Gender StudiesPub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.2478/genst-2021-0009
Irina Diana Mădroane
{"title":"BOOK REVIEW: Aliraza Javaid. Male Rape, Masculinities and Sexualities: Understanding, Policing and Overcoming Male Sexual Victimisation (Palgrave Hate Studies) Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 302 p. ISBN 978-3-319-52638-6/ ISBN 978-3-319-52639-3","authors":"Irina Diana Mădroane","doi":"10.2478/genst-2021-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2021-0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30605,"journal":{"name":"Gender Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"157 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83584440","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 : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.2478/genst-2021-0008
P. Priya, Anurag Kumar
{"title":"Social Acceptance and Section 377: A Case Study of Transgender People in Jammu City","authors":"P. Priya, Anurag Kumar","doi":"10.2478/genst-2021-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2021-0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Supreme Court of India recently decriminalized section 377 of the Indian Penal Code to outlaw the unfair violence and discrimination against transgender people. The paper argues that despite the legal acceptance of Section 377, the discrimination and social exclusion of transgender people continue in the Indian public sphere. The method of Interpretative Phenomenological Approach has been used to analyze the interviews of five transgender people from Jammu city. The findings suggest patterns and relationships within the data which are useful for understanding various ways in which transgender people negotiate and contemplate their lives outside the known social network they resort to. By analyzing the interpretations of selected transgender people, the study reveals that they bear the brunt of social and economic exclusion due to their gender identity on day-to-day basis.","PeriodicalId":30605,"journal":{"name":"Gender Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"137 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83314698","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 : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.2478/genst-2021-0005
B. A. Lomotey
{"title":"Exploring Gender Ideologies in Social Media Jokes During the Coronavirus Pandemic","authors":"B. A. Lomotey","doi":"10.2478/genst-2021-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2021-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper investigates contemporary gender ideologies as manifested in social media during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Using a Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis approach, the author analyses jokes in memes and news items posted through social media in the form of videos, pictures, and texts. Specifically, it focuses on how gender stereotypes and ideologies are constructed and sustained through humour, in several themes built upon gendered representations. The author analyses the complex configuration of factors such as beliefs, stereotypes, and ideologies, which, closely interwoven, form the tapestry of the gender order. Additionally, in order to establish the constancy of gender ideologies over time and across cultures, a correlation is made between the gender ideologies reflected in proverbs and those manifested in the internet memes. The study contends that the complex role of humour enhances the subtle propelling of gender stereotypes and ideologies and ultimately, the existing gender status quo.","PeriodicalId":30605,"journal":{"name":"Gender Studies","volume":"57 1","pages":"65 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73082014","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 : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.2478/genst-2021-0001
Dana Percec
{"title":"Sisters of Inspiration. From Shakespearean Heroine to Pre-Raphaelite Muse","authors":"Dana Percec","doi":"10.2478/genst-2021-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2021-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper aims to make a connection between the female models of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the portrayal of Shakespearean heroines, given that the 19th-century school of painting was using the Bard not only as a source of legitimation and authority, but also as a source of displacement, tackling apparently universal and literary subjects that were in fact disturbing for the Victorian sensibilities, such as love and eroticism, neurosis and madness, or suicide. As more recent scholarship has revealed, the women behind the Brotherhood, while posing as passive and contemplative, objects on display for the public gaze, had more agency and mobility than the average Victorian women.","PeriodicalId":30605,"journal":{"name":"Gender Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"1 - 15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74363159","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 : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.2478/genst-2021-0006
Claudia Ioana Doroholschi
{"title":"Masculinity, Parody and Propaganda in the “Transylvanians” Trilogy","authors":"Claudia Ioana Doroholschi","doi":"10.2478/genst-2021-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2021-0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The article focuses on the successful series of Red Westerns/Easterns produced in Romania in the late 1970s and early 1980s, known as the “Transylvanians” trilogy. The article will look at the films in the specific context of the period, one characterized by the increasingly idiosyncratic evolution of the Romanian communist regime and by growing economic difficulties, and will examine the way in which the films construct models of masculinity at the intersection between three different types of masculine models: those of the American Western (whether adopted or parodied), those of traditional Romania (such as the idealized, wise peasant), and masculine typologies derived from communist propaganda. I will argue that the films skillfully balance the tension between a critique of American models, in the face of which Romanian models emerge as superior, and legitimizing themselves as well as relying heavily in their entertainment value on the very models of the American Western they are supposed to subvert.","PeriodicalId":30605,"journal":{"name":"Gender Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"90 - 108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76180634","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 : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.2478/genst-2021-0004
Hélène Fau
{"title":"Affinity By Sarah Waters. A Way into Genderlessness Powered by Ocular Centrism And Spirits","authors":"Hélène Fau","doi":"10.2478/genst-2021-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2021-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Affinity by Sarah Waters tells the story of sexless and genderless spirits (and of their human bodily forms, the spiritualists) slowly taking possession of one woman, Margaret Prior, who actually, unknowingly, shelters inner predispositions to spiritualism prior to the spirits’ intervention, giving thus credit to what her surname had proleptically heralded from the very start. It all occurs via ocular centrism, embodied by a powerful Gaze, slithering throughout the plot. It first mesmerises the spiritualists-to-be before catapulting them into a maelstrom of reversals and distortions. This twisting manoeuvre can be read as an attempt to outroot and erase previously assimilated societal constructs. The spirits’ genderlessness can then deploy unencumbered. A liberating emancipation is finally completed. This article first dwells on ocular centrism before dealing with all the reversals and tiltings progressively coming up to the surface, as well as with genderless metonymic substitutes acting on behalf of the spirits.","PeriodicalId":30605,"journal":{"name":"Gender Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"51 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77595934","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 : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.2478/genst-2021-0002
Vlad Răzniceanu
{"title":"Feminist Orthodoxy and Shakespeare’s Shrew","authors":"Vlad Răzniceanu","doi":"10.2478/genst-2021-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2021-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since The Taming of the Shrew is a particularly ambiguous play, its interpretation is predictably vulnerable to ideological excesses. The author argues that feminist criticism often exploits rather than explains the text, illustrates the techniques that are typically employed in slanting its meaning, and compares various interpretations in order to highlight a pervasive set of premises defined as ‘orthodoxy’.","PeriodicalId":30605,"journal":{"name":"Gender Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"16 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79939404","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 : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.2478/genst-2021-0010
A. Șerban
{"title":"BOOK REVIEW: Sara Hosey. Home Is Where the Hurt Is. Media Depictions of Wives and Mothers. Jefferson, North Caroline: McFarland & Co., 2019, 232p. ISBN (ebook) 978-1-4766-3736-5.","authors":"A. Șerban","doi":"10.2478/genst-2021-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2021-0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30605,"journal":{"name":"Gender Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"163 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87335269","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 : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.2478/genst-2020-0012
Tisna Prabasmoro, Randy Ridwansyah
{"title":"Fan Culture and Masculinity: Identity Construction of Persib Supporters","authors":"Tisna Prabasmoro, Randy Ridwansyah","doi":"10.2478/genst-2020-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2020-0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Linking the local practices that are used to build an apparently shared identity and generate personal and group attachment towards ʽPersibʼ, a local football club in West Java Indonesia, we examine ʽbobotohʼ that use football and football fan clubs as means of creating an in-group–out-group identity. We examine concepts of fandom, identity construction and masculinity to demonstrate how the bias becomes a unifying element that can provoke conflicts. We argue that ʽbobotohʼ and ʽPersibʼ become one of the most central sites of masculine performance in West Java and socialize Sundanese boys into values, attitudes, and skills valorised as masculine to help facilitate their acceptance into social groups.","PeriodicalId":30605,"journal":{"name":"Gender Studies","volume":"72 1","pages":"163 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85489140","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 : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.2478/genst-2020-0014
A. Șerban
{"title":"Aliraza Javaid. Masculinities, Sexualities and Love. London and New York: Routledge, 2019, 177p. ISBN 978-0-8153-8065-8 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-351-21271-7 (ebk).","authors":"A. Șerban","doi":"10.2478/genst-2020-0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2020-0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30605,"journal":{"name":"Gender Studies","volume":"188 4 1","pages":"182 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88681743","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}