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Mulier oeconomica. On biopolitical construction of women’s bodies
Full text linkEste artículo analiza la interacción entre biopolítica y reproducción. El texto examina
el pensamiento de Angela Putino para mostrar cómo la reproducción, a través del
dispositivo sexual y el conocimiento/poder médico, se ha convertido en un escenario de
aplicación de técnicas biopolíticas. Sin embargo, de manera simultánea, Putino expone
algunos de los riesgos de complicidad en el feminismo que pueden reproducir una
dimension biológica en las políticas, sin lograr resistir el biopoder. Para encontrar los
rastros de esta resistencia, el texto hace referencia al trabajo de Donna Haraway, que critica
la distinción entre naturaleza y cultura, y al trabajo de Melinda Cooper y Catherine
Walby, quienes analizan el trabajo clínico en el marco del biocapitalismo.The article analyses the interplay between biopolitics and reproduction. The text
examines Angela Putino’s thought to show how reproduction, through the sexuality device
and medical power/knowledge, becomes the site of application of biopolitical techniques.
At the same time, however, Putino shows some risks of complicity in feminism
that can reproduce a biological dimension in politics without being able to withstand
biopower. To find trails of resistance, then, the text refers to the work of Donna Haraway, that
criticise the distinction between nature and culture, and to those of Melinda Cooper
and Catherine Walby, who analyse the clinical labor in the framework of biocapitalism
Linguistic traps. Identity and differences through institutions
No full textThis chapter focuses on the language of institutions, starting from the case of the Italian language, in which gender is very obvious, because of the gendered articles and the absence of a neutral pronoun. It describes the intersex case within the framework of language to problematise the relationship between institutional choices and social change. The chapter reviews the criticisms that intersex activists have raised to the German law introducing “third sex”, and the similar laws in Australia and New Zealand, to highlight how the introduction of new categories does not undermine the binarism. When the law takes into account sexuality and gender roles, it reproduces the patriarchal structure of the world and it changes only if social movements modify the power relations. The criticisms of the “third sex” laws illustrate that: “Sex matters. It matters socially, politically, and legally. It matters to the people who are harmed by society’s failure to protect them from discriminatory practices based on sex stereotypes”
Transfeminist politics and populist counterattacks in Italy
Full text linkThe article examines the Italian political sphere in order to highlight how populist discourses are, among other things, a reaction to feminist and transfeminist practices and theories. The article begins by examining the emergence of right-wing populist discourses and their link to the reproduction of a hegemonic masculinity and the patriarchal family. Then it analyses several discourses promoted by transfeminist movements–especially Non Una Di Meno [Not One Less]–focusing in particular on the emergence of the term “transfeminism” in Italy and its use in political practices. Ultimately, the article questions the possibility of building alliances and collective political subjects, starting from the challenge to the female subject brought about by transfeminism. The article claims that populist policies in defence of the traditional family do nothing but co-opt the language of liberation movements while demanding adherence to the status quo, and that transfeminist theories are the clearest response to these same populist politics. Indeed, feminism and transfeminism dispute the rhetoric of a unitary and coherent people, starting by their questioning universality in the name of partiality
La Jeune Fille può partecipare? Una riflessione attorno al genere come dimensione dell'agire politico tra le ragazze dei movimenti sociali
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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