scholarly journals Identity Crisis and Gender Performativity: Critical Discourse Analysis of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Mohammad Hadi Jahandideh ◽  
Sakineh Shahnoori
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Gender Performance ◽  
Gender Performativity ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Domestic Values

This study provides a conceptual discussion by using Judith Butler’s theory of “Gender Performativity” that analyzes the tensions between self-identity and social identity. It proposes that identity is reflective of the correlation between the roles that people enact in society. The researchers scrutinized the role of gender and identity in the selected story of Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies. It will be investigated in the light of cultural and feminist criticism as well as their theoretical concepts. This study is conducted by using descriptive-analytic methodology as well as the materials available in the valid libraries. To conclude, the application of Butlerian theories to the selected short story provides the best opportunity for creating a balance between gender and identity spheres. It endorses the theory that gender performance is not the real hallmark of one’s identity. Indeed, formulating identity based on gender performativity is not necessarily incompatible with domestic values.

scholarly journals Be a Man, do not Cry like a Woman: Analyzing Gender Dynamics in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-371
Author(s):  
Abdul Razaque Channa ◽  
Tayyaba Batool Tahir
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Gender Performance ◽  
Gender Construction ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Gender Performativity ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Third ◽  
Informal Discussion ◽  
And Gender

Contrary to the view that gender is fluid, as concurred by several social scientists, in traditional Pakistani understanding, gender is seen in fixed binaries, i.e., either you are a man or a woman. The third category is known as the third gender in Pakistan. It is interesting to note that although gender is seen as fixed in Pakistani cultures, in informal discussions, varied shades of gender are highlighted by informants based on gender performativity. By drawing on the postmodern feminist theory of gender performativity, this paper does a discourse analysis of informant’s views about gender construction and dynamics in rural Sindh. Ethnographic fieldnotes have been used as primary data to analyze gender nuances implicit in Pakistani men's informal discourse. This paper argues that contrary to unchanging gender identities as endorsed by Pakistan society's patriarchal structure, men dismiss these fixed identities during an informal discussion. Instead, they shuffle gender identities by branding men and women as feminine men and masculine women, respectively, based on their gender performativity. We conclude that irrespective of physical outlook, the power lies in hegemonic forms of agency. Gender relationships and gender performance shape the sexual and gender identity of subjects.

Live-streaming, games and politics of gender performance: The case of Nüzhubo in China

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 807-825 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ge Zhang ◽  
Larissa Hjorth
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Gender Performance ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Gender Performativity ◽  
Creative Agency ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
History Of

In the emerging scholarship on live-streaming sites, the role of gender has been relatively overlooked. This article aims to address this oversight by capturing the controversial rise of nüzhubo (Chinese for ‘female casters’) in the Chinese live-streaming platform, Douyu. Through ethnographic research on Douyu over 2 years, we have witnessed female performers who – motivated by both entrepreneurial spirit and creative agency – have embraced new forms of performative practices in, and around, video game commentary cultures. We begin with a brief contextualizing the gendered nature of media in the history of Chinese video sites and how theories around gender – especially gender performativity – might be adapted. While acknowledging the homogenizing effect of the term nüzhubo, we focus on two performers on Douyu – Hani9 and Nvliu – that are challenging conventional nüzhubo tropes. We argue for a situated notion of gender performativity that also engages with the platform-specific social, cultural and technical infrastructures – ‘platformativity’ to use Thomas Lamarre’s word.

scholarly journals Pelatihan Penulisan Cerita Pendek Berkeadilan Gender Di Madrasah Aliyah Al Hidayah Kecamatan Wajak Kabupaten Malang

EGALITA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Galuh Nur Rohmah ◽  
Laily Fitriani ◽  
Vita Nur Santi
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Home School ◽  
The World ◽  
Child Character ◽  
Belles Lettres ◽  
And Gender ◽  
At Home

<p class="p15">In this time, some experts and practitioners of education have given idea about role of belles-lettres in education of child character. Do not deny again that belles-lettres of have important role in the world of education. Short story as one of belles-lettres form in creative writing region can be made as a media to study of justice and gender equality among adolescent as well as children. Adolescent in this time have recognized fiction readings in the form of short story, continued story, novel even pictorial story or comic. Meanwhile, its can not not be denied that a work, specially a story, not get out from its writer background. This research takes location in Madrasah Aliyah Al Hidayah of Wajak, District Of Wajak, Malang. And the result of this research is there is a change at student after done guidance; 1) student have information and knowledge about gender and its aspects 2) change of patterned thinking to treat fairly and equivalent between men and woman at home, school, and environment, and 3) student can put down issues about gender equality in his/ her short story.</p><p class="p15"> </p><p class="p15">Dewasa ini beberapa ahli dan praktisi pendidikan juga telah memberikan gagasan tentang peran karya sastra dalam pendidikan karakter anak. Tak dipungkiri lagi bahwa karya sastra memilki peran penting dalam dunia pendidikan.  Cerita pendek sebagai salah satu bentuk karya sastra dalam wilayah kepenulisan kreatif bisa dijadikan media bagi pembelajaran keadilan dan kesetaraan gender di kalangan remaja dan juga anak-anak. Remaja saat ini sudah mengenal bacaan-bacaan fiksi berupa cerita pendek, cerita bersambung, novel bahkan cerita bergambar atau komik.  Sementara itu, tidak dipungkiri bahwa sebuah karya, sebuah cerita khususnya, tidak lepas dari latar belakang penulisnya.    Penelitian ini mengambil lokasi di Madrasah Aliyah Al Hidayah Desa Wajak, Kecamatan Wajak,  Kabupaten Malang sebagai lokusnya. Dan hasil dari penelitian ini adalahterjadi perubahan pada siswa setelah dilakukan pendampingan; 1) siswa memiliki pengetahuan dan informasi tentang gender dan aspek-aspeknya, 2) perubahan pola pikir untuk memperlakukan secara adil dan setara antara laki-laki dan perempuan baik itu di rumah, di sekolah, dan di lingkungan sekitar, dan 3) siswa mampu meletakkan isu keadilan gender dalam cerita pendeknya.</p>

Spatializing Blackness

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rashad Shabazz
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Black Masculinity ◽  
Gender Performance ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Power Functions ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Timely Response ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

Over 277,000 African Americans migrated to Chicago between 1900 and 1940, an influx unsurpassed in any other northern city. From the start, carceral powers literally and figuratively created a prison-like environment to contain these African Americans within the so-called Black Belt on the city's South Side. A geographic study of race and gender, this book casts light upon the ubiquitous—and ordinary—ways carceral power functions in places where African Americans live. Moving from the kitchenette to the prison cell, and mining forgotten facts from sources as diverse as maps and memoirs, the book explores the myriad architectures of confinement, policing, surveillance, urban planning, and incarceration. In particular, it investigates how the ongoing carceral effort oriented and imbued black male bodies and gender performance from the Progressive era to the present. The result is an essential interdisciplinary study that highlights the racialization of space, the role of containment in subordinating African Americans, the politics of mobility under conditions of alleged freedom, and the ways black men cope with—and resist—spacial containment. A timely response to the massive upswing in carceral forms within society, the book examines how these mechanisms came to exist, why society aimed them against African Americans, and the consequences for black communities and black masculinity both historically and today.

scholarly journals Seeing Flesh: Naked Body Protests and Gender Performance in Post-Soviet Ukraine

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-73
Author(s):  
Sarah Labahn
Keyword(s):  
Gender Performance ◽  
The Body ◽  
Gender Performativity ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Gender Performances ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Naked Body ◽  
A Site ◽  
Feminist Movements

Butler’s theory of gender performativity, I attempt to draw connections between how the body interacts in Ukraine’s public and private sphere since the emergence of Femen in 2008. My research explores the ways in which deviant gender performances – such as the use of sextremism and hypersexualized acts in a hyper-masculine domain - have the ability to alter past meanings associated with the body. In such, the body becomes empowered through its own redefinition. Despite conflicting opinions about the effectiveness of this form of protest, this paper argues that Femen has successfully challenged conventional norms of femininity in the public sphere through its naked body protests by redefining the body as a political tool and as a site of liberation – thereby creating a space for politically active women in the traditionally masculine sphere of politics. The implications of this research provide insight into similar radical feminist movements that engage the body in overtly sexual and public ways. By understanding the body through Butler’s theory of gender performance, these feminist movements can be critically understood as resistant, empowering, and liberating.

scholarly journals The Conquest and Resistance, a Woman and a Man: Feminist and Imagological Reading of W. S. Maugham’s “The Unconquered”

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Short Story ◽  
The Other ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One ◽  
Negative Phenomena

In the paper, the national and women’s contexts closely interrelated in W. S. Maugham’s “The Unconquered” short story (1943) are being examined. While analysing the ground of the conquest and resistance, it is concluded that war conquering and sexual violence are aimed to establish the men’s power over certain part of the world. In some ways, capturing a woman and occupying the land are considered equal things under the patriarchal rules. With this in mind, any male conqueror tries to reach both of them not only for the sake of victory, but also for approval his status of a worthy member of a men-ruling society (a nation). Next, the role of stereotypes as an engine of all negative phenomena of national and gender non-understanding, in particular, war and various kinds of inequality, is stressed. Tracing the complex relationship between, on the one hand, Frenchmen and Germans, and women and men, on the other hand, it should be token that the final infanticide is multivalued whereas it means the woman’s liberation and revenge for the men’s world, as well as is an apogee of national resistance.

scholarly journals RECEPTING GENDER THOUGHTS IN MAMAOS CIANJURAN (CDA against Ceurik Rahwana and Tangis Anjani)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Barkah Barkah
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
West Java ◽  
Gender Balance ◽  
And Gender

Ceurik Rahwana and Tangis Anjani are part of Mamaos Cianjuran (a kind of opening poem), which is the oral tradition of song in West Java. Ceurik Rahwana and Tangis Anjani were chosen as study objects because of their unique gender. The study method uses critical discourse analysis. The results of the study were in the form of gender values from the local wisdom of Ceurik Rahwana and Tangis Anjani. The sympathies of this study concerning gender equality and gender balance (equilibrium), in essence, gender equality is not the same as a whole, but share the role of each other to glorify each other.

scholarly journals The role of the institution and teachers in supporting learning

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Welch ◽  
Adam Ockelford
Keyword(s):  
Music Teachers ◽  
Gender Performance ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Performance Expectations ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Induction Process ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Individual

This article discusses how learning and teaching in music are shaped by processes outside the individual, not least because of the influences of group membership (allied to age and gender), performance expectations and practices, and professional and institutional cultures. The process of individual induction into the characteristics of a particular musical culture by teachers and institutions influences the formation of identities in music, for better or for worse, at least in terms of dominant models within the culture. Indeed, the development of music teachers themselves can be seen within an activity system, i.e. the teacher's understanding of their role is developed both by informal personal reflection of the experience of performance and their own learning, and, more systematically, through their own induction process by attendance at a specialist, pedagogically focused institution.

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