This article illustrates through two case studies how gendered practices structure imagined affordances of technologies. Using the example of two women seeking asylum in Germany, the article shows ...

The digital force in forced migration: Imagined affordances and gendered practices

This article focuses on midwives who practice complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Israel. After qualifying as nurses in mainstream biomedical institutions, these midwives have, at some point in their careers, opted to study a variety of CAM skills and practice them in hospital delivery rooms in Israel. The authors explore the relationship of selected elements of feminist ideology to the epistemology of CAM midwives. Seven context-specific themes are viewed as central to their epistemological stance: rejection of the medicalization of birth; a strong belief in the “naturalness” of childbirth; rejection of the overuse of technology; empowerment of women; nostalgia and reverence for the past; centrality of intuition, feeling, and emotion; and active advocacy. In-depth, semistructured interviews were carried out during 2004 to 2005 with 13 midwives. These narratives provided empirical material for a qualitative analysis. Evidence is shown to demonstrate the unique feminist quality of the core beliefs of the CAM midwives.

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Midwives Practice CAM: Feminism in the Delivery Room

Tensions between second and third wave understandings of the body and embodiment have led to disagreements about whether to situate the body as corporeal and concrete or theoretical, diverse, and complex. Drawing from key tactics of the second wave women's health movement, including cervical viewing, menstrual extraction, genital diversity work, orgasm training, and self-defense classes, I first trace the political framing of the body in second wave feminism, followed by a consideration of third wave pedagogies transmitted through teaching the psychology of women. After analyzing the five most popular textbooks and ten syllabi for the psychology of women, I trace the stories about embodiment that have continued across waves and the stories that have shifted over time. I ultimately argue for a renewed consideration of how to merge the priorities of each wave into a new policy-driven and activist-centered understanding of corporeal embodiment both within and outside of the university.

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The Body in Revolt: The Impact and Legacy of Second Wave Corporeal Embodiment

This study compared gender differences in the intention and behavior of university students with regard to visiting Internet cafes. The results revealed that males experienced significantly lower social pressure and had more positive attitudes than females. Males had significantly higher perceptions of control, past behavior, intention, and behavior than did females. Additionally, past behavior was the most influential factor in predicting intention and behavior. Two conclusions were drawn: (1) Internet cafes were speculated as a masculine gaming space and thus considered highly gendered. (2) Male and female respondents exhibited similar patterns when predicting their intention and behavior toward visiting Internet cafes.

Are internet cafés gendered spaces

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International organization policies pertaining to gender and information technology address gender in terms of the relations between men and women as defined by sociocultural norms. In doing so, they do not account for how technology is itself gendered, or how people use technology in ways that call up and reproduce gendered relations in society. Certain assumptions that underpin these policies-that argue that there exists an imminent danger of losing women because of a lack of technological skills-even serve to reproduce gender relations in the realm of information technology. In this article, I deal with three questions. First, how are issues of gender and information technology conceptualized in the international educational policy literature? Second, what are some limitations of this policy conceptualization that surface in Internet cafe settings in northern Tanzania? The two issues I specifically investigate are the extent to which policy focuses on women's access to technology and the role that policy plays in the positioning of women as knowledge-and technology-poor. Third, how can we discuss these issues without either relying on an ethnocentric discourse and theory of gender relations that privileges white, Euro-American perspectives, or by reducing gender power relations to a faulty cultural logic in which sociocultural norms are blamed for imbalances of power? In order to address these questions, I offer a conceptual language for thinking about gender and information technology through invoking the concept of "gendered social regimes." Crediting Foucault (1977, 1978), cultural anthropologists and gender theorists (Connell 2002; Escobar 1995; Ong, 1999) have used the concept of power and knowledge "regimes" to address ways that gendered structures of power and knowledge are normalized. A "regime" is a "structure of relations" that "defines possibilities and consequences" (Connell 2002, 55). I argue that there exists a gender regime of technology, which in concrete terms manifests itself in the sexual division of labor in the realm of information technology. While I show that this regime is composed of gendered arrangements that draw on both global and local relationships and discourses, I also highlight how these arrangements are shaped in part through policy discourse that reproduces ideas about Third World women as knowledge- and technology-poor. Method This article concerns itself most directly with the language and direction of international education policy dealing with issues of gender and information technology. I ground it in an extensive conceptual and discursive analysis of two information technology policy documents (UNCSTD Gender Working Group 1995; Hafkin and Taggart 2001) that I have selected as representative of the themes and language of a broader sample. I locate these policy documents in the research and policy debates, which they both reflect and shape, and then offer a critique informed by recent anthropological analyses of the conceptualization of technology and by interpretations of several gendered dynamics of Internet cafes that point to the problematic nature of policy objectives, strategies, and outcomes. My understanding of Internet cafes as gendered spaces derives mainly from conversations with Internet cafe owners, managers, staff, customers, and other townspeople during a two-month period I spent in northern Tanzania conducting anthropological research on a separate project. Although this article draws on my daily experiences in at least seven cafe, I highlight one in particular, the Safari Internet Cafe (a pseudonym), located in a medium-sized city in northern Tanzania where as many as ten Internet cafes have opened in the last five years. I offer my thoughts on these gendered dynamics not as evidence derived from a systematic long-term study, but rather as vignettes in which I highlight issues and raise questions regarding the direction of international policy in information technology. …

Kristin Phillips

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The Gender Regime of 'Women's Work': A View From Tanzanian Internet Cafés