Non-ordinary Gender and Sexuality in Indonesian Performance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Spiller
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Compulsory Heterosexuality ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Performance Traditions ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

A profusion of Indonesian performance traditions, past and present, involve non-ordinary gender identities and sexual practices. Western theorists might interpret these performances as “queer,” but from indigenous points of view, they articulate quite comfortably with the dominant values of the societies that fostered them and often serve conservative, rather than transgressive, purposes, such as affirming cosmological ideas of duality, complementarity, and the reconciliation of opposites. This chapter surveys traditions from Sulawesi, Kalimantan (Borneo), and Papua, as well as from Java and Bali, which present welcome correctives to oversimplified understandings of compulsory heterosexuality and binary gender/sexuality identities and provide entry points for more nuanced understandings of the relationship of performing arts with “queerness.”

Interdisciplinary Enqueeries from India: Moving Toward a Queer Ethnomusicology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoe Sherinian
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Understanding ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology ◽  
Human Desire ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The goal of this article is to conceive of a cross-cultural queer theory for ethnomusicology that allows for the consideration of the widest diversity and inclusive conceptualization of the relationship of performing arts to human desire, intimate behavior, and identity. It begins from an assumption that Western meanings of “queer” do not match the ways of living and musicking with sex, gender, and sexuality that exist throughout the world. To this end, it presents eight theoretical guidelines to help scholars scrutinize the dominant Western gaze in queer scholarship, while allowing for local phenomena to expand global understanding of not just difference, but of human possibility. These guidelines engage concepts of gender and sexuality, ethnographic methodology, mainstream and marginal cultures, indigenous conceptualizations, intersectionality, and performative identities. It then applies these ideas and guidelines to case studies from South Asia by Jeff Roy (2017), Serena Nanda (1990), and Joyce Flueckiger (1996).

Legal change for child health: Report on a conference

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-253
Author(s):  
Henry M. Seidel
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Frank Lloyd Wright ◽  
Conference Participant ◽  
Health Report ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

"Physically and politically powerless, children have always gotten the short end of the stick. In earlier times, the surplus, especially females, were legally and deliberately killed; in the Middle Ages and until recently children were chattels; in Dickensian England they starved in workhouses or were exploited as beggars a la Oliver Twist...." Louise Raggio, Conference Participant The building Frank Lloyd Wright called Wingspread served as the setting for a discussion concerning the relationship of the health of the young to their legal needs and the role of the pediatrician in these regards. Men and women from medicine, the law, and social work shared their points of view, seeking a firm definition of advocacy for children, attempting to highlight some manageable priorities among the legal needs so that pediatricians might move to a partnership with others in the community which might facilitate access to a better life for all children and youth.

Buddhist Meditation as Strategic Embodiment: An Optative Reflection

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon A. Suh
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
The Common ◽  
Racialized Other ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Meditative Practices

Chapter 15 seriously scrutinizes the relationship of Buddhism, “one of America’s racialized other religious darlings,” to Asian American studies, which has yet to consistently recognize religion as a legitimate site upon which to map race, gender, and sexuality. Suh argues that “the common Buddhist units of measure and authenticity” —for instance, Orientalized monks and Eastern meditation— “are uncritically reproduced in larger Asian American discourses that continue to overlook the non-devotional and non-meditative practices of Buddhist laity.” Suh’s essay counters those discourses by engendering a new way of seeing meditation politics as a means of ameliorating bodily alienation and internalized white supremacy.

scholarly journals Knowledge of AIDS and self-efficacy to high-risk sexual practices among Lebanese males in New York

2002 ◽  
Vol 08 (06) ◽  
pp. 732-748
Author(s):  
K. Z. Awad
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Aids Knowledge ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship of AIDS knowledge and self-efficacy to high-risk sexual practices among Lebanese males in NewYork was examined. Self-administered questionnaires were completed by a convenience sample. Relationships between AIDS-knowledge and self-efficacy and high-risk sexual practices for the 25 homosexual men were rarely significant, probably because of the small sample. The 261 heterosexual participants had statistically significant relationships between AIDS-knowledge and 9 high-risk sexual practices and between self-efficacy and 18 high-risk sexual practices. For heterosexuals, and to a lesser degree for homosexuals, high-risk sexual practices increased as drug-related behaviours and sex with prostitutes increased.

scholarly journals The Pivotal Meaning and Its Relationship with Derivation Al Tahqiq fe AlQuran Al-Kareem. A Sample (Scrutinizing Words in Glorious Quran: A Sample)

2018 ◽  
Vol 212 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-240
Author(s):  
Assist. Prof. Dr. Khamis Abdullah Al-Timimy. ◽  
Dr. Haider Shnawa Faisal Al-zaidi.
Keyword(s):  
New Type ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Central Meaning ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The Paper has tackled the pivotal meaning, its relationship with derivation, and its types. The paper starts with defining the pivotal meaning and the ways of its formation, then mentioning the difference between the pivotal meaning and central meaning with revealing the most significant points of view anciently and recently. The researcher has defined derivation mentioning the essential views that have said about it with providing on adequate exposure to Mustafawi's remarks concerning derivation and hid unique achievement in this field i.e. adding a new type of derivation which he calls "extractive derivation". The researcher has also tackled about the relationship of the pivotal meaning with types of derivation represented by: small, big, the biggest, and magnificent. Keeping in mind that derivation is a linguistic procedure which cannot be restricted in specific limits in addition to the fact that its relation with the pivotal meaning is divergent depending on the type of derivation. 

scholarly journals Women’s Pleasure Online? A Contrasting Analysis of One Japanese Mainstream and One Women’s Pornographic Film from the Internet

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-64
Author(s):  
Katharina Helm
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Gender Representations ◽  
Pornographic Film ◽  
Stage Analysis ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This paper introduces the results of a two-stage analysis of one Japanese mainstream and one women’s pornographic film from the Internet, asking whether any differences between the gender representations of both sexes can be observed, and whether these differences correspond to the films’ Western counterparts. In the first stage, the films are being analysed regarding their correspondence to characteristics of mainstream pornography and, respectively, criteria of women’s pornography, which were developed through Western feminists’ debates. The detailed case studies of the two films that were selected as examples deal with their general and sexual contents, aesthetic elements, dialogues, and the appearance of the characters. In the second stage, the gender roles are being examined. The analysis firstly confirms that both films correspond to their Western counterparts and that they contain substantial differences concerning contents, aesthetic elements, dialogues, and the quality of the displayed relationship of the characters. Secondly, the paper shows that the gender representations in the mainstream pornographic film stick to conventional gender roles related to this genre, with an emphasis on male-centered sexual practices, which are linked to the female body’s objectification. By contrast, the women’s pornographic film features-besides female-friendly sexual practices-non-sexual aspects of the relationship between the characters and introduces an alternative male role model.

scholarly journals About the essence and concept of a legal text

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-51
Author(s):  
Dmitriy Orlov
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Legal Text ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Legal Technology ◽  
Legal Understanding ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The question of the essence and understanding of the normative legal text is complex, affecting many legal and theoretical problems: legal understanding; the relationship of the legal system and the legal system; understanding the method of regulatory regulation and systematization of law; understanding the rule of law itself and its interpretation as a specific legal activity, as well as a number of aspects of legal technology. Variations of research on the presented topic have been the subject of various Humanities, such as philosophy, sociology, or even philology. However, previous studies did not provide a clear understanding of the phenomenon in question. Based on the analysis of different points of view and approaches, the author of the article examines the essence of the normative legal text, formulates its concept.

scholarly journals System of relations of drug-dependent personality

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Object Relation ◽  
Drug Addicts ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Dependent Personality ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Drug Dependent ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The paper discusses the basic psychological directions of the system of attitudes of drug addiction’s study. The analysis of the problem of the system of attitudes of drug addiction persons made it possible to consider the relationship of drug addicts as a triad of subject-subject attitude to the drug, subject-object attitude to other people and subject-object arritude to himself. Thus, the drug "humanizes", endowed with attributes of a person's mental life. Emotional attachment to the drug is "personalized," and its loss is experienced as the loss of some part of itself. Behavior in relation to the drug is manifested in his persistent search. While, another person is treated by drug addicts in terms of utility, acceptability, need, importance, importance for them. The result of the analysis of different points of view about the peculiarities of the system of attitudes among drug addicts was the construction of a model for studying the relationship of persons with drug addiction in the triad: the subject is a subjective attitude to the drug, the subject is the object relation to other people, and the subject is an objective relation to himself. Drug addicts, animate and personalize the drug, refer to it as a person. At the same time, their relation to other people and to themselves is reified, and others are perceived as objects for manipulation. The findings suggest that formation of subject-subject emotional stereotypes towards close women: mother and wife/girl who are based on the depreciation mother’s social status and further in exaggerating the negative qualities of a partner.

scholarly journals Stages of Development of Sberbank as a Reflection of Changes of the State

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 44-61
Author(s):  
O. Novikov ◽  
A. Manenkov ◽  
D. Borshchigova
Keyword(s):  
International Finance ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Stages Of Development ◽  
Current State ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Financial Losses

The research team, consisting of a political scientist and two young international finance specialists, made an interdisciplinary investigation on Sberbank to understand the prerequisites of its current state. To achieve this, the authors checked the history, principles of operation and the relationship of Sberbank with different political institutions, including the national state as the main one of these. We discovered that Sberbank changed drastically parallel to the changes of the state — founded as a transparent, stable saving institution during tsarist Russian Empire it absorbed all the controversy of later epochs with its “crescendo” in the 1990s. Much has been already saying about the citizens’ deposits, made before 1991 and later claimed “burnt” or “zeroed”, but the authors tried to add some arguments trying to represent alternative points of view and calculate the scales of citizens’ financial losses. The paper contains the analysis of the most important facts and stages of development of the organisation since the foundation till recent years.

scholarly journals Adductor Canal Blocks: An Observational Ultrasound Study in Volunteers to Identify the Relationship of the True Adductor Canal to Commonly Described Block Approaches and a Review of the Literature

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yatish S. Ranganath ◽  
Amanda Yap ◽  
Cynthia A. Wong ◽  
Sapna Ravindranath ◽  
Anil Alexander Marian
Keyword(s):  
Lower Limbs ◽  
Outcome Variable ◽  
Adductor Canal ◽  
Ultrasound Study ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Needle Entry ◽  
Inferior Border ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Superior Border

Abstract Background There is controversy over the site at which the ultrasound-guided adductor canal blocks (ACB) should be performed, and the anatomic relationship of these sites to the true adductor canal (AC). Most studies describe performing the ACB at the anatomical mid-point of the thigh (mid-thigh ACB, mtACB), or 2-3 cm above the inferior border of AC (distal ACB, dACB). The aim of the study was to determine the relationship of these approaches to the true anatomical AC in volunteers. Methods Using ultrasonography and surface landmarks, we characterized the AC anatomy of both lower limbs in 60 adult volunteers (30 males, 30 females). The primary outcome variable was the distance from the mid-thigh approach to the superior border of AC. Calculated secondary measurements were the distance between the 2 approaches and the length of AC. Results The (median [IQR]) needle entry point for mtACB was above the superior border of the AC in both males (5.5 cm [4.6-7.0]) and females (6.6 cm [5.8-7.3]) (P = 0.045 [95% CI of the difference in medians, -1.63 to 0.00 cm]). The median distance between the needle entry points of mtACB and dACB in males vs females were not different (median difference: 0.63 cm; 95% CI, -0.25 to 1.50). The length of the adductor canal was 1.5 cm longer in males compared to females (95% CI, 1.00 to 2.25 cm) Conclusions AC blocks performed at mid-thigh or more proximal are outside the anatomical adductor canal. A review of recent literature shows 3 different sites where AC blocks are performed; the majority of the blocks are performed in the mid-thigh region and hence outside of the true adductor canal.

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