scholarly journals Gender and Poetry in Muslim Spain: Mapping the Sexual-Textual Politics of Al-Andalus

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies ◽  
O. Ishaq Tijani ◽  
Imed Nsiri
Keyword(s):  
Political Agency ◽  
Women Poets ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Textual Politics ◽  
Literary Methods ◽  
Muslim Spain ◽  
Classical Arabic

This article revisits the role of women in the Andalusian literature and culture of the period between the 8th through the 15th centuries C.E. Drawing on some Western sexual-textual political models of analysis, the article reexamines the literary methods and devices employed by selected Andalusian women poets to demonstrate their intellectual equality with men. Moreover, by providing a sexual-textual political reading of some of the women’s poems and/or the anecdotes (akhbār) about them, the article demonstrates how these women exerted their social and political agency in a male-dominated society. The article seeks to bolster an argument that the frequent mention of the preponderance of women poets—their names and the anecdotes about them—suggests the existence of a female literary sub-culture in al-Andalus that was more vibrant than has been documented in the male-authored classical Arabic texts

The Portuguese Female Immigrant: The ‘Marginal Man’

1980 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Estellie Smith
Keyword(s):  
Migration Decision ◽  
Migration Literature ◽  
Female Immigrant ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Male Dominated

This paper presents an analysis of the role of Portuguese women in the migration decision of typical Portuguese ‘male-dominated’ families; their continued importance in the actual departure and in the acculturative process upon arrival. The author seeks to redress a previous imbalance in migration literature neglecting the role of women in these processes.

Gender, International Relations theory, and Northern Ireland

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Máire Braniff ◽  
Sophie Whiting
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Elected Representatives

Scholars have increasingly focused on the role of gender in international relations and in particular the role of gender in conflict and peacebuilding. Chapter six explores the important role gender plays in the context of the Northern Ireland peace process. IR scholars have increasingly recognized that women experience insecurity differently from men and participate in conflict resolution and peacebuilding differently as well. This chapter links the latest research on gender and security with developments in Northern Ireland, contending that the peace process has privileged the masculine, marginalizing the role of women. The chapter’s findings highlight the historic small role women played as elected representatives in Northern Ireland. When women attempted to assert themselves as actors forming the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition (NIWC) in 1996, their failure to become part of the formal political process meant that a decade later the organization dissolved, a victim of the continuing male dominated structures that shape post-Agreement Northern Ireland.

scholarly journals Feminism in Heneric Ibsen’s A Dolls' House

2018 ◽  
Vol 221 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-162
Author(s):  
Assist. Inst. Halima Ismail Radam
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
The Impact ◽  
A Doll's House

     This paper investigates the role of women and their right in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House (1879). Ibsen, one of the world's greatest dramatists, is considered as the father of modern drama, and as one of the great supporters of women. He never calls himself a feminist, and he is more a humanist. There are indeed plenty of feminist tendencies in his plays, based on Simone de Beauvoir’s System of marriage, stressing on individuality of women and fighting for their freedom, in addition protesting to all restrictions in society. Under the impact of Ibsen's ideology, individuality and humanity are the most important social issues which are developed in his works. All social instructions and conventions are the enemy of every individual because they restrict the characters' personal identity and their freedom. In particular, Ibsen expands this outlook on the women's position whose individual and freedom are taken by masculine society . Ibsen protests against the position of women in a masculine society which is unfair and under the hegemony of male – dominated powers.

scholarly journals ‘Without Women, Nothing Can Succeed’: Yoruba Women in The Oodua People's Congress (OPC), Nigeria

Africa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Insa Nolte
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
South West ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
People's Congress

This article examines the role of women in the politics of the Oodua People's Congress (OPC), a militant ethno-nationalist movement of the Yoruba people in south-west Nigeria. Women's inclusion in the organizational structure and their typical roles within the OPC, the article suggests, expand the political agency of women but at the same time ensure that their contributions are contained within the OPC's overall politics. Women play important roles within the OPC, primarily by enabling and supporting the vigilante activities of male OPC members. In the provision of this support, women overwhelmingly draw on the knowledge and powers associated with typically female life experiences. As a result, women's interests are represented within the overall agenda of the OPC, but on the basis of complementary rather than egalitarian gender roles.

The Role of Women in Pursuing Scottish Criminal Actions, 1580–1650

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-250
Author(s):  
Stephanie Dropuljic
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
The Law ◽  
Role Of Women

This article examines the role of women in raising criminal actions of homicide before the central criminal court, in early modern Scotland. In doing so, it highlights the two main forms of standing women held; pursing an action for homicide alone and as part of a wider group of kin and family. The evidence presented therein challenges our current understanding of the role of women in the pursuit of crime and contributes to an under-researched area of Scots criminal legal history, gender and the law.

REGULATION OF MARRIAGE RELATIONS IN THE TURKESTAN REGION

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Khurshida Tillahodjaeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Family ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Family And Marriage ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Definition Of

In this article we will talk about the scale of family and marriage relations in the early XX century in the Turkestan region, their regulation, legislation. Clearly reveals the role of women and men in the family, the definition of which is based on the material conditions of society, equality of rights and freedoms and its features.

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