scholarly journals The Feminism in the Eye of Jane Austen

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Wu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Women's Education ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Moral Standard ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Status ◽  
Popular View ◽  
Political Background ◽  
Status Of Women

In this paper the author first makes an analysis of the feminism hinted in Jane Austen, she implicitly expresses her discontentment of a popular view of her day—women were born less talented than men and women were less rational than men. As is known, nearly every literary works has its own social or political background. Pride and Prejudice is no exception. So the writing about feminism in this novel, namely the status of women, legalities of marriage, women’s education, moral standard upon sex as well as Jane Austen’s own life experience. It was thought that Austen was a romance writer who taught virtue in her prose.

The Status of Women in Modern Language Departments: A Report of the Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession

PMLA ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-468
Author(s):  
Florence Howe ◽  
Laura Morlock ◽  
Richard Berk
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
Women Faculty ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

In the spring and summer of 1970 the Commission on the Status of Women of the Modern Language Association conducted a comprehensive, nationwide survey on the position of women in English and modern foreign language departments. We collected information on types of appointments, ranks, teaching patterns, and salary levels of men and women faculty members and the proportion of women among graduate enrollments and recent degrees awarded. In addition, the Commission asked for information about nepotism regulations and practices of departments in the Association. This report presents some results of the survey.

scholarly journals Gender and Modernization in Turkey

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tülin Tuna
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Legal Reforms ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
The Status ◽  
Key Words Gender ◽  
Status Of Women

This article aims to explain gender equality in Turkey. The gender concept which implies socially determined roles and responsibilities of men and women varies across different societies and in time. The gender is determined by multiple factors. Besides gender has an impact on every period of life in different ways. There can be inequality in using the opportunities, allocation and utilization of resources, accessing the services because of gender. Women have more disadvantages and lower social statuses compared with men are influenced much negative from so-called inequalities. Several reforms have been carried out since beginning of Turkish Republic in order to provide gender equality. These reforms aim to boost the woman’s economic, cultural and social development. However, today sex based inequality is one of the foremost current problems, although these reforms. When the status of woman in Turkey is examined, it is observed that education level of woman has low and involvement in business life is inadequate. Together with this fact, it is obvious that woman could not exceed gender role despite legal reforms in Turkey and take its place in political area. However, fertility conscious of women started to increase. Therefore, the rates of fertility decrease. To sum up, it was observed that today there are many stages in order to reach the level desired in regard to provide gender equality.   Key Words: Gender in Turkey, Gender equality, The Status of Women in Turkey.

Gender and the Rhetoric of Modernity in Spanish America, 1850-1910

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Skinner
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Status ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Status Of Women

Gender and the Rhetoric of Modernity in Spanish America, 1850–1910, proposes that in the nineteenth century, discourses of modernity shaped ideas about gender and especially about the status of women in private and public life at the same time as those concepts of the modern were themselves formed in the Spanish American context by both received and newly-emerging notions of gender roles held by Spanish American intellectuals. Men and women took advantage of the rhetoric of modernity in order to attach their own agendas to those discourses about modernity. The book asserts that the rhetorical nature itself of modernity in Spanish America allowed intellectuals to connect these differing, even contradictory, interpretations to it. Writers used the rhetoric of modernity as they advanced their own agendas and shaped the rhetoric of modernity as a utopian projection of the national future, further allowing them to imagine a nation that included women at all levels of social and even political life. In so doing, they established discursive modalities that competed with other nation-building discourses and that placed gender as a central, ongoing concern at all levels of society. The book looks at public and private space; domesticity; education; and technology and work in nineteenth-century Spanish America and conveys a full understanding of the ways that gender roles were conjoined with the processes of modernization and national consolidation and includes texts by men and women that range from novels and essays to newspaper articles and advertisements, selected from multiple countries, and placed into their socio-cultural contexts.

scholarly journals The Position of Women in the Society of Gortyna (7th–5th Centuries B.C.)

2021 ◽  
Vol 163 (3) ◽  
pp. 116-125
Author(s):  
A.A. Pochernina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Interest ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Property Relations ◽  
History Of Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Status Of Women

The paper is devoted to the status of women in the society of Gortyna during the period from the 7th to the 5th centuries B.C. Owing to the growing popularity of the gender approach, this problem is thought to be of particular research interest. It is often believed that the Cretan society was matriarchal, because the women of Crete, Gortyna in particular, enjoyed their full rights. In order to verify this hypothesis, the laws of Gortyna that shed light on the social position of women among other important issues were thoroughly investigated. As a result of the analysis of the sections concerning the family and property relations in Gortyna, it was found that the above-said hypothesis does not apply to the society of Crete and Gortyna in the 7th–5th centuries B.C. It was revealed that men and women in Gortyna had different rights. Changes in this situation were traced. The general history of research on the laws of Gortyna and the position of women over the period under consideration was reconstructed.

scholarly journals Gender Equality Issues in Optical Feminist Jurisprudence and Implementation in Indonesian

FIAT JUSTISIA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 355
Author(s):  
Heri Setiawan ◽  
Steven Ouddy ◽  
Mutiara Girindra Pratiwi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Feminist Jurisprudence ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Biological Sex ◽  
The Status ◽  
Biological Interpretation ◽  
The Law ◽  
Status Of Women

Gender meaning of fundamentally different from biological sex. Biological sex is a gift; we are born as a man or a woman. However, the path that makes us masculine or feminine is a combination of the building blocks of basic biological and biological interpretation by our culture. From the tiny baby to reach old age, we learn and practice specific ways that have been determined by the community for us to be men and women. Gender is a set of roles as well as costumes and masks at the theater, convey to others that we are feminine or masculine. Device specific behaviors include appearance, dress, attitude, personality, work inside and outside the household, sexuality, family responsibilities and so together polish "gender roles" us. If someone mentions or asks about gender, then what is meant is gender in the context of language approach. This term became very commonly used in the last few decades. Feminist jurisprudence is a legal philosophy that is based on gender equality in politics, economic and social. Feminist jurisprudence unpacks and explain how the law plays a role to legalize the status of women in subordination to men, in other words, the law as a means to preserve the status quo, namely the dominance of men over women. Moreover, feminist jurisprudence is also trying to make a change/transformation changing the status of women by changing laws and its approach and its stance on gender cases be more fair and balanced. This is an emancipatory project woman in law. Keywords: Gender; Feminist Jurisprudence; justice; men and women.

Shift in the Status of Women Orators in India

Think India ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-21
Author(s):  
Ruchi Tandon ◽  
Shweta Singh
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
World History ◽  
General Notion ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Careful Scrutiny ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Strong Woman ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Name Of God

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. – Melinda Gates. It is a general notion that there are not many good women speakers. However, on careful scrutiny, one can find that there have been impactful and wonderful women speakers since time immemorial. The world history is a testimony to this fact. Undoubtedly in Hindu mythology ample respect is given to women consorts, people take the name of a Goddess before the name of God which is why people say Radha-Krishna, Sita-Ram, Gauri-Shankar etc. Importance of women can be seen in Mahabharata where Draupadi had an important role to play. Undoubtedly the power of women is quite known to all of us, how they manage and organize everything so well. In the day to day life also, a lot of attention is given to women in every field, many beautiful adjectives are used for describing them. They are the centre of attraction all the time. But it is very surprising that when the discussion on the topic of rhetoric is done only a had full of people are able to remember the names of the women orators. In this context, it is imperative to analyse the following questions: 1. Why do people not remember the names of any woman orator? 2. Are there lesser number of women speakers? 3. Is there gender inequality in this field? 4. Do we have more strong male orators than the female orators? 5. Is it because males are better speakers than females? 6. How different are men and women when it comes to speaking in public?

scholarly journals Kesetaraan Gender dalam Persfektif Islam

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-96
Author(s):  
Ilfa Harfiatul Haq
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Main Obstacle ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
The Core ◽  
Women In Islam ◽  
The Status ◽  
Core Problem ◽  
Status Of Women

There is a negative stigma which assumes that Islam does not respect the position of women, limits its freedom, is unjust and makes women a second-class human being under the control of men. These reasons make this writing is interested. Departing from that thought, they also considered that Islam was the main obstacle to the struggle for gender equality. The purpose of this study is to uncover the core problem of gender equality in an Islamic perspective. This research was conducted using Islamic study methods and approaches. The position of women in Islam has the same rights and obligations as men, although there are some things that women cannot do and men can do, and vice versa. As for what distinguishes the degree between men and women is the level of piety. Islam has far raised the status of women and it can be said that in other religions there is nothing like and even exceeding the privileges of women other than in Islam.

The Early Abbesses, Nuns and Female Tenants of the Abbey of Holy Trinity, Caen

1997 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-444
Author(s):  
John Walmsley
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Holy Trinity ◽  
Feudal Society ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Status ◽  
General Improvement ◽  
Legal Position ◽  
General Work ◽  
Status Of Women

A major problem for the student of a relatively new discipline or sub-discipline is the construction of a framework within which to operate. In the case of the economic, social and legal position of women in the Middle Ages the only clear thing is that the lines are slowly being redrawn, although more perhaps with respect to the central Middle Ages than to the earlier period. In fact, despite the paucity of evidence there has always been a surprising degree of agreement about the early Middle Ages. A wide range of authors from Lina Eckenstein to Eileen Power, Lady Stenton and Suzanne Wemple have regarded the period, from roughly the sixth to the ninth centuries, as one of ‘rough equality’ (to use Stenton's words) between men and women in general, and as a period of veneration, even elevation, of female religious. As for the later period, there is a much wider range of opinion, much of it conflicting. Speaking of the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, Brian Tierney and Sidney Painter, in a popular general work, conclude that: ‘Evidence of the general improvement in the status of women is fairly extensive.’ The elevation of marriage to sacrament status in the twelfth century is undoubtedly seen by some as part of this process: ‘C'est dans la réforme du mariage qu'il faut chercher les germes les plus vigoureux de l'amélioration dont bénéficie la condition féminine à partir du XIIe siècle, même si cette amélioration n'est ni continue ni générate.’ By contrast, other works suggest that an earlier golden age for women came to an end in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, as an even more male-dominated feudal society reached its zenith in terms of order and definition.

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