VOLUME 14(1) • 2024
Digital Clothing Try-on Apps, Augmented Reality Beautification Filters, and Artificial Intelligence-powered Mood Detectors in Body Image Disturbance
ABSTRACT. The aim of this systematic review is to synthesize and analyze augmented reality try-on lenses, 3D-rendered digital outfit, and artificial visual perception and deep-learning-based facial expression recognition systems. With increasing evidence of photo retouching apps, artificial intellig..
Patriarchal Intolerance in Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees
ABSTRACT. Elif Shafak, a best-selling novelist of Turkish origin, once self-declared bisexual, is controversial today in her motherland, as she questions the patriarchal culture and all its traditions. In her latest novel, Shafak speaks about migration and relocation, and chooses to include two homo..
Raising Awareness on Gender Issues in Higher Education: A Pilot Intervention in EFL Teacher Training from Spain
ABSTRACT. There are biases and discriminations in relation to gender identity and sexual orientation issues in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom, either through outdated and sexist materials or even teacher discourse and beliefs, as, according to several studies, teachers unconscious..
Pedagogical Representations of Gender in Early Years Sector
ABSTRACT. Early Years (EY) sector is experiencing an interesting phenomenon in terms of gender representation at staff level. This article aims to investigate possible barriers of the low numbers of male practitioners in “a largely feminised workforce” (Mistry and Sood, 2012) supported by internatio..
Biopolitics of the Women’s Gulag and “Dark Tourism” in Kazakhstan: The “Camp” as Biopolitical Paradigm of Modernity
ABSTRACT. This paper explores the concept of dark tourism through the lens of a visit to the ALZHIR Museum and Memorial Complex in Kazakhstan, which was once a notorious Soviet women’s camp. The authors, who toured with guides in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, discuss their experiences in the two major ..
Unpacking Epistemic Genderism: An Investigation on Trans Women’s Encounters with the Gender Binary within South African Knowledge Systems ‒ “What Are You Doing Here? You Are Not Supposed to Be Here!”
ABSTRACT. Genderism, understood as a social structure that supports the notion that gender is a fixed binary of man and woman, results in the perpetuated marginalization of many trans people. Epistemic genderism describes the enactment of the gender binary in knowledge systems, in ways that uphold d..