scholarly journals Hierarquias de gênero em questão (Gender hierarchies in question)

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Joel Birman
Keyword(s):  
Gender Hierarchies

A intenção deste artigo é o de destacar o campo social e existencial, hierarquia entre os gêneros numa perspectiva genealógica e tomando assim a construção histórica da categoria da mulher como mãe e a sua desconstrução posterior com o Primeiro Movimento Feminista.

Challenging Gender Hierarchies in Narratives of the Nation: Representations of Women in Zintgraff and the Battle of Mankon and Hard Choice

Imbizo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Epongse Nkealah ◽  
Olutoba Gboyega Oluwasuji
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Gender Differentiation ◽  
Hard Choice ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One ◽  
Representations Of Women ◽  
Do So

Ideas of nationalisms as masculine projects dominate literary texts by African male writers. The texts mirror the ways in which gender differentiation sanctions nationalist discourses and in turn how nationalist discourses reinforce gender hierarchies. This article draws on theoretical insights from the work of Anne McClintock and Elleke Boehmer to analyse two plays: Zintgraff and the Battle of Mankon by Bole Butake and Gilbert Doho and Hard Choice by Sunnie Ododo. The article argues that women are represented in these two plays as having an ambiguous relationship to nationalism. On the one hand, women are seen actively changing the face of politics in their societies, but on the other hand, the means by which they do so reduces them to stereotypes of their gender.

Viewing and Emotional Conflict in Akhilleus Tatios

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel King
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Distress ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Emotional Conflict ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Gender Hierarchies

Akhilleus Tatios’ novel, Leukippe and Kleitophon, is famously obsessed with the formulations of viewing and the gaze. This has traditionally been seen as reinforcing some of the gender hierarchies of the narrative as a whole. Building on the work of Morales (and others), this chapter argues that Akhilleus Tatios constructs a conflicted gaze in which the emotional impact of viewing trauma is caught between the viewer’s pleasure at the image and the emotional distress that it might also induce. Akhilleus Tatios’ narrative constantly questions and problematizes how viewers position themselves in relation to trauma and, in so doing, helps to problematize a range of different reactions to others’ pain.

scholarly journals Fear of Small Numbers and Political Behaviour of Ethnocentric Majority of Sri Lanka: Undeclared War against Upcountry Tamil Females

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-125
Author(s):  
Harsha Senanayake
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
International System ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Normative Values ◽  
Political Behaviour ◽  
Tea Plantations ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Legal Frameworks

Abstract The United Nations Human Development Report (UNHDR) mentions that the rights of women and female children are inalienable, integral and indivisible. It further highlights the full and equal participation of women in every segment of the social process without any discrimination or without considering sex - gender hierarchies.1 The legal frameworks of the international system and local political space is accepting of the normative values of gender equality and the eradication of gender-based discrimination. But most of the majoritarian societies challenge these legal frameworks to address their political, social and market-oriented interests. These actions are driven by political, social and structural frameworks which have been accepted by the majoritarian societies in the liberal democratic world. Tamil women in upcountry tea plantations in Sri Lanka were subjected to systemic and structural violence because of Sinhala majoritarian statecrafts in post-independence Sri Lanka. The ethnocentric violence directly problematises human security, survival and the personal rights of the upcountry Tamil female labour force. This paper discusses the survival of Tamil female plantation labour forces, focusing mainly on the security crisis of female reproductive rights under the ethnocentric Sinhala Majoritarian Society.

‘Manly tears exploded from my eyes, lets feel together brahs’: Emotion and masculinity within an online body building community

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mair Underwood ◽  
Rebecca Olson
Keyword(s):  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
International Community ◽  
Emotion Management ◽  
Body Building ◽  
Emotional Detachment ◽  
Emotional Vulnerability ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
Building Community

Discussions of crying and love are not what one might expect to find when examining interactions between recreational bodybuilders online. Gendered emotion ideologies, especially related to muscular masculinities, usually forbid men from exhibiting emotional vulnerability in front of other men, as emotional detachment is one of the ways gender hierarchies are maintained. Building on Connell’s concept of ‘hegemonic masculinity’ and Hochschild’s concept of ‘emotion management’, this article analyses emotional exchanges within an international community of male recreational bodybuilders: fans of Aziz Shavershian, known as ‘Zyzz’. We examine the meaning of emotions within the Zyzz fandom’s local hierarchy of masculinities, the expressive freedoms afforded by the context of their emotional interactions, and the strategies employed by Zyzz and fans to traverse masculine emotion ideologies that usually prevent men from expressing love and affection.

scholarly journals Othering and Selfing: Reading Gender Hierarchies and Social Categories in Michel Houellebecq's Novel Soumission

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Wening Udasmoro
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
French Society ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Gender Hierarchies

In literature, questions of the self and the other are frequently presented. The identity politics that gained prominence after the attack on the World Trade Center in New York on 11 September 2001 has occupied considerable space in this debate throughout the globe, including in France. One example of a novel dealing with the self and other is Michel Houellebecq’s Soumission (2015). This article attempts to explore the processes of selfing and othering in this work. The politics of identity that seems to present Muslims and Islam as the other and French as the self is also extended to other identities and aspects involved in the novel. This article attempts to show, first, how the French author Houellebecq positions the self and other in Soumission; second, the type of self and other the novel focuses on; and third, how its selfing and othering processes reveal the gender hierarchy and social categorization of French society. It finds that the novel presents a hierarchy in its narrative through which characters are positioned based on their gender and sexual orientation, as well as their age and ethnic heritage.

State Building Jihadism: Redefining Gender Hierarchies and “Empowerment”

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-27
Author(s):  
Hamoon Khelghat-Doost
Keyword(s):  
State Building ◽  
Field Trips ◽  
The State ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
Multiple Field

Since the establishment of the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS), there was a surge in women’s incorporation into the organization. Traditionally, nationalist and leftist militant movements utilised women only during periods of mobilization and political struggle. Upon the periods of state consolidation, women were discarded and pushed out of the state institutions. Ironically and against the above established trend, this article demonstrates that this trend was reversed in the case of ISIS. By using the ‘mahram’ concept, the article also explains the reason why women were largely absent at the midst of ISIS’s conflict and military clashes and were brought to the stage only after the triumph of the organization in establishing its state. The findings of this research are based on secondary sources and primary data personally collected from more than 150 interviews through multiple field trips to Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and the borders of ISIS-controlled territories in Syria from July 2015 to January 2017.

The Rising Tide of Equality and Democratic Reform

The 1970s ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Borstelmann
Keyword(s):  
Equal Rights ◽  
Black Freedom Struggle ◽  
Freedom Struggle ◽  
Democratic Reform ◽  
The Social ◽  
Black Freedom ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
American Society ◽  
Almost All

This chapter describes the beginnings of the equal rights movement in the 1970s. During this decade, gender—the social and cultural roles associated with a particular sex—became a crucial and widely used term, as millions of women and men began to reconsider all sorts of previously unexamined assumptions about femaleness and maleness. The implications of this kind of rethinking were enormous. The segregation by sex that had pervaded American society no longer looked so natural. Moreover, the weakening of traditional gender hierarchies marked the largest shift of the decade toward formal equality, since it encompassed slightly more than half of American citizens. But other old hierarchies also began to crumble in the 1970s as the reforming spirit of egalitarianism, spilling out from the black freedom struggle of the previous decade, seeped into almost all corners of American life.

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