Women in the Gospels of Mark and Mary

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Tuckett
Keyword(s):  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Remarkable Similarity ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Women Disciples

While the Gospels of Mark and Mary are very different and neither gospel makes the role of women the prime focus of attention, the prominence of female characters is striking in both. This chapter explores how, despite their great differences, the two texts show a remarkable similarity in their depiction of Jesus’ women followers. In both, women take on crucial roles at the conclusion of Jesus’ earthly career. Although the original ending of Mark may suggest that the women disciples failed to communicate the message entrusted to them at the, this impression is countered by the later Markan endings and by most other post-Markan retellings of the tomb story. In the Gospel of Mary, Peter and Andrew’s attack on Mary is countered by Levi’s defence of her as a uniquely privileged disciple. Both Mark and the Gospel of Mary use women figures to present a message of discipleship.

Dining with the Perpetrators. Eva Diamantstein's Performative Exploration of the Role of Women in National Socialism

2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-77
Author(s):  
ANJA I. KLÖCK
Keyword(s):  
National Socialism ◽  
Collective Communication ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Frankfurt Am Main ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Experiential Quality

Eva Diamantstein's play and production of Nachtmahl (Supper) premiered during the Spielart Theatre Festival in Munich, Germany, in November 2001, and subsequently toured to Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg and Vienna in 2002. Both a research project and a theatrical enterprise, Nachtmahl is based on the biographies of four women who actively participated in various Nazi projects. Seated at a long table and having a four-course dinner together with the female characters, the spectators gradually discover their histories while the theatre becomes a dynamic space of coexistences, in which the continuities between past and present acquire a material and experiential quality. By situating Nachtmahl within the historiographical strategies crystallizing around women and National Socialism, the author discusses the production's use of social rituals, strategies of domination and intimidation and mechanisms of collective communication. The production explores how culturally conditioned strategies of exoneration function as devices for separating oneself from a seemingly distanced past.

scholarly journals Peripécias na alcova de Sade: A mulher em La philosophie dans le boudoir

2018 ◽  
Vol 01 ◽  
pp. 51-67
Author(s):  
Edson Santos Silva ◽  
Wallas Jefferson de Lima
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Georges Bataille ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Marquis De Sade ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
History And Literature ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Way

The article analyzes the way the female characters appear in the book A Filosofia na alcova of Marquis de Sade. It highlights the author’s recurrent themes, such as space, private life and freedom, relating them to the discussion about the role of women during the eighteenth century in France. Such a thematic-spatial option analyzes, therefore, points that were not thoroughly studied and that, for a long time, were only considered in addendums within the studies about the French post-revolutionary context. The discussion is part of the theoretical intersection between History and Literature, using as reference the works of Georges Bataille, Michele Perrot, Eliane Robert Moraes and Lynn Hunt.

Biblical Seductresses

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Shira Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Explicit Evaluation ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Biblical Figures

Within the texts of the Bible, there are seductresses who are portrayed as resisting the patriarchal values of biblical society by employing their feminine wiles to manipulate powerful males. These women sacrifice their own virtue by taking initiative in sexually daring acts and subordinating their victim of seduction to further their pursuits. Numerous female biblical figures are praised after utilizing their feminine weapons to achieve their ends; however, these seducers, some of whom are married, engage in questionable means. Since the Bible does not render an explicit evaluation, I aim to investigate such seductive behavior in an effort to assess the conduct of biblical seductresses and illuminate the role of women depicted in the Bible. A close reading of the texts and an examination of rabbinic interpretations of episodes in which Lot’s daughters, Tamar, Jael, Ruth and Esther each perform seductive acts can be used as a resource to further support contemporary feminist readings which justify biblical female characters’ use of morally dubious means to accomplish noble aims.

Myths in crisis? Marina Carr’s revision of feminine myths in contemporary Irish Theatre

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
María del Mar González Chacón
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Irish Theatre ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Normative Models

The theatre of Marina Carr evokes Sophocles’ Electra in The Mai (1994), through female characters that pursue a mythical ending. It turns to classical modernity in Marble (2009), when women are unable to coexist with normative models, Trojan territories turn into unknown dreamlands, lasting and immaculate existences, that go beyond earthly life, are pursued, and the protagonists echo Greek heroines. Through a revision of the mythological content of her plays, the question of the crisis or persistence of myths in contemporary Irish society and culture can be addressed successfully: Irish and Greek female myths survive in the plays of Carr, and this technique highlights the relevance of mythology in today’s Irish theatre as a strategy to question the role of women in society. On the other hand, this use of myth continues revealing the inability of modern materialist society to substitute the epic life of the individual.Keywords: Myth, theatre, Marina Carr, Greek, Irish, female.

“Breaking the Head of the Masquerade” Tracie Utoh–Ezeajugh's “Out of the Masks” and Theatre of Exclusion

Matatu ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32
Author(s):  
Nick Mdika Tembo
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Role Of Women

In most African societies, traditional rituals are sometimes used as tools for cultural inferiorization of women and girls. Out of frustration, those at the receiving end of such rituals may resort to a variety of performative and subversive tactics aimed at debunking them in society. This essay seeks to examine Tracie Utoh–Ezeajugh's portrayal of women in “Out of the Masks.” The essay particularly seeks to examine how the dramatist responds to and represents the position and role of women in the traditional social context and in the context of changing social values in her play. Through a careful analysis of key episodes of five young women, the essay argues, an insurrection aimed at saving the female race “from further institutional molestation and humiliation” is successfully mounted in the play. In the end, female characters response to social, economic, political, and cultural oppression through their strategic planning and careful organization in the play.

scholarly journals Some additional notes on Shakespeare : his great tragedies from a Slovene perspective

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 3-48
Author(s):  
Mirko Jurak
Keyword(s):  
Final Part ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theatre Production ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Theatrical Companies

In the first chapter of this study the author stresses the importance of literature and Shakespeare's plays for our age. Although the enigma of Shakespeare's life still concerns many scholars it is relevant only as far as the solutions of some biographical details from Shakespeare's life influence the interpretation of his plays. In the section on feminism the focus of the author's attention is the changed role of women in the present day society as compared to previous centuries. In the final part of the article the role of the main female characters in Shakespeare's great tragedies is discussed. The author suggests that so far their importance has been underestimated and that Shakespeare left some of them open to different interpretations. Hamlet is definitely one of the most popular Shakespeare's plays in Slovenia and in addition to "classical" interpretations of this drama we have seen during the past two decades a number of experimental productions, done by both Slovene and foreign theatrical companies. In Appendix (1) the title of this paper is briefly discussed and the author' a work on Shakespeare is sketched; Appendix (2) presents a rap song on Hamlet written in English by a Slovene author. The song was used in the Glej Eperimental Theatre production (Hamlett/Packard, Ljubljana, 1992).

scholarly journals Feministic Analysis of Arundhati Roy's the God of Small Things in the Light of Post Colonialism

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 172-181
Author(s):  
Shiva Zaheri ◽  
Sayyed Rahim Moosavinia
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
English Language ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Post Colonialism ◽  
Small Things

This paper attempts to analyze the mentioned novel based on postcolonial studies in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things.  The concepts that can be mentioned in this novel are history, diaspora, hybridity, the role of women in Indian society, globalization, resistance and orientalism. These concepts are used from postcolonial theorists, Edward W. Said and Homi K. Bhabha.Prominent issue is the role women in Indian society, because there are several female characters, such as Ammu, Rahel, and so on in TGST. Economic growth causes change in Ayemenem. It becomes a globalized community. Postcolonial resistance is an important issue in the novel. When Roy uses English language which it is a colonial language, she does a kind of resistance against colonization itself. Roy refers to the children’s life as a means of resistance.

scholarly journals Socialist Realism And The Situation Of Women In Society In The Works Of Maxim Gorky "Mother" (Социалистический Реализм И Положение Женщины В Обществе В Произведении Максима Горького "Мать")

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (44) ◽  
pp. 269-281
Author(s):  
Hadeel Ismaeel Khalil ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Socialist Realism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Realism ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky’s Mother is one of the most important literary genre in social realism, in which he depicts female characters with revolutionary fervor and enthusiasm, projecting his social ideologies and dreams. Though the novel unique importance lies in the fact that it has been thoroughly analyzed by many writers, historians and sociologists, there are almost no studies devoted to the role of women out of a Marxist and feminist point of view. The present paper sheds light on the Russian woman‘s important role in overcoming all adversity and gain her position on Social Realism. Одно из центральных мест среди произведений, написанных в таком литературном жанре, как социалистический реализм, занимает произведение Максима Горького "Мать", в котором он изображал женские персонажи с революционным задором и энтузиазмом, проецируя через них свои социалистические мысли и мечты. Актуальность данной работы заключается в том, что произведение Горького "Мать" было анализировано многими литераторами, историками и социологами, однако почти отсутствуют исследования, посвящённые революционной роли женщин с марксистской и феминистской точки зрения. В заключении делается вывод о том, что Максим Горький в романе "Мать" дал чёткий портрет русской женщине в рамках социалистического реализма, которая смогла преодолеть все невзгоды, переродиться и стать полноправным членом общества.

Trends in Sex Roles in Television Commercials

1979 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth C. Schneider ◽  
Sharon Barich Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Sex Roles ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Television Commercials ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Tv Commercials ◽  
Changing Role

This study reports trends in role portrayals of male and female characters in television commercials between 1971 and 1976. Several comparisons are made between portrayals in TV commercials and roles in U.S. population. The authors conclude that marketers and society have begun to accept the changing role of women.

scholarly journals PERANAN WANITA DALAM TRADISI LISAN CARITA PANTUN NYAI SUMUR BANDUNG

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Yuzar Purnama
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Traditional Poetry

 Isu gender memang tidak pernah putus dari perbincangan. Ketika seorang wanita berjuang untuk menuntut persamaan hak, dibalik itu ada pula wanita yang justru merendahkan martabatnya sebagai makhluk yang memiliki derajat yang sama dengan lain jenis. Pada kesempatan ini penulis ingin melihat lebih jauh tentang peran wanita dalam tradisi lisan Carita Pantun Nyai Sumur Bandung. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskripsi dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Batasan materi meliputi tradisi lisan, Carita Pantun, dan peranan tokoh wanita Nyai Sumur Bandung dalam tradisi lisan Carita Pantun. Kesimpulan, peranan seorang wanita yang bernama Nyai Sumur Bandung dari Kerajaan (Negara) Bitung Wulung yang berkiprah di Kerajaan Kuta Waringin dengan memiliki karakter yang kokoh dalam pendirian, tangguh, hati-hati, dan arif bijaksana.    Gender issues have never stopped being discussed. When a woman struggles to demand equality, behind that there are also women who actually lower their dignity as beings who have the same degree with other types. On this occasion the author would like to see more about the role of women in the oral tradition of Carita Pantun Nyai Sumur Bandung. This study uses a description method with a qualitative approach. The material boundaries included oral traditions, traditional poetry (Carita Pantun), and the role of female characters Nyai Sumur Bandung in the oral tradition of traditional poetry (Carita Pantun). Conclusion, the role of a woman named Nyai Sumur Bandung from the Kingdom Bitung Wulung who is active in the Kingdom of Kuta Waringin by having a strong character in stance, toughness, caution, and wisdom.    

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