#gender

Die Lage in deutschen #Frauen häusern ist prekär. Deutschlandweit f...
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Die Lage in deutschen #Frauen häusern ist prekär. Deutschlandweit fehlen tausende Plätze. Es mangelt an Geld und Personal. Obwohl Deutschland sich mit der Istanbul-Konvention dazu verpflichtet hat, für genug Plätze in Frauenhäusern zu sorgen. In der Pandemie verschärfen sich die Probleme. #gender ▻https://correctiv.org/aktuelles/gesundheit/2021/02/15/frauenhaeuser-in-der-pandemie-92-mitarbeiterinnen-berichten-ueber-den-pre

Sprache als Experiment
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Sprache als Experiment

uwiworks: Wie viel #Sprachpolitik * _ : ; brauchen wir? Was bedeutet es, wenn das Gemeinte nicht das Verstandene ist? Über Erfolge der feministischen Sprachkritik - und ihre Kehrseite. #gendern ▻https://taz.de/Ulrike-Winkelmann-ueber-Sprachkritik/!5747681 #taz #tazgezwitscher #tageszeitung

Our Picks + Women In Body #Horror
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Our-Picks-Women-In-Body-Horror

This week, we are joined by Georgina Allan, film editor for the Radical Art Review to talk about women in horror, specifically focusing on Julia Ducournau’s Raw and their representations of women as complex protagonists and instigators of violence (as opposed to helpless victims or mindless monsters). We mention Jordan Peele’s Us, Marina De Van’s In My Skin and Don’t Look Back and others. Picks of the week include Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson’s mind warping, beautiful Synchronic and (...) #Podcast

/ #podcast, Horror, gender/sex

#gender/sex
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Sexismus in der Wissenschaft. Gemeinsame Erklärung

Sexistische Grenzüberschreitungen sind im Arbeitsalltag von Wissenschaftler*innen keine Ausnahme. Sexismus und sexualisierte Diskriminierung und Gewalt sind an deutschen Hochschulen – genauso wie in anderen Bereichen des gesellschaftlichen Lebens – alltäglich. Davon betroffen sind alle Status- und Beschäftigtengruppen, wobei Abhängigkeitsverhältnisse und Hierarchien das Problem oftmals gravierend verschärfen.

Universitäre Abhängigkeitsverhältnisse sind Grund dafür, dass es Betroffenen häufig schwer fällt, sich zu wehren. Wenn Wissenschaftler*innen auf die Gunst ihrer Vorgesetzten und Betreuer*innen angewiesen sind, überlegen sie sich gut, inwieweit sie aufbegehren. Wir sind gegen das Ausnutzen von Machtpositionen für private Interessen. Sexualisierte und vergeschlechtlichte Diskriminierung im Wissenschaftsbetrieb äußert sich nicht nur in Übergriffen, sondern auch in der strukturellen Benachteiligung von Frauen*/FLINTA. Sexismus beeinträchtigt nicht nur Betroffene in ihrem Arbeitsalltag, er hat auch Auswirkungen auf die Wissensproduktion. Eine Wissenschaft, die den Anspruch hat, der Diversität unserer Gesellschaft zu entsprechen, sollte nicht größtenteils von weißen cis-Männern getragen werden.

Wir sind gegen die Marginalisierung von Genderthemen. Wir sind für eine Wissenschaft, die mit ihren Gegenständen die Vielfalt der Welt widerspiegelt und gestaltet. Wir sind gegen die Benachteiligung von Müttern* und Töchtern* in der Wissenschaft und für einen Wissenschaftsbetrieb, in dem sich Sorge-Arbeit und Wissenschaft aller Geschlechter strukturell nicht ausschließen. Wir sind gegen Konferenzen, deren Organisatoren und Sprecher ausschließlich weiße cis-Männer sind, und für eine paritätische Tagungskultur. Wir sind dagegen, dass in Instituten und Fachbereichen Professuren überwiegend mit weißen cis-Männern besetzt sind. Auch auf professoraler Ebene muss die Vielfalt zur Norm werden. Wir werden diese sexistischen und diskriminierenden Verhältnisse nicht länger hinnehmen. Wir wollen Reflexionsprozesse in Gang setzen und Veränderungen anstoßen.

Wir sind dafür, dass alle, die Machtpositionen bekleiden, ihre Privilegien reflektieren und sorgsam mit ihnen umgehen. Wir sind für ein gleichberechtigtes Miteinander unabhängig von u.a. Geschlecht, Alter und Herkunft.

#Germany #university #academia #higher_education #gender #power_relations #power_abuse #sexsim #discrimination #patriarchy

▻https://gender-macht-wissenschaft.de

#Géographie_du_genre

La géographie de genre (ou #Gender_Geography) est un courant pluridisciplinaire qui vise à apporter une nouvelle vision de la géographie en y introduisant la notion de genre et une diversité d’approches pour penser l’#espace.

▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9ographie_du_genre
#géographie #genre #ressources_pédagogiques

4-Tage-Woche wäre ja schon mal ein guter Anfang. "Die Einführung de...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/11625413

4-Tage-Woche wäre ja schon mal ein guter Anfang. „Die Einführung der 4-Tage-Woche ist wichtig, aber unzureichend. Was wir wirklich brauchen, ist eine Neuverteilung auch der unbezahlten Arbeit.“ #Arbeit #gender #Feminismus ▻https://www.ipg-journal.de/regionen/global/artikel/detail/gesundschrumpfen-4618

Men compete, women collaborate: A study on collaborative vs. compet...
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Men compete, women collaborate: A study on collaborative vs. competitive communication styles in mixed-sex conversations | #collaboration #communication #competition #gender #men #styles #women

#metooanthro

About

metooanthro is a collective of anthropologists* from around the world committed to making our discipline a safer and more just space by combatting sexual assault and harassment. This collective grew out of a meeting of anthropologists at the Shifting States conference for AAS/ASA/ASAANZ in December, 2017.

Anthropologists face unique working conditions – both inside and outside the university – that increase our exposure to the risk of sexual assault and harassment. We want to create a safer culture at our conferences, campuses, field sites, and all spaces in which anthropologists work.

We begin by acknowledging that that many groups in our community are disproportionately affected by assault and harassment, and are further discriminated when attempting to seek redress.

“Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future. Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground.”
― Sara Ahmed

We are currently working on three main actions and collecting personal stories of harassment in the discipline.

We need to hear from more voices, not the same voices, in this work. We encourage all to participate.

* The metooanthro collective is a broad and evolving group. At the moment, our emails, social media and website are run by Esther, Hannah and Mythily, who are all based in Australia.

Resources

Here you can find a collection of resources about the issue of sexual assault and harassment in anthropology. If you know of any other resources that could be useful, please email metooanthro.

How to respond to and support others:

Naomi Quinn – ‘What do do about sexual harassment: A short course for chairs’
Laura A. LeVon – ‘Teaching fugitive anthropology with Maya Berry and colleagues’
Kristen Drybread – Writing about violence Part I; Writing about violence Part II

Anthropology blogs and popular reporting on anthropology and sexual assault:

The New Ethnographer – ‘Gendered Bodies’
Cynthia Mahmood – India’s shame: The personal ordeal of Cynthia Mahmood
Ann Gibbons & Elizabeth Culotta – ‘Anthropologists say no to sexual harassment’
Alix Johnson – The Self at stake: Thinking fieldwork and sexual violence; Paranoid reading, writing, and research: secrecy in the field; Violence and vulnerability in anthropology
Megan Steffen – Doing fieldwork after Henrietta Schmerler
Bianca C. Williams – MeToo: A crescendo in the discourse about sexual harassment, fieldwork, and the academy Part I; MeToo: A crescendo in the discourse about sexual harassment, fieldwork, and the academy Part II
Kate Clancy – ‘I had no power to say that’s not okay: Reports of harassment and abuse in the field’
Mingwei Huang – ‘Vulnerable observers: Notes on fieldwork and rape’
Nell Gluckman – How Henrietta Schmerler was lost, then found
Melissa Demian – Anthropology after #MeToo
Danielle Bradford & Charlotte Payne – Fieldwork safety, or: ‘don’t grab my pussy’
Lexie Onofrei – #MeToo in anthropology: A call for updating codes of conduct in the field
Elizabeth Beckmann – #MeToo in Anthropology (on the origins of a movement, and its future)
Holly Walters – #MeToo Anthropology (reflecting on stories and potential responses)

Anthropology News #MeToo series:

Mingwei Huang, Vivian Lu, Susan MacDougall & Megan Steffen – Disciplinary violence
Cheryl Rodriguez – Black women and the fight against sexual violence
Gil Schmerler & Megan Steffen – The disavowal of Henrietta Schmerler
Shan-Estelle Brown – #MeToo conversations on campus
Kathleen S. Fine-Dare – The long view on #MeToo
Mariam Durrani – #MeToo, believing survivors, and cooperative digital communication

Podcast episodes:

MeTooAnthro with Mythily Meher, Hannah Gould, Martha McIntyre & Tanya King for Anthropology @ Deakin: Episode #13
Emma Louise Backe for This Anthro Life – ‘#MeToo: Stories in the age of survivorship’
Elizabeth Watt (interviewed by The Familiar Strange) – ‘Ep. #9 Calculated risk: Elizabeth Watt talks sexual power, politics, and vulnerability in the field’

A bibliography of writing on anthropology, sexual assault, gendered harassment, and identity:

Berry, MJ, Chávez Argüelles, C, Cordis, S, Ihmoud, S & Velásquez Estrada, E 2017, ‘Towards a fugitive anthropology: Gender, race, and violence in the field’, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 537-565.

Bohannon, J 2013, ‘Survey of peers in fieldwork highlights an unspoken risk’, Science, vol. 340, no. 6130, p. 265.

Clark, I & Grant, A 2015, ‘Sexuality and danger in the field: Starting an uncomfortable conversation‘, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford: Special issue on Sexual Harassment in the Field, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 1-14.

Congdon, V 2015, ‘The ‘lone female researcher’: Isolation and safety upon arrival in the field‘. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford: Special issue on Sexual Harassment in the Field, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 15-24.

Isidoros, K 2015, ‘Between purity and danger: Fieldwork approaches to movement, protection and legitimacy for a female ethnographer in the Sahara Desert‘, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford: Special issue on Sexual Harassment in the Field, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 39-54.

Johansson, L 2015, ‘Dangerous liaisons: risk, positionality and power in women’s anthropological fieldwork‘, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford: Special issue on Sexual Harassment in the Field, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 55-63.

Kloß, ST 2017, ‘Sexual(ized) harassment and ethnographic fieldwork: A silenced aspect of social research’, Ethnography, vol. 18, no. 3, p. 396-414.

Krishnan, S 2015, ‘Dispatches from a ‘rogue’ ethnographer: exploring homophobia and queer visibility‘,Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford: Special issue on Sexual Harassment in the Field, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 64-79.

Lewin, E & Leap, WL (eds.) 1996, Out in the field: Reflections of gay and lesbian anthropologists, University of Illinois Press, Urbana.

McDougall, S 2015, ‘Will you marry my son? Ethnography, culture and the performance of gender‘, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford: Special issue on Sexual Harassment in the Field, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 25-38.

Miller, T 2015 ‘‘Listen to your mother’: negotiating gender-based safe space during fieldwork‘, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford: Special issue on Sexual Harassment in the Field, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 80-87.

Moreno, E 2005, ‘Rape in the field’, in D Kulick & M Willson (eds.) Taboo: Sex, identity and erotic subjectivity in anthropological fieldwork, new edn, Routledge, London, pp. 166-189.

Nelson, RG, Rutherford, N, Hinde, K & Clancy, KBH 2017, ‘Signalling safety: Characterizing fieldwork experiences and their implications for career trajectories’, American Anthropologist, vol. 119, no. 4, pp. 710-722.

Pandey, A 2009, ‘Unwelcome and unwelcoming encounters’ in P Ghassem-Fachandi (ed.) Violence: Ethnographic encounters, Berg, Oxford, pp. 135-144.

Pollard, A 2009, ‘Field of screams: Difficulty and ethnographic fieldwork’, Anthropology Matters, vol. 11, no. 2.

Scheper-Hughes, N 2016, ‘James X: A reflection on rape, race, and reception’, Anthropology Today, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 21-25.

Schneider, LT 2020, ‘Sexual violence during research: How the unpredictability of fieldwork and the right to risk collide with academic bureaucracy and expectations’, Critique of Anthropology, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 173-93.

Williams, BC 2009, ‘”Don’t ride the bus!”: And other warnings women anthropologists are given during fieldwork’, Transforming Anthropology, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 155-158.

Willson, M 2005, ‘Afterword: Perspective and difference: Sexualisation, the field, and the ethnographer’, in D Kulick & M Willson (eds.) Taboo: Sex, identity and erotic subjectivity in anthropological fieldwork, new edn, Routledge, London, pp. 190-207.

#metoo #sexualized_harassment #gender #university #fieldwork #anthropology #collectiv #ressources #support #blog #reporting #podcast #references

▻https://metooanthro.org/resources

Si vous êtes abonné-e à REDDIT, c’est le moment ou jamais de lever l’ancre en leur disant pourquoi:

On 29th June, @reddit banned the radical feminist subreddit r/GenderCritical, Reddit’s most active feminist community, which had nearly 65,000 subscribers and more than 27,000 daily users, as part of their campaign to rebrand themselves as being against “hate."
#RedditHatesWomen #Reddit #censure #antiféminisme #GenderCritical #lobbytransgenriste

Gender Shades
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=TWWsW1w-BVo&feature=emb_logo

The Gender Shades Project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI. Gender Shades is a preliminary excavation of inadvertent negligence that will cripple the age of automation and further exacerbate inequality if left to fester. The deeper we dig, the more remnants of bias we will find in our technology. We cannot afford to look away this time, because the stakes are simply too high. We risk losing the gains made with the civil rights movement and women’s (...)

#algorithme #éthique #racisme #sexisme #discrimination #GenderShades

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Are women publishing less during the pandemic? Here’s what the data say

Early analyses suggest that female academics are posting fewer preprints and starting fewer research projects than their male peers.
Quarantined with a six-year-old child underfoot, Megan Frederickson wondered how academics were managing to write papers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns implemented to stem coronavirus spread meant that, overnight, many households worldwide had become an intersection of work, school and home life. Conversations on Twitter seemed to confirm Frederickson’s suspicions about the consequences: female academics, taking up increased childcare responsibilities, were falling behind their male peers at work.

But Frederickson, an ecologist at the University of Toronto, Canada, wanted to see what the data said. So, she looked at preprint servers to investigate whether women were posting fewer studies than they were before lockdowns began. The analysis — and several others — suggests that, across disciplines, women’s publishing rate has fallen relative to men’s amid the pandemic.

The results are consistent with the literature on the division of childcare between men and women, says Molly King, a sociologist at Santa Clara University in California. Evidence suggests that male academics are more likely to have a partner who does not work outside the home; their female colleagues, especially those in the natural sciences, are more likely to have a partner who is also an academic. Even in those dual-academic households, the evidence shows that women perform more household labour than men do, she says. King suspects the same holds true for childcare.

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Preprint analysis

In her analysis, Frederickson focused on the two preprint servers that she uses: the physical-sciences repository arXiv, and bioRxiv for the life sciences. To determine the gender of more than 73,000 author names on 36,529 preprints, she compared the names with those in the US Social Security Administration’s baby-name database, which registers the names and genders of children born in the United States.

Frederickson looked at arXiv studies posted between 15 March and 15 April in 2019 and in 2020. The number of women who authored preprints grew by 2.7% from 2019 to 2020 — but the number of male authors increased by 6.4% over that period. The increase in male authorship of bioRxiv preprints also outstripped that of female authorship, although by a smaller margin (see ‘Preprint drop-off’). (The two servers are not directly comparable in Frederickson’s analysis because the program that she used pulled the names of only corresponding authors from bioRxiv, whereas all arXiv authors were included.)

“The differences are modest, but they’re there,” Frederickson says. She notes that the lockdowns so far have been relatively short compared with the usual research timeline, so the long-term implications for women’s careers are still unclear.

The limitations of these types of name-based analysis are well-known. Using names to predict gender can exclude non-binary people, and can misgender others. They are more likely to exclude authors with non-Western names. And between disciplines, their utility can vary because of naming conventions — such as the use of initials instead of given names, as is common in astrophysics. Still, says Frederickson, over a large sample size, they can provide valuable insights into gender disparities in academia.
Fresh projects

Other researchers are finding similar trends. Cassidy Sugimoto, an information scientist at Indiana University Bloomington who studies gender disparities in research, conducted a separate analysis of author gender on nine popular preprint servers. Methodological differences meant that the two analyses are not directly comparable, but Frederickson’s work “converges with what we’re seeing”, says Sugimoto.

Sugimoto points out that the preprints being published even now probably rely on labour that was performed many months ago. “The scientific publication process doesn’t lend itself to timely analyses,” she says. So her study also included databases that log registered reports, which indicate the initiation of new research projects.

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In 2 of the 3 registered-report repositories, covering more than 14,000 reports with authors whose genders could be matched, Sugimoto’s team found a decrease in the proportion of submissions by female principal investigators from March and April of 2019 to the same months in 2020, when lockdowns started. They also saw a declining proportion of women publishing on several preprint servers, including EarthArXiv and medRxiv. These differences were more pronounced when looking at first authors, who are usually early-career researchers, than at last authors, who are often the most senior faculty members on a study.

“This is what’s the most worrying to me, because those consequences are long-term,” Sugimoto says. “The best predictor of a publication is a previous publication.”
Early-career bias

In economics, too, there are indications that the pandemic is disproportionately affecting younger researchers, says Noriko Amano-Patiño, an economist at the University of Cambridge, UK. Taken as a whole, there aren’t clear discrepancies in the overall number of working papers — a preprint-like publication format in economics — that have been submitted to three major repositories and invited commentaries submitted to a fourth site that publishes research-based policy analyses.

She and her collaborators also examined who was working on pandemic-related research questions using a COVID-19-specific repository. Although women have consistently authored about 20% of working papers since 2015, they make up only 12% of the authors of new COVID-19-related research. Amano-Patiño suspects that, in addition to their childcare responsibilities, early- and mid-career researchers, especially women, might be more risk-averse and thus less likely to jump into a new field of research. “Mostly senior economists are taking their bite into these new areas,” says Amano-Patiño. “And junior women are the ones that seem to be missing out the most.”

“Unfortunately, these findings are not surprising,” says Olga Shurchkov, an economist at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Shurchkov came to similar conclusions in a separate analysis of economists’ productivity during the pandemic. And a preprint posted to arXiv on 13 May1 shows the same trends in pandemic-related medical literature (see ‘COVID-19 effect’). Compared with the proportion of women among authors of nearly 40,000 articles published in US medical journals in 2019, the proportion of female authors on COVID-19 papers has dropped by 16%.

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Academic responsibilities

Increased childcare responsibility is one issue. In addition, women are more likely to take care of ailing relatives, says Rosario Rogel-Salazar, a sociologist at the Autonomous University of Mexico State in Toluca. These effects are probably exacerbated in the global south, she notes, because women there have more children on average than do their counterparts in the global north.

And women face other barriers to productivity. Female faculty, on average, shoulder more teaching responsibilities, so the sudden shift to online teaching — and the curriculum adjustments that it requires — disproportionately affects women, King says. And because many institutions are shut owing to the pandemic, non-research university commitments — such as participation in hiring and curriculum committees — are probably taking up less time. These are often dominated by senior faculty members — more of whom are men. As a result, men could find themselves with more time to write papers while women experience the opposite.

Because these effects will compound as lockdowns persist, universities and funders should take steps to mitigate gender disparities as quickly as possible, Shurchkov says. “They point to a problem that, if left unaddressed, can potentially have grave consequences for diversity in academia.”

▻https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01294-9

#femmes #publications #coronavirus #confinement #inégalités #hommes #genre #recherche #projets_de_recherche #gender_gap

On sait tout ça, mais ça fait toujours mal de le lire.
Si le « Gender Pay Gap » est à 20% en Allemagne, le « Gender Lifetime Earnings Gap » se situe entre 40 et 45%. Les femmes hautement qualifiées nées avant 1974 ont, en moyenne pendant leur vie, un salaire équivalent à celui d’hommes peu qualifiés. Les grandes perdantes sont, bien sûr, les mères. En ces temps de Corona, ce sont elles qui gardent les enfants.
Juste histoire de (se) le rappeler.

▻https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gehaltsluecke-maenner-frauen-103.html

#salaires #inégalité #femmes #gender_lifetime_earnings_gap

« Better Allies — Everyday actions to create inclusive, engaging workplaces » par Karen Catlin (auteur), Sally McGraw (éditeur), 14.01.2019, 254pp.
▻https://betterallies.com

#diversity #inclusion #gender

« What Works — Gender Equality by Design » par Iris Bohnet, Harvard University Press, Mars 2016
▻https://scholar.harvard.edu/iris_bohnet/what-works

#diverity #inclusion #gender

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L’Afnic publie son premier Index de l’égalité professionnelle Femmes-Hommes ▻https://www.afnic.fr/fr/l-afnic-en-bref/actualites/actualites-generales/11910/show/l-afnic-publie-son-premier-index-de-l-egalite-professionnelle-femmes-hommes.ht #Afnic #JamaisSansElles #EgaliteFemmesHommes

Afnic publishes its first #Gender Equality Index ▻https://www.afnic.fr/en/about-afnic/news/general-news/11911/show/afnic-publishes-its-first-gender-equality-index.html #Afnic #GenderEquality

Q&A with Ariane Labed, dir. Olla - ClermontFF 2020
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Q-A-with-Ariane-Label-dir-Olla-ClermontFF-2020

Olla responded to an advertisement on an Eastern women dating site. She moves in with Pierre, who lives with his old mother. But nothing happens as planned. First time director but seasoned actress Labed brings us a visually distinctive look at sexuality and modern relationships. Trailer #Festivals

/ gender/sex, #Short

#gender/sex

La « neutralité de genre » contre l’égalité – Le blog de Christine Delphy
▻https://christinedelphy.wordpress.com/2020/01/16/la-neutralite-de-genre-contre-legalite
et
▻https://entreleslignesentrelesmots.blog/2020/01/15/la-neutralite-de-genre-contre-legalite

Derrière la « neutralité de genre » et la symétrisation des violences… Comme le souligne l’autrice : « Que la majorité des victimes soit des femmes, la majorité des auteurs des hommes est rendu invisible ». Il s’agit pour moi d’un élément d’une offensive plus générale des masculinistes dans leur lutte contre l’égalité (en complément possible, Mélissa Blais : Le masculinisme est un contre-mouvement social, le-masculinisme-est-un-contre-mouvement-social/ ; Sous la direction de Christine Bard, Mélissa Blais, Francis Dupuis-Déri : Antiféminisme et masculinismes d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, refus-des-droits-et-de-lautonomie-des-femmes-reaffirmation-du-pouvoir-des-hommes/)

Il faut souligner que cette dénomination sociale a des conséquences, Irene Zeilinger indique : « Dans ce contexte, les associations féministes qui luttent contre les violences faites aux femmes se voient de plus en plus confrontées à l’attente de rendre leurs services accessibles aux hommes. La non-mixité doit se justifier en permanence. La promotion de la famille et la neutralité de genre l’emportent sur des politiques et mesures visant à surmonter les inégalités structurelles de genre.

Chronique de #Didier_Epsztajn
La brochure d’#Irène_Zeilinger

▻https://entreleslignesentrelesmots.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/oui-les-hommes-aussi-etude-corps-ecrits-compresse.pdf

Insultes sexuelles et politique du genre dans le mouvement protestataire au #Liban

Je rassemble ici divers éléments de discours et matériaux repérés sur les réseaux sociaux sur cette thématique, qui est exploité pour créer des divisions à l’égard du mouvement de protestation contre le gouvernement

D’abord, un thread très éclairant de Maya Mikdashi, prof. de Gender Studies, éditrice-fondatrice de la revue en ligne Jadaliyya (@mayamikdashi sur twitter ) commentant le discours de Nasrallah avec un cadrage #genre et montrant comment les insultes sexuelles proférées contre les membres de gouvernement (insultant leur mère, leur femme, leur fille, ou les traitant de maquereau (comme je l’ai vu tagué dans le centre-ville de Beyrouth à propos du président) appellent en retour une justification des attaques contre les manifestants occupant les places centrales ou barrant des routes sur le registre de l’honneur viril bafoué.
▻https://twitter.com/mayamikdashi/status/1190350060179066880

1/thread on #Nasrallah speech: Head of #Hezbollah Sayyed Nasrallah gave highly anticipated speech today, the latter half was dedicated to situation on the ground in 🇱🇧due to #LebanonProtests. He used trope of “honor” 2 explain violence against protests (more below)

2/he addressed government, corruption, foreign intervention & protests. Stated his disagreement with resignation Saad #Hariri, which he said effectively means that demanded economic reforms-as well as cabinet’s promises of reform-will not happen for a long time due to paralysis

3/He addressed corruption, saying it was funny that all admit to endemic corruption & simultaneously proclaims personal innocence(subtle dig at #Aoun/ not subtle dig at everyone else). Supports professional govt & stressed #USA interference in government & economy & 🇱🇧politics

4/while insisting that no foreign country interferes in any aspect of Hizballah’s (ie Iran) decision making (even he smiled while saying this). He supported demands of the protestors when it came 2 corruption & reform, but said that the protests quickly focused on “one side” &

5/ that numbers of protestors were in the 100s of thousands (not millions) & that strategy of closing roads was negatively impacting civilian & economic life, stressing the closing of roads to the South. Insisted on Hizb’s ability to defend 🇱🇧 at any time from attacks by 🇮🇱

6/ What he DID NOT DO was condemn violence against protestors by supporters of Amal & (lesser extent) Hezbollah in #Beirut and South. In fact, Nasrallah tried to explain them through gendered “honor” discourse. He stressed repeatedly that protestors had crossed⛔️lines in politics

7/by swearing at the mothers, sisters & wives of politicians & said that any supporter would moved to defend the “honor” of the person being insulted. Nasrallah linked violence against protests to wounded masculinity & defense of honor, which is always embodied by women.

8/ This gendered discourse seeks 2 explain violence & excuse it. #Feminists have ALSO tried 2 change chants bc they insult men through degrading women closest to them, like mothers. Feminists have attacked the gendered & sexist honor discourse that animates the chants. Nasrallah

9/ uses same #gendered #sexist honor discourse encoded in chants 2 explain violence “in response” 2 wounded male honor & masculinity + to evade substance of protests & focus on rhetorical offenses. Disappointing but not surprising from Nasrallah, who has used honor discourse b4

10/ This speech is important reminder that #gender politics ARE #POLITICS & should not be left out of political analysis in 🇱🇧 or elsewhere. Masculinity & its wounding was central to his explanation of their stance on protests, as was the “protection” of (men’s) honor (women)

11/ This speech will not stop the #Lebanonprotests & is more of the same stalling strategy seen from other political factions. They all hope⏳will wear the uprising down, but protestors know this & have already called 4 more mobilization. [PS i agree with Nasrallah
#لبنان_ينتفض

12/ that the "all but not me"corruption talk is 😅.
In other news #Nasrallah continues to have the most immaculate beard ever seen 👀 &
short takeover of bank assoc. by small group protesting against regime & logic of the banking system was much more interesting 2day #لبنان_ينتفض

FYI #GENDER POLITICS IS #POLITICS is not a topical approach (ie women in the revolution, or the"inclusion" of women &/or LGBTQ). Instead it is an ANALYTIC frame that helps us understand #politicaleconomy, discourse, practice
& theory + law, #ideology, and much more. #Lebanon

La question de l’insulte

Thread de Sylvain Perdigon sur Twitter (professeur d’anthropologie à l’Université américaine de Beyrouth) :
▻https://twitter.com/sylvaindarwish/status/1190600828488503296

But also we end up with a rather long televised spoken treatise by a prominent political-religious leader on the appropriate use of language, namely, on cursing 5/n
It’s easy to make fun of that and to find it comical (I know I do) but if I’m honest I must add that in my case it was preceded by conversations with people on the other side of the dispute, one week ago, also about the use of language and specifically cursing 6/n
People speaking in the register of ’this is a revolution in language and this is good’ and even I’d say (the gloss is mine) ’we almost corporeally need the possibility to curse in this way’ 7/n
and then of course we can observe that the remarks I just made can easily develop into yet another meta-mode of talking in the register of ’but how does cursing work anyway?’, ’can I push for my right to curse to be recognized and why exactly would I want to do that?’ ... 8/n
’can I ask for a right to curse as a matter vital to me, and also ask you to understand that my cursing you does not have to imply a refusal to share the world with you?’ 9/n
This is what I’m trying to say when I say that so much of the current juncture seems to revolve entirely around the question of: what was, is, and should be our relation to language? and around a very poignant open-ended exploration of that. 10/n

A titre d’illustration, un tweet signalant une vidéo d’un cadre du parti aouniste (Charbel Khalil) stigmatisant les manifestants du centre ville en raison de l’homosexualité affichée de certains d’entre ou des groupes qui les représentent.
▻https://twitter.com/JeanNakhoul/status/1188894866815815681
et la vidéo twittée : ▻https://twitter.com/dankar/status/1188891588329639936

Knife + Heart (Un couteau dans le coeur) by Yann Gonzalez - #Fragments 2019
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Knife-Heart-Un-couteau-dans-le-coeur-by-Yann-Gonzalez-Fragments-2019

You And The Night, celebrated at Cannes’s Critics’ Week in 2014, cemented Yann Gonzalez’s reputation as a truly original director, with his own brand of stylish, colourful and erotic filmmaking. With Knife+Heart, Gonzalez offers up a stylised slasher flick in the vein of Italian gialli, set in the heart of the gay porn industry in the seedier parts of 1970s Paris. The film opens with a particularly gruesome murder in which a masked killer stabs his victim repeatedly with a dildo-shaped knife. (...) Feature reviews & previews

/ gender/sex, Fragments, #experimental

#Feature_reviews_&_previews_ #gender/sex
▻https://www.fragmentsfestival.com

Has much really changed for women on bikes since 1895?

https://i2.wp.com/www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/wheelsofchange1.jpeg?w=680&ssl=1

Don’t be a fright.
Don’t faint on the road.
Don’t wear a man’s cap.
Don’t wear tight garters.
Don’t forget your toolbag
Don’t attempt a “century.”
Don’t coast. It is dangerous.
Don’t boast of your long rides.
Don’t criticize people’s “legs.”
Don’t wear loud hued leggings.
Don’t cultivate a “bicycle face.”
Don’t refuse assistance up a hill.
Don’t wear clothes that don’t fit.
Don’t neglect a “light’s out” cry.
Don’t wear jewelry while on a tour.
Don’t race. Leave that to the scorchers.
Don’t wear laced boots. They are tiresome.
Don’t imagine everybody is looking at you.
Don’t go to church in your bicycle costume.
Don’t wear a garden party hat with bloomers.
Don’t contest the right of way with cable cars.
Don’t chew gum. Exercise your jaws in private.
Don’t wear white kid gloves. Silk is the thing.
Don’t ask, “What do you think of my bloomers?”
Don’t use bicycle slang. Leave that to the boys.
Don’t go out after dark without a male escort.
Don’t go without a needle, thread and thimble.
Don’t try to have every article of your attire “match.”
Don’t let your golden hair be hanging down your back.
Don’t allow dear little Fido to accompany you
Don’t scratch a match on the seat of your bloomers.
Don’t discuss bloomers with every man you know.
Don’t appear in public until you have learned to ride well.
Don’t overdo things. Let cycling be a recreation, not a labor.
Don’t ignore the laws of the road because you are a woman.
Don’t try to ride in your brother’s clothes “to see how it feels.”
Don’t scream if you meet a cow. If she sees you first, she will run.
Don’t cultivate everything that is up to date because yon ride a wheel.
Don’t emulate your brother’s attitude if he rides parallel with the ground.
Don’t undertake a long ride if you are not confident of performing it easily.
Don’t appear to be up on “records” and “record smashing.” That is sporty.

▻https://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/03/donts-for-women-on-bicycles-1895

#women #biking #gender

Pretty nifty study: Can Protected Bike Lanes Help Close the Gender Gap in Cycling?
Lessons from Five Cities

#bike #data #women #men #gender
▻https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1122&context=usp_fac

N°6 L’Internet critique, entre (des)illusions et spéculations - samedi 17 mars 2018, 17h-19h
►https://archive.org/details/n6linternetcritiqueentredesillusionsetspeculationssamedi17mars201817h19h329

Intervenant.es : Jacques Servin (The Yes Men), Valentin Lacambre (pionnier de l’Internet, co-fondateur de gandi.net, altern.org), Alex Haché aka Spider Alex (Gender and Technology Institute), Patrice Riemens (géographe)
Animation : Peggy Pierrot

En ouverture, Louise Drulhe présente son « Atlas critique d’Internet », également consultable dans l’exposition. L’essentiel des interventions porte ensuite sur les alternatives et les détournements des usages mainstream ou sur les résistances à mettre en place : le Yes Lab liste les tentatives inefficaces de lutte contre le terrorisme et fait le lien entre mémoires de la colonisation, des ex-colonisés et des ex-colonisateurs, attentats terroristes et crise des réfugié.es ; la dystopie de la colonisation des terres et de la robotisation de la nourriture par les GAFA ; à l’inverse la diffusion des utopies, dont celles portées par les féministes, cyberféministes, qui font résistance aux violences multiples ; l’imagination d’une nouvelle façon d’habiter le cyberespace.

#conférence #nathalie_magnan

►https://www.internet-atlas.net

Tout est très bien mais je crois que tout le monde est resté particulièrement scotché par la prestation #cyberféministe de @spideralex sur le #gendersec.

Would love to see calls across the aisle for government action on toxic masculinity, or at least a committee study...

And while Perry said she’s tracked 120 instances of alt-right violence in the last 30 years in Canada, during the same period there were seven incidents of Islamist-inspired extremism.

▻https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/incel-threat-canadians-fifth-estate-1.4992184

#incels #violence #Canada #gender #masculinity

Le più istruite, le meno occupate: perché la questione femminile è la vera grande vergogna italiana

Secondo i dati del World Economic Forum, siamo primi al mondo per iscrizioni di donne all’università, ultimi in Occidente per partecipazione femminile al mercato del lavoro. In altre parole: stiamo buttando via la componente più istruita della popolazione. E poi ci chiediamo perché non si cresce

▻https://www.linkiesta.it/it/article/2018/12/27/le-piu-istruite-le-meno-occupate-perche-la-questione-femminile-e-la-ve/40547
#femmes #discriminations #inégalités #Italie #éducation #travail #marché_du_travail #genre #gender_gap
via @albertocampiphoto

A+ for thinking beyond the gender binary AND picking such a badass name.

And although his one-year-old, Sojourner Wildfire, is still too young to understand the concept of gender, McCullough hopes they are learning that they can be whoever they want to be, and that their parents will respect and support them.

▻https://www.cbc.ca/radio/outintheopen/whither-gender-1.4973533/i-used-to-think-that-babies-were-born-a-girl-or-a-boy-why-some-parents-are-raisi

#gender #genderbinary #canada