European Journal of Women's Studies最新文献

{"title":"Pandemic narra(c)tions. Collective audiovisual configurations and participatory self-care","authors":"Anna Chiara Sabatino","doi":"10.1177/13505068241262899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068241262899","url":null,"abstract":"During the first lockdown to limit the spread of Covid-19, a new medial scenario has taken shape in all its rich complexity. The proliferation of tentacular info and iconodemic events has presented, in fact, the manifestation and the progression of a double media movement: on the one hand, the amateur involvement in multiple narrative processes, increasingly involving participatory audience and prosumers; on the other hand, the amateurization of cinematic rhetoric and languages, which are reconfigured in a logic of everyday narrativization. Accordingly, based on rule-making creativity, grassroots performances have set a dialogue with canonical and institutional authorship in the wake of the audiovisual narrativization of the Self in everyday life. Within this framework, certain narrative acts occurring during the pandemic have the power to intervene transformatively in the everyday life they record and tell through performative and amateur participation. In this perspective, the article intends to explore two fronts: the process and the contextualization of amateur performances, based on creative prosumers’ participation, within a collective yet cinematic project; second, the impact and the role of audiovisuals as reparative media leading to beneficial self-telling practices. For such purpose, through the illustration of emblematic collective projects, the essay questions the potentially transformative and beneficial nature of self-representational and audiovisual performances that characterize pandemic and postpandemic mediascape.","PeriodicalId":312959,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Women's Studies","volume":"87 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141797834","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}

{"title":"Domestic closed circuits (of violence)","authors":"Rossana Galimi, Barbara Grespi","doi":"10.1177/13505068241262774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068241262774","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this contribution is to analyse the Mascarilla 19 project, which premiered at the Italian film and contemporary art festival ‘Lo schermo dell’arte’ in 2020. The project was commissioned and produced by In Between Art Film, Beatrice Bulgari’s production company, and curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, Alessandro Rabottini and Paola Ugolini. In Spain, ‘Mascarilla 19’ served as a codeword used by women victims of domestic violence in grocery shops or pharmacies to denounce abuse. This project consists of eight films that explore the ‘emergency within the emergency’ of domestic violence, increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. A key focus of Mascarilla 19 is the transformation of the domestic space into a closed circuit of surveillance, both as self-surveillance (accomplished through the re-mediation of faces and gestures in video conference platforms) and as constant exposure to the mediated and disciplining gaze of screens, that embody a new male media gaze. Accordingly, this article aims to examine the capacity of pandemic media to reshape affective networks and produce physical and psychological violence, especially in the framework of patriarchal relationships.","PeriodicalId":312959,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Women's Studies","volume":"90 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141797921","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}

{"title":"Touching through distance: Cyborg affective touch during Covid-19 pandemic","authors":"Giulio Galimberti, Nicole Miglio","doi":"10.1177/13505068241262903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068241262903","url":null,"abstract":"The enforcement of social distancing measures and lockdowns across the globe to control the spread of Covid-19 has led to various forms of tactile deprivation. While social interactions became less accessible for some groups of people, this deprivation brought a re-emphasis of the importance of social touch. The label affective haptic devices (AHDs) has been used to address a plethora of digital media promptly assembled to help people to compensate for their lack of affective touch. By simulating the experience of touch through digital devices, we witness a potential re-negotiation of the human/non-human divide and a productive means to challenge the boundaries of human skin. Our contribution – organized in the sections (i) Tactile deprivation; (ii) Replacing social touch; (iii) Towards a feminist understanding of extended touch – then aims to investigate the cyborg dimension of extended touch for raising further questions on the role of touch in defining the human being.","PeriodicalId":312959,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Women's Studies","volume":"92 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141797801","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}

{"title":"Unveiling urban landscapes: Alisa Oleva’s performances during the pandemic","authors":"Raffaella Tartaglia","doi":"10.1177/13505068241262923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068241262923","url":null,"abstract":"This text explores the evolving landscape of performance art in the face of pandemic restrictions, shedding light on the repercussions of audience deprivation and the subsequent exploration of digital platforms as a means of artistic expression. Focusing on some artistic performances of Alisa Oleva, the text investigates how her exploration of touching and walking as a medium influences the understanding of urban landscapes. By using the city as her studio and manipulating everyday life, Oleva uncovers the hidden stories and meanings embedded within inside and outside spaces, to examine questions related to women’s histories, traces, and surfaces. In particular, we focus on Walking Home (2020), a performance that, in addition to providing an interesting example of walking as an aesthetic practice, raises political and activist questions, such as how the pandemic-induced confinement masks deeper issues, namely the safety of the domestic environment for those who identify themself as women. Through various performances, we delve into the theme of seeing and touching, emphasising the significance of sensory perception as embodied human beings. Moreover, the text highlights how our passages and connections with different environments contribute to shaping the very meaning of the places we encounter in the world. In addition, the text acknowledges the transformative power of personal experiences in crafting the narrative of our collective story.","PeriodicalId":312959,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Women's Studies","volume":"18 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141806087","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}

{"title":"Book Review: Women, Nationalism, and Social Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848–1918","authors":"Masha Bratischeva","doi":"10.1177/13505068241262915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068241262915","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":312959,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Women's Studies","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141812914","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}

{"title":"Book review: Judith Butler and Politics","authors":"Parisa Shams","doi":"10.1177/13505068241262905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068241262905","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":312959,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Women's Studies","volume":"90 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141812597","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}

{"title":"Comparing gender equality policies in the Swedish and Spanish film industries: Defining the problem beyond the male norm","authors":"Orianna Calderón-Sandoval, Maria Jansson","doi":"10.1177/13505068241264935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068241264935","url":null,"abstract":"Gender equality measures are now common in the policies of European film industries and can be an important tool for rendering visible gender inequalities. Recent research, however, indicates that top-down institutional gender mainstreaming might mean better conditions for some women in certain aspects, but structural inequalities tend to remain, including lack of an intersectional approach. In this article, these issues are addressed by analysing gender equality policies currently implemented in the Swedish and Spanish film industries. Following Carole Lee Bacchi’s argument that the way in which a problem is represented must be analysed backwards, by looking at the solutions suggested, we unpack what inequalities gender equality measures render visible and, in so doing, highlight the aspects that remain invisible. We also discuss how such problem representation plays out for women in the film industries of both countries and consider the counter-practices women deploy to cope with continuing gender inequality in the film industries of Spain and Sweden. Our main argument is that Swedish and Spanish gender equality policies, despite having increased the presence of women film workers, still fail to render visible the structural basis of inequalities cemented by androcentric film governance structures and a male norm around which the film industry has been built.","PeriodicalId":312959,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Women's Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141813068","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}

{"title":"Young women, dating apps, and affective assemblages in the time of pandemic: No relationship is a linear transition to a fixed point","authors":"Arianna Mainardi, Sveva Magaraggia","doi":"10.1177/13505068241262128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068241262128","url":null,"abstract":"The article aims to explore the centrality in young women’s life of the affective assemblages that took shape in their relationship with digital media during the pandemic, particularly fostered by the use of dating apps. Emotional and affective connection is and has been prevented by the pandemic in the form of physical distancing and the risk of contagion, but also by regulations that in some states, such as Italy, have only recognised legitimate familial relationships to grant permission to mobility (like marriage, birth family). So, what happens when people cannot take care and be sustained by their affective web of relationships? On one hand, this negative situation limited desire, mutual sharing, and pleasure as potential pushes for social change, and on the other hand, it opened up new mediated spaces in which to cultivate different and unexpected effects and relationships. Therefore, the article looks at the role of the affective realm as a political space linked to social change, and explores the use of dating apps by young women during the pandemic as an element of a broader affective assemblage. The article follows a subgroup of young women who used dating apps during the Covid lockdown over the three waves of interviews. The young women are aged 24–30 years and have been encountered as a part of a longitudinal research project on the transition to adulthood in Italy conducted from 2020 to 2022. Specifically, it focuses on those biographies of youth who are not in a stable romantic relationship, and often live alone, and who have therefore experienced unprecedented forms of emotional/affective isolation and have recurred to dating apps for different purposes. The goal here is to analyse the unexpected uses of these apps – not only centred in erotic or romantic purpose – and the online (and sometimes offline) relationships that ensue: for example, making sense of rarefied and solitary time, building relations of care in everyday life. These assemblages – made up of bodies, digital media, and affects – intervene in the current context of normalised crisis and precarity, characterised by a digitally saturated environment, giving the possibility to young people to produce and enjoy spaces for non-normative/linear/straight desire and sharing that go beyond the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":312959,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Women's Studies","volume":"91 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141812420","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}

{"title":"Motherhood rights and digital activism: An interview with Francesca Fiore and Sarah Malnerich, content creators of the account @mammadimerda","authors":"Maria Elena D’Amelio","doi":"10.1177/13505068241262228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068241262228","url":null,"abstract":"The work of content creators and digital activists Francesca Fiore and Sarah Malnerich actively engages their followers to criticize both the outdated model of Italian maternalism and the current neoliberal discourse of intensive motherhood. Through their blog and Facebook and Instagram accounts, @mammadimerda, Fiore and Malnerich actively rebuke and critique the proliferation of media images of intensive motherhood as normative and successful. In particular, Fiore and Malnerich take issue with both the sacrificial mother model and the new momism neoliberal idea of the super-mom. They use the self-branding non-farcela (we can’t make it) motto as a feminist critique of gendered parental roles and systemic inequality in the workplace. In their stories and posts, they invite followers to share their experiences as ‘imperfect’ mothers, and they start and promote calls for action on better governmental policies for working mothers. For instance, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Fiore and Malnerich actively mobilized their followers, creating petitions and social media campaigns aimed at pushing the government to re-open schools or provide financial aid in support of women’s employment. In this article, I interview Fiore and Malnerich about their digital activism on mothers and women’s rights in Italy, focusing on their campaigns on gender equality during the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":312959,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Women's Studies","volume":"85 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141812857","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}

{"title":"Gender and eco-domesticity: Are sustainable consumption and a return to the home emancipatory in Czechia?","authors":"M. Kolářová","doi":"10.1177/13505068241258031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068241258031","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, there has been renewed interest in homemaking and domestic practices and the revival of domesticity has become related with pro-environmental values and sustainable lifestyles in Western societies. The turn to domesticity tends to be associated with women. While some authors warn of a return to traditional gender roles within the household, others view eco-domesticity as a feminist project that values domestic practices. This article considers the gender-specific aspects of the revival in a post-socialist country and focuses on the gendered aspects of new domesticity. Specifically, it studies the gendered discourses and practices within eco-domesticity in Czechia, which include sustainable consumption, green prosumption and alternative parenting practices. Can the eco-conscious reclaiming of domesticity be viewed as a new form of feminism in Czechia? The study is based on a qualitative sociological research using in-depth interviews, participant observation and media analyses. It is argued here that this new 21st-century domesticity should be understood through the context of the Czech state’s lengthy maternity/parental leave period, which leads to temporary domesticity. The examples of active fathers and self-reliant mothers undermine the traditional division of labour. Caring roles among men in the family are highly valued in eco-domesticity, and alternative gender roles are part of alternative sustainable lifestyles. Care in the home expands to collective activities of parents in community centres and other community projects and decreases the isolation of parents at home. Although inspired by trends from abroad, informants do not perceive eco-domesticity to be a new wave of feminism in Czechia.","PeriodicalId":312959,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Women's Studies","volume":" 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141365155","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}