This article explores the methodological and ethical matters I encountered during my field research in the Islamic Republic of Iran for my PhD dissertation on gender issues. These observations are based on my own experience, thoughts and
Doing Gender Research as a ‘Gendered Subject’
Challenges and Sparks of Being a Dual-Citizen Woman Researcher in Iran
Rassa Ghaffari
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Other
- Pages:
- 130–142 (13 total)
Autonomous Vehicles and Gender
A Commentary
Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder
of gender and identity developing as some of the most significant. We can understand matters of gender and power by (at least) two vectors: discursive formations in which language use frames experience, and individual performed experiences—ones that
Gender and Empire
The Imprisonment of Women in Eighteenth-Century Siberia
Gwyn Bourlakov
the consolidation of imperial power and illustrates the gendered dynamic of exile and incarceration. Convents were not only communal spaces for religious women but also prisons where violent intimacies were established to dislocate, dispossess, and
Gender, Leadership and Representative Democracy
The Differential Impacts of the Global Pandemic
Kim Rubenstein, Trish Bergin, and Pia Rowe
participation. These factors profoundly affect levels of trust in public decision making. The COVID-19 pandemic provides a useful framework to reflect on how the leadership “picture” literally looks and the place of gender in thinking about the underpinnings of
In Democratic Theory
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Article Commentary
- Pages:
- 94–103 (10 total)
Gendered Images and Soviet Subjects
How the Komsomol Archive Enriched My Understanding of Gender in Soviet War Culture
Adrienne M. Harris
My research investigates questions of identity and memory as shaped primarily by the Second World War and the fall of communist regimes in the Eastern Bloc. I aim to elucidate the construction of national and gender identities, the creation of
A gendered ethnography of elites
Women, inequality, and social reproduction
Luna Glucksberg
Introduction: A gendered, critical ethnography of elites This article answers the call of this theme section—for an anthropology of elites that is both ethnographic and attuned to political economic critique—by looking ethnographically at the
“Undoing” Gender
Nexus of Complicity and Acts of Subversion in The Piano Teacher and Black Swan
Neha Arora and Stephan Resch
Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher (2001) and Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan (2010) are films about women directed by men. Both films unorthodoxly chart women artists’ struggle with the discipline imposed on them by the arts and by their live-in mothers. By portraying mothers as their daughters’ oppressors, both films disturb the naïve “women = victims and men = perpetrators” binary. Simultaneously, they deploy audiovisual violence to exhibit the violence of society’s gender and sexuality policy norms and use gender-coded romance narratives to subvert the same gender codes from within this gender discourse. Using Judith Butler’s and Michael Foucault’s theories, we argue that Haneke and Aronofsky “do” feminism unconventionally by exposing the nexus of women’s complicity with omnipresent societal power structures that safeguard gender norms. These films showcase women concurrently as victim-products and complicit partisans of socially constructed gender ideology to emphasize that this ideology can be destabilized only when women “do” their gender and sexuality differently through acts of subversion.
Mike Classon Frangos
female-gendered bodies in the history of science and culture. Strömquist's comics are filled with footnotes and references to academic sources that function to legitimate the author's discussions of cultural history and gender studies. Swedish reviewers
In European Comic Art
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 45–69 (25 total)
The gender of coffee
Women and reconciliation initiatives in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina
Elissa Helms
This article explores the gendering of reconciliation initiatives from the perspective of Bosniac women active in women's NGOs in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina. I illustrate how established patriarchal gender relations and socialistera models of women's community involvement framed the ways in which some women's NGO participants constructed essential ethno-national and gender differences, in contrast to dominant donor discourses. This leads to exploration of how gender patterns embedded in the institution of komšiluk (good-neighborliness), particularly women's coffee visits, provided both obstacle and opportunity for renewed life together among ethnic others separated by wartime ethnic cleansing. Distinguishing between the two concepts, I show how, from the perspective of women's roles and experiences, “life together” may be all that displaced women want or expect out of “reconciliation” initiatives, and that even this may be beyond the capacity of many displaced people to forego talk about injustices and guilt stemming from the war.
Identity and Gender Politics in Contemporary Shakespearean Rewriting
Julia Pascal’s The Yiddish Queen Lear
Özlem Özmen
. Pascal’s play also lends itself to reading in terms of gender politics, both as an adaptation of Shakespeare from a female point of view and as a work in its own right with its depiction of strong female characters. In this play, Pascal brings national
In European Judaism
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 196–204 (9 total)