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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Engendering Critique: Postnational Feminism in Postcolonial Syria,” Women Studies Quarterly 42.3/4 (2014): 209-229. in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe tension between feminism and national liberation is a commonplace of political mobilization across the postcolonial world. This essay traces how postcolonial nationalist and transnational feminist agendas were brought into conflict during the defense of a thesis on the novels of the Syrian writer Ghada al-Samman (b. 1942) that took place in…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Engendering Critique: Postnational Feminism in Postcolonial Syria,” Women Studies Quarterly 42.3/4 (2014): 209-229. in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe tension between feminism and national liberation is a commonplace of political mobilization across the postcolonial world. This essay traces how postcolonial nationalist and transnational feminist agendas were brought into conflict during the defense of a thesis on the novels of the Syrian writer Ghada al-Samman (b. 1942) that took place in…[Read more]
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Donna Maria Alexander deposited CFP: Paranoia in the Americas: American Anxieties in a Transnational Context in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers
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Behnam Mirzababazadeh Fomeshi deposited “Till the Gossamer Thread You Fling Catch Somewhere”: Parvin E’tesami’s Creative Reception of Walt Whitman in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe literary relation between Parvin E’tesami and Walt Whitman remains a largely unexplored field. This article analyzes the connection between “God’s Weaver” and “A Noiseless Patient Spider” to shed light on Parvin’s creative reception of Whitman. Creating a mixed-breed spider, combining characteristics from both
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Hijab as Commodity Form: Veiling, Unveiling, and Misveiling in Contemporary Iran,” Feminist Theory in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis article considers how state-mandated veiling and unveiling reinforce modern capitalism. State regulations regarding veiling incorporate the female body into the political economy of the commodity form. In addition to serving as an empty signifier to be filled with exchange value for the male observer, the veil operates as an ideological…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Hijab as Commodity Form: Veiling, Unveiling, and Misveiling in Contemporary Iran,” Feminist Theory in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis article considers how state-mandated veiling and unveiling reinforce modern capitalism. State regulations regarding veiling incorporate the female body into the political economy of the commodity form. In addition to serving as an empty signifier to be filled with exchange value for the male observer, the veil operates as an ideological…[Read more]
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Martin Boehnert deposited Riot Grrrl Primatology – Über Forscherinnen, Feminismus und feministische Wissenschaften in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoDraft Version des Beitrags: In dem vorliegenden Artikel möchten wir der Frage nach den Möglichkeiten eines weiblichen bzw. feministischen Zugangs zu wissenschaftlicher Forschung in verschiedenen Hinsichten beleuchten. Wir werden uns dem Thema exemplarisch anhand des Forschungsfeldes der Primatologie zuwenden, wobei die Antwort auf die Frage, w…[Read more]
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Jean Marie Carey deposited Mernet Larsen: Getting Measured 1957-2017 in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoA review of the 2017 retrospective of painter Mernet Larsen at the Tampa Museum of Art.
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Tyler Bilton deposited An examination of hockey: identity, gender construction, hegemonic masculinity, women’s hockey, and Turkey in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 12 months agoThe purpose of this study was to examine hockey’s identity, how the game constructs identity, and how the increasing participation of females in hockey in Canada and Turkey is altering identity. Through qualitative research and personal experience it is revealed that in order for hockey and Turkey to modernize, a new male identity needs to e…[Read more]
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Maia Kotrosits deposited Penetration and Its Discontents: Greco-Roman Sexuality, The Acts of Paul and Thecla and Theorizing Eros Without the Wound in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThe notion that sexuality in the Greek and Roman periods was predicated on a social-sexual hierarchy that casts relationships in the binary terms of active/passive and penetrator/penetrated has been both influential and controversial over the last 30 years. Both the articulation of this hierarchy and its critique have been haunted by various…[Read more]
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Catherine Pope deposited “More like a woman stuck into boy’s clothes”: Sexual deviance in Florence Marryat’s Her Father’s Name in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoHer Father’s Name (1876) is one of Marryat’s most radical and intriguing novels, featuring Leona Lacoste, a cross-dressing heroine, and Lucilla Evans, a textbook hysteric who falls in love with her. For centuries, the diagnosis of ‘hysteria’ was conveniently applied to any woman who exhibited transgressive behaviour, whether it be through sexual…[Read more]
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Catherine Pope deposited “More like a woman stuck into boy’s clothes”: Sexual deviance in Florence Marryat’s Her Father’s Name in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years agoHer Father’s Name (1876) is one of Marryat’s most radical and intriguing novels, featuring Leona Lacoste, a cross-dressing heroine, and Lucilla Evans, a textbook hysteric who falls in love with her. For centuries, the diagnosis of ‘hysteria’ was conveniently applied to any woman who exhibited transgressive behaviour, whether it be through sexual…[Read more]
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Catherine Pope deposited Who Pays for the Butter? Florence Marryat and the Married Women’s Property Acts in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years agoWhereas many women writers were reticent on the issue of property, or vehemently opposed to improving the position of wives, Florence Marryat used her public platform to campaign for change. As such, her work forms an important contribution to our understanding of women and property in the nineteenth century. In this paper I discuss the ways in…[Read more]
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Catherine Pope deposited Woman Against Woman – Geraldine Jewsbury vs Florence Marryat in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years agoFlorence Marryat (1833-99) was a novelist, editor, playwright, spiritualist, singer and actress. She wrote nearly seventy novels during her varied career, most of which were dismissed by critics but loved by her reading public. Much of the opprobrium aimed at her originated from fellow women authors such as Eliza Lynn Linton and Marie Corelli, but…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited Women’s creation and renewal of religious rituals: A strategy for addressing their marginality in traditional societies in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoהדרת נשים מהמרחב הציבורי הדתי היא תופעה נרחבת ומוכרת. מתחילת שנות האלפיים אלפי נשים יהודיות, חילוניות, מסורתיות, דתיות וחרדיות, מרקעים סוציו־אקונומיים מגוונים, מתמודדות עם הדרה זו. הן יוצרות ומחדשות ריטואלים דתיים, וכך מפלסות מקום במרחב שהיה סגור בפניהן. השאלה הניצבת בבסיסו של מאמר זה היא מה הן האסטרטגיות שנשים משתמשות בהן כדי ליצור לעצמן ולחדש…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited “Amen meals are so feminine”: Women’s creation and renewal of rituals in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoמחקר זה מבקש לתאר ריטואלים הקשורים לאוכל שנשים יוצרות ומחדשות לעצמן. שאלת המחקר היא כיצד ומדוע נשים יוצרות ומחדשות ריטואלים. התשובה מבוססת על ניתוח דוגמאות של טקסים הקשורים באוכל שהתפתחו בישראל והתפשטו בקרב נשים יהודיות ברחבי אירופה וארה”ב מאז שנת 2000: “סעודות א ֵמנים” וטקסי הפרשת חלה ציבוריים. המתודולוגיה שננקטה היא איכותנית אתנוגרפית, ומבוס…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited Being the wife of a Torah scholar in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThis paper examines how ultra-orthodox women perceive the socio-economic reality of contemporary ultra- orthodox society in Israel. In practice most ultra-orthodox women work, and they play an important role in the financial support of their family. The ultra-orthodox press, a major socialization mechanism, has a dualistic approach to this…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited Open spaces? Perceptions of the internet among Ultra-Orthodox women working in computerized environments in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoWe analyze patterns of rejection and adoption of new technology in a closed and conservative community through the study of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women working in computerized environments, and their perceptions and uses of the Internet. These women stand in the intersection between orthodoxy and modernity. Their workplaces are populated by…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited Forum of their own: Studying discussion forums of Ultra-Orthodox women online in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoהחברה החרדית בישראל היא חברה מסורתית המנסה לשמור על גבולותיה ולהתנהל כתרבות מובלעת בקרב החברה הישראלית-חילונית. אחד האתגרים ש ִאתם עליה להתמודד הוא חדירתן של טכנולוגיות תקשורת חדשות. האינטרנט הוא מן הטכנולוגיות השנויות ביותר במחלוקת במגזר החרדי, והוא מציב בפניו אתגרים ייחודיים. בשל תכונותיו של המדיום החדש קיים חשש כבד מחשיפת הציבור…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited Women’s images in the Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) press: 1948-2008 in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoמאמר זה עוסק בדימויים ובייצוגים של נשים, כפי שהם משתקפים מטקסטים עיתונאיים שראו אור בישראל ונועדו לנשים חרדיות מאז קום המדינה.1 השאלות המרכזיות המוצגות כאן הן: כיצד משתקפת דמותה של האישה בעיתונות החרדית? האם היא נוכחת בה במרחב הפרטי ו/או הציבורי? כיצד כותבים העיתונים על נוכחותה במרחבים אלה? כדי לענות על שאלות אלה נבחן קורפוס רחב של מאות…[Read more]
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