Gender is a term which is used to denote "a range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female" (Oxford Dict., OUP), but which stand for a social construct, by opposition to a reduction to a psycho-physiological determinism. Globethics Gender and Theology collection covers issues at the intersection of gender and theology with a strong focus on Latin America.

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  • The Contestation of Feminism and Religious Authority and Its Implication in Islamic Education

    Ai Fatimah Nur Fuad; Alif Rizky Ramadhan (Universitas Negeri Jakarta, 2023-07-01)
    Feminism and religious authority are two conceptual frameworks that have been subjects of discussion in the field of Islamic education. Both concepts are an ongoing contestation due to difference of perspectives and practices within Muslim community. Feminism in one hand is a movement that advocates gender equity and criticizes the marginalization of women in society. It often questions the culture of patriarchy that limit women’s agency. On the other hand, religious authority is often described as male-dominated domain. This paper aims to elaborate how feminism challenges traditional and conservative religious authority and to what extent its implications towards Islamic education? These questions are answered through a library-based qualitative method. The finding shows that feminism challenges the dominance of male religious authority. Feminism emphasizes the need for Islamic educational institutions to implement egalitarian principles of Islam that place female and male equally and to promote women’s religious role, leadership and religious authority. This will contribute to rebuild a more egalitarian Islamic education that empower women and shape a more inclusive Muslim society.
  • Exploring The Multifaceted Dimensions of Manhood in Biblical Narratives Using King David’s Life

    Nozipho Princess S. Dlodlo; Hundzukani P. Khosa Nkatini (Institut Agama Kristen Negeri Toraja, 2023-12-01)
    The episode from the life of King David in this article served as a case study as we tried to explore the link between men and violence in contemporary society. In restating the hypothesis, we posit that men in our daily society sometimes reference Christian Biblical characters in their process of understanding their masculinity construction process and masculine traits. If this is the case, we have found that Christian men continue to hide under the shadow of emulating Biblical male characters in their navigation of this transition process and sustaining violent masculinity traits. We took cognizance of how some men move seamlessly between culture and faith as and when the transition process favors them. We used the narrative analysis method to examine this research. This article is premised on other factors, such as David being known in the community as the boy who killed a giant, as this makes it quick for people in the community and the church to remember him. This article explored the question of whether there were no better Biblical models for men to follow that could offer a wholesome insight into the construction of masculinity. While David was a man after God’s heart, he exuded violence, and his household continued to use power to abuse those within the household.
  • Ethical and methodological challenges conducting participative research with transgender and gender-diverse young people: a systematic review

    Servais, Julie; Vanhoutte, Bram; Maddy, Herby; Godin, Isabelle (2024-03-01)
    Introduction: Research with transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) young people is essential to understand their experiences and to be able to propose, implement and adapt ‘services’ in the broadest sense to meet their needs. However, research outside clinical settings on current experiences and needs of youth under the age of 18 is limited which hinders the development of knowledge on TGD, as well as the development of research informed support practices. Acquiring parental consent for participatory research may present ethical and logistical difficulties, as it could jeopardize the safety, well-being, or confidentiality of adolescent participants. This creates a tension between the adolescent’s right to autonomy, privacy, freedom, and all aspects related to the consent of the underage on the one hand, and the parents’ right to protect their child on the other hand. This review aims to identify the methodological and ethical challenges associated with participatory research with transgender and gender-diverse young people.Methods: We systematically searched bibliometric databases for studies published between 2006 and 2022 and included 4 main conceptual groups: transgender and gender non-conforming, adolescence, qualitative research (including participatory research) and consent. This review was registered in PROSPERO (CRD42022368360) in November 2022.Results: Of the 3,794 articles initially identified, 291 met the inclusion criteria and 48 were examined. The selected studies were analyzed in the light of four main ethical tensions: involving parents or a trusted person in the consent gathering process, ensuring the protection and safety of young people while respecting confidentiality, and ensuring that spaces are created for transgender and gender-diverse young people to express themselves freely as part of an empowering research process. At the same time, several methodological challenges concerning public and stakeholder participation and recruitment, data collection and analysis as well as research integrity emerged from the selected studies.Conclusion & implications: The existing literature of participatory research involving young transgender and gender-diverse individuals underscores the intricate and conflicting aspects, especially concerning power dynamics, empowerment, and the researcher’s role. The relevance of these findings extends across various legal frameworks and is applicable to multiple contexts and countries.
  • Ethical and methodological challenges conducting participative research with transgender and gender-diverse young people: a systematic review

    Servais, Julie; Vanhoutte, Bram; Maddy, Herby; Godin, Isabelle (2024-03-01)
    Introduction: Research with transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) young people is essential to understand their experiences and to be able to propose, implement and adapt ‘services’ in the broadest sense to meet their needs. However, research outside clinical settings on current experiences and needs of youth under the age of 18 is limited which hinders the development of knowledge on TGD, as well as the development of research informed support practices. Acquiring parental consent for participatory research may present ethical and logistical difficulties, as it could jeopardize the safety, well-being, or confidentiality of adolescent participants. This creates a tension between the adolescent’s right to autonomy, privacy, freedom, and all aspects related to the consent of the underage on the one hand, and the parents’ right to protect their child on the other hand. This review aims to identify the methodological and ethical challenges associated with participatory research with transgender and gender-diverse young people. Methods: We systematically searched bibliometric databases for studies published between 2006 and 2022 and included 4 main conceptual groups: transgender and gender non-conforming, adolescence, qualitative research (including participatory research) and consent. This review was registered in PROSPERO (CRD42022368360) in November 2022. Results: Of the 3,794 articles initially identified, 291 met the inclusion criteria and 48 were examined. The selected studies were analyzed in the light of four main ethical tensions: involving parents or a trusted person in the consent gathering process, ensuring the protection and safety of young people while respecting confidentiality, and ensuring that spaces are created for transgender and gender-diverse young people to express themselves freely as part of an empowering research process. At the same time, several methodological challenges concerning public and stakeholder participation and recruitment, data collection and analysis as well as research integrity emerged from the selected studies. Conclusion & implications: The existing literature of participatory research involving young transgender and gender-diverse individuals underscores the intricate and conflicting aspects, especially concerning power dynamics, empowerment, and the researcher’s role. The relevance of these findings extends across various legal frameworks and is applicable to multiple contexts and countries
  • Confronting Barriers to the Courtroom for Animal Advocates: Linking Cultural and Legal Transitions

    Bryant, Taimie; Chaudhuri, Una; Jamieson, Dale; Moore, Laura Ireland; Wolfson, David J. (Lewis & Clark Law School Digital Commons, 2006-01-01)
    Panelists: Taimie Bryant, Una Chaudhuri, and Dale Jamieson Moderators: Laura Ireland Moore and David J. Wolfson In this discussion, panelists explore the many viewpoints society holds with respect to nonhuman animals. The discussion broadly covers ethics and what constitutes ethical behavior in this regard. The question dealt with is, largely, what is the appropriate ethical model to use when arguing that animals deserve better treatment and expanded rights? Unlike parallel movements for human civil rights or women’s equality, the animal rights movement has much greater hurdles to overcome when it comes to arguing that animals deserve equal treatment under the law. In an attempt to address this question, the dialogue touches upon many areas of human thought. The panelists take on diverse fields such as philosophy, science, anthropology, environmentalism, and feminism and use them to understand the past and present state of animal law. The analytical tools of these several disciplines are also applied to animal law in an attempt to develop a better model for the future.
  • Razones del feminismo frente a la arrogancia de la razón dominante

    López Sáenz, María del Carmen (2019)
    Starting from the work of Vicent Martínez in which he explains what he understands by "practical rationality" in the framework of his philosophical studies for peace -also for peace between genders-, I rethink my own contributions to the interaction between phenomenology and feminism, particularly the link of the phenomenological critique of objectivism and the unmasking of patriarchal reason in order to demonstrate that the non-indifferent recognition of plurality is not at odds with the autonomy and universality of reason, but exclusively with the instrumental reason which dominates until the 21st century. I consider this dominating reason from Husserl's diagnosis of the crisis of the sciences as well as from the criticism to Modernity undertaken by the Frankfurt School. I will pay attention on the third generation of this School as well as on the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty in order to reclaim an enlarged reason which not only has epistemological implications, but existential. This reason can even help overcome the dualisms that have arisen within feminism. Feminism is a tradition of thought that, in dialogue with phenomenology, can attain a philosophical radicalization while phenomenology can take root in the feminist movement and with it, in the self-responsibility of humanity.
  • The Affective Turn in Animal Ethics

    Ralph R Acampora (LED Edizioni Universitarie, 2024-03-01)
    ABSTRACT This article argues that rationalism no longer rules the field of animal ethics – an “affective turn” has occurred in a significant space of the field. The article first looks at exemplary rationalists for contrast, and then moves on to survey several leading affective theories: Donovan’s feminist care ethic, Acampora’s corporal compassion, Gruen’s entangled empathy, and Aaltola’s varieties of empathy. Aaltola’s criticisms of Acampora are reviewed and rebutted. Finally, the conclusion indicates what is positive about the contributions of affective theory to animal ethics.
  • El honor, el fraude y las profesiones sanitarias en la Europa del siglo XIX

    Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Psiquiatría; Martykánová, Darina; Núñez García, Víctor Manuel (Universidad de Granada, 2024-02-29)
    La esperanza y la confianza siempre han guiado a los pacientes —y a otros actores históricos, como las organizaciones benéficas, los filántropos, los capitanes de navío, los mandos militares, los ayuntamientos o los gobiernos— a la hora de buscar los servicios de los profesionales del arte de curar. Sin embargo, cómo generar esperanza y cómo despertar confianza han sido cuestiones cuyas respuestas han ido variando radicalmente a lo largo de la historia…
  • Ambiguitas tafsir feminis di Indonesia

    Mahbub Ghozali (Pusat Studi Gender dan Anak IAIN Purwokerto, 2020-05-01)
    Interpretation is a major component in providing arguments about gender equality in Islam. Interpretation as an explanation of the Qur'an provides for everyone to form their religious behavior. For example the biased interpretation of surah al-Nisâ (4): 1 which explain about relationship between women and men. Some feminist reviewers in Indonesia respond to these interpretations which resulting in several trends. On the basis of this, this study aims to identify some of the trends generated by feminist reviewers in Indonesia by limiting a number of figures, namely M. Qurasih Shihab, Nasaruddin Umar, Husein Muhammad, Faqihuddin Abdul Kodir, Musdah Mulia, and Zaitunah Subhan by using Gadamer's hermeneutic method. This study found that there were two trends by the feminist reviewers. First, the tendency of interpretation which involves the discourse of the text to find the main idea (world view) of the text, so that the resulting interpretation has a moderate tendency. Second, the tendency of interpretation by involving the discourse of feminism to approach the text (verse), thus producing a new paradigm in the interpretation of misogynistic verses. This tendency is caused by the different set of knowledge used in interpreting the verse. projections of knowledge possessed produce tendencies in interpretation.
  • FEMINISME DALAM PUISI ABDUL WACHID BS

    Teguh Trianton (Pusat Studi Gender dan Anak IAIN Purwokerto, 2015-03-01)
    Feminism movement begins from two basic problems that faced by women, namely domestic violence (KDRT) and polygamy. After that, feminism is thriving to all domain and aspect of human life. On next development, feminism movement is not only monopolized by women. Men that always accused as one of actors of gender bias, actually participate to defend women right (male feminist), with every ways, media, and method. One of media that effective to construct feminism discourse is through literary works, one of it are poem
  • ASMARADANA: DI AMBANG LIMINAL

    sunahrowi sunahrowi (Pusat Studi Gender dan Anak IAIN Purwokerto, 2015-03-01)
    Asmaradana short story has one face, but exists on two worlds. In one side, it show postmodern world and on the other side show its feminism thread. This short story justified being had one face because between postmodernism and feminism offer critic that deep and extensive reach to philosophy and its correlation with broaden culture. Both try to develop new paradigm of social critic, which not based on traditional philosophical basis. This short story exists on two worlds because postmodernism community offers complex and complicated critics to foundationalism and essentialism. However, their social critic’s conception tends to have weak power. The existence of Asmaradana short story between postmodernism and feminism theme making this short story have liminal character
  • Pengarusutamaan Feminisme di Indonesia: Studi Pemikiran Etin Anwar dan Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin

    Faridah Amiliyatul Qur'ana; Nur Afina Ulya (Pusat Studi Gender dan Anak IAIN Purwokerto, 2023-10-01)
    Feminism is an endeavor to incorporate a feminist viewpoint into various organizations and public policies to eliminate gender discrimination in many sectors. This article aims to combine the ideas of two Indonesian Feminism figures: Etin Anwar, an academic who contributes to the thought of Islamic Feminism in Indonesia, and Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin, a female activist who fights for women's rights in the Indonesian socio-political context. This study employs descriptive-qualitative approaches to analyze the content of the two figures' thinking work. The findings of this study show that: 1) These two feminist luminaries share comparable perspectives on the growth of feminism in Indonesia. Both advocated for systematic and structural changes to gender equality in order to build an Indonesia society conscious of gender fairness; and 2) Etin Anwar developed the concepts of ethical equality and spiritual equality, as well as further highlighted the five eras of Islamic Feminism construction in Indonesia: emancipation, association, development, integration, and proliferation. At the same time, Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin develops the modern organizational concept of gender differentiation, which realizes equality in numerous parts of life. This research is intended to add to Indonesia's understanding and awareness of feminism and feminine issues.
  • Perlindungan Hukum terhadap Kasus Kekerasan Berbasis Gender Online di Era Pandemi Covid-19

    Benedicta Gabriella Aurelie; Eti Mul Erowati; Elly Kristiani Purwendah (Pusat Studi Gender dan Anak IAIN Purwokerto, 2022-06-01)
    Gender equality in Indonesia is a very serious problem, because of the patriarchal culture that develops in society. With the development of information and communication technology, various forms of crime have also adapted. One example is the emergence of a new form of gender-based violence, namely Online Gender-Based Violence (KBGO). Online gender-based violence has been a global phenomenon since the early days of internet use. It has become a serious problem, and the COVID-19 pandemic has made things worse. During the COVID-19 pandemic, cases of online gender-based violence increased drastically. This is due to situations and conditions where activities that could previously be carried out directly, must be carried out online or online such as work, teaching and learning, and others. In addition, social media platforms are now very insecure because of the large number of users whose accounts are not based on real identities. In handling it, it is also not enough to only use pre-existing regulations, because it will only become a boomerang for the victims. Cases of online gender-based violence should be a serious concern for all parties.
  • Diskriminasi terhadap perempuan korban kekerasan seksual di Kabupaten Banyumas dalam prespektif religiusitas

    Elisabeth Febrianan Daniputri Harnowo; Elly Kristiani Purwendah; Wiwin Muchtar Wiyono; Ikama Dewi Setia Triana (Pusat Studi Gender dan Anak IAIN Purwokerto, 2023-10-01)
    The rate of sexual violence is increasing every year. Many cases of sexual violence stop midway or are only resolved at the mediation level. Even though normatively this has been completed, the victim's right to protection does not apply to living his or her life again in society. This research focuses on the response and role of religious figures in handling cases of sexual violence. This research uses a Normative Sociological approach method. The assumption that the victim's way of dressing and behaving was the trigger for this action this continued until discrimination emerged against women victims of sexual violence.
  • Geliat agitasi gender dan anti pelecehan seksual: Kajian perspektif sosial profetik Kuntowijoyo

    Perdana Putra Pangestu (Pusat Studi Gender dan Anak IAIN Purwokerto, 2023-06-01)
    Sexual harassment and violence seem taboo and have not been properly internalized in the social area of our society. The popularity of cases that seem to be constantly appearing in the eyes of the public has formed a massive collective agitation to crush the naughty sexual paradigm. The author is interested in studying how movements and counter-narratives are constructed to realize freedom and understanding related to sexual harassment. The author takes a qualitative approach through a literature review and existing phenomena. The description of the study will be obtained by optimizing the formulation of the interpretation of the topic surrounding the issue of sexual harassment. The interpretation and data elaboration were then analyzed using Kuntowijoyo's Social Prophetic theoretical line. This research concludes that various forms of agitation are exposed as exposures in building the value of humanization and liberation for all people fairly and safely.
  • Perspektif kesetaraan gender Husein Muhammad terhadap Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)

    Elza Ramona; Peppy Angraini; Al Amin (Pusat Studi Gender dan Anak IAIN Purwokerto, 2023-10-01)
    In achieving gender equality, the problem of social construction with the growth of patriarchal culture is still the main obstacle to voicing women's rights, including equality of sexual and reproductive rights for women or Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), hindered by religious interpretations that are still gender biased. Both traditional and rational interpreters adhere to the interpretation that subordinates women. This cannot be separated from the point of view used by the interpreters, the goals, and the social, cultural, economic, and political conditions in which the interpreters live. This patriarchal interpretation is what one pesantren kiai, known as a male feminist, Husein Muhammad, is trying to reconstruct. Born and raised in a pesantren, Husein's background led him to the women's fiqh program (fiqh al-Nisa), which advocates for women's sexual and reproductive rights from an Islamic gender-equitable perspective. Therefore, using a descriptive-analytic method (tick description), this article attempts to look at Sexual and Reproductive Health and rights (SRHR) from the perspective of gender equality promoted by Husein Muhammad.
  • Fenomena Perempuan sebagai Pemimpin di UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang: Antara Patriarki dan Feminisme

    Nasrulloh Nasrulloh; Khusniyah Utami (Pusat Studi Gender dan Anak IAIN Purwokerto, 2022-06-01)
    At the State Islamic University (UIN) Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang, there are many female faculty and department leaders. Basically, at this time it is not impossible for a woman to become a leader, with the development of feminism in society, women's leadership is not a rare thing. However, the ability of women to occupy the highest positions as leaders who supervise men is still a matter of debate. Patriarchal ideology doubts the position of women as leaders and assumes that not all leadership positions can be occupied by women. This study aims to explain the legal rights of women as leaders with certain limitations. This research is descriptive qualitative, where the researcher will analyze the data gradually after going into the field to make observations through interviews with women who occupy leadership and non-leader positions at UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang. The results of the interviews were then supported by literature studies from books and scientific research to obtain research results. The method used in this research is qualitative with an inductive approach, because it requires in-depth analysis to find the law of the problems that are carried out in this study. Based on the data obtained, it can be found that the law of women as leaders is permissible and the assumption that women are the weak is not much different from the views of the ignorant society in the past. Therefore, if a woman has good qualities and a capable leadership spirit, then there is no prohibition for her to occupy a leadership position.
  • Women, Marriage, Housekeeping, and Religious Upbringing of Children in Islamic Thought

    Maryam Ahmad pour (Research Institute of Hawzah and University (RIHU), 1390-12-01)
    The present article is concerned with the concept analysis of marriage, religious upbringing of children, which naturally comes after family formation, based on two main sources of Islam viz. the Quran and Sunnah. Theoretical basis of this research study consists of a variety of feminist theories. Its methodology is based on documentation, analysis of findings, discovering marriage implications, housewifery, religious upbringing in the Quran and Sunnah. The findings suggest that Islamic views (viz. the Quran and Sunnah) regarding marriage, domestic labor and religious upbringing are in conflict with feminist theories. Holy Quran and religious traditions view these phenomena through a mechanism far from feminist paradigm. According to Islamic thought the most important principle for women is that they pay attention to their functions in the family as a mother or a wife. Special attention also has been paid to the most important functions of marriage and family, that is to say instinctive and emotional needs, creating an environment fraught with ethical and moral virtues, promotion of excellence in both sexes and in the religious upbringing of children. Results also show that Islam is an institution that has taken into consideration all aspects of human life. Thus such a religious upbringing of children will encompass all aspects of social, ethical and sexual education of children.
  • Feminism and Secularization of Religion

    Fatemeh Moridi (Research Institute of Hawzah and University (RIHU), 1390-04-01)
    Modernity or modernism is the set of qualities and characteristics of modern civilization which has emerged in recent centuries in Europe and North America. Secularization (or secularisation) is being used to describe and analyze the processes of modern societies. It is the transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward nonreligious (or irreligious) values and secular institutions. Feminism has, in a sense, been derived from Western civilization and in another sense it is a reaction to modernity. In this respect, feminism is in direct confrontation with the tradition. While analyzing tradition, feminism severely criticizes religion as one of the most important components of gender discrimination. So, it should be noted that there is a considerable relation between secularization of religion and social movement of feminism. With aim of downplaying the meta-institutional role of religion and making religion compatible with the demands of feminism, secularization of religion, in one of its approaches which seeks to provide a new and worldly interpretation of religion, has been well received by feminists in general and religious feminists in particular. In this regard, we try to take this relationship into consideration and focus on some examples related to these indices at the same time as counting the indices of secularization of religion and feminism.
  • Men, Masculinities, and Religion

    LS Religiewetenschap; OFR - Religious Studies; van Es, M.A. (2021-06)

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