scholarly journals Solidarity in Falling Apart

Lateral ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyson Spurgas
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
Women Poor ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
Associated Symptoms ◽  
Trans Women

In this essay, I reconceptualize feminized trauma by utilizing a queer crip feminist disability justice framework. This reconceptualizing allows for an intervention in both historical psychoanalytic and contemporary biomedical framings of the experience of gendered and sexual violence, pursuant or sequelic trauma, and associated symptoms. Both historical and contemporary psycho-logics too often imagine gendered and sexual violence as abnormal or exceptional events (e.g., “stranger rape”) which can be treated and cured individually, thus delimiting them within a white, wealthy or middle-class, cis- and hetero-feminine register. As a corrective, within the framework of everyday emergencies, insidious traumas, and cripistemologies of crisis, I position feminine fracturing and falling apart as chronic, and consider abolitionist strategies for survival, care, and solidarity beyond traditional medical frameworks for recovery. This further provides a way to understand dissociation or rather dissociative-adjacent symptomology as real, legitimate, and painful, yet also as sociopolitical products experienced differently across diverse populations—and as mundane, banal, and even expected for some. Here, feminine fracturing is symptom, method, and potential avenue for change or liberation. What does “recovery” look like when feminized trauma is endemic to the point of being so normalized and unexceptional as to be a thoroughly unremarkable part of our everyday cultural backdrop? How is this exacerbated when we examine the experiences of trans women, poor women, and immigrant and BIPOC women and femmes? I posit that there is promise in embracing a fracturing, in falling apart—as antidote to the normative and neoliberal logic of keeping it together.

Another Front, Another War

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaity Das
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Work Done

This chapter marks the gendered division of memoirs and testimonies that have been attempted in this book. This is based on the assumption that women and men experienced the war differently and found themselves in different situations and roles. When they become the author of their own stories, the gendered nature of war itself becomes clear. While memoirs are written by middle class women, testimonials are more diverse. This chapter also studies in detail the work done on victims of wartime rape (birangonas), custodial torture, and sexual violence in Bangladesh. Worls of authors such as Jahanara Imam and Guhathakurta are examined. While certain aspects are problematized, the chapter ends with the testimony of Firdausi Priyobhashini taken and translated by the author herself, pointing towards what is meant when one talks of the unfinished and unquiet commemorations of 1971.

BOOK REVIEW THE ISSUES AT STAKE – THEORIES AND PRACTICES IN THE CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S MOVEMENTS IN INDIA BY NANDITA GANDHI AND NANDITA SHAH

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-10
Author(s):  
Preeti Oza
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
Action Program ◽  
Health Work ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
Maxim Gorky ◽  
Research Collective

The authors begin the book with „Who “we” are‟….which puts them in the context of their childhood and young age which was influenced by the Nationalist Movement, Charisma od Gandhiji, Alexander Dumas, Maxim Gorky, Mulk Raj Anand, and many other worlds and national phenomena. They also talk about their detachment for the first-hand experiences of the troubled and tortured as they were coming from the upper middle class Hindu savarna families. In the process of narrowing down the whole idea of movements related to women‟s issues, the authors have selected four major areas namely sexual violence, health, work, and legal campaigns. They also excluded the collection of case studies form their preview. By 1984, they came up with their first office with the name” the Women‟s Decade Research Collective- WDRC. In 1985, they got a grant from the ISS Holland. By 1986 their struggle started in the various parts of India to collect the stories/ data/ cases and documents. Their train journey from Assam to Benaras to Madhya Pradesh taught them to be a part of the daily struggle put up by the women across India. The action program got strengthened by the little surveys they took and the information and advice they picked up during the journey. The women‟s movement has no beginning or “origin”. It exists as an emotion, anger deep within us. The women‟s movement history also is like notes in a cycle of rhythm; each is a eparate piece, yet a part of the whole.

scholarly journals POVERTY & HEALTH: INCIDENCE, CAUSES, AND CONSEQUENCES OF MATERNAL ANAEMIA AMONG WOMEN POOR GROUPS IN INDIA - A LITERATURE SURVEY

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 75-93
Author(s):  
Vasudevan C.
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Deficiency ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
Maternal Anaemia ◽  
Women Poor ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
Women Groups ◽  
Poverty And Health ◽  
Women In India ◽  
Structure Patterns

This Article Surveyed the Nature and Structure of Maternal Ananemia among the Poor Women Groups in India which exclaimed the Nature of Poverty and Health Hazardness are Associated deeply with in maternal Ananemia among the poor women groups. This study at large extent claimed that the structure, patterns and morphic of maternal anaemia problems among the poor women who substantially lactating nutritional deficiency in different form which causes and consequences the destitutes during their pregnancy. This study also observed various nature of incidence, causes, and consequences of maternal anaemia among the poor women in India. It also highlights the Management and Administration of Maternal Anaemia among of the poor women during pregnancy in India.

Femicide

Criminology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myrna Dawson ◽  
Michelle Carrigan ◽  
Emily Hill
Keyword(s):  
Recent Decade ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Important Work ◽  
World Region ◽  
Women Poor ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
Crimes Against Women ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Nations System

On November 26, 2012, the Vienna Declaration on Femicide was signed by participants at a one-day symposium convened by the Academic Council on United Nations System (ACUNS). This symbolic event comes more than forty years after Diana Russell first used the term testifying at the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women. Since the mid-1970s, there has been periodic and important research on femicide; however, since mid-2000, there has been an obvious increase in grassroots, academic, and government attention. In part, this is due to efforts of those concerned about high femicide rates in some countries, leading to legislative efforts and initiatives to better respond to femicide. This has also led to use of the term “feminicide” (or feminicidio) by some to highlight the impunity with which these crimes are often treated in some parts of the world (e.g., Latin America) or when perpetrated against some groups of women (e.g., Indigenous women, poor women, sex-trade workers). Increasing attention to femicide has led to discussions about how to define and classify femicide; what we currently know about its prevalence and characteristics of those involved; how to document it more accurately; how countries can better prevent femicide, particularly for some groups; what punishments are appropriate; and whether and how states are contributing to the problem with inadequate responses. The research highlighted in this bibliography adheres to Russell’s definition of femicide as “the killing of one or more females by one or more males because they are female,” or killings motivated by hatred and unequal power relations between men and women. It also includes research encompassing the more recent concept of feminicide which captures the complicity of the state or governments in contributing to these killings. Therefore, this bibliography includes only articles, books, and other publications that use the terms “femicide” or “feminicide” explicitly in the title or abstract. While this decision excludes important work that arguably captures killings of women by men because they are women, it underscores the importance of using terms that directly name the phenomenon rather than using more gender-neutral terms (e.g., intimate partner, domestic or family homicide). Given the burgeoning literature in the recent decade on these latter phenomena, it also provides parameters that made article selection more focused and manageable. While numerous countries are represented below, some world regions are more active in researching and addressing femicide/feminicide. Many disciplines are seeking to better understand, document, and respond to these killings as shown by the Journals in which research has been published, ranging from the expected—sociology, law, criminology—to the less expected, such as gynaecology and obstetrics, and pediatrics, underscoring the multidisciplinary foci required to adequately understand femicide. Regardless of world region or discipline, the research below represents key works and recent and innovative approaches to the study of femicide/feminicide. The field is rapidly expanding, however, with new publications appearing frequently. This bibliography provides a sample of what is available.

“I Am Not a Hijra”: Class, Respectability, and the Emergence of the “New” Transgender Woman in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 620-647
Author(s):  
Liz Mount
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Transgender Women ◽  
Gender Nonconformity ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Trans Women

This article examines the mutual imbrication of gender and class that shapes how some transgender women seek incorporation into social hierarchies in postcolonial India. Existing literature demonstrates an association between transgender and middle-class-status in the global South. Through an 18-month ethnographic study in Bangalore from 2009 through 2016 with transgender women, NGO (nongovernmental organization) workers and activists, as well as textual analyses of media representations, I draw on “new woman” archetypes to argue that the discourses of empowerment and respectability that impacted middle-class cisgender women in late colonial, postcolonial and liberalized India also impact how trans women narrate their struggles and newfound opportunities. Trans woman identities are often juxtaposed to the identities of hijras, a recognized (yet socially marginal) group of working-class male-assigned gender-nonconforming people. Instead of challenging stereotypes of gender nonconformity most evident in the marginalization of hijras, some transgender women are at pains to highlight their difference from hijras. These trans women are from working-class backgrounds. It is partly their similarities in class location that propel trans women’s efforts to distinguish themselves from hijras. They employ the figure of the disreputable hijra to contain negative stereotypes associated with gender nonconformity, thus positioning their identities in proximity with middle-class respectable womanhood.

A Comparison of Middle-Class Perceptions of Poor Women and Poor Men

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Tagler ◽  
Catherine Cozzarelli ◽  
Anna V. Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Poor Women

scholarly journals Class Diversity and Youth Volunteering in the United Kingdom

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 95S-113S ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Dean
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Young People ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
Widening Access ◽  
The United Kingdom

This article utilizes Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of habitus and cultural capital to offer some explanation as to why there is a lack of class diversity in formal volunteering in the United Kingdom. Recent studies have shown that participation in volunteering is heavily dependent on social class revolving around a highly committed middle-class “civic core” of volunteers. This article draws on original qualitative research to argue that the delivery of recent youth volunteering policies has unintentionally reinforced participation within this group, rather than widening access to diverse populations including working-class young people. Drawing on interviews with volunteer recruiters, it is shown that the pressure to meet targets forces workers to recruit middle-class young people whose habitus allows them to fit instantly into volunteering projects. Furthermore, workers perceive working-class young people as recalcitrant to volunteering, thereby reinforcing any inhabited resistance, and impeding access to the benefits of volunteering.

Okinawa, 1945–1952: Allegories of Becoming

Alegal ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 38-64
Author(s):  
Annmaria M. Shimabuku
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Sex Industry ◽  
Comfort Women ◽  
Symbolic Structure ◽  
The U.S

Chapter 2 gives a brief biopolitical prehistory to Okinawa. From the perspective of economic development, it was not treated like a national or colonial territory by the Japanese state, but ambiguously suspended in between both. This foregrounded the sexual politics surrounding the U.S. military in Okinawa because unlike mainland Japan, there was no development of a middle class equipped to reject the formation of a sex industry in base towns on the basis of an established ethno-nationalism. Hence, in contrast to the symbolic structure of Japanism presented in Chapter 1, this chapter positions Okinawa’s alegality in terms of Benjamin’s notion of allegory, or that which constantly fails communion with a totality. It argues that debates surrounding the establishment of a sex industry were driven by the sheer fear of exclusion from the biopolitical order, not by an identification with it, and were subsequently absent of discourses lamenting the racial contamination of the population. It traces the omnipresence of this fear through the Okinawan reception of so-called “comfort women” during the war, the experience of sexual violence and exploitation in the immediate postwar, and the formation of the sex industry after the “reverse course” of occupation in 1949.

Cities in the suburbs: heterogeneous communities on the US urban fringe, 1920–60

Urban History ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Borchert
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Population Size ◽  
Central City ◽  
Professional Services ◽  
Urban Fringe ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Cities

While the scholarly literature largely ignores issues of suburban population size, density and heterogeneity, during the 1920s a number of large, densely-settled, heterogeneous suburbs emerged on the fringe of the largest US cities. The article identifies forty-one of these potential ‘city suburbs’ which are defined as communities having minimum thresholds of 25,000 population and residential densities of 6,000 per square mile. City suburbs may have claimed nearly 25 per cent of the suburban populations of the nation's ten largest metropolitan districts. Drawing largely on data for midwestern cities, city suburbs are further identified through their diverse populations by class, ethnicity and race; varied housing stocks and economic activities including retailing, professional services and manufacturing; and political independence from their central city. Nearly equally divided between residential and industrial suburbs, the former, including Oak Park, Illinois, ‘fit’ traditional middle-class suburban descriptions while neighbouring Cicero represented workingclass, industrial communities.

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