Dismembered Lives

2018 ◽  
pp. 87-121
Author(s):  
Long T. Bui
Keyword(s):  
Vietnamese American ◽  
South Vietnam ◽  
Community Based Art ◽  
The Media ◽  
Controversial Art ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
Art Exhibit ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
National Flag ◽  
Alternative Identities

This chapter uses the twin concepts of dismemberment and rememberment to investigate the media discourse surrounding a controversial art exhibit held in 2009 in Orange County, California involving mass protests by hundreds of people demonstrating against a community-based art exhibit for showcasing creative reinterpretations of the South Vietnamese national flag and Vietnamese women’s role, as proper gendered national subjects fueled a public outcry against the exhibit as profane, pro-communist trash. The chapter concludes by discussing the ban on LGBT people from the community’s annual new year TET parade, and how this had to do with more than homophobia, but South Vietnamese nationalism, which allows for no alternative identities within the diasporic family. This chapter ultimately aims to broaden the scope for studying Vietnamese American “homeland politics” by venturing to speak to the puzzling ways the overseas communities and identities formed by refugees from South Vietnam are shaped, circumscribed, and policed in the current day by the politics of anti-communism.

scholarly journals Arab Women and the Media

1970 ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Samira Aghacy
Keyword(s):  
Arab Women ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Sexual Roles ◽  
The Media ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Traditional Roles ◽  
Images Of Women

Despite changes emerging in contemporary society regarding women's role and contributions, the images of women represented in the media have not reflected these changes sufficiently enough. Women have generally been presented within the restrictive mold of domesticity and subservience reinforcing traditional roles andbehaviors where a woman is defined in relation to men who see her within the framework of marital, maternal and sexual roles.

scholarly journals Identifying psychological responses of stigmatized groups to referendums

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (15) ◽  
pp. 3816-3821 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Flores ◽  
Mark L. Hatzenbuehler ◽  
Gary J. Gates
Keyword(s):  
Minority Stress ◽  
Internal Validity ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Media Markets ◽  
The Media ◽  
Stigmatized Groups ◽  
Negative Ads ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
Media Market

Public votes and referendums on the rights of marginalized communities are utilized in 27 states and occur with some regularity. However, research has only recently begun to examine the psychological consequences of these voter referendums for members of stigmatized groups, and a number of important questions remain regarding the internal validity and generalizability of the existing evidence. The current study advances this literature by combining survey data from a large probability-based sample conducted in 2012 [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender (LGBT) n = 939; non-LGBT n = 31,067] with media market ad-buy data in states where marriage equality was on the ballot. Television media markets cross state boundaries, ensuring that there was an unintended group of people in 12 states who were exposed to the same-sex marriage discourse but who did not live in states with the voter referendum (“media market spillovers”). We take advantage of this unique data structure by comparing LGBT people in the media market spillovers to those residing in the same state but in nonspillover markets with no ad exposure. LGBT people are emotionally affected by these campaigns, and non-LGBT people are unaffected. LGBT people in markets with a cumulative total of 400 ads have a 34.0% greater probability of reporting stress than LGBT people not exposed to ads. Additionally, while the negative ads evoked sadness, positive ads evoked enjoyment and happiness. Thus, public votes on minority rights represent both a source of minority stress and resilience.

“Like We Lost Our Citizenship”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marguerite Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Vietnamese Americans ◽  
Educational Success ◽  
International Media ◽  
Vietnamese American ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Media ◽  
The City

This concluding chapter examines representations of Vietnamese Americans before and after Hurricane Katrina. The recuperation of American political and military might in the 1980s marked a transition in representations of Vietnamese Americans, as the New Orleans media began to focus on stories of Vietnamese American economic and educational “success.” Nevertheless, Vietnamese Americans lived more or less under the radar until about thirty years later, when they were once again thrust into the media limelight because of their quick return and recovery after Hurricane Katrina. Once potential objects of New Orleans exclusion, Vietnamese Americans now represented the city at its best, with national and international media outlets upholding the community's efforts as a story of hope and achievement in the aftermath of disaster.

Unsung Heroines: Media Reflections of the Social Conflict in South Africa

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-366
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH LE ROUX
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Final Report ◽  
The Public ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Women's Role

ABSTRACT This essay examines both media reports on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), and the TRC's final report, to determine the reasons why women are portrayed in the media — when they are portrayed at all — almost exclusively as victims. This author examines media reports which deal with the testimony of women who lived through the period of social conflict (1960 to 1994) covered by the TRC. Building on theories that argue that media can create as well as reflect reality, the authors shows that women were not adequately represented in the media reports on the TRC, and thus in the public mind, in spite of efforts to include them in the TRC process. Thus, although the TRC process may have been helpful to individual women, it can be argued that it has had little impact on how people view women's role in South Africa, and more generally in armed conflict and social unrest world-wide.

Double discrimination of elderly women in the media

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatjana Milivojević ◽  
Ljiljana Manić ◽  
Nataša Simeunović Bajić
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Media ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
And Gender

The topic of this article is the phenomenon of double, namely cross or additive discrimination against senior women in the media sphere. Many studies and articles are devoted to ageism, discrimination against the elderly and gender inequality as discrimination against women. Rarely and hardly ever in Serbia, research is focused on the topic of gender differences that determine the quality of life in old age. While some believe that gender inequality and stereotypes end with age, which is in itself a basis for discrimination, and that gender differences are equalized, others believe that gender differences are particularly pronounced in old age, especially when considering marginalized elderly populations such as elderly people belonging to the Roma nationality, people with disabilities, LGBT people and HIV-positive people. This article is a comprehensive literature review article. The authors applied theoretical and interpretative methods of research, discursive and critical thematic analysis. The interpretative method is based on the meanings and representation of different aspects of the issue. The main finding of this article is the existence and prevalence of a gap and contradiction between the reality of longer and better quality of life and outdated media representation of old age, especially of elderly women.

Diasporic South Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-86
Author(s):  
Hao Jun Tam
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
American Writer ◽  
Vietnamese American ◽  
South Vietnam ◽  
French Author ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Literary Archive

As Vietnam was caught in wartime narrative austerity from the 1950s to the 1970s, followed by the communist state’s intolerance of dissent, Vietnamese writers in the French and American diaspora have offered literary texts that challenge both Vietnamese discursive stricture and dominant perspectives in France and the United States. This essay studies two novel sequences from the diasporic Vietnamese literary archive: Vietnamese French author Ly Thu Ho’s trilogy and Vietnamese American writer Lan Cao’s pair of historical novels. Taking a historicist approach, the essay reveals complex nationalist expressions, aspirations, challenges, and desires in Ly Thu Ho’s and Lan Cao’s works of fiction.

Gender in US Foreign Relations

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Stur
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Home Front ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Military Interventions ◽  
Rogue States ◽  
World State ◽  
News Reports ◽  
South Vietnam ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media

Throughout US history, Americans have used ideas about gender to understand power, international relations, military behavior, and the conduct of war. Since Joan Wallach Scott called on scholars in 1986 to consider gender a “useful category of analysis,” historians have looked beyond traditional diplomatic and military sources and approaches to examine cultural sources, the media, and other evidence to try to understand the ideas that Americans have relied on to make sense of US involvement in the world. From casting weak nations as female to assuming that all soldiers are heterosexual males, Americans have deployed mainstream assumptions about men’s and women’s proper behavior to justify US diplomatic and military interventions in the world. State Department pamphlets describing newly independent countries in the 1950s and 1960s featured gendered imagery like the picture of a young Vietnamese woman on a bicycle that was meant to symbolize South Vietnam, a young nation in need of American guidance. Language in news reports and government cables, as well as film representations of international affairs and war, expressed gendered dichotomies such as protector and protected, home front and battlefront, strong and weak leadership, and stable and rogue states. These and other episodes illustrate how thoroughly gender shaped important dimensions about the character and the making of US foreign policy and historians’ examinations of diplomatic and military history.

Women, Wives and the Campaign against Pit Closures in County Durham: Understanding the Vane Tempest Vigil

1998 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Spence
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
The Political ◽  
Actual Situation ◽  
Political Campaign ◽  
Mining Communities ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Political Understanding

The majority of the women who campaigned to save the Vane Tempest Colliery from closure in 1993 were involved because of their political understanding and allegiances rather than as a consequence of their practical involvement in mining life. Even those women who were married to miners did not conform to the stereotypical conception of ‘miner's wife’. However, the supporting labour movement and the media persisted in conceptualizing the Women's Vigil through romantic and masculinist discourses of miners and mining communities which could only locate the women as ‘wives’, which confined the campaign within historical stereotypes no longer appropriate to the actual situation and which persistently set the idea of socialism against that of feminism. This not only situated the women's campaign as secondary and subject to that of the NUM but it also subverted the possibilities of the women fully articulating their own experience and understanding within the campaign. The situation was further complicated by memories of the miners’ strike of 1984–5 in which women played such an important role. One aspect of this role, that of maintaining mining families in the face of hardship, continued to inform understanding of the women's role in the fight to prevent closure, although it was no longer appropriate. The Women's Vigil engaged with a much wider set of concerns and with a wider range of individuals and groups than did that of the miners themselves. There were serious possibilities for broadening the political campaign around the women's slogan of ‘Jobs, community and environment’ which were never fully exploited because of the difficulties of admitting that women could inhabit any position other than that of ‘miners’ wives’. This experience of the Vane Tempest Vigil indicates the significance and the centrality of gender issues within class based political action.

scholarly journals Protests Against Controversial Art As a Political Strategy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gomes Karolina-Dzhoanna ◽  
Eyngorn Nonna Konstantinovna
Keyword(s):  
Religious Fundamentalism ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Moral Majority ◽  
Current State ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Controversial Art

The article discusses the phenomenon of politically motivated public outrage around art in Russia. The history of protests against art in Russia is relatively short but intense. Since 90’s there occurred a number of attacks on art, the majority of which were protests against art that in some way expressed criticism of current state policy or Russian Orthodox Church. It may seem that in Russia the moral majority decides the fate of controversial artistic events, but as this article argues, that conflicts around art are frequently used by religious fundamentalists and nationalist right-wing groups to pursue their own political agendas and gain popularity in the media. Keywords: hate spin, contemporary art, public censorship, offense, Russia, religious fundamentalism, SERB, vandalism

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