scholarly journals The Burden of the Female Body: An Islamic Feminist Reading of Qaisra Shahraz’s Typhoon

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-88
Author(s):  
NAUSHEEN ISHAQUE
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Islamic Feminism ◽  
Theoretical Rationale ◽  
Women In Islam ◽  
Rural Pakistan ◽  
Women's Lives

A sequel to The Holy Woman(2001), Typhoon(2003) is Qaisra Shahraz’s second novel. This paper analyses how Shahraz continues problematizing female sexuality and the politics attached to it, especially in rural Pakistan. It dilates upon the discourse that surrounds the female body and sexuality in Pakistan society within and outside the framework of marriage. What is at stake is that women’s own sexuality becomes a burden for them. On the contrary, men take pride in their masculinity which gives authenticity to their voice. The cultural colonization of women’s lives (as it appears in Shahraz’s novel) is addressed under the theoretical rationale of Islamic feminism. This is done with the aim to locate the space granted to women in Islam, especially when it comes to the female body and its sexuality.

Queer Seductions of the Maternal in Dorothy Macardle's Earth-bound

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-308
Author(s):  
Abigail L. Palko
Keyword(s):  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Irish Nationalism ◽  
Maternal Attitudes ◽  
Female Autonomy ◽  
National Autonomy ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Sacrifice

During her lifetime, Dorothy Macardle was a prominent public intellectual in both her native Ireland and post-war Europe. Her passionate engagement in Irish nationalism found expression in her writing; in her only collection of short stories, Earth-bound: Nine Stories of Ireland, published early in her writing career, she protests Irish women's socially restricted status and offers literary models of female solidarity to her audience (her fellow prisoners in Kilmainham Gaol, where she was imprisoned during the Civil War). Complex and ambiguous messages regarding maternal attitudes and female sexuality are encoded within the collection, particularly in the two Maeve stories (as I have labelled them because of their shared narrator), ‘The Return of Niav’ and ‘The Portrait of Roisin Dhu’, in which she offers coded expressions of the realities of women's lives in early twentieth-century Ireland that the larger public would have preferred remain unspoken, particularly with regard to expressions of maternal inclinations and female sexuality. Earth-bound, driven by her reactions to the many ways that the Irish struggle for national autonomy was purchased by the sacrifice of female autonomy, becomes a vehicle through which she explores socially taboo issues, most notably mothering practices and both heterosexual and homosexual expressions of female sexuality.

scholarly journals Development of Sexuality in Female Children and Adolescents*

1989 ◽  
Vol 34 (9) ◽  
pp. 879-883 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Whitfield
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Female Children ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
The Impact

Female sexuality (meaning sexual desire, excitement and orgasm) has been of considerable interest in psychiatry. Women's efforts to define and legitimize their own experience of their sexuality have increased in the past 25 years. However, the integration of these new views into the body of psychiatric (especially psychoanalytic) theory has not occurred very actively or successfully. Very little is known about the development of sexuality in childhood and adolescence. This paper looks at various behaviours, interests and events in women's lives that might reveal something about the development of their sexuality. The literature on female masturbation is reviewed and some sex differences highlighted. The literature on interest in babies, the wish to have babies, and menarche is explored for possible associations with sexuality. Rather than sexuality being a central organizer of experience, it seems quite possible that experience is an organizer of sexuality. Therefore, to better understand female sexuality we need to consider the impact of experiences during childhood and adolescence.

scholarly journals Women and leprosy: interferences and experiences*

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcela Gonçalves ◽  
Karen da Silva Santos ◽  
Simone Santana da Silva ◽  
Thalita Caroline Cardoso Marcussi ◽  
Kisa Valladão Carvalho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Female Condition ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Women's Lives

Objective: to know the interferences of leprosy in women's lives and how they reinvent themselves in coping with the disease. Method: a descriptive study with a qualitative approach. The theoretical-methodological framework adopts an approximation to the cartographic method and some concepts of schizoanalysis, which were used to analyze the data. The tools used to produce the data were the interview and the logbook. The interviews were conducted from July to November 2019, at the participants' homes. Results: the group consisted of nine women. To display the data, we were inspired by Deleuze's ideas about difference and repetition. The results were organized in three thematic axes that address the lives of these women affected by leprosy, which accompany concerns, anxieties and worries about the effects of the disease. The transformations in the female body, the financial maintenance itself due to the comorbidities caused by leprosy and its difficulties in guaranteeing rights are elements strongly pointed out by women. Conclusion: there is overlap and interference of the female condition in a patriarchal society that still accompanies it. We bet on the strength of becoming-a-woman and the need to consider them in their singularities and in their context for producing care permeated by meetings of the affirmation of the power of life.

scholarly journals KONSTRUKSI SEKSUALITAS PEREMPUAN DALAM KEINDAHAN DAN KESEDIHAN KARYA YASUNARI KAWABATA

sarasvati ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Agung Pranoto ◽  
Rini Damayanti
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Sexual Desire ◽  
Sexual Desires ◽  
The Subject

This research examines the construction of female sexuality in the novel the beauty and sorrow of the works of Yasunari Kawabata. This research is qualitative research that does study of novel the beauty and sorrow of the works of Yasunari Kawabrata. The method used is the deskiptif method that is collecting data, clarification of data, manipulate data, and interpret the data in accordance with the theory that was used at the time the research was conducted. In the novel the beauty and sorrow of the works of Yasunari Kawabata, reflecting the construction of female sexuality. The construction of female sexuality that, first, the novel represents the female body through the figures. The representation of the female body in the text of the novel disegmentasikan by displaying the marker women sexy. Second, the representation of female sexual desire in the novel beauty and Sadness is presented through the desire character Otoko and Keiko to transmit sexual desires with her partner. Third, representations of female sexuality in the relation of beauty and sadness, by Yasunari Kawabata was still predominantly on the male as the subject.

scholarly journals In Search of Identity: A Comparative Feminist Exploration of Muslim Female Sexuality in Ali’s Twilight in Delhi and Shahraz’s The Holy Woman

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-95
Author(s):  
Fariha Chaudhary ◽  
Qamar Khushi
Keyword(s):  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Islamic Feminism ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Contextual Understanding ◽  
Critical Exploration ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist

A critical exploration of Muslim female sexuality through the feminist analysis of the various female characters in Twilight in Delhi and The Holy Woman, by Ahmad Ali and Qaisra Shahraz respectively, is the central focus of this paper. Theoretical insights have been drawn from Islamic feminism and Postcolonial feminist scholarship for the contextual understanding of female sexuality. Focusing specifically on the issue of female sexuality and marriages, in both of the novels, this paper demonstrates that Muslim women in the postcolonial Pakistan seems to have gained a certain measure of agency as compared to the plight of women in the colonial milieu of Ali’s novel. However, examined closely, as this paper will highlight, women in both of the novels, still in certain ways, remain helpless victims of sexual victimization. This comparative analysis of novels based in two varied settings of colonial and post-colonial Muslim societies reveals that female sexuality remains a stifling point of contention which is predominantly controlled by men.

scholarly journals Recovering the Progressive Spirit of Islam

Axis Mundi ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erendira Cervantes-Altamiro
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Feminism ◽  
Progressive Movement ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Women In Islam

This paper analyses Islamic Feminism as a progressive movement that has found legitimacy through the practice of Ijthad and has allowed feminist Muslims to reinterpret the sacred texts while extracting the patriarchal interpretations behind them. Although the movement has been very criticized, Islamic Feminism has problematized the situation of women in Islam and has proposed a new way to create a connection with the scriptures.    

scholarly journals REZIM SEKSUALITAS DAN AGAMA SKETSA POLITIK TUBUH PEREMPUAN DALAM ISLAM

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-290
Author(s):  
Akhiriyati Sundari
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Industrial Civilization ◽  
Local Traditions

This paper examines the various issues of sexuality in Islamic discourse. The discussion in this study attempts to examine the discourse of female sexuality at the beginning of Prophet's prophethood and then evolves over the development of the age to give birth to various inequalities and injustices against women in the sexual realm. There are at least three issues concerning sexual injustice in women; first, the Islamic tradition in the post-Prophetical Jurisprudence which places women as 'male sexual needs ministers' and 'sexual generations'. Second, the tendency of female body consumerism in modern industrial civilization. Third, local traditions in certain cultures still attach stereotypes to women as 'passengers' of male social glory.

The Vagina Is the Third Ear

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-7
Author(s):  
Miya Masaoka
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Concert Hall ◽  
The Third

The vagina resembles the fleshy folds of the ear without the cartilage. Like the Third Eye, the Third Ear connotes a supernatural ability of intuition, perception. Female sexuality is broadened and expanded, as the vagina is reimagined and reclaimed from previous definitions. Performances with vibrating surfaces and internal vaginal microphones sonify and activate the vagina in real time. This sonic reveal of female body parts asserts a political radicality beyond the gallery or concert hall.

Mad Women: Dance, Female Sexuality, and Surveillance in the Work of Virginia Woolf and Emily Holmes Coleman

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly Engdahl Coates
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Maternal Body ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Gradual Shift ◽  
Revolutionary Praxis ◽  
Female Embodiment ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
The Waves

This chapter argues that Emily Holmes Coleman’s novel, The Shutter of Snow, and Virginia Woolf’s novel, The Waves, both politicize and mobilize the dancing female body so as to perform a critique of the nationalist rhetoric circulating between WWI and WWII, which was exploiting the maternal body and subjecting the female body in general to increased surveillance. Reading dance as signifying not only in reference to aesthetic freedom but also as instantiating a revolutionary praxis, the chapter contends that the dancing female bodies within the pages of Woolf and Coleman’s novels perform a feminist politics of refusal and a complex aesthetic unraveling of dualisms that have traditionally and historically contained and restrained women. Implicitly gendering Foucault’s assessment of the gradual shift from a society premised on spectacle to an increasingly modernized society dependent on surveillance, The Shutter of Snow and The Waves discursively choreograph lines of flight and moments of suspension which, though they may not offer easy escapes (liberation or freedom from), visually and rhetorically imagine an unforeseeable future (the freedom to), where previously sanctioned modes of female embodiment might be replaced with on going gestures of becoming.

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