Historical Spaces of Confinement 2: Magdalene Laundries

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-54
Author(s):  
Lizzie Seal ◽  
Maggie O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Cold Climate ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Feminist History

This chapter explores memories of the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, which confined poor and ‘deviant’ young women. It draws on feminist history to explore the laundries as sites of gendered social control and analyses the reconstruction of these spaces in oral histories and the documentary Witness: Sex in a Cold Climate (Channel 4, 1998), and their portrayal in the films The Magdalene Sisters (Mullan, 2002) and Philomena (Frears, 2013). Concepts of memory, including forgetting and rediscovery – at individual, familial and national levels – are utilised.

Embodied shame and gendered demeanours in young women in Sri Lanka

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asha L. Abeyasekera ◽  
Jeanne Marecek
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Social Control ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
Sri Lankan

In South Asia, shame is valued as a virtue and a means of social control, particularly for women. For Sri Lankan women, shame ( læjja-baya) denotes modesty, purity, innocence, and self-effacement. For unmarried girls, sexual improprieties—rumoured or real—threaten loss of respectability and jeopardise a girl’s marriageability and her family’s honour. We investigated the dynamics of shame and norms of propriety in adolescent girls’ lives by re-analysing a subset of interviews of daughters and mothers (N = 24 pairs) collected in a prior study of nonfatal suicidal acts. Many such acts took place after girls were accused of violating norms of propriety. Other such acts served to ‘blame and shame’ wrongdoers. Girls and their mothers reported further that public knowledge of a suicide-like act sullied a girl’s reputation because onlookers ascribed sexualised meanings to it. We point out the incommensurability between parents’ goals and aspirations for their daughters’ educational and occupation attainments and the rigid demands for respectable comportment to which they must conform.

scholarly journals JOVENS MULHERES: desafios para construção da diversidade de representação nos meios de comunicação

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 346
Author(s):  
Cynthia Mara Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Institutional Field ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Control Image

O presente artigo tem como objetivo discutir as estratégias para o controle social da imagem das jovens mulheres a partir das propostas relacionadas à comunicação contidas em planos nacionais de políticas públicas construídos nas conferências nacionais de políticas para as mulheres realizadas em 2004, 2007 e 2011 e nas conferências nacionais de políticas para a juventude realizadas em 2008, 2011 e 2015. A partir da realização de análise documental e de conteúdo das resoluções das referidas conferências apresentamos como a discussão do tema avançou ao longo dos anos no campo institucional brasileiro. Ao abordar questões como comunicação, gênero e juventude nos documentos institucionais pontuamos os desafios que ainda persistem para a construção da diversidade de representação delas no cenário midiático brasileiro.  PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Jovens mulheres; controle social; imagem. RESUMEN Este artículo tiene como objetivo discutir las estrategias para el control social de la imagen de las mujeres jóvenes en las propuestas relacionadas con la comunicación contenida en los planes nacionales de políticas públicas integradas en las conferencias de política nacional de la mujer celebradas en 2004, 2007 y 2011 y la conferencias de política nacional para los jóvenes que llevaron a cabo en 2008, 2011 y 2015. Empezando por la realización del  análisis documental y del contenido de las resoluciones de las conferencias, presentamos cómo las discusiones cerca del tema avanzó a lo largo de los años en el campo institucional brasileño. Abordando cuestiones tales como la comunicación, género y juventud en los documentos institucionales buscamos señalar los retos que aún existen para la construcción de la diversidad representativa en el panorama de los medios de Brasil. PALABRAS CLAVE: jóvenes mujeres; control social; imagen. ABSTRACTThis article aims to discuss the strategies for social control of young women image from the proposals related to communication contained in national plans for public policies built in national policy conference for women held in 2004, 2007 and 2011 and the national policy conferences for youth held in 2008, 2011 and 2015. From a documentary and content analysis of the resolutions of these conferences presented as the theme of the discussion progressed over the years in the Brazilian institutional field. By addressing issues such as communication, gender and youth in institutional documents we pointed out the challenges that still exist for the construction of their representation of diversity in the Brazilian media landscape. KEYWORDS: Young women; Social Control; Image.

Young, educated, and female: narratives of post-1991 internal Albanian migration

2019 ◽  
pp. 235-255
Author(s):  
Ermira Danaj
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Internal Migration ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Process Migration ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
Female Narratives ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The City

This chapter discusses the internal migration of young Albanian women to Tirana for educational purposes. Its aim is to investigate how is gender embedded with the process of migration of young women, and the effects of migration in shaping gendered subjectivities and gender relations. The chapter explores how young Albanian women use education as a platform for migration; how they mobilise social networks to achieve their migration objectives as well as to face the uncertainties in the city of destination. It also expands upon the paradox that embodies these women's migration process: migration is a way to escape from gender constraints and social control from kinship and community; however, in the city of destination they face gendered and sexualised prejudices and constraints that underlie the same mechanism than those they escaped from and put them in new forms of precarity and dependency.

scholarly journals A Girl Activist Inventory

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. v-vi
Author(s):  
Claudia Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Northern Ontario ◽  
Feminist History ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

In March 2019, I had the pleasure of giving a talk at Peter Green College at the University of British Columbia that I called “The Politics and Possibilities of Girl-led and Youth-led Arts-based Activism to Address Gender Violence.” I wanted to highlight in particular the activist work of numerous groups of Indigenous girls and young women in a current project and the youth AIDS activist work of the Fire and Hope project in South Africa but I also wanted to place this work in the context of girls’ activism and youth activism more broadly. To do this I started out with a short activity called “Know your Girl Activist” during which I showed PowerPoint photos of some key girl and young women activists of the last few years, and asked the audience if they could identify them. The activists included two Nobel Prize Peace Prize winners, Malala Yousafzai (2014) and Nadia Murad (2018) along with Autumn Pelletier, the young Indigenous woman from Northern Ontario, Canada, well known for her work on water activism, and, of course, Greta Thunberg, now a household name but then, in 2019, already well known for her work on climate change activism. To my surprise only some of these activists were recognized, so, during the Q and A session, when I was asked if there is a history of girls as activists I could see that this question indicated clearly the urgent need for this special issue of Girlhood Studies which was only just in process then. Now, thanks to the dedication of the two guest editors of this special issue, Catherine Vanner and Anuradha Dugal and the wide range of superb contributors, I can point confidently to girls’ activism as a burgeoning area of study in contemporary feminism rooted in feminist history.

scholarly journals Women Trailblazers in the Law: The New Zealand Women Judges Oral Histories Project

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Chan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Women Judges ◽  
Gender Barriers ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Women's Participation

The New Zealand Women Judges Oral Histories Project aims to provide the first national, publicly accessible records of the lives and careers of trailblazing women judges. As part of this project, this article shares the stories of nine women judges who have broken gender barriers at every stage of their legal studies and careers, including as the first women law graduates, partners of law firms, Queen's Counsel and judges. In sharing the challenges faced by, and celebrating the successes of, these women judges, their individual stories give context to the statistics showing that women's participation at the highest levels of the legal profession remains the exception rather than the norm. It is hoped that the achievements of the women who have gone before will inspire today's young women to reach positions of leadership in the profession, and, more broadly, to strive for equality in both their personal and professional lives.

scholarly journals Street harassment and social control of young Muslim women in Brussels: destabilising the public/private binary

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-358
Author(s):  
Mattias De Backer
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Street Harassment ◽  
The Public ◽  
State Of Vigilance

While some research has been undertaken in recent decades into sexual violence against women in public space, the same cannot be said about everyday, ‘mild’ forms of harassment. From field research in Brussels between 2013 and 2016 with young people, the majority of whom have a (Muslim) migration background, we can conclude that physical violence happens only rarely and that the fear experienced by these young women relates to a more general, ambient state of vigilance, which relates to feeling out of place; public space remains a predominantly masculine domain. One of the main findings of the study is that ‘mild’ forms of harassment are used as a strategy of social control by men hanging out and that young women apply defence tactics to protect themselves against the perceived dangers in the public domain. Street harassment is embedded in dual affective dynamics, which generates feelings of belonging among young men and feelings of threat in young women. Here street harassment emerges as a mode of social control which ‘keeps them in their place’.

Severe Paradoxical Dysphonia in Two Young Women

1993 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 52-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Collins ◽  
Robert McDonald ◽  
Robert Stanley ◽  
Timothy Donovan ◽  
C. Frank Bonebrake
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Therapeutic Regimen ◽  
Instrumental Data ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This report describes an unusual and persistent dysphonia in two young women who had taken a therapeutic regimen of isotretinoin for intractable acne. We report perceptual and instrumental data for their dysphonia, and pose a theoretical basis for the relationship of dysphonia to this drug. We also provide recommendations for reducing the risk of acquiring a dysphonia during the course of treatment with isotretinoin.

What Do We Want Them To Be When They Grow Up?

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-31
Author(s):  
Lyn Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Language Therapy ◽  
Profound Hearing Loss ◽  
Children With Hearing Loss ◽  
Learning To Listen

Abstract Learning to listen and speak are well-established preludes for reading, writing, and succeeding in mainstream educational settings. Intangibles beyond the ubiquitous test scores that typically serve as markers for progress in children with hearing loss are embedded in descriptions of the educational and social development of four young women. All were diagnosed with severe-to-profound or profound hearing loss as toddlers, and all were fitted with hearing aids and given listening and spoken language therapy. Compiling stories across the life span provides insights into what we can be doing in the lives of young children with hearing loss.

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