Rethinking Identity and Feminism: Contributions of Mapuche Women and Machi from Southern Chile

Hypatia ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Herbal Remedies ◽  
Southern Chile ◽  
Feminist Rhetoric ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Subject And Object ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

I analyze how machi discourse and practice of gender and identity contribute to feminist debates about gendered indigenous Others, and the effects that Western notions of Self and Other and feminist rhetoric have on Mapuche women and machi: people who heal with herbal remedies and the help of spirits. Machi juggling of different worlds offers a particular understanding of the way identity and gender are constituted and of the relationship between Self and Other, theory and practice, subject and object, feminism and Womanism.

Identity, self and other: The emergence of police and victim/survivor identities in domestic violence narratives

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 636-659
Author(s):  
Jennifer Andrus
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Police Interactions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This article analyzes narratives about encounters between police officers and domestic violence victim/survivors in the context of domestic violence calls. Narratives are sites in which individuals create relationships between themselves and others, oriented around a set of unfolding events. Narrative is a motivated, engaged retelling of prior or anticipated events produced in interaction with others, in a particular context stocked with constraints and affordances. In the process of telling stories, identities emerge. In order to understand the relationship between narrative and identity, I analyze stories told about police interactions with domestic violence victim/survivors from the perspectives of both the police and the victim/survivors. Working empirically with a data set of 48 interviews, I use critical discourse analysis and discourse analysis to analyze the ways both groups narrate domestic violence and confrontations with police officers, the ways they create story worlds stocked with characters, the ways story characters are formed and deployed, and the ways those characters are positioned against/with/by the storyteller, allowing the storyteller’s identity to emerge. This article is an analysis of the relationship between the storyteller and the story world and the storyteller’s process of constructing an/other in order to position in relation to that other. Ultimately, I argue that identity emerges for the storyteller in the way she or he constructs characters in a story and then positions in relation to those characters.

scholarly journals Movilidad cotidiana y roles de género en una ciudad del Caribe colombiano. Una aproximación desde los habitantes del Barrio La Pradera = Dailymobility and gender roles in a ColombianCaribbeancity. An approximation from the population of the La Pradera neighborhood

2019 ◽  
pp. 487
Author(s):  
Mariem Katerine Madera Machado
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Daily Mobility ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

<p><strong>Resumen </strong></p><p>El análisis de la relación entre la movilidad cotidiana y los roles de género en la ciudad de Montería permite una aproximación a la forma como los individuos viven, experimentan su ciudad y al mismo tiempo cuestionar las posturas tradicionales desde la cual es analizada la movilidad cotidiana. Si bien, en la mayoría de los casos estudiados son los roles asociados a la vida pública los que estructuran los recorridos cotidianos, la realización de los quehaceres del trabajo de cuidado son los encargados de limitar y organizar las rutinas cotidianas especialmente en quienes cumplen el rol de madres.</p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>The analysis of the relationship between daily mobility and gender roles in the city of Monteria allows an approach to the way peoples live, experience their city and at the same time question the traditional positions from which daily mobility is analyzed. Although, in most of the cases studied, it is the roles associated with public life that structure the daily journeys, the performance of the tasks of care work are responsible for limiting and organizing daily routines especially in those who fulfill the role of mothers.</p>

scholarly journals Something Wicked Westward Goes: Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson’s Californian Uncanny

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Robyn Pritzker
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Gothic Fiction ◽  
American Gothic ◽  
American Author ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

This essay offers a first critical reading of American author Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson’s short story “The Warlock’s Shadow” (1886), asserting that the tale appropriates historical traumas in order to navigate, and transgress, boundaries of genre and gender. The strangeness of the text’s Central Californian setting, to the narrator, precipitates a series of Gothic metamorphoses, and “The Warlock’s Shadow” engages with this transformation via a concept that this essay defines as the “Californian Uncanny”. The latter framework is a result of the specific, layered indigenous and colonial identities of post-Gold Rush California coming into contact with the unstable subjectivities of the Gothic genre. “The Warlock’s Shadow” manifests the Californian Uncanny primarily through the relationship between the home, the environment, and the “unassimilable” inhabitant. Stevenson’s text illustrates, through these images, the ways in which late-nineteenth-century American Gothic fiction has allowed the white feminine subject to negotiate her own identity, complicating the binary distinctions between Self and Other which underpin American colonialism both internally and externally. The phenomenon of the Californian Uncanny in “The Warlock’s Shadow” reflects these gendered and geographical anxieties of American identity, confronting the ghosts of the nation’s westernmost region.

From Parnassus to Bayreuth: Staging a Music which is Not One

2020 ◽  
pp. 183-221
Author(s):  
Sarah Hickmott
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Symbolic Language ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Music And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

The final chapter brings together all three thinkers and demonstrates the way in which they all – albeit in different ways – inherit and deploy aspects of a Romantic and idealist conception of music. It considers their writings on Wagner in order to ascertain more clearly how their different positions play out over a shared question: to what extent is Wagner’s music fascist or anti-Semitic? Rather than seek to solve this problem, the chapter argues that their positions on this question relate to their a priori understanding of the relationship between music and philosophy, their broader political-philosophical commitments, and their characterization of what is ‘essentially’ musical. The chapter also draws on Irigaray’s work in order to show how both Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe reinstate a gendered foundationalism (specifically the musical maternal-feminine which logically and chronologically precedes the symbolic, language, and culture) that is so at odds with their broader projects; by contrast, though Badiou never identifies music ‘itself’ with the feminine, the way in which he constructs ‘truth’ nonetheless rehabilitates a certain feminine exceptionalism alongside a pervasive misogyny in his work. The concluding analytic argues for multiply intersecting planes of mediation and a non-reductive approach to both music and gender that refuses to attribute a single essence to either.

Rethinking queer failure: Trans youth embodiments of distress

Sexualities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 48-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina Roen
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Trans Youth ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
The Way

This article examines trans youth embodied distress in relation to the workings of normativity. I consider the normative cruelties that structure the embodied and gendered experiences of trans youth, and I locate trans youth embodied distress in relation to a notion of queer failure. Central to this analysis is the way emotion is implicated in normativity. I focus on the idea that happiness norms are implicated in keeping gendered subjects in line, and I consider the specific emotions that are bound up in queer failure and embodied distress, such as shame, hatred, and fear. Trans youth frequently respond to the challenges of embodied distress by embarking on a significant emotional, relational project that can involve reworking the relationship to the body and reworking the relationship to norms. In the context of this emotional, relational project, some trans youth self-harm and/or become suicidal. I work with empirical data from trans and gender questioning youth who write online about their self-harming and suicidal feelings, and I use this analysis to locate self-harm in relation to the ways in which some trans youth are crafting embodied and gendered ways of being that break with norms.

scholarly journals Working against many grains: Rethinking difference, emancipation and agency in the counter-discourse of an ethnic minority women’s organisation in Belgium

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 512-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nella Van Den Brandt ◽  
Chia Longman
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way ◽  
Structural Inequalities

In this article, we aim to contribute to feminist academic debates about multiculturalism and secularism/religion by drawing upon an analysis of an ethnic minority women’s organisation in Belgium that has been active since 1999: ella. The analysis focuses upon the way in which ella constructs notions of empowerment and emancipation by discussing structural inequalities, cultural-ethnic values and religious authority and identity. First, we look at how ella formulates its ideas about the emancipation trajectories of minoritised women and the potential role of religious belonging. Second, we look at ella’s discussion of religious interpretation and gender/sexual diversity. Here, we explore assumptions about the relationship between religious authority and minoritised women’s and LGBTQs’ desires and pursuit for knowledge. We conclude by considering ella as an affirmative-critical actor of multiculturalism, and an implicit agent of religious reform.

scholarly journals Becoming Animal, Becoming Others: What We Make with Art and Literature

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-138
Author(s):  
Karin Cope
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Material ◽  
Poetry And Poetics ◽  
Meaningful Life ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Abstract What is poetry for? How does poiesis or making - the Greek root of the words poetry and poetics - succeed in moving us, in getting under our skins? “Becoming Animal” argues that art and literature are crucial zones of play, transformative modes that work by mixing up self and other, inside and out, human, animal and other matter. The essay moves from a consideration of D.W. Winnicott’s psychoanalytic discussion of the relationship between play and creativity, self and other, to Howard Searles’ investigation of transference and counter-transference as possible models for engaged and sensuously attuned critical stances. The last section of the essay offers an account of the “transgenic” work of Eduardo Kac, which literally mixes genetic material as art. The essay concludes by arguing that art, as poiesis, works by engaging us in constant contact with what is not ourselves as a process of becoming ourselves; it argues that such ‘self-estrangement’ is the way we sort out how to live an ontologically rich and ethically meaningful life.

The Rhetoric and Ideology Behind Title IX: An Analysis of U.S. Newspaper Editorials, 2002-2005

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Whiteside ◽  
Marie Hardin
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Title Ix ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Feminist Rhetoric ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Gender Neutral ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Newspaper Editorials

This study explores assumptions about the relationship between sport and gender through a textual analysis of newspaper editorials on Title IX from 2002 to 2005. Through the analysis we found that none of the articles opposed Title IX outright. The arguments in the editorials used a liberal feminist rationale that positioned women and men as equally deserving of civil rights protections and the institution of sports as needing to become gender-neutral to provide those protections. An “oppositional reading” of these editorials from a radical feminist perspective, however, found the assumption that the practice and values of sports are naturally masculine; thus, sports ultimately belong to men. The analysis illuminated the shortcomings of the liberal feminist rhetoric and the need for more radical voices to move women’s sports from a defensive to an empowered position in U.S. culture.

From Letter to Spirit

2019 ◽  
pp. 125-148
Author(s):  
John C. Cavadini
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Free Standing ◽  
Literal Sense ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way ◽  
Patristic Exegesis

This chapter offers an overview of patristic theory and practice of both figurative and literal exegesis, as well as of the relationship between them. It argues that for the fathers of the Church, the literal sense of Scripture was not a free-standing independent sense, but was intrinsically related to, and ordered towards, the figurative or spiritual sense(s). Since that is true, the literal sense of Scripture cannot be fully appreciated apart from an understanding of the spiritual or figurative sense(s), and, since this aspect of patristic exegesis is the one perhaps most foreign to contemporary exegetical sensibilities, the chapter spends the majority of its time demonstrating from patristic texts what is meant by the figurative or spiritual sense of Scripture. This then paves the way for a treatment of the literal sense and its relationship to the figurative sense as it has been presented in the earlier part of the chapter.

scholarly journals Facebook as an instrument of election campaigning and voters’ engagement: Comparing Czechia and Poland

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vaclav Stetka ◽  
Paweł Surowiec ◽  
Jaromír Mazák
Keyword(s):  
Strong Predictor ◽  
Parliamentary Election ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Different Types ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Adding to the growing scholarship on the use and role of social media in election campaigning, this article examines and compares the character and determinants of Internet users’ engagement with political party communication in 2013 and 2015 Parliamentary election campaigns in Czechia and Poland. Apart from the relationship between the thematic focus of party-produced content and the level of users’ interactivity, the study also explores the way the tonality of users’ comments is influenced by different types of party communication, as well as by users’ gender. The results suggest that the level of support for a party status is largely independent of the content of the message in both countries. The type of content has, however, an effect on the intensity of criticism by the users, with policy-related subjects generating more negativity than mobilization- or campaign-oriented statuses. Finally, the study points to both gender gaps and gender as a strong predictor of user negativity, as female users – while constituting a minority of participants in both countries – tend to be significantly less negative in their comments towards the home party. Overall, the comparative study reveals both similarities and differences in the way Czech and Polish parties utilize Facebook as campaign platform, as well as in their respective Internet users’ engagement with parties messages.

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