Claiming expertise from betwixt and between: Digital humanities librarians,emotional labor,and genre theory

ABSTRACT

Librarians' liminal (intermediate) position within academia situates us to make unique contributions to digital humanities (DH). In this article, we use genre theory, feminist theory, and theories of emotional labor to explore the importance of discourse mediation and affective labor to DH and the interplay between these areas and academic structural inequality. By claiming our expertise and making explicit work that is often not visible, we can advocate for new and varied roles for librarians in digital humanities. Our analysis is informed by both theory and practice, and it takes a dialogic approach that depends upon the interactions between the two.     

直面人生与诗性诉求—曹禺话剧女性观的成因及特点探微

女性观是对女性的认识和理解。本文站在女性主义立场,从曹禺早期创作社会现实环境、生活经历和感情体验、时代精神气候三方面入手,以《雷雨》《日出》《原野》《北京人》等为主要分析对象,对曹禺戏剧嵌性观的成因及特点进行了较为全面客观的剖析,试图对曹禺作品人物形象、故事主题等与其女性观之间的联系做些有益探索。     

20世纪80年代以来中国女性文学批评回顾

20世纪80年代以来,有三个时期产生了相对集中的对女性文学批评进行的批评,即1986年、1989年前后和1995年至今。这些批评包括总体上对女性文学批评的评价、以批评主体为出发点的分析、对批评方法和理论的反思以及针对具体问题的探讨。尤其1995年以后,反思西方女性主义批评对国内女性文学批评负面影响的评论增多,某种程度上也反映出女性文学批评面临的困境。批评家们也在积极寻求问题的解决途径。但我们不可因此忽视国内女性文学批评在西方女性主义理论和实践影响下取得的成绩。     

女性主义批评视野下的《连环套》解读

张爱玲在《连环套》中借助霓喜的遭遇,呈现她对女性悲剧命运的理解:在男权社会中,女性缺乏必要的自我意识,对自身价值产生误解,甘愿沦为男性的附庸;男性掌控着话语权,使女性处于一种“失语”的状态;女性为了生存而走进无爱的婚姻,在灵与肉的冲突中,性格逐渐发生变异。张爱玲的苍凉叙事,传达出一位女作家对女性命运的隐忧。     

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.     

Towards an ethics of sexuality – alternative feminist figurations and a (boy) child: a close reading of a prize-winning sex education manual from the early twentieth century

Sex education has been a major concern that has run in parallel with the creation of the modern concept of childhood (innocence) in Western societies. When priests opposed sex education for children, teachers and physicians advocated the need for education. In Sweden, in the early twentieth century, two female physicians wrote a prize-winning manual about sex education. In this paper, I present a close reading of the manual with a focus on how the (boy) child and (mother) woman were presented. The analysis aims to read the manual in three ways pointing to how it communicated resistance to otherings of the female body: (i) one reading focusing on how the female and (boy) male bodies were imagined, (ii) a second reading informed by Freudian theory and, (iii) a third reading guided by contemporary feminist studies which highlight, among other topics, the importance of investing in a representation of femininity defined by women. I will show how the authors gave an alternative interpretation of the mother–child-father relationship compared to Freud, and that they did so by writing their bodies into the text. The analysis shows how a striving towards an ethics of sexuality, including gender equality, have been part of the sex education genre for many years, and can serve as an inspiration today.     

《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。     

20世纪初中国的女权话语与文学中的女性想象

中国的女权运动，从清末兴女学、不缠足开始，起点既低，而且始终被统摄在男性主导的民族一国家宏大叙事中，作为从属的部分存在。这决定了中国女权话语的男性色彩和国家意识形态特征，也决定了清末文学女权叙事的男性想象特征。女性的缺席，女性体验的缺乏，使晚清小说的女权表达呈现着书写的真实与表现的不真实问题。对晚清女权话语与女性叙事的梳理，是理解和分析20世纪中国文学女性表现的必不可少的起点。     

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.     

论家庭暴力和女权主义批判

家庭内基于性别而发生的暴力行为在20世纪中叶以后引起了社会的重视。女权主义在其中的推动作用是十分巨大的。女权主义从女性经验出发的研究视角与方法揭示了家庭暴力现象（包括婚内强奸行为）对女性应该享有的包括安全、平等、健康等在内的基本公民权的严重侵害。女权主义认为，为了消除人类所有形式的暴力，家庭暴力现象必须在最大范围内被消除。