Further research

Jessica Ennis

• Sheffield United renamed one of its stands in honour of Jessica Ennis-Hill, who started her athletics career in Sheffield, after she won heptathlon gold at London 2012

• Jessica Ennis-Hill has said she wants her name removed from a Sheffield United stand if the club gives Ched Evans a contract.
• The Olympic gold medallist - in whose honour the club's Bramall Lane stand is named - said re-signing the convicted rapist would "completely contradict" her beliefs.
• The heptathlete is the latest high-profile figure to warn she would cut ties with Sheffield United if Evans is given a chance to play again.
• She said in a statement: "I believe being a role model to young people is a huge honour and those in positions of influence in communities should respect the role they play in young people's lives and set a good example.

The club renamed the Bramall Lane stand after Ennis-Hill's 2012 triumph

• "If Evans was to be re-signed by the club it would completely contradict these beliefs."
• Evans, 25, was released from prison last month after serving half of a five-year jail term and continues to protest his innocence. 

Ennis then recieved an abundance of rape threats on twitter for making this moral stand. 

• South Yorkshire police are investigating rape threats sent to Olympic gold medallist Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill after she said she would request the removal of her name from a stand at Sheffield United if it offers a new contract to convicted rapist Ched Evans.
• Ennis-Hill received the abuse on Twitter, with one tweet, sent from the handle @RickieLambert07 reading: “Jessica Ennis-Hill is a stupid cunt. Saying she will remove her name if Ched Evens [sic] is signed. I hope he rapes her.” Both the tweet and account were then deleted.
• After the troll was called “scum” for his threat, he replied: “Freedom of speech mate … I’ll say what I want when I want!”.
• Another Twitter user, going by the handle @CoreyOC21, sent a message to Ennis-Hill which read: “Hope Ched Evans gets you you little slut.”
• A spokesman for South Yorkshire police said: “Officers are looking into the tweets.”

Once again women being degraded and insulted by men for having the power and courage to stand up for their beliefs. Branded a 'slut' and recieving threats for doing so. Unacceptable.

Emma Watson recieved rape threats and threats to reveal nude photographs after her HeforShe UN talk
http://www.itv.com/news/2014-09-22/countdown-to-emma-watson-nude-pictures-after-un-equality-speech/


CURRENT TOPICS

I typed into search on the BBC news website gender equality and the last story hadn't arisen since 2012. However, it is still an issue, just not being brought to light as much.

FEB 2012

8 February 2012 Last updated at 10:06

Builder named top businesswoman

A woman who promotes engineering for all is named Veuve Clicquot businesswoman of the year.

ILO in domestic work rights push

The International Labour Organization says that domestic workers must have the same basic labour rights as other workers.

• Gender case hits insurance costs

  Women are set to pay higher car insurance premiums and men will get smaller pensions following a European Court of Justice ruling. 

• Gender 'irrelevant in business'

  A leading Lancashire businesswoman says the push to get more women in the boardrooms is "bordering on positive discrimination".

• Women 'still missing top jobs'

  Women in Wales continue to lack power and influence in key roles, a report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission says.
  
  
  

ITV however, had covered this in 2014 in a programme

NOVEMBER 2014

http://www.itv.com/news/2014-11-13/tonight-a-fair-deal-for-women/

 They claim matters are only getting worse as Britain has dropped 17 places in a rank of countries with gender equality. I feel this is a much bigger issue to the new unseen unspoken of culture in Britain from male behaviour towards women, degrading women. I feel that the fact we are still not seen as equal influences men to treat women in this way.

What bothers me is the way that men view feminists. I got into a little heated debate with my housemates who are males when they asked me if i was a feminist and jumped down my throat about how feminists are annoying, that genders should not be equal and some jobs are just made for men, how sport should not be equal etc and I had to sit there silent because I was being spoken over. This is from males that I feel are uneducated about the matter and are going off the way they have been brought up in this society, they view feminism as a negative thing. The word scares them I think.

PAY GAPS
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-11-04/pay-gap-between-men-and-women-is-getting-wider/

SEXISM

OCTOBER  2014
This is a really great video that sums up my point

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-10-27/public-lulled-into-false-sense-of-security-over-sexism/

WRITERS (OUTSIDE OF THE LIBRARY) - gender inequality

http://annenberg.usc.edu/pages/~/media/MDSCI/Gender_Inequality_in_500_Popular_Films_-_Smith_2013.ashx
Gender Inequality: Feminist Theory and Politics 

Lorber, Judith (2009), Gender Inequality: Feminist Theory and Politics, Nova Iorque, Oxford University Press.

This is an analysis of the feminist movement's views of gender inequalities in the last 40 years. The book addresses the main policies and theories on these inequalities. It also looks at the new lines of research on feminism in the 20th century.


(There are books from other countries but I want to stick to Britain for my question)

Gender Inequality: Selected full-text books and articles
Framed by Gender: How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World

Cecilia L. Ridgeway.
Oxford University Press, 2011

Read preview Overview

Angles of Vision: How to Understand Social Problems
Leonard Beeghley.
Westview Press, 1999

Librarian’s tip: Chap. 3 "Gender Inequality"

Read preview Overview

Women's Employment, Education, and the Gender Gap in 17 Countries
England, Paula; Gornick, Janet; Shafer, Emily Fitzgibbons.
Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 135, No. 4, April 2012

Read preview Overview

The New Gilded Age: The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time

David B. Grusky; Tamar Kricheli-Katz.

Stanford University Press, 2012

Librarian’s tip: Part IV "Why Is There a Gender Gap in Pay?"http://www.academia.edu/1576766/Gender_Inequality_and_Female_Victimization

Women carrying out masculine tasks

I have another idea to show women acting like men, doing things seen as stereotypically manly jobs or sports and write the word LAD underneath

BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY

I think it would be interesting to focus on culture, and compare books from an earlier date to current opinions on the matter; seeing how this has changed.

Challenging gender roles.  /  Firth, Lisa (ed.)  (2012)

301

The equality illusion: the truth about women and men today.  /  Banyard, Kat  (2010)

301.412

What should we tell our daughters?: the pleasures and pressures of growing up female.  /  Benn, Melissa  (2013)

301.412

A woman's place: 1910-1975.  /  Adam, Ruth  (2000)

Gender trouble.  /  Butler, Judith  (1990) Gender and culture.  /  Mayreder, Rosa  (2009)

Study Task 4 - Peer Review & Research Notes

In groups of 3 we assessed each others work and this was quite helpful to me. I felt that I didn't really get as much feedback as the others in terms of new ideas because they feel my idea is already pretty strong but it would have been nice to have been given new methods of research. I feel at this stage its hard to pin my idea down to a single question. I know roughly it's about gender equality and cultures that have developed into the modern day degrading of women and how this has become socially acceptable. It has started to become a trend with Lad Culture. They gave me the idea to spin it on it's head and create my own culture of 'Lasses' and make fake society posters around to get a reaction of this. However I am still unsure what I am questioning? Am I questioning when it started or why were accepting it? How it has happened? What are it's influences? I feel I am not sure until I gather more research.

Points I was told to look at:

• Stay at home dads
• Jessica Enis on rape
• Kim Kardashian subjecting her body 
• Phone hack of female celebs

RESEARCH

Proposed Research theme

Gender Inequality

(Research Behind) What research needs to be undertaken into the general and specific contexts of the research project?

What has happened before/behind the chosen subject.
Historical Events
Cultural
Technological change
political factors
Who are the figures within it?
Illustrators, novelists, thinkers, writers, philosophers
What is the history of it?
Is there a general attitude towards it that colours everyones understanding?

• Social / cultural resewarch
• historical events
• male shaming
• modern day (dapper laughs)
• find the general conscensus of Lad culture, dominant attitudes, how people percieve it
• Emma Watson
• Feminists

(Research Through) What approaches could be taken and what processes, methods, materials and tools could be involved in the research project?

Thinking of your work or a process, what process will you go through to research it
How will it be done
What sort of questions will you ask about the topic
What methodology will you use - ways of working, a strategy, how you will find information.

Epistemological decision - deciding which media you use
Reflective Practise
What factors could disrupt your creative practice?

• Why are we accepting it?
• Why has it gone on so long?
• What if the roles were reversed? Lass trends / Lass bible
• Why aren't men standing up to this as well as women? (Feminists)

(Research For) What preparations/investigations need to be undertaken for the research project to take place?

What preparation needs to be undertaken for the Research Project to take place
How will you go about investigating the chosen subject
Research into research - how to put a questionnaire together, an unbiased interview. New techniques to imply.

• First hand research
• Gender culture (narrowed down to a specific region/continent/country)
• How do you form a new culture? Use of media and social networking

(Research in front of) What research needs to be undertaken regarding who the project is for?

Who is your research project to? Who is the audience for all this
What professional contexts could your research be aimed at? Illustrators
Can anyone make use of your project
Can you collaberate with other practises eg fashion
How would your tone of voice change if you targetted it at a different audience
Does your work challenge existing knowledge in the field?

• Youth - Current 'lads' against the older generation (changing our views)
• He for she campaign
• Feminist movements
• Fashion/chinese whispers - how views are narrowed down and change. How trends reoccur.

Hermantic Circle

First grasp - What you first know about the topic - Gender Equality

Inspection of detail - Lad culture, does this change anything?

Global inspection - How culture changed towards women historically

Deeper Understanding

Seminar - Walter Benjamin ' The work of art in the mechanical reproduction '

Notes

My chosen illustration to support this essay

Andy Warhol's Pop Art

So many reproduced version of this image that I don't know which the original is. This style has been replicated (a diluted version) for other celebrities all over the world.

People have took it upon themselves to create their own styles of this. We see it on canvas' all the time in little shops in towns people making money off of replicating this famous style of art. It has became accessible to the people.

Reportage task - History Museum

Our finished piece - collective ephemera, drawings and rubbings.