Frauen in Sanaa: öffentliche Präsenz und mediale Repräsentation
Titelübersetzung:Women in Sanaa: Public Appearance and Visual Representation
Autor/in:
Linke, Irina
Quelle: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 10 (2009) 2, 24 S
Inhalt: Ein explosionsartiger Anstieg der Mediennutzung (ausländisches Satellitenfernsehen, ein eigener nationaler Satellitenkanal sowie Foto- und Videopraxen) verändert nicht nur die "Öffentlichkeit", sondern den lokalen sozialen Raum in einem speziellen global-lokalen Spannungsfeld insgesamt.
In diesem Artikel wird gezeigt, wie Frauen in der Hauptstadt des Jemen Fernsehen und andere Bildmedien strategisch nutzen, indem sie entlang der Grenzen von Sichtbarkeit und Unsichtbarkeit die geschlechterspezifischen sozialen Räume ihrer Lebenswelt verändern. Medienbilder eröffnen als Teil der Lebenswelt der Akteure (Blick-) Räume und ermöglichen (Blick-) Kontakte. Die Blicke prägen den sozialen Raum und spielen bei der wechselseitigen Konstitution von Räumen und Körpern eine Rolle. Dies wird sowohl auf der performativen als auch auf der diskursiven Ebene verhandelt.
Die vorgestellte Fallstudie ist Teil eines Forschungsprojekts, das auf einem einjährigen Feldaufenthalt, Feldnotizen und 45 Stunden audiovisuellem Material beruht. Anhand der Diskurse der jungen Frauen über eigene Bilderpraxen wird nachvollzogen, wie sie die "Gefährdung" einer gesellschaftlichen Ordnung durchbuchstabieren, wie sie ihr Interesse an Veränderung artikulieren und welche strategischen Überlegungen sie anstellen, um "sichtbar" zu werden. Dabei verweist der Beitrag auf kulturell unterschiedliche Lesarten dessen, was man sehen kann.
Inhalt: An exponential increase in media usage in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa (foreign satellite channels, Yemeni TV, photography and video) changes not only the (media) public (Öffentlichkeit), but social spaces in a local setting within a particular global-local framework.
In this article I discuss women in the Yemeni capital who use television and other pictorial representations strategically, and, in reworking the frontiers between visibility and invisibility, change the gendered social spaces of their life world (Lebenswelt). Pictures, as parts of the life world open up views into new spaces ([Blick-] Räume) and make new relationships ([Blick-] Kontakte) possible. Looks and gazes determine social space and play a part in the social construction of bodies and spaces. This is negotiated on the performative as well as on the discursive level.
The case study I present is part of a larger research project based on one year of fieldwork, field notes and 45 hours of audio-visual material. Analysis of the discourses of young women about their own image practices reveals how they perceive the endangerment of a social order, how they articulate their interest in change, and their strategies for becoming "visible." Thus, this article refers to culturally different readings of what can be seen.
Schlagwörter:zone; Öffentlichkeit; Kulturwandel; Jemen; Akteur; Islamic society; cultural change; field research; Medien; ethnology; the public; social actor; Übersetzung; television; representation; Yemen; body; social space; audiovisual media; Fernsehen; Körper; translation; interdependence; satellite; gender; Repräsentation; Auswirkung; Raum; audiovisuelle Medien; Gender; woman; sozialer Wandel; Feldforschung; Interdependenz; impact; sozialer Raum; Ethnologie; lebenswelt; Satellit; gender-specific factors; Lebenswelt; social change; islamische Gesellschaft; media; Visuelle Anthropologie; visuelle Kultur; Performance; mediale Repräsentation; Un-/Sichtbarkeit; Gesicht; visual culture; fieldwork; Yemen; performance; social space; pictorial representation in the media; in-/visibility; face
SSOAR Kategorie:Entwicklungsländersoziologie, Entwicklungssoziologie, Technikfolgenabschätzung, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Rundfunk, Telekommunikation
Inhalt: European societies have experienced a decrease in the social importance of religious issues. Values and attitudes towards gender roles have also changed in the last decades. In European countries, people have become more egalitarian with respect to the position of women in society. The author tries to identify the relationship between secularization and changes in gender values. As a result of secularization, the individual value system has become fragmented and religious values have lost their coordinating role. The investigation employs cross-national and longitudinal analysis of European Values Survey data (1990, 1999), most of the European countries being included in the study. The results indicate the decreasing impact of traditional religious belief on values related to gender roles during the 1990s in Europe and a common pattern of relationships between gender values and religiosity in most European societies. (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Religiosität; religiousness; Säkularisierung; secularization; Gender; gender; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; woman; Rollenbild; role image; Rollenwandel; role change; Wertwandel; value change; Wertorientierung; value-orientation; Europa; Europe; Wertsystem; value system; Längsschnittuntersuchung; longitudinal study; EVS; EVS
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Religionssoziologie, Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Education gender gaps in Pakistan: is the labour market to blame
Autor/in:
Aslam, Monazza
Quelle: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 57 (2009) 4, S 747-84
Inhalt: Differential labor market returns to male and female education are one potential explanation for large gender gaps in education in Pakistan. We empirically test this explanation by estimating private returns to education separately for male and female wage earners. This article contributes to the literature by using a variety of methodologies (ordinary least squares, Heckman correction, two‐stage least squares, and household fixed effects) in order to estimate economic returns to education. The latest nationally representative data - the Pakistan Integrated Household Survey (2002) - are used. Earnings function estimates consistently reveal a sizable gender asymmetry in economic returns to education, with returns to women's education being substantially and statistically significantly higher than men's. The return to an additional year of schooling ranges between 7% and 11% for men and between 13% and 18% for women. There are also large, direct returns to women's education at low levels of schooling, and the education‐earnings profile is more convex for women than for men. However, a decomposition of the gender wage gap (into the component "explained" by differing male and female endowments and the residual component) suggests that there is highly differentiated treatment by employers. We conclude that the total labor market returns are much higher for men, despite returns to education being higher for women. This suggests that parents may have an investment motive in allocating more resources to boys than to girls within households.
Gender Segregated Labour Markets in the Baltics: What are Prevailing - Similarities or Differences?
Autor/in:
Vöörmann, Rein
Quelle: Studies of Transition States and Societies, 1 (2009) 1, S 66-80
Inhalt: "This paper focuses on men and women and the gender segregation of jobs in the Baltic countries. Based
on the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian labour force survey data, a look is taken at the employment
structure of men and women by industries and occupations, as well as at the question whether or
not gender segregation in the labour market has been increased after the collapse of the communist
systems in the region under consideration. Empirical data demonstrate that in respect to industrial
gender segregation there is some increase in Estonia and Latvia, but not in Lithuania. Occupational gender
segregation demonstrates more stability in all three Baltic States. Compared to the Western European
countries, the main trend is towards bigger similarities." (author's abstract)
"Sportstudentin beim Diskuswurf". Die Konstruktion des Frauenkörpers in der Fotografie des Nationalsozialismus
Titelübersetzung:"Sportstudentin beim Diskuswurf" ["Discus-throwing Female Sports Student"]. The Construction of the Female Body in National Socialism
Autor/in:
Schmidtke, Adrian
Quelle: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 9 (2008) 2, 21 S
Inhalt: Fotografien waren zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus ein wesentliches Machtinstrument, welches sowohl der propagandistischen Inszenierung von Idealtypen, als auch der Lenkung der visuellen Wahrnehmung diente. Anhand von historischen Fotografien untersucht der Artikel mittels ikonografisch-ikonologischer und serieller Fotoanalysen die Genese der jeweiligen Idealtypen am Beispiel des Frauenbildes und zeigt dabei Brüche und Ambivalenzen bei der Darstellung auf.
Inhalt: During the time of National Socialism, photography was an essential tool of power for conducting propagandistic ideal types as well as directing visual perception. On the basis of an iconographic-iconologic analysis of historical photographs, this article investigates the genesis of particular ideal types by taking the conception of women as an example and points out antagonisms and ambivalences in the representation and illustration of this conception.
Wege und Holzwege der Genderforschung: ein aktueller Überblick
Autor/in:
Nüberlin, Gerda
Quelle: Erwachsenenbildung : Vierteljahresschrift für Theorie und Praxis, 54 (2008) 3, S 147-154
Inhalt: Was bewegt die aktuelle Genderforschung? Nach Jahrzehnten des Engagements der neuen Frauenbewegung ist die Geschlechterforschung institutionell und personell stabilisiert. Wie und wozu nutzt sie die Überwindung ihres Nischendaseins? Worin bestehen ihre Fragestellungen, ihre Forschungsergebnisse und Entwicklungsperspektiven? Was trägt sie zur Analyse der fortbestehenden geschlechtsspezifischen Belastungen von Lebenslagen und Lebensführungsoptionen von Frauen bei?
"Blood tests with the eyes": negotiating conjugal relations during the HIV/AIDS crisis in rural Namibia
Autor/in:
Pauli, Julia; Schnegg, Michael
Quelle: Aridity, change and conflict in Africa : proceedings of an international ACACIA conference held at Königswinter, Germany, October 1-3, 2003. Köln (Colloquium Africanum), 2007, S 411-439
Inhalt: Research from different parts of Africa indicates that to grasp the HIV/AIDS catastrophe, an in-depth understanding of conjugal relationships is crucial. In casual, short-term sexual interactions, safer sex practices, foremost condom use, have become more and more prevalent. This does not hold true for long-term relationships. Marriage rates have substantially declined in many parts of southern Africa. Without marriage as a possible frame for conjugal relations meanings and practices of 'love' have become the structuring concept of conjugality. Love relations are perceived as based on trust. This contradicts the use of condoms, a visible sign of mistrust. Based on long-term ethnographic field research in rural northwest Namibia we analyse the interconnections between conjugal relations, perceptions of risk and practices of safe sex in detail.
Rates of return to education by gender in Pakistan
Autor/in:
Aslam, Monazza
Quelle: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education, Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP); Cambridge (RECOUP Working Papers, 1), 2007. 41 S
Inhalt: Differential labour market returns to male and female education are one potential explanation for large gender gaps in education in Pakistan. We empirically test this explanation by estimating private returns to education separately for male and female wage earners. This paper contributes to the literature by using a variety of methodologies (Ordinary Least Squares, Heckman correction, 2SLS and household fixed effects) in order to consistently estimate economic returns to education. Earnings function estimates reveal a sizeable gender asymmetry in economic returns to education, with returns to women's education being substantially and statistically significantly higher than men's. However, a decomposition of the gender wage gap suggests that there is highly differentiated treatment by employers. We conclude that the total labour market returns are much higher for men, despite returns to education being higher for women. This suggests that parents may have an investment motive in allocating more resources to boys than to girls within households.
Unzeitgemäße Utopien: Migrantinnen zwischen Selbsterfindung und Gelehrter Hoffnung
Autor/in:
Castro Varela, María do Mar
Quelle: Bielefeld (Kultur und soziale Praxis), 2007. 301 S
Inhalt: In der vorliegenden Untersuchung werden Migrantinnen nach ihren Utopien befragt, ihren "kleinen Träumen" und "großen Sehnsüchten" nachgespürt. Dabei gelingt es, die enge Verflochtenheit zwischen utopischem Denken und migrantischen Praxen herauszuarbeiten und Migrantinnen als kritisch-politische Mitglieder einer demokratischen Gesellschaft darzustellen. Die utopischen Beiträge erscheinen ungetrübt als paradox, naiv und gleichzeitig politisch radikal, strategisch durchdacht. Einseitige Forschungsperspektiven, die Migrantinnen entweder zu "Heldinnen" verklären oder sie in der Rolle als "Opfer" festzurren, werden hier gleichzeitig problematisiert und irritiert.