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Conformity to Sex-Typed Design in Modern Society
2017
Considerable attention has been paid to the meaning of product-design gender cues regarding product and brand evaluations. According to self-congruity theory, the gender schema theory, as well as the product-schema congruity theory, traditional consumers react favorably toward sex- or gender-specific product attributes. On the contrary, a twist in gender roles, evolving by emancipation and continual social change, has been identified, which call these congruity assumptions firmly into question. Hence, our study concentrates on the following research question: Is stereotypic sex-typed design still a key principle generating favorable product attitudes and moreover enhancing consumer’s actual…
A Pedagogy of ht Subalterns: Gramsci and the Groups 'on the margins of history'
2017
In the 1980s, a group of South Asian scholars pioneered Subaltern Studies drawing on one of Gramsci’s most famous and used categories: the subaltern. This chapter attempts a philological analysis of Gramsci’s work to show how the use of this term has been at times incorrect, in part because of the lack, until recently, of complete translations of Gramsci’s writings. Subaltern Studies’ interpretation has arguably oriented Gramsci’s notion of the subaltern to the ethical and political needs of an emancipatory project. This does not completely undermine the fruitfulness of a scholarship capable of using a concept which had been previously neglected in defining marginal individuals without bind…
Some consideration about the gender violence in two States of Eastern and Western Europe
2015
The purpose of the essay is to overcome interpretative dualism between Italian people and Serbian people about gender violence against women. In a comparative approach it will find elements of continuity between the decline of male domination in Italy and the decline of patriarchal power in Serbia as a result of a variety of historical and social causes that, inside the paper, are explained. The emancipation of women finds a block in the violence suffered by partners in some familiar contexts. While globalization and unemployment seem to deprive men of the marks of traditional power, but “men in decline” have an post-patriarchal “identity revanche” in assuming the dominant role of perpetrat…
Education and the Demand for Emancipation
2014
This paper puts forward the hypothesis that in recent decades, pupils of schools in the western world have been given a new form of individuality. This construction has been nourished by both the demand for emancipation as it was expressed in the critical sociology of education (and pedagogy) and by the neoliberal turn in education policy. It unfolds consequences of such an alliance between romantic and neoliberal individualism, and argues that some of Simmel's concepts might fruitfully be engaged to grasp important aspects of today's educational culture. Against this backdrop, the paper discusses the construction of the new individuality in regard to educational changes in control and disc…
O rozwoju polskich dialektów
2014
The article deals with a phenomenon of the evolution of dialects. With respect to traditional dialects, the new post-dialectal formations are characterized not so much by the systemic changes but rather by the functional and pragmatic ones; thus, in their defining, those phenomena should be considered. The first change that had occurred in the original phase of the creation of the Polish ethnical language, under the influence of the dominating variation (i.e., culturally supreme), was the change of the hierarchies of inflexion in the diasystem of the national language, from a horizontal organization (equivalent dialects) into hierarchical one (dominating literary language and functionally l…
Transhumanismo, discurso transgénero y digitalismo: ¿exigencias de justicia o efectos del espíritu de abstracción?
2021
There are three great existential challenges for the human being in the present time: transhumanism, transgender discourse and digitalism. These three phenomena are enormously powerful today because they are driven by two overwhelming forces which, however, tend to collide opposing each other. On the one hand, they are encouraged by a demand for justice and emancipation, which seeks to end deeply rooted forms of discrimination and to seek effective equality among all human beings. On the other hand, they are sustained on a philosophical basis that denies the intelligibility of reality and the teleological condition of human existence, proposing instead, as the only guide to orient human lif…
Emancipation Through Sports: Doctors and the Rise of the Female Body in Finlandc.1900–1920
2012
While the cultural history of body and sports have become well-established fields of historical studies since the 1980s, it has been demonstrated that medical practice has functioned as a moral discourse which produces a regulation of the female body. It has been realised that theories (e.g. of ‘degeneration’) concerning the functioning of the human body bore a great significance to planning and defining the programmes of physical education, gymnastics and sports in the spirit of muscular nationalism. Doctors studying human physiology and training were eager to control not only the female body but also the mind of a gymnast or a sportswoman. This is what happened also in Finland from the la…
Educación superior femenina y nuevas conformaciones identitarias: Juventud Universitaria Femenina (1919-1930)
2017
This article analyses the way the Juventud Universitaria Femenina (JUF) was set up in 1920, just a few years after women were allowed to take higher studies in Spain,with the main aims of building and giving meanings to the new identity of "female university students ".In a social setting in which some tinycracks were being made in the model of household femininity, the JUF disseminated the discourse and action taken by these intellectually trained professional women who, from 1928, extended their social-political participation, also demanding equal rightsfor women.By forming linguistic structures and with new life experience and practices, this was how the JUF trained a minority sector of …
Cycle de conférences "Emancipation par le savoir", Conférence 2 Jörg Lauster
2022
L’université est une fabrique de savoirs et nous, enseignants-chercheurs, sommes les passeurs de ces savoirs. Nous nous inscrivons dans la lignée des philosophes des Lumières qui chérissaient le savoir comme un moyen d’émancipation, l’instruction permettant aux individus d’acquérir les compétences intellectuelles pour se libérer des dominations. Tout comme les Lumières, confrontés aux enjeux de civilisation de notre temps – enjeux climatiques, enjeux géopolitiques, enjeux économiques et énergétiques – nous faisons aussi l’expérience qu’il faut oser le savoir : « Sapere aude ! » nous dit Kant. Le savoir est un défi permanent, une conquête, un manifeste, un commencement jamais une fin ; savoi…
Spaces of Liberation? Geo-Hermeneutical Reading of the New Women’s Novel in Jordan
2017
Contemporary feminist novelists in Jordan are raising issues of emancipation, patriarchal society, violence against women and social attitudes in unaccustomed ways unknown earlier in the country. This is embedded within the political and socio-economic developments taking place in the country since 1990. The main aim of this scenario is to explore and to re-think the space-gender nexus in the new women’s novel using geo-hermeneutical approaches.