Journal of Gender and Power
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Journal of Gender and Power is aimed at providing an international forum for discussing various issues and processes of gender construction. It is a scholarly, interdisciplinary journal, which features articles in all fields of gender studies, drawing on various paradigms and approaches. We invite scholars to submit articles and reviews reporting on theoretical considerations and empirical research.
Redaktor naczelny: prof. UAM dr hab. Agnieszka Gromkowska-Melosik
Kontakt: Adam Mickiewicz University
Faculty of Educational Studies
Journal of Gender and Power
ul.Szamarzewskiego 89
60-568 Poznan
Poland
phone: +48 61 829 20 60
e-mail: jgp@amu.edu.pl
strona www: http://gender-power.amu.edu.pl
Nazwa wydawcy: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
ISSN 2391-8187
ISBN 978-83-232-2732-8
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Item Women’s sequential and cyclic careers: implications for the career theory(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Cybal‐Michalska, AgnieszkaThe article takes up discourse on the development of the career theory that demands taking into account multicontextual changes in the world of work that pose new challenges for women. The subjective shading of the career phenomenon that treats career as an individual’s „property” was clearly stressed. When analysing individual paths of career development for both women and men it is necessary to take its wide scope of conditions into account, as well as inquire into semantic meanings assigned to the reality by the subject in order to interpret and understand past and new experiences. The focus on professional behaviours among women led to considerations on the change of the career concept in its general sense and meaning. Literature on the subject consistently underlines that career patterns will be less and less of a linear character, and more frequently of a sequential and cyclical one. The increase in the role assigned to career forces one to approach it within the category of professional identity development, planning and management skills, and the ability of monitoring one’s career in a lifelong perspective.Item Some preliminary conjunctural thoughts on countercultures(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Grossberg, LawrenceThe article is devoted to analysis of various countercultures aspects. The Author hypothesizes that the forms of contemporary politics are the result of two fundamentally interrelated strategic vectors. First is built upon a politics of ressentiment, setting “ordinary” folks against the socio‐cultural elite which constututed to the “new right” movement. Second vector is originated of counterculture of the 1960s. The author states that counterculture exists without a singular identity. It is a space of hybridity and heterogenity. On the other hand counterculture is related to the concept of contemporary ambivalence as well it transforms of affective experience of everyday life. Another feature of counterculture is connected with the conviction that counterculture stands against of dominant culture. Also the author puts counterculture movements against various aspects of new american modernity including reconstruction of the practice of the hegemony, as well as through popular culture and reconstruction of the „left” and „right” idelogy and practice.Item National crisis and the challenge of education*(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Shapiro, SviThe main objective of this article is showing that in USA is a crisis of meaning and values—one that leads to a debasement of human relationships, accelerating materialism and greed, and misplaced fixation on celebrity and glamour. In this context there is a compelling need to articulate a new bottom line for education—one that offers a different vision for edu-cating our children that directly and cogently speaks to human purpose and meaning in the world that that they will inherit. In this article I try to describe that new vision of education— the pedagogy of peace.Item Black heroes and heroines in cinema.Representations of Afro-American identities in the “Blaxploitation” movies(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Drozdowicz, JaremaThe cinematic genre of Blaxploitation is a significant example of how the popular culture influences certain identity patterns. In this case the this relation is being examined on the issue of contemporary Afro-American identities. This paper attempts to answer the question of the mechanism of identity construction in the context of new media, and cinema in particular. Thus the Blaxploitation movies are being regarded here as a phenomenon which is in large extent typical for other identity constructions in the context of a global cultural change occurring in the last decades in the West.Item Gifted education in the United States: Perspectives of gender equity(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Pierson, Melinda R.An overview of education for gifted and talented children and adolescents in the United States will be presented. Issues of gender equity will be discussed and suggestions for creating equal opportunities for all students will be outlined.Item strona redakcyjna(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014)Item Decoding multisyllabic words: Structural analysis in reading by groups(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Pierson, Melinda R.; Gowan, DustinAn age appropriate, research-based systematic program that teaches a flexible strategy for decoding multisyllabic words may be the foundation for increased reading abilities of middle school male and female students struggling with grade level text. To meet this need, the REWARDS reading program (Archer, Gleason & Vachon, 2000) was used with struggling 6th grade readers with learning disabilities (LD). The quasi-experimental research design used in this study is non-randomized control group (n=20), pretest posttest design. The Basic Reading Inventory along with DIBELS measure of reading fluency were the instruments used to calculate findings. In a five week period, students’ decoding levels increased by 1.72 grade levels, instructional reading levels increased by 1.45 grade levels, while the reading fluency rates were increased by 28% at instructional reading levels and 17% at grade level. Decoding ability was highly correlated to reading comprehension with the relationship of .88.Item Prevalence of bullying in fourth, fifth, and sixth grades for children with and without mild disabilities: A comparison study(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Howell, Erica; Flores, CatherineThis investigation examined perceptions of bullying for students with (n = 15) and without (n = 60) mild disabilities in grades 4th, 5th, and 6th in a school district in the state of California in the United States of America. Specifically, the following questions were investigated: 1) Do students with disabilities perceive a higher prevalence of being bullied than students without disabilities? 2) When different disability groups are compared, how do they rate the amount of bullying experienced? 3) How do students who have been bullied rate school enjoyment when compared to students who have not been bullied? and 4) Do significant differences emerge between students who have and have not been bullied on their ratings of the amount of friends? Notably, no significant differences emerged between the groups. These findings are striking in light of past research. The discussion will explore implications related to the study findings, including potential protective mechanisms that reduced the participants’ exposure to bullying.Item Education towards difference and inclusion. Two types of discourses —to positive pedagogy*(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Kwieciński, ZbigniewThe main goal of this article is description of two educational discourses pertaining to differences, their acceptance and eradication or alleviation. The first is the special needs pedagogy, which has seen a dispute between the enthusiasts of institutional and social integration of the disabled with people, communities and institutions dominated by those within a given norm. The second is characteristic of the critical pedagogy and sociology—concerns people and social groups who are culturally and socially excluded and marginalised, both overtly and covertly.Item The masculinization of identity among successful career women? A case study of Polish female managers(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Gromkowska-Melosik, AgnieszkaOne of the most fundamental principles which underpins the functioning of Western societies is the gender binary system, based on the eternal division into men and women as well as their social and biological predestination. Critiques of the binary system claim that there is an apparent lack of symmetry between the polar opposites constituting the binary system. The male‐female dichotomy appears to be asymmetrical since the binary opposition is viewed as unequal: females are dominated and controlled by males and forced to perform less significant, minor (less valued) social roles. Binarism refers to identity and social roles, as well as to physical attributes of females and males. The consequence of binarism on the realm of physicality is the view that a woman is obliged to constantly improve her attractiveness so that she could be “won over in an impressive way” by “the best possible partner.” The main aim of this article is examination of social anxiety over the effects of women’s emancipation, which is believed to give rise to the masculinization of females, particularly those who have achieved social and professional success, and aspire to (or have already acquired) a high social status, income, or professional position. The theoretical considerations are confronted with results of the qualitative research related to female managers’ identity.Item BOOK REVIEWS - Agnieszka Gromkowska‐Melosik, Kobieta epoki wiktoriańskiej. Tożsamość,ciało i medykalizacja [Victorian‐era woman: identity, body, and medicalization](Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Jakubiak, KrzysztofItem The gender of cyborgs: Discussion on the margin of changes in genetics(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Klichowski, MichałThe aim of this paper is to show that gender, both as a biological and social category, ceases to exist in the vision of man constructed by contemporary genetics. In the paper, I present the elementary concepts of genetic engineering and liberal genetics, and show how these two currents in genetics change gender into a feature deprived of any designata. I advance a thesis that the man of the future, a cyborg, is a man without gender.Item Contens (Joural of Gender and Power Vol.2, No.2, 2014)(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014)Item Recenzja - Susan A. Speer and Elizabeth Stokoe (eds.), Conversation and gender, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 344(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Kurek, Bartłomiej (recenzja)Item Contents(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014)Item Issues of power in relation to gender and sexuality in the EFL classroom – An overview(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Pawelczyk, Joanna; Pakuła, Łukasz; Sunderland, JaneSchools in general and classrooms in particular are among society’s primary socializing institutions (Freeman & McElhinny, 1996, p. 261; Adger, 2001). In particular, education, as an institution of Gramsci’s ‘civil society’ (Jones, 2006), can be considered a grassroots space where hegemonic gendered and sexual identities are constructed and regulated. This article looks at the context of the EFL classroom – a discursive space where learners are potentially (re‐)constructed in relation to various (gender) roles in society as well as learning the practices, values and rules of a given society at large. In this paper we explore and discuss how the categories of gender and sexuality are represented, (re‐)constructed and generally dealt with in this learning environment. We follow Foucault’s (1978, 1979) conceptualization of power as something which “weaves itself discursively through social organizations, meanings, relations and the construction of speakers’ subjectivities or identities” (Baxter, 2003, p. 8) and is enacted and contested in every interaction (see Mullany, 2007). We see power as being produced, reproduced, challenged and resisted in the EFL classroom in connection with the construction of gender and sexuality. The article discusses how views on what/who is ‘powerful’ in the context of the EFL classroom have changed over the years, from the early privileging of textbooks to the currently advocated central role of the teacher in addressing and promoting (or not) traditional and/or progressive discourses of gender and sexuality. Critical pedagogies and queer pedagogies are discussed as offering educators potent insights and tools to deal with heteronormativity and various forms of discrimination in the EFL classroom as well as helpful means for empowering all students by addressing their various identities. It is thus our contention that relationships between gender, sexuality and EFL education are in need of urgent (re)addressing as existing research is outdated, lacks methodological sophistication or is lacking in the Polish context.Item Recenzja - Agnieszka Gromkowska-Melosik, Edukacja i (nie)równość społeczna kobiet. Studium dynamiki dostępu [Education and social (in)equality of women. A study of the dynamics of access], Kraków: Oficyna Wy-daw¬nicza “Impuls”, 2011, pp. 516(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Sokołowska, Anna (recenzja)Item The elusiveness of progressive masculinity: Gender differences in conceptualizations of nontraditional gender roles(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Calton, Jenna M.; Heesacker, Martin; Perrin, Paul B.Traditional masculinity has been thoroughly explored in psychological research, but its counterpart, progressive masculinity, has undergone relatively little scientific investigation. To determine whether this lack of attention to or understanding of progressive masculinity is mirrored more largely in mainstream culture, we examined how men and women conceptualize and experience gender roles in their everyday lives. Participants were randomly assigned to describe a time in which they had behaved either traditionally or progressively with regard to their gender. Over 80% of men and women in the traditional condition and women in the progressive condition provided condition-appropriate examples. However, men in the progressive condition only provided progressive examples 17% of the time, suggesting that many men may not have an understanding of progressive masculinity. Additional themes, implications, and directions for research on progressive masculinity are discussedItem Womanhood—contemporary paradoxes of equality and exclusion(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Judzińska, AnetaThe article analyses currently emerging patterns of womanhood in the sociocultural context. The author, using the feminist discourse, attempts to answer the following questions: What positive changes (based on the idea of gender equality) had taken place in terms of how the pattern of womanhood is culturally constructed? Are there still such areas in the contemporary model of woman’s life, where we observe certain forms of discrimination, based on a stereotypical attitude (in both: biological and cultural sense) towards gender issues? The author, by adopting the gender perspective, analyses fundamental areas in women’s lives: professional career and private life, to verify the level of their social (re)construction. Her reflection is also enriched with ponderings about the place of womanhood in popular culture. Through references to numerous research findings taken from the professional literature (mostly Polish), she tries to demonstrate that there are two opposing forces that influence womanhood: the first one bases on the mechanism of stereotyping and gender discrimination (determined by the essentialistic perspective) and the second one promotes equality discourse (determined by the perspective of social constructivism). In conclusion, the author makes the assumption, that contemporary patterns of womanhood balance on the line between two worlds, in which deeply rooted tradition (conditioned by the biological determinism) coexists with modern egalitarianism. The specific discrepancy between outer and inner (self)perception of the social and professional roles women play causes many dilemmas and forces them to make difficult decisions in life.
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