scholarly journals Performing Patriarchy in Much Ado About Nothing

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Paul Innes
Keyword(s):  
Much Ado About Nothing ◽  
Patriarchal System

Abstract This article aims to restore the pairing of Claudio and Hero to prominence. The positioning of Hero by Claudio and the play’s other powerful men is central to the plotline, especially in terms of the “nothing” of Hero’s supposed sexual incontinence, as well as being dramatically pivotal to the play’s meanings and structure. The fact that the scene is absent from the play underscores the crucial symbolic importance of the role of Hero to the patriarchal system, drawing attention to the ways in which her function needs to be noted and understood. The analysis undertaken here therefore redresses the balance, since the pairing of Beatrice and Benedick seems so much more alive to modern sensibilities. This article argues that the reason for this lies in their seeming attractiveness as characters who are more easily recuperated to a historically later form of patriarchy from Shakespeare’s period, one that resonates powerfully with the rise of individualism to elevate them over Hero and Claudio.

scholarly journals Male Chauvinism in Afghan Society: An Analysis of A Thousand Splendid Suns

sjesr ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-180
Author(s):  
Dr. Waheed Ahmad Khan ◽  
Dr. Shaukat Ali ◽  
Mr. Gul Zamin Khan
Keyword(s):  
Dominant Role ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Privileged Status ◽  
Inferior Status ◽  
Cultural Code ◽  
Status Of Women

The paper is an attempt to analyze the dominant role of the male community in Afghan society.  Western Feminists such as Judith Butler claim that all women face the same problems. However, their claim is challenged by Chandra Talpade Mohanty (1991) who is of the view that the claim of universal sisterhood is based on ethnocentricity. This paper analyses the inferior status of women in the patriarchal system of Afghanistan where people live under their cultural code called Pashtunwali. Pashtunwali assigns an active role to the male community under their privileged status while women are restricted to homes.  In this society, a man has to be rigid, authoritative and must keep women under his iron hands.  A man of weak nerves has no respect in Afghan society; he has to be strong enough to protect the honor of his family.  The study is based on textual analysis of Khaled Hosseini's novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, in the light of Mohanty's views (1991).  Hosseini (2008) criticizes the marginalized status of women in Afghan society. Though the Afghan society is influenced by globalization which gives some space to women for social activities, male chauvinism remains the main feature of Pashtun culture wherein people are ruled by a male-oriented code of conduct called Pashtunwali.

‘Love is proved in the letting go’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Scott
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Midsummer Night's Dream ◽  
Much Ado About Nothing ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
A Midsummer Night's Dream ◽  
The Status ◽  
Letting Go ◽  
The Relationship

Maintaining the focus on the role of the child in relation to figures of authority, and the thresholds between dependence and independence outlined in Chapter 3, Chapter 4 analyses some of Shakespeare’s comic children. Turning to the relationship between socialization and marriage and the institutional structures through which the young people of these plays are ushered, it explores the role of marriage in the stratification of emotional authority. Concentrating on A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing, Chapter 4 examines the tensions between the sociable and gendered body. Analysing contemporary attitudes to marriage as transference of power from the father to the husband, it explores the status of the woman between child and wife. Thinking about the terms of agency that these plays deploy, the spaces in which women are shown to ‘grow up’, and the extent to which Shakespeare’s comedies complicate the representation of marriage as socialization, this chapter positions its focus on the child as social commodity.

Much Ado About Nothing? The Refugee Working Group and the Perils of Multilateral Quasi-negotiation

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
The Political ◽  
Much Ado About Nothing ◽  
Sensitive Issue ◽  
Domestic Constraints ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
The Impact

AbstractAmong the various negotiations that comprise the multilateral component of the Middle East peace process, the Refugee Working Group faces perhaps the most intractable and sensitive issue of all: the Palestinian refugee question. The experience of the RWG can best be described as one of ``quasi-negotiation,'' in which discussion among the parties has been hampered by differing views as to the role of the working group, and indeed whether it even represents a forum for negotiation. The implications of RWG's insertion in a broader system of linked negotiations is also explored, as is the impact of domestic constraints on the participants, and various efforts by the Canadian ``gavel-holder'' of the RWG to break the political stalemate within the group. Finally, the article concludes by assessing the potential role of mediation and multi-track diplomacy in addressing this sensitive issue.

Power and Control over Women in Victorian England: Male Opposition to Sacramental Confession in the Anglican Church

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rene Kollar
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
The Public ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Male Authority ◽  
And Control

ABSTRACTThe patriarchal environment of nineteenth century England viewed women as weak and naïve creatures who should submit to the dictates of men. Religion, however, could give women a sense of freedom and independence from male authority. When auricular confession began to gain acceptance in some sections of the Anglican Church, women saw this as a way of asserting their independence because they could confide their personal thoughts and problems to a clergymen. This could, in the opinion of some, threaten the powerful role of the husband or father by substituting an alternative patriarchal system, and many critics warned of the dangers associated with the confessional, especially the weakening of the male dominated family structure. The Priest in Absolution gave advice to Anglican confessors, but the sexual nature of the questions, made public in 1877, shocked the public and confirmed the fears of the opponents of auricular confession.

scholarly journals WOMEN IN THE IDENTITY CRISIS OF FEMINISM; A CRITICAL ANALYSIS ON GENDER MOVEMENT BASED ON ISLAMIC PSYCHOLOGY PERSPECTIVE

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Septi Gumiandari ◽  
Ilman Nafi'a
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Psychology Perspective ◽  
Islamic Psychology ◽  
Human Quality

<p><em>This paper attempted to analyze critically the women's movement that had been developing so far and tried to offer the ideology of the gender movement based on the values </em><em>of humanism of Islamic Psychology. This study used a qualitative methodology with a literature approach. The results showed that (1) the male clone tendency in the women's movement had actually been predicted by various parties, including by the female activists. Because of the obsession to equalize the active role of women as equal to men, the women's movement was trapped in standardizing themselves with male masculinity figures. On one hand, they rejected male domination on women, but on the other hand the ambitions of their movements are directed towards seizing the dominant patriarchal system and violating it under the authority of women. Even though Islam places women in the frame of proportionally optimistic rational roles. That is, Islam does not make women fully pretend to be 'backward' entities so that it does not allow them to gain enlightenment and Islam rejects thoughts that are too optimistic to position 'front' women as the sole determinant of their lives and must be above men. Both of these views have reduced women to fall into the destruction or glorification of human quality by ignoring the greatness and power of Sunnatullah over the surrounding conditions; (2) Acording to the values </em><em>of humanism of Islamic Psychology, the ideology of the gender movement should depart from the needs and be based on a) Women’s self-actualization rather than self-exploitation; b) Women’s Active participation rather than their mobilization and domestication. (c) Partnership rather than rivalism.</em></p>

Tenenbaum and Becker’s Critique: Much Ado about Nothing

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 382-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Woodman ◽  
Lew Hardy
Keyword(s):  
Quadrant Analysis ◽  
Model Framework ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Somatic Anxiety ◽  
Much Ado About Nothing ◽  
Catastrophe Model ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Model Research ◽  
Initial Support

We (Hardy, Woodman, & Carrington, 2004) recently proposed an innovative segmental quadrant analysis for exploring the role of self-confidence within a higher-order catastrophe model framework. Using this exploratory analysis, we found initial support for the main hypothesis, namely that the maximum interaction effect size between cognitive anxiety and somatic anxiety would be located at a lower level along the somatic anxiety continuum for conditions of low self-Cong compared to conditions of high self-confidence. In the present issue of this journal, Tenenbaum and Becker (2005) offer a critique of this study. In formulating their critique they have employed four principal approaches: (a) a largely indiscriminate critique of catastrophe model research as a whole; (b) a more specific critique of the method and analysis employed in our study; (c) a misrepresentation of our own work and that of previous authors; and (d) abundant confusion and irrelevancy. We address each of these issues in turn.

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