scholarly journals Modernism and Feminism Representations of Women in Modernist Art and Literature

wisdom ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Mane Khachibabyan

This article demonstrates the place and role of the image of women in modernist art and literature, mainly focusing on Impressionism and Post-impressionism. It discusses the unique works of modernist painters and writers (Marie Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Pablo Picasso and Virginia Woolf) to explore how modernist art and literature both defined, reflected and shaped gender roles. The article discourses on the representations of feminist views and gender inequality in the works of some modernist artists.

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (10) ◽  
pp. 93-97
Author(s):  
Sabina Azim Azimova ◽  

Thus, such a conclusion can be come in the end on this problem. Prohibitions in both international documents and national legislation of the countries play a role in solving the problem, but not enough. As can be seen, in most cases, early marriage is the result of traditions and ways of thinking. It is this way of thinking that creates gender stereotypes, and gender stereotypes create gender inequality by being supported by gender roles. This creates problems for girls' education, economic and political participation, and girls are discriminated against as domestic creatures and subject to early marriage. Accordingly, in most cases, these girls, who are uneducated and uninformed, marry their children early in the future and the problem of early marriage continues in this way, taking the form of cause-and-effect, and effect-and-cause. Key words: marriage, early marriage, inequality, gender inequality, minimum age


Author(s):  
Marilyn Booth

This chapter demonstrates that inscriptions of female images in Cairo’s late nineteenth-century nationalist press were part of a discursive economy shaping debates on how gender roles and gendered expectations should shift as Egyptians struggled for independence. The chapter investigates content and placement of ‘news from the street’ in al-Mu’ayyad in the 1890s, examining how these terse local reports – equivalent to faits divers in the French press – contributed to the construction of an ideal national political trajectory with representations of women serving as the primary example in shaping a politics of newspaper intervention on the national scene. In this, an emerging advocacy role of newspaper correspondents makes the newspaper a mediator in the construction of activist reader-citizens.


This volume reframes the debate around Islam and women’s rights within a broader comparative literature. It examines the complex and contingent historical relationships between religion, secularism, democracy, law, and gender equality. Part I addresses the nexus of religion, law, gender, and democracy through different disciplinary perspectives (sociology, anthropology, political science, law). Part II localizes the implementation of this nexus between law, gender, and democracy, and provides contextualized responses to questions raised in Part I. The contributors explore the situation of Muslim women’s rights vis-à-vis human rights to shed light on gender politics in the modernization of the nation and to ponder over the role of Islam in gender inequality across different Muslim countries.


2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thuc-Doan T. Nguyen ◽  
Russell Belk

This article examines the historical role of marriage and wedding rituals in Vietnam, and how they have changed during Vietnam’s transition to the market. The authors focus on how changes reflect the society’s increasing dependence on the market, how this dependence impacts consumer well-being, and the resulting implications for public policy. Changes in the meanings, function, and structure of wedding ritual consumption are examined. These changes echo shifts in the national economy, social values, social relations, and gender roles in Vietnamese society during the transition. The major findings show that Vietnamese weddings are reflections of (1) the roles of wedding rituals as both antecedents and outcomes of social changes, (2) the nation’s perception and imagination of its condition relative to “modernity,” and (3) the role of China as a threatening “other” seen as impeding Vietnam’s progress toward “modernization.”


2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valéria Melki Busin

No presente artigo, apresentamos elementos da composição atual do campo religioso brasileiro em função daquilo que será necessário para iluminar a discussão sobre as relações entre religião, sexualidades e gênero. Buscamos compreender teoricamente o papel desempenhado pelas religiões, mais especificamente do Catolicismo, na vida das pessoas que aderem a elas ou na cultura envolvente. Elencamos questões relacionadas à moral sexual católica, à família e ao ethos privado. Apresentamos indagações que envolvem o Catolicismo e a desigualdade de gênero. Discutiremos a religião como modeladora de subjetividades e traremos os sentimentos de culpa e vergonha relacionados à homossexualidade e à religião. Apresentaremos uma especificidade do trânsito religioso de homossexuais e, por fim, faremos a relação entre alguns princípios religiosos relativos à sexualidade e o exercício de poder em diversas esferas: simbólico-discursiva, pastoral, privada, pública etc. Palavras-chave: religião, sexualidade, homossexualidade, gênero. Abstract In this paper, we present elements of the current composition of the Brazilian religious field in terms of what will be needed to illuminate the discussion of relations between religion, sexuality and gender. We seek to understand theoretically the role played by religions, specifically Catholicism, in the lives of people who adhere to them or in the surrounding culture. We list questions relating Catholic sexual morality, family and private ethos. We introduce questions that involve Catholicism and gender inequality. We discuss the role of the religion as modeler of subjectivities and we bring feelings of guilt and shame related to homosexuality and religion. We present a specificity of religious transit of homosexuals and, finally, we will link some religious principles relating to sexuality with the exercise of power in several spheres: the symbolic-discursive, pastoral, private, public etc Keywords: religion, sexuality, homosexuality, gender.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 176
Author(s):  
Zarmina Khan ◽  
Danish Ahmed Siddiqui

Resolving workforce conflict and turnover issues have being a great concern. Even a greater challenge is to know how this conflict takes place. Organizations working to overcome gender inequality find it even more difficult to cope up with this situation when conflict arises in the Women Workforce. This study aims to explore the reason for Women Workforce conflict and turnover, and particularly explore the role of culture and environment. We proposed a theoretical framework explaining this phenomenon. We hypothesized that various factors such as Psychological work factors, lack of Diversity, incivility, Discriminatory HR planning, no identity separation, and Gender inequality negatively affect both work both culture and environment. And this would ultimately lead to women workforce turnover and conflicts. We establish its empirical validity by conducting a survey using a close-ended questionnaire. Data was collected from 314 individuals and analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis and structured equation modeling. The results showed that Diversity, and Identity Separation have a positive whereas Gender Inequality, and Discriminatory HR Planning have a negative significant effect on the Work Environment. Moreover, the work environment in turn positively affects Women Workforce Turnover and Workforce Conflict. Psychosocial work Factors also positively affect work culture, which subsequently affects both and Women Workforce Turnover, and Conflict. Hence work environment, and culture both play an effective mediatory role in-between these factors and Women Workforce Turnover, and Conflict. Findings imply that Culture and work environment should have been considered in a professional and well-directed manner.


2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-281
Author(s):  
Sarah Waterfeld

B6112 is a collective anticapitalist, feminist, antiracist, and queer transmedial theatre production. Welcome to our artwork! Our theatre, our art, our poetry, and our work are weapons of struggle. Art does not take place in a political, social, or economic vacuum. Art takes place in world structured by imperialism and its slaughter, war, destruction, commerce, and slavery. Art must engage with this in both content and form. Otherwise it is obsolete. B6112 advocates a theatre that calls for revolution, reveals relationships of domination, denounces grievances, names guilty parties, presents resistance strategies, explores them, rejects them. B6112 stands for the elimination of nationalisms and gender inequality, for a global citizenship, for a world community in which all people peacefully coexist in equal living conditions. B6112 stands for self-organization and emancipation, for a hierarchy-free theatre that has a mimetic and thus exemplary effect on society. In the face of global disasters, we reject an entertainment theatre or a theatre of display that acts as an opiate in the society. Only when our goals have been achieved will we be able to renegotiate the role of the theatre for our society, redefine its content, and redefine the question of relevance.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-124
Author(s):  
Dwi Anggun Apriyanti

Advocates for ending child marriage in Indonesia face an uphill battle. The practice of child marriage is rooted in broader structural problems such as poverty and gender inequality which are intertwined with people's views on marriage, sexuality and morality according to religion and tradition. In this regard, the practice of child marriage must be understood in various fields such as religious norms on marriage, morality around premarital sex, people's views on gender and the role of children and parenting, which are not all pro-women. The views on child marriage, how child marriage is practiced, the rules and enforcement are different and often contradictory between actors and institutions, however it is girls who suffer the most as a result of the practice of child marriage. This study discusses the government efforts that have been made in protecting women and underage marriages and sees to what extent these actions can eradicate and protect. Abstrak Advokasi untuk mengakhiri pernikahan anak di Indonesia menghadapi perjuangan berat. Praktik perkawinan anak berakar pada masalah struktural yang lebih luas seperti kemiskinan dan ketimpangan gender yang saling terkait dengan pandangan masyarakat tentang perkawinan, seksualitas, dan moralitas menurut agama dan tradisi. Berkaitan dengan hal tersebut, praktik perkawinan anak harus dipahami dalam berbagai bidang seperti norma agama tentang perkawinan, moralitas seputar seks pranikah, pandangan masyarakat tentang gender serta peran anak dan pola asuh yang tidak semuanya berpihak pada perempuan. Pandangan tentang perkawinan anak, bagaimana perkawinan anak dipraktekkan, peraturan dan penegakannya berbeda-beda dan seringkali kontradiktif antara aktor dan lembaga, namun anak perempuanlah yang paling menderita akibat praktek perkawinan anak. Penelitian ini membahas upaya pemerintah yang telah dilakukan dalam melakukan perlindungan terhadap perempuan dan pernikahan di bawah umur dan melihat sejauh mana tindakan ini dapat meberantas dan melindungi.


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