Peter Pan and the White Imperial Imaginary

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Brewer
Keyword(s):  
Racial Difference ◽  
White Identity ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Academic Press ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Peter Pan ◽  
Critical Whiteness Studies ◽  
Critical Whiteness ◽  
And Gender

To consider racial difference in terms of exclusion enables whiteness to retain its relative invisibility. Drawing upon the theoretical insights of critical whiteness studies, Mary Brewer examines J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, exploring how the amorphous status granted to whiteness in the text lends it cultural authority. She aims to uncover how race and racism structure the play and to find ways of exploiting the gaps in its representation of white identity. These gaps potentially may be exploited in production – that is, made to operate against the grain and yield explicitly oppositional performances that work toward the denaturalization of hegemonic constructions of whiteness, gender, and sexuality. Mary Brewer lectures in the Department of English and Drama at Loughborough University. Her books include Race, Sex, and Gender in Contemporary Women's Theatre (Sussex Academic Press, 1992) and Problems of Exclusions in Feminist Thought: Challenging the Boundaries of Womanhood (Sussex Academic Press, 2002).

Queer Theory and Heteronormativity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Page Valentine Regan ◽  
Elizabeth J. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Lgbtq Youth ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Queer Pedagogy

The concepts of queer theory and heteronormativity have been taken up in educational research due to the influence of disciplines including gender and sexuality studies, feminist theory, and critical race theory. Queer theory seeks to disrupt dominant and normalizing binaries that structure our understandings of gender and sexuality. Heteronormativity describes the belief that heterosexuality is and should be the preferred system of sexuality and informs the related male or female, binary understanding of gender identity and expression. Taken together, queer theory and heteronormativity offer frames to interrogate and challenge systems of sex and gender in educational institutions and research to better support and understand the experiences of LGBTQ youth. They also inform the development of queer pedagogy that includes classroom and instructional practices designed to expand and affirm gender and sexual diversity in schools.

Neologising misogyny: Urban Dictionary’s folksonomies of sexual abuse

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 838-856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debbie Ging ◽  
Theodore Lynn ◽  
Pierangelo Rosati
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Manual Analysis ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Amorphous Network ◽  
And Gender

Web 2.0 has facilitated a particularly toxic brand of digital men’s rights activism, collectively known as the Manosphere. This amorphous network of online publics is noted for its virulent anti-feminism, extreme misogyny and synergies with the alt-right. Early manifestations of this phenomenon were confined largely to 4/Chan, Reddit and numerous alt-right forums. More recently, however, this rhetoric has become increasingly evident in Urban Dictionary. This article presents the findings of a machine-learning and manual analysis of Urban Dictionary’s entries relating to sex and gender, to assess the extent to which the Manosphere’s discourses of extreme misogyny and anti-feminism are working their way into everyday vernacular contexts. It also considers the sociolinguistic and gender-political implications of algorithmic and linguistic capitalism, concluding that Urban Dictionary is less a dictionary than it is a platform of folksonomies, which may exert a disproportionate and toxic influence on online discourses related to gender and sexuality.

Gender, Sexuality, and Youth in a Global Context

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anoop Nayak
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Peer Groups ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Nation States ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Managing Risk

Gender and sexuality are slippery social constructs whose meanings vary across time and place. To capture some of the complexity of these relations, it is necessary to consider their mutable meanings in different parts of the world. This means understanding how gender and sexuality are regulated, produced, consumed, and embodied in young people’s lives transnationally. At a regulatory level, nation-states are found to disseminate different policies and approaches when it comes to young people’s gender and sexual learning. Alongside formal pedagogical approaches, young people’s peer groups and local friendship circles are critical to the production of sexual knowledge and gender practices. In what is a rapidly interconnected world, processes of cultural globalization evident in the spread of film, media, and music are providing new templates from which to transform more “traditional” gender and sexual relations. In consuming global images of gender and sexuality, young people are found to be active and discerning agents who experience and negotiate global processes at a local level, managing risk and carving out new opportunities as they see fit. Young people are seen to perform and embody gender and sexuality in a host of different ways. In doing so, they not only reveal the instability of sex and gender norms but also disclose the intense amount of “gender work” that goes into the performance of gender and sexuality.

Tactical Reversal or Re-centring Whiteness? A Response to Green, Sonn, and Matsebula

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garth Stevens
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
White Identity ◽  
Whiteness Studies ◽  
The South ◽  
Critical Whiteness Studies ◽  
International Work ◽  
Critical Whiteness ◽  
Potential Form ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Silver Bullet

Green, Sonn, and Matsebula (2007) offer critical whiteness studies as a potential form of resistance against the strategic relations of power that constitute racism. While there may be utility in applying and extending international work on whiteness in the South African and Australian contexts, it is important to observe some cautions. First, whiteness manifests differently across contexts, and the type of comparison performed by Green et al. may at times elide important differences between, for example, contexts where whiteness has historically always been on the defensive versus contexts where it has not. Second, whiteness studies runs the risk of uncritically accepting white identity self-articulations. Third, whiteness studies may be incorrectly perceived as a ‘silver bullet’ for understanding and combating racism, rather than as a complementary and often secondary critical tool for anti-racist praxis.

scholarly journals "Body Language" pilot and gendered language in modern Canadian television

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Helen Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Creative Thesis ◽  
The Will ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Current Representation

In this thesis I draw on deconstruction theory and queer theory to analyze the current representation of sex, gender, and sexuality in Canadian television. Through this research I found that although Canadian television is portraying an increasing number of queer genders and sexualities, misinformation and stereotypes continue to perpetuate a one-dimensional characterization of people. This research pertains directly to my creative thesis: a pilot episode of a TV series which fraternal twins, Jed and Theodora, grow up with the ability to switch into one another's body. I dive directly into the correlation between sex and gender and the lived experience of being in a body that does not necessarily represent gender. The will both create a new gendered "construction" as well as question the need for gender identifications.

scholarly journals Sporting Gender: Women’s Footballing Bodies as Sites/Sights for the (Re) Articulation of Sex, Gender, and Desire

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayne Caudwell
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Gender Differentiation ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Relations Of Power

Past and present participation in the game of football (soccer) by women and girls in the UK is mostly through organizational structures and legal and discursive practices that differentiate players by sex and incidentally gender. In this article, the author argues that the emphasis on sex and gender differentiation in football underpins a sporting system that is unable to move beyond sex as pregiven and the sex/gender distinction. The author engages with feminist–queer theory to illustrate how sex, gender, and desire are regulated in order to uphold social relations of power. The focus on women’s footballing bodies demonstrates how the sexed body is socially constructed to inform gender and sexuality. In addition, the author highlights resistance to the compulsory order woman-feminine-heterosexual and presents examples of rearticulations of sex-gender-desire.

scholarly journals Teaching about Food, Sex and Gender in the Classroom

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Wilk
Keyword(s):  
Food Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender

Teaching about Food, Sex and Gender in the Classroom: In this essay Richard Wilk shares his experience with teaching a course on food, sexuality and gender and the challenges it proved to provide during the semester: not only was finding literatureand putting the syllabus together demanding tasks, there was also a series of rather uncomfortable, affective moments in the class during the semester. Wilk presents perspectives on teaching the theme of food, sexuality and gender and highlights the importance of current discussions about gender and sexuality in contemporary food studies.

Conclusion

Post-Mandarin ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Tran
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
National Culture ◽  
State Power ◽  
Cultural Representation ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Partisan Politics ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Aesthetic Modernity ◽  
And Gender

To consider modern Vietnamese literature and its politics through questions of gender and sexuality is to challenge Vietnamese Marxist criticism that was made orthodox and inflexible by the machinations of state power and partisan politics. This book has aimed to contribute to this reassessment with its primary arguments: that the post-mandarin engagement with and representation of colonial sex and gender fostered an inclusive field of cultural representation and, more broadly speaking, a democratic national culture from which Vietnamese Marxism emerged. Vietnam’s anticolonial national movement during the twentieth century was not the singular Marxism narrated and codified by the state but was rather conditioned and formed in conjunction with modernity’s sociohistorical transformations, various political ideologies, and, most pertinent here, an aesthetic modernity attending to questions of gender and sexuality.

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