Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789231206047
Reetika Revathy Subramanian
Since 2011, female khatna, or the practice of female genital cutting within the Dawoodi Bohra community, has become a big topic of debate in India and globally. The ‘secret’ tradition has been challenged by community activists, tabled in parliament, heard by international courts of law and debated on news channels. In response, a growing number of Bohra women have come to the fore to publicly defend their right to khatna by subverting seemingly Western tropes of autonomy, equality and modernity. Situated in the thick of these polarised exchanges, this article examines the complicated, under-explored relationship between gender and Islam by foregrounding self-narratives of the Bohra women who actively participate within, as opposed to fight against, patriarchal norms to preserve the tradition. I juxtapose their narratives with those of anti-khatna activists to further contextualise and clarify their ‘modern-yet-traditional’ subjectivities. As such, this article combines a postcolonial feminist lens with Eric Hobsbawm’s notion of ‘invention of tradition’, to investigate the multiple ways in which a majority of Bohra women are using the rhetoric of ‘modernity’ in public—by reinventing history, renegotiating patriarchies, reimagining the other and incorporating biomedicine—to preserve and perpetuate this contested tradition.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789231205318
Tatiana Sanchez Parra
While conflict-related sexual violence has gained attention on international transitional justice agendas, conflict-related reproductive violence continues to be overlooked. The Colombian Truth Commission was the first truth-seeking transitional justice body worldwide to directly investigate these forms of conflict-related violence. Based on an ethnographic analysis of the Commission’s work on reproductive violence, in this article I engage with the reproductive justice framework to argue that the Commission’s work broadened understandings of both gendered victimhood and reproductive autonomy. Regarding gendered victimhood, I show that the Commission’s work focused on gaining recognition for conflict-related reproductive violence as distinct from conflict-related sexual violence, identifying conflict-related practices of reproductive violence and offering recommendations for addressing such practices. Secondly, I show that not only was the Commission the first truth-seeking body to directly investigate reproductive violence, but it did so through an understanding of reproductive violence that does not revolve around the notion of autonomy as individual choice. I argue that by doing this, the Commission compelled us to comprehensively consider war as part of the conditions under which reproductive autonomy may be exercised. Following this line, the latter part of the article focuses on the Colombian government’s use of glyphosate as a form of conflict-related reproductive violence that claimed ownership over the reproductive futures of entire communities by creating environmental devastation.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789231200165
Christine Hume, Laura Larson
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789231205297
Casey Burkholder, Katie MacEntee, Amelia Thorpe
The COVID-19 pandemic posed a logistical problem to our normal ways of engaging in participatory visual research. Our in-person art, activism and archiving with 2SLGBTQ+ Atlantic Canadian youth pivoted to use distanced engagement strategies that met the demands of the pandemic. We sought to create networks of solidarity while we were apart. Monthly, over the course of a year, we mailed out themed packages of art supplies and directions to fifty-five 2SLGBTQ+ youth situated in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador. Participants then created the artworks, photographed them and contextualised them through text. While the resulting co-curated digital archive includes multiple mediums, here we focus on the participants’ zines and dioramas for what they taught us about 2SLGBTQ+ youth’s identities, activism, beliefs, friends, home, family, fears, strengths and futures. The digital archive of our artwork deconstructs, explores and affirms identities and functions to build solidarity during a time of increased isolation. We argue that collaboratively building the digital archive was a feminist act of reclamation and a declaration of youth queer activism.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789231166417
Garth D. Stahl, P. Burnard, Sarah McDonald
The field of social entrepreneurship, a domain focused on implementing solutions to social, cultural and environmental issues, remains highly male-dominated. Research continues to emphasise that women social entrepreneurs are often expected to behave in masculine ways in order to become successful. The study presented in this article explored the perceptions and experiences of thirty-three women living in the United Kingdom who were developing their skills in social entrepreneurship. Documenting their experiences, we sought to understand how women work in a male-dominated field. Our analysis primarily builds on a Bourdieusian-revisionist approach of emotional capital to advance understandings of how women’s networks with other women allow them to navigate social entrepreneurship. Drawing on emotional capital, as a theory, we examine the ways in which these women find these spaces generative and how it contributes to their problematising of masculine orthodoxies.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789231166700
Olga Cielemęcka
This article aims to be what Jasbir Puar referred to as ‘an unfolding archive’. It makes a critical intervention at a historical crisis point as it is unfolding. It sets out to examine the logic that writes the relations between bodies, borders and kin during the political crisis that transpired at the border of Belarus and Poland in 2021. I think of this logic in terms of a ‘grammar’, drawing on the idea articulated by Hortense J. Spillers, where ‘American grammar’ fleshes out the connection between slavery, kinship, nation-building and the processes of gendering. I examine the rubrics of the hegemonic national grammatics in contemporary Poland, which establishes who counts as kin and who belongs to the nation in the context of the border crisis. I offer the concept of ‘declining’ kinship to seek generative (im)possibilities to articulate affinities and solidarities running against the dominant system of reproductive nationalism.
本文旨在成为Jasbir Puar所说的“一份展开的档案”。它在历史危机时刻进行了关键的干预。它旨在审视在2021年白俄罗斯和波兰边境发生的政治危机期间，身体、边界和亲属之间关系的逻辑。我从“语法”的角度来思考这个逻辑，借鉴了Hortense J. Spillers的观点，他认为“美国语法”充实了奴隶制、亲属关系、国家建设和性别化过程之间的联系。我研究了当代波兰霸权国家语法的规则，在边界危机的背景下，这些规则确定了谁是亲属，谁属于这个国家。我提出了“衰落”亲属关系的概念，以寻求生成的(非)可能性，以阐明与生殖民族主义的主导体系相抗衡的亲和力和团结性。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789231156519
Elisa Madina
The Real Housewives follows the lives of wealthy, middle-aged women in different towns in the USA and beyond. The TV show documents the women navigating their overlapping family, professional and over-the-top social lives over long lunches and charity galas. Sita is a character in one of the bestloved stories of all time, the Ramayana, or the story of her husband Rama. In a nutshell, Princess Sita is kidnapped by evil Ravana and after a blockbuster battle is rescued by her husband, Prince Rama, who eventually pronounces her impure and rejects her. The epic poem has been immortalised through countless written, oral and performed versions across South Asia and beyond.1
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