Gender equality mainstreaming and the Australian academy: paradoxical effects?

Australian Universities consistently rank highly on lists that celebrate the most gender equal higher education institutions in the world. Despite participation in institutional frameworks for gender equity accreditation, what often lies beneath the outward display of gender equality is a lived experience of inequality. Whilst there is relative gender equality amongst academics employed at universities overall, men continue to dominate appointments at the professorial or senior executive levels. At the same time, gender asymmetries make women’s access to the opportunities and resources that are highly valued by the sector difficult. Women who experience intersections with care, mothering, race, sexual identity, class, and ability face additional obstacles. In this paper, three women in Australian academia attempt to disrupt the dominant masculine ideology and value system by sharing our lived experience of gender (in)equality in the academy.

The dynamics of class self-identification in Ukraine within the context of discursive and structural changes

The subjective aspects of class, such as class identity, class awareness, or Bourdieu’s “sense of one’s place”, compound the whole cluster of modern class studies. A sufficient amount of empirical data on subjective class issues has allowed Ukrainian scholars to define major class categories that are subjectively salient for Ukrainians, as well as to follow its dynamics throughout the period of Independence. This paper continues the tradition of such studies while using the data from the latest International Social Survey Programme 2019 and previous research. It depicts the current state of subjective stratification as it is viewed and constructed by Ukrainians.We use two methodological approaches here to define and measure classes with which Ukrainians identify themselves: one implies a single-answer multiple-choice survey question and the other is based on an open-ended question. That allows us to compare and verify the results received from the two approaches. Then, we analyze and describe the connection between the dynamics of class self-identification and bigscale changes of the Ukrainian transformation period. The working class and the middle class continue to dominate the landscape of the subjective class structure in Ukraine. These two class identities are the most popular ones whether being chosen by respondents in a multiple-choice question or being mentioned in an open-ended question. However, the dynamics of the two classes differ. While the public request for the middle class increases steadily, the popularity of the working class declines.We suggest addressing these trends, taking into account the conditions of time and place, both from local and global perspectives, and factoring in economic, social, and discursive changes of the period researched.

The Garb of Being

This collection of essays explores how the body became a touchstone for late antique practice and the religious imagination. When we read the stories and testimonies of late ancient Christians, what different types of bodies stand before us in such stories and what do they tell us? How do we understand the range of bodily experiences—solitary and social, private and public—that clothed ancient Christians? How might such experiences and the body as garb itself serve as a productive metaphor by which to explore this attention to matters of gender, religious identity, class, and ethnicity? The essays in this book explore these and related questions through stories from the eastern Christian world of antiquity: monks and martyrs, families and congregations, and textual bodies from antiquity subject to modern interpretations.

The meaning of being German: An inductive approach to national identity

Germany is often cited as a paradigmatic case for an ethnic model of nationalism but in recent years introduced many civic elements into its citizenship policies. The goal of the current article is to explore how German citizens construct their national identity against this backdrop. Using an inductive approach, we asked 987 German citizens to describe what being German means for them. A latent class analysis of content-coded responses revealed four classes: a heritage-based identity class with a strong focus on language and culture (39%), an ideology-based identity class that revolves around democracy, welfare, freedom, and economy and safety (19%), a legal-formalistic identity class that is mostly concerned with the legal requirement for obtaining and holding citizenship of national identity (26%), and a trait-based identity class describing personality-traits that are supposed to be typical for Germans (16%). These findings expand upon and add nuance to the commonly used civic vs. ethnic national identity content typology.

Kebaya Dan Perempuan: Sebuah Narasi Tentang Identitas

AbstrakKebaya merupakan pakaian daerah yang banyak dikenal perempuan di Indonesia, umumnya dikenakan pada momen tertentu seperti wisuda, pernikahan dan acara resmi kenegaraan. Kebaya yang dikenakan perempuan urban menarasikan multi identitas yakni tidak saja sebagai busana nasional dan pakaian daerah tetapi juga merefleksikan identitas personal, identitas gender, identitas kelas dan identitas yang multikultural. Perempuan urban mengartikulasikan diri melalui kebaya yang mereka pilih untuk mereka kenakan sebagai wujud adanya dialektika dan negosiasi dengan nilai-nilai yang berlaku dalam masyarakat. Berdasarkan tema ini, penulis menganalisis menggunakan teori identitas dan pakaian untuk memaparkan relasi antara kebaya dan perempuan.AbstractKebaya, an indigenous outfit of Indonesia, is generally worn at certain times such as graduations, weddings and official government events. Kebaya that worn by urban women narrates multi identities that it is not only as national dress and regional dress but also reflects the meaning about personal identity, gender identity, class identity and multicultural identity. Urban women also articulating themself through the kebaya that they choose to wear consisting their dialectic and negotiations with some values in their society. Based on this theme, I briefly analyze it using the theory of identity and women autonomy to their bodies and clothes as I want to explain about the relationship between kebaya and women.