Looking the Beast in the Eye: Re-animating Meat in Nordic and British Food Culture

Author(s):  
Karen Lykke Syse

Syse defends Nordic and British chefs, cookbooks, television shows, and food magazines advocating for meat-eaters to face up to the animals that must be killed before they are eaten. Slaughtering one’s own pig and eating all parts of an animal from nose to tail, for example, are put forth as better ways of “respecting” animals, and as a critique of industrial food production and factory farms. In this kind of food culture, looking back nostalgically to times when people were more likely to live on farms and slaughter their own animals is seen as a way of finding “authenticity” in the modern world. This desire to “re-animate” one’s meat can construct traditional forms of masculinity and gender roles, but in Syse’s analysis it is more important to focus on the stated intentions of the chefs and writers at hand, which includes condemning the distance between carnivores and the real lives of the animals they consume.

2020 ◽  
pp. 1942602X2091996
Author(s):  
Christy Lucas ◽  
Jodi Brady ◽  
Robert P. Olympia

Teen dating violence (TDV) has become more prevalent in our schools, exacerbated by the omnipotent presence of social media and portals of what dating and gender roles “should be” in Hollywood films and television shows. It is important to recognize that TDV is a threat to mental health, and potentially physical health, and school nurses should develop a framework for recognizing problematic social, physical, and emotional interactions between students. This article describes typical presentations of TDV through a case, providing a mnemonic for recognition and resources for prevention.


2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Joyce A. Jornacion ◽  
Seth Raymund A. Reyes ◽  
Ma. Krishna F. Rosales ◽  
Gabriel Louise B. Seca ◽  
Francis H. Toledo ◽  
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Author(s):  
С.А. Ермолаева

В статье описываются процессы глобального усложнения современного общества, изменения роли и взаимоотношений представителей разных полов в этом обществе, которые обусловливают актуальность проблемы предупреждения искажений процесса гендерной идентификации подростков и молодежи. Определяется сущность превентивной педагогики, значимость научного изучения процесса зарождения и развития гендерного подхода к исследованию проблемы предупреждения отклоняющегося от нормы, в том числе преступного, поведения несовершеннолетних в педагогических и других научных исследованиях с конца XIX до начала XXI века. Цель работы — рассмотреть сущность, основные тенденции и перспективы развития гендерного подхода вместе с анализом социологического, культурологического, антропологического и других методологических подходов к научным исследованиям по данной проблеме. В статье представлена сущность теории полоролевого воспитания, теории развития гендерной идентичности, теории социального конструирования гендера, гендерной схемы социализации и др. Выдвинута и подтверждена исследованием гипотеза о том, что для предупреждения искажений гендерной идентификации, которая порождает не только девиантное, но и преступное поведение подростков, педагогам важно искать и реализовывать новые подходы, использовать новое содержание и методы гендерного воспитания в условиях семьи и образовательных организаций. Представлены актуальные аспекты гендерного подхода, связанные с учетом педагогом индивидуальных, возрастных и половых особенностей детей в воспитании, оказанием профессиональной педагогической помощи в гендерной идентификации, связанной с позитивным самоопределением, творческим самовыражением и самореализацией личности. Данные положения выступают основными условиями предупреждения и решения проблем превентивной педагогики. Обоснована необходимость дальнейших научных работ по формированию гендерной компетентности педагогов и готовности их к решению проблем организации гендерного воспитания в современной школе. The article descries complex social changes related to the making of the modern world, such as the transformation of gender roles, for example. These social changes make it necessary to prevent distorted gender identities in teenagers and young adolescents. The article focuses on the essence of preventive education. It underlines the necessity of investigating the issue of distorted gender identity and deviant behaviours in adolescents. It analyzes scholarly research devoted to the investigation of the abovementioned issues in scholarly works of the late 19th – early 21st centuries. The aim of the article is to investigate the essence of gender theory, its major trends and prospects of its development in combination with sociological, cultorological, anthropological and other methodological approaches. The article focuses on the essence of sex education, gender identity, socially constructed gender roles, gender socialization patterns, etc. The author hypothesizes that in order to prevent distorted gender identity, which provokes deviant behaviour and criminal behaviour in adolescents, teachers should be constantly searching for and implementing new approaches, new methods and new content of gender education in family and classroom environments. The article maintains that in order to ensure students’ self-acceptance, self-actualization and creative self-expression, teachers should take into consideration individual characteristics, age, and gender characteristics of the their students, which is an inalienable prerequisite of preventing and solving problems of preventive education. The article substantiates the necessity of further investigation of teachers’ gender competence and their professional readiness to solve gender-related problems in modern schools.


Author(s):  
Kristin C. Bloomer

This book is an ethnographic account of three Roman Catholic women in contemporary Tamil Nadu, south India, who claim to be possessed by Mary, the mother of Jesus. It follows their lives over more than a decade, describing their own, the researcher’s own, and devotees’ understandings of the women’s healing and possession practices along with questions about agency, gender roles, authenticity, and social power. It asks, how is it that some experiences of “possession” (a word introduced to India by Christian missionaries, which the book complicates through Tamil renditions) are recognized as authentic, yet others are not? What are the local conditions that enable their very possibility? Discussions of local and widespread “Hindu” practices and discourses shed light on how these women and their followers navigate their bodily experience, socioeconomic status, caste, and gender roles in a modern world of technological change and global economy—and how Church officials navigate these women. Part travelogue, part academic analysis, the book addresses a wide audience, including academics interested in the study of religion, spirit possession, anthropology, women’s and gender studies, postcolonialism, Global Christianity, Tamil culture, Mariology, fluid boundaries across “traditions,” and the relationship between the ethnographer-“Self” and “Other.”


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-509
Author(s):  
Ágnes Erőss ◽  
Monika Mária Váradi ◽  
Doris Wastl-Walter

In post-Socialist countries, cross-border labour migration has become a common individual and family livelihood strategy. The paper is based on the analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with two ethnic Hungarian women whose lives have been significantly reshaped by cross-border migration. Focusing on the interplay of gender and cross-border migration, our aim is to reveal how gender roles and boundaries are reinforced and repositioned by labour migration in the post-socialist context where both the socialist dual-earner model and conventional ideas of family and gender roles simultaneously prevail. We found that cross-border migration challenged these women to pursue diverse strategies to balance their roles of breadwinner, wife, and mother responsible for reproductive work. Nevertheless, the boundaries between female and male work or status were neither discursively nor in practice transgressed. Thus, the effect of cross-border migration on altering gender boundaries in post-socialist peripheries is limited.


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