scholarly journals Women’s Tears or Coffee Blight?

2021 ◽  
pp. 154-176
Author(s):  
Christine Noe ◽  
Olivia Howland ◽  
Dan Brockington
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Gender Dynamics ◽  
Rural Farmers ◽  
Financial Perspective ◽  
Coffee Sector ◽  
The Way

The transformations of the coffee sector have posed major challenges to rural farmers who have lost an important source of income. However, the way in which such shocks are experienced by families hinges on the gender relations governing families’ production and sale of coffee. In this article, it is argued that in Meru, Tanzania, which once had a strong coffee economy, the production of coffee depended on the subjugation of women by men. The collapse of coffee has created new opportunities for women. They do not mourn its demise, as one might expect from a merely financial perspective. At the same time, women’s new opportunities for income earning and business are also contested by men. The changes in this part of Tanzania in response to recent transformations can only be understood through the gender dynamics, and the contests, they fuel.

Mercedes Steedman, Angels of the Workplace: Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890–1940. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997. vii + 260. $24.95 paper.

2000 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 168-170
Author(s):  
John Brac
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Clothing Industry ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Gender Dynamics ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Oxford University Press

Gender studies in history are at an intriguing point in their evolution. Having distinguished themselves from traditional historiography through a marked emphasis on language as the primary construction site of power relations, they have created a number of principal research tasks. One involves the retelling of history from the perspective of gender relations. A second consists of a description of the relationship between gender dynamics and those of other categories of identification, such as class and ethnicity. A third is the move from the “how” of the construction of gendered power relations to their “why.” In other words, it is the move from description to explanation. Despite a number of attempts to undertake the second and third tasks, this monograph by Mercedes Steedman most clearly presents itself as a gendered retelling of the history of the Canadian clothing industry, and it is in this light that it should be appreciated.

scholarly journals Os Jovens e o Imaginário da Aids: notas para uma construção social do risco

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Jeolás
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Individual Behavior ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Symbolism ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
Social Construction Of Risk ◽  
The Way

Este artigo, baseado em pesquisa sobre o imaginário da aids entre jovens, busca compreender a noção de risco como uma categoria sociocultural, cujos significados se acumulam nos conceitos de várias áreas do conhecimento e nos usos de senso comum. O perigo, o mal e o infortúnio sempre foram moralizados e politizados nas diversas culturas humanas e a história da aids não poderia ser diferente. Os simbolismos culturais sobre contágio, doenças transmitidas pelo sexo e pelo sangue e os valores atuais da sexualidade, incluindo as relações de gênero, estão presentes na forma como os jovens representam o risco do HIV. Além disso, não se pode desconsiderar a ambivalência que os riscos assumem atualmente para os jovens: alguns negados e afastados, outros aceitos e valorizados. No caso da aids, a busca pela vertigem e pelo êxtase, componentes do sexo e das drogas, distancia o discurso dos jovens sobre risco do discurso preventivo, baseado na racionalidade do comportamento individual, assumindo valores distintos ligados a experiências cotidianas. Youngsters and the imagery of AIDS: notes for the social construction of risk This article, based on research about the imagery of AIDS among youth, aims to understand the notion of risk as a social-cultural category, whose meanings are piled upon concepts of several areas of both knowledge and common sense usages. Danger, evil and misfortune have always been moralized and politicized in the different human cultures and it could not be different in the history of aids. Cultural symbolism about infection, sexually and blood transmitted diseases, as well as sexuality’s current values, including here gender relations, are present in the way the youth represents HIV´s risks. Besides, the ambivalence these risks assume for the youth nowadays cannot be disregarded: some are denied and put aside, others are accepted and valorized. In the case of AIDS, the search for vertigo and ecstasy, components of sex and drugs, distances the youth’s discourse about risk from the preventive discourse, based on the rationality of individual behavior, assuming distinct values linked to everyday experiences.

What Happened to Gender Relations on the Way from Chicago to Los Angeles?

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphne Spain
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
World War ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Cultural Forces ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Way

From the Chicago human ecologists to the Los Angeles postmodernists, urban theorists have tried to understand how space is structured by technological, political, economic, and cultural forces; gender is seldom examined. Yet both women’s status and urban form underwent significant changes following World War II. As the home became less predictably the center of women’s lives, the monocentric city was evolving into the polycentric metropolis. This article suggests that gender relations also have spatial implications for the metropolis, and that urban theory would be more comprehensive if it incorporated historically parallel developments in the literature on gender and space.

scholarly journals Ways of Masculinity in Online Dating Profiles: the Cases of Meetic.es and AdoptaUnTio.es

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 196
Author(s):  
Eva Espinar-Ruiz ◽  
Ismael Ocampo
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
Research Area ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Traditional Masculinity ◽  
The Way

The analysis of masculinity has been a topic of growing interest in recent decades. Its study has incorporated a wide and diverse range of research areas and themes, including the representation of gender relations and identities on the Internet. Specifically, this article concerns the research area related to online dating websites and aims to compare the principal current tendencies related to identity -as provided by research on masculinity- with the way that men present themselves on two Spanish dating websites: Meetic.es and AdoptaUnTio.es. These types of virtual spaces have specific characteristics that facilitate the analysis of the masculine ideal among their users; or at least the characteristics that these men consider attractive to women. This research was carried out through a qualitative analysis supported by Atlas-ti. The principal results highlight the presence of traces of the so called egalitarian masculinity within predominant forms of traditional masculinity, characterized by a minimal process of reflection and introspection on the part of users of these websites. 

scholarly journals BEYOND DUDLU NTOMBAZANA! – THE VOICE OF S.E.K. MQHAYI

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Jadezweni
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The Way

This article analyses a number of poems produced by S.E.K. Mqhayi, a well-known writer of isiXhosa poetry whose work was published in a number of isiXhosa early newspapers. Mqhayi is also acknowledged as the first prominent isiXhosa writer, producing poetry and novels and being credited for initiating the transition from oral to written literature at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In this article selected poems are analysed against the backdrop of gender relations among the amaXhosa. The article sets out to discover the way in which Mqhayi was able to depict and praise women and their contribution in early amaXhosa society.

The Cowboy Church as a Man’s Church

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie W. Dallam
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Gender Dynamics ◽  
Women In Ministry ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cowboy Culture

Chapter 5 examines issues of gender dynamics in the cowboy church movement. Church leaders use simplistic notions of gender, in combination with assumptions about the cowboy culture, and conclude that cowboy church needs to be a “masculine” environment to succeed. This chapter explores how these concepts are perpetuated and what “masculine church” means in practical terms. It also considers some of the more complicated and contradictory views held by pastors on the subject of women in ministry and women’s participation in church more generally. It contrasts the prevailing beliefs held by men about gender relations in the cowboy church with those of women, suggesting that the discrepancy between the two groups’ views may be problematic in the long term.

Digesting men? Ethnicity, gender and food: Perspectives from a ‘prison ethnography’

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rod Earle ◽  
Coretta Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Gender Dynamics ◽  
Prison Life ◽  
The Way

Drawing from an ethnographic study of men’s social relations in an English prison, this article explores the potential of attending closely to men’s practice for the light it may shed on the boundaries of punishment. Interviews with prisoners and fieldwork experiences reveal something of the way prison acts on an ethnically diverse group of men. Focusing on the way men use cooking facilities on the prison’s wings, the article explores the way men make food for themselves and each other and thereby occupy prison space with unconventional (and conventional) gender practice. Using intersectional perspectives the article shows how practices of racialization, racism, conviviality and coercion are woven into the fabric of prison life. These quotidian experiences are juxtaposed against the question of how prisons and prisoner populations represent a spectrum of violence in which gender dynamics remain under-examined. By providing glimpses of men’s lives in an English prison to reveal aspects of the ways masculinities and ethnicities interact to shape a penal regime the authors offer some resources for, and perspective on, the theorization of punishment’s boundaries.

scholarly journals NEW MYTHS, NEW SCRIPTS: REVISIONIST MYTHOPOESIS IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN’S POETRY

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-66
Author(s):  
Deirdre Byrne
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
The Body ◽  
African Women ◽  
Women Poets ◽  
Women's Poetry ◽  
American Women ◽  
South African Women ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Way

Considerable theoretical and critical work has been done on the way British and American women poets re-vision (Rich 1976) male-centred myth. Some South African women poets have also used similar strategies. My article identifies a gap in the academy’s reading of a significant, but somewhat neglected, body of poetry and begins to address this lack of scholarship. I argue that South African women poets use their art to re-vision some of the central constructs of patriarchal mythology, including the association of women with the body and the irrational, and men with the mind and logic. These poems function on two levels: They demonstrate that the constructs they subvert are artificial; and they create new and empowering narratives for women in order to contribute to the reimagining of gender relations.

Snapchat: A space for intimate and boundary-pushing transactions

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-392
Author(s):  
Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager ◽  
Hans-Peter Degn
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Smartphone App ◽  
Young Males ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Way

This article explores how young adults negotiate gender relations and intimate boundaries through the smartphone app, Snapchat. We build on an empirical study based on interviews and a quantitative questionnaire distributed among young Danes. Our findings suggest that the key affordance of Snapchat (its default deletion) creates ‘in between spaces’ as it incites a high degree of boundary-pushing content. The way the content pushes boundaries varies across genders, but a common characteristic is that the content is more intimate and with less facade than what is usually shared on other social media. At the same time, we find that young males and females to some extend use Snapchat in different ways and with different kinds of content, though for the same overall purpose; Snapchat constitutes their ‘in between space’ where they can test boundaries and uphold social relations by exchanging personal, unveiled behind-the-facade content.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document