In light of these concerns and obstacles—as in most studies examining gender violence in comparative perspective (e. g., Elman 1996; Weldon 2002; Kantola 2006; Zippel 2006)—this study relies on assessing responsiveness of the state and society rather than effectiveness. In other words, the study investigates the degree to which certain initiatives are taken up rather […]
День: 30.10.2015
The late 19th century: campaigning women
It was not until the second half of the 19th century that anything like a true women’s ‘movement’ began to emerge in England. This movement converged particularly around Barbara Leigh Smith and the group of friends who had become known — after one of their early meeting places — as ‘the Ladies of Langham Place’. […]
Motherhood, sexuality, reproduction and mothering
Historically, we see non-linear shifts of control and autonomy in motherhood and mothering. Despite many arguments about the degradation of mothering, it does not seem that women’s control of reproduction and sexuality is today less than it was at the turn of the century. There is a need for more adequate assessments of control and […]
Design of the study
Neoimperialist Concerns, Empirical Obstacles Investigating this study’s central question—whether foreign intervention can help women—requires creating standards of measurement, a move complicated by the colonial history of justifying imperialist projects under the guise of “helping” women. This concern is especially acute when the United States claims to be “in the forefront of advancing women’s causes around […]
Heike Becker
applies to the written and visual ethnographic oeuvre of the native commissioner cum self-styled ethnographic authority C. H.L. (‘Cocky’) Hahn.[20] The colonial era ethnographies are typified by their stasis in space and time. Most published sources only depict the eastern Owambo communities of Ouk — wanyama and Ondonga, in spite of their authors’ claims that […]
Queer Chinese roots
If there is a correlate in queer Chinese studies to a roots-based, centripetal, civilisationist view of ‘Chinese culture’ (see Tu 1991), it is found perhaps most clearly in queer responses to what Singaporean-American film scholar Kenneth Chan has called the ‘homophobic Chinese patriarchal system’ (2008: 142). Such responses foreground what is felt to be a […]
THE PARADIGMATIC AND POSTPARADIGMATIC
These developments can be described as an evolutionary drift from being what I have called a paradigmatic social order to its current and possibly permanent postparadigmatic social condition. Paradigmatic contexts are those that realize a high degree of consensual meanings, shared meanings that tend to fit together almost seamlessly, since they are of ten experienced […]
Or the Secret Power of Being a Consumer
Here’s yet another way female roles are changing to give us more power in the business world: we buy stuff, lots of it. “At the same time that their managerial representation is growing, women also make and influence purchasing decisions,” the research organization Catalyst finds. “In 2001, women earned almost $2 trillion of income in […]
Conceptual Concerns
Any text is built on some kind of theoretical or conceptual framework that may or may not be made explicit. This places the knowledge presented in a broader epistemological and ontological field. This further allows us to judge its claims and justifications. Chapter 1 therefore outlines the field of language theorizing that has informed my […]
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This study adopts a case study methodology to examine the entire collaboration process of three virtual teams. In the field of Information Systems (IS) research, the case study is one of the frequently adopted research methods, and its felicity is widely acknowledged (Orlikowski, 1993). The case study method is believed to provide rich and insightful […]