scholarly journals Pass the mic: women finding space on air

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beckstead Lori
Keyword(s):  
Media Industries ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Radio Industry

This is a compilation of interview with various women who work or have worked in the radio industry primarily in Toronto, Canada. The interviews were conducted as part of a research project which seeks to collect information about women's experiences of an d perceptions about working in radio - an industry which, like all media industries, has traditionally been male dominated.

scholarly journals Pass the mic: women finding space on air

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beckstead Lori
Keyword(s):  
Media Industries ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Radio Industry

This is a compilation of interview with various women who work or have worked in the radio industry primarily in Toronto, Canada. The interviews were conducted as part of a research project which seeks to collect information about women's experiences of an d perceptions about working in radio - an industry which, like all media industries, has traditionally been male dominated.

scholarly journals Terror, Counter-Terror

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-118
Author(s):  
Erica Neegan
Keyword(s):  
War On Terror ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Women's Organizations ◽  
Double Standards ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
War Power ◽  
Women’S Organizations

Terror, Counter-Terror: Women Speak Out presents articles by severalwomen writers and women’s organizations. The book analyzes and interrogatesthe madness of male-dominated war and violence, and presentswomen’s perspectives on war and the 9/11 tragedy. Contributors includefeminist writers, authors, academics, and journalists; mothers, women ofcolor, Muslim women; and women who have had first-hand experiencewith war and its effects. The editors provide an excellent critical reappraisal of the ideas, concepts,and language that underpin the multilayered world of war, power, andpeace. The book also explores diverse women’s perspectives on the failure ofwar to bring about peace. In giving their perspective, the authors respond eloquentlyand defiantly to war’s destructive nature. This collection, a wonderfulanthology of women’s experiences of war, allows the reader to capture thesuffering of war as well as its paradoxes, double standards, and contradictions.The essays are organized into seven sections: “Personal and Political,”“The War on Terror,” “Saying No,” “Motherland/ Fatherland,” “The War onWomen,” “Displaced and Dispossessed,” and “Women against War.”The book highlights the wars in Afghanistan and Israel and the 9/11tragedy. The authors lament that war has never really brought peace, butrather turmoil and human and economic suffering. Most people in theWest see sanitized images of war that are carefully selected for them.Women Speak Out tells the story of how loosing one’s children, home, andlivelihood are part of war’s true horrors ...

Booming Bandas of Los Ángeles

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xóchitl C. Chávez
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Women Musicians ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Brass Bands ◽  
Musical Practice ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
And Training

The author's work with Oaxacan communities has drawn attention to Zapotec women musicians within this traditionally male-dominated musical practice. Although women have become more visible in brass bands, they are usually not revered as equal members of the band, even in cases where women have formal education and training. Taking seriously Sherrie Tucker's call for “engaged listening” of women musicians, this chapter focuses on Zapotec migrant women's experiences as musicians to address the formation of brass bands and the ways they negotiate the challenges they encounter in brass bands. It is through their localized articulations, voiced or played, that women establish a dialogue across the region of Oaxacalifornia.

quiet theater: The Radical Politics of Silence

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 410-422
Author(s):  
Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston
Keyword(s):  
Ground Level ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Academic Activism ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the potential of a transdisciplinary ethnographic approach that bridges ethnography, performance, storytelling, and imagination to contribute to an activist research practice within anthropology and other disciplines. It focuses on my current research project that studies, by means of dramatic storytelling, the impact of migration on Polish Romani women’s experiences of aging. In the dramatic storytelling sessions, the ethnographer and the interlocutor stepped into character and co-performed fictional stories loosely based on their own lives. Situating the project within the context of an “imaginative ethnography” that is concerned with people’s imaginative lifeworlds, and methodological experimentations at the ground level of fieldwork, this article discusses the ways the project challenged traditional conceptions of engagement and advocacy. It considers the silence—“quiet theatre”—that engulfed the interlocutor–ethnographer interactions in the storytelling sessions as a form of radical empathic politics that works through affect, projective approximation, and empathy. In doing so, the article proposes a conceptualization of interventionist research practice as a contextually specific particularity that takes to task the meanings of politics in academic activism.

scholarly journals Women’s experience of termination of a pregnancy

Curationis ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Poggenpoel ◽  
CPH Myburgh
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Educational Psychologists ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Women's Experience ◽  
Descriptive Approach

In November 1996 the Act on the Termination of Pregnancies (no 92 of 1996) was promulgated. This Act enabled women from the age of twelve years old to decide to terminate their pregnancies before twelve weeks gestation without permission of anybody else. Since February 1997 almost 160 000 terminations of pregnancy have been carried out in South Africa. Little research has been conducted to explore and describe the effect of the termination of pregnancies on women Two aims were formulated for the research project described in this article: (1) the exploration and description of the women’s experience of terminating a pregnancy, and (2) the description of counselling guidelines for caring professionals to assist these women. Participants were included in the sample through purposive sampling. Phenomenological interviews were conducted individually. Data were analysed by means of Tesch’s descriptive approach. Counselling guidelines for educational psychologists and other caring professionals to empower the involved were being logically inferred from the results of the interviews. Measures to ensure trustworthiness have been applied in the research and ethical measures have been strictly adhered to during the research. One central theme was identified from the results of the interviews and naïve sketches, namely women’s experiences of a negative relationship with themselves and other persons as well as their focus on their terminated pregnancies.

Flying Mystics, or the Exceptional Woman, Part I

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serinity Young
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Demonic Possession ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Religious Women ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mystical Experiences ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
The Demonic

This chapter enters the realm of medieval Christian mystical women, who were purported to have levitated, moved through the air, or flown, and then explores their reception by a suspicious, male-dominated Church. To understand the intensely devotional beliefs of these women, and the social status of religious women, requires exploring the different perceptions of female and male mystics and their different mystical experiences. A major problem with female Christian mystics was that women were generally considered to be more susceptible to demonic possession than men, and peoples possessed by the demonic (such as witches) were believed to fly; therefore women’s experiences of flight were called into question.

scholarly journals “I really didn’t have any problems with the male-female thing until …”: Successful Women’s Experiences in IT Organizations

2008 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin I Demaiter ◽  
Tracey L. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Meaningful Change ◽  
Women's Careers ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Women’S Careers ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
It Organizations ◽  
Barriers And Opportunities ◽  
Workplace Cultures

The gendered nature of organizations limits women’s opportunities for advancement. While women have made inroads into many male-dominated jobs, studies suggest they can be marginalized within masculine workplace cultures. In this paper, we examine the experiences of eleven women who have had successful careers in the male-dominated information technology field, to explore their perceptions of the barriers and opportunities women face. We find that our respondents have a tendency to downplay the significance of gender, even as they provide evidence that gender has shaped their careers. We argue that their reluctance to see how gender conditions women’s careers, combined with the technical nature of their field, may have facilitated their success, even though these factors serve as barriers for other women, and prevent meaningful change.

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