Collective Consciousness And Gender

Author : Alexandra Walker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781137544148

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This book explores collective consciousness and how it is applied to the pursuit of gender justice in international law. It discusses how the collective mode of behaviour and identity can lead to unconscious role-playing based on the social norms, expectations or archetypes of a group. Alexandra Walker contends that throughout history, men have been constructed as archetypal dominators and women as victims. In casting women in this way, we have downplayed their pre-existing, innate capacities for strength, leadership and power. In casting men as archetypal dominators, we have downplayed their capacities for nurturing, care and empathy. The author investigates the widespread implications of this unconscious role-playing, arguing that even in countries in which women have many of the same legal rights as men, gender justice and equality have been too simplistically framed as ‘feminism’ and ‘women’s rights’ and that giving women the rights of men has not created gender balance. This book highlights the masculine and feminine traits belonging to all individuals and calls on international law to reflect this gender continuum.

Author : Janet Saltzman Chafetz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387362182

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Handbook of the Sociology of Gender by Janet Saltzman Chafetz Pdf

During the past three decades, feminist scholars have successfully demonstrated the ubiq uity and omnirelevance of gender as a sociocultural construction in virtually all human collectivities, past and present. Intrapsychic, interactional, and collective social processes are gendered, as are micro, meso, and macro social structures. Gender shapes, and is shaped, in all arenas of social life, from the most mundane practices of everyday life to those of the most powerful corporate actors. Contemporary understandings of gender emanate from a large community of primarily feminist scholars that spans the gamut of learned disciplines and also includes non-academic activist thinkers. However, while in corporating some cross-disciplinary material, this volume focuses specifically on socio logical theories and research concerning gender, which are discussed across the full array of social processes, structures, and institutions. As editor, I have explicitly tried to shape the contributions to this volume along several lines that reflect my long-standing views about sociology in general, and gender sociology in particular. First, I asked authors to include cross-national and historical material as much as possible. This request reflects my belief that understanding and evaluating the here-and-now and working realistically for a better future can only be accomplished from a comparative perspective. Too often, American sociology has been both tempero- and ethnocentric. Second, I have asked authors to be sensitive to within-gender differences along class, racial/ethnic, sexual preference, and age cohort lines.

Author : Caroline Kelly,Sara Breinlinger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0748405119

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The Social Psychology of Collective Action by Caroline Kelly,Sara Breinlinger Pdf

This text provides an analysis of collective behaviour - a central topic in social psychology. It considers why individuals do or don't get involved in collective action.

Author : Celeste Brody,Kasi Allen Fuller,Penny Poplin Gosetti,Susan Randles Moscato,Nancy Gail Nagel,Glennellen Pace,Patricia Schmuck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135699031

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Gender Consciousness and Privilege by Celeste Brody,Kasi Allen Fuller,Penny Poplin Gosetti,Susan Randles Moscato,Nancy Gail Nagel,Glennellen Pace,Patricia Schmuck Pdf

Develops a new framework for working in schools that helps educators make informed decisions about change at individual, classroom, curricular and school levels on behalf of gender equity. Addresses the issue of understanding the impact of education on the two sexes, and looks at responsibility for creating gender-fair environments, organising work and creating environments for learning. The book draws on a two-year study into the role that gender played as three Catholic high schools prepared to move from single sex to coeducation. It does not weigh the advantages of single sex against coeducative approaches, but studies gender in a setting where the particpants' consciousness of gender issues was heightened: faculty and administration were formally and informally discussing gender concepts and students were talking about male and female issues. The book shows that the combination of leadership, staff and curricular awareness, and an understanding of gender fair and gender affirmative practices can serve to improve institutional effectiveness and lead to higher levels of student achievement.

Author : Fatima Sadiqi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004128538

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Women, Gender, and Language in Morocco by Fatima Sadiqi Pdf

This text is an original investigation in the complex relationship between women, gender, and language in a Muslim, multilingual, and multicultural setting. Moroccan women's use of monolingualism (oral literature) and multilingualism (code-switching) reflects their agency and gender-role subversion in a heavily patriarchal society.

Author : Amanda Datnow,Lea Hubbard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136703775

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Gender in Policy and Practice by Amanda Datnow,Lea Hubbard Pdf

This book exposes the complexity of single-sex schooling, and sheds new light on how gender operates in policy and practice in education. The essays collected in this volume cover a wide range of institutions, including K-12 and higher education, public and private schools, and schools in the US and beyond. Detailing the educational experiences of both young men and women, this collection examines how schooling shapes-and is shaped by- the social construction of gender in history and in contemporary society.

Author : Caroline Rooney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134096848

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Decolonising Gender by Caroline Rooney Pdf

Through examination of the functions of language and cross-cultural readings of literature – from African queer reading to postcolonial Shakespeare – Rooney explores the nature of the real, providing: a way out of some of the current deadlocks of feminist theory an anti-essentialist approach to gender in which both male and female readers may address a consciousness of the feminine a platform for postcolonial and postmodernist thinkers to engage in a dialogue around the status of the performative in regard to the other a new theory of poetic realism in both canonical and postcolonial literatures a re-reading of the Enlightenment legacy in terms of postcolonial liberation theory a comparison of contemporary debates on the real across the humanities and the sciences. Exploring current ideas of performativity in literature and language, and negotiating a path between feminist theory’s common pitfalls of essentialism and constructivism, Caroline Rooney argues convincingly that by rethinking our understanding of gender we might also equip ourselves to resist racism and totalitarianism more effectively.

Author : P. Mary Vidya Porselvi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781317196662

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Nature, Culture and Gender by P. Mary Vidya Porselvi Pdf

Folktales in India have been told, heard, read and celebrated for many centuries. In breaking new ground, Indian folktales have been reread and examined in the light of the Mother Earth discourse as it manifests in the lifeworlds of women, nature and language. The book introduces ecofeminist criticism and situates it within an innovative folktale typology to connect women and environment through folklore. The book proposes an innovative paradigm inspired by the beehive to analyze motifs, relationships, concerns, worldviews and consciousness of indigenous women and men who live close to nature as well as other socially marginalized groups. In the current global context fraught with challenges for ecology and hopes for sustainable development, this book with its interdisciplinary approach will interest scholars and researchers of literature, environmental studies, gender studies and cultural anthropology.

Author : Pauline Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X000142735

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Gender and Class Consciousness by Pauline Hunt Pdf

Author : Daphne Grace
Publisher : Brill Rodopi
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9042038349

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Beyond Bodies by Daphne Grace Pdf

"Articulations and expressions of gender can be destabilising, transgressive, revolutionary and radical, encompassing both a painful legacy of oppression and a joyous exploration of new experience." Analysing key texts from the 19th to 21st centuries, this book explores a range of British and Anglophone authors to contextualise women's writing and feminist theory with ongoing debates in consciousness studies. Discussing writers who strive to redefine the gendered world of "sexualized" space, whether internal or external, mental or physical, this book argues how the "delusion" of gender difference can be addressed and challenged. In literary theory and in representations of the female body in literature, identity has increasingly become a shifting, multiple, renegotiable--and controversial--concept. While acknowledging historical and cultural constructions of sexuality, "writing the body" must ultimately incorporate knowledge of human consciousness. Here, an understanding of consciousness from contemporary science (especially quantum theory)--as the fundamental building block of existence, beyond the body--allows unique insights into literary texts to elucidate the problem of subjectivity and what it means to be human. Including discussion of topics such as feminism and androgyny, agency and entrapment, masculinities and masquerade, insanity and emotion, and individual and social empowerment, this study also creates a lively engagement with the literary process as a means of fathoming the "enigma" of consciousness. Daphne Grace is Professor of English, specializing in postcolonial and transnational literature, gender and women's studies, in addition to British literature of the 19th to 21st centuries. She currently teaches at the University of the Bahamas, and has also previously taught at Sussex University, England, and Eastern Mediterranean University in Cyprus.

Author : Vasilikie Demos,Marcia Texler Segal
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803825939

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Gender Visibility and Erasure by Vasilikie Demos,Marcia Texler Segal Pdf

Gender Visibility and Erasure offers a unique way of focusing on gender by identifying the multiple contexts in which issues of visibility, invisibility, and erasure manifest, considering who is seen and who is ignored, who has voice and who is silenced, who has agency and who is controlled.

Author : Wil Lundström-Burghoorn
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9788776940157

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Gender Politics in Asia by Wil Lundström-Burghoorn Pdf

"This book demonstrates the great diversity in gender politics and women’s strategies to negotiate and change gender relations individually or collectively. A comprehensive volume of gender politics in China, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia, it examines multiple aspects of gender politics in Asia (dress, healing, religious ordination, NGO activism, etc.), bringing interdisciplinary approaches of inquiry based on in-depth empirical data."--pub. desc.

Author : Keya Maitra,Jennifer McWeeny
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Feminist theory
ISBN : 9780190867614

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Feminist Philosophy of Mind by Keya Maitra,Jennifer McWeeny Pdf

"This collection is the first book to focus on the emerging field of study called feminist philosophy of mind. Each of the twenty chapters of Feminist Philosophy of Mind employs theories and methodologies from feminist philosophy to offer fresh insights and perspectives into issues raised in the contemporary literature in philosophy of mind and/or uses those from the philosophy of mind to advance feminist theory. The book delineates the content and aims of the field and demonstrates the fecundity of its approach, which is centered on the collective consideration of three questions: What is the mind? Whose mind is the model for the theory? To whom is mind attributed? Topics considered with this lens include mental content, artificial intelligence, the first-person perspective, personal identity, other minds, mental attribution, mental illness, perception, memory, attention, desire, trauma, agency, empathy, grief, love, gender, race, sexual orientation, materialism, panpsychism, and enactivism. In addition to engaging analytic and feminist philosophical traditions, essays draw from resources in phenomenology, philosophy of race, decolonial studies, disability studies, embodied cognition theory, comparative philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology"--

Author : Marcia Texler Segal,Kristy Kelly,Vasilikie Demos
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781838673871

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Gender and Practice by Marcia Texler Segal,Kristy Kelly,Vasilikie Demos Pdf

This book has an Open Access chapter. Throughout the volume, expert practitioners situate their real-world experiences in the broader intersectional framework employed by their academic colleagues, offering policy makers, students, scholars, practitioners, and activists concrete examples of how and why gender is central to development

Author : Alim Barry
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578831376

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Decoding Feminism For Men by Alim Barry Pdf

Much is made about Feminism today yet little is known about the term. It is a loaded term that means different things to different people in different circumstances . It is a term that is often taken out of context, to play into a vast scope of ideologies and political interests. Generally though, feminism is widely misconstrued as only pertaining to women's rights. This, of-course should be taken with a grain of salt. In fact, the term feminism was first used by Charles Courier, a French Philosopher, in the year 1837, to explain the gap in job opportunities between men and women. Since then, feminism has been used in different countries, with different connotations, in line with their own cultures and traditions, leaving room for a great deal of head-scratching around the subject. That's why feminism is misunderstood and widely rejected by men. In this book, I aim to unpack the term in its rightful context, provide a historical background and empirical facts as well as contemporary studies, to better understand feminism as a movement, explain why it is relevant today and why should men be feminist. But first, it's important to start with the basics.Feminism at its core, is the equality of sexes. Nothing more. Nothing less. It doesn't mean women are superior to men. It doesn't mean only women's voices are amplified. It doesn't mean footing the bill on a date. It doesn't mean men will loose out of power, influence, and authority. It doesn't mean there will be a negative shifts in relationships, marriages, and cultures It's a word that represents a movement which advocates for equal rights of all gender identities. So if it that simple, why is feminism misunderstood? Some points to a bad branding. Some say it's because feminism has lived its times. Others reckoned that it's because it has been weaponised to pander to the grieving narratives of the voiceless and the less fortunate. Each one of these arguments deserve a fair amount of consideration, at least for the sake of an evidence-based debate.Taking on issues such as Masculinity, Patriarchy, Sexism, Misogyny, Manoshphere and Rape, I argue that we often get stuck in semantics, that feminism is the way to go for women's rights but it's also the answer and solution to men's issues and concerns. While the word does include fem, it doesn't pertain to women's rights only, much like Man-kind doesn't mean the existence of men only.