Women's Emancipation and the Theology of Sex in Nineteenth-Century Russia

1992 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 297
Author(s):  
L. V. Polyakov
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women's Emancipation

Gender

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori K. Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Political Values ◽  
The Family ◽  
Women's Emancipation ◽  
Christian Thought ◽  
A Site

This chapter explores gendered dimensions of theological categories in nineteenth-century Christian thought, primarily in Germany. By defining religion as feeling, symbolized in feminine terms, theologians in this period embraced relationality and dependence as ideals for human life. By viewing the family as a model of religious community and a site for the adjudication and cultivation of political values, intellectuals sought alternatives to modern ‘fragmentation’ and processes of alienation and rationalization. Among feminist thinkers, debates over marriage and women’s emancipation raised new questions about the promises and failures of modernization and secularization. Paying attention to these gendered inflections in nineteenth-century Christian thought helps produce a more complicated story about its central features and concerns—one that highlights the value placed not simply on individualism, autonomy, and relativism (as the dominant scholarly paradigm often suggests), but also on relationality, dependence, and the authority and value of religious tradition for modern life.

“Notre Petite Amie”

Working Girls ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 92-126
Author(s):  
Patricia Tilburg
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Garment Workers ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Garment Worker ◽  
Labor Militancy ◽  
Women's Emancipation ◽  
Male Authority

In 1900, composer and philanthropist Gustave Charpentier founded the Oeuvre de Mimi Pinson, an association providing the workingwomen of Paris with free theater tickets, and free music and dance classes. What began as an effort to provide occasional free entertainment to female workers became a multifaceted conservatory, charity, and social network. The men (and some women) who organized and administered the OMP did so by relying on the trope of the gay, seducible, and tasteful young garment worker. These assumptions defined not only the work of the OMP and its relationship with its working-class members, but also reinforced the comforting notion of workingwomen’s pliability for journalists, politicians, reformers, and countless casual observers. Even as the OMP proffered a vision of emancipated French womanhood as a national renovator, it also deployed a powerful typology of the Parisian garment worker to temper its radical potential. Defined and confined by a nineteenth-century type, the female garment workers of Paris were exemplary targets for a benevolent effort which, at a moment in which feminist action and labor militancy were consolidating, reimagined women’s emancipation and working-class uplift as a matter entirely managed by bourgeois male authority and desire.

У пошуках гармонії: Vals mèlancolque в контексті малої прози О. Кобилянської кінця ХІХ ст.

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Olga Yablonska
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Spiritual Quest ◽  
Substantial Role ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Women's Emancipation ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This paper analizes O. Kobylanska’s story “Vals mèlancolque” as the epicenter of the writers’ refl ections on the category of harmony and happiness. The relationship of O. Kobylanska’s spiritual quest in «Diary» and short prose of the late nineteenth century is observed (“Nature”, “Rose”, “Ignorant”, “Vals mèlancolque”, “Humility”, etc.). The author’s vision of the substantial role of art and words in the story “Vals mèlancolque” is highligted. This paper also investigates the symbolist nature of a text. The writer emphasizes the understanding of the actual idea of women’s emancipation. The paper shows that female characters embody the author’s conscious distinction of such categories as “love” (Martha), “cold art” (Anna) and a harmonious combination of “pieces” and “love” (Sofi a). It is concluded that in the work of Kobylanska the text is a landmark, being both a kind of life and artistic credo.

scholarly journals “Make a Home Run for Suffrage”: Promoting Women’s Emancipation Through Baseball

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-110
Author(s):  
Lindsay Parks Pieper
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
The United States ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Nineteenth Amendment ◽  
Promotional Efforts ◽  
Women's Emancipation

At specific moments in history, women publicly entered the masculine realm of baseball to advance female suffrage in the United States. Girls and women took to the field in the nineteenth century, enjoying newfound bodily freedoms and disrupting Victorian constraints. While their performances may not have always translated into explicit suffrage activism, their athleticism demonstrated strength at a time when many people used women’s supposed weakness as an argument against their political enfranchisement. However, as the popularity of baseball increased at the turn of the century, the number of female ballplayers decreased. Activism in the sport therefore changed. In the mid-1910s, suffragists advertised at men’s baseball games. The women recognized the value of promoting suffrage through sport; yet, they also acknowledged that by entering ballparks, they entered a male space. Suffragists therefore exhibited conventional White gender norms to avoid aggrieving male voters. Women’s different engagements with baseball, as either players or spectators, had varying consequences for women’s political and sporting emancipation. Women’s physical activism in baseball demonstrated female prowess and strength in sport, but only abstractly advanced women’s political rights; suffragists’ promotional efforts through men’s baseball more directly influenced the eventual passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, but their actions supported women’s position on the sidelines.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document