“Daughterlands”: Personal and Political Mappings in Scottish Women’s Poetry

Contemporary Women s Writing ◽

10.1093/cww/vpaa024 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Glenda Norquay

Keyword(s):

Multiple Roles ◽

Women's Poetry ◽

Political Thinking ◽

Carol Ann Duffy ◽

Younger Generation ◽

New Millennium

Abstract Scottish women’s poetry in recent years has evinced an interest in mapping daughterhood, frequently through linguistic negatives that challenge binary thinking. This essay argues that such “daughterlands” offer an imaginative alternative to the more familiar “motherland”: encompassing past, present, and future and positioning women in multiple roles, they have played a transformative role in the poetic imagining of “Scotland” in the new millennium. The essay considers the deployment of daughterly spaces by influential writers such as Carol Ann Duffy, Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay, and Kathleen Jamie and then traces more recent instantiations by a younger generation of poets such as Claire Askew, Theresa Muñoz, and Em Strang. In conclusion, it demonstrates the experiential and metaphoric potential of daughterhood for shaping broad political thinking in an explicitly public poem by Kay.

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Third Wave Collective Manifestos

Making Waves ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781789620429.003.0015 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 215-228

Author(s):

Michèle A. Schaal

Keyword(s):

Presidential Election ◽

Third Wave ◽

Younger Generation ◽

New Millennium ◽

French Feminism

37 years after Les Femmes s’entêtent, the Féministesen movement published Maisqu’est-cequ’ellesveulent encore?, thus reprising and expanding the secondary title of the original anthology. The 2012 manifesto—published shortly before the presidential election—charted contemporary discriminations in France and proposed a series of measures to be implemented by the next government, illustrating how, since the 1990s, a third wave of French feminism has emerged. In particular, the new millennium produced a plethora of individual and collective (anti)feminist manifestos by a younger generation of women, ranging from Isabelle Alonso’s Pourquoi je suischienne de garde (2001) to FEMEN (2013), the Ukrainian organization now in Paris. Considering the themes from Les Femmes s’entêtent, this chapter focuses on a series of collective feminist manifestos in order to ask: what are the contemporary “encirclements”? What solutions do third wavers offer to break those circles? What are their “désirs-délires”?

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Bucking The Trend

Teen Spirit ◽

10.7591/cornell/9781501749827.003.0010 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 167-190

Author(s):

Paul Howe

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Generation Y ◽

Coming Of Age ◽

Adult Population ◽

Wrong Direction ◽

Younger Generation ◽

Adolescent Society ◽

Over Time ◽

New Millennium

This chapter describes how the evolution of the adolescent society is not a simple one-way street where adolescent qualities become ever more prevalent and influential in the adult population over time. More than a decade into the new millennium there are important counter-trends, evident for some time now, that cry out for some acknowledgment and explanation. These developments are embodied in the attitudes and values of today's younger generation, a group that has been given various labels, most commonly “generation Y” or the “millennials.” A number of observers have suggested there is something quite different about today's young adults and teenagers. These new cohorts are bucking trends — undesirable trends for the most part — that had been moving steadily in the wrong direction for a great many years. The chapter contends that the “millennials” are those coming of age after the adolescent society was in full flight — roughly, those born from the late 1960s onward, the decade when adolescent norms and traits became fully manifest. In other words, millennial qualities have emerged gradually rather than abruptly, and paradoxically from within the very citadel of the adolescent society.

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Microchemistry of ZnO Varistors

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100133102 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 1694-1695

Author(s):

K. K. Soni ◽

J. Hwang ◽

V. P. Dravid ◽

T. O. Mason ◽

R. Levi-Setti

Keyword(s):

Grain Boundaries ◽

Multiple Roles ◽

Grain Boundary Engineering ◽

Ion Microprobe ◽

Dopant Distribution ◽

Important Ingredient ◽

Zno Varistor ◽

Zno Varistors ◽

Zno Powder ◽

The University

ZnO varistors are made by mixing semiconducting ZnO powder with powders of other metal oxides e.g. Bi2O3, Sb2O3, CoO, MnO2, NiO, Cr2O3, SiO2 etc., followed by conventional pressing and sintering. The non-linear I-V characteristics of ZnO varistors result from the unique properties that the grain boundaries acquire as a result of dopant distribution. Each dopant plays important and sometimes multiple roles in improving the properties. However, the chemical nature of interfaces in this material is formidable mainly because often trace amounts of dopants are involved. A knowledge of the interface microchemistry is an essential component in the ‘grain boundary engineering’ of materials. The most important ingredient in this varistor is Bi2O3 which envelopes the ZnO grains and imparts high resistance to the grain boundaries. The solubility of Bi in ZnO is very small but has not been experimentally determined as a function of temperature.In this study, the dopant distribution in a commercial ZnO varistor was characterized by a scanning ion microprobe (SIM) developed at The University of Chicago (UC) which offers adequate sensitivity and spatial resolution.

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