scholarly journals Revisiting Second Wave Feminism in the Light of Recent Controversies

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 28-35
Author(s):  
Nina Power
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Second Wave Feminism ◽  
Vexed Question ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Second Wave

This paper revisits elements of second wave feminism—in its psychoanalytic, radical, materialist, Marxist and deconstructionist aspects—the better to understand how it is we might define sexual difference today. The vexed question of sexuation, of what it means to be a woman in particular has today generated great tensions at the theoretical, legal and philosophical level. This paper is an attempt to return to aspects of the second wave—an unfinished project where many enduring feminist concerns were for the first time thoroughly and metaphysically articulated—the better to defend the importance of sexual difference. To this end, the transcendental and parallax dimensions of sexed life will be discussed, alongside a defence of the centrality of the mother to our thinking about the relevance and necessity of preserving the importance of sexual difference, not only for thought but also for political and legal life. Author(s): Nina Power Title (English): Revisiting Second Wave Feminism in the Light of Recent Controversies Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (Winter 2020) Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje Page Range: 28-35 Page Count: 8 Citation (English): Nina Power, “Revisiting Second Wave Feminism in the Light of Recent Controversies,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (Winter 2020): 28-35. Author Biography Nina Power, Independent Researcher Nina Power is a philosopher and writer, and the author of many articles on politics, feminism and culture. She is the author of One-Dimensional Woman (2009) and the forthcoming What Do Men Want? (2021). She is currently teaching at Mary Ward and has previously taught at the University of Roehampton and many other institutions

scholarly journals User Errors: Reason, (Xeno)-Feminism and the Political Insufficiency of Ontology

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 54-68
Author(s):  
Ben Woodard
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Second Wave Feminism ◽  
Vexed Question ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Second Wave

This paper revisits elements of second wave feminism—in its psychoanalytic, radical, materialist, Marxist and deconstructionist aspects—the better to understand how it is we might define sexual difference today. The vexed question of sexuation, of what it means to be a woman in particular has today generated great tensions at the theoretical, legal and philosophical level. This paper is an attempt to return to aspects of the second wave—an unfinished project where many enduring feminist concerns were for the first time thoroughly and metaphysically articulated—the better to defend the importance of sexual difference. To this end, the transcendental and parallax dimensions of sexed life will be discussed, alongside a defence of the centrality of the mother to our thinking about the relevance and necessity of preserving the importance of sexual difference, not only for thought but also for political and legal life. Author(s): Ben Woodard  Title (English): User Errors: Reason, (Xeno)-Feminism and the Political Insufficiency of Ontology Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (Winter 2020) Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje Page Range: 54-68 Page Count: 15 Citation (English): Ben Woodard, “User Errors: Reason, (Xeno)-Feminism and the Political Insufficiency of Ontology,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (Winter 2020): 54-68. Author Biography Ben Woodard, Independent Researcher Ben Woodard is an independent scholar living in Germany. His work focuses on the relationship between naturalism and idealism during the long nineteenth century. He is currently preparing a monograph on the relation of naturalism and formalism in the life sciences. His book Schelling’s Naturalism was published in 2019 by Edinburgh University Press.

scholarly journals Q&A Session Following the Lecture: Materialist Feminism and Radical Feminism: Revisiting the Second Wave in the Light of Recent Controversies

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 36-39
Author(s):  
Nina Power et al.
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Radical Feminism ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The University ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Materialist Feminism

Author(s): Nina Power et al. Title (English): Q&A session following the lecture: Materialist Feminism and Radical Feminism: Revisiting the Second Wave in the Light of Recent Controversies Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (Winter 2020) Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje Page Range: 36-39 Page Count: 4 Citation (English): Nina Power et al., “Q&A session following the lecture: Materialist Feminism and Radical Feminism: Revisiting the Second Wave in the Light of Recent Controversies,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (Winter 2020): 36-39. Author Biography Nina Power, Independent Researcher Nina Power is a philosopher and writer, and the author of many articles on politics, feminism and culture. She is the author of One-Dimensional Woman (2009) and the forthcoming What Do Men Want? (2021). She is currently teaching at Mary Ward and has previously taught at the University of Roehampton and many other institutions.

Hollywood Can’t Wait: Elaine May and the Delusions of 1970s American Cinema

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-62
Author(s):  
Maya Montañez Smukler
Keyword(s):  
Women Directors ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
American Cinema ◽  
New Hollywood ◽  
Second Wave Feminism ◽  
Feminist Film ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
First Time ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Made In

Elaine May began her career as a filmmaker during the 1970s when the mythology of the New Hollywood male auteur defined the decade; and the number of women directors, boosted by second wave feminism, increased for the first time in forty years. May’s interest in misfit characters, as socially awkward as they were delusional, and her ability to seamlessly move them between comedy and drama, typified the New Hollywood protagonist who captured America’s uneasy transition from the hopeful rebellion of the 1960s into the narcissistic angst of the 1970s. However, the filmmaker’s reception, which culminated in the critical lambast of her comeback film Ishtar in 1987, was uneven: her battles with studio executives are legendary; feminist film critics railed against her depiction of female characters; and a former assistant claimed she set back women directors by her inability to meet deadlines. This chapter investigates Elaine May’s career within the lore 1970s Hollywood to understand the industrial and cultural circumstances that contributed to the emergence of her influential body of work; and the significant contributions to cinema she made in spite of, and perhaps because of, the conflicts in which she was faced.

scholarly journals Practical Theology as part of the landscape of Social Sciences and Humanities – A transversal perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian C. Müller
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Practical Theological ◽  
The University ◽  
Interdisciplinary Process

At the University of Pretoria the author, a practical theologian, experiences a fruitful soil for the development of an interdisciplinary process. He referred to concrete examples of cooperation, but used the article to reflect on best practices for the interdisciplinary dialogue. He came to the conclusion that it probably made more sense to talk of Practical-theological alternatives rather than to describe the subject in a single fixed manner of understanding and action. Our goal should rather be to open up the boundaries between Practical Theology, Human, Social and Natural Sciences.

scholarly journals PROPOSALS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY FROM THE CURRENT SITUATION OF ETHNOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY TRAINING AND RESEARCH IN VIETNAM

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-18
Author(s):  
Tiep Van Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Reference Materials ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
International Training ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Graduate Curricula ◽  
Training And Research ◽  
Teaching Faculty ◽  
The University

The Faculty of Anthropology, former sub-faculty of anthropology, in the university of Social Sciences and Humanities of Ho Chi Minh City was established in 2002. For 10 years, the department has developed a strategy to develop its staff and teaching faculty together with gradually building up undergraduate and graduate curricula; as well as translating reference books, mostly about theories and methodology; compiling textbooks etc. Basing on the reality of constructing and developing the discipline in Vietnam, we come up with some ideas about how to continue constructing and developping anthropology in the context of international integration such as information exchange, national and international training and researching collaboration, publishing textbooks, translating reference materials, and improving curricula at undergraduate and graduate levels.

scholarly journals Solutions to scholarly publishing in social sciences and humanities

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (X1) ◽  
pp. 91-103
Author(s):  
Phuong Dzung Pho ◽  
Phuong Thi Minh Tran
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
National University ◽  
The University ◽  
Quality Of Research

Publishing scientific research is very important in contributing to the knowledge of a discipline and in sharing experience among scientists. However, there are few studies to find solutions to improve the quantity and quality of research publications, especially those in the fields of social sciences and humanities. This case study aims at finding the difficulties that lecturers from different faculties and departments of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City have encountered in publishing their research. Based on the survey data, the study suggests practical solutions to enhance Vietnamese researchers’ national and international publications in order to meet integration challenges.

scholarly journals The compound tombs at Cho Lach (Ben Tre)

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-74
Author(s):  
Manh Duc Pham ◽  
Thang Chien Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Married Couple ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Coconut Fiber ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Soil Walls ◽  
Rectangular Form ◽  
National University ◽  
First Time

Between April & May 2014, the Department of Archaeology (Faculty of History, University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City) and the Department of Culture - Sports and Tourism of Ben Tre Province conducted an excavation of the compound tomb at Chợ Lách town (Chợ Lách district, Bến Tre Province). The main results are as follows: Archaeologists detected two raising architectures on brick ground like the architectural model of mausoleum, in which the big Mausoleum lies approximately directed southward, offset 3° east, including a stele house and a burial house in scale of 300cm in width, 240cm in length and 185- 205cm in height designed for 2-adult burial (normally a married couple often found in Nam Bộ Tombs). Two graves are of rectangular form because only soil walls surrounded the graves. They are submerged in water in the depth of 70-275cm, decomposed, containing just a piece of the adult skull, 5 very small bronze balls and plant traces (as coconut fiber and fruit (Mangrove palm), Bần rind (Sonneratia) and Ráng leaves (Acrosticlum aureum Linn), pottery and ceramic pieces etc. The small architectural mausoleum with stele and burial houses was opened heading straight West and with the scale of 140cm in length, 65cm in width and 95cm in height. The rectangular burial pit, with the dimension of length 130cm, width 60cm, depth 70cm, not flooded, so the wooden coffin covered by sarcophagus with iron nails is preserved. There are remains of a lying face-up child, spreading legs, wearing 2 bronze buttons. The baby was about 2-4 years old with the height of 100-110cm. From the results of forensic examination and comparative research into the tomb structure scale and the artifact collected from the excavated pit, the authors state that: The tomb monuments in Cho Lach belong to the styles of stele and burial house for aristocratic title, to the Nguyen Dynasty in two centuries 18th and 19th, with structure building material, brick grounds, steel frames, wooden coffins with iron nails, spherical virtual buttons, ceramic fragments etc. For the first time in Vietnam, tomb monuments contained such specific characteristics as 5 very small bronze balls and plant traces (as coconut fiber and fruit (Mangrove palm), Bần rind (Sonneratia) and Ráng leaves (Acrosticlum aureum Linn), pottery and ceramic pieces etc. Especially the first time in Vietnam, archaeologists find 2 aristocratic mausoleums sitting next to each other, perhaps belonging to the same family, in which the parents were lying in big burial pits and their child (ageing from 2 to 4 only) was lying in a small burial pit, but a majestic stele house of this model has still been built from the Medieval & Post-Medieval Ages.

scholarly journals STRUCTURE AND UNDERLYING VALUE OF PREFERABLE GENDER CHARACTERISTICS AMONG THE STUDENTS OF BELGRADE UNIVERSITY

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 395
Author(s):  
Tamara Džamonja-Ignjatović ◽  
Marko D. Milanović ◽  
Gordana Daša Duhaček
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Semantic Differential ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Specific Objective ◽  
Gender Characteristics ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
The University

The aim of the study was to analyse preferable gender characteristics based on underlying gender stereotypes among the students from the University of Belgrade. The specific objective was to explore the prescribed value and the structure of those stereotypes. The participants were 261 students (69.7% female) from the University of Belgrade, 55.2% from Departments of social sciences and humanities and 44.8% from Departments of technical sciences, from the first to the fourth year of undergraduate studies.In the first phase of the study, we have used the list of eight pairs of desirable male and female prototypical attributes, and in the second phase, we have used the semantic differential scale for evaluative assessment of those attributes. The results have indicated that typical gender stereotypes are still predominant even in the academic environment. Stereotypes are more pronounced in the male sample than in the female one, i.e. women perceive the sexes as more similar to each other than men do. Both men and women evaluated the desirable “male” characteristics more positively than “female” ones, but men valued “female” characteristics significantly lower than women. We identified four groups of students with different structures of stereotypes. The predominant groups of stereotyping expressed masculinisation of both genders, or clear polarisation based on patriarchal tradition. If we consider students as the important strength for development of gender equality, more efforts should be made for understanding influence and planning policies, and programs targeting gender equality on faculties.

scholarly journals A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Step

Asian Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
Ngoc Tho Nguyen ◽  
Jana S. Rošker
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Single Step ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Biennial Conference ◽  
National University ◽  
The University

This special issue of Asian Studies is dedicated to Confucianism in Vietnam. The idea of this topic has a rather long history. It can be traced back to the second biennial conference of the World Consortium for Research on Confucian Cultures (WCRCC), which took place in Vietnam in 2016 and was hosted by the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University––Ho Chi Minh City under the theme “Confucianism as a Philosophy of Education for the Contemporary World”.

Research ethics of the faculty members at higher education – theory and practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (8) ◽  
pp. 204-211
Author(s):  
Huong Tran Thanh
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Research Ethics ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Education Theory ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University

Scientific research is seen as a tool to discover new knowledge and create advanced products for the betterment of society. However, the contribution of research outputs is only valuable unless it is done with the required values and by specific standards. By using questionnaire to conduct a survey on 169 permanent faculty members at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, HCMC, the author found out that the respondents had adequate perception to research ethics, however, they inadequately perceived the values of research methods, and relationship among stakeholders and research sponsors. From these findings, some recommendations are proposed to improve the research effectiveness at the university level.

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