“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 The Role of Culture, Values and Trauma in Shaping Abnormal Bodily Experience in Migrants

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
Massimiliano Aragona
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Bodily Experiences ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Somatization Disorders ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe way somatization is expressed—including the actual somatoform symptoms experienced—varies in different persons and in different cultures. Traumatic experiences are intertwined with cultural and social values in shaping the resulting psychopathological phenomena, including bodily experiences. Four ideal-typical cases are presented to show the different levels involved. The effects of trauma, culture and values may be pathofacilitating (creating a social context which is necessary for the experience to take place), pathogenetic (taking a causal role in the onset of the psychopathological reaction), pathoplastic (shaping the form such a psychopathological reaction takes) or pathointerpretive (different interpretation of the same symptoms depending on the patient’s beliefs). While the roles of trauma and culture were already well recognized in previous accounts, this chapter adds an exploration of the importance of values, including cultural values, in the aetiology, presentation and management of somatization disorders. As a consequence, the therapeutic approach has to be adjusted depending on the way these factors intervene in the patient’s construction of mental distress.

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 Yang Terlupakan, Yang Berkarya

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-98
Author(s):  
Lukas Eko Budiono
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Meaning Of Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Core Value ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia

The tradition of rewang in Javanese society denotes the preparation and production of meals, a custom performed primarily by women. As a cultural value, rewang reflects an ideal standard for the role of women. In this essay, an assessment of the role of women is deployed to explore the meaning of work and, at the same time, to surface an understanding of hospitality that is based on the tradition of rewang, in order to demonstrate social meaning and values from the rewang tradition. Within this tradition, the meaning of work begins necessarily with remembering just how important is each person’s role. For members of the Javanese community, participation according to the rewang tradition shows the importance of strengthening blood-relationship with others (termed silaturahmi in Bahasa Indonesia). It is this blood-relation that serves as core value within the rewang tradition, such that rewang becomes a model for being community within the social context of Indonesia. By employing a perspective of rewang, this essay thus attempts to demonstrate how hospitality can serve as a basis for the identity of presence concerning the Javanese community.

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.

Afterword

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda C. Seaman
Keyword(s):  
Organic Farming ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Family ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Twenty First Century

This chapter explores the role of women in late twentieth and twenty-first century Japan and explores how young women look at marriage and the family. Young women, often the focus of the Japanese media, are refusing to get married or have children in larger and larger numbers. This refusal is cataloged in a number of humorous books and essays by female cultural critics such as Sakai Junko, famous for her book Howl of a Loser Dog, Kusunoki Potosu who comes from the field of organic farming, and Haishi Kaori, a journalist. Using all the same demographic data, they make the case that fewer children are better for women and for Japan as a whole.

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.

The Politics of Hair: Girls, Secularism and (Not) the Veil in Mustang and Other Recent French Films

Paragraph ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-369
Author(s):  
Fiona Handyside
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Material Body ◽  
Binary Approach ◽  
Religion And Modernity ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Girlhood Studies ◽  
The Veil ◽  
French Films

This article explores art cinema's association of long, straight, shimmering hair with an idealized white, secular, agentic version of girlhood in Deniz Ergüven's Mustang (2015). With reference to girlhood studies and current debates in France about the politics of hair concealment and display, the essay argues for the central role played by the ‘politics of hair’ in thinking through the complex role of women and girls in a postsecular world. The girl's material body, and especially her hair, is made to support a binary approach toward questions of religion and modernity, rendering her the prime figure through which the relation between Islam and the West, tradition and modernity, patriarchy and feminism is articulated.

Phenomenological Study of the Role of Sentani Women in the Family in Jayapura Regency in 2021

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Heni Voni Rerey ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
The Family ◽  
Household Environment ◽  
Role Of Women

This research is motivated by the role of women in the household environment, so this role is considered an obligation that must be done hereditary by women. It can be described that the role of women in life ranging from pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding children, maintaining the survival of children to adulthood is a nature that must be lived by a woman. This study examined the role of Papuan women in the Sentani tribe as a family booster and health resilience for the community from the cultural point of view of the Sentani tribe, Papua. This research uses qualitative research methods of phenomenology in May - October 2021. The data collection was conducted with interviews with 14 informants consisting of tribal chiefs, community leaders, fathers, mothers and young women sentani. The results showed sentani women began their role in the household by preparing all the needs of family members as an early education for young women about their obligations as women. Mothers have an important responsibility to keep young women in a pattern of association and behave with boys. Sentani women have a dual role, in addition to shouldering the responsibility of being a mother who gives birth and prepares all the needs of children and her husband, they also play a role to prepare foodstuffs such as gardening or looking for fish in the lake. This role is always attached and passed down to their daughters.

Women and Votive Inscriptions in Etruscan Epigraphy

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 39-64
Author(s):  
Petra Amann
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Religious Aspects ◽  
Qualitative Dimension

Abstract This paper aims at giving an overview of the quantitative and qualitative dimension of the female element in the field of Etruscan votive inscriptions. It offers a systematic discussion of dedications set by Etruscan women and attested by inscriptions from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period. The study does not focus primarily on religious aspects, but by taking into account the underlying social context it tries to cast some additional light on the role of women in Etruscan society.

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