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Journal of Gender and Power 9 2018 ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY IN POZNAN Journal of Gender and Power Vol. 9, No. 1, 2018 POZNAN 2018 2 Submissions Journal of Gender and Power is aimed at providing an international forum for discussing various issues and processes of gender construction. It is a scholarly, interdisciplinary journal, which features articles in all fields of gender studies, drawing on various paradigms and approaches. We invite scholars to submit articles and reviews reporting on theoretical considerations and empirical research. Journal of Gender and Power is published by Faculty of Educational Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan—Poland). Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Agnieszka Gromkowska-Melosik Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland Editorial Assistants Emilia Szymczak & Michal Klichowski Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland Cecilia Asberg (Linkoping University, Sweden), Zygmunt Bauman (University of Leeds, England), Francesca Bettio (University of Siena, Italy), Mary Blair-Loy (University of California, USA), Doris Chang (Wichita State University, USA), Miranda Christou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Lorraine Dowler (Pennsylvania State University, USA), Catherine Driscoll (University of Sydney, Australia), Virginia Ferreira (University of Coimbra, Portugal), Eva Fodor (Central European University, Hungary), Eleanor Gordon (University of Glasgow, Scotland), Lawrence Grossberg (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA), Anita Harris (Monash University, Australia), Beata Kowalska (Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland), Michael A. Messner (University of Southern California, USA), Joanna Pawelczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland), Adriana Piscitelli (State University of Campinas, Brazil), Lydia Potts (Carl von Ossi- etzky University of Oldenburg, Germany), Renata Siemienska (University of Warsaw, Poland), Krystyna Slany (Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland), Vappu Sunnari (University of Oulu, Finland), Boguslaw Sliwerski (The Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education & Christian Theological Academy, Poland), Sarah Thebaud (University of California, USA), Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht University, Netherlands), Valentina I. Uspenskaya (Tver State Univer- sity, Russia), Denise Walsh (University of Virginia, USA), Eva Zamojska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) Language Editor Lukasz Pakula Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland Statistical Editor Krystyna Katulska Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland Publikacja sfinansowana przez Wydział Studiów Edukacyjnych UAM © Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań 2018 Wersja pierwotna czasopisma: drukowana Opracowanie komputerowe okładki: K. & S. Szurpit Zdjęcie na okładce: © Imgorthand/E+/Getty Images ISSN 2391-8187 Contents Editor’s Preface (Agnieszka Gromkowska-Melosik) ...................................... 5 ARTICLES MACIEJ BERNASIEWICZ The sexual/gender differentiation—are the boundaries of gender struggle? ......................................................................................... 9 ZACHERY HAZARD , MELINDA R. PIERSON Supporting boys and girls with Down syndrome ................................... 21 PAWEŁ WIDURSKI , MARCIN GIERCZYK Self-identification in the context of original concept of feminine type of personality in contemporary photography #widurskiwoman .................. 29 AGNIESZKA STEFANÓW Sensory processing disorders in women or why a lady cannot be a lady .... 39 ANNA SOBCZAK The Queen Bee Syndrome. The paradox of women discrimination on the labour market .................................................................................. 51 DARIA WRONA Cosplay in the perspective of rape culture. Context, origins and conditions ..... 63 CELESTINE LEKIA POROMA , KABEE KPAA , EKWEOMA ANIMIYEFA ABEL Arms proliferation and the crisis of cult supremacy and insecurity in Ogoniland Nigeria ............................................................................. 75 EZIWHO EMENIKE AZUNWO , FLORENCE OKOSIMIEMA KALIO Women empowerment and domestic violence in selected Nigerian video films ............................................................................................... 97 BRITTNEY A. M. TAYLOR , MELINDA R. PIERSON Supporting students with Autism Spectrum Disorder ............................. 125 BOOK AND JOURNAL REVIEWS MARTA DZIARNOWSKA Joanna Mizielińska. Different or regular? Families of choice in Poland . Warsaw 2017: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN S.A. Pp. 416. ...................... 139 4 Contents PAULINA GŁOWACKA Katarzyna Segiet, Kamila Słupska (eds.). A book in human life—in search of lost(ing) value . Poznań 2017: Adam Mickiewicz University Press. Pp. 360. ........................................................................................... 141 ANNA SOBCZAK Emilia Szymczak, The dynamics of women’s access to technical studies. Social theory and practice . Poznan 2016: Adam Mickiewicz University Press. Pp. 395. .................................................................................. 145 Submissions ........................................................................................... 149 Editor’s Preface Even in social constructivism masculinity and femininity can be con- fronted in two ways. The first is based on binary opposition between man and women. Here the various constructions of feminine and mascu- line identities are analysed but still in opposition. In the second ap- proach in this paradigm it is not possible to make a clear distinction between what belongs to femininity and what belongs to masculinity. The different versions of both gender identities are overlapped and sometimes they are so fragmented that is difficult to see any difference between them. So we can ask the question: are there any core gender identity features? Would it be possible to make an essential differentia- tion between man and woman? If we say “no” we can give up all together the concept of femininity and masculinity, and replace them by the con- cept of human being but there is any political correctness consequence of such approach. When there is no man and no women but only human beings can we discuss gender inequality problem or even gender role unfairness? On the other hand when we take into account the smallest essential pieces of difference between man and women we can be ac- cused of making an epistemological as well as social and cultural invasion on the various identities. So there is a basic paradox of the discussion about gender construction and there is no way to escape from it. In the past the analyses or diagnoses of man’s and woman’s position in the socie- ty have been connected more with macro problems focused on the politi- cal rights, equality and emancipation. Today when the early feminist de- mands have been materialized the discussion on gender relates to more specific problems like the difference in earning between man and women or the influence of maternity on the woman’s career. Also quite new di- mensions of gender and sexuality analyses are constructed, for example devoted to the disabled people or Queen Bee Syndrome problem as well as transgendered identities. I hope that this issue of gender and power will let us deepen the understanding of some of new and old issues. Agnieszka Gromkowska-Melosik Editor-in-Chief 6 Editor’s Preface ARTICLES 8 Editor’s Preface Vol. 9, No. 1, 2018 DOI: 10.14746/jgp.2018.9.001 Maciej Bernasiewicz University of Silesia (Poland) The sexual/gender differentiation—are the boundaries of gender struggle? ABSTRACT. The author is discussing issues concerning gender differentiation in the sphere of economy, social roles and its cultural and biological roots. The anti-essentialist gender dis- course is shown as emanation of two old ideas: the Marxist paradigm and gnostic concepts. Author indicate that the triumph of freedom in the culture of late modernity is not only the victory of culture over nature, but also, paradoxically for this culture, a simultaneous threat. KEYWORDS: gender study, social roles, the conflict theory of the society The gender differentiation and the social roles 1 Today, the natural sexual differentiation of the human nature is becoming less and less important for the economic sphere. However, sexual/gender distinctions on the labour market are still noticeable, and they will be present as long as nursery school teachers and miners stay hermetic professional groups. One of the most outstanding anthropolo- gists of the 20 th century, Margaret Mead, noted that in every known society, mankind has elaborated the biological division of labour into forms often very remotely related to the original biological dif- ferences that provided the original clues. (…) But we always find the pat- terning. We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation; (…) We find no culture in which it has been thought that all identified traits—stupidity and brilliance, beauty and ugliness, friendliness and hostility, initiative and responsiveness, courage and patience and industry—are merely human traits (Mead, 1958, p. 16–17). ________________ 1 I have already written about in: M. Bernasiewicz, M. Noszczyk-Bernasiewicz, Family Life and Crime. Contemporary Research and Essays . Katowice 2017, p. 26–36. 10 MACIEJ BERNASIEWICZ However, perhaps we are witnessing the first stage of formation of the society, which, in the name of egalitarianism, is trying to annihilate sexual differentiation. An aversion to differentiation, which
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