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Violent and Vulnerable Performances: Challenging the Gender Boundaries of Masculinities and Femininities
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. As social constructs, masculinities and femininities are continually being challenged and reconstructed, and in so doing, new subjectivities are re/produced. The boundaries of gender thus remain both violent and vulnerable; violent in the Butlerian sense of subject formation and normative gender policing, and vulnerable as they are fraught with possibilities for new ways of gendering and new definitions of sexual difference. This volume thus examines the boundaries of masculinities and femininities through various cultural, socio-historical, and political contexts, and the tensions which arise from the constant challenges and reconstructions. Violent and Vulnerable Performances: Challenging the Gender Boundaries of Masculinities and Femininities contains fourteen chapters which demonstrate the situatedness of gender, and its impacts on race, class, sex, the body, identity, language, work, the family, and further cultural, socio-political, and economic processes.
Renewing the Family: A History of the Baby Boomers
This book traces the history of the baby-boomers, beginning with an explanation of the cause of the post-war baby boom and ending with the contemporary concerns of ageing boomers. It shows how the baby-boomers challenged traditional family attitudes and adopted new lifestyles in the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on 90 interviews conducted with baby boomers living in London and Paris, the book demonstrates how their aspirations for leisure and consumption converged with family responsibilities and obligations. It shows how the baby boomers emerged from an authoritative upbringing to challenge some of the traditional assumptions of the family, such as marriage and cohabitation. The rise of feminism...
Gender and the Law of the Sea
Listen to the podcast with Nilufer Oral on 'Climate Change, Oceans and Gender' In Gender and the Law of the Sea a distinguished group of law of the sea and feminist scholars critically engages with one of the oldest fields of international law. While the law of the sea has been traditionally portrayed as a technical, gender-neutral set of rules, of concern to States rather than humans, authors in this volume persuasively argue that critical feminist perspectives are needed to question the underlying assumptions of ostensibly gender-neutral norms. Coming at a time when the presence of women at sea is increasing, the volume forcefully and successfully argues that legal rules are relevant to ensure gender equality and the empowerment of women at sea, in an effort to render law for the oceans more inclusive. See inside the book.
Gender under Construction
Gender performativity, its variances depending on their historical, social and cultural contexts, and the rituals, representations and institutions involved in gender performances are some of the issues the authors addressed in this collection. Gender under Construction takes a non-essentialist view of gender and provides illustrative examples of gender constructive processes by pursuing them in various contexts and by means of diverse methodologies. In so doing, the book demonstrates that it is unfeasible to consider gender as a fixed biological trait. Instead, the authors propose to look at gender performance as ongoing processes in which femininities and masculinities enter multiple and dynamic intersections with a myriad of categories, including those of nationality, ethnicity, class, sexuality and age. Contributors are Iqbal Akthar, Renata Ćuk, Ewa Glapka, Deirdre Hynes, Borja Ibaseta, Martin King, Ana Cristina Moreira Lima, Mervi Patosalmi, Marcia Bastos de Sá, Andréa Costa da Silva, Vera Helena Ferraz de Siqueira, Christi van der Westhuizen and Isabelle V. Zinn.
International Bibliography of Sociology
IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge on the social sciences.
Vivre au cœur de « paroisses de femmes » dans la région de Charlevoix, 1940-1980
Dans cet ouvrage, il est question non pas des hommes qui partent, mais des femmes qui restent. S’appuyant sur la richesse des paroles de femmes qui ont vécu cette situation, l’auteure souhaite exposer les multiples déclinaisons des expériences féminines de l’absence maritale et ainsi mettre en lumière l’histoire de ces femmes jusqu’ici occultée. Fortes d’une autonomie qu’elles affermirent et affirmèrent, alors qu’elles devaient savoir se débrouiller seules, et soutenues par des réseaux de sociabilité très forts, où la famille occupait une place prépondérante, les femmes s’enracinèrent dans ce territoire de solitude, mais aussi de solidarité.
Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France
An innovative study revealing that folklore collections can shed new light on the lives of the socially marginalized.
La relation d'enquête comme relation sociale
Cet ouvrage a pour objet d'analyser les conditions de produc¬tion des données d'enquête en sciences sociales à partir de la question centrale de la relation d'enquête comme relation sociale. Quel statut ont les données d'enquête? Comment sont-elles empiriquement produites? Le premier chapitre est une mise en perspective historique de l'émergence de la question afin de comprendre comment se sont imposés le modèle positiviste d'un «observateur témoin invisible» et les stratégies de neutralisation des situations d'enquête qui en découlent. Le deuxième montre que cette dénégation de la relation d'enquête comme relation sociale constitue encore un idéal persistant de pratiques de recherche contemporaines. Le troisième établit un programme de rupture avec cet idéal positiviste en faisant de l'analyse réflexive de la relation d'enquête comme relation sociale une condition d'intelligibilité des données produites. Le quatrième présente enfin différentes manières de procéder à l'analyse des relations sociales d'enquête comme levier de compréhension de l'objet.
Mobilisées !
Dans toutes les mobilisations sociales de la période récente, l’implication des femmes est forte et, pourtant, à chaque fois, elle surprend. Leur présence est interprétée comme le signe d’une contestation exceptionnelle. En réalité, ce qui mérite l’étonnement, c’est qu’on oublie leur participation. Car les femmes ont toujours pris la parole et la rue, avec des modalités d’action singulières. De la figure de la « ménagère » des Trente Glorieuses, à celle des « Rosies » dans les récentes manifestations contre la réforme des retraites, Fanny Gallot revisite le passé des luttes sociales depuis 1945. Elle montre comment les modalités d’action et les revendicat...
