Memories, stories and deliberation: Digital sisterhood on feminist websites in Turkey

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-328
Author(s):  
Zeynep Gulru Goker
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Identity ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Affective Style ◽  
The Past ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Everyday Problems ◽  
Depth Interviews

Based on content analysis and in-depth interviews with the editors of 5Harfliler, Catlak Zemin and Recel-blog, popular pro-feminist women’s websites in Turkey, this article shows that these websites constitute important projects in feminist memory work in two ways: (1) explicitly, by commemorating women in history, the gains of the women’s movement in Turkey, and by archiving misogynist policies and gender unequal legislation; (2) implicitly, in the essays written by anonymous women whose personal memories of feminist activism as well as oppression and patriarchy experienced in everyday life become sources for discussion of feminist identity and politics and contribute to women’s history writing from below. The websites also serve as a platform where feminist identity is negotiated and the past, present and future of feminist politics are discussed in a humorous, agonistic and affective style. The source of deliberation is often women’s everyday experiences and concerns rather than formal politics. Although keeping a distance from formal politics renders these websites open to criticisms of naiveté and apoliticism, they provide a creative platform for the constructive discussion of women’s shared everyday problems which are closely connected to a larger political context.

scholarly journals On gender, subjectivities and experiences: Facing the past and feminist politics of solidarity

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-243
Author(s):  
Deana Jovanovic
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Research Results ◽  
The Past ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Potential Possibility ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Categories

The main question the article discusses is how and why feminism can reflect upon multiple differences in Serbia through the idea of solidarity in the discourse of facing the past. The article pays attention to the connection between feminist practices and theories, solidarity, and the idea about moral responsibility. The article opens discussion about (feminist) solidarity seen as a strategic notion and points out to the politics of exclusion/inclusion of multiple Others. Attention is devoted to gender categories and construction of differences, as well as to the potential possibility and the importance of reflecting upon solidarity with gender diversities. The latter are briefly depicted through research results of analysis of women?s memory narratives - nurses and antiwar activists - whose subjectivities, experiences and gender positions, in their interaction, influenced construction of their narratives, differences, but also their relationship with the past.

Feminist Identity, Feminist Politics

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 855-872 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maura Kelly ◽  
Gordon Gauchat
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Feminist Identity ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
And Gender

Feminist scholars and activists have endorsed a broad and intersectional political agenda that addresses multiple dimensions of inequality, such as gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, and class. We examine whether or not this perspective is also held by self-identified feminists in the general public. Drawing on public opinion polls from 2007 to 2009, we assess self-identified feminists’ attitudes toward a range of social policies. We find that after controlling for sociodemographic factors and political ideology, feminist identity is associated with progressive attitudes on policies related to gender and sexuality (e.g., abortion) as well as policies related to other social justice issues (e.g., immigration, health care). We also find some interactions between feminist identity and gender, age, education, and political ideology, suggesting some heterogeneity in feminists’ political attitudes. Overall, these findings suggest that feminists in the general public support an intersectional social justice agenda rather than a narrow focus on gender issues.

scholarly journals Las metodologías que desarrollan las mujeres bertsolaris en las bertso-eskolas. Aportaciones para la coeducación

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-82
Author(s):  
Gema Lasarte ◽  
Anabel Ugalde ◽  
Andrea Perales-Fernández-de-Gamboa ◽  
Pilar Aristizabal
Keyword(s):  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Do So

El bertsolarismo sincretiza aspectos tan divergentes entre sí como la literatura oral, la plaza, la lengua y el humor y surge con los y las bertsolaris. Pero al igual que sucede en muchas situaciones análogas culturales, las mujeres bertsolaris han sido omitidas en su historia. No obstante, en las últimas décadas, las bertsolaris han aparecido en la escena pública. En la actualidad la mitad del alumnado de las bertso-eskolas, donde se forman los bertsolaris, son mujeres. Este artículo versa sobre la improvisación y el género en general y sobre las bertso-eskolas y las bertsolaris en particular. Para ello, se pasó un cuestionario a las 200 bertsolaris actuales y se realizaron 10 entrevistas en profundidad y 5 grupos de discusión con 20 bertsolaris y profesionales para profundizar en los resultados del cuestionario y analizar cómo se formaron en la improvisación y cómo forman ellas actualmente. Concluyeron que ellas rechazan fomentar la competitividad y desarrollan metodologías coeducativas con estrategias más lúdicas, cooperativas, horizontales y participativas en las bertso-eskolas.   Bertsolarism, a practice which is conducted by bertsolaris, syncretizes aspects as divergent from one another as oral literature, square towns, language, and humour. In line with other cultural situations, female bertsolaris have been omitted from their own history. However, in recent decades, female bertsolaris have started gaining momentum in the public scene. Currently, half of the students of verse-schools, where bertsolaris are formed, are women. This article taps into improvisation and gender in general and about verse-schools and female bertsolaris in particular. To do so, 200 contemporary bertsolaris were surveyed through a questionnaire. Besides, 10 in-depth interviews and 5 discussion groups were conducted with 20 bertsolaris and professionals to extend the results of the questionnaires and analyze how bertsolaris were trained in improvisation in the past and how these bertsolaris are currently training future generations. The results show that these verse-schools reject competitiveness, promoting, instead, coeducational methodologies with more playful, cooperative, horizontal and participatory strategies.  

Acquiring penmanship and writing skills from the first to fifth grade of primary school: Joined-up writing vs. Comenia Script

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Olga Kučerová ◽  
Anna Kucharská
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Error Rate ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
The Past ◽  
School Year ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Developmental Dynamics ◽  
The Given

Abstract The project presented here deals with a typical human means of communication – writing. The aim of the project is to map the developmental dynamics of handwriting from the first to the fifth grade of primary school. The question remains topical because of the fact that several systems of writing have been used in the past few years. Our project focuses on comparing the systems of joined-up handwriting (the standard Latin alphabet) and the most widespread form of printed handwriting: Comenia Script. The research can be marked as sectional; pupils took a writing exam at the beginning and at the end of the 2015/2016 school year. The total number of respondents was 624 pupils, evenly distributed according to the school year, system of writing and gender. To evaluate handwriting, the evaluation scale of Veverková and Kucharská (2012) was adjusted to include a description of phenomena related to graphomotor and grammatical aspects of writing, including the overall error rate and work with errors. Each area that was observed included a series of indicators through which it was possible to create a comprehensive image of the form handwriting took in the given period. Each indicator was independently classified on a three-point scale. Thanks to that, a comprehensive image of the form of writing of a contemporary pupil emerged.

The Invention of Papal History

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Reformation ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Standards ◽  
Commissioned Works ◽  
The One ◽  
Late Renaissance ◽  
The Church

How was the history of post-classical Rome and of the Church written in the Catholic Reformation? Historical texts composed in Rome at this time have been considered secondary to the city’s significance for the history of art. The Invention of Papal History corrects this distorting emphasis and shows how history-writing became part of a comprehensive formation of the image and self-perception of the papacy. By presenting and fully contextualizing the path-breaking works of the Augustinian historian Onofrio Panvinio (1530–68), this book shows what type of historical research was possible in the late Renaissance and the Catholic Reformation. Historiography in this period by no means consisted entirely of commissioned works written for patrons; rather, a creative interplay existed between, on the one hand, the endeavours of authors to explore the past and, on the other hand, the constraints of patronage and ideology placed on them. This book sheds new light on the changing priorities, mentalities, and cultural standards that flourished in the transition from the Renaissance to the Catholic Reformation.

Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa: What Lessons Can We Learn?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt ◽  
Fred Mawunyo Dzanku ◽  
Aida Cuthbert Isinika
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Cash Income ◽  
Crop Diversification ◽  
Grain Production ◽  
The Past ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Yield Gaps ◽  
Rural Africa ◽  
And Gender ◽  
High Share

Smallholder-friendly messages, albeit not always translated into action, returned strongly to the development agenda over a decade ago. Smallholders’ livelihoods encompass social and economic realities outside agriculture, however, providing opportunities as well as challenges for the smallholder model. While smallholders continue to straddle the farm and non-farm sectors, the notion of leaving agriculture altogether appears hyperbolic, given the persistently high share of income generated from agriculture noted in the Afrint dataset. Trends over the past fifteen years can be broadly described as increasing dynamism accompanied by rising polarization. Positive trends include increased farm sizes, rising grain production, crop diversification, and increased commercialization, while negative trends include stagnation of yields, persistent yield gaps, gendered landholding inequalities, gendered agricultural asset inequalities, growing gendered commercialization inequalities, and an emerging gender gap in cash income. Regional nuances in trends reinforce the need for spatial contextualization of linkages between the farm and non-farm sectors.

Vietnamese Historical Writing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Pelley
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
East Asian ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Southern State ◽  
The Past ◽  
South Vietnam ◽  
Political Function ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
North Vietnam

This chapter demonstrates how the process of decolonization and the ensuing separation of Vietnam into a northern and southern state as part of the Cold War in Asia led to different types of history-writing. In both Vietnamese regimes, the writing of history had to serve the state, and in both countries historians emphasized its political function. Whereas North Vietnam located itself in an East Asian and Marxist context, historians of South Vietnam positioned it within a Southeast Asian setting and took a determinedly anti-communist position. After 1986—over a decade after reunification—with past tensions now relaxed, the past could be revaluated more openly under a reformist Vietnamese government that now also permitted much greater interaction with foreign historians.

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