Feminist Model Research Articles

Ontario college media professor careers across five decades

ABSTRACT This exploratory research analyses the careers, teaching practices, and self-assessments of Ontario college media teachers in three parts of the Province and three time periods (those hired in the 1970s and 1980s, 1990–2007, and 2007–2022). I interviewed 15 retired media teachers and academic managers; also, 42 current instructors and academic managers answered a survey about their professional experiences. My analysis uses a feminist model of closure theory from the neo-Weberian sociology of professions (Witz, 1992) along with intersectional writing on identity to explain the gendered and racialised nature of the labour market in these geographically and historically specific areas and eras. At the beginning of the first period, privileged white middle-class men with connections to education and industry experience founded the programmes, eventually hiring privileged white women with relevant credentials, all teaching full-time. In the 1990s, the neoliberal practice of hiring substantial cohorts of non-fulltime (NFT) teachers, and a demand for graduate university credentials can be linked to the advent of joint university-college media programmes and an increase in hiring of administrative staff (Mackay, 2014). In the programmes themselves, I found that the institutionalised apprenticeship model of the early college changed to a skills-based curriculum, the current emphasis in all college programmes. In hiring, gender parity for white heterosexual women has been achieved in the central hub, and consciousness of race has grown over time. However, media teachers still do not match the intersectional diversity of their students due to credentialist and legislative professional closure in hiring and promotion among fulltimers. I theorise that this closure operates by requiring credentials for full-time positions that are not available to all, depending on intersectional class, race, sexuality, disability, neurodiversity, and age.

Al-Kharnaq bint Badr bin Hafan Al-Bakriya (Her Life and Poetry): A Reading in the Poetic Heritage

Al-Kharnaq bint Badr bin Hafan Al-Bakriya (Her Life and Poetry): A Reading in the Poetic Heritage

The effect of colposcopy counseling with a feminist model on anxiety in Thai women with abnormal cervical cytology results: A time-series quasi-experimental study.

Due to the cervical cancer screening campaign, there is a gradual increase in the number of women diagnosed with abnormal cervical cytology results. Most women experience high anxiety upon learning about these results, leading to adverse psychological effects. Therefore, nurses play a vital role in counseling these women to alleviate their concerns. This study aimed to examine the effect of colposcopy counseling with a feminist model on anxiety in Thai women with abnormal cervical cytology results. The study employed a time-series quasi-experimental design with a comparison group. It was conducted at the colposcopy clinic of a university hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, from August 2022 to April 2023. A total of 68 women with abnormal cervical cytology results were purposively recruited based on inclusion criteria. The comparison group (n = 34) received only usual care, while the experimental group (n = 34) received colposcopy counseling and usual care. Colposcopy counseling was provided after collecting baseline data. Anxiety was assessed at baseline, immediate post-test, and 12th week post-test. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Chi-square test, independent t-test, and repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA). There was no statistically significant difference in anxiety across the three-time points between the two groups (F1, 66 = 0.062, p = 0.804). However, anxiety in the experimental group significantly decreased over time (p <0.05). In contrast, anxiety in the comparison group at baseline was not significantly different from that at the immediate post-test (p = 0.480). Colposcopy counseling was effective in reducing anxiety in Thai women with abnormal cervical cytology results, especially during the initial period after receiving the results. Nonetheless, anxiety could gradually decrease regardless of the intervention. Therefore, colposcopy counseling by nurses and healthcare providers is helpful for women in relieving anxiety during their first colposcopy attendance.

Advocating for Survival: Domestic Workers in the Necropolitical Regime of the Pandemic

Abstract During the COVID-19 pandemic, advocating for basic protections became a matter of survival for domestic workers. With the onset of COVID-19, this largely female and immigrant workforce was expected to take on dangerous care duties with little protection against disease and death. We apply a necropolitical feminist analysis to expose the underlying logic of the deadly (virus) regime and to highlight how the movement counteracted that logic in the United States. Domestic worker organizations enacted a feminist model of collective care while also pushing for important changes within regulations designed to protect the economy above workers’ lives. The organizations representing domestic workers advanced their agendas of worker and immigrant rights, and the very value of care itself, while adapting their messaging to the prevailing rhetoric of limited relief measures in three stages, organized around three main narratives, centered on (essential) workers’ rights, public health, and a “healthy economy.”

Towards a feminist historiography of horror cinema

Jackie Kong released four feature films between 1981 and 1987, including the horror filmsThe Being(1981) andBlood Diner(1987). She directed all four films, while also working variously as screenwriter, producer and editor on individual productions. In this essay, I use Kong’s experiences of making horror films in the 1980s as a way of critically revisiting our histories of 1980s horror film culture. I offer a feminist model of doing horror film history: not only uncovering and illuminating the unknown or little-known work of women in horror film, but also critically thinking about the way we write our histories, and what this might say about our representation of personal, cultural and national identities. Ultimately, this essay is guided by the following question: what might a feminist historiography of horror cinema look like?

Gender Ramifications of a Weberian Bureaucracy: A Feminist Appraisal of the United States Department of Agriculture

AbstractIn the field of public administration, a feminist appraisal of Weber’s bureaucracy has transpired gradually. In this article, we examine the gender ramifications of Weberian bureaucracy, with a specific focus on the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Using the feminist critique of the field at large, and the framework of bureau men and settlement women in particular, we critically analyze Weber’s ideas of an ideal bureaucracy. Our central contribution is intermeshing Stiver’s critical perspectives with the theoretical frames of feminist phenomenology and feminist standpoint theory to craft a feminist model for appraising the agricultural bureaucracy in the United States. In doing so, we demonstrate how women farmers’ and landowners’ approach to agriculture and farm management is fundamentally different in values and orientation than the USDA’s Weberian bureaucratic approach which dictates the design and implementation of agricultural policy.

Fantasy and Education in Eliza Haywood’s The Adventures of Eovaai

The Adventures of Eovaai (1736) stands out, both within Eliza Haywood’s career and among mid-eighteenth-century novels, for its highly constructed, fantastical narrative. Despite the proliferation of fantasy tropes within the text, many readings of Eovaai focus on its political allegory. This article centres on the fantastical elements, particularly the incorporation of illusory magic, to explore the novel’s contributions to feminist philosophical discourse. In Eovaai, Haywood enters a conversation about gender, truth, and perception begun by Mary Astell. Haywood uses the oft-decried genre of fantasy to probe more accurately the physical and political stakes of Astell’s abstract theories. Reading Eovaai alongside Astell’s philosophical work makes patent Haywood’s investment in theorizing feminist models of perception and authority, an effort continued in her later work. This expansive understanding of Eovaai uncovers Haywood’s often unrecognized connections to rational feminist discourse in the period while demonstrating that her generic invention— widely acknowledged in terms of the amatory—extends to other genres.

Female Inferiority, Existential Representation, and Heritage: A Feminist Reading of A Jewish Saviour by Salmah Al Moushi

Arabic feminist narratives have taken significant steps towards developing their unique narratives amidst numerous other discourses that attempt to confiscate their elements. The features constituting Arab feminist discourse have been numerous and varied, but narrative stereotypes and repeated disclosures almost dominated the general direction of Arab feminist narrative themes. Accordingly, this research paper adopts a non-stereotypical approach towards investigating the investment of feminist narratives in cultural potentials and the choices of experimentation. This paper stemmed from the following research problem: Have Arab women narratives been able, in some of their aspects, to represent cultural potentials and questions of experimentation in formulating their feminist discourse in a way that bridges the gap, both in form and content, between them and the overall Arab narrative? This study has taken A Jewish Savior (2016), a novel by the Saudi writer Salmah Al Moushi, as a model that examines the employment of heritage in framing female inferiority existentially through a non-stereotypical proposal both in form and content. This study has been surrounded by many pitfalls; hence, it seeks to evaluate the novel’s ability to overcome them in its capacity as a recently published feminist model. The novel will be analyzed from a feminist point of view with a special focus on xistential representation and ideology, olyphony and experimentation attempts, and textual transcendence and the cognitive employment of heritage.

Gender– Based Parenting of Children with Disabilities in Emirati Families: Exploring the Experiences of Mothers

ABSTRACT Based on fieldwork and qualitative interviews of 43 mothers with disabled children in Bedouin communities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), this article probes the research question of whether and to what extent the UAE social welfare system addresses the demands of these mothers. The limited literature on the intersection of gender, family and disability in the Arab world largely employs Western feminist models. Stressing established gender roles, cultural norms, coping mechanisms and structural constraints, these models are inadequate to explain the conditions of Arab communities. The articles contend that religiosity, mothers’ job, family of origin and the child’s gender are variables that significantly contribute to the explanation of the experiences of these mothers. Given the inadequacy of Western models, the article concludes by stressing that new perspectives based on the cultural features of the Arab world ought to occupy a more prominent position in the development of adequate theories that explain gender discrimination and inequality.

Academic mothers, professional identity and COVID-19: Feminist reflections on career cycles, progression and practice.

Based on a collection of auto‐ethnographic narratives that reflect our experiences as academic mothers at an Australian university, this paper seeks to illustrate the impact of COVID‐19 on our career cycles in order to explore alternative feminist models of progression and practice in Higher Education. Collectively, we span multiple disciplines, parenting profiles, and racial/ethnic backgrounds. Our narratives (initiated in 2019) explicate four focal points in our careers as a foundation for analyzing self‐definitions of professional identity: pre‐ and post‐maternity career break; and pre‐ and post‐COVID‐19 career. We have modeled this research on a collective feminist research practice that is generative and empowering in terms of self‐reflective models of collaborative research. Considering this practice and these narratives, we argue for a de‐centering of masculinized career cycle patterns and progression pathways both now and beyond COVID‐19. This represents both a challenge to neo‐liberal norms of academic productivity, as well as a call to radically enhance institutional gender equality policies and practice.

The U.S. Mexican immigrant family in a changing society: a critical overview

This article charts literature debates about the structural changes of the Mexican immigrant family in the United States. It presents, first, a critical overview of the conventional literature on the Mexican immigrant family, typically framed around assimilation models, their major themes, and shortcomings. Then, shifting frameworks, this paper shows how structural inequality and feminist models, as critical approaches to emerging immigrant family forms, help us to understand the transformational parallels between U.S. society and the Mexican immigrant family structure. It is argued in this article that the Mexican family is structurally diverse. In doing so, the discussion is placed in the larger context of the U.S., explaining how historical and present social forces associated with unequal access to economic, labor, and educational opportunities have perpetuated the marginality of the Mexican immigrant family vis-à-vis the mainstream family. The paper also outlines and discusses the ways feminist, intersectional, and postmodernism frameworks shape the current literature debates on immigrant families. Lastly, it discusses how diversity in terms of family structure and family life contributes to the general field of family study in the U.S. and globally.

No One Is Disposable: Towards Feminist Models of Transformative Justice

No One Is Disposable: Towards Feminist Models of Transformative Justice

Cultivating Feminist Transnational Practice with Immigrant Women: A Collaborative Autoethnography

This article applies methods of collaborative autoethnography and participatory education dialogues to explore our evolving “trans” national/disciplinary cultural practice with immigrant women and girls. Drawing from Latinx and Chicanx scholar/activist explorations of healing centered on indigenous and Afrodiasporic worldviews, we reflect on our continuing learning in the aftermath of the massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement workplace raid targeting indigenous immigrant women (New Bedford 2007). We initiated a continued deepening toward cultural practice grounded in transnational women of color social movements. We explore practices enhancing connections between therapy and social justice advocacy, applying transnational feminist and multi-systemic ecological models linking personal and social change. We focus on educational settings as especially favorable in transforming gendered developmental pathways toward bienestar/wellness as fairness. Finally, we recommend critical/participatory methods of reflexivity, autoethnography, dialogue-promoting learning, healing, and empowered social action.

Not a solo ride: co-constructed peer mentoring for early-career educational leadership faculty

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe the origins of a co-constructed peer-mentoring model designed by and for early-career faculty representing historically underrepresented groups in the field of educational leadership. The model, which includes components of the multicultural feminist model of mentoring, pays specific attention to early-career faculty development and well-being and outlines the need for and benefits of peer-mentoring programs.Design/methodology/approachThis qualitative study details the experiences of the development and implementation of a peer-mentoring program based on a review of literature that points out the need to provide mentoring opportunities for early-career educational leadership faculty, from historically underrepresented populations, and further posits peer-mentoring as an avenue to enhance faculty development and well-being.FindingsFaculty representing historically underrepresented groups often experience challenges related to their identities, alongside the general pressures of working toward tenure. Peer-mentoring groups provide support with which to navigate these challenges. Peer-mentor groups are a supplement to other professional groups and interactions within departments and institutions.Practical implicationsThe model has implications of being able to prepare institutional leaders to work toward institutionalizing mentoring programs that take into consideration invisible labor while promoting professional growth and personal wellness, thereby increasing the satisfaction and retention of faculty.Originality/valueThis peer-mentoring model can be used as a tool to leverage collective support, rather than emphasize individual success. As a support vehicle, it can foster a cultural change within the field of educational leadership that supports collaboration over competition.

Fan fiction as feminist citation: Lesbian (para)textuality in chainofclovers's "Done with the Compass, Done with the Chart" (2017)

A close reading of an exemplar femslash fan fic, chainofclover's "Done with the Compass, Done with the Chart" (2017), demonstrates that the language of desire it narrates for canonically heterosexual female characters is anchored by a lesbian (para)textuality. Chainofclovers takes a line from Emily Dickinson’s poem "Wild nights—Wild nights!" for the title of her fan fic for the Grace and Frankie (2015–) TV series. The author enters literary critical discourse and demonstrates feminist models of citation. The use of Dickinson, paired with similar references to the Mojave lesbian poet Natalie Diaz in the chapter epigraphs, provides a new map for the characters to follow, allowing them to travel beyond the canonical confines of compulsory heterosexuality. Just as the canonical characters Grace and Frankie refuse the requirement to cite the men in their lives, instead choosing to cite each other, chainofclovers cites lesbian poetry to imagine a narrative of female desire that is not defined by men. The story thus reflects the feminist citational model that both fan fiction and fan studies can enact, challenging traditional networks of property and ownership by producing a work founded on sustenance and gratitude.

Navigating an ethical dilemma through a feminist model: The work of psychologists with adolescent and young adults (AYA) with cancer.

Navigating an ethical dilemma through a feminist model: The work of psychologists with adolescent and young adults (AYA) with cancer.

Considering poverty in the therapeutic process: experienced therapists’ adaptations

ABSTRACT Despite high rates of mental health difficulties, low-income individuals are less likely to access mental health services and show fewer improvements when they do compared to middle-income clients (Falconnier, 2009). A handful of studies have shown, however, that when interventions are altered to address poverty-related stressors, they become more effective (e.g. Miranda, Azocar, et al., 2003). Although this research is extraordinarily valuable, we know little about how mental health practitioners working in naturalistic settings think about and tailor their practices to meet the unique challenges of working with clients who are impoverished. Such grassroots, practice-based knowledge could contribute to efforts to adapt interventions. This qualitative descriptive study of experienced psychologists working with clients in poverty aimed to fill this gap. Results indicate that psychologists often develop unique practices specific to clients in poverty. These include practices for addressing power dynamics, managing boundaries, and working with the relationship between intrapsychic and contextual poverty-related stressors. Perhaps the most striking finding of this study involves how participants conceptualized and enacted boundaries in the context of work with this population. These findings are discussed in the context of feminist theoretical models and current research. Implications for research, practice, and training are highlighted.

Of Bees, Fairies, and Women: Lisa Carey's Feminist and Parodical Rewriting of Tradition in The Stolen Child (2017)

This article examines Lisa Carey’s recent novel, which offers a rewriting of both folkloric and Yeatsian traditions. The author reuses fairy beliefs, bee folklore, and religious traditions around Saint Brigid and Saint Gobnait, in contrast with the demands of modern life, to illustrate the antagonistic pulls on the protagonists. Through this rewriting of Irish folklore, she offers a feminist parody of tradition, in Linda Hutcheon’s sense of the word. The North American writer reuses Irish fairy beliefs to question the representation of motherhood through her character of Emer, and rewrites the legend of Saint Brigid, to turn her into a feminist model for the female protagonists. Keywords: Irish folklore; contemporary literature; parody; feminism; motherhood; fairies; changeling; Brigid.

Agency as Quest and Question: Feminism, Religious Studies, and Modern Jewish Thought

Agency as Quest and Question:Feminism, Religious Studies, and Modern Jewish Thought Mara H. Benjamin (bio) Modern European liberal thought is built on the idea that (male, European, adult) individuals are agents primarily by virtue of their capacity for reason. The identification of agency with reason long shaped the study of both religion and gender. In classic accounts of religion as a human construction, modern Western theorists—Marx, Freud, Durkheim—imagined religion as a veil over an ontologically prior social force. Individual agency, by extension, constituted liberating oneself from religious belief, worship, and communal structures through the exercise of reason. A parallel structure characterized the emergence of liberal feminism in the modern West. Women's self-determination and autonomy required liberation from oppressive social norms, public policy, and domestic arrangements. Even when feminists strayed from the emphasis on reason, liberal activist quests relied on the equation of agency with liberation from the strictures that deny personal and political autonomy to women. In recent years, agency has become a compelling—and substantially more complicated—topic in the fertile intersection of religious studies and gender studies. The topic of agency provokes a confrontation between the philosophical structures of modern rationalism, upon which both egalitarian feminism and formative elements in the study of religion are based, and more recent postmodern destabilizations [End Page 7] of the rational subject. The explosion of research on gender in the study of Judaism in the last two decades has harnessed this intellectual energy to reexamine women's religious lives. Feminist scholarship initially focused on the denial of agentic status to women in rabbinic traditions. As the title of Judith Romney Wegner's Chattel or Person? The Status of Women in the Mishnah (1988) implies, personhood in the Mishnah includes capacities correlated with rational agency: a legal person has the capacity to own, buy, and sell property; to enter into contracts with others; to testify in court; and so on.1 Though tannaitic literature, not being systematic, does not present a clear theory of personhood, Wegner argued that the "autonomous woman" was the legal exception that proved the rule of women's denial of agency in much of rabbinic law.2 Likewise, Rachel Biale's Women in Jewish Law (1984), which collected and analyzed key halakhic texts concerning women's status in rabbinic Judaism, acknowledged that "traditionally, women played a second-string role in this process of fashioning Jewish identity and attributing meaning to Jewish lives."3 Using her book, readers would understand the rabbinic sources that shaped women's lives and circumscribed their power. But since women were excluded from the community of sages, leaving almost no textual record of their own, women's agency is nowhere to be found.4 In recent decades, theoretically minded scholars of religion have worked relentlessly to wrest the concept of agency from its liberal origins. Influential theorists like Talal Asad built on Michel Foucault's investigation of how different regimes of power/knowledge produce subjectivities, a move that undermined the stability of the self-constituting subject. This poststructuralist model has enriched the scholarly toolkit, rendering agency more plastic if also more amorphous. The challenge to a feminist model in which women's agency was simply construed as either present or absent has been profound; increasingly, scholars of women in religion have sought to "develop an analytical language for thinking about modalities of agency that exceed liberatory projects (feminist, leftist, or liberal)," in the words of Saba Mahmood.5 Mahmood's study of the Islamic piety movement in Egypt inspired scholars of other religious traditions to extend their attention to "non-liberal" religious phenomena that had been tacitly relegated to the margins of feminist scholarly concern. Feminist religionists pursued complex notions of agency by giving new attention to precisely those practices and sites that, in earlier theoretical moments, appeared most hostile to liberal notions of agency: spirit possession; evangelical [End Page 8] proselytizing; and, in Judaism, ultra-Orthodoxy.6 Maternity, the subject of my recent research, constitutes yet another such topic. Among many white second-wave feminists, the maternal itself was often conflated with the patriarchal imperative that oppressed women, and the refusal of motherhood with liberation.7 By contrast, I...

Manhood patronage as transmutation in the novels of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo and Chimamanda Adichie

Most deep-seated feminists find writing as a veritable medium for not only reacting to the unpleasant challenges of women, but also for creating female characters who are burdened with revolts against men. On the other hand, their male characters are rather entrusted with roles that portray their weaknesses. It is this consideration that has generated the controversies that trailed the institution of feminist discourses in emerging Nigerian literature. However, female writers have begun to consider portraying the flaws of women more than those of men, with the supposition that a less apologetic approach be employed in this regard. They are rather projected to instigate the woman‟s consciousness to the outcome and dividends of self appraisal. In this circumstance, there is a reduction in the vehemence of earlier feminist models. It is with the supposition of such transmutation that this paper examines the pointers to African female writers‟ enlistment in feminist conciliation, with a focus here on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo and Chimamanda Adichie. This comes within the framework of the overall repercussion of the feminist conjectures on the continent‟s literary output. Keywords : Manhood, Feminist writing.