scholarly journals Dysfunction, Deviancy, and Sexual Autonomy: The Single Female Detective in Primetime TV

2020 ◽  
pp. 152747642096987
Author(s):  
Kate R. Gilchrist
Keyword(s):  
Single Women ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Single Woman ◽  
Single Female ◽  
Feminine Subjectivity ◽  
Sexual Autonomy ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Female Detective ◽  
Good Wife ◽  
American Society

As the number of single women has grown within Anglo-American society, there has been a proliferation of discourses around single women within popular culture. At the same time, there has been a resurgence in female-centered media representations of detectives. This article asks what cultural work the convergence of the single woman with the unconventional figure of the detective performs, and what this means for contemporary feminine subjectivities, exploring how she is constructed in three primetime TV crime dramas: The Bridge, The Good Wife and Fargo. I argue that while the single female detective foregrounds discourses of professionalism, rationality, and sexual autonomy, she simultaneously reinscribes patriarchal discourses of heteronormative coupledom and normative femininity through her social dysfunction, vulnerability and deviance, rendering the single woman a threat to femininity. Yet, at times, her liminal positioning allows her to occupy a more transgressive feminine subjectivity and subversively trouble the gender binary.

scholarly journals Silencing the single woman: Negotiating the ‘failed’ feminine subject in contemporary UK society

Sexualities ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 136346072110411
Author(s):  
Kate R Gilchrist
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interview ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Single Woman ◽  
Single Female ◽  
Feminine Subjectivity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Feminine Subject ◽  
Intimate Life

Despite a growth in single women in UK society over the past two decades, single femininity continues to be highly stigmatised. Drawing on Judith Butler’s theory of the heterosexual matrix and applying this to qualitative interview data with 25 single women, I argue that single femininity is produced as abject through processes of silencing which render the single female a ‘failed’ subject and reinscribe heteronormative coupled femininity. Yet while deeply painful, such ‘failures’ may also be productive, offering moments where the boundaries of heteronormative feminine subjectivity and hierarchies of intimate life are troubled and transformed. This article complicates understandings of stigma and resistance through a nuanced analysis of processes of abjectification and ambivalence.

Flight from the Womb

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 713-737
Author(s):  
Charmaine Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Economic Liberalization ◽  
Single Woman ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
Feminine Subjectivity ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
Chick Lit ◽  
The City

Although chick lit, epitomized by novels such as Bridget Jones’s Diary, has been analyzed by feminist critics as an example of postfeminist culture, the transnational spread of the genre has resulted in transformations that invite fresh consideration. In the Indian context, chick lit emerged in the aftermath of economic liberalization, contributing to the configuration of a new feminine subjectivity—“the single woman in the city.” This article argues that the discourse of singleness in Indian chick lit is deployed not so much to solve the problem of singleness through marriage but to resolve the tension between the demands of “Indian tradition” on middle-class young women and their desire for a selfhood inflected by neoliberal discourses of autonomy. This dichotomy is symbolized in the novels in the tension between mothers and daughters and plays out primarily across the domains of choice of spouse, food, and dress. While tradition and modernity are conceptualized as binaries, the single women in these novels seem to be wrestling with a way of articulating a selfhood without having to pick a side. In their refusal to conform to ideas of Indian selfhood wherein individualism is circumscribed by autonomy, the “single woman” presents, if not ideally represents, the idea of synthesis.

scholarly journals Hak Wanita Tunggal terhadap Warisan dalam Hukum Adat Bali

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-87
Author(s):  
I Putu Andre Warsita ◽  
I Made Suwitra ◽  
I Ketut Sukadana
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Family System ◽  
Female Child ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Single Woman ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Single Female ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
The Status

Inheritance customary law is a customary law that regulates how inheritance or inheritance is forwarded or divided from heirs to inheritors from generation to generation. Balinese indigenous people with the patrilineal family system, cause only descendants of kapurusa status are considered to be able to take care and carry on family responsibilities. The formulation of the problem in this study is how inheritance rights for women in Balinese customary law, what is the procedure for granting inheritance rights for single women to family inheritance. This research is a normative legal research. The problem approach used is the case approach, conceptual and legislative approach. Legal material used by primary and secondary legal materials. The results of the study and discussion show that inheritance rights for women in Balinese customary law are essentially women who are not heirs according to the Bali Customary Law, but women are entitled to a share of inheritance from their parents, which in practice is used with various terms including property and, provision of life, the soul of the soul and also called the soul of the fund. The procedure for granting inheritance rights for a single woman to the family's inheritance of a Single Female child can be an heir by changing the status, from predana status to purusa status. Hukum adat waris adalah aturan hukum adat yang mengatur tentang bagaimana harta peninggalan atau harta warisan diteruskan atau dibagi dari pewaris kepada para waris dari generasi ke generasi. Masyarakat adat Bali dengan sistem kekeluargaan patrilineal, menyebabkan hanya keturunan yang berstatus kapurusa dianggap dapat mengurus dan meneruskan tanggung jawab keluarga. Rumusan masalah dalam penelitian ini adalah bagaimanakah hak waris bagi wanita dalam hukum adat Bali, Bagaimana prosedur pemberian hak waris bagi wanita tunggal terhadap harta warisan keluarga. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian hukum normatif. Pendekatan masalah yang digunakan adalah pendekatan kasus,konseptual dan pendekatan perundang-undangan. Bahan hukum yang digunakan bahan hukum primer dan sekunder. Hasil penelitian dan pembahasan menunjukkan bahwa Hak waris bagi wanita dalam hukum adat Bali pada dasarnya Wanita bukan ahli waris menurut Hukum Adat Waris Bali, namun wanita berhak mendapat bagian harta warisan dari orang tuanya, dimana dalam praktek pemberian tersebut dipergunakan dengan berbagai macam istilah diantaranya harta tetatadan, bekal hidup, pengupa jiwa dan juga disebut jiwa dana.Prosedur pemberian hak waris bagi wanita tunggal terhadap harta waris keluarga anak Wanita Tunggal bisa menjadi ahli waris dengan jalan perubahan status yaitu dari status predana menjadi status purusa.

scholarly journals Gender, Relationship Status, and COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Bates
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Relationship Status ◽  
Single Woman ◽  
Female Faculty ◽  
Single Female ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health And Well Being

This article is a personal reflection about being a single woman in academia during the COVID-19 pandemic. I describe how the pandemic has influenced my mental health and well-being and my feelings of connectedness to my institution, colleagues, and students. I discuss how gender, relationship status, and singlism may have influenced the social support and workload of single female faculty during the pandemic, and the need to explore these phenomena more intentionally to support and retain diverse women in the academy. By tying research examples to my personal experience, I hope to inform a conversation about how institutions can be more inclusive and intentional about challenging inequities associated with gender, relationship status, and singlism, along with combating social isolation and supporting better work-life balance for female faculty members who are not partnered and do not have children.

儒家如何看待脱離婚姻的生育行為——由單身女性「凍卵」問題引發的法律與倫理討論

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-47
Author(s):  
Jie BAI
Keyword(s):  
Marriage Rate ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Confucian Ethics ◽  
Single Woman ◽  
Digital Commons ◽  
The Family ◽  
Conservative Policy ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Right ◽  
Reproductive Activities

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.近年來得益於女性地位的提升與名人效應，單身女性凍卵問題日趨成為社會輿論關注的焦點，由此也引發了法學界對單身女性生育權的討論。然而，單身女性凍卵不僅僅是一個法律議題，更是一個倫理問題。不僅法律和法規的制定和修訂中多有涉及對倫理的關照，凍卵的臨床實踐中也廣泛存在對倫理的考量。在結婚率和生育率持續走低當下社會，相當一部分單身 女性選擇凍卵的動機是希望脱離婚姻而進行自主的生育行 為。值得深思的是，東亞的儒教國家對輔助生殖的使用限制最為嚴格、政策最為保守。本文試圖通過分析儒家會如何看待脱離婚姻的生育行為，來探討儒學倫理對單身女性凍卵抱有怎麽樣的態度、能夠帶來怎麽的啟示。本文認為，儘管在法律維度上應該肯定單身女性擁有生育權，但在倫理層面上，脱離婚姻的生育行為應該極為審慎，因為其有違儒家倫理中對家庭秩序的看重，同時也讓“雙親撫育”難以得到實現。In recent years, thanks to the promotion of the status of women and the celebrity effect, the issue of the frozen eggs of single women has become a focus of public opinion, leading to discussion of the reproductive rights of single women in the legal arena. However, single women's frozen eggs are also an ethical issue. The laws and regulations not only involve ethics, but also ethical considerations in the clinical practice of frozen eggs. In today's society, in which the marriage rate and fertility rate continue to decline, many single women choose to freeze their eggs to distinguish between reproductive activities and marriage. It is worth thinking about the fact that Confucian East Asia has the strictest restrictions and most conservative policy on the use of assisted reproduction. This paper explores how Confucian ethics have a different position on single women’s frozen eggs by analyzing how Confucianism views fertility behaviors that are separated from marriage. It argues that although it is certain that a single woman has the right to give birth in the legal dimension, ethically, the procreative behavior of marriage should be taken with caution, as it violates the Confucian ethic of the family order by making parental care more difficult.DOWNLOAD HISTORY | This article has been downloaded 45 times in Digital Commons before migrating into this platform.

Infant-Feeding Practices Among Middle-Class Anglos and Hispanics

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 496-503
Author(s):  
Anne L. Wright ◽  
Catharine Holberg ◽  
Lynn M. Taussig ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Feeding ◽  
Maternal Employment ◽  
Feeding Practices ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Bottle Feeding ◽  
Solid Foods ◽  
Healthy Infants ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
Almost All

Feeding practices have been analyzed prospectively in a sample of 1,112 healthy infants selected from families using an HMO. Data were collected at well-child visits during the first year of life regarding breast-feeding, formula feeding, and use of solid foods and cow's milk. Seventy percent of all infants were breast-fed, with the mean duration of breast-feeding being almost 7 months. Factors positively associated with breast-feeding included education and marriage, whereas maternal employment outside the home and ethnicity (being Hispanic rather than Anglo-American) were related to bottle feeding. Solid foods were introduced earlier by Hispanics and, also, among less well educated and single women; maternal employment was unrelated to the introduction of solid foods. Multiple regression analysis indicated different patterns for the two ethnic groups: education and employment were related to almost all feeding practices for Anglo-Americans, whereas education and employment predicted few feeding practices for the Hispanics. These findings suggest that the effects of ethnicity are independent of those of education.

Sharing the Burden

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlie Laderman
Keyword(s):  
International System ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Theodore Roosevelt ◽  
Winston Churchill ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
International Role ◽  
American Society

The destruction of the Armenian community in the Ottoman Empire was an unprecedented tragedy. Theodore Roosevelt was adamant that it was the “greatest crime” of the First World War. The mass killing of approximately one million Armenian Christians was the culmination of a series of massacres that Winston Churchill would recall had roused publics on both sides of the Atlantic and inspired fervent appeals to see the Armenians “righted.” This book explains why the Armenian struggle for survival became so entangled with the debate over the United States’ international role as it rose to world power at the turn of the twentieth century. In doing so, it provides a fresh perspective on the role of humanitarian intervention in US foreign policy, Anglo-American relations and the emergence of a new international order after World War One. The clash over the US responsibility to protect the Armenians encapsulated the nation’s conflict over its global position and was a central preoccupation of both Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. For American and British leaders, a US intervention in the Near East to secure an independent Armenia was key to establishing a revised international system and to their visions for the new League of Nations. The debate over safeguarding the Armenians reveals the values that animated American society during a pivotal period in its history. In forcing US politicians to grapple for the first time with atrocities on this scale, it also demonstrates dilemmas in humanitarian politics that continue to bedevil policymakers today.

Calvinism in the United States

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darryl Hart
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
American Society

The history of Calvinism in the United States is part of a much larger development, the globalization of western Christianity. American Calvinism owes its existence to the transplanting of European churches and religious institutions to North America, a process that began in the 16th century, first with Spanish and French Roman Catholics, and accelerated a century later when Dutch, English, Scottish, and German colonists and immigrants of diverse Protestant backgrounds settled in the New World. The initial variety of Calvinists in North America was the result of the different circumstances under which Protestantism emerged in Europe as a rival to the Roman Catholic Church, to the diverse civil governments that supported established Protestant churches, and to the various business sponsors that included the Christian ministry as part of imperial or colonial designs. Once the British dominated the Eastern seaboard (roughly 1675), and after English colonists successfully fought for political independence (1783), Calvinism lost its variety. Beyond their separate denominations, English-speaking Protestants (whether English, Scottish, or Irish) created a plethora of interdenominational religious agencies for the purpose of establishing a Christian presence in an expanding American society. For these Calvinists, being Protestant went hand in hand with loyalty to the United States. Outside this pan-Protestant network of Anglo-American churches and religious institutions were ethnic-based Calvinist denominations caught between Old World ways of being Christian and American patterns of religious life. Over time, most Calvinist groups adapted to national norms, while some retained institutional autonomy for fear of compromising their faith. Since 1970, when the United States entered an era sometimes called post-Protestant, Calvinist churches and institutions have either declined or become stagnant. But in certain academic, literary, and popular culture settings, Calvinism has for some Americans, whether connected or not to Calvinist churches, continued to be a source for sober reflection on human existence and earnest belief and religious practice.

scholarly journals The Domestic Tyranny of Haunted Houses in Mary Wilkins Freeman and Shirley Jackson

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Christine Junker
Keyword(s):  
Single Women ◽  
Feminine Subjectivity ◽  
Shirley Jackson ◽  
Mary Wilkins Freeman ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Haunted Houses ◽  
The Way

Mary Wilkins Freeman and Shirley Jackson, though writing in different time periods, are both invested in recuperating domesticity and using their work to imagine what domesticity removed from the context of marriage and children can offer single women. Both authors assert that emplacement within domestic enclosure is essential to securing feminine subjectivity, but their haunted house narratives undermine that very emplacement. Freeman’s stories, “The Southwest Chamber” and “The Hall Bedroom” anticipate Jackson’s more well-known The Haunting of Hill House in the way that unruly domesticity threatens the female character’s emplacement. Their haunted house narratives show that neither Freeman nor Jackson, for all that they are subversive in some ways, wants to dissolve the traditional ideological constructs of domesticity; instead, they want these ideologies to work in the culturally promised patriarchal fashion. Reading their haunted house narratives together reveals the dynamics and tensions of a domesticity that is fluid, entangled, and vibrant and the feminist potential such sites engender, even if the characters and texts in question cannot fully realize that potential.

Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Van Horn
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Prosthetic Devices ◽  
British America ◽  
Political Identification ◽  
American Citizenship ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
American Society ◽  
Material Artifacts

Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. This book investigates these diverse artifacts—from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices—to explore how elite American consumers assembled objects to form a new civil society on the margins of the British Empire. In this interdisciplinary transatlantic study, artifacts emerge as key players in the formation of Anglo-American communities and, eventually, of American citizenship. Interweaving analysis of paintings and prints with furniture, architecture, textiles, and literary works, the book reconstructs the networks of goods that bound together consumers in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Charleston, S.C. Moving beyond emulation and the desire for social status as the primary motivators for consumption, this work illuminates that Anglo-Americans’ material choices were intimately bound up with their efforts to institute civility and to distance themselves from native Americans and African Americans. It also traces colonial women’s contested place in forging provincial culture in British America. As encountered through a woman’s application of makeup at her dressing table or an amputee’s donning of a wooden leg after the Revolutionary War, material artifacts were far from passive markers of rank or political identification. Instead, they actively participated in making Anglo-American society.

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