It’s a Mann’s World?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Segal
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Police Procedural ◽  
Film Genres ◽  
At Home

This chapter shows how there can be no easily assumed relationship between genres and gendered audiences, for as socially circulating gender assumptions change, they bring with them consequent shifts in audience address. It analyzes Hollywood masculinity in the early to mid-1990s and how this is reflected in the film, Heat (1995). Heat is a unique entry in the police procedural/crime genre in that it attempts to illuminate for its viewers the emotional toll that crime work takes on the police and thieves while also revealing the toll it takes on the spouses and loved ones who are left at home to wonder when the men will be coming home. It is argued that male and female spectator relations in regard to traditionally masculine film genres cannot be viewed in essentialist terms. Heat exemplifies the ways in which conventional gender roles in masculine genres can be detached from traditional representations as socially circulating gender assumptions change.

Atalanta as Model: The Hunter and the Hunted

1996 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith M. Barringer
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Vase Painting ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Visual Evidence ◽  
Male Perceptions ◽  
Material Record ◽  
Insight Into

Atalanta, devotee of Artemis and defiant of men and marriage, was a popular figure in ancient literature and art. Although scholars have thoroughly investigated the literary evidence concerning Atalanta, the material record has received less scrutiny. This article explores the written and visual evidence, primarily vase painting, of three Atalanta myths: the Calydonian boar hunt, her wrestling match with Peleus, and Atalanta's footrace, in the context of rites of passage in ancient Greece. The three myths can be read as male and female rites of passage: the hunt, athletics, and a combination of prenuptial footrace and initiatory hunt. Atalanta plays both male and female initiatory roles in each myth: Atalanta is not only a girl facing marriage, but she is also a female hunter and female ephebe. She is the embodiment of ambiguity and liminality. Atalanta's status as outsider and as paradoxical female is sometimes expressed visually by her appearance as Amazon or maenad or a combination of the two. Her blending of gender roles in myth offers insight into Greek ideas of social roles, gender constructs, and male perceptions of femininity. Erotic aspects of the myths of the Calydonian boar hunt and the footrace, and possibly also her wrestling match with Peleus, emphasize Atalanta as the object of male desire. Atalanta challenges men in a man's world and therefore presents a threat, but she is erotically charged and subject to male influence and dominance.

scholarly journals The League of Nations and the Moral Recruitment of Women

2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (S20) ◽  
pp. 97-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magaly Rodríguez García
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Advisory Committee ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Commercial Sex ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Gender Dynamics ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Differences Of Opinion ◽  
Women And Children

SummaryThis article analyses the debate on trafficking and policies to combat the recruitment of persons for commercial sex within the Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Women and Children of the League of Nations. Its main argument is that the Committee's governmental and non-governmental representatives engaged in what might be called a “moral recruitment of women”. This form of recruitment had a double purpose: to protect females from prostitution through the provision of “good employment”, and to repress intermediaries of prostitution by means of criminalization. Three elements of the Committee's internal debates and concrete actions will receive special attention. Firstly, the ideological framework (feminism, social purity, humanitarianism, abolitionism, regulationism, and/or class); secondly, the gender dynamics (differences of opinion between the Committee's male and female representatives); and thirdly the degree of gendering (construction or reinforcement of gender roles and relations).

Sexing the Soul: Gender and the Rhetoric of Puritan Piety

1998 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 175-186
Author(s):  
Susan Hardman Moore
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
Conduct Books ◽  
Feminine Identity ◽  
At Home

Patriarchs at home, but brides of Christ in spirit: it is an intriguing fact that while puritan writers opposed any confusion of gender roles in everyday life, they were happy for men to adopt a feminine identity in spiritual experience. On one hand, seventeenth-century conduct books and sermons hammered home the divinely-ordained place of husbands and wives in marriage. William Whately (1583-1639) argued that wives should always have on their lips the refrain ‘Mine husband is my superior, my better’, and thatas our Lord Jesus Christ is to his Church … so must [the husband] be to his wife an head and Saviour … the Lord in his Word hath intitled him by the name of head: wherefore hee must not stand lower than the shoulders…. That house is a … crump-shouldered or hutcht-backt house, where the husband hath made himself an underling to his wife, and given away his power to an inferior.

Dreaming of Prosperity at Home

2020 ◽  
pp. 121-148
Author(s):  
Tony Tian-Ren Lin
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Prosperity Gospel ◽  
The Family ◽  
Religious Ideal ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Church ◽  
At Home

The demands of Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism on the family and gender roles are many. The home is a space where the paradox of Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism is lived out daily. In traditional Christianity, the family is supposed to be a small-scale replica of the church, where there is a father who serves as the priest, a mother who is his assistant, and a congregation, represented by children who need instruction and guidance. This chapter shows how Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism shapes family dynamics and the logic they use to bridge their family reality to the religious ideal.

Gender

2015 ◽  
pp. 31-48
Author(s):  
Emily Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Gender Performativity ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Male Nurse ◽  
Gender Characteristics ◽  
Opposite Gender

This chapter evaluates how Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to Her (2002) plays with the idea of gender being a fixed attribute and sees gender instead as something flexible and fluid. Gender roles in Talk to Her are arguably represented as a socially constructed rather than innately determined with characters in careers typically assigned to the opposite gender. Lydia is a female bull fighter in a typically chauvinist industry and Benigno is a male nurse in a very female heavy environment. Almodóvar's blurring of the strict rigid definitions of masculinity and femininity can be viewed as postmodernist. The chapter then considers gender performativity in relation to Almodóvar's body of films. In Talk to Her, Lydia, Marco, and Benigno can be seen to perform both male and female gender characteristics at different times.

scholarly journals Lessons from the field: Gender roles and researcher reflexivity in smoking cessation in South Asia

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Boeckmann ◽  
M Noor ◽  
R Zahid ◽  
F Firoze ◽  
P Shresthra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Standard Training ◽  
Counselling Intervention

Abstract Background In South Asia, dual epidemics of smoking and tuberculosis (TB) have contributed to a high burden of lung disease. To address these health risks, the TB & Tobacco study uses the TB diagnosis as a teachable moment and implements a behaviour support counselling intervention, conducted by TB health workers, for patients in Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan. In this region, smoking tobacco is perceived as problematic for women, and being confronted with questions on smoking from a health professional may be uncomfortable for men and women. Anticipating these challenges, we incorporated gender sensitivity into training of health workers. Methods During implementation of the cessation support in routine TB care, a process evaluation assessed interactions between participants and the intervention through interviews with health workers and patients with TB participating in the cessation program. This presentation focusses on a retrospective self-reflection on how we conceptualized gender roles based on prior research, and how research findings partially challenged these assumptions. Findings While parts of our interview findings point towards smoking as a stigmatized practice for women and some men in South Asia as expected, several male and female respondents across socio-economic and geographical spheres contradicted this assumption. We discovered that health workers’ self-efficacy and perceived smoking stigma among health workers influenced whether they discussed smoking with women or minors. Many patients, on the other hand, told us that they were interested in receiving help to cure their TB and were willing to talk to about smoking with their health workers and their family members. Conclusions Patients in this study were more open to talking about smoking than anticipated. When including gender sensitivity into the standard training for health workers, we should be careful not to increase doubts in health workers about addressing smoking with women.

Aboriginal Studies at an Aboriginal College?

1980 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-54
Author(s):  
A. Phillips ◽  
R. Lister
Keyword(s):  
Female Students ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Learning To Read ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
Aboriginal Culture ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Aboriginal Groups ◽  
At Home

One of the criticisms voiced against Aboriginal Residential Colleges such as Yirara is that we “take the students away from their culture”. I don’t necessarily agree with this comment for a number of reasons.Aspects of life at Yirara suggest to me that male and female students who attend could in fact be exposed to more traditional Aboriginal culture than they would normally experience at home. This, of course, applies to some communities more than to others.Yirara College is in its second year of conducting an Aboriginal Studies course for its students. During this course students have the opportunity ofa) Learning to read and write their own language.b) Learning traditional and contemporary Aboriginal skills.c) Learning about other non-Centralian Aboriginal groups and native peoples from other cultures.

Tourism Employment in Bali: A Gender Analysis

1995 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judie Cukier ◽  
Geoffrey Wall
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Occupational Choices ◽  
Front Desk ◽  
Traditional Roles ◽  
At Home ◽  
Differential Access

This paper examines gender roles in tourism employment in Bali, Indonesia. While tourism has provided both women and men with greater occupational choices, through analyses of employment as front desk workers, as vendors, as kiosk operators and as drivers/guides, it is shown that there is differential access by gender to tourism employment in Bali. Furthermore, in the formal sector, women may be required to have superior qualifications and may be paid less than men in similar positions. At the same time as gaining access to employment outside the home, many women are expected to carry out traditional roles at home and in religious activities.

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