Journal of Gender and Power

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Guarantee of Equality in Politics? The Media Discourse Analysis on the Subject of Introducing the Gender Parity into Electoral Law in Poland

Stella Strzemecka

Journal of Gender and Power > 2014 > 1 > 81-97

The project is aiming at the quality analysis of a media discussion about introducing the gender parity to electoral law and the analysis of the activities of the Association of Congress of Women. Selected press publications are the basis of the quality analysis (according to the Critical Discourse Analysis) taken from the most opinion-creating journals. The objective of this paper is to identify...

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Prevalence of bullying in fourth, fifth, and sixth grades for children with and without mild disabilities: A comparison study

Erica Howell, Catherine Flores

Journal of Gender and Power > 2014 > 1 > 157-175

This investigation examined perceptions of bullying for students with (n = 15) and without (n = 60) mild disabilities in grades 4th, 5th, and 6th in a school district in the state of California in the United States of America. Specifically, the following questions were investigated: 1) Do students with disabilities perceive a higher prevalence of being bullied than students without disabilities? 2)...

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Women's sequential and cyclic careers: implications for the career theory

Agnieszka Cybal-Michalska

Journal of Gender and Power > 2014 > 1 > 67-79

The article takes up discourse on the development of the career theory that demands taking into account multicontextual changes in the world of work that pose new challenges for women. The subjective shading of the career phenomenon that treats career as an individual’s "property" was clearly stressed. When analysing individual paths of career development for both women and men it is necessary...

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Gender, Power, and Feminisms in Breast Cancer Advocacy: Lessons from the United States and Poland

Gayle Sulik, Edyta Zierkiewicz

Journal of Gender and Power > 2014 > 1 > 111-145

The United States breast cancer movement helped to transform breast cancer’s social and medical landscape domestically and, in some ways, internationally. However, differences in gender identities, power relations, and the role of feminism(s) cross-culturally also shaped breast cancer advocacy itself. After giving a brief introduction to the socio-historical context of the U.S. and Polish breast cancer...

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The masculinization of identity among successful career women? A case study of Polish female managers

Agnieszka Gromkowska-Melosik

Journal of Gender and Power > 2014 > 1 > 25-47

One of the most fundamental principles which underpins the functioning of Western societies is the gender binary system, based on the eternal division into men and women as well as their social and biological predestination. Critiques of the binary system claim that there is an apparent lack of symmetry between the polar opposites constituting the binary system. The male-female dichotomy appears to...

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Some preliminary conjunctural thoughts on countercultures

Lawrence Grossberg

Journal of Gender and Power > 2014 > 1 > 13-23

The article is devoted to analysis of various countercultures aspects. The Author hypothesizes that the forms of contemporary politics are the result of two fundamentally interrelated strategic vectors. First is built upon a politics of ressentiment, setting “ordinary” folks against the socio-cultural elite which constututed to the "new right" movement. Second vector is originated of counterculture...

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Issues of power in relation to gender and sexuality in the EFL classroom - An overview

Joanna Pawelczyk, Łukasz Pakuła, Jane Sunderland

Journal of Gender and Power > 2014 > 1 > 49-66

Schools in general and classrooms in particular are among society’s primary socializing institutions (Freeman and McElhinny, 1996, p. 261; Adger, 2001). In particular, education, as an institution of Gramsci’s ‘civil society’ (Jones, 2006), can be considered a grassroots space where hegemonic gendered and sexual identities are constructed and regulated. This article looks at the context of the EFL...

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Gifted Education in the United States: Perspectives of Gender Equity

Melinda R. Pierson

Journal of Gender and Power > 2014 > 1 > 99-110

An overview of education for gifted and talented children and adolescents in the United States will be presented. Issues of gender equity will be discussed and suggestions for creating equal opportunities for all students will be outlined.

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The gender of cyborgs: Discussion on the margin of changes in genetics

Michał Klichowski

Journal of Gender and Power > 2014 > 1 > 147-155

The aim of this paper is to show that gender, both as a biological and social category, ceases to exist in the vision of man constructed by contemporary genetics. In the paper, I present the elementary concepts of genetic engineering and liberal genetics, and show how these two currents in genetics change gender into a feature deprived of any designata. I advance a thesis that the man of the future,...

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Children’s literature and the politics of gender

Lucie Jarkovská

Journal of Gender and Power > 2014 > 2 > 73-82

The article discusses children’s literature as a matter that can become highly politicized. While often viewed as apolitical, stories for children have always been subjected to hegemonic ideologies and mediated dominant norms. The analysis focuses on gender dimension of this normativity and shows that the attempts to create gender subversive stories for children have to face not only the conservative...

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National crisis and the challenge of education

Svi Shapiro

Journal of Gender and Power > 2014 > 2 > 11-28

The main objective of this article is showing that in USA is a crisis of meaning and values – one that leads to a debasement of human relationships, accelerating materialism and greed, and misplaced fixation on celebrity and glamour. In this context there is a compelling need to articulate a new bottom line for education – one that offers a different vision for educating our children that directly...

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Womanhood—contemporary paradoxes of equality and exclusion

Aneta Judzińska

Journal of Gender and Power > 2014 > 2 > 137-151

The article analyses currently emerging patterns of womanhood in the socio-cultural context. The author, using the feminist discourse, attempts to answer the following questions: What positive changes (based on the idea of gender equality) had taken place in terms of how the pattern of womanhood is culturally constructed? Are there still such areas in the contemporary model of woman’s life, where...

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The elusiveness of progressive masculinity: Gender differences in conceptualizations of nontraditional gender roles

Jenna M. Calton, Martin Heesacker, Paul B. Perrin

Journal of Gender and Power > 2014 > 2 > 37-58

Traditional masculinity has been thoroughly explored in psychological research, but its counterpart, progressive masculinity, has undergone relatively little scientific investigation. To determine whether this lack of attention to or understanding of progressive masculinity is mirrored more largely in mainstream culture, we examined how men and women conceptualize and experience gender roles in their...

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Women and philanthropy: The U. S. experience that could be transferred into the Ukrainian context of higher education

Alla Krasulia

Journal of Gender and Power > 2014 > 2 > 119-135

An overview of women’s philanthropy and analysis of examples of philanthropic support for educational institutions in the USA will be presented. Issues of gender charity will be discussed and suggestions for creating fundraising opportunities for universities will be outlined.

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Birth of cyber-supermothers

Alicja Ortynecka

Journal of Gender and Power > 2014 > 2 > 83-98

The study aims to reveal and to describe a new type of mother - cyber-supermother, which combines household duties with professional responsibilities by taking professional activity in the Internet. The study analyzes new model of maternity combining elements of traditional (motherhood as an instinct, conviction regarding personal care of a child, etc.) and modern model (postulate of self-fulfillment,...

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Decoding multisyllabic words: Structural analysis in reading by groups

Melinda R. Pierson, Dustin Gowan

Journal of Gender and Power > 2014 > 2 > 99-117

An age appropriate, research-based systematic program that teaches a flexible strategy for decoding multisyllabic words may be the foundation for increased reading abilities of middle school male and female students struggling with grade level text. To meet this need, the REWARDS reading program (Archer, Gleason, & Vachon, 2000) was used with struggling 6th grade readers with learning disabilities...

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Education towards difference and inclusion. Two types of discourses – to positive pedagogy

Zbigniew Kwieciński

Journal of Gender and Power > 2014 > 2 > 29-36

The main goal of this article is description of two educational discourses pertaining to differences, their acceptance and eradication or alleviation. The first is the special needs pedagogy, which has seen a dispute between the enthusiasts of institutional and social integration of the disabled with people, communities and institutions dominated by those within a given norm. The second is characteristic...

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Black heroes and heroines in cinema. Representations of Afro-American identities in the “Blaxploitation” movies

Jarema Drozdowicz

Journal of Gender and Power > 2014 > 2 > 59-72

The cinematic genre of Blaxploitation is a significant example of how the popular culture influences certain identity patterns. In this case the this relation is being examined on the issue of contemporary Afro-American identities. This paper attempts to answer the question of the mechanism of identity construction in the context of new media, and cinema in particular. Thus the Blaxploitation movies...

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Gender as a category entangled in the matrix of power and gender resistance potential

Ewa Bielska

Journal of Gender and Power > 2015 > 3 > 1 > 103-111

The subject of presented analysis is gender treated as a social category entangled in power relations. There are presented main social matrices of the gender-based power practices and it’s institutional and extrainstitutional, structural and individual expressions and consequences. The attention is focused at the classical conceptions of power and the perspectives of using it’s elements in the analysis...

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Art in a World of Change: A Vision for Global Aesthetics

Sherry B. Shapiro

Journal of Gender and Power > 2015 > 3 > 1 > 67-88

This article focuses on art, the aesthetic, and the body as a medium for self and social change in developing some thoughts on this issue of globalization and dance. The article explores how art, and specifically dance, can be a vehicle for aesthetic activism that emphasizes the importance of social justice and compassionate community. Drawing on critical and feminist pedagogies the author links pedagogy...

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Journal of Gender and Power

Guarantee of Equality in Politics? The Media Discourse Analysis on the Subject of Introducing the Gender Parity into Electoral Law in Poland

Prevalence of bullying in fourth, fifth, and sixth grades for children with and without mild disabilities: A comparison study

Women's sequential and cyclic careers: implications for the career theory

Gender, Power, and Feminisms in Breast Cancer Advocacy: Lessons from the United States and Poland

The masculinization of identity among successful career women? A case study of Polish female managers

Some preliminary conjunctural thoughts on countercultures

Issues of power in relation to gender and sexuality in the EFL classroom - An overview

Gifted Education in the United States: Perspectives of Gender Equity

The gender of cyborgs: Discussion on the margin of changes in genetics

Children’s literature and the politics of gender

National crisis and the challenge of education

Womanhood—contemporary paradoxes of equality and exclusion

The elusiveness of progressive masculinity: Gender differences in conceptualizations of nontraditional gender roles

Women and philanthropy: The U. S. experience that could be transferred into the Ukrainian context of higher education

Birth of cyber-supermothers

Decoding multisyllabic words: Structural analysis in reading by groups

Education towards difference and inclusion. Two types of discourses – to positive pedagogy

Black heroes and heroines in cinema. Representations of Afro-American identities in the “Blaxploitation” movies

Gender as a category entangled in the matrix of power and gender resistance potential

Art in a World of Change: A Vision for Global Aesthetics

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