Political Economy, Sexuality, and Intimacy

2019 ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
Barry Adam
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Success Strategies ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
And Gender ◽  
North And South

This chapter explores how political economy shapes the social organization of sexuality and intimacy, in particular, modern formations of LGBT people. Political economy affects sexuality at three broad levels: (1) through the articulation of kinship and gender with the division of labor, it creates both openings and limits to same-sex relationships; (2) through demands imposed on contemporary workers, citizens, and consumers by neoliberalism, markets influence norms of conduct and success strategies even in personal relationships; (3) political economy generates hierarchies of entitlement and exclusion which impact LGBT peoples and the social constituencies around them who construct them as symbols of progress or decline. Reviewing both historical and anthropological evidence and the growing international divide between LGBT-affirming and repressing countries, the chapter contextualizes current contentions about the rise of homonationalism in a larger geopolitics of north and south.

scholarly journals Staging the Social Drama of Work: Ethnography of a Theater Company as a Means of Analyzing Theater Activity

2022 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 78-99
Author(s):  
Celia Bense Ferreira Alves
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Central Group ◽  
The Core ◽  
Collective Activity ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Service Relationship

This paper shows how conducting the ethnographic study of a theater hall and company can help define theater activity. Once the aesthetic of the social organization is set apart from the proper division of labor, theater appears as a collective activity which requires the cooperation of eight groups playing different social roles. The cooperation modes rest on a meshing of direct or indirect services for the actors who carry out the core task of performing. This specific organization of work around a central group is what makes the activity artistic. Simultaneously, the service relation offers the possibility for some categories to bring their relationship with actors closer to a state of symmetry and sometimes reverse asymmetry. As a status enhancing opportunity, service relationship for actors also directly or indirectly provide the grounds for participant commitment and thus guarantee long-lasting operation for the theatrical organization.

The Gendered Social Organization of Migration as Work

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 295-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet W. Salaff
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Family Resources ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Gender

Borrowing concepts from the study of work and occupations as well as gender studies, this paper considers the social organization of migration as gendered work. It explores women's and men's contribution to two aspects of family resources needed to migrate: (a) jobs and the non-market exchanges involved in obtaining work, and (b) the support of kin. The data come from a study of 30 emigrant and non-emigrant families representing three social classes in Hong Kong. We find their “migration work” varies by social class and gender. Since the working class families depend on kin to get resources to emigrate, their “migration work” involves maintaining these kin ties, mainly in the job area. The lower middle class proffer advice to kin, and they view kin as an information source on topics including migration. For the affluent, middle-class who negotiate independently to emigrate, their “migration work” involves linking colleagues to the family.

scholarly journals “A Mulher é mais Delicada”: Um Estudo sobre a Associação da Figura Feminina à Área de Confeitaria Profissional

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (51) ◽  
Author(s):  
Letícia Madeira de Castro Santos ◽  
Daniela Alves Minuzzo
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Sexual Division ◽  
Sexual Division Of Labor ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
And Gender

RESUMO Há uma estreita relação das mulheres com a produção de alimentos, suscitando debates acerca dessa relação, dentre elas uma suposta propensão a realizar determinados trabalhos na cozinha por associação com estereótipos ligados ao gênero feminino, como é o caso da confeitaria. O principal objetivo, portanto, foi analisar a associação entre a figura feminina e a área de confeitaria profissional. O trabalho discutiu questões de gênero e construção da mulher, passando pelo machismo na cozinha profissional e a relação da mulher com a confeitaria. A partir da análise do conteúdo de entrevistas realizadas com sete profissionais da área de cozinha e confeitaria, verificou-se questões relativas à divisão sexual do trabalho, raça e gênero, associação do homem confeiteiro à homossexualidade, discutidos com base em conceitos de Pierre Bourdieu, como o poder simbólico, a violência simbólica e o habitus. Observou-se uma associação estereotipada de gênero, reconhecendo-se a necessidade de uma remodelação dessas relações de representação feminina na área de gastronomia profissional.Palavras-chave: Confeitaria. Feminismo. Cozinha profissional. Divisão sexual do trabalho. “WOMEN ARE MORE DELICATE”: a study on the association of female figure to the field of professional confectionary arts ABSTRACTThere is a close relation of women and food production, rising debates around it, among those a supposed propensity for some kinds of labor on gastronomy by association with gender steriotypes, such as on the field of professional confectionary arts. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to analyze the association made between the feminine figure and the field of professional confectionary arts. The article discusses gender issues and the social construction of women, passing through machismo at professional kitchen and women at confectionary field. Based on the content analysis of interviews with seven kitchen and confectionery professionals, questions related to the sexual division of labor, race and gender, confectioner's association with homosexuality were observed. The discussion was based on Pierre Bourdieu concepts including symbolic power, symbolic violence and the habitus. A gender stereotypical association was observed, recognizing the need for a remodeling of these relationships of female representation in the area of professional gastronomy.Keywords: Confectionary arts. Feminism. Professional kitchen. Sexual division of labor.

scholarly journals THE CHALLENGE TOWARDS THE HEGEMONY OF HETERONORMATIVITY AS DEPICTED IN JENNY’S WEDDING: A PIERRE BOURDIEU’S SOCIAL REPRODUCTION THEORY

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Lisa Okta Wulandari ◽  
Dewi Haryani Susilastuti
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Social Reproduction Theory ◽  
Gender Norm ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Definition Of

In America, the definition of marriage has changed. The Supreme Court has legalized same-sex marriage. As the growth of LGBT people slowly continues, and they keep struggle and fight for their equality, heterosexuals might feel threatened. This study aims to know how the same-sex relationship challenges the hegemony of heteronormativity and whether or not the gender norm has been shifted as proof. This study uses Jenny's Wedding (2015). It focuses on gender position, role, and responsibility in heteronormativity and homosexuality. This study uses the sociological approach and gender theory, to see the relation between heteronormativity and the individuals also Pierre Bourdieu’s social reproduction theory to see the shifting of gender norm. The finding shows that heteronormativity is used as the standard to judge, stereotype, expect things, and make assumptions. The recognition and support from society towards LGBT people and their coming out give challenges for the existenceof heterosexuals. Therefore, the contact of heteronormativity and homosexuality makes the heteronormativity no longer pure. When homosexuality affects gender norm, there must be changes in the gender norm itself.Keywords: gender; hegemony; heteronormativity; homosexuality; same-sex relationship

Queer of Color Critique

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderick A. Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Racial Capitalism ◽  
Queer Of Color Critique ◽  
Gender Minorities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Queer Of Color ◽  
And Gender

Queer of color critique is a critical discourse that began within the U.S. academy in response to the social processes of migration, neoliberal state and economic formations, and the developments of racial knowledges and subjectivities about sexual and gender minorities within the United States. It was an attempt to maneuver analyses of sexuality toward critiques of race and political economy. As such, the formation was an address to Marxism, ethnic studies, queer studies, postcolonial and feminist studies. Queer of color critique also provided a method for analyzing cultural formations as registries of the intersections of race, political economy, gender, and sexuality. In this way, queer of color critique attempted to wrest cultural and aesthetic formations away from interpretations that neglected to situate those formations within analyses of racial capitalism and the racial state.

Political Economy of the Crisis in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Smart E. Otu
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Basic Material ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Milieu ◽  
Organization Of Production

Conventional western social science scholars hold the view that the current crisis in Zimbabwe is but the consequence of misgovernance by President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF led government. This paper debunks this viewpoint and considers it a short-circuit analysis of the complex nature of Zimbabwe’s crisis. Instead, the political economy approach is adopted which is considered more far-reaching, holistic, historic, dialectic, and more empirically-scientific-based. The critical analysis of the crisis reveals that the key to the current socio-economic and political impasse in Zimbabwe lies in the nature of the social organization of production and the class character of both colonial and postcolonial Zimbabwe’s social system which are strongly tied to the land issue. To this end, the paper confirms that Zimbabwe’s economy, polity and social relations are organized in a manner that many Zimbabweans are at the fringe of the social structure. The main argument of this paper is that social organization of production in Zimbabwe is such that does not guarantee ordinary Zimbabweans access to land to produce their basic material needs, and to participate in making decision about how this major means of production is organized for production, distribution and consumption. This paper concludes by noting that the way out of the current crisis in Zimbabwe lies in a radical overhauling of the feeble social organization of production while not undermining the importance of a congenial political milieu in Zimbabwe

Initial Northern Iroquoian Coalescence

2018 ◽  
pp. 89-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Birch ◽  
Ronald F. Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Regional Networks ◽  
Village Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Village

Northern Iroquoian societies experienced two phases of community coalescence, one in the thirteenth century, which brought semi-sedentary populations together into the first true villages, and a second phase two centuries later that created large palisaded settlements. This chapter is primarily concerned with the first wave of village formation and the changes in social organization and gender and power relations that accompanied the transition to sedentism. This included more formalized decision-making at the village level as well as the development of recursive entanglements between regional networks defined by kin- and clan-based relations and materialized through ritual and mortuary programs. We argue that transformations in the social and physical labor performed by males and females at the village and regional levels is key to understanding this transition.

Discourses of Home, Gender, and Sexuality

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-37
Author(s):  
Francisca Yuenki Lai
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lgbt People

The chapter establishes the context for the specific gender and sexual subjectivities that the Indonesian migrant women in this study found desirable during their stay in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, public attitudes toward LGBT people tend to be accepting. This allows migrant workers to make room for their same-sex intimate behaviors and relationships. The chapter discusses the social changes in Indonesia, including the anti-LGBT sentiment, and the raids on gay and lesbians in the country. The chapter also addresses the changing notions of family and womanhood given the fact that millions of Indonesian women left to work overseas.

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