Forging new communities: Gendered childhood through the lens of caste

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deepa Sreenivas
Keyword(s):  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Female Child ◽  
Girl Child ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
The World ◽  
Dalit Women ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Feminist Practice

This article focuses on the narratives of two dalit women which offer new, enabling imaginings of community that open up radical possibilities for rethinking questions of childhood and gender. These texts turn a critical gaze on an upper caste feminist practice and the discourses of childhood, schooling and emancipation that are tied to it. Childhood has been hegemonically represented as a state of innocence and vulnerability and is marked off from the world of adult anxieties and responsibilities. Such representations are generally implicated in abstract, internationalist notions of child rights and remain disengaged from the historical contexts that shape children’s lives. The dominant discourse of the girl child does not problematize the field qualifying as childhood; instead, it proposes that the female child has been excluded from the same. The cause of this exclusion is identified as gender discrimination, reinforcing the primacy of sexual difference and allowing it to subsume all other forms of differences — caste, class, region or community — that exist among children. The article argues that these two narratives disrupt the neat separation between the modernizing nation/ emancipatory self and the regressive community. As each narrative takes us through the life of a dalit girl, it articulates a critique of gender as a category abstracted from material circumstances that constitute women’s lives. Gender in these narratives emerges as complexly intermeshed with caste and community.

The Contradictions and Intersections of Class and Gender in a Global City: Placing Working Women's Lives on the Research Agenda

10.1068/a3781 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda McDowell ◽  
Diane Perrons ◽  
Colette Fagan ◽  
Kath Ray ◽  
Kevin Ward
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Global City ◽  
High Status ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Gender Divisions ◽  
And Gender ◽  
New Research

In this paper we examine the relationships between class and gender in the context of current debates about economic change in Greater London. It is a common contention of the global city thesis that new patterns of inequality and class polarisation are apparent as the expansion of high-status employment brings in its wake rising employment in low-status, poorly paid ‘servicing’ occupations. Whereas urban theorists tend to ignore gender divisions, feminist scholars have argued that new class and income inequalities are opening up between women as growing numbers of highly credentialised women enter full-time, permanent employment and others are restricted to casualised, low-paid work. However, it is also argued that working women's interests coincide because of their continued responsibility for domestic obligations and still-evident gender discrimination in the labour market. In this paper we counterpose these debates, assessing the consequences for income inequality, for patterns of childcare and for work–life balance policies of rising rates of labour-market participation among women in Greater London. We conclude by outlining a new research agenda.

scholarly journals Public Strategy and Eco-Social Engagement in Latin American States: An Analysis of Complex Networks Arising from Their Constitutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8558
Author(s):  
Arturo Luque González ◽  
Fernando Casado Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Positive Trend ◽  
American States ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
And Control

Over the past four decades, Latin American states have drafted relatively new constitutions in comparison with other regions of the world. These transformations, in some cases, have helped governments leave behind the former authoritarian regimes, or in others, have simply established a more democratic system incorporating a forward-looking approach to rights. For example, stronger individual and collective rights have been forged, together with new avenues for citizen participation. Certainly, many of the new constitutions grant a much broader base of rights, including collective political and territorial rights for indigenous communities, protections against ethnic, racial, and gender discrimination, and greater guarantees of privacy and control over information. Consequently, some Latin American constitutions are held up as among the best in the world. For this study, the constitutional texts of 22 Latin American countries were analyzed with the aim of understanding their regulatory changes and impacts, pointing out the existing inequalities they address, as well as the clear positive trend established in terms of the generation of greater social engagement.

Gender and Demography in Asia (India and China)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravinder Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Sex Determination ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Sex Selection ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Girl Child ◽  
Family And Marriage ◽  
And Gender

China and India together account for over one-third of the world’s population and both countries have considerably fewer women than men.. With long histories of skewed sex ratios and gender discrimination, these two countries have experienced a sharp decline in the birth of girls since the late 20th century. The unfolding and intimate relationship between gendered social structures, son preference, fertility decline, and new sex determination technologies has had serious demographic and social consequences, resulting in millions of “missing” girls, surplus males, bride shortages, and possibly, rising levels of gender violence. Even as women’s socio-economic indicators such as life expectancy, literacy, education, and fertility have improved, families continue to show a preference for sons raising questions between the tenuous relationship between development and gender equality. The advantages of raising sons over daughters, supported by traditional kinship, family, and marriage systems, appear to have got further entrenched in the era of neoliberal economies. Family planning policies of both nations, advocating small families, and the advent of pre-natal sex selection technologies further set the stage for the prevention of birth of daughters. Governments in both countries have since banned sex determination and launched policies and schemes to redress the gender imbalance and improve the value of the girl child. While these policies have not been highly successful, other social forces such as urbanization and rising educational levels are beginning to transform the way girls are perceived. A kernel of hope seems to be emerging at the beginning of the 21st century, as some improvement is visible in the sex ratio at birth in some of the worst affected regions in the two countries.

Matrix

2011 ◽  
pp. 882-884
Author(s):  
Irina Aristarkhova
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Maternal Body ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
And Gender ◽  
As If

1. Matrix = Womb. 2. The Matrix is everywhere, it’s all around us, here, even in this room. You can see it out your window, or on your television. You feel it when you go to work, or go to church or pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth ... that you, like everyone else, was born into bondage ... kept inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste or touch. A prison for your mind. A Matrix. (Wachowski & Wachowski, 1999) 3. What is Matrix? Simply ... the “big Other,” the virtual symbolic order, the network that structures reality for us. (S. Zizek, 1999) What is Matrix? In the past years, the notion of the Matrix has become dominant in figurations of cyberspace. It seems as if it is the most desirable, the most contemporary and fitting equation; however, its gendered etymology is rarely obvious. On the opposite, the gender of the matrix as a notion and term has been systematically negated in such disciplines as mathematics, engineering, film studies or psychoanalysis. It is necessary thus to explore and critique the Matrix as a most “fitting” metaphor in/for cyberspace that has conceived it (cyberspace) as a free and seamless space very much like the maternal body (Aristarkhova, 2002). The challenge today, therefore, is to reintroduce the maternal as one of embodied encounters with difference, to recover the sexual difference and gender in the notion of matrix with reference to cyberspace and information technologies that support it.

scholarly journals Grapple for Equality: A Critical Analysis of Caste and Gender Discrimination in Bama’s Vanmam (Vendetta)

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-29
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Caste System ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Core ◽  
Dalit Women ◽  
Human Psyche ◽  
And Gender

Divisiveness among humans is so inherent, rampant and intuitive that none would find it easy to escape the oppression resulting from this man-made setback. The Human psyche covets to rule, master and exploit its power over others; and this is the core and the most intimate cause of all intolerance and oppression in our world, whatever label one wants to bracket then under, say, caste, creed, race, gender or faith. This paper titled, Grapple for Equality: A Critical Analysis of Caste and Gender Discrimination in Bama’s Vanmam (Vendetta) is an attempt to identify the gender inequality and sexual violence among Dalit women exposed by the author. The main themes of the Dalit writings in India usually centre on subjects like social disability, caste system, economic inequality, contemporary cruelties and cultural assertion that have been uniquely entitled ‘the struggle for identity’. Bama, one of the renowned Tamil Dalit woman writers, dwells on the themes of caste and gender discrimination in most of her novels. The novel Vanmam mainly focuses on Dalit women, highlighting how they are subjected to social discriminations of multiple sorts.

scholarly journals Gender and the European Union

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
External Action ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Women's Representation ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Women’S Representation ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Eu

Gender discrimination continues to be a reality in several parts of the world, also in Europe. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of both European Union’s (EU) gender policies and gender balance in EU institutions. It does so by looking at gender equality policies and the EU legal system concerning gender equality, women’s representation within diff erent institutions (and more particularly in the European External Action Service), gender rights as a type of human rights and the EU’s role in the external promotion of womens’ rights in third countries. The analysis shows that women’s representation in the EU institutions has increased in the last decades and that the EU has strengthened its att ention to gender rights in its external relations as well, however the results of both att empts are far from being fully satisfactory.

Feminist Theory

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Disch ◽  
Mary Hawkesworth
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
The World ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
And Gender

This chapter introduces readers to feminist theory as a multifaceted and multi-sited project, not a bounded field. Grounded in the political struggles for women’s empowerment that have emerged in all regions of the world and convinced of the arbitrariness of exclusion based on sexual difference, feminist theory has flourished as a mode of critical theory that illuminates the limitations of popular assumptions about sex, race, sexuality, and gender. This introduction identifies three common characteristics of feminist theory projects in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries: (1) efforts to denaturalize that which passes for difference, (2) efforts to challenge the aspiration to produce universal and impartial knowledge, and (3) efforts to engage the complexity of power relations through intersectional analysis. It sets the stage for the principal aim of this Handbook: to demonstrate how feminist theory is crucial to grasping the power dynamics operating in contemporary life.

scholarly journals KURIKULUM PENDIDIKAN DASAR DALAM PERSPEKTIF GENDER

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhamqad Mustaqim
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender

<p>Tulisan ini bermaksud mengkaji tentang implementasi kurikulum pada pendidikan dasar yang berbasis pada kesetaraan gender. Untuk maksud tersebut, penulis melakukan penelitian kualitatif. Dengan melihat berbagai fenomena bias dan diskriminasi gender yang selama ini membudaya, termasuk dalam dunia pendidikan menjadikan upaya untuk membangun kurikulum berperspektif gender menemukan relevansinya. Pendidikan dasar, sebagai upaya membangun pengetahuan, keterampilan  dan sikap sejak dini menjadi hal penting dalam sosialisasi dan penanaman keadilan gender.Dari hasil penelitian yang telah dilakukan, dapat diketahui bahwa implementasi kurikulum berperspektif  gender ini bisa dilakukan  melalui  beberapa pendekatan, baik secara implisit, eksplisit,  perubahan maupun aksi sosial sebagai upaya dalam meminimalisir bias gender yang ada dalam pendidikan, tentunya dengan berbagai formulasi yang ditawarkan.</p><p><strong>Kata kunci: kurikulum, pendidikan,  gender</strong></p><div class="Section1"><p><em>B</em><em>A</em><em>S</em><em>I</em><em>C EDUCATION CURRICULUM IN A GENDER PERS- PECTIVE. This paper  intends  to examine the implementation  of the curriculum in primary education based on gender equality.  For that purpose, the authors did a qualitative  research. By looking at t</em><em>h</em><em>e various </em><em>of bias phenomena  and gender discrimination  that is widespread, including in the world of education is making  efforts to build the curriculum based on gender perspective finds its relevance. Primary  education, as an effort  in building  the  knowledge, skills and attitude  since early phase becomes an important  thing in the socialization and instilling  the  gender justice. From  the  results of research that has been done, it can be noted that the implementation of the curriculum based on gender perspective can be done through a number of approaches, either implicitly or explicitly, changes, or social action in an effort to minimize  the gender bias that exists in education, of course with the variety of formulations  that are offered.</em></p></div><p><strong><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong><em>:  curriculum, primary education, gender</em><br /></strong></p>

scholarly journals Impact of Globalization On Education and Gender in The Democratic Republic of Congo

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-42
Author(s):  
Sifa Bura Huguette
Keyword(s):  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
High Price ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
The World ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
And Gender

Seen as a bittersweet gift to the world today, especially in developing countries, globalization has had both positive and negative impacts on Africans, and especially on the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Social, political and economic development are the first sectors of the country’ structural changes most affected by the latter in several aspects. Despite the resources of Congo have played an important role in globalization around the world; more so in the world outside Congo. Through the death of millions of people, socioeconomic and psychological challenges, the Congolese people have had to pay a very high price simply to sustain globalization. While expected to help address these challenges, education and gender in the Congo have struggled to face the repeated challenges of globalization effects. This study aims to explore how globalization affects the quality of education and gender when a country is constantly under the challenges of war, political and economic crises, and what is being done about it. Qualitative analysis and documentary research method have been used for data collection and desk review. Adjustment programs suggested by external have showed that the globalization has affected women and men development differentially, with a larger costs assumed by women. Yet girls still suffer significant deprivations and inequalities, many of which result from the persistent gender discrimination faced by girls and women everywhere. To cope with this, reform measures continue to be adopted with a view to economic recovery, with special focus on open education for all by improving access, equality and equity, job creation and reducing poverty in order to improve the living conditions of each.

Not Even Trying to Change the World: Why Do Elite Management Journals Ignore the Major Problems Facing Humanity?

2021 ◽  
pp. 002188632199718
Author(s):  
Bill Harley ◽  
Peter Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Business School ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
School Practices ◽  
Grand Challenges ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

Social scientists have long been concerned with using their research to make the world a better place and there are frequently calls within the management studies community for research which does so. In this essay, we consider the extent to which such concerns and calls are reflected in what is published in elite management journals. We coded approximately 5,500 articles published in “top-tier” management journals between 2008 and 2018 and found that only 2.8% of articles critically addressed global “grand challenges”—such as inequality, climate change, racism, and gender discrimination. This essay explores the possible reasons why. We reject the explanation that management academics are uninterested in major problems facing the world. Our argument instead focuses on the relationship between business school practices and journal norms. We term this the business school/elite journal gridlock. To break the gridlock, a number of changes are recommended.

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