance on socialisation theory seemed to contribute to a sense of fatalism regarding their capacity for intervention. The study concludes that engaging with feminist poststructuralist theory may enhance teachers' understanding about gender and gender equity and offer a way of intervening effectively at the local level.
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FERRARI (UFJF), Anderson, Paula Regina RIBEIRO (FURG), and Marcos SOUZA (UESB). "PESQUISAS EM GÊNERO, SEXUALIDADE E EDUCAÇÃO NA PERSPECTIVA PÓS-ESTRUTURALISTA." Margens 16, no. 26 (June 30, 2022): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.18542/rmi.v16i26.12825.
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The dossier proposes to welcome, know and disseminate research that has taken the poststructuralist perspective in dialogue with other studies, such as Gay and Lesbian Studies, Foucaultian Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, and Queer Studies as provocations to think about the constitution of the subjects and their belonging in their intersectionalities of gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, generation, religion, class, among others. Research that works with this sense of constitution of subjects as educational processes that involve not only schools but other educational spaces as well, in which relationships are marked by discourses, practices, and knowledge that produce identities and belonging.
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Nikoghosyan, Anna. "Co-Optation of Feminism: Gender, Militarism and the UNSC Resolution 1325." Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies, no. 1 (December 2017): 7–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.52323/fc1-1.
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 is often referred to as a landmark resolution. Despite its revolutionary potential, I argue that the Resolution was developed through gendered discourses that allowed its use for militarist purposes. Informed by poststructuralist international relations feminist theory, I refer to the Resolution as a discursive practice and claim that the ways in which the UN conceptual apparatus understands and interprets gender and security open up possibilities for states to co-opt the very radical meaning of the Resolution by legitimising and normalising militarist practicing and silencing anti-militarist critique. In order to show this, I examine the gendered discourses behind the creation of the Resolution and address two major ways (including the ongoing militarisation processes in the Republic of Armenia) by which the Resolution is being militarised. (The full text is available in English and in translation into Ukrainian).
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Jan, Akbar, and Mujib Rahman. "Linguistic representation of gender from essentialist to poststructuralist perspective in the Cholistan trilogy: a feminist critical discourse analysis." Journal of Humanities, Social and Management Sciences (JHSMS) 3, no. 1 (June 30, 2022): 377–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.33.
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The identities of gender normative get deconstructed and reconstructed with alternate possibilities of self-constitution. This phenomenon is rendered more complex with its intersection with other factors of identities like race/ethnicity, social class, geography etc. The linguistic representation of these complex variegated aspects of gender from its essentialist to poststructuralist perspectives was analysed in Staples’s Cholistan trilogy which consists of three novels Shabanu (1989), Haveli (1993) and The House of Djinn (2008). An eclectic approach of a theoretical framework consisting of Lazar’s (2005; 2007; 2014) Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis (FCDA), Butler’s (1990) gender performativity and Foucault’s (1980) subjectivity theory was adopted. Halliday’s (1985) approach to transitivity analysis was used for analysing the transitivity processes in the performances of gendered subjects described in the verbal phrases of the clauses in the text. Various kinds of constructions of gender identities were revealed in the study like biological determination of gender, the social construction of gender, the configuration of gender, gender stereotypes, deconstruction of gender normativity and reconstruction of gender identities with possible alternate performances. The study recommends the textual representation of gender in a way that help deconstructs gender normative and reconstruct gender identity with alternate possibilities.
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Edenheim, Sara, and Cecilia Persson. "Enade vi falla, söndrade vi stå! Reflektioner om kontinuitet, kronologi, myter och stringens." Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 27, no. 2-3 (June 14, 2022): 7–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.55870/tgv.v27i2-3.3943.
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Through this article the authors try to find a way of pedagogical consistency concerning theory, teaching and Gender Studies as an institutionalized subject. The authors use their positions as teachers of Gender Studies, professional historians, and poststructuralist feminists to integrate a theoretical consistency in the very methodology of academic courses. This is done through a presentation of what the authors see as problematic in the current curriculum, where they point out how chronology and an Identification with "Gender Studies" as a homogenous field are made mandatory through the structure of the course. Such a legitimization ofthe past combined with the lack of self-critical institutionalization of knowledge and an unproblematized identification with women/victims, runs the risk of turning feminist projects into moralistic productions of knowledge with a political agenda of ressentiment. By proposing minor changes to the curriculum, the authors begin an investigation of the possible effects of such changes and they come to the conclusion that an abandonment of chronology and consensus, replaced by genealogy and a sublimation of conflict, may have more political and corporeal effects than first anticipated. The power of mourning, as well as the power of laughing, are hence taken as possible and desired points of departure for a different pedagogical and political order.
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CARVALHO (UEM), Fabiana Aparecida de, and Adalberto Ferdnando INOCÊNCIO (UEM). "CORPOS CAMBIANTES EM “A CIDADE DOS PIRATAS”: É POSSÍVEL UMA PEDAGOGIA “LAERTE” PARA ABALAR AS COLONIALIDADES E OS FASCISMOS IMPOSTOS AOS GÊNEROS?" Margens 16, no. 26 (June 30, 2022): 137. http://dx.doi.org/10.18542/rmi.v16i26.11140.
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The present work discusses the animated film “The Pirates City” (2018), directed by Otto Guerra and premiered by the cartoonist Laerte Coutinho, that corporates on-screen questions about her transgender process, the adoption of a transvestite identity for herself, and the critic/deconstruction of present masculinities in her works since the decade of 1980. In a succession of layers disposed of a bricolage of comic books, construction of scripts, interviews, protagonists' dilemmas, and historical contexts of power coloniality, from the individual, from nature, from gender, and from knowledge in Brazil, the animated film is a producing artifact of a cultural pedagogy to teach ways of being and thinking the “worldcystem” capitalistic – colonial – patriarchal, especially with the late scenery of a fascist neoconservative escalation at political and social territories of the country. Anchored in poststructuralist theorizations and in descolonial and (trans)feminist pluriepistemic benchmark, we have analyzed the animated film, highlighting as a “pirate pedagogy” can shake the normative codes of production of knowledge, speeches and practices imposed to bodies, also performing a different genealogy for the sexualities and genders of people from the (de)construction of a “new” physical body, but also epistemological, from Laerte.Keywords: Transvestilities. Sexualities. Feminism. Coloniality.
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Luttrell, Wendy. "The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology. Dorothy SmithGender and Power. R. W. ConnellFeminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory. Chris Weedon." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 15, no. 3 (April 1990): 635–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/494614.
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XAVIER FILHA (UFMS), Constantina. "PESQUISAS SOBRE GÊNEROS E SEXUALIDADES NA EDUCAÇÃO: TENTATIVAS DE VER, REVER E ‘TRANSVER’ O MUNDO." Margens 16, no. 26 (June 30, 2022): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.18542/rmi.v16i26.11085.
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This article aims to describe research carried out within the Group of Studies and Research in Sexualities, Education, and Gender (Gepsex) at the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS). The researches are theoretically-methodologically based on gender studies, sexuality studies, feminist studies, cultural studies, and Foucault's assumptions, from a post-critical and poststructuralist perspective. We sought to think the research based on fragments of poetry by Manoel de Barros to discuss issues such as the deconstruction of unique truths; resistance in daily life and in doing research; the transience of scientific knowledge; questioning the meanings of language as the production of realities and subjectivities and thinking about the micro at the expense of metanarratives.Keywords: Research. Genre. Sexuality. Education.
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Shafi, Uzma. "Matrices of Violence: A Post-structural Feminist Rendering of Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero and Lola Soneyin’s The Secrets of Baba Segi’s Wives." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 7, no. 4 (2022): 289–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.74.43.
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There is quite a significant discourse on patriarchy and women identity in neo-colonial states. These studies border on dehumanization, victimization, and discrimination against women. Gender activists and women right advocates have been in the forefront of calls for recognition and protection of the rights of women in the African patriarchal society. The interventions recognize the African patriarchal structure, but the advocacy emphasizes the need to accord the female gender a pride of place in the sociocultural milieu. This study identified and analyzed lopsided societal treatment of the female gender in literary works of two African writers of different sociocultural backgrounds using Poststructuralist feminist theory. The study identified the societies reflected in the literary writings as representations of patriarchal societies that place the female gender in less favorable conditions; thus, making it subservient to the male gender. The study concluded that the female gender is disadvantaged in some African societies. The study recommends that all patriarchal societies need to accord the female gender respect and recognition in order to enhance their contribution to social and economic development of the society.
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Livholts, Mona. "The Snow Angel and Other Imprints." International Review of Qualitative Research 3, no. 1 (May 2010): 103–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/irqr.2010.3.1.103.
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This article, written in the form of an untimely academic novella is a text, which explores academic authoring as thinking and writing practice in a place called Sweden. The aim is on inquiries of geographical space, place, and academia, and the interrelation between the social and symbolic formation of class, gender and whiteness. The novella uses different writing strategies and visual representations such as documentary writing and photographing from the research process, letters to a friend, and memories from childhood, based on three generations of women's lives. The methodology can be described as a critical reflexive writing strategy inspired by poststructuralist and postcolonial feminist theory and literary fiction, and additionally by methodological approaches in the humanities and social sciences, such as theorizing of letters, memory work, and narrative, and autobiographical approaches. In particular, it draws on work by the theorist critic and writer of fiction, Hélène Cixous, and the feminist author and theorist Charlotte Perkins Gilman, drawing on interpretation of Cixous' essay “Enter the Theatre” and Gilman's story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Characteristics of the untimely academic novella elaborate with possible forms of the symbolic, visual, and performative photographic and sensory in writing research; furthermore, time, social change, and unfinal endings play a pervasive role. It may be read as a story that situates and theorizes embodyment, landscape, and power through the interweaving of forest rural farming spaces and academic office spaces by tracing autobiographical imprints of an untimely feminist author. “The Snow Angel and Other Imprints” is the second article in a trilogy of untimely academic novellas. The first, with the title “The Professor's Chair,” was published in Swedish in 2007 (in the anthology “Genus och det akademiska skrivandets former,” (Eds.) Bränström Öhman & Livholts), and forthcoming in English in the journal Life Writing 2010.
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Parton, Chloe, Jane M. Ussher, and Janette Perz. "Women’s constructions of heterosex and sexual embodiment after cancer." Feminism & Psychology 27, no. 3 (December 18, 2016): 298–317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353516674493.
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The significant impact of cancer on women’s sexual well-being has been acknowledged increasingly within research. However, the role of cultural discourse in shaping women’s construction and embodied experience of sexuality has received less attention. In this study, we examined heterosexual women’s constructions of sexual embodiment in the context of cancer. Sixteen women across a range of ages (20–71 years), cancer types and stages took part in in-depth semi-structured interviews. A thematic decomposition analysis was conducted on the interview transcripts, drawing on feminist poststructuralist theory. A main theme was identified in which the women took up subject positions of “Embodying sexuality” and “Embodying the absence of sexuality”. Accounts of “Embodying sexuality” included “Experiencing bodily ease during sex” and “Managing a dysfunctional body during sex”. The women’s positioning of “Embodying the absence of sexuality” included “Asexuality and the absence of desire” and “Unsuccessful attempts to renegotiate sex”. Women’s intrapsychic negotiation of sexual and gendered discourse, the materiality of embodied change and relationship context influenced their constructions of sexual subjectivity. These findings indicate a need for researchers and clinicians to acknowledge cultural discourses of sex and gender that shape the possibilities and constraints for women’s sexual well-being after cancer.
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Parton, Chloe, Jane M. Ussher, Simone Natoli, and Janette Perz. "Being a mother with multiple sclerosis: Negotiating cultural ideals of mother and child." Feminism & Psychology 28, no. 2 (November 16, 2017): 212–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353517732591.
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Multiple sclerosis can impact affected women’s experiences of motherhood through physical and cognitive impairment. This study examined how women construct and experience motherhood while living with multiple sclerosis. Twenty mothers diagnosed with multiple sclerosis took part in semi-structured interviews. Transcripts were analysed using theoretical thematic analysis, drawing on feminist poststructuralist theory to organise and interpret themes. Two main themes were identified: “Performing motherhood in the context of MS” and “Bringing up a ‘good’ child”. “Performing motherhood in the context of MS” comprises the subthemes, “The self-sacrificing mother: Negating women’s needs”, “The unreliable mother: Adjusting day-to-day mothering practices”, and “Resisting discourses of idealised motherhood”. “Bringing up a ‘good’ child”, comprises the subthemes, “The damaging mother: Fear of harming the child” and “The good mother: Caring and building resilience in the child”. Women positioned themselves as failing to be good mothers, because of limitations to their mothering, and fear of damaging children. Focusing on building children’s emotional resilience functioned to restore constructions of “good” mothering. Acknowledging how Western cultural ideals influence women’s experience of mothering when living with chronic illness is important. Health professionals can provide support by addressing women’s feelings of failure as mothers and supporting communication with children.
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Straumann, Barbara. "Vocal effect and resonance." English Text Construction 1, no. 1 (March 7, 2008): 83–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/etc.1.1.07str.
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In its theoretical framework, my paper participates in the debate over voice ‘after’ Derrida. Drawing on poststructuralist and phenomenological approaches as well as recent contributions in the area of performance and cultural studies, I claim that the voice can be treated as an effect of resonance. Inherently performative and dialogic, the voice emerges by resonating with something else as well as by effecting resonances elsewhere. In Henry James’s The Bostonians (1886), this figuration is epitomized by the charismatic speaker Verena Tarrant. Her extraordinary public voice is read, manipulated and spoken by various figures of authority, who treat her as a stake in their struggle for power and publicity. Possessed by her vocal gift, they seek in turn to take possession of it. Yet while she lends her voice to others by echoing their ideas and phrases, catchwords and clichés, Verena simultaneously produces an impact on her audiences which eludes full appropriation. Her impersonal voice may express neither self-presence nor agency, but its effect is one of powerful resonance. Exceeding the text’s satire of the feminist movement and publicity culture, Verena’s doubly mesmeric voice refers us to an ambiguous and unresolvable fascination, both highlighted and performed by The Bostonians, for the voice in general and the public voice of modernity in particular.
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Phelan, Peggy. "Feminist Theory, Poststructuralism, and Performance." TDR (1988-) 32, no. 1 (1988): 107. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1145873.
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Aapola-Kari, Sinikka. "Finnish Girlhood in the Twentieth Century: Public Representations and Private Stories." Journal of Finnish Studies 16, no. 1 (August 1, 2012): 25–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/28315081.16.1.04.
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Abstract This article focuses on change and continuity in the meanings of girlhood and adolescence in Finland during the twentieth century. There is an emphasis on the time period from the 1960s to the 1990s, but the article also includes a historical summary of early twentieth-century debates on girlhood and education, based on earlier research. In the article, public, normative views of girlhood are contrasted with the private experiences of girls and linked with an overview of the changing social and cultural ideals of femininity. Two main data sets will be drawn from: firstly, advice books for girls from the 1960s to the 1990s, and secondly, autobiographical stories written by girls and women of different ages in the mid-1990s. The analysis of the texts has been inspired by feminist poststructuralist theory, narrative analysis, and discourse analysis. In the course of the article, it is shown that Finnish girls’ position as individuals and citizens has constantly been questioned. Their sexuality has been seen as particularly vulnerable, and their relationship to parents has often been full of tension. However, towards the end of the twentieth century, positions invested with more agency were gradually opening up for girls and young women in Finland, especially in relation to the neo-liberal individualist discourses that had become more and more prominent during that time.
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Kaplan, C., and I. Grewal. "Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies: Beyond the Marxism/Poststructuralism/Feminism Divides." positions: east asia cultures critique 2, no. 2 (September 1, 1994): 430–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2-2-430.
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Moi, Toril. "Att erövra Bourdieu." Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 15, no. 1 (June 21, 2022): 3–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.55870/tgv.v15i1.4918.
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Tliis article is about appropriating Pierre Bourdicn for feminist theory. This means a critical assessment of a given theory formation with a view to taking it over and using it for feminist purposes. Only recently, Bourdieu has found an audience outside the social sciences in the English-speaking world. One of the reasons for this belated interdisciplinary interest is surely the fact that his resolntely sociological and historical thought (classical french sociology, structuralism and marxism), could find little resonance in a theoretical space dominated, in the humanities at least, by poststructuralism and postmodernism. Today, however, there is a renewed interest in the social and historical determinants of cultural production. The fact that Bourdieu has always devoted much space to problems pertaining to literature, language and aesthetics makes his work particularly promising terrain for literary critics. His theory allows feminists to produce highly concrete and specific analyses of the social determinants of the literary énonciation. This is not to say that such determinants are the only ones that we need to consider, nor that feminist critics should not concern themselves with the énoncé, or the actual statement itself. In this article 1 hope to show that a Bourdieuian approach enables us to reconceptualize gender as a social category in a way which undercuts the traditional essentialist/nonessentialist devide. In reading with Bourdieu Héléne Cixous's highly influential essay "The Laugh of the Medusa" can be analysed as an effort to snub Simone de Beauvoir, a deliberate challenge to the doyenne of French feminism, and, more specifically, as Cixous's bid for power - legitimacy - within the field of French feminism. Implicitly casting Beauvoir as orthodox, Cixouss defiant exclusion of the author of The Second Sex in her essay signals her need to erase a figure she perceives as the powerful and censorious origin of her own discourse.
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Koosed, Jennifer L. "Reading the Bible as a Feminist." Brill Research Perspectives in Biblical Interpretation 2, no. 2 (May 4, 2017): 1–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24057657-12340008.
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This work provides a brief introduction to feminist interpretation of scripture. Feminist interpretation is first grounded in feminism as an intellectual and political movement. Next, this introduction briefly recounts the origins of feminist readings of the Bible with attention to both early readings and the beginnings of feminist biblical scholarship in the academy. Feminist biblical scholarship is not a single methodology, but rather an approach that can shape any reading method. As a discipline, it began with literary-critical readings (especially of the Hebrew Bible) but soon also broached questions of women’s history (especially in the New Testament and Christian origins). Since these first forays, feminist interpretation has influenced almost every type of biblical scholarship. The third section of this essay, then, looks at gender archaeology, feminist poststructuralism and postcolonial readings, and newer approaches informed by gender and queer theory. Finally, it ends by examining feminist readings of Eve.
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Waniek, Eva. "Meaning in Gender Theory: Clarifying a Basic Problem from a Linguistic-Philosophical Perspective." Hypatia 20, no. 2 (2005): 48–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2005.tb00467.x.
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The author investigates the notion of linguistic meaning in gender research. She approaches this basic problem by drawing upon two very different conceptions of language and meaning: (1) that of the logician Gottlob Frege and (2) that of the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. Motivated by the controversial response the Anglo-American sex/gender debate received within the German context, the author focuses on the connection between this epistemological controversy among feminists and two discursive traditions of linguistic meaning (analytic philosophy and poststructuralism), to show how philosophy of language can contribute to current feminist debates.
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Darroch, Francine, Audrey R. Giles, and Roisin McGettigan-Dumas. "Elite Female Distance Runners and Advice During Pregnancy: Sources, Content, and Trust." Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal 24, no. 2 (October 2016): 170–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/wspaj.2015-0040.
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More elite female distance runners are opting to have children during their athletic careers. Despite this, there is a dearth of information regarding pregnancy and physical activity for elite level athletes. Further, current pregnancy physical activity guidelines are not relevant for this population`s needs. Two research questions frame this study: are elite female distance runners’ pregnancy informational needs being met?; where do they seek and find trustworthy advice on physical activity during pregnancy? Open-ended, semistructured interviews were conducted with 14 women who experienced at least one pregnancy within the past five years, had achieved a minimum of the USA Track and Field 2012 Olympic Team marathon trials ‘B’ entry standard or equivalent performances for distance running events 1,500m or longer. The participants had between one—three children, hail from five countries and participated in 14 Olympic Games and 72 World Championships. Utilizing poststructuralist feminist theory and thematic analysis, our findings revealed that the participants received advice from three main sources, both in person and online: medical professionals, coaches, and other elite female distance runners. However, we found that they also received unsolicited advice and comments from community members where they lived. The participants identified fellow elite female distance runners as the most reliable and trustworthy sources of information, followed by medical professionals, then coaches. Ultimately, the women revealed a lack of formal sources they could turn to for trustworthy advice about how to have a safe and healthy pregnancy while continuing to train at a high intensity. These results illuminate the need to meet female elite athletes’ informational needs in terms of well-being during pregnancy.
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Dekoven, Marianne. "Jouissance, Cyborgs, and Companion Species: Feminist Experiment." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 121, no. 5 (October 2006): 1690–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2006.121.5.1690.
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In the late seventies and early eighties (around 1981, in Jane Gallop's memorable formulation), utopia still seemed at hand. The energies of the defeated revolutionary political and counter cultural movements of the sixties seemed to have been channeled into feminism. For some feminist theorists and critics working in literary academia, the revolution of the word, that fabulous legacy of the twentieth-century avant-gardes, seemed to have become the revolution itself. Experimental writing—writing that disrupts conventional modes of signification and provides alternatives to them—was, for literature, the site of this revolution. Through the work of continental poststructuralists and psychoanalytic theorists, particularly Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Helene Cixous, and Luce Irigaray, we (academic feminists, almost entirely Euro-American and white) assembled an arsenal of ideas and analyses that we thought would change the world, as sixties activism had failed to do.
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Pratt, Geraldine. "REFLECTIONS ON POSTSTRUCTURALISM AND FEMINIST EMPIRICS, THEORY AND PRACTICE." Antipode 25, no. 1 (January 1993): 51–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.1993.tb00216.x.
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