scholarly journals Transformation of Diseased Women in Ding Ling’s Novels—Based on the Metaphor of Disease

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 106-110
Author(s):  
Yi Wu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Ding Ling ◽  
May Fourth ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Peasant Women

In Ding Ling’s novels, she repeatedly adopted the diseased woman as the protagonist in order to present her own thinking of gender and social issues. By establishing a chronological reading of three protagonists, this paper will not only discuss the transformation of the metaphoric usage, but also explore socio-historical implications and gender issues in depth. To better understand both the features of Ding Ling’s artistic innovation and the transition of her identity, and more importantly, to reconfiguring the position of gender issues, this paper adopts the method of analysis and have close reading of three short stories written by Ding Ling, which are Sophia’s Diary, Girl Amao and When I Was in Xia Village, and combines the fictional stories with historical facts. In conclusion, Ding Ling’s depiction of diseased women gradually developed from a private narrative and imitation of romantism into a realistic style, revealing the struggles of peasant women who were damaged by the society, which suggested Ding Ling’s deconstruction of May Fourth discourse and exploration of her leftist identity.

Una borghese piccola piccola: Ragazze milanesi in Giorgio Scerbanenco ed Elio Pagliarani

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 574-590
Author(s):  
Federica Santini
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Experimental Poetry ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
And Gender

The project consists of a study of selected works by two authors who have not been connected or compared before, experimental poet Elio Pagliarani and noir writer Giorgio Scerbanenco. Specifically, the study explores several coinciding representations of lower-middle class women in Pagliarani’s poem La ragazza Carla and Scerbanenco’s collection of short stories Milano Calibro 9. Through references to existing scholarship on each author and analytical readings of the texts, the study aims to demonstrate how the two writers, who were active at the same time in Milan, showed much attention to class and gender issues in their work, and thus obtained similar results through very different stylistic approaches. In addition, the study explores the underlying reasons for which Pagliarani and Scerbanenco chose to focus on realistic representations of Milanese women within their distinct narrative scopes. Finally, the article has the secondary goal of breaking the canon by focusing on two genres, experimental poetry and popular literature, which are rarely if ever considered together.

scholarly journals Jakarta, Mental Landscape, and Social Issues : Case Study of Rindu Kami Pada-Mu

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Ekky Imanjaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
New Order ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Class Society ◽  
Large Town ◽  
Spiritual Vitality ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Urban People

Abstract. Although Jakarta seems to be the most favorable setting for Indonesian films, most Jakarta films are not about the city or its people, but rather about a large town with no name (Jufri (eds.) 1992: 23). Asrul Sani highlights the importance of showing physical pictures such as prominent buildings and adequate clothing, and a mental landscape.  In Andre Bazin’s term, the mental landscape shows the "spiritual vitality" of one city on-screen, which construes s specific indications referring to that particular city.  Some social and gender issues within the films will be revealed and questioned  by exploring the mental landscape. This paper will discuss Rindu Kami pada-Mu  (Of Love and Eggs, Garin Nugroho, 2004). I  try to answer the question: how does Rindu Kami represent post-Reform Jakarta and its social and gender issues?   I argue that Rindu Kami pada-Mu represents the backdoors of Post-1998 Jakarta. Not only depicting the physical and mental landscape of lower-class society, such as a slum market, the film also portrays the psychological developments and achievements of urban people. They struggle against the remaining ideology of the New Order (State Ibuism, military-political system) and its concrete implementations (domestic violence, demolitions) in social issues. By doing textual analysis, using theories of Mental Landscape and  Stuart Hall’s Representation, I will elaborate on "the other side of Jakarta" and its social issues, namely solidarity and communication Issues. Gender issues, such as the depiction of negative male characters and masculine militarism, will be discussed.

The Oxford Handbook of Presbyterianism

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
John Calvin ◽  
God's Word ◽  
Regional Factors ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gospel Message ◽  
The Church

Presbyterianism has a rich, robust, resilient history. Since Presbyterianism began in Scotland in the early 1560s, its adherents have spread to Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand. In some locales and eras, Presbyterians have flourished; in others, they have struggled; in still others, they have experienced both triumphs and defeats. The essays in this handbook explain the historical roots and development, challenges and problems, and successes and failures of Presbyterians all over the world. During their history, Presbyterians have developed a distinctive theology, style of worship, and polity. As a body influenced by John Calvin and other Swiss Reformers, Presbyterianism has emphasized the sovereignty of God, the election of individuals for salvation and service, and the necessity of continual reform to remain faithful to the Scriptures and to adapt the gospel message to various cultural settings. Presbyterian worship has centered around the preaching of God’s word, typically based on the exposition of Scriptural passages, and the celebration of the sacraments of communion and baptism. Presbyterian polity establishes three officers—pastors (teaching elders), ruling elders, and deacons—to lead the church and a series of graded courts to govern their ministry. Differences over doctrine, polity, liturgy, and social issues, as well as ethnic, racial, class, and gender issues, regional factors, and personal conflicts have often produced controversy and even schism among Presbyterians. Presbyterians have also adopted differing theological positions based on their understanding of Scripture, natural theology, philosophy, and life experiences. Throughout their history, Presbyterians have often had an influence in society that exceeds their numbers because of their generally high levels of education, wealth, and status. This continues to be true today for the world’s thirty-three million Presbyterians who belong to hundreds of denominations in more than seventy-five nations.

Outlaws and Misfits: The Identities of Modernist Criticism

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-356
Author(s):  
Ben Knights
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Industrial Capitalism ◽  
Emotional Maturity ◽  
English Departments ◽  
Emotional Autonomy ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Implicit Identity ◽  
The University ◽  
Cultural Positioning

The images of the writer as exile and outlaw were central to modernism's cultural positioning. As the Scrutiny circle's ‘literary criticism’ became the dominant way of reading in the University English departments and then in the grammar-schools, it took over these outsider images as models for the apprentice-critic. English pedagogy offered students not only an approach to texts, but an implicit identity and affective stance, which combined alert resistance to the pervasive effects of mechanised society with a rhetoric of emotional ‘maturity’, belied by a chilly judgementalism and gender anxiety. In exchanges over the close reading of intransigent, difficult texts, criticism's seminars sought a stimulus to develop the emotional autonomy of its participants against the ‘stock response’ promulgated by industrial capitalism. But refusal to reflect on its own method meant such pedagogy remained unconscious of the imitative pressures that its own reading was placing on its participants.

Training on Ethnic and Gender Issues in Psychiatry Residency Programs

1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy King ◽  
Cheryl Koopman ◽  
David Millis
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatry Residency ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Residency Programs ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Treatment of what?

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 45-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Edman
Keyword(s):  
Family Policy ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Alcohol Abusers ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Problem Formulations ◽  
And Gender

■ Aims The aim of this article is to investigate the problem formulations – the preconceptions about causes and effects and the possible solutions to the problems of alcohol abuse – that characterized the compulsory institutional care of alcohol abusers in Sweden in the 20th century. The article focuses on problem formulations that actually were practised in the institutions. ■ Methods & Data The main source material is to be found in the archives of four institutionalized care establishments and consists of official reports, correspondence, supply estimates, circulars for consideration and – above all – patient records. From this material you can learn about the institutions' struggle for autonomy, expansion and legitimacy, and also about the clients' characteristics and how the clients were viewed. The study of the archives allows you to form a picture of the problem formulations that affected the activities in the institutions directly, a picture that goes beyond the more abstract expectations preferred by official reports and legislation. ■ Results Within the compulsory institutional care actually carried out, the problem formulations that were stipulated in the gender-neutral legislation and vague regulations became gender-specific and precise. The treatment of alcohol abusers was a class and gender related project, aiming not only at encouraging male diligence and the fulfilling of a man's maintenance obligation but also at female virtuousness and concern for the family. ■ Conclusions The history of alcohol abusers' treatment shows that alcohol itself has been a secondary factor in problem definitions which have let themselves be attached – via perceived links with either cause or effect – to more overarching social issues in Sweden. The concerns of emergent family policy in the 1940s, the developmental optimism and scientistic passions of the 1950s, and the systemically critical protest movements of the 1970s are all clearly reflected in trends within social care services for alcohol abusers – albeit much more often at the level of discourse than of praxis.

Women Worldwide: Interplay between Church and Society and the Gender Paradox

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-43
Author(s):  
Wai-Yin Christina Wong
Keyword(s):  
Gender Issues ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Gender Paradox ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
World Christianity ◽  
And Gender

This article analyzes the findings of women and gender issues presented in the recently published World Christian Encyclopedia, 3rd edition (2019). In addition to a brief illustration and discussion, I address two complex issues regarding women inspired by WCE-3, namely, the interplay between church and society and the gender paradox in World Christianity.

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