scholarly journals Everyone goes fishing: Understanding procurement for men, women and children in an arctic community

2007 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerrie Ann Shannon
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
The World ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Use Studies ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This paper provides insight into Inuit procurement and gender roles. Through a focus on fishing derbies in the Canadian Arctic, this significant aspect of Inuit life is recognized. Many ethnographies and land use studies have previously concentrated on hunting. The fishing derby provides an alternative ethnographic example of procurement. It is an activity in which women, men, children, and elders participate. Women’s roles in the Arctic have often been discussed in terms of gender division of labour or in terms of their complementarity to men’s roles. The fishing derby demonstrates occasions when procurement activities are not necessarily divided along gender lines and thereby reveals a broader understanding of gender roles. The fishing derby is also an ethnographic example of skill as traditional knowledge and may inform how Inuit, and hunter-gatherers more generally, relate to the world around them.

scholarly journals Investigation of World assumption, personal attributes and gender roles of adolescents

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 01033
Author(s):  
Meral Sert Aǧır
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Family Characteristics ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
World Assumptions ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender

This research aims to examine adolescents’ world assumptions, personal attributes and gender roles. The research has attempted to examine the thoughts of adolescents about the world and the ways in which they define themselves as a man or a woman by considering the fact that their lives are affected not only by "traumatic" events but also by several family and environmental dynamics affecting their quality of life. Data was obtained from randomly selected 407 high school students from Kadıköy district in Istanbul province, by applying “World Assumptions Scale (WAS)”, “Extended Personal Attributes Questionnaire (EPAQ)”, “Gender Roles Attitude Scale (GRAS)”, and “Data Collection Form”. Our results showed that there was a significant difference in the scales and sub-dimensions used in the research with respect to gender, grade, family characteristics as well as life standards, balance of standards, adequacy of/change in family income, living with the family without problems, level of satisfaction with the environment, and the desire to change the living environment. In addition to a positive relationship between world assumptions and personal attributes, various correlations in different directions were also found between the sub-dimensions of the scales. Our research has shown that adolescents’ life dynamics can make a difference in their perception of the world and their assumptions about perceiving themselves as moral and valuable individuals, as well as their personal attributes and perceptions about gender roles.

Controlling the Liminal Power of Performance: Hungarian Scholars and Romani Musicians in the Hungarian Folk Revival

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
LYNN HOOKER
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Folk Revival ◽  
Liminal Spaces ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Fixed Boundaries ◽  
Hungarian Folk Music

AbstractIn the Hungarian folk revival, Hungarian Roma (Gypsies) serve as both privileged informants and exotic Others. The musicians of the revival known as the táncház (dance-house) movement rely heavily on rural Rom musicians, especially those from Transylvania, as authentic sources of traditional Hungarian repertoire and style. Táncház rhetoric centres on the trope of localized authenticity; but the authority wielded by rural Rom musicians, who carry music both between villages and around the world, complicates the fixed boundaries that various powerful stakeholders would place on the tradition. Drawing on media sources and on fieldwork in Hungary and Romania, I examine how authenticity and ‘Gypsiness’ are presented and controlled by the scholars, musicians, and administrators who lead the táncház movement, in particular in the context of camps and workshops dedicated to Hungarian folk music and dance. Organizers often erect clear boundaries of status, genre, and gender roles through such events, which, among other things, address the anxiety raised by Rom musicians’ power in liminal spaces. In addition, I look at how Rom musicians both negotiate with the táncház’s aesthetic of authenticity and challenge it musically. Finally, I discuss how musicians and the crowds that gather to hear and dance to their music together create a carnival atmosphere, breaking down some of the boundaries that organizers work so hard to create. Throughout, I demonstrate that liminality is an extraordinarily pertinent lens through which to view Roma participation in the Hungarian folk music scene.

scholarly journals Analysis of Heteronormativity and Gender Roles in EFL Textbooks

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 220
Author(s):  
Raúl Ruiz-Cecilia ◽  
Juan Ramón Guijarro-Ojeda ◽  
Carmen Marín-Macías
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Units Of Analysis ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Right ◽  
Homophobic Harassment ◽  
Insight Into

This paper examines the current representations of gender roles and heteronormativity in a corpus of textbooks used to teach English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Spanish high schools. Several studies have documented the importance of recognizing problems of homophobic harassment and gender bias which may result in a significant number of students feeling excluded. It is notable that textbook publishers have failed to address this issue despite its relevance to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), raising the question of why this continues to go unnoticed by textbook publishers. The corpus selected comprises two sets of textbooks printed by leading publishers in the area of EFL. In order to gain insight into this issue, we have conducted a qualitative study analyzing the role of textbooks in perpetuating heteronormativity and stereotyped gender roles by exemplifying the naturalized heterosexual and male/female identities. Data were coded under two broad variables: heteronormativity and gender, which in turn were broken down into different units of analysis. The results suggested that heteronormativity still permeates the whole curriculum and that attempts to gender-balance need to be improved by reducing the number of male protagonists. Textbooks fell into some of the same clichés with regard to gender-related stereotypes, such as almost exclusively linking women with shopping and fashion. It is evidently clear from the findings that textbooks should be revised to ensure the right to quality education for all and to make students aware of SDGs, since 7 out of 17 are related to the target topics.

scholarly journals Fit to be a Man: Women's Perspectives and Gender Relations among the Zeme Nagas of Assam

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Bowden
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
The People ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Community Issues ◽  
And Gender

In many indigenous societies worldwide we are witnessing an increase in gender inequality. Men’s domination of women seems to be growing and women’s labour is now exploited. Zeme Naga women of Assam are lamenting the loss of support from their husbands and the burden of labour wives must take up as husbands abandon their responsibilities. Husbands are becoming more controlling. This thesis seeks to understand some of the reasons behind the decline in men’s reciprocal labour practices and the deterioration in what were once remembered as relatively egalitarian gender relations. By bringing critical, historical and feminist analyses to bear on the ethnographic data I attempt to show the ways in which women’s increasing sense of inequality is linked to Zemes’ growing marginalisation regionally and globally. I explore Zeme understandings of what makes a man ‘fit to be a man’ and the ways feminine and masculine identities engage the changes brought by colonialism and neo-colonialism. Women’s interests were once served by the Zeme patriarchal society. I found that women continue to expect reciprocal labour exchange that was based on social structures and practices that are now largely obsolete. Employing the notion of ‘hegemonic masculinity’ (Connell 2005a) it emerged that men’s earlier practices allowed an opportunity for nearly every man to achieve the Zeme ideals of masculinity which involved the demonstration of caring behaviour towards women and other members of the community. Masculinity was largely based on access to resources that men delivered to the community according to what the people were perceived to need. The notion of women and children as men’s ‘property’ entailed responsibility and self-sacrifice on behalf of men and a relatively equitable division of labour around child care. Indeed, the well-being of women and children was a constituent of Zeme normative masculinity. However, Zeme engagements with what may be termed the agents of ‘modernity’: economies, religions, agricultural projects, schooling and the creation of Statehood, have contributed to devaluing Zeme livelihoods and cosmologies. This has had significant repercussions for Zeme gender relations, which include relations among men, and is changing the direction of the pursuit of masculine ideals. I argue that these transformations have contributed to sidelining a core component of Zeme hegemonic masculinity, the ability to ‘provide what the people need’ as well as creating inequalities of opportunities for men to demonstrate ‘care’ in this way. On the other hand, these processes are also presenting new opportunities for women to contest men’s interests, and to make claims over community issues that were one avenues of prestige for men.

Proclaiming the New Heterosexual Family

2020 ◽  
pp. 138-174
Author(s):  
Taylor G. Petrey
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Religious Right ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Reparative Therapy ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender

In 1995 Church leaders issued “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” which codified LDS teachings on sex, marriage, and gender roles. The document coincided with further accommodation to feminist concerns, but increased legal and political opposition to same-sex marriage. Church leaders backed political campaigns with the Religious Right in Hawaii, California, and elsewhere to ban same-sex marriage, at the same time also showing greater accommodation to other LGBT rights. Church teachings on homosexuality also evolved in this period to confront biological etiologies, but remained committed to reparative therapy.

scholarly journals Changing Rwandan vision of women and land, in the heart of the house, at the outskirts of the world

Afrika Focus ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle De Lame
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Moral Justification ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Gender Complementarity ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Household Heads ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Peasant Women

Because the current situation is unstable and the countryside is out of reach, it is impossible to assess in what measures and ways the fact that many women carry the daily burden alone will affect, more generally, the views about gender and gender roles. Women can, indeed keep working in the name of their dead or disappeared husbands; still bearing in mind the old ideology of a continuity based on fidelity to the family ancestors. The disillusions about the further reaching effects on local communities, society, and nation, of beliefs related to the ritual gender complementarity will probably result in a yet more individualized vision of the family. It is realistic to suppose that the rising generation of women would have other views about their own rights, and be less submissive to men if they were, by law, recognized as equal to them on all grounds. This was, however, far from achieved before the genocide, even after the reform of the law which put daughters at an equal footing with sons as far as succession to land rights was concerned. The fact that a majority of households are now female-headed is no, in itself, a guarantee against oppression. If, then, gender roles remain perceived as unchanged, a majority of women will be oppressed in a very crude manner, that is to say, with very little "moral" justification of their exploitation. It also remains to be seen what kind of negotiation the peasant women will be able to achieve with those in power, either male or female.The hope for change rests with active efforts at providing women who are said to be 70% of household heads now, with structures giving them sufficient knowledge, efficacy and credit to organize without being patronized. There are examples of such attempts but their success can only be achieved on the basis of a democracy aiming at giving all access to basic rights. The old modes of exploitation and patronage could perfectly become, under the guises of feminism, associated with female cosmopolitanism. Peasant women could well submit themselves to its local bearers, as they would see no other avenues to the wider world and its wealth. Conformity would take its toll again. Nothing much could have improved in their daily lives, even if the old vision of an engendered fertile land has vanished. 

scholarly journals Performativity analysis in Hyder’s the Sound of Falling Leaves

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-343
Author(s):  
Hira Ali ◽  
Zahir Jang Khattak ◽  
Abdul Ghaffar Ikram ◽  
Shehrzad Ameena Khattak
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women Rights ◽  
Status Of Women

The present study delves into the concept of gender by applying the theory of performativity on Qurratulain Hyder’s story ‘The Sound of Falling leaves’. Awareness of the distinction between sex and gender started with the first wave of feminism. Many renowned critics like Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Kate Millet, and Judith Butler have explained this distinction. Writers portray society in text and many writers have tried their hands to depict the role, values, and status of women in a male-dominated patriarchal society. There are many reforms regarding the protection of women and to make women gender better, but we still find a lot of lacks. Gender is defined by society. One is born with sex and becomes a man or woman as he or she starts to identify with society. Gender is constructed on the base of performance of speech and actions which are repeated again and again until it becomes part of our consciousness (Butler, 1990). We have not found any research on this story regarding the application of the theory of performativity. So, this research is designed to examine to what extent the theory of performativity is true by discussing the portrayal of women in this story. This research also analyzes to what extent there is change in a Subcontinent society regarding therole and status of female. Discussion and analysis of text supports the theory of performativity. Instead of many reforms for women rights still woman of subcontinent like ‘Tanvir Fatima’ are suffering. She becomes victim of conservative society who is not ready to accept modern girls. She is beaten terribly by Khushwaqt and has no say. Her dreams are shattered by both cruel men and women. Further, this study also provides suggestions about how we can improve gender roles and provide healthy atmosphere for both men and women who can play the leading roles for the betterment of the world.

Winterlong: Elizabeth Hand at the End of the World

1998 ◽  
pp. 168-177
Author(s):  
Gwyneth Jones
Keyword(s):  
Gender Difference ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Warning Messages ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
And Gender

In this review of The End of the World, Jones recognises Elizabeth Hand’s embrace of gender difference and gender roles. She also foregrounds the narrative’s inclusion of warning messages and morals.

scholarly journals EXCLUSION OF WOMEN IN CONTEXT OF MANIPUR

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 326-331
Author(s):  
Mayanglambam Sarda Devi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Economic Knowledge ◽  
State Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The 1960S

Exclusion of Women in many disciplines becomes an emerging issue all over the world. In the patriarchal society, male is the heads of households and breadwinners and women were confined to household responsibilities.In reality, the assignment of men to the public sphere and women to the family. Regarding this, feminists (1792) started a revolution against male domination all over the world and under the pressure of Feminist Movement this traditional model came to change in the 1960s and 1970s, partly in response to equality issues and to reducing gender bias in mainstream economic knowledge. Manipuri women has unique status and share a major contribution to the state economy, whereas, much of her work is still invisible. The paper is an attempt to analyze the extent to which exclusion of women in the societal and institutional contexts influence the gender division of labour and gender gap in context of Manipur.

Parasitological problems in high northern latitudes, with particular reference to Canada

Polar Record ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 11 (74) ◽  
pp. 567-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. W. M. Cameron ◽  
L. P. E. Choquette
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
White Men ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Native Population ◽  
The Past ◽  
Northern Latitudes ◽  
The World ◽  
Dew Line

Disease in the Canadian Arctic has, until quite recently, been of minor concern to the world. The Eskimo and northern Indian lived in a climate which was antagonistic to contact diseases and very little attention was paid to indigenous infections. During the past decade, more and more white men have gone to the Arctic to survey and mine its abundant natural resources, and to work on such projects as the DEW Line. This influx of personnel introduced bacteria and European viruses to a native population which had no resistance or immunity to the diseases of civilization, and consequently even such mild viruses as those producing colds have caused serious illnesses and mild epidemics; the introduction of tuberculosis has had tragic results.

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