DOCSLIB.ORG

The Tone of This Short-Story Is Anti-Feminist

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
The Tone of This Short-Story Is Anti-Feminist International Journal of Research (IJR) Vol-2, Issue-1 January 2015 ISSN 2348-6848 Feminist Literary Criticism: The Case Study of Paul Elam´s Short Story ´´Anger Management`` Muhammad Usman Khan Department of Letters UNESP-Rio Preto Campus (Brazil) Abstract Pual Elam is an initiator of ´´A Voice for Elam, Feminism, Literary Criticism, Man``, a site dedicated to masculinism Violence, Misogyny and men´s rights. Elam and his group insist that men are oppressed and Introduction deprived in all over the world generally and in American soceity especially. He Paul Elam is the founder and also organised a conference about the animating force of ``A Voice for Men`` issues faced by men and from that which is an influenctial site for men´s platefrom, he criticised feminist idealogy. rights movement. A Voice for Men is one Elam also writes articles and short of the most visible and active among stories about his perspective and many men's rights activism (MRA) sites, expresses his counter-feminist ideas video channels and forums for people freely. ´´Anger Management `` is his who are involved in the movement. It also popular short story among readers which includes some women. The group claims is pointed many times by some feminists. that men are oppressed in American This short story tells about a man who society and intends to diminish feminism. broke the nose of his wife with his punch Some have criticized men’s rights because she ran away with his business activism because of packaging misogyny partner. As a result, a man was sent to a as preacing equal rights for men (Kate, jail. The short story was analysed 2014). Elam believes men are society's critically with feminist perspective and victims and need a forum to vent. He checked how a woman was characterised added institutions like marriage and within it. Some major themes of feminism unfair family courts have become risky such as male-dominance, gender for men (Pry & Valiente, 2013). inferiority, powerlessness of women, female physical & mental qualities, Elam´s anti-feminist attitude is so sexuality, sufferage and stereoptyes about clear from his writtings that sometimes he women were studied in it. It was calls a woman a monster for trying to care concluded that the writer has tried to for her little boy (Munchausen, 2014) and sympathise with that man, a protagonist he is also a fierce misogynist with a who exercised a violence against his wife. penchant for angry, violent rhetoric that is In this way, a domestic violence is full of only-slightly veiled threats supported by him. In addition, a woman is (Futrelle, 2014a, para. 2). There is Elam´s presented as powerless, sexual slave and 2010 post where he claims that women stereotyped as disloyal to her husband get raped because they are stupid, who can run away from his home any arrogant, and narcissistic (DiBranco, time she wants. 2014). According to Elam (2010), it is a testament to men, and an exposure of lies Keywords: perpetrated against them by gender ideologues that scholars have understood Page | 514 International Journal of Research (IJR) Vol-2, Issue-1 January 2015 ISSN 2348-6848 this last half century without war in the The short story ´´Anger streets. It has always been in fortune of management`` is criticised litterally with men to sacrifice for others better than feminist perspective. Feminist literary themselves, and they have justified that criticism is a movement of human with their silence in the face of so many philosophy with some ideals that regular abuses. Betting on that silence to emphasizes the true and lawful status of continue when men are hungry is women in literature. Literary critics of stupidity. feminism are more concerned with language and script about gender as Paul Elam organized an compared to sociopolitical feminists. international conference on men´s issues Ellen Morgan restated Woolf´s advice: and as a result, many feminists criticised ´´Feminist criticism should, I believe the debates taken place there just like in encourage an art true to women´s past men´s rights activists have long been experience and not filtered through a male notorious in feminist circles (Stevens, perspective or constricted to fit male 2014). One speaker of the conference standards`` (Register, 1989, p. 19). supposed that women are solely accountable for all domestic violence Research Question because, having all the power in relationships, they could normally choose How is a woman presented in not to wed violent men (Hesse, 2014). Elam´s short-story regarding feminist These types of slogans arised another perspective? debate among feminists and others critics. The followers of Elam say that they are Research Method oppressed by irrational feminists who do not like men. The group also blames on The content analysis of the Elam`s women of exaggerating the number of short-story was conducted and the rape and denounces “the institution of following themes of concerns were marriage as unsafe and unsuitable for explored in its text applying the measures modern men” (Neavling, 2014). of feminist literary theory. Paul Elam also writes articles and 1. Petrirtic society or male- short-stories about men´s rights and anti- dominated society where women feminism. ´´Anger Management`` is his are dependent. controversial short-story that, according to some critics, reflects his counter- 2. Woemen are inferior than men. feminist viewpoint. In Elam´s words, ´´it is based on a true story`` (2012). The 3. Women are powerless. story is written after the twenty-year 4. Women have low physical or experience of Elam, he worked as a drug mental qualities. and alcohol counselor. For his counselees, the domestic violence was a recurring 5. Women are sexual salves. issue. He further tells that “sometimes the stories were not as predictable or 6. Women have no rights to suffrage. stereotypical as what people hear about” (p. 20). 7. Negative stereotypes about women. Page | 515 International Journal of Research (IJR) Vol-2, Issue-1 January 2015 ISSN 2348-6848 Theoretical Framework opportunities in society as men. b) Social feminism calims that women are The present research is based on oppressed due to the class system. c) feminist literary theory. This theory Redical feminism focuses on sexual explains a literary phenomenon with relationship between man and women and respect to a feminist perspective. Feminist defined that men are the problem and literary theory is a wide ambrella under women are the solution (Rachman, which many critics survive with some para.12-14). French, American and different understandings of literature British literary theorists share some basic about women. Among feminist theorists, ideas of feminism. Showalter, a major an essence of woman is a common theme. representative of Anglo-American Feminist literary criticism arised a feminist literary theory, emphasizes two theoretical issue with the birth of the new types of feminist criticism: the first one is women's movement commenced in the the feminist critique, that offers feminist early 1960s (Oppermann, 1994). By readings of male texts in which analyzing the roles of the women within the stereotypes of women in literature are literature, it can be revealed that what kind inquired. In her opoint of view, this of personal qualties the author ascribes to approach is restricted because it relies on the women and what kind of role the male critical theory to be global. women and men would have played in Therefore she adopts the secondary mode relation to each other, which adds an upper of feminist criticism, gynocriticism, that level of comprehension to any text (Wilcox, will build a female framework for the 2009). analysis of women´s literature and develop new models based on the study Feminist critics want to change the of female experience (Kostic, 2006, p. great canon of Western literature because, 72). Kristeva, a great symbol of French they think, it was unilaterly men who feminist literary theory, goes beyond composed those works and male critics gender differences; she is not female or who decided for their importance male focused; according to her, feminist (Gardiner, p. 395). There are two writing has nothing to do with the sex of different modes of feminist criticism. The the author, it is a character inscribed in first mode is studies the feminist as the text itself that rises at points when the reader, and it presents feminist readings author is generally not in control of the of texts which conceptualizes the images, meaning of the text (Ibid, 2006, p. 73). and stereotypes of women in literature, the omissions and misconceptions about While the problems of difference women in criticism, and women-as-sign and diversity were significant both to the in semiotic systems. The second mode of political policy of searching about the feminist criticism dessiminated by this interactions of race, class and gender and approach is the study of women as writers to the deconstructive policy of and its subjects are the history, styles, postmodern feminist theory, they also themes, genres and structures of writing evoked some doubt among feminist by women...(Showlter, 1981, pp. 182- scholars about the viability of the feminist 184). enterprise in general (Davis, 2008, p. 71). As one might fortell, every feminism has The three main types of feminism the recognition of the material conditions, are: a) Liberal feminism that asserts that women do not have the same freedom and Page | 516 International Journal of Research (IJR) Vol-2, Issue-1 January 2015 ISSN 2348-6848 ideological presuppositions and socio- at last Christmas. When he asked her political structures of its place of birth. In about the reason of leaving his home the 21st century, feminist theorising in permanantly, her reply was very insulting.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • From Men of Color: New Foundations for Developing Models for Success Edited By: Ronald A
    From Men of Color: New Foundations for Developing Models for Success Edited by: Ronald A. Williams The following is an excerpt from the unedited manuscript. Chapter 4: Masculinity Victor Sáenz and Beth Bukoski The “male education crisis” narrative has grown louder among the mainstream media in recent years, and it has been embodied by the faces of White boys (see, for example, the January 30, 2006 Newsweek cover and the January 26, 2007 Chronicle of Higher Education cover and their accompanying articles about the boy “crisis” [Tyre, 2006; Wilson, 2007]). This recognition of the challenges young men confront as they navigate the educational pipeline is an example of how White, middle-class, heteronormative patriarchy has structured our understanding of the “problem” of boys. White boys represent the face of the crisis and have served to legitimize it within the mainstream, yet boys and men of color remain the specter in the shadows — an invisible threat silently lurking and representing the way patriarchy structures boys’ lives in detrimental ways. Within the Latino population, for example, the educational attainment gap between Latino males and their female peers has been widening since the 1970s. As of 2010, Latino males obtained 38.4 percent of all associate’s and bachelor’s degrees awarded to Latinos (U.S. © 2013 Stylus Publishing, LLC www.Stylusb.com Census Bureau, 2010), and this gap is only projected to increase (Sáenz & Ponjuan, 2011). Even as the number of Latinas/os attending college and attaining degrees has increased steadily over the last few decades, the proportional representation of Latino males continues to decline relative to their female peers (Sáenz & Ponjuan, 2009).
    [Show full text]
  • Masculinity and Gender in a Farewell to Arms A
    International Journal of Engineering and Techniques - Volume 5 Issue 1, Jan-Feb 2019 RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS MASCULINITY AND GENDER IN A FAREWELL TO ARMS A. Ramya, Dr. R. Venkataraman 1Ph.D.Research Scholar, 2Professor and Head School of Languages VELS INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ADVANCED STUDIES (VISTAS), Pallavaram, Chennai. India Abstract: The present paper critically analyses the gender and masculinity expression and interaction in Hemingway’s most popular novel, A Farewell to Arms. The researcher after going through many novels chosen the novel A Farewell to Arms as Hemingway wrote in detail about gender and masculinity and gender role in the novel. This is the first book of the author that made him popular in the society since it was based on the true story that replicates the World War I. This novel is otherwise termed as an antiwar novel. Considering the main aspect of the novel’s gender issues and stress of masculinity interaction induced the writing of this paper. Keywords: World War I, Love, Gender Interaction, Masculine Identity Introduction Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)occupies an indelible place in the chronicles of American Literary history by virtue of his unique writing style and narration that presents a vivid picture of the scenarios explained in the novel by presenting a realistic depiction of the inter-war period, Hemingway has presented the quandary of the modern man in “a world which increasingly seeks to reduce him to a mechanism, a mere thing” (Brooks,Cleanth). Written in a simple but unconventional style, with the problems of war, violence and death as underlining themes, his novels present a figurative interpretation of life.
    [Show full text]
  • Discrimination Against Men Appearance and Causes in the Context of a Modern Welfare State
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Lauda Pasi Malmi Discrimination Against Men Appearance and Causes in the Context of a Modern Welfare State Academic Dissertation to be publicly defended under permission of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Lapland in the Mauri Hall on Friday 6th of February 2009 at 12 Acta Electronica Universitatis Lapponiensis 39 University of Lapland Faculty of Social Sciences Copyright: Pasi Malmi Distributor: Lapland University Press P.O. Box 8123 FI-96101 Rovaniemi tel. + 358 40-821 4242 , fax + 358 16 341 2933 publication@ulapland.fi www.ulapland.fi /publications Paperback ISBN 978-952-484-279-2 ISSN 0788-7604 PDF ISBN 978-952-484-309-6 ISSN 1796-6310 www.ulapland.fi /unipub/actanet 3 Abstract Malmi Pasi Discrimination against Men: Appearance and Causes in the Context of a Modern Welfare State Rovaniemi: University of Lapland, 2009, 453 pp., Acta Universitatis Lapponinsis 157 Dissertation: University of Lapland ISSN 0788-7604 ISBN 978-952-484-279-2 The purpose of the work is to examine the forms of discrimination against men in Finland in a manner that brings light also to the appearance of this phenomenon in other welfare states. The second goal of the study is to create a model of the causes of discrimination against men. According to the model, which synthesizes administrative sciences, gender studies and memetics, gender discrimination is caused by a mental diff erentiation between men and women. This diff erentiation tends to lead to the segregation of societies into masculine and feminine activities, and to organizations and net- works which are dominated by either men or by women.
    [Show full text]
  • Exploring Masculinities in the United States and Japan Susan Sims Cochran Kennesaw State University, Sue [email protected]
    Kennesaw State University DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects 12-1-2009 Exploring Masculinities in the United States and Japan Susan Sims Cochran Kennesaw State University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/etd Part of the Gender and Sexuality Commons Recommended Citation Cochran, Susan Sims, "Exploring Masculinities in the United States and Japan" (2009). Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects. Paper 53. This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University. EXPLORING MASCULINITIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN By Susan Sims Cochran A capstone project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements For the degree of Master of Arts in Professional Writing in the Department of English In the College of Humanities and Social Sciences of Kennesaw State University Kennesaw, Georgia 2009 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my God for giving me the strength to persevere through this topic, despite the opposition. I would like to thank my husband, who was ever encouraging despite the sleepless nights (and many, many discussions) for this paper. I would like to thank my good friend, Don Gammill, who read and re-read this paper on multiple occasions. CONTENTS Personal Narrative...........................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Download Download
    DOI: 10.4119/ijcv-3805 IJCV: Vol. 14(2)/2020 Connecting Structures: Resistance, Heroic Masculinity and Anti-Feminism as Bridging Narratives within Group Radicalization David Meieringi [email protected] Aziz Dzirii [email protected] Naika Foroutani [email protected] i Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM) at the Humboldt University Berlin Vol. 14(2)/2020 The IJCV provides a forum for scientific exchange and public dissemination of up-to-date scien- tific knowledge on conflict and violence. The IJCV is independent, peer reviewed, open access, and included in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) as well as other rele- vant databases (e.g., SCOPUS, EBSCO, ProQuest, DNB). The topics on which we concentrate—conflict and violence—have always been central to various disciplines. Consequently, the journal encompasses contributions from a wide range of disciplines, including criminology, economics, education, ethnology, his- tory, political science, psychology, social anthropology, sociology, the study of reli- gions, and urban studies. All articles are gathered in yearly volumes, identified by a DOI with article-wise pagi- nation. For more information please visit www.ijcv.or g Suggested Citation: APA: Meiering, D., Dziri, A., & Foroutan, N. (2020). Connecting structures: Resistance, heroic masculinity and anti-feminism as bridging narratives within group radicaliza- tion. International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 14(2), 1-19. doi: 10.4119/ijcv-3805 Harvard: Meiering, David, Dziri, Aziz, Foroutan, Naika. 2020. Connecting Structures: Resistance, Heroic Masculinity and Anti-Feminism as Bridging Narratives within Group Radicalization. International Journal of Conflict and Violence 14(2): 1-19. doi: 10.4119/ijcv-3805 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution—NoDerivatives License.
    [Show full text]
  • Why Our Gender System Sucks for Men, Too
    9/18/12 What About the Men? Why Our Gender System Sucks for Men, Too Published on Alternet (http://www.alternet.org) Home > What About the Men? Why Our Gender System Sucks for Men, Too The Good Men Project [1] / By Noah Brand [2], Ozy Frantz [3] What About the Men? Why Our Gender System Sucks for Men, Too July 10, 2012 | This article is from a book in progress by Noah Brand and Ozy Frantz. If you are anything like us, you spent some time when you were younger playing with optical illusions: the vase that, if you looked at it differently, was two faces; the fish that were also birds; the old woman who was also a young lady. If you were reading this in a book in a bookstore, and some malicious person had not moved it into the Local Birdwatching category, it would almost certainly be next to some other books about gender. (Yes, this is related.) Look at the other books, and you’d find they have one thing in common—they’re almost all about women. Women and work. Women and body image. Women and race. Women and sex. Women and feminism. You’d think that only women have a gender. For a long time, we’ve only been able to see half the illusion—we see the birds, but not the fish; the vases, but not the faces. We’ve noticed the thousands of ways, big and small, that our current gender system wounds women. Rarely, however, and often only as an afterthought does anyone remark on how the current gender system harms men.
    [Show full text]
  • Women Against Feminism: Exploring Discursive Measures and Implications of Anti-Feminist Discourse
    Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, 2: 70-90 (2015) Women against feminism: Exploring discursive measures and implications of anti-feminist discourse Alex Phillip Lyng Christiansen, Aalborg University Ole Izard Høyer, Aalborg University Abstract: The present paper studies anti-feminist discourse within the tumblr-based group Women Against Feminism, and explores how the sentiments of these anti-feminists, as expressed in a multi-modal format, may help to understand the difficulty feminism has with gathering support from its female audience. The textual corpus, gathered through the site, is analysed with methods inspired by Fairclough's 2012 version of CDA, focused on discovering social issues within feminism as it relates to a female audience. By considering implicature and counter-discourse, the analysis demonstrates that anti-feminists perceive feminists as victimising the female population and depriving them of agency, and call for feminism to consider their viewpoint. Conclusively, the created perception of victimisation then serves to illustrate how language works to construe modern feminist discourse in a negative light, and how this may further hinder feminism in reaching the audience it desires. Keywords: Antifeminism, counter-discourse, Critical Discourse Analysis, victimisation. 1. Introduction Women have real reasons to fear feminism, and we do young women no service if we suggest to them that feminism itself is safe. It is not. To stand opposed to your culture, to be critical of institutions, behaviors, discourses--when it is so clearly not in your immediate interest to do so--asks a lot of a young person, of any person. At its best, the feminist challenging of individualism, of narrow notions of freedom, is transformative, exhilarating, empowering.
    [Show full text]
  • Full-Forward And, Macho Homos : Toward a Masculist Reframing Of
    Referencia bibliográfica: Guagliardo, K. (2012). Macho-Homos. Toward a Masculist Reframing of Male Sexuality. Tesis de Grado. Edith Cowan University. Recuperado de http://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses_hons/76 ISBN: - MACHO HOMOS Toward a Masculist Reframing of Male Homosexuality Masculinity has taken a number of forms through history, with the dominant ideology of a particular culture and era dictating to men how they should perform their gender in order to be considered valuable or virtuous (Spector Person, 2006). In western patriarchal systems, men portray themselves in a particular manner in order to meet cultural criteria of masculinity (Webb, 1998; Biddulph, 1995; Connell, 1995). Although masculinity as a concept has been critiqued by feminism and queer theory, Clarkson (2006), Payne (2007), De Visser & Smith (2007), and Eguchi (2011) have discovered, along with others in the Journal of Men’s Studies, that traditional ideas of masculinity continue to inform, influence and appeal to both heterosexual and homosexual men. At this point, it is useful to consider Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity. Butler argues, ‘There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very “expressions” that are said to be its results’ (1990, p. 33). Butler asserts that there is no such thing as an inherent, concrete quality of ‘maleness’ within each male human being; that, rather, men perform maleness based on a variety of expressions. With that in mind, what constitutes hegemonic masculinity? What makes a man culturally masculine? Theorists have argued that signifiers of masculinity include: ‘dress, physical stance and movement, vocabulary and speech’ (Webb, 1998, p.
    [Show full text]
  • Anti Racist Action #7#7
    ANTI RACIST ACTION #7#7 SOUTH • SIDE •CHICAGO TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Actions & Rumors 11News 26 Local Racists 36 Theory ACTIONS & RUMORS THE KLAN TAKES A BEATING IN ANAHEIM, CA a crowd of anti-racists confronts the KKK A chapter of the Ku Klux Klan announced its intention to rally in Anaheim on February 27th. The rally was intended to take place at 1:30 PM in Pearson Park. By 11 AM, several dozen protestors had already shown up to confront the Klan. About one hour later, several men in black garb bearing Klan insignia exited an SUV near the edge of the park. Moments after the Klansmen stepped out, a fight erupted. The Grand Dragon of the KKK was seen receiving a beating from protestors who managed to knock him to the ground. Other members of the group pulled out weapons – three of the people confronting the Klan were, unfortunately, wounded. One was attacked with the pointed end of a flagpole, and two others were stabbed with knives. The police quickly arrived to defend the Klan and arrest a number of protestors. Several Klansmen were also arrested, although predictably released immediately afterward on the basis that their role in the fight had been purely “self-defense”. Cops, as always, remain the strongest defenders of white supremacy in the United States, and the groups who incite racial hatred and genocide find safety in the arms of the law. Nonetheless, the Klan rally never materialized as their miniscule group of supporters were immediately shut down by people defending their city from organized racists.
    [Show full text]
  • IAMCR 2016 Gender and Communication Section
    International Association for Media and Communication Research Asociación internacional de estudios en comunicación social Association internationale des études et recherches sur l’information et la communication IAMCR 2016 Gender and Communication Section Abstracts of papers accepted for presentation at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research IAMCR Leicester, UK 27-31 July 2016 Report any problems with this document to [email protected] Id: 11932 Title: Learning to sell sex(ism)' A cultural sociological analysis of gender in the educational cultures of advertising students in Ireland Session Type: Individual submission Authors: Name: Aileen O'Driscoll Email: aileen.odriscoll22 (at) mail.dcu.ie Country: IE (Ireland) Affiliation: Dublin City University Abstract: This PhD project is an empirical study of how gender operates in the educational cultures of advertising students in Ireland. The research is strongly guided by Nixon’s 2003 study into advertising cultures and discourses that work to promote traditional gendered working practices and organisational cultures hostile to gender equality. As a point of departure, however, this thesis takes an inter-disciplinary approach to bring together theoretical and empirical work on feminist critiques of postfeminist culture and the impact of postfeminism on gendered imagery in advertising texts, with a consideration of the cultural production processes that create advertisements, and also with – crucially – an attempt to delve into the underexplored
    [Show full text]
  • Mirrors of Masculinity: Representation and Identity in Advertising Images Jonathan E
    Consumption, Markets and Culture Vol. 7, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 21–52 Mirrors of Masculinity: Representation and Identity in Advertising Images Jonathan E. Schroeder & Detlev Zwick ThroughTaylorGCMC041002.sgm10.1080/1025386042000168000Consumption1025-3866Original200471000000MarchJonathanE.SchroederDepartmentjonathanschroeder@indek.kth.se & Article Francis (Print)/1477-223X of Markets 2004Industrial Ltd and Economics Culture (Online) and ManagementRoyal explication Institute of TechnologyS-100 44 StockholmSweden of a visual research method, this paper theorizes how masculine iden- tity interacts with consumption—of imagery, products, desires, and passions in advertising and consumer culture. We analyze the male body as a discursive “effect” created at the intersection of consumption and several marketing discourses such as advertising, market segmentation, and visual communication, balancing between brand strategy—what the marketer intends—and brand community—the free appropriation of meaning by the market. The paper’s contribution rests in extending previous work on male representation into historical, ontological, and photographic realms, providing a necessary complement between understanding advertising meaning as residing within managerial strategy or wholly subsumed by consumer response. We argue that greater awareness of the connec- tions between the traditions and conventions of visual culture and their impact on the production and consumption of advertising images leads to enhanced ability to understand how advertising works as a representational system and signifying practice. Keywords: Advertising; Imagery; Identity; Representation; Gender; Masculinity Introduction Consumption plays a major role in the construction, maintenance, and representation of male bodies. Almost all products are gendered in a practice of normative sexual dual- ism reinforced and maintained within the interlocking cultural institutions of market- ing communication and market segmentation.
    [Show full text]
  • Gender and Feminism: Anglesa I De Germanística the Students’ View
    DEPARTAMENT DE FILOLOGIA GENDER AND FEMINISM: ANGLESA I DE GERMANÍSTICA THE STUDENTS’ VIEW UNIVERSITAT Volume 2 AUTONÒMA DE BARCELONA Sara Martín Alegre (ed.) 2018 GENDER AND FEMINISM: THE STUDENTS’ VIEW Volume 2, Sara Martín Alegre (ed.) Contents Sara Martín Alegre, Encouraging Students to Discuss Gender ........................................ 1 PART ONE: PERSONAL VIEWS .......................................................................................... 3 Christine Johanna Seusing, We Are All Sexist: Why Gender Studies Should Be Obligatory for Everybody ................................................................................................................... 3 Arantxa González Blanco, Gender and Sex: Social Construction or Social Obstacle?...... 5 Cristina Montes Venegas, In the Name of Sex: Normativity and Sexual Centrality in Contemporary Society ...................................................................................................... 7 Dian Moschini Izquierdo, Challenging the Patriarchal Gender Binary: A New Feminist and Queer Insight on Gender, Sex and Sexual Orientation ........................................... 10 Albert Muñoz Varela, Not all Bodies Matter the Same .................................................. 12 Belén González Gómez, Feminists Need to Relax ........................................................... 14 Paola Nicolás Flores, Gender Roles Can Be Over (If You Want!).................................... 16 Alicia Baines, Why does the gender binary continue to exist? .....................................
    [Show full text]