The Handmaid's Tale (2017) or Hulu's Major Investment in Great Storytelling

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
Ángeles Martínez-García
Keyword(s):  
Women Religious ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Political Commentary ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
Human Need ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Objectification Of Women

Hulu knew what they were doing when they bet on the underlying story of The Handmaid's Tale (2017-), which manifests the importance of storytelling in the creation of modern myths. The series directly appeals to the human need for identity, belonging, and redemption. Based on Margaret Atwood's novel of the same name, The Handmaid's Tale is a depiction of a dystopian society, characterised by an absence of rights and freedoms. It has become a chilling political commentary focusing attention on the control of women's fertility, the objectification of women, religious fanaticism, women's roles in the persecution of other women in a patriarchal system, the persecution of homosexuality, and hyper-vigilance.

The Impact of Adam and Eve on Popular Culture’s Understandings of Women’s Roles and Evolution

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Theresa M. Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Adam And Eve ◽  
Battle Of The Sexes ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Impact

This chapter looks at two areas of popular culture that frequently refer to Adam and Eve: society’s ongoing rethinking of the role of women and the dispute between evolutionary biologists and creationists. Movies like Fig Leaves (1926) and Adam’s Rib (1949) illustrate how contentious the “battle of the sexes” can be. These movies use Adam and Eve as shorthand for “man” and “woman” and avoid coming to any definitive conclusions about proper gender roles. Regarding the debate between evolution and creationism, the chapter explores the Creation Museum in Kentucky and the 2014 debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham. Both Nye and Ham attempted to integrate faith with knowledge, mirroring the story of Eden itself.

Women’s Roles in Technical Innovation

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ipek Ilkkaracan ◽  
Helen Appleton
Keyword(s):  
Technical Innovation ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Women’S Roles

scholarly journals Neo-Ibuism in Indonesian Politics: Election Campaigns of Wives of Regional Heads in West Sumatra in 2019

2021 ◽  
pp. 186810342198906
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ichsan Kabullah ◽  
M. Nurul Fajri
Keyword(s):  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Political Resources ◽  
Political Networks ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
The Public Sphere

This article focuses on electoral victories by wives of regional heads in West Sumatra province during Indonesia’s 2019 elections. We argue that these victories can be explained by the emergence of a phenomenon we label “neo-ibuism.” We draw on the concept of “state ibuism,” previously used to describe the gender ideology of the authoritarian Soeharto regime, which emphasised women’s roles as mothers ( ibu) and aimed to domesticate them politically. Neo-ibuism, by contrast, allows women to play an active role in the public sphere, including in elections, but in ways that still emphasise women’s roles within the family. The wives of regional government heads who won legislative victories in West Sumatra not only relied on their husbands’ political resources to achieve victories, but they also used a range of political networks to reach out to voters, in ways that stressed both traditional gender roles and their own political agency.

Confluences in Social Change: Cuban Women and Health Care

1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 398-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Olesen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
The Past ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
Promising Area ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Care Problems

A somewhat neglected though thoroughly promising area for the analysis of changing women's roles lies in the matter of health and health care systems within any society. This is nowhere more the case than in the instance of contemporary Cuban health care and the part that women in that society play in the health care systems as deflners of health care problems, recipients of care, and as those who deliver care to others. Both women's roles and health care in contemporary Cuba have dramatically altered over the past decade, thus yielding doubly rich insights, which reciprocally illuminate both issues.

scholarly journals Women's Roles and Conflicts in Divakaruni's Arranged Marriage

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Zakiyatul Mufidah ◽  
Miftahur Roifah
Keyword(s):  
Women's Roles ◽  
Arranged Marriage ◽  
Women’S Roles

scholarly journals ‘Look What Market She Hath Made’: Women, Commerce, and Power in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and Bartholomew Fair

Early Theatre ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keri Sanburn Behre
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Complete Understanding ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
Food Economy ◽  
Bartholomew Fair

This essay examines the effects of women’s roles in early modern English food marketplaces, highlighting ways that ordinary women could use their participation in food transactions to destabilize (and even subvert) power structures and garner authority. In Thomas Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (1613) and Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair (1614), food informs a complete understanding of early modern attitudes toward shifting gender roles in the ever-evolving and expanding food economy. 

The Validity of Role Theory as an Explanation of Gender Stereotypes: Comment on Hosoda and Stone

2001 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-252
Author(s):  
Lloyd B. Lueptow
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Role Theory ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Women’S Roles

Hosoda and Stone note that role theory leads to the prediction that changes in women's roles should be followed by changes in gender stereotypes; however, having described changes in roles and observed stability in stereotypes, they do not draw the conclusion that their results are inconsistent with role theory.

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