scholarly journals On Dramatic Narrative in Caryl Churchill’s Vinegar Tom

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Fengshan Bi
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Caryl Churchill ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dramatic Narrative ◽  
And Gender

Caryl Churchill, in Vinegar Tom, discloses the social plight of marginalized and powerless women through her innovative theatrical methods. The episodic scenes, coupled with cross-cast doubling and contemporary songs, contribute to the formation of a plurality of theatrical implication. Churchill’s experimentation with dramatic narrative, which ingeniously interweaves with feminist theory and gender politics, represents her attempt to explore the possibilities of a feminist aesthetic. The play challenges the dominant versions of witchcraft history as constructed by patriarchy, and simultaneously, points out the continuing impact of gender constrictions on women in contemporary society. Churchill’s commitment to social injustice requires the use of innovative theatrical forms.

Who’s holding up the sky? On Rymba, a novel by A. Bushkovsky

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-158
Author(s):  
A. V. Zhuchkova
Keyword(s):  
Gender Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Flood Zone ◽  
The Social ◽  
Russian North ◽  
And Gender

The article deals with A. Bushkovsky’s novel Rymba that goes beyond the topics typical of Russian North prose. Rather than limiting himself to admiring nature and Russian character, the author portrays the northern Russian village of Rymba in the larger context of the country’s mentality, history, mythology, and gender politics. In the novel, myth clashes with reality, history with the present day, and an individual with the state. The critic draws a comparison between the novel and the traditions of village prose and Russian North prose. In particular, Bushkovsky’s Rymba is discussed alongside V. Rasputin’s Farewell to Matyora [ Proshchanie s Matyoroy ] and R. Senchin’s The Flood Zone [ Zona zatopleniya ]. The novel’s central question is: what keeps the Russian world afloat? Depicting the Christian faith as such a bulwark, Bushkovsky links atheism with the social and spiritual roles played by contemporary men and women. The critic argues, however, that the reliance on Christianity in the novel verges on an affectation. The book’s main symbol is a drowning hawk: it perishes despite people’s efforts to save it.

scholarly journals Gender Politics and Discourses of #mansplaining, #manspreading, and #manterruption on Twitter

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630511986180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula Lutzky ◽  
Robert Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Corpus Linguistic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Politics And Gender ◽  
And Gender

This article presents the findings of a corpus linguistic analysis of the hashtags #mansplaining, #manspreading, and #manterruption, three lexical blends which have recently found widespread use across a variety of online media platforms. Focusing on the social media and microblogging site Twitter, we analyze a corpus of over 20,000 tweets containing these hashtags to examine how discourses of gender politics and gender relations are represented on the site. More specifically, our analysis suggests that users include these hashtags in tweets to index their individual evaluations of, and assumptions about, “proper” gendered behavior. Consequently, their metadiscursive references to the respective phenomena reflect their beliefs of what constitutes appropriate (verbal) behavior and the extent to which gender is appropriated as a variable dictating this behavior. As such, this article adds to our knowledge of the ways in which gendered social practices become sites of contestation and how contemporary gender politics play out in social media sites.

scholarly journals Resisting Body Oppression: An Aesthetic Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherri Irvin
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Significant Source ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Resisting Oppression ◽  
Aesthetic Judgments

This article argues for an aesthetic approach to resisting oppression based on judgments of bodily unattractiveness. Philosophical theories have often suggested that appropriate aesthetic judgments should converge on sets of objects consensually found to be beautiful or ugly. The convergence of judgments about human bodies, however, is a significant source of injustice, because people judged to be unattractive pay substantial social and economic penalties in domains such as education, employment and criminal justice. The injustice is compounded by the interaction between standards of attractiveness and gender, race, disability, and gender identity. I argue that we should actively work to reduce our participation in standard aesthetic practices that involve attractiveness judgments. This does not mean refusing engagement with the embodiment of others; ignoring someone’s embodiment is often a way of dehumanizing them. Instead, I advocate a form of practice, aesthetic exploration, that involves seeking out positive experiences of the unique aesthetic affordances of all bodies, regardless of whether they are attractive in the standard sense. I argue that there are good ethical reasons to cultivate aesthetic exploration, and that it is psychologically plausible that doing so would help to alleviate the social injustice attending judgments of attractiveness.

scholarly journals Politicising Euripides: A Mouthful of Birds by Caryl Churchill and David Lan

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 23-32
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Kamińska
Keyword(s):  
Gender Politics ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Caryl Churchill ◽  
Classical Source ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Literary Appropriation

The article discusses A Mouthful of Birds by Caryl Churchill and David Lan in terms of its relation to its Greek inspiration: Euripides’ Bacchae. Contrary to Michael Billington’s opinion that the fascination with the classics which dominated the 1980s theatre in Britain led to the emergence of an ‘interpretative culture’ motivated by artists’ inability to address current political issues, the article analyses a 1980s play that uses its classical source precisely to make political statements. In the course of the article the intertextual links between A Mouthful of Birds and The Bacchae are analysed with special focus on the politics motivating the modern text. Julie Sanders’ theory of literary appropriation is used to discuss selected themes addressing feminist, postcolonial and gender politics.

On trans-, glitch, and gender as machinery of failure

First Monday ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Sundén
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Critical Potential ◽  
The Core ◽  
Accidental Error ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Presence ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The U.S

his paper develops an understanding of gender as something fundamentally technological, and as such broken. Drawing on the technological undercurrent in current posthumanist feminist theory, it puts into play a vocabulary of malfunctioning, broken, vulnerable technologies, and in particular uses the term ‘glitch’ to account for machinic failures in gender within the digital domain. As an intriguing example of the technologies of (trans)gender, the core example consists of the social media presence and public transition of Isabella Bunny Bennett — a musical performer and a member of the U.S.-based band Steam Powered Giraffe. Drawing on how glitch is understood as an accidental error and a critical potential in aesthetic practices, the article is a contribution to what recently has been coined ‘glitch feminism.’

scholarly journals Telenovelas e a questão da feminilidade de classe

Matrizes ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Veneza Mayora Ronsini
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Latin American Cultural Studies ◽  
Working Class Women ◽  
Social Uses

This article theoretically discusses the concept of social class to understand the construction of heteronormative femininity in studies on the social uses of telenovelas. Inspired by the work of Pierre Bordieu, Latin American cultural studies, and feminist theory, I argue for the centrality of the bodily hexis in conforming a classed femininity based on the incorporation of media capital by working-class women. The analysis reveals that the automatisms of schemes of classification are powerful mechanisms of reproduction of both gender and social injustice.

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