scholarly journals THE DESCENT OF WOMEN TO THE POWER OF DOMESTICITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 75-86
Author(s):  
Sandrine Bergès

Is the virtue of domesticity a way for women to access civic power or is it a slippery slope to dependence and female subservience? Here I look at a number of philosophical responses to domesticity and trace a historical path from Aristotle to the 19th century Cult of Domesticity. Central to the Cult was the idea that women’s power was better used in the home, keeping everybody safe, alive, and virtuous. While this attitude seems to us very conservative, I want to argue that it has its roots in the republican thought of eighteenth-century France. I will show how the status of women before the French Revolutions did not allow even for power exercised in the home, and how the advent of republican ideals in France offered women non-negligible power despite their not having a right to vote.

Author(s):  
T Sudalai Moni

Panchayati Raj plays a formidable role in enhancing the status of women in India during post-Independent times. In the colonial regime, women were not given adequate opportunity to involve and participate in the affairs of local bodies. However, in the 19th century, women gradually participated in the Panchayati Raj bodies when they were formally included in the electoral roll. During post-independent Era, due to the implementation of the Ashok Mehta Committee (1978) recommendation, National Perspective Plan, and 30 percent reservations seats for women in panchayats, there has been a substantial increase in women’s participation at all the levels of the Panchayati Raj bodies. Subsequently, the 72nd Amendment Bill and the 73rd amendment introduced in our parliament recommended 33 percent quotas for women. Encouraged by this, women have come forward in an ever-increasing number to join hands with the activities of Panchayat Raj Institution.Consequently, Central and State Governments encouraged women by implementing the 73rd constitutional amendment in 1993 (adding Article 243D and 243T), which also extended the privilege of seat reservation for SC/ST women in the local bodies. Due to this positive impetus, there has been a perceptible improvement in women’s participation in the last two decades. Due to unrestrained encouragement, the participation of women in Panchayati Raj is highly effective; thus, across India, more than 26 lakhs of women representatives got elected in PRI. This paper attempts to delineate the gradual growth of women’s participation in the Panchayati Raj Institution in various states in India.


2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 323
Author(s):  
Mansyur -

European Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century brought great changes not only in Europe itself but also in other parts of the world including Indonesia which was used to be a country of Dutch colony. The invention of steam-powered ships triggered the Dutch to use steam-powered vessels as the alteration of yachts, wind-powered ships, in the 19th century. At the beginning, the steam-powered ships used rotating wheels in the left and right side; however, the ships finally used ordinary windmills or propellers. The decrease and the lack of this production was getting worsened the competition of other producer countries in world market and the unstable coal market and in crisis year in 1930, Pulau Laut Mining Company production dropped so that it was closed down in the same year.


Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4482 (1) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
GERNOT KUNZ ◽  
WERNER E HOLZINGER ◽  
ADELINE SOULIER-PERKINS

Franz Xaver Fieber was a leading Hemiptera taxonomist in the 19th century. The recent discovery of his unpublished drawings that go along with the original handwritten manuscript allow a reassessment of species descriptions from this century. In addition, we present an alphabet of Fieber's handwriting. We give an overview on the Cixiidae species he had described and reassess the status of the species names Cixius brachycranus Scott, 1870, Cixius intermedius Scott, 1870, Cixius pinicola Fieber, 1876, Tachycixius venustulus (Germar, 1830) and Tachycixius distinctus (Signoret, 1865). T. venustulus and T. distinctus are regarded as valid species. The synonymy of C. pinicola with T. venustulus is invalidated and C. pinicola is placed in synonymy with T. distinctus. 


Author(s):  
Rebekah Higgitt

Summary This article examines the legacy of Charles Montagu, Lord Halifax, within the history of science. Although he was President of The Royal Society from 1695 to 1698, Montagu is best known for his political career and as a patron of the arts. As this article shows, Montagu's own scientific interests were limited and his chief significance to the history of science lies in his friendship with a later President, Isaac Newton. It is argued, firstly, that their relationship had important, though indirect, consequences for The Royal Society and, secondly, that its treatment by historians of science has been revealing of changing views of the status of science and its practitioners. Particular attention is given to the approaches of the first generation of Newtonian scholars and biographers in the 19th century.


Author(s):  
José Checa Beltrán ◽  
Abraham Madroñal Durán

RESUMENEn la «Collection Favre» de la Bibliothèque de Genève se custodia el «Fondo Altamira», 83 códices con unos diez mil documentos históricos y literarios, casi todos manuscritos. Contienen textos de los siglos XV al XVIII. Constituyen una pequeña parte del enorme fondo documental que en el siglo XIX pertenecía a los Condes de Altamira. Cuatro de esos 83 volúmenes contienen manuscritos literarios del Siglo de Oro y, sobre todo, del siglo ilustrado. Los autores de este artículo ofrecen aquí un catálogo de todos esos textos, centrando su atención en los relativos al siglo XVIII. La mayor parte de este inventario corresponde a manuscritos desconocidos e inéditos: diez comedias y un gran número de composiciones poéticas de temática variada, amorosa, sátira política, religiosa, temas festivos, eventos, milagros, villancicos, sobre teatro y actores, etc.PALABRAS CLAVELiteratura del siglo XVIII español, manuscritos literarios inéditos del siglo XVIII español, Fondo Altamira, Biblioteca de Ginebra, Collection Favre. TITLEUnknown eighteenth-century manuscripts from the Altamira Archives at Geneva LibraryABSTRACTIn the «Collection Favre» of the Bibliothèque de Genève the «Fondo Altamira» is guarded, 83 codices with some ten thousand historical and literary documents, almost all manuscripts. They contain texts from the 15th to the 18th centuries. They constitute a small part of the enormous documentary collection that belonged to the Counts of Altamira in the 19th century. Four of those 83 volumes contain literary manuscripts of the Golden Age and, above all, the Enlightenment century. The authors of this article offer a catalogue of all these texts, with a particular focus on those related to the XVIII Century. Most of this inventory corresponds to unknown and unpublished manuscripts: ten comedies and a large number of poetic compositions of varied theme, love, political satire, religious, festive themes, events, miracles, Christmas carols, theater and actors, etc.KEY WORDSLiterature of the eighteenth century Spanish, unpublished literary manuscripts of the eighteenth century Spanish, Altamira Archives, Geneva Library, Collection Favre.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1/2020) ◽  
pp. 141-164
Author(s):  
Marie Therese Mundsperger

Although it is largely unknown, women had some voting rights in the 19th century in the Habsburg monarchy, especially the right to vote in the municipality and on the provincial level. Suffrage at that time was based on the two pillars of property and education rather than gender. It was undisputed for a long time that women could get the right to vote due to their tax payments. The fact that women could also be included into the ‘intelligence’ electoral class was controversial, as shown by some decisions by the Austrian high courts. It was only towards the end of the 19th century that the gender criterion began to prevail in election regulations and women were increasingly excluded from the right to vote, which led to the emergence of the Austrian women’s movement. The monarchy fell in 1918 and the granting of universal women’s voting rights was finally embodied in the proclamation of the Austrian republic on 12 November 1918.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 9-29
Author(s):  
Māris Baltiņš

Pētījumā aplūkots privātdocenta statuss, kas pasaulē tika ieviests 18. gadsimtā un, sākot no 19. gadsimta otrās puses līdz Otrā pasaules kara beigām, pastāvēja arī Latvijā. Privātdocenta statuss salīdzināts ar citu pasaules valstu, galvenokārt vācu tipa universitātēm. Jēdzienu «venia legendi» un «privātdocents» skaidrojumi ar piemēriem no Rīgas Politehnikuma (RP) mācībspēku darbības atspoguļo šos jēdzienus no dažādiem aspektiem, lai 21. gadsimtā būtu saprotams to lietojums iepriekšējos gadsimtos. Autors pētījumam izmantojis arhīvu dokumentus un bibliotēku krājumus, balstoties ne tikai Latvijas, bet arī Krievijas, Vācijas un citu valstu zinātnieku atziņās. The study examines the status of a private docent, the academic position which was introduced across the world in the 18th century and which also existed in Latvia from the second half of the 19th century until the end of World War II. The status of the private docent as it used to be understood in Latvia is compared with other countries, mainly considering German-type universities. Definition of the terms «venia legendi» and «private docent» providing examples of academic activity of the lecturers of Riga Polytechnicum (RP) allow considering these concepts from various perspectives in order to make their meaning and usage in the previous centuries transparent for the users in the 21st century. Conducting the present research, the author has used archival documents and library collections, the theoretical framework includes the findings of not only the Latvian scientists, but also researchers from Russia, Germany and other countries.


1935 ◽  
Vol 31 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 520-523
Author(s):  
F. G. Mukhamedyarov

The beginning of a sharp decline in the birth rate in Europe dates back to the last quarter of the 19th century, the period of the heyday of capitalism, when the exploitation of the working class takes on the most refined forms, the contradiction between the social status of women and her maternal function appears sharper and brighter.


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