Pub Date : 1998-10-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962617
C. Gailey
In the United States children enter the state‐run foster care system because of a range of conditions considered to be “abuse and neglect.” Children entering the system are vulnerable to additional bureaucratically ordained violence, some of which is generic and some of which is gendered. This paper situates the exposure of children in state care to gendered violence in a context of poverty, the scaling back of state social welfare programs, and the interaction of gender, family, and race ideologies. The consequences of early exposure to gendered violence are explored through narratives by parents of girls adopted over the age of two who had been subject to sexual and other forms of gendered violence in or before foster care. The need for intervention on the conditions leading to foster care, better monitoring of children's well‐being in foster care, and training and support of foster and adoptive parents regarding recovery from gendered violence is stressed, as is the need to address the ideological cond...
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Pub Date : 1998-10-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962616
I. Susser
In the 1980s and 1990s, the transformation of the United States toward a global and information‐oriented economy has precipitated changing expectations and opportunities for working class men and women. Men have lost work, poor women have lost welfare benefits and many working class people no longer have access to adequate housing. The overall impact of these changes, including the uneven destruction of poor communities and the shifting, unstable gender hierarchies they have produced, has been to generate intense conflict reflected in increased violence in the community and in the household. The research described below, based on fieldwork in New York City in the 1990s among women and their families who have been relocated from family shelters into permanent housing, begins to outline some of the intervening processes that foster violence towards poor women. For many women violence is the immediate event that precipitates them into homelessness. But, when women leave the shelter system and have to create ...
{"title":"Inequality, violence, and gender relations in a global city: New York, 1986–1996","authors":"I. Susser","doi":"10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962616","url":null,"abstract":"In the 1980s and 1990s, the transformation of the United States toward a global and information‐oriented economy has precipitated changing expectations and opportunities for working class men and women. Men have lost work, poor women have lost welfare benefits and many working class people no longer have access to adequate housing. The overall impact of these changes, including the uneven destruction of poor communities and the shifting, unstable gender hierarchies they have produced, has been to generate intense conflict reflected in increased violence in the community and in the household. The research described below, based on fieldwork in New York City in the 1990s among women and their families who have been relocated from family shelters into permanent housing, begins to outline some of the intervening processes that foster violence towards poor women. For many women violence is the immediate event that precipitates them into homelessness. But, when women leave the shelter system and have to create ...","PeriodicalId":47227,"journal":{"name":"Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83562061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1998-10-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962614
M. Korac
The paper takes the recent conflict and wars in the region of post-Yugoslav states and their impact on women as the point of departure. In this empirical context, I explore the patterns of violence against women, arguing that ethnic nationalism as a social phenomenon engenders a kind of “structural violence” with gender specific implications. Women are exposed to various forms of sexual, physical, and non-physical violence in their relation to ethnic-national movements and their respective states-in-the-making. Therefore the paper examines the ways in which gendered militarization of ethnic nationalism is used to justify different forms of abuse of women, from abuse of women's reproductive rights to domestic violence. Furthermore, it addresses the issue of political exploitation of militarized violence against women, wherein abused women are used by their nation-states to gain more power in the struggle for nationalistic expansion.
{"title":"Ethnic‐nationalism, wars and the patterns of social, political and sexual violence against women: The case of post‐Yugoslav countries","authors":"M. Korac","doi":"10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962614","url":null,"abstract":"The paper takes the recent conflict and wars in the region of post-Yugoslav states and their impact on women as the point of departure. In this empirical context, I explore the patterns of violence against women, arguing that ethnic nationalism as a social phenomenon engenders a kind of “structural violence” with gender specific implications. Women are exposed to various forms of sexual, physical, and non-physical violence in their relation to ethnic-national movements and their respective states-in-the-making. Therefore the paper examines the ways in which gendered militarization of ethnic nationalism is used to justify different forms of abuse of women, from abuse of women's reproductive rights to domestic violence. Furthermore, it addresses the issue of political exploitation of militarized violence against women, wherein abused women are used by their nation-states to gain more power in the struggle for nationalistic expansion.","PeriodicalId":47227,"journal":{"name":"Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75835535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1998-10-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962613
M. Anglin
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Pub Date : 1998-08-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962608
Judith Goode
This analysis examines the ways in which the two major new immigrant groups in Philadelphia, Koreans and Puerto Ricans, are learning to construct identities for themselves in a city that is paradigmatically black and white in demography, space, and politics. Philadelphia, a US deindustrializing city with a growing suburban hinterland, is experiencing a different restructuring process than global cities like New York and Los Angeles or newer sunbelt regional cities. Local spaces within the city itself vary in the process of constructing ethnic boundaries, relations, and identities depending on their class histories. The analysis demonstrates that as Korean and Puerto Rican populations confront different urban institutions and local spaces, they encounter contradictions among societal narratives about race and ethnicity and between these narratives and their own lived experience. These contradictions create openings for the formation of alternative collective identities and action. Conclusions indicate that...
{"title":"The contingent construction of local identities: Koreans and Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia","authors":"Judith Goode","doi":"10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962608","url":null,"abstract":"This analysis examines the ways in which the two major new immigrant groups in Philadelphia, Koreans and Puerto Ricans, are learning to construct identities for themselves in a city that is paradigmatically black and white in demography, space, and politics. Philadelphia, a US deindustrializing city with a growing suburban hinterland, is experiencing a different restructuring process than global cities like New York and Los Angeles or newer sunbelt regional cities. Local spaces within the city itself vary in the process of constructing ethnic boundaries, relations, and identities depending on their class histories. The analysis demonstrates that as Korean and Puerto Rican populations confront different urban institutions and local spaces, they encounter contradictions among societal narratives about race and ethnicity and between these narratives and their own lived experience. These contradictions create openings for the formation of alternative collective identities and action. Conclusions indicate that...","PeriodicalId":47227,"journal":{"name":"Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"1998-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962608","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72456886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1998-08-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962609
M. Castro
In the 1990s in Brazil a singular type of feminism was being engendered by women in dass‐based labor unions, one that combined a feminist platform with a class project. Drawing on a 1993 case study of male and female leaders of the Bank Employees Labor Union in the city of Salvador, this article examines how these organized labor and feminist agendas were combined and explores the political and labor life histories of those involved in the labor union leadership. The gender and class analysis of labor dynamics in a country emerging from a military dictatorship to adopt a neoliberal model of political economy (both of which had severe effects on workers’ lives) challenges common models of gender based on a sharp dichotomization of the public and the private. The article also highlights ambiguities in union leaders’ discourses concerning the household worker and signals how the globalization of economies jeopardizes the project of a global feminist social movement if working class women are to be included.
{"title":"The gendered (Di)‐vision of the rebellion: The public and the private in life histories of female and male union leaders, Salvador‐Bahia‐Brazil","authors":"M. Castro","doi":"10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962609","url":null,"abstract":"In the 1990s in Brazil a singular type of feminism was being engendered by women in dass‐based labor unions, one that combined a feminist platform with a class project. Drawing on a 1993 case study of male and female leaders of the Bank Employees Labor Union in the city of Salvador, this article examines how these organized labor and feminist agendas were combined and explores the political and labor life histories of those involved in the labor union leadership. The gender and class analysis of labor dynamics in a country emerging from a military dictatorship to adopt a neoliberal model of political economy (both of which had severe effects on workers’ lives) challenges common models of gender based on a sharp dichotomization of the public and the private. The article also highlights ambiguities in union leaders’ discourses concerning the household worker and signals how the globalization of economies jeopardizes the project of a global feminist social movement if working class women are to be included.","PeriodicalId":47227,"journal":{"name":"Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"1998-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90399625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1998-08-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962610
U. Kalpagam
Hindus and Others: The Question of Identity in India Today. Gyanendra Pandey, ed. New Delhi: Viking, 1993. v+313 pp. No price available. Creating a Nationality: The Ramjanmabhumi Movement and Fear of the Self. Ashis Nandy, Shikha Trivedy, Shail Mayaram and Achyut Yagnik. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. v+212 pp. $16.95 (paper). Contesting the Nation: Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in India. David Ludden, ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. v+363 pp. $19.95 (paper).
{"title":"Power and identity in contemporary India","authors":"U. Kalpagam","doi":"10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962610","url":null,"abstract":"Hindus and Others: The Question of Identity in India Today. Gyanendra Pandey, ed. New Delhi: Viking, 1993. v+313 pp. No price available. Creating a Nationality: The Ramjanmabhumi Movement and Fear of the Self. Ashis Nandy, Shikha Trivedy, Shail Mayaram and Achyut Yagnik. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. v+212 pp. $16.95 (paper). Contesting the Nation: Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in India. David Ludden, ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. v+363 pp. $19.95 (paper).","PeriodicalId":47227,"journal":{"name":"Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"1998-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85906541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1998-08-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962611
Arlene Torres
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. Philippe Bourgois. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xvi+392 pp. $24.95 (doth), $15.95 (paper—revised edition 1996). Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class. Bonnie Urciuoli. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. xiv+222 pp. $18.95 (paper). The Anthropology of Lower Income Urban Enclaves: The Case of East Harlem. Judith Freidenberg, ed. New York: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 749,1995. vii+287 pp. $45.00 (cloth and paper).
{"title":"From Jibara to anthropologist: Puerto Rican ethnography and the politics of representation","authors":"Arlene Torres","doi":"10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962611","url":null,"abstract":"In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. Philippe Bourgois. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xvi+392 pp. $24.95 (doth), $15.95 (paper—revised edition 1996). Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class. Bonnie Urciuoli. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. xiv+222 pp. $18.95 (paper). The Anthropology of Lower Income Urban Enclaves: The Case of East Harlem. Judith Freidenberg, ed. New York: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 749,1995. vii+287 pp. $45.00 (cloth and paper).","PeriodicalId":47227,"journal":{"name":"Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"1998-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78393488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1998-08-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962607
M. Salih
Most Sudanese authors who have written about the nationality question in the Sudan have been personally involved in Sudanese politics, have held political offices, or have become advocates for the cause of one or another political liberation front. This unique position makes their contributions to the debate on ethnicity and nationalism not only tense, but also means that these writings contain influential political messages. This paper examines the works by major Sudanese authors who have contributed discursive narratives that express their individual political sentiments and simultaneously those of the ethnic groups to which they belong. It then assesses the impact of this committed agency on the construction and deconstruction of Sudan history and the subsequent use of the meaning of history in the struggle for defining the essential elements of a Sudanese national identity.
{"title":"Other identities: Politics of Sudanese discursive narratives","authors":"M. Salih","doi":"10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962607","url":null,"abstract":"Most Sudanese authors who have written about the nationality question in the Sudan have been personally involved in Sudanese politics, have held political offices, or have become advocates for the cause of one or another political liberation front. This unique position makes their contributions to the debate on ethnicity and nationalism not only tense, but also means that these writings contain influential political messages. This paper examines the works by major Sudanese authors who have contributed discursive narratives that express their individual political sentiments and simultaneously those of the ethnic groups to which they belong. It then assesses the impact of this committed agency on the construction and deconstruction of Sudan history and the subsequent use of the meaning of history in the struggle for defining the essential elements of a Sudanese national identity.","PeriodicalId":47227,"journal":{"name":"Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"1998-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82603475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1998-08-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962606
N. Schiller
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