scholarly journals Female Authority Figures in Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm: A Weekend

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-91
Author(s):  
Gabriela Glăvan
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Female Empowerment ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
High Tension ◽  
Authority Figures ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Female Authority ◽  
Artistic Vision ◽  
And Control

Abstract Little girls and young women are Dorothea Tanning’s recurrent archetypes, defining and structuring her conceptual archive concerning gender and the feminine. A celebrated painter and sculptor who shaped her artistic vision in the proximity of the historical avant-gardes, Tanning was also a writer who revealed the mystery and estrangement of family ties in Chasm: A weekend, a novel she started writing in 1943 and published six decades later, in 2004. This singular book offers a privileged dialogue between literature and art, as several episodes revisit and translate the high tension of some of her most representative paintings. From within a feminist framework, the article will discuss aspects of female authority and control in Tanning’s novel as dominant forms of female empowerment, present throughout her visual Surrealist oeuvre. I argue that examining these allegories reveals their role as connectors between the literary and the visual arts, between Dorothea Tanning’s fiction and her painting.

scholarly journals THE EFFECTS OF STRETCHING EXERCISE ON HEMODYNAMIC RESPONSES AND POST-EXERCISE HYPOTENSION IN NORMOTENSIVE WOMEN STUDENTS

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 53-58
Author(s):  
Mohebbi Hamid ◽  
Maroofi Abdulbaset ◽  
Ansari Nazanin ◽  
Jorbonian Aboozar
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Women Students ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Rate Pressure Product ◽  
Rest Interval ◽  
Acute Effects ◽  
Hemodynamic Responses ◽  
Post Exercise ◽  
And Control

Aim: The aim of the present study was to evaluate acute effects of SE on post-exercise hemodynamic responses for 1-h in normotensive sedentary young women. Methods: Sixteen women (21.56±1.21yr; 159.6±0.5 cm; 54.53±6.02 kg) were randomly assigned to SE (n = 8) and control (C) groups (n = 8). SE group performed 20 stretches for the whole body. Each SE was repeated 2 times. Rest interval between repetitions and movement 10 s were considered. Systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic BP (DBP), mean arterial BP (MAP), rate pressure product (RPP), pulse pressure (PP) and heart rate (HR) were measured during 1-h (minutes: 0,15,30,45 and 60) in SE and C groups. Results: There were significant decreases (P

scholarly journals A BOOK REVIEW: FEMINISM ANDNERSUS FEMINITY OF MODERN WOMEN

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
B. Retang Wohangara
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Politics Of Representation ◽  
Girl Power ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
And Control

One important theme attached to pop culture is the politics of representation and sub-cultural identity. The pop singer Madonna and then the Spice Girls are frequently regarded as the representation of modern women offering a different face of feminism ideology. Successfully entering the market competition, Madonna, through her cry of 'material girl', characterizes herself as an independent woman in the still dominating patriarchal world while challenging the burden of morality placed on the shoulders of women. She asks young women to rebel against male-centred traditions and unashamedly exposes her sensuality as a source of power and even domination, or in short celebrating 'being women'. The flag of Girl Power is also waved by the 1990'sBritish female singers, the Spice Girls, who call young girls to "be strong, be brave, be loud and control your own destiny. Believe that your self can do anything you want to do and be confident. We have to be independent, but it does not mean that you don't need a boy" (Swastika 2004: 66).

(Wo)men on top? Postfeminist contradictions in young women’s sexual narratives

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 501-525
Author(s):  
Alexandra S. Rome ◽  
Aliette Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Sexual Pleasure ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Critical Feminist ◽  
And Control

Feminized sexual consumption has gained increasing legitimacy in the marketplace. Despite calls for critical, feminist perspectives, extant research in marketing continues to prioritize its emancipatory implications. In this article, we draw on the cultural theory of “postfeminism” to critically analyze the sexual narratives of young women. Tightly bound with neoliberal ethics, a postfeminist orientation encourages women—purported to have achieved equality thanks to past feminist activism—to work on, invest in, and manage their sexual lives. This discourse manifests in women’s sexual and intimate experiences in two key ways: first, through their attempts to establish authority and control in their relationships, an endeavor thwarted by neoliberal and patriarchal logics; and second, through an implicit submissive sexual positioning that privileges masculine meanings of sexual pleasure. These findings suggest an inherent contradiction between participants’ understanding of themselves as free, able, and equal, and the constraining, subjugating experiences shaping their relationships and (sexual) lives. Our key contribution to feminist critique and theorizing is to illustrate how postfeminist discourses operate to mask and deny oppressive patriarchal discourses, which paradoxically increases their strength under the guise of female emancipation and consumer choice.

The “Amnesty” Aftermath: Current Policy Issues Stemming from the Legalization Programs of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act

1997 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan González Baker
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Reform ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Early Implementation ◽  
State And Local ◽  
And Control ◽  
Local Levels

The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) created two one-time only legalization programs affecting nearly 3 million undocumented immigrants. Legalization has produced important changes among immigrants and in immigration policy. These changes include new patterns of immigrant social and economic adaptation to the United States and new immigrant flows through family ties to IRCA-legalized aliens. The heightened salience of immigration, produced in part by legalization, has also generated a wave of “backlash” policymaking at the state and local levels in high-immigration sites. This article combines data from a longitudinal survey of the IRCA-legalized population with qualitative field data on current immigration issues from key informants in eight high-immigration metropolitan areas. It reviews the political evolution and early implementation of legalization, the current socioeconomic position of legalized aliens, and changes in the immigration “policy space” resulting from legalization. Aldiough restrictive policies have again captured public attention, legalization has also sparked renewed efforts at immigration advocacy, particularly where immigrants who adjust to U.S. citizenship hold the potential for influencing local politics.

Legitimizing the Leader: Endorsement by Male Versus Female Authority Figures

1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 943-970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence L. Geis ◽  
Virginia Brown ◽  
Carolyn Wolfe
Keyword(s):  
Authority Figures ◽  
Female Authority

scholarly journals Psychological and Societal Implications of Projecting the Shadow on the Feminine in Tibetan Buddhist Contexts

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Iris Miriam Anders
Keyword(s):  
Physical Abuse ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Buddhist Philosophy ◽  
Societal Implications ◽  
Tibetan Buddhist ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

Idealizing and medicalizing of methods ascribed to Buddhism has led to individualizing their structural and societal challenges. Although the long-undervalued need for introspection may get addressed, people are now caught under the cloak of spirituality hoping for quick enlightenment or a panacea solving mental diseases. Thus, at this point, the impact of decontextualizing concepts, unreflectively copying feudal structures into Tibetan Buddhist seminar- and meditation-centers, as well as of lacking knowledge required for the gradual application-oriented learning processes taught in traditional Buddhist philosophy have become clear. This shows in recent testimony of economical, psychological, and physical abuse in international Tibetan Buddhist organizations. The violence against individuals and man-made trauma in such contexts need to get analyzed before the background of neologisms, that is concepts allowing for arbitrariness and violence in the name of spirituality, as well as of the sophisticated systems of rationalizing damage and silencing trauma and victims. Furthermore, though those in the ‘inner circles’ run the risk of traumatization and of being held accountable, it is women who are at higher risk, particularly those who engage in secret relationships. Thus, in terms of treatment, the collectively projecting the shadow on the feminine, leading to an attitude of exploitation and control against women, requires consideration.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF VISUAL ARTS IN BALANCING ADVERSE SITUATIONS IN INDIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 358-361
Author(s):  
Alpana Upadhyaya ◽  
Vinny Wadhwa
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Positive Thinking ◽  
Negative Thinking ◽  
Inner World ◽  
And Control

Life has a strange way to unfold. Anything that exists on this Earth comes out of action, but the action only derives its fruits if it’s aligned with your inner world. Adverse situations in life will happen despite all the precautions and safeguards we put in place, in an attempt to prevent or at best avoid their effects. In this, people must concentrate on how to react and control the emotions in this situation. How to overcome negative thinking with the positive one? Positive thinking just means that you approach unpleasantness in a more positive and productive way. Visual Art can be a refuge for intense emotions and illness in adverse situations. Visual art draws people’s attention to details and the environment, which creates a distraction from day-to-day thoughts. No matter whether people chose visual arts to create for ourselves or simply observe or enjoy it.

scholarly journals Adjusting Swedish gymnastics to the female nature: Discrepancies in the gendering of girls’ physical education in the mid-nineteenth century

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
Johannes Westberg
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Western World ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Relationship

During the nineteenth century, Swedish gymnastics became one of the main models of physical education in the Western world. The purpose of this article is to explore how Swedish gymnastics was adjusted to the female body and mind in the mid-nineteenth century. Using handbooks published by the Swedish educationalist Anton Santesson as an empirical starting point, this article shows how the relationship between gender and gymnastics was complicated and exhibited significant discrepancies. In part, Swedish gymnastics was marked by a one-sex model of gender differences, which meant that gymnastics was perceived as a method for catering to the deficiencies and weaknesses of the feminine nature, in an attempt to make girls and young women more similar to boys. Swedish gymnastics had, nevertheless, vital elements of a two-sex model, according to which gymnastics was supposed to realise the true feminine nature of girls. Following this line of thought, Santesson claimed that, since gymnastics merely followed the laws of the body, it could not make girls more like boys. Santesson’s vision of gymnastics also included disciplinary mechanisms, such as the partitioning of space, which were gender neutral. Apart from presenting insights into the ambiguous and contradictory notions of gender in Swedish girls’ gymnastics, this article thus also raises questions regarding whether other models of physical education were marked by similar discrepancies during the nineteenth century. 

The Representation of Female Friendships on Young Women’s Myspace Profiles

2011 ◽  
pp. 126-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Shields Dobson
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Female Friendship ◽  
Friendship Groups ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Female Friendships ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Second Wave

This chapter examines the representation of female friendship on MySpace, based on a sample of 45 public MySpace profiles owned by young Australian women, aged between 18 and 21 years old. Two prominent constructions of female friendship on this social network site are outlined: firstly, female friendships as idealistically party-oriented, ‘wild’, and rowdy; and secondly, female friendships as close, loyal, and intimate — comparable in the depth of feeling and connection expressed to romantic partnerships or family ties. These idealised, performative constructions of female friendship, in the context of online self-presentation, also seem to rely on exclusivity, and opposition of selves and friendship groups to a feminised outsider/‘other’. Some of the political implications of such representation are discussed from a feminist perspective. I suggest some ways in which ideals and goals of female representation to emerge from second-wave feminist media and performance critique might be said to have actualised and failed to actualise in these online performances of friendship and identity created by young women.

The return of the social author

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Ramdarshan Bold
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Authority Figures ◽  
Traditional Publisher ◽  
New Generation ◽  
And Control

The rise in self-publishing, digital folk culture and social media participation, have revolutionized reading and writing practices. Readers can directly contact their favourite authors, and publishers, through social media and become authors, and publishers, themselves. One of the outcomes of digital reading and writing is that writing is now becoming more democratic: traditional publishers are no longer the sole gatekeepers of culture. The popularity of social writing platform Wattpad is a recent example of how a new generation of influential and innovative writers is entering the publishing arena. This also demonstrates that there is a demand for authorship without the intervention from publishers. Despite this, traditional notions of authorship, ownership and control are prevalent in contemporary publishing hindering the true potential of creativity. The disharmony between the rise of the amateur author and the control of the traditional publisher is confronted in the digital public sphere. Consequently, issues such as authority and influence are mediated during the activities and interactions that take place on social media and other online platforms. Established authority figures, such as famous authors or well-known publishers, that exert authority and influence in the traditional sphere, can shift this authority and influence to the digital world; however, this sphere is also occupied by emerging networks of influencers, such as emerging authors or micro-celebrities, who gain popularity as a result of specific trends, in specific domains, at specific times. This article will examine how new and established authors are using social platforms, and social media, to publish their writing, build communities and extend their dialogue with readers and other writers. A netnographic study of Wattpad will identify which authors are the influencers and innovators in social publishing. Consequently, this article will underscore the increasing importance of social networks and social relationships in 21st century publishing.

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