Originally published in Religions, Volume 12, on December 17th, 2021. Co-authored with Dr. Rami Zeedan. This systematic literature review on Druze women and gender in Druze society reviews central conceptual themes from existing publications to chart future research trajectories. Using a meta-ethnographic methodology, this literature review covers Druze women’s experience of gendered realities in higher education, economic participation, marriage, family life, and health.
Tag: gender studies
Presentation: How 100 Gecs Queers Genre and Gender
Presented at Dublin City University's "Queering the Groove" conference on October 21st, 2021. Begins at 22:04. https://player.vimeo.com/video/643413817?h=6f9b032f59 Session B / Music as Resistance from the Margins from EROSS@DCU on Vimeo.
Presentation: The Spatiality of Gender in Israeli Druze Contexts
I attended UCLA's 3rd Annual Undergraduate Scholars Conference in Israel Studies on June 15th to share some themes from my systematic literature review on Druze women and gender in Druze society.
Publication: The “Gec-Effect:” How 100 Gecs Queers Genre and Gender
My article tracks the queer relations to genre and vocality embodied by contemporary hyperpop duo, 100 gecs. I argue that 100 gecs initiates a nomadic approach to genre through absurdism and parody. Furthermore, I describe how 100 gecs’ use of vocal modulation resists gender’s construction of the masculine and feminine voice. I conclude with a meditation on “gec” feminism that attempts to follow the ethic of hyperpop for articulating a wacky, yet subversive genre of (un-)academic writing. My investigation of 100 gecs’ album, 1000 gecs and The Tree of Clues, is a cross-disciplinary exercise in queer theory, gender studies, musicology, art history, and philosophy; it primarily contributes to queer theory discourses on genre, gender, art, and the body.
Presentation: Druze Women and Gender in Druze Society
This presentation represents my submission to the University of Kansas' 2021 Undergraduate Research Symposium. The event began on April 24th at 8am on April 24th and will conclude on April 30th. Feel free to explore my submission at the website's address. This systematic literature review on Druze women and gender in Druze society not only provides existing researchers with centralized access to publications on the topic but points out future trajectories for research while consolidating conceptual innovations into overarching concepts. Its meta-ethnographic methodology seeks to address the question of Druze women’s experience of gender as presented in the literature and national disparities between publications on the topic. Too often, gender as a concept is written off as irrelevant, and even when it is taken seriously, it is done so through insufficient analyses. Synthesizing the conceptual specificities of Druze women’s experience reveals the limits of universalist Western feminist frameworks of analysis while providing a holistic feminist anthropological account of the Druze.
Miles Luce 