Engendering Global Capital: How Homoerotic Triangles Facilitate Foreign Investments into Risky Markets

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-572
Author(s):  
Kimberly Kay Hoang
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Foreign Investments ◽  
New Markets ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Global Capital ◽  
The Status ◽  
Eve Sedgwick ◽  
Economic Elites

Engaging with the work of C. Wright Mills and Eve Sedgwick, in this article I theorize how homoerotic relations facilitate the flow of global capital into risky market economies. Drawing on interview data with more than 60 financial professionals managing foreign investments in Vietnam, I examine the co-constitution of gender and global capital by identifying three categories of deal brokers. System maintainers are men and women who accept that women’s bodies are necessary for male homosocial bonding between political and economic elites. System transformers are men and women who disrupt the status quo and develop alternative ways of deal brokering outside of erotic spaces. System defectors are those break the triangle altogether and work to create new markets.

Women and the NCAA: Not Separate—Not Equal

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy J. Lovett ◽  
Carla D. Lowry
Keyword(s):  
Intercollegiate Athletics ◽  
National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽  
Women's Athletics ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Status ◽  
Role Of Women

The purpose of this paper is to present a historical overview of the role of women in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) since the demise of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW). The paper traces the reluctance of some men and women to form this uneasy alliance. The paper presents evidence showing that the NCAA recognizes that women's athletics are part of the organization and that they deserve recognition and concern. However, the paper also shows that when substantive changes in the NCAA appeared imminent and the degree of recognition approached proportional equity, the pervasive and strong loyalty to the status quo quelled any proactive legislation that might include equal voice for reform in the organization.

Mapping Gender and the Responsibility to Protect: Seeking Intersections, Finding Parallels

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Bond ◽  
Laurel Sherret
Keyword(s):  
Human Security ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
International Commitments ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
The Status

Over the past decade, the international community has acknowledged that traditional notions of conflict and protection must be re-visited if true human security is to be realized. Consistent with this recognition, both the responsibility to protect and the women, peace, and security agenda challenge the status quo and offer new perspectives from which to approach responses to conflict. Unfortunately, the former was developed without consideration of the latter, and a tremendous opportunity to benefit from years of experience and expertise was thus missed. This article demonstrates that while recent discourse surrounding the responsibility to protect suggests some increased awareness that conflict affects men and women differently, there remains a significant disconnect between the development of this framework and the ever-growing body of work on the gendered nature of peace and security issues. Our identification of this ongoing chasm is accompanied by two simple observations: first, that this renders the responsibility to protect inconsistent with other international commitments and priorities; and second, that incorporation of the links between gender and conflict will improve the ability of the responsibility to protect to afford true protection.

scholarly journals NALAR EKOFEMINISME DALAM PEMIKIRAN HUKUM WARIS M. QURAISH SHIHAB

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Umar Ali ◽  
Ridho Ridho
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Sacred Text ◽  
Inheritance Law ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Law

The focus of the study in this paper is M. Quraish Shihab's thoughts in the field of inheritance law. M. Quraish Shihab's (hereinafter referred to as Shihab) thought deserves to be appointed as a target study in relation to his views on gender equality. In various published writings, especially in his book entitled "Women: from Love to Sex, from the Mut'ah Marriage to the Sunnah Marriage, from the Old Bias to the New Bias", it is very clear how Quraish tried to get out of the mainstream of "right" thinking. who want to lock up women in domestic sectors as well as "left" thinking that tends to go too far in understanding equality between men and women, in other words, Shihab is classified as a moderate thinker in the study of gender equality. That is the conclusion of several studies examining Shihab's thoughts. In contrast to these conclusions, this article concludes that Shihab can actually be classified as an eco-feminist who tries to maintain the status quo of gender inequality that is being sued by feminists. This can be seen very well in Shihab's rejection of feminist claims about equality in quantity in the distribution of inheritance between men and women, which in the sacred text is stated as two to one. For Shihab, the provisions in the distribution of inheritance are final because the details about the law of inheritance are closed with a firm statement "that is the limits of Allah" and a series of other arguments expressed by Shihab. This issue will be presented in the following descriptions so as to reinforce the above conclusions.

Changing Versus Protecting the Status Quo: Why Men and Women Engage in Different Types of Action on Behalf of Women

Sex Roles ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 505-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena R. M. Radke ◽  
Matthew J. Hornsey ◽  
Fiona Kate Barlow
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Status

Good-Looking Men Require Hard-Working Women: The Labor of Consumption in the Grooming Industry

2020 ◽  
pp. 237-255
Author(s):  
Kristen Barber
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Heterosexual Men ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
The Status ◽  
Beauty Products

This chapter considers the cultural and organizational expenditure of women’s labor that masculinizes beauty products, services, spaces, and experiences. Drawing from 9 months of ethnographic observations at two high-service men’s salons—Adonis and The Executive—and fifty interviews with the salons’ employees and clients, the author shows how women bear the burden of making beauty a socially enhancing practice for heterosexual men. Men sitting at the nexus of race, class, and sexual privilege are remade rather than compromised at Adonis and The Executive. The author moves the conversation away from questions focused solely on the clients’ experiences to the labor that makes their consumption possible. This helps to explain how privilege is maintained through everyday organizations, interpersonal interactions, and embodied practices; and how spaces and practices that appear to blur the gender binary may actually reinforce the status quo. The emotional labor especially women beauty workers do, the touching rules by which they are obliged to operate, and the educational work they do as experts to make men competent beauty consumers all pillar men’s access to women’s bodies, sexualities, and emotions.

To See It Feelingly

PMLA ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-374
Author(s):  
Maynard Mack
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Central American ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
American Myths ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Status ◽  
Human World ◽  
General Community

Our profession is brought to a crisis of self-scrutiny by the current malaise among students and within ourselves. The malaise is real and must be reckoned with however we may account for it: whether as a profound shift of sensibility resembling that which took place at the Reformation or as an equally profound unsettling of our central American myths of concern. How shall we respond? Some urge retreat–into professionalism. Others proclaim defeat–on the ground either that literature is irrelevant to a world trying to educate its minorities and its poor, or that literature is merely supportive of the status quo. None of these arguments will bear inspection. A more practical and wiser response for teachers and scholars in our discipline is a program of outreach: toward (1) the schools, (2) the disadvantaged, (3) the general community of educated men and women, (4) the mass media, (5) more inventive collaborations with each other, (6) new arrangements of literary study; and, above all, (7) the larger tasks to which our calling commits us in purifying the language of the tribe, disseminating the world's great literature, and helping to reconstruct by the power of imagination a fully human world.

scholarly journals The Italian way to financial accumulation. Personal networks and informal practices of the Italian economic elites

Sociologija ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joselle Dagnes ◽  
Angelo Salento
Keyword(s):  
Power Structure ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Institutional Changes ◽  
Active Reaction ◽  
The Status ◽  
Economic Elites ◽  
Informal Practices ◽  
High Degree

This paper challenges the belief that Italian capitalism is a static and unchanging one. Italian capitalism has retained some unique characteristics: an elitist structure, close personal relationships, a high degree of informality. However, far from being just the characteristics of an unchanging capitalism, these peculiarities were the resources that Italian capitalism exploited to change its mode of action. First, we identify the network of interlocking actors in the Italian stock market and their set of informal practices, illustrating the paramount role of families and informal relationships. Second, we show why these characteristics did not prevent Italian capitalists to enter an era of financial accumulation. Resilience is the keyword, understood both as adaptation to changing conditions and as active reaction, a proper transformation. As an example of adaptation, we analyse how Italian capitalism has faced some institutional changes preserving its traditional power structure. As an example of transformation, we show how Italian capitalism adopted patterns of financial accumulation and maximization of shareholder value. Finally, we argue that informality and the dissemination of personal relationships are not impediment to change: in the practical logic of social and economic actors they are rather resources to be exploited when it comes to make changes without sacrificing the status quo.

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