scholarly journals Representation of Gender Roles in Koirala’s Narendra Dai

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Asmita Bista
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Gender Theory ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Policing ◽  
Over Time

 Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala‟s novel Narendra Dai is replete with gender issues of the then society that has marked its relevance even at the present time. This article examines how this novel has explored the concept of gender as a per formative entity; and shows that the characters perform the traditional gender roles because of the strict socio-cultural obligations. It also examines while performing the traditional gender roles, how the lives of these characters get affected. For that Judith Butler’s idea of gender theory has been used. Butler proposes theory of gender as a constant performance: a series of cues observed, internalized, and repeated over time. The significance of this study is to contribute a different perspective for the reader to see Narendra Dai because in this novel, Koirala has shown that since the characters cannot go against the social norms, they perform traditional gender roles via social policing and polishing. The study concludes that these characters define the socially prescribed gender roles because gender is socio-political construction that achieves legitimacy and naturality via perpetual observation and repetition.

scholarly journals Exploration of Gender Role in Bisheswar Prasad Koirala's Tinghumti

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-24
Author(s):  
Asmita Bista
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Gender Theory ◽  
Traditional Gender Role ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles

Bisheshwar Prasad Koirala’s novel Tinghumti is always tempting for the reader as it still reflects the relevant picture of Nepali society. In this novel the characters defy as well as define the gender roles. Influenced with revolutionary thought they defy the prescribed gender roles; but chained in age old thought they, time and again, define the traditional gender role. This article aims to identify the reasons that drive these characters to defy and define the traditional gender roles. For that Judith Butler’s and Connell’s idea of gender theory has been used. The significance of this study is to contribute a different perspective for the reader to see the novel Tinghumti showing that traditional gender roles are meddled and confirmed in it. The study concludes that in the novel, the characters defy as well as define the socially prescribed gender role because gender is socio-political construction that achieves legitimacy and naturality via perpetual observation and repetition.

Age and Gender in the European Contact Improvisation Community

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-81
Author(s):  
Hilde Rustad
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Research Interest ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
European Contact ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Contact Improvisation ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender

Abstract This article examines issues related to age and gender within the European contact improvisation community (ECIC). In particular, my research interest is to find out more about experiences related to values in the dance genre of contact improvisation (CI), and how they relate to the values associated with democracy understood to be embedded in CI. From 2014 to 2017, I conducted interviews with seven persons who are CI dancers and teachers from different European countries. The interview material shows that a double set of values is communicated in the ECIC: one that is taught, spoken, written and understood to be holding on to and embodying ’the social ideologies of the early ’70s which rejected traditional gender roles and social hierarchies’ (Novack, 1990, 11) and a second set in which traditional gender roles and social hierarchies are active and experienced by European CI dancer-teachers and dancers when participating in CI events.

Socio-Cultural Barriers of Female Ex-Combatants' Social Re-Integration in Sri Lanka

2020 ◽  
pp. 213-223
Author(s):  
Kana Takamatsu
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
Social Reintegration ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
High Level

This chapter identifies the post-conflict social barriers to the social reintegration of female ex-combatants. This study refers to the case of Sri Lanka concerning the conflict between the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) that ended in 2009. During the conflict, the LTTE actively recruited female combatants, and women consisted of a significant number of the entire LTTE combatants. However, after the end of the conflict and even today, many of them are rejected by the community. First of all, the LTTE was fighting for Tamil's independence, but Tamil's community has expressed mixed opinions toward the LTTE. Second, female ex-combatants were then and are now a divergence from the gender norms of their society. Third, from their roles in the conflict, female ex-combatants experienced an indelible change in their ideas through the conflict and observed themselves as capable of being independent women. Consequently, they felt a high level of resistance to returning to traditional gender roles.

Gender issues in Kotleba’s People’s Party of Our Slovakia: An attempt at a thematic analysis

Human Affairs ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra Ďurinová ◽  
Darina Malová
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
People's Party ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Party Ideology

AbstractThe article analyses party documents and rhetoric from Kotleba’s People’s Party of Our Slovakia (ĽSNS) and demonstrates that it has a culturally conservative, instrumental and paternalist-populist attitude to gender issues. The thematic analysis indicates that the ĽSNS not only seeks to promote traditional gender roles and the exclusion of women from public space but also uses quasi-feminist arguments. These, for instance, call on women to engage more in public life but only in support of its patriarchal agenda. Our findings show that gender related issues feature only peripherally in ĽSNS rhetoric, however they are used strategically as a theme that cuts across the party ideology, forming not its core but being purposely used in relation to the party’s main priorities. ĽSNS uses gender related themes as part of its political arsenal for (1) increasing the party’s support amongst women and (2) seeking to involve more women in the party’s activities to increase its acceptability among voters.

scholarly journals Social norms of sexual initiation among adolescents and gender relations

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Luiza Vilela Borges ◽  
Eunice Nakamura
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Sexual Initiation ◽  
Sexual Relation ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Moment

This study aimed to identify standards and expectations regarding sexual initiation of 14 to 18 year-old adolescents in Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, using data from four focal groups conducted in 2006. Results revealed that gender issues are clearly present in participants' reports and showed to be essential in their choices about the moment, partners and contraceptive practices in the first sexual relation. Adolescents are subordinated to gender roles, traditionally attributed to male and female genders, i.e. the notion that sex is an uncontrolled instinct for boys, and intrinsically and closely associated to love and desire for girls. Adolescents also play a preponderant role in the perpetuation of these values within the group they live in.

From Subversion to Liberation: Homosexuals and the Immigration Act 1952–1977.

1987 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Girard
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Sex Roles ◽  
Political Dissent ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Cold War

Historians of the Cold War have tended to focus on the repression of political dissidents during that period, but only recently has attention been shifted to the simultaneous suppression of other types of non-conformity, such as sexual variance and non-traditional gender roles. Parallel to the repression of internal political dissent which accompanied the international Cold War, another, more subtle, campaign was proceeding. This was the attempt to re-establish the social order, based on family life and traditional sex roles, which the war had tended to undermine.

scholarly journals Contesting the Social Spaces: Gender Relations of Literary Communities in Yogyakarta and Surakarta

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 346
Author(s):  
Wening Udasmoro ◽  
Saeful Anwar
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Financial Capital ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Domestic Spaces ◽  
The Social ◽  
Literary Communities ◽  
The One ◽  
Over Time

This research seeks to map the gender relations within literary communities and their contestations in gaining social and financial capital in Yogyakarta and Surakarta social spaces. The presence of literary communities in these spaces, on the one hand, explains the local and specific self-identities of the communities, as well as their heterogeneity in gender relations. In particular, this research maps these communities' differences in expressions, trajectories (visions for the future), themes, narrations, language, and networks based on their gender relations. The Geographic Information System (GIS) method is used to map and explore the gender issues in these literary communities. By understanding the mapping of these literary communities, the dynamics of the social spaces used by these communities can be traced synchronically within a specific period. It can also be followed up when the database is used diachronically over time. This research finds that social spaces that enable open narration are insufficient to ensure the equality of women and men. Flexible domestic spaces for women are also necessary to ensure women to be active in creating the trajectory of the literary communities since they have capacities to do it.

Ideal Citizens and Family Values

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-121
Author(s):  
Anna L. Weissman
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Family Values ◽  
White Female ◽  
Maternal Identity ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
A Site

Motherhood is political, fundamental to the social (re)production of values, norms, and culture. This chapter shows how the institution of Motherhood, “family values,” and traditional gender roles have been coopted by the rhetoric of the nation and institutionalized by the state as a site of difference, (re)producing Insiders and Outsiders, exclusionary logics of collectivity, and embodied national boundaries. The chapter first identifies and defines “biological” reproductive difference as the foundation of traditional sex/gender roles, particularly emphasizing the focus on procreation in normative femininity. Reproductive difference is foundational to Western patriarchal society and its definitions of kinship, family, and sociopolitical belonging. I differentiate the patriarchal institution of Motherhood and the active “mothering,” showing how the institution of Motherhood privileges heterosexual, reproductive sex and essentializes the (cisgender/heterosexual) female body as necessarily reproductive. This normative maternal identity is racialized and can be seen through the politics of reproductive fitness. I examine this through an analysis of differences in sterilization laws and practices across the globe. Sterilization is accessible and/or enforced differently based on one’s identity; gender/sexual orientation, race, class, and ability dictate both historically and in modern society voluntary and involuntary sterilization practices. Ultimately, I demonstrate that one of the products of the institution of Motherhood is a normative model of raced female sexuality: a necessarily reproductive, white female sexuality.

Achieved Eminence in 80 Female Psychologists: Family, Marriage, Children, Education, Career, and Contributions

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (Fall 2018) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Dean Keith Simonton
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Career Pathways ◽  
Reference Source ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Children Education ◽  
Over Time

Although a large body of empirical research has shed considerable light on the attainment of eminence in psychology, this literature has focused almost exclusively on samples of eminent males. Yet there is sufficient reason to expect that eminent female psychologists do not neces- sarily follow the same life and career pathways as do eminent male psychologists. To help rem- edy this deficiency, the current historiometric study concentrates on a sample of 80 eminent female psychologists born between 1847 and 1950. After obtaining three reliable eminence measures, variables were defined with respect to family background (parental occupations and sibling configurations), marriage and children (including divorce), education and career devel- opment (especially the attainment of higher degrees and full professorships), and professional contributions (to 20 different specialty areas). Even after controlling for potential artifacts due to year of birth and reference source, statistically and substantively significant correlations were found in all four sets of variables. Even though the pattern of findings sometimes closely paral- leled what was found for eminent male psychologists, other times the results strongly diverged. Because these divergences most likely reflected traditional gender roles and gender-biased pol- icies, female and male routes to eminence should progressively converge over time, if they have not done so already. Finally, some findings based on this all-female sample deserve empirical examination in comparable male samples.

scholarly journals The Play of Gender Roles in Sheeba Shah’s Facing My Phantoms

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-135
Author(s):  
Asmita Bista
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Document ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
The Social ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Maoist Movement ◽  
Human Attributes

Setting the novel in different time-periods (Rana regime, Panchayat System and Maoist movement), Sheeba Shah’s Facing my Phantoms has depicted the condition of Nepali males and is considered a historical document. This article aims to examine the factors that constrain the male characters to traditional and anti-traditional gender roles. It also studies the consequences faced by the characters while performing and defying gender stereotypes. To address this objective, Butler’s and Connell’s ideas have been used as they have claimed that masculinity and femininity like any other human attributes are fluid; in fact, it is constantly reconstructed in response to socio-political changes under the pressure of social norms. According to Butler, gender is something that is not a corporeal thing, but it is reproducing, changing, and moving. The significance of this article is to find insights in understanding the condition of males in the Nepali society. It concludes that the male characters of Shah’s novel oscillate between traditional and anti-traditional gender roles. Under the social pressure, they perform the roles of an assertive and authoritative father, aggressive and ruthless lover/husband, and rational and responsible son. Likewise, when they get influenced by socio-political changes, they fail to stick to stereotypical gender roles. Consequently, they appear in the emotional, docile, dependent, confused, and unassertive roles.

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