"The Farcical History of Richard Greenow": Aldous Huxley and the Anxieties of Male Authorship

Abstract Aldous Huxley's first piece of published fiction, "The Farcical History of Richard Greenow" (1920), reveals anxieties about authorship and sexual iden-tity that were typical of modernist male writers. This article situates this nou-vella in two contexts. The first concerns Huxley's relationship with his aunt, novelist and social activist Mary Augusta Arnold Ward; the second centers on medical theories of homosexuality presented by Havelock Ellis in Sexual Inversion (1897). The protagonist calls himself a spiritual hermaphrodite because his body is inhabited by two personalities: a male intellectual and an increasingly aggressive female novelist and war propagandist named Pearl Bellairs. As a caricature of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Pearl reveals Huxley's antagonism toward powerful and popular women novelists. But she also provides a way for protag-onist and author to defend themselves against same-sex eroticism. Ideology does not determine desire. Rather, in the story, as in Sexual Inversion, fears aroused by certain desires seek expression in specific cultural forms. (Literary criticism, psychological approach; gender studies)

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Language Onset and Concomitant Speech and Language Problems in Subgroups of Stutterers and Their Siblings

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/jshr.2504.482 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 482-486 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Robin A. Seider ◽

Keith L. Gladstien ◽

Kenneth K. Kidd

Keyword(s):

Family History ◽

Same Sex ◽

Speech And Language ◽

Negative Family History ◽

Late Talkers ◽

Language Problems ◽

History Of ◽

Language Onset

Time of language onset and frequencies of speech and language problems were examined in stutterers and their nonstuttering siblings. These families were grouped according to six characteristics of the index stutterer: sex, recovery or persistence of stuttering, and positive or negative family history of stuttering. Stutterers and their nonstuttering same-sex siblings were found to be distributed identically in early, average, and late categories of language onset. Comparisons of six subgroups of stutterers and their respective nonstuttering siblings showed no significant differences in the number of their reported articulation problems. Stutterers who were reported to be late talkers did not differ from their nonstuttering siblings in the frequency of their articulation problems, but these two groups had significantly higher frequencies of articulation problems than did stutterers who were early or average talkers and their siblings.

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Rebellious Wallflowers and QueerTangueras: The Rise of Female Leaders in Buenos Aires’ Tango Scene

Dance Research ◽

10.3366/drs.2018.0237 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 173-197

Author(s):

Juliet McMains

Keyword(s):

Social Norms ◽

Buenos Aires ◽

Female Leaders ◽

Same Sex ◽

Overlapping Communities ◽

Heterosexual Women ◽

Bisexual And Transgender ◽

History Of

This paper interrogates the history of same-sex dancing among women in Buenos Aires' tango scene, focusing on its increasing visibility since 2005. Two overlapping communities of women are invoked. Queer tangueras are queer-identified female tango dancers and their allies who dance tango in a way that attempts to de-link tango's two roles from gender. Rebellious wallflowers are women who practice, teach, perform, and dance with other women in predominantly straight environments. It is argued that the growing acceptance of same-sex dancing in Argentina is due to the confluence of four developments: 1) the rise of tango commerce, 2) innovations of tango nuevo, 3) changing laws and social norms around lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights, and 4) synergy between queer tango dancers and heterosexual women who are frustrated by the limits of tango's gender matrix. The author advocates for increased alliances between rebellious wallflowers and queer tangueras, who are often segregated from each other in Buenos Aires' commercial tango industry.

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“Point of View” in Literary Criticism, History and History of Philosophy: Perspective of Dialogue

Nauchnyy dialog ◽

10.24224/2227-1295-2020-11-193-210 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (11) ◽

pp. 193-210

Author(s):

O. A. Vlasova

Keyword(s):

Literary Criticism ◽

History Of Philosophy ◽

Point Of View ◽

History Of

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The Contemporary Serbian Historiography on Women in the Independent Serbian State (1878–1918): An Overview

Slavic World in the Third Millennium ◽

10.31168/2412-6446.2018.3-4.1.05 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (3-4) ◽

pp. 62-75

Author(s):

Yulia V. Lobacheva

Keyword(s):

Gender Studies ◽

20Th Century ◽

Women's Movement ◽

Private Life ◽

Women's Issues ◽

Biographical Research ◽

History Of ◽

Modernization Process ◽

19Th And 20Th Century ◽

Current Stage

This article aims to consider how Serbian scholars/historians approach to the study of Serbian women in the history of the independent Serbian state and the Serbian society in 1878–1918 at the current stage of the research (from the beginning of 1990th until 2017). This paper will give an overview of some of the main areas of historical studies considering Serbian women’s “being and life”. For example the historiography on history of “women’s question” including women’s movement and/or feminism will be considered as well as biographical research, the study of women’s position through the lens of the modernization process in Serbia in the 19th and 20th Century, Serbian women’s issues in gender studies and through the history of everyday and private life and family, the analysis of the perception of Serbian woman by outside observers including the study of the image of Serbian woman created/constructed by “others”.

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СОЦИАЛЬНАЯ КОНФЛИКТОЛОГИЯ: ТЕОРЕТИКО-ИСТОРИЧЕСКИЙ АСПЕКТ

Konfliktologia ◽

10.31312/2310-6085-2020-15-2-68-80 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 68

Author(s):

А. Н. Сухов

Keyword(s):

Theory And Practice ◽

Important Task ◽

Social Conflicts ◽

Psychological Approach ◽

Structure Dynamics ◽

History Of ◽

The Subject ◽

First Time

This given article reveals the topicality not only of destructive, but also of constructive, as well as hybrid conflicts. Practically it has been done for the first time. It also describes the history of the formation of both foreign and domestic social conflictology. At the same time, the chronology of the development of the latter is restored and presented objectively, in full, taking into account the contribution of those researchers who actually stood at its origins. The article deals with the essence of the socio-psychological approach to understanding conflicts. The subject of social conflictology includes the regularities of their occurrence and manifestation at various levels, spheres and conditions, including normal, complicated and extreme ones. Social conflictology includes the theory and practice of diagnosing, resolving, and resolving social conflicts. It analyzes the difficulties that occur in defining the concept, structure, dynamics, and classification of social conflicts. Therefore, it is no accident that the most important task is to create a full-fledged theory of social conflicts. Without this, it is impossible to talk about effective settlement and resolution of social conflicts. Social conflictology is an integral part of conflictology. There is still a lot of work to be done, both in theory and in application, for its complete design. At present, there is an urgent need to develop conflict-related competence not only of professionals, but also for various groups of the population.

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Dancing Women

10.1093/oso/9780190938734.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Usha Iyer

Keyword(s):

South Asian ◽

Cultural Production ◽

The Body ◽

Theoretical Frameworks ◽

History Of ◽

Material History ◽

Cultural Forms ◽

Hindi Cinema

Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema, an ambitious study of two of South Asia’s most popular cultural forms—cinema and dance—historicizes and theorizes the material and cultural production of film dance, a staple attraction of popular Hindi cinema. It explores how the dynamic figurations of the body wrought by cinematic dance forms from the 1930s to the 1990s produce unique constructions of gender, stardom, and spectacle. By charting discursive shifts through figurations of dancer-actresses, their publicly performed movements, private training, and the cinematic and extra-diegetic narratives woven around their dancing bodies, the book considers the “women’s question” via new mobilities corpo-realized by dancing women. Some of the central figures animating this corporeal history are Azurie, Sadhona Bose, Vyjayanthimala, Helen, Waheeda Rehman, Madhuri Dixit, and Saroj Khan, whose performance histories fold and intersect with those of other dancing women, including devadasis and tawaifs, Eurasian actresses, oriental dancers, vamps, choreographers, and backup dancers. Through a material history of the labor of producing on-screen dance, theoretical frameworks that emphasize collaboration, such as the “choreomusicking body” and “dance musicalization,” aesthetic approaches to embodiment drawing on treatises like the Natya Sastra and the Abhinaya Darpana, and formal analyses of cine-choreographic “techno-spectacles,” Dancing Women offers a variegated, textured history of cinema, dance, and music. Tracing the gestural genealogies of film dance produces a very different narrative of Bombay cinema, and indeed of South Asian cultural modernities, by way of a corporeal history co-choreographed by a network of remarkable dancing women.

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Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780198733706.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

James Whitehead

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Literary Criticism ◽

Cultural History ◽

Intellectual History ◽

Historical Sociology ◽

Cultural Representations ◽

History Of ◽

Television Film ◽

Popular Image

The introductory chapter discusses the popular image of the ‘Romantic mad poet’ in television, film, theatre, fiction, the history of literary criticism, and the intellectual history of the twentieth century and its countercultures, including anti-psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Existing literary-historical work on related topics is assessed, before the introduction goes on to suggest why some problems or difficulties in writing about this subject might be productive for further cultural history. The introduction also considers at length the legacy of Michel Foucault’s Folie et Déraison (1961), and the continued viability of Foucauldian methods and concepts for examining literary-cultural representations of madness after the half-century of critiques and controversies following that book’s publication. Methodological discussion both draws on and critiques the models of historical sociology used by George Becker and Sander L. Gilman to discuss genius, madness, deviance, and stereotype in the nineteenth century. A note on terminology concludes the introduction.

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Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780198805939.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Rebecca Skreslet Hernandez

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Literary Criticism ◽

Analytical Framework ◽

Religious Studies ◽

Current Situation ◽

Secondary Literature ◽

Interdisciplinary Methods ◽

Legal Thought ◽

History Of ◽

Modern Egypt

This introduction sets out the scope of the book’s argument and explains why Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī is such an interesting figure in the history of Islamic legal thought. It describes the reception of al-Suyūṭī’s work at home in Cairo and abroad as well as his lasting legacy. It outlines the analytical framework and the importance of interdisciplinary methods, including discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, anthropology, history, religious studies, and literary criticism to the argument of the book. An explanation of how al-Suyūṭī’s life can inform our understanding of the current situation in modern Egypt is followed by a review of the secondary literature and a full outline of each chapter.

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