VOLUME 3(1) • 2013
BOOK REVIEWS
Why Internet Porn MattersMargret Grebowicz (Goucher College)Stanford, CA: Stanford Briefs/Stanford University Press, 2013, 135 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-8662-1 Reviewed by George Lăzăroiu, PhDInstitute of Interdisciplinary Studies inHumanities and Social Sciences, New York Social Production and Reproduc..
Entretien aven l’écrivaine Evelyne Accad – une activiste, une femme de la paix
Femme engagée, écrivaine réputée, écrivaine sans frontières, Evelyne Accad est une Voix haute à l’ère de la Mondialisation. Elle œuvre, elle enseigne, elle milite, au risque de sa vie et dans des conditions souvent difficiles, pour la Femme et les droits de la femme, dans le Monde Arabe et Moyen-Ori..
Advancing Gender Equality in Research and Innovation in Europe and beyond: COST Network genderSTE
ABSTRACT. Gender is one of five priorities of the European Research Area, as stated in the Communication adopted in July 2012 entitled A Reinforced European Research Area Partnership for Excellence and Growth (EC 2012c). Following this Communication, the EC has fully integrated gender dimensions in ..
Transforming the Gendered Social Relations of Urban Space
ABSTRACT. There have been few comprehensive assessments of what research has learned about the relationship between gender and space, the integration of gender into spatial policy-making, the legal changes that have granted women greater entitlements to conjugal assets and protection from domestic v..
(De)Fusing the Bomb (Shell): Gender Issues, Popular Culture and Frida Kahlo
ABSTRACT. This article examines Frida Kahlo’s career in an attempt to offer a refinement to Oana Baddeley’s suggestion that the reception of female artists, more often male artists, tends to be overshadowed by their personal style and life. While this argument appears to be supported by Kahlo’s rece..
The Gender of Silk
ABSTRACT. The mainstay of the paper is formed by an analysis of intriguing questions of Silk Road history, the export of silk cocoons to Europe, the rising importance of silk, and medieval literary depictions of women working silk. The aim of the present study is to examine and evaluate the history ..
Thy Signet and Thy Bracelets Identity, Becoming, and Vulnerability in the Biblical Story of Tamar
ABSTRACT. Employing Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s notion of becoming, this paper elaborates on the option of political resistance as revealed in the biblical story of Tamar. This interpretation refigures Tamar’s actions as a special path of becoming, actions which make a unique use of gendered..
The Bible as a Medium for Social Engineering: Jesus as the Androgynous Role Model
ABSTRACT. This paper presents how we may understand the pastoral psychologist David Bakan’s suggestion that through the medium of the Bible, Jesus was presented as a supreme androgynous role model meant to inspire social change in the masculinized cultures of the time. As an early Christian symbol o..
Gender Equity in Educational Administration: Investigating Compensation and Promotion
ABSTRACT. A pending shortage in the position of public school superintendent is predicted due to retirements and the new accountability standards for public schools. This study was designed to contribute to the body of educational literature in regards to gender differences faced by school superinte..
J. S. Mill’s Feminism and the Third Dimension of Power
ABSTRACT. Are John Stuart Mill’s feminist ideas espoused in The Subjection of Women very liberal, or very radical? This question has been debated among contemporary scholars. The purpose of this paper is two fold. The first goal is to propose that Mill’s feminist work reveals a conception of power t..
Gender in Cinematography: Female Gaze (Eye) behind the Camera
ABSTRACT. For the last thirty years, feminist film theory has explored gender in cinema through detailed analysis of filmic texts, focusing on elements such as modes of narrative address, structuring principles of vision, and patterns of identification. Beginning with Laura Mulvey’s landmark essay, ..