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Review: Jane Pilcher and Imelda Whelehan: 50 Key Concepts in Gender Studies.
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Aimed primarily at students (both under- and post-graduates), 50 Key Concepts in Gender Studies offers those new to this field an in-depth yet accessible introduction to the discipline\u27s important concepts. The authors acknowledge that the choice of concepts is "not random, and value-free" and does, to some extent, reflect their own personal and academic backgrounds. The selection process also "evolved" over time, and they have sought to include not only issues of contemporary debates but also to discuss concepts that were central to the development, or fragmentation, of women\u27s studies and gender studies over the past 30 or so years
“Postcolonial Triangles”: An Analysis of Masculinity and Homosocial Desire in Achebe\u27s A Man of the People and Greene\u27s The Quiet American
No full textThis article provides an original approach for understanding postcolonial representation through queer theory. I argue that mapping Sedgwick\u27s view of triangulated desire onto literary models of postcolonial representation uncovers how authors create gender hierarchies in their novels that mirror the inherent power disjunction in the colonizer/colonized relationship. Specifically, I examine two postcolonial works which employ the love triangle, Graham Greene\u27s The Quiet American and Chinua Achebe\u27s A Man of the People. By integrating Anne McClintock\u27s and Frantz Fanon\u27s conception of imperial imagery and power into this exploration, I show how Achebe and Greene use the love triangle to portray the relation of masculinity and patriarchy to neo-imperialism and the new world order. This study is ultimately an attempt to explore the following question- can the love triangle, an age old literary device central to the European novel, in fact be decolonized
my mother\u27s spaces transformed
No full textEmerging from the desire to document changes in my childhood home, this art project examines gender\u27s impact on this space after the death of my mother. Over the next several years I photographed the house many times. During this period I was in residence at two artist colonies and presented the work in progress. Through conversations with other artists, I received insights proving helpful in the project\u27s development. A series of collage drawings became a part of the project enabling me to synthesize my observations using particular photographs, research and writing I had been doing since the project\u27s inception. The photographs and drawings have been exhibited at Wells College and the Earlville Opera House in Central New York
Interview: "Every choice we make takes us on a different journey...": Helen Cooper in Conversation
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Helen Cooper was born in Holland of Welsh/Dutch parentage. After studying History of Art at Leiden University and at the Victoria and Albert Museum she went to the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts
Frontmatter and Editorial
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Addressing the diverse field of gender and language, the current issue of gender foru brings together articles from a wide range of disciplines. Thus this issue presents contributions investigating the role of language in relation to gender in literature by East German women writers, the language philosophy of Stanley Cavell, linguistic codes employed in gay personal ads in Taiwan, as well as the nexus of language, gender, and history in selected works by Gertrude Stein
Authority or Alternative? Rethinking Gender and the Use of Medical Knowledge in Song China, 960-1279
Get PDFThis paper seeks a new approach to studying gender in pre-modern China through a contextual study of Song medicine, in order to highlight the unstable aspects of gender history: the alternatives, the resistance, and the maneuvers, in contrast to the fixed institutional/ideological frameworks. I use medical publications, anecdotal stories, and doctors\u27 notes to examine the nature of Song medical books, the use of medical knowledge, and the actual encounters between doctors and patients. I look for traces of doctors\u27 frustration, patients\u27 resistance, and how women participated in the use and the discussion of medical knowledge. As I observe from the materials, first of all, there is not a coherent or systematic gender differentiation/discourse in Song medical books. Song medical books are open and multi-vocal resources that provided patients with more choices. Second, the state-sponsored compilation and publication of medical books, instead of strengthening the authority of the medical profession, actually increased the accessibility of medical knowledge and exposed it to public discussion, in which women also participated. Finally, patients in the Song, including women, instead of listening to the doctor\u27s words passively, appealed to various sources, did research by themselves, made choices among all the alternatives, and constantly challenged the doctor\u27s authority
Hysteria, Doctor-Patient Relationships, and Identity Boundaries in Siri Hustvedt’s What I Loved
Get PDFIn her novel What I Loved a fictional autobiography written from the perspective of a male art historian, American author Siri Hustvedt reinterprets the relationship between female hysterical patients and their male doctors at the French hospital La Salpêtrière at the end of the nineteenth century. Hustvedt’s portrayal of the way doctors at the time – most prominently Jean-Martin Charcot – treated their female patients at the Salpêtrière reveals complex negotiations of identities; the author’s examination oscillates between an emphasis on the doctor as the dominating mastermind of the hysterics’ behavior and explorations of hysteria as an escape from a society in which women were overpoweringly restricted. In particular, the representation of hysterical patients in one of the main character’s artwork – a series of paintings and installations on the theme of hysteria – highlights aspects of the doctor-patient relationship emerging as an extreme example of a self mastered by the other. The patient is displayed as an object of study (and photography), trapped by the clinical gaze, and a blank slate to be inscribed by the investigator (dermagraphism). Hustvedt’s works highlight the fragility of identity constructions, always showing the self in relation to the other and emphasizing moments of transgression and undecidability. This paper puts Hustvedt’s notions of self into communication with interpretations of hysteria as a disease affixed to a femininity allegedly characterized by impressionability, susceptibility, and a lack of moral agency
Blogging the Pain: Grief in the Time of the Internet
Get PDFDuring the last few decades, grief narratives have become increasingly popular. Especially women, who traditionally take over the responsibilities of a caretaker, have used this narrative genre to express and deal with their losses and to share their experience of grief with a larger audience. With the advance of the Internet, grief blogs have started to complement printed grief narratives, offering a virtual version of the traditional genre of grief writing. This article compares these two versions of grief writing. Drawing on narrative theory, the essay reveals that virtual grief narratives do not merely offer a screen version of a printed text. Rather, blogs produce a new form of grief writing, which decisively differs from its printed counterpart despite many thematic similarities. A text, the essay suggests, is thus defined as much by the act of writing, editing, and publishing as by traditional narrative categories such as topic, voice, and perspective. A comparison of printed grief narratives and grief blogs consequently not only documents a reinvention of grief writing on the Internet, but it also reveals a web-based redefinition of (auto)biographical writing in general
My Quest through Chaos: My Narrative of Illness and Recovery
Get PDFStories of people trying to figure out who they are following illness are both popular amongst readers and vital to the author’s recovery. This article is an illness narrative and an exploration of illness, narrative, recovery, and critical disability studies. Using my own experience of having a massive stroke as an 18-year-old, the article considers narrative structures present in a series of journal entries, video diaries, letters, and blogs to reflect on the importance of narrative throughout my recovery. My story has evolved through the dominant narrative structures of the illness narrative as outlined by Frank (1995) chaos, restitution, and quest. These narrative types display the relationship between narrative and culture, and emphasise the complexity of illness. Telling illness narratives is a valuable means of recovery when the body becomes what the individual never expected it would—damaged. Narrative is vital, as the ill persons work out their changing identity and position in the world of health, continuing when they are no longer ill, but remain marked by their experience. This article connects the (my) autobiographical to the social, political and cultural