Chen Bo’er and the Feminist Paradigm of Socialist Film

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Movie Star ◽  
May Fourth ◽  
Male Supremacy ◽  
The Life Course

This chapter presents a life story of a feminist revolutionary founder of socialist film industry, Chen Bo’er, and debunks a fast held assumption that patriarchal authority dominated the cultural production that propagandized masculinized women. Tracing the life course in which Chen evolved from a left oriented feminist movie star of the 1930s to a leaderwho created a feminist paradigm of socialist films, this chapter identifies heritages as well as transformation of May Fourth feminism in the cultural realm of the PRC. Revolutionary heroines emerged as a dominant symbol that challenged male supremacy and promoted women’s empowerment as a result of feminists’ conscious efforts in cultural production. Chen’s life story also offers evidence for re-interpretation of Mao’s Yan’an Talks. The politics of erasure of feminist endeavors is also examined.

Situating the life story narratives of aging immigrants within a structural context: the intersectional life course perspective as research praxis

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shari Brotman ◽  
Ilyan Ferrer ◽  
Sharon Koehn
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Older Immigrants ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Canadian Provinces ◽  
Research Praxis ◽  
The Life Course

Research on racialized older immigrants does not fully acknowledge the interplay between the life course experiences of diverse populations and the structural conditions that shape these experiences. Our research team has developed the intersectional life course perspective to enhance researchers’ capacity to take account of the cumulative effects of structural discrimination as people experience it throughout the life course, the meanings that people attribute to those experiences, and the implications these have on later life. Here we propose an innovative methodological approach that combines life story narrative and photovoice methods in order to operationalize the intersectional life course. We piloted this approach in a study of the everyday stories of aging among diverse immigrant older adults in two distinct Canadian provinces with the goals of enhancing capacity to account for both context and story and engaging with participants and stakeholders from multiple sectors in order to influence change.

Law through the Life Course

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Herring
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Life Journey ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Life Course

This book is the first to explore the interactions of the law with the life course in order to understand the complex life journey as a whole. Jonathan Herring reveals how the law privileges 'middle age' to the detriment of the whole life story and explains why an understanding of the life course is important for lawyers.

scholarly journals Concluding narratives of a career with dementia: accounts of Iris Murdoch at her death

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
GILLIAN McCOLGAN ◽  
JAMES VALENTINE ◽  
MURNA DOWNS
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Iris Murdoch ◽  
Gender Representations ◽  
Social Death ◽  
Loss Of Self ◽  
Married Life ◽  
Moral Career ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Person With Dementia

Obituaries and other accounts of well-known people at their death offer a narrative defining identity through the life story. It is particularly poignant when the story is told of an author, and draws upon not only life course metaphors but also features of the author's fiction. In this paper we look at a case where the dementia of a famous author figures in the tributes at her death. The predominant narrative of dementia has until recently been that of a tragic loss of self. This has reinforced an image of social death. Biomedical determinism has similarly focused on the disease, rather than seeing the person and allowing their voice to be heard. While Iris Murdoch may not have wanted tributes to tell her story, they have allowed us to examine conventional narratives of a person with dementia. We chart the ‘career’ of a person with dementia, and their perceived transformation of identity, defined in terms of being demented rather than with dementia. Bad and good are attributed to aspects of Iris Murdoch's life through a repertoire of available stereotypes. These appear to involve the retrospective application of characteristics of dementia, along with those of goodness and purity. Common gender representations relating to Iris Murdoch's married life and the caring situation are interwoven in the accounts. We are told a story that reflects and reproduces conventional narratives of the life course and of dementia, characterising the deceased in terms of a moral career.

scholarly journals Riding on the "Crescendo" of Political Personas: Engendering a Female Political Icon

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-79
Author(s):  
Lovie Edwin Seru ◽  
Joel Mokuedi Magogwe
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Political System ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Political Activities

This study was based on the observation that the construction and presentation of the self is a prominent feature of the life of every politician. That construction of the self is even more pronounced in male politicians, who clandestinely perceive politics as a male preserve. Because of the prevailing social order’s agitation for the sharing of power between men and women, men resort to concealing their true and embodied beliefs about gender equality and women’s empowerment by feigning support when speaking in public political spaces. Using the idea of persona, a concept that explains the presentation of the self and “masks” that people wear to construct themselves, this study explored the male dominated political system of Botswana to identify the “deceitful” and “inauthentic” acts of male politicians. The study also used persona to explore gendered political space in Botswana to identify the “true selves” hidden behind male politicians’ public selves as they engaged in political activities. The personas in this study have been uncovered through Margaret Nasha’s involvement in politics as an important agent and “driver” of the agenda for gender equality and women’s empowerment. The choice to use Margaret Nasha’s political life story as a conduit to identity and explain political persona “masks” that male politicians wore was informed by the multifaceted roles she played to survive political muddles. Using document analysis and semi-structured interviewing methods, this study has unearthed that Margaret Nasha’s involvement in politics exposed her male political colleagues’ hidden selves and the influence of patriarchy in continued gender inequality in Botswana politics.

Human Development in the Life Course

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania Zittoun ◽  
Jaan Valsiner ◽  
Dankert Vedeler ◽  
Joao Salgado ◽  
Miguel M. Goncalves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Human Development ◽  
The Life Course

Social Change and the Life Course: How Can They Be Linked?

1990 ◽  
Vol 35 (9) ◽  
pp. 843-844
Author(s):  
Johannes J. Huinink
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Life Course ◽  
The Life Course
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