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“Some Women Are Born Fighters”: Discursive Constructions of a Fighter’s Identity by Female Finnish Judo Athletes
2017
Martial arts and combat sports have been traditionally associated with masculinity, and a range of contradictory meanings have been attached to women’s engagement and experiences. The present study draws on cultural praxis and feminist poststructuralist frameworks to explore how female martial artists are subjectified to dominant cultural discourses surrounding fighting and competition. Interviews with nine female judoka (judo athletes) were gathered in Finland and analyzed using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA). The FDA revealed that in female judoka talk, judo was constructed as a sport for all, but also as a male domain and a manly sport with fighting and competition as innate mascul…
Populism on the loose
2018
Populismitutkimus on pääosin keskittynyt etsimään populismia määrittäviä yhteisiä piirteitä tai hahmottamaan populismia sosiaalisena logiikkana. Tässä kirjassa tarkastellaan populismin sisäisiä eroja. Populismi vaihtelee ensinnäkin kulttuurikontekstin mukana. Populistiset liikkeet ovat jopa yhteiskunnallisesti samankaltaisissa maissa, kuten Pohjoismaissa, yleensä varsin erilaisia. Toiseksi populismiin vaikuttavat merkittävästi sellaiset muuttujat kuin sukupuoli, luokka ja uskonto. Ja kolmanneksi populismin käsite sinänsä ”irti” tavalla, johon sopii Ernesto Laclaun populismiteoriasta tuttu termi ”kelluva merkitsijä”. Tämän kirjan otsikko, ”Populism on the loose”, viittaa yhtä aikaa kahteen e…
DocPoint: sisaruutta vuosikymmenten läpi
2019
The stigma of feminism: disclosures and silences regarding female disadvantage in the video game industry in US and Finnish media stories
2021
This article examines how the issue of gender, particularly women’s (under)representation in the video game industry, is framed in US and Finnish media. Building on the notion of stigma surrounding feminism, the article examines discourse practices as acts of managing the image of feminism. The findings illustrate five stigma management strategies that offer the possibility of maintaining socially accepted ways of discussing gender inequality and portraying women in mainstream media. Using critical discourse analysis, the paper addresses how the use of these stigma management strategies connects with different contemporary feminisms. The strategies used and their ideological backgrounds var…
Pornography at different steges of girls psycho-social development : context, subject and changing meanings
2007
Spectacles and artist-creators : representation of women through fashion on CD-ROM Ambitious bitch by Marita Liulia
2002
Diary of an anxious soul and how pole dancing saved me : an autoethnography
2017
Þórhallsdóttir, Sveindís. (2017). Diary of an anxious soul and how pole dancing saved me: An autoethnography. Master’s thesis in sport and exercise psychology. Faculty of Sport Sciences. University of Jyväskylä. 150p. In this thesis, I use narrative reflection from an evocative autoethnographic standpoint to explore the multifaceted interaction between stereotypes, norms and values and their effect on my perception of my own worth, my battle with generalized anxiety disorder and with my cognitive dissonance fused frustration related to discovering and enjoying a highly stigmatized recreational activity – recreational pole dancing. The text features analysis of important events in my life in…
At the Interface of National and Transnational: The Development of Finnish Policies against Domestic Violence in Terms of Gender Equality
2017
Although gender inequalities are the main social mechanisms behind the (re)production of domestic violence, policy responses to domestic violence as a gender-related problem vary at both the national and transnational levels. This article examines the interaction between national and transnational policies against domestic violence, focusing on how domestic violence is constructed as a gender-related problem in Finland, a Nordic welfare state that is often cited as a role model in gender equality. Using the conception of policies as historically changing and culturally specific discourses, this article offers an overview of the ways in which the perspective on domestic violence of the trans…