This essay is about social space where contesting genders comes into play with their negotiations. By social space, the anticipated communications are usually conceived as democratic and non-manipulative. Saying so, often there is a very thin line between what are defined as public and private spaces. The former US president Donald Trump, alongside his endless opinions that interested people across the world, once advocated extremely misogynist remarks and propositions as ‘locker-room’ discussions. ‘Locker-room’, without much exception, is a Western concept that is not much familiar in many societies of the Global South. But the connotation can go beyond a national border and his assertion, as a form of male-chauvinism, actually shocked not only women across the world but also anyone with democratic concerns about space. Taking a clue from the term, it examines the creative possibilities of gender negotiations in ‘public’ spaces. In doing so, it combines strictly defined ‘academic’ writing with probable creative forms of social-scientific essays. The essay ends with a case story of an ‘un-academic’ piece that deals with atypical gender and class interplay.

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Negotiating the Space for Selves Within and Beyond Gender Dynamics

  • Manosh Chowdhury

摘要

This essay is about social space where contesting genders comes into play with their negotiations. By social space, the anticipated communications are usually conceived as democratic and non-manipulative. Saying so, often there is a very thin line between what are defined as public and private spaces. The former US president Donald Trump, alongside his endless opinions that interested people across the world, once advocated extremely misogynist remarks and propositions as ‘locker-room’ discussions. ‘Locker-room’, without much exception, is a Western concept that is not much familiar in many societies of the Global South. But the connotation can go beyond a national border and his assertion, as a form of male-chauvinism, actually shocked not only women across the world but also anyone with democratic concerns about space. Taking a clue from the term, it examines the creative possibilities of gender negotiations in ‘public’ spaces. In doing so, it combines strictly defined ‘academic’ writing with probable creative forms of social-scientific essays. The essay ends with a case story of an ‘un-academic’ piece that deals with atypical gender and class interplay.