ella letteratura italiana, il mito della donna rettile è diffuso, soprattutto con le connotazioni negative imposte dalla cristianità, anche se non sempre, oppure non completamente. Alcuni autori ...hanno colto l’ambivalenza arcaica di questa figura e ne hanno tratto un espediente narrativo particolarmente efficace che si propone come mezzo per avversare la misoginia latente di questo topico. In questo studio mettiamo in relazione le strutture tematiche e retoriche della «Griselda» di Boccaccio –che, per il suo tema, si offre come racconto che rappresenta la misoginia– con La donna serpente di Carlo Gozzi, che, nel xviii secolo, aveva aggiornato e ricomposto una raccolta di fiabe tradizionali antiche di origini orientali ed europee. Infine, si faranno alcuni riferimenti alle metamorfosi ofidiche novecentesche, per raccontare il femminile, proposte da Bontempelli e ne L’Iguana di Anna Maria Ortese.
This essay addresses some deadly inter-related conditions that lesbians, trans, queers, and other genderly and sexually anormative subjects of color, and ultimately all subaltern subjects, are now ...facing in France and elsewhere in Europe. It considers effects of coloniality, racism, segregationality, Islamophobia, police brutality, misogyny, the current capitalist crisis, including expanded privatization, the Security State, war and refugees, and the rise of right-wing and homonationalistwhite gay spokespersons therein. The essay extensively engages with current radically critical, decolonial, anti-capitalist, anti-misogyny, life affirming analyses and practices by LTQ POC+ that open up new understandings of the issues of our times, before providing some concluding remarks.
Involuntary celibates, or incels, are part of a misogynistic, extremist subculture that has been linked to acts of mass violence. Unlike other alt-right communities, the incel subculture exists ...entirely online, and participants rarely, if ever, interact in face-to-face settings. Using an original dataset of 76 discussion threads drawn from two self-identified incel Web sites, this paper investigates how participants on incel discussion boards engage in bonding activities that foster a sense of commitment to the online incel community. We build on sociological understandings of narrative and storytelling to identify and describe three interactive storytelling practices that are facilitated by the affordances of these digital spaces: repetition, co-creation, and elaboration. These practices enable incel participants to share similar experiences, apply elements of the incel ideology to interpret off-line events, and elaborate boundaries between incels and those that they perceive as “normies”. Our study reveals how online bonding activities generate robust collective identities in the incel subculture. It also highlights crucial differences between online and face-to-face storytelling practices in alt-right communities.
We, Moya Bailey and Trudy aka @thetrudz, had significant roles in the creation and proliferation of the term misogynoir. Misogynoir describes the anti-Black racist misogyny that Black women ...experience. Despite coining the term in 2008 and writing about the term online since 2010, we experience, to varying degrees, our contributions being erased, our writing not cited, or our words plagiarized by people who find the word compelling. It is not surprising that misogynoir would be enacted against the Black women who brought the word to public acclaim but it is nonetheless troubling. This is not to say that every time the word is used, our names need to be mentioned, but it does matter that our intellectual interventions are understood in proper context. In this article, we interview each other and discuss the ramifications of the naming of misogynoir in digital media and its impact on our own lives.
La misogínia, en major o menor grau, es troba present en totes les manifestacions de la literatura grega de l’Antiguitat. El present article se centra en la seua configuració a la poesia dramàtica ...àtica dels ss. V i IV aC, primer gènere literari que defineix una incipient cultura de masses, sobre la qual incideix i de la qual, alhora, es nodreix. Des d’aquest supòsit, intentem un acostament a les claus de la misogínia a la comèdia, il·lustrant-lo amb textos, preferentrnent de la comèdia postaristofànica, més propera a la quotidianitat, i alguns dels quals resulten sorprenentment actuals.
Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea focuses on the relationship between media representation and gender politics in South Korea. Its chapters feature notable voices of South Korea’s ...burgeoning sphere of gender critique enabled by social media, doing what no other academic volume has yet accomplished in the sphere of Anglophone studies on this topic. Seeking to interrogate the role of popular media in establishing and shaping gendered common sense, this volume fosters cross-disciplinary conversations linked by the central thesis that gender discourse and representation are central to the politics, aesthetics, and economics of contemporary South Korea. In the post-authoritarian period (the late 1980s to the #MeToo present), media representation and popular discourse changed the gender conventions that are found at the core of civic, political, and cultural debates.
Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea maps the ways in which popular media and public discourse make the social dynamics of gender visible and open them up for debate and dismantling. In presenting innovative new research on the ways in which popular ideas about gender gain concrete form and political substance through mass mediation, the book’s contributors investigate the discursive production of gender in contemporary South Korea through trends, tropes, and thematics, as popular media become the domain in which new gendered subjectivities and relations transpire. The essays in this volume present cases and media objects that span multiple media and platforms, introducing new ways of thinking about gender as a platform and a conceptual infrastructure in the post-authoritarian era.
Special issue on online misogyny Ging, Debbie; Siapera, Eugenia
Feminist media studies,
07/2018, Volume:
18, Issue:
4
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
This special issue seeks to identify and theorise the complex relationships between online culture, technology and misogyny. It asks how the internet's anti-woman spaces and discourses have been ...transformed by the technological affordances of new digital platforms, and whether they are borne of the same types of discontents articulated in older forms of anti-feminism, or to what extent they might articulate a different constellation of social, cultural and gender-political factors. This collection of work is intended to lend focus and cohesion to a growing body of research in this area; to map, contextualise and take stock of current frameworks, making scholars aware of one another's work and methodologies, and hopefully forging new interdisciplinary collaborations and directions for future work. Crucially, we move beyond the Anglophone world, to include perspectives from countries which have different gender-political and technological landscapes. In addition to mapping the new misogyny, several contributions also address digital feminist responses, evaluating their successes, limitations and impact on the shape of digital gender politics in future.
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