The Culture of Gender by Ellen Finlay https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901 en-us 2022-02-15 14:52:30 UTC 2022-03-11 10:18:54 UTC hello@padlet.com Qandeel Baloch ellenfinly https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2048769393 Qandeel Baloch, a famous influencer and blogger in Pakistan, was murdered by her brother in an "honour killing", purportedly as her online content brought shame to the family. In this short documentary we see Qandeel's father condemning the murder, calling Qandeel "their flower" and expressing deep grief at the loss of his daughter and claims not to have disapproved of her lifestyle. How does this fit into the cultural template that is presented of honour killing? Who is more representative of the "culture" of Pakistan, Qandeel's father or brother? ]]> 2022-02-15 15:02:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2048769393 Angel Babies ellenfinly https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2050955749 2022-02-16 14:23:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2050955749 To address honor crimes from the perspective of women’s rights and well-being, it seems that a third way out of the grim choice between the tradition effect and the disciplinary effect is needed (Kogacioğlu, p.141) ellenfinly https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2050970901 Can we add any ideas/fabulations to Kogacioğlu's appeal?
-Depravation exacerbating intolerance/
-Rehabilitation/Education/Conversation?]]> 2022-02-16 14:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2050970901 Fadime Sahindal - "She argued for the inclusion of immigrants in European societies, never failing to express compassion for her family’s situation, despite the violence she experienced. In her speech in parliament, she said, ‘If society had taken its responsibility and helped my parents to feel a greater stake in Swedish society then perhaps this might have been avoided" ellenfinly https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2050979870 Fadime's address to parliament is a moment that subverts the narrative that she needs to be "saved" by the actions and ideas of others - she speaks with her own voice and criticises the "enlightened" Swedish society and government for facilitating the situation that she is in.]]> 2022-02-16 14:31:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2050979870 "Western" Misogyny ellenfinly https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2051053519 Dowry murders are characterised by Narayan as a recent phenomenon that is being conflated with a traditional one. Narayan illustrates how Dowry and Dowry murder are distinct processes, with the latter exacerbated and intensified by commercialisation and commodity culture. 
 
If we were to take her template to analyse a recent manifestation of misogyny in “Western” culture that would not be characterised as “traditional”, we could look at the America First group profiled by Louis Theroux in his latest documentary, Extreme and Online. America First are culturally located in the modern frameworks and ideologies of internet culture and the alt-right. They do, however, declare allegiance to a Christian ethos, while simultaneously using shocking obscenity and rape threats that can be associated with the internet assemblage of extreme porn, incel culture and online abuse of women.
 
Is the example of members of the alt-right group's degradation of women “traditional” because of its Christian affiliation in a comparable way to Dowry murder and Hinduism? Narayan's descriptions of mythological appeals to fire and Sita and tenuous cultural reference points that are drawn could equally be invoked by allusions to the biblical template of the Madonna/Whore narrative, though it would be obvious to Western audiences that such links might legitimise and romanticise such behaviour that is framed as an abhorrent and exceptional “modern phenomenon”. 
]]> 2022-02-16 15:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2051053519 "Western" Misogyny ellenfinly https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2053976350 "Pathologising groups such as incels as ‘deviant others’, distinct from ‘ordinary men’, is problematic as it suggests that explicit sexism is confined to these small groups rather than being symbolic of wider societal perspectives and behaviours. "]]> 2022-02-17 19:47:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2053976350 "The utterance of “timeless tradition,” in other words, serves to produce its other, the modern, enlightened institution." (Kogacioğlu,120) ellenfinly https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2053986800 What other examples of complex social processes, power dynamics, oppressions and inequalities does the concept of "tradition" flatten?]]> 2022-02-17 19:53:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2053986800 "Western" Misogyny ellenfinly https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2053990565 ”The second problem I am concerned with has to do with the ways in which “culture” is invoked in explanations of forms of violence against Third-World women, while it is not similarly invoked in explanations of forms of vio­lence that affect mainstream Western women. 
(Narayan, p. 84)
]]> 2022-02-17 19:56:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2053990565 Death by Culture | "Random" Attacks ellenfinly https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2054023429 There has been criticism of the description of the murders of women as "random" in Western contexts.. what is the difference between a "random" killing, fatal act of domestic violence and honour killing?]]> 2022-02-17 20:18:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2054023429 The Trojan Horse Affair ellenfinly https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2055082231 https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/introducing-the-trojan-horse-affair/id1200361736?i=1000550872351]]> 2022-02-18 11:30:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2055082231 Men Who Hate Women | Laura Bates ellenfinly https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2055112227 2022-02-18 11:55:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ellenfinly/6ytdtfw19l5gq901/wish/2055112227