scholarly journals Rosalind and "Śakuntalā" among the Ascetics: Reading Gender and Female Sexual Agency in a Bengali Adaptation of "As You Like It"

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (33) ◽  
pp. 93-114
Author(s):  
Abhishek Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Gender Politics ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Agency ◽  
As You Like It ◽  
Favourite Topic

My article examines how the staging of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare’s play As You Like It is negotiated in a Bengali adaptation, Ananga-Rangini (1897) by the little-known playwright Annadaprasad Basu. The Bengali adaptation does not assume the boy actor’s embodied performance as essential to its construction of the Rosalindequivalent, and thereby it misses several of the accents on gender and sexuality that characterize Shakespeare’s play. The Bengali adaptation, while accommodating much of Rosalind’s flamboyance, is more insistent upon the heteronormative closure and reconfigures the Rosalind-character as an acquiescent lover/wife. Further, Ananga-Rangini incorporates resonances of the classical Sanskrit play Abhijñānaśākuntalam by Kālidāsa, thus suggesting a thematic interaction between the two texts and giving a concrete shape to the comparison between Shakespeare and Kālidāsa that formed a favourite topic of literary debate in colonial Bengal. The article takes into account how the Bengali adaptation of As You Like It may be influenced by the gender politics informing Abhijñānaśākuntalam and by the reception of this Sanskrit play in colonial Bengal.

scholarly journals Unqueering Transgender? A Queer Geography of Transnormativity in Two Online Communities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Fred Joseph LeBlanc
Keyword(s):  
Online Communities ◽  
Hormone Replacement ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sex Reassignment Surgery ◽  
Sex Reassignment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Politics Of Difference ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Gender Performances

<p>This research implicates gender in the study of sexuality and suggests a genealogy of transgender that consists of both the medicalisation of transsexuality and the articulation of gender performances in gay liberation’s politics of difference. While the transgender subject is often idealised in queer discourses, this research positions the transsexual (one articulation of transgender) as normative: conservative gender politics, the ontological separation of gender and sexuality that echoes assimilationist gay and lesbian politics, an identity based on essentialist biology and psychiatric “wrong body” discourses, and the privileging of passing technologies such as hormone replacement therapies and sex reassignment surgery (themselves justified though the elaboration of wrong body discourses). Further to this, the public rendering of some transgender bodies as nonconformist results in violence and the need to explore alternate spaces of being, namely the internet which has the potential to build community, raise consciousness of gender and transgender oppression, but can also be used to legitimate transnormative (re)productions of the self. The analysis of two online communities of transgender individuals shows the most frequent users tended to be transsexual and privileging conservative gender politics and an essentialist medical etiology of transsexuality. Users were also typically more knowledgeable in passing biotechnologies than some medical professionals. In one community that are tailored to transgender individuals, subjects felt at ease to discuss a variety of topics and explore the complications of transgender. In the second community, tailored towards feminists in general, transgender issues were addressed in a more confrontational manner, often exposing the transphobic nature of some feminisms.</p>

As You Like It

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Shaughnessy
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Performance History ◽  
As You Like It ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sexual Ambiguity ◽  
The Rich ◽  
And Gender

This book examines the modern performance history of one of Shakespeare’s best-loved and most enduring comedies, and one that has given opportunities for generations of theatre-makers and theatre-goers to explore the pleasures of pastoral, gender masquerade and sexual ambiguity. Powered by Shakespeare’s greatest female comic role, the play invites us into a deeply English woodland that has also been imagined as a space of dreams. Beginning with the situation of the play in the context of early modern rehearsal and theatre practice, the book’s seven chapters successively examine the rich interplay between performance histories, changing relations with the natural world, and gender politics.

scholarly journals Special issue: African Canadians, gender, and sexuality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanne Jean-Pierre ◽  
Lance Mccready
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sexual Agency ◽  
Empirical Knowledge ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Black African ◽  
African Canadian

This is the introduction to a special issue, focusing on African Canadians, gender and sexuality. This special issue adds to the body of empirical knowledge about gender and sexuality and how they relate to identities, structures, and systems within African Canadian communities. All of the articles feature qualitative inquiries. These were conducted in Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia and focused on education, policing, sexual agency and romantic relationships.<div><br></div><div>Keywords: Black; African Canadians; Race; Gender; Sexuality; Intersectionality</div>

Gender and sexuality in the authoritarian discursive strategies of ‘New Turkey’

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dilek Cindoglu ◽  
Didem Unal
Keyword(s):  
Main Tool ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Gender Regime ◽  
Turkish Politics ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Political Realm

In the last decade, discourse on sexuality has proliferated more than ever in the political realm in Turkey. The discursive utilization of women’s bodies and sexualities has appeared as the main tool to consolidate a conservative gender regime and the heterosexual family with children is promoted as the basic unit to reinforce hegemonic moral values and norms. This article aims to disentangle the intricate patchwork in the Justice and Development Party’s (JDP) gender politics, which is geared towards ensuring pervasive control of women’s bodies and sexualities. Within this framework, this article investigates the proliferation of the discourse on women’s bodies and sexualities in Turkish politics by delving into the constitutive factors of the JDP’s hegemonic gender politics and examining the narrative lines in recent public debates on women’s sexualities.

scholarly journals Special Issue: African Canadians, Gender, and Sexuality/ Édition spéciale: Les afro-canadiens, le genre et la sexualité

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 311-318
Author(s):  
Johanne Jean-Pierre ◽  
Lance McCready
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sexual Agency ◽  
Empirical Knowledge ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
African Canadian

This is the introduction to a special issue, focusing on African Canadians, gender and sexuality. This special issue adds to the body of empirical knowledge about gender and sexuality and how they relate to identities, structures, and systems within African Canadian communities. All of the articles feature qualitative inquiries. These were conducted in Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia and focused on education, policing, sexual agency and romantic relationships.

The Desiring Subject: Female Pleasures and Feminist Resistance in Deepa Mehta's Fire

2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brinda Bose
Keyword(s):  
Gender Politics ◽  
Sexual Preference ◽  
Sexual Agency ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Sexual Choices ◽  
The Look ◽  
In Fire

Analysing Deepa Mehta's recent controversial film Fire, which portrays lesbian love between two sisters-in-law, both of them slighted in marriage by their respective partners, as a recourse against and resistance to patriarchal oppression, we find Mehta's portrayal guilty of watering down the politics of lesbian desire—as sexual preference within a larger sphere of sexual choices. Moreover, Mehta's location as an Indo-Canadian filmmaker must also be taken into account when judging Fire's gender politics. In recent Canadian cinema, a considerable emphasis is placed on the sexual agency of female protagonists, both as bearers of the 'look' (famously ascribed by Laura Mulvey to male viewers alone), as well as free choosers of sexual lifestyles. In Fire, however, by contrast, the protagonists' love and escape are matters of necessity, both seem ingly still driven by the male (non-) desiring gaze.

“The World of Grand Union”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Yang
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Political Expression ◽  
The World

Hetalia: Axis Powers (2006–) is one of the most popular Japanese comic and anime series in China in recent years. Through a critical analysis of diverse fan discourses and two canonical fanzines, this chapter examines the intersections between gender politics and geopolitics, nationalism and transnationalism, and localization and globalization in online Chinese Hetalia fandom. The Hetalia boom in China shows that BL not only can function as a tool to reshape configurations of gender and sexuality, it can also be employed by young women and others as a vehicle for political expression.

scholarly journals Unqueering Transgender? A Queer Geography of Transnormativity in Two Online Communities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Fred Joseph LeBlanc
Keyword(s):  
Online Communities ◽  
Hormone Replacement ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sex Reassignment Surgery ◽  
Sex Reassignment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Politics Of Difference ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Gender Performances

<p>This research implicates gender in the study of sexuality and suggests a genealogy of transgender that consists of both the medicalisation of transsexuality and the articulation of gender performances in gay liberation’s politics of difference. While the transgender subject is often idealised in queer discourses, this research positions the transsexual (one articulation of transgender) as normative: conservative gender politics, the ontological separation of gender and sexuality that echoes assimilationist gay and lesbian politics, an identity based on essentialist biology and psychiatric “wrong body” discourses, and the privileging of passing technologies such as hormone replacement therapies and sex reassignment surgery (themselves justified though the elaboration of wrong body discourses). Further to this, the public rendering of some transgender bodies as nonconformist results in violence and the need to explore alternate spaces of being, namely the internet which has the potential to build community, raise consciousness of gender and transgender oppression, but can also be used to legitimate transnormative (re)productions of the self. The analysis of two online communities of transgender individuals shows the most frequent users tended to be transsexual and privileging conservative gender politics and an essentialist medical etiology of transsexuality. Users were also typically more knowledgeable in passing biotechnologies than some medical professionals. In one community that are tailored to transgender individuals, subjects felt at ease to discuss a variety of topics and explore the complications of transgender. In the second community, tailored towards feminists in general, transgender issues were addressed in a more confrontational manner, often exposing the transphobic nature of some feminisms.</p>

scholarly journals Special issue: African Canadians, gender,and sexuality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanne Jean-Pierre ◽  
Lance Mccready
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sexual Agency ◽  
Empirical Knowledge ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Black African ◽  
African Canadian

This is the introduction to a special issue, focusing on African Canadians, gender and sexuality. This special issue adds to the body of empirical knowledge about gender and sexuality and how they relate to identities, structures, and systems within African Canadian communities. All of the articles feature qualitative inquiries. These were conducted in Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia and focused on education, policing, sexual agency and romantic relationships. Keywords: Black; African Canadians; Race; Gender; Sexuality; Intersectionality

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