Subtile und direkte Mechanismen der sozialen Konstruktion von Geschlecht in Schulbüchern. Vorstellung eines Kategoriensystems zur Analyse der Geschlechter(un)gerechtigkeit von Texten und Bildern

Ausgehend von der Frauenbewegung in Deutschland wurden bereits vor über 40 Jahren erste Analysen zur Darstellung der Geschlechter in Schulbüchern vorgelegt. Sie haben gezeigt, dass weibliche Charaktere im Vergleich zu männlichen seltener und oft in geschlechterstereotypen Rollen dargestellt werden. Heute besteht auf gesellschaftlicher Ebene deutlich mehr Geschlechtergerechtigkeit, dennoch existieren nach wie vor subtile Formen von Diskriminierung in Schulbüchern. Der vorliegende Beitrag dokumentiert die Entwicklung eines Kategoriensystems, das geeignet ist, das Ausmaß von Geschlechter(un)gerechtigkeit in Texten und Bildern aus aktuell in deutschen Schulen verwendeten Deutsch- und Mathematikbüchern zu analysieren. Neben den Häufigkeiten der Darstellungen von weiblichen und männlichen Charakteren und der Geschlechtstypizität ihrer Rollen und Aktivitäten können hiermit zwei subtile Mechanismen der Herstellung von Geschlechterungleichheiten untersucht werden: geschlechter(un)gerechte Sprache und die räumliche Darstellung weiblicher und männlicher Charaktere. Erste Ergebnisse der Anwendung des Kategoriensystems für Deutsch- und Mathematikbücher werden in der Diskussion dargestellt.

The social perception of heroes and murders: Effects of gender-inclusive language in media reports

The way media depict women and men can reinforce or diminish gender stereotyping. Which part does language play in this context? Are roles perceived as more gender-balanced when feminine role nouns are used in addition to masculine ones? Research on gender-inclusive language shows that the use of feminine-masculine word pairs tends to increase the visibility of women in various social roles. For example, when speakers of German were asked to name their favorite "heroine or hero in a novel," they listed more female characters than when asked to name their favorite "hero in a novel." The research reported in this article examines how the use of gender-inclusive language in news reports affects readers' own usage of such forms as well as their mental representation of women and men in the respective roles. In the main experiment, German participants (N = 256) read short reports about heroes or murderers which contained either masculine generics or gender-inclusive forms (feminine-masculine word pairs). Gender-inclusive forms enhanced participants' own usage of gender-inclusive language and this resulted in more gender-balanced mental representations of these roles. Reading about "heroines and heroes" made participants assume a higher percentage of women among persons performing heroic acts than reading about "heroes" only, but there was no such effect for murderers. A post-test suggested that this might be due to a higher accessibility of female exemplars in the category heroes than in the category murderers. Importantly, the influence of gender-inclusive language on the perceived percentage of women in a role was mediated by speakers' own usage of inclusive forms. This suggests that people who encounter gender-inclusive forms and are given an opportunity to use them, use them more themselves and in turn have more gender-balanced mental representations of social roles.

El tópico de la afrenta por el abandono y por la risa de los otros en Filoctetes de Sófocles y en Medea de Eurípides

En este trabajo abordaremos el tópico de la afrenta, en los personajes protagónicos masculino y femenino de las tragedias de Sófocles y de Eurípides respectivamente. En Filoctetes como en Medea visualizamos el mencionado tópico en sus dos momentos: por un lado el abandono, que padecen sus personajes como materialización objetiva de la afrenta, y por otro lado, la consecuencia de este abandono: la risa, que provoca en los otros. Filoctetes deja de pertenecer a la griega, por el relegamiento de sus mismos compañeros; en cambio Medea siempre significó para los griegos la alteridad, la presencia de una amenaza que era necesario desechar. Será la afrenta por traición, abandono-olvido y burla de los otros, que involucra a estos personajes. Afrenta que en Filoctetes se subsume en la humanidad del héroe sofocleo y en su reivindicación posterior. Afrenta que en Medea adquiere los ribetes contestatarios del castigo

Juegos miméticos : La invención de las niñas. (Lectura de dos cuentos de Marta Brunet)

En los cuentos "La nariz" y "La niña que quiso ser estampa" , de Marta Brunet, los personajes infantiles son portadores de discursos metatextuales, que revelan la relación de la autora con la institución literaria en Chile, durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. La figuración de la infancia en tanto objeto cultural, su utilización metafórica, será el punto de partida para reflexionar sobre la ambigua inserción de Brunet en la "ciudad letrada ", las operaciones miméticas que debió proyectar con miras a ser aceptada entre sus contemporáneos y la construcción de personajes femeninos en trayecto hacia la autonomía personal y creadora

Juegos miméticos : La invención de las niñas. (Lectura de dos cuentos de Marta Brunet)

En los cuentos "La nariz" y "La niña que quiso ser estampa" , de Marta Brunet, los personajes infantiles son portadores de discursos metatextuales, que revelan la relación de la autora con la institución literaria en Chile, durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. La figuración de la infancia en tanto objeto cultural, su utilización metafórica, será el punto de partida para reflexionar sobre la ambigua inserción de Brunet en la "ciudad letrada ", las operaciones miméticas que debió proyectar con miras a ser aceptada entre sus contemporáneos y la construcción de personajes femeninos en trayecto hacia la autonomía personal y creadora

El tópico de la afrenta por el abandono y por la risa de los otros en Filoctetes de Sófocles y en Medea de Eurípides

En este trabajo abordaremos el tópico de la afrenta, en los personajes protagónicos masculino y femenino de las tragedias de Sófocles y de Eurípides respectivamente. En Filoctetes como en Medea visualizamos el mencionado tópico en sus dos momentos: por un lado el abandono, que padecen sus personajes como materialización objetiva de la afrenta, y por otro lado, la consecuencia de este abandono: la risa, que provoca en los otros. Filoctetes deja de pertenecer a la griega, por el relegamiento de sus mismos compañeros; en cambio Medea siempre significó para los griegos la alteridad, la presencia de una amenaza que era necesario desechar. Será la afrenta por traición, abandono-olvido y burla de los otros, que involucra a estos personajes. Afrenta que en Filoctetes se subsume en la humanidad del héroe sofocleo y en su reivindicación posterior. Afrenta que en Medea adquiere los ribetes contestatarios del castigo

El tópico de la afrenta por el abandono y por la risa de los otros en Filoctetes de Sófocles y en Medea de Eurípides

En este trabajo abordaremos el tópico de la afrenta, en los personajes protagónicos masculino y femenino de las tragedias de Sófocles y de Eurípides respectivamente. En Filoctetes como en Medea visualizamos el mencionado tópico en sus dos momentos: por un lado el abandono, que padecen sus personajes como materialización objetiva de la afrenta, y por otro lado, la consecuencia de este abandono: la risa, que provoca en los otros. Filoctetes deja de pertenecer a la griega, por el relegamiento de sus mismos compañeros; en cambio Medea siempre significó para los griegos la alteridad, la presencia de una amenaza que era necesario desechar. Será la afrenta por traición, abandono-olvido y burla de los otros, que involucra a estos personajes. Afrenta que en Filoctetes se subsume en la humanidad del héroe sofocleo y en su reivindicación posterior. Afrenta que en Medea adquiere los ribetes contestatarios del castigo

Juegos miméticos : La invención de las niñas. (Lectura de dos cuentos de Marta Brunet)

En los cuentos "La nariz" y "La niña que quiso ser estampa" , de Marta Brunet, los personajes infantiles son portadores de discursos metatextuales, que revelan la relación de la autora con la institución literaria en Chile, durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. La figuración de la infancia en tanto objeto cultural, su utilización metafórica, será el punto de partida para reflexionar sobre la ambigua inserción de Brunet en la "ciudad letrada ", las operaciones miméticas que debió proyectar con miras a ser aceptada entre sus contemporáneos y la construcción de personajes femeninos en trayecto hacia la autonomía personal y creadora

A MULHER ALÉM DO BEM E DO MAL: Malévola e a representação cinematográfica do feminino integrado

Estudo sobre as construções simbólicas e identitárias da mulher presentes na narrativa e na estrutura das personagens femininas do filme Malévola (2014) – produção dos estúdios Disney (EUA). A narrativa é inspirada no conto de fadas “A Bela Adormecida do Bosque” e distingue-se pela perspectiva feminina, modificando as possibilidades de interpretação, além de possibilitar a quebra do paradigma dicotômico relacionado ao Bem e ao Mal. A pesquisa tem por objetivo estudar a evolução das construções imaginárias da mulher no cinema e traçar paralelos entre as características arquetípicas das personagens de Malévola em relação à identidade da mulher na contemporaneidade. Para tal, será tomado como referencial teórico os estudos do imaginário social, com as obras de Gilbert Durand, Edgar Morin e, em especial, Michel Maffesoli; conceitos da psicanálise a partir dos trabalhos de C.G. Jung, Erich Neumann, Marie-Louise Von Franz e Clarissa Pinkola Estés; as teorias de Stuart Hall, Laura Mulvey e Gilles Lipovetsky relacionadas aos estudos culturais com ênfase em gênero; e também o ecofeminismo através dos trabalhos de autoras como Vandana Shiva e Maria Mies. Nosso referencial teórico-metodológico é a Hermenêutica de Profundidade (HP) visando à interpretação da estrutura simbólica de nosso objeto. Resultam desta pesquisa a verificação de um processo de saturação de padrões identitários e simbólicos provindos da modernidade e a evolução de novas dinâmicas nas narrativas presentes nas mídias e na comunicação

Characteristics of women, moral, poetical, and historical.

Essays on Shakespeare's female characters; published also under title: Shakespeare's heroines.

Characteristics of women, moral, poetical, and historical. With fifty vignette etchings.

Essays on Shakespeare's female characters; published also under titles: Shakespeare's heroines; Shakespeare's female characters.

Androiden und (Anti)feminismus in The Stepford Wives

Since the early days of cinema the creation of artificial life with its various implications has been a popular topic on screen. Amongst the large number of films that deal with the theme of androids Bryan Forbes’ "The Stepford Wives" (1975) is noticeable for its focus on questions of gender and the relationship between the sexes. The film is set in a contemporary small suburban town where frustrated husbands have found a special way of dealing with their emancipated wives by replacing them with docile life-like robots. Mixing elements of the thriller and horror genres with farce and comedy "The Stepford Wives" was the first American mainstream film to deal explicitly with Women’s Lib. Unlike Ira Levin in his much more ambivalent novel that the film was based on, Forbes and his actors deliberately set out to make a feminist satire, and according to some critics succeeded in producing an important document of second wave feminism which soon acquired cult status. However, it also provoked a number of negative reactions from feminists who were very uncomfortable with a film in which men get away with murdering the female population of an entire town. A closer inspection reveals that the satirical element of the film is indeed not prominent and frequently counteracted, at times facilitating a misogynist rather than a feminist interpretation. This is mainly due to the ending of the film which implies the murderous elimination of the female protagonist. Unlike all other cinematic and literary works that feature androids "The Stepford Wives" shows the successful creation of artificial life which does not backfire. In addition, the film which clearly categorises itself as a thriller and horror movie, and specifically alludes to the tradition of threatened yet strong female characters in these genres, at the same time defies this convention in favour of a seemingly misogynist ending. Thus the way in which "The Stepford Wives" refuses to comply with the traditions of both the android theme and the horror genre, involuntarily serves to undermine its intention as a feminist social satire.

„Fern im dänischen Norden ein Bruder”:Thomas Mann und Herman Bang. Eine literarische Spurensuche

This study for the first time demonstrates and analyses the full extent of Danish impressionist writer Herman Bang’s influence on one of Germany’s major authors, Thomas Mann. Mann was an avid reader of Bang’s works and he regarded the Scandinavian writer as a kindred spirit, a “brother up north”, who “taught [him] much”. It has previously been accepted that Bang was an inspiration for Mann in his formative years. However, as this study conclusively shows, references to Bang’s works occur throughout Mann’s writings, from the early novellas to the late novels. The book argues that Mann was not only impressed by Bang’s highly individual style of impressionist writing but that his fascination for Bang’s works was to a large extent based on this author’s recurrent depiction of decadence, his handling of artistic motifs and his treatment of erotic themes. Bang’s topical focus on the problematically isolated lives of artists and aristocrats as well as his insights on the destructive nature of love and sexuality – particularly of homoerotic desire – were surprisingly similar to Mann’s own views on these topics and yet provoked him to produce heavily referenced counter versions of Bang’s works. This phenomenon is explored in the context of Mann’s struggle with his own homosexuality and the attraction that death and decadence exerted over him. Most of Mann’s writings are in that way indebted to Bang. In addition, Mann’s frequent use of homoerotic subtexts and his depiction of female characters were noticeably influenced by Bang’s literary techniques. All these different, yet closely interlinked, aspects of Mann’s creative appropriation of Bang’s works are analysed and discussed in this study. To conclude, Mann’s references to Bang’s works are schematised and an attempt is made to characterise Mann’s intertextual practice in general in the context of his famous use of irony.

La ballerine illettrée:transformations of the feminine in Mallarmé's sance writings

Stéphane Mallarmé's texts on dance criticism occupy a prominent place in dance literature. They have also been of major interest to the Mallarme specialists who have seen in them the key to a greater understanding of the whole of his work. In this article I determine how his dance writings can be interpreted in the context of the whole of the œuvre, including for example the women's magazine he wrote and produced, La Dernière Mode. I establish to what extent the female presence in Mallarmé's poetry tends towards metaphors, women's bodies absent or negated by the gaze of the poet. As the poet responds to the stimulus of the dance, he divests the female dancer of her womanly characteristics, recasting her in his own imagination both as feminine principle and incarnation of 'l'Idée', and also as mythical being, 'au-delà de toute vie possible', a composite of other female characters inhabiting his œuvre, constantly poised between presence and absence, stillness and movement, a locus for a precarious balance which is endlessly re-enacted in h.is own writing practice.

The dynamics of movement: Toward a definition of a Latin American identity in contemporary fiction

Concha Meléndez opened up a venue for the discussion of a Latin American identity in works of literature when she implied that the great Latin American novel would gestate in the cities, the space where the typical Latin American would achieve an ideal state of consciousness and intellectual capabilities. ^ Her point of view mirrored nineteenth-century debate on a Latin American identity. Similar to her viewpoint, intellectuals of this period viewed the cities and their inhabitants of European extraction, as the ideal spaces and people on which an identity could be defined. However, the present state of urban and rural areas in Latin America demonstrates that there is no such clear-cut division of city and countryside or of their inhabitants. The dynamics of movement, from rural to urban areas, of people of diverse ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, make it difficult to uphold descriptors of space, race, or culture, as sole descriptors of an identity. ^ A study of five twentieth-century novels from North and South America, La muerte de Artemio Cruz (1962), Hasta no verte Jesús mío (1969), Los ríos profundos (1981), La casa de los espíritus (1982), and Los años con Laura Díaz (1999) reveal that the dynamism of movement, between countryside, and cities of peoples of distinct races and social backgrounds, hamper the definition of a collective identity in specific spaces. As characters move, they are constantly reconfiguring their identities and creating tensions and conflicts that intensify social, racial and economic divisions in society. This makes it difficult to ascribe permanent identity descriptors, much less define a collective identity. ^ However, as writers of fiction address the malaise in Latin American societies, they have unearthed descriptors such as history, economy, land, and movement that advance a collective definition of self in these societies. Additionally, female characters have been granted a new identity. The overwhelming evidence in this study points to ‘land’ as the prime factor in the identity dilemma and suggests that a definition will not be possible until the vast landless populace is granted a space they can call home. Only then, perhaps, will Meléndez novel surface. ^