Changing Versus Protecting the Status Quo: Why Men and Women Engage in Different Types of Action on Behalf of Women

Engaging with the work of C. Wright Mills and Eve Sedgwick, in this article I theorize how homoerotic relations facilitate the flow of global capital into risky market economies. Drawing on interview data with more than 60 financial professionals managing foreign investments in Vietnam, I examine the co-constitution of gender and global capital by identifying three categories of deal brokers. System maintainers are men and women who accept that women’s bodies are necessary for male homosocial bonding between political and economic elites. System transformers are men and women who disrupt the status quo and develop alternative ways of deal brokering outside of erotic spaces. System defectors are those break the triangle altogether and work to create new markets.

Download Full-text

Women and the NCAA: Not Separate—Not Equal

Journal of Sport Management ◽

10.1123/jsm.9.3.244 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 244-248 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Dorothy J. Lovett ◽

Carla D. Lowry

Keyword(s):

Intercollegiate Athletics ◽

National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽

Women's Athletics ◽

Status Quo ◽

Historical Overview ◽

Men And Women ◽

The Status ◽

Role Of Women

The purpose of this paper is to present a historical overview of the role of women in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) since the demise of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW). The paper traces the reluctance of some men and women to form this uneasy alliance. The paper presents evidence showing that the NCAA recognizes that women's athletics are part of the organization and that they deserve recognition and concern. However, the paper also shows that when substantive changes in the NCAA appeared imminent and the degree of recognition approached proportional equity, the pervasive and strong loyalty to the status quo quelled any proactive legislation that might include equal voice for reform in the organization.

Download Full-text

Construction of Battery Swap Station for Electric Passenger Car

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.253-255.2231 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 253-255 ◽

pp. 2231-2236

Author(s):

Rong Yi Niu ◽

Xiao Yan Yin ◽

Ming Yu Zhao

Keyword(s):

Electric Vehicle ◽

Status Quo ◽

The Body ◽

Battery Pack ◽

Body Structure ◽

Passenger Cars ◽

Passenger Car ◽

Different Types ◽

The Status

Basing on the status quo of the development of electric vehicle and electric vehicle’s Charging/battery swap infrastructure, Discussion and analysis is made with focus on the battery swap mode and it’s practising method of electric passenger car. According to the body structure of different types of electric passenger car and the Situation that the battery pack is equipped with, Electric passenger car are divided into two types: chassis battery type and battery rear-equipped type. Respectively, analyzed the battery swap mode for the two types of electric passenger cars; And two feasible battery swap projects are advanced , analysed and compared.Then pointed out the difficulties and problems with the construction of the battery swap station for electric passenger car; Finally, suggestions and methods to solve the problems were offered.

Download Full-text

Mapping Gender and the Responsibility to Protect: Seeking Intersections, Finding Parallels

Global Responsibility to Protect ◽

10.1163/187598412x639674 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 133-153 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Jennifer Bond ◽

Laurel Sherret

Keyword(s):

Human Security ◽

Status Quo ◽

Responsibility To Protect ◽

Men And Women ◽

Security Issues ◽

The Past ◽

International Commitments ◽

Peace And Security ◽

Growing Body ◽

The Status

Over the past decade, the international community has acknowledged that traditional notions of conflict and protection must be re-visited if true human security is to be realized. Consistent with this recognition, both the responsibility to protect and the women, peace, and security agenda challenge the status quo and offer new perspectives from which to approach responses to conflict. Unfortunately, the former was developed without consideration of the latter, and a tremendous opportunity to benefit from years of experience and expertise was thus missed. This article demonstrates that while recent discourse surrounding the responsibility to protect suggests some increased awareness that conflict affects men and women differently, there remains a significant disconnect between the development of this framework and the ever-growing body of work on the gendered nature of peace and security issues. Our identification of this ongoing chasm is accompanied by two simple observations: first, that this renders the responsibility to protect inconsistent with other international commitments and priorities; and second, that incorporation of the links between gender and conflict will improve the ability of the responsibility to protect to afford true protection.

Download Full-text

NALAR EKOFEMINISME DALAM PEMIKIRAN HUKUM WARIS M. QURAISH SHIHAB

FiTUA: Jurnal Studi Islam ◽

10.47625/fitua.v2i1.281 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Umar Ali ◽

Ridho Ridho

Keyword(s):

Gender Equality ◽

Gender Inequality ◽

Status Quo ◽

Sacred Text ◽

Inheritance Law ◽

Men And Women ◽

The Status ◽

The Law

The focus of the study in this paper is M. Quraish Shihab's thoughts in the field of inheritance law. M. Quraish Shihab's (hereinafter referred to as Shihab) thought deserves to be appointed as a target study in relation to his views on gender equality. In various published writings, especially in his book entitled "Women: from Love to Sex, from the Mut'ah Marriage to the Sunnah Marriage, from the Old Bias to the New Bias", it is very clear how Quraish tried to get out of the mainstream of "right" thinking. who want to lock up women in domestic sectors as well as "left" thinking that tends to go too far in understanding equality between men and women, in other words, Shihab is classified as a moderate thinker in the study of gender equality. That is the conclusion of several studies examining Shihab's thoughts. In contrast to these conclusions, this article concludes that Shihab can actually be classified as an eco-feminist who tries to maintain the status quo of gender inequality that is being sued by feminists. This can be seen very well in Shihab's rejection of feminist claims about equality in quantity in the distribution of inheritance between men and women, which in the sacred text is stated as two to one. For Shihab, the provisions in the distribution of inheritance are final because the details about the law of inheritance are closed with a firm statement "that is the limits of Allah" and a series of other arguments expressed by Shihab. This issue will be presented in the following descriptions so as to reinforce the above conclusions.

Download Full-text

To See It Feelingly

PMLA ◽

10.2307/461102 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 86 (3) ◽

pp. 363-374

Author(s):

Maynard Mack

Keyword(s):

Mass Media ◽

Status Quo ◽

Central American ◽

Literary Study ◽

Men And Women ◽

American Myths ◽

The Reformation ◽

The Status ◽

Human World ◽

General Community

Our profession is brought to a crisis of self-scrutiny by the current malaise among students and within ourselves. The malaise is real and must be reckoned with however we may account for it: whether as a profound shift of sensibility resembling that which took place at the Reformation or as an equally profound unsettling of our central American myths of concern. How shall we respond? Some urge retreat–into professionalism. Others proclaim defeat–on the ground either that literature is irrelevant to a world trying to educate its minorities and its poor, or that literature is merely supportive of the status quo. None of these arguments will bear inspection. A more practical and wiser response for teachers and scholars in our discipline is a program of outreach: toward (1) the schools, (2) the disadvantaged, (3) the general community of educated men and women, (4) the mass media, (5) more inventive collaborations with each other, (6) new arrangements of literary study; and, above all, (7) the larger tasks to which our calling commits us in purifying the language of the tribe, disseminating the world's great literature, and helping to reconstruct by the power of imagination a fully human world.

Download Full-text

Adulteration of the Igbo Language Through Multilingualism in South-Eastern Nigeria

Indian Journal of Language and Linguistics ◽

10.54392/ijll2141 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Virginus Onyebuchi Aruah

Keyword(s):

Language Contact ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Status Quo ◽

Essay Writing ◽

Speech Communities ◽

Different Types ◽

The Status ◽

Descriptive Approach ◽

Linguistic Structures ◽

Bold Face

The study seeks to find out the linguistic adulteration of the Igbo language through a sociolinguistic process known as multilingualism. Many scholars are lamenting that the Igbo language is going into extinction just because it is losing its original linguistic structures via multilingualism. Such alteration brings to the limelight of the study in order to address these issues on Nigerian indigenous languages in general and the Igbo language in particular. A descriptive approach is used to harvest some of these language contact issues among the Igbo populace and language. A random sampling is used to ascertain the population of the five Igbo states: Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo States on how communication and written aspects of the language have been dealt with negatively. Participant observation and students’ essay writing in the Igbo language are used to collate these sub-standard Igbo grammar structures. The study expounds at a length the intricacy of the proper Igbo written forms and as well as pulling the Igbo language away from the effects of multilingualism. The findings of the study prove that the different types of multilingualism abound among the Igbo language native users. They also exemplify some linguistic related issues on the bold face of multilingualism among the Igbo interlocutors and how they vary among the Igbo speech communities in Nigeria. The study also finds out the effects of multilingualism on the standard Igbo teaching. The study goes further in suggesting some quintessential solutions to recuperate the status quo of the Igbo language.

Download Full-text

Who Can Be a Minister?

Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190069018.003.0004 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 90-107

Author(s):

Claire Annesley ◽

Karen Beckwith ◽

Susan Franceschet

Keyword(s):

Social Group ◽

Status Quo ◽

Political Strategy ◽

Personal Network ◽

Objective Criterion ◽

Political Experience ◽

Different Types ◽

The Status ◽

Informal Rules

Chapter 4 focuses on the formal and informal rules that determine who is eligible and qualified for inclusion in cabinets (ministrables). Emphasizing that cabinets are formed as teams, the chapter identifies three different types of qualifications that cabinets as collectivities must include: qualifications involving experiential criteria (political experience and policy expertise), affiliational criteria (membership in a selector’s personal network of friendship, trust, and loyalty), and representational criteria (membership in a relevant political, territorial, or social group). The chapter also challenges the concept of “merit” as a qualifying criterion for cabinet appointment, identifying merit claims as a political strategy to defend the status quo, rather than an objective criterion.

Download Full-text