The Semiotics of Pemature Burial: Feminism in a Postfeminist Age

In this article, I will explore how the death of feminism is represented in order to plumb the larger meanings embedded in proclamations of feminism’s symbolic death. I will begin by investigating two mechanisms by which feminism’s death has been produced to unearth the tacit values of feminism’s morticians. I will then consider competing accounts of the “signs of death” in order to explore how particular assumptions about the ontology of feminism are tied to specific forms of metaphorical death. Given the particular kind of distortion involved in the premature burial of a thriving global feminism, the final section of the article situates contemporary feminism’s death knell in the context of a gendered history of live burial practices. By excavating and interpreting such archaic practices, I will link the rhetorical burial of contemporary feminism to an ongoing effort to undermine feminist struggles for social justice

Confundir el género*(Confounding** gender)

Las discusiones sobre el género en historia, lenguaje, literatura, artes, educación, medios de comunicación, política, psicología, religión, medicina y ciencia, sociedad, derecho y lugar de trabajo se han conver- tido en temas centrales del saber feminista contemporáneo. A medida que la investigación sobre el género prolifera, lo hace también la tendencia a suponer que el significado del género no es problemático . Sin embargo, diferentes estudiosas y estudiosos emplean el género de ma- neras notablemente diferentes.Discussions of gender in history, language, literature, the arts, education, the media, politics, psychology, religion, medicine and science, society, law, and the workplace have become central to contemporary feminist scholarship. As research on gender proliferates, so does the tendency to assume that the meaning of gender is unproblematic. However, different scholars employ gender in markedly different ways

Feminists v. Feminization

Resumo: Localizando as dúas guerras iniciadas pola administración de G.W. Bush, a guerra contra o terror e a guerra do Irak, no contexto do neoliberalismo e globalización, este ensaio suxire que hai continuidades entre a política económica e a política exterior, que, en grande medida, non foran percibidas. Ambas representan modos de "femenización", prácticas de subordinación que reinscriben os tradicionais simbolismos de xénero naturalizando relacións xerárquicas e lexitimando relacións racistas e neocoloniais. Trazando as ameazas que a femenización coloca nos proxectos e principios feministas, este artigo identifica tamén diversas formas de activismo feminista que desafían estas políticas de subordinación

Encyclopedia of government and politics, vol.1/ Hawkesworth

xxx, 637 hal.: ill; 25 cm

Encyclopedia of government and politics, vol.1/ Hawkesworth

xxx, 637 hal.: ill; 25 cm