scholarly journals Is the ‘F’-word still dirty? A past, present and future of/for feminist and gender studies in Organization

Organization ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Harding ◽  
Jackie Ford ◽  
Marianna Fotaki
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Gender Theory ◽  
Rich Variety ◽  
Feminist Thought ◽  
Gender Perspectives ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Theories

This article looks back at 20 years of feminist/gender theory in Organization. In these years a very rich variety of articles has drawn on feminist and gender perspectives. This suggests that Organization is a welcome site for exploring feminist and gender theories and their contribution to critical analysis of organizations. However, the more theoretically sophisticated work that is to be found in feminist and gender studies has not yet been explored in much depth. There is unfilled potential here. The article looks forward to the next decade by discussing a small selection from the treasure house of feminist theorists and concerns that could offer rich insights for management and organization theory. There are many others; this discussion introduces theorists who will be new to some readers, and might provoke more general interest in feminist thought.

scholarly journals Queering Catholic Fundamentalism: On Liking Theology in Masculinities Research

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Kevin Burke
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Gender Theory ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
New Era ◽  
Recent Movement ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Church

<p>This article seeks to build on recent movement in the fields of religion and gender studies in order to analyze and critically reflect on “the relation, confrontation and intersection of gender and religion” (Korte, 2011, p. 2). Here the author works to investigate the possibility that emerges in new forms of analysis that marry theological interventions with masculinities studies as a way to newly attend to patriarchy and fundamentalism. Utilizing feminist Catholic theology, the work addresses unique and recent problems that have emerged in the Church in the face of a new era that appears both more progressive and that has engendered conservative backlash.  Along the way the article addresses issues of gender and sexuality as they relate to the priesthood and Pope Francis’ recent assertions linking gender theory to ideological colonization and even nuclear armaments.</p>

scholarly journals Queering Catholic Fundamentalism: On Liking Theology in Masculinities Research

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Kevin Burke
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Gender Theory ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
New Era ◽  
Recent Movement ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Church

<p>This article seeks to build on recent movement in the fields of religion and gender studies in order to analyze and critically reflect on “the relation, confrontation and intersection of gender and religion” (Korte, 2011, p. 2). Here the author works to investigate the possibility that emerges in new forms of analysis that marry theological interventions with masculinities studies as a way to newly attend to patriarchy and fundamentalism. Utilizing feminist Catholic theology, the work addresses unique and recent problems that have emerged in the Church in the face of a new era that appears both more progressive and that has engendered conservative backlash.  Along the way the article addresses issues of gender and sexuality as they relate to the priesthood and Pope Francis’ recent assertions linking gender theory to ideological colonization and even nuclear armaments.</p>

Genders

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pelagia Goulimari
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Gender Theory ◽  
Gender Variance ◽  
Continuous Transition ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The 19Th Century

Feminist, queer, and transgender theory has developed an array of fruitful concepts for the study of gender. It offers critiques of patriarchy, the gender binary, compulsory heterosexuality, heteronormativity, and homonormativity, inter alia. New Materialist feminists have analyzed gender variance, continuous variation, and continuous transition through concepts such as rhizome, assemblage, making kin, and sym-poiesis (making-with). Feminists of color and postcolonial feminists have theorized intersectionality—that gender always-already intersects with race, class, sexual orientation, and so on—and gender roles outside the white middle-class nuclear family, such as othermothering and fictive kin. Materialist feminists have studied gender as social class, while psychoanalytic gender theorists have explored gender as self-identification and in terms of the relation of gender identification and desire. Queer theory has explored vexed gender identifications and disidentification as well as heterotopias, counterpublic spaces, and queer kinship beyond the private/public divide. Transgender theory has critiqued transmisogyny and theorized transgender and trans* identities. Indigenous feminist and queer theory has theorized Two-Spirit identities and queer indigeneity in the context of a decolonial vision. Theorists of masculinities have analyzed masculinities as historically specific, plural, and intersectional. Gender studies, in all this diversity, has influenced most fields of study—for example, disability studies in its theorization of complex embodiment, its development of crip theory, and so on. Gender studies, in turn, has greatly benefitted from the study of literature. Literature has been indispensable in the genealogy of dominant gender norms such as the 19th-century norms of the angelic/demonic woman and self-made man. In return, gender theory has offered fresh insights into literary genre, for example the Bildungsroman. Since the development of gender theory, it has taken part in an ongoing dialogue and cross-fertilization with literature, evidenced in self-reflexive and critically informed literary texts as well as in gender theory that includes autobiographical and literary (e.g., narrative, figurative, fictional, poetic) elements.

The History of Scholarship on Lois McMaster Bujold’s Science Fiction and Fantasy

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-32
Author(s):  
Robin Anne Reid
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women Scholars ◽  
Citation Practices ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Theories ◽  
Space Opera

This chapter provides a comprehensive and chronological bibliographic survey of scholarship on Lois McMaster Bujold from 1995 onwards. The chapter is structured chronologically to show changes in the scholarship on Bujold’s work and, in addition, includes selected online articles to demonstrate that Bujold’s readers are engaged with the same issues as the academics: genre, gender politics, and feminisms. The chapter shows the broad areas of scholarly consensus that exist: primarily, the agreement that Bujold’s work subverts, reverses, or complicates the genre conventions of space opera, military sf, and medievalist fantasy. The primary area of disagreement is shown to be the question of feminism in her work. The chapter is explicitly feminist in that the scholar writing the essay is a feminist specializing in feminist and gender theories and speculative fiction who applies those intellectual frameworks in this essay. It therefore pays close attention to citation practices, and puts on record the extent to which the first work on Bujold’s science fiction and fantasy was done by women scholars working in disability, feminist, and gender studies as well as the extent to which their work makes up the majority of the current scholarship.

scholarly journals Centro de Documentación - Biblioteca de Mujeres de la Fundacion ipes

2020 ◽  
pp. 1307-1320
Author(s):  
Amaia Barandica Ortiz de Zárate ◽  
Rut Iturbide Rodrigo
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Awareness Training ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Training And Research ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Theories ◽  
Work Done

RESUMEN En este artículo se presenta el trabajo realizado por el Centro de Documentación-Biblioteca de Mujeres de la Fundación ipes, una biblioteca única en Navarra, especializada en género y feminismos y cuyo servicio es público y gratuito. Dentro de la misma se destaca el trabajo de preservación del legado documental feminista y su actualización; el asesoramiento especializado sobre los últimos avances del pensamiento feminista y los estudios de género; así como la sensibilización, la formación e investigación sobre dichas teorías feministas y de género. LABURPENA Artikulu honetan, ipes Fundazioaren Emakumeen Dokumentazio Zentro eta Liburutegiak egindako lana aurkezten da. Liburutegi bakarra da Nafarroan, generoan eta feminismoetan espezializatua, eta zerbitzu publikoa eta doakoa eskaintzen du. Liburutegiaren barnean, dokumentu-ondare feminista zaindu eta eguneratzeko lana nabarmendu behar da; pentsamolde feministaren eta generoko azterlanen azken aurrerakuntzei buruzko aholkularitza espezializatua; eta bai teoria feminista eta generoko horiei buruzko sentsibilizazioa, prestakuntza eta ikerketa ere. ABSTRACT This article presents the work done by the Documentation Center-Women’s Library of the ipes Foundation, a unique library in Navarra, specialized in gender and feminisms and whose service is public and free. Within it, the work of preservation of the feminist documentary legacy and its update stand out; specialized advice on the latest advances in feminist thinking and gender studies; as well as raising awareness, training and research on these feminist and gender theories.

scholarly journals The Journey for Survival

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Ibrahim Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Gender Perspectives ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Theories ◽  
Almost All

It has been recorded that about two-thirds of those persecuted, tortured and killed in the European witchcraft hunt in the 17th century were women. In northern Ghana were about six witchcamps exist, almost all of the inhabitants who either run away from their villages or are sent to the various witchcamps as alleged witches are women. A witchcamp is a designated settlement within a community where people who are accused or found to be witches are made to live with each other. There have been various efforts from different governments to shut down the witchcamps, but this effort has yielded no success. Accused witches and other stakeholders opine that the solution to their predicament does not emanate from the presence of the witchcamps but rather from socio-cultural practices from their various communities. For some of the women in Gambaga who believe in the existence of witchcraft and do not explicitly profess to be witches themselves, my presentation would engage two questions. Firstly, to discuss the question of what accounts for the majority of women in the Gambaga witchcamp? And secondly, to understand what the concept of empowerment means to these accused women? This presentation employs a post-colonial indigenous research paradigm where amongst other things the value systems, community beliefs and experiences of colonized peoples are given much prominence. At the same time, this paradigm calls to questions some features of African traditional cultures which are problematic. Discussions on the above questions will draw from the interviews I conducted with some of the accused women in the Gambaga witchcamp, A traditional diviner and some members of the community. I conducted fieldwork in the summer of 2019. As this is a work in progress, my ideas are not fully developed. My presentation will therefore, benefit immensely from feedback especially on the gender perspectives, feminism and gender theories.

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