Gender StudiesPub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.2478/genst-2018-0007
I. Theodoropoulou
{"title":"Impact of Undergraduate Language and Gender Research: Challenges and Reflections in the Context of Qatar","authors":"I. Theodoropoulou","doi":"10.2478/genst-2018-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2018-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper aims at raising female students’ awareness about sexism in language and designing and applying sociocultural linguistic interventions in Qatar. Contributing to the nascent feminist research tradition in this relatively new and rapidly up-and-coming country, it presents a tangible pedagogical proposal from the context of tertiary education. At the same time, in terms of its contribution to gender-related sociolinguistic theory this project can be seen as an attempt to offer a suggestion on how to theorise the positionality of sociolinguistic professionals in relation to issues and contexts they address.","PeriodicalId":30605,"journal":{"name":"Gender Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"71 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85389899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gender StudiesPub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.2478/genst-2018-0012
Irina Diana Mădroane
{"title":"Book Review - Gender Equality in a Global Perspective, edited by Anders Örtenblad, Raili Marling and Snježana Vasiljević, 2017, Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies Series, Routledge, 286 pages. Hardback, £110; eBook, £35.","authors":"Irina Diana Mădroane","doi":"10.2478/genst-2018-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2018-0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30605,"journal":{"name":"Gender Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"153 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79095520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gender StudiesPub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.2478/genst-2018-0010
E. Nketiah-Amponsah, Gloria Afful-Mensah, Samuel Ampaw, E. Codjoe
{"title":"Alcohol Consumption Among Ghanaian Women of Child Bearing Age – What are the Correlates?","authors":"E. Nketiah-Amponsah, Gloria Afful-Mensah, Samuel Ampaw, E. Codjoe","doi":"10.2478/genst-2018-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2018-0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper examines the demographic and socio-economic correlates of alcohol consumption and drinking frequency among Ghanaian women aged 15-49 years. The study utilizes the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey data, which remains the most recent DHS for studying the phenomenon in Ghana. Using logistic regression, our findings indicate that alcohol consumption among Ghanaian women is influenced by age, education, and wealth status. In addition, while health insurance ownership significantly affects alcohol consumption among urban women, employment status is reported to be a significant determinant among rural women. Results from the ordered logistic regression show that age, wealth status, pregnancy status, and place of residence are significant predictors of alcohol drinking frequency among Ghanaian women. Moreover, while secondary educational attainment is significant among urban women, primary educational attainment is significant among rural women. The study concludes that the predictors of alcohol consumption and drinking frequency among women of childbearing age in Ghana vary by place of residence (i.e., rural vs urban).","PeriodicalId":30605,"journal":{"name":"Gender Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"134 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78665779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gender StudiesPub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.2478/genst-2018-0005
Otilia Daniela Alexin
{"title":"Folklore Studies on Birth Related Customs within the Banat Community","authors":"Otilia Daniela Alexin","doi":"10.2478/genst-2018-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2018-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Birth is perceived as a threshold, a milestone, and is best described as passing from one stage to another and from one status to another. This article aims to present the customs regarding the birth of a child, as they were preserved in the Banat folk mentality: the origin of the midwife and her role as mediator, the belief in the unfailing destiny foreseen by the book of fate, the rite of the first bath having a huge importance for the future of the child and a series of magic and religious acts meant to ward off the Evil forces that intend to harm the child and to restore the balance.","PeriodicalId":30605,"journal":{"name":"Gender Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"40 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89750649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gender StudiesPub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.2478/genst-2018-0008
Irina Diana Mădroane
{"title":"Symbolic (Self-)Identifications of Care Workers in Diasporic Media: Romanian Migrant Women in Italy","authors":"Irina Diana Mădroane","doi":"10.2478/genst-2018-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2018-0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The article looks at a corpus of personal stories told by Romanian migrant women who work as caregivers in Italy or by journalists, from the women’s perspective, in two Romanian diasporic publications. It aims to gain an insight into the ways the narrators use the diasporic media space to (re)situate themselves in relation to the home and host societies. A methodological framework that incorporates elements from narrative analysis and critical discourse analysis is applied for examining the (self-)construction of agency and social roles, the negotiation of belonging to social categories, and the positionings that emerge, including towards dominant worldviews and discourses on low-skilled migrant women. The findings indicate that the women narrators build their identities in a complex interplay of (dis-)empowering stances, using their experience of migration to attain agency and to contest, but also reaffirm, in a transnational context, traditional gender roles, occupational and class stigmas, and stereotypical perceptions of nationality.","PeriodicalId":30605,"journal":{"name":"Gender Studies","volume":"50 1","pages":"114 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90577970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gender StudiesPub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.2478/genst-2018-0003
A. Kareem
{"title":"Making History Usable: Al-Andalus as a Site of Identity Construction in Arab American Women’s Narratives","authors":"A. Kareem","doi":"10.2478/genst-2018-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2018-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In ethnic literature, the historical and cultural past constantly haunt the present, producing contemporary narratives which emphasize how the heritage plays an essential role in preserving ethnic identity. From a trans-historical perspective, Arab American women’s narratives tend to turn the history of Al-Andalus (Medieval Moorish Spain) into cultural memory as a way of coping with the threats to their existence in the United States, particularly post-9/11, as well as of resisting the hegemonic culture. The aim of this paper is to investigate how Al-Andalus is intended to be seen as a construct of cultural memory and how this site of memory has the power to reshape individual and collective identity.","PeriodicalId":30605,"journal":{"name":"Gender Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"18 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79308223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gender StudiesPub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1515/genst-2017-0018
Laura Măcineanu
{"title":"Masculine and Feminine Insights Into the Fantastic World of Elves: J.R.R. Tolkien’s the Lord of the Rings and Muriel Barbery’s the Life of Elves","authors":"Laura Măcineanu","doi":"10.1515/genst-2017-0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/genst-2017-0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper focuses on the fantasy universes created by J.R.R. Tolkien and by the more recent French writer, Muriel Barbery. The two authors excel in their depiction of the elusive world of the elves, each offering a deeply personal vision (a man writer’s and a woman writer’s) of what such magical beings may be like and how they may relate to humankind.","PeriodicalId":30605,"journal":{"name":"Gender Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"270 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73350013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gender StudiesPub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1515/genst-2017-0016
Roxana Ghiță
{"title":"“Witness Through the Imagination”: Gendered Perceptions of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath in Cynthia Ozick’s the Shawl","authors":"Roxana Ghiță","doi":"10.1515/genst-2017-0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/genst-2017-0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While Holocaust historiography and literary criticism have typically been male-centred, on the presumption that the experiences of women and men were essentially identical, the aim of this study is to investigate gendered perceptions and representations of the Holocaust and its aftermath in Cynthia Ozick’s two-part fictional narrative The Shawl. The narrative focuses on the gender-based suffering of women and the murder of their innocent children and includes a brief account of a mother’s witnessing of her daughter’s electrocution in a concentration camp. The second part of the narrative represents an extended exposition of that atrocity’s psychological toll on the mother’s postwar life and her sense of being suspended in a liminal space between life and death, plagued by the constant intrusion of the Holocaust into her life.","PeriodicalId":30605,"journal":{"name":"Gender Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"239 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85864231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gender StudiesPub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1515/genst-2017-0010
H. Adhikari
{"title":"Media Bound Culture of Women’s Identity and Desire","authors":"H. Adhikari","doi":"10.1515/genst-2017-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/genst-2017-0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The post global era is signified in terms of women’s changed status in the patriarchal society of India. Their participation in the work force is not experienced as good or as desired because they have to face rampant violence related to their reorganized desires. The media-bound culture is a prime cause of their mimetic behavior in lifestyle and other choices. This paper attempts to raise two questions: Might this be the major cause of the violence? Is there a relationship between consumerism and women’s body as sex commodity?","PeriodicalId":30605,"journal":{"name":"Gender Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"158 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83556880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}