scholarly journals Gender Roles in Martial Art: A Comparative Analysis of Kalaripayattu Practices in India

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Ashitha Mandakathingal
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Martial Art

scholarly journals Challenges for child support schemes: Accounting for shared care and complex families

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elke Claessens ◽  
Dimitri Mortelmans
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Shared Care ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
Policy Models ◽  
Sole Custody ◽  
Traditional Approaches

The increasing prevalence of shared care and complex families is challenging traditional approaches to child support determination based on the ‘classic’ two-parent, sole custody, post-divorce family. This article provides a comparative analysis of how these challenges are being addressed in the child support schemes of eight different countries and evaluates these approaches in the light of family policies on gender equality in family care. We find great diversity in the incorporation of shared care and complex families, which is not clearly connected to existing ideal typical policy models on gendered family care. However, child support schemes, at least partially, seem to translate into assumptions concerning gender roles and general policy aims concerning gender equality. In order to better understand how countries accommodate the challenges arising from the modern post-separation family, gender equality seems a vital consideration to take into account.

scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of Mathematics Textbooks for the 5th Graders from a Perspective of Gender

Pedagogika ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-149
Author(s):  
Monika Grigaliūnienė ◽  
Aušra Rutkienė
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Fifth Graders ◽  
Mathematics Textbooks ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Household Activities ◽  
Evaluation Matrix ◽  
Traditional Roles

Fifth graders as young adolescents are recognisable by training their abilities to think critically and questioning gender roles. It is known that any representation of gender in purely traditional roles shapes students’ minds and influences their understanding of their abilities and interests. Therefore, their learning environment must be suited for students‘ growth as intellectuals. Textbooks, being one of the most popular tools between teaching materials, are responsible for the righteous portrayal of gender roles. The object of this study was to evaluate mathematics textbooks for the fifth graders using comparative analysis. For this research, four textbooks for fifth graders were chosen to be evaluated based on their usage in schools. Mixed methodology content analysis was performed together with evaluation analysis that was based on content analysis findings. For research purposes, the author‘s evaluation matrix was created. This research showed results determining the stereotypical portrayals of gender roles in all examined teaching materials. The portrayal of gender mostly dominated in traditional roles, almost in all categories was domination by males, except for traditionally ‘feminine’ household activities, also in some cases, there was a devaluation of women’s logical skills. It showed that the portrayal of man’s gender had superiority over the woman’s gender.

scholarly journals The Physical Discourse of Fan Fiction

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-28
Author(s):  
Hodunok Zoriana
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Virtual Mass ◽  
Safe Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Mass Literature ◽  
Frame Method

The research of physical discourse, typical characters, stereotypical gender roles of fan fiction’s texts, based on “Harry Potter”, “Supernatural”, “The Song of Ice and Fire”/“The Game of Throne”, is realized in the article. The author uses Psycholinguistics (Frame Method and Free Associative Experiment), Hermeneutics, some elements of Comparative analysis to describe the main characteristics of the personages and explain peculiarities of their sexual interactions. Fan fiction prose is a kind of virtual mass literature, so it has special features inherent to mass literature in general, for example, comfort reading, typical personages in typical dramatic plot, often – happy end etc. The physical discourse is the most important part of fan fiction’s texts, because the experience of sexual interactions is desirable for a person and it is a base of human’s life. The frame “body” covers not only sex, but also love and security (for example, to be safe in one’s hands). The most frequent nouns of the frame are “hands/fingers” and “eyes/ gaze”. It is important to note that man’s hands and eyes often show his character. But woman’s eyes and hands realize her emotions and feelings. It depends on stereotypical gender roles of mass culture: man has a function to interact with the world, and woman has a function to safe life inside (to give birth), which is confirmed by the free associative experiment. Physical damages (scars, injuries, deceases – for man; rapes – for woman) make the personages more emotionally close to a reader of fan fiction; show an act of initiation (transition from the fandom text to fan fiction text).

scholarly journals The Amazons of Exekias and Eupolis: Demystifying Changes in Gender Roles

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisa Anne Infante
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Class Background

In this paper, I will examine the changing gender roles of women as the Athenian government changes from a tyranny in the Archaic period to a democracy in the Classical period by comparing a Black-Figure Amphora, which depicts an image of Achilles Killing Penthesilea, by Exekias and a Red-Figure Column Krater, which depicts an image of an Amazon on Side A and an unidentified figure on Side B, by Eupolis. The creation of democracy was not the universal celebration that it is often praised to be in modern times. I will demonstrate this through a visual analysis of how the iconography of the Amazon shifts from being represented in the likeness of the goddesses, Artemis and Athena, to a portrayal of the Amazons as the Persian enemy. This shift in iconography mirrors the shift that occurred for the respect and to some extent power that was afforded to Athenian women, especially those of an upper-class background. My comparative analysis utilizes the works of gender and feminist scholars such as Beth Cohen, Larissa Bonfante, Laura Mulvey and Judith Butler. Both Cohen and Bonfante argue that the Amazons are representations of the weakness and struggle of women; however, using their methodology I construct an argument that counters this point of view. At first the Amazons were shown with power, power that they gained from the goddesses, Artemis and Athena; however, through the manipulation of their iconography the Amazons as Persians began to represent women as barbarians and as others. Lastly, utilizing the work of Mulvey and Butler, I will examine how the gaze and mindset of the viewer changes the perception of Amazon iconography.

scholarly journals The Amazons of Exekias and Eupolis: Demystifying Changes in Gender Roles

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (Spring 2017) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisa Anne Infante
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Class Background

In this paper, I will examine the changing gender roles of women as the Athenian government changes from a tyranny in the Archaic period to a democracy in the Classical period by comparing a Black-Figure Amphora, which depicts an image of Achilles Killing Penthesilea, by Exekias and a Red-Figure Column Krater, which depicts an image of an Amazon on Side A and an unidentified figure on Side B, by Eupolis. The creation of democracy was not the universal celebration that it is often praised to be in modern times. I will demonstrate this through a visual analysis of how the iconography of the Amazon shifts from being represented in the likeness of the goddesses, Artemis and Athena, to a portrayal of the Amazons as the Persian enemy. This shift in iconography mirrors the shift that occurred for the respect and to some extent power that was afforded to Athenian women, especially those of an upper-class background. My comparative analysis utilizes the works of gender and feminist scholars such as Beth Cohen, Larissa Bonfante, Laura Mulvey and Judith Butler. Both Cohen and Bonfante argue that the Amazons are representations of the weakness and struggle of women; however, using their methodology I construct an argument that counters this point of view. At first the Amazons were shown with power, power that they gained from the goddesses, Artemis and Athena; however, through the manipulation of their iconography the Amazons as Persians began to represent women as barbarians and as others. Lastly, utilizing the work of Mulvey and Butler, I will examine how the gaze and mindset of the viewer changes the perception of Amazon iconography.

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