scholarly journals “Philip Marlowe in drag?” – The construct of the hard-boiled detective in feminist appropriation and translation

Ars Aeterna ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Seago
Keyword(s):  
Gender Norms ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
German Translation ◽  
Philip Marlowe ◽  
Private Eye ◽  
Sara Paretsky

Abstract Hard-nosed female investigators Sara Lund and Saga Norén from the extraordinarily successful Scandinavian TV crime series The Killing and The Bridge are the latest examples of female hard-boiled detectives - dysfunctional loners who solve crimes where no one else succeeds. This article looks at the character construct of the hard-boiled male detective, maps these tropes against social expectations of gender norms and then considers how Sara Paretsky constructs an explicitly feminist “tough guy” private eye in V.I. Warshawski. It then analyses how Paretsky’s negotiation and partial subversion of the tropes of the hard-boiled genre are handled in translation, drawing on the German translation of Indemnity Only.

scholarly journals The Master of Nasty

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 87-95
Author(s):  
Jonah Raskin
Keyword(s):  
Raymond Chandler ◽  
Philip Marlowe ◽  
Private Eye ◽  
Chess Playing

Raymond Chandler relished finding names for his quirky characters, including Philip Marlowe, the pipe-smoking, chess-playing private eye—a literary kinsman to Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett’s solitary sleuth—whom I first met in the pages of fiction as a teenager and whom I have known more than fifty years. Sometimes the names are dead giveaways about the morality or immorality of the character, sometimes they’re opaque, but I’ve always found them intriguing and an open invitation to try to solve the mystery myself.

Erasing alterity: Gendered characterisation in the different versions of Vita Anastasiae

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 19-46
Author(s):  
Natalie Mylonas
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
Cross Dressing ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Female Saints ◽  
Gender Ambiguity

Despite official declarations against cross-dressing in the fourth century, eleven uitae that praise the ascetic superiority of cross-dressing female saints were produced in late antiquity. Engaging in a practice that was explicitly forbidden by numerous ecclesiastical synods, women who cross-dressed were often labelled as 'others' because they resisted social expectations and gender norms and trespassed into the masculine realms of independence and holiness. This study examines the gendered representation of one of these cross-dressing female saints named Anastasia. It traces her gendered representation across three versions of her Greek uita, two of which are preserved in Vita Danielis and one in the Greek 'Menaion'. These texts are fascinating because of the differing degrees to which they tolerate and promote the gender ambiguity of the heroine. While the former versions allow Anastasia a degree of gender ambiguity, the 'Menaion' version suppresses much of this ambiguity. I will demonstrate this by exploring three aspects of Anastasia's gendered characterisation in the texts: 1) designations for her throughout each narrative; 2) her identification as a eunuch; and 3) the degree of agency attributed to her. I conclude by offering some thoughts about how alterity theory can help account for these different representations, which I argue are responses to the perceived alterity of the saint.

Raymond Chandler's Spatial Interrogations: Relocating the Detective-Frontiersman

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
Michael Docherty
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Characteristics ◽  
Philip Marlowe ◽  
Private Eye ◽  
Historical Discourses

This article examines Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler's archetypal private eye, within the context of contemporary historical discourses which theorised the figure of the ‘frontiersman’. It builds upon established scholarship that connects the frontiersman and detective as archetypes of white masculine American heroism, but argues that such criticism is insufficiently engaged with the frontier's spatial characteristics and their implications for the detective. Seeking to redress this, I claim that the detective's conceptual inheritance of the frontiersman's mantle is manifest most clearly in a shared approach to the navigation and ‘conquest’ of space. In closing, I offer the office as an exemplary space of post-frontier modernity.

Conformity to gender norms as a mediator for alcohol abuse

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Mackowiak ◽  
Taleb S. Khairallah
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Abuse ◽  
Gender Norms

Queer-Sensible Designing

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silas DENZ ◽  
Wouter EGGINK
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Gender Scripts ◽  
Femininity And Masculinity ◽  
Design Workshop ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Design Style

Conventional design practices regard gender as a given precondition defined by femininity and masculinity. To shift these strategies to include non-heteronormative or queer users, queer theory served as a source of inspiration as well as user sensitive design techniques. As a result, a co-design workshop was developed and executed. Participants supported claims that gender scripts in designed artefacts uphold gender norms. The practice did not specify a definition of a queer design style. However, the co-design practice opened up the design process to non-normative gender scripts by unmasking binary gender dichotomies in industrial design.

Navigating the Gendered Math Path

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-174
Author(s):  
Christina D. Weber ◽  
Angie Hodge
Keyword(s):  
Gender Norms ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Doing Gender ◽  
Women In Stem ◽  
Stem Fields ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Good Science ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Mathematics Coursework

Using dialogues with our informants, as well as with each other, we explore how the men and women in our research make it through their mathematics coursework and, in turn, pursue their intended majors. Our research focuses on how students navigate what we call the gendered math path and how that path conforms to and diverges from traditional gender norms. Common themes of women's lower than men's self-perception of their ability to do mathematics, along with the divergent processes of doing gender that emerged in men's and women's discussions of their application of mathematics, reminded us of the continued struggles that women have to succeed in male-dominated academic disciplines. Although self-perception helps us understand why there are fewer women in STEM fields, it is important to understand how different forms of application of ideas might add to the diversity of what it means to do good science.

Kenotic Gestures

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 198-218
Author(s):  
Michelle Voss Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Gender Norms ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Christian Love ◽  
Love Of God ◽  
Shed Light

Christians sometimes take Christ's ken?sis, or self-emptying, as the pattern for Christian love of God and neighbor. Feminist critics suspect that this model reinforces unhealthy gender norms and oppressive power structures and contest the nature and extent of this template. Interreligious study can shed light on the debate. The Gau??ya Vai??ava tradition employs the categories of Indian aesthetic theory to explain how types of loving devotion (bhakti rasa) toward Krishna are evoked and expressed. The subordinate and peaceful modes of love for Krishna can serve as a heuristic for understanding Sarah Coakley's and Cynthia Bourgeault's retrievals of ken?sis in spiritual practice. A comparative reading suggests that objections to Coakley's version, which resembles the subordinate love of God, are more intractable due to the rootedness of its aesthetic in oppressive human experiences, while Bourgeault's reclamation of ken?sis aligns with a peaceful or meditative mode of love that feminists may more readily appreciate.

Religion, Gender Norms and Campus Rape Culture: Building Resistance from Below

Politeia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Selina Palm
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Rape Culture ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Religious Formation ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
South African Higher Education

In recent years, protests against campus rape culture at South African higher education institutions have attracted public attention. Despite strong constitutional provisions, a culture of sexual and gendered violence remains endemic in South Africa. In the light of the gap between legal forms and social norms, this article argues for building socio-political resistance from below that starts with exploring the lived experiences of young women. It therefore introduces the voice of one ordinary student who inhabits these spaces. She highlights the need for attention to be paid to the gendered social norms that underpin this culture of sexual violence, the possibilities of engaging men as allies and the important but ambiguous role of the Christian religion. Research suggests that bystanders like her can become important agents of change. The article concludes that the connections between hierarchical gender norms, religious formation and rape culture need further empirical engagement in South Africa if their power-laden roots are to be disrupted and reimagined.

ENT private eye for unknown primary metastatic lymph nodes

ORL ro ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (42) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Daniela Vrînceanu ◽  
Mihai Dumitru ◽  
Adriana Nica
Keyword(s):  
Lymph Nodes ◽  
Unknown Primary ◽  
Metastatic Lymph Nodes ◽  
Metastatic Lymph ◽  
Private Eye

A New Kind of Monster, Cowboy, and Crusader?

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-63
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Al-Jbouri ◽  
Shauna Pomerantz
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
New Man ◽  
Gender Neutrality

Representations of boys and men in Disney films often escape notice due to presumed gender neutrality. Considering this omission, we explore masculinities in films from Disney’s lucrative subsidiary Pixar to determine how masculinities are represented and have and/or have not disrupted dominant gender norms as constructed for young boys’ viewership. Using Raewyn Connell’s theory of gender hegemony and related critiques, we suggest that while Pixar films strive to provide their male characters with a feminist spin, they also continue to reify hegemonic masculinities through sharp contrasts to femininities and by privileging heterosexuality. Using a feminist textual analysis that includes the Toy Story franchise, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and Coco, we suggest that Pixar films, while offering audiences a “new man,” continue to reinforce hegemonic masculinities in subtle ways that require critical examination to move from presumed gender neutrality to an understanding of continued, though shifting, gender hegemony.

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