Strategies for Play

Gaming Sexism ◽

10.18574/nyu/9781479838523.003.0006 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 147-176

Author(s):

Amanda C. Cote

Keyword(s):

Gender Equality ◽

Media Environment ◽

General Terms

While the previous chapter discusses women’s engagement with game communities in general terms, this chapter lays out some of the specific strategies women employ to cope with the conflict between core and margins, demonstrating that they are capable managers of their media environment. From choosing an appropriate game to responding to harassment, women are willing and able to fight for equality in an unequal space. Their experiences also show that managing a conflicted identity involves a significant amount of work, and that within gaming, systems of power that valorize masculinity over femininity still exist. From women’s existing strategies, however, it is possible to see where developers or activists could make useful intercessions. In the casualized era, when counterhegemonic forces have started to undermine longstanding associations of gamers with specific, male audiences, these interventions could be particularly significant, starting the process of increasing gender equality in gaming.

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Critical Issues on Gender Equality and ICTs in Latin America

Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development - Politics, Protest, and Empowerment in Digital Spaces ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-1862-4.ch016 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 263-275

Author(s):

Aimée Vega Montiel

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Human Rights ◽

Latin America ◽

New Media ◽

Gender Equality ◽

Gender Inequality ◽

Digital Age ◽

Media Environment ◽

Critical Issues ◽

The Status

In the context of the new media environment, several social, political and economic divides are being produced. As the effects of those changes are not neutral, because of gender inequality, the status of women's human rights in the digital age are precarious. To what extent does the new media environment promote women's human and communication rights or contribute to sustaining the oppression of women in society? Based on the feminist political economy perspective, the aim of this paper is to analyze some of the critical issues on gender equality and ICTs in Latin America.1

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Purity

Redeeming Leadership ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781529200041.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 41-62

Author(s):

Helena Liu

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Gender Equality ◽

White Women ◽

Women In Leadership ◽

Professional Women ◽

White Masculinity ◽

White Femininity ◽

Feminine Subject

Having interrogated hegemonic white masculinity in the previous chapter, this chapter presents a critique of white femininity and the rise of postfeminism. Entrenched in imperialist notions of beauty, delicacy and purity, this chapter examines the fraught performances of white femininity in our current age as it attempts to balance between asserting dominance and maintaining an idealised innocence. The chapter investigates the ways organisations prioritise a white patriarchal feminine subject, for example, how research of women in leadership has overwhelmingly focussed on the needs and interests of elite professional women at the expense of queer, working-class and non-white women. Consequently, organisations waving the banner for ‘gender equality’ can often end up reproducing heterosexism, classism and racism. Carolyn McCall and Sheryl Sandberg’s media profiles are analysed to explore white femininities in leadership.

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Mainstreaming – et paradoksalt ligestillingsværktøj

Kvinder Køn & Forskning ◽

10.7146/kkf.v0i1.27934 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Lovise Brade ◽

Vibeke Holm Hansen ◽

Mette Lyshøj

Keyword(s):

Gender Equality ◽

Gender Mainstreaming ◽

Gender Gaps ◽

General Terms ◽

Definition Of

The gender mainstreaming strategy was formulated in general terms, thus creating an ‘empty’, yet broadly applicable and acceptable strategy for eliminating multiple kinds of gender gaps. This article constructs a definition of the concept of mainstreaming, and estimates the positive and negative properties of the strategy, concluding that the mainstreaming strategy continually generates a paradox. The paradox of mainstreaming is that the strategy will relinquish gender equality as an end in itself as it enters into the mainstream of any organisation that works with different primary goals. Thus in mainstreaming it is the abandonment of equality as the main objective that creates a unique opportunity for introducing equality strategies into organisations that would not take in a ‘traditional’ gender equality strategy.

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