n a cool late November evening in Bangalore, India, a city held under siege by a 12,500-strong security contingent, Irene Skliva from Greece was crowned Miss World 1996. Since August of 1996, when it was announced that India was to host the Miss World Pageant, controversy and debate had surrounded the issue. Members of political parties and particular national and local women's organizations, farmers, students, and trade unions from various parts of the country demonstrated, wrote petitions, filed public interest litigations in court, and threatened to damage the venue of the pageant. Opposition to the pageant spanned a broad enough spectrum to accommodate an entire range of concerns. For instance, opposition to imperialism, resentment against the retreating role of the state, high inflation, threatened Indian culture, and an anxiety with the "foreign" all crystallized in response to the pageant. Conversely, for the state and domestic capital, the pageant provided an international opportunity to "showcase" new, liberalized India to the world. The pageant, therefore, was a site at which political protest and anxiety with "globalization" as well as the opportunity to showcase India to the world were articulated. It is in this tension between sentiments of proving national worth, on the one hand, and the protests against the pageant, on the other, that I examine the staging of discourses of gender, nation, sexuality, and place in this article. A month prior to the event, in the Times of India, a major Englishlanguage newspaper, an advertisement for the pageant read "the time has come for the world to see ... what real India is all about, Indian hospitality, Indian culture, Indian beauty, Indian capability."' What is striking about the advertisement is the statement that "real" India-its capability
{"title":"Showcasing India: gender, geography, and globalization.","authors":"R Oza","doi":"10.1086/495648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/495648","url":null,"abstract":"n a cool late November evening in Bangalore, India, a city held under siege by a 12,500-strong security contingent, Irene Skliva from Greece was crowned Miss World 1996. Since August of 1996, when it was announced that India was to host the Miss World Pageant, controversy and debate had surrounded the issue. Members of political parties and particular national and local women's organizations, farmers, students, and trade unions from various parts of the country demonstrated, wrote petitions, filed public interest litigations in court, and threatened to damage the venue of the pageant. Opposition to the pageant spanned a broad enough spectrum to accommodate an entire range of concerns. For instance, opposition to imperialism, resentment against the retreating role of the state, high inflation, threatened Indian culture, and an anxiety with the \"foreign\" all crystallized in response to the pageant. Conversely, for the state and domestic capital, the pageant provided an international opportunity to \"showcase\" new, liberalized India to the world. The pageant, therefore, was a site at which political protest and anxiety with \"globalization\" as well as the opportunity to showcase India to the world were articulated. It is in this tension between sentiments of proving national worth, on the one hand, and the protests against the pageant, on the other, that I examine the staging of discourses of gender, nation, sexuality, and place in this article. A month prior to the event, in the Times of India, a major Englishlanguage newspaper, an advertisement for the pageant read \"the time has come for the world to see ... what real India is all about, Indian hospitality, Indian culture, Indian beauty, Indian capability.\"' What is striking about the advertisement is the statement that \"real\" India-its capability","PeriodicalId":51382,"journal":{"name":"Signs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/495648","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26810869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
he summer of 2000 was hot and humid in Princeton, New Jersey, where I live, but delightfully temperate in Amsterdam, where Diane Wolf was conducting research on post-Holocaust Jewish life. She and I have many interests in common. I have studied women's employment in Mexican maquiladoras, conducted research among Hispanic women in the garment and electronics industries, and investigated the lives of impoverished African Americans in west Baltimore. To understand the relationship between economic change and gender has been one of my top priorities for two decades. Along the way I discovered Diane's exceptional work. Her book, Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization inJava (1992), is an exemplary case study to which I often return in search of inspiration. Not surprisingly, I thought of her as a preferred interlocutor to discuss the relationships among globalization, feminism, and gender. Below is our exchange, which, true to the age of technological wonder, occurred in cyberspace. Patricia Ferndndez-Kelly: After more than two decades of feminist exhortations and a large supply of literature on the subject, few would deny the importance of gender as an aspect of international development. Gender is apparent everywhere, from the recruitment strategies of corporate managers to the differences in the educational performance of immigrant boys and girls, the unequal distribution of disease throughout the world, and the varying effects of "structural adjustment policies" in poor countries. Yet the concept has received scant attention in studies of globalization. Economists speak about neoliberalism and free markets as if those phenomena were gender neutral. On a lesser scale, sociologists do the same. That is partly because many studies of women and development are thinly veiled political tracts that owe more to feminist ideology than to disciplined research. They command small credibility. Diane Wolf: You overstate the injurious effects of feminist politics. A more important reason is gender. World system theory, for example, is
{"title":"A dialogue on globalization.","authors":"P Fernandez-Kelly, D Wolf","doi":"10.1086/495655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/495655","url":null,"abstract":"he summer of 2000 was hot and humid in Princeton, New Jersey, where I live, but delightfully temperate in Amsterdam, where Diane Wolf was conducting research on post-Holocaust Jewish life. She and I have many interests in common. I have studied women's employment in Mexican maquiladoras, conducted research among Hispanic women in the garment and electronics industries, and investigated the lives of impoverished African Americans in west Baltimore. To understand the relationship between economic change and gender has been one of my top priorities for two decades. Along the way I discovered Diane's exceptional work. Her book, Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization inJava (1992), is an exemplary case study to which I often return in search of inspiration. Not surprisingly, I thought of her as a preferred interlocutor to discuss the relationships among globalization, feminism, and gender. Below is our exchange, which, true to the age of technological wonder, occurred in cyberspace. Patricia Ferndndez-Kelly: After more than two decades of feminist exhortations and a large supply of literature on the subject, few would deny the importance of gender as an aspect of international development. Gender is apparent everywhere, from the recruitment strategies of corporate managers to the differences in the educational performance of immigrant boys and girls, the unequal distribution of disease throughout the world, and the varying effects of \"structural adjustment policies\" in poor countries. Yet the concept has received scant attention in studies of globalization. Economists speak about neoliberalism and free markets as if those phenomena were gender neutral. On a lesser scale, sociologists do the same. That is partly because many studies of women and development are thinly veiled political tracts that owe more to feminist ideology than to disciplined research. They command small credibility. Diane Wolf: You overstate the injurious effects of feminist politics. A more important reason is gender. World system theory, for example, is","PeriodicalId":51382,"journal":{"name":"Signs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/495655","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26820485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
n 1998, from January to March, I was in Trinidad for the entire length of the Carnival season. The purpose of my presence as an "ethnographertourist" in Trinidad was to evaluate the relationships between globalization, gender, and sexuality.' Specifically, my aim was to query how globalization could be defined in terms of gay and lesbian identities and what, in turn, was shaping gay and lesbian identities in Trinidad in the wake of contemporary processes ofglobalization. Certainly, palpable effects of globalization on gay and lesbian communities seemed to be surfacing in Trinidad at every moment.2 Gay and lesbian activists were taking part in national, regional, and international networks even as the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Caribbean had generated a tremendous amount of funding and research support from former colonizing countries in the last fifteen years, and the Internet had enabled global connections that were formerly impossible.3 An increasing number of gay and lesbian tourists, both "diasporic expatriates" and otherwise, were learning about gay and lesbian community meetings and fetes as well as gay-friendly Carnival masquerades specifically
{"title":"Global circuits: transnational sexualities and Trinidad.","authors":"J K Puar","doi":"10.1086/495647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/495647","url":null,"abstract":"n 1998, from January to March, I was in Trinidad for the entire length of the Carnival season. The purpose of my presence as an \"ethnographertourist\" in Trinidad was to evaluate the relationships between globalization, gender, and sexuality.' Specifically, my aim was to query how globalization could be defined in terms of gay and lesbian identities and what, in turn, was shaping gay and lesbian identities in Trinidad in the wake of contemporary processes ofglobalization. Certainly, palpable effects of globalization on gay and lesbian communities seemed to be surfacing in Trinidad at every moment.2 Gay and lesbian activists were taking part in national, regional, and international networks even as the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Caribbean had generated a tremendous amount of funding and research support from former colonizing countries in the last fifteen years, and the Internet had enabled global connections that were formerly impossible.3 An increasing number of gay and lesbian tourists, both \"diasporic expatriates\" and otherwise, were learning about gay and lesbian community meetings and fetes as well as gay-friendly Carnival masquerades specifically","PeriodicalId":51382,"journal":{"name":"Signs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/495647","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26810854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L'auteur rend compte de ses reflexions sur la politique de l'enfant unique mise en place en Chine il a vingt ans. Les methodes employees furent contraignantes voir violentes pour la population, ce qui engendra de fortes reactions des feministes occidentales. Concernant les intellectuels feministes chinois, leurs voies se font entendre depuis les conferences du Caire et de Beijing. L'auteur confronte le discours officiel sur la liberalisation des femmes apporte par le regime, avec les critiques des feministes qui se battent pour amener le debat sur la scene publique. Neanmoins, etant donne la severite du regime communiste, il est necessaire de savoir composer avec les autorites, afin de voir aboutir les espoirs des feministes quant a l'avenir de la nation
{"title":"Fresh winds in Beijing: Chinese feminists speak out on the one-child policy and women's lives.","authors":"S Greenhalgh","doi":"10.1086/495630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/495630","url":null,"abstract":"L'auteur rend compte de ses reflexions sur la politique de l'enfant unique mise en place en Chine il a vingt ans. Les methodes employees furent contraignantes voir violentes pour la population, ce qui engendra de fortes reactions des feministes occidentales. Concernant les intellectuels feministes chinois, leurs voies se font entendre depuis les conferences du Caire et de Beijing. L'auteur confronte le discours officiel sur la liberalisation des femmes apporte par le regime, avec les critiques des feministes qui se battent pour amener le debat sur la scene publique. Neanmoins, etant donne la severite du regime communiste, il est necessaire de savoir composer avec les autorites, afin de voir aboutir les espoirs des feministes quant a l'avenir de la nation","PeriodicalId":51382,"journal":{"name":"Signs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/495630","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26810872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L'auteur s'interesse a l'histoire et a la place donnee aux productions intelectuelles des femmes sepharades en Israel. Ces femmes sont la categorie sociale la moins favorisee, qui en fait pour l'auteur des citoyennes de second rang, ce qui explique la faible representation des recherches universitaires. L'emergence d'un mouvement intelectuel feministe sepharade se distinguant des mouvements feministes ashkenases et palestiniens montre la determination des engagees a faire reconnaitre la place de la femme sepharade au sein du discours et de la societe contemporaine. Les recherches sur le sujet sont par ailleurs revelatrices des changements en Israel
{"title":"Scholarship, identity, and power: Mizrahi women in Israel.","authors":"P Motzafi-Haller","doi":"10.1086/495626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/495626","url":null,"abstract":"L'auteur s'interesse a l'histoire et a la place donnee aux productions intelectuelles des femmes sepharades en Israel. Ces femmes sont la categorie sociale la moins favorisee, qui en fait pour l'auteur des citoyennes de second rang, ce qui explique la faible representation des recherches universitaires. L'emergence d'un mouvement intelectuel feministe sepharade se distinguant des mouvements feministes ashkenases et palestiniens montre la determination des engagees a faire reconnaitre la place de la femme sepharade au sein du discours et de la societe contemporaine. Les recherches sur le sujet sont par ailleurs revelatrices des changements en Israel","PeriodicalId":51382,"journal":{"name":"Signs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/495626","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26814329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
lobalization is nothing new. Global trade has been going on for millennia-though what constitutes the "globe" has expanded dramatically in that time. And trade is nothing if not cultural exchange, the narrow distinctions between the economic and the cultural having long been rendered obsolete. Moreover, our forbears, like us, were great "miscegenators." If here I gloss the racialized and gendered violence often associated with miscegenation, I do so strategically to note that all recourse to purity, indigeneity, or aboriginalityhowever useful strategicallyshould be subject to at least as much scrutiny as the easy romance with hybridity (see Mitchell 1997). Globalization has been the signature dish of capitalism-a system of social relations of production and reproduction nourished by uneven development across a range of spatial scales, from the local or regional to the national or supranational, the ambitions of which have always been global since its birth in Europe more than five centuries ago. European-born mercantile capitalism early on was driven by a real expansion for markets and the goods to trade across them. This was nothing new, particularly, until the agents of capital began to assemble an empire and deployed the physical and symbolic violence intended to redirect toward European interests the globe Europeans were "discovering." With
{"title":"On the grounds of globalization: a topography for feminist political engagement.","authors":"C Katz","doi":"10.1086/495653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/495653","url":null,"abstract":"lobalization is nothing new. Global trade has been going on for millennia-though what constitutes the \"globe\" has expanded dramatically in that time. And trade is nothing if not cultural exchange, the narrow distinctions between the economic and the cultural having long been rendered obsolete. Moreover, our forbears, like us, were great \"miscegenators.\" If here I gloss the racialized and gendered violence often associated with miscegenation, I do so strategically to note that all recourse to purity, indigeneity, or aboriginalityhowever useful strategicallyshould be subject to at least as much scrutiny as the easy romance with hybridity (see Mitchell 1997). Globalization has been the signature dish of capitalism-a system of social relations of production and reproduction nourished by uneven development across a range of spatial scales, from the local or regional to the national or supranational, the ambitions of which have always been global since its birth in Europe more than five centuries ago. European-born mercantile capitalism early on was driven by a real expansion for markets and the goods to trade across them. This was nothing new, particularly, until the agents of capital began to assemble an empire and deployed the physical and symbolic violence intended to redirect toward European interests the globe Europeans were \"discovering.\" With","PeriodicalId":51382,"journal":{"name":"Signs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/495653","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26817067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
With a population estimated at over 971 million India is expected to overtake China as the worlds most populous country in the twenty-first century. Notwithstanding the growing debate among social scientists activists and policy makers about linkages between population development and the environment in the public mind India continues to be associated with images of "teeming" and "exploding" masses mired in human degradation ecological devastation and civil strife. In this context it bears pointing out that the Indian state was the first in the world to initiate an official population control program in 1952. Nearly fifty years later assessments of the Indian family planning programs performance are mixed but the Indian fertility rate is declining despite overall population growth. Our interest in this article is not to argue for or against population control or to evaluate Indias success or failure in this regard but to address Indias state-sponsored population control program-its history ideology and strategies-and to examine the contours of a nationalist modernist project that is by definition gendered and classed and an ongoing product of struggles between multiple actors both beyond and within the state. We argue that Indian family planning intervention which is part of a broad postcolonial developmental agenda represents both an appropriation of and resistance to a hegemonic Western conception of the modern. We analyze the national fertility control programs domestication of modernity through a selective indigenization of modernitys core values noting that at another level this process-the linking of individual and family reproductive behavior to national welfare and the promotion of modernity as embodied practice-is itself an inherently modern project as is the phenomenon of government planning. Furthermore we draw attention to the overtly paternalistic and elitist character of the Indian fertility control program that targets women of all classes and the poor in general. (excerpt)
{"title":"Planning an Indian modernity: the gendered politics of fertility control.","authors":"N Chatterjee, N E Riley","doi":"10.1086/495629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/495629","url":null,"abstract":"With a population estimated at over 971 million India is expected to overtake China as the worlds most populous country in the twenty-first century. Notwithstanding the growing debate among social scientists activists and policy makers about linkages between population development and the environment in the public mind India continues to be associated with images of \"teeming\" and \"exploding\" masses mired in human degradation ecological devastation and civil strife. In this context it bears pointing out that the Indian state was the first in the world to initiate an official population control program in 1952. Nearly fifty years later assessments of the Indian family planning programs performance are mixed but the Indian fertility rate is declining despite overall population growth. Our interest in this article is not to argue for or against population control or to evaluate Indias success or failure in this regard but to address Indias state-sponsored population control program-its history ideology and strategies-and to examine the contours of a nationalist modernist project that is by definition gendered and classed and an ongoing product of struggles between multiple actors both beyond and within the state. We argue that Indian family planning intervention which is part of a broad postcolonial developmental agenda represents both an appropriation of and resistance to a hegemonic Western conception of the modern. We analyze the national fertility control programs domestication of modernity through a selective indigenization of modernitys core values noting that at another level this process-the linking of individual and family reproductive behavior to national welfare and the promotion of modernity as embodied practice-is itself an inherently modern project as is the phenomenon of government planning. Furthermore we draw attention to the overtly paternalistic and elitist character of the Indian fertility control program that targets women of all classes and the poor in general. (excerpt)","PeriodicalId":51382,"journal":{"name":"Signs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/495629","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26810870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L'A. souleve la question de la politique de sante feminine au debut du 21eme siecle en s'appuyant sur le programme publie par l'Institut national de la sante
{"title":"The U.S. women's health research agenda for the twenty-first century.","authors":"N F Woods","doi":"10.1086/495559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/495559","url":null,"abstract":"L'A. souleve la question de la politique de sante feminine au debut du 21eme siecle en s'appuyant sur le programme publie par l'Institut national de la sante","PeriodicalId":51382,"journal":{"name":"Signs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/495559","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26155942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
n February 28, 1929, Colonel Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Bligh Barker was arrested for contempt of court, having failed to appear at a bankruptcy hearing the previous December. Removed to Brixton Prison, Barker was subjected to a routine medical inspection, during which he was discovered to be a woman and immediately transferred to the all-women Holloway prison.' By March 6, the news had leaked to the press and led to a series of sensational revelations that dominated the front pages of the press for a week. Barker, it was disclosed, had been born a biological female in 1895 and christened Lilias Irma Valerie Barker by her parents of independent means. In 1918 she had been married briefly to one Lieutenant Harold Arkell-Smith before having two children with her subsequent lover, Earnest Pearce-Crouch. Yet, after this relationship collapsed in 1923, Barker had begun life as a man and married Elfreda Haward. This marriage also had not lasted long and was followed by a series of relationships with other women, with whom Barker appeared to live as a common-law husband, earning a living variously as a farmer, actor, antique-shop owner, kennel manager, laborer, restaurateur, and gentleman of leisure. As these revelations were investigated by the police, Barker was charged on two counts of perjury for having falsely signed the register at his marriage to Haward. The subsequent trial at the Old Bailey took place amid great publicity and resulted in Barker's being imprisoned as a woman for
{"title":"\"For some queer reason\": the trials and tribulations of Colonel Barker's masquerade in Interwar Britain.","authors":"J Vernon","doi":"10.1086/495567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/495567","url":null,"abstract":"n February 28, 1929, Colonel Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Bligh Barker was arrested for contempt of court, having failed to appear at a bankruptcy hearing the previous December. Removed to Brixton Prison, Barker was subjected to a routine medical inspection, during which he was discovered to be a woman and immediately transferred to the all-women Holloway prison.' By March 6, the news had leaked to the press and led to a series of sensational revelations that dominated the front pages of the press for a week. Barker, it was disclosed, had been born a biological female in 1895 and christened Lilias Irma Valerie Barker by her parents of independent means. In 1918 she had been married briefly to one Lieutenant Harold Arkell-Smith before having two children with her subsequent lover, Earnest Pearce-Crouch. Yet, after this relationship collapsed in 1923, Barker had begun life as a man and married Elfreda Haward. This marriage also had not lasted long and was followed by a series of relationships with other women, with whom Barker appeared to live as a common-law husband, earning a living variously as a farmer, actor, antique-shop owner, kennel manager, laborer, restaurateur, and gentleman of leisure. As these revelations were investigated by the police, Barker was charged on two counts of perjury for having falsely signed the register at his marriage to Haward. The subsequent trial at the Old Bailey took place amid great publicity and resulted in Barker's being imprisoned as a woman for","PeriodicalId":51382,"journal":{"name":"Signs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28061575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Do women do science differently? This is a history of women in science and a frank assessment of the role of gender in shaping scientific knowledge. Science is both a profession and a body of knowledge, and Londa Schiebinger looks at how women have fared and performed in both instances. Shoe first considers the lives of women scientists, past and present. Schiebinger debunks the myth that women scientists - because they are women - are somehow more holistic and integrative and create more cooperative scientific communities. However, have feminist perspectives brought any positive change to scientific knowledge? Schiebinger provides a nuanced gender analysis of the physical sciences, medicine, archaeology, evolutionary biology, primatology, and developmental biology. She also shows that feminist scientists have developed new theories, asked new questions, and opened new fields in many of these areas.
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