scholarly journals Discourse on the shifting of local beauty: Concepts in an Easternization era

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Diana Puspitasari ◽  
Yudi Suryadi
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
White Skin ◽  
Construction Strategy ◽  
Concept Of Beauty ◽  
Beauty Products ◽  
Fair Skin

The desire to be beautiful among Indonesian women today is influenced by the construction of beauty from outside of the culture. The popular culture of parts of East Asia has entered Indonesia and the Eastern concept of beauty has brought in a different paradigm compared to the local beauty of the Indonesian people. This study is a descriptive qualitative study involving discourse analysis that examines the shift in the construction of beauty held by Indonesian women in the decades 1990-2000 and 2001-2010 through the cosmetic advertisements that appeared on television. Through this research, the shift in the concept of beauty and the discourse hidden behind the present construction of beauty will be revealed. The results found that in the early 1990s, Indonesian women were still oriented towards the reality of the condition that Indonesian women’s skin is tanned. This shifted to the concept of fair skin being preferred using traditional ethnic materials in Indonesia. From the 2000s up until the present, the increasingly popular culture of Japan and Korea has made Indonesian women want white skin like Japanese and Korean women. The change is driven by the desire to be beautiful by those who have experienced the shift in the discourse and beauty concept. Capitalists, as the owners of capital, always want to reap the benefits of every phenomenon that occurs in society. The use of different taglines on the beauty products is a beauty discourse construction strategy in itself and it is a form of symbolic violence against women.

The Experience of Violence Against Women Who Use Injection Drugs: An Exploratory Qualitative Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 084456212097957
Author(s):  
Cynthia Kitson ◽  
Patrick O’Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Homeless Women ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Infectious Disease Transmission ◽  
Injection Drugs ◽  
Authority Figures ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Societal Violence

Background While literature exists about persons who use injection drugs, few studies explore the experience of women who use these substances. Furthermore, even less research specifically focuses on the lives and experiences of homeless women who use injection drugs. What literature does exist, moreover, is often dated and primarily addresses concerns about infectious disease transmission among these women; and some highlight that these women have lives fraught with violence. Purpose To update this knowledge and better understand the lives of women who use injection drugs in the Canadian context. Methods We undertook an exploratory qualitative study and we engaged in semi-structured interviews with 31 homeless women who use injection drugs in downtown Ottawa, Canada. We analyzed the data using the principles of applied thematic analysis. Results Our data identified that violence pervaded the lives of our participants and that these experiences of violence could be categorized into three main areas: early and lifelong experiences of violence; violence with authority figures (e.g., police, healthcare); and societal violence toward women who use injection drugs. Conclusions We take these findings to mean that, violence toward women is rampant in Canada (not just internationally) and that healthcare workers play a role in propagating and addressing this violence.

scholarly journals Habitus and Symbolic Violence in Sar Culture, Merauke, Papua

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Trinovianto George Reinhard Hallatu ◽  
Darsono Wisadirana ◽  
Sholih Mu'adi ◽  
Anif Fatma Chawa
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Descriptive Method

The sar culture is the pre-existing culture of the Kanum tribe whose implementation is aimed to maintain and preserve nature. Sar culture not only has a positive influence on the environment, but it also represents symbolic violence against women and the Kanum people. This research is aimed to describe sar culture based on the theory of habitus and symbolic violence by Bourdieu. This research involved a qualitative descriptive method, in which the data was obtained from in-depth interviews with Kanum tribal head, Kanum tribe elders, and some village residents involved in sar, observation in Naukenjerai district, and supported by literature review. All collected data were then analyzed descriptively according to the concepts of habitus and symbolic violence by Bourdieu. The research results show that sar culture is a habitus resulting from an interaction between human beings and their nature that has existed for long before. Besides that, there is symbolic violence to the Kanum women and also to the Kaum people, which done by the Kanum men and the leaders of the Kanum tribe as the dominant actors.

scholarly journals Repercussions of imprisonment for conjugal violence: discourses of men

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anderson Reis de Sousa ◽  
Álvaro Pereira ◽  
Gilvânia Patrícia do Nascimento Paixão ◽  
Nadirlene Gomes Pereira ◽  
Luana Moura Campos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Emotional Symptoms ◽  
R Software ◽  
Conjugal Violence ◽  
Domestic Violence Against Women

ABSTRACT Objective: to know the consequences that men experience related to incarceration by conjugal violence. Methods: qualitative study on 20 men in jail and indicted in criminal processes related to conjugal violence in a Court specialized in Family and Domestic Violence against women. The interviews were classified based on Collective Subject Discourse method, using NVIVO(r) software. Results: the collective discourse shows that the experience of preventive imprisonment starts a process of family dismantling, social stigma, financial hardship and psycho-emotional symptoms such as phobia, depression, hypertension, and headaches. Conclusion: due to the physical, mental and social consequences of the conjugal violence-related imprisonment experience, it is urgent to look carefully into the somatization process as well as to the prevention strategies regarding this process.

Life after the Storm: Voices of Women Survivors of Domestic Violence

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria P. Padilla
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Family ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Happy Family ◽  
Keywords Domestic Violence

Life is certainly not a fairytale and in this kind of situation, “happily ever after” is not very common. These are the stories of five women-survivors of domestic violence who dreamed of having a happy family, but in the end, their dreams contradicted reality. This interpretivist qualitative study was designed to look into a deeper understanding of collective accounts of women-survivors of domestic violence. The narrative inquiry was employed using the in-depth interview method. The study revealed that these women experienced various forms of domestic violence and were caused by men’s bad habits, problems arising from the family, and jealousy of a man or a woman. Several strategies were employed by these women to improve their lives. This tough decision to free themselves from the abuse made them better individuals, developed a stronger bond with their children, and increased faith in God.   Keywords - Domestic Violence, Violence against Women, and Children, Survivors

Disengaging Parents in Urban Schooling

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 674-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn McGinn Luet
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Parental Engagement ◽  
The Other ◽  
Community Cultural Wealth ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Urban School District ◽  
Urban Schooling ◽  
Cultural Wealth

Drawing on a 5-year qualitative study, this article explores opportunities for and barriers to parental engagement in a small, urban school district. Two competing narratives of parental involvement emerge. In one, parents describe their reluctance to engage formally in a district that continually fails their children. In the other, stakeholders argue that schools will not improve until parents become involved. Data demonstrate that many parents actively support their children’s education, exhibiting various forms of what Yosso terms “community cultural wealth.” This article concludes by questioning the claim that parents are not involved, utilizing Bourdieu’s theories of symbolic capital and symbolic violence to explain the prevalence of this discourse of disengagement.

Men, Physical Activity, and the Obesity Discourse: Critical Understandings from a Qualitative Study

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee F. Monaghan
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Healthy Weight ◽  
Obesity Discourse

This article explores men’s talk about physical activity, weight, health and slimming. Drawing from qualitative data from men whom medicine might label overweight or obese, it outlines various ideal typical ways of orienting to the idea that physical activity promotes “healthy” weight loss before exploring the most critical display of perspective: justifiable resistance and defiance. This gendered mode of accountability comprises numerous themes. These range from the inefficiency of physical activity in promoting weight loss to resisting imposed discipline. Theoretically and politically, these data are read as a situationally fitting and meaningful response to “symbolic violence” in a field of “masculine domination” (Bourdieu 2001)—that is, a society in which fatness is routinely discredited as feminine and feminizing filth by institutions that are publicly reinforcing and amplifying fatphobic norms or sizism.

scholarly journals Body, Gender, and Power Problematics Manifested in Arab Revolutions

1970 ◽  
pp. 8-21
Author(s):  
Awatef Ketiti
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Collective Phenomena ◽  
Islamic Movements ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Spaces ◽  
Gender And Power ◽  
And Gender

Over the course of Arab revolutions, many individual and collective phenomena and behaviours emerged, proving the importance of sex and gender in the concretization of the concepts of authority, and the methods of addressing them in both the public and the private spaces. Among such occurrences are the exacerbation of physical and symbolic violence against women, the frequency of violence, rape, trafficking, and child marriages, all of which have increased to the beat of religious fatwas and new laws that oppose women’s citizenship and humanity. The rise to power of Islamic movements has nurtured and further fuelled these phenomena, unveiling the extent to which these currents rely on gender and women as a cornerstone for their discourse.

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