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Intersection Theory: A More Elucidating Paradigm Of Quantitative Analysis, Marla Kohlman

Marla Kohlman

Intersection theory, a theoretical paradigm which calls attention to the interlocking forces of race, class, and gender, among other master status characteristics, is used to predict that respondents report having been targeted for sexual harassment under circumstances that are quite different from one demographic group to another. Sexual harassment is interpreted as primarily a power relation such that workers in less powerful positions are expected to be more vulnerable to targeting. This study may be distinguished from most studies utilizing intersection theory as a theoretical paradigm because it is a quantitative analysis of a broad, national set of data, the …

Radical Academia: Beyond The Audit Culture Treadmill, Rowan Cahill, Terry Irving

Rowan Cahill

The pathos of radical academia: notes on the impact of neo-liberalism on the universities, especially the audit culture, the production-model, casualization, academic scholarship, academic writing, peer reviewing, and open access. The authors suggest ways scholars can be radical within, and outside, of neoliberal academia. Part I, 'Missing in Action' appeared as an Academia.edu session in May 2015, where it attracted many comments. Part II, 'What Can Be Done?' is the authors' response to these comments. The whole piece was posted on the Cahill/Irving blog 'Radical Sydney/Radical History' on 22 October 2015.

Healing Through Movement: The Benefits Of Belly Dance For Gendered Victimization, Angela Moe

Angela M. Moe

Perceptions of “belly dance” are that it is degrading, exploitive, and incongruous to feminism. Curiously, however, the dance is incredibly popular in various parts of the world, including the United States, as a form of recreation and creative expression. This paper examines the apparent disconnect between public perception and practitioner standpoint. Findings indicate a strong holistic healing component, particularly in terms of gendered interpersonal victimization, where belly dance seems to hold potential for self-exploration and discovery. Grounded historically, culturally and empirically, these findings are discussed in terms of their application to social work practice as it relates to alternative therapies.

Being Black Academic Mothers, Angela Lewis, Sherri Wallace, Clarissa Peterson

Sherri L. Wallace

New Wine Into Old Wineskins?: Adding The Visual To Information Literacy Instruction, Carol A. Leibiger, Alan W. Aldrich

Carol A Leibiger

Images are significant information carriers in new technologies. Scrutinizing the written word ignores communication work done by images. Intermediality, or information literacy understood as metaliteracy, suggests ways to assess images using many of the same criteria for evaluating verbal content, with added visual-literacy criteria. The presenters combine visual and textual literacy into a holistic critical-thinking approach, which enriches interpretation when learners apply rigorous rhetorical criteria to texts, regardless of their media. Suggestions for such instruction will be provided in a LibGuide.

Anay's Will To Learn: A Woman's Education In The Shadow Of The Maquiladora, Elaine Hampton

Elaine Hampton

The opening of free trade agreements in the 1980s caused major economic changes in Mexico and the United States. These economic activities spawned dramatic social changes in Mexican society. One young Mexican woman, Anay Palomeque de Carrillo, rode the tumultuous wave of these economic activities from her rural home in tropical southern Mexico to the factories in the harsh desert lands of Ciudad Juárez during the early years of the city’s notorious violence.

During her years as an education professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, author Elaine Hampton researched Mexican education in border factory (maquiladora) communities. On …

Building Democracy In Japan, Mary Alice Haddad

Mary Alice Haddad

How is democracy made real? How does an undemocratic country create new institutions and transform its polity such that democratic values and practices become integral parts of its political culture? These are some of the most pressing questions of our times, and they are the central inquiry of Building Democracy in Japan. Using the Japanese experience as starting point, this book develops a new approach to the study of democratization that examines state-society interactions as a country adjusts its existing political culture to accommodate new democratic values, institutions and practices. With reference to the country's history, the book focuses on …

'So It's Always A Dance': The Politics Of Gifts And Governance At A Drop-In Centre For Vulnerable Women In London, Ontario, Treena Orchard, Sara Farr, Susan Macphail

Dr. Treena Orchard

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Politics Closer To Home: The Impact Of Subnational Institutions On Women In Politics, Candice Ortbals

Candice D. Ortbals

Scholars recognize a worldwide increase in decentralization as well as the prevalence of multilevel governance in Europe. This article examines the advantages and disadvantages that meso-level institutions present for women’s political representation in three European Union member-states that are decentralized, unitary states. Using the framework of the triangle of women’s empowerment, we ask whether women are represented in meso-level legislatures, women’s policy agencies, and women’s movements in Italy, Spain, and Poland. We find that gains in meso-level legislatures are slow, but meso-level women’s policy agencies and movements provide important access for women to politics. Like scholars studying women and federalism, …

Student Activism And Curricular Change In Higher Education, Mikaila Arthur

Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur

While higher education is still far from universal in the United States, it plays an increasingly large role in shaping our collective understanding of what knowledge counts as legitimate and important. Therefore, understanding the college curriculum and how it is changed and shaped helps us to understand the overall dynamics of knowledge in contemporary society. This book considers the emergence of three curricular fields that have developed and spread over the past half century in American higher education - Women's studies, Asian American studies and Queer/LGBT studies. It details the broader history of their development as knowledge fields and then …

'What's The Use Of Getting A Cow If You Can't Make Any Money From It?': The Reproduction Of Inequality Within Contemporary Social Reforms Of Devadasis, Treena Orchard

Dr. Treena Orchard

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The Epistemology Of Ethnography: Method In Queer Anthropology, Margot D. Weiss

Margot Weiss

This essay explores methodological dilemmas in queer anthropology by reviewing three recent queer ethnographies: Mary Gray's Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America; Mark Padilla's Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic; and Gloria Wekker's The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora. The essay aims to illuminate the epistemology of queer studies more broadly by focusing on a key paradox of ethnographic method: the binary of theory and data that is simultaneously made and unmade in ethnographic research and writing. In a newly transnational queer studies, ethnography …

Economic Welfare, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

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Changing The Rules: Technological Change, International Competition And Regulation In Communications, Ed. R.C. Crandall And K. Flamm, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

A review of Changing the Rules: Technological Change, International Competition and Regulation in Communications, ed. R.C. Crandall and K. Flamm

Neoclassical Economics: Critique, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

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Economists, Social Reformers, And Prophets: A Feminist Critique Of Economic Efficiency, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

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Gender, Caring, And Money, Drucilla Barker, Susan Feiner

Drucilla K. Barker

A review of The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, by Riane Eisler

As The World Turns: Globalization, Consumption, And The Feminization Of Work, Drucilla Barker, Susan Feiner

Drucilla K. Barker

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Matrilineal Communities, Patriarchal Realities: A Feminist Nirvana Uncovered, By Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

A review of Matrilineal Communities, Patriarchal Realities: A Feminist Nirvana Uncovered, by Kanchana N. Ruwanpura

Creating Spaces: A Comment On Contemporary Discourses In Economics, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

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Toward A Feminist Philosophy Of Economics, Ed. Drucilla K. Barker And Edith Kuiper, Drucilla Barker, Edith Kuiper

Drucilla K. Barker

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Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives On Families, Work, And Globalization, Ed. Drucilla K. Barker And Susan F. Feiner, Drucilla Barker, Susan Feiner

Drucilla K. Barker

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Quality And Variety In The Motion Picture Industry: A Comparative Analysis Of The United States And Europe, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

No abstract provided.

From Feminist Empiricism To Feminist Poststructuralism: Philosophical Questions In Feminist Economics, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

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Introduction: Sketching The Contours Of A Feminist Philosophy Of Economics, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

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Gender, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

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Microcredit And Women's Poverty: Granting This Year's Nobel Peace Prize To Microcredit Guru Muhammad Yunus Affirms Neoliberalism, Susan Feiner, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

No abstract provided.

An Empirical Analysis Of The Effects Of Product Liability Laws On Underwriting Risk, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

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Neoclassical Economics, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

No abstract provided.

Rethinking Methodology, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

No abstract provided.