Marriage and Silences

2021 ◽  
pp. 166-240
Author(s):  
Marilyn Booth
Keyword(s):  
Gender Difference ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Marital Relationship ◽  
Legal Change ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Gender Based

This chapter assesses Fawwaz’s writings on marriage, divorce, and family life, 1892‒1900. In stand-alone essays and a long-running debate with a customs official, published in the journal Fursat al-awqat, Fawwaz addressed the exploitation of late versions of Islamic fiqh (jurisprudence) and its hadith sources, and the fiction of the Islamic basis of extreme seclusion, as patriarchal mechanisms to keep women subordinate and unhappy in marriage. It assesses the reformist views of Muhammad ‘Abduh while arguing that Fawwaz focused less on legal change and more on the prevalence of misogynistic views in the marital relationship that maintained the hegemony of patriarchal social organization. In her debate with Husayn Fawzi, Fawwaz used logic, arguments from history, and knowledge of Islamic sources to reject his understanding of gender, based on his reading of the creation story, Qur’an, and hadith, and medieval marriage manuals. This debate centred on marriage but went beyond it to explore Islamic understandings of gender difference.

scholarly journals ‘I Looked and Beheld a Country’: Home Movies, Homesteads and the Family Archive

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Clayton Rathbone
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Identity ◽  
Home Movies ◽  
Family Photographs ◽  
The Family ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1950S

Home movies, like family photographs, are important parts of family life, acting as ways to frame the idea of the family and connect different, inter-generational memories together. Footage of key moments helps develop a family identity, as well as locate it within broader historical contexts. As a result, home movies provide an incredibly useful source with which to examine the intersections between narratives of the family, nation and belonging. Utilising a collection of personal home movies, this paper will explore how these themes are touched on within the context of British Colonial Southern Africa. These films explore how ideas of family identity are rooted within ideas of home and belonging, articulating a conceptualisation of colonial Southern Africa as a ‘home-scape’ for descendant of British settlers living there during the 1950s and 1960s. These home movies draw attention to the creation of the idea of home and family, while also producing disruptive elements to those narratives.

scholarly journals PERCEPTION OF YOUTH ON MARRIAGE PRACTICES: A STUDY IN DODDA BIRANA KUPPE GRAM PANCHAYAT, H D KOTE TALUK, MYSURU DISTRICT

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-52
Author(s):  
Mohan A.K ◽  
Gangotri Dash
Keyword(s):  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Young People ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Marital Relationship ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Educational Qualification ◽  
Life Decisions ◽  
Youth Study

Marital relationship not only provides sanction to family life but also affects the life decisions and satisfaction of people in this bond. The ritual associated with marriage has direct impact on wellbeing of persons in this relationship. Although debates and discussions on child marriage and restrictions for widow etc. have brought legislations to prohibit such practices but still these are not completely eradicated. Hence, to make future free from such evils and to understand the marital satisfaction, it is essential to understand the perception of young people on the marriage rituals of their communities and also their expectations. This study focused on the perception on marriage rituals of tribal youth living in DoddaBiranaKuppe Gram Panchayat of H D Kote Taluk, Mysore district. Research has taken gender and educational qualification as factors to understand association of these factors with perception and knowledge of youth about marriage. Based on the finding and suggestions of community youth, study has emphasized the importance of counselling and education.

scholarly journals A Quest for Identity - A Feminist Approach in Manju Kapur’s Home

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
S. Shobana
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Feminine Identity ◽  
Indian Family ◽  
Female Hero ◽  
Search For Self ◽  
The Feminine

The paper aims to research the search for self-identity and feminism in Manju Kapur's Home. Home is a masterful novel of the acts of kindness, compromise, and secrecy that lies at the center of each family. The novel, narrate of Indian family life spans three generations whose destiny and dreams are pasted to the Banwarilal cloth shop.  Nisha the protagonist has got to struggle for establishing her identity and to survive during this male-dominated world.  In Indian society, women have never been acknowledged as a person outside their              pre-destined roles of a woman, daughter, and mother.  The female hero of Home tries to free herself of ‘dependence syndrome' thrust upon her by the agents of social organization. The paper focuses on the journey of the feminine protagonist, Nisha towards individuality and self-identity and don't wish to be seen as a self-sacrificing rubber-doll. She had to struggle for her existence as, like different heroines of Manju Kapur, she is within the transformation to innovate the search of autonomy and feminine identity.  

The Angels

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Great Care ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Mount Sinai

This chapter examines rabbinic attitudes toward the angels. Enoch-Metatron, being transformed into the highest of all angels and becoming a divine figure next to God, stands at the extreme (Babylonian) end of a much larger spectrum of rabbinic attitudes toward the angels. Earlier Palestinian sources were vehemently opposed to any such possibility of the angels being granted a role transcending their traditional task of praising God and acting as his messengers. This is particularly true for the creation story and the revelation of the Torah on Mount Sinai. With regard to the former, the rabbis set great store in pointing out that the angels were not created on the first day of creation—to make sure that nobody should arrive at the dangerous idea that these angels participated in the act of creation. Similarly, the rabbis took great care in not granting the angels too active a role during the revelation of the Torah on Mount Sinai.

Beginning and End: Exploring the Qur͗anic ‘Grand Story’

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Mahmoud
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Form ◽  
Conceptual Scheme ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Human Attributes

This chapter discusses the Qur'anic ‘grand story’, which refers to the underlying, basic conceptual scheme that informs Qur'anic stories and bestows meaning and coherence on them. Ths basic conceptual scheme is predicated on a relationship between humankind and God that leads to either salvation or damnation. In expressing this relationship, the Qur'anic narrative form turns God into a person with a dramatic presence and human attributes. The chapter reflects on the beginnings as expressed by the creation story and on the eschatological future. It cites the cosmic beginning as the seed of the Qur'anic grand story; this beginning is a preparation of the physical stage for the climactic moment of the human beginning when God creates Adam. It also explains how the creation story and the specificity of the ‘Adamic beginning’ relate to the grand story.

Lucretius on the Origin of Language

1979 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tore Janson
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Roman Poet ◽  
Human Speech ◽  
Origin Of Language ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of Linguistics ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

Summary The Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c. 99–55 B.C.) deserves a place in the history of linguistics because of his views on the origin of language. He was the first one to draw the parallel between the sounds of animals and the beginnings of human speech, and the first one to clearly envisage the creation of language as a fact of fundamental importance for the social organization of man. His ideas are related to modern research in the area in an interesting way.

The Chamorro Creation Story, Guam Land Struggles, and Contemporary Poetry

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
Craig Santos Perez
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Related Issue ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Western Pacific

Abstract This essay focuses on the creation story of the Indigenous Chamorro people from the western Pacific Island of Guam. The essay presents and analyzes the deeper meaning of the story of Puntan and Fu’una as they birth the island of Guam and the Chamorro people. Moreover, it maps the history of Catholic missionization that displaced and replaced the Chamorro creation story. The essay covers the related issue of how colonization removed Chamorros from their ancestral lands and appropriated these lands for imperial, military, tourism, and urban development. Then it highlights the decades-long struggle of Chamorro activists to reclaim the land. Lastly, it turns to contemporary Chamorro poetry to illustrate how authors have revitalized and retold the story of Puntan and Fu’una to critique and protest the degradation of Chamorro lands and to advocate for the protection and return of the land.

BBI may not resolve gender gap in Kenyan politics

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
The Political ◽  
Female Leaders ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Political Reforms ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Cost

Significance The government now says the issue will be dealt with as part of the political reforms recently proposed in the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report. Impacts The creation of new positions to accommodate more female leaders will increase the cost of government. A focus on the BBI proposals will distract from addressing the spike in gender-based violence since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. There is no guarantee that the BBI proposals will be implemented in their entirety.

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