More Than Body Parts

2018 ◽  
pp. 170-188
Author(s):  
Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Physical Condition ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Masculinity Studies ◽  
Gender Identities

This paper questions the reduction of human experience and identity to anatomical determinism in which the category of ‘woman' or ‘man' becomes a universal concept. Through a review of literature on African gender, feminist and masculinity studies, it highlights how people are more than their body parts. It notes how identities are shaped by an intersectionality of various factors such as education, employment status, class, age, physical condition, nationality, citizenship, race and ethnicity. These factors can be spatial and temporal producing differing experiences of gendered lives. African scholars have built up a rich collection of work that repudiates the univerlisation of gender identities based on Western philosophical schools of thought. This work explores in detail current and historical debates in African gender studies.

More Than Body Parts

2018 ◽  
pp. 1357-1375
Author(s):  
Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Physical Condition ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Masculinity Studies ◽  
Gender Identities

This paper questions the reduction of human experience and identity to anatomical determinism in which the category of ‘woman' or ‘man' becomes a universal concept. Through a review of literature on African gender, feminist and masculinity studies, it highlights how people are more than their body parts. It notes how identities are shaped by an intersectionality of various factors such as education, employment status, class, age, physical condition, nationality, citizenship, race and ethnicity. These factors can be spatial and temporal producing differing experiences of gendered lives. African scholars have built up a rich collection of work that repudiates the univerlisation of gender identities based on Western philosophical schools of thought. This work explores in detail current and historical debates in African gender studies.

scholarly journals Кон Knut H. Sørensen and James Stewart (Eds.), Digital Divide and Inclusion Measures: A Review of Literature and Statistical Trends on Gender and ICT

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 241-243
Author(s):  
Marija Ivanovska ◽  
Lindita Ahmeti
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Research Center ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Statistical Trends

Author(s): Marija Ivanovska | Марија Ивановска Title (Macedonian): Кон Knut H. Sørensen and James Stewart (Eds.), Digital Divide and Inclusion Measures: A Review of Literature and Statistical Trends on Gender and ICT Title (Albanian): Për Knut H. Sørensen and James Stewart (Eds.), Digital Divide and Inclusion Measures: A Review of Literature and Statistical Trends on Gender and ICT Translated by (Macedonian to Albanian): Lindita Ahmeti Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Summer 2004) Publisher: Research Center in Gender Studies - Skopje and Euro-Balkan Institute Page Range: 241-243 Page Count: 3 Citation (Macedonian): Марија Ивановска, „Кон Knut H. Sørensen and James Stewart (Eds.), Digital Divide and Inclusion Measures: A Review of Literature and Statistical Trends on Gender and ICT“, Идентитети: списание за политика, род и култура, т. 3, бр. 1 (лето 2004): 241-243. Citation (Albanian): Marija Ivanovska, „Për Knut H. Sørensen and James Stewart (Eds.), Digital Divide and Inclusion Measures: A Review of Literature and Statistical Trends on Gender and ICT“, përkthim nga Maqedonishtja Lindita Ahmeti, Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Summer 2004): 241-243.

scholarly journals „Spóźniony, zakłopotany spadkobierca”. Męskie inicjacje w cieniu łagru, purgi, totemicznej krwi

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Ubertowska
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Environmental Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Masculinity Studies ◽  
Endemic Plant ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Endemic Plant Species

What this article attempts to gauge are the possibilities stemming from combining two methodologies: masculinity studies (as a part of gender studies) and ecocriticism/environmental studies. The material for the analysis is the novel by Sergei Lebedev, Oblivion. The author of the article reconstructs the hegemonic pattern of male initiation present in the novel and related with post-communist inheritance of Grandfather II, one of the novel’s characters. Overcoming the imposed pattern of masculinity (authoritative, totalitarian) takes a form of journey into subarctic Russia and seeking the traces of gulag camps. Climate-related factors play a significant role in this process: motifs of Purga, of permafrost, and endemic plant species of Ural and Syberia.

scholarly journals “In Reality Every Reader Is, While He Is Reading, the Reader of His Own Self”: Reconsidering the Importance of Narrative and Savoir Littéraire for Masculinity Studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-84
Author(s):  
Stefan Horlacher
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Masculinity Studies ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Strong Emphasis ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Masculine Gender

Given the strong emphasis on plurality, which is so characteristic of current masculinity studies, the relationship between masculinity as a concept and its plural forms has to be rethought. If we conceive of masculinity as having a largely discursive and narrative structure and accept that narrative is an ontological condition of social life which exemplarily manifests itself in literature and the arts, it is precisely here that a plethora of narratives of masculinity becomes ‘visible’, with the performative function of narrative allowing for a variety of new masculine gender identities and subject positions that only become available through their conception in literature/the arts.

scholarly journals The Effect of Socio-Cultural Norms on Female Labor Force Participation in Afghanistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-41
Author(s):  
İnci Parlaktuna ◽  
Sidiqa Sidiqi
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Cultural Effects

This study based on the review of literature in Afghanistan, collected quantitative data through sequentially structured questionnaires to determine cultural effects on FLFP in Afghanistan. In this purpose, the study aims to use two types of data collection to determine the main research question on “whether socio-cultural norms affect the employability of women”. The results provide evidence based on the purpose of the study that, socio-cultural norms affect women’s employability regardless of their educational level, employment status and the region’s level of development. Though most of the respondents of the survey were educated,  majority of single educated women were the ones who were busy working in service, the industry as well as the agriculture sector. While this case is not true, for married educated women due to social norms and conservatism as one of the major reasons behind their unemployment to enter the job market.  

scholarly journals THE ANTINOMIES OF RACIAL CHANGE

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence D. Bobo
Keyword(s):  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Social Constructions ◽  
Racial Change ◽  
Natural Categories ◽  
Global Population

Discussions of complexity and change in matters of ethnoracial relations often obscure as much as they describe and illuminate. In part, this is so because such distinctions, racial ones in particular, are not now nor have they ever been fixed, static, and natural categories. They are instead malleable social constructions. In part, it is so because expressly ideological projects are typically embedded within the claims scholars make about ethnoracial patterns. Consider the assertion that hybridity and mixture are ending the relevance of race, or that global population flows, massive immigration, and “super-diversity” will, likewise, render notions of race passé. The trouble here is that the crossing of socially imposed lines of race and ethnicity, as well as contact among diverse peoples, has long characterized the human experience.

Non-Binary Genders

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Vincent
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Diary Research ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Medical Policy ◽  
Over Time

Methodologically innovative in its use of mixed-media diary research, this timely book offers a focused sociological study of non-binary people’s identities and experiences in the UK. From negotiating a sense of legitimacy when ‘not feeling trans enough’ to how identities can shift over time, it reveals important nuances of diverse gender identities while offering crucial insights into trans-related healthcare inequalities. The findings of this ground-breaking research mark an important contribution to the wider fields of gender studies, LGBTQ scholarship and medical policy.

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