Application Of Feminist Theory Research Articles

Deconstructing Gender Stereotypes in Children Literature “Chotti Si Munni”: An Application of Feminist Theory

Objectives: The aim of the research is to explore the significance of Nursery Rhymes within the lives of children and the way they make contribution to the formation of personal identity of children especially in female. The research claims that children's literatures can nurture and unconsciously but in systematic manner, develop the idea of feminism in kids through kid's literature. It is noteworthy that all nursery rhymes have a great impact on the lives of children by portraying characters in the nursery rhyme. The study is an attempt to make connection among children psychology and gender roles in literature. The socio-psychological issues like gender role, gender discrimination, class system is important in it. Methods: The critique adopted the exploratory research framework. The data collected and analyzed for this study was qualitative in its nature and scope. "Chotti si Munni" (A small girl), a Pakistani Nursery Rhyme was taken as sample of study by applying typical and critical case sampling strategy on Pakistani Kid's literature. Results: Findings of the study revealed that the portrayal of the little girl in "Chotti si munni" reflects the gendered expectations and limitations, which are foisted upon young girls in many traditional societies same as Nursery rhyme can be realized as a mirror image of the changing attitudes about gender roles and education in Pakistan. Conclusion: The summative discussions in the light of the findings obtained in this study indicate that challenging gender role and cultural norms in Pakistani society, promoting feminism and equality through kid's literature.

Deconstructing Gender Stereotypes in Children Literature “Chotti Si Munni”: An Application of Feminist Theory

Objectives: The aim of the research is to explore the significance of Nursery Rhymes within the lives of children and the way they make contribution to the formation of personal identity of children especially in female. The research claims that children's literatures can nurture and unconsciously but in systematic manner, develop the idea of feminism in kids through kid's literature. It is noteworthy that all nursery rhymes have a great impact on the lives of children by portraying characters in the nursery rhyme. The study is an attempt to make connection among children psychology and gender roles in literature. The socio-psychological issues like gender role, gender discrimination, class system is important in it. Methods: The critique adopted the exploratory research framework. The data collected and analyzed for this study was qualitative in its nature and scope. "Chotti si Munni" (A small girl), a Pakistani Nursery Rhyme was taken as sample of study by applying typical and critical case sampling strategy on Pakistani Kid's literature. Results: Findings of the study revealed that the portrayal of the little girl in "Chotti si munni" reflects the gendered expectations and limitations, which are foisted upon young girls in many traditional societies same as Nursery rhyme can be realized as a mirror image of the changing attitudes about gender roles and education in Pakistan. Conclusion: The summative discussions in the light of the findings obtained in this study indicate that challenging gender role and cultural norms in Pakistani society, promoting feminism and equality through kid's literature.

Unveiling Gender Stereotypes: A Feminist Reading of the Film Bhumika

The present research paper is a feminist exploration of the critically acclaimed Hindi film, Bhumika (1977), set against the backdrop of Indian film industry, directed by Shyam Benegal, starring Smita Patil, Amol Palekar, Anant Nag, Naseeruddin Shah and Amrish Puri. The purpose of this study is to unveil gender stereotypes through the film narrative Bhumika from the feminist perspective. Besides, it delves mainly into the life and struggle of the female protagonist and a celebrated actress, Usha, who searches for her identity in a patriarchal realm. Hence, in the film Bhumika, Usha’s journey projects societal confinement and oppression as her image is an embodiment of her struggles against gender roles, showcasing how women were often silenced and how they were limited to their choices. Though, her narrative reflects the need for women’s empowerment in such a male chauvinistic world. With an application of feminist theories, the paper unearths how the film Bhumika is evident for both to reflect and to challenge the existing traditional gender norms in Indian Society. Apart from these, it examines Usha’s journey in terms of power and sexuality, highlighting her multifaceted role as a lens to investigate broader social causes. Thus, the findings of the study help for a better understanding of the intersection of cinema, gender, and society across the world highlighting the role of cinema as a medium for feminist discourse and social critique.

Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Pakistani Kids’ Literature: An Application of Feminist Theory on “Teen Bahadur”

Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Pakistani Kids’ Literature: An Application of Feminist Theory on “Teen Bahadur”

Periferia ca supracondiție a existenței în literatură: Ileana Negrea și supraabundența identitară

The main aim of this paper is the analysis of how the multi-peripheral position in Ileana Negrea’s poetry is recontextualized in the geotemporality of contemporary Romanian culture, acknowledging her formation in a different language and through the reception and the application of feminist theories and praxis from other spaces, especially from the South American one, that are stratified and inserted in her texts. The analysis focuses on how the inflexion point of her marginal identity, gender-queerness-madness, is recomposed in the actual Romanian cultural and geopolitical circumstances and how her texts are perceived accordingly with these. At the same time, it will be explored how Negrea’s texts enrol in the world literature system via her registering in the worldly queer-feminist literary scheme.

The invisible thread: women as tradition keepers and change agents in Spanish pastoral social-ecological systems

Pastoral social-ecological systems (SES) provide myriad benefits to humanity and face multiple challenges in the 21st century, including interacting climate and land-use change, political marginalization, and demographic shifts, leading to loss of traditional knowledge and practices associated with sustainable use. Research and policy increasingly recognize women's roles in sustaining pastoral SES in the Global South, yet women pastoralists in the Global North have received scant attention. In Spain, like other countries in the Global North, the rise of intensive industrialized agriculture contributed to rural depopulation, land abandonment, and the masculinization of rural spaces. In this qualitative study, we address the empirical gap in studies of women pastoralists in the Global North by investigating Spanish women pastoralists' roles in pastoral SES conservation, adaptive transformation, and abandonment (regime shift). Drawing on in-depth life-history interviews with 31 women from 4 regions of Spain, and participatory workshops with women in each region, we explored women pastoralists' diverse identities and roles in conserving, transforming, and abandoning pastoral SES, focusing on 3 levels of social organization: the household/enterprise and local community, the extensive livestock sector, and society broadly. We found that women contributed to all three processes and we highlight synergies between women's roles as tradition-keepers and change agents that could serve as a leverage point for adaptive transformation. Our analysis also revealed key contradictions in women's material and discursive practices; how these are shaped by intersecting axes of social differences such as age, class, origins. and family status; and their implications for policy and practice to foster adaptive transformation of extensive livestock systems. This work advances SES/resilience research by addressing social science critiques of resilience approaches through the application of feminist theories and methodology that center the voices and subjective lived experiences of women pastoralists and attend to the roles of gender and power in SES dynamics.

The Embodiment and Analysis of Feminism in Literature Translation

Chinese culture has been accumulated for five thousand years, and with the development of social civilization, the door of literature has opened to the world. In recent years, feminism has been extremely prominent in literature, and it has been welcomed and respected by the majority of people. In addition, under the influence of various cultural factors, translation has become an indispensable way of writing. The so-called feminism refers to women's social rights and their opinions in society. With the advancement of science, feminism has been widely used by many countries in the world. In the last century, feminist translation theory was regarded as the mainstream translation at that time. It provided room for translation work. At the same time, it also had a certain impact on traditional translation theories. Nowadays, the development of science has entered a new era of information network. Feminist translation theory has become an important basis for translation work. At the same time, the application of feminist theory in literary works is systematically analyzed to enable women’s social status and personality values been enhanced in literary works, thus highlighting the positive image of women.

Feminist Theory: A Research Agenda for HRD

The Problem Limited research representing the field of human resource development (HRD) has challenged the masculine rationality in organizational culture, processes, and discourse; questioned power or gender hegemony within organizations; or examined how oppression and hegemony are manifested in the lives of different groups of women in a variety of work contexts. This limited scope of research has resulted in a lack of consideration and application of feminist theory, a valuable framework for examining issues relating to inequity and the subjugation of women. Compared with related fields, studies applying feminist theory in HRD research are fewer in number and less robust in terms of issues explored, research design, and target groups examined. The Solution A deeper examination of (a) populations beyond White middle class women, (b) the lives and experiences of women from varying backgrounds, (c) asymmetrical power relationships, (d) opportunities for women to gain knowledge and power, (e) the use of language and power to silence women, (f) gender as a social construct and essential category of analysis, and (g) ways to promote social change are presented along with recommendations to broaden the scope of research that applies feminist theory in HRD research and practice. The Key Stakeholders The examination of feminist theory is expected to benefit HRD researchers, practitioners, scholars, and women in the workforce.

Feminist Interpretations of the Holocaust

The emergence of the study of the history of the Holocaust following the “silent years”, which occupied nearly two decades of the post-war era, coincided with the establishment of second wave feminism. Despite the creation of the discipline of Women’s and Gender Studies and the emerging variety of women’s history within post secondary institution, discussion of women in the Holocaust did not become a part of the discourse of history until the late seventies. In addition to the lag in addressing the study of the history of women in the Holocaust, the application of feminist theory to Holocaust history was late to the academic conversation. Feminist history of the Holocaust was finally studied in the early eighties, in order to better understand not only women in the Holocaust but also the Holocaust more generally. However, the discourse failed to evolve and diversify as quickly as other forms of feminist history. As a result of the perceived exceptionality of the Holocaust within the context of history and even within the more specified picture of the history of genocide, the application of feminist theory as well as the understanding of the experiences of women and the implications of gender within the Holocaust remain relatively stunted within the context of Holocaust and feminist history.

Beyond the Feminist Critique

As journal editors of Affilia, we often find ourselves in the position of asking the question, ‘‘is this feminist?’’ Of course, this question has various iterations and includes, ‘‘is this feminist enough?’’ ‘‘that can’t be feminist?’’ ‘‘are we behaving like feminists?’’ We also know ourselves, particularly in a moment of intense heated dialog, to comment to each other, ‘‘you don’t sound very feminist.’’ Are there such definitions? Feminist enough, more feminist, less feminist, or more properly feminist, among feminists? Asking these questions of ourselves and during our editorial board processes has become part of the way we design our work, and more importantly an attempt to fully live our lives. Critical feminism orients us toward a set of values like a compass fueled by love and oriented to true north. It compels us to listen, to understand, aim for growth, think of possibilities, and directs us toward a conviction to truth telling even in the most uncomfortable situations. It has become so much of a part of our operating values that it becomes assumed into our work, like a statement of the obvious. This integration is a process, one that we did not fully anticipate or plan for, it has taken time and commitment, and while we are not doing it perfectly, we are wholly grateful for the opportunities that it brings us. Critical feminist analysis has also created for us intellectual alliances, while other frameworks push up against our feminist edges. Anti-oppression and critical race theories (to name two) have emerged as important frameworks that address issues of structural inequity and social responsibility. With these two theories, we feminists seem comfortable using them as critiquing tools because of their congruency with our principles and values, even though they did not grow directly from feminism. One of the greatest challenges for critical feminist is to think about how we move feminism forward as fundamental to social work intervention. This seems especially true when the target of the intervention is not the individual or family. It leaves us wondering if the application of feminist theory and practice in an evidence-based environment either stumps or trumps interventions that are nonmicro focused. Can we produce critical feminist interventions in an evidence-based environment when those interventions are designed to challenge the dominant economic and political ‘‘truth’’ that challenges the sociopolitical structure?

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Redressing the Museum in Feminist Theory

Museums presuppose, but do not normally profess their theoretical foundations. Assaulted by critics of various persuasions, they tend to react in ad hoc ways, adopting ill-matched strategies to respond to immediate situations. Reconceptualizing the museum from a theoretical perspective provides coherence and a basis for constructive development and critique. Innovation, in light of feminist theory, is compatible with proposals emanating from alternative sources. Illustrating how museums could benefit from application of feminist theory, this essay discusses correcting the imbalance and indignity of subject to object treatment, abandoning the model of the “masterpiece”, overcoming the segregation of artifacts and museum enterprises by arbitrary boundaries that limit meaning, and replacing possession and consumption with participation in process. Adopting feminist theory would energize and revitalize museums and broaden the base of their appeal.

The Virgin Mary Connection: Reflecting on Feminism and Northern Irish Politics

Academic feminists have turned to feminist theory to develop ways of managing or solving ethnic antagonisms, especially among feminists/women in Northern Ireland. This essay troubles the application of feminist theory to conflict resolution/management in Northern Ireland. It examines the impact of this type of deployment of theory on key feminist categories such as identity and difference. It also considers what becomes marginalised from the analysis of gender politics in Northern Ireland when feminist theory is harnessed to solving/managing the Northern Ireland problem. The essay concludes by arguing for the development of alternative feminist frameworks that are not contained within the boundaries of a search for solutions.

A simply transformative view of the single-transferable vote: Looking through a gendered lens at electoral reform in British Columbia

In 2009, British Columbians voted for the second time on the adoption of a new electoral system, the single-transferable vote (STV), as proposed by the Province's own Citizens' Assembly on electoral reform. The failure of the BC-STV to pass in this referendum generated much discussion on electoral reform, yet little research attention has been devoted to the role of gender in this process. This paper highlights the connections that can be drawn between the BC-STV and feminist studies, analyzing how electoral reform may influence gender parity in the Province's legislative assembly and how gender, in turn, influenced BC's electoral reform deliberations. The first section argues that electoral reform would have significantly improved gender parity in BC's legislative assembly. This conclusion is based upon an analysis of BC’s political culture in connection with three theoretical advantages of the STV system: its use of multi-member districts, its compatibility with affirmative action initiatives, and its susceptibility to the so-called “contagion effect.” The second section of this paper explores how gender dynamics influenced the ability of various “gendered actors” to influence the BC Citizens’ Assembly (BCCA). Female participants, feminist activists, and male staff members each enjoyed differing levels of influence that can be traced back to pre-existing gender inequalities. This work thereby demonstrates that an application of feminist theory can significantly enrich the study of electoral reform movements, both in British Columbia and elsewhere.