scholarly journals GENDER IDEOLOGY: AN ANALYSIS OF ITS DISPUTED MEANINGS

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1001-1022
Author(s):  
Cynthia Lins Hamlin
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Culture War ◽  
Gender Discourse ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Theories ◽  
Truth Production

Abstract In the last few years, a number of genealogical studies have been published about recent historical processes that enabled the emergence of the discourse on “gender ideology” as a “weapon in the culture war.” As some of these studies suggest, what is at stake is an alternative project of knowledge and truth production. Little or no attention, however, has been given to the meanings of gender ideology internal to feminist and gender theories. Rejecting the idea that gender ideology can be reduced to a straw man produced by a conservative agenda, I propose a brief history of ideas associated with the concept, foregrounding the work of sociologist Viola Klein, whose reflections on the sociology of knowledge represent one of the first academic investigations of gender ideology. In illustrating the plethora of meanings associated with the concept, I argue that they converge towards a radical negation of the anti-gender discourse of the global right.

Toward a History of Ideas in the Sahel

2021 ◽  
pp. 480-492
Author(s):  
Felwine Sarr
Keyword(s):  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
History Of Thought ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
History Of

This chapter is an attempt to sketch out a prolegomenon to a “history of thought” in the Sahel. It investigates key periods, historical figures, and a library of documents, while also addressing some of the methodological issues raised by the specific conditions and history of the Sahel. It proposes a cartography of the circuits and networks of transmission of knowledge that developed over the centuries in the region and facilitated the production of ideas. Mapping the production of ideas, the chapter explores historical processes, such as the spread of Islam, and modalities of expression to reveal common matrixes, modes of circulation, and exchanges, and uncover their dominant functions in the sociocultural and political dynamics of the Sahel.

scholarly journals The noon of Serbian avant-garde

2008 ◽  
pp. 53-73
Author(s):  
Pavle Milenkovic
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
European Values ◽  
History Of ◽  
Kingdom Of Yugoslavia

This paper deals with artistic and social ideas of the founder and representative of zenithism in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, i.e. Serbia Ljubomir Micic, in the light of history of ideas, i.e. sociology of knowledge. Activities of this writer and his fellows published in the journal Zenith are seen as representative for the period of the 1920s for the Serbian avant-garde between the two world wars. Special attention is paid to the ideas of Balkan barbarism, i.e. barbarogenius, to ideological ambivalence of Micic and the zenithists between the western ideas and Slavic and pro-Russian ideas, and to their views on Balkan identity and its relation to Europe and European values. .

Islands, the Humanities and environmental conservation

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-110
Author(s):  
GARRY W. TROMPF
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Island Conservation ◽  
Historical Materials ◽  
The Social ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
And Gender

SUMMARYThis paper concerns itself with the contributions that the Humanities make to the understanding of islands and their bettered environmental conservation. Most distinctively, the Humanities comprise Literary Studies, Studies in Art and Culture (including Indigenous and Gender Studies) and Philosophy (with Aesthetics and the History of Ideas), but they also encompass Archaeology, History, Linguistics, Studies in Religion and, of late, Media and Communication Studies, even though members of this latter cluster frequently deploy methods from the social sciences. The goal here is to explore many of the implications such Human Studies and their sub-branches may have for island conservation, above all informed by the History of Ideas, in order to introduce the relevant key issues and inter-relationships and offer the most judicious illustrative materials. Variances in the reach and special attention of all these branches of knowledge are vast and intricate, while complex relativities apply both in the types of island situations and in expectations about what can or should be conserved. Since the mass of apposite discussions in the literature cannot possibly be summarized here, this article circumvents the difficulties by means of a special double-edged review. It ranges over the history of human consciousness of insular worlds, as reflected in mythic, legendary and historical materials, yet en route it uncovers how Humanities research can elucidate the human responses to islands through known time and shows how developing meaning-making has generally enhanced the appeal of sea-locked environments as worth conserving.

THE GROWTH OF RACE AND CULTURE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMANY: GUSTAV KLEMM AND THE UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF HUMANITY

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRIS MANIAS
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Linear Model ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
System A ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Race And Culture

The German ethnologist Gustav Klemm (1802–67) occupies a rather problematic position in the history of ideas, alternately hailed as a seminal figure in the development of concepts of race and culture, or belittled as a rather derivative marginal thinker. This article seeks to clarify Klemm's significance by rooting his theories in their contemporary intellectual and social context. It argues that his system, a linear model of human development driven by the interworkings of race and culture, grew from an attempt to synthesize Enlightenment notions of universal progress with major shifts of the mid-nineteenth century, including experiences of dramatic social, political and technological change, commitments to constitutional liberalism, and changes in contemporary ethnology and museology. His works therefore illustrate the complex manners in which ideas of heredity, environment, civilization, development and gender could be blended in this often neglected period, and how their meanings and implications altered as syntheses were built.

When gender studies becomes a threatening religion

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-300
Author(s):  
Lena Martinsson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
The State ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Strong Connection ◽  
Gender Discourse ◽  
Single Body ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Church

The transnational anti-gender movement often has a strong connection to conservative religious organisations. However, even if the anti-gender movement is easy to recognise in Sweden, it is impossible for it to propagate significant opposition to gender mainstreaming and gender studies by using the Church as a reference due to white Swedish people’s established and neo-colonial image of Sweden as exceptional, secular, modern, and a gender equal and tolerant nation. The aim of this article is to analyse how a transnational anti-gender discourse transforms and produces fear in a Swedish context. In focus is the editorial writer for Svenska Dagbladet, one of Sweden’s most influential newspapers, Ivar Arpi and his critical articles and expressions in social media on gender studies and gender mainstreaming. The material shows that instead of connecting to religion in order to dismiss gender studies, gender studies is understood as the religion and conspiracy of our time, governing the state and its citizens. Drawing on Sara Ahmed, I argue that it is possible to follow how words and discourses act in affective ways and how gender studies, gender ideology and gender mainstreaming become a single body that inspires fear.

THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF SHIءI MODERNISM: MORALITY AND GENDER IN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY LEBANON

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 270a-270a
Author(s):  
Max Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Culture War ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
French Mandate ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Monthly Journal ◽  
The Relationship

This article contributes to the history of Shiء Islam in Lebanon under the French Mandate by looking at Shiءi religious and cultural engagements with the problem of gender. In the first section, religious treatises written by ءulamaʿ in the context of a politicized “culture war” waged over the proposed reformation of ءAshuraʿ mourning practices during the 1920s and 1930s are analyzed to elucidate the relationship between idealised gender behavior and religious practice. In the second section the Shiءi modernist monthly journal al-ءIrfan is utilized to show how it advocated certain “proper” roles for men and women in an adequately pious Shiءi society. Finally, jokes and other materials published in al-ءIrfan are examined to demonstrate how multifaceted gender norms were in Shiءi Lebanon. These sources paint a rich historical portrait of Shiءi cultural politics by complicating conventional conceptualizations of Shiءi society under the Mandate and illustrating how Shiءi cultural identities have been produced and negotiated over time.

scholarly journals Consumption, Man, and Gender: Historical and Philosophical Analyses (the Example of Early Soviet Society)

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Sociology Of Consumption

The research is directed on the field of history of consumption’s expansion, as well as inclined to the understanding of the gender standards and models in consumption. It is based on the theoretical achievements of gender studies, philosophy and sociology of consumption. Whereas consumption is a process that is closely connected with a gender perspective, it forces to examine the issue of constructing gender by means of consumption. Thus authors used attention the cross-disciplinary methodological approach, which allows to explore the interrelations between gender and consumption. It has been considered the way of construction feminity and masculinity in the everyday practices, as well as the formation of gender models and standards in consumption irrespectively of the career level or material status of the research actors. The case study of this article are the construction of feminity and masculinity in the everyday consumer practices in the early Soviet society, which allows to “open” the new faces of Soviet social history – consumers. Making historical analogies provides opportunity for a critical understanding of the Soviet ideological project devoted to the constructing of a "new Soviet man" and "new Soviet consumer". Despite the proclaimed principle of gender equality by the Bolshevik authorities, these changes did not significantly transform the everyday consumer practices, because in the sphere of domestic consumption most of the functions were still performed by women. However, the development of consumption had influenced the emergence of gender ideology, which resulted in expanding the opportunities for women to work in the sphere of production and distribution of consumer goods and services, as well as intensified their political participation.

“I can give you money but there is no use. The best thing I [can] give you is education.” Negotiating Educational Migration and Gender in a Chinese Malaysian family

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-84
Author(s):  
Viola Thimm
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Female Self ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Educational Migration ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
And Gender ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Empirical Material

AbstractOver the past two decades, Singapore has steadily become a popular destination for migrants. While the reasons for migrating to Singapore are many and contextual, labour and education have been the primary driving factors for attracting migrants from around the world to Singapore. Although a popular migrants’ destination, education and migration policies in Singapore are often gendered, and are negotiated along and across other axes of identification and differentiation such as ethnicity and ideas of ‘modernity’. This article analyses gendered educational migration from Malaysia to Singapore focusing particularly on how educational migration leads to female self-transformation. Specifically, I argue that social actors negotiate educational migration within their gendered family constellations. The article first contextualises the empirical material by illustrating socio-historical processes in Singapore and Malaysia. In the next sections, I discuss my ethnographic methods and examine a brief history of the state of research in gender and educational migration. In conclusion, I offer a significant contribution to the growing and important body of scholarship on gender and transnational families by illustrating how gender is negotiated in migration using the case of a single Chinese woman's migration journey to becoming a ‘modern woman’.

Experience and Ideas: Education for Universalism in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

1983 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Camic
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship

The nature of the relationship between ideas and the social conditions in which they develop has long been among the central concerns of fields like the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of intellectuals, and the social history of ideas. For generations, scholars in these areas have hotly debated the proper way of characterizing the form of this relationship and how it should be conceptualized and studied. With few exceptions, however, there has been an astonishing consensus on one matter: fundamental intellectual reorientations have almost invariably been seen as the product—whether simple or complex—of one or more major social changes. As far as it has gone, this perspective has led to extremely important conclusions, but except among the psychoanalytically inclined, it has remained strangely and regrettably silent on the specific micro-level processes by which macro-level social changes actually translate into changes in ideas.

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