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Feminism, peace, and international politics: An examination of women organizing internationally for peace and security
No full textThis dissertation examines feminist claims about the relationship between women and peace and men and war against the backdrop of women's roles in organizing for peace and participating in wars in a historical, contemporary, and international context. It argues, through an analysis of feminist theory, peace research, and praxis, that we must move beyond both androcentric and gynocentric constructions of reality, which are both products of patriarchal ideologies and relations that give rise to the dualistic, polemical, and intransigent politics of war and peace.The first three chapters make the case that past and contemporary feminist attempts to idealize women's roles in the private or reproductive realm as a basis for a unified feminist politics, which counters men's "armed civic virtue" with women's "feminine civic virtue," are problematic with respect to the struggles for women's liberation and peace. The next two chapters offer a case study of women's international peace conference held in Halifax, Canada just prior to the final UN Decade for Women events in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985. In exploring the Halifax conference process, which involved over 1,000 women from thirty-three countries, it is found that women do not have homogeneous views on peace and security. In fact, it is shown that women's political identities and priorities in the struggle for peace vary with class, race, culture, and nationality, giving rise to varying, and, sometimes, conflicting "practical" and "strategic" gender interests. However, the conference process did reveal that all women suffer to some degree from the social, economic, and political priorities of patriarchy, capitalism, imperialism, and militarism which depend upon women's undervalued and unremunerated reproductive labor under increasingly oppressive and repressive conditions.The final chapter calls for a feminist political process that enlarges the scope of political change and embraces women's multiple identities, feminisms, and struggles for peace. Such a process opens up the possibility for women to forge more liberatory solidarities with other women and with men to break through the polemics, in discourse and praxis, of women and peace and men and war.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-11, Section: A, page: 3499.Ph.D. American University 1988.Englis
Reconceptualizing Gender and Global Restructuring
No full textTalk given at KU on April 10, 1998 by Anne Sisson Runyan, co-author of Global Gender Issues and co-editor of Gender and Global Restructuring
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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