Pub Date : 2023-06-20DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2227116
Birgit Sauer
ABSTRACT The liberal affect dispositif and liberal theories of democracy are historically entangled with gendered processes of in_visibilization—the invisibilization and paradox visibilization of women as well as of affect and emotions. To overcome divisions and exclusions connected to in_visibilization, this article spells out the ambivalent power relations of affect, care and relatedness in processes of visibilizing and invisibilizing, and hence their dis-empowering as well as empowering qualities. Against deliberative and queer-feminist theories of democracy which are aware of the role of affect and emotion, the article suggests a new way of conceptualizing affect and emotions as important elements for re-imagining democracy. It combines democracy theories including affect, emotions, and passions with a critical concept of affect and queer-feminist democracy theories of care and relatedness. The notion of an “affective democracy” suggests to establish institutions for feeling democracy as well as it is a critical entry point to become aware of ambivalences and contradictions of gender, democracy, and acting together without denying affectivity and emotions.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-18DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2226943
Charlotte Jude
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Pub Date : 2023-06-18DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2226942
X. Y. Lim
and as a result this chapter brought home the magnitude of the issue that Cassino and Besen-Cassino seek to underline. They cite the 2018 AP VoteCast survey, in which men were asked if they were homosexual and if they owned a gun as part of a survey. The findings show that ‘asking men if they’re gay leads to 4% of them suddenly deciding they have guns that they otherwise would not have had’ (p. 80). Cassino and Besen-Cassino concluded that ‘questions about sexuality can serve as threats’ (p. 80). This well-considered and disturbing chapter serves to remind the reader why this study and its findings are paramount and contemporary. ‘God, guns and pornography’ considers how gender permeates other aspects of life as well as politics and sexual harassment. Having ventured this far into the book, the findings become unsurprising: men under threat are more likely to turn to extreme religious ideologies, own a gun and view pornography that degrades women to assert power and masculinity. Cassino and Besen-Cassino consider the divergence in public and private behaviours for the first time here. Whilst gun ownership and pornography usage cannot be certainly accounted for as they depend on the interviewees’ self-reporting, state-wide and national data are analysed to examine the extent that these compensatory behaviours ‘bolster an otherwise threatened masculine identity’. (p. 87) In the last chapter, ‘Alternate masculinities’, Cassino and Besen-Cassino defer from exploring further socially influenced behaviours, choosing instead to examine how fathers adopt positive compensatory behaviours when under economic stress. The authors explore numerous viewpoints derived from online narratives (discussion boards and blogs) that show men using their position in the home after the recession to ‘do a lot of things around the house’ (p. 113) and ‘to model good behaviour for my daughter’ (p. 116). To these men, these behaviours reinforce their masculinity as much as owning a gun. This fascinating and timely book appeals to readers of all disciplines, including those beyond the gender studies realm. Cassino and Besen-Cassino analyse a range of behaviours and their relationship to gender threat, to uncover how masculine compensatory behaviours threaten contemporary society. Although much weight is attributed to economic context, to some extent leaving other societal pressures unconsidered, the text serves to illustrate how masculinity is perceived to be threatened in contemporary American society. Despite the book’s generally pessimistic tone, the authors conclude on a positive note: ‘masculinity is changing, it’s adaptable’ (p. 140) and it can be expressed in a way that benefits the individual man, as well as wider American society.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-12DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2219986
B. Hanckel, Adam Shepherd
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Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2219979
Anna-Maria Murtola, Neil Vallelly
Feminist scholars and activists have long fought to make visible the fundamental but overlooked social reproduction work performed primarily by women, often in households. Taking on black feminist criticisms of the initial prioritization of the experience of white, middle-class women, these debates have developed into a broader social reproduction theory, which emphasizes the relationality of multiple forms of oppression under capitalism. The COVID-19 pandemic, with its lockdowns, temporarily turned the traditional distribution between visible and invisible work on its head when many so-called productive workers were ushered into their homes, leaving only the most essential workers publicly visible in the streets and valorized in online spaces. The sudden visibility of these generally low-paid, often racialized and marginalized workers now coded as ‘essential' highlighted the importance of the work of social reproduction. However, the category of essential workers was ambivalent, in that by making visible some forms of social reproduction it continued to obscure others, especially familial care work and housework. In this article we analyse the ambivalent category of the essential worker and argue that it exemplifies, as social reproduction theory attests, that the capitalist production process always requires invisible labour, even as some previously invisible forms become increasingly visible. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Journal of Gender Studies is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
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Pub Date : 2023-06-04DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2219971
S. Hill
Visibility is a requirement of neoliberal postfeminist girlhood and social media is often attributed with the capacity to provide disabled young women with visibility that they lack elsewhere. While some attention has been paid to the intersections of gender and disability through the self-presentations of disabled young women who are known as disabled content creators, such as bloggers and YouTubers, this article goes beyond this to examine how disabled young women represent themselves on social media as part of their everyday practices. Using a combination of discursive textual analysis of Twitter and Instagram accounts and semi-structured interviews with five disabled young women, I explore how affordances such as Twitter retweets play a key role in how disabled young women navigate their visibility online as part of their self-presentation practices. I argue that visibility is potentially risky and disabled young women's social media use is shaped by concerns about harassment and questions about the 'legitimacy' of their disabled identities that operate at the intersections of gender, disability and race, stemming from their experiences of 'systemic disbelief'. Finally, I situate these self-representation practices within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-30DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2219970
Malainine Ebnou
ABSTRACTIn recent years, gender-biased discourse has been one of the most studied phenomena in critical discourse analysis. In the Muslim and Arab contexts, most studies show that the depiction of women in textbooks is declining. This paper looks at the representation of women in the Mauritanian context by analysing four secondary school English textbooks. Because textbooks can be a site for cultural and political discourse, the study seeks to find out whether the Mauritanian government’s Pedagogic Institute’s goal of achieving equality between all components of the Mauritanian society is achieved for women in the textbooks. The study tries to explain gender bias by referring to societal views as well government policies regarding women. Bias against women is investigated using Norman Fairclough’s Three-Dimensional Model. The results of the study have shown biased portrayal of women in the textbooks. Men’s representation dominates women’s in most activities while women are more frequently represented only in domestic activities. It was further shown that, although government policies seem to support women’s empowerment, society’s views of women remain stereotypical which might explain their representation. More equal representationneeds to be sought so that textbook content goes in line with the government’s policies of empowering women.KEYWORDS: gender biascritical discourse analysisFairclough’s modeltextbooksMauritania Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Additional informationNotes on contributorsMalainine EbnouMalainine Ebnou is a 1st year PhD student in Kanazawa University in Japan. He focuses on discourse analysis, particularly with relation to gender issues. He has conducted three studies in this field so far which included his master thesis. Malainine Ebnou is from Mauritania and has studied English culture and linguistics in his B.A studies. He has master’s degree in applied language studies and research in higher education from Sidi Mohamed ben Abdellah University in Fes, Morocco. His previous work is focused on gender issues in learning materials, how are they manifested, and how they can shape learners’ views about gender. Malainine Ebnou strongly believes that fairer representation of gender in textbooks can help reduce gender biases in society since many studies have shown that textbooks can act as vehicles for transmitting and normalizing certain discourses. A study he conducted in 2020 compared textbook representation of women in Japan with Mauritania. He is currently working on another study comparing gender representation in Japanese textbooks to Finnish textbooks.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2215656
Aihiokhai, Simonmary Asese A., ed. (2023) Religion, women of color, and the suffrage movement: the journey to holistic freedom. Lanham: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1478016885: £ 94.00 (hardcover); ISBN 978 1 478
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Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2216637
Shalini Nair
This article details the politics of scale manifest in Dignity March, a grassroots speak-out movement against sexual violence that occurred at the same time as the #MeToo movement in India but was not part of the mainstream discourse. The spatial concept of scales explains the production of different spaces and their mutually constitutive nature. Building on the concept, scales are used here as an analytical framework to explain the intersectional and spatial nature of sexual oppression and resistance. Based on ethnographic research and in-depth interviews of sexual violence survivors from mainly oppressed-caste communities in rural India, this article demonstrates how speak-out movements help build communities of resistance. These forged communities, imbued with an understanding of intersectional, lived experience from the margins, create spaces of radical openness across multiple scales, be it at the level of the body, community, or regional/national. This article explores the many abolitionist practices of transformative justice__ a mode of justice that addresses the systems that produce impunity and margin- alisation__ that become possible in spaces of radical openness. It argues for reimagining transnational solidarities in the fight against sexual vio- lence and rooting it in an understanding of resistance movements in the margins of the geo-political South.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2214886
Katharina Wiedlack
ABSTRACT This article discusses in/visibility regarding sexual identities, the ‘gay closet’, and ‘coming-out’ within the post-soviet context from a queer feminist perspective. Contemporary western-oriented global queer political culture favours individualized visual representation to fight for social acceptance. In many post-soviet and western contexts, however, LGBTIQ+ visibility is increasingly threatened. Accordingly, many choose strategies to sustain their queer lives beyond visibility and public representation. Queer and feminist theory does not offer adequate concepts to account for these forms of resistance. Building on Édouard Glissant, the decolonial and anti-imperialist philosopher, with his demand for the right to opacity, and off queer theory that reconceptualizes the gay closet, such as that of Anna T. I rethink visual in/visibility and the queer closet as space for relationality and recuperation. While Glissant and T. use the concept of opacity primarily on the level of the verbal, I will re-conceptualize opacity as in/visibility on the level of visual discourses. Engaging with the artistic practice of multimedia artist Ruthie Jenrbekova and filmmaker Masha Godovannaya, both of whom play with the in/visibilisation of queerness as artistic strategies, I show how visual opacity can facilitate coalitions beyond identity politics based on nationality, sexuality and/or gender.
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