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This chapter explores the livelihood and care implications of the climate crisis from a gendered viewpoint that includes the implications of this approach for climate decision making at multiple scales, from local to global. The focus is on grassroots political organizing, activism, and movements as well as women's community-based actions to (re)build social resilience in the face of climate chaos. Challenges and policy implications are discussed as governments struggle to meaningfully and equitably address climate change. Also highlighted are the transformational imperatives of care and livelihood priorities which cast into stark relief the unsustainability of the long-established gender inequities that serve as the foundation for economic systems everywhere.

ABSTRACTThis paper offers a critical analysis of existing literature on historical and contemporary gender dynamics in Australian social work education and practice. Analyses of gender dynamics and inequalities have the potential to illuminate pathways for inclusive social work education and practice, for both practitioners and people who access social work services. This critical review of the literature demonstrates that Australian social work education and practice have been shaped by gendered discourses, structures, and power dynamics since its inception. In a contemporary sense, women constitute the majority of social work educators and practitioners, while men disproportionately dominate positions of power and prestige, although rigorous Australian data on the roles and representation of men and women are not readily available. Our findings point to the need for further engagement with gender as a unit of analysis in Australian social work research, including further engagement with inclusive and intersectional feminisms.IMPLICATIONSEnhanced knowledge of Australian social work history, particularly in relation to gender, allows for a greater understanding of current gendered power relations in social work education and practice.Gender dynamics are underresearched in contemporary Australian social work education and practice.Up-to-date data on the status and representation of men, women, and nonbinary people in social work are needed as the foundation for transformative and inclusive social work education and practice.

This article examines the triple migration of young female live streamers performing street entertainment in Shenzhen, China. These second-generation rural-to-urban migrants navigate three intersecting trajectories: spatial mobility to urban centres, digital migration onto live-streaming platforms as precarious workplaces, and embodied negotiation of liminality where their bodily experiences blur online-offline boundaries. Drawing on multisensory ethnographic fieldwork, this study explores how sensory experiences, platform governance and systemic inequalities shape these women's precarious livelihoods. Beneath their public performances lie burnout, stigma and hidden injuries of inequality. By situating these women's experiences at the intersection of class, gender, rural-urban migration and platform capitalism, this research uncovers the intimate cost of precarious digital labour. It also highlights their resilience and creativity in navigating structural barriers. This study contributes to empirical and theoretical discussions on gendered labour, digital precarity and affective politics of precarity in contemporary urban China.

Transmasculine people are at risk of cervical cancer but have lower rates of cervical cancer screening than cisgender women. Disaffirmation of the patient’s gender and unequal power dynamics between patient and provider during screening contribute to patient unwillingness to be screened. The mechanisms by which the balance of power may be shifted between patient and provider, and by which gender is constructed during the Pap test, are not well understood. A qualitative study using a modified grounded theory approach was undertaken to analyse patient interview and provider interview and focus group data pertaining to power and gender in the context of cervical cancer screening among transmasculine individuals. The study was conducted at an LGBTQ-focussed health centre in Boston, USA. Processes by which power is enacted included constraining or affirming patient choice, mitigating or exacerbating vulnerability, and self-advocacy. Gendering processes included naming patients and their bodies, invoking gender norms, de-gendering/re-gendering Pap tests, and othering or normalising trans bodies. The interplay between these processes promotes or constrains patient agency over body and health, impacting patient care, patient–provider interaction, and service utilisation. Understanding patient and provider roles in power and gender dynamics are critical for the provision of patient-centred care.

This paper assesses Michel Foucault's idea of a disciplinary society and its connection with gender dynamics. Foucault's contributions to different fields of knowledge, with philosophy, sociology, and gender studies, are emphasized and his major publications, such as "Discipline and Punish," "The History of Sexuality," and others, are discussed as per the significance. The context of Foucault's disciplinary society theory is explored, underlining its implications for understanding power relations and social control. Gender dynamics are presented as the social, cultural, and political characteristics inducing the structure, performance, and regulation of gender identities. The paper critically evaluates the intersection of Foucault's disciplinary society and gender dynamics, considering the strengths and limitations of his theories in focusing on power and gender associations. Methodology comprises a wide-ranging review of academic resources, analysing Foucault's work and other concerned works. Foucault's disciplinary society suggests the shift in power from sovereign to disciplinary, the practices of discipline, and the effects on individuals and institutions. The analysis reveals how disciplinary power functions in several societal spaces, such as classrooms, prisons, and health facilities, inducing gendered norms and expectations. Foucault's concepts are useful to explore power and gendered disciplinary practices, surveillance of gendered bodies, technologies of gender, and the potential for resistance and subversion. However, the paper also concedes limitations in Foucault's dealing of gender as a social construct, insufficiency of an intersectional perspective, and incomplete analysis of resistance strategies. In conclusion, Foucault's concept of a disciplinary society offers valuable visions into power dynamics and gender relations within societal structures. Combining his concepts with intersectional feminist perspectives can develop our understanding of power mechanisms and the complications of gender dynamics in modern societies.

What are the factors that enable or hinder gender equality? Lessons and experiences on gender dynamics in Mexican small-scale fisheries

PurposeThis study aims to understand the socio-cultural context of Indian women's high-tech entrepreneurial experience. Despite a small proportion of women entrepreneurs, and the traditional gender dynamics among the educated middle-classes that appears to be antithetical to female entrepreneurship; women-led high-tech start-ups are on the rise.Design/methodology/approachSemi-structured interviews were conducted with women founders at an academic incubator in an elite Indian Institute of Technology. The study was based on the post-structural feminist approach that women entrepreneurs are embedded in their socio-cultural and institutional context. During data collection, the Coronavirus lockdown provided a natural experiment, highlighting entrepreneurial response to unforeseen obstacles.FindingsIt finds that the context is significant in constructing opportunity, and in navigating challenges of gender and entrepreneurship. Further, in the process of construction of an entrepreneurial identity, women innovators not only reproduce, but also modify their context. Also, the experiences with academic incubator indicate positive results both for gender dynamics and enhancing an emergent entrepreneurial culture.Practical implicationsThe study highlights that women's high-tech entrepreneurship has considerable potential for enhancing women's status in society through the support of academic incubator. This has certain implications for policy.Originality/valueIt provides an insight in to the hitherto neglected issue of women's high-tech entrepreneurship in India, and argues that a study of “social embeddedness” not only highlights constraints for women entrepreneurs unique to that context, but also the potential of women's entrepreneurship in advancing women's agency and gender equality.

“A Mile in Her Shoes” is a volunteer‐led charity which provides running groups for homeless women. The objective of this study was to explore the experiences of homeless women attending these running groups and to establish how participation in a supported running group impacted their lives. This exploratory qualitative study was carried out across two sites in London UK during February and April 2017. All regular attenders of the running groups were invited to participate in the study; subsequently, a self‐selected sample of 11 women consented to being interviewed. Data were collected by female interviewers on a one‐to‐one basis, steered by a semi‐structured topic guide. All interviews were digitally recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analysed using thematic analysis. Themes were cross‐referenced by the research team and findings were supported by direct quotes. Five main themes emerged from the findings: the positive impact of the charity; homeless women's motivations and barriers to participating in running groups; the benefits of participating on physical and mental health; the importance and value of social support from the group; and the value of being provided with quality running kit. This study concludes that volunteer‐led running groups are valued by homeless women by helping them take control of their health. It provides insight into their engagement in physical activity, thus potentially helping prevent injury or illness, and aiding recovery and rehabilitation. One implication of this study is that gathering homeless women's views helps to steer how community‐based physical activity programmes can benefit their wellbeing. However, this small‐scale study may have limited generalisability, with the topic warranting further research.

Journal Article Cristina León Alfar. Fantasies of Female Evil: The Dynamics of Gender and Power in Shakespearean Tragedy. Get access Fantasies of Female Evil: The Dynamics of Gender and Power in Shakespearean Tragedy. By Cristina León Alfar. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2003. Pp. 254. $46.50 cloth. Cristina Malcolmson Cristina Malcolmson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Shakespeare Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 1, Spring 2005, Pages 110–112, https://doi.org/10.1353/shq.2005.0046 Published: 01 April 2005

484 Reviews accounts for 'the mild manner of [Mistress Page's] husband, George Page, who gives the impression of a middle-class man who has married money', and yet at the same time, in arranging for his wealth to skip a generation, the grandfather has 'not only short-changed George Page but [. . .] also deprived his daughter of a certain amount of income, perhaps creating some bitterness and giving Mistress Page reason to think hard about the transfer of wealth' (p. 13). The less speculative chapter on The Mer? chant of Venicethat concludes the book is much more helpful. Its discussion of Portia's prosecution of Shylock and the penalty she imposes (the transferof assets again) leads to some provocative conclusions. Thenegotiatedadjustmentto Shylock's punishment leaves Jessica as a beneficiary, a position she would have enjoyed had Shylock himself engaged in fraudulent convey ancing. And in suggesting that Shylock's 'I am content', which echoes Antonio and Petruchio, is part of public, legal discourse rather than a statement of private belief, Ross provides a more humane reading of the play than is usually the case. The research in both these volumes is prodigious and both benefit from the duodisciplinary skills of their authors: they are fine additions to the developing area of Law and Literature. University of Birmingham Catherine M. S. Alexander Fantasies of Female Evil: The Dynamics of Gender and Power in Shakespearean Tragedy. By Cristina Leon Alfar. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 254 pp. ?36. ISBN o87413 -781-0. Any performer would prefer playing Lady Macbeth to playing Lady Macduff. Lady Macduff is a dramatic role of a woman who is good. Lady Macbeth, in contrast, is a dramatic role of a woman who has all the good lines. In her study of those women in Shakespeare's tragedies who are regarded as evil, Alfar argues fortheir recuperation. Not only does Alfar interrogate what early modern culture regarded as evil, she also argues that the characters regarded as evil women do little more than what is done by other characters, male and female, regarded as admirable. In making her analysis, Alfar focuses Lady Macbeth, Goneril, and Regan as women who 'become evil through a simple double standard, arrogating forthemselves behaviors that would be laudable or at least condoned in men' (p. 25). She also considers such characters as Juliet,Cleopatra, Hermione, and Paulina, characters in three other plays who defyconvention without the sort ofcondemnation that audiences and critics have used in discussions of Lady Macbeth or the Lear sisters. That limited scope creates some difnculty.Alfar has nothing at all to say about the women of Shakespearean history plays, many ofwhom would provide useful instances of strong women who act to take or keep power, nor has she much to say about the women of Titus Andronicus, jfulius Caesar, or Hamlet. (Her omission of Timon ofAthens is understandable, while she does speak brieflyabout Volumnia in Coriolanus.) Aftera short introduction in which Alfar places her analysis in a theoretical frame? work, distinguishing her work from feminist psychoanalytical studies, while acknowledging the strength of Kristeva's idea of the abject, Chapters 1 and 2 turn to a discussion ofconduct books. Again Alfar begins with the theoretical, forshe considers 'female evil as culturally produced out of the patrilineal structure's anxieties about the female body's ability to threaten its investment in prestige and power' (p. 32). After some additional discussion of two historical women, Elizabeth Cary and Queen Elizabeth I, this section concludes with a consideration of Juliet and how her defi? ance of convention becomes acceptable, even admirable, because she acts to achieve romantic love. MLR, 100.2, 2005 485 In Chapters 3-5, Alfar considers in turn the sisters in Lear, Lady Macbeth, and Cleopatra. Goneril and Regan, she argues, are trapped by the pressures on any mon? arch in this period: ifthey behave like tyrants it is because all early modern monarchs are forced by their situation to behave like tyrants on occasion. Lady Macbeth is a differentand altogether more interesting case: in the book's strongest chapter, Al? far argues that Lady Macbeth is a parodic version of the perfect early...

Charlotte Bronte’s novels, including Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Villette, offer a profound exploration of gender and power dynamics in Victorian society. Through her strong, complex female protagonists, Bronte critiques the patriarchal structures that confined women to subordinate roles and limited their access to education, employment, and autonomy. This article examines Bronte’s portrayal of female agency, patriarchy, and resistance, analyzing how her heroines navigate and challenge societal norms. By focusing on themes such as education, economic independence, and marriage, the study highlights Bronte’s critique of the Victorian ideal of the “angel in the house” and her vision of female empowerment. The article also situates Bronte’s works within the broader socio-political context of the Victorian era, exploring their correlation with emerging feminist thought and the changing roles of women in society. Through a close analysis of Bronte’s characters and narrative structures, this research underscores the enduring relevance of her novels in contemporary discussions of gender and power dynamics.

The study examines the representation of gender and power dynamics in Indian media through an ethnographic thematic analysis of the highest grossing Hindi films and the most popular Netflix series from recent years. It identifies recurring themes, including portrayal of power as aggression and absolute dominance, gendered authority at work and home, and sexualization of power. Indian media not only reinforce traditional stereotypes but also reflect evolving societal aspirations, with some Over the Top (OTT) content challenging existing norms. In the Indian media, women characters struggle with subjugation despite being portrayed as professionally successful high-achievers, mirroring a real-world scenario in which women’s oppression by men often proves to be an unbroken cycle. However, we can see the emergence of diverse storytelling with OTT offering a platform for stories and characters that challenge traditional narrative structures. The study observes representation of the intersection of power with caste, class, and socio-economic factors, emphasizing the need for inclusive media representation. It underscores the media’s dual role in validating social stereotypes and fostering change toward gender equity and progressive power narratives. Nuanced representations of gender and power are rare themes explored in non-commercial independent media productions such as Masaan and Laapataa Ladies. However, the fact that inclusive, humane scripts devoid of aggressive power and hegemonic masculinity do not make it to the most popular or the most profitable lists of media productions shows the failure of the general audience at large in accepting and applauding the compassionate, justified change in gender and power dynamics needed for a successful, thriving, humane community.

Household food and nutrition security is a critical aspect of human well-being, yet gender dynamics within households significantly influence access to and control over food resources. Women’s roles in the food system are often undervalued and unsupported. This qualitative study aimed to explore the complex gender dynamics within households and their impact on food and nutrition security in southwestern Uganda. In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were conducted with 30 households, 6 farmers’ groups, and 10 key informants. Data were inductively analyzed and the following key themes emerged: traditional gender roles, power dynamics, and resource control. This study revealed that gender dynamics within households are shaped by complex power relations, social norms, and cultural expectations. This study highlights the importance of considering the complex gender dynamics within households when addressing food and nutrition security.

In the contemporary digital landscape, where data serves as a critical asset, the misuse of personal information represents a profound threat to privacy and security. This threat is not uniformly distributed but is deeply influenced by gender dynamics, resulting in varied levels of vulnerability and impact. This article investigates the nuanced relationship between gender dynamics and the misuse of personal data. Drawing on the work of Ruha Benjamin (2019) , who explored how technological systems perpetuate racial and gender biases, and Noble (2018) , who examined algorithmic discrimination and its disproportionate effects on marginalised groups, this article sheds light on the unique challenges women face due to the mishandling of their personal information. It scrutinises the implications of data misuse, including the exacerbation of existing gender disparities and the impediments to women’s digital inclusion. The article also addresses the importance of intersectionality, as articulated by Crenshaw (1991) , in understanding the multifaceted nature of digital inequalities. This research article is a conceptual analytical review article; the arguments have been derived from the works of different literature published in the area of data privacy, gender data commodification, power dynamics and technology-facilitated gender-based violence. With an Accountability, Transparency and Oversight (ATO) lens, this article maps the pathways from data misuse to harm and sets out steps that platforms and regulators can act on and proposes policy recommendations to promote gender-sensitive data protection and an empowering digital environment.

In basic education, school management is mostly female, but there are few studies that problematize the gender dynamics that permeate this position. Therefore, this article seeks to analyze gender and power dynamics in school management in the state education network of Santa Catarina. The survey data was collected from the State Department of Education and by sending a Google Forms questionnaire to principals from the state’s 36 Regional Education Coordinating Offices, from which 73 principals responded. The data was categorized and analyzed from the perspective of hermeneutic interpretation. For this study, two categories were analyzed: i) the representativeness of women in management; ii) the challenges of being in school management as a woman. The results show that management in basic education, more than a place of power, is part of the teaching profession, which is expressively female. However, due to the fact that women are in a position of leadership, we identify the presence of gender and power dynamics that reproduce social inequalities between women and men. In other words, they are still absent from the highest decision-making bodies in the education system and when they are in school management, they face the challenge of violent communication and the lack of a fair distribution of domestic tasks in their homes.