Formation of a talking space and gender discourses in digital diaspora space: Case of a female Korean im/migrants online community in the USA

This article explores an online community of female Korean im/migrants in the USA in order to investigate the formation of a digital diaspora of women on the web. Employing multiple research methods including in-depth interviews, textual analysis, and participatory observation, this article examines the largest online community of female Korean im/migrants in the USA (www.MissyUSA.com), focusing on how their unique talking space was created on this site and the ways in which the relevant gender discourses are presented and constructed in relation to their diasporic conditions. The findings show that these women's shared identity (i.e. being Korean, married, female, and living in the USA) is an important element in the formation and development of this online community, especially in the creation of a candid talking space – sokpuri – where they vent their innermost feelings about their lives in the USA. The Missy and ajuma are the two salient identity discourses and selective use and flexible appropriation of the terms are found. The ajuma image (less individualistic, more active in sharing information and helping others) is adopted when these women identify their online community as a place where the empowering ajuma spirit is alive; meanwhile, they still adopt the Missy image of a young, independent, and modern woman for their individual identities, despite its consumerist origin. Although the issues of housewifization and having an enhanced gender relationship are quite often discussed, this online community has a limitation in that it does not produce a consistent and systematic challenging voice.     

中世纪女性教育探析

中世纪的西欧妇女虽然不能进入大学学习,但是很多妇女仍然可以接受一定程度的教育。修女们通过阅读抄写获得知识,进一步接近上帝。贵族妇女进行学习以便以后更好的从事家庭事务。城镇富裕妇女接受基础教育。下层妇女几乎没有接受教育的机会。     

Once she makes it,she's there!: a case study 1

Computer science is possibly one of the few remaining disciplines almost entirely dominated by men, especially university staff and in the hi-tech industries. This phenomenon prevails throughout the western world; in Israel it starts in high school, where only 30% of students who choose to take computer science as an elective are women, and continues in university and college, where usually less than 30% of the entire computer science student population is female. In this paper we present data describing women taking the undergraduate computer science program at the Open University of Israel. Covering a period of 10 years, we have examined the enrollment and results of thousands of students on 20 undergraduate computer science courses. An attempt has been made to identify whether there is a specific stage in the undergraduate program which is more difficult for women to pass. The good news is that within the Open University of Israel out of the entire population of computer science students the percentage of female enrolments and the percentage of females graduating is almost the same, and the differences in average final grade between men and women are generally not significant. This study is unique because of the large number of students which served as the study population, covering the entire undergraduate program.     

当代官场小说中女性形象解读

20世纪90年代以来,中国文学界出现了一次官场小说的热潮,甚至成为了一个文化现象。在这官场小说中,塑造出了一大批鲜活的女性人物形象。本文就将从四个方面来探讨这些官场小说中的女性形象,以求能够对其进行深入地剖析与解读,寻找出其在形象塑造上的成功与不足之处。     

在理想与现实之间：大学理念的两难选择

大学是传授普遍知识的地方,以理智训练和发展理性作为其根本目的。这是中世纪牛津、剑桥等大学所秉持的办学理念,体现了理想的大学活动,并引领欧洲中世纪大学向前发展。然而,随着社会环境的巨大变迁,大学的办学模式和办学理念随之而变。当理想遭受严峻的现实挑战时,大学的培养目标从“哲学之才”变成了“利禄之徒”,这种办学理念的骤变致使大学深陷两难困境。因此,当我们在新世纪环境下解读或构建大学理念时,需要考虑使“经典”与“现代”之间保持适度的张力。     

The effects of message theme,policy explicitness,and candidate gender

Female candidates are sometimes perceived as less competent than their male counterparts, especially in races for higher political offices, and research has indicated that female candidates can face tougher standards in establishing credibility. This study explores the effects of message theme and explicitness on the perceived competence ratings of female and male Congressional candidates. An experiment with 209 college students at the University of Florida was conducted in 1997 to investigate the relationship between candidate gender, message characteristics, and perceived competence of two hypothetical candidates, one female and one male. It was hypothesized that an explicit message on a stereotypically male policy area, crime, would be advantageous to female candidates. Message theme was found to be important for both the female and male candidates, but message explicitness was found to be important for the female candidate only.     

Context and history: Using a capabilities-based social justice perspective to explore three generations of western Turkish female teachers’ lives

The purpose of this paper is to understand historically and contextually the well-being and agency of selected female teachers in Turkey. The paper develops a justice model based on the capability approach to build on the relation between freedom and equality, and to take gender and cultural diversity as a key element. The research draws on results from in-depth biographical narratives of 15 participants from west Turkey, examining the real freedoms and opportunities of three different generations of female teachers through constructing a gendered look into women's lives. The study begins by developing a framework linking women's opportunities and freedoms drawing its normative compass from Martha Nussbaum's capabilities approach. It explores how female teachers’ well-being can be understood in relation to key capabilities that individuals, communities and society have reason to value and how these capabilities and functionings can be expanded or constrained. The paper argues for the significance of thinking about capabilities in the professional lives of teachers who work for social change. Through a historical and generational sequence, it captures the egalitarian aspects of the capability approach, and strengthens its emphasis on freedoms of women. The findings of this enquiry indicate that there are persistent economic, cultural, ethnical, structural and gendered inequalities in women's lives, but that women also have agency to bring changes in their lives and through their teaching.     

高职院校女大学生就业角色定位及心理调适研究

高职院校女大学生在就业过程中普遍存在着如角色转换困难、就业预期不够理性、性别自觉意识弱等就业角色定位问题,解决这一问题的根本方法在于引导他们进行正确的就业角色定位,在出现心理问题时做适时的自我心理调适,使她们能以最优秀的状态完成就业。     

依据运动学分析数据对女子垒球绕环式投球动作的阶段划分

通过对甘肃省女子垒球四级梯队中主力投手绕环式投球动作的三维定点拍摄与运动图像解析,发现各级梯队的投手队员虽然在年龄段上有明显差别,但在绕环式投球动作过程中,不同梯队投手投球的各种运动学数据却具有相同或相似的变化趋向,表明可以从运动学分析的角度对绕环式投球进行动作阶段划分。     

课堂仪表美对健美操教学效应的影响

依据认知心理学理论、体育美学、课堂教学心理学理论和女大学生身心特点,运用问卷调查法、访谈法和数理统计法,分析在健美操的教学中,师生重视课堂仪表对女大学生学习健美操态度、兴趣、体育行为及审美情趣的正面影响。