Gendered symbols and habitus in collective action
Street protests in Taiwan, 1997–2006
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12499365 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yin‐Zu Chen (0000-0002-4178-1240, National Taipei University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-73 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Journal of Women s Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1225-9276 • E-ISSN: 2377-004X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/12259276.2020.1717076 |
| OpenAlex | W3011250793 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 25 |
Studies on women in social movements have shown that women and men use different tactical preferences in protests. However, these are not limited to choice regarding preferential gendered symbols and artifacts; they can also be spontaneous corporeal and emotional expressions depending on contingencies of interaction during protests. To analyze the gender impact and differences in protest tactics, this study focuses on the symbols and artifacts used in protests and the gendered habitus that includes embodied behavior and emotions of protesters in varied situations. This paper examines street protests in Taiwan using audiovisual data collected from television news broadcasting between 1997 and 2006, to compare protest actions undertaken by men with those where women participants comprised the majority. This showed that gendered symbols and artifacts presented in street actions were less confrontational if they were planned beforehand. However, the embodied gender culture as habitus becomes more relevant during disruptive and high-conflict protest events. This study reveals that kneeling as a female posture was effective for avoiding conflict and gaining negotiation opportunities with authorities
Action (physics · Collective action · Embodied cognition · Ethnography · Habitus · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
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The Art of Moral Protest
Gendered Activism
Women’s Cultures and Social Movements in Global Contexts
Integrative feminisms
Feminist activism within bureaucracy
Brothers and Others
From Protest to Agenda Building
From the Street to the Screen
Images of Protest
Gendered Outcomes
Media Measurement Models of Protest Event Data
The political is the personal
Loving Internationalism
Women in Black
Culture and Mobilization
Gentility, Gender, and Political Protest
Doing Gender
Body, Gender, and Knowledge in Protest Movements
Engendering Social Movements
Gender, Habitus and the Field
African-American Women in the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |