Feminine Genius: Revisiting Gender Complementarity Today

2019 ◽  
pp. 137-146
Author(s):  
Sharon Bong
Keyword(s):  
Gender Complementarity

Indigenous Women, Poetry, and the Double Gaze

2018 ◽  
pp. 69-102
Author(s):  
Gloria Elizabeth Chacón
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Gender Complementarity ◽  
The Way

Chapter 3 discusses the notion of gender complementarity through kab’awil as an achievable horizon for indigenous peoples. The chapter focuses on the work of indigenous women across regions and nations, demonstrating the way that the double gaze allows them to see beyond ideas of tradition that impinge on their sense of autonomy. The chapter underscores the work of Rosa María Chávez, Calixta Gabriel Xiquín, Maya Cú, Briceida Cuevas Cob, María Enriqueta Lunes, Angelina Díaz Ruíz, Irma Pineda Santiago, and Natalia Toledo Paz.

Gender in Middle Range Societies: A Case Study in Casas Grandes Iconography

2006 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine S. VanPool ◽  
Todd L. VanPool
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Casas Grandes ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
The People ◽  
Gender Complementarity ◽  
Middle Range ◽  
The Social ◽  
Males And Females

Gender analyses have provided useful insights into the social organization of the people anthropologists study. Here we demonstrate how Casas Grandes gender roles influenced other aspects of Casas Grandes worldview and social life. Medio period (A.D. 1200–1450) iconography depicts differences between males and females. Gender roles were not only defined by their proximity to males and females but to birds and serpents. Furthermore, Casas Grandes cosmology was based on gender complementarity that combined the productive, reproductive, and ritual activities of men and women within a single system. The development of social differentiation was tied to this system, indicating that gender complementarity and the accumulation of productive and ritual power into a limited group of women and men may have been an important factor in the development of social hierarchies in many Middle Range societies.

scholarly journals Agents of Change

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-92
Author(s):  
Kaja Borchgrevink
Keyword(s):  
Women Activists ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
Class A ◽  
Gender Complementarity ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Global Norms

Abstract This article examines the intersection of religion, gender and development through an analysis of religious practice and development engagement among women activists in two religio-political aid organizations in contemporary Pakistan. Situated on the margins of the mainstream aid and development field, these women are rarely conceded agents of development. Yet focusing on improving women’s position and wellbeing, their activities are similar to those of many other development NGO s. As part of religio-political movements advancing gender complementarity and segregation, women’s activism and conceptions of development reflect a particular intersection of religion, gender and class. A close read of women’s discourse and practice reveals how women interpret and appropriate Islamic teachings, local cultural practices, and global norms by balancing ideology and pragmatism. In the process of negotiating, upholding and resisting norms and practices, these activists can be seen as active agents of change in their local contexts.

Exploring the Logic of Gender Complementarity using Chimakonam’s Ezumezu System

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-102
Author(s):  
Eric Ndoma Besong
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Stereotype ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
Gender Complementarity ◽  
Males And Females

In this essay, I want to argue that the existence of gender most times translated as gender binary, is a biological fact. What is at stake is a framework for transcending unequal gender binary to gender complementarity. Here, I propose to use Chimakonam’s Ezumezu logic as a mechanism for disclosing gender complementarity. The illogical, irrational and subjective perspectives on lopsided gender  differences between men and women will be challenged in this essay. I will analyze the thrust of Ezumezu logic, its major principles, structures, and pillars of thought. I will also demonstrate its global and contextual relevance. I will submit that Ezumezu logic can ground gender complementarity across global cultures. I argue that regardless of the physical differences between males and females, it is illogical to exploit such differences to promote gender stereotype. Keywords: Gender equality, Ezumezu Logic, Gender Complementarity, Jonathan Chimakonam

An Alternative to Gender Complementarity: The Body as Existential Category in the Catholic Tradition

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brianne Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Gender Essentialism ◽  
Gender Complementarity ◽  
Catholic Tradition

This article reevaluates the concept of “woman” in the Christian tradition by arguing that the body is shaped ontologically not by binary sex (gender essentialism), but by history. While there have been many theological critiques of gender essentialism and complementarity, there have been few attempts to offer an alternative, bodily ontology in the Catholic tradition. I argue for an understanding of the body that reveals it as an existential category, a category that implies complicity, interruption, hope, and holiness. I conclude that when we experience our bodies as structured primarily by our histories, it facilitates the freedom to be in full relationship with each other and with God.

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