To Lead and to Know

2019 ◽  
pp. 116-151
Author(s):  
Juliane Hammer
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
The Other ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Female Leaders ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Fine Line ◽  
Speaking Out

This chapter focuses on the training of Muslim community leaders as advocates against domestic violence (DV). The imam trainings and interviews with these leaders illustrate the tension between their claims to religious authority and their lack of knowledge about DV, which is borne out in their interactions with one another and with the (mostly female) leaders of the imam training sessions. There is an evident tension in the ways in which speaking out about DV draws leaders into the vortex of discussing marriage and family and through that, inevitably, gender roles. There is risk involved in speaking about DV because doing so can pose a threat to their communal authority. On the other hand, if a community is in support of anti-DV efforts, not taking leadership on the issue can also undermine leadership roles and authority. Thus, imams and scholars walk a fine line of negotiating their leadership roles and authority in relation to the textual interpretations and arguments for peaceful families they put forward.

To Support and Defend

2019 ◽  
pp. 152-187
Author(s):  
Juliane Hammer
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Religious Convictions ◽  
The One ◽  
Muslim Communities

This chapter highlights Muslim service providers of many kinds and the organizations in which they work. Muslim service providers, in different ways from advocates and community leaders, not only are at the front lines of the struggle against domestic violence (DV) in Muslim communities but also most directly and persistently interact with the mainstream DV landscape/movement. Service providers are at risk themselves in more acute ways as their direct contact with victims and survivors can also become contact with perpetrators who are a threat not only to DV victims but also to anyone who supports those victims. The chapter then explores the significance of their religious convictions and identities for the work they perform and for the ways in which they relate to their clients on the one hand and to “the system” on the other. It also sketches the landscape of Muslim DV services and offers some insights into the specific challenges this work entails.

Need to Teach

2019 ◽  
pp. 86-115
Author(s):  
Juliane Hammer
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Domestic Abuse ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Existential Issue ◽  
The One ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Taking Action

This chapter examines interviews conducted with Muslim advocates whose work against domestic violence (DV) focuses on awareness and prevention. There is a shared story arch among many of the advocates that supports the primacy of an experienced and embodied ethic on non-abuse that is then translated into active work in the community and in a later step a search for religious discourse in order to further effective activism. Advocates often first recognized domestic abuse as wrong, then became critical of the ways in which Muslim communities address or do not address this issue, and responded by taking action and developing or finding religious arguments. It is in this last part of the story that religious authority, and with that status and authority in communities, became an existential issue for the effectiveness of anti-DV work. The chapter then reflects on the connection between feminist ideas about patriarchy and DV on the one hand and acceptance/rejection of such ideas in Muslim communities on the other.

scholarly journals Characteristics and Distribution of the Productive and Reproductive Roles of Female Lurah in Bekasi Regency

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-173
Author(s):  
Hamida Syari Harahap ◽  
Aida Vitayala S Hubeis ◽  
Amiruddin Saleh ◽  
Krishnarini Matindas
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Standpoint Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Situated Knowledge ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Communication And Coordination

The objectives of this article are to analyze some characteristics such as education, ethnicity, duration of duty, as well as internal and external environmental supports, situated knowledge, role distribution, and leadership of Female Lurahs in Bekasi Regency. The research applied a critical paradigm with a qualitative approach. NVivo 12 software is used for data analysis. The informants are three Female Lurahs, who have excellent achievements and 18 additional informants who actively took part in kelurahan activities, those were respectively three Chief RTs, RWs, community leaders, and the other nine health cadres. The location of the study was determined purposefully. The research results showed that the three Female Lurahs had different perspectives in carrying out leadership roles. Characteristic differences were in the forms of exemplary, paying attention to manners, and selves-reliance. The situated knowledge differences were initiatives, openness in communication, and coordination in carrying out tasks. The different point of vies in the roles of division was that the kelurahan residents were considered as their children and their partners. The uniqueness of the research was that the standpoint theory was applied to analyze the role of the Female Lurahs as Leaders at the grass-root levels. The importance of different points of view in carrying out leadership roles in the research was that the leadership was carried out regarding the situation, conditions, and characteristics of residents.    

Domestic Violence: The Other Side of the River

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Schafer ◽  
Grace Coleman ◽  
Jerry Sawyer
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
The Other

Designs for Living: Female Designers, the Designing Female, Modernism and the Middlebrow

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-177
Author(s):  
Chiara Briganti ◽  
Kathy Mezei
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
The Other ◽  
Urban Modernity ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Sexual Ambiguity

During the interwar period, the artistic endeavour of the female interior decorator was dismissed as old-fashioned, nostalgic, and, tainted by its association with commerce; it was excluded from the rarefied circle of the higher arts of painting and sculpture and architecture; in the novels and plays of middlebrow authors of the same period, on the other hand, the female interior decorator, mocked for her edgy modernity, became a disturbing icon of urban modernity and a controversial advocate for new designs in living. This essay proposes to demonstrate how the representation in fiction and drama of the interwar period of the female interior decorator, a magnet for anxieties about changing gender roles, class distinctions, sexuality and sexual ambiguity and the ‘sanctity’ of the home, complicates the complexity and mutability of the middlebrow and its fraught relationship with modernism.

Barrio Women and Popular Politics in Chávez's Venezuela

2007 ◽  
Vol 49 (03) ◽  
pp. 97-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sujatha Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Popular Politics ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Grassroots Politics ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
Hugo Chavez

Abstract Since President Hugo Chávez came to power in Venezuela in 1998, ordinary women from the barrios, or shantytowns, of Caracas have become more engaged in grassroots politics; but most of the community leaders still are men. Chávez's programs are controlled by male-dominated bureaucracies, and many women activists still look to the president himself as the main source of direction. Nevertheless, this article argues, women's increasing local activism has created forms of popular participation that challenge gender roles, collectivize private tasks, and create alternatives to male-centric politics. Women's experiences of shared struggle from previous decades, along with their use of democratic methods of popular control, help prevent the state from appropriating women's labor. But these spaces coexist with more vertical, populist notions of politics characteristic of official sectors of Chavismo. Understanding such gendered dimensions of popular participation is crucial to analyzing urban social movements.

Silent Victims Revisited: The Special Case of Domestic Violence

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 511-513
Author(s):  
Barry Zuckerman ◽  
Marilyn Augustyn ◽  
Betsy McAlister Groves ◽  
Steven Parker
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Community Violence ◽  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Witness Violence ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Special Case ◽  
At Home

In a commentary published previously, we communicated our concern regarding the plight of children who witness violence.1 Research suggests that children who witness violence suffer significant psychologic and behavioral problems that interfere with their ability to function in school, at home, and with peers. The primary focus of that commentary was children who witnessed community violence. Our ongoing clinical experience, heightened by media attention on domestic violence, including the O.J. Simpson case, leads us to revisit silent victims with a sole focus on those children who witness domestic violence. Domestic violence is a particularly devastating event for a child who, in the presence of danger, typically turns to a parent for protection and for whom there is no comfort or security if one parent is the perpetrator of violence, and the other is a terrified victim.

scholarly journals Stalking: Notion, characteristics and social responses

Temida ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic ◽  
Marina Kovacevic-Lepojevic
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Responses ◽  
Legal Reforms ◽  
Workplace Abuse ◽  
Everyday Talk ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World

In the last two decades stalking phenomenon is recognized and actualized in the world in professional, scientific circles, in media and the everyday talk. Recently, stalking is identified as specific and complex problem studied separately from domestic violence, workplace abuse, sexual harassment, threats, following, homicide, voyeurism and the other phenomenon to which stalking may or not be related. This paper is aimed to determine the notion of stalking and its relationship with similar phenomena, to review the research about the prevalence and nature of stalking, as well as to review the measures for its prevention, supporting victims and prosecution of offenders. Finally, the paper intend to contribute toward initiation of research and legal reforms regarding stalking victimisation in Serbia.

scholarly journals Образ материнской любви в фильме Трясина Григория Чухрая*

2018 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 99-107
Author(s):  
Shino Maeda
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Reproductive Function ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Female Image ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
The Military

Image of maternal love in Grigory Chukhray’s The QuagmireMemories of the Great Patriotic War contributed to the making of a national identity in Soviet Russia, and clear gender roles are evident in Soviet propaganda war art. The image of male soldiers demonstrates the obligation to defend the fatherland against the outside enemy. On the other hand, there are images of a mother cheering for her son or a mother lamenting over a fallen soldier. It is clear that the female image belongs to the reproductive function of motherhood. The establishment presents an ideal and urges the public to internalize it by themselves. Grigory Chukhray’s film The Quagmire’s 1977 mother, however, hides her young son, who was conscripted to the front. The  film casts doubt on the Soviet war myth and asks “Why do mothers have to be reconciled to lose their sons in order to defend the fatherland?” That’s why the military purged the film from the screen. Obraz miłości macierzyńskiej w filmie Grigorija Czuchraja TrzęsawiskoWspomnienia i obrazy Wielkiej Wojny Ojczyźnianej odegrały ważną rolę w kształtowaniu tożsamości obywateli Rosji Radzieckiej. W sowieckiej propagandzie wojennej wyraźnie widać hierarchię genderową. Wizerunek żołnierza mężczyzny odnosi się do obowiązku obrony ojczyzny przed zewnętrznym wrogiem. Natomiast wizerunek matki wiwatującej na cześć zwycięstwa syna lub rodzicielki lamentującej nad poległym żołnierzem kojarzony jest z macierzyństwem. Film Grigorija Czuchraja Trzęsawisko Трясина opowiada historię matki ukrywającej powołanego do wojska i wezwanego na front syna. Film, który wkrótce po premierze wycofano z  dystrybucji, stawia pytania dotyczące funkcjonowania radzieckich mitów wojennych oraz sytuacji kobiet, które nie chcą się pogodzić ze śmiercią swych synów broniących ojczyzny.

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