Written from the Body of Sisterhood

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Lise Tarter
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Body Text ◽  
Female Body ◽  
New World ◽  
Dynamic Network ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
The Body ◽  
Early America ◽  
Women's Meetings ◽  
Quaker Women

This chapter, focusing on transatlantic Quaker women’s autobiographical writings between 1650 and 1800, explores the ways in which these Spiritual Mothers prophetically performed and sustained George Fox’s calling for an embodied spirit theology. Faced with impending, male-inscribed censorship on their female body/text, these women resisted patriarchal control and emigrated to the ‘Holy Experiment’ of early America. Their separate and privatized Women’s Meetings became a dynamic network for channelling female prophecy and agency in the colonies. Quaker women established a radical literary tradition, locating autobiography as the new site of prophecy and the semiotic voice in the eighteenth century. Writing from the female body as from the body collective, these women thus created a ‘New Word’ and simultaneously expanded the boundaries of gender and prophecy in the ‘New World’.

scholarly journals Politicizing Aesthetics

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoe Detsi-Diamanti
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Female Body ◽  
New World ◽  
White Male ◽  
Symbolic Representation ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth

The aim of this paper is to explore the changing aesthetic and ideological connotations of the representation of America as an Indian woman in the sixteenth-century engravings of the discovery and conquest of the New World and the late-eighteenth-century political cartoons of America's national conflict and eventual secession from mother England. In both cases, the male enterprise of colonization and nation-making is aesthetically expressed in the fetishistic and symbolic representation of the female body as the simultaneously alluring and devouring female, seductively naked before the white male European, and as the victim of political violence and the national struggle for independence.

Furor Liturgicus: The Religious Concerns of Russian Poetry

2020 ◽  
pp. 395-411
Author(s):  
Martha M. F. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
The Body ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
The World ◽  
Russian Poetry ◽  
Modern Russian

In a now classic 1994 article Victor Zhivov counters the idea that the eighteenth-century quest to create a modern Russian literature represented a wholesale rejection of Russia’s previous literary tradition. He shows instead how poets appropriated elements of Orthodox liturgical tradition in a bid to adapt the classical notion of ‘furor poeticus’, marking it by the eruption of Church Slavonic norms into modern poetics. This chapter demonstrates how, as Zhivov contends, elements of Orthodox liturgical culture have continued to shape the modern Russian poetic tradition from the eighteenth century into the present. In particular, Russian poets have long presented poetry as uniquely able to transform the world by drawing on Orthodox imagery of theosis or divinization—the transfiguration of human life and thus the world, by the divine light and being. The liturgically inflected religious concerns of Russian poetry that sections address include prophecy, human co-creation with God, the problem of the body, and the role of silence.

scholarly journals The Female Body And Women's Issues

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 4022-4034
Author(s):  
Nidal Abdul Rahim Salman
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
New World ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
Actual Reality ◽  
The World ◽  
Harsh Criticism

The woman adopted the act of writing afterwards as a way to understand the world around the woman, and she took various methods to prove the woman epistemological uniqueness and privacy, and the most famous of those written means is in writing with the body, which is a cognitive act that the woman uses to understand the woman past and the woman new world, in order to express the woman actual reality that revolves around the theme of the body, Writing cannot go beyond it because it is a realistic being that all things are centered around. This throws the woman into the dilemma of writing in light of a conservative social reality that made the body among the taboos that cannot be penetrated, and if that happens, writing is subject to moral questioning and harsh criticism, especially from the male community.  

scholarly journals Population Policy as a Means for Bio-Politics: The Cases of Romania and China

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-37
Author(s):  
Pelin Önder Erol
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Population Policy ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Body ◽  
Regulatory Control ◽  
Chinese Case

After the discovery of “population” in modern society, domination over the body has been enacted by a set of interventions which are called regulatory control, or bio-politics by Michel Foucault. From the eighteenth century onwards, bio-politics has involved any kind of intervention which acts as means for forming the population according to the wills of those with power. This has led to an era of bio-politics in which fertility in particular has become regulated in accordance with political economy. Hence the body, especially the female body, has been reduced to an economic object by detaching her identity, personal aspirations and desires. In turn, sexuality becomes a subject of economic interventions through pronatalist and/or antinatalist politics. In either way, those interventions should be methodologically regarded as instruments of bio-politics. This paper specifically focuses on pronatalist and antinatalist politics as bio-political instruments in the well-known Romanian case and the Chinese case by drawing upon the Foucauldian perspective of bio-politics.

America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Freedman
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
The Body ◽  
Creative Imagination ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Relationship

When Blake titled his two great American works with the words ‘Visions’ and ‘Prophecy’, he invested the new world with the spiritual and imaginative significance of his favourite artistic forms. The recent battle for independence had revived America’s claim to newness and, while Blake was disillusioned with the reality of the Republic across the Atlantic, he retained his sense of America as a symbol of spiritual and social promise. Blake’s own sense of America’s symbolism influenced many Americans who saw themselves as continuing the task of prophecy and vision. In their attempts to revitalize a society they saw as profoundly corrupted, Blake’s American readers took hold of his own greatest tools: the creative imagination and the possibilities of consciousness. They were sensitive to his tones and textures, finding comedy, mysticism, insight, vision, and social criticism in his work. Blakean forms of bardic song, aphorism, prophecy, and lament became particularly relevant to a literary tradition which centralized the relationship between aspiration and experience. Blakean themes of revelation and perception, the body, revolution, desire, and delight helped shape mythopoeic visions of America....

scholarly journals The Female Body And Women's Issues

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 5601-5613
Author(s):  
Nidal Abdul Rahim Salman, Dr. Ihsan Mohammed Jawad Al-Tamimi
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
New World ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
Actual Reality ◽  
The World ◽  
Harsh Criticism

The woman adopted the act of writing afterwards as a way to understand the world around the woman, and she took various methods to prove the woman epistemological uniqueness and privacy, and the most famous of those written means is in writing with the body, which is a cognitive act that the woman uses to understand the woman past and the woman new world, in order to express the woman actual reality that revolves around the theme of the body, Writing cannot go beyond it because it is a realistic being that all things are centered around. This throws the woman into the dilemma of writing in light of a conservative social reality that made the body among the taboos that cannot be penetrated, and if that happens, writing is subject to moral questioning and harsh criticism, especially from the male community.

Men’s Hunger, Food Consumption, and Preferences for Female Body Types

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 495-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Guéguen
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Slender Body ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
Body Type ◽  
Experimental Conditions

Nelson and Morrison (2005 , study 3) reported that men who feel hungry preferred heavier women. The present study replicates these results by using real photographs of women and examines the mediation effect of hunger scores. Men were solicited while entering or leaving a restaurant and asked to report their hunger on a 10-point scale. Afterwards, they were presented with three photographs of a woman in a bikini: One with a slim body type, one with a slender body type, and one with a slightly chubby body. The participants were asked to indicate their preference. Results showed that the participants entering the restaurant preferred the chubby body type more while satiated men preferred the thinner or slender body types. It was also found that the relation between experimental conditions and the choices of the body type was mediated by men’s hunger scores.

‘Good enough for a spot of lippy anyway’: Rape and the Body Politic in My Brother Tom

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 358-373
Author(s):  
Louise Wilks
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sexual Violation ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
British Cinema ◽  
Hollywood Movies ◽  
Contemporary Cinema ◽  
Rape Narratives

The representation of rape continues to be one of the most highly charged issues in contemporary cinema, and whilst many discussions of this topic focus on Hollywood movies, sexual violation is also a pervasive topic in British cinema. This article examines the portrayal of a female's rape in the British feature My Brother Tom (2001), a powerful and often troubling text in which the sexual violation of the teenage female protagonist functions as a catalyst for the events that comprise the plot, as is often the case in rape narratives. The article provides an overview of some of the key feminist academic discussions and debates that cinematic depictions of rape have prompted, before closely analysing My Brother Tom's rape scene in relation to such discourses. The article argues that the rape scene is neither explicit nor sensationalised, and that by having the camera focus on Jessica's bewildered reactions, it positions the audience with her, and powerfully but discreetly portrays the grave nature of sexual abuse. The article then moves on to examine the portrayal of sexual violation in My Brother Tom as a whole, considering the cultural inscriptions etched on the female body within its account of rape, before concluding with a discussion of the film's depiction of Jessica's ensuing methods of bodily self-inscription as she attempts to disassociate her body from its sexual violation.

Nicolas Gueudeville's Enlightenment Utopia

Moreana ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (Number 209) (1) ◽  
pp. 24-60
Author(s):  
Russ Leo
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Political Anthropology ◽  
French Translation ◽  
Natural Religion ◽  
Original Length ◽  
English Law

Nicolas Gueudeville's 1715 French translation of Utopia is often dismissed as a “belle infidèle,” an elegant but unfaithful work of translation. Gueudeville does indeed expand the text to nearly twice its original length. But he presents Utopia as a contribution to emergent debates on tolerance, natural religion, and political anthropology, directly addressing the concerns of many early advocates of the ideas we associate with Enlightenment. In this sense, it is not as much an “unfaithful” presentation of More's project as it is an attempt to introduce Utopia to eighteenth-century francophone audiences—readers for whom theses on political economy and natural religion were much more salient than More's own preoccupations with rhetoric and English law. This paper introduces Gueudeville and his oeuvre, paying particular attention to his revisions to Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce, Baron de Lahontan's 1703 Nouveaux Voyages dans l'Amérique Septentrionale. Published in 1705, Gueudeville's “revised, corrected, & augmented” version of Lahontan's Voyages foregrounds the rational and natural religion of the Huron as well as their constitutive aversion to property, to concepts of “mine” and “yours.” Gueudeville's revised version of Lahontan's Voyages purports to be an anthropological investigation as well as a study of New World political economy; it looks forward, moreover, to his edition of Utopia, framing More's work as a comparable study of political economy and anthropology. Gueudeville, in other words, renders More's Utopia legible to Enlightenment audiences, depicting Utopia not in terms of impossibility and irony but rather as a study of natural religion and attendant forms of political, devotional, and economic life. Gueudeville's edition of Utopia even proved controversial due, in part, to his insistence on the rationality as well as the possibility of Utopia.

The role of the female body in contesting and negotiating space in sports for women in rural and urban Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-113
Author(s):  
Obert Bernard Mlambo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Victorian Culture ◽  
Girl Child ◽  
School Sports ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Gender Ideals ◽  
A Site ◽  
Embodied Practice

This article examined attitudes, knowledge, behavior and practices of men and society on Gender bias in sports. The paper examined how the African female body was made into an object of contest between African patriarchy and the colonial system and also shows how the battle for the female body eventually extended into the sporting field. It also explored the postcolonial period and the effects on Zimbabwean society of the colonial ideals of the Victorian culture of morality. The study focused on school sports and the participation of the girl child in sports such as netball, volleyball and football. Reference was made to other sports but emphasis was given to where women were affected. It is in this case where reference to the senior women soccer team was made to provide a case study for purposes of illustration. Selected rural community and urban schools were served as case references for ethnographic accounts which provided the qualitative data used in the analysis. In terms of methodology and theoretical framework, the paper adopted the political economy of the female body as an analytical viewing point in order to examine the body of the girl child and of women in action on the sporting field in Zimbabwe. In this context, the female body is viewed as deeply contested and as a medium that functions as a site for the redirection, profusion and transvaluation of gender ideals. Using the concept of embodiment, involving demeanor, body shape and perceptions of the female body in its social context, the paper attempted to establish a connection between gender ideologies and embodied practice. The results of the study showed the prevalence of condescending attitudes towards girls and women participation in sports.

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