Atentas aos riscos e limites da cultura da conectividade (Van DIJCK, 2013), as contribuições desta Seção Temática inserem-se nesse debate ao problematizar como a plataformização da vida e os dispositivos algorítmicos atuam como ferramentas de controle, mas também como espaços de contestação. A Seção Temática é composta por seis (6) artigos de autoria de pessoas feministas de distintas áreas de conhecimento, como Antropologia, Comunicação Social, Artes Visuais, Educação e Serviço Social. Os artigos desta Seção Temática, inspirados em Michel Foucault (1979), investigam como os mecanismos de rastreamento de dados e os algoritmos presentes nas plataformas digitais moldam os dispositivos de sexualidade e gênero, especialmente no contexto do Sul Global, onde corpos racializados, generificados e dissidentes são submetidos a formas particulares de vigilância e controle.
<p><strong>Introduction:</strong> In an era characterized by a growing emphasis on sustainable development and social justice, understanding and recognizing women's role in urban decision-making and management processes is of paramount importance. This study aims to develop a structural equation model to assess the position of women in good urban governance in Iran.</p>
<p><strong>Methods:</strong> Employing a descriptive-analytical approach, this applied research identifies and analyzes the key drivers influencing women's roles in urban governance. A researcher-designed questionnaire was utilized to collect data from 150 experts, resulting in the identification of 36 factors categorized under four main drivers: laws and regulations, organizational charts and hierarchies, the decentralized urban management system, and urban plans and programs. Structural equation modeling was employed to infer the causal relationships among these factors.</p>
<p><strong>Findings: </strong>The findings reveal that the "decentralized urban management system" and "laws" exert the most significant influence on women's positions in good urban governance in Iran, with factor loadings of 0.87. Organizational charts and hierarchies, with a factor loading of 0.69, and urban plans and programs, with a factor loading of 0.59, also have a substantial impact on women's roles. Furthermore, laws and regulations independently influence women's participation in urban governance. The study's findings are credible given that women, constituting more than half of Iran's urban population, have consistently strived for gender equality. This research not only provides a critical analysis of the current situation but also offers recommendations to enhance women's participation in urban management structures to achieve the vision of good governance.</p>
Aysegul Atasoy-Zeybek, Kelly K. Showel, Christopher V. Nagelli
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Abstract Osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic joint disease characterized by cartilage degradation, inflammation, and pain. While multiple factors contribute to OA development, age and sex are primary risk factors, particularly affecting postmenopausal women. The dramatic increase in OA risk after menopause suggests estrogen deficiency accelerates disease progression. This review explores the molecular mechanisms connecting aging and estrogen deficiency in OA development, focusing on key genes and pathways identified through RNA sequencing.
Islamic feminism, as a discourse within feminism, aims to re-read the Qur’an from a modern egalitarian perspective, which is outside the traditional and patriarchal interpretation of Islam. Islamic feminists reclaim an ethical vision of the Qur’an by presenting a reinterpretation, especially regarding verses that deprive women from having equal rights in the family, as well as in society. However, while Islamic feminism presents a gender equal interpretation of the Qur’an and raises new discourses and debates on gender relations in an Islamic context, a critical insight of Islamic feminism can provide a new gender and religious consciousness that, in turn, develops further perspectives on gender equality in a religious context. This paper aims to provide a critique of Islamic feminism from a social psychological perspective of gender using the theory of Abdulkarim Soroush. His theory considers revelation as the prophet’s word resulting from his religious experience. Soroush defines revelation as an inspiration; in this way, revelation or Qur’an is not directly God’s word, but Muhammad’s word resulting from a divine experience. Accordingly, this paper deals with a social psychological perspective of the lived experience of the prophet as a man in a certain epoch of history, in which the lived experiences of women were not represented, and the revelation or the Qur’an is based on a male lived experience. It begins with an overview of Islamic feminists as well as the more general current of Islamic reformists and their efforts to view the revelation as the word of the prophet in order to avoid attributing the non-scientific content of the Qur’an to the direct word of God. This is followed by a critique of Islamic feminism based on Abdulkarim Soroush’s theory of the recognition of the revelation as the word of the prophet, as well as gender theories from the field of social psychology.
This article provides an ethnographic analysis of the agency of women who reside in the rural areas of the Argentine Pampas, based on their promotion and production of agroecological family horticulture. The recognition of these women’s agency through care – care of their children, global care, and green care – offers a significant challenge to some metrocentric and Eurocentric feminist perspectives that claim care work can only be oppressive for women. The first of these types of care empowers women to improve the nutrition of their children. It also relates to another underlying type of care, which is to provide a sufficiently robust education as to ensure their children have a better and alternative future. The second type of care has the power to socially transform the territorial space of the district’s countryside and its marginalized populations which, through care, acquire greater public and political attention. The third type of care empowers women to transform and care for the environment, and is exercised by not using pesticides in horticultural production and by disseminating knowledge on the matter. In line with discussions of postcolonial feminism (Abu-Lughod, 1986; Mahmood, 2001; Suárez Navaz, 2008), I argue that certain properties that are attributed to women relative to caregiving – by way of a dichotomous view of gender relations – fuel their agency: for these women the cultivation of vegetables is a form of agency that actively combats food, training and labor inequality.
Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
El presente trabajo analiza una situación de enseñanza-aprendizaje en una clase de Literatura, en un curso que aúna estudiantes de quinto y sexto año de la Escuela Secundaria Nro. 40, que articula dentro del Centro Cerrado Almafuerte en la localidad de La Plata, el cual aloja a varones jóvenes en conflicto con la ley penal. A partir del análisis de un registro de una clase en la cual se leyó el cuento “El marica” de Abelardo Castillo, se desprenden múltiples interrogantes en torno a las categorías sexo-genéricas y a los roles masculinos y femeninos históricamente construidos. A su vez, desde un enfoque etnográfico con perspectiva de género, se busca reflexionar sobre el espacio institucional, las corporalidades, el uso del lenguaje, las formas de la resistencia a través de la parodia, las normas de control corporal y subjetivo, y el vínculo entre la docente y los estudiantes protagonistas de la experiencia. Por último, se señala el potencial de la literatura para desarrollar debates en torno a estas temáticas.
A presente resenha analisa a obra "Por que lutamos?: um livro sobre amor e liberdade", da jornalista Manuela D'Ávila. Com uma linguagem acessível, o livro examina o atual cenário do feminismo no Brasil, tocando em temas relevantes como : interseccionalidade, violência doméstica e maternidade.
Resumo Este artigo apresenta um breve panorama das desigualdades de gênero na educação e nas ciências no Brasil, com base em pesquisas, dados estatísticos e relatórios de agências nacionais e internacionais, incluindo informações sobre políticas públicas e projetos criados nas últimas décadas para enfrentar a questão. O trabalho visa a expressar a atualidade do tema, problematizar a persistente dificuldade em superar a desigual participação de mulheres em áreas de conhecimento, formação e atuação identificadas como masculinas, como também analisar os novos horizontes e desafios atuais à equidade de gênero no contexto nacional de crise pós-2016.
Drawing upon two ethnographic studies conducted in Western Switzerland – in a sexual education service for disabled people, and in a sexual health centre for the general public – this article demonstrates how gender is constructed through sexual health education. Deploying the theoretical paradigms of the Doing Gender Theory (West, Zimmerman, 2009), and the epistemology of ignorance (Tuana, 2006; 2004), this article presents one main finding: sexual health education programs (re)produce gender dynamics along a continuum, in different sexual health education programs designed for different audiences (youth, teenagers, adults). The analysis follows three lines: discourses, as well as medical and anatomical models, about fecundation and the clitoris; discourses about the social construction of puberty; definition and perception of sexual intercourse.
This article compares The Diaries of Adam and Eve (Twain, 1904-1906), The Incredible Shrinking Man (Arnold, 1957), and "You're Ugly, Too" (Moore, 2008) from the perspectives of humor, feminism, and queer theory. It examines how humor interacts with the changing representations of gender and sex(uality) at the beginning, the middle, and the end of the twentieth century; furthermore, it argues that humor is a valuable means of questioning binary patterns, which in this way may contribute to a life of equality-in-difference (my term). I also discuss certain types of comicality, e.g. sarcasm, the results of which can be detrimental or simply conformist. The article concludes that humor can help us to pull down hierarchies, find affinities, and build ethical relations among genders, sex(ualiti)es, and beyond.
This article reflects on working in eight universities in Finland, Sweden, and the UK, along with many transnational research projects. These are analysed within the framework of what might be called neoliberal universities, neoliberal trans(national)patriarchies, and neoliberal masculinities. Importantly, these are reflections from the global North, being transnationally located there, rather than glossed as ‘global’ or simply assumed as nationally contextualised. This discussion is located within the burgeoning literature on neoliberalism, and then proceeds to examine, first, experiences in the UK, before those in Finland and Sweden. The final section focuses on the transnationalisation of these neoliberal processes in academia – for example, through transnational research development, projectisation of research, and language use, performance and performativity. In such ways multiple connections are drawn between the greater organisational ‘autonomy’ of universities, contradictions of transnationalisations of academia, and the construction of ‘autonomous’ individual(ist) academics.
From the dual professional and teaching perspective, it is a question of analyzing the differences and inequalities that happen to women, taking into account that there is a certain superiority related to merit and effort in the field of education. The effort of women is not rewarded in job market. There are more graduate women in quite a few spaces and disciplines, but the fact that they hold good positions in politics and as company directives it is still seen as something spectacular. The feminine gender is a "small" obstacle for that; also, inequalities and exclusions occur from the academic sphere to the professional one. The barriers continue to exist from teaching, where women scale in much smaller measures the chairs or the addresses of faculties, centers or departments. Domestic chores continue to exist and the family as a barrier. This is also constant and possible when one observes what happens in the professional development of Sociology and Political Science: downward figures increase concerning women’s participation as professors, department directors or deans, among other positions of relevance. It is clear that equality is not only a matter of laws, there is much more to bring into play.
<p>This paper describes feminism in the novel <em>Geni Jora</em> by Abidah El Khalieqy and its implications toward learning of literature in schools. The data which were analyzed in this paper are the novel <em>Geni Jora</em> by Abidah El Khalieqy and books that are related to the object of research, such as the study of feminism. The values of feminism contained in this novel include: female characters are 1) daring to disagree, 2) having aspirations and ambitions, 3) having a desired social status, 4) daring to compete, 5) able to attempt providing insight, 6) ending the relationship with strategy, 7) rejecting the restriction of education for women, 8) rejecting the restriction of freedom for women outside the home, 9) rejecting polygamy. Those values can be applied in the learning of Indonesian language and literature at the 11<sup>th</sup> grade of high school in the aspect of reading with the Standards of Competence of understanding various tales, Indonesian novels/translated novels and Basic Competence of analyzing the intrinsic and extrinsic elements of Indonesian or translated novels with learning indicators that students are able to find the intrinsic elements (plot, theme, characterization, perspective, background and mandate) and extrinsic elements (cultural values, social values, and the value of education) in Indonesian/translated novels.</p> ai lebih dari satu bahasa. Tentunya mereka saat berpidato besar kemungkinan mencampuradukan bahasa yang mereka kuasai. Padahal, seharusnya siswa wajib menggunakan bahasa Indonesia yang baik dan benar ketika sedang berpidato. Dengan demikian pengenalan campur kode dalam berpidato ini sangat diperlukan dalam materi berpidato maupun dalam pembelajaran bahasa Indonesia.<em> </em><p> </p> ducted using a quantitative approach. This research uses the descriptive method. The population in this research is the whole Islamic Banking Majors semester IV amounted to 125. This research sample taken using proportional random sampling. Based on the model of random sample research, determined that Islamic Banking Majors semester IV class B and D of 59 people.<p> </p> <p>The results showed that in general a student majoring in Islamic Banking Semester IV is quite skilled in the critical reading of a text. It is reflected in the statistical data indicating that the average value of the total of the skills of critical reading of a text on Islamic Banking majors semester IV is at number 77,35 and is skilled enough to qualify. Specifically, the percentage of the skill level of every aspect of critical reading on Islamic Banking Majors Semester IV can be outlined as follows, (1) aspects of skills to determine the facts in the text represents 22.5% of the total critical reading skills, (2) aspects of skills to determine the opinion in the text represents 22.2% of the total critical reading skills, (3) aspects of skills conclude text content representing 20.3% of the total critical reading skills, (4) aspects of skills analyze the use of the language within the text represent 15.7% of the total critical reading skills, (5) aspects of skills opined against text content represent 19,3% of the total critical reading skills.</p>
Este artigo tem como objetivos: a) elaborar um balanço das temáticas abordadas em diferentes estudos representativos da área de gênero e ciências, no Brasil, identificando aquelas que têm prevalecido; b) refletir sobre avanços e lacunas, indagando até que ponto as análises recuperam as interseções entre gênero e raça/etnia. Foram analisadas várias contribuições representativas da área concluindo-se que as temáticas podem ser classificadas em três grandes tendências. Apesar dos avanços representados pelo conjunto dessas contribuições, avalia-se ainda que a ênfase recai sobre as assimetrias entre homens e mulheres; as pesquisas empíricas contemplam com certa frequência as interseções entre gênero e gerações, através da análise de dados agregados por faixa etária; em algumas pesquisas há informações sobre o perfil socioeconômico das mulheres analisadas; não foram encontradas análises que coloquem as questões raciais e étnicas no centro do debate, constituindo-se essa lacuna num grande desafio epistemológico e político.
This text presents an analysis of the recent emphasis in HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns: the discursive constructions of HIV/AIDS as an issue of risk and its management. Specifically, the text discusses the prevention materials produced by state-funded institutions in the Czech Republic. The aim of the text is twofold: First, it analyses the specific discourse (and rationality) of risk that permeates HIV/AIDS prevention in relation to and as a part of modern biopolitics and (self-)governance. Second, the text examines the discourse of risk for its gendered implications and its re-inscription of gendered power inequalities.