Modernism and the Change of African Gender Relations: Historical Discourses

The New Man was a crucial topic of discussion and a continual preoccupation in late-Victorian feminist writing, precisely because he was more often a wished-for presence than an actual one. Nevertheless, creators of neo-Victorian fiction and film repeatedly project him backwards onto the screen of literary history, representing him as having in fact existed in the Victorian age as a complement to the New Woman. What is at stake in retrospectively situating the New Man – or, as I will call him, the ‘Neo-Man’ – in the nineteenth century, through historical fiction? If one impulse behind fictional returns to the Victorian period is nostalgia, then what explains this nostalgia for The Man Who Never Was? This essay will suggest that neo-Victorian works have a didactic interest in transforming present-day readers, especially men, through depictions of the Neo-Man, which broaden the audience's feminist sympathies, queer its notions of gender relations, and alter its definition of masculinity.

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Caring Masculinities and Flexibilisation of Labour Markets: Fathers in Precarious and Managerial Employment in Slovenia

Gender Questions ◽

10.25159/2412-8457/2977 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Majda Hrženjak ◽

Živa Humer

Keyword(s):

Gender Relations ◽

Labour Markets ◽

Identity Change ◽

Flexible Work ◽

Limited Participation ◽

Work Arrangements ◽

Individual Interviews ◽

Young Fathers ◽

Starting Point ◽

Managerial Positions

The starting point of this article is that transition from breadwinning to involved fathering is not only a matter of men’s identity change, but is profoundly shaped by broader societal structures, among which labour markets appear as crucial. Given that in Slovenia flexibilisation of the labour markets is a salient issue, this qualitative study, based on explorative, in-depth, semi-structured, individual interviews with fathers in precarious and managerial employment, analyses how insecure and flexible work arrangements shape fatherhood practices, impact on chances for being an involved father and structure gender relations. Narratives of fathers in managerial positions point to the persistence of the breadwinner model of fathering with limited participation in childcare, expressed as “weekend fatherhood,” but also to a more egalitarian share of childcare mainly among young fathers in managerial positions. Though the experiences of fathers in precarious employment point to their pronounced involvement in childcare, some cases in our sample indicate that precarious working relations can also, in a peculiar way, lead to the strengthening of the breadwinner model and re-traditionalisation of gender relations.

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REVIEW: Claire M. Renzetti and Charles Harvey Miley. VIOLENCE IN GAY AND LESBIAN DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIPS. New York: Haworth Press, 1996. and Barbara Fawcett, Brid Featherstone, Jeff Hearn, and Christine Toft. VIOLENCE AND GENDER RELATIONS: THEORIES AND INTERVENTIONS. and Susan Koppelman. WOMEN IN THE TREES: U.S. WOMEN'S SHORT STORIES ABOUT BATTERING AND RESISTANCE, 1839-1994.

NWSA Journal ◽

10.2979/nws.1997.9.3.198 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 198-202

Author(s):

Marcia E. Bedard

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Short Stories ◽

Gender Relations ◽

Gay And Lesbian ◽

Domestic Partnerships ◽

And Gender

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Frondeuses and Feminists in the Work of Arvède Barine (1840–1908)

French Politics Culture & Society ◽

10.3167/fpcs.2020.380105 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 91-112

Author(s):

Whitney Walton

Keyword(s):

Gender Relations ◽

Third Republic ◽

National Library ◽

Women And Gender ◽

Public Debates ◽

And Gender

This article examines Arvède Barine’s extensive and popular published output from the 1880s to 1908, along with an extraordinary cache of letters addressed to Barine and held in the Manuscript Department of the National Library of France. It asserts that in the process of criticizing contemporary feminist activists and celebrating the achievements of women, especially French women, in history, she constructed the historical and cultural distinctiveness of French women as an ideal blend of femininity, accomplishment, and independence. This notion of the French singularity, indeed the superiority of French women, resolved the contradiction between her condemnation of feminism as a transformation of gender relations and her support for causes and reforms that enabled women to lead intellectually and emotionally fulfilling lives. Barine’s work offers another example of the varied ways that women in Third Republic France engaged with public debates about women and gender.

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