Department Of Gender Studies Research Articles

Prevalence and factors associated with anxiety disorder in undergraduate students of Peshawar, kpk, Pakistan: a cross-sectional study

Background: Anxiety is a widespread mental health concern that impacts a significant portion of the general population. Functional impairment and negative effects on quality of life are associated with it. Objectives: To assess the prevalence of anxiety among undergraduate students in Peshawar and determine the factors associated with it. Methodology: A cross-sectional study design was employed and 400 undergraduate students were included in the study from Peshawar, Pakistan. Data was gathered from various institutions located in Peshawar including The University of Peshawar (UOP), the Department of gender studies, the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, and the Department of pharmacy from The University of Peshawar (UOP), Kabir Medical College, Sardar Begum Dental College (SBDC), Jinnah College for Women (GCW). The Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) was employed to analyze the prevalence of anxiety among students. SPSS version 26 was employed to analyze the data. Chi-square was used to find the association between different factors and anxiety. A p-value of less than 0.05 was considered significant. Results: The mean age of the participants was 20.04±2.26 years. A total of 138 participants (34.5%) were male, while 262 participants (65.5%) were female. The overall prevalence of anxiety among undergraduate students of Peshawar came out to be 50.5%. Anxiety was strongly linked to dissatisfaction with family relationships (p-value = 0.00), dissatisfaction with career goals (p-value = 0.03), and the use of illicit drugs (p-value = 0.02). Additionally, physical discomfort (p-value = 0.00), low self-confidence (p-value = 0.00), and experiencing mental trauma in the past year (p-value = 0.00) were significantly associated with increased anxiety. Furthermore, anxiety was related to experiencing physical trauma (p-value = 0.04) and struggling with comfortable sleep (p-value = 0.00). Conclusion: This study demonstrates that anxiety is prevalent among undergraduate students in Peshawar. Developing targeted interventions to alleviate anxiety in this population may be facilitated by addressing these factors.

A Conversation with Professor Clare Hemmings

Clare Hemmings is a Professor of Feminist Theory at the Department of Gender Studies (formerly Gender Institute), London School of Economics and Political Science, where she has worked since 1999. Her research focuses on feminist and queer studies, examining the relationship between these fields and their institutionalization at national and international levels. She is interested in how participants in these fields narrate their history and current form, and how these narratives align with conservative agendas.

A Tribute to Francisca de Haan

Abstract On 1 April 2023, the Central European University (CEU) Department of Gender Studies and Department of History held a panel and book launch to celebrate the retirement of Francisca de Haan and to recognize her scholarly contributions. Following a summary of the event, the texts of those who spoke that day are reproduced here, offering an opportunity to consider the impact Francisca de Haan had on her students, her colleagues, this journal, and the field of Central and Eastern European women's history in general through the words of those she impacted most directly.

Becoming Bebas

Book Review| March 01 2020 Becoming Bebas: The Decolonizing Labor of Risk and Care Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation, by Parreñas, Juno Salazar, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018, 267 + ix pages, $25.95 (paper), ISBN 9780822370772, $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780822370628, $25.95 (ebook), ISBN 9780822371946 Ryan Rousseau Ryan Rousseau Ryan Rousseau is a PhD student in the Department of Gender Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. His research is focused primarily within queer indigenous studies, feminist new materialism, and political ecology. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 141–143. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8017387 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ryan Rousseau; Becoming Bebas: The Decolonizing Labor of Risk and Care. Cultural Politics 1 March 2020; 16 (1): 141–143. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8017387 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsCultural Politics Search Advanced Search In the summer of 2018, a viral video was shared on Facebook that captured the devastating face-off between an orangutan and a bulldozer that had demolished a stretch of rainforest in Borneo. Filmed in 2013, the video was published by the International Animal Rescue to draw attention to the rapid deforestation of the Indonesian rainforests and the concurrent annihilation of the species that inhabit it. Beyond the outrage elicited by the footage, the video highlights the violent methods by which late capitalism sustains itself, largely to the detriment of nonhuman animals. This complex interplay, between systems of power, humans, and nonhumans, is at the heart of Juno Salazar Parreñas’s Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation.Weaving together an expansive array of theoretical texts, one that reaches across anthropology, gender studies, and animal studies, Parreñas delivers a decolonial, feminist critique of... © 2020 Duke University Press2020 Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

The Reimagining Kinship, Gender, and Sexuality in Indigenous Communities Colloquium: An Overview and Reflective Essay

The following provides highlights from the Reimagining Kinship, Gender, and Sexuality in Indigenous Communities Colloquium, a one-day event held in Kingston, Ontario at Queen’s University in January 2019. It was hosted by the Journal of Critical Race Inquiry (JCRI) and the Department of Gender Studies, Sexual and Gender Diversity Certificate Program. The overarching aim of the day was to provide a space for meaningful dialogue on gender, sexuality, cultural revitalization and relations within Indigenous communities. This special section of this Journal of Critical Race Inquiry (JCRI) issue highlights some of the Indigenous intellectual work emerging from the Colloquium. The written pieces presented here cover some of the themes related to love, two-spirit identities, governance, kinship, consent, storytelling, and belonging. It is our hope the Reimagining Kinship, Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous Communities Colloquium and this special report from JCRI will spark further conversations and ideas that will contribute to the cultural resurgence of our Indigenous communities and knowledges across Turtle Island and among all our relations—human and more-than-human.

Jumpstart, potentials and hindrances: collaboration projects in gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting

Many European organisations have committed to and formally adopted gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting strategies; however, their implementation has not been as effective as anticipated. The Department of Gender Studies at the University of Iceland has been collaborating with public sector organisations in Iceland, a City and a University, to advance implementation of these strategies. The collaboration entails post-graduate students analysing the problem representation and gendering of public activities and providing policy actors with research-informed advice on how to integrate a gender perspective in their management procedures and processes. Drawing on interview data with the policy actors involved in the collaboration projects, we found organisational noncommitment to gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting, lack of knowledge about these issues and a superficial approach to implementing the strategies. Based on the findings, we explored the potential explanations and the hindrances related to using collaboration projects to jumpstart structural transformative gender+ equality work.

‘I don’t know what gender is, but I do, and I can, and we all do’: An interview with Clare Hemmings

What follows is an interview with Clare Hemmings, Professor of Feminist Theory and Head of the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics. A leading figure in UK feminist theory, her research insists that we acknowledge matters of ambivalence and uncertainty in our history-making, storytelling and theorising. As such, it contributes to and has productively intervened in many fields, including feminist epistemology, affect theory, historiography and sexuality studies. Beginning with her first book, Bisexual Spaces: A Geography of Sexuality and Gender (2002), continuing in Why Stories Matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory (2011), and most overtly in Considering Emma Goldman: Feminist Political Ambivalence and the Imaginative Archive (2018), Hemmings interrogates and challenges dominant modes and expressions of gender and sexuality from a feminist positionality that is itself under-theorised and rarely articulated: that of a feminine bisexual woman. As Hemmings notes, bisexual positionality encompasses the affective capacity for a ‘combination of heterosexual and homosexual desire’ (Hemmings, 2002a; 2002b: 17) and thus generates ‘radical reconfigurations’ (Hemmings, 2002b: 197) of our understanding of the relations between gender, sex and desire. Yet bisexuality has been repeatedly reproduced, within both feminist and queer theory, ‘as an abstract and curiously lifeless middle. As a lesbian and feminist who has occupied that supposedly ‘lifeless middle ground’, albeit differently (I have had two long-term relationships, one with a man, one with a woman), I was interested in speaking with Clare about these issues, and was compelled to do so after I attended an event that she co-organised at the London School of Economics, a screening of Sylvie Tissot’s film about the French feminist Christine Delphy that included Delphy herself. As soon as Delphy entered the theatre and began walking down the stairs to the podium, the audience burst spontaneously into a standing ovation and long applause: '[T]his moment involved both a shared jouissance and the returning of haunting conflicts within feminism – conflicts that we wish had been resolved long ago –because it entailed both exhilarating and dissonant affects, it became a sort of feminist moment par excellence, a moment where solidarity is never exempted from the (re)emergence of disagreements, and where the fantasy of a collective fusion becomes the condition for those conflicts to emerge' (Eloit in Delphy et al., 2016: 151). Delphy’s presence, and the film about her, reminded me that (1) feminist thinkers from the 1970s and 1980s were extraordinarily sophisticated in their understanding of how gender constitutes us as men and women; (2) this analysis is still mostly absent from public conversations; and (3) we still long for such conversations. My interview with Clare Hemmings is thus a continuation of this moment of shared jouissance and haunting. It was conducted informally, in 2017, in Clare’s office, in what was then the Gender Institute, in Columbia House at the LSE. For over 90 minutes during a grey afternoon in London, we spoke on a range of topics, from Clare’s intellectual history to her (then) forthcoming book on Emma Goldman. We discussed her background as a poststructuralist theorist who also carries out empirical research and the challenge of studying sexuality in the archive. In the portion of the interview that appears below, we talk in detail about Clare’s early work on bisexuality and how her thinking contributes to theorising gender in the present.

Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics

Book Review| April 01 2018 Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics. By Sara L. McKinnon. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016. 165 pp. Notes and index. $95 (cloth); $24.98 (paper). Meghana Nayak Meghana Nayak Pace University Meghana Nayak is Professor of Political Science and affiliate faculty of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Pace University. She is author of Who is Worthy of Protection? Gender-Based Asylum and U.S. Immigration Politics (Oxford University Press, 2015). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2018) 37 (3): 120–121. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.3.0120 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Meghana Nayak; Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2018; 37 (3): 120–121. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.3.0120 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2018 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Participating unequally: student experiences at UWC

This paper uses Nancy Fraser’s concept of participatory parity to reflect on data gathered by and from third year students in a final year research module in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape in 2015. During the course students developed a research proposal, collected and shared data with other students, and then used this data to write a final (externally examinable) research report. Employing a participatory photovoice methodology, the students’ research focused on ways in which social and group identities had shaped their experiences of feeling empowered and disempowered on campus. Each student took two photos representing experiences of feeling empowered and two of feeling disempowered on campus and wrote narratives of about 300 words explaining and describing the experience foregrounded by each image. Students shared these narratives and accompanying images with each other, their teachers and the wider university community through a public exhibition in the library. In the paper we draw on Fraser’s concepts of maldistribution, misrecognition and misrepresentation to highlight constraints to equal participation identified by students.Â

A Jewish Feminine Mystique?: Jewish Women in Postwar America

Book Review| July 01 2016 A Jewish Feminine Mystique?: Jewish Women in Postwar America A Jewish Feminine Mystique?: Jewish Women in Postwar America. Edited by Hasia Diner, Shira Kohn, and Rachel Kranson. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010. 284 pp. 9 illustrations. $72 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). Lena McQuade-Salzfass Lena McQuade-Salzfass Sonoma State University Lena McQuade-Salzfass is Associate Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Sonoma State University. Her research interests include histories of women’s reproductive health in New Mexico and Jewish feminism. She has published historical work on midwives in New Mexico and on the bat mitzvah in Albuquerque. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2016) 35 (4): 113–115. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.35.4.113 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lena McQuade-Salzfass; A Jewish Feminine Mystique?: Jewish Women in Postwar America. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2016; 35 (4): 113–115. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.35.4.113 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2016 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Introduction to the Special Issue: Gendering Global Media Policy: Critical Perspectives on “Digital Agendas”

Introduction to the Special Issue: Gendering Global Media Policy: Critical Perspectives on “Digital Agendas”

Eni Lestari in Conversation with Annalee Lepp

Eni Lestari is an Indonesian domestic worker and migrant rights activist who has been working in Hong Kong since 1999. She is the current chairperson of the International Migrants Alliance (IMA), the first global alliance of grassroots migrants’ organizations, founded in Hong Kong in 2008. She is also the current chairperson of the Association of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Hong Kong (ATKI). Lestari is also a current board member of the Global Alliance Against Trafficking of Women (GAATW). In January 2016 she sat down with Annalee Lepp, Chair of the Department of Gender Studies at the University of Victoria, to talk about her experiences as a migrant worker and activist.

‘I act this way because why?’ Prior knowledges, teaching for change, imagining new masculinities

This article begins by outlining some of the prior knowledges brought by undergraduate students to an introduction to gender studies class in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. I show that, at the beginning of the course, students clearly understand gender to refer to women and femininity, imagining femininity (but not masculinity) to be responsive to social change. I suggest that, in the face of these prior knowledges, it is important to focus on masculinity as performance, as a cultural artefact and one that is deeply harmful to South African men. Student experiences of this teaching and learning suggest that it offers possibilities for imagining men as allies and beneficiaries – rather than enemies – in the struggle for gender equity.

Race and Pedagogical Practices: When Race Takes Center Stage in Philosophy

This paper presents a segment of a broader research project titled “When Black Consciousness Meets White Consciousness,” which first developed out of my research work with White women in violence‐against‐women organizations. It documents an interview between a White woman and me, a Black South African philosopher. I lived and worked in Canada at the time but I traveled to the United States for conferences on a regular basis. I was presenting my work on Black consciousness, White consciousness, and Black existentialism—relying on Derridean deconstruction and psychoanalysis—when I had the exchange with a White woman, a young faculty member in the philosophy department, which had jointly hosted the talk with the women and gender studies department. This paper offers a verbatim account of this dialogue wherein the history of philosophy is unraveled and where I draw on Jacques Derrida's “White Mythology” to demonstrate how White consciousness is engraved. It is out of this intertwined analysis that my work on White consciousness emerged in the 1990s—and with which I continue—as is evidenced throughout the paper. In unpacking this dialogue, I situate the complexities that arise from the pedagogical practices within philosophy when race takes center stage within a discipline that has written itself as though race does not exist.

Comment from the Field

In September 2013, scholars and activists gathered at the National Academy of Sciences in Prague's Old City think through what a decolonized queercrip disability studies might mean. The conference organizers wrote that they hoped to provide space for critical dialogue between disability studies and studies of Central and Eastern Europe, postcolonial studies, global and development studies.Over three days, the conference unfolded as a unified seminar, allowing those in attendance interact in an intimate environment. Proceedings included discussions and keynote addresses by invited speakers, a video presentation of a contemporary art performance piece, a presentation of a live artwork, two workshops, five panels of paper presentations, and a crip dance party. At any given point, the audience in the seminar space ranged from 15 40 people.Interdisciplinarity and scholar-activist interplay were central the goals of the conference, organized by the Gender Research Office of the University of Vienna and the Department of Gender Studies of Charles University in Prague. Contributors included scholars from cultural studies, gender studies, history, sociology, cultural and applied anthropology, as well as activists who do not locate themselves in the academy. A common goal of destabilizing Western academic (especially masculinist, heteronormative, white, mainstream development) voices in transnational problems of disability emerged as a key topic for discussion in both formal proceedings and informal conversations.Accessibility remained a concern, despite the best efforts of the organizers. Conference conveners sought out physically accessible venues, planned for meals and coffee breaks catering a range of dietary needs, provided gender- neutral toilets in the main conference space, designated a quiet space, arranged for simultaneous transcription, and requested that presenters provide presen- tation scripts. But organizers were frustrated find that lodgings, billed as accessible, turned out not be for at least one international guest. Linguistic barriers remained. Some presenters spoke quickly in hard-to-translate English, or did not stick the scripts they had provided the transcriptionists. This made it difficult for some non-native English speakers follow presentations and participate in discussion, revealing that accessibility is an important intersection of disability and the postcolonial linguistic order (which continues elevate English as the language of international exchange).The conference kicked off with an event at the Czech National Theater. Haute Coutures 01 Fires by Ines Doujak, a performance piece, was regrettably presented in video format instead of live, due a performer's last-minute illness. Haute Coutures 01 Fires centers on the narratives of two women who do not know one another, indeed, who could not have known one another across space and time. But in the performance the two women are doubly twins. Metaphorically, they are twins in that they both died in fires in textile workshops. Physically, they are represented in the performance as conjoined: two female performers don a single pair of enormous blue jeans, one in each leg, symbolically merging their narratives and bodies.Conference co-organizer Katerina Kolarova introduced the piece, and reminded viewers that the medium of performance is uniquely poised operate in this interstice of decolonial disability. The scholarly bias for the written word not only limits the kinds of ideas which scholars have access, but also limits who can participate in critical conversation; performance opens possibilities for affinities, connections, and critiques that may be missed in text-based formats.Following the screening, respondents Anastasia Kayiatos and Robert McRuer presented remarks, which, although prepared separately, shared important overlaps. American disability studies (of which we might consider both of these scholars provident) has rarely dealt with questions of how global supply chains are complicit in the creation of disability and debility. …

Variations in Young Men's and Women's Attitudes and Intentions to Use Condoms With Different Types of Sexual Partners

Brandon J. Hill, PhD(c), is a Research Associate at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, and the Department of Gender Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Erick E. Amick, MPH, MA, is an Advanced Research Assistant at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Stephanie A. Sanders, PhD, is Associate Director at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, and Professor in the Department of Gender Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

Violence against black lesbians: Minding our language

abstract The Open Forum is a short report on the “Conversation Series” that was started by the Gender Equity Unit and the Women's and Gender Studies Department of the University of the Western Cape. The discussion problematises the use of terminology and language that depolitises the urgency and impact of violence against women in general and violence against black lesbians in particular. It raises critical questions with regard to the impunity in which certain terms and images are used in the name of ‘awareness-raising’ and ‘publicity’ about the rape and murders of black lesbians. It questions the complicity of feminist activists and lesbians in appropriating these dehumanising vocabularies.

Plotting Nature’s Havoc: Potential Realisms between Transcendental Materialism and Transcendental Dynamism

Author(s): Ben Woodard
 Title (English): Plotting Nature’s Havoc: Potential Realisms between Transcendental Materialism and Transcendental Dynamism
 Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Summer 2011)
 Publisher: Department of Gender Studies, Euro-Balkan Institute
 Page Range: 81-96
 Page Count: 15
 Citation (English): Ben Woodard, “Plotting Nature’s Havoc: Potential Realisms between Transcendental Materialism and Transcendental Dynamism,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Summer 2011): 81-96.

Ask the Puppet. Towards Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy against the Human Race

Author(s): Stanimir Panayotov
 Title (English): Ask the Puppet. Towards Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy against the Human Race
 Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Summer 2011)
 Publisher: Department of Gender Studies, Euro-Balkan Institute
 Page Range: 145-152
 Page Count: 8
 Citation (English): Stanimir Panayotov, “Ask the Puppet. Towards Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy against the Human Race,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Summer 2011): 145-152.

Globe of Revolution. An Afterthought on Geophilosophical Realism

Author(s): Reza Negarestani
 Title (English): Globe of Revolution. An Afterthought on Geophilosophical Realism
 Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Summer 2011)
 Publisher: Department of Gender Studies, Euro-Balkan Institute
 Page Range: 25-54
 Page Count: 29
 Citation (English): Reza Negarestani, “Globe of Revolution. An Afterthought on Geophilosophical Realism,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Summer 2011): 25-54.