Jordanian national football Muslimat players: Interrupting Islamophobia in FIFA's hijab ban

Background: Though musli m females exclusion from physical activities and sports has concerned scholars for years, they are still being theorized out of context and out of history and not as agents in their own lives. Within the prevailing context of the ‘War on Terror,’ muslim females are becoming more racialized in sports and are unnecessarily constructed as needing protection and void of any agency. In 2010, a crisis emerged out of the International Federation of Association Football's (FIFA) erratic interpretation of Law 4 which excluded muslim females players with a head/cover gear deemed unsafe on the field. This crisis highlighted the importance of understanding not only the targeted exclusion of muslim female players but also the importance of working with muslim female national football players and the possibilities of them resisting the racializing and gendering logics of a mega-sport institution such as FIFA.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how five women football players on the Jordanian national team negotiated FIFA's ‘hijab ban’ of 2011. Particularly, it seeks the perspectives of the players themselves – whether they are wearing the head and/or neck cover or not and whether their muslimness is visible or not – and their stories of how they negotiated FIFA's ‘hijab ban’ (2011–2012).

Methodology: This paper is part of a larger critical qualitative study based on (1) dialogical interviews with five football players on the Jordanian national team, (2) material the players crafted and used to campaign against FIFA's ‘hijab ban,’ (3) players’ journals, (4) email correspondence and (5) web-based campaigning material. I deploy arab-muslim feminist scholars’ more complicated understanding of the hijab and theorize of how muslim women's bodies are regulated by two interconnected hijabophobias, the Islamist and Western-Islamophobic.

Findings: The findings are organized in the following themes: (1) experiencing humiliation and injustice, (2) exposing FIFA's Islamophobic standpoint and (3) resisting through solidarity and activism. The results suggest that the muslim female football players on the Jordanian national team exposed the FIFA's Islamophobic hijabophobia in its interpretation of Law 4. They acted with resilience and political savviness to regain the right to play while being muslim female under FIFA's laws. This suggests that muslim females are active agents in their own lives and on a global level. They are able to counter the racializing injustices produced by very powerful sport institutions. Non-muslim/Western policy-makers, researchers, teachers and trainers working among muslim women and youth need to consider this example as a frame to their participatory research, critical pedagogies, and physical education (PE) and sport curricula. They need to recognize that we are living a moment in history in which muslim women's bodies are sites of both the Islamist and the colonialist anxieties in their struggles for power. Thus, they need to urgently be engaged in the theories and pedagogical approaches that challenge both the Islamist and the Islamophobic hijabophobias in sport and PE.     

《在密执安北部》的女性文体学分析

海明威的作品素以"硬汉"形象著称,也有评论家认为它具有强烈的女性意识。本文在前人研究的基础上,运用碎片化和及物性分析这两种女性文体学的重要研究方法,分析其短篇小说《在密执安北部》中的女性形象,旨在阐释其女性意识在文本中的具体体现,同时说明女性文体学为读者理解和鉴赏小说语言提供了一个新的视角,为文学批评提供了一种更为客观的分析方法。     

Mentor-shape: exploring the mentoring relationships of Black women in doctoral programs

Using a Black Feminist Thought framework, this phenomenological study focused on lived experiences with mentoring relationships among 38 Black women in doctoral programs in multiple disciplines across universities in the United States. Although emerging studies on Black women in academia acknowledge the significance of mentorship and the reality of discrimination at the intersection of race and gender, the literature lacks empirical support pertaining to the formation and outcomes of mentoring relationships, specifically for Black women in doctoral education. Findings from this study suggested four central themes in the mentoring relationships among Black women in doctoral programs: (a) organic evolvement, (b) shared identity/mutual interest, (c) personal transformation and (d) increase in access and opportunity. Implications for future research, policy, practice and education across disciplines are offered.     

试论马克思主义与女性主义社会思潮

马克思主义作为一种富有生命力的思想,是人类文明的宝贵财富．女性主义作为当代重要的社会思潮和研究视角,也正在被越来越多的人所熟悉和了解。本文旨在结合女性主义研究的视角,从马克思主义的经典文本出发,分析马克思主义对于女性主义的深远影响,探索两者之间不断变化发展着的关系。     

Relational identities and intergenerational learning in an undergraduate critical food studies course

Abstract

Environmental education (EE) scholars view intergenerational learning as a means to influence adult understandings of and relationships with the environment. Yet EE researchers have studied intergenerational learning in a limited fashion, with no emphasis on its role in higher education. The purpose of this article is to use feminist posthumanist theories to broadly explore intergenerational learning in critical food studies courses taught at the university level. We rely primarily on student coursework and post-course interviews as data sources that convey student perceptions of interactions with their families and the natural world, demonstrating how students develop relational identities shaped by personal experience as well as experiences in the course. To conclude, we discuss both the limitations and implications of this research for the field of EE.     

对话与思考:西方教育领域中的"女性主义"本土化探析

西方教育理论中的女性主义思潮以其对性别与教育的独特理解，为我们提供了与世界教育对话的新途径，促使我们重新思考女性教育与妇女解放的互动关系。可以说，无论是在西方，还是在中国，妇女解放的思想并不只是要在两性心理、心理、社会差异等基础上强造一个平等的世界，而是要在两性和谐共处的基础上，争取最大限度的共同自由和全面的发展。     

试析撒路斯提乌斯在罗马史学史上的地位

撒路斯提乌斯是罗马共和时期的政治家、史家。他的作品无论在选材上、写作上都有自己的独到之处。他从当代政治、军事事件入手,以道德为评价准绳,尽量客观地描述了公元前2世纪至公元前后罗马社会的发展状况,他的写作特点和他的史学思想对后来罗马和西方史家有一定影响。     

数据报告:一种信息史学新实践

通信、大数据和物联网信息技术的高速发展对史学理论界提出了全新要求,在传统以人为中心的历史之外,以“物”为中心、以有关“物”的监测数据为材料的数据处理和报告编制过程也要求被纳入史学理论视野;现有的信息史学定义修正后方可回应这种要求。秉持信息史学的理论融合自觉、以跨学科的视野审视传统史学理论与数据处理领域的概念和理论,可以为两个领域带来具有启发意义的新观点。     

The Narrative Authority of George Eliot in Middlemarch:An Analysis of Dorothea and Her Marriages

Middlemarch is considered Eliot's one of the most controversial novels. Most critics apply feminist criticism to unscramble the novel and draw that it's a comedown of feminist fight and a loss of feminist discursive authority for the protagonist Dorothea hides in the protection of marriage.The paper aims to employ the theory of feminist narratology to reinterpret Middlemarch. Through the analysis of the two marriages of Dorothea, the dissertation draws the conclusion that Eliot manages to win the discursive authority in a man-dominating era, and the authority is based on a dual voice-the voice of a woman writing in the name and company of men.     

张爱玲译《老人与海》中的女性主义干涉策略研究

张爱玲是一位有着较强烈的性别意识的翻译家。她为自己翻译的《老人与海》中文版所写序言及对原作中某些带有男性话语的词汇的劫持,都显示了其翻译中的女性主义干涉策略。但总体而言,其译作仍不失为佳作。