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Mareile Flitsch 《East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal》2008,2(2):265-288
Knowledge organisation, embodiment of knowledge and knowledge representation are important issues for an anthropology of technology,
which seeks to explore the ways in which people find and shape everyday solutions to social and technical challenges. This
article discusses the impact of skill and of risk prevention on women’s decision-making, as well as on the domestication and
appropriation of new technologies. Particular attention is paid to non-synchronicity as a retarding factor and to the obsolescence
of skills as a critical moment in the transformation of socio-technical systems in twentieth century rural northern China
as elsewhere.
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Choong-Hwan Park 《East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal》2008,2(2):235-264
The peasantry is probably the last social category that researchers of technology and society readily associate with the use
of high technologies such as the Internet. But in China recently, tens of thousands of peasant entrepreneurs, engaged in a
unique form of rural tourism popularly called nongjiale (delights in farm guesthouses), have adopted the Internet as a medium for advertising their farm guesthouses. This paper
is an anthropological study of how Chinese peasant entrepreneurs’ adoption of the Internet is engrained in the broader material
and symbolic orders of contemporary Chinese society. By exploring the way in which the Chinese peasants are idiosyncratically
involved with the Internet, it also questions whether STS (Science, Technology, and Society) concepts such as users and non-users,
developed essentially within Euro-American contexts, are adequate to explain the symbolic appropriations of high-tech in pursuit
of modernity in China today.
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Using technology domestication theory as the analytical framework, this paper discusses the findings of ethnographic interviews
with middle class families in China and South Korea, comparing how they incorporate information and communication technologies
(ICTs) into their lives. It analyses how family priorities, cultural values and social pressures influence the ways in which
ICT use is woven into their lives, in the process invigorating traditional forms and networks of communication like guanxi for the Chinese and Cheong for the Koreans. It also pays special attention to supervision of ICT use and considers how the societal valorisation of
academic excellence influences parental strategies in this regard.
Sun Sun LIM (PhD, LSE) is Assistant Professor at the Communications and New Media Programme, National University of Singapore. She studies new media literacy and technology domestication by families in Asia, having conducted research in China, South Korea and Singapore. 相似文献
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Sun Sun LIM (PhD, LSE) is Assistant Professor at the Communications and New Media Programme, National University of Singapore. She studies new media literacy and technology domestication by families in Asia, having conducted research in China, South Korea and Singapore. 相似文献
4.
Julie A. Winterich 《Gender Issues》2007,24(3):51-69
In this article, I analyze interviews with a diverse group of 30 women aged 46–71 to understand how they experience signs
of aging, such as weight gain, gray hair, and facial hair, in everyday life. I find that some women’s responses are in line
with normative femininity and appearance norms. Others, however, focus on different gendered meanings of the body that are
connected to care-taking, work, ageist treatment, and past abuse. I argue that feminists should apply the theoretical concept
of femininity more broadly than appearance and attraction issues to gain a deeper understanding of the multiple meanings of
living in an aging female body in a gendered society. In the conclusion, I discuss the implications of this study for public
health policies as well as future research on gender and the body.
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Theresa MacPhail 《East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal》2009,3(1):27-50
The overall ‘problem’ in early accounts of science and/or medicine in China seemed to center upon whether or not China possessed
or could acquire modern Western science. However, in the twenty-first century there is now little debate over whether or not
China has science. Yet, questions and concerns about science in China linger. The ‘problem’ of science in China has moved
away from a paradigm focused on possession or capability, to that of the correct or ethical application of Chinese science
and technology. In this essay, I will argue that the shifting of the so-called problem of Chinese science reflects larger
Western concerns about the definition and control of science itself, the rise of China as an international power, and the
ability to 'compete' in a global market predicated on the creation and application of new science and technologies.
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Gwen Hunnicutt 《Gender Issues》2007,24(3):35-50
Studies consistently show that female labor force participation is a correlate of infant and child homicide victimization.
Research and theory supports the notion that as women’s economic status improves, children are safer. Yet few existing studies
make use of feminist perspectives to explain child homicide. Further, homicide studies have focused heavily on urban areas
leaving a lacuna of understanding in the literature regarding rural areas. This study explores the connection between absolute
and relative female economic status and infant and child homicide victimization in both rural and urban U.S. counties. Results
show that absolute female economic status is positively associated with infant and child homicide in urban areas, but not
in rural areas. I argue that in rural areas, stronger collective sentiment and less differentiation diminishes the effect
of women’s status on child homicide. While rural areas are characterized by harsh economic realities, these realities are
nevertheless shared among men and women, decentering the link between child victimization and women status.
Gwen Hunnicutt is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research interests include exploring the connection between gender, age and victimization, studying masculinity, aggression and empathy in social context, and building theory to explain gender specific violence and nonviolence. Her most recent paper is titled, “Varieties of Patriarchy and Violence Against Women: Resurrecting ‘Patriarchy’ as a Theoretical Tool.” 相似文献
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Gwen Hunnicutt is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research interests include exploring the connection between gender, age and victimization, studying masculinity, aggression and empathy in social context, and building theory to explain gender specific violence and nonviolence. Her most recent paper is titled, “Varieties of Patriarchy and Violence Against Women: Resurrecting ‘Patriarchy’ as a Theoretical Tool.” 相似文献
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Keumjae Park 《Gender Issues》2008,25(1):26-42
Whether immigrant women’s introduction to paid labor empowers them with greater autonomy or exacerbates their oppression has
been debated variously in the scholarship on gender and migration. In this paper, the author examines Korean immigrant women’s
perspectives on work outside the home after migration. Based on in-depth interview data, the paper emphasizes Korean women’s
own interpretations of work and motherhood, and highlights the ways in which they define and redefine work in relation to
other aspects of their post-migration experiences. The analysis finds that income producing work is not empowering in and
of itself, but contingent upon other post-migration challenges such as economic downward mobility and women’s changed roles
as working mothers. Furthermore, women’s perception of work fluctuates over time. The findings suggest that paid work should
not be simply interpreted as an empowering change, but the linkage between work and other aspects of immigrant women’s post-migration
realities needs to be more closely examined.
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Marco Breschi Alessio Fornasin Matteo Manfredini Marianna Zacchigna 《Revue europeenne de demographie》2009,25(3):277-296
It is well known that timing and intensity of remarriage were strictly dependent upon demographic, socio-economic, cultural
and legislative factors specific to each community. Thus, the aim of this paper is to compare the extent to which such factors
may affect the remarriage patterns of three pre-transitional Italian populations that were different in many respects. By
using micro-level data of the sharecropping communities of Casalguidi and Madregolo and the Alpine village of Treppo Carnico,
we highlighted similarities and differences in the respective remarriage patterns, in particular, the far lower intensity
in the mountain community with respect to the sharecropping ones. Our findings show that along with differences in the demographic
system, household structure and land tenure, normative elements concerning widows and the dotal system could in part explain
the differentials we found.
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John P. DiMoia 《East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal》2008,2(3):361-379
This paper looks at the formation of a South Korean national health network by focusing on the introduction of an ambitious
National Family Planning (FP) Program under President Park Chung Hee (1961–1968). The program, influenced in part by the model
of its neighbor, Taiwan (Taichung), saw two pilot studies carried out in Koyang (rural, beginning in 1963) and Sundong-gu
(Seoul metropolitan area, 1964–1966), before being carried to rural areas nationwide. If the program began with numerous echoes
of Japanese colonial practice, it was mobilized specifically in terms of the emerging “modern” South Korean story and the
state’s relationship to the welfare of the individual family unit. Using a range of Korean and English-language sources, the
paper illustrates how the FP effort took: (1) the Koyang study of the effects of mass communication in rural areas as a tentative
blueprint for expanding its national agenda; (2) subsequently enlisted mobile transportation (1966) to expand the scope of
its reach; and finally, mobilized “Mothers’ Clubs” (1968) to penetrate the very fabric of rural society, making women both
the target as well as the primary means of distribution. Ultimately, this strategy of enlisting the active participation of
South Korean women on behalf of the program asked rural women in particular to submit their bodies to the state’s scrutiny,
even as they formed the core of the distribution network. In this respect, FP anticipated the mass mobilization of rural South
Korea in the New Village movement of the 1970s and leaves behind an ambiguous legacy of state control that is only just beginning
to be re-examined.
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Lisa Shawn Hogan 《Gender Issues》2008,25(2):63-79
The World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 is remembered most as the event that inspired Lucretia Coffin Mott and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton to organize the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention. Few scholars, however, have analyzed the debate proceedings
that ultimately resulted in women’s exclusion from the convention. An analysis of the convention proceedings questions Wendell
Phillips’ strategy of speaking on behalf of the women, arguing instead that William Lloyd Garrison’s strategy of silence was
the more rhetorically astute response to the exclusion of women. Garrison’s silent protest not only attracted more attention
to the women’s rights cause, but also inspired women to speak on their own behalf.
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Jennifer Tomlinson 《Gender Issues》2008,25(4):246-266
The paper aims to develop a framework to understand the variant use of part-time work by employed mothers in the UK and US.
In particular, this paper seeks to explore how diversity in the use of part-time work can be explained when both countries
are associated with a neo-liberal form of capitalism (Hall and Soskice, Varieties of Capitalism: the institutional foundations
of comparative advantage, 2001) and welfare regime (Esping-Andersen, The three worlds of welfare capitalism, 1990). It is
argued here that by combining aspects of the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) and welfare regimes literatures with Gender Regime
theory (Walby, Social Politics, 11(1):4–29, 2004), a gender centred analysis of both the causes and consequences of divergent
working-time patterns can be more adequately achieved.
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This article examines birth control as practice and discourse in 1920s and 1930s Korea under Japanese colonial rule and explores
links with family planning and reproductive practices in post-1945 South Korea. The control of women’s reproduction held critical
implications for meanings of domesticity, marriage, sexual relations, and new womanhood. While a woman-centered position did
emerge regarding birth control, the parameters of the discourse, concerns of gynecology, and the material culture of birth
control ultimately tied the bodies and health of women to their biological and social roles as mothers.
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Sima Zalcberg 《Gender Issues》2007,24(3):13-34
Women’s modesty norms are often perceived as governing women’s bodies and as patriarchal oppression. This study challenges
these perspectives, offering a deeper, multi-dimensional picture showing that the reality of the women’s life is much more
complicated. The article chose to discuss aspects of modesty among women of one of the most extreme Jewish ultra-Orthodox
groups, and in particular, to investigate how they experience an extremely demanding requirement—shaving off the hair on their
head upon marriage and covering their head with a black kerchief. The findings show that there are a variety of voices among
the women, ranging from the view that these practices are desirable, through the view that they empower the women, to the
view that they damage one’s attractiveness and are quite painful.
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Sima ZalcbergEmail: |
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This paper analyzes Taiwan’s engagement with the standardization of pharmaceutical clinical trials at the turn of this century.
Unlike approaches that treat local encounters with globalization as either reluctant acceptance or lasting resistance, this
study calls attention to a complicated process of negotiation, the conceptual gap between the illusion of a unified world
and the reality of persistently divided nation-states. To address this gap, an ethnographic investigation is required. Two
concepts, “bridging” and “voicing” (fasheng), are introduced in order to capture Taiwan’s unstable status, what I term “the
voice on the bridge,” in this process. Bridging emerged as a technical concept for evaluating pharmaceutical drugs’ possible
differential ethnic effects. But it also reflects the ambiguous reality of a world in which each state is an islet connected
to others by imaginary bridges. Fasheng (“voicing”) has to do with Taiwan’s long-held desire for world recognition as a state.
This paper is an ethnography of globalization and the state that traces how Taiwan created a regulatory resolution through
the idea of bridging and how this “voice” was articulated through various social strategies. It explores not only the complexity
of interactions in the technical field of regulatory science, but also argues that looking at such entanglements of science
and society makes it possible to move beyond simple interpretations of globalization.
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Wen-Hua KuoEmail: |
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In Korea, scientific excellence has been perceived as one of the key elements of modern nation-building. Moreover, from the
late 1990s to the early 2000s, the government represented biotechnology as the future engine of the economy. Hwang succeeded
in representing himself as the hero of Korean science by appropriating the public eagerness for scientific achievement. However,
he relied on nationalist rhetoric too often against criticisms, which eventually made a considerable part of the public turn
skeptical about his integrity. Although various forms of techno-nationalism are still pervasive in Korea, Hwang’s scandal
has given a valuable chance for reflection on the relationship of science and nationalism.
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Judith Kleinfeld 《Gender Issues》2009,26(2):113-129
The existence of a “boy crisis” in the United States is a topic of public policy debate. This study examines the state of
American boyhood, using not only the commonly reviewed indicators of school achievement but also mental health, premature
death, injury, delinquency, and arrests. Boys are in trouble in many areas: low rates of literacy, low grades and engagement
in school, high dropout from school, and dramatically higher rates of placement in special education, suicide, premature death,
injuries, and arrests. Girls, however, suffer from other problems, especially depression, suicidal ideation and attempts,
and eating disorders, and are less likely to achieve at the very highest levels in mathematics and science. This study argues
that both boys and girls suffer from characteristic problems, but the issues affecting boys are serious and neglected.
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Judith KleinfeldEmail: |
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Women and minorities have consistently experienced marginalization and inequality in the United States, with low-income, immigrant
and refugee women experiencing the most severe forms. This paper explores how we can restructure one area in which disparities
exist, the primary healthcare system, to provide respectful, compassionate, accessible and adequate care to refugee and low-income
women who are medically at-risk during pregnancy. This will be done by reviewing the Priscilla Project, an inner-city program
that serves at-risk pregnant women in Buffalo, NY, including the history and persistence of disparities in healthcare, activities
and impact of the program, and the uniquely contextualized program paradigm.
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Race-Class-Gender Theory: An Image(ry) Problem 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Ivy Ken 《Gender Issues》2007,24(2):1-20
For over 100 years, but particularly since the 1980s, scholars have heavily relied on images of race, class, and gender as
“intersecting” and “interlocking” forms of oppression and disempowerment. This imagery has helped feminists develop the empirically
grounded theoretical premises that (1) race, class, and gender are social structural locations, (2) structural locations shape
perspectives, (3) no individual is all-oppressed or all-oppressing, (4) the meanings of race, class, and gender are localized,
and (5) race, class, and gender depend on and (6) mutually constitute each other. In this article I synthesize these premises
to reveal some opportunities for theoretical development that may inspire a new generation of race-class-gender scholarship.
I argue that while intersection is fairly limited as a conceptual image, the interlocking imagery can help us identify how
the relationships among these structures of oppression have become institutionalized.
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Ivy KenEmail: |
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This article discusses the reception of Chinese qigong in a Western context by focusing on the learning and experiencing of qigong in Norway. Drawing on ethnographic material from fieldwork among participants of a style of qigong referred to as Biyun medical qigong, I in particular explore the variety of body–mind states that Norwegian qigong students experience. I have differentiated five “stages” of Biyun practice. Using these stages as a framework, I demonstrate
the gradual progression in the learning of qigong. “Body,” “concentration,” and qi (“life energy”) are all important constitutive dimensions in the practice, but as the learning progresses, qi becomes more
and more prominent. Drawing on a definition of the body as “learning to be affected” and “learning to affect” (Despret, Body
Soc 10:111–134, 2004; Latour, Body Soc 10:205–229, 2004), I suggest that qigong may be perceived as a practice that, at its core, involves learning to be affected by qi as well as to affect qi.
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Gry SagliEmail: |
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Though surveys repeatedly demonstrate that most women who are homeless alone have minor children living apart from them, there
is little information on the circumstances of their separations or whether and how they remain involved with their children.
Analysis of data from in-depth interviews with mothers, relatives caring for their children, and shelter and child welfare
staff highlights a tension between perspectives and aspirations of mothers and the agendas and social processes through which
institutional systems manage the family life of women marginalized by homelessness and disability. Though women’s agency is
evident in their efforts to maintain parenting roles, without facilitating resources and supportive structures, agency is
often reduced to unpalatable choices among constraining alternatives. We consider how service systems might mitigate barriers
to mothering as well as broader changes needed to genuinely support women’s aspirations for themselves and their families.
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Susan M. BarrowEmail: |