Mehdi Ben Attia’s Family Ties, Temporalities, and Revolutionary Figures

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis M. Provencher
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Male Child ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Gay Male ◽  
French Family ◽  
Flexible Accumulation ◽  
Full Force

In this chapter, I conduct an analysis of language, temporalities, and transfiliations in the life and cinematic work of Mehdi Ben Attia, the first Tunisian screenwriter and director to depict a self-identified gay male Tunisian protagonist alongside a variety of other “queer” and “non-queer” characters in his oeuvre. In part one, I examine excerpts from my 2010 one-on-one interview with Ben Attia in order to illustrate how his speech acts emphasize the importance of filiation, and in particular, being the eldest male child within the Maghrebi (French) family. His interview also exemplifies a flexible accumulation of language that queer Maghrebi French speakers use throughout this book as they “straddle” competing discourses and temporalities, and this emerges in full force in our conversation, and especially in reference to his discussion with his middle-class mother about his sexuality through his cinematic work.

Online Sisterhood

2016 ◽  
pp. 208-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariane J. Utomo
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Personal Income

Across developing countries, the role of social networks and social capital in facilitating women's access to income is well documented. However, less is known about how networks facilitated by social networking sites (SNS) may transform women's economic opportunities in these regions. In this chapter, I draw upon a relatively recent phenomenon of the use of SNS as a medium of trade in urban Indonesia. In 2010, I conducted preliminary interviews to examine the dynamics of Facebook-facilitated trade among urban middle-class married women residing in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. The interviews highlighted beneficial links between social media, social capital, and productivity – by means of increased personal income. However, this effective link between SNS and income-generating social capital is likely to be a rather distinctive example, as it depends largely on the class, gender, and cultural specificities that shape the nature of online and offline social interactions among my target group.

SCHIZOPHRENIA IN THE YOUNGEST MALE CHILD OF THE LOWER MIDDLE CLASS

1955 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
BERTRAM H. ROBERTS ◽  
JEROME K. MYERS
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Male Child ◽  
Lower Middle Class

scholarly journals Public Intimacy and ‘White Feminism’: On the Vain Trust in Scandinavian Equality

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-47
Author(s):  
Mikela Lundahl Hero
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Swimming Pools ◽  
The Public ◽  
Feminist Discourse ◽  
And Gender

Abstract This chapter addresses Islamophobia as it is expressed in and through discourses of feminism and gender inequality, in some recent debates about public appearances of Muslims in Sweden. In debates about whether or not we should open for a few hours of women only in the public swimming pools debaters use feminist arguments on equality, some writers argue that such an act would risk that Sweden turned into a ‘medieval’ situation, or becomes a version of Iran. Liberal debaters, who clearly restrict their liberalism to westernised individuals and practices, build these arguments upon a rationale of feminism and gender equality. How can we protect the feminist discourse from being used in Islamophobic contexts as these? In this chapter I argue that feminism has to strengthen its articulations of its critique against universalism, and white, western, secular, middle-class (as well as hetero- and cis-) values, if it wants to be relevant in a globalised world.

Kula Gauravam, Transnational Migration, and Class Mobility

2019 ◽  
pp. 162-185
Author(s):  
Sanam Roohi
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Class Mobility ◽  
Class Stratification ◽  
Caste Status ◽  
Peasant Community

Perceived from the outside and inside as a cohesive community, Kammas (a dominant caste in Coastal Andhra) self-project themselves as a group that has always extended the frontiers of economic advancement, including through transnationalization. Despite the sense of community cohesiveness, there exist layers of class stratification within this community. In this chapter, I argue that the notion of kula gauravam (caste pride) and kutumba gauravam (family pride) play a significant role in creating aspirations among the non-elite Kammas to become rich like others in the community and motivate them to bridge this class gap. To ‘middle-class’ Kammas then, transnational migration and urbanity become central precepts around which this, once rural and peasant, community has attempted to jump the scale of class to recreate their rightful economic status akin to their high-caste status (refurbished from a Sudra to a Kshatriya status in the last century).

Student Narratives

2020 ◽  
pp. 339-354
Author(s):  
Usha Sanyal
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
North America ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
South Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Asian Language

In Chapter 9 I focus on the students of Al-Huda classes, both onsite and online. Most of the students who spoke to me were young adults—some married with children, some college students, and some professionals. Whether living in North America, Europe, or South Asia, they were drawn to Al-Huda for a variety of reasons, and all of them reported deriving strength from deepening their engagement with the Qur’an. Bilingual in English and a South Asian language, they were educated middle-class women discovering the Qur’an through Al-Huda classes. All of them had chosen to live a more orthoprax lifestyle in accordance with what they learned in the Al-Huda classes. But in order to succeed, I argue, they had to get their families’ support. They had to do da‘wa. In this chapter, I examine their life stories in light of the concepts of ‘precarity’ and gendered Islamophobia as articulated by Attiya Ahmad and Jasmin Zine, respectively.

OSCAR WILDE’S DE PROFUNDIS: HOMOSEXUAL SELF-FASHIONING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF SCANDAL

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 547-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Doylen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gay Male ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
New Type ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Definition Of

THE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE for acts of “gross indecency” not only confirmed him as “the sexual deviant for the late nineteenth century” but also made him “the paradigmatic example for an emerging public definition of a new ‘type’ of male sexual actor: ‘the homosexual’” (Cohen 1–2). Given that De Profundis is the only major prose work that Wilde wrote on the other side of the scandals prompted by his 1895 trials,1 it is surprising that this text has received little serious consideration from scholars in gay male studies. To be sure, Wilde’s nonfiction prose and critical dialogues generally have not received the critical attention they deserve. But the neglect of De Profundis by gay male scholarship specifically is probably due less to the text’s marginal generic status than to the feeling that De Profundis betrays the iconoclastic image of Wilde dear to the hearts of twentieth-century gay men. In his letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, Wilde seems so — one almost hesitates to say it — sincere. Indeed, for critics such as Jonathan Dollimore, Wilde’s semblance of sincerity signifies a capitulation to the middle-class morality he otherwise resisted. De Profundis thus comes to mark a decisive break in Wilde’s oeuvre and to signal the end of his self-fashioning activities (95–98). However, the view that De Profundis represents Wilde’s sincere contrition does not originate with gay male studies but was, in fact, a popular response to the text upon its initial publication in 1905.

Schizophrenia in the Youngest Male Child of the Lower Middle Class.

2007 ◽  
pp. 187-194
Author(s):  
Bertram H. Roberts ◽  
Jerome K. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Male Child ◽  
Lower Middle Class

Conclusion

2016 ◽  
pp. 202-216
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Randles
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Relationship Education ◽  
Poor Families ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Parents Experiences

In this concluding chapter, I describe the benefits and limitations of healthy marriage programs for low-income families. Publicly sponsored relationship education could be a valuable social service in a highly unequal society where stable, happy marriages are increasingly becoming a privilege of the most economically advantaged couples. The classes I studied focused on teaching low-income couples to emulate the relationship experiences and behaviors more typical of middle-class couples. Low-income parents’ experiences suggest that relationship policies would be more useful if they addressed the economic stresses that take an emotional toll on romantic relationships and less on promoting the dubious message that marriage improves the economic circumstances of poor families. In highlighting their perspectives, this book makes a case for relationship policies and programs that reflect how intimate inequalities lead to curtailed commitments.

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