Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic Fiction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Coulson
Keyword(s):  
New Wave ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Literary Quality

Despite the exceptional literary quality, remarkable conceptual sophistication and compelling socio-historical interest of Elizabeth Bowen’s writing, her fiction has received relatively little critical attention in comparison to the work of such acknowledged giants of the modern canon as, for example, Woolf and Joyce. The past decade has seen a lively burgeoning of interest in Bowen’s work, recent scholarship focusing with a new intensity on the question of the relationship between Bowen’s writing and the socio-political matrix from which it emerges. Situating itself within this new wave of scholarship and engaging closely with its socio-historical and literary-critical concerns, this book sets out to offer a provocative and substantial new account of Bowen’s fiction that highlights in particular the force and originality of Bowen’s virtually psychoanalytic thinking about development, sexuality and gender.

scholarly journals Hedendaagse wetenskaplike voorligting oor die verhouding tussen die manlike en vroulike geslag – ’n besinning oor die sosiobiologiese grondslae

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. Van der Walt
Keyword(s):  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Previous Article ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
Sexual Morality ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

Contemporary scientific guidance on the relationship between male and femal A previous article discussed the ethical guidance given by contemporary popular books and articles on the relationship between men and women. The authority for Christians of such books (based on an evolutionist biology and worldview) was questioned. No answer was, however, provided on the important and difficult question whether and, if so, to what extent human biology influences or even determines one’s ethical behaviour. Since many current books on sexual morality are based on empirical socio-biological research, this article takes a critical look at this scientific discipline. A Christian- philosophical alternative on the issue of human sexuality and gender will conclude this, as well as the previous article.

Rising public piety and the status of women in Indonesia two decades after reformasi

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
Dina Afrianty
Keyword(s):  
The Public ◽  
Gender Policy ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The Past ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Status Of Women

AbstractIndonesian women were at the forefront of activism during the turbulent period prior to reformasi and were a part of the leadership that demanded democratic change. Two decades after Indonesia embarked on democratic reforms, the country continues to face challenges on socio-religious and political fronts. Both the rise of political Islam and the increased presence of religion and faith in the public sphere are among the key features of Indonesia's consolidating democracy. This development has reinvigorated the discourse on citizenship and rights and also the historical debate over the relationship between religion and the state. Bearing this in mind, this paper looks at the narrative of women's rights and women's status in the public domain and public policy in Indonesia. It is evident, especially in the past decade, that much of the public conversation within the religious framework is increasingly centred on women's traditional social roles. This fact has motivated this study. Several norms and ideas that are relied on are based on cultural and faith-based interpretations - of gender. Therefore, this paper specifically examines examples of the ways in which social, legal, and political trends in this context affect progress with respect to gender equality and gender policy. I argue that these trends are attempts to subject women to conservative religious doctrines and to confine them to traditional gender roles. The article discusses how these developments should be seen in the context of the democratic transition in Indonesia.

scholarly journals Republican Relicts: Gender, Memory, and Mourning in Irish Nationalist Culture, ca. 1798–1848

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 608-637
Author(s):  
Catriona Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Irish Studies ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Memory ◽  
Female Figures ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractIn the past two decades, remembrance has emerged as one of the dominant preoccupations in Irish historical scholarship. There has, however, been little sustained analysis of the relationship between gender and memory in Irish studies, and gender remains under-theorized in memory studies more broadly. Yet one of the striking aspects of nineteenth-century commemorations of the 1798 and 1803 rebellions is the relatively prominent role accorded to women and, in particular, Sarah Curran, Pamela Fitzgerald, and Matilda Tone, the widows of three of the most celebrated United Irish “martyrs.” By analyzing the mnemonic functions these female figures performed in nineteenth-century Irish nationalist discourse, this article offers a case study of the circumstances in which women may be incorporated into, rather than excluded, from national memory cultures. This incorporation, it is argued, had much to do with the fraught political context in which the 1798 rebellion and its leaders were memorialized. As the remembrance of the rebellion in the first half of the nineteenth century assumed a covert character, conventionally gendered distinctions between private grief and public remembrance, intimate histories and heroic reputations, and family genealogy and public biography became blurred so as to foreground women and the female mourner.

scholarly journals KØBENHAVN

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunvor Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Queer Space ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Queer Spaces ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Home Territory

In this article I present findings of a phenomenological study of the relationship between urban space, sexuality and gender. I have investigated conditions of urban spaces in which social gatherings established among equal and perceptived adults expressing their sexual lusts and pleasures are allowed and encouraged. I have characterised these urban spaces as queer spaces. In the first part, I present circumstances that have imperative significance to the existence of queer spaces, and I argue that queer spaces exist in the metropolis and because of the metropolis. Hereafter, I expound the yearnings that are related to queer spaces and point out that for some individuals queer space equals an emancipated and at the same time an oppositional space to other urban spaces. For other individuals queer space is taken as a parallel space to other urban spaces. These different connotations to queer spaces are related to a dichotomy of either keeping a queer sexuality a secret or being open about it. Finally, I suggest that queer space serves as home territory recognised by being something in between the wide, open urban space, and the intimate, private space, and this unique trait of queer space contributes to a redefinition of the positions of men and women in their sexual performances in public.  

scholarly journals Beyond Tribadism: Alternate Discourses on Female  Homoeroticism in Greek and Latin Literature

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jennifer Helen Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Active Role ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Female Homoeroticism ◽  
Alternate Discourses ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Similar Dynamic ◽  
Previous Scholarship

<p>Scholarly accounts of sexuality in the ancient world have placed much emphasis on the normative dichotomy of activity and passivity. In the case of female homoeroticism, scholars have focussed largely on the figure of the so-called tribas, a masculinised, aggressively penetrative female who takes the active role in sexual relations with women. My thesis seeks to set out a wider conceptualisation of female homoeroticism that encompasses erotic sensuality between conventionally feminine women. The first chapter surveys previous scholarship on ancient sexuality and gender and on female homoeroticism in particular, examining the difficulties in terminology and methodology inherent in such a project. The second chapter turns to the Callisto episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, beginning with the kiss between the huntress Callisto and Jupiter, who is disguised as Callisto’s patron goddess Diana. The Callisto episode contains hints of previous intimacy between Callisto and Diana, and the kiss scene can be read as an erotic interaction between the two, both of whom are portrayed as conventionally feminine rather than tribadic. The third chapter examines several Greek intertexts for the Callisto episode: Callimachus’ hymns to Athena and Artemis, and the story of Leucippus as narrated by Parthenius and Pausanias. These narratives exhibit a similar dynamic to the Callisto episode, in that they eroticise the relationships both between Diana and her companions and amongst those companions. An educated reader of Ovid’s Metamorphoses would plausibly have had these Greek texts in mind, and would thus have been more likely to read the relationship between Diana and Callisto as homoerotic. Finally, the fourth chapter approaches Statius’ Achilleid from the perspective of female homoeroticism, a move without precedent in past scholarship. The relationship between Deidameia and the cross-dressed Achilles engages intertextually with the Callisto episode, presenting another exclusively female-homosocial environment in which homoerotic desires can flourish.</p>

scholarly journals “A horrific photo of a drowned Syrian child”: Humanitarian photography and NGO media strategies in historical perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 97 (900) ◽  
pp. 1121-1155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heide Fehrenbach ◽  
Davide Rodogno
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Humanitarian Organizations ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Fundraising Strategies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Iconic Status ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Visual Technologies ◽  
Historical Examination

AbstractThis article is a historical examination of the use of photography in the informational and fundraising strategies of humanitarian organizations. Drawing on archival research and recent scholarship, it shows that the figure of the dead or suffering child has been a centrepiece of humanitarian campaigns for over a century and suggests that in earlier eras too, such photos, under certain conditions, could “go viral” and achieve iconic status. Opening with last year's photo campaign involving the case of 3-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi, whose body washed up on a Turkish beach near Bodrum in early September 2015, the article draws on select historical examples to explore continuities and ruptures in the narrative framing and emotional address of photos depicting dead or suffering children, and in the ethically and politically charged decisions by NGO actors and the media to publish and distribute such images. We propose that today, as in the past, the relationship between media and humanitarian NGOs remains symbiotic despite contemporary claims about the revolutionary role of new visual technologies and social media.

Can Adam and Eve Reconcile?: Gender and Sexuality in a New Jewish Religious Movement

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 53-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaakov Ariel
Keyword(s):  
Women's Movement ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Revolution ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Adam And Eve ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

In the late 1960s a new Jewish religious movement challenged the current conventional assumptions on the relationship between Judaism and the sexual revolution, as well as the women's movement. The neo-hasids were members of the counterculture who became observant Jews and sought inspiration in Hasidic forms of Jewish spirituality. While to many the hippie culture seemed far removed from an observant form of Judaism, to the neo-hasids such a hybrid seemed possible and even desirable. Calling their center the House of Love and Prayer, the group negotiated between Jewish tradition and hippie culture in an attempt to create a new Jewish environment. A major challenge for the group was accommodating hippie modes of sexuality with Jewish laws governing personal and matrimonial behavior. The group interpreted Jewish laws dictating gender roles and sexual behavior in light of the new expectations of female members, as well as the new norms in sexual conduct promoted by the counterculture and the emerging women's movement. Likewise, the neo-hasids gave new meanings and forms to Jewish rites, reinterpreting them in light of their new understanding of the relationship between the sexes. The compromise the group cut in the realm of sexuality and gender has become the de facto attitude of turnof-the-twenty-first-century traditionalist Jews and has permitted thousands of young women and men to become "returnees to tradition" and join the ranks of observant Jewish communities.

scholarly journals ‘Now—for a breath I tarry’: Breath, Desire, and Queer Materialism at the fin de siècle

2021 ◽  
pp. 345-365
Author(s):  
Fraser Riddell
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Individual Subject ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Embodied Subjectivity ◽  
Magnus Hirschfeld ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractRiddell explores how tropes of breath and breathlessness articulate the relationship between materiality, desire, and loss for queer subjects in Victorian literature. The essay presents readings of A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad, John Addington Symonds’s Memoirs, and Walter Pater’s ‘Sebastian van Storck’ (from Imaginary Portraits). It also examines nineteenth-century sexology (including writings by Magnus Hirschfeld) to demonstrate how certain modes of breathing were directly associated with non-normative sexuality in the period. Riddell draws upon insights from contemporary queer theory, in its turns toward negative affect and phenomenology, to examine precarious forms of embodied subjectivity in the history of homosexuality. By doing so, he demonstrates how experiences of embodiment are never universal but closely bound up with individual subject positions (such as sexuality and gender).

I Enjoy Being A Boy

Public ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (62) ◽  
pp. 180-181
Author(s):  
Thirza Cuthand
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender

I’ve been taking photos of myself alone in sexy situations for the past couple of years. Not having an ongoing lover has made me want to connect with my sexuality and gender in visible ways for my own personal pleasure. This non-binary Butch boy dick pic reminds me that I can live in my body and through my fantasies in any way I want. My Pie Daddy tattoo also reminds me that I can claim my body and change it in ways that represent my soul more accurately, in this case as a nurturing and sexy human being. I sometimes think my art practice would have involved more sex if I’d been having more sex in my life. So this solo image of myself in a gendered and erotic pose helps me feel more connected to embodying my desires

scholarly journals Hedendaagse populêre voorligting oor die verhouding tussen die manlike en vroulike geslag: besinning oor ’n evolusionistiese etiek

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. Van der Walt
Keyword(s):  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Popular Book ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Philosophical Background ◽  
Normal Man ◽  
Theoretical Question ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

Contemporary popular guidance on the relationship between male and female: reflections on an evolutionistic ethics This investigation is undertaken for the following reasons: The theoretical question about the nature and meaning of human sexuality is firstly important, because sexuality is an essential element of being human. Secondly, it is also a practical problem. How does a “normal” man or woman differ from each other? How can one know that you are behaving properly as man/woman? A third reason for this exploration is the fact that much of the scientific research done on this issue is nowadays popularised in all kinds of articles and books providing practical guidance for conduct as man/woman. Many of these publications are, however, inspired by Darwinism. The problem of sexuality is accordingly tackled in the following steps: As an introduction, a distinction is made between sex, sexuality and gender. Then the message of a popular book about this issue is discussed. This is followed by identifying the worldviewish and philosophical background of such kinds of books. The article is closed by a few preliminary conclusions. (In a follow-up article the socio-biological background of the evolutionistic view on sexuality will be investigated, which will conclude with a Christian philosophical alternative.)

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