Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Gender Analysis in Kosova

Gender relations fluctuate in times of violent change with flight, exile, displacement and return and relations of inequality between men and women can prevent women from fully participating in the reconstruction processes and gaining political voice. Undertaking a gendered analysis of Kosovar women's involvement in the emerging feminist reconstructive politics highlighted the ways in which international governmental responses at times hindered women's progress. The central concern in this Gender Audit is the extent to which encouragement has been given to increasing women's social,economic,educational and political participation - in both informal civic fora and organizations and at the formal levels of power. The Gender Audit assesses the gaps in policy-making, service provision, data collection and in co-ordination and monitoring of projects designed to increase the participation of women and girls. In post-conflict situations it is vital that all people are enabled to contribute their ideas, expertise and skills in reconstruction and rehabilitation processes leading to democratization and democracy-building. Working in coalitions combining local, national and international elements is providinga positive contribution for somewomen in Kosova.     

Interacting with the State: Feminist Strategies and Political Opportunities

In recent years feminists have been engaged in new debates about gender and the state. Instead of adopting either a purely structural or agential approach, the emphasis in these debates is on the interactive relationship between the two. Feminists in political science have not been immune to this trend. Work is emerging in this field which dissaggregates the state to consider the way different political institutions shape and are shaped by engagement with feminist actors. This article contributes to these efforts by providing a detailed comparative analysis of feminist strategies and political opportunities in two similar political systems - Australia and Canada. A number of key points emerge from this study. First, similar institutions in different countries provide varying opportunities for feminists. As a result, it is not possible to make emphatic claims about certain institutions being more or less beneficial for feminists. Second, feminists respond to these opportunities by adopting certain strategies over others. Through these strategies, feminists can have a direct bearing on the opportunity structure open to them. What the experiences of Canadian and Australian feminists tell us is that the relationship between feminists and political institutions changes over both time and place; that it is interactive and dynamic, rather than predictable and permanent.     

A letter from the empty stage

This paper is about discipline at work. From a distal perspective, discipline may be understood in terms of an achievement, an effect, an outcome, a social phenomenon already constituted. In contrast, a proximal perspective suggests that discipline is a social process constantly working its way through organizational practices, on its way to be constituted but not quite yet finalized. The paper documents the outcomes and the workings of discipline in LOGICOM, a UK service organization which has embarked recently on a total customer satisfaction (TCS) program. In so doing, it argues that the outcome of disciplinary power is the organizational self. In LOGICOM, employees appear to identify, innovate, comply, be resilient, or rebel against the goal of TCS and the institutionalized means for achieving it. The workings of discipline are then explored via the technologies of domination and technologies of the self that characterize TCS. It is concluded that the workings of such disciplinary mechanisms are not entirely effective and, consequently, the outcomes of discipline are difficult to predict or know from beforehand. Thus, the “disciplined employee” is a fictitious category, something that the organization may strive for, but can never realize.     

西部农村女性家庭地位与权利意识——基于甘肃省嘉峪关市农村地区的调查

为了了解西部农村女性的家庭地位与权利意识情况,对甘肃省嘉峪关市三个行政村进行了问卷调查,包括婚姻自主权、家庭实权、家庭地位满意度等方面内容,并得出结论:农村女性教育水平低下、权利意识缺乏等是影响其家庭地位的主要因素。最后提出提高农村女性家庭地位与权利意识的对策。     

《熟路》中菲尼克斯的女性主义分析

尤多拉．韦尔蒂是二十世纪美国著名的短篇小说家。分析了韦尔蒂短篇小说《熟路》中的女主人公的个性特征,名字的起源与象征意义以及熟路本身的含义。通过分析,试图揭示韦尔蒂的女性主义观。     

比喻与论述,边缘与控制——克莱曼和萨斯对弗洛伊德《杜拉》的重新解读

克莱曼与萨斯的著作《女人的新生》一书,是从女性主义的视角对弗洛伊德的《少女杜拉的故事》的重新解读。两人通过重塑杜拉分别分析了它和比喻与论述,边缘与控制的之间关系。颠覆弗洛伊德对杜拉已有的诊断,肯定杜拉的反叛作用和对社会的解构作用,并将她冠以英雄主义的称号。另外还分析了怎样摆正一个人与权力及控制之间的关系。     

女性主义、澳门与审美——关于荒林的两本随笔

荒林的随笔《天生女性主义》和《澳门之美》,体现出中国女性主义学者对于女性主义的理解、研究视角和具体应用。以这两本书为对象的分析解读,可以看出其女性主 义思考的若干特色。     

女性主义肥皂剧研究方法评析

女性主义肥皂剧在研究方法上强调性别概念。特别是女性体验,借鉴了美国主流传媒学派和英国文化研究学派的研究方法,对传统社会科学的研究方法进行了革新。当然无论是早期运用较多的量化研究,还是更受推崇的定性研究都有其阙如之处,这和女性主义研究者本身矛盾的立场有关。     

以《到灯塔去》为例看家庭之于女性

在男权话语的框架内,女性生理上的特点与所谓的女性气质决定了女性在社会中的社会角色,于是家庭成为女性问题中不可回避的一个焦点。女性主义的研究成果表明,所谓的女性气质以及由此决定的女性被限制于家庭中的社会角色,是男权意识形态的具体体现,而伍尔夫在《到灯塔去》一书中通过对家庭生活的描述与分析,试图帮助女性摆脱家庭的束缚,从边缘走向中心,为研究女性与家庭提供了一个良好的文本。     

李清照与鱼玄机女性意识比较研究

李清照与鱼玄机同属中国古代文学史领域的重要人物,都为文学史的发展做出过杰出贡献,但其女性意识却有着明显的不同,主要体现在对封建礼教的叛逆、对美好爱情的咏唱、对现实危机的警觉和对各家词作的品评等几个层面.究其原因,概与其出身、处境等因素有关.