Editor's introduction: Masculinities

Connell, Bob

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“…Underestimating representations of gender and body conveyed through media apparatuses such as these, both in their old and modern style, means failing to grasp the power of the circulation of "gender meanings" (Connell, 2005, p.xiii). Woman"s sexuality, in particular, has proved to be crucial as "contested site of cultural and social politics" (Khater, 2006, p.86), and something that has to be controlled in order to prevent it from undermining the social order (Abu-Lughod, 1999).…”

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Sex with the Other: Anxieties and Representations of Gender in Europe during the Refugee Crisis

Libera

2017

IJMMU

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In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks witnessed in Paris in November 2015, a radicalisation of the tensions in the matter of asylum seekers and integration has re-emerged. This same anxiety has risen with renewed force just a few weeks later, when newspapers reported that an unspecified number of men of Middle Eastern and North African appearance sexually assaulted a thousand women during the New Year"s Eve festivity in Cologne, in what has been eventually described as a mass sex attack. This case has unfolded a new aspect of this particular tension. A general mood of hysteria with reference to a homogeneous and unified Islamic culture, considered incapable of respecting women, has suddenly risen again. Just like Muslim women have suffered for centuries from the male domination in their countries, it has been said, now it was the freedom of the European ones to appear at stake. In this context, the female body has been used as a battleground for claims of modernity, civilisation and power over the Middle Eastern menace in a variety of ways. The present essay provides an account of the use of gender stereotypes and dynamics in the context of recent migration to Europe. It shows how women"s bodies are placed in post-colonial political and racial discourses, considering the media as pivotal actors in the construction of a vicious cycle in which the discourse on the female honour gives legitimacy to a growing closure in the dialogue about and with the other.

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Sex with the Other: Anxieties and Representations of Gender in Europe during the Refugee Crisis

Libera

2017

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The `Emotional' Body

Williams

Bendelow²

1996

Body & Society

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What, Where, When, and Sometimes Why: Data Mining Two Decades of Women’s History Abstracts

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Newman²

2011

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“What, Where, When and Sometimes Why” provides a quantitative overview of post-c.1450 women’s history publications by data mining a half million abstracts from two widely used article databases. We assess changes in the field and track the relationship between women’s history as a subfield and history as a whole. Among many other findings, we argue against two popular beliefs about women’s history: that women’s historians are overly-focused on recent history and that women’s and gender history is an ever increasing proportion of the profession. We trace publication shifts from 1985–2005, showing, for example, an increasing focus on various non-Western and nineteenth-century histories. Our case study on the history of sexuality finds minimal attention to reproduction and same-sex sexuality, and more thematic similarities across time periods than regions. We conclude by suggesting areas for future research, including the expansion of quantitative studies, of non-Western histories, and of professional activism as means to further develop women’s history scholarship.

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Editor's introduction: Masculinities

Cited by 3 publications

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Sex with the Other: Anxieties and Representations of Gender in Europe during the Refugee Crisis

Sex with the Other: Anxieties and Representations of Gender in Europe during the Refugee Crisis

The `Emotional' Body

What, Where, When, and Sometimes Why: Data Mining Two Decades of Women’s History Abstracts

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