Constructions of local culture and impacts on domestic violence in an Australian rural community

Studies of domestic violence in rural areas have predominantly focused on barriers that keep women trapped in abusive relationships. The literature has frequently suggested that rural culture influences the incidence of domestic violence, the forms it takes, and how it is experienced. Yet there is surprisingly little research on how rural culture plays out in relationships between women and men who experience domestic violence. The study described in this paper explored local culture in a South Australian rural community and how it affected women's experiences of, and men's perpetration of, domestic violence. It found several local cultural discourses that bore on the issue, including self-reliance, pride, privacy, belonging and closeness, family, and Christianity. The power and influence of these discourses made it difficult to name and challenge domestic violence. The paper concludes with the argument that it is important to acknowledge and understand the values and beliefs of rural women and men when developing effective and appropriate responses to rural domestic violence. There is a need to move away from universal understandings of a rural culture to acknowledge discourses that have power and strength within a community so that we can sensitively challenge discourses that silence domestic violence.     

从《一去永不回》看两性视野中女性成长的困境与突围

女性主义文学的成长是女性从被遮蔽、扭曲到发出自己的声音的一个不平凡的过程。池莉的《一去永不回》展示了一个平凡的女性从沉默到爆发,从不自觉走向半自觉的心路历程,以人物成长的外部语境和内心自我辨认来展示两性视野中女性成长的困境与突围,检视在社会环境和文化压力的重负下,女性意识究竟以何种面目生长和呈现。     

Moving the Boundaries of Feminist Social Work Education with Disabled People in the Neoliberal Era

Until recently social work education in Australia has either marginalised or neglected disability by omission. Given the increasing number of disabled people in the community, the teaching of social work within a disability studies emancipatory paradigm as an essential part of the curriculum is long overdue. As many social work educators have suggested, we are at a critical moment in Australia, where the policy environment in which social work is embedded has largely been reframed in line with neoliberal trends. For disabled people, this has meant an ongoing state campaign to diminish disability entitlements, from decreasing disability social security regimes through to the rationalisation of adult disability support and care schemes. Social workers are negotiating the competing demands of these policy constraints alongside the needs of the disabled people they work with. New moral dilemmas have emerged where they are actively faced with the question of ‘who to serve?’.     

The Isle of Man and the First Votes for Women

Over a century ago, the Isle of Man became the first country to grant propertied women a parlamentary franchise. This paper presents a case study of the Manx Election Act of 1881 which first enfranchised women and examines some of the factors which may have helped make its passage possible. Chief among these were the involvement of the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage and its liberal, middle class appeal, strategy and tactics; the personalistic style of politics on the island; and the absence of any party system.     

沉迷于宗教,逃避现实——从女性主义视角分析劳伦斯小说中的朝圣者形象

上帝在女性主义的眼中是男权制的象征。而劳伦斯小说中的朝圣者形象的女性正是被宗教蒙蔽的男权制社会的牺牲品。本文拟从上帝的形象和朝圣的本质入手,分析其五部小说《儿子与情人》,《逾矩的罪人》,《迷途女孩》,《袋鼠》和《羽蛇》中的女性朝圣者形象。     

东南亚女性政治家崛起现象研究

在人类的发展历史中,男女性别上的差异导致了政治在传统上一直是男性主导的领域,而那些能够在政治上有所作为的女性则屈指可数,活跃在政坛上的也大多数是男性政治家。自古以来,人们就形成了女性不适合参与政治的共识,女性只拥有从属地位,是对男性的一种补充。纵观当今世界,虽然在许多国家存在着女性领导人的案例,但是东南亚女性政治家的从政参政与其他地区有着明显的不同,在东南亚国家的政治发展过程中出现了多位女性政治家,并在所在国的政坛中发挥着重要作用。文章将以东南亚女性的政治影响力为起点,对东南亚女性政治家的崛起现象进行描述,并结合亨廷顿的＂第三波民主化浪潮＂的三种社会背景对东南亚女性政治家崛起现象的特点和原因进行分析论述。     

重构黑人女性身份 再现自我化过程——《宠儿》的后殖民女性主义解读

从后殖民女性主义视角研究小说《宠儿》,通过分析莫里森笔下遭受性别歧视及种族歧视双重压迫的黑人女性悲惨命运,探讨黑人女性无身份、无自主权的边缘化状态,揭示了对黑人女性的身份建构思想,即只有重新书写黑人历史、黑人女性自我意识得到觉醒、自我得以回归、自我身份得到重构,才能摆脱种族主义及性别主义的双重压迫现状。     

现实中的夏洛蒂·勃朗特和小说里的简·爱——兼论《简·爱》中疯女人伯莎的人物形象

《简·爱》是19世纪英国著名女作家夏洛蒂·勃朗特的代表作,在某种程度上《简·爱》也是作者的生平写照。小说主人公简·爱的经历在很大程度上都透着夏洛蒂.勃朗特的影子。作者的女权主义思想和自尊自强、追求独立平等和纯粹爱情的理想在小说中通过简爱的不懈努力得以实现。     

女性主义翻译探究

翻译的性别化为翻译研究提供了隐喻性的思维框架。本文将从女性主义与翻译研究的关系、女性主义翻译的理论目标及女性主义的翻译观等三个方面对女性主义翻译研究进行具体阐述。     

A first generation critic comes of age: Reflections of a critical gerontologist

This paper reflects upon the direction and evolution of my scholarly endeavors as a sociologist of four decades in the field of aging, with thoughts on the future direction of this work and the challenges for the larger field. The perspective presented is located within two frameworks of active debate: the sociology of knowledge(s) [Gouldner, A. 1970. The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology. New York: Basic Books] and public sociology, which is one of the four major types of sociology identified by Burawoy [Burawoy, M. (2005, 2007). A call for public sociology. In D. Clawson, R. Zussman, J. Misra, N. Gerstel, R. Stokes, & R. L. Anderton (Eds.), Public Sociology. Berkeley: University of California Press.], also including traditional professional sociology, policy sociology, and critical sociology.