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"If You're Ugly, The Blackpill Is Born With You": Sexual Hierarchies, Identity Construction, And Masculinity On An Incel Forum Board, Josh Segalewitz
"If You're Ugly, The Blackpill Is Born With You": Sexual Hierarchies, Identity Construction, And Masculinity On An Incel Forum Board, Josh Segalewitz
Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies
The manosphere is one new digital space where antifeminists and men's rights activists interact outside of their traditional social networks. Incels, short for involuntary celibates, exist in this space and have been labeled as extreme misogynists, white supremacists, and domestic terrorists. This project aims to understand discussions happening among incels and situate them within social understandings of masculinity. I downloaded 4,532 threads posted on incels.is and randomly sampled 100 for analysis. Through grounded coding methodology, I identified the importance of making meaning of manhood on this site, particularly with respect to sexuality. Further, I found that incel ideology rests on …
(In)Security: Gendered And Bordered, Mary Mcloughlin
(In)Security: Gendered And Bordered, Mary Mcloughlin
Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies
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Bearing Witness To Sexual Violence As A Violation Of Women's Rights, Josh Segalewitz
Bearing Witness To Sexual Violence As A Violation Of Women's Rights, Josh Segalewitz
Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies
On January 21, 2017, masses of people around the globe gathered for one of the largest collections of public protest in history. It is estimated that over seven million people gathered to raise awareness of human rights violations towards several different groups. However, perhaps the largest common trope was echoed time and time again in the phrase, "women's rights are human rights." Conversations surrounding women's rights have been pushed to the forefront of human rights discourse in the recent past, and although there has certainly been a lot of progress towards the universal enforcement of women's rights, the role of …
Gendering Patriotism: Wartime Culture And Propaganda In Wwi, Emily Elizabeth Haynes
Gendering Patriotism: Wartime Culture And Propaganda In Wwi, Emily Elizabeth Haynes
Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies
The cover of a popular 1918 American song, "Keep the Home Together, Mother, Thaf s All We're Fighting For/' suggested that the main goal of World War I was to protect and sustain the home.1 It depicted three women from all different generations sitting at a kitchen table. One is reading and two are working on a sewing project. A small black cat meanders nearby this domestic scene. This image placed an emphasis on gendered spatialization-women are at home performing traditional women's work, such as sewing and maintaining the home, while men are outside performing men's work, such as fighting …
Feminist Futures, Julia Nicole Court
Feminist Futures, Julia Nicole Court
Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies
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Tripping On All The Faces: The Identity Work Of Native American Women Artists, Amanda Dee
Tripping On All The Faces: The Identity Work Of Native American Women Artists, Amanda Dee
Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies
Native American women artists are constantly tugging at a tangle of identities, all while others are pulling on them just as hard. These identities—Native American, Woman, Artist— struggle in one body to express themselves “authentically,” against and toward privacy, against and toward openness. On the outside, however, others flatten the identity of Natives as stoic, wise warriors with elaborate headdresses. Or even flatter to long braids, tan-skin. The confluence of a Cheyenne Lakota cowboy father and artist mother, Cannupa Hanska Luger produced a series in 2013 titled and expressing just that: "Stereotype: Misconceptions of the Native American" in Figure 1 …
F***** From The Start: Misogyny In Medieval Literature, Amanda Dee
F***** From The Start: Misogyny In Medieval Literature, Amanda Dee
Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies
It all started at the very beginning. In Genesis, when Eve was created from the rib of Adam and when she bit into the forbidden fruit, the literary character of Eve determined the perception of women who would be born hundreds of years after the biblical story was told -possibly until the end of eternity. About 1,600 years after this story allegedly originated, Joesph Swetnam decried the rib, the woman, as "a crooked thing, good for nothing else." He blames Eve as representative of womankind for "man's fall" (Greenblatt 1651). Interpretations like this, of the woman as the sinful servant …
Gender Disparity Within The Employment Sector In Saudi Arabia, Alyssa Bovell, Libby Durnwald
Gender Disparity Within The Employment Sector In Saudi Arabia, Alyssa Bovell, Libby Durnwald
Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies
The purpose of our research is to examine why an increased access to higher education has not resulted in an expansion of employment opportunities for women in Saudi Arabia, and how this affects the development of the country. We examine this topic through a feminist and cultural relativist lens in order to understand why Saudi Arabian women are living in such a gender-segregated state. The lack of opportunity to enjoy one’s right to employment renders the progressivism of women’s rights as civil society has taken measure to eradicate such a disparity in the employment sector and disrupt the institutional norms …
Joan Jett In "I Love Rock 'N' Roll": Gender Boundaries And Female Address, Megan Colleen O'Mera
Joan Jett In "I Love Rock 'N' Roll": Gender Boundaries And Female Address, Megan Colleen O'Mera
Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies
Joan Jett was not like other 23-year-olds. But, what else would you expect from a woman who grew up idolizing Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin? When she grew into adulthood under the lens of the public eye, Jett's shockingly masculine style in I Love Rock 'n' Roll was not what the average 1981 MTV viewer was accustomed to seeing from a female music video artist. Her female contemporaries such as Cyndi Lauper, Pat Benetar and Madonna were more traditionally feminine, sometimes even overtly sexual. Instead bending her style to feminize or sexualize herself, Jett expresses her gender by exposing the …
Dependence On Or The Subordination Of Women? Examining The Political, Domestic, And Religious Roles Of Women In Mesoamerican, Andean, And Spanish Societies In The 15th Century, Christine Alwan
Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies
What is the value of a woman? In the modern West, one may answer with appeals to human rights and the inherent dignity and equality of the human person. However, before the recognition of human rights, many societies’ ideas about the value of women laid in the specific roles women played religiously, politically, and domestically within a particular society. Through the examination of women’s roles in Mesoamerican Aztec society, Andean Incan society, and Spanish society in the 15th century, one is able to observe how gender ideology influenced the roles women played and how these roles had significant implications for …
Drag Kings: Performing Masculinity, Lauren Cummerlander
Drag Kings: Performing Masculinity, Lauren Cummerlander
Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies
Gender performance as a means of political message has always been fascinating to me. The idea of being able to put on and take off gender at will is interesting; the added layer of power relations makes it even more intriguing. What better illustration of gender performance than drag. Drag is all about the performance of gender, with the goal of disrupting the power hierarchy. To me drag is an important part of gender performance because it is one which illustrates that gender is a performance and is nothing more than culturally accepted features that come to identify people. Surprisingly …
Food And Feminism, Ellie Myers
Food And Feminism, Ellie Myers
Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies
Food production is a rarely thought about topic in industrialized countries like the U.S. There is an assumption that our food comes from big farms in the states, but in reality, “the poorest two-thirds of humanity feed the richest third” (Hamer, 28). This paper seeks to understand how this patriarchal relationship of American agribusiness and between lesser developed countries, specifically India, is affecting both the producers and consumers of these bioengineered crops. This will examine how food production is a feminist issue and how ecofeminism believes this problem can be remedied by local knowledge is the solution to the global …
Extreme Pornography And Obscenity Legislation, Julianne Morgan
Extreme Pornography And Obscenity Legislation, Julianne Morgan
Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies
Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act (CJIA), a piece of UK legislation that came into effect in 2009, seeks to criminalize the possession of extreme pornography with a particular focus on controlling the spread of such images available via the internet. The law mandates that an image is pornographic “if it is of such a nature that it must reasonably assumed to have been produced solely or principally for the purpose of sexual arousal.” An image is considered extreme if it is “grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character” and “if it portrays, in an …
Portrayal Of Women And Clothing In Domestic Housework Commercials, Julie Brady Ramaccia
Portrayal Of Women And Clothing In Domestic Housework Commercials, Julie Brady Ramaccia
Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies
5✸`‰©5❷O";">There are over 90 million televisions in the United States, serving roughly 98% of the United States’ population. An average American will watch 30,000 commercials in a year, which results in a total of over 2,000,000 commercials in a lifetime (Allan and Coltrane, 1996; Bretl and Cantor, 1988). An American will end up spending about three years of his or her life watching commercials (Kilbourne, 2001). Since the media and particularly commercials are so pervasive in American society, it is imperative that the effects of this advertising be studied and understood. It is also important to analyze the clothing …
Medieval Romance And British Romanticism: Gender Constructions In Pullman’S "His Dark Materials" And Tolkien’S "The Lord Of The Rings", Emily Elizabeth Howson
Medieval Romance And British Romanticism: Gender Constructions In Pullman’S "His Dark Materials" And Tolkien’S "The Lord Of The Rings", Emily Elizabeth Howson
Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies
In a 1999 interview, Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials, replied to a question about gender, saying, "Eve is the equal of Adam and shares in whatever it is that happens" (Pullman, Parsons par. 30). J.R.R Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings expressed a different attitude toward male and female. In a letter to his son in 1941, Tolkien wrote, "A man has a lifework, a career ... A young woman, even one 'economically independent' as they say now ... begins to dream of a home, almost at once" (Letters 50). Tolkien's notion of the sexes does …
Even The Good Guys Are Bad In Sin City, Melanie Woods
Even The Good Guys Are Bad In Sin City, Melanie Woods
Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies
No abstract provided.