scholarly journals Storia di un paradosso. Il mito di Giorgio Luti in Età Moderna

2020 ◽  
pp. 267-281
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Manenti
Keyword(s):  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
A Company

The essay resumes, with new historical sources, the research concerning the biography of the Sienese Jesuat Giorgio Luti, the prophecy of 1491 attributed to him and the exegetical evolution of this text in the Modern Age, published in Giorgio Luti da Siena a Lucca. Il viaggio di un mito fra Umanesimo e Controriforma, Siena, Accademia degli Intronati (Monografie di storia e letteratura senese, XV) 2008. The essay is divided into two parts. The first is a study of historical sources on Giorgio Luti in the Venetian area. The second part is dedicated to the study of historians from Lucca who lived between the XVI and XVIII centuries: Gherardo Sergiusti, Giovanni Cividale, Giuseppe Bonafede and Giovanni Domenico Mansi. They paid attention to the content of the Sienese prophecy for the description about wars and devastation of the Towers of Lucca, the conversion of Islamic peoples to Christianity, thanks to a company of Lucca men and women, attributing a meaning of political pacification and religious palingenesis. Overall, however, the evolution of the myth about Giorgio Luti, paradoxically, reflects in particulary the identity crisis of the Jesuats between the XV and XVI centuries.

Hidden Fissures and Epidemics in Plain Sight: The Common Paths of Syphilis and HIV in Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-142
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Women Living With Hiv ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Closed Door ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors

The paper examines and compares two epidemics in Russia: syphilis in the first quarter of 20th century and HIV in the early 21st century. The author considers both epidemics from the standpoint of the social sciences by applying the concept of vulnerability to underline the social and cultural factors that cause one social group to be more susceptible to a disease than another. The article focuses on gender-based vulnerability and maintains that both epidemics follow a single, structurally similar scenario. The author shows that the vulnerability of women during both the syphilis and HIV epidemics depends upon the clear continuity in the way gender roles and expectations and the relationships between men and women were structured during the early days of the USSR and in present-day Russia. The article analyzes how stigma arises and how in both eras inequality of power and expectations for men and women formed the main channel for transmission of disease. The paths along which modern epidemics spread have been mostly inherited from the epidemics of past centuries, and in particular the HIV epidemic is following a pattern derived from the syphilis epidemic. More precisely, the current epidemics exploit the same vulnerability of certain groups, vulnerability rooted in the past and still manifest in the norms and relations in contemporary culture and society where one group is much more exposed than the other. The article relies on historical sources, in particular Lev Friedland"s book Behind a Closed Door: Observations of a Venereologist published in 1927, for its account of the syphilis epidemic in the early 20th century and on the author"s own research into the experience of women living with HIV in contemporary Russia.

scholarly journals La morte e i suoi riti in Italia tra Medioevo e prima Età moderna

2008 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Road ◽  
Modern Age

Consciously repressed by the current dominating culture, in Italy and Europe in the late mediaeval and early modern age death was addressed with greater confidence and awareness, and sometimes even with serenity. The modes of dying and of conceiving death – and the varied and rich religious and civil rituals that accompanied it – reflected the values and the choices of rich and poor, of kings and peasants, merchants and soldiers, nobles and churchmen, men and women. Several decades after the major studies that opened the road to these strands of research in Italy too (Ariès, Tenenti), this book offers a series of penetrating and suggestive explorations of a fascinating and complex theme which no reader can consider extraneous.

Self-Awareness

2018 ◽  
pp. 860-871 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Ethical Conduct ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
A Company

The purpose of this chapter is to provide managers and employees with ways to internalize ethical behavior in a company. One of the ways to strengthen the effectiveness of management is to give managers the necessary tools that will enable employees of the post-modern age to internalize moral principles and ideas and to understand what is acceptable and what is prohibited. This theory relies on Wolf's (2008, 2013a) claim that man can be trained to be self-aware as the first step toward actual ethical conduct. Her approach is based on the principles of the humanist approach, which maintains that people are endowed with an “ethical sense” and wisdom as well as with the ability to correct their behavior and to choose their own course of action. This chapter utilizes the foundations and principles of this approach to explain what motivates a person to behave morally.

“Gendered Narratives,” History, and Identity: Two Centuries Along the Juba River among the Zigula and Shanbara

1995 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 93-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Declich
Keyword(s):  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
Female Voices ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Historical Discourses ◽  
Gender Specific

The argument that a process of “making tribes” has invested Africa from early colonial times has been used to explain the emergence of some ethnicities which appear not to have existed before colonialism. This emergence was often accompanied by the creation of written records of male historical discourse, thus not only giving them undue prominence but also suppressing female historical discourses which were not considered pertinent to “history.”Yet whenever history is recounted orally by either men or women, it contains messages directed to a “gendered” audience (i.e., an audience composed of people of both genders) whose participants perceive messages differently and reproduce separate but interacting discourses. Such diverse perceptions result from certain aspects in oral genres as well as small, coded markers which can evoke immensely potent but gender-specific experiences. Such instances may become public symbols and, along with more obviously historical narratives, greatly influence how people relate to their past. Thus men and women in the same audience, hearing the same story, can make connections between elements of a narrative which are obscure to outside researchers.Recently, it has become quite common for historians of Africa to deconstruct written historical sources on the basis of the agendas of both the original writer and his informants. These agendas are rarely explicit and thus hiddenly selective. Such deconstruction is a legitimate scholarly procedure; however, as female voices have rarely been recorded—the resulting analysis reinforces the omission of women's roles in the process of remaking history and creating identity.

scholarly journals Gender and the MBA: Differences in Career Trajectories, Institutional Support, and Outcomes

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 310-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Patterson ◽  
Sarah Damaske ◽  
Christen Sheroff
Keyword(s):  
Building Blocks ◽  
Career Pathways ◽  
Work History ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Career Trajectories ◽  
Elite University ◽  
Promotion Process ◽  
Stable Employment ◽  
A Company ◽  
Better Than

This study asks how men’s and women’s careers diverge following MBA graduation from an elite university, using qualitative interview data from 74 respondents. We discover men and women follow three career pathways post-graduation: lockstep (stable employment), transitory (3 or more employers), and exit (left workforce). While similar proportions of men and women followed the lockstep pathways and launched accelerated careers, sizable gender differences emerged on the transitory pathway; men’s careers soared as women’s faltered on this path—the modal category for both. On the transitory path, men fared much better than women when moving to new organizations, suggesting that gender may become more salient when people have a shorter work history with a company. Our findings suggest that clear building blocks to promotions reduce gender bias and ambiguity in the promotion process, but multiple external moves hamper women, putting them at a clear disadvantage to men whose forward progress is less likely to be stalled by such moves.

scholarly journals Enfermagem pré-profissional no Brasil: questões e personagens

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (SUP) ◽  
pp. 68-72
Author(s):  
Taka Oguisso ◽  
Paulo Fernando De Souza Campos ◽  
Almerinda Moreira
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Nursing Research ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Nursing History ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Professional Nursing ◽  
Past Experiences

O presente artigo recupera experiências efetivadas por homens e mulheres em contextos distintos da história da enfermagem pré-profissional brasileira, anterior à institucionalização da formação acadêmica. Pretende-se atualizar conteúdos específicos, recuar o tempo histórico e evidenciar personagens que atuaram no âmbito do cuidar. O objetivo deste trabalho é contribuir para o reconhecimento de ações derivadas do cuidado pré-profissional, desvelando questões pertinentes à pesquisa em enfermagem. Acredita-se que os conteúdos relativos ao período pré-profissional transformam interpretações existentes sobre as origens do cuidado no Brasil, cujas matrizes históricas fundamentam práticas e teorias contemporâneas (humanização, equidade), indicativos seguros da utilidade da análise histórica em relação ao desenvolvimento da profissão.Descritores: História da Enfermagem, Cuidadores, Pesquisa em Enfermagem.Pre-professional nursing in Brazil: issues and charactersThis article recovers past experiences by men and women within distinct contexts of the Brazilian pre-professional nursing history, prior to the academicals education institutionalization. This paper aims to up to date specific contents, go back in the historical time and to evidence who have worked within caring scope and to contribute for the recognition of derived actions in the pre-professional caring scope, showing issues related to nursing research. It is believed that contents related to the pre-professional period may change existent interpretations on the caring origins in Brazil, whose historical sources are based on contemporaneous practices and theories (humanization, equity) may safely indicate the utility of the historical analysis in relation to the development of the profession.Descriptors: Nursing History, Carers, Nursing Research.Enfermería pre-profesional en Brasil: cuestiones y personajesEl presente artículo recupera experiencias vividas por hombres y mujeres en contextos distintos de la historia de la enfermería pre-profesional brasileña, anterior a la institucionalización de la formación académica. Los objetivos intentan actualizar contenidos específicos, retroceder en el tiempo histórico y evidenciar personajes que actuaron en el ámbito del cuidar. El intento es contribuir para el reconocimiento de las acciones derivadas del cuidado pre-profesional desvelando cuestiones pertinentes a la investigación en Enfermería. Se cree que los contenidos relativos al período pre-profesional transforman interpretaciones existentes sobre los orígenes del cuidado en el Brasil, cuyas bases históricas embasan prácticas y teorías contemporáneas (humanización, equidad) indicativos seguros de la utilidad del análisis históricos en relación al desarrollo de la profesión.Descriptores: Historia de la Enfermería, Cuidadores, Investigacíón en Enfermería.

scholarly journals Social Control of Women’s Body as Cultural-Political Legitimation in “Putri Cina” Novel

Humaniora ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Resa Sartika ◽  
Dwi Susanto ◽  
Prasetyo Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
New Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Cultural Legitimacy ◽  
Political Legitimation ◽  
Theory Of Discourse

This research aimed to describe the depiction of the female body’s domination as a form of political-cultural legitimacy raised in Sindhunata’s work entitled Putri Cina. Michel Foucault’s theory of discourse was applied as the approach to reveal how sexuality was closely related to power practices. The discourse presented in the novel was dissected by qualitative methods, descriptive qualitative, and interpretative data analysis techniques. The results show that the two main characters of this novel are Chinese women who experienced oppression in Java. The existence of a cultural identity crisis, abjection, passivity, and not subversion represents the figure of alienated women. This perspective is intertwined with how indigenous men perceive Chinese women figures. Sindhunata describes the unequal construction of sexuality between men and women and the discrimination of the Chinese race as repeated during the kingdom era, pre-independence, to the New Order era.

scholarly journals Newest Historiographic Studies of the Ukrainian Icon-Painting of The Last Judgment

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
А. К. Григорак
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Key Words ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Last Judgment ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
The Stranger

The analysis of features of iconography, stylistics, coloring and manner of execution of compositions of the Last Judgment is devoted to many scientific works. Despite this, the issue of the peculiarities of symbolism and source potential of the Stranger Judgment icons remains inexhaustible. The article is devoted to the analysis of the latest scientific research of the XXI century. Dedicated to the Ukrainian iconography of the Last Judgment. The main achievements and discoveries in the Work of Researchers are described for the development of the research of the Contemporary Issues in the historical and artistic key words. The potential of Ukrainian iconography research is also determined in the article. Studying the historiographical aspect of the research of Ukrainian icons, the specificity of approaches and areas of analysis of iconographic samples as historical sources by historians and art historians of the XXI century is traced. Historiography of the plot of the Last Judgment of the modern age is presented by the works of several authors: Ivan Himki, Lilya Berezhnoy, Marty Fedak, Lyudmila Milyaeva, etc. Analyzing this topic, we should mention that the literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries more focuses on aesthetic, especially on the artistic meaning of icons. Actually, the iconography of this period is formed -first as a branch of history and archeology, and from the end of the nineteenth century, as a branch of art studies. Studies of the twentieth century have some disadvantages caused by the influence of the Soviet period, in which there was no place for the icon just as a spiritual sanctuary, as sources of religious outlook of society. Particularly, this was due to the Marxist-Leninist “methodology”, that is, the approach to the icon as a painting, without taking into account its symbolic significance. With the restoration of Ukraine’s political independence at the end of the ХХ century the anti-religious propaganda was stopped and the community began to return to the spiritual origins, one of which is Christianity, including its components to which icons also belong to the Orthodox tradition. And precisely because of the great importance of the Ukrainian icon painting of the Last Judgment, there are scientific works of the 21st century that make it possible to look at the icon with completely different approach.

scholarly journals The Gene Patenting Controversy

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Jeremy Sklarzyk ◽  
Emma Jameson ◽  
Nasteha Abdullahi ◽  
Mahnoor Shah
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Human Gene ◽  
The Public ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Myriad Genetics ◽  
Gene Patenting ◽  
A Company ◽  
The U.S

Genes are found in every living thing. They make us who we are. In the modern age of rapid technological advances, it is common for new discoveries to be patented for profit. A question arises. Does finding and isolating a human gene make it patentable by a company? This question has spurred much controversy over the last few years. Last year, a medical company called Myriad Genetics tried to patent the human gene that is responsible for breast cancer. To further understand the opinions of the public with regards to the issue of gene patenting, we conducted a study in one high school in Mississauga. Our results showed that the majority of teenagers are against gene patenting. However, we learned that teens knew very little about this issue. This motivated us to take action by making two informational videos on gene patenting to spread awareness among our peers and the wider community. In addition, we reached out to a group called Breast Cancer Association (BCA) by writing a letter to express our solidarity. We received a ‘thank you’ reply for BCA shortly after the U.S. Supreme

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