Gender, Biography, and the Public Sphere

Mapping Lives ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay Ferres
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

This chapter discusses some of the ways biography – including biographers, the reading and uses of biography, and the practices that represent gender – has treated the problem of women's appearances in public life. The author focuses the discussion on questions of reputation and influence.

scholarly journals The Public Sphere in the Field of Power

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Calhoun
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Social Foundations ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
The Public Sphere

In this article I ask (1) whether the ways in which the early bourgeois public sphere was structured—precisely by exclusion—are instructive for considering its later development, (2) how a consideration of the social foundations of public life calls into question abstract formulations of it as an escape from social determination into a realm of discursive reason, (3) to what extent “counterpublics” may offer useful accommodations to failures of larger public spheres without necessarily becoming completely attractive alternatives, and (4) to what extent considering the organization of the public sphere as a field might prove helpful in analyzing differentiated publics, rather than thinking of them simply as parallel but each based on discrete conditions. These considerations are informed by an account of the way that the public sphere developed as a concrete ideal and an object of struggle in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain.

Pages from a Yellow Press: Print Culture, Public Life and Political Genealogies in Modern Brazil

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-379
Author(s):  
JAMES P. WOODARD
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Original Formulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Radical Republicanism

AbstractAn examination of the Brazilian newspaper O Combate, this article accomplishes four goals. First, it defines the politics of a periodical long cited but little understood by historians. Second, it documents O Combate's place, alongside other ‘yellow press’ outlets, in the making of a ‘public sphere’ in São Paulo. Third, it situates the same publications' role in the bringing into being of a more commercial, publicity-driven press, which would shed the yellow press's radicalism and abet the collapse of the public sphere of its heyday. Fourth, it suggests that O Combate's radical republicanism was one fount of the democratic radicalism of the late 1920s and early 1930s, as well as of the regionally chauvinist constitutionalism of 1932–7. In this rare application of the ‘public sphere’ idea to twentieth-century Brazil, readers may also detect an account closer to Jürgen Habermas’ original formulation than that found in the historiography of nineteenth-century Spanish America.

Media Events, solidarity, and the rise and fall of the public sphere

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey C Goldfarb
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Complex Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Events ◽  
Primary Object ◽  
The Public Sphere

Dayan and Katz’s classic, Media Events, has continued relevance even as its primary object of inquiry, ceremonial television, is no longer as significant as it once was. The book demonstrates how a key insight of Gabriel Tarde, concerning the importance of media in modern societies, resolves a dilemma of Emile Durkheim’s sociology, the continued importance of common beliefs and rituals in complex society when the members of society have more differences than commonalities. This insight is then applied to a deeper understanding of how ‘media events’ resolved a weakness in Habermas’ account of the transformation public sphere, the cogency of an understanding of a central public sphere when there are in fact multiple publics. The article concludes with reflections on the clear and present crises of public life today when multiple publics do not meet.

scholarly journals Public Broadcasting and Public Sphere

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
AG. Eka Wenats Wuryanta
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Public Broadcasting ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Rights ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Cultural Functions

Public broadcasting can relatively accommodate a public sphere that has autonomy and independence. It also facilitates ongoing cultural activities in various aspects of functional life. Public broadcasting as a public sphere is expected to become a new format of public life that can accommodate a variety of public interests into a shared vision in the administration of public life in an honorable and democratic manner. In the context of contemporary reforms, there should be opportunities to develop new formats for the existence of government broadcasting media (RRI / TVRI) to become autonomous and independent institutions that carry out cultural functions in the public sphere (read: public broadcast media). Within the framework of achieving public space based on fulfilling public rights in accessing, receiving, and providing information openly and responsibly.

scholarly journals Religia w przestrzeni życia publicznego w regionach Europy Środkowej

Politeja ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 14 (1(46)) ◽  
pp. 103-139
Author(s):  
Emilia Moddelmog-Anweiler
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Traditional Religion ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The One ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Religion In Public Life

Religion in the public life in the regions of Central Europe. Features of the Central European model For post‑communist states, which experienced programmative secularization of society, and are currently building civil society, the Western models of determining the place and role of religion in public sphere seem to be inadequate and simplistic. On the one hand, freedom of religion in this region symbolizes success of a new democratic order. On the other, the rapid pace of social, cultural and political changes causes dilemmas regarding the place of religion in public life, where religion is part of cultural, national and social identities. People are stretched between the freedom to be religious publicly, return to traditional religion and freedom of other choices. It therefore seems that, despite religious diversity and the presence of specific historical circumstances in individual countries, these societies share the perspective of determining the place of religion in the public sphere today, which is the basis of the specific features of religion in public life. The article presents an ovierview of observations and interpretations of characteristics of social practice to the presence of religion in the public sphere, which were distinquished on the basis of qualitative research conducted in Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine.

scholarly journals Ethnic minority media and the public sphere: The case of African-Australian media producers

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Budarick
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Ethnic Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Conceptual Understandings ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article analyses the work of ethnic minority media producers through a series of 13 in-depth interviews with African-Australian broadcasters, writers and producers. Focusing on the aims and motivations of participants, the article demonstrates a more expansive role for African-Australian media, one that brings niche media products into dialogue with mainstream Australian public life and challenges common understandings of ethnic media as appealing to a small, linguistically and culturally defined audience. Such a role also raises questions around wider conceptual understandings of the public sphere, particularly as it is employed to interrogate minority–majority relations. The article concludes by engaging with previous literature focused on the changing contours of the public sphere ideal in multi-ethnic and multicultural societies.

Islamist Columnists Discussing ‘Women in the Public Sphere’: A Discourse Analysis of the Turkish Press

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 282-301
Author(s):  
D. Beybin Kejanlıoğlu ◽  
Çağla Kubilay ◽  
Nalan Ova
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
The Public ◽  
Common Position ◽  
The Veil ◽  
The Public Sphere

Beginning with the so-called ‘turban issue’ in universities in the 1980s, public discussion about women in the public sphere in Turkey has arisen due to the veiled women’s demand for a presence in public life. Since the banning of the veil in public life, Islamist columnists have been in a struggle against Kemalists to make the veil public, though there are different views on the limits of veiled women’s visibility in public life. By analyzing the content of hundreds of columns in five pro-Islamist newspapers, each representing a different faction among Islamists since 1997, this article reveals both the Islamist discourse vis-à-vis the Kemalist discourse on the public sphere and the conflicting gendered discourses among Islamists. This article suggests that there is an ongoing hegemony struggle among Islamist columnists about the presence of veiled women in the public sphere, contrary to their common position in the hegemony struggle against Kemalists.

scholarly journals Opening the Door: How the Regional Autonomy Has Made the Implementation of Perda Sharia Possible?

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-31
Author(s):  
Erwin Nur Rif'ah
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Drinking Alcohol ◽  
West Java ◽  
Regional Autonomy ◽  
The Public ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
The Public Sphere

Sharia-influenced regional regulations (perda sharia) are regulations or laws that are created by district governments and use Islamic moral teachings as a reference point. This article based on a qualitative research in two districts: Cianjur, West Java and Bulukumba South Sulawesi.  In general, perda sharia seeks to manage three aspects of public life: firstly, to eradicate moral and social problems such as prostitution, drinking alcohol and gambling; secondly, to enforce ritual observances among Muslims such as reading the Qur’an, attendance at Friday prayers and fasting during Ramadan, and thirdly, to govern the way people dress in the public sphere, especially in relation to head-veiling for the women.

Lorelei's Doomed Performance: Anita Loos and the American Dream

Prospects ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 547-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Silverman
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
The Public ◽  
Nineteenth Amendment ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Horatio Alger ◽  
Anita Loos

When Anita Loos wrote her best-selling novels, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) and But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1928), American women were in a state of flux. Buoyed by the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, many middle-class and upper-class women expected to play a larger role in public life. Nonetheless, men expected women to undertake the same roles of wife and mother as women of previous generations — a demand that put many women and men in conflict. While suffrage had not eliminated the myths and beliefs that bound women earlier in the century, women believed they had tools similar to those implicitly endorsed by Horatio Alger, such as education and determination, to enable them to move into the public sphere.

scholarly journals Women's Fight for More Space in Policy: Elections City Councilers in Goiania in 2016

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 208
Author(s):  
Valdenor Cabral Dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Equality Of Opportunity ◽  
Municipal Elections ◽  
The Public ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The City

Abstract: this article aims to present and discuss some pertinent questions regarding the participation of women in Brazilian politics over the last years, having as a point of analysis the municipal elections of the city of Goiânia in the year 2016. Although, the participation of women in públic life is predicted in the Magna Carta, women’s exclusion of the públic sphere for centuries means that the possibility of more active participation, voting and voting does not lead to a proportional participation as of the men. Even with advances in the last years of policies públic policies and actions aimed at reducing this inequality, we realize that there are still many barriers to be overcome in order to guarantee equality of opportunity in públic spaces. A Luta das Mulheres por Mais Espaço na Política: Eleições para Vereadores em Goiânia no Ano de 2016 Resumo: o presente artigo busca apresentar e discutir algumas questões pertinentes à participação da mulher na política brasileira ao longo dos últimos anos, tendo como ponto de analise as eleições municipais da cidade de Goiânia no ano de 2016. Embora a participação feminina na política esteja prevista constitucionalmente, a exclusão da mulher na vida publica durante séculos faz com que a possibilidade de participarem de forma mais ativa, de votarem e serem votadas, não se traduza em uma participação proporcional a participação dos homens, mesmo com avanços nos últimos anos de políticas publicas e ações que visam reduzir essa desigualdade, percebemos que ainda existem muitas barreiras a serem superadas para garantir uma igualdade de oportunidade nos espaços públicos.

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