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- Malmström, Maria Frederika, 1969-
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Bearing the pain: Changing views of the meaning and morality of suffering
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Ingår i: Body Politics and women citizens - African Experiences. - Stockholm : Sida. - 9789158641006 ; , s. 104-112
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is concerned with the significance of ordeals as connected to constructions of female gender identity and morality among the popular classes of Muslim women of Cairo. The text is structured around pain and suffering as social experience, but also concerns pain as individual and embodied. The thrust of this paper is how the lived experiences of pain and suffering, as narrated by women in Cairo, are shaped and challenged by the social and political changes that impinge on these women’s lives. Thus, how the subject is constructed through the intricate interplay of the global hegemonic structures of power, where the most intimate sphere has been exposed in the international arena, and the lived experience of female circumcision, defloration and childbirth.
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- Malmström, Maria Frederika, 1969-
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Egypt in Motion
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- Malmström, Maria Frederika, 1969-
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Gender, agency, and embodiment theories in relation to space
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Ingår i: Gouvernance locale dans le monde arabe et en Méditerranée : Quels rôles pour les femmes ?. - Cairo : Centre d'Études et de Documentation Économiques, Juridiques et Sociales. - 2905838485 ; , s. 21-35
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Why (and how) is it important to query into the particular lived experiences and ‘embodied agency’ of women if we want to study urban spaces through the lens of gender? The paper discusses this overarching question in relation to recent dynamic and generative theories of gender, embodiment and agency. This theoretical approach is relevant since it is possible to analyse the singularity of lived experience, not only as a form of social interaction, but as linked to social structures and discourses, which implies negotiations of tensions, conflicts, and uncertainties. Such an approach is particularly fruitful because it makes it possible to analyse agents within a context of social, cultural and political change. It also means the possibility to grasp women’s narratives and body language as they engage in acts of resistance, as well as the marking of body and space. The actions of ‘the secret self’ among younger generations, for example, give increased space and have manipulative potential as long as these ‘morally forbidden’ and dishonourable acts are not brought out into the public sphere. The need to understand agency as the capacity to act according to the exigencies of the specific socio-cultural context forms the main premise of this paper; where each context comprises the complex interaction between the local and a variety of wider global forces.
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- Malmström, Maria Frederika, 1969-
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Gender, agency, and embodiment theories in relation to space in Gender, cities and local governance
- 2011
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Ingår i: Gouvernance locale dans le monde arabe et en Méditerranée : Quels rôles pour les femmes ?. - Cairo : Centre d’Études et de Documentation Économiques, Juridiques et Sociales (CEDEJ). - 2905838485
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Why (and how) is it important to query into the particular lived experiences and ‘embodied agency’ of women if we want to study urban spaces through the lens of gender? This paper discusses this overarching question in relation to recent dynamic and generative theories of gender, embodiment and agency. This theoretical framework connects subjects’ identities to dominant discourses and social structures with the help of lived experiences. This is particularly fruitful because it makes it possible to analyse agents within a context of social, cultural and political change. It also means the possibility to grasp women’s narratives and body language as they engage in acts of resistance, as well as the marking of body and space. The actions of ‘the secret self’ among younger generations, for example, give increased space and have manipulative potential as long as these ‘morally forbidden’ and dishonourable acts are not brought out into the public sphere. This approach is relevant since it is possible to analyse the singularity of experience, not only as a form of social interaction, but as linked to social structures and discourses, which implies negotiations of tensions, conflicts and uncertainties. The need to understand agency as the capacity to act according to the exigencies of the specific socio-cultural forms the main premise of this paper; where each context comprises the complex interaction between the local and a variety of wider global forces. My approach is to combine experience with representation through phenomenology and ethnography. I use experience near ethnography that begins with women’s own practices and attends to how they understand themselves, how their bodies are involved in this process and how they live out norms and ideologies in their everyday lives. Thereby we are able to understand how women’s realities and identities are interpreted, negotiated and constructed, and how the body actively is involved in these processes.
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