“She Started Wearing Men’s Clothing and Acting More Masculine"

This paper examines two examples of archival visual information with potentially transgender and non-binary representation to interrogate the descriptive challenges latent within such materials. By using gender theory and queer historiography, this paper deploys a critical case study to consider the particularities of naming gender when contextual evidence provides little to no authoritative guidance. By talking through the way gender makes itself visible within visual information, the paper guides readers through the way transgender or non-binary identity might exist within both pieces of visual information. The paper then provides suggestions on how to provide respectful and inclusive descriptive records that attend to the complexities of a still-evolving queer history. By offering both a statement on the impossibility of naming identity within intersecting forms of queer embodiment alongside reference points for methods of discussing potential gendered identities, the paper offers practical approaches to describing transgender and non-binary identities for information professionals.

Mereduksi Stigma Negatif Pada Perempuan Muslim Pengemudi Ojek Online Di Kota Kediri

Transportasi berbasis online menawarkan berbagai bentuk kemudahan dalam kebutuhan transportasi. Pekerjaan sebagai pengemudi taksi online umumnya dilakukan oleh pria, namun kini juga menjadi pilihan bagi wanita. Artikel ini akan fokus, bagaimana Muslimah yang mengemudikan taksi online mengurangi stigma negatif yang ada di masyarakat. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif yang dilakukan melalui observasi terhadap aktivitas pengemudi taksi online, wawancara dengan pengemudi taksi online dan dokumentasi. Dalam penelitian ini menggunakan teori gender dari Maxine Molineux. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kebutuhan praksis gender di kalangan wanita muslimah pengendara taksi online lebih diarahkan pada aktivitas pemenuhan kebutuhan dan optimalisasi peran wanita dalam kehidupan sehari-hari tanpa harus meninggalkan perannya di dalam rumah. Dalam kebutuhan strategis gender dalam penelitian ini digambarkan dengan upaya perempuan pengemudi taksi online untuk memiliki kendali atas diri mereka sendiri dalam posisinya sebagai penjual jasa transportasi dan tidak perlu dikasihani. Bentuk kelangsungan hidup wanita muslimah yang mengemudikan taksi online ini telah mengurangi stigma masyarakat terhadap mereka atas peran yang dimainkan oleh wanita-wanita tersebut Online-based transportation offers various forms of convenience in transportation needs. Jobs as an online taxi driver generally performe by a man, but also now an option for women. This article will focus, how Muslim women who drive online taxis reduce the negative stigma that exists in society. This study used a qualitative approach which was carried out through observing the activities of online taxi drivers, interviewing online taxi drivers and documentation. In this study, using the gender theory of Maxine Molineux. The results show that the need for gender praxis among Muslim women who drive online taxis is more directed at activities to meet their needs and optimize women's roles in daily life without having to leave their role in the house. In the strategic needs of gender in this study are illustrated by the efforts of women online taxi drivers to have control over themselves in their positions as sellers of transportation services and not to be pitied. This form of survival of Muslim women who drive online taxis has reduced the stigma of society on them for the roles that these women play.

Gender Identity and Gestural Representations in Jonathan Harvey’s String Quartet No. 2

Jonathan Harvey debuted several novel techniques and elements in his String Quartet No. 2—“temperature” and gender markings, unique to this piece, and the melodic chain technique, a method which he continued to use in his subsequent quartets. Though the melodic chain technique is decipherable from score analysis, and has been explained by the composer in interviews, Harvey’s temperature and gender markings have continued to puzzle scholars, due to vague descriptions that obscure their meaning (especially in the case of the temperature markings) and to the implied stereotypes of themes that are gendered feminine and masculine (more shocking to the modern eye than it was in 1988). The question thus arises: did Harvey engage in a sexist trope with his gendered stereotyping of the themes, or was he ahead of his time by offering a nuanced and fluid approach to understanding gender, guided by his spirituality, presenting the constraints of binary stereotypes before dismantling them? Building on the scholarship of gender theory and musical gesture and embodiment, this article examines the meaning of gender in this piece.

Representation of Conventional Gender Roles in Prasad

The film Prasad reveals the prevailed gender practices in Nepali society that instigate to perform the stereotyped gender roles to the characters. So, the study aims to investigate how do characters construct the conventional gender identities. Likewise, this article intends to assess the reasons that force the characters to firmly stick to the prescribed gender roles. Similarly, to examine the consequences the characters go through while performing the traditional gender roles, is another objective of this article. To meet these objectives, Gender studies has been used as theoretical tools. Particularly, Judith Butler’s, and R.W. Connell’s idea of gender theory has been used. These theorists propose theory of gender as constructed phenomenon that is achieved through the constant performance. This article contributes to understanding the harmful consequences caused by conventional gender roles to the people. The study concludes that assigning the stereotyped gender roles to the characters, the film Prasad indorses the existing gender stereotype.

Who Is Afraid of Feminist Thought?

Hana Havelková quickly became a leading voice of Czech feminist thought in the 1990s when she participated in the “East-West” debates about the place and usefulness of feminism in postsocialist societies. When did her journey to gender theory and research begin? She tells us about those beginnings:I did not start to take an interest in the question of the position of women in our republic at my own initiative. I had to be asked to do so, and even then, around 1990, I thought, like many others did, that there is not much to say about the topic of men and women, that there are not many problems in this area. I quickly learned how very wrong I was. I realised with a shock that the communist authorities had managed to erase from public attention and discussion even such elementary human questions as the relations between the sexes and the transformations of men’s and women’s roles, including, for example, parental roles.After the initial nudge, she wrote dozens of studies and essays, educated and mentored hundreds of students, gave innumerable speeches at conferences at home and abroad, and shaped the discussion on the “politics of gender culture” in Czech society, to borrow from the title of the book on which all three of us, together with a team of twelve other researchers, worked under Hana’s leadership.2 But what was that first impulse? Perhaps we thought we could always ask her the next time we met. Perhaps the thought has become pressing only now, when we can ask no more.

Gender, Security, and Peacebuilding

This chapter examines how gender is relevant to, shapes, and is shaped by security and peacebuilding. It considers gender issues in security and peacebuilding, examines gender policy in peacebuilding, and provides a reflection on the future of the field based on the significant contributions of feminist work to security and peace theorizing. It highlights two significant contributions of feminist and gender theory in security and peacebuilding: making visible previously marginalized experiences and knowledge and exposing the gendered logics that inform this exclusion and are fundamentally entwined with and productive of the priorities and practices of security and peacebuilding. This means that rectifying gender-discriminatory understandings of peace and security requires a reconceptualization of what constitutes security and peace, and the institutions and processes that pursue these goals. These imperatives are directed at both peace and security governance as well as peace and conflict studies as a field of academic study.