scholarly journals Las Canas de la Devoción: Prácticas Religiosas y Perspectiva de Género

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Felipe R. Vázquez-Palacios
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Social Commitment ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Female Roles ◽  
Old Men

<div><p>My purpose is to show the differences between old men and women, Catholics and Evangelicals, from a gender perspective. The starting point is that each phase of life has its own devotion, religious and social commitment, and the male/female roles are reconfigured, redefined, and more flexible as it travels to old age (above 75 years). The analysis is based on an ethnographic research in which 100 interviews and observations were realized in rural contexts of the Gulf of Mexico from 2010 to 2015. The results evidenced that regardless of gender and religious practices to go reducing cultic participation and social circle, certain roles, symbols and religious meanings were adopted, they became more personal, which led, in most of the time, to interactions more complementarity and solidarity where the continuity or discontinuity of its male and female roles constantly crisscross in their borders and where the most important is the human being as such.</p></div>

scholarly journals On Studies of Task Bifferentiation between Men and Women in the Scandinavian Iron Age

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-172
Author(s):  
Louise Ströbeck
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Specific Task ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Roles ◽  
Activity Areas ◽  
Grave Goods

Reiterated and cursorily criticised generalisations of attributes for male and female in grave goods, have since the first half of the nineteenth century created an oversimplified yet politically intricate image of a specific task differentiation between men and women in prehistory. Ideals of male and female roles and tasks in the interpreter’s contemporary society have been described as universals in terms of binary oppositional pairs, or spheres, such as private/domestic-public. The dichotomies used for analysing and attributing male and female tasks have given preference to stereotypes, and the very formulation of the oppositional concepts for activity areas expresses ideological valuations ofmale and female. This article stresses the need for analysing the origin of concepts, and it seeks new and alternative ways of perceiving task differentiation.

Correlates of Life Satisfaction for Old Libyans Compared with the Judgments of Libyan Youth

1987 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bashir L. Shebani ◽  
Hannelore Wass ◽  
Wilson H. Guertin
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Young Male ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Social Prestige ◽  
The Family ◽  
Old Men

Two hundred fifteen Libyans—106 young male and female undergraduate students and 109 aged male and female relatives—responded to a questionnaire designed to measure correlates of life satisfaction in old age. It was predicted that current cultural and social changes associated with the industrialization of Libya would result in significant differences in responses between young and old men and women. The young Libyan men rated close ties with their children, social relationships with individuals outside the family, and having basic physical needs met as more important than did the old Libyan men who considered social prestige, living with their spouse, and independence as more important for satisfaction in old age. The young Libyan women also considered social relationships outside the family and having basic physical needs met in old age as more important than did their older counterparts. Health and adequate living conditions were rated more highly by the young Libyan women than by the old. All participants rated social prestige equally high, but old women rated it higher than any other aspect except belief in God and self-understanding. Findings and implications for services to Libya's elderly are discussed.

LE MYTHE D’ÉLECTRE DANS L’OEUVRE DE TROIS POÈTES DE L’ANTIQUITÉ

Trictrac ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Chiciudean
Keyword(s):  
Common Source ◽  
General View ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Old Men

This paper is the first part of a larger study that depicts the transformation of Electra’s myth in theatre plays, from its origins to modernity, its continuous accommodation to different epochs and mentalities, to historical contexts, aesthetical tendencies, new literary genres and subgenres and, last but not least, the author’s personality. The paper focuses on Electra’s myth in antique poetry and offers a general view on the tragedy, its origin and structure, elements, action and characters, with concrete examples from Aeschylus’ Orestia, Sophocles’ Electra and Euripides’ Electra. Considering the myth as a major instance of the imagination, interesting in its syntax (formal structures) and semantics (symbolism), we underline the constant constants met in the abovementioned tragedies, e.g. revenge and redemption and other invariable elements. The transformations suffered by the myth are very well reflected by the Greek tragedies. Sophocles and Euripides get their inspiration from Aeschylus but they modify the structure of the tragedy and the tragic character of the hero. If Aeschylus insists on the power of gods over human beings, for Sophocles the human being becomes more important. Euripides’ works are considered more innovative both on the level of content and construction. His characters are devoid of greatness, they are common human beings obliged to earn their living, old men and women, frightened prisoners and cowards. Thus, myth as a common source of inspiration, especially the cycle of the Atreidai, namely the episode of Clytemnestra’s killing by Orestes, is to be met in the three poets’ works in different interpretations. Our goal is to follow the mythical invariants met in the three tragedies (the abovementioned revenge and redemption), as well as constant elements such as recognition, choice of characters, the importance of the choir, the messenger, the judgement, etc.

scholarly journals Résistants & Résistantes

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phoenicia Kempel
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Roles ◽  
Second World

This paper explores men and women "Résistants" in France during the Second World War. Six fighters are profiled in order to distinguish both the defining elements of a resistance fighter and the differences between male and female roles in the movement.

scholarly journals PENDIDIKAN WANITA DALAM PERSPEKTIF KAUM FEMINIS

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Fihris Fihris
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
General View ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Status Of Women

<p class="ABSTRAK2">Education is a highly recommended in Islam, clearly Qur'an and hadith does not differentiate between men and women in providing educational opportunities. Both sexes are equally have rights and obligations in the scientific world. Acquisition of knowledge is a funda-mental right of every human being without distinction of sex. Thus, the general view of the Qur'an in terms of gender relations, in particular on the role and status of women, is very positive and constructive. Basically, the content and substance of the teachings of Islam is emphasized the spirit of equality and justice, the under-standing of this widely becoming a very urgent matter. Therefore it needs a thorough understanding of (univer-sal) in internalize the teachings of Islam so there will not arise any understanding and interpretation. A variety of data indicate how lame scientist male and female in the history of the Islamic world. There are a number of characters who are trying to think of women's educa-tion, but not enough to increase the quantity of educated women. Some figures in question is the feminist who thinks that women are entitled to the same education as men. Eventually this becomes a spectacular movement, both Islamic and Western feminists. </p>

‘Strength in What Remains Behind’: Wordsworth and the Question of Ageing

Romanticism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-270
Author(s):  
Mark Sandy
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Frequent Pattern ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Old Men ◽  
Poetic Vision

Attending to the hoped-for connection between young and older generations, this essay revisits Wordsworth's poetic fascination with the elderly and the question of what, if any, consolation for emotional and physical loss could be attained for growing old. Wordsworth's imaginative impulse is to idealise the elderly into transcendent figures, which offers the compensation of a harmonious vision to the younger generation for the losses of old age that, in all likelihood, they will themselves experience. The affirmation of such a unified and compensatory vision is dependent upon the reciprocity of sympathy that Wordsworth's poetry both sets into circulation and calls into question. Readings of ‘Simon Lee’, ‘I know an aged Man constrained to dwell’, and ‘The Old Cumberland Beggar’ point up the limitations of sympathy and vision (physical and poetic) avowed in these poems as symptomatic of Wordsworth's misgivings about the debilitating effects of growing old and old age. Finally, Wordsworth's unfolding tragedy of ‘Michael’ is interpreted as reinforcing a frequent pattern, observed elsewhere in his poetry, whereby idealised figures of old men transform into disturbingly spectral second selves of their younger counterparts or narrators. These troubling transformations reveal that at the heart of Wordsworth's poetic vision of old age as a harmonious, interconnected, and consoling state, there are disquieting fears of disunity, disconnection, disconsolation, and, lastly, death.

scholarly journals The Violence of the Cut: Gendering Self-Harm

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4650
Author(s):  
Amy Chandler ◽  
Zoi Simopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Data Generation ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Violence ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies ◽  
Qualitative Exploration

Taking as a starting point the frequent characterisation of self-harm as “an adolescent thing for girls,” this paper offers a sociologically informed, qualitative exploration of self-harm as a gendered practice. We move beyond statistical constructions of this “reality,” and critically examine how this characterisation comes to be, and some of its effects. Our data are drawn from a pilot study that developed a collaborative arts-based inquiry into meanings of self-harm. The authors worked with two groups: one of practitioners and another of people who had self-harmed, meeting over six sessions to discuss and make art in response to a range of themes relating to the interpretation and explanation of self-harm. Through data generation and analysis, we collaboratively seek to make sense of the gendering of self-harm, focusing on a series of dualistic Cartesian “cuts” between male and female, violence and vulnerability, and inside and outside. In conclusion, we call for more multi- and interdisciplinary explorations of self-harm, and greater use of diverse, arts-based, and qualitative methodologies, in order to further expand and nuance understandings and ethical engagements with self-harm, and those who are affected by it.

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