Possibility Of Feminism Research Articles

Feminismo especulativo nas veredas pós-correlacionistas

RESUMO:Este trabalho discute novas possibilidades do feminismo no movimento filosófico denominado realismo especulativo, na vertente de Quentin Meillassoux, de forma a oxigenar a epistemologia feminista contemporânea, que se encontra em clausura metafísica. Se, pré-Kant, o feminismo se encontrava enclausurado na postura objetivista, com a essencialização da mulher como imperfeita, por outro lado, pós-Kant, a mulher se encontra reduzida à verdade subjetivista da ordem epistêmica, gerando outras essencializações. O artigo propõe nova visão para se pensar o feminismo póscorrelacionista, com a ascensão de outra forma de reflexão ontológica: através da cosmontologia, uma compreensão do sexo, do gênero e da sexualidade nem melhor e nem pior, mas apenas diferente, que provoca a reontologização das ciências humanas pelo reconhecimento de outras grafias e modos de existência.

Gender and Disability in Eduarda Mansilla's Literature for Children

In the late 1800s, Eduarda Mansilla de Garcia worked to redefine women’s place in Argentine society. While scholarship has praised the pioneering character of her literature for adults, little attention has been paid to the literature she wrote for children. This article analyzes how “La paloma blanca,” a children’s story published in the 1880 collection Cuentos, compromises the model of modern womanhood that Mansilla advances in her larger oeuvre. “La paloma blanca” tells the story of two cousins, one disabled and one exceptionally abled, who represent the two discourses of femininity that circulated in the late nineteenth century: the angelic “hunchback” metaphorizes how the discourse of domesticity paralyzes porteno women, and the athletic “tomboy” embodies the emancipatory possibilities of feminism. Because “La paloma blanca” mobilizes ableist stereo-types of disability in order to critique the patriarchal status quo, it ultimately implies that the patriarchy cannot be changed, and that women should maintain their traditional roles within the home. By challenging the feminist stance that Mansilla assumes in her literature for adults, “La paloma blanca” defies the ex-pectation that nineteenth-century children’s literature was low-quality, frivolous writing that served primarily to entertain. This article thus expands the study of gender and protest in nineteenth-century print culture to include literature written for younger audiences, and it also advances our understanding of Spanish American narratives of disability

Scream, cultura popular y el feminismo de la tercera ola : "Yo no soy mi madre"

This paper analyzes Wes Craven’s horror trilogy Scream; the trilogy, like all popular texts, is riddled with contradictions about women’s representation that beg a careful analysis based on an informed understanding of media culture and representation, of history, and of the issues that matter to young women today. My reading of the film draws up the connections between Third Wave feminism and popular culture in order to show how these films provide a rich opportunity to study the contradictions and possibilities of feminism in a postmodern age. The purpose here is not to mount an unconditional defense of popular culture, but to argue that women who care about the next generation of girls need to learn more about the popular texts they're drawn to. If a productive conversation is going to happen among women of all ages about the future of the feminist movement, it will have to take place on the terrain of popular culture where young women today are refashioning feminism toward their own ends.

Possibilities for Feminism in ESL Education and Research

* How can feminism have an impact on a predominantly positivist field like TESL/applied linguistics? How do feminist education and research relate to other epistemologies? How can feminist features be applied to ESL research? This report seeks to answer these questions by summarizing a graduate school initiation to feminism by way of courses and an English for specific purposes (ESP) curriculum evaluation completed as part of a thesis. The curriculum (Cooke & Mackie, 1993) was developed for a 1-year certificate program for ESL students consisting of the ESP class, business courses taken with English LI students, and a work placement period. In this report, I discuss (a) the feminist education I experienced and (b) feminist research both in general and in terms of the processes and outcomes of the curriculum evaluation.

Frances gillam holden and the children's hospital dispute, 1887: woman's sphere, feminism and nursing

Abstract This paper examines the confrontations of a late nineteenth-century ‘lady superintendent’ with men and masculinity. It analyses the problematical links between femininity, feminism and ‘reformed’ nursing, in a period when the latter two were emerging from the first. A central focus is the extent to which the discourse of ‘woman's sphere’ was meaningful for such single, employed, middle-class women as the subject of this paper, Frances Gillam Holden, in the specific context of hospitals and professional health care. This paper argues that such a discourse informed her challenges to male/medical professional power and her bids for authority and recognition in her workplace. Ultimately this challenge failed, in that male/medical power was vigorously reasserted. However, such attempts suggest the gradual shifts in late nineteenth-century constructions of femininity and domesticity towards the possibility of feminism, not only in the familiar suffrage struggles, but also in such obscure locations as the Children's Hospital in Sydney