Culpable/Maternal Detectives: The Impossibility of a Caring Ecofeminist Community in Atkinson's Started Early, Took My Dog

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-185
Author(s):  
Esra Melikoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Female Child ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Crime Novel

In Kate Atkinson's ecofeminist crime novel Started Early, Took My Dog, the (semi-)retired investigators Jackson Brodie and Tracy Waterhouse at once collude with and wish to change exploitative capitalist patriarchal society. Trafficking epitomises its crime: the domination and exploitation of human and nonhuman animal others. Ecofeminism urges us to reconsider our complicity and embrace the vision of an interspecies community rooted in the motherly ethics of care. When confronted with a trafficked dog and female child, respectively, the tough Jackson and Tracy wish to transform into the maternal investigator of ecofeminist revision and create a caring (interspecies) family. But behind their maternal appearances lurks the noir perpetrator who mirrors his or her society's crimes. I argue that Atkinson uses the noir convention of the hard-boiled investigator shifting between identities – here borrowed from a sub-generic variant – to explore ordinary men and women's entrapment in contemporary society in the conflict between complicity and care. Through manipulation of point of view, we the readers are in fact implicated in this conflict as well.

scholarly journals Pornografi Dan Kekerasan Terhadap Perempuan (Kajian Kritis Pandangan Feminisme Radikal)

ULUMUNA ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-236
Author(s):  
Atun Wardatun
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Radical Feminism ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Equal Distribution ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Women’S Sexuality ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
The One

Some people presume that feminisms are permissive for pornography due to the fact that many women support pornography as an expression of women’s freedom. By critical reading and analysis of radical feminism point of view on women’s sexuality, this work proves that feminisms are ant pornography. Pornography, since it always puts women as the object, is violence against women, dehumanization, and colonialization of women by the domination of patriarchal society. There is no way for women to minimize—if not to bring to an end—  pornography but to start realizing that women are the blamed victims and keep on struggling for gaining equal distribution of power between men and women. Besides, women have to ensure that women are not the only party who have responsibilities for moral degradation of society but at the same time women must be the one as the primary controller for their own body and life.

scholarly journals Maïssa Bey : romancière de l’agentivité de femmes Entre réécriture de l’Histoire et invention de soi

Il Tolomeo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lila Lamrous
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Right

The study of Maïssa Bey’s novel Surtout ne te retourne pas allows to examine how the Francophone novel represents an earthquake as a poetic, metaphorical and political shockwave. The novel is part of a literary tradition but also shows the singularity of the writing and the engagement of the Algerian novelist Maïssa Bey. It allows to examine the feminine agentivity in the context of the disaster camps in Algeria: from the ravaged space/country emerge the voices of women who enter into resistance to improvise, invent their lives and their identities. The earthquake allows them to free themselves, to take a subversive point of view at society and their status as women in an oppressive patriarchal society. The staged female characters arrogate to themselves the right to reread history and take their destiny back.

A diagnostic pitfall in hepatic mesenchymal hamartoma mimicking hepatoblastoma: A case report

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhihong Chen ◽  
Lutong Fang ◽  
Ying Zhang ◽  
Yuanzi Ye ◽  
Wenshu Ji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Vessels ◽  
Female Child ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Mesenchymal Hamartoma ◽  
Diagnostic Pitfall ◽  
First Case ◽  
Contrast Enhanced ◽  
Enhanced Ct ◽  
Vascular Channels ◽  
The Right

Abstract Background: Hepatic mesenchymal hamartoma (HMH) is an uncommon benign tumor in children. While mesenchymal hamartomas may be angiomatous and blood vessels may be identified, HMH with a malignant tumor symptom on the contrast-enhanced hepatic computed tomography angiography (CTA) has not been described. Here, we present the first case of HMH mimicking hepatoblastoma on the hepatic CTA from pathological point of view and review the imaging and histological features of this unique lesion. Case presentation: A 2-year-old female child was found a distention in the right abdomen and was admitted to our hospital. The Hepatic CTA showed that the blood vessels were thickened, the tumor blood vessels were clustered in the tumor. According to the hepatic CT findings, the tumor was considered to be malignant, possibly a hepatoblastoma. Microscopic examination showed a tumor arranged in lobules, composed of loose myxoid mesenchyme surrounding ductal structures, with intervening vascular channels. The Immunohistochemical staining revealed positive CK7 and CD34 for the bile duct elements and the lining endothelial cells of the vascular channels. There were abundant blood vessels around the nodules and the margins of remaining hepatocytes, but few in the central region. The blood vessels are small, thin-walled vessels and presented like capillaries and venules. Conclusions: A histological diagnosis of Hepatic Mesenchymal Hamartoma was confirmed by the microscopic examinations. This case adds learning points to radiologists when heterogeneous reinforcement on enhanced CT scan was presented in such a large childhood liver tumor.

scholarly journals The presence of women in Leïla Slimani’s work

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-189
Author(s):  
Irati Fernández Erquicia
Keyword(s):  
Family Violence ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Sex Addiction ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Women's Identity

This article aims to study the presence of women in Leïla Slimani’s work, and to analyze the subjects that are related to women’s identity in her work. In her two first novels and in her latest testimony book, Leïla Slimani seems to be very interested in the image of women and in the role that they play in our society. The sex addiction of Adèle in Dans le jardin de l’ogre (2014), the image of the mother and the babysitter in Chanson douce (2016), and the testimony of women in Sexe et mensonges: la vie sexuelle au Maroc (2017c), show the point of view of Slimani about contemporary women in her work. This will study different subjects such as sexuality, maternity, family, violence, power and religion, emphasising the importance of the construction of women’s identity in the contemporary society.

(Im)Possible Tolerance. A Paradox from within Multicultural Societies

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Francesco Trupia ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Minority Rights ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Top Down ◽  
National Minorities

This paper deals with the principle of tolerance in our contemporary society in the attempt to highlight limits and paradoxes in the various aspects of minority issues. From this point of view, the first part of the paper discusses Kymlicka’s contribution to multiculturalism with regard to national minorities and immigrant communities, while the second part confronts his Theory of Minority Rights with Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony and circle of humanity. Therefore, this paper aims at shifting the discourse over tolerance-related minority issues from a top-down approach toward an analysis of how tolerance is allowed to be performed. Thus, Gramsci’s philosophy of praxis is employed to disentangle moral and cultural set of values and norms within which both principle of tolerance and performativity of toleration are established and, in parallel, to reflect on reasons why others are not allowed to be performed.

scholarly journals Charlotte Brontë and Jane Eyre: the beginning of an emancipatory process between literary girls and real girls

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-17
Author(s):  
Marianna Alfonsi
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Charlotte Bronte ◽  
Female Child ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
The One

Giving a right place to literature for children in the context of general literature means to recognizing its roots and influences in a wider landscape. Charlotte Brontë work inserted in this context has a double meaning both because it links adult and child female characters (The italian society of literates has defined them «personagge»), and because it brings us back to the roots of a literature written by women with female protagonists able to undermine the socially approved traditional rules. Recovering Jane Eyre is the first step to be taken to trace a new way of writing about women and telling about “the becoming” of women, delineating a parallel path to bildungsroman, in which the feminine youth has not found full consideration. To define an itinerary for women and girls it is then necessary to analyze the studies of feminist literary criticism that has investigated the relationship between women and literature since 70s, both from the writer’s and reader’s point of view. The objective thus becomes the one to recover the history of that link that unites the presence of women and girls in literature and their search for an autonomous space of imagination, thought and action. Inserting Jane Eyre in the children’s literature allows us to trace the birth of the authentic female child, and the beginning of an emancipatory process that poses important questions about the role of reading and literature in social and educational contexts.

scholarly journals Bartolomé Leal: the white negritude of alterity

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
African Country ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Crime Novel ◽  
Form Part

This article is a study of Blanca de negro (2015), a novel by the Chilean writer Bartolomé Leal. Leal’s text plays with the tensions between the crime novel and the ethnological novel, pointing us toward an encounter with the contemporary social characteristics of the capital city of Nairobi alongside, more indirectly, those of the other regions of Kenya. Leal’s work is inscribed within a tradition that questions the relationships between cultures from a dynamic and polemic point of view, confronting different ethnicities and nationalities that form part of the African country.

scholarly journals Confirmed child patient with covid-19 infection, opperated for associated surgical pathology – first pediatric case in Romania

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 2107-2110
Author(s):  
DANIEL-OVIDIU COSTEA ◽  
◽  
FLORIN-DANIEL ENACHE ◽  
RADU BAZ ◽  
ADRIAN PAUL SUCEVEANU ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Picture ◽  
Viral Infections ◽  
Female Child ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Surgical Pathology ◽  
Pediatric Case ◽  
X Ray ◽  
First Case ◽  
Child Patient ◽  
Coronavirus Infection

Background: The year 2020 will remain in history as a challenge for the humanity due to the pandemic situation caused by the Coronavirus – COVID-19 disease. The virus spread rapidly throughout the world, affecting people of all ages including children. Objectives: The purpose of the research was to present the first case in Romania of a child infected with COVID-19, operated for associated surgical pathology. Materials and Methods: The case presented in this paper is a 6 years and 9 months old female child with COVID-19 infection admitted in the Clinic of Pediatric Surgery of Constanta Emergency County Hospital and operated for a peritonitis with appendicular abscess. In the last 7 days she presented transient abdominal pain with episodes of fever that referred to antipyretics. Results: From a surgical point of view, the case is ordinary, without possible redoubtable complications but the clinical picture was atypical due to coronavirus infection. The viral infection did not have a symptomatic history, as in most adult cases, but the lung x-ray showed infectious changes, which is why she was tested for potential COVID-19 infection, with a positive result. Conclusion: The case showed the clinical picture of atypical coronavirus infection in children. Viral infections in children have more abdominal tropism, with mesenteric lymphadenitis, which in some cases can lead to appendicular inflammation with secondary appendicitis. Undiagnosed in time, it can be complicated by peritonitis and any other type of appendicular infectious pathology.

scholarly journals The Voice of Silent Toxic Mothers in Morrison’s A Mercy and Albeshr’s Hend and the Soldiers

2022 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-17
Author(s):  
Najlaa R. Aldeeb
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Surrogate Mothers ◽  
Black Mother ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Mother Daughter Relationship ◽  
Maternal Voice ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Voice

This paper analytically compares Morrison’s A Mercy (2008) to Albeshr’s Hend and the Soldiers (2006) to explore the maternal position in Western and Middle Eastern literatures and give the silent mothers voice. These novels depict rudimentary social systems predicated on deep inequalities of class and gender; they highlight the commonality of mothers’ experiences regardless of their class, race, or nationality. In A Mercy, the black mother discards her daughter to protect her from a malevolent master, while in Hend and the Soldiers, the uneducated Arab mother arranges her daughter’s marriage to free her from the domination of the patriarchal society. The daughters consider their mothers as toxic parents and relate all evil in their lives to them. These novels are narrated mainly from a daughter point of view, and they share the themes of the disintegrated mother-daughter relationship and search for identity. This type of narration foregrounds the daughterly perspectives and subordinates the maternal voice (Hirsch, 1989, p. 163). Applying the elements presented in Marianne Hirsch’s Mother/Daughter Plot facilitates the deconstruction of the idea of silent toxic mothers and gives mothers the opportunity to speak for themselves. According to Hirsch, when daughters become mature enough to accept their problems and failures, they become not only real women but also part of their mothers’ stories by listening carefully. Thus, I argue that mothers’ voices are heard when their subjectivity is explored through their stories narrated in their daughters’ memories, in the mothers’ self-vindication, and by surrogate mothers.

scholarly journals Extracontextuality and extravalence in quantum mechanics

2018 ◽  
Vol 376 (2123) ◽  
pp. 20170311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexia Auffèves ◽  
Philippe Grangier
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Quantum System ◽  
Foundations Of Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Continuum

We develop the point of view where quantum mechanics results from the interplay between the quantized number of ‘modalities’ accessible to a quantum system, and the continuum of ‘contexts’ that are required to define these modalities. We point out the specific roles of ‘extracontextuality’ and ‘extravalence’ of modalities, and relate them to the Kochen–Specker and Gleason theorems. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Foundations of quantum mechanics and their impact on contemporary society’.

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