“Exciting” and “borderline offensive”: bloggers,binaries, and celebrity feminism

Feminism is “cool” like never before in popular culture and celebrity feminism is arguably the most visible manifestation of this currently chic status. Some scholars and commentators see this as evidence of a global feminist resurgence; others critique it as empty and devoid of political traction. The hypervisibility of celebrity feminism makes it an ideal site to explore sense-making of contemporary feminism. Long-standing feminist debates about sexuality, intersectionality, and commodification cohere around the figure of the celebrity feminist, and are debated amongst media commentators, feminists, and celebrities themselves. We analyse blogs and comments sections as a particular site where meanings of celebrity feminism are constructed and contested in the everyday. Our analyses underline the operation of a good/bad binary that constituted celebrity feminism as “other” to an imagined authentic, politically engaged feminism, although consensus about what constitutes an authentic feminist was elusive. However, celebrities were not always positioned as “other,” with the recognition that celebrities share with all women the contradictions and demands of inhabiting a postfeminist media culture. Our findings emphasise the need for a nuanced approach to theorising and understanding celebrity feminism’s relationship with other feminisms and its implications for feminist practices and identifications.     

解决“老有所养”,促进计划生育

解决“老有所养”,促进计划生育,大家的认识是一致的。但是怎样才能解决好,却是一个值得研究和探讨的问题。在这方面,各地农村都已根据自己的条件采取了一些措施,创造了一些解决办法,把它们归纳起来,大体有以下三种类型。     

香港“婴儿潮”一代将退休,职场“青黄不接”

香港统计处2012年最新数据指出,香港退休人数现时每年超过6万人,受婴儿潮效应影响,2011年50～54岁共约60万人,预计退休潮高峰期将于2018年涌现,     

靠“三联网”、“九协作”,做好计划生育工作

<正> 计划生育涉及千家万户,是一项全社会的工作,只有发动全社会一起来做,才能做好。在这方面,巴中县梁永乡从实际情况出发,把计划生育部门与广播、文化、教育、卫生、农技等部门组织在一起,实行“三联网”、“九协作”,建立责任制,分工合作,共同做好计划生育,走出了一条新路子。“三联网”是:在宣传服务上与广播、文化、教育部门的单位联网;在技术     

“She Is Not Acting,She Is”

This essay examines the popular television show RuPaul's Drag Race to reveal the ways drag performance provides an ambivalent, contradictory space for wrestling with contentious issues surrounding cultural identity and authenticity in reality TV. Focusing on the show's controversial season three, the authors demonstrate how drag queens subvert and play with ideas of gender “realness” but find an impasse in open discussions of race. The racial minstrelsy of some contestants we observe created antagonisms between black/brown characters and their white/Asian counterparts, exposing a rift in ideas about racial play despite the general acceptance of flexibility in gender bending. Recognizing that reality TV exploits and uncovers these tensions, we demonstrate that while drag performance enacts a subversive mode of queer performance, it provides a contested site and complex semiotic space for dealing with sensitive matters of race/ethnicity, especially when certain forms of stereotyping are rewarded over others.     

Pregnancy,Then It's “Back To Business”

This essay theorizes the contours of a post-feminist gender regime that utilizes figures such as Beyoncé in order to hail women as self-governing subjects who make the right choices with respect to career, marriage, motherhood, and the disciplining of their bodies. As a black woman, the narrative about Beyoncé's life and choices has specific implications; it positions professional black women as ideal citizens and mothers and also seeks to reconfigure and normalize representations of the black family. The body, specifically the black female body, plays an important role in attempting to transform and normalize these representations. This essay offers one of the few examinations of black women's relationship to post-feminism. Although post-feminism has been conceptualized in ways that ignore black women, I aim to demonstrate why further consideration of black women's relationship to post-feminism is needed. It is my contention that with successful black women increasingly in the public eye, what they say about feminism and how they relate to feminist politics have important implications for how all women, but especially young black women, engage in types of activism that go beyond placing value on individualism at the expense of the collective.     

“牵牛鼻子,莫抓牛尾巴”

北京市朝阳区是个百万人口的大区。全区30％是农村人口,城市人口的机械增长速度很快,而且人口年龄构成轻。据1979年统计,总人口中30岁以下的占57.8％,控制人口的任务十分艰巨。党中央、国务院号召一对夫妇只生一个孩子以后,部分干部和群众认为“只生一个,这不是‘拉秧子’了吗?”有的说“号召不是法律,可以响应,也可以不响应。要生你就生。”特别是农村,议论更多。尤其是实行联产计酬责任制以后,有些社员说“要想富的快,多生儿子多种菜”。多生多育的思想有所抬头。     

“Fruits,” “Fags,” and “Dykes”: The Portrayal of Gay/Lesbian Identity in “Nance” Jokes of the ’50s and ’60s

ABSTRACT

What is humorous and how it is interpreted very much depends on the norms and values of a culture at a particular point in time, the characteristics of who is telling jokes, and the makeup of the audience. This article presents archival material and an analysis of an outsider's jokes about gays and lesbians. These were told to primarily heterosexual audiences by a heterosexual comic. They reveal the assumptions Americans held about gays and lesbians throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and a few years into the mid-1970s, when most of these jokes were compiled. Although generalizations about gay/lesbian humor in that period cannot be made from one person's private collection of nearly 1,000 jokes, they do reveal several clear patterns: Much of the humor about male homosexuality is used to debase men and their masculinity, by making them passive, feminine, or weak, except for their hypersexuality. The women are also depicted in the jokes as sexually eager, especially to give oral sex to possibly straight women or acting in the male insertor role. Rarely were the gay/lesbian jokes focused on political issues of discrimination, oppression, or romantic relationships.     

把握“四点”,坚持“四抓”——“九五”创建计划生育合格县的思考

本文系统地回顾介绍了滨海县在创建省级合格县中的主要做法和体会 ,通过抓住合格县创建的着力点 ,进一步强化各级责任 ;突出合格县创建的切入点 ,进一步强化宣传教育 ;把握合格县创建的立足点 ,进一步强化基层基础 ;紧扣合格县的落脚点 ,进一步强化优质服务 ,使县城范围内的计划生育整体水平有了突破性的提高     

“We’re a movement”: crowdfunding,journalism, and feminism

As media organizations struggle to remain financially viable, and layoffs become more common, crowdfunding has been championed as one way for journalists to finance new ventures and create work outside of mainstream media. There is a growing body of research that is starting to critically examine the relationship between journalism and crowdfunding. This research, however, has tended to look at journalism as a whole, rather than specific genres. The purpose of this paper is to look at how crowdfunding is being used to create feminist online magazines, online spaces, and freelance journalism to tell stories about women, or aimed at a female-identified audience. It argues that beyond simply wanting to write and produce content the hope is to create change and often the crowdfunding campaigns are positioned as trying to create a “community” and/or a “movement.” This article uses a political economic framework, drawing on the concept of structuration, to analyze how these crowdfunding campaigns are being used to push back against, and open up, mainstream dialogues of what it means to be a woman or female-identified, as well as create safe and open spaces for these conversations.     

Professional women “rebalancing” in retirement: Time,relationships, and body

ABSTRACT

This is an interview-based study focused on how professional baby boomer women negotiate and narrate postretirement lives. This group came of age in the 1960s and represents a socially privileged segment of the baby boomer generation, a cohort that created new gendered pathways in employment. Today, these retired professional women are attempting to make sense of their multilayered complex and changing realities. In their accounts, the most salient themes are shifting identity, embodiment, and relationships. By using what we call a relational lens, we will show how many aspects of postretirement life, for these professional women, are mediated by changing relationships—relationships to time, work identity, friends and family, and body. Through these individual and relational contexts we see how female professional baby boomer retirees grapple with liberation and loss, autonomy and control, ongoing gendered work, and rebalancing in a new chapter of life. Perhaps most importantly, we see how learning about self in this stage of life, and perhaps across the life course, takes place largely in the context of relationships.     

坚持“三为主”,实现“三无”村——怀德县双榆树乡平房店村实现“三无”的调查

<正> 联系实际,深入开展“三普及”教育经过一年的努力,怀德县双榆树乡平房店村的粮食产量上去了,人口增长速度下降了,然而,干群关系有些紧张了:有的妇女怕干部,有的妇女吐干部,个别妇女甚至骂干部。怎么办?村党支部一边从内部总结经验教训找差距。一边学习外地的先进经验。在     

紧紧依靠群众,开展创“五好村”活动

创计划生育“五好村”活动,是一项群众性的活动。可是在开展这项活动的过程中,有些地方却忽视了这项活动绝对不容忽视的根本点——它的群众性,仅仅靠少数几个人的力量,影响了这项活动的广泛、深入地开展。创计划生育“五好村”活动的根本目的,就在于充分调动广大人民群众的积极性,互助帮助、互相监督、共同努力,去实现共同的目标和愿望。因此,在开展这项活动的过程中,只有紧紧地依靠广大群众,才能真正使这项活动生动活泼地开展起来,扎扎实实地深入下去。要做到依靠群众,首先必须充分相信群众。人民群众是计划生育的主人,广大村民是创计划生育“五好村”活动的主力军,这一点是不容置疑的。如果只把群众当成工作对象而不是动力,如果离开了广大群众的拥护和支持,如果没有广大群众的积极参加,创计划生育“五好村”活动     

借“世界办公室”之力,扩大就业

随着经济全球化中制造业转移的渐趋平稳,又出现了新一轮的知识型服务产业由发达国家向发展中国家转移的新现象,这对于扩大国内就业具有重要作用。要想在这次转移中把握机会,不仅需要资本输入国具备人力资源的成本优势,而且需要具备人力资源的质量和技能优势以及良好的软环境,因此,提高人力资源的素质、改善软环境是接受新的产业转移,成为世界办公室的重要前提。     

山东寿光为“少生快富,建国策大棚”

山东寿光为“少生快富，建国策大棚”近年来，山东省寿光市靠种菜发了家，连续三届跻身全国农村综合实力百强县行列，在全国百名农业大县中位居第三名，提前步入了小康。同时，菜农人口也迅速增加，到去年达到６０万人，占全市总人口的５８％，成为该市计划生育工作的重要...     

以宣传教育开路,推动“五好”村建设

<正> 我们吉林市郊区孤店子镇大荒地村,地处偏僻的远郊,九个村民小组,总人口3,617人。由于我们对计划生育工作一直抓得紧,连续三年实现“三无”。特别是开展创计划生育“五好”村活动后,计划生育工作又有了新的起色。1986年,省政府111号文件和省计委29号文件下发后,我们村党支部召开了几次支委会,反复学习文件精神。我们感到,创计划生育“五好”村,是搞好计划     

城乡协调推进“三结合”,开展“五关爱”活动的分析与思考

城乡协调推进“三结合”,开展“五关爱”活动,是计划生育工作新的工作模式和运行机制。对提高人口计生工作的管理水平具有重要的实际意义和积极的推动作用。