Representations Of Women

Author : Roosmarijn de Geus,Erin Tolley,Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant,Peter John Loewen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487536466

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Women, Power, and Political Representation by Roosmarijn de Geus,Erin Tolley,Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant,Peter John Loewen Pdf

Delving into the pressing topic of gender and politics, this volume provides fresh comparative perspectives on "what works" to promote women in politics today. Inspiring and informative, Women, Power, and Political Representation offers a comprehensive overview of the role women play in contemporary politics, and pinpoints the reasons behind their underrepresentation. Discussing the challenges and opportunities women face when running for office, as well as their experiences as political leaders, this book offers a broad and thoughtful overview of the pitfalls encountered by women, from gender biases to sexual harassment, in the notoriously male dominated political arena. Featuring a range of voices that articulate a path towards women’s political advancement and equality, Women, Power, and Political Representation is an important and timely resource for scholars, students, and women working professionally in Canadian and international politics.

Author : L. Seal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230294509

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Women, Murder and Femininity by L. Seal Pdf

Women who kill rupture our assumptions about what a woman is. This book explores different socio-cultural understandings of women who commit, or are accused, of murder. A wide range of cases are discussed in order to highlight the ways in which such women have been perceived, and how such cases reflect important social and cultural shifts.

Author : Rachel Bailey Jones
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400715516

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Postcolonial Representations of Women by Rachel Bailey Jones Pdf

In this accessible combination of post-colonial theory, feminism and pedagogy, the author advocates using subversive and contemporary artistic representations of women to remodel traditional stereotypes in education. It is in this key sector that values and norms are molded and prejudice kept at bay, yet the legacy of colonialism continues to pervade official education received in classrooms as well as ‘unofficial’ education ingested via popular culture and the media. The result is a variety of distorted images of women and gender in which women appear as two-dimensional stereotypes. The text analyzes both current and historical colonial representations of women in a pedagogical context. In doing so, it seeks to recast our conception of what ‘difference’ is, challenging historical, patriarchal gender relations with their stereotypical representations that continue to marginalize minority populations in the first world and billions of women elsewhere. These distorted images, the book argues, can be subverted using the semiology provided by postcolonialism and transnational feminism and the work of contemporary artists who rethink and recontextualize the visual codes of colonialism. These resistive images, created by women who challenge and subvert patriarchal modes of representation, can be used to create educational environments that provide an alternative view of women of non-western origin.

Author : Leticia Anderson,Sigal Barak-Brandes,Debora Freud,Kathomi Gatwiri,Zahra Jafari,Khulekani Madlela,Beris Artan Özoran,Ilgar Seyidov
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498599863

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Minority Women and Western Media by Leticia Anderson,Sigal Barak-Brandes,Debora Freud,Kathomi Gatwiri,Zahra Jafari,Khulekani Madlela,Beris Artan Özoran,Ilgar Seyidov Pdf

Minority Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices presents research examining media portrayals of women from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. It provides qualitative and quantitative findings of how women are stereotyped and misrepresented not only because of their gender but also their race, religion, ability, physical attributes, and political status. Whilst their voices are frequently excluded, marginalized and misrepresented, the chapters in this volume show how minority women are creating and articulating new discourses and challenging assumptions and expectations about themselves. This book provides insights into how women are represented in different media, including newspapers, television shows, films, and online platforms. Scholars of media studies, women’s studies, and communication will find this book particularly useful.

Author : Marian Meyers
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028596588

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Mediated Women by Marian Meyers Pdf

The issues explored are: what mediated popular culture says about women and their roles in contemporary society; whether and how the mediated representation of women addresses real women's goals and potential; how the popular media negotiate the tension between cultural constraint and social changes within their portrayal of women; and whether women are still the victims of symbolic annihilation by the media."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Emily Snyder
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774835718

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Gender, Power, and Representations of Cree Law by Emily Snyder Pdf

Drawing on the insights of Indigenous feminist legal theory, Emily Snyder examines representations of Cree law and gender in books, videos, graphic novels, educational websites, online lectures, and a video game. Although these resources promote the revitalization of Cree law and the principle of miyo-wîcêhtowin (good relations), Snyder argues that they do not capture the complexities of gendered power relations. The majority of these resources either erase women’s legal authority by not mentioning them, or they diminish their agency by portraying Cree laws and gender roles in inflexible, aesthetically pleasing ways that overlook power imbalances and other forms of oppression.

Author : Marquita Marie Gammage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317370482

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Representations of Black Women in the Media by Marquita Marie Gammage Pdf

In 1920 W.E.B. Du Bois cited the damnation of women as linked to the devaluation of motherhood. This dilemma, he argues, had a crushing blow on Black women as they were forced into slavery. Black womanhood, portrayed as hypersexual by nature, became an enduring stereotype which did not coincide with the dignity of mother and wife. This portrayal continues to reinforce negative stereotypes of Black women in the media today. This book highlights how Black women have been negatively portrayed in the media, focusing on the export nature of media and its ability to convey notions of Blackness to the public. It argues that media such as rap music videos, television dramas, reality television shows, and newscasts create and affect expectations of Black women. Exploring the role that racism, misogyny and media play in the representation of Black womanhood, it provides a foundation for challenging contemporary media’s portrayal of Black women.

Author : Margaretha A. van Es
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319406763

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Stereotypes and Self-Representations of Women with a Muslim Background by Margaretha A. van Es Pdf

This book explores how stereotypes of “oppressed Muslim women” feed into the self-representations of women with a Muslim background. The focus is on women active in, and speaking on behalf of, a wide variety of minority self-organisations in the Netherlands and Norway between 1975 and 2010. The author reveals how these women have internalised and appropriated particular stereotypes, and also developed counter-stereotypes about majority Dutch or Norwegian women. She demonstrates, above all, how they have tried time and again to change popular perceptions by providing alternative images of themselves and of Islam, paying particular attention to their attempts to gain access to media debates. Her central argument is that their efforts to undermine stereotypes can be understood as an assertion of belonging in Dutch and Norwegian society and, in the case of women committed to Islam, as a demand for their religion to be accepted. This innovative work provides a “history from below” that makes a valuable contribution to scholarly debates about citizenship as a practice of inclusion and exclusion. Providing new insights into the dynamics between stereotyping and self-representation, it will appeal to scholars of gender, religion, media, and cultural diversity.

Author : Susan Shifrin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781315317571

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Re-framing Representations of Women by Susan Shifrin Pdf

Crossing disciplinary and chronological boundaries, this volume integrates text and image, essays and object pages to explore the processes inherent in gender representation, rather than resituating women in particular categories or spheres as other scholarly publications and exhibitions have done. Taking its lead from the 'Picturing' Women project on which it reflects and builds, the volume makes a substantial methodological contribution to the analysis of gender discourse and visuality. It offers new and stimulating scholarship that confronts historical patterns of representation that have defined what women were and are seen to be, and presents new contexts for unveiling what art historian Linda Nochlin has called the 'mixed messages' of representations of women.

Author : Gary Goertz,Amy G. Mazur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521897769

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Politics, Gender, and Concepts by Gary Goertz,Amy G. Mazur Pdf

A critique of concepts has been central to feminist scholarship since its inception. However, while gender scholars have identified the analytical gaps in existing social science concepts, few have systematically mapped out a gendered approach to issues in political analysis and theory development. This volume addresses this important gap in the literature by exploring the methodology of concept construction and critique, which is a crucial step to disciplined empirical analysis, research design, causal explanations, and testing hypotheses. Leading gender and politics scholars use a common framework to discuss methodological issues in some of the core concepts of feminist research in political science, including representation, democracy, welfare state governance, and political participation. This is an invaluable work for researchers and students in women's studies and political science.

Author : Rikke Schubart,Anne Gjelsvik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : IND:30000100579923

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Femme Fatalities by Rikke Schubart,Anne Gjelsvik Pdf

Author : Gen Doy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000325133

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Seeing and Consciousness by Gen Doy Pdf

Through its provocative examination of feminist and Marxist approaches to women's art and female representations, this book challenges the widespread belief that Marxism has nothing valuable to contribute to women's studies. The author argues that, from the French Revolution through to the present, gender and class have shaped visual imagery. She shows how Marxist theory can function to question some of the premises of feminist art histories and to provide a more accurate understanding of the meaning(s) of visual imagery.

Author : Rachel Ritchie,Sue Hawkins,Nicola Phillips,S. Jay Kleinberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317584025

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Women in Magazines by Rachel Ritchie,Sue Hawkins,Nicola Phillips,S. Jay Kleinberg Pdf

Women have been important contributors to and readers of magazines since the development of the periodical press in the nineteenth century. By the mid-twentieth century, millions of women read the weeklies and monthlies that focused on supposedly "feminine concerns" of the home, family and appearance. In the decades that followed, feminist scholars criticized such publications as at best conservative and at worst regressive in their treatment of gender norms and ideals. However, this perspective obscures the heterogeneity of the magazine industry itself and women’s experiences of it, both as readers and as journalists. This collection explores such diversity, highlighting the differing and at times contradictory images and understandings of women in a range of magazines and women’s contributions to magazines in a number of contexts from late nineteenth century publications to twenty-first century titles in Britain, North America, continental Europe and Australia.

Author : Dr Emanuela Lombardo,Dr Petra Meier
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781472403254

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The Symbolic Representation of Gender by Dr Emanuela Lombardo,Dr Petra Meier Pdf

What is symbolic representation? Since Hanna Pitkin’s seminal The Concept of Representation, the symbolic has been the least studied dimension of political representation. Innovatively adopting a discursive approach, this book - the first full-length treatment of symbolic representation - focuses on gender issues to tackle important questions such as: What are women and men symbols of, and how is gender constructed in policy discourse? It studies what functions symbolic representation fulfils in the construction of gender, what social roles get legitimized in policy discourse, and how this affects power constellations, ultimately revealing much about the relation between symbolic, descriptive, and substantive representation. Emanuela Lombardo and Petra Meier draw on theories of symbolic representation and gender, as well as rich primary material about political debates on labour and care issues, partnership and reproductive rights, gender violence, and quotas. Using this original data, the authors show that reconsidering symbolic representation from a discursive perspective makes explicit issues of (in)equality embedded within particular constructions, as well as their consequences for political representation and gender equality. This important exploration raises relevant new questions regarding the representation of gender that form valuable contributions to the fields of political science, political theory, sociology, and gender studies.

Author : Suzanne Bouclin
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774865890

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Women, Film, and Law by Suzanne Bouclin Pdf

Entertainment and profit constitute the driving forces behind most popular representations of incarcerated women. Some cinematic representations, however, and the women-in-prison genre especially, can generate complex legal meanings and leave viewers feeling unsettled about women’s incarceration. Focusing on five exemplary films and one television series, from 1933 to the present, Women, Film, and Law asks how fictional representations explore, shape, and refine beliefs about women’s incarceration. Suzanne Bouclin convincingly argues that popular depictions of women’s prisons can illuminate multiple forms of marginalization and oppression experienced by women in conflict with the law.