scholarly journals The story of what might have been: Interrogating Romeo and Juliet under the Portuguese dictatorship

Sederi ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 73-92
Author(s):  
Francesca Rayner
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Theatre ◽  
Romeo And Juliet ◽  
Popular Theatre ◽  
Love Story ◽  
The One

In 1969, Teatro Estúdio de Lisboa performed Anatomy of a Love Story, an interrogation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet for a generation politicized by their struggles against the dictatorship. This article delineates a narrative of what might have been if this incipient attempt to stage a more inclusive political theatre had prevailed, illustrating how attributions of success and failure to performances during this period need to be contextualized within the limitations imposed by censorship on the one hand, and, on the other, an evocation of a class-based popular theatre that excluded questions of gender and sexuality.

scholarly journals Female Subversion through Sex Work: Transgressive Discourses

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-137
Author(s):  
Marta Olasik
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sex Industry ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
Lesbian Studies ◽  
The One

The main objective of this article is to provide a multi-faceted and spatially-sensitive reflection on sex work. Taking as a point of departure subversive feminist politics on the one hand and the much contingent notion of citizenship on the other, I intend to present various forms of prostitution as potentially positive and empowering modes of sexual and emotional auto-creation. Informed by the leading research of the subject, as well as inspired and educated by Australia-based Dr Elizabeth Smith from La Trobe University in Melbourne, who had researched and presented female sex workers as self-caring and subversive subjects who make own choices and derive satisfaction from their occupation, I wish to seek academic justice for all those women (and men or trans people, for that matter) in the sex industry who feel stigmatized by political pressure and ultra-feminist circles across Europe. Translating Dr Smith’s significant research into European (and Polish) social realities would be a valuable contribution to the local discussions on gender and sexuality, and axes they intersect with. More importantly, however, a framework of a conceptual interdisciplinary approach needs to be adopted—one in which a specific queer form of lesbian feminist reflection is combined with human geography, both of which have much to offer to various strands of sociological theory and practice. Therefore, as a queer lesbian scholar based in Poland, I would like to diverge a bit from my usual topic in order to pay an academic and activist tribute to the much neglected strand of sociology of sex work. However, my multi-faceted and interdisciplinary academic activity allows me to combine the matter in question with the field of lesbian studies. Both a female sex worker and a lesbian have been culturally positioned through the lens of what so-called femininity is, without a possibility to establish control over their own subjectivities. Hence, on the one hand the article is going to be an academic re-interpretation of sex work as such, but on the other, methodological possibilities of acknowledging and researching lesbian sex workers will be additionally considered with special attention to feminist epistemologies and praxis. While a sensitivity to a given locality is of utmost importance when dealing with gender and sexuality issues, I would like to suggest a somewhat overall approach to investigating both female empowerment through sex work and lesbian studies inclusive of sex workers. Importantly, the more common understandings of the sex industry need to be de-constructed in order for a diversity of transgressive discourses to emerge.

Marginality in the Mainstream, Lesbian Love in the Third Person

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Van Buskirk
Keyword(s):  
French Literature ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Philosophical Texts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One ◽  
The Third Person

This chapter undertakes a treatment of the rhetoric of personal pronouns in Ginzburg's writings on love and sexuality, drawing on Michael Lucey's study of the first person in twentieth-century French literature about love. It brings together questions of genre and narrative, on the one hand, and gender and sexuality, on the other. The chapter is divided into two sections, treating writings from two different periods on two kinds of love Ginzburg thought typical of intellectuals: in “First Love,” it discusses the unrequited and tragic love depicted in Ginzburg's teenage diaries (1920–23); in “Second Love,” it analyzes the love that is realized but in the end equally tragic, depicted in drafts related to Home and the World (1930s). The chapter examines the models the author sought in literary, psychological, and philosophical texts (Weininger, Kraft-Ebbing, Blok, Shklovsky, Oleinikov, Hemingway, and Proust).

Irony and the Liminality of Resistance

2021 ◽  
pp. 77-96
Author(s):  
James Brassett
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

This chapter deals with the rise of irony and questions an essential ambiguity that emerges in comedy of this period. On the one hand, new satires advance a set of post- structural concerns with the mediatization of politics and the loss of a coherent subject. On the other hand, the apparent return of reactionary subjects of race, gender and sexuality suggests that irony plays an important role in the accommodation (recuperation?) of significant political dilemmas. This dilemma yields an important perspective on the emerging social democratic consensus over globalization.

Toward a Maoist Dream of the Red Chamber: Or, How Baoyu and Daiyu Became Rebels Against Feudalism

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-202
Author(s):  
Johannes Kaminski
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
The Other ◽  
Arranged Marriage ◽  
Love Story ◽  
The Qing Dynasty ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Chinese Literary Criticism

Mao Zedong’s views on literature were enigmatic: although he coerced writers into “learning the language of the masses,” he made no secret of his own enthusiasm forDream of the Red Chamber, a novel written during the Qing dynasty. In 1954 this paradox appeared to be resolved when Li Xifan and Lan Ling presented an interpretation that saw the tragic love story as a manifestation of class struggle. Ever since, the conception of Baoyu and Daiyu as class warriors has become a powerful and unquestioned cliché of Chinese literary criticism. Endowing aristocratic protagonists with revolutionary grandeur, however, violates a basic principle of Marxist orthodoxy. This article examines the reasons behind this position: on the one hand, Mao’s support for Li and Lan’s approach acts as a reminder of his early journalistic agitation against arranged marriage and the social ills it engenders. On the other hand, it offers evidence of Mao’s increasingly ambiguous conception of class.

Contributions from Sociology

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Trzebiatowska
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The One

Sociologists are concerned with the way human behaviour is patterned. They look for plausible explanations of phenomena that strike them as important due to their objective prevalence in social life. This chapter outlines the social scientific tools for studying religion, gender, and sexuality. Drawing on a range of examples from sociology of religion it explores the significance of individuals’ dispositions on the one hand and opportunities they encounter in their everyday lives on the other. The overall argument emphasizes the need for more collaboration between social scientists and theologians, or religious studies scholars. It suggests that secular sociologists would do well to consider the possibility of change in gender relations within religious contexts, and religious scholars could learn from the sociological method of inquiry to understand better the structurally determined mechanisms which make the symbolic gender order so resistant to change.

Recusatioas Political Theatre: Horace's Letter to Augustus

2014 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 105-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirk Freudenburg
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Political Art ◽  
Political Theatre ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Augustan Age ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

AbstractAmong the most potent devices that Roman emperors had at their disposal to disavow autocratic aims and to put on display the consensus of ruler and ruled was the artful refusal of exceptional powers, orrecusatio imperii. The practice had a long history in Rome prior to the reign of Augustus, but it was Augustus especially who, over the course of several decades, perfected therecusatioas a means of performing his hesitancy towards power. The poets of the Augustan period were similarly well practised in the art of refusal, writing dozens of poeticrecusationesthat purported to refuse offers urged upon them by their patrons, or by the greater expectations of the Augustan age, to take on projects. It is the purpose of this paper to put the one type of refusal alongside the other, in order to show to what extent the refusals of the Augustan poets are informed not just by aesthetic principles that derive, most obviously, from Callimachus, but by the many, high-profile acts of denial that were performed as political art by the emperor himself.

scholarly journals The Observer as a Plot Position in the Poetry and Prose by N. D. Khvoshchinskaya

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-32
Author(s):  
Anastasia A. Ponomareva
Keyword(s):  
Memory Loss ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Alienation ◽  
Love Story ◽  
Social Component ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
Poetic Creation

The article presents investigation the phenomenon, characteristic for poetry and prose by N. D. Khvoshchinskaya. It is actualization of the observer figure in the plot. The author determines poems by N. D. Khvoshchinskaya have stories micro-plots. The center is a lyrical heroine watching else’s life. The poetic creation of this plot position is eclectic. The motif theme is developed with the help of romantic and naturalistic clichés. On the one hand, the author reproduces the romantic situation of social alienation, elegiac motives of memory, loss, etc. On the other hand, the author actualizes the theme of the influence of the environment on the person, the idea of useful work, etc. The article shows the plot position, formed in poetry, organically entered into prose in the heyday of the “fiction talent” by writer. In prose works the lyrical component is absorbed by the plot. The observer is not only not removed from the events, but also actively involved in them. The article gives a thorough description of the story “Behind the wall” (1862). This story is exceptionally representative. The narrator watching the love story of his neighbors is brought to the fore. Fable observation is presented through a situation of listening, not peeping. The actualization of the poetic principle in the prose plot leads to the weakening of “fabulousness”. The constructive beginning, forming a prose plot, is the reflection of the narrator. Else’s love story is the background of his experiences. The shift of the plot emphasis from the lovers to the narrator leads to the fact that the social component of the plot, associated with the issue of female emancipation, is “extinguished”, there is a psychologization of the narrative. In conclusion that the figure of the observer in poetry and prose by N. D. Khvoshchinskaya has an important plot value, organizing the semantic core of the plot. In the poetic and prose versions of the plot position is repeated the same motif theme. In the process of observation before the lyrical heroine and the hero-narrator open the opportunity to live else’s life. The ways of its development differ in the poetry and prose by N. D. Khvoshchinskaya.

Owning and Disowning the Female Body: Mediating Gender and the Conservative Values Clash in Kazakhstan

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-89
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Soviet Legacy ◽  
The One ◽  
Conservative Values ◽  
Power Orders

This article analyzes contemporary gender representation and perception in Kazakhstan’s public sphere and the sexualization of social media required by the market economy. Through the example of a female social media influencer, Aizhan Baizakova, and her ambivalent public success, it analyzes gender and sexuality as the product of contradictory power orders: the traditional patriarchal system and retraditionalization in the name of nationhood, on the one hand, and the Soviet legacy of putting women into the labor market and the post-Soviet capitalist logic, on the other. It explores how women find themselves caught between two forms of illiberalism: a market-driven one pushing for evermore provocative online content and a conservative backlash in terms of gender roles.

Note on Selection of Coordinate Systems for Geodynamics

1975 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 395-407
Author(s):  
S. Henriksen
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
Mean Sea Level ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The One ◽  
Static Systems ◽  
Selection Of

The first question to be answered, in seeking coordinate systems for geodynamics, is: what is geodynamics? The answer is, of course, that geodynamics is that part of geophysics which is concerned with movements of the Earth, as opposed to geostatics which is the physics of the stationary Earth. But as far as we know, there is no stationary Earth – epur sic monere. So geodynamics is actually coextensive with geophysics, and coordinate systems suitable for the one should be suitable for the other. At the present time, there are not many coordinate systems, if any, that can be identified with a static Earth. Certainly the only coordinate of aeronomic (atmospheric) interest is the height, and this is usually either as geodynamic height or as pressure. In oceanology, the most important coordinate is depth, and this, like heights in the atmosphere, is expressed as metric depth from mean sea level, as geodynamic depth, or as pressure. Only for the earth do we find “static” systems in use, ana even here there is real question as to whether the systems are dynamic or static. So it would seem that our answer to the question, of what kind, of coordinate systems are we seeking, must be that we are looking for the same systems as are used in geophysics, and these systems are dynamic in nature already – that is, their definition involvestime.

Stories and the Self

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Krause ◽  
Markus Appel
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lower Degree ◽  
Contrast Effects ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

Abstract. Two experiments examined the influence of stories on recipients’ self-perceptions. Extending prior theory and research, our focus was on assimilation effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in line with a protagonist’s traits) as well as on contrast effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in contrast to a protagonist’s traits). In Experiment 1 ( N = 113), implicit and explicit conscientiousness were assessed after participants read a story about either a diligent or a negligent student. Moderation analyses showed that highly transported participants and participants with lower counterarguing scores assimilate the depicted traits of a story protagonist, as indicated by explicit, self-reported conscientiousness ratings. Participants, who were more critical toward a story (i.e., higher counterarguing) and with a lower degree of transportation, showed contrast effects. In Experiment 2 ( N = 103), we manipulated transportation and counterarguing, but we could not identify an effect on participants’ self-ascribed level of conscientiousness. A mini meta-analysis across both experiments revealed significant positive overall associations between transportation and counterarguing on the one hand and story-consistent self-reported conscientiousness on the other hand.

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