Women as Marginals

Walstedt, Joyce Jennings

doi:10.2466/pr0.1974.34.2.639

Cited by 7 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 14 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…L'association des femmes au privé a pour corollaire leur marginalisation dans la vie politique. Cette notion n'a rien de nouveau, ayant depuis longtemps fait l'objet de réflexions (voir Hacker 1951;Komarovsky 1946;Walstedt 1974;plus récemment, voir Sapiro 1984: 5-6;Githens et Prestage 1977: 3-10). Elle traduit une situation où les femmes vivent en marge de deux cultures -privée et publique -, sans pour autant être parfaitement intégrées à l'une ou à l'autre.…”

Section: )unclassified

Femmes chefs de partis politiques et caricatures éditoriales : l’élection fédérale canadienne de 1993

Tremblay¹,

Bélanger²

2005

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Cet article propose une analyse de caricatures représentant Kim Campbell et Audrey McLaughlin. L'hypothèse principale de notre recherche était que les leadersdu Parti progressiste-conservateur et du Nouveau Parti démocratique du Canada à l'élection fédérale de 1993 ont été dépeintes de façon stéréotypée comme des êtres du privé dans les caricatures éditoriales, en dépit du fait qu'elles se trouvaient à l'avant-scène de la vie politique. Pour vérifier cette hypothèse, nous avons analysé les caricatures éditoriales publiées dans 19 quotidiens québécois, canadiens-français et canadiens-anglais au cours de la campagne électorale en question. Le corpus comprend 238 caricatures. Nos résultats montrent que Kim Campbell et Audrey McLaughlin n'ont pas été représentées comme des êtres du privé dans les caricatures de la presse écrite quotidienne mais qu'un certain nombre de nuances essentielles doivent être apportées si l'on veut mieux saisir la portée et les limites de cette recherche.

show abstract

Section: )unclassified

Femmes chefs de partis politiques et caricatures éditoriales : l’élection fédérale canadienne de 1993

Tremblay¹,

Bélanger²

2005

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…For instance, evening students (Freedman, 1983) and adjunct faculty (Wharton & Clifton, 1987) could now be so classified because they were both marginal within a university hierarchy. Marginality studies have also included the role behavior of Blacks (Banks, 1984), the sexrole socialization of women (Jennings Walstedt, 1974), the status of foster care children (Goblet-Vanormelingen, 1993), the standing of stepparents (O'Connor & Insabella, 1999) and, the role of children who were sick (Holmbeck & Faier-Routman, 1995). Dickie-Clark (1966) argued that the hierarchical approach best conceptualized marginality.…”

Section: Hierarchical Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Marginality Theory: The Lack of Construct Validity

Pilar

Udasco²

2004

Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The 75-year history of marginality theory is reviewed and evaluated, leading to the recommendation that the use of the marginality idea be discarded by social scientists because it lacks construct validity. A review of the literature reveals that, at present, the concept of marginality is employed in five different social science lines of investigation. These models are examined fromthe perspective of their contribution to the validity of the construct and are found wanting. Marginality is shown to be a concept that did not fulfill its promise of explaining the effects on people of immigration, culture clash, and other transitional situations, such as status, role, or class changes. Evidence is presented that marginality is unscientifically founded and has been applied so indiscriminately as to be useless in the social sciences.

show abstract

“…Some indirect support for this hypothesis can be inferred from Lenny's (1977) demonstration that women are more responsive than men to the social environment (a finding supported by Geis et al's work) and that female self-confidence could be increased by manipulating the environment. Walstedt (1974) has also argued that women, not men, are raised to know the sex role behaviors of both sexes. If women do in fact know each set of role behaviors, they might be more easily influenced in either direction by environmental cues.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Influence of television commercials on women's self-confidence and independent judgment.

Jennings-Walstedt

Geis²,

Brown³

1980

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study investigated the impact of television commercials on women's selfconfidence and independence of judgment. Two matched series of commercials served as stimuli. One series consisted of four replicas of current network commercials. The other series consisted of the same four commercials, identical in every respect except that each of the roles in the scenario was portrayed by a person of the opposite sex. Subjects (N = 52 college women) viewed either the traditional or reversed-role series. Those exposed to the nontraditional versions showed more independence of judgment in an Asch-type conformity test and displayed greater self-confidence when delivering a speech, thus supporting the hypothesis that commercials function as social cues to trigger and reinforce sex role stereotypes. The findings suggest that repeated exposure to nonstereotypic commercials might help produce positive and lasting behavioral changes in women.The greater power of the male to control his own destiny is part of the cultural stereotype of maleness and is inherent in the images of the two sexes portrayed on television and in print. (Maccoby & Jacklin, 1974, p. 157) Requests for reprints should be sent to Joyce

show abstract

Women as Marginals

Abstract: The concept of marginality is applied to women after reviewing its meaning and applicability to other groups. A discussion of females' Altruistic Other orientation and more open sex-role-identity ensues. Suggestions are made to foster the goal of reducing women's marginal status.

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

Femmes chefs de partis politiques et caricatures éditoriales : l’élection fédérale canadienne de 1993

Femmes chefs de partis politiques et caricatures éditoriales : l’élection fédérale canadienne de 1993

Marginality Theory: The Lack of Construct Validity

Influence of television commercials on women's self-confidence and independent judgment.

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About