AniLid: A. Augspurg i L. Gustava Heymann – feministki i pacyfistki z przełomu wieków jako patronki współczesnego ruchu lesbijskiego w Niemczech

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iwona Dadej
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Introductory Paper ◽  
The Way

Lida Gustava Heymann and Anita Augspurg - activists of the first-wave radical German feminist movement - recently became the patrons of contemporary nonheterosexual women in their struggle for women's rights. This choice of patrons is not accidental: for more than 40 years, Anita and Lida Gustava constituted a community of interests, activism, and emotions. But what does this couple, which lived a century ago and never came out of the closet, have in common with the contemporary feminist and lesbian movement? Was this choice unquestionably right? It certainly forces us to ask whether the contemporary feminist-lesbian movement is a new quality or whether it continues attitudes and postulates from a hundred years ago. Augspurg's and Heyman's example (the way their memory is present in the contemporary lesbian movement) is significant. The two figures, their commitment, their influence on the women's and pacifist movement, as well as their attitude towards homosexuality constitute the main themes of this introductory paper.

Chaki Sircar, Manjusri (1934–2000) and Sircar, Ranjabati (1963–1999)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prarthana Purkayastha
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Dance Training ◽  
Literary Sources

In early 1980s, Manjusri Chaki Sircar and her daughter, Ranjabati Sircar, coined the term Navanritya or New Dance for their methodology of dance training and choreography. The Sircars’ New Dance emerged from the Bengal region of India in a period that simultaneously witnessed a nationwide upsurge of women’s rights movements and the rise of right-wing antifeminist politics. Energized by the feminist movement, the Sircars challenged and critiqued patriarchal frameworks governing the production of dance for the modern Indian stage. They questioned, both through their dancing bodies as well as through their published work, existing conventions of dance performance such as the stereotypical representation of women in performance. They presented highly innovative and subversive dance works that provided fresh, startling, and contemporary interpretations of available literary sources and inherited dance-drama traditions.

On Reading The Logics of Gender Justice

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-511
Author(s):  
Sumi Madhok
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Critical Site ◽  
The Way

Abstract This ambitious and remarkable book provides us with a new, creative, and critical site for feminist scholarship and leads the way in producing historically and contextually specific empirical datasets and analysis of the deeply complex area of global women's rights. As is often the case with important work, the book engenders a supplementary set of hard questions to be asked both of itself and of the wider literature. In particular, the book enables us to raise two sets of further questions: first, about the links between law, policy making, women's rights, and social transformation, and second, to raise methodological and conceptual questions in the wake of empirically operationalizing intersectionality on a global scale.

A Feminist Still

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. iv-29
Author(s):  
Lakshmi Padmanabhan
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
The Political ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Community Organizer ◽  
Visual Artist ◽  
Feminist Historiography ◽  
The Way

What can photographic form teach us about feminist historiography? Through close readings of photographs by visual artist and documentary photographer Sheba Chhachhi, who documented the struggle for women’s rights in India from the 1980s onward, this article outlines the political stakes of documentary photography’s formal conventions. First, it analyzes candid snapshots of recent protests for women’s rights in India, focusing on an iconic photograph by Chhachhi of Satyarani Chadha, a community organizer and women’s rights activist, at a rally in New Delhi in 1980. It attends to the way in which such photographs turn personal scenes of mourning into collective memorials to militancy, even as they embalm their subjects in a state of temporal paralysis and strip them of their individual history. It contrasts these snapshots to Chhachhi’s collaborative portrait of Chadha from 1990, a “feminist still” that deploys formal conventions of stillness to stage temporal encounters between potential histories and unrealized futures. Throughout, the article returns to the untimeliness of Chhachhi’s photography, both in the multiple temporalities opened up within the image and in its avant-garde critique of feminist politics through experiments with photographic form.

scholarly journals Twenty Years On: Looking at Gender Equality

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geraldine Mcdonald
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Select Committee ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
The Way ◽  
International Women's Year

A conference in 1995 provided the opportunity to find out what had happened to equality for women and girls in education over the twenty years since International Women’s Year, the report of the Select Committee on Women’s Rights, and the landmark conference on Education and the Equality of the Sexes. This chapter compares the issues for women in 1975 with those of 1995, assesses the gains and the losses, and notes changes in the way in which Maori and non-Maori women have viewed the issues.

scholarly journals IMPACTS OF BLACK FEMINISM ON THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF BLACK WOMEN'S RIGHTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafaelle Franchini ◽  
Caio Eduardo Costa Cazelatto ◽  
Valéria Silva Galdino Cardin
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Black Feminism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
Victims Of Violence

This article analyzed, through bibliographic review, the social movement of feminism as an instrument of protection and promotion of black women's rights. To this end, the historical development of the feminist movement was investigated, with a focus on European countries and the United States of America, as well as the legal developments and achievements obtained by Brazilian black women from the Carta das Mulheres aos Constituintes or Letter of Women to the Constituents. It explored the fundamental rights that were claimed and achieved by the feminist movement for black women. Thus, it was found that the trajectory of black women is strongly marked by the reflexes that slavery and social marginalization have historically brought to this vulnerable segment, as it was also observed that the social movement of black feminism ended up not effectively representing the claims of black women, who, for the most part, are still related to the consequences of the period of slavery, such as low or no education, underemployment, victims of violence against women, among others.

Dancing at Both Weddings

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-113
Author(s):  
Jan Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Religious Women ◽  
Education Experience ◽  
State Of Israel

A new feminist movement is on the rise in Israel. It is led by haredi (ultra-Orthodox) women, usually known for their silent acquiescence to the rabbinate. They are not looking to create a revolution, but their activism may have implications not only for women, but for Israel in general. Based on interviews with haredi activists, Knesset (Parliament) members, secular and religious women heads of ngos, and academics, we contend that political activism, especially for haredi women with little education, experience, and resources, is not ironic, but rather, an appropriate vehicle for advancing their agenda. Other avenues of activity are closed for haredi women. Politics, which is assimilated into the category of “secular” activities, is likely to generate less opposition from their community. Haredi women and the state of Israel are trying to dance at two different weddings: at one, the tune being played is that of women’s rights and democracy; at the other, it is Jewish law, with its religious patriarchy.

scholarly journals Feminist dystopian consciousness in margaret atwood’s the handmaid's tale

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Fatima Zahra El Arbaoui
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Core ◽  
Feminist Consciousness ◽  
Rights Issue

Margaret Atwood's famous dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s tale, was written in 1985 during the emergence of the opposition to the feminist movement. The struggle that occurred between both parties of the women's rights issue excited Atwood, as an active advocate of this movement, to write this novel to alert women of what the female gender may mislay if the feminist movement were defeated. She has attempted to warn her readers through the life of Offred; a handmaid who expresses her dystopian feminist consciousness by taking the role of a storyteller and being the narrator and controller of her own story. The core aim of this article would be to focus on how Offred combines her feminist consciousness, memories, and language as liberty instruments to detect her way towards freedom? How can this consciousness be the seed which grows into the sapling of self-expression she cultivates and nourishes through the novel?

scholarly journals Women in Cardiology: Role of Social Media in Advocacy

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hena Patel ◽  
Annabelle Santos Volgma
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Women In Medicine ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rights Issues ◽  
The Way

: Digital and social media have transformed the field of medicine. They are powerful tools that academic and non-academic physicians and healthcare providers are using to influence others, promote ideas, obtain knowledge, disseminate research and communicate with others. The history of advocacy for women in medicine and the role of social media in influencing the choice of women to choose Cardiology as a career and its role in advocacy for women in cardiology (WIC) have been reviewed. It has changed the way cardiologists learn, educate, and interact with each other. Social media has proven especially useful in advocating for WIC, but whether it can help improve the numbers of female doctors going into Cardiology remains to be seen. In addition to encouraging women to pursue cardiology, social media has drawn attention to key women’s rights issues affecting practicing female cardiologists.

Framing a History of the Present: or, Did the Pearls Scatter to the World’s Fair?

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Booth
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
World's Fair ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

This chapter considers how a volume such as this was celebrated and advertised locally, and how Fawwaz’s contemporaries ‘blurbed’ it for audiences. How did such a framing contribute to the era’s discourse on women’s rights? It then turns to Fawwaz’s attempt to send her volume to Chicago for the 1893 World’s Fair and her correspondence with Berthe Honore Palmer, chair of the Board of Lady Managers. It sets this venture into the context of the Women’s Building and Library founded for the Fair and the American founders’ attitudes toward feminism, international collaboration, and the female populations of societies colonized by European powers. It traces Arab women’s response to the Chicago venture, focusing especially on Hanna Kurani who spoke at the Congress of Women. It also sets Arab women’s attempts to participate in the Exposition within the reaction in Egypt to the way Egypt was represented at the fair, and the controversial presence of dancers who were allegedly from Egypt, in the Midway’s Egyptian café.

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