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Managed Multiculturalism in Finnish Media Initiatives
2007
This paper focuses on Finnish mainstream journalism featuring multiculturalism. Three different initiatives are analysed with a qualitative text method founded on discourse and frame analysis. Finnish mainstream journalism took a multicultural turn in the mid-990s, two decades later than in neighbouring Sweden where similar initiatives were launched in the 1970s. The paper takes a critical look at the power relations these initiatives assert or transgress, how multicultural discourses position various actors in society, and how the mainstream media encounter cultural and ethnic differences in a changing demographic situation with a positive intention.
Conclusions, Discussion, and Policy Implications
2016
Our research on Latvian older women challenges the trope of vulnerability which generally surrounds the framing of older migrants’ lives. Through their ability to be mobile, find work, and experience a sensual reawakening, Latvian older women are able to question stereotypes about ageing and older women. They are able to escape their poor, dead-end lives in Latvia and develop a better future for themselves. The findings of the book offer policymakers insights into the realities of ageing working migrants, pensions policy, a more inclusive transnational citizenship, the need for better working conditions, and ongoing care arrangements for older migrants post-retirement, either abroad or back…
From mental hygiene to mental health: ideology, discourses and practices in Franco’s Spain (1939–75)
2017
Based on an analysis of the discourses, the ideological appropriation and the practical influence of mental hygiene in Spanish psychiatry during the early years of the Francoist regime, this article examines its decline and subsequent replacement by the new concept of mental health promoted by the World Health Organization and other international bodies from the mid-twentieth century. The old approach, essentially focused on the prophylaxis of insanity within the framework of a set of interventionist policies of social defence, was thus transformed from the beginning of the 1960s into a much more ambitious and comprehensive project which sought to promote the psychosocial balance and perfo…
Femmes de la Préhistoire
2021
Que savons-nous des transformations de leur corps ? Quels rôles avaient-elles dans la famille ? Quels étaient leurs tâches quotidiennes, leurs réalisations techniques et leurs talents artistiques ? De quels pouvoirs disposaient-elles ?De nouvelles découvertes et de nouveaux questionnements rendent enfin visibles ces femmes qui vécurent aux temps lointains de la Préhistoire, de l’aube du Paléolithique jusqu’aux confins de l’âge du fer.En éclairant sous un angle neuf la vie matérielle, familiale, sociale, religieuse des mondes de la Préhistoire, Claudine Cohen ancre la réflexion actuelle sur la différence des sexes et le statut social des femmes jusque dans la profondeur des millénaires.
Femmes, plantes et fibres. De la cueillette à l’invention de l’agriculture
2022
L’homme chasse, la femme cueille ; l’homme apporte la nourriture, la femme la prépare et la cuit. Ces idées sommaires sur la division sexuelle du travail dans les sociétés paléolithiques ont longtemps constitué la trame d’une vision hiérarchique de la distribution des tâches féminines et masculines – les activités des hommes, plus nobles, pourvoyant à l’essentiel de la subsistance du groupe, tandis que celles des femmes, accessoires, n’y contribuent que de façon mineure. De nouvelles approches les remettent désormais en question.
Dépasser les préjugés pour retrouver les femmes de la préhistoire
2022
La question de la place des femmes aux temps préhistoriques n’a guère été prise en compte en France avant les années 2000, alors même que depuis au moins trois décennies l’archéologie préhistorique anglo-saxonne déployait un vaste ensemble d’hypothèses, de modèles, de recherches et de publications en ce domaine. Comment expliquer ce contraste ? Et où en sommes-nous aujourd’hui ?
Introduction
2012
Men will be Men?: Masculinities on display in the Facebook communication practices of Pakistani men
2021
In the past decade, the popularization of social media in Pakistan has greatly influenced the way in which people communicate and interact with each other. The rapidly evolving nature of online soc...
Gender and the superhero narrative
2019
As the title of the volume promises, Gender and the Superhero Narrative offers an insight into the ways gendered norms and ideals have been negotiated in superhero narratives. Yet this is not all i...
Of Termites and Ovaries on Strike: Rethinking Medical Metaphors of the Female Body
2017
AbstractThis article explores how problematic or detrimental metaphors of the female body can be reimagined. Metaphors that compare the body to a machine or factory influence the ways in which wome...