Gender Studies MA

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...

Sze, Julie, 'Gender and Environmental Justice' in  Routledge handbook of gender and environment.  MacGregor, S. (Ed.). (2017). "The environmental justice frame extends to criticisms of the exclusivity of mainstream environmentalism and serves to recalibrate the very notion of ‘environment’, beyond the idea of pristine nature to the places where people ‘live, work, and play’" p.159 "The existence of environmental injustice is a reminder that people’s experiences of ‘nature’ are shaped by their experiences of social, economic, and political inequalities. Race and class are powerful determinants of environmental health and well-being. From a feminist perspective, it stands to reason that gender also plays a significant part in causing and sustaining environmental injustice." p.159 "Because it describes the disproportionate relationship between high levels of pollution exposure for people of colour and the low level of environmental benefits they en...

Howarth, David. "Introduction" in  Discourse . Open University Press: Philadelphia. 2000 Positivists and empiricists "Viewed as frames, discourses are primarily instrumental devices that can foster common perceptions and understandings for specific purposes, and the task of discourse analysis is to measure how effective they are in bringing about certain ends" p.3 Realists "the social world consists of an independently existing set of objects with inherent properties and intrinsic causal powers. The contingent interaction of these objects with their 'generative mechanisms' causes events and processes in the real world" p.3 Realists "discourses are regarded as particular objects with their own properties and powers, in which case it is necessary for realists to 'focus on language as a structured system in its own right', and the task of discourse analysis is to unravel 'the conceptual elisions and confusions by which language ...

Rothman, Barbara Katz. 'Motherhood under Capitalism' p.19-31 in  Consuming Mothood  by Taylor, Janelle S., Linda L. Layne, Danielle F. Wozniak. Rutgers University Press: 2004. New Jersey "From the standpoint of the ideology of technology, we have seen that motherhood is perceived as work, and children, as a product produced by the labour of mothering. Mothers' work and mothers' bodies are resources out of which babies are made. From the standpoint of of the ideology of patriarchy, it is men's babies that are being made." p.19 "From the standpoint of the market, not all work is equally valuable, and not all products are equally valued. There is not a direct relationship between the value of the worker and the value of the product." p.19 "Under capitalism, workers do not own or control the products of their own labour." p.19 "Babies, at least healthy white babies, are very precious products these days. Mothers, like S...

Beck, Ulrich. Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity . Sage London [1986] 1994 Chapter 4 "'I am I': Gendered SPace and Conflict Inside and Outside the Family" "Anyone who would talk about the family must also discuss work and money, and anyone who would talk about marriage must also talk about training, professions and mobility, and specifically about un equal distributions despite by now (largely equal educational prerequisites." p.103 "The data speak a double language. On the one hand, epochal changes have occured - especially in the areas of sexuality, law and education. On the whole, however, other than in sexuality, these changes exist more in consciousness  and on paper " p.103 "the increased equality brings the continuing and intensifying inequalities even more clearly into consciousness" p.103 "The ascription of the gender characters is the basis of the industrial society, and not some traditional relic that could eas...