Many Marxisms

2021 ◽  
pp. 194277862110447
Author(s):  
Jim Glassman
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Class I ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Class Analysis ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
Common Thread ◽  
And Gender

Revolutionary projects travelling around the world in the last century under the heading of “Marxism” have always morphed into significantly different forms, depending upon precisely where, when, and how they travelled. In this think piece honoring the career of Richard Peet, I argue that Marxism has thus been less a singular and unified phenomenon than a sprawling and variegated experience of resistance to capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism. Nonetheless, if there is one common thread in virtually all forms of Marxist thought, it is an emphasis on class. But what conception of class? I assert the centrality of class analysis to Marxist thought, albeit versions of class analysis that flexibly address the gendering and racialization of class relations along with other factors that shape and express class in given contexts. I illustrate the argument by noting the importance of Marxist class analysis to critical studies of imperialism, racism, and gender relations.

Holding the fort in the world wars

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth C. Macknight
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
Vichy Regime ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender

To what extent did the world wars change the nature of class relations on and around landed estates? How were gender relations and gender roles in aristocratic households affected by the absence and return of men? Were nobles able to afford to repair the damage to property resulting from military operations or wartime neglect? Drawing on Bourdieu’s writings about conversions and reconversions of capital, this chapter details noblewomen’s endeavours to maintain properties during men’s wartime absence and through the financial difficulties of the interwar decades. It documents the interactions between nobles, local authorities and representatives of the Monuments historiques, as well as liaison between heritage associations and state officials during and after the Vichy regime.

Worlds

2020 ◽  
pp. 253-302
Author(s):  
David Damrosch
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Relative Wealth ◽  
The World ◽  
Fictional Worlds ◽  
And Gender

This chapter focuses on the worldly presence of literary works and considers how they relate to the world around them through the worlds they create. It explores the dimensions of the imaginative world that are built up by a novel, staged by a playwright, or envisioned by a poet. It also investigates the boundaries, environment, history, sociology or ethnography, economic and class determinants, and gender relations of the imaginative world. The chapter looks into “Fictional Worlds” by Thomas Pavel, which discusses the variable “referential density” that a work can have, and the relative wealth or paucity of information given per page, scene, or stanza about the world envisioned by the work. It emphasizes on “amplitude” and “completeness” in order to describe the coordinates and building blocks with which a writer creates a virtual literary world.

scholarly journals Editorial

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Yasmin Rehman ◽  
Gita Sahgal ◽  
Rashmi Varma ◽  
Nira Yuval-Davis
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Religious Fundamentalist ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender

The theme of this special issue of Feminist Dissent focuses on the ways in which religious fundamentalist movements have become hegemonic in many secular states around the world. This purported paradox of fundamentalist politics gaining power in secular states is all the more challenging to analyse in the context of both the consolidation and re-articulation of neoliberalism as an ideology and framework for organising economy and society in the era of late capitalism and its successive crises. Specifically, we are interested in exploring the ways in which these transformations within state, society and the economy have affected women’s positions and gender relations. The illustrative case studies we examine in this issue are India, Israel and Turkey.

Introduction to the Forum on Cluttering: Rays of Hope Shine Around the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 1566-1567
Author(s):  
Isabella Reichel
Keyword(s):  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Joint Effort ◽  
Feedback Training ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The World ◽  
Common Thread ◽  
Evidence Based Treatments ◽  
Attention Performance ◽  
Self Help Groups

Purpose In the 10 years since the International Cluttering Association (ICA) was created, this organization has been growing in the scope of its initiatives, and in the variety of resources it makes available for people with cluttering (PWC). However, the awareness of this disorder and of the methods for its intervention remain limited in countries around the world. A celebration of the multinational and multicultural engagements of the ICA's Committee of the International Representatives is a common thread running through all the articles in this forum. The first article is a joint effort among international representatives from five continents and 15 countries, exploring various themes related to cluttering, such as awareness, research, professional preparation, intervention, and self-help groups. The second article, by Elizabeth Gosselin and David Ward, investigates attention performance in PWC. In the third article, Yvonne van Zaalen and Isabella Reichel explain how audiovisual feedback training can improve the monitoring skills of PWC, with both quantitative and qualitative benefits in cognitive, emotional, and social domains of communication. In the final article, Hilda Sønsterud examines whether the working alliance between the client and clinician may predict a successful cluttering therapy outcome. Conclusions Authors of this forum exchanged their expertise, creativity, and passion with the goal of solving the mystery of the disconcerting cluttering disorder with the hope that all PWC around the globe will have access to the most effective evidence-based treatments leading to blissful and successful communication.

Gender Ideology and Fertility: Evidence for a Curvilinear Hypothesis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serena Stefani ◽  
Gabriele Prati
Keyword(s):  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
World Population ◽  
Fertility Rates ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Using Data ◽  
National Analysis ◽  
The Relationship

Research on the relationship between fertility and gender ideology revealed inconsistent results. In the present study, we argue that inconsistencies may be due to the fact that such relationship may be nonlinear. We hypothesize a U- shaped relationship between two dimensions of gender ideology (i.e. primacy of breadwinner role and acceptance of male privilege) and fertility rates. We conducted a cross-national analysis of 60 countries using data from the World Values Survey as well as the World Population Prospects 2019. Controlling for gross domestic product, we found support for a U-shaped relationship between gender ideology and fertility. Higher levels of fertility rates were found at lower and especially higher levels of traditional gender ideology, while a medium level of gender ideology was associated with the lowest fertility rate. This curvilinear relationship is in agreement with the phase of the gender revolution in which the country is located. Traditional beliefs are linked to a complementary division of private versus public sphere between sexes, while egalitarian attitudes are associated with a more equitable division. Both conditions strengthen fertility. Instead, as in the transition phase, intermediate levels of gender ideology’s support are associated with an overload and a difficult reconciliation of the roles that women have to embody (i.e. working and nurturing) so reducing fertility. The present study has contributed to the literature by addressing the inconsistencies of prior research by demonstrating that the relationship between gender ideology and fertility rates is curvilinear rather than linear.

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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