Bargaining with Patriarchy

Kandiyoti, Deniz

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“…It is reminiscent of Kandiyoti's (1988) description of Arab women's hidden power, activated indirectly, as a kind of negotiation with patriarchy and passive resistance to oppression. By means of that wisdom the women adapted to their marital lives, and Bedouin culture was preserved despite all the changes.…”

Section: The Third Generation: Assault and Withdrawalmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Meaning of the Marital Relationship in the Lives of Three Generations of Bedouin Women

Alhuzail

2022

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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Since Israel’s establishment in 1948, its Bedouin population has undergone many changes—from a traditional society to a modern one and from a nomadic life to permanent settlement—that have greatly affected the marital relationship. This is a qualitative study, using a narrative paradigm, of perceptions of the marital relationship in three generations of women in10 Bedouin families. An interpretive analysis of their life story interviews revealed differences and some similarities between one generation and the next. The first-generation women spoke in general about the woman’s role in the relationship and the man’s role, which was to defend, protect, and support the woman. In the two later generations, the women took upon themselves the overall responsibility for the marriage’s success. In the second generation, the marriage relied primarily on the behavior of the woman, whose role was to nurture the relationship and her husband’s reputation. The third generation saw the relationship as an escape from their suffocating birth family, a warm environment in which to rear children, and a way of meeting many emotional and physical needs. Although their expectations were often not realized, this generation, too, strove to preserve the relationship. None of the interviewees mentioned polygyny, although it is widespread among Israel’s Bedouins. And despite the intergenerational differences, there were some constants: “Women’s wisdom,” the key factor appearing in each generation, enabled Bedouin women to adapt to their marital lives and to preserve Bedouin culture.

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Section: The Third Generation: Assault and Withdrawalmentioning

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The Meaning of the Marital Relationship in the Lives of Three Generations of Bedouin Women

Alhuzail

2022

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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“…In her analysis of women’s position in society, Soysal diagnoses that patriarchal heteronormativity is a deeply established structure, which is not simply produced by a domineering father or a husband, but also exercised by women depending on their intersectional positioning. Long before Kandiyoti’s ‘Bargaining with Patriarchy’ (1988: 274–90), Soysal problematises the ideal of sisterhood or female solidarity and demonstrates how women – mothers, mothers-in-law, aunts, friends – contribute to women’s domination and marginalisation in society. In this sense, Soysal goes beyond the feminist critique of ‘women’s rights’ and embraces a queer critique of the heteronormative regime.…”

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Embracing embodiedness, desire and failure: Women’s fluid gender performances in Sevgi Soysal’s oeuvre from the 1960s

Maksudyan

Alkan

2022

Journal of European Studies

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The ‘women’s liberation’ of the global 1960s did not entail a full range of women’s rights, feminist politics and sexual freedoms in Turkey. On the contrary, the Turkish 1960s were characterised by a patriarchal heteronormative order that imprisoned women in a passive and essentially asexual identity and denied them control over their bodies. In Turkey, women’s emancipation was postponed. At the same time, the 1960s offered a juncture of literary renewal in women’s writing and representation, embracing the dictum ‘the personal is political’. This article focuses on three works by Sevgi Soysal (1936–1976), a key name of this period whose writing is concerned with the problematisation of what Judith Butler calls ‘the compulsory order of sex/gender/desire’. Relying on queer theory, we examine how Soysal’s Tutkulu Perçem (The Passionate Forelock, 1962), Tante Rosa (Aunt Rosa, 1968) and Yürümek (Walking, 1970) represent female characters’ growing awareness of their rich spectrum of gender performances, as they embrace their desires, transformations and confusions. In this way, Soysal’s works not only take the female body ‘out of the closet’ but also explore its multitude of desires and fluid possibilities.

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“…African female graduate students are a diverse group; their experiences are mediated by class, race, religion, and so on, but we focus on their commonalities, including (i) a common experience of being "gendered" and racialized by culture, colonization, and capitalism (Kandiyoti, 2010); (ii) structures changes in gender roles within and outside the family that impact on women's quality of life and access to social opportunities;(iii) the history, culture, and social circumstances that often privilege men over women in higher education. Moreover, we emphasize the importance of African women's voices, cultural knowledge, agency, and resilience in engaging life's challenges (Kandiyoti, 2010). We also realize that, as researchers, we must also contend with fundamental questions about voice, power, and responsibility as the "official" interpreters of African women's experiences.…”

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Gender Women Stud

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Consistent economic downturns, political uprisings, and social upheavals from the 1980s have significantly depleted the quality of higher education in Africa, particularly graduate training. While remarkable strides in graduate training have been made in countries such as South Africa relative to other parts of the continent, policy and funding challenges continue to threaten the quality of students and programs. Over the past two decades, new forms of institutional collaborations aimed at revamping graduate training in sub-Saharan Africa have emerged. Debates on how to revamp the higher education system are on going among scholars, policymakers, administrators, and funders, but minimal attention is paid to the students' voices, particularly women's that speak to the dire conditions under which graduate training is carried out. To spur more discussion about this gap in literature, we conducted focus group discussions with female graduate students in four higher education institutions in Nigeria and South Africa.Our participants identified five major challenges that graduate students often wrestle with: financial challenges, limited sources of and dated curricular materials, institutional infrastructure and program logistics, academic supervision, and gender relations among students as well as between students and scholars. These challenges, our participants assert, often place female graduate students in a more vulnerable position than their male counterparts. Our findings, though preliminary, point to the need to actively engage students, especially women, in academic debates and initiatives aimed at improving graduate training in Africa.

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Bargaining with Patriarchy

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The Meaning of the Marital Relationship in the Lives of Three Generations of Bedouin Women

The Meaning of the Marital Relationship in the Lives of Three Generations of Bedouin Women

Embracing embodiedness, desire and failure: Women’s fluid gender performances in Sevgi Soysal’s oeuvre from the 1960s

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