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® my mother spent twenty years in a mental hospital, where she died, while my father, who became a professor of science, lives a life of luxury retirement in Florida. Discourse doesn't tell us enough about men's privileged positions, it doesn't explain why and how certain discourses carry more weight, more cogency than others. It seems to me that no one theory has yet adequately accounted for family violence. It needs to be broken down into smaller conceptual categories. Ironically, Gordon does do just this, and does it well, but then

® have sprung up, some of them openly declaring themselves feminist, a new turn in revolutionary Third World struggles. Perhaps it is from the organizational and theoretical work bound to evolve from these that we can more reasonably expect enlightenment on the woman question. Given the complex dynamics of revolutionary praxis in the Philippines, we are witnessing the emergence of families as 'cultures of resistance' shaped in the ordeals of struggle, not in the wishful thinking of academicians, despite their good liberal intentions.

Women in the marginal areas of Uttarakhand have always played and continue to play a significant role in managing and operating most of the household and agricultural activities. They are the main subsistence provider in the hills and considered the backbone of hill agriculture. Their lives are intrinsically related to land, water, forest, which are the main components and integral parts of an eco-system. An adverse effect on any one of these components disturbs the other components due to strong linkages and interrelationship with each other and creates havoc on the life of people, especially women in the region. However, in recent years, environmental degradation, poor resource management and increased migration of men to the plains have deteriorated the livelihood options and added more workload to women of the region. The sufferings of the communities in these hilly areas are gradually increasing and their standard of living is declining because they have been neglected at both policy and practice levels by the government. The nexus between women, environment degradation and poverty are poorly understood and rarely treated in an integrated way. Therefore, the key objective of the present paper is to analyse the work participation of women operating at different sub-systems, impact of environmental degradation and role of women in sustaining the traditional agro-ecosystem in Khul Gad micro-watershed of Kumoun Himalaya.

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The authors examine 1980 to 2003 trends in female-to-male interpersonal violence reported in Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) arrest statistics and National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) victimization data. Augmented Dickey-Fuller time-series techniques and intuitive plot displays show much overlap yet differences in each source's portrayal of trends in female violence levels and the gender gap. Both sources show little or no change in the gender gap for homicide and rape/sexual assault, whereas UCR police counts show a sharp rise in female-to-male arrests for criminal assault during the past one to two decades-but that rise is not borne out in NCVS counts. Net-widening policy shifts have apparently escalated the arrest proneness of females for "criminal assault" (e.g., policing physical attacks/threats of marginal seriousness that women in relative terms are more likely to commit); rather than women having become any more violent, official data increasingly mask differences in violent offending by men and women.

When love is unrequited, lost or betrayed, it hurts, and this pain can strike anyone at any time. Yet, granted that the misery of love is as old as love itself, has the suffering always been experienced in the same way? Does it affect women and men equally? And are the coping strategies used today the same as those used in the past? This book aims to provide answers to these and other questions about the misery of love in late modernity. As the title indicates, the answers are sociological in form and opposed to rival explanations coming from the 'psy' sciences, which, the author suggests, are symptoms of the contemporary malaise, particularly as propounded by the pop psychology industry.

peacekeeping operations has led many feminists to question the appropriateness of using soldiers to create peace. They argue that the problems stem from a particular form of military masculinity, hegemonic within Western militaries, associated with practices of strength, toughness, and aggressive heterosexuality. Masculinities, however, are multiple, dynamic, and contradictory. As they are constructed in relation to the contexts men find themselves in, involvement in peacekeeping may itself play a role in the construction of alternative military masculinities. Examining autobiographical accounts of soldiers involved in peacekeeping in Bosnia in the 1990s, I argue that there is evidence of an alternative discourse of 'peacekeeper masculinity', but question whether it fully challenges the hegemony of the warrior model. I acknowledge that peacekeeper masculinity is also problematic because although it disrupts elements of the traditional linkages between militarism and masculinity, it still relies on a feminized and racialized 'Other.' Yet, I suggest that this is not the only way in which peacekeeper masculinity can be viewed. It can alternatively be considered part of a 'regendered military' which may be a necessary component of successful conflict resolution.

This article contextualizes some of the more speci cally focused articles in this Special Issue of 'Women and Mental Health' by reviewing general historical and political currents structuring contemporary discussions around questions of models, treatment and provision for women within British mental health services. We highlight some particularities of the current British context (in relation to other national scenes) in terms of the forms and expressions of feminist activity around mental or emotional distress. While not absolute mirrors of each other, resonances between general trends in feminist debates and organizational forms within feminist mental health work give rise to a wide spectrum of sites of intervention. We discuss some of the conditions that gave rise to these forms of (visible) feminist intervention within mental health service provision, focusing particularly on women's counselling and therapy services, and we offer an analysis of the range and conceptual tensions within which such interventions may be situated, including contested perspectives on power and empowerment. We also consider ways in which women's political activity around mental health issues is likely not to be noticed as such, given women's prototypical positions as patients and practitioners. We end by identifying what we see as current challenges for feminist activism around distress and its links with the conditions of women's lives and oppression more generally, not only as instances of more general tensions and challenges within contemporary feminisms, but also as offering an arena of opportunity for broader alliance and coalition-building.

This paper argues that the 'double-standard' applied to male and female tourists' sexual behaviour reflects and reproduces weaknesses in existing theoretical and commonsense understandings of gendered power, sexual exploitation, prostitution and sex tourism. It looks at how essentialist constructions of gender and heterosexuality blur understandings of sexual exploitation and victimhood and argues that racialized power should also be considered to explore the boundaries between commercial and non-commercial sex. This paper is based on ethnographic research on sexual-economic exchanges between tourist women and local men and boys in the informal tourist economy in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic. keywords sex tourism; sexual exploitation; heterosexuality; racism; gender feminist review 83 2006 (42-59) c 2006 Feminist Review. 0141-7789/06 $30 www.feminist-review.com

been compounded by the failure of courts to recognize that women are not solely dependents, but are also political actors in their own right. Crawley acknowledges that there has been some movement towards a recognition of certain groups of women as 'social groups' according to the 1951 Convention (for example the case of Shah Islam in Britain), but stresses the significance of the public/private divide for women seeking asylum in Western countries.

From the feminist 'sex wars' of the 1980s to the queer theory and politics of the 1990s, debates about the politics of sexuality have been at the forefront of contemporary theoretical, social, and political demands. This article seeks to intervene in these debates by challenging the terms through which they have been de ned. Investigating the importance of 'sex positivity' and transgression as conceptual features of feminist and queer discourses, this essay calls for a new focus on the political and material effects of pro-sexuality.

This paper represents a collective contribution to an ongoing debate on the benefits and disadvantages of export-based, industrial jobs for women as well as on the implications of global labor standards on these types of jobs. On the basis of extensive research on women in Mexico's and Central America's maquiladoras (assembly plants that produce export goods), this paper aims to problematize the viewpoints that present export-based, industrial jobs as dignified alternatives for women in the South and to question the skepticism about global labor standards as a possible alternative for improving work conditions in all sectors producing for export. In so doing, the paper stresses three interrelated issues: a) the relevance of local and regional contexts that inform diverse industrialization paths over time, b) the agency the women workers represent, and c) the legal instruments already existent in our common efforts to improve working conditions.

Several hooks, some of them painful, drag me towards books about Nazism: my Jewishness and my ancestors, some of them victims and some survivors of the 'holocaust'; and my concern about the antifeminist roots of right-wing and fascistic movements. Claudia Koonz's book, Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics (New York: StMartin's Press 1987), as I expected, is rich with insights about the relation between the reaction to women's political and economic power, and conservatism and authoritarianism. I did not expect that it would raise troubling questions about feminism itself. Koonz discusses many aspects of women's participation in Nazi life, but focuses particular attention on women in Nazi women's organizations. Over four million women participated in the Frauenwerk, Nazi government-sponsored women's activities; five million belonged to the women's division of the Nazi Labour Front; two million were leaders in the network of Frauenschaft organizations. The Nazi purpose in encouraging such organization was to mobilize women for all aspects of the Reich's programmes: production; social control; 'purification of the race'; war. Nevertheless, many of these women joined in the belief that they were thereby working for the advancement of women. They believed that promoting and then lauding the womanly virtues and contributions-motherhood and service above all-could provide for women the respect they deserved. Women leaders often protested the slighting of women's interests by Nazi party and government, and boasted of their achievements for women. Indeed, one of Koonz's central arguments is that women joined these organizations for many of the same reasons they have joined progressive and feminist movements: they were rebelling against the low status and confinement of women's conventional role and were seeking recognition, an arena for political activism and power. She does not dismiss these conservative women as dupes of men, inauthentic to a true female character, but insists on a degree of genuine conviction among them.

After years of invisibility, the position of migrant women from Islamic countries now forms the core of the Dutch discourse on integration and emancipation. This article presents the downside of this visibility by showing that it is situated within a growing culturalist discourse. In addition to being culturalist, this discourse focuses on the shortcomings of migrants and is flavoured with a touch of new realism in its argument that it is a right to break the taboos of migrants. More visibility for migrant women will not help their empowerment if the basic assumptions of the dominant discourse are not challenged. Through presenting a case study, this article shows how this visibility can even strengthen the border between the Dutch as 'emancipated self' and Islamic migrants as the 'unemancipated other'. In so doing it reinforces boundaries instead of alliances, isolation instead of empowerment, and suppression instead of emancipation. keywords migrant women; emancipation; culturalist discourse; pillarization; welfare state; safe space feminist review 94 2010 (75-92) c 2010 Feminist Review. 0141-7789/10 www.feminist-review.com feminist review 94 2010 from absolute invisibility to extreme visibility 76

Kate Eichhorn situates feminist archival histories through contemporary Western paradigms of queer feminism and lesbian reworkings of archival politics. Eichhorn paves pathways for reparative readings of feminist pasts to reconsider, regenerate and redefine what she calls 'radical accidents' in the archive. In Eichhorn's book, we start in the 1930s and travel forward to Elizabeth Freeman's contemporary uptake of Lauren Berlant's adherence to the productivity of feminist political failure as temporal drag. This is combined with Ann Cvetkovich's claim of the archive as a potential site for reworking normative generational narratives.

Whether loathed as a symbol of women's objectification or adored as a bringer of erotic delirium, the Victorian corset continues to excite interest well beyond the relatively narrow field of academic histories of fashion. Bound to Please explores the ambiguity of the Victorian corset in Britain and North America as both a signifier of femininity and an object of material culture-an item which was both decoded for its cultural meanings, and worn on the real, physical bodies of middle-and working-class women and girls.

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The continued underrepresentation of women in scholarly activities slows down the scientific progress of any country. Several studies have analyzed the women representation in authorship of scholarly publications in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM). Women account only 30% of overall authorship of scholarly articles. Prestigious authorships like first-, last- and corresponding authors also show significant underrepresentation of women. Women as first authors are significantly increasing since last decades; however, growth of last authors is not significant and share of corresponding authors not changed. Women show low overall impact of scholarly publications due to lower productivity but not for quality of publication. This gender authorship puzzle can be solved by adopting gender responsive planning and management. Therefore, systematic efforts to understand the gender disparities in scholarly publications, authorship citations and collaborations re...

Notes 1 This collection is out of print. 2 Quote from which originally appeared in . Screen Education (1980) No. 39. 4 Cohen (1972); ; Hebdidge (1979) 5 For those interested there is discussion about this in contemporary subculture: McRobbie (1989). There is also some excellent writing on women and punk in . Brake (1985) offers a good summary of early writing on girls and subculture. 6 'Girls and Subcultures' essay in McRobbie (1991: 11). 7 . These criticisms seem to be adapted from an earlier article: Martin Barker, (1986) 'Methods For Cultural Studies Students' in Punter D. 8 Angela McRobbie has contributed journalism to debates about postmodernism including an article in Lisa Appignanesi., editor, (1986) Postmodernism, ICA Document 4 published in association with Free Association Books. 9 First published in McRobbie and Nava (1984). 10 Similar impulses, that is achieving some social mobility but still finding certain doors closed, originally made sixties new wave playwrights -like Osborne. -angry in the first place. In Walkerdine's book, patriarchal, as well as class relations, incite her anger in terms of the way they create an impasse in some academic structures and epistemologies. 11 See publishing overview presented by Helen Birch. 12 I am personally not against the publishing of artistically or historically significant reprints. But I think the points made by Rebecca O'Rourke in 'Summer Reading' (Feminist Review, No.2) that 'commercial publishers are cashing in on feminism', raised again by Ros Coward on p. 235 of Showalter (1986) are still relevant. 13 Williamson (1991) outlines the 'publish or perish' philosophy. Her article

Palgrave Macmillan Journals is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve, and extend access to Feminist Review. www.jstor.org ® reason -for people writing from within the unions and the Labour Party to argue clearly for overturning those old hierarchies and relations. But unleBB they are overturned, unleBB a very serious effort is made to create state institutions committed to strengthening those with least power and increasing their capacity to force the state to act in their interest, then all the 'popular planning' in the world will

New Frontiers of Space, Bodies and Gender reflects the current mood among those interested in gender identity to explore the relationships between gender and space. The emphasis has moved from simply identifying and reacting to gender differences in accessing space to understanding their relationships to behaviour and finding new spaces. This book contains a number of chapters by writers and researchers in a variety of fields with a common interest in identity and space. From lesbian and gay studies and cultural studies to film and photography, the book discusses a variety of lived experiences and theory with interpretations of spatial environments ranging from the bodily, built and community to the cultural, cyber and imagined. New Frontiers comprises 15 essays that are presented in four sections: 'Coming From the Same Place? Bodies', 'Taking Another Look: Spaces', 'Outside Possibilities: Cultural Planning' and 'Altogether Elsewhere: Futures'. Although there is no single overall view in the book, most of the essays offer a positive look at gender and space with examples of the past, the present or the future.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the discourse of othering of non-Western migrants has been growing in many European societies. And since 2015, refugees have become a quite visible component in this discourse. Although, for decades, the dominant image of refugees has been constructed as people ‘at risk’, new competing images of refugee men ‘as risk’ have recently gained ground. For refugee women, however, the image of being victims and ‘at risk’ still prevails. This shows a strong underlying gendered logic of feminine vulnerability and masculine threat. In this article, I show how these images are situated within the dominant Dutch discourse of migration with taken-for-granted taxonomies of the self and the other. Specific in this normalised discourse for refugee women is that their agency is either ignored or their possible position as activists is not acknowledged to exist. Using examples from two studies in which my research team engaged with the method of narrative engag...

The present study is an attempt to underline the economic aspects responsible for the rise in the cases of domestic violence against women especially in during COVID-19 crisis. The issue of domestic violence, especially in India has mostly been studied from a social and cultural perspective. There are several researchers who have highlighted the ill impact on women’s health (mental and physical) due to the obnoxious treatment they are subjected to at home. However, there has been not much focus on empirical work to study economic dimensions of domestic violence. The study aims to uncover the plausible economic causes and the probable economic consequences of domestic abuse against women in Bihar during the Covid-19 health crisis in 2020-2021.

This article considers some of the ways in which 'the black woman' as both representation and embodied, sentient being is rendered visible and invisible and to link these to the multiple and competing ways in which she is 'present'. The issues are engaged through three distinct but overlapping conceptualisations of 'presence'. 'Presence' as conceived (and highly contested) in performance studies; 'presence' as conceived and worked with in psychoanalysis; and 'presence' as decolonising political praxis among indigenous communities. I use these conceptualisations of presence to consider the various ways in which the black woman as figure and as embodied/sentient subject has been made present/absent in different discursive registers. I also explore what is foreclosed and how this is itself linked to legacies of colonial 'worlding'. I end with consideration of alternative modes of black women's presence and how this offers a resource for new modes of sociality.

This article explores the roles of social (informal) and institutional (formal) support in the lives of 158 women whose intimate partner abuse (IPA) cases reached the courts in three jurisdictions in the United States. Women were asked who knew about the IPA and their levels of supportiveness. Data analysis includes comparisons across the women in terms of social support and institutional support, and how these were related to the women's demographic characteristics, whether they were still in a relationship with their abusers, the severity of the violence, and the women's mental health.