Doris Lessing celebrates the realist, committed novel and laments its absence in much of modern literature. Her theory of literature emanates from an understanding of good and evil and has an ...instructive function. Accordingly, she admires nineteenth-century realist novelists and commends their efforts to document and question unjust social practices. Based on Lessing's literary credo titled "The Small Personal Voice," in this paper I shall explicate her notion of literary commitment and regard it as a counter to literary aestheticism, relating her idea of committedness to her African past and evaluating her theory of art articulated in the essay from the Islamic viewpoint.
This article aims at presenting a cross-cultural examination of uncle-niece incest through the theoretical scope of feminist psychoanalysis in literary studies. The paper is thus centered on two ...novels: Woman at Point Zero (1975) by Nawal El Saadawi and Uncle Vampire (1993) by Cynthia Grant. The main contribution in this article is to highlight the cultural differences found in eastern and western literary studies in relation to escaping or ending incest. The cultural differences are addressed in relation to parental assistance and institutional assistance. The article is thus structured around the exploration of two main research questions: ‘What is the role of parents in helping a victim of uncle-niece incest to end her abusive experience?’ and ‘what is the role of official institutions in assisting a victim of uncle-niece incest to terminate her abusive experience?’. A central concern to the researcher in this article is to voice the victims’ ‘particular’ struggle and efforts to escape the incestuous relationship in which she is trapped.
From state feminism to market feminism? Kantola, Johanna; Squires, Judith
International political science review,
09/2012, Volume:
33, Issue:
4
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
This article argues that the concept of 'state feminism' no longer adequately captures the complexity of emerging feminist engagements with new forms of governance. It suggests that 'market feminism' ...offers a new conceptual framework from which feminist engagements with the state can be analysed and evaluated, and the changes within state feminism can be understood. The article documents the growing feminist embrace of the logic of the market, which manifests itself in changed practices and priorities. The article gives examples of 'market feminism' and argues that the move from state feminism to market feminism impacts on both the political practices and policy priorities of women's policy agencies. Cet article soutient que le concept de « féminisme d'État » ne rend plus compte correctement de la complexité des engagements féministes émergents dans les nouvelles formes de gouvernance. Il suggère que le « féminisme de marché » offre un nouveau cadre conceptuel dans lequel peuvent être analysées et évaluées les interactions féministes avec l'État, et compris les changements dans le féminisme d'État. L'article révèle la prise en compte féministe croissante de la logique du marché, qui se manifeste dans la modification des pratiques et priorités. Il donne des exemples du féminisme de marché et montre que la mutation du féminisme d'État vers le féminisme de marché agit tant sur les pratiques politiques que sur les priorités des politiques publiques relatives aux femmes. Este artículo sostiene que el concepto de 'feminismo de Estado' ha dejado de captar adecuadamente la complejidad de las relaciones actuales del feminismo con las nuevas formas de la gobernanza. Propone que el concepto de 'feminismo de Mercado' ofrece un nuevo marco conceptual para analizar y evaluar los compromisos del feminismo con el Estado, y también para interpretar los cambios acaecidos dentro del propio feminismo de Estado. El artículo documenta la progresiva adopción de la lógica del Mercado por parte del feminismo de Estado, manifiesta en los cambios acaecidos tanto en sus prácticas como en sus prioridades. El artículo ofrece ejemplos de 'feminismo de Mercado' que muestran cómo la transformación del feminismo de Estado en feminismo de Mercado ejerce un impacto en las prácticas y prioridades políticas de los organismos institucionales para la mujer.
Transsexual women provide rich data for feminist theory but have had a conflict-ridden relationship with feminism since the 1970s. Deconstructionist theory and transgender politics mean greater ...acceptance but have not escaped the problem of identity. Feminist social science offers vital resources for understanding transition as a gender project, starting with contradictory embodiment. The intransigence, not the fluidity, of gender is central. Transsexual women’s lives unfold through gendered structures of family, economy, and state, in which new embodied relationships must be built in an ontoformative process. Social realities of poverty, vulnerability, and gender violence point to a politics of social justice as the basis for a new relationship between transsexual women and feminism, both within the metropole and internationally.
This article offers a feminist critique of happiness. It proceeds by suspending belief that happiness is a good thing, or that happiness is what we want, as beliefs that are central to the ...intellectual history of happiness. The article suggests that feminist histories might offer an alternative history of happiness. It shows how happiness is what makes some things into goods (happy objects are those that are anticipated to cause happiness) and introduces the concept of conditional happiness, when one person’s happiness is made conditional upon another’s, to explore how, for some, happiness means following other people’s goods. The article considers feminist consciousness as a consciousness of unhappiness, of what is lost or is given up by following the paths of happiness. Such consciousness does not necessarily involve a form of self‐consciousness but a worldly consciousness in which unhappiness disturbs the familiar. The article reflects specifically on black feminist consciousness as a consciousness of what does not get noticed when happiness provides a horizon of experience. It concludes by suggesting that feminists might want to claim the freedom to be unhappy without making unhappiness into a political cause.
This book deconstructs androcentric approaches to spacetimeinherited from western modernity through its theoretical frame of the chronotropics. It sheds light on the literary acts of archival ...disruption, radical remapping, and epistemic marronnage by twenty-first-century Caribbean women writers to restore a connection to spacetime, expanding it within and beyond the region. Arguing that the chronotropics points to a vocation for social justice and collective healing, this pan-Caribbean volume returns to autochthonous ontologies and epistemologies to propose a poetics and politics of the chronotropics that is anticolonial, gender inclusive, pluralistic, and non-anthropocentric. This is an open access book.
Witness Women's Activism and Globalization, Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities, and Global Gender Research: Transnational Perspectives, all published in the North, and all making efforts to ...think at a global or regional level and include material from the global South.5 Increasingly, globalization has become an object of knowledge within gender studies. Examples are Spike Peterson's careful incorporation of gender theory into global political economy, Sandra Harding's imaginative reformulation of feminist epistemology in the light of postcolonial thought, and Cynthia Cockburn's worldwide synthesis on gender relations and war.6 These changes represent great progress.
Gender representations reproduce and legitimate gender systems. To examine this aspect of the gendered social order, we analyze the representation of males and females in the titles and central ...characters of 5,618 children's books published throughout the twentieth century in the United States. Compared to females, males are represented nearly twice as often in titles and 1.6 times as often as central characters. By no measure in any book series (i.e., Caldecott award winners, Little Golden Books, and books listed in the Children's Catalog) are females represented more frequently than males. We argue that these disparities are evidence of symbolic annihilation and have implications for children's understandings of gender. Nevertheless, important differences in the extent of the disparity are evident by type of character (i.e., child or adult, human or animal), book series, and time period. Specifically, representations of child central characters are the most equitable and animals the most inequitable; Little Golden Books contain the most unequal representations; and the 1930s-1960s—the period between waves of feminist activism—exhibits greater disparities than earlier and later periods. Examining multiple types of books across a long time period shows that change toward gender equality is uneven, nonlinear, and tied to patterns of feminist activism and backlash throughout the century.
Condiciones mutables Rossel, Gabriel Saldías; González, Carolina A. Navarrete; Mercier, Claire
Chasqui,
11/2023, Volume:
52, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
En el presente artículo nos interesa abordar las diferentes configuraciones de agencias alterhumanas presentes en la narrativa breve de autoras latinoamericanas contemporáneas con el propósito de ...explicitar cómo estas buscan resolver, en algunos casos de manera armoniosa, en otros de forma más problemática, las potenciales tensiones señaladas por el posthumanismo crítico, la teoría feminista posthumana, el ecofeminismo y los nuevos materialismos. En particular nos interesa relevar el rol de la mujer en estas narraciones breves, así como las estrategias para "devenir con"-otras mujeres, el mundo mineral, vegetal, digital, el propio universo-que estas desarrollan en la formulación de nuevas agencias alterhumanas.
This assessment of the field explores a confluence of feminist thinking about the 20th-century Great Acceleration in the United States: post-World-War II projects of modernization made the security ...of white nuclear families global models of well-being, while banishing the work of their securitization to non-white sacrifice zones—which eventually came to encompass most of the earth. “Anthropocene” is thus a project of makingraceandgenderas much as making capital. The essay continues into feminist arguments for limiting the Anthropocene to maintain spaces of more-than-human livability. We end with work of emerging scholars.
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