Career Aspirations of Female Characters and Changes in Web Romance Narratives - With The Main Characters of Romance Fantasy"s "The Evil Girl" at the Center -

This paper examines girls and power in British co-educational boarding school stories published from 1928 to 1958. While feminist scholars have hailed the girls’ school story as a site of potential resistance to constricting gender roles, the same can not be said of the co-educational school story. While the genres share many tropes and characterisation, the move from an all-female world to a co-educational setting allows the characters access to a narrower range of gender roles, and renders the female characters significantly less powerful. The disciplinary structures of the co-educational schools, mirroring those in real life, operate in a supposedly progressive manner that in fact removes girls from access to power.

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Food Network’s food-career frenzy? An examination of students’ motivations to attend culinary school

Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l alimentation ◽

10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.255 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Ryan Whibbs ◽

Mark Holmes

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Career Aspirations ◽

Popular Media ◽

Food Network ◽

Intention To Persist ◽

Culinary School ◽

Media Discourses

This research presents the findings of a year long study, undertaken between 2016 and 2017, seeking to understand the degree to which students are influenced to attend culinary school by food medias, social media, and the Food Network. The notion that food medias draw the majority of new cooks to the industry is often present in popular media discourses, although no data exists seeking to understand this relationship. This study reveals that food medias play a secondary or tertiary role in influencing students to register at culinary school, while also showing previously unknown patterns related to culinary students’ intention to persist with culinary careers. Nearly 40 percent of this sample do not intend to remain cooking professionally for greater than five years, and about 30 percent are “keeping other doors open” upon entry into culinary school. Although food celebrity certainly plays a role in awareness about culinary careers, intrinsic career aspirations are the most frequently reported motivation.

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Dental Students Perceptions Regarding Practical And Management Skills And Their Career Aspirations

10.15405/epsbs.2017.05.02.27 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Aureliana Caraianea

Keyword(s):

Career Aspirations ◽

Dental Students ◽

Management Skills

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Maritime Fantasies and Gender Space in Three Shakespearean Comedies

Gender Studies ◽

10.2478/v10320-012-0026-5 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 23-37

Author(s):

Wai Fong Cheang

Keyword(s):

Female Characters ◽

Merchant Of Venice ◽

Twelfth Night ◽

The Merchant Of Venice ◽

The Tempest ◽

Gender Space ◽

And Gender ◽

Gender And Space

Abstract Laden with sea images, Shakespeare‘s plays dramatise the maritime fantasies of his time. This paper discusses the representation of maritime elements in Twelfth Night, The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice by relating them to gender and space issues. It focuses on Shakespeare‘s creation of maritime space as space of liberty for his female characters.

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Sub-version of Myth: Portrayal of Karna’s two wives in Kavita Kane’s Karna’s Wife

History Research Journal ◽

10.26643/hrj.v5i4.7748 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 277-292

Author(s):

Yashika Bisht ◽

Shweta Saxena

Keyword(s):

The Novel ◽

Female Characters

Karna’s Wife is the first work of the writer, Kavita Kane who is “trying to portray a small chunk, a small aspect which has not been dealt with yet” in the Mahabharata. In Karna’s Wife, Kavita Kane portrays female characters like Uruvi and Vrushali who are victims at the hands of men and fate and how they still balance their lives and endure it all. Vrushali is the first wife of Karna and her husband married Uruvi and was deeply in love with her. Her rights, his attention, his love, everything is distributed. Uruvi who is Karna’s second wife is constantly seen striving throughout the novel to keep her husband away from Duryodhana’s evil camaraderie because she fears that this alliance will certainly lead to her husband’s catastrophe. It would be very interesting to see how these two women have come out of these gritty situations, faced the veracity and still lived mightily.

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