In this article, Bettcher argues that sexual attraction must be reconceptualized in light of transgender experience. In particular, Bettcher defends the theory of "erotic structuralism," which replaces an exclusively other-directed account of gendered attraction with one that includes a gendered eroticization of self as an essential component. This erotic experience of self is necessary for oth...

The dangers facing migrants attempting to reach the EU by boat have been highlighted in many reports and media articles. However, although more and more women are among those trying to reach Europe, little attention has so far been paid to the gendered nature of the insecurities facing these migrants. This article examines the experiences of women arriving in Kos, Greece, as part of a journey t...

This article presents poststructural reflexivity as a way to both deconstruct the performativity of one’s own research practice and consider how researcher subjectivity is constituted within process. I present two vignettes moments discomfort conducting ‘in field’ which we argue create sense unease when shifting subjectivities regimes power become more visible. draw upon Foucauldian Discourse A...

In the past decade, popularization of social media in Pakistan has greatly influenced way which people communicate and interact with each other. The rapidly evolving nature online communication country when viewed against backdrop country’s socio-cultural characteristics religion is particularly significant. Facebook, being prime platform been revolutionary liberating because while acting as a ...

Gendered narratives of teacher education often rely on research studies that examine the living contradictions practice in a fast globalizing educational reform ensemble. Here, I argue it is equally important for women academy to conduct critical feminist into gendered construction macro policy landscapes reveal, challenge, and change new hegemonic masculinities at play higher contemporary time...

This article analyses five recent Japanese short stories written by women, with female first person narrators, and the English translations of these stories. I examine how the writers interact with the culturally loaded concept of gendered language to develop characters and themes. The strategies used by translators to render gendered styles into English are also discussed: case-by-case creativ...

The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 was a culmination anti-Ukrainian rhetoric that political elite and state-controlled media have been promoting at least since 2013. Apart from accusing being Neo-Nazi state, pro-Kremlin commentators espoused heavily gendered describing as loose woman in need saving by its older brother. Gendered discourse instrumentalized foreign pol...

This paper examines the social attitudes and expectations that limit women's freedom to move in the world. The history of gendered attitudes to exercise, current gendered differences in patterns of exercise and issues of body image and ageing are discussed. The importance of these issues when considering exercise as a preventative health measure is emphasised.

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In this article, we frame men’s club football as an “extremely gendered” organization to explain the underrepresentation of women leaders within industry. By analyzing women’s leadership work over a 30-year period, find that inclusion has been confined limited number occupational areas. These areas are removed, in terms influence and proximity, from male players playing football. findings revea...