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El Caso Del Consultorio De Sky Magazine ACTAS DEL II CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL de AUDEM Editoras: Silvia Caporale Bizzini, Olga Fuentes Soriano, Carmen Mañas Viejo, Nieves Montesinos Sánchez, Mª Teresa Ruíz Cantero UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE 7, 8 y 9 DE MAYO DE 2001 © los autores © Centro de Estudios sobre la Mujer Primera planta Aulario II Campus de Sant Vicent del Raspeig Apt. Correos 99 - 03080 Alacant Tel.: 965 90 94 15 - Fax: 965 90 96 58 [email protected] http://www.ua.es/cem I.S.N.B. 84-688-0336-7 Depósito legal: A-996-2002 Reservados todos los derechos. No se permite reproducir, almacenar en sistemas de recuperación de la información ni transmitir alguna parte de esta publicación, cualquiera que sea el medio empleado –electrónico, mecánico, fotocopia, grabación, etc.–, sin el permiso previo de los titulares de los derechos de la propiedad intelectual. Edición electrónica: www.espagrafic.com Índice Presentación . 9 MUJERES E IMÁGENES 1. Las mujeres en los roles docentes: un puesto mayoritario pero sin poder (La visión del cine). Patricia Crucera, Felicidad Loscertades, Trinidad Núñez y Mª Eugenia Domínguez . 12 2. La difusión de modelos ideológicos sexistas en las revistas para hombres del Reino Unido: el caso del consultorio de Sky Magazine. Eduardo de Gregorio Godeo . 34 3. Prácticas corporales y comunicación de género en el Magreb. Awatef Ketiti. 57 4. Las mujeres vistas por la TV. El caso de los reportajes y documentos de élite. Felicidad Loscertades y Trinidad Nuñez Domínguez . 75 5. El cine como (re)productor de imaginarios: la doble trama de representación e imposición de un modelo genérico. Francisco Javier Gómez Tarín. 98 6. La influencia de los medios de comunicación en la lucha contra la violencia doméstica. Vicente Magro Serret. 132 7. Reflejo de los temas de género en los medios de comunicación: un asunto controvertido. Amparo Moreno. 151 Índice 8. La representación gráfica de la mujer en las portadas de las ediciones digitales de los diarios Las Provincias y Levante-emv. Joana Saura Tomás. 167 9. La salud en los medios de comunicación: un enfoque de género. Carmen Vives, Mª Teresa Ruiz, Marta Martín, Daniel La Parra y Manuel Albaladejo . 184 MUJERES Y UNIVERSIDAD 1. Desvelando techos de cristal. Los consejos de departamentos universitarios. Ana Guil Bozal. 187 2. El feminismo académico y su difusión social: nuestra experiencia desde la Universidad de las Islas Baleares. Esperança Bosch Fiol y Victoria A. Ferrer Pérez . 213 3. Género y producción de conocimiento: el caso de las Tesis Doctorales en la Facultad de Educación de la Universidad Complutense (1985-1993). Marisa Fresno Martín y Mª Antonia García de León y Álvarez . 232 4. Reflexión sobre la necesidad del establecimiento de puentes entre los estudios de mujeres ubicados en el ámbito universitario “Feminismo académico”, los organismos de igualdad “Feminismo institucional” y el Movimiento de mujeres. Engracia de los Riscos Angulo y Maribel Nebreda Roca . 256 Índice 5. Los grupos de discusión para la evaluación de la calidad de las instituciones educativas desde la perspectiva de género. Natalia Rodríguez Rodríguez e Isabel Calatayud Becerra . 270 MUJERES Y TRABAJO 1. El teletrabajo: un medio de conciliación de la vida laboral a través de las Nuevas Tecnologías. Manuela Pérez Pérez, Angel Martínez Sánchez y Pilar de Luis Carnicer . 272 2. La presencia de mujeres en ámbito de decisión: las empresarias. Lola Frutos Balibrea y Salvadora Titos Gil . 295 3. Trabajo, cultura y género. Remedios Martínez . 332 MUJERES Y NUEVAS TECNOLOGÍAS 1. Género y tecnología: las mujeres de la Comunidad Valenciana ante las Nuevas Tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación. Mercedes Alcañiz . 344 2. Netcultura y género. Isabel de Torres Ramírez y Ana Baltar Gómez. 363 3. Biotecnología y género. Asunción Martínez Mellado . 375 4. Fuentes documentales básicas en los Estudios de Mujeres. Yolanda Sánchez Mateo . 395 Índice MUJERES Y LITERATURA 1. El saber contra el poder: performances nómadas. Mercedes Arriaga Flórez . 413 2. Vivianne Forrester: una interesante propuesta femenina contra la trampa de la globalización. Dolores Alemany . 425 3. Literatura y mujeres: la crítica literaria feminista como paradigma de epistemología de resistencia. José Mª Armengol . 438 4. La expresión de la impotencia o el poder de lo indecible. Tres ejemplos de pioneras en la lucha por dotar de palabra a un desasosiego total. Carme Bescansa Leiros . 476 5. La reconstrucción de la identidad: The Maharani’s House de Ravinder Randhava. Susana Brea Herrero . 496 6. Huir del género: la desfiguración estratégica de la identidad femenina en los textos autobiográficos. Isabel Clua Ginés . 511 7. Alda Merini: una contribución a la epistemología femenina. Filippo Giuseppe di Bennardo . 535 8. El conocimiento como estrategia de poder para la mujer en la Edad Media. Ramón García Pradas. 546 9. En la escritura hebrea de mujeres: Dvora Baron. Alicia Ramos González . 568 Índice 10. Estratégicos de frontera: los salones en la Francia de los Siglos XVII y XVIII. Meri Torras. 594 MISCELÁNEA 1. El análisis multimedial de la baja fecundidad. Mª José Rodriguez Jaume y Mª Teresa Algado Ferrer . 613 2. Análisis teórico de los modelos de desarrollo de identidad social feminista y las implicaciones para la psicoterapia feminista y el cambio social. Carmen Martínez, Consuelo Paterna y Carmen Yago . 636 Notas . 661 Presentación PRESENTACIÓN omo sabemos, AUDEM nació de la necesidad de representar y hacer visible en el ámbito universitario Cla presencia de las mujeres y de su(s) saber(es). El II Congreso de la asociación, “La difusión del conocimiento en los estudios de las mujeres. Dinámicas y estrategias de poder y ciudadanía”, que tuvo lugar en la Universidad de Alicante en mayo de 2001, representó la ocasión de volver a encontrarse y analizar cómo estos nuevos saberes, o nue- vas maneras de entender los antiguos, marcan el desarrollo de la presencia de la mujer en la universidad así como en la sociedad. El objetivo principal de este congreso fue el de analizar cómo las nuevas tecnologías, el multiculturalismo, la influencia de la globalización, el control (o la falta de control) de los medios de la producción cultural (editoriales, redes de difu- sión, docencia, cine, etc.) y los nuevos retos del conocimien- to en el ámbito de los estudios de género influyen en la vida de las mujeres y de la sociedad. Por ello, los temas a tratar se articularon dentro de unos bloques temáticos bien deter- minados: epistemologías feministas, análisis de la relación ÍNDICE 9 La difusión del conocimiento en los estudios de las mujeres Dinámicas y estrategias de poder y ciudadanía poder/saber y estrategias de resistencia, nuevas tecnologí- as, medios de comunicación y redes de difusión del conoci- miento. El análisis de los ejes temáticos presentes en el con- texto de los diferentes bloques se desarrolló a través de una serie de conferencias y de la presentación de un amplio aba- nico de comunicaciones. Las Actas que ahora publicamos recogen la mayoría de las ponencias que se leyeron a lo largo de tres intensas y esti- mulantes jornadas y ponen de relieve la riqueza de este intercambio intelectual. Desgraciadamente, no ha sido posi- ble proporcionar al público lector la aportación de las confe- renciantes. Sin embargo, agradecemos a Isabel Carrera de la Universidad de Oviedo (“Feminismo, conocimiento y mul- ticulturalismo: estrategias de intervención”), a Sabira Mateen de la Asociación Revolucionaria de Mujeres Afganas (“Análisis de la relación poder/saber y estrategias de resis- tencia”), a Rosa Cobo de la Universidad de A Coruña (“El paradigma feminista en las ciencias sociales: las mujeres como sujetos y objetos de la investigación social”) y a Montserrat Boix de Mujeres en Red (“Redes de mujeres y nuevas tecnologías: nuevas estrategias de comunicación con perspectiva de género”) su generosidad en querer com- partir con todas nosotras su tiempo, su investigación y, por supuesto, su compromiso intelectual. 10 ÍNDICE Presentación Como nos recuerdan Kemp y Squires (London: Routledge, 1998) si el mensaje que se intenta mandar a la sociedad es el que estamos viviendo una época de `post-feminismo’, el enorme impulso que la dimensión de género está asumien- do en el terreno académico, y su búsqueda de contacto con el exterior, demuestran la falacia de semejante afirmación. No podemos olvidar que este movimiento intelectual no surge exclusivamente de desde dentro de la Universidad, mayoritariamente conservadora en lo que concierne el cues- tionamiento de sus bases filosóficas, sino que se ve impul- sado con fuerza desde el exterior, desde la sociedad y los colectivos de mujeres que trabajan el `día a día’, la mayoría de las veces sin la seguridad que, como diría Virginia Woolf, proporciona una habitación propia y una independencia eco- nómica. El encuentro entre lo social y lo académico ha pro- porcionado a los estudios de género su carácter político y comprometido, transformándolos, en nuestra opinión, en un posible punto de contacto entre la Universidad y la sociedad civil. Silvia Caporale Bizzini Depto. de Filología Inglesa Centro de Estudios sobre la Mujer de la Universidad de Alicante ÍNDICE 11 La difusión del conocimiento en los estudios de las mujeres Dinámicas y estrategias de poder y ciudadanía LAS MUJERES EN LOS ROLES DOCENTES: UN PUESTO MAYORITARIO PERO SIN PODER (La visión del cine) Patricia Crucera, Felicidad Loscertales, Trinidad Núñez y Ma. Eugenia Domínguez Universidad de Sevilla 1.- Introducción: el lenguaje cinematográfico. l cine es un poderoso medio de comunicación que, a través de las historias que relata, refleja la realidad Esocial como en un espejo, enseña las visiones y ver- siones tanto de la cultura como de los estereotipos, valores, actitudes e ideologías que se dan en cualquier momento his- tórico de cualquier grupo humano. Y uno de los fenómenos que se pueden estudiar en el cine, son los estereotipos de los roles que se desempeñan en las distintas profesiones, sobre todo los de aquellas que más presencia social tienen en los tiempos actuales.
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