Post-feminist text analysis

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Mills
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
New Models ◽  
Critical Text ◽  
New Form ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Context Specific

This article argues that there is a need for a new form of feminist text analysis which would take account of the changes which have occurred in feminist theory, linguistic theory, critical text analysis and in sexism itself. Rather than relying on relatively simple models of interpretation, this new form of analysis, post-feminist text analysis, would demonstrate awareness of the complexity and context-specific nature of the meanings of words within texts; it would also be aware of the necessity to develop new models of analysis for sexism and gender relations. In the analysis of a British advertisement for a dating agency following this discussion, I have tried to indicate directions in which this form of analysis might take.1

scholarly journals Fatherhood and gender relations in the manosphere: Exploring an Italian non-resident fathers’ online forum

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110369
Author(s):  
Maddalena Cannito ◽  
Eugenia Mercuri
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Political Advocacy ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Online Forum ◽  
Informal Network ◽  
New Form ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

In the last few years, the informal network – called manosphere – of forums, websites and blogs, where commentators are mainly men and focus on issues relating to masculinity, has been gaining members and visibility. The article’s objective is to explore the politics of fatherhood and masculinity that an Italian non-resident fathers’ online forum engages in to assess whether the claims for fathers’ rights are a move towards a new form of involved fatherhood or if they are only useful to rebuild a solid traditional male identity. By conducting an explorative content analysis on their Facebook group and page, we found that fatherhood is an ‘empty box’ and that fathers’ rights are used in a strategic way to justify hegemonic masculinity, gender-based violence, as well as antifeminist and antifeminine ideas, and to promote political advocacy cooperating with right-wing parties. The article also reflects on the connections between hegemony and power using the concept of hybrid masculinities.

Comment on Flax's "Postmodernism and Gender Relations in Feminist Theory"

Signs ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 196-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daryl McGowan Tress
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals How We Remember 1947

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asma Farooq
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Media Depiction ◽  
Nationalism And Identity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
Areas Of Interest

In my Major Research Project, I explore how the India-Pakistan partition of 1947 is conceptualized in a popular media text. Specifically, I look at a TV series produced in Pakistan that explores the partition and the events immediately preceding it, that led to the splitting of India into India and Pakistan from a nationalistic perspective. Major themes that are noteworthy of analysis include gender relations, notions of belonging and community, nationalism and identity, contextualization and impact of media, and trauma. Moreover, I pay attention to how gender relations and notions of family are conceptualized in relation to nationalistic ideologies, and how both are impacted during traumatic events. In particular, my research interest includes studying how this media depiction of the partition plays into or contests dominant narratives of the nation and citizenship along the lines of religious and gender classifications. The literature review below aims to explore theoretical conceptualizations of my areas of interest in order to enable my media text analysis to be situated in relation to existing literature.

scholarly journals How We Remember 1947

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asma Farooq
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Media Depiction ◽  
Nationalism And Identity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
Areas Of Interest

In my Major Research Project, I explore how the India-Pakistan partition of 1947 is conceptualized in a popular media text. Specifically, I look at a TV series produced in Pakistan that explores the partition and the events immediately preceding it, that led to the splitting of India into India and Pakistan from a nationalistic perspective. Major themes that are noteworthy of analysis include gender relations, notions of belonging and community, nationalism and identity, contextualization and impact of media, and trauma. Moreover, I pay attention to how gender relations and notions of family are conceptualized in relation to nationalistic ideologies, and how both are impacted during traumatic events. In particular, my research interest includes studying how this media depiction of the partition plays into or contests dominant narratives of the nation and citizenship along the lines of religious and gender classifications. The literature review below aims to explore theoretical conceptualizations of my areas of interest in order to enable my media text analysis to be situated in relation to existing literature.

Postmodernism and Gender Relations in Feminist Theory

Signs ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 621-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Flax
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
And Gender

Minorities in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Youssef
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
First Century ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Robust Analysis ◽  
Specific Approach ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Historical Moment

This book examines questions of identity, nationalism, and marginalization in the contemporary Egyptian novel from a postcolonial lens. Under colonial rule, the Egyptian novel invoked a sovereign nation-state by basking in its perceived unity. After independence, the novel professed disenchantment with state practices and unequal class and gender relations, without disrupting the nation’s imagined racial and ethno-religious homogeneity. This book identifies a trend in the twenty-first-century Egyptian novel that shatters this singular view, with the rise of a new consciousness that presents Egypt as fundamentally heterogeneous. Through a robust analysis of “new-consciousness” novels by authors like Idris ᶜAli, Bahaᵓ Tahir, Miral al-Tahawi, and Yusuf Zaydan, the author argues that this new consciousness does not only respond to predominant discourses of difference and practices of differentiation along the axes of race, ethno-religion, class, and gender by bringing the experiences of Nubian, Amazigh, Bedouin, Coptic, Jewish, and women minorities to the fore of Egypt’s literary imaginary, but also heralds the cacophony of voices that collectively cried for social justice from Tahrir Square in Egypt’s 2011-uprising. This study responds to the changing iconographic, semiotic, and formal features of the Egyptian novel. It fulfills the critical task of identifying an emergent novelistic genre and develops historically reflexive methodologies that interpret new-consciousness novels and their mediatory role in formalizing and articulating their historical moment. By adopting this context-specific approach to studying novelistic evolution, this book locates some of the strands that have been missing from the complex whole of Egypt’s culture and literary history.

Frondeuses and Feminists in the Work of Arvède Barine (1840–1908)

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-112
Author(s):  
Whitney Walton
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
National Library ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
And Gender

This article examines Arvède Barine’s extensive and popular published output from the 1880s to 1908, along with an extraordinary cache of letters addressed to Barine and held in the Manuscript Department of the National Library of France. It asserts that in the process of criticizing contemporary feminist activists and celebrating the achievements of women, especially French women, in history, she constructed the historical and cultural distinctiveness of French women as an ideal blend of femininity, accomplishment, and independence. This notion of the French singularity, indeed the superiority of French women, resolved the contradiction between her condemnation of feminism as a transformation of gender relations and her support for causes and reforms that enabled women to lead intellectually and emotionally fulfilling lives. Barine’s work offers another example of the varied ways that women in Third Republic France engaged with public debates about women and gender.

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