The Making of Class and Gender through Visualizing Moral Subject Formation

Skeggs, Beverley

doi:10.1177/0038038505058381

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“…Aquest article vol ser una contribució a aquesta línia de recerca, escassament nodrida pel que fa a l'anàlisi de manifestacions mediàtiques o audiovisuals. Més enllà d'aquests productes, els discursos quotidians empren sistemàticament el recurs a les virtuts morals de les persones com a subterfugi per definir la posició estructural de la classe subalterna (Skeggs, 2005). Se la defineix, en bona mesura, com aquella que està conformada per persones moralment poc virtuoses (quelcom que és causa directa i justificació transcendent de la seva posició subordinada).…”

Section: Les Emocions Mitificadesunclassified

“…Alhora, els col·lectius subalterns són una font perpètua de fascinació (Skeggs, 2004), en tant que col·lectiu humà capaç de situar-se en els intersticis de la normativitat, aliè als dispositius alienadors als quals està sotmesa la majoria. No és estrany, en aquest sentit, que la cultura popular amb una audiència més massiva (i socialment transversal), penetrada per la cultura de l'autenticitat (Potter, 2010;Taylor, 1991), les disposicions políticament incorrectes (o, millor dit, emocionalment incorrectes) dels grups subalterns siguin presentades com a contramodels alternatius que contemplar, neuròticament, entre l'emmirallament retòric apologètic i la condemna moral apocalíptica.…”

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Sentimental education in the 21st century. Myths and emotions in the Twilight saga

Gonzàlez

2016

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ResumEn aquest article aprofundeixo en alguns dels elements clau de l'educació sentimental -o de l'educació emocional, en un sentit més ampli-que es transmet en un conjunt de pel·lícules que van assolir un gran èxit d'audiència entre el públic adolescent i jove ara fa uns anys: la saga Crepuscle. La tesi que s'hi defensa és que, a nivell mitològic, aquesta saga filmogràfica (així com les novel·les homò-nimes, que no han estat analitzades aquí) reprodueix un principi clau del teixit mitològic de la contemporaneïtat relatiu al paper de les emocions en l'estructuració de la societat (Illouz, 1997). Paraules clauemocions, educació emocional, sociologia, Crepuscle Sentimental education in the 21 st Century Myths and emotions in the Twilight saga AbstractIn this article, I look into some of the key elements of sentimental education, or emotional education in the broadest sense of the term, that are conveyed through a set of films that were extremely successful and popular among young and adolescent audiences a few years ago: the Twilight saga. The thesis that I put forward here is that, at a mythological level, this cinematographic saga (as well as the novels by the same name, which have not been analysed in this study) recreate a key factor in the mythological fabric of contemporary times in relation to the role of emotions in the structuring of society (Illouz, 1997).

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Sentimental education in the 21st century. Myths and emotions in the Twilight saga

Gonzàlez

2016

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“…Like Islam, working-class culture in the UK is subject to demonisation in media and political discourse (Haylett 2003;Jones 2012). In particular, moral value judgements about embodiment and ways of living are being used to categorise and define the relative cultural and economic worth of different groups of people with working-class people judged as having the wrong kind of life and culture (Skeggs 2005). Here, classism as a form of prejudice (Valentine and Harris 2014) was commonly expressed by interviewees through popular gendered discourses about women's fecundity and excessive femininities in what Skeggs (2005, 967) has characterised as the 'historical-representational moralizing pathologizing, disgustproducing register attached to working-class women'.…”

Section: Intersecting Prejudices: Sexism Islamophobia and Classismmentioning

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Ways of Seeing: Sexism the Forgotten Prejudice?

Valentine

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Mayblin

2014

Gender, Place & Culture

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Recent developments in feminism, charted in Gender, Place and Culture over the past 21 years, have stressed the relational, differentiated and contested nature of gender. This has led to the rejection of the unified category women, and with this the right for feminism to make claims on behalf of all women. This paper argues that an unintended consequence of this development in ways of thinking about gender is that patriarchy as a form of power relations has become relatively neglected. It draws on research from a European Research Council project (including biographical interviews and case studies of a gym and workplace) to demonstrate that while the development of equality legislation has contained the public expression of the most blatant forms of gender prejudice, sexism persists and is manifest in subtle ways. As a consequence, it can be difficult to name and challenge with the effect that patriarchy as a power structure which systematically (re)produces gender inequalities,is obscured by its ordinariness. Rather, sexism appears only to be 'seen' when it affords the instantiation of other forms of prejudice, such as Islamophobia. As such, we argue that Gender, Place and Culture has a responsibility going forward to make sexism as a particular form of prejudice more visible, while also exposing the complexity and fluidity of its intersectional relationship to other forms of oppression and social categories.

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“…Bev Skeggs (2005) argues that femininity as an entity is inherently ambiguous, indeterminate, contradictory and unstable. Certain groups of women, for example black, working class women cannot inhabit the category of femininity because of the dominant which is always filtered through classed and racialised judgements.…”

Section: Theorising Gender and Femininity In Gypsy-traveller Societymentioning

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‘Caravan wives’ and ‘decent girls’: Gypsy-Traveller women's perceptions of gender, culture and morality in the North of England

Casey

2014

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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This paper examines the beliefs and practices that constitute gender among Gypsy-Traveller women and then attempts to discern the consequences that flow from these beliefs and practices. It analyses gender ideology and expectations among these women and the shared investment in the moral identity attached to being a good Gypsy-Traveller wife. The paper argues that 'Gypsy-Traveller woman' cannot be understood as an identity that stands apart from gender and racial oppression. It is within this context that the tension between change and permanence in gender relations is played out. It argues that the maintenance of cultural taboos embodied and symbolised in the surveillance of womens' bodies is an important issue which problematises the construction of Gypsy-Traveller women. It posits that the appeal to morality may represent as much an avoidance of anxiety as a defence of marked gendered divisions within Gypsy-Traveller society. The paper suggests that the demands of cultural survival play a significant role in framing the degree to which women are willing or able to challenge the status quo.

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The Making of Class and Gender through Visualizing Moral Subject Formation

Cited by 506 publications

References 26 publications

Sentimental education in the 21st century. Myths and emotions in the Twilight saga

Sentimental education in the 21st century. Myths and emotions in the Twilight saga

Ways of Seeing: Sexism the Forgotten Prejudice?

‘Caravan wives’ and ‘decent girls’: Gypsy-Traveller women's perceptions of gender, culture and morality in the North of England

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