scholarly journals Becoming articulate: women writing on the visual arts in Renaissance Italy

1970 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 251-272
Author(s):  
Mary Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Women Writing ◽  
Renaissance Italy ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors ◽  
Women’S Writing

Despite continuing interest in the contribution made by women to the material culture of Renaissance Italy, little attention has been devoted to their writings on the subject, although there is much material, both informal and intended for publication. This paper will attempt a preliminary charting of the area, by selecting letters and poems from c1450-1580 by a range of women which speak of actual or fictional artifacts. Although these are predominantly from those categories of objects which especially appealed to women in the period, namely small devotional works, textiles and portraits, the primary aim will not be to argue for a specifically feminine taste influenced by social and cultural factors. Rather, the paper will try to place women’s writing within the context of a developing critical language for discussing the art of which at least some women could be aware. Three broad phases will be identified within this evolving discourse.

scholarly journals Let It Pass: Changing the Subject, Once Again

PMLA ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela L. Caughie
Keyword(s):  
Women's Writing ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Descriptive Theory ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Pedagogical Relation ◽  
Performative Pedagogy ◽  
Privileged Site ◽  
Women’S Writing

The recent controversial transformation of the humanities is due partly to the institutional acknowledgment of diversity and partly to critics' efforts to theorize difference and to destabilize the categories of identity on which programs devoted to the study of diversity are founded. This double agenda creates anxiety over the positions we find ourselves in as scholars and teachers in the newly configured university. My essay offers a means of working through this tension: a performative pedagogy based on a descriptive theory of the dynamics of passing. I exemplify this dynamic by reading debates on white feminists' appropriation of black women's writing, comparing student responses to the 1934 film Imitation of Life, and discussing Fannie Hurst's novel on which the film is based. I posit the pedagogical relation as the privileged site where passing, which is inevitable in any subject position, can be enacted and made explicit.

scholarly journals The Image of Foreigner in Emirati’s Women Novel (with an Example of Rayḥānah, by Maysūn Şaqr al-Qāsimī)

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Muna Ali Sahli
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
The Other ◽  
History Of ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Stranger ◽  
Women’S Writing ◽  
Family Class

This kind of research, especially in the field of comparative studies, is crucial, because it provides a better understanding of people, culture, thought, and their way of thinking, seeing and dealing with the other. Therefore, choosing to study the image of the foreigner in Emirati women’s writing can help to examine the deep dimensions of relationship with the other who does not belong to family, class, and homeland, in this society. The study, hence, aims to shed a light on women awareness and their ways to articulate their own issues, and experiences after long history of isolation and suppression that women in this country and region in general had witnessed. Moreover, the study focuses on Maysūn al Qāsimī and her first narrative controversial work Rayḥānah, aspires to reveal how the strict upbringing and education had its impacts on women’s personality and thinking, and thus their ways of looking at the stranger in their home or homeland. The expected results of this study are to demonstrate women awareness and capability to disclose, to certain extents, the depth of female agony in very complicated network of political, social, economic and cultural factors that would shape the history of the whole region in postcolonial time. In addition, the study is expected to help to reach better understanding of the different roles that the foreigners have played in this society, from the female locals’ point of views, and therefore, their narration.

scholarly journals تاريخ نشأة اللغة العربية وتطورها

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ediyani
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Language ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
First Person ◽  
Semitic Languages ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Holy Quran ◽  
Human Need ◽  
The Holy Quran ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors

Arabic is the language of the tribes that inhabited the peninsula from Yemen to the Levant to the race and the borders of Palestine and Sana to reach their purposes, which is one of the Semitic languages, and the subject of the emergence of language of the subjects addressed by the researchers of old and recent, and expanded in them a lot and their work that some opinions, The most important of these are: humility and terminology, and language inspired by God. The first person was taught the names of everything (arrest), and the language was born cumulatively subject to the factor of space-time and human need. After the advent of Islam, the Arabic language evolved with the decline of the Holy Quran, because the Arabic language before the descent of the Qur'an was classified into poetry and prose. When the Quran came down, the linguistic expressions in the three Arabic languages became Quran, poetry and prose. There is no doubt that the Arabic language reached the height of its glory and rose in the era of Islam because it became part of religion, and in the era of prophecy and the origin of Islam, people take care of Arabic a lot and are keen on it because it is the language of the Koran and religion and the true and faithful messenger. Other factors affecting the development of Arabic are political, social and cultural factors.

Authorship, ‘Ghost-filled’ Islands and the Haunting Feminine: Contemporary Scottish Female Gothic

2017 ◽  
pp. 222-235
Author(s):  
Monica Germanà
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Biological Sex ◽  
Female Gothic ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women’S Writing

While scholars are certainly indebted to Ellen Moers’s pioneering work on women’s writing, it would be difficult to agree, with almost four decades of Gothic criticism behind us, that ‘Female Gothic is easily defined’ (1977: 90). The topic has been the subject of contested definitions and critical revisions informed by both the contentious boundaries of the critical category in question, and the changing perspectives in feminist and gender studies (Fitzgerald 2009). While the link between Female Gothic and the biological sex of its authors has been frequently challenged, in one of the most recent works, we are also reminded that ‘Gothic and feminist categories now demand a self-criticism with respect to their totalising gestures and assumptions’ (Brabon and Genz 2007: 7).

British Women Writing War

2020 ◽  
pp. 179-194
Author(s):  
Katherine Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
War Novels ◽  
Women Writing ◽  
Gender Boundaries ◽  
Women’S Writing ◽  
Female Experience

Katherine Cooper reveals how contemporary assessments of gender, war and writing are shaped by preconceptions concerning experience and authority. Storm Jameson’s key war novels are at odds with conventional appraisals of war writing, which has contributed to her undeserved critical neglect. Her challenge to such prescribed gender boundaries has led to a perception of her work as ‘unwieldy’ and unrepresentative. Second and third-wave feminist studies, untrammelled by overriding concerns with gender, authority and experience, have reassessed women writers of the period. Nevertheless, Jameson’s critique of the systems of war through the male viewpoint lends her narratives a certain authority leading to their marginalization in those critical endeavours dedicated to the privileging and recovery of ‘female’ experience through women’s writing. Jameson’s exposé of the limits of insular nationalism has also hampered her full and proper reassessment within the canon of war writing.

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