Feminist thought(s) as dirty intellectuality: the case of Andrea Dworkin
Titelübersetzung:Feministische Gedanken als schmutzige Intellektualität: der Fall Andrea Dworkin
Autor/in:
Pivec, Natasa
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 7 (2015) 3, S 31-43
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Inhalt: Das breite Spektrum feministischer Gedanken von der Kunst bis zur Erkenntnistheorie, die sich um Geschlecht und seine vielfältigen Arrangements in der Gesellschaft drehen, werden als "anders" oder "schmutzig" dargestellt, wenn diese sich nicht in vorherrschende erkenntnistheoretische Prämissen oder künstlerische Standards der hegemonialen Männlichkeit einordnen lassen. Das Konzept der Andersheit wird der Wissenden/ Produzentin aufgrund ihres Geschlechtes und ihres epistemischen Fokus zugeschrieben, der dichotome Rahmungen eines Körper-Geist-Dualismus, erkenntnistheoretische Traditionen, geschlechtsspezifische Berufseinteilungen, Geschlechtsbinarismus und Körpernormen konventioneller Weiblichkeit durchbricht. Das Leben und Werk der radikalen Feministin Andrea Dworkin wird in der Analyse herangezogen, um die folgende theoretische Prämisse des Artikels zu bestätigen: Eine Frau, die sich als Wissende positioniert, Wissen produziert und als Feministin (selbst)kategorisiert (wird), wird als eine Bedrohung für das System der Geschlechterordnung, seine Strukturen, Diskurse und Praktiken wahrgenommen.
Inhalt: The wide spectrum of feminist thoughts, from art to epistemology, which are centred around gender and its multi-leveled arrangements in society is, when not aligned with predominant epistemic premises or artistic standards of hegemonic masculinity, rendered as Other or dirty. The concept of Otherness is ascribed to the knower/ producer on behalf of her sex and her epistemic focus, which transgresses several dichotomous frameworks of the body-mind dualism, epistemological traditions, gendered categorization of professions, gender binarism and body norms of conventional femininity. The life and work of radical feminist Andrea Dworkin was analyzed in order to confi rm the theoretical premise of the article, namely that when a woman positions herself as a knower and produces knowledge, (self)categorized as a feminist, she is perceived as a threat to the system of structures, discourses and practices of the gender order.
Schlagwörter:Feminismus; feminism; Wissen; knowledge; Kognition; cognition; Denken; thinking; soziale Ungleichheit; social inequality; Geschlechterverhältnis; gender relations; Männlichkeit; masculinity; Hegemonie; hegemony; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; Körperlichkeit; corporeality; Weiblichkeit; femininity; Bedrohung; threat; Intellektueller; intellectual; woman; Repräsentation; representation; Anderes; Verkörperung; Embodiment; Andrea Dworkin
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
The role of culture and society in the development of plot in Tanushree Podder's Escape from Harem and Gita Mehta's A River Sutra: a feminist reading
Autor/in:
Khandhar, Diren Ashok; Mani, Manimangai
Quelle: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (2015) 56, S 44-49
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Inhalt: Culture and Society are often the main gist of most novels. These two factors often influence and control the characters, thus helping in the development of the plot. A plot, as defined by Egan (1978), is used to indicate an outline of events and serves as a skeleton in a literary piece. In other words, it is a tool in making sure the main incidents or scenarios are presented in a particular order to establish a clear understanding of what is being written. Culture and society plays the essence in a novel as it constructs these main ideas in engaging the interest of a reader and also extends the intended message of the particular writer. This paper looks into how culture and society helps in developing the plots of the selected novels using the feminist approach. Tanushree Podder's, Escape from Harem (2013) and Gita Mehta's A River Sutra (1993) amazingly are both set in India. Podder and Mehta have inserted the perception society had over women and how male supremacy was glorified in many aspects. The essence of feminist approach was very much present in these two novels. According to Tyson (2006), feminism concerns the ways in which literature undermines the economic, political, social and psychological oppression on women. Though the setting of both novels fall in different eras but the theme of female oppression remains the same. The patriarchal society uses culture and religion as a tool to control women and oppress them. Both authors have shown how the women in the 17th century and in the 20th century face the same kind of judgment from the society and men in general.
Schlagwörter:Literatur; 20. Jahrhundert; Dominanz; Indien; Handlung; 17. Jahrhundert; Roman; Gesellschaft; society; culture; Mann; woman; Feminismus; literature; action; Kultur; India; man; feminism; twentieth century; dominance; novel; seventeenth century
SSOAR Kategorie:Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Weiblich, feministisch, Intellektuelle: Paradoxie oder Tabu?
Titelübersetzung:Female, feminist, intellectual: paradox or taboo?
Autor/in:
Dackweiler, Regina-Maria
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 7 (2015) 3, S 12-30
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Inhalt: Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach den Gründen für die anhaltend zu konstatierende Leerstelle weiblicher bzw. feministischer Intellektueller in der Historiografie und Soziologie der Intellektuellen nach. Hierfür wird von einem Spannungsfeld ausgegangen, das sich aus den Dimensionen von Anerkennung, Definition, (Selbst-)Autorisierung sowie Zugehörigkeit zu dieser Sozialfigur konstituiert. Mit Blick auf den Entstehungszusammenhang der Neuen Frauenbewegung sowie im Rückgriff auf feministische Erklärungsansätze und die Intellektuellentheorien von Bourdieu und Gramsci werden das Paradox der weiblichen bzw. das Tabu der feministischen Intellektuellen herausgearbeitet. Auf der Grundlage einer Skizze der frühen politischen Ideen der Neuen Frauenbewegung wird abschließend eine veränderte Genealogie der Intellektuellen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland gefordert.
Inhalt: This article examines why female and feminist intellectuals are still not included in the historiography and sociology of intellectuals. The assumption is that there is an area of tensions related to this social role based on the dimensions of recognition, definition, authorization and belonging. In view of the origins of the second women's movement and taking recourse to explanatory approaches to feminist theorists and to Bourdieu's and Gramsci's social theories of intellectuals, it is possible to elaborate the paradox of the female and the taboo of the feminist intellectual. Based on a draft of the early political ideas of the second women's movement, the article calls for a new genealogy of intellectuals in Germany.
Schlagwörter:Feminismus; feminism; Frauenbewegung; women's movement; Theorie; theory; Bourdieu, P.; Bourdieu, P.; Gramsci, A.; Gramsci, A.; historische Entwicklung; historical development; Wissenschaftler; scientist; soziale Ungleichheit; social inequality; Geschlechterverhältnis; gender relations; Klassengesellschaft; class society; Intellektueller; intellectual; woman; Federal Republic of Germany
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Madeleine de Scudéry - Intellektuelle avant la lettre?
Titelübersetzung:Madeleine de Scudéry - an intellectual woman in early modern France
Autor/in:
Hergenhan, Jutta
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 7 (2015) 3, S 61-76
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Inhalt: Intellektuelles Engagement wird in Frankreich häufig mit männlichen Akteuren und einem couragierten Eintreten für die universellen Werte der Aufklärung assoziiert. Schon im frühmodernen Frankreich des 17. Jahrhunderts waren jedoch auch Frauen - entgegen bestehender Standes- und Geschlechterkonventionen - intellektuell tätig. Als Schriftstellerinnen und Salonbetreiberinnen thematisierten einige von ihnen die Ungleichheit von Frauen und Männern und entwarfen Modelle für respektvollere Geschlechterbeziehungen. Eine dieser - sowohl in anerkennendem wie auch in spöttischem Sinne - als "Preziöse" bezeichneten Frauen war die Schriftstellerin Madeleine de Scudéry. Da sie sich in ihrem literarischen Werk und auch in ihren persönlichen Lebensentscheidungen in unkonventioneller und reflektierter Weise mit für Frauen sehr problematischen Themen wie "Bildung", "Ehe" oder "Schreiben und Publizieren" auseinandersetzte, stellt sie gleichzeitig eine Ausnahmefigur ihrer Zeit und den Prototyp einer frühen Intellektuellen dar.
Inhalt: Madeleine de Scudéry - an intellectual woman in early modern France In France, the idea of intellectual endeavour is closely associated with male actors defending the universal values of the Enlightenment. However, women already led an intellectual life back in 17th century France, notwithstanding contemporary social and gender-related conventions. As writers and salon hostesses, several of these women pleaded for more respectful gender relations and criticized existing inequalities between women and men. Madeleine de Scudéry was one of these women, who were called précieuses by their contemporaries. In both her literary writing and the choices she made in her personal life she confronted difficult topics for women, such as "education and knowledge", "marriage" and "female authorship". Madeleine de Scudéry adopted unconventional positions and took unorthodox personal decisions, and engaged in a profound refl ection of women's living conditions, which made her both an exceptional fi gure in her time and the prototype of an early intellectual.
Schlagwörter:Engagement; involvement; Intellektueller; intellectual; Frankreich; France; 17. Jahrhundert; seventeenth century; Feminismus; feminism; Geschlechterverhältnis; gender relations; Schriftsteller; writer; woman; soziale Ungleichheit; social inequality; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; Stereotyp; stereotype; Männlichkeit; masculinity; historische Entwicklung; historical development; Biographie; biography; Ehe; marriage; Autor; author; Preziöse; Scudéry
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Female body and sexual politics in Margaret Atwood's selected novels
Autor/in:
Mirenayat, Sayyed Ali; Soofastaei, Elaheh
Quelle: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (2015) 55, S 154-159
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Inhalt: Margaret Atwood is the most prominent Canadian writer. Her feminist ideology is clearly obvious in her novels. She overtly illustrates her feminism view in human rights equality and freedom of choice. Atwood's works are consisted of the fundamental freedom and human rights. In general, her fictions truly portray the women's rights that are equal to men's rights. Social constructions of gender are attacked by Atwood's novels. Her stories represent the silence and sexual discrimination in female characters. She is not only looking for annihilating of the gender system i.e. women's subjugation, but look at men and women at the same level in society. Female bodies in Atwood's point of view have been captured in patriarchal societies. Female protagonists in the selected novels explain noticeable symbols of bodily nervousness. Female characters are mostly used as objects in Atwood's stories. Women are considered as a tool or toy, as if they have no feelings, opinions or rights of their own. Body in female characters plays an important role and it is symbol of sexuality. Female body in Atwood's selected stories is under the cruel dominance by male and that is what she always tries to portray under the sexual politics. This paper aims to illustrate sexual politics though female body in Atwood's selected works.
Schlagwörter:Literatur; Sexualität; Geschlechterpolitik; woman; Feminismus; gender policy; literature; feminism; Viktimisierung; victimization; sexuality
SSOAR Kategorie:Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
gleich sicher? sicher gleich? Konzeptionen (queer) feministischer Schutzräume
Autor/in:
Kokits, Maya Joleen; Thuswald, Marion
Quelle: Femina Politica - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 24 (2015) 1, S 83-93
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Schlagwörter:Identität; gender; Feminismus; feminism; identity
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
A study of Carter's Wolf-Alice based on showalter's gynocriticism
Autor/in:
Nouri, Azadeh; Aziz Mohammadi, Fatemeh
Quelle: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (2015) 48, S 1-8
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Inhalt: One of the most radical and stylish fiction authors of the 20th century, Angela Carter, expresses her views of feminism through her various novels and fairy tales. Carter began experimenting with writing fairy tales in 1970, which coincided with the period of second wave feminism in the Unites States. The majority of Angela Carter's work revolve around a specific type of feminism, radical libertarian feminism and her critique of the patriarchal role that have been placed on women. In this article, the main concentrate is on heroine’s internalized consciousness which echoes in their behavior. All of the female protagonists in carter's short stories; such as The Company of Wolves, and Werewolf and mainly in Wolf-Alice have similar characteristics with different conditions, in which they are represented in a very negative light with less than ideal roles. In these stories, the protagonist is a young girl who has many conflicts with love and desire. Carter attempts to encourage women to do something about this degrading representation.
Schlagwörter:Literatur; literature; Erzählung; narrative; Feminismus; feminism; Emanzipation; emancipation; Patriarchat; patriarchy; Liebe; love; Pornographie; pornography; Carter, A.
SSOAR Kategorie:Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Feminism and the hard-boiled genre: breakdown in Sara Paretsky's breakdown
Autor/in:
Jabbari, Mohsen; Beyad, Maryam Soltan
Quelle: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (2015) 45, S 24-34
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Inhalt: As feminist re-writings of the genre of crime fiction (mostly the hard-boiled) from the 1980s onward, Sara Paretsky's Warshawski novels provide a fertile field for critical and cultural studies. The aims of this paper are twofold: first, it traces the generic influences on her latest novel Breakdown (2012) beyond the obvious male precursors of the hard-boiled (Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler) of the interwar period to the Gothic vogue in the early 19th century; and second, drawing on Roland Barthes's notion of readerly/writerly texts, Pierre Macherey’s critique of ideology in realist fiction, and Fredric Jameson's dialectical view of genre, it teases out the symptomatic fissures and contradictions in Paretsky's novel which betray the text’s inability to ultimately resist the ideology it intends to subvert.
Schlagwörter:Literatur; literature; Kriminalroman; detective novel; Realismus; realism; Fiktion; fiction (imagination); Feminismus; feminism; Ideologie; ideology; Genre; genre
SSOAR Kategorie:Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Kämpfe um die Normierung geschlechtergerechter Sprache: eine Fallgeschichte made in Austria
Autor/in:
Krondorfer, Birge
Quelle: Femina Politica - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 24 (2015) 1, S 116-121
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Schlagwörter:gender; standardization (techn.); Austria; öffentliche Meinung; Gender; Österreich; public opinion; language; Sprachgebrauch; Feminismus; Normierung; language usage; Sprache; equal opportunity policy; feminism; Gleichstellungspolitik
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
A gynocritical study of The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter
Autor/in:
Nouri, Azadeh; Aziz Mohammadi, Fatemeh
Quelle: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (2015) 48, S 100-106
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Inhalt: In 1979, Carter published one of her mast renowned collections of short fiction, The Bloody Chamber. The majority of Angela Carter's work revolve around a specific type of feminism, radical libertarian feminism and her critique of the patriarchal role that have been placed on women. which she promotes feminist due to her style, referred to as "Galm-Rock" feminism In this article, the main concentrate is on heroine's internalized consciousness which echoes in their behavior. All of the female protagonists in carter's short stories; such as The Werewolf, The Wolf-Alice, and mainly in The Company of Wolves have similar characteristics with different conditions, in which they are represented in a very negative light with less than ideal roles. In these stories, the protagonist is a young girl who has many conflicts with love and desire. Carter attempts to encourage women to do something about this degrading representation.
Schlagwörter:Literatur; literature; Erzählung; narrative; Feminismus; feminism; Emanzipation; emancipation; Patriarchat; patriarchy; Liebe; love; Pornographie; pornography; Carter, A.
SSOAR Kategorie:Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz