scholarly journals Reconceptualization of Gender Relations in Saeed’s Amal Unbound and Rao’s Girls Burn Brighter

sjesr ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-138
Author(s):  
Dr. Muhammad Asif ◽  
Nimra Zafar ◽  
Tahreem Iftikhar
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
Cultural Milieu ◽  
The Face ◽  
Objectification Of Women ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines gender relations in Saeed's 'Amal Unbound' and Rao's 'Girls Burn Brighter. The basic aim of this study is to review the existing patriarchal norms that exploit women. This comparative analysis seeks to offer a postmodern feminist worldview by redefining and reconceptualizing women's status, explaining their strengths, and granting them subject status. This study questions the concepts of rationality that perpetuate normative gender stereotypes and demands a brand new way of conceptualizing truth by breaking down the categories. It challenges the authorities, stereotypes, icons, and sexist values. Both texts that are examined in this study are set in the backdrop of the socio-cultural milieu of Pakistan and India. By presenting the cultures of two different countries, an effort has been put in to reconsider gender relations as a means of resistance. It reflects on the relationship between women and the environment and recognizes women's steadfastness in the face of oppression. Furthermore, an attempt has been made to undo patriarchal male coercion and explore the reasons for the continued proliferation of conscious and unconscious objectification of women.

Humility and the humble: A reading of the Nepali short stories of Maheshbikram Shah

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kritika Chettri
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Relationship

This article focuses on a comparative analysis of the chronicling of the civil war in Nepal, within the collection of short stories by Maheshbikram Shah, titled Chapamar ko Choro (‘The guerrilla’s son’), with the novels Palpasa Café by Narayan Wagle and Urgen ko Ghoda (‘Urgen’s horse’) by Yug Pathak, and a memoir, Khalanga ma Hamla (‘Attack at Khalanga’), by Radha Paudel. I argue that the short stories adopt a lens of humility in viewing the conflict as opposed to the totalizing narratives of the novels and the memoir that seek to represent their idea of a humble life. The stories engage with an everyday life of the conflict that overturns its representation into a humble life within the novels. This argument opens up a myriad of questions about forms and ways of seeing: what does it mean to have humility in the face of a conflict? How does humility reconcile with questions of agency and dignity? If humility is a way of seeing, then does it also influence the form taken by the short stories? What are the ethical dimensions of the relationship humility forges between self and others? As the article seeks to answer these questions, the aim will be to establish the short stories of Shah as providing an interpretation of the conflict that remains obliterated within the novels and the memoir.

Transformation of women’s status and gender relations in Poland

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Honorata Jakubowska ◽  
Dominik Antonowicz ◽  
Radosław Kossakowski
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
And Gender

Palestine's Absent Cities: Gender, Memoricide and the Silencing of Urban Palestinian Memory

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manar Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
The State ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
Palestinian Society ◽  
Significant Process

Before the Nakba a significant process of urbanisation had occurred in Palestine, leading to substantial changes in gender relations and women's status. However, following the 1948 war, the existence of a vibrant urban social and gendered reality in Palestine was dismissed and erased, by both Palestinian and Zionist narratives; it was replaced by exclusively rural memory. This article analyses how Palestinian society in Israel accepted the Zionist version of history, according to which the modernisation of Arab society in Israel, especially gendered modernity, resulted from Jewish proximity and steps adopted by the state.

scholarly journals A READING OF THE TURKISH NOVEL: THREE WAYS OF CONSTITUTING THE “TURKISH MODERN”

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 652a-652a
Author(s):  
Kürşad Ertuğrul
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
The Face ◽  
Orhan Pamuk ◽  
Social Autonomy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
East West

This study give voices to three possibilities of becoming modern in the Turkish experience through a reading of the novels of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Oğuz Atay, and Orhan Pamuk. The analysis of the novels invites rethinking, with an eye to gender relations, the terms “modernity” and “modern existence” as well as Paul Gilroy's inversion of the relationship between center and margin. In this framework, I explore the Turkish experience through the themes of “constituting one's self across the East--West duality” and “temporality.” Tanpınar's novel represents a conservative, anti-individualistic response to modernity concerned with reproducing the “authentic whole” in the face of Westernization. Pamuk's novels take the opposite stance; here becoming modern coincides with full replication of Western individuality. The works of Atay, in contrast, display a “truly modern” possibility—a critical, creative, and open-ended process of self-creation that leads subjects toward individual and social autonomy, although it remains unrealized.

scholarly journals Feminizing legal profesion in Santa Rosa: preliminary approach from gender perspective

Perspectivas ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-41
Author(s):  
Guadalupe Bustos ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Family Roles ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Women Lawyers ◽  
The Relationship

The present work is part of the research project “Legal professions: impact of gender relations, family roles and care in the strategies of professional integration of lawyers in Santa Rosa”, whose purpose is to make an approximation of the positions that the women lawyers of Santa Rosa (La Pampa) occupy, in the professional work areas of the legal field, and observe how gender and family roles and care responsibilities affect their professional career. It will reflect on the relationship between the training of legal operators in higher education (HE), their professional practices and the re/production of gender stereotypes, since there is still a general collective imaginary that preserves the traditional model of femininity, by which differentiated conceptions of the characteristics and capacities of women and men are imposed on subjectivities. This imaginary acts in the lives of women inside and outside the universities in the form of discrimination, and the subjectivities constructed under these gender differential patterns are what ultimately shape the professional practice of law. The legal profession is conquered by stereotypes and differential gender relations that harm women, and despite the fact that the field of legal university study has been feminized, as well as public and private professional practice, there are still inequalities in the ways in which the legal profession is exercised by men and women. Therefore, it becomes necessary to make a critical theoretical reflection of the process of labor insertion of women lawyers and the relationship between profession, gender, family relations and care of the city of Santa Rosa, this work responding to the dual purpose of evidencing, while promoting the denaturation of gender segregation and inequalities against women.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Central Mexico ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Many ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Women’S History

The concluding chapter reiterates the book’s major arguments and places the study’s contributions within the context of the existing scholarship on Mesoamerican ethnohistory and women’s history. The chapter considers the evidence for both major changes and continuities in indigenous social and gender relations in rural communities of central Mexico and Oaxaca between 1520 to 1750. The chapter argues that many factors over time contributed to the erosion of native women’s status. Nevertheless, women responded to the many challenges that they faced to defend their interests, as well as those of their households and communities.

Secularisation of Religion as the Source of Religious Gender Stereotypes

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 264-281
Author(s):  
Jadranka Rebeka Anić ◽  
Zilka Spahić Šiljak
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Gender Egalitarianism ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

Secular–religious dichotomy has been criticised in discourse on secularisation theory as well as in discussions of the relationship between secular and religious feminism. Feminist theorists have criticised the secular–religious divide of feminism for overlooking facts such as the inherent gendering of this dichotomy, the participation of women believers in the gender equality movement since its inception, and the contributions of feminist theologians and gender studies scholars who use their respective religious traditions as a basis for gender egalitarianism. This article will criticise secular–religious dichotomy for overlooking the fact that secular, rather than religious, principles underlie gender stereotypes. Namely, Christian and Islamic theological anthropology has accepted philosophical postulates regarding the nature of women and used them to build models of subordination and complementarity of gender relations, thereby neglecting the egalitarian anthropology that can be developed based on the holy scriptures of both traditions. One of the challenges in exploring the secular-religious dichotomy can be found in the anti-gender movement in which believers join secular organizations and use secular discourse to advocate and preserve gender stereotypes.

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