Helpless Maidens and Chivalrous Knights: Afghan Women in the Canadian Press

Jiwani, Yasmin

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“…Furthermore, appeals to the need for security have often been used (by states) to justify highly violent military campaigns and territorial expansions. The post-September 11, 2001 era has not only provided ample evidence to support this proposition but has also inspired some brilliant, highly original feminist scholarship (Russo, 2006;Faludi, 2007;Jiwani, 2009;Riley et al, 2008). Feminist reconceptualizations of security suggest a shift from thinking about security in mutually exclusive, zero-sum ways (i.e., 'national security') to focusing instead on 'human security' or 'global security'.…”

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Introduction: revisiting the relationship between gender and war: reflections on theory, research, activism and policy

Sharoni¹,

Welland²

2016

Handbook on Gender and War

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Gender has always been central to the practice and representation of war as well as to efforts to oppose war and rebuild societies in its aftermath. Feminist theorizing about gender and war, however, has only gained visibility and legitimacy in both the academy and among policymakers in the past three decades. The result is an impressive body of interdisciplinary literature that has gone far beyond its original home in disciplines such as International Relations. As the contributions to this Handbook underscore, feminist-informed scholarly debates on gender and war have expanded to include sociologists, anthropologists, historians, economists, geographers, and communication and media scholars, as well as scholars based in interdisciplinary fields like gender and sexuality studies and ethnic studies. Furthermore, this growing field of study is informed not only by academic research but also by discussions among policymakers and activists. As such, the literature on gender and war, and this Handbook in particular, are designed both for students and faculty committed to understanding the gendered dimensions of war. All the chapters in the Handbook include information relevant to activists, advocates and policymakers who want to reflect on their experiences and explore best practices to address the gendered aspects of war and political violence. The evolution of feminist thinking about war can be generally understood in terms of three distinct phases: first, making women visible in discussions of war; second, focusing on 'gender' rather than 'women' and challenging the automatic association of men with war and women with peace; and third, analysis of gender in relation to other identities and structured inequalities that shape and are shaped by war. The first phase of feminist theorizing on gender and war dates back to the 1980s and reflects efforts to make women visible in studies of war and its multiple effects. The literature that emerged during this period was primarily

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Introduction: revisiting the relationship between gender and war: reflections on theory, research, activism and policy

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Welland²

2016

Handbook on Gender and War

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“…Kassam McRobbie, 2007;Projansky, 2007;Banet-Weiser, 2007) has provided important analyses into how popular culture reinforces certain types of representations, particularly of women and of racialized peoples. And finally, the scholarship of Stuart Hall (1996Hall ( , 1997 Herman Gray (2004Gray ( , 2005, Dawn Currie (1999), Angela McRobbie (2007), Yasmin Jiwani (2005aJiwani ( , 2005bJiwani ( , 2008Jiwani ( , 2009) and Razack (1999Razack ( , 2005 on representations of race, identity and gender have been important touchstones.…”

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“…In analyzing representations of gender and race in the media, Angela McRobbie (2004McRobbie ( , 2007, Dawn Currie (1999) and Yasmin Jiwani (2005aJiwani ( , 2005bJiwani ( , 2008Jiwani ( , 2009 have been important in my analysis of Muslim Girl magazine. Linking the depiction of gender in media to post-feminist thinking, McRobbie makes the point that 'those utterances of forceful non-identity with feminism have consolidated into something closer to repudiation rather than ambivalence, and it is this vehemently denunciatory stance which is manifest across the field of popular gender debate.…”

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“…Kassam Yasmin Jiwani (2005a, 2005b, 2008, 2009) provides important analyses of the representation in media of women of colour and Muslim women. She argues, for example, that representations of Muslim women often depict 'helpless victims' juxtaposing this with 'chivalrous knights' (2009), the latter being western bodies, usually men, but now increasingly liberal white women/feminists.…”

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Marketing an imagined Muslim woman:Muslim Girlmagazine and the politics of race, gender and representation

Kassam

2011

Social Identities

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“…Scholars have argued that depictions of visible minorities in Canadian media arise from a dominant racial discourse that demeans, demonizes, and stereotypes these groups (Henry and Tator ; Jiwani ; Mahtani ). We build on this prior literature by examining race in Canadian advertising, in contrast to past studies’ predominant examination of news coverage.…”

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Cultural Schemas for Racial Identity in Canadian Television Advertising

Baumann

2014

Canadian Review of Sociology

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What meanings are attached to race in advertising? We analyze a sample of prime-time Canadian television advertising to identify cultural schemas for what it means to be White, Black, and East/Southeast Asian. Our empirical focus is on food and dining advertising. Through quantitative content analysis of associations between race and food subtypes, we show that there are systematic differences in the types of foods that groups are associated with. Through a qualitative content analysis of the commercials, we illuminate these quantitative patterns and discuss six cultural schemas for racial identity. The schemas allow for both diversity and privilege in the representation of Whites, and poignant contrasts regarding status and emotionality in the narrow representations of the other two groups.

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Helpless Maidens and Chivalrous Knights: Afghan Women in the Canadian Press

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Introduction: revisiting the relationship between gender and war: reflections on theory, research, activism and policy

Introduction: revisiting the relationship between gender and war: reflections on theory, research, activism and policy

Marketing an imagined Muslim woman:Muslim Girlmagazine and the politics of race, gender and representation

Cultural Schemas for Racial Identity in Canadian Television Advertising

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