Gender roles, sexist beliefs, and abortion: Traditional beliefs about women and gender predict abortion attitudes

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Terrell ◽  
Julie Nagoshi ◽  
Gabrielle Filip-Crawford ◽  
Craig Nagoshi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
Abortion Attitudes ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Sexist Beliefs

scholarly journals The women of N. K. Jemisin: Representations of women and gender roles in the science-fantasy The Fifth Season

Ars Aeterna ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-74
Author(s):  
Erik György
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Women Characters ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Women In Science ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Science Fantasy ◽  
Representations Of Women

Abstract The following paper deals with representations of women and gender roles in science-fiction and fantasy. It briefly discusses the issue in these genres in general, but it is primarily concerned with one specific example, i.e. N. K. Jemisin’s science-fantasy novel The Fifth Season. The paper’s main aim is to highlight the changing nature of representations of women in science fiction and fantasy and pay tribute to a literary work depicting women from a modern perspective. Thus, it presents the analysis of said novel from the perspective of feminist criticism and gender studies, focusing on how the novel explores through its main and side women characters, ideas of representation, biological sex versus “gendering”, and related notions of femininity, gender roles and gender stereotypes and myths.

Jewish Traditions About Women and Gender Roles: From Rabbinic Teachings to Medieval Practice

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Baskin
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Gender Expectations ◽  
Marriage Contracts ◽  
Successful Women ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Marital Sexuality

Medieval Jewish attitudes about women's capacities, appropriate activities, and legal relationships with men emerged from the androcentric literature of the rabbinic movement (first seven centuries CE). While differences in customs developed in Spain (Sepharad), Western and Central Europe (Ashkenaz), and the Muslim Middle East and North Africa, rabbinic legislation ensured similar gender expectations and female exclusion from central roles in public worship and study and communal leadership in each milieu. Marriage contracts provided women with financial support following divorce or a husband's death. Prohibited from initiating divorce, some women found legal ways to leave untenable marriages. Economically successful women supported their households and sometimes used their wealth to enhance their communal roles and religious status. Many authors followed rabbinic precedent in defining women as sources of sexual temptation and ritual pollution. Mystics elevated marital sexuality as a model of divine communion, but demonization of the menstruant effectively excluded women from mystical circles.

New voices from Southeast Asian women: A review essay

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Watson Andaya
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Asian Women ◽  
Dutch East India Company ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
And Gender

Historians may have come late to the study of women and gender in Southeast Asia, but when these three books are placed along a historiographical spectrum one can only be impressed at how far the field has moved in approach and methodology. Exploiting previously untapped sources that emanate from very different sites — a Dutch East India Company courtroom, the women's quarters of a Malay palace, the privacy of a Javanese home — the authors open up new avenues by which to explore the complexity of Southeast Asia's gender history. Though the contexts are very different, the movement through time (Wives,slaves and concubinesis set in the late eighteenth century,Victorious wivesin the nineteenth, andRealizing the dreamin the twentieth) provides an opportunity to gauge shifts in representations of ‘femaleness’, attitudes towards gender roles, and women's responses to change.

scholarly journals A Sociopragmatic Analysis of Women and Gender Roles in John Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga and Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 284
Author(s):  
Abdulfattah Omar ◽  
Musa Ahmed Musa Alhassan
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Contextual Elements ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Narrative Techniques

This study is concerned with investigating the treatment of women and gender roles in Glasworthy’s Forsyte Saga and Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy from a sociopragmatic perspective. The texts studied for this paper have not been evaluated to socio-pragmatic analysis that reflects the little application of this approach to literary works. As thus, the goal of this paper is to advance sociopragmatic analysis to these novels—there is salience from the style, narrative techniques, and language utilized by both writers in their books, which indeed points to pragmatic undercurrents that must be explored. The results indicate that social and political aspects are key elements for understanding women and gender issues in the selected texts. The integration of these contextual elements revealed how the two authors manipulated literary discourse to reflect on the power relations and struggles between men and women of their age. It can be claimed that sociopragmatic approaches provide opportunities for understanding the hidden layers within the selected texts in terms of social practices and interactions among characters. It is finally suggested that sociopragmatic approaches should be integrated into literary studies for a better and deeper understanding of literary discourse in general and crosscultural issues in particular.

The King who would be Man: the Gender Roles of the Warrior King in Early Mughal History

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALI ANOOSHAHR
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Imperial Court ◽  
And Gender

There has appeared a new trend in recent scholarship on the early modern Islamic world that analyzes the role of gender and sexuality in society and culture. Ruby Lal and Rosalind O'Hanlon have investigated women and gender roles in the sixteenth-century Mughal harem and the broader imperial court respectively. Mehmed Kalpaklı, Walter Andrews, and Khaled El-Rouayheb have studied the nature or the implications of sexual relationship among men in Istanbul as well as the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Kathryn Babayan and Afsaneh Najmabadi have read Safavid and Qajar literature and visual arts through the lens of gender and power politics. Together these scholars have successfully highlighted the relevance of this methodology particularly in its application to the narrative sources that comprise the bulk of our documentations for the period (except for the Ottoman case of course), and it is to subject to such an approach a brief, but crucial, period in early Mughal history and historiography that the present article now proceeds.

Gendering Parliamentary Questions

2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Bird
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Written Questions ◽  
Common Understanding

This article explores MPs' use of parliamentary questions to address gender-related concerns. The discussion is based upon a sample of oral and written questions asked during the 1997/1998 parliamentary session. All questions including the terms ‘women’, ‘men’ and/or ‘gender’ were selected. Using quantitative analysis, the first part of the article examines which MPs asked these questions. The second part uses qualitative approaches to explore the content of such oral parliamentary questions. The article finds that women MPs were more likely than their male colleagues to refer to ‘women’ and ‘gender’ in both written and oral questions. Male members were more inclined to refer to ‘men’ than their female colleagues. Whilst the questions address a wide range of concerns, MPs shared a common understanding of which issues should be linked to ‘women’. Representations of wo/manhood, however, upheld conservative gender roles and risked essentialising sexual categories. The discussion has relevance for questions of women's political representation that have become increasingly topical and significant since the increase of female MPs in 1997.

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