Bicultural Asian American women’s experience of gender roles across cultural contexts: A narrative inquiry.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minsun Lee ◽  
Kristin Kim-Martin ◽  
Kimberly Molfetto ◽  
Kalya Castillo ◽  
Jessica L. Elliott ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Women's Experience

Mandopop under siege: culturally bound criticisms of Taiwan’s pop music

Popular Music ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARC L. MOSKOWITZ
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
English Language ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The World ◽  
Fast Pace ◽  
Musical Traditions ◽  
To Come

AbstractThis article examines the cultural biases embedded in critiques of Mandopop (Mandarin Chinese pop music). Contemporary commercialised Mandopop is generally recognised as beginning around 1980, drawing on musical traditions from the early twentieth century. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Taiwan’s popular music swept across China and many in the PRC government reacted to the values embedded in Taiwan’s lyrics with mistrust and disdain, expressing a fear that Taiwan and Hong Kong’s cultural incursion would result in the PRC’s loss of national identity. On the other side of the strait, people in Taiwan complained of Mandopop’s fast pace and changing nature and linked this to similar trends in Taiwan’s society. More recently, several of Taiwan’s scholars have critiqued Mandopop for promoting patriarchal gender roles, and English language publications complain of a lack of individualism in that songs are produced in teams of composers, lyricists and performers. I examine the cultural contexts of these critiques in order to come to a better understanding of the most popular Chinese language music in the world.

Are Every Woman's Experiences the Same? Capturing Asian American Women's Experience of Feminine Norm

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miji Um ◽  
Derek K. Iwamoto ◽  
Margaux Grivel ◽  
Elena Lucanie ◽  
Stephanie K. Takamatsu
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Women's Experience

Islands of Clay

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 131-154
Author(s):  
Leila Philip
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Asian American ◽  
American Artist ◽  
Japanese Female ◽  
Cultural Formations

Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011) was an important postwar Asian-American artist from Hawai‘i. My exploration of Takaezu’s work is closely informed by scholarship on hybridity and performative identity, which examines artists with hyphenated identities that bridge multiple personal and cultural formations. Takaezu has occupied an ambiguous and fluid space between cultures, artistic traditions, and assigned gender roles as Asian and American, as potter and sculptor, and as a woman who paid deference to traditional Japanese female culture but was also a pioneer artist who consistently identified with male forms of power. The essential paradoxes of Takaezu’s life and her struggle to find ways to create and perform her ethnicity without becoming trapped within it make her a fascinating case study. Her work reflects the implications of transnational flows and circulations; her clay works speaks to a heritage of migration, dispersal and the need to recapture a sense of lost homeland.

scholarly journals International Responses to Regretting Motherhood

2021 ◽  
pp. 121-133
Author(s):  
Valerie Heffernan ◽  
Katherine Stone
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Online Forum ◽  
International Context ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
General Acceptance ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Paid Employment ◽  
Competing Demands

AbstractRecent debates about maternal regret, prompted by the publication of Israeli sociologist Orna Donath’s (2015) research with mothers who admit to regretting their motherhood, have manifested differently in different cultural contexts. This chapter situates Tiina Sihto and Armi Mustosmäki’s analysis of a discussion of regret among contributors to an online forum for mothers in Finland (see Chap. 10.1007/978-981-16-1174-2_10) within the international context by comparing the Finnish discussion to similar media debates in Spain and the Anglophone countries. Our analysis reveals that while the idea that a woman might regret her motherhood is more readily accepted in countries where institutional support for mothers is lacking, there is a general acceptance that the inordinate pressures placed on mothers in neoliberal societies to negotiate the competing demands of family and paid employment make it inevitable that some women will experience regret. Moreover, we find evidence that the open conversation about regret triggered by Donath’s research is perceived as a further step towards destabilizing traditional attitudes towards gender roles.

scholarly journals An Ethnographic Exploration of Son Preference and Inheritance Practices in Montenegro

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-88
Author(s):  
Diāna Kiščenko
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Son Preference ◽  
Sex Ratio At Birth ◽  
Local Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
Women's Experience

Abstract Montenegro is one of the 10 countries in the world with the most imbalanced sex ratio at birth, pointing to the existence of son preference in Montenegrin society. While, over the last decade, international and local organizations have raised awareness of this issue, empirical studies about this phenomenon in Montenegro are scarce. The author conducts an ethnographic exploration into women’s experience of son preference in central Montenegro by presenting their personal and intimate perspective. The resulting paper suggests that son preference is shaped by and manifests through the inheritance practice of property being passed on to the male heir. Through her analysis, the author demonstrates how ideas about gender roles, family planning, housing and inheritance strategies swing back and forth between ‘traditional’ and ‘modern,’ ‘backward’ and ‘progressive.’

Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Reactivity

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Whited ◽  
Kevin T. Larkin
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Heart Rate ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Cardiovascular Reactivity ◽  
Task Type ◽  
Conflict Task ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Conflicting Evidence ◽  
Blood Pressure Responses

Sex differences in cardiovascular reactivity to stress are well documented, with some studies showing women having greater heart rate responses than men, and men having greater blood pressure responses than women, while other studies show conflicting evidence. Few studies have attended to the gender relevance of tasks employed in these studies. This study investigated cardiovascular reactivity to two interpersonal stressors consistent with different gender roles to determine whether response differences exist between men and women. A total of 26 men and 31 women were assigned to either a traditional male-oriented task that involved interpersonal conflict (Conflict Task) or a traditional female-oriented task that involved comforting another person (Comfort Task). Results demonstrated that women exhibited greater heart rate reactions than men independent of the task type, and that men did not display a higher reactivity than women on any measure. These findings indicate that sex of participant was more important than gender relevance of the task in eliciting sex differences in cardiovascular responding.

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