Locating the Historical and Contemporary Context of Women’s Imprisonment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Chamberlen
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Women's Prisons ◽  
Women's Imprisonment ◽  
Contemporary Context

This chapter sketches the broader context of the study presented in this book. It starts with a historical account of imprisonment, focusing particularly on women’s imprisonment, and attempts to trace the centrality of prisoner bodies in the delivery of punishment via the prison since the eighteenth century. Through this brief historiography, it examines how the body has been the object and subject of punishment and, since the start, has been part and parcel of the delivery of imprisonment. More specifically, the chapter argues that, since its establishment, women’s imprisonment has been gendered and embodied. The second half of the chapter looks at more contemporary research on women’s experiences in prison, and unpacks the punishment–body relation by connecting the study’s objectives to extant research on women’s prisons.

Embodied Invention

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-140
Author(s):  
Bettina Varwig
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Keyboard Music ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century

This chapter develops a historical account of Bach’s musicking body, and those of early-eighteenth-century keyboardists more generally, as a way to rethink how Bach’s keyboard music was conceived and performed. It synthesizes aspects of contemporaneous medical, scientific, and theological discourses about the human faculties of touch, memory, and invention, and brings these into dialogue with the inventive and performative dimensions of Bach’s keyboard practice. The chapter unearths historical conceptions of memory as physiologically grounded and distributed across the body, of touch as a corporeal-spiritual faculty, and of human bodies as purposive and intelligent. These notions of a bodily kind of intelligence suggest the need to ascribe much greater agency to the embodied aspects of early-eighteenth-century modes of composing and performing. The chapter thus offers a somatic alternative to the customary focus on mental, disembodied patterns of invention in understanding Bach’s compositional and improvisatory practices at the keyboard.

scholarly journals Quixotic Legacy: The Female Quixote and the Professional Woman Writer

Authorship ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jodi L. Wyett
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Woman Writer ◽  
The Other ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Women Novelists ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Professional Woman ◽  
The One

This essay argues that Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote or, The Adventures of Arabella (1752) served as a fulcrum in eighteenth-century literary history by providing a figuration of the female quixote for subsequent women novelists who were keen to court absorbed readers on the one hand while countering stereotypes about women's critical failings on the other. The figure of the female quixote proves to be a significant mark of literary professionalism by reifying the spectre of the professional writer’s need for absorbed readers and dramatizing the occasion by which the woman writer demonstrates her own authority, paradoxically allowing both woman novel reader and woman novel writer to lay claim to intellectual authority. Ultimately, the main character Arabella's fictional model potentially echoes more actual eighteenth-century women’s experiences than her adventures at first suggest: the female quixote emerges as less a social outcast or a freak than a figure for women’s commonality, especially their intellectual and ethical ambitions in a world inimical to their interests.

Engulfed by an Alienated and Threatening Emotional Body: The Essential Meaning Structure of Depression in Women

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Idun Røseth ◽  
Per-Einar Binder ◽  
Ulrik Fredrik Malt
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Phenomenological Method ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
The Past ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Shame And Guilt ◽  
Meaning Structure

Abstract Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with a depressive disorder as men. Before trying to explain this difference, we must first understand how women experience depression. We explore the phenomenon of depression through women’s experiences, using Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenological method. An essential meaning structure describes the development of depression: The women find themselves entrapped in a personal mission which had backfired. Motivated by shame and guilt from the past, they overinvest in work or others’ emotions to relieve internal pain. They feel deeply sensitive to, and responsible for, other persons’ distress while ignoring their own feelings and needs. Gradually their emotional body grows awry and acts in increasingly alienating and threatening ways. Ultimately they feel forced to submerge in their emotional body; they succumb to depression. We reflect on this structure on the basis of Minkowski, Scheler, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, and in relation to contemporary research on depression.

scholarly journals Whose Eyes?: Women’s Experiences of Changing in a Public Change Room

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
Marianne Clark
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Social Meanings

Fitness and recreation centres populate today’s modern urban communities and cater to a wide range of people seeking health, fitness and social connection through physical activity. While women’s experiences in these spaces have received some scholarly attention from feminist scholars and scholars of the body, little research has explored women’s lived experiences of the change room. In this paper, I argue that everyday spaces such as change rooms and locker rooms are important spaces in which social understandings of the female body manifest. In such spaces, the materiality of the body and the social meanings ascribed to the female body are illuminated and negotiated by those who inhabit and move through them. Using Sartre and Merleau-Ponty as theoretical guides, I discuss how it is for women to see and be seen in a public change room, and how these spaces illuminate the complex relationship women have with their bodies in contemporary society.

Women's Experiences in Educational Leadership

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (10) ◽  
pp. 1022-1024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret R. Rogers ◽  
Meryl Sirmans
Keyword(s):  
Educational Leadership ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences
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