Gender Inequality and Criminalization: A Socialist Feminist Perspective on the Legal Social Control of Women

2019 ◽  
pp. 29-48
Author(s):  
Mona J.E. Danner
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Feminist Perspective

Tolerating Battering: Invisible Methods of Social Control

1997 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Hidden Variables ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Viable Alternative ◽  
Palestinian Women ◽  
Wife Battering ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
East Jerusalem

This article examines how invisible methods of social control contribute to the tolerance of battering amongst women. The study is based on the responses of 173 Palestinian women selected randomly from the East Jerusalem area, and who were interviewed to assess their perception and response to wife battering. Quantitative and qualitative data collected on the respondents suggest that while women do not accept violence practised on them, they tolerate it. Contextual analysis of the data showed that women tolerate violence because no other viable alternative is available to them. An in-depth analysis of the hidden variables contributing to this tolerance is given from a feminist perspective. Suggestions are given regarding the questions researchers should ask when dealing with wife battering.

scholarly journals KAJIAN PERSPEKTIF FEMINIS DALAM NOVEL PADANG BULAN DAN CINTA DI DALAM GELAS DALAM ANALISIS GENDER

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-298
Author(s):  
Ariyana Ariyana
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Community Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
Educational Values ◽  
Study Find ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
And Gender

Abstract: The study of Padang Bulan novel and Love in Glass aims to describe the study of feminist perspectives that build the story in the novel Padang Bulan and Cinta Dalam Dalam Gelas. Describe the gender contained in the novel Padang Bulan and Cinta Dalam In Gelas. This research was conducted on the category of novel Padang Bulan and Love in a Glass by Andrea Hirata and then made a research corpus.The results of content analysis in Padang Bulan novels and Love in Glass, show that gender inequality is a social form found in the realities of community life. Injustice to women raises feminist awareness, to change the condition of women’s slumps in the sphere of adat and society. Novel Padang Bulan and Cinta in Glass fulfill the feasibility to be used as teaching materials in sekolaah-sekolah. the results of this study find the educational values that are generally found in literary works, especially types of prose.Based on the result of feminist perspective study and gender analysis, the researcher recommends novel Padang Bulan and Cinta in Glass fulfilling the feasibility to be used as study material and reference for educator. The other consideration is that the novel is very thick with the values of education in accordance with the spirit of the struggle.Keywords: feminist perspective, gender analysis   Abstrak: Penelitian terhadap novel Padang Bulan dan Cinta di Dalam Gelas bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan kajian perspektif feminis yang membangun cerita dalam novel Padang Bulan dan Cinta di Dalam Gelas. Mendeskripsika gender yang terkandung dalam novel Padang Bulan dan Cinta di Dalam Gelas. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada kategori novel Padang Bulan dan Cinta di Dalam Gelas karya Andrea Hirata kemudian dijadikan korpus penelitian. Hasil analisi isi (content analysis) dalam novel Padang Bulan dan Cinta di Dalam Gelas, menunjukkan bahwa ketidaksetaraan gender merupakan bentuk sosial yang terdapat dalam realita kehidupan masyarakat. Ketidakadilan terhadap perempuan memunculkan kesadaran feminis, untuk mengubah kondisi keterpurukan perempuan dalam lingkup adat dan masyarakat. Novel Padang Bulan dan Cinta di Dalam Gelas memenuhi kelayakan untuk dijadikan bahan ajar di sekolaah-sekolah . hasil penelitian ini menemukan nilai-nilai pendidikan yang pada umumnya terdapat dalam karya sastra terutama jenis prosa.Berdasarkan hasil kajian perspektif feminis dan analisis gender, peneliti merekomendasikan novel Padang Bulan dan Cinta di Dalam Gelas memenuhi kelayakan untuk dijadikan sebagai bahan kajian dan referensi bagi pendidik. Adapun pertimbangan lainnya adalah bahwa novel tersebut sangat kental dengan nilai-nilai pendidikan yang sesuai dengan semangat perjuangan. Kata kunci: perspektif feminis, analisis gender

scholarly journals How should marriage be theorised?

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alasia Nuti
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Radical Reform ◽  
Asymmetric Power

Feminists have noted the injustice of the institution of marriage and the asymmetric power dynamics within gender-structured marriages. Recently, feminists have found an unexpected supporter of this struggle against marriage in some liberal political theorists. I argue that this new wave of interest in the wrongness of marriage within liberalism reveals shortcomings from a feminist perspective. While some liberals fail to realise that instead of being disestablished, the institution of marriage should be radically reformed, others do not recognise that such a reform should be theorised by starting from our non-idealised conditions of gender inequality and from an analysis of how the institution of marriage intersects with other spheres of gender injustice. This article provides recommendations for the radical reform of marriage by following some methodological premises of feminist theory. To illustrate how the reform of marriage should be theorised, it focuses on the intersection between the sphere of gender injustice represented by immigration and that of marriage.

scholarly journals Masculinidad (hegemónica) resquebrajada y reconstrucción subjetiva en los espacios de prostitución (Undermined (Hegemonic) masculinity and subjective reconstruction within prostitution)

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1S) ◽  
pp. S61-S81
Author(s):  
Beatriz Ranea Triviño
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Feminist Perspective

En este artículo se analiza de qué forma los espacios de prostitución han sido resignificados en la actualidad como escenarios de reconstrucción subjetiva de la masculinidad frente a los cambios sociales. Se reflexiona sobre la prostitución desde la perspectiva de género y feminista dando cuenta de las desigualdades que posibilitan la relación de prostitución. A continuación, se analiza la construcción de la masculinidad abordando los pilares más significativos sobre los que se construía la identidad masculina tales como: la identidad ligada al trabajo y al rol de proveedor familiar; a la autoridad del pater familias; al ejercicio de la violencia o a la amenaza de la utilización de la misma; a la actividad sexual (siguiendo patrones androcéntricos y patriarcales). Se argumenta que el ejercicio de la violencia y la actividad sexual aparecen fortalecidos como escenarios de construcción masculina; y la prostitución aparece en la encrucijada entre violencia y sexualidad patriarcal. In this article, we analyze how prostitution has been resignified as a scenario of subjective reconstruction for men in a social context of changes. Prostitution is analyzed from a gender and feminist perspective, taking into account how gender inequality makes possible prostitution and how gender inequality is reproduced within prostitution. Also we analyze the construction of the masculinity arguing that masculinity is supported by some bases: identity linked to work and family provider; to the authority of the paterfamilias; to the exercise of violence or the threat of using it; to sexual activity (following androcentric and patriarchal patterns). It is argued that some of these bases have failure and others (violence and sexual activity) have strengthened and prostitution appears at the crossroads between violence and patriarchal sexuality.

scholarly journals PERCEIVED GENDER INEQUALITY REFLECTED IN ZULU PROVERBS: A FEMINIST APPROACH

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
N Mathonsi ◽  
Z Mpungose
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Gender Inequities

Many scholars have done research about the significance of Zulu proverbs in the society. While most studies have concluded that proverbs play a significant role in instilling positive behaviour in the society (cf. Mathonsi, 2004; Magwaza, 2004, etc.), this paper seeks to show negative emotions (gender inequities) reflected on the some selected Zulu proverbs. Adopting a radical feminist perspective, this paper presents a discussion of Zulu proverbs referring to the role and position of men in the society and those which are associated with women and marriage. The discussion in the article centres around the rigidity of Zulu proverbs vis-à-vis prevalent changes in the society

Gender Inequality in Postcapitalism: Theorizing Institutions for a Democratic Socialism

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 668-674
Author(s):  
Barbara E. Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Democratic Socialism ◽  
Consumer Decisions ◽  
Adequate Provision

In this paper, I explore the implications for gender equality of building democratic institutions in workplaces and democratic planning in the economy. I review proposals for postcapitalism and consider whether those institutional innovations are likely to address three aspects of gender equality: discrimination and harassment at work, adequate provision for care work, and social control over consumer decisions. I propose three areas for developing competency at democratic decision making that could improve gender equity. JEL Classification: P4, B54

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