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 A comparison of children’s perspectives: Analyzing cultural and gender issues for preservice teachers around the world(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2015) Pierson, Melinda R.; Schultheis, Klaudia; Myck-Wayne, JaniceFor the past 7 years, preservice teachers in multiple countries around the world have been involved in an international internet project designed to increase their cultural competence, improve their language and technology skills, and enhance their collaboration skills for working with diverse populations. Preservice teachers' reflections are analyzed by gender, years of experience, and outcomes related to the project that will influence their experiences in the education field. Barriers to collaboration and solutions on how to overcome these barriers are presented in this article.Item Anna Odrowąż-Coates, Fata Morgana of the Saudi women’s cultural space, Kraków 2015: Impuls Publishing House, pp. 302(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2015) Jarosz, Ewa; Gierczyk, MarcinItem Art in a World of Change: A Vision for Global Aesthetics(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2015) Shapiro, Sherry B.This article focuses on art, the aesthetic, and the body as a medium for self and social change in developing some thoughts on this issue of globalization and dance. The article explores how art, and specifically dance, can be a vehicle for aesthetic activism that emphasizes the importance of social justice and compassionate community. Drawing on critical and feminist pedagogies the author links pedagogy and aesthetic activism to social integration and cohesion, a sense of belonging and interdependence, and a sense of shared consciousness. The choreographic process described centers on the body as a site for self and social awareness and a critical understanding of the context of women’s lives. The aesthetic here is understood as that domain in which dominant meanings are disclosed and possibilities for social change can be imagined and realized. The author describes a community dance process in Cape Town South Africa in which notions of embodied knowledge and critical understanding come together to create a dance performance. This pedagogy suggests ways in which meaning and purpose within a changing global context can be grounded in an ethics of social justice, human rights and inclusive community.Item Birth of cyber-supermothers(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Ortynecka, AlicjaThe study aims to reveal and to describe a new type of mother—cyber-super¬mother, which combines household duties with professional responsibilities by taking professional activity in the Internet. The study analyzes new model of maternity combining elements of traditional (motherhood as an instinct, conviction regarding personal care of a child, etc.) and modern model (postulate of self-fulfillment, blurring the boundaries between the private and the public sphere, gender equality, etc.).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 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 Children’s literature and the politics of gender*(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Jarkovská, LucieThe article discusses children’s literature as a matter that can become highly politicized. While often viewed as apolitical, stories for children have always been subjected to hegemonic ideologies and mediated dominant norms. The analysis focuses on gender dimension of this normativity and shows that the attempts to create gender subversive stories for children have to face not only the conservative backlash but they also have to deal with wider cultural context and contemporary meanings of childhood. The last section of the article shows that no matter how gender balanced or stereotypical a story is, the interpretation lies with children themselves. Thus, researchers analyzing messages in children’s stories always have to take into account young readers and their diverse ways of understanding.Item Civic Engagement and its Determinants – Cross-Cultural Comparisons(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2015) Siemieńska, RenataCivic engagement is considered to be a crucial element in the process of identifying issues both on the local and national levels, seeking appropriate solutions, legitimising decisions and selecting the ways of their implementation by elective bodies and the executive. This text is concentrated on the following dimensions of civic engagement in a typical democratic society: affiliations with third sector organisations and protest as a form of lobbying for political decisions taken by policy-makers at different levels.Item Contens (Joural of Gender and Power Vol.2, No.2, 2014)(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014)Item Contents(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 Editor’s Preface: Pandora’s box. Gender and Power(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Gromkowska-Melosik, AgnieszkaItem 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 EFA Global Monitoring Report, Gender and EFA 2000–2015: Achievements and Challenges, France 2015: United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, pp. 50(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2015) Piksa, MartaItem Gender and power: Women’s leadership in the prevention and management of conflicts in Africa(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2015) Diallo, Boubacar SidiThis paper describes the role and the place of the woman in African society, with particular focus on the issues of leadership, peace and security. Although women in Africa are more numerous than men, their position is not an enviable one. Thus this work will attempt to describe the causes which prevent the female kind from coming to the fore and being truly equal to men. In order to achieve that aim, one should consider the place of the woman, not only in the traditional society but also in what one sees as the contemporary realities of Africa. The author demonstrates that in most African countries, women had long been excluded from enjoying political rights, and that they have gained such entitlement only recently. Among the reasons which would account for this absence of women in the realm of leadership, one should draw attention to the patriarchal model of authority one acquires as a child and the burden of ancestral tradition which hinges upon the primacy of the male. There are also the additional burdens imposed over time by religions, which had always relegated the woman to the background.The woman has always been associated with the weaker sex, while being the one who gave life. The scope of this paper is limited to the presence of women in the public sphere, that is to say to their leadership in the affairs of peace and security, where women have or may have a certain influence. Certain difficulties encountered by African women with respect to leadership are also experienced by women in other parts of the world. With a few exceptions, all societies have been and continue to be governed by the same principles of exclusion. In Africa, just as everywhere else, there is no need for profound studies to conclude that feminist literature is not particularly abundant. This paper represents an exploration of a subject of no minor importance, namely the leadership of women in preventing and management of conflicts in Africa. Nevertheless, it is limited to a general view and does not analyse specific cases in each of the African countries.Item Gender as a category entangled in the matrix of power and gender resistance potential(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2015) Bielska, EwaThe subject of presented analysis is gender treated as a social category entangled in power relations. There are presented main social matrices of the gender-based power practices and it’s institutional and extrainstitutional, structural and individual expressions and consequences. The attention is focused at the classical conceptions of power and the perspectives of using it’s elements in the analysis of gender-based discipline practices in modern and postmodern society. There are also indicated―connected with queer culture―resistance strategies realized by using gender symbols and stereotypically perceived roles.Item Gender, power, and feminisms in breast cancer advocacy: Lessons from the United States and Poland(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Sulik, Gayle; Zierkiewicz, EdytaThe United States breast cancer movement helped to transform breast cancer’s social and medical landscape domestically and, in some ways, internationally. However, differences in gender identities, power relations, and the role of feminism(s) cross‐culturally also shaped breast cancer advocacy itself. After giving a brief introduction to the socio‐historical context of the U.S. and Polish breast cancer movements, this article illuminates some of the linkages and divergences between the United States and Poland to demonstrate the role of gender and power in social movements that concentrate exclusively on women’s (health) issues, namely breast cancer. This comparison of social phenomena from two countries illuminates the impact of cultural patterns on models of activism as they relate to feminism and traditional gender roles.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 Guarantee of equality in politics? The media discourse analysis on the subject of introducing the gender parity into electoral law in Poland(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014) Strzemecka, StellaThe project is aiming at the quality analysis of a media discussion about introducing the gender parity to electoral law and the analysis of the activities of the Association of Congress of Women. Selected press publications are the basis of the quality analysis (according to the Critical Discourse Analysis) taken from the most opinion‐creating journals. The objective of this paper is to identify the discourse (civil; non‐civil) of analyzed journals.
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