The Peony Pavilion as a picture of sexual individuation

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-169
Author(s):  
Huan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Chinese Woman ◽  
Female Images ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Peony Pavilion ◽  
Natal Family

The Peony Pavilion is a story central to Chinese gender identity. It vividly portrays a story of the path of sexual individuation of a Chinese woman. In comparison to female images in Western stories, Chinese women are the active ones in their intimate relationships with men. They have been oppressed for many years because they are recognised as the subject of desire and as having reflexive aggression. However, with enough love, a girl dares to separate from her natal family, to fight against the patriarchal system, and to be herself. Identifying with the father’s aggression can facilitate her in this process.

Can the “internal couple” be our faithful lifelong partner?

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-142
Author(s):  
Molly Ludlam
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Couple Relationships ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Internal Object ◽  
Lifelong Partner ◽  
And Gender

For over fifty years the concept of the “internal couple”, as a composite internal object co-constructed in intimate relationships, has been fundamental to a psycho-analytic understanding of couple relationships and their contribution to family dynamics. Considerable societal change, however, necessitates review of how effectively and ethically the concept meets practitioners’ and couples’ current needs. Does the concept of an internal couple help psychotherapists to describe and consider all contemporary adult couples, whether same-sex or heterosexual, monogamous, or polyamorous? How does it accommodate online dating, relating via avatars, and use of pornography? Is it sufficiently inclusive of those experimenting in terms of sexual and gender identity, or in partnerships that challenge family arrangement norms? Can it usefully support thinking about families in which parents choose to parent alone, or are absent at their children’s conception thanks to surrogacy, adoption, and IVF? These and other questions prompt re-examination of this central concept’s nature and value.

Gender Identity and the Subject of Security

2004 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunhild Hoogensen ◽  
Svein Vigeland Rottem
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
The Subject

scholarly journals Reclaiming Romani-ness

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioanida Costache
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Epistemic Systems ◽  
Porous Boundaries

Drawing on theories of identity postulated by cultural theorists, scholars of gender identity, and critical race theorists, I explore issues of identity politics and “Otherness” as they pertain to Romani identity, history and activism. By critiquing the latent bifurcation of identity and subjectivity in Judith Butler’s theory of performativity as well as her explicit adherence to universalism, I begin to outline a (post-Hegelian) hermeneutic in which narratives of self enable political processes of self-determination against symbolic and epistemic systems of racialization and minoritization.[1] Roma identity both serves as an oppressive social category while at the same time empowering people for whom a shared ethnic group provides a sense of solidarity and community. In re-conceptualizing, reimagining and re-claiming Romani-ness, we can make movements towards outlining a new Romani subjectivity – a subjectivity that is firmly rooted in counterhistories of Roma, with porous boundaries that both celebrate our diversity and foster solidarity. I come to the subject of Romani identity from an understanding that our racialized and gendered identities are both performed and embodied – forming part of the horizon from which we make meaning of the world. I wish to recast the discourse surrounding Romani identity as hybridized and multicultural, as well as, following Glissant, embedded into a pluritopic notion of history.

scholarly journals Autobiographical motifs of Andrey Rumyantsev’s lyrics (based on the compilation of poems “The Empress Life”)

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Elena Petrovna Berezkina ◽  
Mariya Nikolaevna Zhornikova
Keyword(s):  
Basic Principle ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Female Images ◽  
Native Nature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Epic Poems

This article is dedicated to the autobiographical discourse in the compilation of poems “The Empress Life” by the national poet of Buryatia Andrey Rumyantsev.  The subject of research is the key images and motifs of Rumyantsev’s autobiographicallyrics, while the object is the poet’s lyrical biography. The author analyzes Andrey Rumyantsev’s poetry for the purpose of determination of the means of expression of autobiographical images and motifs in the texts created in form of poetic reminiscences. Most careful attention is given to the compositions dedicated to parents, grandparents, and sister of the poet. Methodology leans on the basic principle of biographical method, according to which personality of the writer defines the specificity of his works. The scientific novelty consists in conducting a motif-imagery analysis of Rumyantsev’s poetry from the perspectives of biographical method. The conclusion is formulated that the main motifs of Andrey Rumyantsev’s autobiographical lyrics is “great guilt”, “repentance”, and “responsibility” that encompass all poetic reminiscences of his loved ones – the key images of autobiographical lyrics. The specific approaches in creation of autobiographical images and motifs are revealed. Thus, the common for all images is the stance on labor and possession of physical fortitude. All female images are united by the motif of the hardship of being a woman, as well as righteousness semanticized through the concepts of “patience” and “love”. The mail images resemble bogatyrs (heroes of the Russian epic poems); the author also emphasizes their unity with the native nature.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Lena Cowen Orlin
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Textual Practices ◽  
Parallel Lives ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Natal Family

To introduce both the subject of the book and its methodological approach, the Introduction takes up the case study of the date of Shakespeare’s baptism: 26 April 1564. Those who want to believe that the national poet was born on the national feast day (23 April, or St George’s Day), have compiled ‘evidence’ to prove it, but under close analysis the evidence disintegrates. We know his day of baptism but cannot know his birthday. Much of Shakespeare’s biography has been built out of similar ‘evidence clusters’. The book interrogates many of these old clusters and also assembles new ones. This involves close reading familiar historical documents contextually, referring to other examples from the same record classes to show how their conventions and textual practices shape their meaning. A further strategy is to include mini-biographies for some of Shakespeare’s cognates in Stratford-upon-Avon, the stories of parallel lives through which we can learn more about his own. The chapter also introduces the members of Shakespeare’s natal family.

“I’m Not Really 100% a Woman If I Can’t Have a Kid”: Infertility and the Intersection of Gender, Identity, and the Body

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 629-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann V. Bell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Constraints ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So

Despite establishing the gendered construction of infertility, most research on the subject has not examined how individuals with such reproductive difficulty negotiate their own sense of gender. I explore this gap through 58 interviews with women who are medically infertile and involuntarily childless. In studying how women achieve their gender, I reveal the importance of the body to such construction. For the participants, there is not just a motherhood mandate in the United States, but a fertility mandate—women are not just supposed to mother, they are supposed to procreate. Given this understanding, participants maintain their gender by denying their infertile status. They do so through reliance on essentialist notions, using their bodies as a means of constructing a gendered sense of self. Using the tenets of transgender theory, this study not only informs our understanding of infertility, but also our broader understanding of the relationship between gender, identity, and the body, exposing how individuals negotiate their gender through physical as well as institutional and social constraints.

scholarly journals Speech Representation of Female Images in the Polycode Text of “Heroic” Cycle Cartoons of the Art Studio “Melnitsa”

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-81
Author(s):  
E. N. Ilyina ◽  
V. S. Tivo
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Story Line ◽  
Female Images ◽  
Narrative Story ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Animated Films ◽  
Speech Representation ◽  
Verbal Component ◽  
The Subject

The article is devoted to the study of the verbal component of animated films with a folk precedent basis. The relevance of the research is due to the need to study the conceptosphere of modern media texts conveying folklore imagery. The results of a comparative analysis of female images in animated films about Russian heroes are presented (Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin Zmey (2004), Dobrynya Nikitich and Zmey Gorynych (2006), Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber (2007) in comparison with their folk prototypes. The issues of speech representation of the images of the mother and the bride / wife of a hero, traditional for the epic genre, as well as other female images, the appearance of which is due to the influence of other precedent sources, are considered. The conceptual proximity of the narrative-story line basis and the composition of the characters of the texts under study to the Russian fairy tale is proved. Particular attention is paid to the implementation of the stylistic technique of burlesque travesty, it is proved that this technique is the main means of creating a comic effect and performs a text-forming function in the studied polycode content. The scientific novelty of the work is seen in the fact that the verbal component of the animated films studied was not previously the subject of linguistic analysis.

scholarly journals Digital Life Middle-Class on Instagram: Like, Share and Comment

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rama Kertamukti ◽  
Heru Nugroho ◽  
S. Bayu Wahyono
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Private Space ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors ◽  
Everyday Reality

Instagram, today as a result of technology that is acculturated with economic, social and cultural factors, brings leisure to the middle class, they do activities freely in life such as hobbies, recreation. The middle class in accessing Instagram is reduced by the Instagram algorithm to be a one-dimensional human. The middle class will be a uniform individual with the same activities like share, and comment. The middle class is a lasting individual who runs consumerism where everything becomes a commodity and is trapped in relations in the algorithm of relationships made by Instagram. For the middle-class Instagram is a lifestyle and daily activity. Instagram, which is mediated via cell phone, is a new socialization space that frees someone from the rules and disciplines of the patriarchal system. This activity results in the middle class recognizing, embracing and exploring things that cannot be expressed in everyday reality. Instagram in the middle class produces digital life practices that want to show a lifestyle. This study examines the phenomenon of middle-class practice in showing the practice of digital life: like share and comment on Instagram. Researchers will use a virtual ethnographic method. The virtual ethnographic approach will be carried out because this research is an object in cyberspace so that it can adequately understand the way the subject interacts and collaborates through observed phenomena. Instagram is a photo showroom, a kind of private space because the user gallery can be designed in such a way as the user wishes, users upload whatever happens around them, which is considered to represent user activity. The three accounts examined by @fajarmantoo, @herni_maryuliani and @ rosakusumaazhar present activities in digital life. The fact that manifests these two accounts is that consumption and production in the Instagram arena provide the formation of social reality. Instagram becomes a social reality forming tool that can give an idea of how activities in the middle class when on Instagram.

scholarly journals Kesiapan Menikah Pada Wanita Berpendidikan S2 (Studi Kasus Pada Mahasiswi S2 Psikologi)

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 208
Author(s):  
Sri Nurgroho Jati
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
High Intensity ◽  
Family Child Care ◽  
Maturity Level ◽  
Emotional Maturity ◽  
The Subject

Readiness married a ready state, ready to accept responsibility as a husband or wife, ready to intercourse, ready set and ready family child care. Women receive greater pressure to get married than men after a certain age, usually around the age of 30 years. This research is a case study which aims to describe the dynamics of readiness to marry educated women S2. The sample in this study is three (3) subjects with backgrounds are studying Psychology and S2 are female. The results of the study showed no similarity in all three subjects in readiness to marry, namely: tolerance, willing intimate relationships, affection and willing to share with others. These three themes have in common a high intensity. Background owned by each of the three subjects with the pair making the subject has an emotional maturity level is different.

scholarly journals REKONSTRUKSI PEMIKIRAN GENDER DAN ISLAM DALAM SASTRA: Analisis Kritik Sastra Feminis Terhadap Novel Zaynah Karya Nawal As-Sa’dawi

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Yulia Nasrul Latifi
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Material Object ◽  
Islamic Feminism ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Revolution

The material object of this research is a modern Egyptian novel entitled “Zaynah” written by Nawal as-Sa’dawi. The formal object is feminism literary criticism focused on reconstruction of gender and islamic thought in literature. This novel describes the opression of women by religious legitimation and the efforts of the heroines to release them selves from it and also their obsession for getting the ideality of islamic feminism on future . This research aims to describes the opression of women by patriarchal system and its ambivalency, and to describes the deconstruction  on it and gets the description of the ideality of future islamic feminism. The result of this analysis reveals : (1) the opression religiously of the heroines based on the theologic assumtion that the woman had created from the man, so she is the second creation; (2) there are so many ambivalency on that opression. The religion is the resourches of ethics and also the opression, the heroes  have opressed the heroines by love and hate in the same time, they are very obedient to God; (3) the heroines deconstruct that patriarchal system by showing that the woman stronger than man, the woman can become the subject not object; (4) the ideality of islamic feminisme on future is described as islamic sosialism. This idea have get from Zaynah figure that characterized by: developing androgyni character as tawhid value that feminity and masculinity are important, doing the revolution for changing to good human life, and loving the own culture and local wisdom (eastern).[Objek material penelitian ini adalah novel modern Mesir yang berjudul Zaynah karya Nawal as- Sa’dawi. Objek formal nya adalah kritik sastra feminis yang difokuskan pada rekonstruksi pemikiran gender dan Islam dalam sastra. Novel ini menggambarkan penindasan yang dialami para tokoh perempuan novel dengan dalih agama dan perjuangan mereka untuk membebaskan diri, juga obsesi mereka untuk mewujudkan feminisme Islam ideal masa depan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan penindasan patriarkis tersebut dan ambivalensinya, dekonstruksi dan gambaran feminisme Islam ideal masa depan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa : (1) opresi perempuan berdalih agama didasarkan pada asumsi teologis bahwa perempuan berasal dari laki-laki dan diciptakan untuk laki-laki, sehingga perempuan adalah makhluk sekunder (derivatif); (2) terdapat banyak ambivalensi dalam penindasan tersebut. Agama dipakai sebagai sumber etika juga sumber penindasan, mereka menindas perempuan dengan suka sekaligus benci, mereka senang menindas tapi sangat patuh beragama; (3) para tokoh perempuan novel mendekonstruksi patriarkis tersebut dengan menunjukkan bahwa perempuan lebih kuat dari laki-laki, perempuan dapat menjadi subjek tidak objek; (4) idealisasi feminisme Islam masa depan digambarkan dalam pandangan sosialisme Islam. Ini tersimbolkan dalam figur Zaynah yang bercirikan: mengembangkan sifat androgini sebagai nilai tawhid bahwa feminitas dan maskulinitas sama-sama penting, melakukan revolusi untuk perubahan bagi kebaikan hidup manusia (tidak hanya bagi perempuan), dan mencintai budaya dan kearifan lokal sendiri (dunia Timur)]

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