“There Were Females That Danced Too”: Uncovering the Role of Women in Breaking History

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Serouj Aprahamian
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Gender Performance ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Male Expression

The dominant narrative regarding breaking history is that the dance developed as an “exclusively male” expression of inner-city “machismo.” In this study, I challenge this narrative by bringing in the voices of breaking's often-neglected founding practitioners. By juxtaposing primary testimonies with mainstream representations, I aim to show how women have histoirically played a critical role in the dance, and how hegemonic discourse has obscured our understanding of hip-hop's beginnings. I also consider how uncovering the role of women in breaking's history reframes prevailing conceptualizations of its gender performance.

Aetiology of anxiety and depressive disorders in an inner-city population. 2. Comorbidity and adversity

1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. W. Brown ◽  
T. O. Harris ◽  
M. J. Eales
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Depressive Disorders ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Adverse Experiences ◽  
City Population ◽  
Major Loss

SynopsisAn earlier paper documented that adverse experiences in childhood and adolescence considerably raise risk of both depressive and anxiety conditions (with the exception of mild agoraphobia and simple phobia) in adult life. This paper deals with the same inner-city women with children at home. Consideration of adverse experiences throughout adulthood as a whole (excluding the period just before onset) particularly involving major prior losses suggests that rather different aetiological processes may be involved. Depression appears to be often linked to experiences of major loss in adulthood as a whole and to be particularly susceptible to shortcomings in the quality of ongoing social support. For anxiety only early adverse experiences appeared to be critical. (However, the onset of both conditions is often provoked by a severely threatening event in the most recent period – particularly ‘loss’ in depression, and ‘danger’ in anxiety.) Finally the critical role of early experience for both anxiety and depression explains to a considerable extent why they so often occur together; and social factors not studied in the present enquiry may account for some of the remaining unexplained comorbidity.

scholarly journals Global Assembly Recognizes Role of Women

1970 ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
Developing World ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
International Community ◽  
Role Of Women

The  Global Assembly held recently in Miami, Florida, reminded the international community that women in the developing world have a critical role as managers of the environment.

The First basilissa

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-58
Author(s):  
Elizabeth D. Carney
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Many ◽  
Royal Women

This chapter focuses on the life and career of Phila (c. 350–294 BCE), daughter of Antipater and first of the many wives of Demetrius Poliorcetes, the first woman to whom the title of basilissa (a coinage of uncertain meaning formed by putting a feminine ending on the Greek word for “king,” basileus) was applied. It considers why she served as the prototype for so many other aspects of the role of royal women in Hellenistic monarchy. It argues that the critical role her husband and father-in-law Antigonus played in the formation of Hellenistic kingship, the ways in which Phila’s actions and titles mirrored theirs, as well as Phila’s function as a legitimator of her husband’s rule of Macedonia (because she was the daughter of Philip II’s and Alexander’s general Antipater) are the primary reasons she became an exemplar of the role of women in Hellenistic monarchy.

The Role of the SLP in Autism Spectrum Disorder Screening and Assessment

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Philofsky
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Children With Asd ◽  
Prevalence Estimates ◽  
Notable Increase ◽  
Screening Assessment ◽  
Critical Components

AbstractRecent prevalence estimates for autism have been alarming as a function of the notable increase. Speech-language pathologists play a critical role in screening, assessment and intervention for children with autism. This article reviews signs that may be indicative of autism at different stages of language development, and discusses the importance of several psychometric properties—sensitivity and specificity—in utilizing screening measures for children with autism. Critical components of assessment for children with autism are reviewed. This article concludes with examples of intervention targets for children with ASD at various levels of language development.

A critical role of iNOS-derived Nitric Oxide (NO) and progesterone in implantation

1998 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 115A-115A
Author(s):  
K CHWALISZ ◽  
E WINTERHAGER ◽  
T THIENEL ◽  
R GARFIELD
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Critical Role
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