scholarly journals From "Reel" to "Real" - Embodied Responses to Rape

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruktawit Retta
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Health Care Policies ◽  
Narrative Methodology ◽  
Experiences Of Women

Women’s perspectives of their embodied experiences of and responses to rape are explored in this research. In sexual violence literature, there is minimal focus on individuals’ experiences and responses to rape and when included, what is emphasized is medical, legal, and social systems responses. Post-colonial intersectional feminist theory frames this research, highlighting impacts of social locations and systematic processes on the embodied multi-layered experiences of women who have been raped. Narrative methodology including creative data collection facilitated opportunities for participants to express their experiences. My analysis, grounded in participants’ stories and my own experience of rape, incorporated visual representations and poetry reflecting on sexual politics and discourse. Creative dissemination of women’s narratives provides greater understanding of women’s embodied and contextual experiences of rape. Bringing to light the diversity and resilience of women who have experienced rape, can contribute to influencing health care policies and practices while advancing critical social justice.

scholarly journals From "Reel" to "Real" - Embodied Responses to Rape

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruktawit Retta
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Health Care Policies ◽  
Narrative Methodology ◽  
Experiences Of Women

Women’s perspectives of their embodied experiences of and responses to rape are explored in this research. In sexual violence literature, there is minimal focus on individuals’ experiences and responses to rape and when included, what is emphasized is medical, legal, and social systems responses. Post-colonial intersectional feminist theory frames this research, highlighting impacts of social locations and systematic processes on the embodied multi-layered experiences of women who have been raped. Narrative methodology including creative data collection facilitated opportunities for participants to express their experiences. My analysis, grounded in participants’ stories and my own experience of rape, incorporated visual representations and poetry reflecting on sexual politics and discourse. Creative dissemination of women’s narratives provides greater understanding of women’s embodied and contextual experiences of rape. Bringing to light the diversity and resilience of women who have experienced rape, can contribute to influencing health care policies and practices while advancing critical social justice.

scholarly journals The Catholic 1968: Poland, Social Justice, and the Global Cold War

Slavic Review ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 638-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr H. Kosicki
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Development ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Humanae Vitae ◽  
New Vision ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Catholic Church

In the 1960s, the Catholic Church underwent a revolution in the teaching and practice of its faith, known as aggiornamento. Catholics responded by pioneering new forms of agency in world affairs in the Global Sixties. This was a cross-Iron Curtain story, affecting communist and non-communist countries in Europe, as well as developing countries across the world – a story of transfers and encounters unfolding simultaneously along multiple geographical axes: “East-West,” “North-South,” and “East-South.” The narrative anchor for this story is the year 1968. This article explores the seminal role of east European Catholics in this story, focusing on Polish Catholic intellectuals as they wrote and rewrote global narratives of political economy and sexual politics. A global Catholic conversation on international development stalled as sexual politics reinforced Cold War and post-colonial divisions, with the Second and Third Worlds joining forces against First World critics of a new papal teaching on contraception, Humanae Vitae. Paradoxically, the Soviet Bloc became the prism through which the Catholic Church refracted a new vision of international development for the Third World.

Issues of Difference in Contemporary Caribbean Feminism

1998 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rawwida Baksh-Soodeen
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Trinidad And Tobago ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Third World ◽  
Ultimate Capacity ◽  
American Experience ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Second Wave

This paper interrogates Caribbean feminist theory and activism in relation to the Euro-American experience and to challenges emerging from the Third World discourse. The author argues from the standpoint position that second wave Caribbean feminism has been largely Afro-centric and simultaneously interlocked with processes of independence and national identity struggles. She suggests that there is a need for the movement to reflect the experiences of women of other ethnic groups in the region. In this regard, in Trinidad and Tobago the Indo-Caribbean voice has been emerging and broadening the feminist base. In more recent years also the divisions between feminist and non-feminist groups are subsiding, strengthening the ultimate capacity of this movement for change in the region.

A Voice of Her Own

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Berrin Yanıkkaya
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Women's Voice ◽  
The World ◽  
Experiences Of Women

This chapter provides a theoretical discussion on women's voice and agency by referring to the selected works from feminist theory and history. It highlights the importance of storytelling in women owning their own voice and exercising their agency through the multilayeredness of the experiences of women coming from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. Also, in this chapter, digital platforms and what they offer to women, such as digital storytelling, are discussed. And finally, it includes academic and activist works on individual and collective digital storytelling examples and practices of women from around the world.

scholarly journals Withdrawing from politics? Gender, agency and women ex-fighters in Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 519-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Ketola
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Liberal Peace ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Experiences Of Women

Conceptualizations of post-conflict agency have been widely debated in feminist security studies and critical international relations studies. This article distinguishes between three feminist approaches to post-conflict agency: narrative of return, representations of agency and local agency. It argues that all these approaches in distinct ways emphasize a modality of agency as resistance. To offer a more encompassing account of post-conflict agency the article engages Saba Mahmood’s (2012) critique of the modality of agency in feminist theory and her decoupling of agency from resistance. The article explores experiences of women who fought in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in Nepal. It focuses on ‘withdrawing from politics’, a dynamic whereby women ex-fighters move away from party activities and the public sphere, and rearticulates this withdrawing as a location of political agency. The article argues that being an ‘ex-PLA’ emerges as a form of subjectivity that is crafted through experiencing war and encountering peacebuilding, enabling a production of heterogeneous modalities of agency in the post-conflict context. By examining these modalities, the article challenges us to rethink post-conflict agency beyond the capacity to subvert regulatory gender norms and/or discourses of liberal peace.

scholarly journals Mobile Knowledge, Karma Points and Digital Peers: The Tacit Epistemology and Linguistic Representation of MOOCs / Savoir mobile, points de karma et pairs numériques : l’épistémologie tacite et la représentation linguistique des MOOC

2013 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Rafferty Portmess
Keyword(s):  
Online Courses ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Cultural Boundary ◽  
Rhetoric Of Technology

Media representations of massive open online courses (MOOCs) such as those offered by Coursera, edX and Udacity reflect tension and ambiguity in their bold promise of democratized education and global knowledge sharing. An approach to MOOCs that emphasizes the tacit epistemology of such representations suggests a richer account of the ambiguities of MOOCs, the unsettled linguistic and visual representations that reflect the strange lifeworld of global online courses and the pressing need for promising innovation that seeks to serve the restless global desire for knowledge. This perspective piece critically appraises the linguistic laboratory of thought such representation reveals and its destabilized rhetoric of technology and educational practice. The mobile knowledge of MOOCs, detached from context and educational purpose and indifferent to cultural boundary distortions, contains both the promise of democratized education and the shadow of post-colonial knowledge export. Les représentations médiatiques des cours en ligne ouverts et massifs (MOOC en anglais) comme ceux offerts par Coursera, edX et Udacity reflètent une tension et une ambiguïté occasionnées par leur audacieuse promesse de démocratisation de l’éducation et de partage global du savoir. Étudier les MOOC en accentuant l'épistémologie tacite de ces représentations mène à une explication plus riche des ambiguïtés inhérentes aux MOOC, de l’incertitude des représentations linguistiques et visuelles reflétant l’étrange monde vécu des cours en ligne à l’échelle globale et le besoin pressant d'innovation prometteuse visant à répondre au désir insatiable de connaissance à travers le monde. Le présent essai évalue de manière critique le laboratoire linguistique d’idées révélées par une telle représentation ainsi que son discours instable sur la technologie et sur les pratiques pédagogiques. Libéré de tout contexte et d’objectif pédagogique et indifférent aux distorsions des barrières culturelles, le savoir mobile des MOOC contient à la fois la promesse d'une éducation démocratisée et le spectre d’un savoir postcolonial.

Measuring Feminist Attitudes

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Shibley Hyde
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
The Other ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Feminist Attitudes ◽  
The One ◽  
Experiences Of Women

Henley and colleagues' results, obtained in the process of developing a scale to measure the diversity of feminist attitudes, highlight a dilemma for feminist researchers in psychology. On the one hand, we advocate research based on feminist theory. On the other, we believe that research should begin with the lived experiences of women, from which theory should be generated, rather than forcing women's responses into a predetermined theoretical mold. Several aspects of Henley and colleagues' results contradict feminist theory. I argue that researchers should use empirical data to refine feminist theories.

Perinatal Loss: A Qualitative Study in Northern Ireland

2008 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernadette Susan McCreight
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Pregnancy Loss ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Loss Of Self ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Future Loss ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article describes the experiences of women in Northern Ireland who have experienced a miscarriage or stillbirth. Pregnancy loss encompasses several dimensions of loss for women, loss of the future, loss of self-identity, and the loss of anticipated parenthood. The study explored how women emotionally responded to loss and the care they received from medical staff. Burial arrangements for the remains of the baby are also explored. The methodology adopted a narrative approach based upon in-depth interviews with 23 women who attended pregnancy loss self-help groups. The women's narratives highlight their emotional responses to loss, the medicalization of perinatal grief, and burial arrangements. Women felt that their experience was emotionally negative in that they had been subjected to a rationalizing process of medicalization. The primary focus for the women was on the need to recover space for their emotions and seek acceptance and recognition of the validity of their grief. The study demonstrated that the women's response to being marginalized led them to make sense of their experiences and to create spaces of resistance to medicalization. The way in which women placed emotion at the center of their narratives is taken to be a powerful indicator that the support they require from professionals should take account of the meanings they have constructed from their experience of loss.

“WE SPEAK BACK!”

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Celeste Vaughan Curington
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Cape Verdean ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
African Descendants ◽  
Narrative Methodology ◽  
Everyday Knowledge

Abstract A body of scholarship interrogates conventional notions of citizenship, viewing full social inclusion beyond formal status and as a matter of belonging. This paper integrates the perspective of anti-Blackness with that of belonging and theorizes anti-Black non-belonging. Based on more than a year of fieldwork in the Lisbon metropolitan area, I illustrate how the reality of anti-Black non-belonging in Portugal means that African-descendant women are vulnerable to racist, everyday practices in public space that impact their individual and group reality and feelings of national belonging. Employing a counter narrative methodology, I argue that Cape Verdean women’s narratives of anti-Black non-belonging illustrate the agentic strategy that they deploy to carve our alternative modes of belonging as they navigate their everyday lives. Their accounts illustrate the continued need for African-descendant women to draw from their everyday knowledge of domination to employ resistance, whether through their own parenting or through their own reactionary voices in public space. Anti-Black non-belonging is therefore both a form of racialization and a matter of resistance; as African-descendent women are racialized as foreign, non-being, and out of place, they also challenge the ideology of Portuguese anti-racialism that places Africans and African descendants outside of European citizenry.

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