Feminism will be trans-inclusive or it will not be: Why do two cis-hetero woman educators support transfeminism?

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 745-762
Author(s):  
María Victoria Carrera-Fernández ◽  
Renée DePalma
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
The Status ◽  
Feminist Movements ◽  
Feminist Educators ◽  
Queer Pedagogy

As two cis-hetero woman feminist educators, we provide an educator’s perspective on trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) discourses. We begin by discussing the heterosexual matrix and the gender violence that it produces in schools as well as other socializing institutions. The socially constructed sexual binary constrains identity production to adhere to the heteronormative, at the same time excluding those who transgress this normativity. We continue by reviewing how schools are particularly significant spaces for these early social interactions, but the social discourses enacted in educational contexts mirror those of broader society. We then critically analyse some of the increasingly belligerent popular discourses promoted by TERF groups since the 1970s, appropriating feminist discourses to produce arguments that contradict basic premises of feminism. We trace possibilities for a collaborative response by reinforcing alliances between transfeminism and other feminist movements. Finally, as teacher-educators, we highlight among these a critical (queer) pedagogy that incorporates trans* experience as part of a broader feminist educational agenda: to contribute to the creation of a more equitable society based on critical reflections on the gender normative. Such a pedagogy not only rejects trans-exclusionary discourses that serve to reinforce hierarchies and promote violence, but embraces trans* experience as a productive educational resource for understanding human diversity. Human experience that challenges the sexual binary can help educators to critically question the heteronormative and to broaden our understandings; in the words of Eric Rofes, drawing upon ‘status queer’ to ‘rethink our efforts and our role in either maintaining or radically transforming the status quo’.

scholarly journals Entre discursos y significados. Apuntes sobre el discurso feminista en América Latina

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Lola G. Luna
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
Gender In Development ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Rights

Resumen: Se exploran los roles sociales que juega elfeminismo a partir del sufragismo, no sólo comomovimiento social sino como productor de discursos yconocimientos. Se analizan diversos discursos socialesempleados por las feministas en el contextolatinoamericano, desglosando los sentidos de una seriede categorías o conceptos con los que las sujetos en accióny los movimientos de mujeres, así como subjetividadesindividuales, dan significado a sus condiciones socialesy a sus contextos materiales, produciéndose una mediaciónde los discursos en la acción política y social de las sujetos.Palabras clave: discurso, género, género en eldesarrollo, violencia de género, derechos humanossexuales y reproductivos, feminismo.Abstract: Stemming from suffragism, the social rolesplayed by feminism are explored, seeing it as not only asocial movement but as producer of knowledge anddiscourses. Several social discourses used by feminists ina Latin American context are analyzed, taking into accountthe meanings given to a series of categories by women,as subjects of political action movements as well asindividuals, as they resignify their social conditions andmaterial contexts by means of their political and socialaction.Keywords: discourse, gender, gender in development,gender violence, sexual and reproductive rights, humanrights, feminism.

scholarly journals The Dilemma of Motherhood and Domesticity in Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn

Twejer ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 957-986
Author(s):  
Hawzhen R. Ahmed ◽  
◽  
Meram Salim Shekh Mohamad
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Social Life ◽  
New Era ◽  
Feminist Theatre ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Limited Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Domestic Lives ◽  
The Way

This paper is a study of feminist theatre as a rejection of masculine superiority in theatre and social life. It examines a modern play that depicts the role of women as mothers and the conflicts defining the status of motherhood. It investigates thematic trends and objectives of feminist theatre, a theatre that started with the birth of second-wave feminism. It analyzes the reflection of women’s social and political lives as represented by this theatre. To meet that end, it examines Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn (2013) that depicts issues of unsettled identities, women empowerment, and the dilemma of motherhood. The study explores the way this Play represents an imaginary space where women can play a revolutionary role by questioning their domesticity and careers. The Play is written by a feminist playwright, has an all-woman cast, and is produced by a woman director. Rapture, Blister, Burn, meanwhile, portrays the possible ways whereby the new era showcases an acceptable resolution for the unsolved dilemma of domesticity and motherhood. This paper correspondingly interrogates the theatrical depictions of the women characters, who come up with limited life choices and are trapped in the socially constructed dilemmas of domestic lives and the way they combat the social restrictions.

Life Trajectories and Changing Patterns of Marginalization Among the Smiths of Hararge, Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
pp. 002190962094361
Author(s):  
Mohammed Hassen Hinika ◽  
Desta Roba Julla
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Occupational Groups ◽  
Agricultural Communities ◽  
Life Trajectories ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Changing Patterns

Blacksmithing is one of the oldest traditional technologies among the rural communities of Hararge. Smithing has many functions among which its utilitarian role for agriculturalists clearly stands. This article is basically a survey and adopted historical and ethnographic methods. By collecting qualitative data through interview, focus group discussion, observation and document analysis from seven selected waradas of Hararge, the paper aims to investigate the changing patterns in the status of smiths in terms of their social position in Hararge. It concludes that although smiths were accorded a lowly social position and therefore were not yet considered as equals of the dominant agricultural Oromo in Hararge, the dynamics of social interaction over time have improved the social status of smiths. Smiths and other occupational groups like potters and tanners were treated not as equal partners but as marginalized social groups. This was partly due to the underlying socially constructed origin of the occupational groups which put them below agricultural communities in the social hierarchy and considered them as ‘alien’ and ‘remnants’ of an ancient ‘autochthonic’ population.

Exploring new teachers conceptualizations of critical simulations in world history, American history, and economics learning experiences

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-174
Author(s):  
Kevin Russel Magill ◽  
Neil Shanks
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Social Studies Teachers ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Service Programs ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status

In this study we examine early career social studies teachers’ use and understanding of critical simulations. We began work with participants as teacher candidates in their pre-service programs and formally studied them as they began their in-service teaching. We were particularly interested in teacher efforts to use simulation to facilitate a more critical disciplinary consciousness. Data indicate that participant teachers utilized simulations to: enhance students’ ability to critically engage with social studies content, facilitate more democratic dialogue, and critique normalized systems of power. We do not suggest that simulations in and of themselves are “critical,” rather, we argue they can be an effective means of providing a safe environment for considering the complexities of certain issues in social studies. Furthermore, we argue critical social studies teachers and teacher educators can be purposeful in their use of simulation to avoid enshrining the status quo. Finally simulations can help critical teachers illuminate oppression and facilitate a more humanizing vision within the social studies if they possess critical consciousness, strong pedagogical content knowledge and a command of the method.

Critical Literacy Programs: Can Business Literacy be a Catalyst for Economic and Social Change?

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Canan Corus ◽  
Julie L. Ozanne
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Literacy Programs ◽  
Actual Performance ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status

While literacy is widely believed to be a driver of well-being and economic development, the actual performance of many literacy programs fails to deliver on these promises. Many existing literacy programs are based on an autonomous model of literacy, which assumes that literacy skills are ideologically neutral and can be easily applied, regardless of the social context. Yet literacy practices are socially constructed and can serve to reinforce the status quo and existing interests or these practices can be used to challenge inequities and inspire social change. An ideological model of literacy is used to critique a range of literacy programs that employ livelihood training and various forms of business literacy. Finally, the role of business literacy practices as an impetus for change is explored.

The Social Construction of Whiteness in Shellcracker Haven, Florida

1996 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Poor Whites ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Visible Minorities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
White Poverty ◽  
Construction Of Whiteness

This article examines the ways in which socially constructed racial categories are operationalized. It challenges popular and scholarly representations of the meanings of "whiteness" and considers processes of identity formation in the production of white poverty. The primary thesis is that poor whites, exemplified in a case study of Shellcracker Haven, Florida, are racially denigrated in the context of the historically specific, social, political, and economic processes that pauperize them. These processes are necessarily unique because, unlike visible minorities whose distinctive physiognomy facilitates socially constructed differentiation, the distancing and devaluation of poor whites require other tactics. These include construction of stereotyped images, behaviors, and values which create social distance, and "explain" white poverty. A secondary thesis holds that racial denigration of poor whites intensifies racism. Racism acts as a unilateral (and seldom reciprocated) assertion of membership in privileged white society. It also blocks identification with others who, by way of historically specific and parallel paths, also find themselves poor and disenfranchised. By promoting racism aimed at non-white social groups, racism aimed at poor whites protects the status quo of the distribution of power and privilege in the U.S.

Women in Power and Decision making Positions : Conditions and Restraints

1970 ◽  
pp. 53-57
Author(s):  
Azza Charara Baydoun
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Slow Progress

Women today are considered to be outside the political and administrative power structures and their participation in the decision-making process is non-existent. As far as their participation in the political life is concerned they are still on the margins. The existence of patriarchal society in Lebanon as well as the absence of governmental policies and procedures that aim at helping women and enhancing their political participation has made it very difficult for women to be accepted as leaders and to be granted votes in elections (UNIFEM, 2002).This above quote is taken from a report that was prepared to assess the progress made regarding the status of Lebanese women both on the social and governmental levels in light of the Beijing Platform for Action – the name given to the provisions of the Fourth Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995. The above quote describes the slow progress achieved by Lebanese women in view of the ambitious goal that requires that the proportion of women occupying administrative or political positions in Lebanon should reach 30 percent of thetotal by the year 2005!

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE COURT AS A PREREQUISITE FOR THE LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY OF A JUDGE

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaroslav Skoromnyy ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Modern System ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Law ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

The article reveals the conceptual foundations of the social responsibility of the court as an important prerequisite for the legal responsibility of a judge. It has been established that the problem of court and judge liability is regulated by the following international and Ukrainian documents, such as: 1) European Charter on the Law «On the Status of Judges» adopted by the Council of Europe; 2) The Law of Ukraine «On the Judicial System and the Status of Judges»; 3) the Constitution of Ukraine; 4) The Code of Judicial Ethics, approved by the Decision of the XI (regular) Congress of Judges of Ukraine; 5) Recommendation CM/Rec (2010) 12 of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Council of Europe to member states regarding judges: independence, efficiency and responsibilities; 6) Bangalore Principles of Judicial Conduct. The results of a survey conducted by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Razumkov Center, the Council of Judges of Ukraine and the Center for Judicial Studios with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation based on the «Monitoring of the State of Independence of Judges in Ukraine – 2012» as part of the study of the level of trust in the modern system were considered and analyzed, justice, judges and courts. It is determined that a judge has both a legal and a moral duty to impartially, independently, in a timely manner and comprehensively consider court cases and make fair judicial decisions, administering justice on the basis of legislative norms. Based on the study of the practice of litigation, it has been proven that judges must skillfully operate with various instruments of protection from public influence. It has been established that in order to ensure the protection of judges from the public, it is necessary to create special units that will function as part of judicial self-government bodies. It was proposed that the Council of Judges of Ukraine, which acts as the highest body of judicial self- government in our state (in Ukraine), legislate the provision on ensuring the protection of the procedural independence of judges.

Conclusion: Rethinking Punishment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Didier Fassin
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ideal Language ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Ideal

If punishment is not what we say it is, if it is not justified by the reasons we invoke, if it facilitates repeat offenses instead of preventing them, if it punishes in excess of the seriousness of the act, if it sanctions according to the status of the offender rather than to the gravity of the offense, if it targets social groups defined beforehand as punishable, and if it contributes to producing and reproducing disparities, then does it not itself precisely undermine the social order? And must we not start to rethink punishment, not only in the ideal language of philosophy and law but also in the uncomfortable reality of social inequality and political violence?

The New Frontier

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Disadvantaged Groups ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Frontier ◽  
Equal Opportunity Employer

Does the burgeoning Indian Information Technology (IT) sector represent a deviation from the historical arc of caste inequality or has it become yet another site of discrimination? Those who claim that the sector is caste-free believe that IT is an equal opportunity employer, and that the small Dalit footprint is due to the want of merit. But they fail to consider how caste inequality sneaks in by being layered on socially constructed ‘pure merit’, which favours upper castes and other privileged segments, but handicaps Dalits and other disadvantaged groups. In this book, Fernandez describes how the practice of pure and holistic merit are deeply embedded in the social, cultural, and economic privileges of the dominant castes and classes, and how caste filtering has led to the reproduction of caste hierarchies and consequently the small Dalit footprint in Indian IT.

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