scholarly journals Women of War in Paul Auster’s Man in the Dark

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 755-773
Keyword(s):  
Social Roles ◽  
Drastic Change ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
The World ◽  
War Stories ◽  
Images Of Women

Auster’s Man in the Dark includes numerous war stories that altogether contribute to its overall message about the different shape of the world if there were no wars. Most of these war stories are about the miscellaneous effective roles of women during wartime and its aftermath; their contributions to the progress of wars; their victimization as wives and captives; their sufferings as widows and laborers; and their drastic change of identity in accepting new social roles traditionally unachievable. These images of women of war make Man in the Dark a novel about women, although it literally seems not to offer any points about them. This paper is thus to argue that Auster seems to be presenting himself as a pro-feminist in this novel, which is basically about war and what causes war, in highlighting women’s roles during wartime and how their contributions have been unfairly silenced. Keywords: Auster, Man in the Dark, war, women.

scholarly journals The Zero-sum Game: A Framework for Examining Women and Nutrition

1988 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith S. McGuire ◽  
Barry M. Popkin
Keyword(s):  
Social Roles ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
Energy Constraints ◽  
Zero Sum ◽  
Time And Energy

This article emphasizes the time and energy constraints on women who are the targets of programmes and are expected to participate in them. It outlines a framework for examining women's roles in providing food and nutrition for their families and presents some of the problems faced by women in their social roles. The authors propose that there should be more symposia to explore the issues involved in making programmes more effective for women.

British women’s roles in the standardization and study of English

2020 ◽  
pp. 279-304
Author(s):  
Carol Percy
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
West Germanic ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
Intellectual Activities ◽  
English I

This chapter traces key developments in the history and historiography of English, identifying women’s most-representative opportunities to engage with the linguistics of English and describing works that have earned their authors attention in modern scholarship. Women have shaped and studied the English language since speakers of a West Germanic language invaded Britain in the fifth century CE. Yet, given the subordinate status of women’s intellectual activities, their work was often oral, unacknowledged, or published pseudonymously or under a male’s name. While identifying individual women’s contributions to the standardization and study of English, I consider women’s educational opportunities and their stereotypical social roles. Their family’s status and (typically) male relatives’ support gave some women unusual advantages. Women’s stereotypical associations with domestic conversation and elementary pedagogy gave later women space to work and write on the vernacular, though persistently in ways that were low-prestige.

scholarly journals ‘All My Animals Are Equal, but None Can Survive without the Horse.’ The Contribution of Working Equids to the Livelihoods of Women across Six Communities in the Chimaltenango Region of Guatemala

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1509
Author(s):  
Molly A. Vasanthakumar ◽  
Melissa M. Upjohn ◽  
Tamlin L. Watson ◽  
Cathy M. Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
The World ◽  
Training Opportunities ◽  
Working Equids ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

It is widely assumed that working equid husbandry is carried out by men, and women are often not recognised as facilitating equid welfare. The aim of this study is to investigate how working equids contribute to women’s livelihoods in six of the World Horse Welfare programme target communities in Guatemala and determine what roles women have in their care. Thirty-four face-to-face interviews were carried out and data were analysed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. This study found that working equids support women by reducing domestic drudgery, generating income, feeding livestock and saving time. Thirty-two women played a major role in the care of one or more equids, and overall, women did not feel that they knew enough about equid husbandry. Thirty-one women said they would attend training opportunities if the advertising was clear and they felt that women were able to join. This study recognises the contribution of working equids to women’s livelihoods, describes the roles women play in equid husbandry and addresses the discrepancies between women’s roles and their capacity to undertake these tasks. This emphasises the need for extension services to include and cater for women, improving equid welfare and their ability to continue supporting women’s livelihoods.

Rejecting Women’s Ordination

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-99
Author(s):  
Laura Vance
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Seventh Day Adventist ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Charismatic Leader ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
The World ◽  
Women's Ordination

The July 2015 meeting of the Adventist General Conference was dominated by an often contentious debate about women’s ordination. Though founded by a female charismatic leader, Adventists were contesting women’s ordination by at least 1881, and the contemporary denomination has studied the question for more than four decades. Tension has burgeoned in recent years as some regional Seventh-day Adventist unions have ordained women despite the lack of movement-wide policy change. In July 2015, as delegates deliberated on a motion to allow each division of the world church to decide the question of women’s ordination for itself, the gathering saw an unusual degree of discord, and this disagreement about gender and women’s roles spilled over from the ordination debate into discussions of other agenda items. Despite a “No” vote on the motion, the controversy surrounding women’s ordination persists in Adventism.

Women’s roles and statuses the world over

Gender Issues ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Hepburn ◽  
Rita J. Simon
Keyword(s):  
Women's Roles ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
The World

scholarly journals BOOK REVIEW: “PEREMPUAN ULAMA DI ATAS PANGGUNG SEJARAH” (WOMEN ULAMA ON THE HISTORICAL STAGE)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhea Amaliyah Zamzami ◽  
Moses Glorino Rumambo Pandin
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
The Public ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
The World

The book "Perempuan Ulama Di Atas Panggung Sejarah" by K.H. Husein Muhammad aims to introduce the women's roles to the public in general, and spesifically to the women community. There are thirty biographies of great women in the world who have intellectual capacities like men; some are even greater. However, women are always considered as objects, weak, and inferior to men because of the patriarchal culture. Therefore, the book was written to fight for gender equality and justice for women worldwide, including Indonesia.

A Hishikawa School Screen Uncovered

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-233
Author(s):  
Menno Fitski ◽  
Lucien Van Valen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
The World ◽  
A Performance

The restoration of a Japanese eight-fold screen, accompanied by art-historical study and research into materials and techniques has greatly enhanced the understanding of the object. Each side bears a painting and it was found that theoldest painting depicts the world of entertainment in Edo in the late seventeenth century, with a portrayal of the Nakamura theatre, holding a performance of the early kabuki play Coming and Going to Takayasu, featuring the then popular actor of women’s roles Tamagawa Sennojō. The source of this scene is an illustration from a 1678 book by Hishikawa Moronobu, Tales of Actors Past and Present. Also, there is an outing to view the cherry blossoms by the Yoshiwara brothel Myōgaya. The other side was fitted in the mid nineteenth century with a specially commissioned painting of an autumn landscape by the painter Itabashi Tsurao, using high-quality pigments. The provenance of the screen has been traced back to 1924, to the dealer Felix Tikotin. It was acquired by Herman Karel Westendorp, the firstchairman of the Royal Asian Art Society in the Netherlands, the present owner, to whom Westendorp sold it in 1931.

Ancient cosmopolitanism: Feminism and the rethinking of Maya inter-regional interactions during the Late Classic to Postclassic periods (ca. 600–1521 CE)

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina T Halperin
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Late Classic ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
The World ◽  
Cooking Practices

The consideration of cosmopolitanism in archaeology provides a useful lens for thinking about and expanding how to conceive of inter-regional interactions and experiences of belonging in the ancient world. Previous models in Mesoamerican archaeology often implicitly follow a cosmopolitanism of elite male citizens of the world. In incorporating a feminist perspective to the analysis of inter-regional relations, this paper examines Maya women’s roles in cosmopolitan encounters during the Late Classic to Postclassic periods (ca. 600–1521 CE) with a particular focus on merchant women, clothing as a statement of belonging in a larger world, and the adoption of new cooking practices. Such a perspective underscores the ways in which inter-regional interactions in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica may have been unevenly and contingently experienced, rather than homogenously adopted, and that the articulation of different worlds need not require everyone to be highly mobile.

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