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Throughout feminist histories, both the wife and prostitute have been evoked as symbols of women's shared experiences under patriarchy or of a common female condition. Yet even as various feminist currents have put pressure on marriage and prostitution alike as pillars of male domination, these are decisively held to be not quite the same: the feminist movement today has produced a global campaign toward the immediate abolition of prostitution, but not of marriage. This means that the contemporary feminist pursuit of the abolition of prostitution is perfectly compatible with hegemonic ways of seeing "female" bodies in at least one important way: prostitutes are criminalized, or penalized in other direct or indirect ways by criminal justice structures, in the name of the abolition of their sexual labor; wives are not. Given this intersection between certain currents of contemporary feminism and the state, this article will ask how we might account for the fact that there has been no large-scale feminist movement toward the abolition of marriage or the family, as there exists now for the abolition of prostitution. Is it possible to theorize the abolition of prostitution—as well as marriage—within a feminist framework that does not seek to do so via increasing state control of laboring bodies? In exploring these questions, I argue that to misunderstand sexual labor and the people who do sexual labor—both in and out of the home—will, until corrected, ultimately defeat the crucial feminist project of reclaiming our bodies and abolishing the exploitation of our work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on creating an inclusive space for women and non-binary individuals in the field of political theology, addressing the historical male dominance in this area. It highlights a special issue from the Political Theology Network, which invites contributions that examine the intersections of politics, theology, and gender through innovative perspectives.

One way of understanding Political Theology is as the reading of modern political concepts as secularized theological concepts, influentially promoted by Carl Schmitt. Chief among theological concepts secularized into modern politics, for Schmitt, is God, whose rule translates, through the writings of Jean Bodin and Thomas Hobbes into modern sovereignty. For Hobbes, the sovereign is a "mortal God," and God's rule over Israel is the only ancient political model worthy of emulation. While scholars have increasingly engaged the role of theology in modern political thought, there has been little reckoning with the particular Judeo-Christian notion of God – an overlord alluded to in gendered terms – that is the prototype for modern sovereignty. This understanding of God has shaped and limited the modern political imagination, inviting understandings of sovereignty as domination. This article explores the possibility that visions of politics or sovereignty absent domination, being pursued in our time, would be enriched by – and may indeed require – an expansion of our theological imagination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How do exclusionary boundaries persist in consumption subcultures amid increased progress, representation, and inclusion? In video gaming, women have come to represent nearly half of the market; yet, this is a limited indicator of gender-based progress. A culture of masculine dominance persists. Extending previous research on boundary work, the authors employ a cultural perspective of tokenism to examine how gendered boundaries in consumption subcultures persist despite efforts to transform or even eradicate them. This qualitative study draws on interviews with 23 gamers who identify as women (ages 19–29 years), coupled with data from social media platforms, news media, and industry reports. Empirical findings capture the recursive process of maladaptive boundary crossing : how women's efforts to subvert gendered boundaries at the micro level (e.g. through response enactments) get churned through the structuring tokenistic mechanics of boundary work at the meso level and result in the inadvertent cultural persistence of masculine dominance. The analysis offers a conceptual framework that explains how micro–meso level dynamics perpetuate and conceal inequity in consumption subcultures. Implications address the precarious promise of progress and the cultural legacy of tokenism in the marketplace with particular relevance to broader systems of domination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Territorial conflicts driven by the expansion of various forms of mining have escalated in the Global South. This article builds on the concept of territorialization, which often highlights the control of sociogeographical spaces by powerful through legal and coercive strategies. While existing literature addresses these power dynamics and resistance by less powerful actors, there is a gap in exploring the microscalar interactions that shape these territorial struggles. This study, based on ethnographic interviews and participant observation in the Afro-Colombian territories of the Quinamayó river basin, contributes to critical scholarship by decoupling the logic of territorialization from a top-down domination approach, emphasizing instead the everyday interactions and power relations that underpin territorial control. We explore the production of new mining territorialities from a quotidian and relational perspective, focusing on spatial repertoires of power, or a range of power strategies and relations that update extractive geographies in time. We find that territorial appropriation is defined and transformed through everyday moments of imposition and negotiation between multiple actors with different degrees of power. This microscale perspective deepens the understanding of territorial production, showing how daily interactions transform people's connection to the territory, and highlighting the context-specific, agency-driven nature of these processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jazz and improvisation have typically been associated with ideals of freedom and liberty; however, in practice these genres are known to be constrained by entrenched patterns of male domination and gender discrimination. Despite a large number of qualitative accounts evidencing persistent sexism and gender exclusion in the field, there exists a lack of empirical data to assess the scale of this phenomenon and substantiate smaller-scale research on gender inequality. In this paper, we employ boundary theory to report on a quantitative investigation of gender marginalization in jazz and improvisation in the Australian context, positioning gender as a symbolic boundary resulting in the social exclusion and marginalization of gender diverse individuals and women. An anonymous survey (n=124) was run over a period of five months, to explore the beliefs, attitudes, and experiences concerning gender, of people participating in Australian jazz and improvisation. A means comparison found that gender was a statistically significant indicator (p ≤0.05) on almost all measures, with gender diverse respondents significantly more likely to report the effects of marginalization than their (cisgender) counterparts. Additionally, the results indicated contrasting forms of musical engagement and marginalization across gender groups, with women perceiving exclusion to a lesser extent than gender diverse practitioners, and differing in their opinions regarding work opportunities. Lastly, a widespread but historically unspoken awareness of sexual harassment in the Australian jazz and improvisation industry was reported by all genders. This paper concludes with three recommendations for future research, policy and practice: 1. Specific targeted strategies are needed to address the manifold and complex forms of marginalization experienced by gender diverse people; 2. Heightened institutional visibility for marginalized groups is needed to change gendered narratives and highlight awareness of inequities; and 3. Enhanced safety measures are critically needed to address sexual harassment throughout the industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to bring to light about the women and their features, based on Freud, Lacan and others and authors, just as feminicide are portrayed by media and several news blogs. Having the comprehension the press, in general, contributes to build public opinion when brings topics from this kind. Feminicide is characterized as murdering women by men, simply, because they are women, in other words, by their gender condition. In this sense, the male domination characterize itself, by the owning the woman as an object. The violence is a social factor that has been in the human society for centuries and in the contemporary, the journalistic work is partial and suppose to enforce stenotypes that victimize the woman who is victim of structural chauvinism. Many fields of knowledge such as the various approaches to psychology, legal knowledge and sociology portray this topic from their perspectives, in this sense, the essays foresees the reading of these facts that has occurred from the perspective of psychoanalysis, that is about the constitution of social connections, considering their particularities, creating a reflection in the metapsicological field, trying to understand the personal psychism by motivation of committing feminicide, considering the evidences it come from the social manifestation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Women have international and national rights to use, control, transfer, and inherit rural land. Unless laws and institutions are strong enough, women's land rights can't be effectively discharged. Moreover, the different socioeconomic status of women highly affects their land rights. This study has the objective of exploring land acquisition, landholding, and land transfer rights and practical challenges in North Mecha Woreda. The study has applied phenomenological qualitative research design. The findings show that the status of land acquisition, control, inheritance, and use is highly affected by the socioeconomic status of women. Moreover, women's rights to land inheritance are highly affected due to the culture of male domination. This study recommends that there has to be legal protection to women to fully exercise their land rights to use, control, and transfer. These needs stretching the structure of Women, Children and Social Affairs Office at Kebele level of administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the basis of selected works by the 'Vormärz' writer Luise Mühlbach, this article examines the extent to which the writer's assertions relate to the image she portrays of her protagonists. This question seems all the more interesting because Mühlbach was socially and politically engaged, practised social criticism and pleaded for a change in the situation of women. The upheavals in the social and political spheres of the nineteenth century enabled Mühlbach to include aspects of women's emancipation in her writing. The focus of this article is on her portrayal of female protagonists. In addition, it questions whether Mühlbach's women accept their role in life, or whether they are able to protest against male domination and thus to secure their freedom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose: The core of this study is women in mining. The aim of this study was to analyze the perception of women, about their work environment, their career, the human resources policies and practices and the work–family balance in the context of a multinational organization in the sector. Design/methodology/approach: The case study was carried through semi-structured interviews with 27 women who work in this organization. Findings: Although women report that they are capable of exercising any position/function in the company, they perceive wage gap in the investigated organization; that maternity leave and the fact of having children impact their career and their rise to higher positions in the organizational hierarchy negatively; situations of prejudice and discrimination experienced at work. Sometimes subtly, sometimes not so subtly, but they still constitute barriers faced by women in mining. Originality/value: Although the debate around the issue of gender inequality in organizations is not recent, little has been produced about the working condition of women in occupational fields where male domination is strong, such as mining. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article gives a materialist interpretation of the first, second and third Marxist-feminist Theses through a critical analysis of the Unitary Theory of Social Reproduction. It argues that Social Reproduction Theory resorts to idealism and biologism when explaining male domination. A meta-critical incision will be carried out by studying the use Social Reproduction Theory makes of categories such as 'production', 'reproduction', 'exploitation' and 'oppression', in that these categories are addressed as historical while the categories of 'women' and 'men' are de-historicized and naturalized. According to Unitary Theories, 'women' are not material, historical products of patriarchy but biological beings (biologism) that have been culturally devalued (idealism). This leads to an essentialist ontology where 'women' and 'men' precede the relations of production that create them. This idea obstructs the formation of a materialist philosophy of praxis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite being formally all-gender, children's baseball in Canada and the United States remains highly male dominated. We draw on the autoethnographic fieldwork of Travers as a queer/trans volunteer coach to demonstrate the social processes that reproduce male domination among coaches in children's baseball. We employ the theoretical lens of doing/redoing/undoing gender to demonstrate the enactment of a hybrid form of masculinity we term "Good Dad Masculinity." Good Dad Masculinity reproduces male domination in children's baseball as a de facto highly gendered organization wherein girls, women, and nonnormatively gendered people of all ages are peripherally included, at best. As Good Dad Masculinity reproduces male domination while appearing to embody and endorse gender egalitarianism, resistance to it is akin to wrestling with jello. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this piece of research is to study productivity and scientific collaboration in the main Spanish sociology journals from a gender perspective. The authorship of 3171 documents published in these journals during the period 2001-2020 was analysed using bibliometric and social network analysis techniques. While there was an overwhelming male dominance at the start of the period, the results show a steady trend towards parity; however, this was only achieved during the 2016-2020 period, and not in all indicators. In conclusion, gender advances in sociology research have only partially come to fruition in Spain, but the scholarly monitoring system cannot be held accountable for this. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This study aims to explore organizational factors that impact women's career advancement. Knowledge of organizational practices that promote or obstruct women's career progress is vital for women, firms and governments. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 237 women participated in the study from the service sector in Johannesburg (South Africa). Participants were selected using a convenient sampling approach. Researchers used a questionnaire, consisting of demographic and open-ended questions, to gather data. Comments were analyzed using a thematic content analysis approach. Findings: Findings reveal that prioritizing women, offering skills development opportunities, providing growth opportunities, assisting women in managing their careers, offering mentorship and having work-family support initiatives are practices that promote women's career advancement. Conversely, practices that foster stagnation of women's careers, distrust in women's leadership abilities, preference for external candidates, people–related malpractices, male domination/preference, lack of role models and work-family balance support, hamper women's career advancement. Practical implications: The findings of this study will contribute to women's empowerment. Organizations should provide a conducive atmosphere by instituting practices that promote their female employees' career advancement. Firms also should intentionally take practical steps to address practices that impede women's career progression. The results of this study will also help the government to design appropriate policies that will promote the career progression of women employees. Originality/value: This study presents findings from an analysis of qualitative data collected from 237 women to provide insight into the experiences of women working within the service industry in Johannesburg, South Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the discussion on content, illocutionary force, social role, or doctrinal origin. Topics include something that pushes back against oppression, domination, or unjust power, and related forms of denigration, or disrespect; and enables non-internal emancipatory public reason critique to suitably accord with the reflexivity requirement.

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Community-driven development (CDD) programs compel communities to adopt egalitarian decision-making processes for the duration of the project. However, dominant groups use their power to orchestrate a public performance of social domination and subordinated groups combat social domination via subtle acts of resistance. Rather than conceptualizing social transformation from a holistic perspective that includes subtle acts of resistance and incremental forms of self-empowerment, CDD implementation and monitoring focusses on women's public performance in community meetings, and this approach generally fails to produce social transformation. We conducted an ethnography of an unconditional direct transfer to a village in Western Mali. We used Bourdieu's approach to investigate how rural Malian women resist domination and empower themselves in this unfettered CDD project. We observed the women strategically submit to patriarchal forms of domination during the public decision-making processes but resist male domination over their labour. Our results suggest that CDD can better achieve enduring forms of social change when it builds off local women's self-directed forms of resistance. To better capture women's resistance and self-empowerment, CDD should adopt a more holistic and open impact assessment approach, such as the Most Significant Change technique and Culturally Responsive Evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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No previous studies have explored how women's autonomy (space for action) could mediate between psychological intimate partner violence (IPV) and mental health. This study explores this issue. Participants were 102 women recruited from specialized formal support services who answered self-reports about the target variables. Structural equation modeling was used to estimate the direct and indirect effects of IPV (verbal-emotional violence and domination-isolation) on current psychopathological symptomatology and satisfaction with life considering the mediator effect of space for action. Results indicate that both types of IPV had a direct negative effect on women's space for action during the relationship. Domination-isolation predicted current space for action directly and positively, which in turn had a negative direct effect on psychopathological symptomatology and positive on satisfaction with life. Finally, both types of IPV showed indirect effects on psychopathology and satisfaction with life through space for action during the relationship and currently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The basic objective of the current research is to analyze the Eco-cultural and feminine self in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818). The novel is significant to highlight the gender construction through scientific salvation and technological penetration to challenge the male dominancy on female hood as submissive, passive and possessable creature. The novel speculates over the drastic effects of declining the value of reproduction naturally by creating a monster. The Separate Sphere Theory is applied to the text which would help the literary students to understand the interconnectedness of women and nature. The research is qualitative in approach to get the desired results to show women's suppression, humiliation and decentralization through opening the channels of cyborgs in the contemporary world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article studies, from a feminist standpoint, the justification of the alleged notions of binary oppositions set between the civilized (European) and uncivilized (non-European) worlds based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood (1977). Britain colonized many countries in Africa as well as Asia with the apparent mission to enlighten the uncivilized community with education, religion, modernity, technology, and so on. This discriminatory attitude of Britain put Africa at a polar distance and placed its binary opposition. However, Britain resembled Africa in many cases, especially when it is looked at from a feminist standpoint. In both the East and West, women exposed in literary works received the same discriminatory treatment by the male members of families and society. The resonance between the two is so strong that it paves the way to study whether a binary opposition exists between them. To do so, we have chosen two novels, one from Europe and one from Africa: Tess of the d'Urbervilles by English novelist Thomas Hardy and Petals of Blood by Kenyan novelist Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. The sufferings of two female characters, Tess and Wanja, depicted in the novels prove that women's predicament is ubiquitous. Our study aims to analyze how binary opposition becomes ambiguous in feminist perspectives and to show the omnipresence of female subjugation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The novel Once Were Warriors (1990), by Alan Duff, demystified the Māori grand narratives of the past previously romanticized by writings from the Māori Renaissance of the mid-1970s and 1980s. In contrast with the negative portrayal of Māori subjectivities and the political immobility generally perceived by critics, this study aims to reconceptualize male tribal models in Duff's novel. On the one hand, the rangatira (or male elders) and Māori urban gangs engage in tribal patterns echoing utopias of male domination. Whilst on the other hand, female characters such as Beth Heke, her daughter Grace and the singer Mavis Tangata – as examples of warrior-matriarchs – suggest a recuperation of ancestral warriorhood through open democracy and the hybridity of a revised version of tribalism and the Eucharist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scholars have debated whether hybrid masculinities perpetuate or challenge male dominance and power. This study advances such dialogue by unveiling the kernel of hybrid masculinities through careful examination of young Korean men's narratives on how to manage appearance and dressing up, especially on wearing make-up. Findings suggest that young men narrate three approaches, namely, expressive, instrumental, and meritocratic, as a means to explain their perspectives on such practices. A close look into their statements on the rationales of dressing-up and wearing make-up—seemingly a social act of hybrid masculinities—shows that such behaviors are pathways to fortify masculine power whose roots intersect with the local socioeconomic structure. This study theoretically contributes to unveiling how the basis of male dominance and power intersects with the normative and pervasive ideal of the neoliberal self, suggesting traditional masculinities are concealed in the complex indigenous assemblage of neoliberalism and lookism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article shows the reasons why divorce is poorly perceived in the different groups that make up Algerian society. To do this, we tried to go back to the historical and anthropological contexts that characterize Algerian society based on the perception of Kabyle society that is found mutatis mutandis in other regions of Algeria. Divorce is rejected because it calls into question the place of patriarchy and reveals the importance of the symbolic. A true failure of a vision of the group, divorce is a magnified image of the Mediterranean anthropological structure that perpetuates male domination and reveals in close-up the balance of power and meaning. Fighting divorce means participating in strengthening social cohesion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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As a woman writer, Manju Kapur discusses women-centric issues in all her novels. The present article focuses on Kapur's novel Difficult Daughters (London: Faber & Faber, 1998), and specifically the issue of women seeking a space of their own in a male-dominated society. Women in this patriarchal society are not allowed to speak out, protest against injustice, or challenge accepted customs, superstitious beliefs, or rituals. They are merely held captive by the patriarchal system, which demands that women be meek, obedient, and passive, not asserting their rights as women or as human beings. In order to depict this stereotypical pattern of life in India, Kapur creates her female characters to be fighters against taboos, conventional norms, and family constraints forced on them by patriarchal society. Her female characters speak out against male chauvinism to assert their rights. The portrayal of women's inner lives and delicate relationships has been a prominent focus in recent Indian women's writing. In contrast to marital bliss and the duty of women in the home, finding one's identity and dissent are new ideas in this literature. This article tries to highlight these fascinating aspects of Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters through an analysis of the female characters in the novel and how the patriarchal system oppresses and stifles them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although the role of women in traditional festivities in Catalonia has been subordinate to that of men, for some years now women have been trying to gain prominence. This article presents a case study about a group of women devils in the city of Mataró (Barcelona). Based on the interviews carried out and a participant observation process, we analyse the implications of breaking with male hegemony with a group exclusively of women, especially when it is a festive activity in public space and with fire. The text analyses the internal dynamics of the group, its public exposure and the relationships between power and vulnerability. Finally, the paradoxes between an invisible or implicit feminism and the fight against male domination in the field of traditional culture and in public space are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to explore the challenges faced by women in participating in digital economic activities in Bangladesh and explore solutions to the challenges encountered by women while engaging in digital economic activities in Bangladesh. A qualitative approach was employed with 16 women directly involved in digital economic activities and research interviewed. These interviews provided rich qualitative data and outlined some challenges and possible solutions to promote women's engagement in the digital economy in Bangladesh. Key challenges identified were a lack of technological knowledge and interest, higher costs and inflation, higher interest rates on loans, a complicated loans process, male domination, lower government support, and few digital educational programs. Solutions proposed included: training and development programs, increased seminars and symposiums, more government funding, interest‐free loans, a simple loan process, technological education, as well as the establishment of childcare centers. Henceforth, the current offers theoretical and practical implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current study examines two prominent Iranian and British novels, namely Simin Daneshvar's Suvashun (1969) and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847) through the theoretical lens of Elaine Showalter's Anglo-American literary gynocriticism in order to comparatively investigate their social and cultural themes in relation to female identity. Literary gynocriticism is concerned with the figure of the woman as writer, the producer of gynotextual meaning, genres, and a feminine literary tradition. This paper argues that despite the spatial, temporal, and cultural distance between the two novels, a number of common themes can be distinguished in both. These include courtship, marriage, emotional conflicts, education, and striving for female identity, social role, and status. The characterization of the female protagonists in the two novels is aligned with society's expectations, and the novelists' protest against male domination and sexual discrimination seem, at best, cautious and conservative. Both of the novels portray the anxieties resulting from the protagonists' individual position in relation to others and their status as "the second sex." This shows that these anxieties trouble women around the globe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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When is a token female's voice incorporated into the actions of a traditionally male-dominated team, and to what ends? Drawing from the tokenism, gender stereotypes, and minority influence literatures, we advance a model that specifies the conditions that facilitate token female voice enactment and when enacting the female's voice enhances team performance. Using a sample of active-duty military men and women, we employed live observation techniques to study voice enactment in all-male teams versus female-token teams (i.e., teams with a token female member) throughout a series of complex and physically demanding tasks. Our findings revealed that (a) token female voice enactment was higher when team leaders possessed more favorable beliefs about women's capabilities in the military, and (b) token female voice enactment enhanced team performance in more complex tasks but harmed team performance in less complex tasks. Additionally, our supplementary analyses revealed that female-token teams were more reflective before engaging in action relative to all-male teams, as the latter tended to engage in agentic, "action-first" strategies. Theoretical and practical implications for facilitating female voice enactment in traditionally male-dominated contexts are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses two monographs, "Masculine Domination in Henry James's Novels: The Art of Concealment" by Wibke Schniedermann and "Masculinity in the Work of Elizabeth Gaskell" by Meghan Lowe, which explore the complexities of gender in Victorian literature. Schniedermann's book focuses on Henry James's novels and examines how his female protagonists attempt to break free from gendered domination. Lowe's book analyzes Elizabeth Gaskell's work and argues that her novels present masculinity as pluralistic and shaped by various contexts. Both monographs contribute to the understanding of gender in Victorian literature, although Schniedermann's book relies heavily on Pierre Bourdieu's theories and could benefit from incorporating more nineteenth-century gender scholarship. [Extracted from the article]

The difference between man and woman is not based on the biological aspect but on how society makes it. Women are formed by their community, where they are against discrimination. Moreover, the prejudices reveal language use, including in literary works. Monkey Grip by Helen Garner tells about a woman's condition and feeling for a man. This study aims to elaborate on feminism and stylistics, especially in identifying Australian female authors. By using stylistic analysis, this study revealed that man character dominated the woman character in conversation and did not care about his partner's feelings. Although the female character knew it, she was afraid to fight because of the male's domination and her love. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Every organization is a complex, non-linear, and dynamic system. Gareth Morgan discussed eight different metaphors where they can be useful devices to create mental images to clarify and interpret our organizations. These eight metaphors are: machine, organism, brain, culture, political, flux and transformation, psychic prisons and instruments of domination. This combination of metaphors helps us understand our organization, analyze the structure, the leadership style (NAGY, December 2014). In this paper I will discuss the different metaphors of a pharmaceutical company (X). It is a growing pharmaceutical company, where reading and analyzing the different metaphors will definitely help them to prepare a plan for better and rapid improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyse bibliometric-based male dominance with the keyword "male dominance" as search input. The Scopus.com web link is used in searching document databases with the type "article" about dominance studies worldwide. Bibliometric data were analysed using VOSviewer Type 1.6.18 software to visualise the network of authors, years, countries, keywords, and study depth related to the issue of male dominance. An analysis conducted on December 18, 2022, found 704 documents between 2000 and 2023. The research results show that, first, in the last six years (2017–2022), the number of publications about domination has grown significantly. Second, the United States is a country that contributes the most significant and productive number of publications in the world related to dominance studies. Third, the main keywords often used in dominance articles are women, state, murder, crime, violence, family, Islam, society, women's status, and gender. Furthermore, fourthly, the latest keywords used are relationship, west, historian, religion, Islamic law, and Christianity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research counters Slavoj Zizek’s psychoanalytical analysis of “courtly love” through a reading of Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote (1752), drawing on Kristeva’s theory of subjectivity. Žižek’s analysis concludes that the courtly image of the Knight’s subservience to his Lady actually masks the reality of male domination. However, his own analysis seems complicit in the same problematic. In assuming the male partner as the subject from whose vantage the relationship is theorized, he strips the woman of any subjectivity or agency by rendering her an absolute object, a radical Otherness, a monster, and an automaton. While Žižek painstakingly represents the male-subject as the victim-agent in being the director of the masochistic performance, the female is rendered a perpetrator-object who, despite enacting the terms of the same contract, is termed an inhuman partner and hence a sadist. This lack of complex theorization of the Lady that renders her absolute evil reinforces conventional representation of femininity as evil. Whereas Žižek’s analysis writes the Lady off as a vacuum, Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote (1752) provides an interesting alternative for theorizing courtly love from the position of the Lady via the protagonist, Arabella. A suitable framework for understanding Arabella’s investment in the conventions of courtly love may be found in Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytical model that allows for reconceiving the Lady in courtly love as a subject. This essay argues that, given her preoedipal maternal severance, Arabella’s delusional immersion in romances signifies her proximity to the “semiotic chora.” Her preference for the “feminine” form of romance, reflective of the subversive force of the semiotic, represents Arabella’s defiance of the rational, masculine, novelistic discourse of the eighteenth-century symbolic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The underlying factors of the male predominance in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are largely unknown, although a female advantage in social communication has been pointed out as a potential factor. Recently, attention has been given to ASD as a sensory processing disorder, focusing on the audio-visual temporal processing paramount for the development of communication. In ASD, a deviant audio-visual processing has been noted, resulting in difficulties interpreting multisensory information. Typically Developed (TD) females have shown an enhanced language processing in unisensory situations compared to multisensory situations. We aim to find out whether such an advantage also can be seen in girls within the ASD population, and if so, is it related to social communication skills? Method: Forty children (IQ > 85), 20 females (mean age = 13.90 years, SD = 2.34) and 20 males (mean age = 12.15 years, SD = 2.83) triaged for an ASD assessment were recruited from a child and youth psychiatric clinic in Sweden. Using The Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) we looked at associations with child performance on the Integrated Visual and Auditory Continuous Performance Test (IVA-2). Results: An auditory advantage in the female group was associated with less rated problems in social communications in unisensory processing whereas in multisensory processing an auditory dominance was associated with more rated problems in Social Awareness. In the male group, a visual dominance was associated with more rated problems in Social Rigidity. Conclusion: A female unisensory processing advantage in ASD could very well be explaining the male domination in ASD. However, the social difficulties related to multisensory processing indicate that ASD females might be struggling as hard as males in more complex settings. Implications on the assessment procedure are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the influence of different factors on the electoral participation of the children of immigrants with the right to vote in Spain. It highlights the positive effect of socioeconomic background and the negative influence of experiences of discrimination. It also mentions the importance of further research on adaptation and integration processes in Spain. Additionally, a book about Pierre Bourdieu and his worldview and political positions influenced by his experience in Algeria during the War of Independence is discussed. The text presents an analysis of the influence of Algeria on Bourdieu's work and his conception of the sociologist profession, as well as its impact in different social spheres worldwide. It also addresses the biography of Eva Perón and her impact on male domination in Argentina, as well as ecological habitus and environmental practices in urban and rural environments. In summary, the text highlights Bourdieu's influence in sociology and its relevance in different social contexts. [Extracted from the article]

This study aims to understand the implementation of APKM (Access, Participation, Control, and Benefit) and gender equality in the Student Executive Board (BEM) in UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya (UINSA). The study used a qualitative approach by interviewing members of BEM across nine faculties, administering questionnaires, and collecting relevant documents regarding gender equality. The results indicated that six of BEM had socialised gender equality in their community, and three of them had not promoted it yet. Even though the six BEM claimed that they had promoted gender equality in their community, practically the organisation management did not fully apply gender equality as proved by the election of the leader of executive board is consistently dominated by male students. Female is chosen to hold the job of secretary or treasurer. This is evidence that the management of the organisation has not fully implemented gender equality; there is still a belief that different genders should hold particular positions. The results also demonstrated that women frequently handle household duties like meal preparation and office work when organising events. Contrarily, men are employed to carry out routine jobs. The study shows that although male students currently dominate the competition for the top positions in BEM, both male and female members of the organisation have access to, participation in, control over, and benefits related to gender equality. This may be influenced by patriarchy culture in the community and less awareness of gender equality among members of BEM in UINSA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]