masculinism Quick reference
A Dictionary of Media and Communication (3 ed.)
... ( masculism ) A male counterpart to feminism . Masculinists reject the idea of universal patriarchy, arguing that before feminism most men were as disempowered as most women. However, in the post-feminist era they argue that men are in a worse position because of the emphasis on women’s rights. Like feminism, masculinism reflects a number of positions, from the desire for equal rights for men (for example, in cases of child access after divorce), to more militant calls for the total abolition of women’s rights. ...
masculinism Quick reference
A Dictionary of Human Geography
... The processes and ideologies that prioritize the experiences of men and reproduce power structures that are advantageous to them. A critique of geography by feminist geographers is that the discipline has traditionally been masculinist in orientation and practice. See also Feminism and Geography ; Rose, Gillian ; women in geography...
masculinism
Duvert, Tony (b. 1945) Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
... in pursuit of the subversion of conventional values. In particular, he sets out to disturb his readers by focusing on adolescent male sexuality and pederasty, using a pornographic lyricism reminiscent of Genet . His essays, Le Bon Sexe illustré ( 1974 ), and L'Amour au masculin and Abécédaire malveillant ( 1989 ), are virulent attacks on current concepts of morality as a subordination of human values to the requirements of capitalism. [ Christopher Robinson...
patriarchy Quick reference
A Dictionary of Human Geography
...discourse and the media. The result is various forms of discrimination and restricted access to power , resources, goods, and services. Patriarchy is expressed spatially with respect to access to public space and workspaces and spatial entrapment in the home. See also masculinism . Further reading McDowell, L. (1999), Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies...
ecofeminism Quick reference
A Dictionary of Human Geography
...set of ideas and values that prioritizes culture over nature and leads to the destruction of the natural world. Ecofeminists seek to recast the relationship between the sexes, and between culture and nature, into one that is non-exploitative and harmonious. See also masculinism...
positionality Quick reference
A Dictionary of Human Geography
...feminists argue that their positionality should be reflected upon and declared so that the politics and power framing of a study and the standpoint of the researcher, is known, enabling those engaging with the research to be able to better evaluate its merits. See also masculinism ; reflexivity ; situated knowledge . Further reading Rose, G. (1997), ‘Situating knowledges: positionality, reflexivity and other tactics’, Progress in Human Geography 21:...
Feminism and Geography Quick reference
A Dictionary of Human Geography
...seeing the world through a masculine gaze . Within geography a power-geometry thus operates, realized through discursive and material practices and structures, and performed through an embodied subjectivity. Feminist geography, Rose argued, offers a counterpoint to such masculinism, offering alternative ways of seeing , doing, writing, and performing geographical scholarship that produces non- essentializing geographical knowledge. See also women in geography...
feminist epistemology Quick reference
A Dictionary of Human Geography
...epistemology An approach to understanding the world that emphasizes how gender influences the ways we come to comprehend and research reality. It challenges masculinist approaches to knowledge construction ( see masculinism ). The idea that research can be objective , neutral, and value-free has been shown by feminist critics to be a mask for masculinist reason. All research, these critics have insisted, is always conditioned by the particular norms and values of the researcher and is shot through with relations of power , usually in subtle ways....
Haraway, Donna (1944–) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Human Geography
...publications are Primate Visions ( 1989 ), Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Women ( 1991 ), Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan (c) _Meets_OncoMouse TM ( 1997 ), and When Species Meet ( 2008 ). See also Actor-Network Theory ; cyborg ; masculinism...
Clanchy, John (1943– ) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (2 ed.)
...a lapsed Catholic and failed husband, James Dunne, who, in an attempt to understand his life, writes a novel which angers his twin sister, Bernadette; correctly perceiving the novel as autobiographical, Bernadette fails to penetrate the underlying insecurity of its aggressive masculinism...
feminism Quick reference
A Dictionary of Media and Communication (3 ed.)
...Compare masculinism . 1. An ideology and a social movement based on the need to end the subordination of women to men in contemporary society. Beyond this shared perspective, there are multiple feminisms organized around a polarization between those stressing the basic sameness of men and women (androgyny) and those emphasizing difference (whether biological, cultural , or social)—the latter sometimes adopting essentialist stances and/or separatist strategies. It is conventionally divided into three historical ‘waves’: the first wave from the...
Science and Technology Studies Quick reference
A Dictionary of Human Geography
... feminist epistemologies and cultural studies of science ( see Haraway, Donna ; Latour, Bruno ). The latter seek to uncover not just the cultural meanings associated with scientific practice, but also the influence of racism, sexism, and ethnocentrism on science ( see masculinism ). Ontological positions vary from realism to constructivism , and materialism to relativism . STS methods include detailed historical analysis but also ethnographies of laboratories and scrutiny of experiments themselves. There is particular focus on the role of...
Masculinity Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian History
..., 1986), Marilyn Lake argued that concepts such as ‘national character’ had obscured ‘one of the greatest political struggles in Australian history: the contest between men and women in the late nineteenth century for the control of national culture’. Lake coined the term masculinism to describe the ways in which groups such as the Bohemian radicals—widely celebrated as progenitors of the Australian legend—created a separatist politics to defend their interests as men. Publications such as the Sydney Bulletin and its Melbourne equivalent, the Bull-Ant...
chick flick Quick reference
A Dictionary of Film Studies (2 ed.)
...regarded as postmodern hybrids of classical and contemporary conventions. However, perhaps because of the uncomfortable relationship between feminist and postmodern approaches to film criticism and theory, or perhaps because postmodern cinema and writings on it tend towards masculinism, the chick flick has not been widely addressed in feminist film theory . While some might maintain that terms like ‘chick flick’ and ‘older bird’ embody the very postfeminist irony that the films themselves claim to celebrate, others may regard them as flip and disparaging...
Australian Settlement Reference library
Oxford Companion to Australian Politics
...discussion indicates the content of these ‘settled’ political ideas. Building upon the analysis in Paul Kelly 's The End of Certainty ( 1992 ), Stokes ( 2004 ) has argued that the Australian Settlement comprises nine elements, namely, white Australia, terra nullius , masculinism, Australian democracy , state secularism, state developmentalism, arbitration and conciliation, welfare minimalism, and imperial nationalism. Judith Brett ( 2004 ) adds the important idea of regional equality . Many of these ideas about national identity and policy...
masculism Reference library
Ferrell Christensen
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
...and a reasonable definition of ‘masculism’ would have it refer to promoting the interests or rights of men. (This is very different, it must be noted, from promoting attributes of womanliness or manliness, as they might be construed, which could be labelled femininism and masculinism.) Thus defined, the two parallel terms are too vague to be very useful. A more precise definition of both would be something on this order: ‘the belief that women/men have been systematically discriminated against, and that discrimination should be eliminated’. Evidently, such...
Levesque, Claude (1927–) Reference library
The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers
...characterize some of the plural paths his own work thereafter passionately explored. From his first book entitled L’Étrangeté du texte , a series of essays on Nietzsche, Blanchot, Freud, and Derrida published in 1976 , to his most recent work published in 2002 , Par-delà le masculin et le féminin , which again calls upon many authors, approached through both proximity and distance (Freud and Lacan, Levinas, Blanchot, Derrida, Bataille), Lévesque’s interest, fascination even, for the immoderate, the excess, the tensions of contradiction through writing has...
Adams, Glenda (1940–2007) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (2 ed.)
...baby's afternoon nap’ and her discovery of independence. Play is central to this novel, which comically satirises the hollowness of some familiar political attitudes and manipulations, although it is itself a deeply political book subversive of both latter-day imperialism and masculinism. Beginning in Sydney of the post-war years and partly set in Europe, Longleg is the story of the unremarkable William Badger from childhood to middle age and his long adjustment to his early abandonment by his mother; his unsuccessful, part-painful and part-comic search for...
