scholarly journals ‘Mattering’ Women’s Lives on Screen: An Introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. WLS1-WLS16
Author(s):  
Eugenie Theuer
Keyword(s):  
Women's Lives ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Objectification Of Women

The aim of this introduction is to provide a context for the articles that follow in this cluster on Women’s Lives on Screen. Starting with some reflections on how biopics can matter to audiences, I propose the use of ‘mattering’ as a concept for the study of women’s biopics which helps consider their objectification of women as biographical ‘material’ on screen in tandem with their emancipatory refiguring of women as biographical subjects that are made to matter. The introduction also offers a brief overview of biopic studies as they relate to the subject of women’s lives on screen. It ends by sketching the breadth of topics covered in this cluster with a summary of the eleven articles.

Teaching and Practice

1993 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Boudin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Correctional Facility ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Prison Education ◽  
Literacy Program ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
The Subject

In this article, Kathy Boudin recounts her story as an inmate and literacy educator at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for women. While the standard literacy education curriculum for the facility emphasized instrumental, workbook-based reading skills, Boudin sought to make the literacy program more relevant to the women's lives and experiences. By working with the women in the literacy program, Boudin incorporated critical literacy teaching practices into the skills-based curriculum, using the subject of AIDS in prison as a means of linking the women's experiences with their acquisition of literacy skills. Although the article focuses on prison education, the women in Bedford Hills are like other women in urban communities for whom literacy is only one of many problems. Thus, the pedagogical and social issues raised here have many implications that extend beyond the prison bars.

scholarly journals Writing Demetrias: Ascetic Logic in Ancient Christianity

2000 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 719-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew S. Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Male Authority ◽  
Ancient Christianity ◽  
Christian Men ◽  
The Church

In his influential discussion of early Christian ascetic renunciation, Peter Brown announced that “Christian men used women ‘to think with’ in order to verbalize their own nagging concern with the stance that the Church should take with the world.” Brown's statement encapsulates the particular difficulties facing students of the history of women in the early Christian period. The most basic difficulty is that we possess very few texts by women from this period until well into the Middle Ages. We can point to the diary of the third-century martyr Perpetua, the complex and recondite Vergilian and Homeric centos (“stitch-verses”) of the aristocrat Proba and the empress Eudocia, and perhaps one or two other arguable examples. With a dearth of women's own voices, can historians be expected to reconstruct women's lives? This paucity of “first-person” texts is coupled with a more serious theoretical difficulty facing historians of all periods whose main “evidence” consists of literary and rhetorically informed texts. Scholars are much less confident today in our ability to peel back layers of male rhetoric and find the “real” woman concealed underneath. Brown's comment underscores this rhetorical skepticism by asking whether these texts are even “about” women at all. Others following Brown's lead have understood texts that are ostensibly to or about women as concerned primarily with issues of male authority and identity. In Brown's words, women were good “to think with,” but the subject of that “thought” was inevitably male. Despite these technical and theoretical difficulties, however, I do not think we are witnessing the final and absolute erasure of women from ancient Christian history.

Writing Women's Lives: One Historian's Perspective

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Ware
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Women’S History ◽  
Personal Element ◽  
Historical Profession

From the start, biography played a vibrant and significant part in the growth of women's history, especially American women's history, as a well-respected and popular field within the historical profession. The insistence of feminist biographers that the personal is political, and that attention must be paid to the daily lives of their subjects as well as to their more public achievements, continues to ripple through the field of biography as a whole. To talk about biography is also to talk about the biographer, for the precise reason that behind every biography lies autobiography—that special spark that draws the biographer to the subject in the first place and the interaction that unfolds as the project moves forward (or stalls, as often happens). As feminist theory reminds us, the personal element is relevant to the broader intellectual agenda.

scholarly journals The Daughters of Job: Property Rights and Women's Lives in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts

1992 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianne Avery ◽  
Alfred S. Konefsky
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Dairy Farm ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Eastern Massachusetts ◽  
Public Lecture

Sometime in the winter of 1839, Keziah Kendall, a thirty-two-year-old woman living with her two sisters on a dairy farm “not many miles from Cambridge,” heard from her “milkman” that a public lecture would be delivered on the legal rights of women. Kendall “thought [she] would go and learn,” but when she attended she found that she “did not like that lecture much.” The speaker was Simon Greenleaf, Royall Professor of Law at Harvard University, who at the time was delivering lyceum lectures in eastern Massachusetts on the subject of women's rights. Not the least bit intimidated by Greenleaf's stature, Kendall wrote him a candid letter, expressing her disapproval of his talk: “[T]here was nothing in it but what every body knows. … What I wanted to know, was good reasons” for the rules governing the legal rights of women “that I cant account for. I do hope if you are ever to lecture at the Lyceum again, that you will give us some.” Kendall then proceeded to tell Professor Greenleaf the remarkable and poignant story of how her personal experiences had shaped her interest in her own legal rights.

scholarly journals An Analytical Study of Women Objectification in “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (II) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Martha Nussbaum ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Objectification Of Women ◽  
The Impact

The objectification of women is a communal problem in every developed and underdeveloped society of the world. Women make a major population of the world and serve society in multidimensional modes, but still, they are considered feeble to men. The subject of women objectification has remained the focus of various researchers globally. This research focused on three short stories drawn from “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders” of Daniyal Mueenuddin to bring forward disparities and inequalities prevailing in the patriarchal society of Pakistan. Additionally, it investigated the impact of these inequalities and injustices on the downtrodden women of Pakistan. The objectification of women is such discrimination that women are subjected to undergo in a patriarchal social setup. This study analyzes the objectification of women through the lenses of female characters selected from three short stories. This study uses the theoretical frameworks of Martha Nussbaum and Rae Langton’s to draw outcomes for this study. Study findings exhibit that female characters undergo objectification and are treated as things by males in the male-dominated strata of Pakistan. Keywords: Women objectification, gender, patriarchy, oppression, feminism

“Living for others”: Narrating agency in the context of failed marriages and singleness in urban Sri Lanka

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 427-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asha L Abeyasekera
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Married Woman ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Never Married ◽  
Principal Source ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
The Subject ◽  
History Narratives ◽  
Ways Of Being

Marriage is a cultural imperative in Sri Lanka and is constructed as the principal source of personal fulfilment for women. This paper critically examines through two case studies – a never-married woman and a woman in a “failed” marriage – how women from older generations narrate their life histories using culturally coherent repertoires. By deconstructing the subject positions of the “long-suffering wife”, the “devoted mother”, and the “selfless woman”, I reveal the spaces for manoeuvre these women create to experience well-being and exercise agency outside of the culture’s “hegemonic narrative” of successful marriage and maternity. Using the life history narratives I challenge the tendency to imagine older women’s lives as more constrained and illustrate the ways in which equivocal narratives about independence and self-sacrifice, about freedom and suffering simultaneously conceal agency while allowing non-normative ways of being.

Words

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1320-1327
Author(s):  
Colbert Searles
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The Subject

THE germ of that which follows came into being many years ago in the days of my youth as a university instructor and assistant professor. It was generated by the then quite outspoken attitude of colleagues in the “exact sciences”; the sciences of which the subject-matter can be exactly weighed and measured and the force of its movements mathematically demonstrated. They assured us that the study of languages and literature had little or nothing scientific about it because: “It had no domain of concrete fact in which to work.” Ergo, the scientific spirit was theirs by a stroke of “efficacious grace” as it were. Ours was at best only a kind of “sufficient grace,” pleasant and even necessary to have, but which could, by no means ensure a reception among the elected.

Artificial satellite orbit computations

1966 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 363-371
Author(s):  
P. Sconzo
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Satellite ◽  
Satellite Orbit ◽  
Artificial Satellites ◽  
Orbital Elements ◽  
Differential Correction ◽  
Gravitational Effects ◽  
Short Intervals ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Introductory Discussion ◽  
Orbit Computation

In this paper an orbit computation program for artificial satellites is presented. This program is operational and it has already been used to compute the orbits of several satellites.After an introductory discussion on the subject of artificial satellite orbit computations, the features of this program are thoroughly explained. In order to achieve the representation of the orbital elements over short intervals of time a drag-free perturbation theory coupled with a differential correction procedure is used, while the long range behavior is obtained empirically. The empirical treatment of the non-gravitational effects upon the satellite motion seems to be very satisfactory. Numerical analysis procedures supporting this treatment and experience gained in using our program are also objects of discussion.

C. Wire Cabling for Telescope Systems

1966 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 159-161
Keyword(s):  
The Subject ◽  
Data Multiplexing

Rule: I'd like at this point to bring up the subject of cables and wireways around the telescope. We've touched upon this twice during previous sessions: the cable wrap up problem, the communications problem, and data multiplexing problem. I think we'll ask Bill Baustian if he will give us a brief run down on what the electrical run problems are, besides doubling the system every year.

The relationship of the scleractinian corals to the rugose corals

Paleobiology ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 146-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Critical Points ◽  
Scleractinian Corals ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Early Triassic ◽  
Rugose Corals ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Biologic Factors

The Mesozoic-Cenozoic coral Order Scleractinia has been suggested to have originated or evolved (1) by direct descent from the Paleozoic Order Rugosa or (2) by the development of a skeleton in members of one of the anemone groups that probably have existed throughout Phanerozoic time. In spite of much work on the subject, advocates of the direct descent hypothesis have failed to find convincing evidence of this relationship. Critical points are:(1) Rugosan septal insertion is serial; Scleractinian insertion is cyclic; no intermediate stages have been demonstrated. Apparent intermediates are Scleractinia having bilateral cyclic insertion or teratological Rugosa.(2) There is convincing evidence that the skeletons of many Rugosa were calcitic and none are known to be or to have been aragonitic. In contrast, the skeletons of all living Scleractinia are aragonitic and there is evidence that fossil Scleractinia were aragonitic also. The mineralogic difference is almost certainly due to intrinsic biologic factors.(3) No early Triassic corals of either group are known. This fact is not compelling (by itself) but is important in connection with points 1 and 2, because, given direct descent, both changes took place during this only stage in the history of the two groups in which there are no known corals.

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