The feminine voice of subversion and inversion: a comparative reading of “The Story of Yingying” and The Tale of Genji

Neohelicon ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 715-733
Author(s):  
Jindan Ni
Keyword(s):  
Tale Of Genji ◽  
Feminine Voice ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
And Inversion

Learning from Disequilibrium and Educating the Feminine Voice in Philosophy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoko Saito
Keyword(s):  
Female Voice ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
University Education ◽  
Biological Origin ◽  
Feminine Voice ◽  
Political Criticism ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Alternative Idea

This article broaches what can sometimes be seen as the suppression of the female voice, sometimes the repression of the feminine. To address these matters involves the reconsideration of the political discourse that pervades education and educational research. This article is an attempt to disclose inequity in apparently equitable space, through the acknowledgment of the voice of disequilibrium. It proposes to re-place the subject of philosophy, and the subject of woman, through an alternative idea of the feminine voice in philosophy. It tries to reconfigure the female voice without negating its fated biological origin and traits, and yet avoiding the confining of thought to the constraints of gender divides. In terms of education, it shall argue for the conversation of justice as a way of cultivating the feminine voice in philosophy: as the voice of disequilibrium. This is an occasion of mutual destabilization and transformation of man and woman, crossing gender divides, and preparing an alternative route to political criticism that not only reclaims the rights of women but releases the thinking of men and women, laying the way for a better, more pluralist, and more democratic politics. The feminine voice can find a way beyond the dominance of instrumental rationality and calculative thinking in the discourse on equity itself. And it can, one might reasonably hope, have an impact on the curriculum of university education.

Birds and Humanity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Hertica
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Word ◽  
The Body ◽  
Feminine Voice ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Rubber Boom ◽  
The Aesthetic

This chapter presents translations and interpretations of six women's songs that speak to the power of the feminine voice and the feminine soul. These songs feature feminine shape-shifting relations between birds and women, fish and women, and similar mimetic transformations in history, such as the rubber boom. In this context, the spoken word becomes musicalized, and the body realizes different cosmological capacities. The chapter shows that the aesthetic features of these songs resonate with the mythological and metaphysical qualities of the Iluku bird, discussed in Chapter 3. These women's songs are also a form of shamanic practice in which the singer experiences her body as a special locus of subjectivity as defined by relations with birds and other alters. When women sing, they report feeling the power (ushay) “in their flesh” (paygunác aychay) of the birds or animals about which they sing.

In a Different Voice: Women's Conceptions of Self and of Morality

1977 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Gilligan
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Developmental Theory ◽  
Moral Judgments ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Stage Theory ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Feminine Voice ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
The Feminine

As theories of developmental psychology continue to define educational goals and practice, it has become imperative for educators and researchers to scrutinize not only the underlying assumptions of such theories but also the model of adulthood toward which they point. Carol Gilligan examines the limitations of several theories,most notably Kohlberg's stage theory of moral development, and concludes that developmental theory has not given adequate expression to the concerns and experience of women. Through a review of psychological and literary sources, she illustrates the feminine construction of reality. From her own research data, interviews with women contemplating abortion, she then derives an alternative sequence for the development of women's moral judgments. Finally, she argues for an expanded conception of adulthood that would result from the integration of the "feminine voice" into developmental theory.

The Feminine Voice in Global Journalism: The Example of Ukraine

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Madeleine Wiart
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Feminine Voice ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
American Media ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Ukraine Crisis

This study is designed to identify a discrepancy, if any, between the number of female and male journalists reporting on the crisis in Ukraine. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis, as well as primary and secondary research, the following paper attempts to bring attention to gendered differences in crisis reporting, and explain how those gendered differences affect the interpretation of a conflict. Previous research shows women are more inclined to cover crises from a human interest or human suffering standpoint, whereas men cover crises through politics and violence. The study concludes that while the majority of journalists reporting on the Ukraine crisis for The New York Times are male, it does not find a concrete correlation between the primary focus of the sample articles and the gender of the journalist. The analysis provides a starting point for future research, as well as a new perspective to a modern conflict heavily covered by North American media.

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