Sexual Harassment as [Dys]Functional Process: A Feminist Standpoint Analysis

Researchers have approached the study of sexual harassment as though it were dysfunctional. However, a feminist standpoint theory analysis would suggest that it functions differently for men and women. A study using discussion groups and stimulated recall interviews was conducted in a large health care organization. A thematic analysis revealed a primary theme of sexual harassment as a [dys]functional process. For the male participants, sexual behavior served as a coping mechanism for stress, as a form of therapeutic care, and to create and demonstrate camaraderie. For the women participants, sexual behavior tended to be either nonfunctional or dysfunctional. They did not associate it with stress reduction, therapeutic touch, and viewed group camaraderie as a means of prevention. Implications are discussed.     

A Trickster-Like Woman: Subversive Imagining and Narrating of Social Change

The rich diversity among women has long challenged feminist rhetorical study to go beyond essentialism and universalism. Current feminist rhetorical study commits itself to theoretical pluralism, political inclusiveness, and the democratic values of equality for all peoples. However, the attention to the difference-between women and the simultaneity of oppressions has also fragmented women's identity and their social-change agenda. The essay performs a rhetorical analysis of a feminist text, in which a new position of women as trickster-like figures is introduced. The essay concludes that the open and shifting locations taken by trickster-like figures warrant trickster discourse to be the dynamic, open, and radical narrative form needed for the feminist social-change agenda. As such, trickster discourse, along with trickster-like figures, can have significant implications for feminist praxis and theorizing.     

Feminist Epistemology and Qualitative Research

Abstract

This paper presents and evaluates an approach to teaching practicing social workers in Hong Kong qualitative research from a feminist perspective. Using a problem-based format, graduate social workers in Hong Kong were taught critical appraisal skills while learning to do qualitative interview research in their practices. While the problem-based design supports models of adult learning and is a successful method for teaching new research skills to a diverse student body, linking epistemology with methodology and practice was a challenge in the cross-cultural context for both students and instructor.     

西方女性主义电影主题类型分析

西方女性主义电影文本主题是丰富多样的,诸如表现女性在暴力侵犯下的激烈反抗、女性主体意识的觉醒、在追求自由与解放的过程中建立姐妹情谊以及对传统性别观念的超越等.这些电影中的女性大多不再局限于私人空间,她们都走出家庭投入到风云变幻的社会生活中去,在艰难的境遇中与命运抗争,为理想而奋斗,表现出鲜明的主体性.     

无法"笑傲"的江湖——金庸武侠文本中女性奇侠的宿命

女性哥特式批评以哥特式文本中的性政治为批评对象，批判了男权话语与权利体系下对女性形象的扭曲、对女性地位的边缘化及对女性的压迫与埋没，从而瓦解了哥特式中的符号意义。从女性哥特式批评的视角解读金庸武侠文本中女性奇侠的宿命，可以发现“江湖”是男性侠客的江湖，女性侠客们始终无法走出菲勒斯中心的巨大阴影，女侠们被边缘化、被贬至为一个“他者”的地位，甚至难逃被封禁的命运。女性奇侠的宿命背后昭示的是性政治及话语与权利关系。     

论女性文学中“身体叙事”的缺失

“身体叙事”作为女性写作的一种策略 ,被中国当下的一批女作家奉为圭臬 ,但这一理论本身存在重大缺失。在实际操作中 ,它从反抗男权、捍卫女性出发 ,最终却出卖了女性的尊严和身体。本文分析“身体叙事”这一理论的缺失 ,分析中国当下以“身体叙事”为旗帜的女性小说文本的缺失。     

丧失的身份缺失的话语--对济慈诗"La Belle Dame Sans Mercy"中女性形象的女性主义解读

通过结合父权社会强加于女性的天使或妖魔形象的传统,解读济慈的诗"La Belle Dame Sans Mercy"中的女性形象,从而发现这一形象成了折射男性思想,丧失了身份,缺失了话语的边缘化了的“他者”。这种特殊的,处于“他者”地位的女性形象进一步彰显了父权社会中的性别歧视。     

英语性别语言的使用问题思考

语言是社会的产物,社会中的性别歧视现象必然反映在语言上.西方的女权运动使英语中某些性别语言发生了变化,但在现实社会中,许多原本是非性别歧视性的中性词汇却失去了其原有的中立性.     

女性主义教育学视野中的教师专业发展

女性主义教育学是西方20世纪80年代以来兴起的一股学术思潮。它对教师专业发展提出了新的研究视角与内涵:从个人生活史出发研究教师专业发展,关怀伦理是新时期对教师人文素质的新要求,教师专业发展必须包括教师的非理性精神的成长。这为教师专业成长提供了新的视野。