Joining The Conversation On Inclusive Masculinity Theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 545-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Borkowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Masculinity Studies ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Social Agendas

This paper is a response to Rachel O’Neill’s article “Whither Critical Masculinity Studies? Notes on Inclusive Masculinity Theory, Postfeminism, and Sexual Politics.” It is suggested that her interpretation of the inclusive masculinity theory devalues Anderson’s (2009) perspectives, which focus on democratization of gender relations. Scholars of masculinity work in different conceptual frameworks, contributing to diverse aspects of ideological, political, and social agendas. Thus, it is argued that Anderson’s research recognizes the cultural transformations related to social justice and gender equality and contributes significantly to the field of masculinity studies.

scholarly journals Creating the Ideal Community as A Root of Fethullah Gulen’s View on Gender Equality

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-233
Author(s):  
Akhmad Rizqon Khamami
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Conservative Movement ◽  
Islamic Movement ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Progressive Islam

Abstract: This article discusses the roots of Gulen's view on gender equality and its roles within the movement, which constitutes an example of an Islamic movement that can adapt in the contemporary era and becomes progressive Islam. Conversely, Gulen’s view on gender belongs to the conservative movement. By employing functionalism, this article tries to seek and delve into the theme. It further argues that the movements' mission to create “the ideal community” is the driving ideology on gender relations. Examining some important scholarly findings on the movement and works by its founder Fethullah Gulen, the women’s position is unequally subordinated to that of men, as their initial functions to obey their husbands and to maintain family’s honor. Importantly, their role is limited to educate their children to deliver "the next golden generation”. Thus, it is reasonably true that Gulen’s view on women’s rights and gender relations is envisioned along with the movement's mission to transform the society towards the ideal community that in turn sacrifices women’s freedom and liberty.الملخص: يناقش هذا المقال أفكار كولن حول العلاقات بين الجنسين. السؤال في هذا المقال ، ما هي جذور الفكرة بين الجنسين عند كولن؟ يفترض المؤلف أن فكرة كولن تم تطويرها من طموحات كولن لإنشاء مجتمع مثالي. أنطلاقا منها، يتم إعطاء المرأة وظيفة لتعليم الأطفال ، وطاعة لزوجها ، والحفاظ على الشرف ، وتكون على استعداد لتكون تابعة للرجال في الأسرة والمجتمع. يضع كولن النساء كأول معلمات لأطفالهنّ وتم تكليفهن بتربيتهم ليكونوا جيلا ذهبيّا في  المستقبل. أعرب كولن عن حقوق المرأة والعلاقات بين الجنسين من أجل التحول الاجتماعي إلى مجتمع مثالي. ومن أجل تكوين هذا المجتمع المثالي فتكاليفه هي تخضع النساء تحت الرجال.Abstrak: Artikel ini mengupas akar pemikiran Gulen tentang persamaan gender dan peran perempuan di tengah-tengah gerakan Gulen. Sejauh ini gerakan Gulen merupakan sebuah contoh gerakan Islam yang mampu beradaptasi dengan perkembangan dunia kontemporer dan dianggap sebagai gerakan Islam progresif. Akan tetapi, pandangan Gulen tentang gender justru merefleksikan warna konservatif. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan fungsionalisme, artikel ini berupaya menggali dan mengupas persoalan akademik tersebut. Artikel ini mengungkapkan bahwa misi gerakan Gulen dalam menciptakan “masyarakat ideal” merupakan ideologi pendorong atas warna pandangan Gulen tentang hubungan gender dan peran perempuan. Sejumlah temuan tentang gerakan dan dari karya-karya Gulen mengungkapkan bahwa di mata Gulen posisi perempuan berada di bawah laki-laki dengan fungsi untuk mematuhi suami dan menjaga kehormatan keluarga. Peran perempuan dibatasi pada mendidik anak-anak mereka agar menjadi “generasi emas”. Karena itu, pandangan Gulen tentang relasi gender dan hak perempuan memperoleh bentuk senada dengan misi gerakan ini yang ingin mengubah masyarakat menjadi sebuah masyarakat ideal meskipun pada gilirannya harus mengorbankan kebebasan perempuan.

scholarly journals SEX DAN GENDER: APA DAN MENGAPA

Populasi ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcellinus Molo
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Natural Process ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Dominant Male ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Discourse Processes ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Ideal

This article introduces the elementary concepts, such as feminist perspective, sex, gender, and gender relations. Sex is a biological fact. The individual's quality and capacity and the roles derived from them, are difined along sex lines. During a long history, this perspective has been accepted in society. The dichotomy of ideal roles for both males and females, was the manifestation of such a statusquo.Criticisms to the division of quality and roles was based on the reason that the ideal roles was not a result of natural process, but of social processes and cultural transformations, under the dominant male culture. Gender has also been used for deconstructing the statusquo. Discourse and counter-discourse processes has been directed towards deconstruction both at the ideological and behavioral levels.

Women in Transition

2017 ◽  
pp. 1501-1517
Author(s):  
Anna Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Institutional Changes ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Impact

The chapter describes institutional and gender relations in the society and the economy, the influence of institutions and the state that may lead to the institutional change, which is understood as an adaptation of habits of thought to changing circumstances. The situation of women in Poland has been chosen to illustrate this phenomenon. Poland, as a country, has gone through major social, political and economic transformations in the last 25 years, and they have had important impacts on people's lives. The analysis of the impact of major transformations in Poland's post-war political economy enables the distinguishing factors (policies, institutions) that guarantee certain continuity in a society, and the ones that lead to institutional changes. Knowledge about the mechanisms of institutional change in the context of gender relations is helpful in designing policies aiming at promoting gender equality in societies as well as economies.

scholarly journals Menopause and the Menstrual Equity Agenda

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 228-34
Author(s):  
Jennifer Weiss-Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
School Library ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Democratic Participation ◽  
Public Benefits ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Judy Blume

I was in fifth grade, the year 1978, and the weathered purple- and orange-covered paperback copy of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. was finally mine to check out of the school library for an entire week. I read it cover to cover that first night, and surely a dozen times over in the years that followed. I have since reflected upon the extraordinary gifts Judy Blume bestowed in Margaret: enabling children to be seen, respected, and met right when and where it mattered. She validated the most mundane, yet oddly prolific, questions about periods that were clearly on the minds of many. Four decades later, it is fair to say that the most meaningful moments of my legal career have been spent considering the very same topic—menstruation—in a quest to ensure its political centrality to issues of social justice, democratic participation, and gender equality. For my own part, commitment to menstrual equity has entailed examining our current laws and systems to see where discrimination and bias exist and persist—from public benefits to tax codes to education—and then forging the arguments to reverse that. And then, importantly, reimagining, crafting, and advancing new and more equitable policies in their place.

Women in Transition

2015 ◽  
pp. 212-229
Author(s):  
Anna Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Institutional Changes ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Impact

The chapter describes institutional and gender relations in the society and the economy, the influence of institutions and the state that may lead to the institutional change, which is understood as an adaptation of habits of thought to changing circumstances. The situation of women in Poland has been chosen to illustrate this phenomenon. Poland, as a country, has gone through major social, political and economic transformations in the last 25 years, and they have had important impacts on people's lives. The analysis of the impact of major transformations in Poland's post-war political economy enables the distinguishing factors (policies, institutions) that guarantee certain continuity in a society, and the ones that lead to institutional changes. Knowledge about the mechanisms of institutional change in the context of gender relations is helpful in designing policies aiming at promoting gender equality in societies as well as economies.

Secularisation of Religion as the Source of Religious Gender Stereotypes

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 264-281
Author(s):  
Jadranka Rebeka Anić ◽  
Zilka Spahić Šiljak
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Gender Egalitarianism ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

Secular–religious dichotomy has been criticised in discourse on secularisation theory as well as in discussions of the relationship between secular and religious feminism. Feminist theorists have criticised the secular–religious divide of feminism for overlooking facts such as the inherent gendering of this dichotomy, the participation of women believers in the gender equality movement since its inception, and the contributions of feminist theologians and gender studies scholars who use their respective religious traditions as a basis for gender egalitarianism. This article will criticise secular–religious dichotomy for overlooking the fact that secular, rather than religious, principles underlie gender stereotypes. Namely, Christian and Islamic theological anthropology has accepted philosophical postulates regarding the nature of women and used them to build models of subordination and complementarity of gender relations, thereby neglecting the egalitarian anthropology that can be developed based on the holy scriptures of both traditions. One of the challenges in exploring the secular-religious dichotomy can be found in the anti-gender movement in which believers join secular organizations and use secular discourse to advocate and preserve gender stereotypes.

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