Women with Disability, Paralympics, and Reasoned Action Contact Theory

1993 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudine Sherrill
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Physical Disability ◽  
Reasoned Action ◽  
Contact Theory ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Women In Sport ◽  
The World ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Underrepresentation Of Women ◽  
Women With Disability

The underrepresentation of women in the Paralympics movement warrants attention as the world prepares for Atlanta 1996, when Paralympics (conducted after the Summer Olympics) will attract approximately 3,500 athletes with physical disability or visual impairment from 102 countries. Barriers that confront women with disability, the Paralympic movement, and adapted physical activity as a profession and scholarly discipline that stresses advocacy and attitude theories are presented. Two theories (reasoned action and contact) that have been tested in various contexts are woven together as an approach particularly applicable to women in sport and feminists who care about equal access to opportunity for all women. Women with disability are a social minority that is both ignored and oppressed. Sport and feminist theory and action should include disability along with gender, race/ethnicity, class, and age as concerns and issues.

Further Comment

1997 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 583-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haithe Anderson ◽  
Patti Lather
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
The World ◽  
Style Of Writing

Can accessible and clear writing styles unlock the power of feminist theory? Can clearly articulated ideas change the world? Some academic feminists think so. They feel that feminist theory should be measured against its ability to contribute to social change. Anything less and their work would look merely academic. Patti Lather's work, judging by her recent article, "Troubling Clarity: The Politics of Accessible Language" (Fall 1996), has been criticized by other feminists precisely because her desire to appeal to intramural readers appears to overshadow her commitment to extramural change. Gaby Weiner (1993), for example, implies that Lather's use of dense prose denies equal access to the interesting ideas that her complicated style of writing contains. Weiner assumes, as do other feminists, that feminist theory in education should be written in a clear and accessible way so that it can reach beyond the classroom to edify the world. Lather responds to this call for clarity by defending her complex writing style and her desire "to be heard," as she writes, "in the halls of High Theory." She justifies her position by pointing out that academic feminists "can't do everything and that the struggle demands contestation on every front" (p. 526).

scholarly journals Deep solidarity: Broadening the basis of transformation

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joerg Rieger ◽  
Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger
Keyword(s):  
Job Market ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The World ◽  
New Models ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Race Ethnicity

Across the globe, conditions of labour are worsening, providing both challenges and opportunities. As labour is one of the places where the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class is always at work, new models of resistance are created here as well. Deep solidarity describes what happens when the 99% who have to work for a living (including people who are excluded from the job market) realise what they have in common, in order to employ their differences productively in the struggle. In this article, a theologian and a labour and community organiser work together showing how the Abrahamic religious traditions and developments in the world of labour help us to shape deeper forms of solidarity.

scholarly journals Horizontal Segregation as a Consequence of Hidden Curriculum in Primary School

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-119
Author(s):  
Enikő Gál
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Hidden Curriculum ◽  
Music History ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
School Education ◽  
Female Education ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
The World ◽  
Underrepresentation Of Women

Much of the special literature deals with examining textbooks, and during their analyses the underrepresentation of women in the world of teaching aids always comes out. The National Curricula (1995, 2003, 2007, 2012, and the new draft of the NC) serve as the basis for writing textbooks, thus it would be worth starting the examination of horizontal segregation according to gender here. In the current study, the goal is to identify and to map theoretical dimensions. This research introduces female education and stereotypes of women in Hungary, their theoretical background as regards horizontal segregation according to gender, and also introduces „hidden curriculum”. Horizontal segregation according to gender in higher education is easily seen, the goal of this study, however, is to examine its presence in primary school education through the teaching of three subjects: music, history, and physics. This dissertation is the first step in the research which furthers the mapping of the theoretical background.

Marginalized Voices in the Global Media Dialogue

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Carilli
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Master Narrative ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Mainstream Culture

Marginalization, a fluid concept, challenges status quo understandings and representations of individuals throughout the world. Considered to reference individuals who have been excluded from the mainstream dialogue, marginalization has developed into a term that evokes an examination of the master narrative, also known as the metanarrative. In a world where the master narrative predominates, individuals are systematically excluded based on a characteristic or characteristics they possess that disrupt a specified system of cultural norms. In relation to the global media, marginalized voices represent groups that have self-contained cultural norms and rules that differ from mainstream norms and rules. While marginalized groups may share some norms, rules, and values with the mainstream culture, they possess differences that can be viewed as transgressive, existing outside the mainstream norms, rules, and values. Media representations of groups that are globally marginalized, and sometimes stigmatized, include but are not limited to race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, class, ableism, and religion. A study of these marginalized groups reveals an implied system of privilege that reifies the status quo and supports the master narrative. Media invisibility results from marginalization, and when marginalized groups are represented, often those representations are through a marketable, stereotypical lens. As a result of the dearth of images, and a system of privilege, few studies examine marginalized groups in countries throughout the world. By creating a global dialogue about marginalized voices, images, and self-representations, advocacy for difference and understanding allows these voices, images, and self-representations to become expressive renderings of specific transgressive cultural norms.

Women, marginalisation and politics in Africa and Asia

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
Amaka Theresa Oriaku Emordi ◽  
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Papia Sengupta ◽  
Hope A. Ikednma ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Gender Imbalance ◽  
Education Governance ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Socially Disadvantaged ◽  
The World ◽  
Individual Choices

Across the world, women are on the fringes in all facets of life endeavours- economy, education, governance, and politics compared to their male counterparts. Irrespective of the geographical location, women are culturally and socially disadvantaged. They are systematically deprived of individual choices, economic opportunities, political rights, political power as well as intellectual recognition. Women are on the lower incomes ladder compare to their male counterparts. Feminists have argued that women’s fivefold role – mother, wife, home-manager, informal educator, and family nurse is responsible for women’s impediments in life. As a beast of burdens, women have obstructed them from pursuing their aspirations at the same speed as their male counterparts. Consequently, women are marginal in the scheme of mainstream issues of life as politics and economy. Using secondary data and applying the radical feminist theory, women marginalization in Nigeria and India was investigated. The paper revealed some forms of women marginalization in these countries and their similarities to show that women marginalization is a universal phenomenon, cutting across culture, race, and continent. While the concept of marginalization may vary according to the historical and socio-economical context of societies like Nigeria and India, its impact on the marginalized remains the same across cultures, peoples, and continents. To address this gender imbalance and disparity in opportunities between men and women, there is a need for a rotund education for a large majority of women in these continents to accelerate the empowerment of women in every aspect of life.

A Voice of Her Own

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Berrin Yanıkkaya
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Women's Voice ◽  
The World ◽  
Experiences Of Women

This chapter provides a theoretical discussion on women's voice and agency by referring to the selected works from feminist theory and history. It highlights the importance of storytelling in women owning their own voice and exercising their agency through the multilayeredness of the experiences of women coming from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. Also, in this chapter, digital platforms and what they offer to women, such as digital storytelling, are discussed. And finally, it includes academic and activist works on individual and collective digital storytelling examples and practices of women from around the world.

Introduction: foot notes

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ezra ◽  
Catherine Wheatley
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
The World ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Silent Era

This chapter, written by the book’s editors, provides an introduction to the role of shoes in cinema, discussing the significance of shoes in terms of gender identity, sexuality, race, ethnicity and social class, through the lens of a range of philosophical, psychoanalytic, and historical approaches. It also presents an overview of the chapters in the book, which cover films in a variety of genres from around the world, and from the silent era to the present. The wearing of shoes, it is argued, tells us a great deal both about the wearer and about the time and place in which the shoes are worn—and there is no better medium than film in which to convey the myriad qualities of shoes, which have the capacity to be both very special and very ordinary.

Grace under Fire

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula Thomas ◽  
Jill Drake
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Career Aspirations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Experiences ◽  
Stem Fields ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
The World ◽  
Underrepresentation Of Women ◽  
And Mathematics

Understanding why women are underrepresented in various Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics fields remains an important area of research. In the United States and in many industrialized nations around the world, STEM professions remain male dominated. Explanations for why women are not participating STEM professions are many and diverse. The Ecology Systems Theory (EST) presents a lens through which the causes for the continued underrepresentation of women in STEM fields may be examined. EST is widely accepted theoretical framework for exploring the influences that contribute to the development of an individual. The study presented in this chapter explored the familial, educational, economic, and social experiences of 125 female participants working in a STEM field. Findings suggest there are influences at specific levels in EST that can and do affect the educational and career aspirations of women in relationship to STEM fields.

scholarly journals Anthropometric Assessment of Nepali Children Institutionalized in Orphanages

Children ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
Lucía Fernández ◽  
Ana Rubini ◽  
Jose M. Soriano ◽  
Joaquín Aldás-Manzano ◽  
Jesús Blesa
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Physical Disability ◽  
Anthropometric Measures ◽  
Significant Evidence ◽  
Institutionalized Children ◽  
Growth Status ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Nepalese Children ◽  
Anthropometric Assessment

Nepal is among the world’s poorest countries, and it is the third-poorest country in the South Asian region. Asia has the largest number of orphans in the world; in Nepal there are around 13,281 orphan children. The objective of this study is to evaluate the growth status of institutionalized children in Nepal through the analyses of anthropometric measures. The sample was Nepalese children aged 4 to 17, obtained from two different orphanages: in the first one, children with physical and mental disabilities coexist with children without any conditions. In the second one, there were no subjects with disabilities. Significant evidence of an association between mental and physical disability in institutionalized children and undernutrition (wasting and stunting) was found in this study. There is also weak but significant evidence of a relationship between underweight and being male. The study could help reaching a better understanding of growth status of institutionalized children in Nepal.

A Portrait of North American Urban Historians

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1237-1245
Author(s):  
Richard Harris
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
The World ◽  
Age Profile ◽  
Race Ethnicity

A survey of members of the Urban History Association (UHA) undertaken in March 2017 provides information about the character, views, and prospects of urban history in North America. Most UHA members are professional historians. Their age profile is balanced; women and minorities are underrepresented, though their age profile indicates that members will become more diverse. They are researching cities around the world, but focus mainly on the larger U.S. cities. Thematically, their main interests are in planning/design, race/ethnicity, politics, and housing, in that order. Most situate their work on U.S. cities within a national frame of reference; only half believe that there is something distinctively urban about cities. Those who do tend to highlight social, political, and cultural, as opposed to economic, effects. Their intellectual influences are primarily other urban historians rather than more theoretically oriented writers.

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