‘A New Thing that Our Ancestors Never Imagined’

2019 ◽  
pp. 51-68
Author(s):  
Naomi Seidman
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Economic Freedom ◽  
Religious Commitment ◽  
Youth Movement ◽  
Young Faculty ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Educational Options

This chapter examines the first few years of Sarah Schenirer's enterprise, a story one has access to almost solely through her own writings and the legends that surround Bais Yaakov's origins. Schenirer's revolution not only expanded the educational options for Orthodox girls, it also created a cohort of educated, mobile, committed, and independent Orthodox young women, giving them unprecedented opportunities to combine religious commitment and socio-economic freedom. These seminarians and young faculty at the Kraków seminary were her closest associates, her travelling companions on her many trips around Poland, and the ones who welcomed her on her return from every journey. Ultimately, Schenirer's account of her great programme to save Jewish girls through inspiring lectures, a library, and a youth movement sheds light on some of the ways that Bais Yaakov culture developed. Her descriptions of the beginnings of Bais Yaakov also provide insight into how she viewed the school she founded after her other projects had failed.

scholarly journals Dialogical research to open up new narrative patterns among young women living with severe anxiety

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
L Cantarero Arevalo ◽  
S Fejfer Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Patient Experiences ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
Patient’S Perspective ◽  
Healthcare Needs ◽  
Narrative Patterns ◽  
Severe Anxiety ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Background 16,889 new cases of severe anxiety (SA) were diagnosed in Denmark in 2019. Incidence rate is highest among 16 to 24 year-old women, a population group with 64% risk of being diagnosed with SA. Experiences of stigma and shame are common among this group, affecting negatively their quality of life and opportunity to recover. The aim is 1) to gain insight into the digital narratives young women with SA share through social networking websites, and 2) to open up the possibility to develop new narrative patterns using dialogical research as a method rooted in Bakhtin (1895-1975) and further developed by Frank (2005). Methods Netnography of four large Facebook groups focused on anxiety was used to gain insight into the patients' narratives and to build guiding themes for the off-line dialogical interviews (DI). Biographical narrative patterns were analyzed in light of a narrative-constructivist approach. Participants were invited to sign an informed consent prior to the DI and received ample information about the project aims and their rights. Results 8 young women diagnosed with SA participated in the off-line DI. They had experienced stress, loss, betrayal or violation against them prior to the trigger of SA. All had constructed a narrative that explained why they were suffering from SA. Patient experiences were dominated by the struggle to control intrusive thoughts and to live in a threatening world. Some felt stigmatized and tried to hide their condition from colleagues, friends and family. They had different preferences regarding healthcare needs and were active in their search for alternative ways to cope with SA. Conclusions Participants perceived DI as beneficial. It thus has the potential to not only explore the patient's perspective in depth, but also serve as therapy during the process of inquiry. Key messages Dialogical research has the potential to not only explore the patient’s perspective in depth, but also serve as therapy during the process of inquiry. Young women suffering with severe anxiety experience shame and stigma, which worsen their condiction and hinder their opportunity to recover.

scholarly journals Intracranial Venous Hypertension and Venous Sinus Stenting in the Modern Management of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension

Life ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 508
Author(s):  
Robert K. Townsend ◽  
Kyle M. Fargen
Keyword(s):  
Intracranial Hypertension ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension ◽  
Venous Hypertension ◽  
Venous Sinus ◽  
Venous Outflow ◽  
The Status ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Symptom Recurrence

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a debilitating condition that has traditionally been difficult to treat. In recent years, there has been increasing focus on the role of intracranial venous hypertension in the pathophysiology of IIH. Based on increased understanding of this pathophysiology, venous sinus stenting (VSS) has emerged as a safe and reliable treatment for a certain population of patients with IIH. Stratifying patients with IIH based on the status of their venous outflow can provide insight into which patients may enjoy reduction in their symptoms after VSS and provides information regarding why some patients may have symptom recurrence. The traditional view of IIH as a disease due to obesity in young women has been cast into doubt as the understanding of the role of intracranial venous hypertension has improved.

scholarly journals Educación para el empoderamiento y la emancipación de las jóvenes mujeres: la contribución del escultismo femenino / Education to Empowerment and Emancipation of young Women: the Contribution of Female Scouting

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Vittoria Aurora Bosna
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Girl Scouts ◽  
Educational Organization ◽  
Youth Movement ◽  
World Association ◽  
The World ◽  
Umbrella Organization ◽  
Girl Guides ◽  
World Organization ◽  
Girl Scout

ABSTRACTIn 1907, the Scout Movement was founded in England by Sir Robert Baden Powell. Since 1909, he has collaborated with her sister Agnes and then with his wife Olave to develop also the Girls Scouting. This youth movement developed rapidly, becoming the most widespread worldwide educational organization for young people. In the international scenario, the World Organization of the Scout Movement and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts are committed to ensuring that national member associations around the world develop an education for girls and boys based on Scout values. WAGGGS is the official umbrella organization for all national Girl Guide and Girl Scout organizations in the world. Using tools of the Scout Method, Female Scouting works towards empowerment and emancipation of young women, helping to develop in girls and young women the ability to become aware of themselves as women with their own possibilities and personal potential and be active citizens in the SocietyRESUMENEn el 1907 fue fundado en Inglaterra el Movimiento Scout por Sir Robert Baden Powell, con la colaboración ya desde 1909, con respecto a la rama femenina, de su hermana Agnes y después de su mujer Olave. El movimiento juvenil se desarrolló rápidamente, llegando a ser la Organización educativa para jóvenes más difundida en el mundo. A nivel interna-cional la Organización Mundial del Movimiento Scout y la Asociación Mundial de la Guías Scout están implicadas para asegurar que en todo el mundo las asociaciones nacionales miembros cumplen con una educación para chicas y chicos fundada sobre los valores scout. La AMGS es la que coordina todas las asociaciones nacionales femeninas scout. El Escul-tismo femenino trabaja hacia el empoderamiento y la emancipación de las jóvenes mujeres por las herramientas del Método scout, contribuyendo a desarrollar en niñas, chicas y mujeres jóvenes la capacidad de tomar conciencia de sí mismas como mujeres con sus propias posibilidades y potencialidades personales y de ser ciudadanas activas en la sociedad.

scholarly journals Lessons in Casual Sex: Narratives of Young Swedish Women

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 1397-1417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Tholander ◽  
Ninni Tour
Keyword(s):  
Sex Education ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Casual Sex ◽  
Sexual Practice ◽  
Developmental Processes ◽  
Sexual Empowerment ◽  
Key Dimensions ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThis study focuses on the narratives of four young Swedish women who were interviewed about their experiences of heterosexual casual sex. The analyses are based on a phenomenological approach and provide insight into a highly complex sexual practice, which the participants often portray as having lacked transparent communication, balance of power, and satisfying sex—three key dimensions of an everyday “sexual democracy.” However, the participants also claim to have dealt with these problematic issues, hence pointing to the socializing role that early sexual experiences have for young women. Thus, if the participants’ own perspectives of events are accepted, sexual empowerment might best be understood as individually colored, experience-based, developmental processes rather than as something that is brought about primarily through collective, formal sex education.

scholarly journals Explainers as an Indicator of Defensive Attitude to Experienced Anxiety in Young Women Differing in Their Styles of Coping with Threatening Stimuli

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-50
Author(s):  
Monika Obrębska ◽  
Joanna Zinczuk-Zielazna
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Frequency Analysis ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
High Anxious ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
High Level ◽  
Personality Features ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This paper presents the results of a frequency analysis of causal conjunctions and explainers in the speech of persons categorised as low-anxious, high-anxious, and repressors, selected according to the criteria of Weinberger et al. (1979). Ninety female students, assigned to three groups: high-anxious persons (n = 30), low-anxious persons (n = 30), and anxiety repressors (n = 30), gave a speech lasting several minutes concerning personality features that they liked or disliked in themselves. The results strongly confirmed the hypothesis that there are differences in the frequency of use of causal conjunctions and explainers between repressors, high-anxious, and low-anxious individuals. Their number is highest in the utterances of repressors and lowest in the utterances of low-anxious individuals. Our study demonstrates that the experiencing of anxiety does not in itself lead to an increase in the frequency of use of causal expressions. The key factor would appear to be a high level of defensiveness and absence of insight into one’s emotional states, characteristic of repressors. This may lead to a need to rationalise and to seek possible causes for the state of anxiety, which is externalised linguistically through the use of a high number of causal expressions.

scholarly journals ‘Patria, Honor y Fuerza’: A Study of a Right-Wing Youth Movement in Mexico during the 1930s–1960s

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 130-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLAIRE BREWSTER ◽  
KEITH BREWSTER
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Grassroots Activism ◽  
Youth Movement ◽  
Youth Movements ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Revolutionary History ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Oppositional Politics

AbstractThis article focuses on the intricate and developing nature of official politics and grassroots activism in post-revolutionary Mexico. It does so by tracing the trajectory of the Pentathlón Deportivo Militar Universitario, a right-wing youth movement that emerged in Mexico in 1938. By locating the group within both the international and domestic emergence of youth movements in the early twentieth century, the article shows how the study of Pentathlón's formation, objectives and later evolution can significantly enrich our understanding of an important phase in Mexico's post-revolutionary history. Within the context of right wing oppositional politics, analysis of the movement provides a fascinating insight into both the emerging Mexican state's ability to appropriate the radical impulses of the younger generation and the Pentathlón's willingness to accommodate such strategies in order to ensure its own survival.

scholarly journals Gender in the Teaching Profession: University Students’ Views of Teaching as a Career

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-69
Author(s):  
Veronika Tašner ◽  
Mojca Žveglič ◽  
Metka Mencin Čeplak
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
University Students ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Teachers Attitudes ◽  
Survey Approach ◽  
Insight Into

The purpose of our research is to gain a better insight into what encourages young adults, in particular young women, to enter the teaching profession. The empirical part of the article is based on a pilot study including 132 students, with data collection being based on a survey approach using a questionnaire. The research attempts to address the context from whichthe desired characteristics of pre-service teachers with regard to their future employment arise. We have therefore tried to single out factors influencing the choice of teaching as a career, and to examine pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards the reputation of female and male teachers. The data obtained confirm the thesis that the predominance of women  in the teaching profession(s) is an effect of the harmonisation of the female respondents’ habitus and their perception of the field they are entering. The perception of the teaching profession as a vocation (calling) that can be linked to the concepts of caring, giving and helping also proves to be very important. The data also confirms the thesis that the orientation towards life and work balance is important to our respondents of both genders. 

scholarly journals Risk factors associated with high prevalence of intimate partner violence amongst school-going young women (aged 15–24years) in Maputo, Mozambique

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. e0243304
Author(s):  
Maria Suzana Maguele ◽  
Boikhutso Tlou ◽  
Myra Taylor ◽  
Nelisiwe Khuzwayo
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Religious Commitment ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Bivariate Analysis ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
High Prevalence

Background In many countries, there is evidence that intimate partner violence is prevalent among young women. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and the factors associated with intimate partner violence in young women (aged 15–24 years) attending secondary schools in Maputo, Mozambique. Method Using a probability proportional sampling strategy, 431 participants were recruited, and the data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire. Binary and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to assess the association between IPV and sociodemographic and sociocultural factors. Odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) are reported. Results Of the 413 participants, 248 (60%) (95% CI: 55.15–64.61) had experienced at least one form of IPV in their lifetime. Then, of the 293 participants who had a partner in the previous 12 months prior to the data collection, 186 (63.4%) (95% CI: 57.68–69.00) reported IPV in the 12 months prior to data collection. The psychological violence was the predominant type of violence, lifetime prevalence 230 (55.7%), and over the previous 12 months 164 (55.9%). The risk of IPV was associated with young women lacking religious commitment (AOR, 1.596, 95% CI: 1.009–2.525, p = 0.046) and if the head of the young women’s household was unemployed (AOR, 1.642 95% CI: 1.044–2.584, p = 0.032). In the bivariate analysis the odds of being abused remained lower among the younger teenage women (OR, 0.458 95% CI: 0.237–0.888, p = 0.021), and higher, among young women if the partner was employed (OR, 2.247 95% CI: 1.187–4.256, p = 0.013) and among the young women believing that males are superior to females (OR, 2.298 95% CI:1.014–5.210. p = 0.046). Conclusion These findings reveal a high prevalence of IPV among young women. Comprehensive programs should incorporate socioeconomic empowerment strategies to increase women’s autonomy. There is a need to address religious beliefs through cultural perspectives, to improve social interactions that promote violence free relationships, gender egalitarian norms, and physical and emotional wellbeing for young women.

Teaching Hatred

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Hamburg ◽  
Beatrix A. Hamburg
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Behavior ◽  
First Century ◽  
Youth Movement ◽  
Youth Groups ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Insight Into

We turn now to egregious examples of ways that education can be used to instill hatred, with the help of authoritarian states and fanatical leaders (either theological or secular) who shape children’s lives. There have been vivid examples of this throughout the twentieth century. The twenty-first century starts with the dramatic case of some Islamic fundamentalist schools that follow in this tradition of molding the lives of children for careers of hatred and violence.We describe these examples to provide a sharp contrast to the remainder of this book. Our fundamental aspiration is to inspire educators and leaders to embrace the important alternative role of education in fostering prosocial, empathic, and cooperative behavior—with insight into the destructive forces of human experience—that can provide the basis for a peaceful world in the long run. To be effective, we must address the obstacles to education in constructing such programs. Children can be brought up to hate, to condone killing, and even to participate in killing. That experiment has been done repeatedly. In the rest of this book, let us look briefly at examples of this destructive educational experience and then at the other side of the coin—learning to live together peacefully. The human capacity to shape child and adolescent development toward a pervasive culture of hatred and violence was vividly demonstrated by the Nazi experience. The his- torian Klaus Fischer writes on youth and education, and women and the family, in his book Nazi Germany—A New History. We begin with the origin of youth groups as a countercultural protest and move to the creation of the Hitler Youth movement and ways in which it exploited these relatively innocent youthful protests. Nazi education, its philosophy, and the creation of elite schools are described in terms of their attempt to shape the minds and bodies of boys toward devotion to the Führer and toward their future as Nazi leaders. Teachers, as well, were indoctrinated and obligated to behave in a prescribed manner toward the same end. The family, particularly the woman’s role in it, was seen as the social underpinning of society. The Nazi glorification of motherhood and the family was a means of creating more children to serve Hitler and the Nazi regime.

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