scholarly journals Distribution of Hairs on the Phalanges of Hands among Ghanaians

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Aboagye ◽  
Korantema Mawuena Tsegah ◽  
Abdala Mumuni Ussif
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Community Presence ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University

Aim. The study intended to observe the frequency and pattern of distribution of phalangeal hairs on the hands of Ghanaians. Material and Methods. A total of 1040 healthy consenting individuals (529 females and 511 males) aged between 18 and 45 years were randomly selected from the University of Cape Coast Community. Presence or absence of phalangeal hairs was observed with the aid of a pocket lens. Results. Hairs were observed on the proximal phalanges of 98.24% of the males and 96.22% of the females. The most common hair pattern observed on the proximal digits was 2-3-4-5 (65.95% males and 70.32% females). The highest frequency of midphalangeal hairs occurred in the group with hair on the 4th digit alone (3.33% males and 2.27% females) followed by the 3-4-5 group (2.54% males and 1.89% females). Conclusion. Females have lower frequency of phalangeal hairs than males. The outcome of this study may be significant medicolegally and in anthropological racial and gender studies.

Knowledge Hierarchy of Social Work and Gender Studies in Spain

Affilia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belén Agrela Romero ◽  
Amalia Morales Villena
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Specialized Training ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Knowledge Hierarchy ◽  
University Reforms

This article explores the gendered nature of social work and some of the consequences this has in academia, research, and professional practice in Spain. The authors examine the connections between social work and gender studies in academia in Spain, reflecting on the position these disciplines occupy in the current hierarchy of knowledge and the knowledge production system. The impact of the university reforms under the European Union’s (EU) Bologna plan is analyzed in the context of the commercialization of knowledge. The obstacles that prevent the value of these disciplines from being recognized are discussed, linking the academic dimension to the professional dimension and also illustrating how today’s situations of social exclusion require further research and specialized training in social work and gender.

scholarly journals Thinking feminist and gender studies now

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lene Myong ◽  
Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen ◽  
Mathias Klitgård ◽  
Ingvil Hellstrand
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Critical Race Studies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Studies ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University

The field of gender studies is changing and solidifying at the same time. What kinds of developments can we trace in contemporary gender studies, and what is at stake for gender studies now? What are important questions for/in the field? How come gender studies in Norway (and the rest of Scandinavia) tend to shoulder or “house” adjacent fields that also deal with questions of power and difference, such as critical race studies for example? Why are we working in/with gender studies, and how do we contribute towards advancing gender and feminist studies in theory, teaching, politics and practice? In this roundtable, scholars in the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Stavanger grapple with these questions through examples from our own research and teaching. The purpose for this roundtable is to continue our local discussions and thinking with the field of gender studies nationally and internationally.

scholarly journals Proceduralism, Predisposing, Poesis: Forms of Institutionality, In the Making

Lateral ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jodi Melamed
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Racial Capitalism ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University

A response to the forum, “Emergent Critical Analytics for Alternative Humanities,” edited by Chris A. Eng and Amy K. King. Jodi Melamed reassesses the analytic of institutionality, which has largely been theorized as a dominant tool of the university in incorporating the emergent and muting the oppositional. In particular, scholars in American and cultural studies have noted how universities responded to the revolutionary calls of radical social movements by institutionalizing ethnic and gender studies into compartmentalized sets of knowledge production. In so doing, the university worked to manage minority difference through flat notions of representation rather than redistribution. The interdisciplines of ethnic and gender studies then became additives to the humanities, upholding the status quo rather than compelling a radical re-envisioning of these academic structures altogether. On an even more macro level, Melamed identifies dominant discussions of institutionality that see global neoliberalism as a new, all-totalizing force. In problematizing how these theorizations elide considerations of the historical conditions of racial capitalism that make possible the ‘global,’ Melamed also excavates a genealogy of radical resistance that might allow us to rethink institutionality toward collective solidarity.

scholarly journals Mapping Women’s and Gender Studies in the Academic Field in Slovenia

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-27
Author(s):  
Milica Antić Gaber
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Women's And Gender Studies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University ◽  
Feminist Movements ◽  
Women’S And Gender Studies

The aim of the present paper is to map the development of women’s and gender studies (WGS) in the academic field in Slovenia. Slovenia is the first of the former Yugoslav state republics in which WGS have succeeded in entering the academic field and becoming part of institutionalised university study. In this paper we will ask the following questions: How, when and why did this happen? How was this connected to women’s and feminist movements and politics regarding women’s issues and demands? What were the obstacles in this process? Who were the agents and what were the factors that supported demands for the incorporation of WGS in academia? How has the field evolved in the last few decades? What were the phases of this development? Which fields were the forerunners, which were the late-comers and which are still left aside? What are the thematic scopes taught in WGS courses? In which degrees are thecourses offered and what are their modules? Who teaches them? The mapping in this paper is mainly based on primary sources of university programmes and their curricula at faculties of the University of Ljubljana, as well as on interviews with important agents in the field.

Political Bodies and a Touch of Pain

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-40
Author(s):  
Matt Sheedy
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Body Politics ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Women's And Gender Studies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University ◽  
Women’S And Gender Studies

An interview with Darlene Juschka (cross-appointed Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Religious Studies at the University of Regina), focusing on her 2009 book Political Bodies/Body Politics: The Semiotics of Gender (Equinox Publishing). The conversation ranged from a look at some of the key influences upon her theoretical development to her work on the construction of gender/sex in the Eurowest and its deployment through myth, ritual and sign-symbol, along with applications of this theory to religious studies and her more recent work on the concept of pain.

scholarly journals Exploring Male-Female Dynamics in Muslim Society: A Review of Mernissi’s Beyond the Veil (Revised Edition)

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 207
Author(s):  
Andi Batara Al Isra
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Conceptual Background ◽  
The Veil ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Influential Book ◽  
The University ◽  
Islamic Society

This is a review of Mernissi’s Beyond the Veil, one of the most influential book discussing Islam and gender.I have to admit that I have not read Mernissi before I take a course called Anthropology and World Religions focusing in Islam in the University of Auckland. Later I know that the reason why her name rarely echoed in anthropological atmosphere in Indonesia (particularly in Sulawesi) is because Mernissi only well-known in gender studies (especially in Islam) and Islamic studies. I know it because the only colleague who knows Mernissi is my professor who studied anthropology and gender (and Islam). Beyond the Veil is an interesting book. It explores the relation and the dynamics within male-female Muslims which even I, as a Muslim, have not realised it before. Excluding the introduction (with three different versions) and the conclusion, Beyond the Veil is divided into two parts. Part one consist of three chapters which are more theoretic (or conceptual) background of the book and I think, it would be easier for the readers to understand the context and to grasp Mernissi’s arguments briefly. Part two consist of six chapters which are more ethnographic oriented (fieldwork-based) since it tells the readers about the dynamics between men and women in modern Morocco (as a case or sample of modern Islamic society). 

scholarly journals Engendered Representations: Exploring Sexuality through Symbols and Myths

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rory Du Plessis ◽  
Marinda Maree
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Body Fluids ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
Gender Divisions ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University ◽  
Cultural Leaders

This article reflects the findings of a project that was conducted by the Institute for Women�s and Gender Studies at the University of Pretoria. In particular, the project sought to dialogue with religious and cultural leaders on the taboos, myths and misconceptions of human sexuality.The article provides an analysis of the symbols and myths of sexuality that were presented by these leaders.These symbols and myths were demystif ed to reveal their alignment to patriarchal gender divisions and inequality.This alignment proves problematic for women, as it views men as possessors of their bodies � insofar as women�s bodies are conceived as the vessels for men�s body fluids and the container of the foetus.

scholarly journals On the 32C(ulture) of Eglington

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Savitri Persaud
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Women And Gender Studies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University

Savitri Persaud is currently a master’s student at the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Her research analyzes the intersections between gender, violence, disability, and modernity in Guyana.

scholarly journals Feminism and Gender Studies dismantled? Critical Reflections on the Occasion of the 650th Jubilee of Vienna University

Labyrinth ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Yvanka B. Raynova
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University ◽  
Critical Reflections

A Discussion about the Problems of Institutionalization of Feminist Theory and the Gender Studies at the University of Vienna.

scholarly journals Big Daddy Lives or Don’t Say the F Word: Intersectional Feminist Directing in Theory and in Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-20
Author(s):  
Lauren Kathleen Frost
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
White Men ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Work ◽  
Theatre Education ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University

As a theatre and gender studies double major at the University of Victoria, I have been ableto critically think about the ways each of my fields of study could benefit the other. In myexperience, many courses in the UVic Department of Theatre generally focus on dramatic texts andtheoretical literature written by white men. Consequently, contributions to the theatre by women,people of colour, and/or non-Western theatre practitioners are largely dismissed or ignored. Myfrustration with this pattern was what led me to create Big Daddy Lives or Don’t Say the F Word,a part scripted, part devised performance piece that staged scenes from classic and contemporaryplays using directing theory written by feminists, for feminists. I curated the excerpts, wrote thetransition-text, and directed the play using an intersectional feminist framework. The project wasan experiment in applying intersectional feminism to theatre directing in order to critique the waythe male-dominated canon of plays and theories shapes theatre education. Through this project, Ifound that intersectional feminist directing techniques foster collaboration; encourage discussionand mutual education about identity, oppression, and representation; and can be applied to theproduction of both classics and contemporary feminist plays and to the creation of new work by anensemble.

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