Chapter 2. Fragmented Communities Class and Gender Hierarchies

River of Hope ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 51-91
Keyword(s):  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
And Gender

Resisting hierarchies through relationality in the ethics of care

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Care Ethics ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Gender Essentialism ◽  
Carol Gilligan ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Critical Ethics

This article explores recent charges of Western-centrism and gender essentialism in care ethics. In response to these charges, and informed by the work of Carol Gilligan, I argue for a view of care ethics that regards it not primarily as a normative theory advocating for care and care workers, but as a critical ethics that voices and enacts resistance to Cartesian splits and hierarchies. These are not just gender hierarchies; rather, care ethics resists all binaries that divide people into categories and separate them from others, and, indeed, from themselves.

scholarly journals Digital Asymmetries in Transnational Communication: Expectation, Autonomy and Gender Positioning in the Household

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 365-381
Author(s):  
Yang Wang ◽  
Sun Sun Lim
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Chinese Study ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
Transnational Communication ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
And Gender

Abstract In contemporary society, information and communication technologies (ICTs) are widely cherished for helping transnational households preserve a coherent sense of familyhood despite geographical separation. Despite ICTs having positive benefits for the maintenance of long-distance intimacies, digital asymmetries characterized by gaps in routines, emotional experiences, and outcomes of ICT use can also emerge between family members of different structural, social, and geographical conditions. Drawing on an innovative “content–context diary”-cum-participant observation, this article investigates the multi-dimensional digital asymmetries emerging from the transnational communication of Chinese “study mothers” in Singapore. Using the data visualization and analysis tool “ecomap,” the findings uncover that study mothers were largely beleaguered by expectation asymmetry and autonomy asymmetry, arising from different expectations to and control over daily transnational communication with their family members. The study mothers were disadvantaged by their relatively isolated life situations in the host society and accentuated gender hierarchies in the household.

The Sprewell/Carlesimo Episode: Unacceptable Violence or Unacceptable Victim?

2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Walton
Keyword(s):  
Media Representations ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Social Responses ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Violent Acts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Normalization Of Violence

NBA player Latrell Sprewell’s attack on his coach, P.J. Carlesimo, in 1997, received extraordinary attention in the media. The coverage of the incident and subsequent trial revealed the media’s attitude toward violence within cultural representations of sport. This paper focuses on the way that violence associated with sport can be understood in relationship to the normalization of violence against women in American culture. Specifically, I focus on how the violent acts of athletes and coaches elicit different social responses depending on the social status of the victim. I argue that media representations, framed within narratives that construct their importance around gendered ideas of private and public spheres, work to support current race, class, and gender hierarchies. I also offer alternative ways of understanding the incident given the peculiar work setting of professional sport.

scholarly journals Speaking with Migrant Women Health Care Aides: On Marketing and Making Sense of Caregiving in Canada

Refuge ◽  
1998 ◽  
pp. 26-30
Author(s):  
Gail McCabe
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Women Health ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
Health Care Aides ◽  
Care Aides ◽  
And Gender

The objective of this research was to explore the life-world of migrant women health care-aides, focusing on their on their own subjective understandings of caregiving and the market for care in Canada. Qualitative interviews ranging in length from one to three hours produced snapshots of the social and cultural fractures endemic to the migration and settlement process. I argue that women's caregiving practice is an aspect of an ethics of care that allows for moments of empowerment and resistance to an oppressive social context shaped by a matrix of race, class and gender hierarchies.

Biopolitics of Beauty

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvaro Jarrín
Keyword(s):  
Public Health System ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
Affective Value ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Patients Experience

Using ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian hospitals, this book shows how plastic surgeons and patients navigate the public health system to transform beauty into a basic health right. The book historically traces the national concern with beauty to Brazilian eugenics, which established beauty as an index of the nation's racial improvement. From here, the book explains how plastic surgeons became the main proponents of a raciology of beauty, using it to gain the backing of the Brazilian state. Beauty can be understood as an immaterial form of value that the book calls “affective capital,” which maps onto and intensifies the social hierarchies of Brazilian society. Patients experience beauty as central to national belonging and to gendered aspirations of upward mobility, and they become entangled in biopolitical rationalities that complicate their ability to consent to the risks of surgery. This book explores not only the biopolitical regime that made beauty a desirable national project, but also the subtle ways in which beauty is laden with affective value within everyday social practices—thus becoming the terrain upon which race, class, and gender hierarchies are reproduced and contested in Brazil.

‘The Performance of Servitude’: Gendered and Racialised Representations of Citizenship at the Bahrain National Museum

2020 ◽  
pp. 56-71
Author(s):  
John Thabiti Willis
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Nation State ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Black Musicians ◽  
The World ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
And Gender

This chapter explores a wedding exhibit near the entrance to the Customs and Traditions Hall in the Bahrain National Museum in Manama, Bahrain. It uses an African diaspora framework to analyse the mannequins and images that depict an olive or light-skinned bridal party and black musicians who accompany her during the most festive moments of the ceremony. Drawing from the work of historian and philosopher Michel Foucault on governance and power and sociologist Tony Bennett, it argues that the exhibit serves as both a parable of Bahraini society and as a way of naturalising and validating racial and gender hierarchies. The museum helps to shape the world of a population of subjects by functioning as part of the contract between a nation-state (embodied by a dynastic monarchy) and its citizens (non-royals).

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