scholarly journals Monstrous Women

PhaenEx ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 125 ◽  
Author(s):  
DIANNA TAYLOR
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Collège De France ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Gendered Power ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Insight Into

In this paper I argue that “monstrous” women – violators of both moral and gender norms – mark the limits of acceptable behavior through such violation and thus provide particular insight into the workings of gendered power relations within contemporary western societies.  Drawing upon Michel Foucault’s 1975 College de France course titled Abnormal, I begin by arguing that gendered power relations in western societies can be characterized as “normalizing.”  Next, I refer to Foucault’s discussion of “natural” and “moral” monsters in order to provide a sketch of the monstrous woman, and then show how specific monstrous women violate moral and gender norms.  By way of conclusion I argue that the figure of the monstrous women is not wholly negative but rather ambivalent.  As Foucault asserts, monsters are “limit figures;” monstrous women challenge limits – including prevailing norms governing the feminine and the human – in ways that render them explicit such that they are denaturalized and ultimately opened up to critical interrogation.

Men who are Dietitians: Deconstructing Gender within the Profession to Inform Recruitment

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-212
Author(s):  
Phillip Joy ◽  
Brandon Gheller ◽  
Daphne Lordly
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
The Status ◽  
Division Ii ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Recruitment Barriers ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose: In Canada, few men are dietitians. Literature is sparse regarding why so few men are drawn to dietetics. This study, part of a larger qualitative study, explores the experiences of men who are dietitians throughout their training and careers using a phenomenology framework. The study examines the meanings participants make about dietetics in relation to recruitment.Methods: Semi-structured individual interviews with 6 men who are dietitians were completed, transcribed, and analyzed.Results: An overarching theme, “experiences and outcomes of a gendered profession”, was related to the participants’ perspectives concerning recruitment into the dietetic profession. Four sub-themes are reported: (i) societal gender division, (ii) gender division within the profession, (iii) isolation from men who are mentors and other men, and (iv) the need to deconstruct and change. The results provide insight into recruitment barriers and potential approaches for increasing the number of men within dietetics, including changing the perceptions of the profession, increasing role models for men, and dismantling gendered practices.Conclusion: Participants believed that increasing men within dietetics would be beneficial and would increase diversity. It is unlikely that recruitment of men will increase if the status quo and gender norms of the profession are not disrupted and challenged.

How Do Women at Risk of HIV/AIDS in Iran Perceive Gender Norms and Gendered Power Relations in the Context of Safe Sex Negotiations?

2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 873-881 ◽  
Author(s):  
Razieh Lotfi ◽  
Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani ◽  
Effat Merghati Khoei ◽  
Farideh Yaghmaei ◽  
Shari L. Dworkin
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Safe Sex ◽  
Gendered Power ◽  
Hiv Aids

Engendering Suspicion: Homosexual Panic in the Post-Soviet Detektiv

Slavic Review ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-42
Author(s):  
Brian James Baer
Keyword(s):  
Gender Norms ◽  
Detective Story ◽  
Soviet Culture ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Male Bonds ◽  
Homosexual Panic ◽  
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ◽  
Being And Becoming

This article examines the workings of the sexual closet within the enormously popular genre of the Russian detektiv, or detective story. Informed by the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and D. A. Miller, the article focuses on the dramatization of homosexual panic among various male characters in Aleksandra Marinina's Stilist (1996) and Boris Akunin's Koronatsiia (2001) in order to explore the experience of masculine subjectivity in post-Soviet culture. In both novels, a perceived crisis in patriarchal authority unleashes suspicions and anxieties regarding the experience of being and becoming a man, which is defined against the feminine and the homosexual. Figured both as an effect of and as a threat to male-male bonds, homosexual panic testifies to the interiorization of sexual and gender norms, which makes being male a highly self-conscious enterprise and fuels nostalgia for a mythic time before the appearance of homosexuality.

scholarly journals Feminism, gender and power in Kurdish Studies: An interview with Prof. Shahrzad Mojab

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-111
Author(s):  
Marlene Schäfers
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
Kurdish Women ◽  
Gendered Power ◽  
Gender And Power ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
Insight Into

In this interview, Prof. Shahrzad Mojab reflects on her longstanding personal, political, and intellectual engagement with Kurdish women. Twenty years after publishing the ground-breaking edited volume Women of a Non-State Nation: The Kurds (Mazda Publishers, 2001), Mojab assesses the complex relation between Kurdish Studies and feminism and evaluates current discussions regarding gendered power relations in Kurdish scholarship. Gender relations in Kurdish society and in Kurdish Studies can only be understood, she insists, when taking into account how gender intersects with capitalism, class, colonialism, nationalism, and patriarchy. Through her personal trajectory, the interview offers insight into the historical developments that have facilitated Kurdish women to increasingly be included in Kurdish Studies as both researchers and research participants. Abstract in Kurmanji Femînîzm, zayend û hêz di Xebatên Kurdî de: Hevpeyvînek ligel Prof. Shahrzad Mojab Di vê hevpeyvînê de, Prof. Shahrzad Mojab eleqeya xwe demdirêj a şexsî, siyasî û entelektuel ya ligel jinên kurd nîşan dide. Bîst sal piştî weşandina Women of a Non-State Nation: The Kurds [Jinên Neteweya Bêdewlet: Kurd] (Weşanên Mazdayê, 2001), Mojab têkiliya tevlîhev a di navbera Xebatên Kurdî û femînîzmê de; û nîqaşên nûjen yên di derbarê têkiliyên hêzê yên reng-zayendî yên di akademiya kurdî de dinirxîne. Têkiliyên zayendî yên di civaka kurd û Xebatên Kurdî de, ew îdia dike, hew ew çax dikare were fehmkirin ku bê qebûlkirin ka çawa zayend bi kapîtalîzm, sinif, kolonyalîzm, netewperwerî û bavsalariyê re tevlîhev e. Bi rêgeya xwe ya şexsî, ev hevpeyvîn pêşkêşiya fehmeke bûyerên dîrokî dike ku rê vekirin jinên kurd bi hejmareke zêde, hem weke lêkolîner hem jî weke beşdarên lêkolînan bikevin nav Xebatên Kurdî. Abstract in Sorani Fêmînîzm, cender û hêz le twêjînewey kurdîda: Dîmaneyek legell profîsor şehrezad mocab  Lem dîmaneyeda, profîsor şehrezad mocab tîşk dexateser têkellîye kesî û siyasî û hizrîye dûrudrêjekanî xoy legell jinanî kurd. Bîst sall dway billawkirdnewey bergî  pêşenganey "jinanî netewey-nadewlletî: kurdekan (dezgay bllawkirdnewey mazda, 2001) , mocab peywendî allozî nêwan twêjînewey kurdî û fîmînîzm helldesengênêt û giftugoy êstaş derbarey peywendîyekanî cenderî le twêjînewey kurdîda denrixênêt. Ew pêleser ewe dadegrêt ke tenha katêk detwanîn le peywendî cênderî le komellgay kurdî û le twêjînewey kurdîda têbgeyn ke ewe leberçaw bigrîn ke çon cênder legell sermayedarî, çîn, kolloniyalîzm, nasiyonalîzm, we pyawsalarî yekdebrrêt. Le ruwangey rêrrewî şexsî xoyewe, çawpêkewtneke tîşk dexate ser ew peresendne mêjûyyaney ke karasanî bo jinanî kurd kirduwe ta ziyatir bixrêne naw twêjînewey kurdî hem wek twêjer û hem wek beşdarbûy twêjînewe.   Abstract in Zazaki Kurdnasîye de femînîzm, cinsîyet û hêz: Prof. Şahrzad Mojab reyde roportajêk  Nê roportajî de Profesore Şahrzad Mojab angajmanê xo yo kesî, sîyasî û roşnvîrîyo derg ke  cinîkanê kurdan ser o da, ey ana ra ziwan. Vîşt serrî weşanayîşê eserê xo yê înovatîfî Women of a Non-State Nation: The Kurds (Cinîkê Neteweya Bêdewlete: Kurdî, Weşanê Mazda, 2001) ra pey, Majob têkilîya komplekse mabênê kurdnasîye û femînîzmî de û munaqeşeyê ke no taw zereyê cigêrayîşanê kurdan de derheqê têkilîyanê cinsîyetkerdeyan de yenê kerdene, înan erjnena. A israr kena ke têkilîyê cinsîyetî yê komelê kurdan û kurdnasîye tena fehm benê eke merdim çatrayîrê cinsîyetî bi kapîtalîzm, sinife, kolonyalîzm, neteweperwerîye û patrîarkîye kî tey bihesibno. Pê raywanîya Majob a şexsîye no roportaj roştî dano averşîyayîşanê tarîxîyan ke cinîkanê kurdan rê rayîr kerd ra ke ê hîna zêde hem sey cigêrayoxan hem zî sey hetkaranê cigêrayoxan tewrê kurdnasîye bibê.

The Subaltern Speak- A Study On The Culture Of The Arunachalis With Special Reference To Mamang Dai’s The Legends Of Pensam

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-20
Author(s):  
Ms. Cheryl Antonette Dumenil ◽  
Dr. Cheryl Davis
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Small World ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Arunachal Pradesh ◽  
North East India ◽  
North East ◽  
Shared History ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Insight Into

North- East India is an under veiled region with an awe-inspiring landscape, different groups of ethnic people, their culture and heritage. Contemporary writers from this region aspire towards a vision outside the tapered ethnic channel, and they represent a shared history. In their writings, the cultural memory is showcased, and the intensity of feeling overflows the labour of technique and craft. Mamang Dai presents a rare glimpse into the ecology, culture, life of the tribal people and history of the land of the dawn-lit mountains, Arunachal Pradesh, through her novel The Legends of Pensam. The word ‘Pensam’ in the title means ‘in-between’,  but it may also be interpreted as ‘the hidden spaces of the heart’. This is a small world where anything can happen. Being adherents of the animistic faith, the tribes here believe in co-existence with the natural world along with the presence of spirits in their forests and rivers. This paper attempts to draw an insight into the culture and gender of the Arunachalis with special reference to The Legends of Pensam by Mamang Dai.

scholarly journals Special Symposium: Social and gender norms and violence against children: exploring their role and strategies for prevention

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 815-819
Author(s):  
Anjalee Kohli ◽  
Ni Luh Putu Maitra Agastya ◽  
Ben Cislaghi ◽  
Marie-Celine Schulte
Keyword(s):  
Gender Norms ◽  
Violence Against Children ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Special Symposium

scholarly journals Asymmetric Power Relations in Gynaecological Consultations for Cervical Cancer Prevention: Biomedical and Gender Issues

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 7850
Author(s):  
Carla Freijomil-Vázquez ◽  
Denise Gastaldo ◽  
Carmen Coronado ◽  
María-Jesús Movilla-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Intraepithelial Neoplasia ◽  
Cervical Cancer Prevention ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Biomedical Knowledge ◽  
Asymmetric Power ◽  
And Gender

A generic qualitative research, using a poststructuralist feminist perspective, was conducted in a Spanish gynaecology unit with the following aims: (a) to analyse how asymmetric power relations in relation to biomedical knowledge and gender shape the medical encounters between gynaecologists and women diagnosed with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and (b) to explore the cognitive, moral, and emotional responses expressed by patients. A total of 21 women diagnosed with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia were recruited through purposive sampling. Semi-structured interviews were recorded and transcribed, and a thematic analysis was carried out. Two major themes were identified: (a) gendered relations in cervical intraepithelial neoplasia medical encounters are based on hidden, judgmental moral assumptions, making women feel irresponsible and blamed for contracting the human papillomavirus infection; (b) biomedical power is based on the positivist assumption of a single truth (scientific knowledge), creating asymmetric relations rendering women ignorant and infantilised. Women reacted vehemently during the interviews, revealing a nexus of cognitive, moral, and emotional reactions. In medical encounters for management of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, patients feel they are being morally judged and given limited information, generating emotional distress. Healthcare professionals should question whether their practices are based on stereotypical gender assumptions which lead to power asymmetries during encounters.

The Occurrence of High Levels of Acute Behavioral Distress in Children and Adolescents Undergoing Routine Venipunctures

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Bennett Humphrey ◽  
Chris M. J. Boon ◽  
G. F. E. Chiquit van Linden van den Heuvell ◽  
Harry B. M. van de Wiel
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Loss Of Control ◽  
Strong Relation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Trained Observers ◽  
Distress Scale ◽  
Insight Into

While there is no question that children dislike needles, there are very little data available on the occurrence of high levels of distress experienced by children undergoing routine venipunctures. To provide some insight into this problem, trained observers evaluated distress in 223 different children and adolescents undergoing this procedure. An observational distress scale of 1 to 5 was developed; 1 = calm, 2 = timid/nervous, 3 = serious distress, but still under control, 4 = serious distress with loss of control, and 5 = panic. We observed a strong relation between distress and age but not between distress and gender. During the actual venipuncture. half the subjects (113/223) were scored as having high levels of distress (3 or more). Our subjects were also grouped into three age ranges: toddlers; 2½ to 6 years, N = 70; preadolescents; 7 to 12 years, N = 55; and adolescents; 12 years and older, N = 98. The percent of subjects experiencing high levels of distress for each age group were: 83%, 51%, and 28%, respectively. We conclude that for venipunctures: 1) high levels of distress are common, and 2) age and not gender correlates with distress. Other correlations are discussed. Toddlers and pre-adolescents should be the targets for new interventions to reduce distress.

Bargaining over Remittances in Tajik Extended Families

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-250
Author(s):  
Sabiha Yeasmin Rosy ◽  
Fatemeh Nejati
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Extended Families ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Gender Specific

Abstract This study investigates the impact of male labor migration upon wives living among their husbands’ extended families in Tajikistan. It studies the risks and choices available to such wives in bargaining for remittances, with a particular focus on the risks that daughters-in-law (kelin in Tajik) undertake when negotiating remittances with their mothers-in-law. This paper explores age and gender-specific norms in Tajik transnational families and their minimal opportunities for kelins to bargain and negotiate the risks associated with making “claims” on remittances by using Deniz Kandiyoti’s “patriarchal bargain” and Bina Agarwal’s household bargain framework, as well as extensive fieldwork conducted in Tajikistan. The study concludes that international migration and remittances have had a complex impact on gender norms in Tajikistan, with emerging new forms of passive negotiation by kelins unlikely to undermine patriarchal gender norms in their favor.

“Women Are Cancer, You Shouldn’t Be Working in Sport”: Sport Psychologists’ Lived Experiences of Sexism in Sport

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Aura Goldman ◽  
Misia Gervis
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Gendered Power ◽  
The Impact

Though sexism has been recognized as problematic in sport, its impact on female sport psychologists in the United Kingdom has not yet been investigated. The purpose of this research was to explore the impact of sexism and its influence on practice. Four semistructured focus groups were conducted, comprising 11 sport psychologists who worked in the United Kingdom. Thematic analysis revealed four general themes: the environment, privileging masculinity, acts of sexism, and the feminine. Participants’ discourse suggests that female sport psychologists are impacted by sexism in their workplaces. Gendered power differentials, coupled with the low status of sport psychology within sport, exacerbated the challenges faced by female sport psychologists. This study contributes to making up for the dearth of research on the impact of sexism on sport psychologists. Suggestions are made with regard to implications for practice.

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