Interdisciplinarians focusing on gender identity and gendered representation as central categories of analysis.
Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited THE AMEN MEAL: JEWISH WOMEN EXPERIENCE LIVED RELIGION THROUGH A NEW RITUAL in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 12 hours, 51 minutes ago
This article focuses on Jewish women’s experiences of the amen meal ritual. The central intention of this meal is to achieve many recitations of the word “amen” in response to benedictions recited for different sorts of food. The women’s voices and experiences, reflected in in-depth interviews with participants and participant observa…[Read more]
Jonathan Basile deposited Stijn De Cauwer, ed. Critical Theory at a Crossroads: Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 4 weeks, 1 day ago
A review of a series of interviews with prominent political theorists (Wendy Brown, Braidotti, Jean-Luc Nancy, Negri, Vogl, Esposito, Tariq Ali, Saskia Sassen, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Angela McRobbie). All of them reflect on contemporary political crises and the concept of crisis itself. This review considers their political positions as well as…[Read more]
Andrew Jacobs deposited Writing Demetrias: Ascetic Logic in Ancient Christianity 2 in the group
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Writing Demetrias: Ascetic Logic in Ancient Christianity
Alim Al Ayub Ahmed deposited Working Hazards as Indicator of Occupational Stress of Industrial Workers of Bangladesh in the group
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The primary objective of the present study was to find out the hazardous factors and to see whether those factors are responsible for uplifting occupational stress in two industrial sectors of Bangladesh. And the secondary objective was to see how far the Bangladeshi industries implement the policies and rules set by Bangladesh Labor Code, 2006.…[Read more]
Alim Al Ayub Ahmed deposited Human Resource Management Practices and Firms Performance in Bangladesh: An Empirical Study on Pharmaceutical Industry in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
This research work has been conducted in the field of human resource management (HRM), more specifically on firm performance. The aim of the study is to show the relationship between HRM practices and firms performance of pharmaceutical industry in Bangladesh. It is assumed that HRM practices could positively influence profitability and growth and…[Read more]
Alim Al Ayub Ahmed deposited Private Hospitals in Sylhet City, Bangladesh: An Issue of Service Marketing in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Competitive environment among the industrial and service sector has also influenced the healthcare especially hospitals in private sector. There is a tremendous growth in private hospitals during the last three decades, due to inadequate healthcare facilities available at public hospitals to meet the near about 160 million people of Bangladesh.…[Read more]
Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Structural Violence and Scientific Activism in Mexico: A Feminist Agenda in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
In the first section I provide a historical overview of structural violence, science studies, and feminism in Mexico. Structural violence appears first as the immediate context in which some Mexican scientists and academics have recently intensified their struggles to articulate “science” with social justice. Yet I offer a deeper account of how…[Read more]
Alessandra Ciucci deposited Performing ‘L-ʿalwa’: a sacred and erotic journey in Morocco in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks ago
‘L-ʿalwa’, a sung poem whose text recounts the pilgrimage to a saint’s shrine in Morocco, is celebrated for its ability to convey images and emotions stirred up by the sacred journey. As part of the repertory of ʿaita—a genre of sung poetry from the Moroccan plains and plateaus traditionally performed by professional female singer-danc…[Read more]
Alessandra Ciucci deposited EMBODYING THE COUNTRYSIDE IN AIṬA ḤAṢBAWIYA (MOROCCO) in the group
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ʿAiṭa–a genre of sung poetry from the Moroccan Atlantic Plains and its adjacent territories—is regarded as the quintessential expression of the identity of the region. If it is possible to analyse the poetic language of ʿaiṭa in order to understand its significance among these populations, it is also critical to examine how the affective power of…[Read more]
Alessandra Ciucci deposited The Study of Women and Music in Morocco in the group
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Panorama of scholarly work on women and music in Morocco
Alessandra Ciucci deposited “The Text Must Remain the Same”: History, Collective Memory, and Sung Poetry in Morocco in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The article explores why a particular group of Moroccan musicians conceives of different performances of a sung poem titled “Kharbusha” as unchanging despite variables arising from the dynamics of performance practices. To this end, I explore the seeming discrepancy between discourses about “Kharbusha” and its performance, and what this discrep…[Read more]
Alessandra Ciucci deposited Una panoramica delle musiciste professioniste in Marocco in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The article examines Moroccan professional female singer-dancers (shikhat) in relation to other professional female performers . An analysis of the role that women have as entertainers, and in particular of their behavior in the course of performance, will show how they affect the status of each class of performers. Sketching a panorama of the…[Read more]
Alessandra Ciucci deposited De-orientalizing the ‘Aita and Re-orienting the Shikhat in the group
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‘Aita is a sung poetry practiced by professional female singer-dancers known as shikhat along the Moroccan Atlantic plains and plateaus. By focusing on the discourses and politics employed in the revalorization of the ‘aita, this ethnographic investigation will show how the official incorporation of the ‘aita into the Moroccan heritage has…[Read more]
Alessandra Ciucci deposited Les musiciennes professionnelles au Maroc in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The article examines Moroccan professional female singer-dancers (shikhat) in relation to other professional female performers . An analysis of the role that women have as entertainers, and in particular of their behavior in the course of performance, will show how they affect the status of each class of performers. Sketching a panorama of the…[Read more]
Swati Arora deposited Be a Little Careful: Women, Violence and Performance in India in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The essay analyzes a contemporary Indian feminist performance, Thoda Dhyaan Se (A Little Carefully, 2013), by framing it in the spatial ecosystem of the city of Delhi and explores its engagement with the feminist movement and the national imaginary of India. It examines the workings of the cultural economy of the city to discuss the effect of its…[Read more]
Stevie Scheurich started the topic CFP: Culture(s) in Conversation: Environments, Landscapes, and Ecologies in the discussion
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<h5>CFP: Culture(s) in Conversation: Environments, Landscapes, and Ecologies</h5>
Environment is a fluid, elastic word. After combing the lengthy list of the many meanings of environment in a trusty Merriam Webster dictionary, one arrives at the French roots of the term: that which surrounds. The Graduate Student Association of the American…[Read more]Jennifer Mae Hamilton deposited Composting Feminisms and Environmental Humanities in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
Composting is a material labor whereby old scraps are transformed—through practices of care and attention—into nutrient-rich new soil. In this provocation, we develop “composting” as a material metaphor to tell a particular story about the environmental humanities. Building on Donna Haraway’s work, we insist “it matters what compostable…[Read more]
Sara Zadrozny deposited Women’s Ageing as Disease in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
In the medical humanities, there has been a growing interest in diagnosing disease in fictional characters, particularly with the idea that characters in Charles Dickens’s novels may be suffering from diseases recognised today. However, an area that deserves greater attention is the representation of women’s ageing as disease in Victorian lit…[Read more]
Omer Aijazi deposited Religion in Spaces of Social Disruption: Re-Reading the Public Transcript of Disaster Relief in Pakistan in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 months, 3 weeks ago
This paper explores how everyday religious narratives in post-disaster contexts can be interpreted as key sites of agency articulated in resistance to dominant discourses of disaster relief. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among affected communities after the 2010 floods in Pakistan, we argue that religious discourses code everyday actions with…[Read more]
Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review of Cut of the Real by Katerina Kolozova July 2016 Prabuddha Bharata in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Review of the book ‘Cut of the Real’ by Katerina Kolozova
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