Trojan Women and Irish Sexual Politics, 1920–2015

2020 ◽  
pp. 254-267
Author(s):  
Isabelle Torrance
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Irish Women ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Public Criticism

This chapter traces representations of the status of women in Ireland through three twentieth-century productions based on the Trojan Women of Euripides. As a tragedy about the brutalities of colonialism, the play was immediately topical when it was produced by the Dublin Drama League in 1920, with Maud Gonne in the starring role as Hecuba. The play’s reception, however, underlined women’s lack of political agency, as did Brendan Kennelly’s Trojan Women (1993) and Marina Carr’s Hecuba (2015). Kennelly’s Trojan women are inspired by suffering Irish women from rural villages, but his Hecuba represents female collusion in sexist oppression from which men escape responsibility. Carr’s women are sexually liberated but they remain prisoners. Female sexuality continues to be connected with disempowerment at a moment when the absence of women from the Abbey Theatre’s 1916 commemoration programme was generating significant public criticism.

Women and Politics in Uganda. By Aili Mari Tripp. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. 277p. $55.00 cloth, $25.95 paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 507-508
Author(s):  
Ronald Kassimir
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Vice President ◽  
The United States ◽  
Women And Politics ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
The Status ◽  
Urban Working ◽  
Surprising Fact ◽  
Status Of Women

With women holding 18% of the seats in parliament and a woman serving as a vice-president, the status of women at the apex of Uganda's political system is impressive compared to most other countries, including the United States. In noting this surprising fact and in chronicling how it came about, Aili Mari Tripp has written a thought-provoking book that raises serious questions about what it means. She draws on empir- ical research in the realms of both "high" politics (i.e., the halls of parliament) and "deep" politics (urban working-class neighborhoods and rural villages) and provides a rich account of Ugandan women's associational life and political mobili- zation.

Sexual Autonomy and the Status of Women: Models of Female Sexuality in U. S. Sex Manuals from 1950 to 1980

1983 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin S. Weinberg ◽  
Rochelle Ganz Swensson ◽  
Sue Kiefer Hammersmith
Keyword(s):  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Autonomy ◽  
The Status ◽  
Sex Manuals ◽  
Status Of Women

scholarly journals Tradition of Concubine Holding in Hausa Society (Nigeria), 1900 – 1930

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-129
Author(s):  
Mutiat Titilope Oladejo
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Court Records ◽  
Female Status ◽  
National Archives ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

This paper examined the tradition of holding women as concubine in Muslim societies of the Hausa. Concubine holding changed the status of women and was acquired by slavery. This paper analysed concubine holding as a phenomenon that challenged female status in Hausa society. It put into perspective, the trajectories of concubine holding from the legends in the tradition of origin. It analysed the rights and privileges accrued to a concubine. And by the beginning of the twentieth century, the question of concubine holding was conveniently desirable under Islamic law and while the British law attempted to change the practices as part of efforts to abolish slavery. Thus, the paper contended that; concubine holding was part of the accepted norms in the sexual notions, which specifically privileged women to change their status and negotiate power in Hausa society. The paper adopted the historical approach by analysing court records, archival materials of the Nigerian National Archives, Kaduna, as well as books and journals relevant to the theme. Keywords: Concubine holding, British law, Islamic law, Hausa society

Sexual Autonomy and the Status of Women: Models of Female Sexuality in U. S. Sex Manuals from 1950 to 1980

1983 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin S. Weinberg ◽  
Rochelle Ganz Swensson ◽  
Sue Kiefer Hammersmith
Keyword(s):  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Autonomy ◽  
The Status ◽  
Sex Manuals ◽  
Status Of Women

scholarly journals Celebration of the centenary of the first female Fellows: introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. SP506-2020-190
Author(s):  
Cynthia Veronica Burek ◽  
Bettie Matheson Higgs
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Geological Society ◽  
Special Publication ◽  
Collective Work ◽  
History Of Geology ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Status Of Women

AbstractThe Geological Society of London was founded in 1807. In May 1919, the first female Fellows were elected to the Society, 112 years after its foundation. This Special Publication celebrates this centenary. A total of 18 papers have been gathered to highlight recent research, carried out by 24 authors. The publication also builds on stories introduced in a previous Special Publication of the Geological Society, The Role of Women in the History of Geology, edited by Burek and Higgs in 2007, the first book to deal solely with this topic, and in an article by Burek, ‘The first female Fellows and the status of women in the Geological Society of London’, in 2009. It fills in some of the gaps in knowledge with detail that has only recently been uncovered, leading to more in-depth analysis and reporting. The current publication includes more examples from the twentieth century, and a small number into the present century, allowing some trends to be identified. The collective work is finding connections previously undocumented and in danger of being lost forever owing to the age of the interviewees. The same work also identifies several common challenges that female geoscientists faced, which are still evident in the current investigations. By building on what went before, filling gaps in knowledge and enriching the histories, interesting nuanced insights have emerged.

International Studies as a Discipline and Women’s Status Therein

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Reid Sarkees ◽  
Marie T. Henehan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Studies ◽  
The Status ◽  
Civil War Era ◽  
Status Of Women

As a distinct discipline, international studies is relatively young, emerging in the United States only after World War II. The study of the status of women in international studies is also a fairly new field, appearing more recently than that in other fields in academia, including political science. In the United States, political science evolved through at least six distinct phases. The first two phases occurred during the American Revolution and the post-Civil War era, while the next four took place in the twentieth century, described by David Easton as the formal (legal), the traditional (informal or pre-behavioral), the behavioral, and the post-behavioral stages. It was during this period that the study of women in politics began. As political science began to solidify itself as a separate academic discipline at the beginning of the twentieth century, there was also an attempt to include international relations within its domain. Despite the increase in the number of women in international studies and the advances that women have made in publications and positions, the field remains dominated by men. In other words, it is still not an equitable place for women to work. In order to overcome many of these enduring barriers, there should be a greater willingness to investigate and publish more studies about the status of women and to take more proactive steps to resolve the issues that have stalled women’s progress.

The Status of Women in Alaska

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy B. Caiazza ◽  
April Shaw
Keyword(s):  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women
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