DOMESTIC SERVANTS, MIDNIGHT MEETINGS, AND THE MAGDALEN'S FRIEND AND FEMALE HOMES’ INTELLIGENCER

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 443-461
Author(s):  
Scott Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Sudden Death ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Domestic Servants ◽  
Fallen Women ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Opening Address

Published monthly from April 1860 until 1864, The Magdalen's Friend and Female Homes’ Intelligencer was a periodical with a very specific mission. Launched at the height of the mid-Victorian concern with prostitution – when institutions devoted to the reclamation of penitent prostitutes began to emerge across Britain – it only ceased publication after the sudden death of its editor, the Reverend William Tuckniss. In its opening issue, the editors describe their explicit purpose: “Christians and Philanthropists who are now labouring single-handed [in the cause of reclaiming prostitutes and fallen women] will here find a rallying point, where they may exchange words of encouragement and advice, and confer with others who are their Fellow-labourers in the same cause” (“Opening Address” 1.1 1–2). It was, then, a trade publication for a movement that had grown remarkably – seven years after its founding in 1853, the Society for the Rescue of Young Women and Children (commonly known as the “Rescue Society”) was operating twelve houses of reclamation in London.

Victory Garden: Ruth Page's Danced Poems in the Time of World War II

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-56
Author(s):  
Joellen A. Meglin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Langston Hughes ◽  
Women's Clubs ◽  
Federico Garcia Lorca ◽  
World War ◽  
Dorothy Parker ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Deliberate Strategy

During the years 1943–1946, the Chicago choreographer and ballet director Ruth Page created a compact, innovative vehicle for touring, a concert she called Dances with Words and Music. The programme consisted of solo dances accompanied by the poems of Dorothy Parker, Ogden Nash, e. e. cummings, Federico García Lorca, Langston Hughes, Hilaire Belloc, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and others. Page performed her danced poems, speaking the words herself and dialoguing with them in dance, in New York and Chicago, and at Jacob's Pillow. She also toured extensively to smaller cities scattered throughout the Midwest and South, sponsored by colleges and universities, as well as civic associations, independent producers, women's clubs, and USOs. I argue that Page's marriage of poetry and dance was not just a stopgap measure designed to keep her choreographic footing during the lean years when male dancers were enlisted. It was a deliberate strategy to position herself as a front-runner on the American scene – an architect of the American ballet with a sensitive ‘vernacular ear,’ a worldview, and, crucially, a perspective sympathetic to the psyches of young women and children.

“To Save the Women of China from Fear, Opium and Bound Feet”: Australian Women Missionaries in Early Twentieth-Century China

Itinerario ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-82
Author(s):  
Sarah Paddle
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Young Women ◽  
White Women ◽  
New Woman ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Women Missionaries ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
New Nation ◽  
At Home

This article explores the experiences of Western women missionaries in a faith mission and their relationships with the women and children of China in the early years of the twentieth century. In a period of twenty years of unprecedented social and political revolution missionaries were forced to reconceptualise their work against a changing discourse of Chinese womanhood. In this context, emerging models of the Chinese New Woman and the New Girl challenged older mission constructions of gender. The Chinese reformation also provided missionaries with troubling reflections on their own roles as independent young women, against debates about modern women at home, and the emerging rights of white women as newly enfranchised citizens in the new nation of Australia.

DOMESTIC SERVICE IN INDUSTRIALIZING JAPAN: THE JOB CHOICES OF UNMARRIED YOUNG WOMEN IN THE SENNAN DISTRICT, OSAKA PREFECTURE, 1893–1927

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiro Ogiyama
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Japanese Women ◽  
Domestic Service ◽  
Domestic Servants ◽  
Labour Shortage ◽  
The Family ◽  
Osaka Prefecture ◽  
Young Japanese Women

AbstractThis study examines the manner in which the significance of housework affected the job choices of young Japanese women over three decades spanning the beginning of the twentieth century, by focusing on domestic servants hired by the Hiroumi family, a merchant family living in the Sennan District, Osaka Prefecture. The family recruited unmarried young women from within Sennan as domestic servants. These women benefited from domestic service because it enabled them to become skilled in housework. Around the late 1890s, however, they preferred to work in the textile industry, the mainstay of Sennan's economy at the time, not recognizing the value of domestic work. Consequently, the Hiroumi family experienced a labour shortage. After this period, though, young women attached increasing importance to housework, and by the 1920s, they were as willing to be employed in domestic service as in the textile industry. This made it less difficult for the Hiroumi family to recruit domestic servants.

Iron fortification: Flame-made nanostructured Mg- or Ca-doped Fe oxides

2011 ◽  
Vol 1316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesper T.N. Knijnenburg ◽  
Florentine M. Hilty ◽  
Alexandra Teleki ◽  
Frank Krumeich ◽  
Richard F. Hurrell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iron Deficiency ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Iron Phosphate ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Iron Fortification ◽  
Iron Solubility ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Food Matrices ◽  
Sensory Changes ◽  
High Bioavailability

ABSTRACTIron deficiency affects approximately 2 billion people worldwide, especially young women and children. Food fortification with iron is a sustainable approach to alleviate iron deficiency but remains a challenge. Water-soluble compounds with high bioavailability (e.g. the “gold standard” FeSO4) usually cause unacceptable sensory changes in foods, while compounds that are less reactive in food matrices are often less bioavailable. Solubility (and therefore bioavailability) can be improved by increasing the specific surface area (SSA) of the compound, i.e. decreasing its particle size to the nm range. Here, iron oxide-based nanostructured compounds with Mg or Ca are made using scalable flame aerosol technology. Addition of either element increased iron solubility to a level comparable to iron phosphate. Furthermore, these additions lightened the powder color and sensory changes in fruit yoghurt were less prominent than for FeSO4.

Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality, Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights of Adolescent Girls and Young Women: A Narrative Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naina Kumar ◽  
Amit Kant Singh
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Female Genital Mutilation ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Genital Mutilation ◽  
Pubmed Database ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Female Genital

: Adolescent girls and young women constitute a vulnerable population worldwide and an easy target to secondary impacts of a pandemic due to societal norms, existing age, gender-based inequalities, leading to a condition known as “second pandemic”. Due to local and national lockdowns to prevent coronavirus spread, educational institutions, workplaces, and health services have been shut down, making adolescent girls and women prone to sexual, physical exploitation, gender-based violence, educational, financial loss, lack of sexual and reproductive services. The present review briefs some of these secondary impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent girls and women, which, if taken care of, can prevent many long-term consequences. Methodology: The literature was searched from governmental, non-governmental sites and agencies like WHO, UN, UNICEF, Guttmacher Institute, International Labor Organization, and English peer-reviewed journals, using the USA National Library of Medicine (Pubmed) database, the regional portal of Virtual Health Library, and Scientific Electronic Library Online. The data from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic till March 2021 about the impact of COVID-19 on women and children were searched and studied. The descriptors used were school drop-out children, adolescent girls, women suffering at home/work, unmet need for contraception, unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortion, child marriages, and female genital mutilation. Results and Conclusion: COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a “hidden pandemic” against women and children. There is a skyrocketing rise in violence against women/girls, teenage pregnancies, school drop-outs, child marriages, abuse, and female genital mutilation. Hence, women and adolescent girls should be protected from the shadowing effects of the pandemic.

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