Women and Gender in the Apocrypha

2021 ◽  
pp. 476-497
Author(s):  
Sara Parks
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Ancient Text ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
Women’S History

In this piece, Sara Parks examines women and gender in the Apocrypha and their adjacent texts. Parks highlights key shifts in the last fifty years in the study of apocryphal female characters, women’s history, and, more recently, theorized gender. She addresses methods for the reconstruction of women’s lived experiences from antique texts written overwhelmingly by and for men, when the nature of the ancient evidence is far from ideal for answering contemporary questions. Parks highlights several key apocryphal texts that have been studied for their female protagonists, but points out that, as masculinity is also under construction in the texts, the question of gender is applicable to every ancient text and artifact. Beyond the analysis of female protagonists and the quest for women’s history, gender is a lens through which all historical and literary analysis should be approached.

Gender, Women’s History, and Social History

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise A. Tilly
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Social History ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Analytical Problem ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Olympe De Gouges ◽  
Women’S History ◽  
The Revolution

Recently, I attended a seminar at which a historian of women presented a dazzling interpretation of the polemical writing of Olympe de Gouges and its (not to mention her) reception during the French Revolution. A crusty old historian of the Revolution rose during the question period and inquired, in his own eastern twang, “Now that I know that women were participants in the Revolution, what difference does it make!” This encounter suggested to me what I will argue are two increasingly urgent tasks for women’s history: producing analytical problem-solving studies as well as descriptive and interpretive ones, and connecting their findings to general questions already on the historical agenda. This is not a call for integrating women’s history into other history, since that process may mean simply adding material on women and gender without analyzing its implications, but for writing analytical women’s history and connecting its problems to those of other histories. Only through such an endeavor is women’s history likely to change the agenda of history as a whole.

scholarly journals ‘I was a Girl of my Time’: A feminist literary analysis of representations of time and gender in selected contemporary South African fiction by women

Literator ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Murray
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
South African ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Critical Scrutiny ◽  
And Gender

This article offers a feminist literary analysis of selected contemporary South African texts by women writers in order to explore how they represent female characters’ engagement with conventional understandings of time and its chronological and linear progression. These engagements are represented as being particularly fraught for women characters as they find themselves constrained by various temporally located constructions of femininity even as they attempt to heed the temporally dislocated voices of gendered trauma that consistently speak through their bodies. In this article, my focus will be on Bridget Pitt’s novel, Notes from the Lost Property Department (2015), Elleke Boehmer’s The Shouting in the Dark (2015) and Mohale Mashigo’s The Yearning (2016). Despite frequent references to the importance of temporality in making sense of the experiences of the female protagonists, there has been a dearth of scholarly attention to the complexities of the intersections between gender, time and trauma in contemporary South African fiction by women. While gender violence and trauma are topics that have received extensive critical scrutiny in South African literary studies, this article demonstrates that the inclusion of temporality in the analytical framework enables a richer and more nuanced reading of the experiences of the female characters in the selected texts.

scholarly journals Getting Out of a Rut: Decolonizing Western Women's History

2010 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 585-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret D. Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Women Of Color ◽  
American West ◽  
White Women ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
The West ◽  
Western History ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Do So ◽  
Women’S History

For over three decades, western women's historians have been working not just to challenge male biases within western history scholarship but also to create a more multicultural inclusive narrative. Paradoxically, however, the overarching narrative of western women's history continues to sideline women of color and to advance a triumphalist interpretation of white women in the West. This essay argues that a multicultural approach has not provided an adequate framework for understanding women and gender in the American West. Instead, western women historians must "decolonize" our narrative and our field through seriously considering the West as a colonial site. To do so, we must employ the tools and theories that scholars of gender and colonialism worldwide have developed to analyze other comparable colonial contexts and projects.

Comment: Conceptualizing Gender in American Business History

1998 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan W. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Labor History ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Business History ◽  
American Business ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women’S History

Business history is not a field whose problematic I know, although these papers and one I read by Angel Kwolek-Folland, which was given here last spring, provide a helpful introduction. Instead, I come from exactly those fields, as the papers point out, that have been the traditional ones for thinking about women and gender: women's history and labor history. The challenge is to extend insights from those fields to business history.

scholarly journals Historia, mujeres y género: de una historia sin género a una historia de género

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-50
Author(s):  
Uxía  Otero-González
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
El Paso ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women’S History

Resumen Este artículo tiene por objeto el reflexionar sobre de la historiografía de las mujeres y el género. En primer lugar, se examina de forma sucinta el paso de una historia sin mujeres a una historia de las mujeres. En segundo lugar, se presta atención al “género” como categoría de análisis histórico y al desplazamiento hacia una historia de esta noción. A continuación, se considera la andadura hacia la institucionalización y el reconocimiento de estos estudios. Por último, se presentan algunos problemas y algunos retos actuales que caracterizan a este campo de investigación. Palabras claves Historia, mujeres, (relaciones de) género    Abstract  This article aims to reflect on women and gender historiography. First, we succinctly examine the transition from a history without women to a women’s history. Second, we pay attention to “gender” as a category of historical analysis and to the displacement to a gender history. Third, we consider the path towards institutionalization and recognition of these studies. And finally, we present some current problems and challenges characteristic of this field of research.  Key words  History, women, gender (relations)  

Does Gender Matter?

2008 ◽  
pp. 54-71
Author(s):  
Paula E. Hyman
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Family ◽  
European Jewish ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women’S History

This chapter probes the significant contributions to the understanding of the past, which postmodern criticism that has attributed vital importance to women as a historical subject and to gender as a category of critical analysis. It offers a valuable assessment both of inroads already made by women's history and gender analysis into Jewish historical research. It also invokes distinctions drawn by Gerda Lerner, 'the doyenne of women's history', to categorize both achievements and desiderata in the field of feminism. The chapter reviews compensatory history which focuses on women previously ignored, including gender-based adjustment and refinement of interpretation in areas ranging from the Conversos to the shtetl and from the Holocaust to the family. It tackles areas where women's and gender-sensitive history have the power to transform and reshape the fundamental assumptions of European Jewish history.

scholarly journals Kajian Sastra Feminisme terhadap Citra Perempuan Adonara dan Ketidakadilan Gender dalam Novel “Ikhtiar Cinta dari Adonara” Karya J. S. Maulana

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-129
Author(s):  
Yunita Laka Marawali
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Data Analysis Technique ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Female Figures ◽  
And Gender

This study aims to describe the image of Adonara women and the types of gender injustice experienced by female characters in the novel "Ikhtiar Cinta dari Adonara" by J. S. Maulana. This study uses a literary approach based on literary studies of feminism and gender. The object of research is the description of Adonara women and gender injustice found in the novel "Ikhtiar Cinta dari Adonara" by J. S. Maulana. The source of data in this study is the novel “Ikhtiar Cinta Adonara’ by J. S Maulana. The novel written by J. S. Maulana consists of 320 pages. Published by Kaysa Media (Puspa Swara Group) in 2014. The data analysis technique was done by reducing data, presenting data analysis and interpreting the data and summarizing the results of research in order to obtain a picture of the image of women in the novel "Ikhtiar Cinta dari Adonara" by J. S. Maulana. In this study, researchers analyzed two female figures to describe the image of women in the novel. The results obtained are (a) The image of a woman, namely the figure of Syarifah, is a Muslim who is devout in worship and always submits to God, a woman who is educated, tough, has positive thoughts, is courageous and principled, is humble, and a woman who loves sincerely. (b) Fatimah's self-image, namely women who are willing to sacrifice, are brave and have principles, (c) gender injustice is found, namely marginalization, subordination, stereotypes, violence, and workload.

‘For pagans laugh to hear women teach’: Gender Stereotypes in the Didascalia Apostolorum

1998 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
Charlotte Methuen
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Important Distinction ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Femininity And Masculinity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women’S History

The broader theme of gender and Christian religion presupposes three definitions: of Christianity, of religion, and of gender. Probably none of these is as simple as it might first appear, but that of gender is perhaps the most critical for our theme. Although there are still some who would use the terms ‘gender’ and ‘sex’ interchangeably, there is a growing tendency to recognize an important distinction between gender – that is, femininity and masculinity, regarded as largely socially constructed – and sex, the biological distinction between male and female human beings. Gender is best considered as born out of interactions between men and women. This means that the gender roles which make up what we experience as masculinity and femininity cannot be defined by looking only at men or at women, although ideas about both can be gained from looking at one group or the other. That is why gender history is different from women’s history, and that is why both women’s history and gender history are essential enterprises. We need women’s history because we need to know where women were as well as where they were not.

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