Gender Benders in Manolos?

Diese Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Repräsentation weiblicher Genderrollen und deren Effekt auf die Zuseher der HBO-Serie Sex and the City. Obwohl die Serie den Eindruck erweckt, eine Liberalisierung des Frauenbildes bewirken zu wollen werde ich belegen, dass das Gegenteil der Fall ist und patriarchale hegemonische Machtverhältnisse reproduziert werden. Zu Beginn wird ein kurzer Überblick des Begriffes Post-Feminismus und Film Studies im Allgemeinen gegeben. Die folgende Analyse basiert auf Judith Butlers Performativitätstheorie, welche die Grundlage für die Konzepte der Stereotypisierung und Susan Sontags’ Camp bildet. Mit Hilfe dieser Methoden werden die drei Episoden „Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl“, „The Real Me“ und „All That Glitters“ analysiert; Ziel hierbei ist es, Gender Performanzen zu dekonstruieren um die konservativen Werte der Serie aufzudecken. Darüber hinaus wird aufgezeigt auf welche Weise der Zuseher mit Idenitfikationstechniken an die Serie gebunden wird und welche Auswirkungen dies herbeiführt

Gender Benders: Shakespeare\u27s Rosalind and Woolf\u27s Orlando

English Renaissance playwright, William Shakespeare and twentieth century modernist author, Virginia Woolf’s works, “As You Like It” (1599) and “Orlando” (1928), respectively posit a vision of gender that transcends the physical sex of the body. The play’s heroine, Rosalind, and the novel’s protagonist, Orlando, each challenge the stability of the binary categories of male and female, demonstrating how gender is not absolute but rather a constantly adapting and evolving construct. This thesis traces the development of Rosalind and Orlando by analyzing and comparing both protagonists’ journeys towards concordia discors, considering how gender transformation plays a pivotal role in helping both figures transcend prescribed gender roles and restraints placed upon them by family and society. Both Rosalind and Orlando mount challenges to prescribed gender norms during periods when conservative gender roles were strictly enforced. By doing so, each character positions themselves as pivotal and progressive representations of gender performance for their time

The Echo: February 5, 1999

For the Record: Sculpture removed – Despite success, network still under question – Spiritual renewal to focus on ‘gender benders’ – Israel, Greece: a part of the story – Accenting the truth: northern hospitality – Letter to the Editor – Perhaps it’s Baroque? – Letters to the editor – Men’s, women’s b-ball teams fall short to St. Francis – Nick David Athlete of the Week – You Make The Call ‘99https://pillars.taylor.edu/echo-1998-1999/1013/thumbnail.jp

Queerness for Kids: A Content Analysis of LGBTQ Narrative Picture Books

Children’s picture books function as socializers with both stated and subtextual messages (Aronson et al 2017, Capuzza 2019, Kern 2020, Sciurba 2017). Inclusive picture books contain messages that can affirm marginalized identities and broaden normative worldviews (Capuzza 2019, Epstein 2012, Mokrzycki 2020). However, there are often harmful norms and stereotypes even in inclusive literature (Capuzza 2019, Epstein 2019, DePalma 2014). This study analyzes the interplay of inclusive and normative messages within the context of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, or Queer (LGBTQ) picture books. I compiled a dataset that represents a near-census of all narrative picture books containing at least one LGBTQ character published between 2010 and 2020. I aim to answer the questions of what LGBTQ narrative picture books are available and what messages they contain. I found 260 picture books, which were almost evenly split between gender and sexuality books. Over half the books in my near-census use the LGBTQ identity as the conflict of the story and the majority were set in the real world. Moreover, I find both normative narratives and stories that suggest a more inclusive direction within my sample. I consider my findings in relation to previous literature on inclusive pictures books in general, and the limited existing literature on LGBTQ picture books in particular

Sex and the city: a postfeminist point of view? Or how popular culture functions as a channel for feminist discourses

The existing literature concerning post feminism shows a diversity of ideas among scholars; a polarization between opponents and supporters becomes salient. By rearticulating post feminism as a fundament of third-wave feminism and situating it within the context of the 21st century (Genz, 333-353), we endeavor a more revisited vision on the representation of post feminism in popular culture. Post feminism is a new form of empowerment, adjusted to the contemporary societal context. It focuses on agency, freedom, sexual pleasure, consumer culture, fashion, hybridism, humor, and a renewed focus on the female body. In popular media texts, the fiction series Sex and the City is often considered a signboard of post feminist discourse. In this article, we analyze the representation of post feminism in Sex and the City. Using an in-depth thematic film analysis, we analyzed whether and how post feminist themes are presented in the series

Gender-Benders\u27: Sex and Law in the Constitution of Polluted Bodies

This paper explores how law might conceive of the injury or harm of endocrine disruption as it applies to an aboriginal community experiencing chronic chemical pollution. The effect of the pollution in this case is not only gendered, but gendering: it seems to be causing the ‘production’ of two girl babies for every boy born on the reserve. This presents an opening to interrogate how law is implicated in the constitution of not just gender but sex. The analysis takes an embodied turn, attempting to validate the real and material consequences of synthetic chemicals acting on bodies — but uncovers that finding a harm in a declining sex ratio depends on a static conception of the human form, based on unfounded assumptions of ‘naturalness’ and ‘normalcy’. Elizabeth Grosz’s theory of ‘becoming’ offers a compelling challenge, essentially pointing to the conclusion that we should find harm where we find illness and suffering and not simply where we find difference. At the same time, we cannot discount the political economy of the pollution: the paper concludes by returning the focus to the role of power, colonialism and the state in the perpetuation of the pollution on the landscape

Gender-Benders\u27: Sex and Law in the Constitution of Polluted Bodies

This paper explores how law might conceive of the injury or harm of endocrine disruption as it applies to an aboriginal community experiencing chronic chemical pollution. The effect of the pollution in this case is not only gendered, but gendering: it seems to be causing the ‘production’ of two girl babies for every boy born on the reserve. This presents an opening to interrogate how law is implicated in the constitution of not just gender but sex. The analysis takes an embodied turn, attempting to validate the real and material consequences of synthetic chemicals acting on bodies — but uncovers that finding a harm in a declining sex ratio depends on a static conception of the human form, based on unfounded assumptions of ‘naturalness’ and ‘normalcy’. Elizabeth Grosz’s theory of ‘becoming’ offers a compelling challenge, essentially pointing to the conclusion that we should find harm where we find illness and suffering and not simply where we find difference. At the same time, we cannot discount the political economy of the pollution: the paper concludes by returning the focus to the role of power, colonialism and the state in the perpetuation of the pollution on the landscape

Women\u27s Programs Spring 1992

Spring 1992 calendar of Women\u27s Programs with photos and descriptions. Events: SELF-DEFENSE AND ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING FOR WOMEN; Is There a Biblical Vision of Ecology? Speaker: Rosemary Radford Reuther; ROSEMARY RADFORD REUTHER: Ecofeminism: Symbolic and Social Connections Between the Domination of Women and Nature ; DE COLORES: A CELEBRATION OF WRITERS OF COLOR IN AMERICA; SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE: A SOCIAL LIFE AT DENISON WITHOUT TEARS; ANDREA PARROT: Sexual Communication On Campus ; JACQUELINE FLEMING: \u27Blacks in College ; GRACE LYON ALUMNAE AWARD PRESENTATION: Mary Weiland Zepernick, DU\u2761; FACULTY POETRY READING; INTERNATIONAL WOMEN\u27S DAY CELEBRATION/RECEPTION;FACULTY LUNCHEON: Becoming a Woman Writer in 19th Century France ; SELF-DEFENSE AND ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING FOR WOMEN; MARY CATHERINE BATESON: Earth Kinship ; VIRGINIA MOLLENKOTT: Eros Is a Sexual Urge ; CHAPEL SERVICE: New Testament Images of a Just Society ; POETRY READING: Thylias Moss; GAY/LESBIAN ALUMNI AWARENESS PANEL; FACULTY LUNCHEON: Deconstructing Homophobia: Gender Benders and Sexual Conundrums