Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2022.2098558
N. Pattanaik
This book explores the personal and professional lives of women in the Indian Civil Services and analyses the dynamics of gender and their workplace identities. Based on fi rst-hand interviews of women civil servants at various levels and career stages, the book is written from a liberal feminist point of view. One of the many goals of this perspective is to level the playing fi eld for men and women and move towards participatory equality via a ffi rmative action so that women are encouraged to join the world of work, politics, and knowledge production. This is followed by presentation of primary data, collected via interviews and survey research for this empirical study. The book presents a narrative of women civil servants and their work conditions, the degrees of authority they exercise and their perceptions about themselves, their children, husbands, families, male and female colleagues, politicians, and the public at large. It addresses pertinent issues like work-family balance, workforce diversity, equal employment opportu-nity, and sexual harassment at the workplace, among others. The author also addresses questions such as whether women in public administration think di ff erently from their male colleagues and if they exercise di ff erent leadership styles, prioritize di ff erent issues, approach problems di ff erently, make decisions in markedly di ff erent ways and play an active representative role? This book helps to identify some major obstacles that hinder the participation of women in decision-making and uncovers the bottlenecks that impede their advancement in the civil services, more speci fi cally for assuming policymaking positions. The book and the fi rst the author introduces the
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2022.2095761
H. Bajaj
ABSTRACT After the emergency contraceptive pill (ECP) became available in India, it has received significant attention from several social, religious, and political groups and institutions. The increasing use of the ECP as a hormonal birth control method by women has not only bothered medical institutions due to its short-term and possible long-term side-effects, but some social and religious groups have also demanded an outright ban on its sale. This paper is based first on the limited public discussion on the ECP, which has focused on morality; and second, on my semi-structured interviews with women that illustrate the gendered contexts within which they have exercised choice regarding its use. Feminist scholarship on heterosexuality demonstrates that the social context of gendered power relations affects contraceptive choices and negotiations between partners. Using this as a framework, this article there by highlights young women’s negotiation regarding their sexual desires and safe sex within spaces of intimacy and power.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2022.2094642
E. Koo
ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of doing housework on the self, with the aim of understanding women’s active move to gain agency in recent years and men’s hesitation in moving toward roles of caring or communion. It further seeks to understand what underlies these behavioral differences of gender. By analyzing data gathered via 79 biographical interviews and three focus group interviews with respondents drawn from two generations in Korea, I examine the following issues regarding doing unpaid work at home. First, between generations, the shift in cultural ideology from traditional gender norms to individual achievement has weakened the motivation to do unpaid work. Second, unlike conventional insights about gender differences in behavior, wherein women pursue closeness and affection (communion) while men seek independence and autonomy (agency), it is contended here that women and men pursue both to varying degrees in order to empower themselves while coping with unpaid work at home. This study contributes to understanding issues regarding gendered behavior in the following ways: it offers new insights about the conventional understanding about gender behavior being dichotomous; clarifies how women placed under traditional gender norms perform as autonomous actors; and seeks to understand gendered behavior in a historical context.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2022.2098556
Shuying Liang
ABSTRACT In recent years, there are few studies on Chinese female identity construction, female gaze, and sexual desire, as seen via the consumption of Boys Love (BL) media, or the tanbi genre. Drawing on Bourdieu’s concept of habitus and Deleuze’s idea of desire, this paper notes that expressions and alterations regarding sexual desire by Chinese female spectators are reflected in their imagined projections and consumption of BL media as part of their identity construction. These are situated in an imagined community of BL fans in Online Social Media (OSM). Using the trajectory of responses and exchanges of Chinese female audiences on the light Thai BL comedy, 2gether the Series (2020), which is introduced via fan-subtitling, I explore the dynamics of these female spectators as a case study. To a great extent, this represents a process of evolving their own gender values, sexual desires and identities through the consumption of BL media and writings based on the former. This paper thereby attempts to explore how Chinese female spectators project masculinity in homoeroticism and demonstrates that female identity construction is autonomous, proactive, and creative. Also reflected here are their strong beliefs in egalitarian love relationships, regardless of sexual preferences.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2022.2098896
P. Ahuja, Navjit Singh
ABSTRACT Taboos regarding menstruation in society have greatly influenced the lives of women. Women and the environment are also affected by the commercialization of menstrual products by the corporate giants that sell these. This exploratory study was undertaken through in-depth interviews to identify the challenges women face while menstruating. It was broadly seen that women were inclined to use traditional or older menstrual products they were used to. Some reasons for the gaps in the awareness and knowledge regarding what have been called sustainable menstrual products (SMPs) have also been identified to represent the themes of Self-concept, Pre-conceived notions, Accessibility, Routines, and Knowledge. We note here that if such gaps in information are addressed, awareness and knowledge about SMPs would increase and lead towards their adoption. Further, we seek to provide future directions for researchers to study some novel menstrual products that are considered sustainable.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2022.2098554
Qianying Zhou, Hongfeng Qiu, Xinying Yang
ABSTRACT At the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in China, an urgent appeal for the donation of menstrual products for female medics was ignored by medical institutions. This soon triggered an unprecedented wave of socially-mediated menstrual activism. By adopting frame alignment as a theoretical framework, this study aims to explore the frames social media influencers utilize to represent topics relating to menstruation and menstrual activism and how the public responded on this taboo issue. We conducted a qualitative content analysis of the frames adopted by WeChat posts. Statistical results showed that news organization accounts used fewer conflict, human interest, and feminism frames than individual and corporate accounts in order to avoid controversy in cyberspace. This study also demonstrated the use of frames of menstrual stigma and public invisibility of menstruation was associated with the pro-feminist attitudes of followers, while the use of efficiency and respect frames was correlated with anti-feminist attitudes. These findings should also provide insights into social-mediated frame alignment strategies for future menstrual and other types of activism.
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ABSTRACT This study explores the experience of displacement from the perspective of women who have been or are about to be moved from their homes and sources of livelihood, to make way for the expansion of a wildlife reserve in India. We conducted this in the Nayi Basti (Nb) and Umravan (U) areas of the tribal belt around the Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh state of India. Availability of common property resources significantly contributed to a better position for women in tribal society, despite their lack of access to modern health care and education. Displacement to plains and non-forest areas with no access to familiar means of livelihood, however, makes such communities vulnerable to psychosocial trauma and decline in social status. We conducted in-depth interviews with women respondents and key informants for this study to assess the levels of distress of women after they were displaced and obtained their perspectives, in particular, about the key psychosocial issues they faced after moving.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-15DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2022.2086763
Yajuan Liu, Matthew Galway, T. Hoy
ABSTRACT Huang Baomei was not an average national model-laborer (laomo). The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) granted her this grand title to leverage her social status for promoting its goals of getting workers to work harder, produce more, and consume less. But Huang Baomei longed to look and act like a “modern girl” (modeng nülang), the well-dressed and well-groomed image which Shanghai women had aspired to over generations. She not only survived through political movements such as the Anti-Rightist Campaign, but also took advantage of the movement discourse to win the hearts of many. She faced tough opposition, but the CCP Shanghai Municipal Committee helped to elevate her popularity over more than a decade in Communist China. In examining her career, this paper shows how Huang introduced debates among CCP cadres and both reshaped and directed key concepts in CCP propaganda at local and national levels.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2022.2059737
Husrev Tabak, S. Erdoğan, M. Doğan
ABSTRACT This paper examines the localization process of the global gender equality norm in Turkey and argues that the normative contestations on this concern, among rival political blocs and activist groups, have not allowed any resolution. Accordingly, the global gender equality norm has undergone state-led secular localization as of the 1990s. In the post-2010 context under AKP rule, however, this process was disrupted by the proponents of the alternative conservative local norm of gender justice, who sought to replace the already localized norm of gender equality. Our study examines the contestations and rivalries regarding gender equality in the country with an emphasis on normative strategies utilised by the secular and conservative political blocs. Based on face-to-face interviews conducted with representatives of the main trade unions in the country, we also did a minor case study of the ongoing contestations regarding the adoption of gender equality norms, as manifested in trade union activism.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2022.2056371
Arpita Anand
ABSTRACT This article seeks to discuss how the idea of the “political” in its multiple and often contradictory manifestations pervades women’s studies as an academic field in general and degree programs in particular. It locates the dimensions of the political within the founding framework of women’s studies in India to highlight its interventionist character and problematize top–down institutionalization. Within this context, through the voices of contemporary students and teachers, the paper discusses the meanings of the political within academic degrees, based on fieldwork conducted in five women’s studies programs in northern and western India. It focuses on how instituting degrees in a field like women’s studies brings about overwhelming expectations of “teaching politics” and thus highlights the contradictions this produces within the space of an academic degree.
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