scholarly journals Tender like marrow: A gender-based reading of Boom van my lewe [Tree of my life] and Ad hominem

Literator ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Louisemarié Combrink
Keyword(s):  
Subject Position ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ad Hominem ◽  
Feminine Gender ◽  
Artist's Books ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Alternative Masculinities ◽  
Gender Divisions ◽  
Gender Based

This article presents a reading of two artist’s books by male artists who participated in the practice-based research project Transgressions and boundaries of the page. The selected artists specifically address the notion of masculine vulnerability and injury, and in the process, they utilise a number of signifying strategies conventionally associated with masculine as well as feminine gender divisions. Schutte’s Boom van my lewe [Tree of my life] and Strydom and Burger’s Ad hominem were investigated. I argue that the use of media with a conventional feminine character together with themes associated with both masculine and feminine aspects assisted towards expressing the experience of masculine vulnerability and injury in such a manner that an unusual masculine subject position was suggested. This subject position offered a more nuanced view of masculinity that departs from masculinities proposed in discourses of conventional (heteronormative) or even so-called ‘new’ or alternative masculinities (transgender, homosexual and the like).

Sociological Profiling of Armed Robbery Convicts in Kirikiri Female Prisons, Lagos, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-54
Author(s):  
Richard Abayomi Aborisade ◽  
Similade Fortune Oni
Keyword(s):  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Criminal Career ◽  
Armed Robbery ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Feminine Gender ◽  
Gender Education ◽  
The Family ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

AbstractIncreasing female involvement in violent crime is a concern in Nigeria; still, it is unclear what informs this sudden surge in a society that supposedly socializes feminine gender to be soft, caring, and compassionate. This article explores the sociological profiles of women involved in armed robbery, drawing case examples from 32 convicts in a Nigerian female penitentiary. It was found that women were made susceptible to deviance by some social factors such as familial variables, neighborhood characteristics, gender discrimination, neglect, and violence. Both primary and secondary social groups were found to be major facilitators in the initiation into crime, development of criminal career, entry into armed robbery, and maintenance of life as a robber. This article concludes that gender-based inequality in all social facets and the unfavorable socio-economic conditions in Nigeria increase the vulnerability of women to be recruited into criminality. A revival of the family institution, gender-neutral parenting, government’s intervention for improvement of socio-economic wellbeing, and gender education are suggested.

Sex-stereotyping in Children's Preferences for Musical Instruments

1993 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Bruce ◽  
Anthony Kemp
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Infant School ◽  
Gender Divisions

This paper considers the effects of children's gender associations on their preferences for musical instruments, and questions whether the limited range of instrumental selection made by boys can be regarded as a result of such associations.The research project was devised to investigate the responses of infant school children to male and female musicians. The findings indicated that instrumental preferences were influenced by gender associations which could be lessened by providing positive role models. Whereas girls were more able to cross over gender divisions than boys, boys had a narrower range of interests in instruments. It was shown that the provision of an opposite gendered role model helped to overcome the associations made with particular instruments.

scholarly journals A Vision For The Future of Non Binary Fashion on Video Trans Animal Conceptual Sculpture Performance Explorations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick James Edelman
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
The Future ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Wearable Sculpture ◽  
The Relationship

The Vision for the Future of Non-binary Fashion on Video is a practice- based research project that examines the relationship between trans and non-binary bodies to, public space through creative methods of wearable sculpture, dance, performance and experimental video. This project enacts my theory of gender pregnancy, that one can achieve a non-binary appearance through using garments, motifs, or colors typically associated with binary gender and juxtaposing them into one look that is full of gender. This project dismantles binary notions of gender, public/private, mind/body and human/animal. Through the use of performance this project speaks to the transformative power of queer visibility in reclaiming public space. The resulting video, Trans Animal Fashion Futures, presents similarities between trans experiences and non-human animals in an to situate trans narratives as part of the ‘natural’ environment. Ultimately, this project engages with trans subjects and experiences to imagine queer collective futures in the interest of all.

Private Lives & Unspoken Truths: How does a Right to Privacy Contribute to Violence Against Women in Pakistan?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hijaab Yahya
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Impact

There were two core purposes of this research project. The first was to explore the impacts of the division of space within the public-private dichotomy onto women’s experiences of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) in Pakistan. In this inquiry, emphasis was placed upon understanding the impact of the culturally produced notion of the “privacy of home” on a woman’s ability to speak about and seek legal channelsof assistance in her experiences of DV and IPV. The second purpose was to critically scrutinize  Pakistan’s legal system in its ability to protect women from the violence they experience behind closed doors in the perceived “private” sphere of social life. By placing Art 14(1) of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, which states, “[t]he dignity of man and, subject to law, the privacy of home, shall be inviolable,” as the focal point of my research project, I examined why Pakistan’s legal system legitimizes the division of public-private space by constitutionally protecting a right to privacy of home. Informed by such inquiries, I developed the question, “why does Pakistan’s legal system constitutionally entrench a right to privacy of home under Art 14(1), and how is such right balanced against a woman’s right to be free from violence?” This project was conducted virtually and remotely from Canada, which presented significant challenges, including the nine-hour time difference and efficient participant recruitment. Nonetheless, completing this research study was the most fruitful experience of my academic career. It expanded my knowledge of contemporary gender-based socioeconomic and legal issues facing Pakistan's women and helped me to develop a network with relevant professionals and activists working in this field.

Are there things only artists can do?

Forum+ ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Carolina Bonfim
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
The Body ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article seeks to share the methods and strategies of the practice-based research project Ninety movements on TECHNOGYM G6508D. The research dissects the act of running in all its dimensions by fragmenting, archiving, incorporating, and highlighting what is unique and personal in each gesture and each way of moving. Ninety Movements is a continuation of Carolina Bonfim’s recent artistic practice, which explores the relationship between the body and the archive through a visual-arts approach.

Towards a radically different understanding of experience: Looking for an heautonomous auditory field in film

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martine Huvenne
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
The Status ◽  
Auditory Experience ◽  
Auditory Field ◽  
Film Making

What can be the status of sound in film? Is sound always dependent on image in film? Or is it possible to give sound a more autonomous status? If yes, what are the consequences for the workflow?In the 1980s and early 1990s two opposing propositions about the relation of the audible and the visible in film were presented. For Michel Chion the auditory field is completely a function of what appears on screen and for Gilles Deleuze the externality of the visual image as uniquely framed has been replaced by the interstice between two framings, the visual and the sound.Introducing the auditory field as multi-layered, dynamic, experienced and embodied, the author proposes a phenomenological approach of the audio-visual that moves towards a different understanding of the filmic experience, which has its roots in a phenomenology of auditory experience. In the practice-based research project, Surrounded, the author explored together with sound designer and sound mixer Griet Van Reeth, how the creative process of film-making can start from the auditory field, including inner sound and a heautonomy of the auditory field.

Qualitative Study of an Operations Research Project to Engage Abused Women, Health Providers, and Communities in Responding to Gender-Based Violence in Vietnam

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 1421-1441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney Ruth Schuler ◽  
Quach Thu Trang ◽  
Vu Song Ha ◽  
Hoang Tu Anh
Keyword(s):  
Abused Women ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Systematic Screening ◽  
Women Health ◽  
Resource Setting ◽  
Low Resource Setting ◽  
Gender Based

This article describes an action research project designed to engage women, health providers, and communities to respond to gender-based violence (GBV) in Vietnam. Based on results from in-depth interviews and group discussions, it considers the extent to which the project approaches were empowering for abused women. The results underscore the problems entailed in introducing systematic screening for gender-based violence into government health facilities in the low-resource setting of Vietnam, the importance of combining ideational change and rights components with support for abused women, and the difficulty of engaging male perpetrators.

scholarly journals Creative, Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research: An Educational Cell Biology Video Game Designed by Students for Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Isabelle Sperano ◽  
◽  
Ross Shaw ◽  
Robert Andruchow ◽  
Dana Cobzas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Biology Students ◽  
Interdisciplinary Practice ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
The Right

In a three-year, practice-based, creative research project, the team designed a video game for undergraduate biology students that aimed to find the right balance between educational content and entertainment. The project involved 7 faculty members and 14 undergraduate students from biological science, design, computer science, and music. This nontraditional approach to research was attractive to students. Working on an interdisciplinary practice-based research project required strategies related to timeline, recruitment, funding, team management, and mentoring. Although this project was time-consuming and full of challenges, it created meaningful learning experiences not only for students but also for faculty members.

scholarly journals GENDER-BASED WORD DERIVATION: FEMININE VARIATIONS OF OCCUPATION TITLES AS SEEN BY MGIMO STUDENTS (EXPERIMENTAL STUDY)

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. M. Ignatova
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
State Institute ◽  
Feminine Gender ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Gender Based

The article represents the results of an experimental study conducted in the autumn of 2018 in Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), which embraced 107 undergraduate and master degree students, studying German as the main foreign language. The study was aimed to bring out conservative and inventive trends in forming feminine gender markings (“feminatives”). An additional aim was to prove the anticipation that the morphological norms of the studied language (German) and foreign language cultural norms can transfer themselves onto the language of a student who is a Russian native speaker. For the study the method of a two-stage survey was chosen, the results of which were further processed utilizing IBM SPSS statistical software package. In the first stage the surveyed students were asked to build a feminine form for 60 denominations of professions or occupations given in a masculine form; in the second stage the surveyed were offered the list of variants to appraise through the prism of the language norm. The results obtained show that the forms belonging to the grammatical norm of the Russian language were statistically dominant. The anticipation that the norms of a studied language (German) can interfere with the speech culture of Russian native speakers was proven only partially. Occasional creative forms found in the survey replies reflect the balance existing between conservative and inventive linguistic trends.

scholarly journals Futurismo Now: A Conceptual Menswear Fashion Collection Exploring Masculinity through Futurist Aesthetics An Exhibition of Conceptual Fashion Collection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeonseok Jang
Keyword(s):  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Design Framework ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Main Design ◽  
Italian Futurism ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Practice Based Research

The Futurism Art movement and its manifestoes had a crucial impact on European literature, art, and fashion. This practice-based research project is an exploration of hegemonic masculinity (Connell, Donaldson…) through the lens of the Italian Futurism movement. My goal was to produce a conceptual menswear collection using Giacomo Balla’s “The Futurist Manifesto of Men’s Clothing” as the main design framework. This research dissects aspects of hegemonic masculinity and compares them with masculine tendencies that characterized the work of the Futurism movement. Through this study I meant to investigate if, by applying design elements and themes promoted by futurist artists, my menswear designs could reflect contemporary masculinities.

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