Establishing Connections: Gender,Motor Vehicle Theft,and Disposal Networks

Motor vehicle theft is an offense typically dominated by male offenders. As with all other major forms of criminal activity that are male dominated, women do participate in the theft of vehicles; yet, few studies have endeavored to examine their involvement in auto theft and even fewer have directly compared women's experiences alongside that of men's. This paper examines the gendered nature of motor vehicle theft through direct comparison of in‐depth interviews with 35 men and women actively involved in auto theft in St. Louis, Missouri. By tracing similarities and differences between men's and women's initiation into auto theft, enactment methods, and access to networks for vehicle and parts' disposal, we provide a contextual analysis of offender's perceptions and behavior. The findings indicate that while initiation into auto theft and property disposal networks are both governed by male gatekeepers, women experience greater barriers in gaining access to disposal networks than they do entry into auto theft offending which, in turn, leads to some key similarities in techniques between men and women.     

从传播学视角看贵州苗族独竹漂

贵州省苗族独竹漂是贵州苗族人民在长期的生产实践和社会实践中,创造出来的一项具有健身特点的水上体育技能项目,集体育性、娱乐性、群众性和观赏性于一体。要使贵州苗族独竹漂具有长久生命力,要借助各种大众传播媒介来宣传、介绍独竹漂的文化价值特性,充分彰显独竹漂自身魅力。要把独竹漂与红色革命传统相契合,展现独竹漂悠久的历史和丰富的文化内涵,增强广大民众对独竹漂文化的认同和自信。从原生态水上运动独创项目和激发人们挑战大自然的拼搏精神和勇气中获得了传播的动力,构建独竹漂文化传播的基本理论,以理论指导独竹漂传播实践。利用教育的渠道来聚敛独竹漂这笔有形和无形的"文化财富",溶于日臻完善的教育体系中去。对独竹漂要进行自身的文化创新,满足不同受众要求。使之成为新型体育文化的积极因素。要策划运作好独竹漂,让受众通过全方位的参与和融入,充分理解独竹漂的内涵和特色。     

毛泽东时代女性的主体性问题——以韦君宜小说《女人》为例

本文从社会性别视角和后结构主义主体理论出发,以对女作家韦君宜20世纪50年代创作的小说《女人》的细读为例,探讨国家意识形态与国家主流性别话语对妇女主体性形成的多种可能性,以此作为对笼统否定中国"自上而下"的社会主义妇女解放运动的态度的一种回应。本文认为毛泽东时代有关性别平等、社会性别中性和同志关系的社会性别话语参与到了当时女性主体的话语构建过程中,它们承接五四启蒙运动中淡化性别差异的独立人格、两性平等的话语,为一种脱离本质主义的,反对性别二分对立性别主体的建立创造了条件,为女性摆脱客体化的他者地位,发展自身的能动性提供了可能性。     

Gender as catalyst for violence against Roma in contemporary Italy

ABSTRACT

Silvio Berlusconi's use of ethnicity and immigration as national security issues in his successful campaign for election to the Italian presidency in 2008 was by no means unique in contemporary Europe. What was surprising was the speed of his right-wing government's legislative restriction of migrants in the form of the so-called ‘security package’, first introduced just five weeks after the election. Woodcock explores the striking fact that this ‘security package’, and the intense wave of racist violence by Italians against Roma that it legitimized and encouraged, was proposed and justified in response to media reports of Italian babies being stolen by ‘Zingari’ from the ‘nomad camps’ and of Italian women being raped and beaten by Romanian men of ‘Zingari’ ethnicity. Gender and ethnicity are the twin constitutive discourses of modern European society, and racialized subjects are necessarily gendered. The stereotype of ‘dangerous black men sexually threatening white women’ has been mobilized in a vast range of European and colonial nationalist projects in order to justify the policing of both racialized masculine subjects and women as objects of the patriarchy. Similarly, the depiction of women as hysterical, sexually vulnerable objects in need of (white) masculine protection is an old story that the Italian media recognize as a fairy tale even as they reproduce the discourse. Woodcock explores what has not been mentioned thus far, namely, that gender stereotypes are vital to the mobilization of violent racism against the Roma in contemporary Italy, and how conservative gender binaries are strengthened and policed in a time of social crisis through the stereotyping of Roma as racial threat.     

Campaigning against the Cuts: Gender Equality Movements in Tough Times

The Coalition's economic strategy poses a significant threat to gender equality in the UK. In the absence of committed gender equality advocates in the government, campaigning is, again, from the outside. This article presents some of the new strategies developed by individuals and organisations such as the Women's Budget Group and the Fawcett Society to fight against the cuts and considers the effectiveness of their approaches.     

文化视野中的教育研究述评

近年来,教育研究领域出现了文化学的研究取向。本文从教育研究的发展阶段、研究内容、研究方法和研究视角等方面回顾了这一文化取向所取得的主要成果,并在此基础上指出了研究中存在的问题。     

传统节日节物的性别修辞与符号指述关系研究——以"端午索"为例

中国传统节日节物是节日文化的物质载体,也是人类"意义生产"的特殊载体.节俗活动和节物也可看成主体的一种"言说"行为,具有一定的修辞功能.端午节历史上一个重要节物--"端午索"就极具性别修辞意义和符号指述关系.社会生产和分工是端午索确立女性修辞的技术基础和物质前提.端午索的修辞意义及其指述关系大致可分为夫妻指向的符号意义和母子关系的符号意义.这两种修辞意义及其指述关系既存在共同点,又具有差异性.深入研究包括端午索在内的众多传统节日节物的性别修辞与符号指述关系,对当今继承和发扬传统节日文化具有十分重要的现实意义.     

The Gender Deficit: Everyday Practices of Differentiation in the Chilean Labour Market

We focus on the reproduction of gender inequality in the labour market, analysing everyday practices of social boundary demarcation that exclude women from accessing resources at work. We argue that women's diminished position in the labour market – or gender deficit – is a result of taken‐for‐granted, day‐to‐day practices, conditioning the distribution of resources. Taking Chilean professional women as a case study, we focus on labour market practices that uphold gendered evaluation criteria, reproduce social classifications, and engender exclusion through social boundary work that limits women's access to labour market benefits and rewards.     

迟滞与觉醒——论当代女工形象的性别书写

当代女工形象的性别书写大致可以分为压抑期、萌芽期、生长期三个阶段,人物形象的特征及作家写作立场的变化反映了不同历史时期、不同的人对女工乃至现代化进程中的人的认知与想象.当代女工形象的性别书写对于工人形象的丰富和深化,以及女性文学的发展都具有重要意义.     

Is a Fixer-Upper Actually a Downer? Homeownership,Gender, Work on the Home,and Subjective Well-being

This article investigates whether homeownership provides psychological benefits, particularly as mediated through the act of working on the dwelling. It examines whether work on the home potentially increases subjective well-being (SWB) for home occupants because such work improves the dwelling or because the work is fulfilling and promotes feelings of mastery and control. It also investigates whether homeowners are more likely to perform such work compared with renters. The article finds that homeownership is associated with somewhat elevated life satisfaction, but that homeowners tend to experience less intense positive affect than renters. Homeowners spend much more time working on the home than renters. Strong links between work on the home and life satisfaction are not found, but certain types of home work activities—such as interior or exterior decoration and repairs and yard work—tend to be experienced as psychologically meaningful. Gender also plays a role in the division of home labor and the psychological costs and benefits of homeownership and work on the home. Women are much more likely than men to clean the interiors of dwellings, an activity associated with poor affect. Men perform more of most of the other types of work on the home; in homeowning households these burdens tend to balance each other out, but in renting households there tends to be a dramatic disparity in terms of work on the home, raising concerns about gender inequity.