6 research outputs found
Negotiating Present with the Past: An Analytical Study of Gender Performativity in Generation X in Pakistan
No full textThe institution of parenthood is a significant agent of socialization through which children learn values, gender roles, and future responsibilities. In Pakistan, culture, religion, and expectations of honour, conduct, and family duty are pivotal determinants of parenting. The research examines the practice of parenting in Generation X parents through Butler’s notion of gender performativity, which elucidates the perpetuation of gender roles in everyday, reiterated practices. Twenty semi-structured interviews were carried out with ten male and ten female parents residing in rural and urban areas near Rawalpindi and Islamabad. The results reveal that, despite parents’ beliefs that they were raising their sons and daughters equally, gendered expectations were still deeply entrenched. Son’s are socialized to enter the public labour force, and daughters are socialized to be homemakers. Parenting was predominantly influenced and practiced by one\u27s own parents, not by the media, perpetuating generational patterns. Even when education and urbanization introduce some change, social structures such as patriarchy continue to be powerful. The research finds that parenting is the principal site for the performance, reproduction, and transmission of gender norms across generations
The Making of Bangladesh
No full textIn this paper, Alavi brings together an interview and academic scholarship on the 1971 partition of East and West Pakistan and the independence of Bangladesh. Throughout the paper, the author works through theories of nationalism to unpack how competing nationalist myths informed the events and aftermath of the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence. Alavi argues for the importance of oral narratives as a way of bearing
witness to histories that are overshadowed by nationalist myths. An earlier version of this essay was produced for an oral history assignment for the course Introduction to South Asian Studies (SOSC 2435) at York University and was the winner of the York Centre for Asian Research’s 2016 Undergraduate Asia Essay Award
Book Review of Unni Wikan, In Honor of Fadime: Murder & Shame. Translated by Anna Paterson.
No full textThe writer Unni Wikan, a Norwegian by nationality is a social anthropologist who has worked at various universities a professor of social anthropology. Wikan has also worked as a consultant with international organisations such as United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Program (WFP).
In this book, the author tried to explore Fadime’s (a Swedish girl of Turkish origin) honour killing case under the light of different socio- cultural traditions and immigration issues. Honour killing is one of an extreme act of violence against women which highlights their subordinated position within patriarchal societies. Since last few decades Anthropologists, social scientists, journalists and NGO’s in different parts of the world have started to raise this issue seriously through exploring case studies, writing books, articles and several projects
THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN’S OPPRESSION IN A PATRIARCHAL CULTURE: A RADICAL FEMINISTIC ANALYSIS OF ALICE MUNRO’S “RUNAWAY”
No full textThe current study aims to investigate female’s life and conditions through the experiences, writings, and narratives of Alice Munro (1931),she is bestselling author of short stories and Nobel Laureate (2013). In her collection of manufactured short stories, Runaway (2004),she explores female existence, conditions, and experiences and gives an exclusive narrative of female-centric characters. This study utilizes qualitative approach based on two main objectives. First, it explores the core causes of women’s oppression in the setting of Canadian society in Munro’s first short tale “Runaway”from her book Runaway, despite the fact that the female protagonist Carla revealed all of her life’s hurdles. Second, it explores the patriarchal norms and dominant culture in Runaway that limit women’s freedom and choices, as demonstrated by Carla’s husband Clark in the story. To offer a thorough examination, the concept of radical feminism proposed by Simone De Beauvoir (1908-86) serves as a theoretical foundation for this study. Radical feminism is a feminist perspective that entitles the concept of patriarchal grounds, gender system, dominating culture, and also a hierarchy; as a result of these fundamental concerns, women suffered oppression throughout their lives. However, due to its assumption-based nature that women are not inherently confined and resist, society produces the opposing fractions (sexes) male and female. Therefore, this theory is also classified as conflict theory. Finally, this paper shows Munro’s pinned down the reality of life and relationships that are built on male dominance over women; the patriarchal harshness of males oppresses women’s freedom and choices
SARS coronavirus protein nsp1 disrupts localization of Nup93 from the nuclear pore complex
No full textSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus nonstructural protein 1 (nsp1) is a key factor in virus-induced down-regulation of host gene expression. In infected cells, nsp1 engages in a multi-pronged mechanism to inhibit host gene expression by binding to the 40S ribosome to block the assembly of translationally competent ribosome, and then inducing endonucleolytic cleavage and the degradation of host mRNAs. Here, we report a previously undetected mechanism by which nsp1 exploits the nuclear pore complex and disrupts nuclear-cytoplasmic transport of biomolecules. We identified members of the nuclear pore complex from nsp1-associated protein assembly and found that expression of nsp1 in HEK cells disrupts Nup93 localization around the nuclear envelope without triggering proteolytic degradation, while the nuclear lamina remains unperturbed. Consistent with its role in host shutoff, nsp1 alters the nuclear-cytoplasmic distribution of a RNA binding protein, nucleolin. Our results suggest that nsp1, alone, can regulate multiple steps of gene expression including nuclear-cytoplasmic transport.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author
