Gender Studies MA

Amy Nathanson, Douglas Ferguson and Elizabeth Perse, "Gender Differences in Television Use: An Exploration of the Instrumental-Expressive Dichotomy" in Communication Research Reports . Volume 14, Number 2, pages 176-188. 1997 "Females had a relationship-oriented approach to television similar to the expressive orientation" p.176 "The male instrumental orientation reflects an interest in attaining goals, accomplishing tasks, and manipulating the external environment. The female expressive orientation focuses on establishing intimacy with others by participating in relationships and dealing with emotions (Gill, Stockard, Johnson, & Williams, 1987; Johnson, Stockard, Acker, & Naffziger, 1975; Matlin, 1987). Many researchers suggest that these differences are due to socialization. Much of this work has developed out of the perspectives offered by Chodorow (1978) and Gilligan (1982) who argue that boys and girls are reared differently and develop differe...

Pateman, Carole "Feminist Critiques of the Public/Private Dichotomy" in  The Disorder of Women: Democracy, Feminism and Political Theory . Stanford University Press: California. 1989 118-133 "Benn and Gaus’s account assumes that the reality of our social life is more or less adequately captured in liberal conceptions. They do not recognize that ‘liberalism’ is patriarchal-liberalism and that the separation and opposition of the public and private spheres is an unequal opposition between women and men." p.120 "One reason why the exclusion [of women] goes unnoticed is that the separation of the private and public is presented in liberal theory as if it applied to all individuals in the same way. It is often claimed - by anti-feminists today, but by feminists in the nineteenth century, most of whom accepted the doctrine of ‘separate spheres’- that the two spheres are separate, but equally important and valuable. The way in which women and men are differentiall...

Federici, Silvia. 'Reproduction and feminist struggle in the new international devision of labor (1999)' in Revolution at Point Zero : Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle , PM Press, 2012 "In this context, my first objective is to show that the globalization of the world economy has caused a major crisis in the social reproduction of populations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and that a new international division of labor has been built on this crisis that harnesses the labor of women from these regions for the reproduction of the “metropolitan” workforce." p.66 The New Economic Division of Labour - when multinationals relocated their labour force to the global south because they were able to pay workers less and have them work in worse conditions. We could intervene with the topic of surrogacy - rather than the traditional textile or electronic industry, the reproductive industry also thrives in the Free Trade Zones. "the only work and eco...

O'Shaughnessy, Aideen. "Analysing the abortion rights debate as a question of ‘body theory’" in Junctions. 2017 25-35 The reproductive body has become an imperative and obligatory site for feminist intervention (REWORD) The literature on reproductive bodies largely thus far speaks to reproduction and collective identity politics; the "(pregnant) female body often conceptualised as an allegory of the nation, becoming a highly contested terrain onto which states and governments project anxieties about social change and political transition (Martin 2002, Smyth 1998, Quinan 2014)." p.26 Martin, Angela. 2002. “Death of a nation: Transnationalism, bodies and abortion in late twentieth-century Ireland.” in Gender Ironies of Nationalism: Sexing the Nation, edited by Tamar Mayer, 65-83. London: Routledge. Quinan, Christine. 2014 “Uses and Abuses of Gender and Nationality: Torture and the French-Algerian War.” in Gender, Globalization and Violence: Postcolonial Con...

Macgregor, Sherilyn. Beyond Mothering Earth : Ecological Citizenship and the Politics of Care, UBC Press, 2006. p19-32 "poststructuralists” (anti-universalists and posthumanists) who seek to deconstruct subjectivity and show how it is produced within a range of social and political contexts." p.19 Francois d'Eaubonne on ecofeminism "Women are not only more morally outraged than men by the scale of environmental destruction, she argues, but, because they give birth to new generations, women are also more aware of what needs to be done to ensure a future world for them to inhabit." p.20 "The word “ecomaternalism” appropriately describes the rhetoric that makes explicit links between women’s mothering and caring disposition and their unique propensity to care for nature. Describing what she calls “motherhood environmentalism,” Canadian ecofeminist theorist Catriona Sandilands (1999a, xiii) writes that, in this discourse, “women’s concerns about nature...

Thwaites, Rachel. “(Re)Examining the Feminist Interview: Rapport, Gender “Matching,” and Emotional Labour” in Frontiers in Sociology. 10.11.2017. Accessed online [ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2017.00018/full#h2 ] What am I giving the participant in return for their time in helping me with my research? The opportunity to talk about a topic that they find difficult talking about with other people. This was voiced by several of my participants – they were aware that their stance was a controversial one, and that by deciding not to reproduce, no matter how much they insisted they were not judging other people for having children, it could be perceived in that way. As a result, the participants were not incredibly open about Birthstriking, and were unable to openly talk about it, so our conversation proved to be of relief, to voice one’s thoughts out loud without feeling judged. It was important to allow the participants to feel comfortable, and one of them reflected u...