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Crossing Boundaries: Bodily Paradigms in Jeanette Winterson’s Fiction 1985-2000
2008
Since the publication of her first novel, Jeanette Winterson has been acclaimed as one of the most promising writers on the English postmodern literary scene. This study takes into consideration seven works, from Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) to The PowerBook (2000) in which Winterson codifies bodies as culturally constructed signs which can be re-signified and transformed. The strategies she adopts to remodel the body reveal a narrative itinerary that goes from the assertion of the lesbian body of the protagonist in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit to the virtual bodies of the interactive world in The PowerBook. Winterson works out new body paradigms to subvert the effects of social …
Enabling and constraining family: young women building their educational paths in Tanzania
2015
For an increasing number of African girls and women, upgrading the level of education has become a strategy for life improvement. This paper analyses the role that family plays in enabling women's education and contributes to understanding on the interconnectivity of education, work and family in women's lives in collective societies. The analysis focuses on how young Tanzanian women perceive the role of family and education in their ‘youth task’, of becoming adult. The analysis is based on interviews with seven young Tanzanian women enrolled in non-formal secondary education and nine professional women enrolled in higher education. The results show that the women were determined to pursue …
Rethinking gender and technology within intersections in the Global South
2019
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines mobile technology use in the Global South through the lens of intersectional understandings of power. It explores the integration of mobile phones in the lives of women from Gishu County in Kenya, and the meanings and symbolism attributed to this technology. The book deals with the material-feminist concept of social reproduction to understand the deepening precarity of the urban poor in Tanzania and their gendered responses to it. It explains the concept of young men’s financial inclusion linked to the proliferation of mobile money in Uganda. The book discusses th…
Reimagining humanity in Battlestar Galactica, Bionic Woman and V
2015
Äitien kokemukset pitkäkestoisesta imetyksestä
2021
YTT Jenny Säilävaaran sukupuolentutkimuksen väitöskirja "Pitkään imettäneet äidit : tutkimus äitien fyysisestä, sosiaalisesta ja emotionaalisesta tilasta" tarkastettiin Jyväskylän yliopistossa 29.1.2021. Vastaväittäjänä toimi akatemiatutkija Riikka Homanen. Väitöskirja on luettavissa: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-39-8503-5 nonPeerReviewed
Antigender-liike, kristillisyys ja oikeistopopulismi : sukupuolen politiikkaa
2020
Gender-käsitteen vastustaminen liittyy sukupuolen poliittiseen neuvotteluun. Kun mielipideilmasto vapautuu ja naisten ja seksuaalivähemmistöjen oikeuksien kirjo laajenee, liberaalien arvojen vastustajat kokevat olonsa uhatuksi ja tukeutuvat kireään moralismiin. nonPeerReviewed
"Ei tehdä mitään numeroo" : heteronormatiivisuus ja sukupuolen moninaisuus liikunnanopettajien puhetavoissa seksuaali- ja sukupuolivähemmistöihin kuu…
2020
Tutkimme tässä artikkelissa liikunnanopettajien puhetapoja seksuaali- ja sukupuolivähemmistöihin kuuluvista oppilaista koululiikunnassa. Aineisto koostuu kymmenen opettajan haastatteluaineistosta sekä 105 opettajan verkkokyselyaineistosta. Analysoimme laadullisella sisällönanalyysilla puhetavoista heteronormatiivisuutta sekä sukupuolen moninaisuutta. Hallitsevan puhetavan seksuaali- ja sukupuolivähemmistöihin kuuluvien oppilaiden ja opetuskäytäntöjen näkökulmasta muodostavat sukupuolitetut käytännöt, joita liikunnanopettajat haastavat pyrkimällä ei-sukupuolittavaan kielenkäyttöön ja ryhmäjakojen ylityksiin. Parhaiksi tavoiksi edistää seksuaali- ja sukupuolivähemmistöjen yhdenvertaisuutta ja…
Performing Disgust : Affective Intersections of Misogyny, Racism, and Homophobia in Radical-Right Online Discussion
2023
Social media is an increasingly important tool for the dissemination of misogynistic, xenophobic, and nationalist radical-right messages. As injurious modes of communication spread on the internet and trickle into societal discussions, polarizing communication also becomes normalized in traditional media and everyday discussions. In this chapter, we trace how disgust becomes politicized in radical-right populist rhetoric online. The radical right movement’s affective discourse is used to arouse strong emotions in the followers. We are interested in how repulsion toward women, typical of texts published in many online environments, affectively intersects with repulsion towards (other) gender…
Multiskilled in many ways : Ghanaian Female Journalists Between Job and Home
2020
In Ghana, feminisation of journalism profession has become a fact: more girls are entering journalism programmes in the Universities, and the number of women employees are growing in the newsrooms. The problem of balancing worktime arrangements (e.g. irregular and unpredictable work schedules, weekend work and long working hours) with equally important domestic obligations are familiar to most female journalists around the globe. Even in countries with well-developed social support structures, and well-defined labour laws, the current nature of journalism worktime arrangements impedes many female journalists to achieve work–life balance. For most Ghanaian female journalists, the culturally …