What Has "Mater" Fostered? Surveys of Feminist Scholarship

1986 ◽  
Vol 31 (12) ◽  
pp. 935-936 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith A. Howard
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Scholarship

African Leadership in Children's Literature: Illustrations from the Shona Ngano (Folktale) Genre

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-332
Author(s):  
Godwin Makaudze
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
African Society ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Positive Images ◽  
African Leadership ◽  
Gender Specific

Feminist scholarship sees African society as traditionally patriarchal, while the colonists saw traditional African leadership as lacking in values such as democracy, tolerance, and accountability, until these were imposed by Europeans. Using Afrocentricity as a theoretical basis, this article examines African leadership as portrayed in the Shona ngano [folktale] genre and concludes that, in fact, leadership was neither age- nor gender-specific and was democratic, tolerant, and accountable. It recommends further research into African oral traditions as a way of arriving at more positive images of traditional Africa and her diverse heritage.

How Girls Generation Use Erotic Capital?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adib Rifqi Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Musical Performances ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Workplace Romance ◽  
Erotic Capital

We didn’t work like common women's studies work on sexuality that generally focuses on sexual harassment or workplace romance to the exclusion of strategic forms of erotic capital. However, we consider women’s strategic sexual performances as a form of social influence and address the positive and negative consequences that may follow. This review highlights the occurrence and complexities of erotic capital in Girls Generation’s musical performances and modelling career, then discusses the important implications of use their erotic capital (i.e. face and leg) to influence others or gain desired ends. In so doing, the findings highlight a need for rethinking traditional conceptualizations of empowerment and initiates a new direction for feminist scholarship in this regard.

OZA KIOZA

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adib Rifqi Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Workplace Romance ◽  
Erotic Capital

The work of women's studies on sexuality generally focuses on sexual harassment or workplace romance to the exclusion of strategic forms of erotic capital. We consider women’s strategic sexual performances as a form of social influence and address the positive and negative consequences that may follow. We provides narrative biography of Oza Kioza as a singer. Then, this review highlights the occurrence and complexities of erotic capital in Oza Kioza's career and discusses the important implications of use her erotic capital (i.e. breast) to influence others or gain desired ends. In so doing, the findings highlight a need for rethinking traditional conceptualizations of empowerment whereby resistance equals empowering and reproduction equals disempowering, and initiates a new direction for feminist scholarship in this regard.

Princess Lexie: A Glance Journey of A Princess for Our Time

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adib Rifqi Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Workplace Romance ◽  
Erotic Capital

Women's studies work on sexuality generally focuses on sexual harassment or workplace romance to the exclusion of strategic forms of erotic capital. I consider women’s strategic sexual performances as a form of social influence and address the positive and negative consequences that may follow. This thesis highlights the occurrence and complexities of erotic capital in Princess Lexie video performances nor discusses the important implications of use her erotic capital (i.e. breast and ass) to influence others or gain desired ends. In so doing, the findings highlight a need for rethinking traditional conceptualizations of empowerment whereby resistance equals empowering and reproduction equals disempowering, and initiates a new direction for feminist scholarship in this regard. This thesis dedicating to Princess Lexie, as my intellectual tribute for the adorably cute dangerously manipulative female.

The Resurrection Body

2019 ◽  
pp. 660-674
Author(s):  
Taylor G. Petrey
Keyword(s):  
Radical Change ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Synoptic Gospels ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Approaches To Studying ◽  
Early Christian

This chapter surveys the relevant ancient Christian and Jewish texts on the resurrection that discuss gender and sexuality and the scholarship about these topics. It provides particular emphasis on the Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels, Paul, and the early Christian reception of their ideas in the second through fourth centuries. The saying of Jesus that those who are resurrected shall be “as angels” is central to early Christian theologies of the body and sexuality. Paul’s discussion of the nature of the resurrected body and the importance of the parts also informs how early Christians developed these ideas. The tension in early Christian writing about the resurrection was between those who emphasized continuity between the mortal and resurrected self, and those who emphasized a radical change between the two. Further, the chapter provides an overview to major scholarly methods and approaches to studying the resurrection, including feminist scholarship.

Neoliberal Feminist Scholarship in Biblical Studies

2020 ◽  
pp. 157-179
Author(s):  
Esther Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Biblical Theology ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Historical Criticism ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Relative Utility

This essay provides a critical analysis of the neoliberal grounding of feminist biblical studies. I outline the main problems generated by this framework, notably fragmentation, repetition, the absence of theory, the limiting emphasis on method, and above all the validation of traditional (male-dominant) scholarly norms and practices. Seeking greater inclusion within biblical studies, neoliberal feminism has endorsed the normalizing approach to patriarchy and rejected its radical interrogation in women’s studies. My thumbnail historical overview of the field links disconnected publications in biblical theology, historical criticism, and literary criticism. The analysis shows that these possibilities advocate the relative utility of re-objectifying women with five hermeneutical strategies. They are: first, the depatriarchalizing strategy, exemplified in Phyllis Trible’s work; second, the historicizing strategy as employed most prominently by Carol Meyers; third, the textualizing strategy exemplified by Ilana Pardes; fourth, the mythologizing strategy employed by Susan Ackerman; and fifth, the idealizing strategy exemplified by Frymer-Kensky. By placing my critical analysis within the broader context of transformational feminist critiques published at the same time, I argue for a shift from the “biblical” to the “feminist” in feminist biblical studies.

French Freemasonry, Women, and Feminist Scholarship

1996 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet M. Burke ◽  
Margaret C. Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Scholarship

Exploring the Transformative Essence of Intellectual Feminism in Africa: Some Contributions of Amina Mama

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-135
Author(s):  
Al Chukwuma Okoli
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Academic Leadership ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Extant Literature

Abstract The paper seeks to explore the transformative essence of intellectual feminism in Africa, with particular reference to the contributions of Amina Mama. Following textual and contextual exegeses of works by or on the focal scholar-activist, as well as insights drawn on extant literature on aspects of her gender/feminist engagements/scholarship, the paper posits that Amina Mama has made significant transformative contributions in various sites of intellectual feminism, especially in the areas of intellectual resourcing, academic leadership and mentoring, as well as strategic scholarly activism/advocacy. Among other things, the study intends to set an agenda on how to effectively link feminist scholarship to practice in an effort to mainstreaming social transformation in Africa.

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