Construction Of Gender Identity Research Articles

Особенности конструирования гендерной идентичности в современном политическом медиадискурсе Германии (на примере прозвищных наименований женщин-политиков)

The aim of the study is to identify the features of gender identity construction in the modern political media discourse of Germany by the example of women politicians’ nicknames. The article discusses the main strategies for creating the gender identity of women politicians in order to form their positive or negative image. The scientific novelty lies in the research of women politicians’ nicknames as a means of constructing masculinity and femininity. As a result, it has been found that a positive image of politicians correlates with the sphere of masculinity, however, women politicians tend to compile the features of male and female communication styles in their political activity.

Locating the Shifting Sphere of Gendered Identity Construction through the Cinematic Adaptations of Tagore's Ghare Baire

Locating the Shifting Sphere of Gendered Identity Construction through the Cinematic Adaptations of Tagore's Ghare Baire

Association between Precarious Employment and Chronic Stress: Effect of Gender, Stress Measurement and Precariousness Dimensions-A Cross-Sectional Study.

Precarious employment has been highlighted as a social determinant of health, given, among others, to its alleged association with chronic stress. However, few studies have been conducted analyzing such association, using both perceived stress indicators and biological markers. Accordingly, the present study analyzed the association of multidimensional (6 dimensions) precarious employment scale with perceived stress and 23 markers of adrenal and gonadal hormone production, including cortisol. The sample consisted of 255 salaried workers from Barcelona (125 men, 130 women) aged 25–60. OLS regression models stratified by sex were conducted. Results demonstrated that precarious employment increased the probabilities of having perceived stress in both sexes. In addition, the production of adrenal hormones among men is associated with precarious wages and among women with precarious contracts (“Temporariness”, “Disempowerment”, and “Rights” dimensions). Therefore, precarious employment could be embodied by workers, altering their perceived well-being and physiological characteristics. Differences between men and women in the physiological effect of precarious employment could express not just the biochemical differences inherent to biological sex, but also the social construction of gender identities, positions and roles in society and family, as well as gender inequalities in the labour market.

Narrative and Gendered Identities: A Feminist Narratological Reading of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and D.H Lawrence’s The Fox

The significant role that narrative strategy, plot structure, characterization, perspectivity and language, precisely, metaphors and metanarratives can play as textual sites of gendered identities has been recognized within feminist narratology which is an interdisciplinary sub-domain within narrative theory. Although the central role that narrative might proffer in the analysis of gender has over the last twenty years featured as a crucial area of research in feminist narratology, over-trodden data like Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and D. H. Lawrence’s The Fox, seem to have received less attention in the light of categories or narrative strategies which can serve as sites of gender. In privileging feminist narratology as a suitable theoretical framework for locating, interpreting and analyzing sites of gendered identity construction in Things Fall Apart and The Fox, this study argues that the two text teem with narrative structures and strategies as well as linguistic evidences like metaphors and folkloric metanarratives, that may encourage a categorization of people into male and female; masculinities, femininities, and the subaltern. Gender markers: sexuality, characterization (psychological and biological elements), male-centered or “masculinist” plot structure, folkloric metanarratives, linguistic elements like metaphors and images in general as well as social codes that are gender-specific and that play a huge role in the context of the cultural construction/transmission and memory of gender are largely represented in the chosen texts. These textual devices have a highly ideological function: they are creative medial elements that play an important role in constructing and passing on the complex system of values, norms and ideas which constitute a society’s patriarchal mentality.

The influence of school textbooks on the configuration of gender identity: A study on the unequal representation of women and men in the school discourse during the Spanish democracy

This investigation examines the unequal representation of men and women in elementary textbooks used in Spain since the establishment of the country's democratic regime. We conduct a multiple-perspective Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) by combining different analytical models developed by various authors. The results indicate that said textbooks are biased in terms of gender, perpetuating discursive strategies that devalue and exclude women as social actors while maintaining male dominance. The research points to the consequences that this gender discrimination can have for students' construction of gender identity and urges teachers to adopt an egalitarian perspective in the selection of didactic materials.

‘Find what makes you comfortable, find what makes you euphoric’: A thematic analysis ‘centering’ trans and non-binary voices in understandings of gender identity construction

‘Find what makes you comfortable, find what makes you euphoric’: A thematic analysis ‘centering’ trans and non-binary voices in understandings of gender identity construction

Gender Identity Construction in TV Adverts: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis

Gender Identity Construction in TV Adverts: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis

Gender Identity Construction in TV Adverts: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis

This paper aims to understand and analyze the politics of gender identity construction in TV adverts; i.e. how different approaches are being used in order to portray and construct gender role, which eventually shape gender identity. Incorporating Stuart Hall’s representation theory, Simon de Beauvoir’s Second Sex, and different CDA tools -- this paper evaluates and dissects different TV ads, telecasted in Bangladeshi main stream media, to foreground how these TV ads shape as well as construct gender identity, and questions the “realistic representation” of man and woman in the TV adverts. Furthermore, it also re-excavates the manifestation of the repetitive representation of the gender role, and, in consequence of the depiction, how the viewers construct, deconstruct and reconstruct their gender identities based on the TV advertisements without even realizing it.

Gender Identity Construction in TV Adverts: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis

Gender Identity Construction in TV Adverts: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis

MEANS OF EXPRESSING LANGUAGE AND GENDER IDENTITY IN THE POETRY BY ANNE SEXTON, SYLVIA PLATH, ADRIENNE RICH

The article deals with the issues of construction of language and gender identity in the poetry by Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Adrienne Rich. It studies poets' attitude to the language and gender, it describes what motifs and images were employed by contemporary American female poets to express their vision of the language and silence. Special attention is paid to the concept of women’s writing, modern theories of corporeality, sexuality and the problems of the body and the language, which have been considered as major features of women’s poetry in the second half of the 20th century. 
 The theoretical background of the article is based on the works of Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Jane Gallop, Alicia Ostriker, in which they defined the concepts of women's writing and language, women's subject, bodiness and corporality. The article analyzes a number of related issues: firstly, it determines how well-known theories of women's writing are consistent with the peculiarities of the female experience and its realization in a poetic text, especially on the level of the themes and motifs; secondly, it studies how the motifs of language and silence are expressed in the poetry by Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Adrienne Rich, what are the similarities between their imagery and what are the differences. The article analyses modern feminist works as well as gender studies.

Visualizing Housewives: The Representation of Female Domesticity in Stock Imagery

The aim of this paper is to interpret the gender representations of housewives in nine selected examples of stock images. The essay focuses on how the concept of housewives is depicted in stock photography and how socially constructed gender roles and stereotypes are materialized through it. Paul Frosh’s methodology for surveying stock images, and Erving Goffman’s theory of gender representation are used for the analysis. The essay finds essential features that communicate and commodify the happy housewife ideal. It is suggested that through the conjoint use of elements of domestic work and leisure time, the gendered position of the women is portrayed in a positive light in a way to commodify female domesticity. The use of social science approach is limited in the academic discussions of stock photography. In this study, stock images are viewed as forms of visual representation that construct the perceptions of social phenomena through the articulation of meanings. In that regard, it is stressed that they may contribute to the social construction and negotiation of gender identities and roles.

A Multiplicity of Stories: Reading Feminist Orientalism in Scheherazade.2

AbstractIn the folktale collection One Thousand and One Nights, the narrator Scheherazade escapes the Sultan's physical and sexual brutality through her storytelling; in the dramatic symphony Scheherazade.2, composed by John Adams (2014), the music and its programmatic commentary evoke modern images of women facing violence and oppression. Through a musical story of empowerment and a construction of gender and ethnic identity, Adams utilizes program music's narrative and representational components to challenge contemporary power dynamics on a global scale. Typically, a work like this might be viewed through one of two methodological lenses. A feminist critique of Scheherazade.2 might examine the ways in which the piece confronts misogyny and offers reparation. An orientalist critique might examine the ways in which the piece's invocation of Scheherazade combines with musical and programmatic exoticism to project a cultural “Other.” This article blends these two lenses, using the framework of feminist orientalism to examine the intertwined implications of both angles of critique in the context of transnational feminism. As a Western project alluding to the Arabian world of Scheherazade and the Sultan to tell a story about misogyny, Scheherazade.2 effectively construes such issues of misogyny as “Eastern.” The effect of displacing these problems of violence and oppression onto the East arguably provides a more palatable way for Western audiences to critique the West itself, but ultimately impedes transnational efforts. While seeking broad-scale reparation and advocacy, therefore, Scheherazade.2 nevertheless reinscribes orientalist stereotypes through the constructed narrative of a gendered and ethnic “Other.” A feminist orientalist critique draws out the paradoxical nuances of Scheherazade.2, parsing the dynamic network of musical and extra-musical factors that shape interpretations of the piece and its reparative potential. By considering the complex layers of agency, identity, and interaction that create new meanings in different contexts, this critique highlights the ways in which Scheherazade.2 works to redress issues of misogyny while also perpetuating discourses of essentialization and appropriation. This article argues overall that, by recognizing the feminist orientalist implications of Scheherazade.2, the reparative potential of the piece can be foregrounded and genuinely realized in a transnational context.

Polish Lace Makers: Gender, Heritage, and Identity

Polish Lace Makers: Gender, Heritage, and Identity

Construction of Gender in Two Chinese Translations of Little Women

This paper aims to explore the influence of the translators’ sexual difference on their construction of gender identity in the two translations of Little Women written by Louisa May Alcott. The influence of the translators’ gender on the translations is a controversial topic. However, most of gender and translation studies have been done from a restricted feminist translation viewpoint. Based on Judith Butler’s gender performativity theory, this paper thus takes the two Chinese translations of Little Women as examples to explore the differences between the male and female translators and their gender constructions in the translations. This paper adopts a critical discourse analysis of the source text and the translations of the characterisation of the female characters and the gendered discourses in Little Women. Focus of this paper is on the translator’s paratextual elements as well. Since these approaches have rarely been applied in Chinese translation studies, this paper opens more discussion on the gender constructions of translators. It shows that the translators’ translation strategies reflect the association of gender with their own gender identity in the translations. However, further research is needed to expand the scope of the data size to include the analysis of multiple translations by different groups of translators of different genders, to explore the operational mechanisms of translation activities and the ways how translation render or even construct gender identities.

A New Look to the Manner of the Un/intelligible Female Gender Identity and Roles Construction in Selected Plays by Tennessee Williams

در مبحث هویت های جنسی و چگونگی ساختار آن تحت سلطه هژمونی فرهنگی، جودیت باتلر از بنام ترین منتقدین پساساختارگرای فمینیست عصر حاضر است. وی در تبیین پدیداری این هویت جنسی زنانه، فرهنگ مردانه دوگانه را دخیل می پندارد و با اعمال مباحثی نظیر آلوده انگاری، سه گانه همگون جنس/جنسیت/تمایل جنسی و واپس زدگی ، در توصیف جایگاه تابع زنانه اقدام می کند. وی همچنین معتقد است در طی روند انجام عمل تکرار و تمرین، این هویت دوگانه قابل قبول و معتبر شکل می گیرد ولی امکان دگرگونی و واکنش معکوس در بستر این امر مکرر وجود دارد. نکته قابل تامل در ارتباط با این پدیده ، نگرش عمیق و دقیق در نمایشنامه های تنسی ویلیامز است که در سالهای دورتراز بیان این نظریه به شیوه ای استادانه و خلاق شخصیتهایی را ترسیم می کنند که همگی بیانگر چگونگی تشکیل هویت جنسی زنانه مطابق و یا متفاوت با نگاه جودیت باتلر هستند. این شخصیت ها نه تنها وامدار ساختار فرهنگی منطبق با نظریه باتلر هستند ، که از لایه های عنوان شده در این فرضیه فراتر رفته و گونه های متنوع تری از تشکیل هویت جنسی زنانه را به معرض نمایش می گذارند. هدف پژوهش حاضر بررسی نمایشنامه های منتخب تنسی ویلیامز در طول دوره شکوفایی این نمایشنامه نویس بزرگ قرن سیستم آمریکا از دیدگاه نظریه ساخت هویت جنسی زنانه جودیت باتلر از طریق واکاوی شخصیتهای مونث دگرجنسگرا و همجنسگرا ودر جهت نمایان ساختن کاستیهای نظریه میباشد.

Gender Construction in Feminist Da'wah by Women Preachers on Youtube

Feminist da'wah by women preachers on YouTube has formed Muslim interaction relationships that play a role in helping spread the teachings of Islam, especially for Muslim women who are packaged in da'wah messages that construct the role of women in the domestic sphere. This study uses a qualitative method with a case study approach and qualitative descriptive to describe various conditions, situations or phenomena of social reality that occur on social media. Data collection techniques were carried out by documentation, observation and focus group discussion. Based on the results of data analysis, it was found that the construction of gender identity through the externalization process of adjustment to social reality, objectivation by using Islamic normative legal basis and internalization through acceptance and determination of choices in action. The cognitive reduction that occurs gives birth to the assumption of dominance, the assumption of limitation and the assumption of deviation in representing a da'wah message. Adjustments to the principle of justice and the basic conditions experienced by a woman are needed in understanding the message of da'wah.

THE ROLE OF AFFECTS IN THE CONSTRUCTS OF GENDER IDENTITIES IN CROATIAN POSTMODERN DRAMA (ON THE EXAMPLE OF IVANA SAJKO’S „WOMAN-BOMB“

ccording to S. Tomkins’ classification of affects, the paper explores the role of disgust, anger, sadness and fear in the gender identity constructs in the Croatian postmodern drama Woman- Bomb (2004), written by the playwright Ivana Sajko. The methodological framework relies on the affect theories by S. Tomkins and A. Lucas, which are used to investigate the emotional communication between characters in the drama. Based on the research of N. Govedić, the affective reaction is hypothesized to result in communication, i.e., in revealing one’s own emotional states to others. Reception and the reshaping of the charge of the other are inherent to the affects themselves. They may also subject to political scrutiny and function as moral guides. Thus, this research focuses on the socio-affective (non) communication between the characters of the drama, constructed by the socially and symbolically marked feminist body of the ‘bomb-woman’ (‘terrorist-woman’). The body of a terrorist resonates with that of a ‘queer body’ (“the unfortunate one”, “the source of affliction”). By examining the construction of the gender identity of the ‘bomb-woman’ in postmodern drama, we conclude that Sajko’s literary strategies move away from stereotypical representations of gender identities, i.e., the role of women was regularly represented through motherhood in the literary practice of the 19th and most of the 20th century, while their potential for the social or “street-activist” engagement was overlooked. In accordance with postmodernist practice, through irony, paradox, intermediality, fragmentation, culture of performance and self-referential actions, in the character of the female terrorist – ‘bomb-woman’, the author expresses resistance to the traditional gender identity ‘conventions’, and this is especially evident in the analysis of disgust as the negative affect. Therefore, along with anger, sadness and fear, disgust becomes apostrophized in the feminist manner as the main affect in this monologic tragicomedy. The disgust with the stereotypical representation of women symbolically results in the identity of a “woman as a time bomb”.

The Portrayal of Women in Popular Punjabi Music

AbstractThe Punjabi music industry, which generates an annual revenue of around ₹7 billion, is the largest independent music industry in India. Popular Punjabi songs produced for entertainment are also ideological constructs. They represent, reproduce, and reinforce gender disparities and foster the internalization of longstanding male hegemonic cultural beliefs. This article studies the lyrics and visual imagery of 10 popular Punjabi songs. The analysis of selected songs offers significant insights into gender power relations and identity construction in a patriarchal Punjabi society.

‘Monsters’ vs. ‘Angels’: A Feminist Approach to the Film Brave Through the Character of Merida

Brave (2012) is an animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney pictures. Set in the fictional medieval times of Scotland, the story follows the journey of Merida, a rebellious young girl who strives to dismantle oppressive social norms and conventional attitudes upheld by her mother. The way in which the film presents powerful feminist ideologies is discussed by providing insight into the importance of solidarity between women, repressive gender stereotypes and the cyclical nature of oppression within the patriarchal social structure. The concept of gender and its complexities are explored within this study to identify dominant patriarchal ideologies that are marginalizing and discriminatory towards women. The trajectory of Merida which is representative of the struggles of women within the patriarchal social structure is analysed while focusing on the mother-daughter relationship. This research aims to present the oppressiveness of socially constructed gender identities through the challenges faced by Merida in her fight for freedom and self-expression. The feminist elements of the film are discussed based on the dichotomy of the ‘angel’ and the ‘monster’ highlighted by the theorists Gilbert and Gubar in Mad Woman in the Attic (1979). Furthermore, the theories of bell hooks, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler and Luce Irigaray are used to support the central argument.

STANCE TAKING, GENDER IDENTITY, AND ROMANIAN WOMEN POLITICIANS IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORAL CAMPAIGNS

Objectives This study aims at presenting an updated state-of-the-art review of the most relevant approaches to gender identity, stance taking, and political communication, highlighting the way in which society contributes to constructing gender identity, intersubjectivity, and discourse practices in the electoral communication. . Material and methods. Relevant articles published between 1995 and 2020 on stancetaking, identity, intersubjectivity speech acts were searched in two access platforms to the scientific literature. The main concepts indexing identity markers and intersubjectivity (interactant pronouns, stances, non- figurative and figurative syntagms, speech acts) were preserved. The research shed light through a quantitative and qualitative discourse analysis how speech acts, modalities, grammatical tools and figures of speech were used as a resource for taking a stand, as well as a strategy for the gender identity constructing. The corpus were composed by three categories of addresses delivered by the ex-prime minister Viorica Dăncilă during the 2019 presidential electoral campaign. Results. The analysis identified at the macro and micro level the construction of the positions, themes and interactive markers in the speeches delivered between August, 2019 and November 22, 2019 in the light of the positioning theory appraisal theory and the concept of conversational history. Conclusion. The double opening (micro and macro level) allowed us to bridge the intersubjective and gender dimension of positioning with epistemic and emotional aspects, highlighting also differences and similarities with the masculine presidential style. Keywords: women politicians, electoral communication, gender identity, stancetaking, inter-subjectivity.