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The cultural distortion of the African world view and the subordination of women in ‘postcolonial’ African societies

The purpose of this article is to bring to light a critical question which borders around the decolonial feminism discourse, and in so doing I unveil some salient insights which add valuable contributions to the discourse about the place of feminism in the African context. The motivating problem is the question of subordination of women in Africa. There are many reasons and questions, each deserving thorough examination that have been brought forward for the causes and possible explanations of the phenomenon. The argument I seek to highlight is that cultural distortion through colonisation has led to the valorisation of narratives that perpetuate the subordination of women in Africa. One such narrative is that women are second-class citizens and that they occupy an inferior position in the social, economic and political hierarchies of our society. What will come from this article is that these narratives persist in what we would consider a postcolonial “modern” Africa where women seem to be gaining rights and tapping into spaces that foster equality owing to feminism. However, the subordination of women is still prevalent, even for the “liberated” women. The article will show why the persistence of this problem is proving difficult for the comprehension and acceptance of feminism in African contexts.

Stepping from College Classrooms to the Political Front. The Emergence of Feminism in the Norwegian Maoist Movement before 1973

The aim of this article is to investigate the origins of the Women’s Front, a women’s movement co-founded by Norwegian Maoists in the 1970s. The analysis seeks to capture the dynamics of women’s activism in relation to the broader political landscape and, concurrently, to understand the Women’s Front in a broader temporal perspective. The sources used were newspapers and publications issued by different branches of the Norwegian Maoist movement. Women’s politics are analysed both as a grassroots phenomenon and a part of agitation which emerged under the 1972 anti-EEC campaign. This makes it possible to show how women’s politics found a place on the agenda of Norwegian Maoism and what kind of obstacles it had to face on its way to gaining autonomy. The patterns of feminist mobilisation demonstrated by this analysis can make a contribution to the broader debate on the role and place of feminism in traditional political structures.

The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought

The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought

ЕМАНСИПАЦІЙНІ ТА ФЕМІНІСТИЧНІ ІДЕЇ В ПОВІСТІ «ВЧИТЕЛЬКА» ТАДЕУША МІЦИНСЬКОГО

The article is devoted to feminist ideas in T. Miciński’s novel «The Teacher». Attention is drawn to the general features of «Young Poland» as an era in Polish culture and the place of feminism in it. The author focuses on the pecu- liarities of the collection «The Oaks of Tchernobyl», on its main ideas and preface. The way of expressing T. Miciński’s thoughts and emotions in the novel «The Teacher» is considered, namely his convincing attempt to express femininity in a work written by a man. A brief psychological portrait of the main character of the story is given, as well as the influence of her biography on the girl’s worldview is substantiated. The article examines the differences between the two editions of the novel «The Teacher» ‒ 1896 and 1911. Attention is drawn to the plot changes, a brighter solution, deeper metaphors and more clearly defined feminist concepts. It emphasizes the noticeable change of Amelia in the 1st and 2nd editions of the novel: from indecisive and naive to a mature and strong girl. Wojciech Gutowski’s concept of the «Valkyrie-Bee» is analyzed, according to which the «Valkyrie» symbols in the story signify courage, the desire for freedom and the readiness of the main character to fight against the social norms of the time. The symbols of «Bee» mean obedience, hesitation and attachment to their students. The «Valkyrie’s» constant struggle with the «Bee» (and the victory of the former) is one of the main feminist ideas in the story. The author of the article also draws attention to a number of other female characters who embody feminist images: Zosia, Manya, Stefka, Mrs. Kurbet and Anna. Zoska’s moral and professional growth throughout the plot is emphasized, as well as a symbolic allusion to Kl- ementyna Hoffmanova, which turns Zoska into a powerful image of the women’s movement in Poland, which seeks to develop, achieve more and help future generations. The conclusion is made about the power of feminist ideas in the novel and the possibility of the author’s unconscious influence of «The Teacher» on the development of the women’s movement in Poland.

The New Woman and ‘The Dusky Strand’: The Place of Feminism and Women's Literature in Early Jamaican Nationalism

This essay analyzes the prominent role played by first wave feminism and by women writers between 1898-1903 as the Jamaica Times articulated a broad-based, middle class nationalism and launched a campaign to establish a Jamaican national literature. Largely overlooked, this archival material is significant because it suggests a subtle yet significant modification of anglophone Caribbean feminist, literary and nationalist historiography: first wave feminism was not introduced to Jamaica exclusively through black nationalist organizations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, but rather, it emerged in a broader phenomenon of respectable, middle class nationalism, encompassing the overlapping projects of Jamaican nationalism and Pan Africanism. Thus, it becomes clear that first wave feminism, including white women writers, played a key but brief role in the formation of the middle class nationalism that would later dominate Jamaica's transition to independence. During the first five years of publication of the Jamaica Times, women wrote a significant proportion of the short stories published. However, they became marginalized as black folk culture became the defining symbol of national authenticity. The marginalization of middle class women writers reflects a broader pattern. In adopting first wave feminism from Britain and the United States, Jamaican nationalists reproduced colonial race and class dynamics that established an unbridgeable divide between middle class women, who served as ‘ladies bountiful,’ and the usually darker-skinned compatriots to whom they ministered. This class division continued to limit feminist activism in Jamaica throughout the first and second waves.

Ambivalent Optimism: Women's and Gender Studies in Australian Universities

This article describes the place of Women's and Gender Studies programmes in Australian universities as a way of thinking about the place of feminism in the academy. It begins with a story of one such small programme at a time of stress and locates this story in an account of change in Australian universities over the last 20-plus years. The narrative traces a contradictory domain in which women, feminist scholarship and Women's and Gender Studies are enmeshed. The article draws on feminist literature about Australian universities to argue that while neo-liberal university environments are clearly places where masculinist values prevail, the flows of power around individual Women's and Gender Studies programmes cannot be simply predicted. Women's and Gender Studies programmes are thriving in some universities (on a small scale). As well as institutional imperatives Women's and Gender Studies programmes are engaged by specific intellectual challenges and some of these are sketched with reference to the Australian context. Asserting the need for dedicated research and teaching that focuses on gender, the article concludes that Women's and Gender Studies programmes in Australian universities are energetic places for this to occur. It proposes an ambivalent optimism to describe its assessment of these programmes and their viability as future places of work for feminist scholars.

An Archipelago of Stories: Gender History in Eastern Europe

WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE YOUNG FIELD of gender history in Eastern Europe, the following metaphor comes to mind: gender historiography as an archipelago of individual efforts, often disconnected and emergent, erupting periodically like so many volcanic islands, connected with the institutional seats of power of academia by rafts rather than ocean liners or solid bridges. While in 1986 it was possible for Joan Scott to write about the need to reject the essentialization of women's experiences, to deconstruct representations of the past as mediated forms of articulating specific social and cultural realities, and to call for gender to become an all-prevailing vantage point from which to rearticulate historical analysis, there is still not much to essentialize, deconstruct, and reframe in the East European field. The focus on women and gender is still emerging. This picture should not be viewed as dismal, however, but rather as a modestly optimistic outlook with regard to a still-new field of historical inquiry. Three connected issues have framed the development of gender history in Eastern Europe over the past two decades: (1) the place of feminism in Eastern Europe before, during, and after communism, which can be used to delineate the important contextual differences between the United States and this area in how Scott's article

Just a Little Bit of Cheeky Ribaldry?: Newsroom Discourses of Sexually Harassing Behaviour

This paper is concerned with how Australian print news media journalists, male and female, remember, talk about, experience, acknowledge, condemn, and/or deny sexually harassing behaviour in the newsroom. A total of seventeen in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight male and nine female journalists in late 2003 and early 2004. The interviewees ranged in age from 19 to 56 and differed in levels of industry experience. The interviews were not set up to specifically discuss sexually harassing behaviour in the newsroom; however it was a theme that arose in seven of the interviews about newsroom culture, my broader PhD project. The female interviewees make clear their encounters are constant reminders of how their bodies do not “fit” and/or where and how they do fit in this occupation. This is the case, even though some women do not use the term “sexual harassment” to describe the behaviour that clearly constitutes it under Australian government legislation. The two male journalists interviewed who mentioned harassment talk about it in defence of accepted office behaviour, or in passing about procedural business policy. The use of the term “sexual harassment,” or lack of its use, also tells us about the place of feminism and/or feminist inspired government legislation in journalism’s occupational culture.

“Just a little Bit of Cheeky Ribaldry”?

This paper is concerned with how Australian print news media journalists, male and female, remember, talk about, experience, acknowledge, condemn, and/or deny sexually harassing behaviour in the newsroom. A total of seventeen in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight male and nine female journalists in late 2003 and early 2004. The interviewees ranged in age from 19 to 56 and differed in levels of industry experience. The interviews were not set up to specifically discuss sexually harassing behaviour in the newsroom; however it was a theme that arose in seven of the interviews about newsroom culture, my broader PhD project. The female interviewees make clear their encounters are constant reminders of how their bodies do not “fit” and/or where and how they do fit in this occupation. This is the case, even though some women do not use the term “sexual harassment” to describe the behaviour that clearly constitutes it under Australian government legislation. The two male journalists interviewed who mentioned harassment talk about it in defence of accepted office behaviour, or in passing about procedural business policy. The use of the term “sexual harassment,” or lack of its use, also tells us about the place of feminism and/or feminist inspired government legislation in journalism's occupational culture.

Mapping the Imperial Social Formation: A Modest Proposal for Feminist History

Previous articleNext article No AccessMapping the Imperial Social Formation: A Modest Proposal for Feminist HistoryMrinalini SinhaMrinalini Sinha Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 25, Number 4Summer, 2000Feminisms at a Millennium Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/495523 Views: 33Total views on this site Citations: 31Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 2000 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Amanda Gilbertson Outsourcing Patriarchy To and Within India: Intersectional and Decolonial Gender Politics Across Scales, Antipode 48 (Dec 2020).https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12700Sneha Krishnan Book review: Ashwini Tambe. 2019. 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`It's a Nice Day for a White Wedding': The Debutante Ball and Constructions of Femininity

This article focuses on three young women's experiences in relation to their participation in a debutante ball in their penultimate year of secondary school. The debutante ball is used to explore the place of desire and fantasy in the lives of young women and the ways in which their bodies are disciplined, within its rituals, into the normalizing discourses and discursive practices of femininity and heterosexuality. The analysis makes evident the discursive construction of a femininity/feminism opposition and the effect this opposition has on these young women's perceptions of the place of feminism in their lives. Practices of femininity are related to pleasure whereas feminism is often perceived in terms of a coercive form of puritanism.

Women's studies in Britain in the 1990s Entitlement Cultures and Institutional Constraints

The changes in the last 15 years in British politics (massive unemployment, market-led higher education, Thatcherite consumer rhetoric, citizenship charters, and heightened student expectations) have generated many paradoxes for Women's Studies in (new and old) universities. For instance, traditional feminist demands for access to education have been deployed in right-wing individualist and consumerist rhetoric to expand places but to also implement cutbacks and competition within higher education. Paradoxically, Women's Studies has expanded and become institutionalised through the rapid growth in places. But because the places did not come with adequate resourcing and, in fact, were part of a larger programme of rationalisation and constraint, the demands from students far outweigh what can be provided. In between the concomitant demand and constraint lies the feminist teachers with their ideals of feminist pedagogy. It is the changing processes and contradictions in Women's Studies within British higher education and the place of feminism within these that this paper explores.

Women's Studies in Britain in the 1990s: Entitlement cultures and institutional constraints

The changes in the last 15 years in British politics (massive unemployment, market-led higher education, Thatcherite consumer rhetoric, citizenship charters, and heightened student expectations) have generated many paradoxes for Women's Studies in (new and old) universities. For instance, traditional feminist demands for access to education have been deployed in right-wing individualist and consumerist rhetoric to expand places but to also implement cutbacks and competition within higher education. Paradoxically, Women's Studies has expanded and become institutionalised through the rapid growth in places. But because the places did not come with adequate resourcing and, in fact, were part of a larger programme of rationalisation and constraint, the demands from students far outweigh what can be provided. In between the concomitant demand and constraint lies the feminist teachers with their ideals of feminist pedagogy. It is the changing processes and contradictions in Women's Studies within British higher education and the place of feminism within these that this paper explores.

Opening feminist histories of occupational therapy.

This paper frames the history of occupational therapy in feminist terms. It focuses on gender segregation in occupational therapy, the influence of class and race in shaping opportunities for occupational therapists, and the place of feminism in the goals and achievements of the occupational therapy profession. Such issues have been addressed by feminist scholars in histories of women in medicine, nursing, and other helping professions. These sources help place the achievements of occupational therapy within the context of women's historic entry and advancement in the American work force.

On Ethnography without Tears

Previous articleNext article No AccessDiscussion and CriticismOn Ethnography without TearsMichael Carrithers, Chris Hahn, Thomas Hauschild, R. J. Thornton, and Paul A. RothMichael Carrithers Search for more articles by this author , Chris Hahn Search for more articles by this author , Thomas Hauschild Search for more articles by this author , R. J. Thornton Search for more articles by this author , and Paul A. Roth Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Current Anthropology Volume 31, Number 1Feb., 1990 Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/203803 Views: 5Total views on this site Citations: 3Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1990 The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological ResearchPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Christopher Pinney Other explanations of itself, Third Text 5, no.16-1716-17 (Sep 1991): 145–156.https://doi.org/10.1080/09528829108576331Christopher Pinney Explanations of Itself, Visual Anthropology Review 6, no.22 (May 2008): 62–65.https://doi.org/10.1525/var.1990.6.2.62Megan Jennaway Paradigms, postmodern epistemologies and paradox: The place of feminism in anthropology, Anthropological Forum 6, no.22 (May 2010): 167–189.https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.1990.9967406

Paradigms, postmodern epistemologies and paradox: The place of feminism in anthropology

Paradigms, postmodern epistemologies and paradox: The place of feminism in anthropology