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2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Bonifazio

This article examines Italian non-fiction media productions of the late 1950s and 1960s that represent the photoromance industry and its female fans. I argue that state-controlled and/or privately owned media outlets and their contributors (among them, Cesare Zavattini and Mario Soldati) scapegoated photoromances in defence of moral, social and cultural respectability, but also on the basis of anxieties towards the increasing role played by female audiences in the making of culture. Furthermore, I show that politically engaged documentaries similarly chastised the photoromance industry without necessarily serving the cause of women’s emancipation. Blaming photoromances for the degeneration of Catholic values, for the debasement of working-class culture and for the degradation of consumerist society, all films serve the same purpose of maintaining a patriarchal society’s status quo, of diverging attention from ‘higher’ cultural products and their exploitation of women’s bodies and of minimizing the important role that female fans played in the success of a global market.


2021 ◽  
pp. 016224392110442
Author(s):  
Kat Jungnickel

This article is about clothing inventions, material participation, and acts of citizenship. I explore how pioneering Victorian women at the turn of the last century inventively responded via clothing to restrictions to their (physical and ideological) freedom of movement. While the bicycle is typically celebrated as a primary vehicle of women’s emancipation at that time, I argue that inventive forms of clothing, such as convertible cycling skirts, also helped women make claims to rights and privileges otherwise legally denied to their sex. I ask: Do clothing inventions create possibilities to act differently? Can they be thought of as wearable technology, and in what ways do they (and their invention) enact political concerns? Might convertible cycling skirts be considered “acts of citizenship?” Throughout, I mobilize concepts of multiplicity, in-betweenness, and ambiguity to make a case for the relevance of clothing research for science and technology studies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 528-536
Author(s):  
Md. Abu Saleh Nizam Uddin ◽  
Farhana Yasmin

Henrik Ibsen’s drama A Doll’s House portrays the late 19th century Norway where protagonist Nora and her eventual manifestation of Feminism are almost all the time at the centre of critical attention. But Mrs. Kristina Linde is also a character of magnanimous stature with her enthusiastic sense of belonging and heart-felt services to family and society. In this manner, the human-centric role provides Linde with satisfaction that amounts to happiness, taking her ways ahead of emancipation in a world where women’s emancipation from sufferings is still an unresolved issue. Notably, Linde’s human-centric role gains authenticity as a true means of women’s emancipation by reflecting higher knowledge which is essential for any human affair to be true and real. Thus, this paper aims at exploring how Mrs. Kristina Linde in A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, being in her family and society and playing vital roles accordingly, derives happiness proving the truth that all women can be human-centric in family and society, and can have happiness going far ahead of emancipation changing the global scenario of women’s misery. The methodology of thematic analysis was followed in this research. The research may contribute in propounding human-centric family and social life as the proper means of women’s emancipation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-138
Author(s):  
Dr. Bharti Tyagi ◽  
Rupa Rana

The Fire-Dwellers (1969) is one of the Manawaka series novels of Margaret Laurence. The novel was written at the time when women’s emancipation movements were gaining momentum, primarily in the United States, but in other parts of the world as well. So, clearly, the narrative is largely affected by women’s simmering discontent with their stagnant lives in Canada too. The novel reflects Canadian women’s desire to free themselves from the common drudgery at home and to be part of a more active populace working outside the home, themselves writing the rules of their lives. The woman protagonist in the novel, Stacey MacAindra, is a common housewife taking care of her husband and their four children. She feels she is happy keeping the societal values intact but suddenly feels frustrated realizing one day that she is the only one in her family whose existence in the family is only for others, while to everyone else in the family their lives are important for themselves, not for others. However, my reading of The Fire-Dwellers is that Margaret Laurence was not in total disregard of family values, or for complete independence of women from the patriarchal system as we see it in women's emancipation movements today. 


2021 ◽  
pp. 122-153

In this chapter, which includes four independent essays, Hedwig Dohm develops arguments for women’s emancipation, articulates a critique of essentialism, and assesses the claims of anti-feminists, including Friedrich Nietzsche. Although Dohm was influenced by Nietzsche, she was also one of his fiercest critics. Dohm offers some of the most acute observations of the situation of women at various stages of life––from young adulthood to old age. While her conceptualization of the self as creative and her support of single mothers and unmarried women were radical for the time, her ideas prefigure some of the key claims made by twentieth-century feminists.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (02) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Hafsa Bibi ◽  
Dr. Muhammad Ayaz

Nowadays, Women are being imprisoned in the name of Islam. She is continuously being chained in the four walls of the house. Her basic teachings are being interpreted as sedition. Her fundamental rights are being trampled. On the other hand, in the name of women's emancipation, she is made or being made an ornament of the party and in the deception of liberalism, it is being turned into a flourishing pub. A vicious game of devilishness is being created. As a result, our Eastern values and traditions are crumbling to pieces, even though these two paths are of extremism and deviation. While the path of Islam and of the Prophet of Islam (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) is the path between the two which is moderate, what is the path of moderation? Whose path will be entitled to victory in both worlds, so in this article, by the grace of God, you will find the full details of how the noble wives of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and the wives of his companions performed the services of humanity and Islam. Moreover, this article will also explain how you chose the field of medicine and education? What are the achievements of the military in the field? What were their positions in the field of defense? This article will also highlight this topic. In short, the purpose will be to mention the deeds of the daughter of Hawa (Bint-e-Hawa) in all the important fields of life.


2021 ◽  
pp. 37-66
Author(s):  
Anna Ferrando

Cesare Pavese famously defined the 1930s as "the decade of translations", perfectly grasping the spirit of his times. What is less known is that the protagonists of this massive cultural mediation were predominantly women. Available sources, in fact, clearly show that women dominated the translation business. Their job entailed a flexible task, which was easily carried out (and hidden) in the privacy of the home, and mostly supplementary to the author's work. Interestingly, though, for a great number of women this "appropriate" job meant getting involved in the public sphere and acquiring a certain degree of emancipation and freedom. This is what happened, for example, when they selected books to translate and proposed them to publishers. When, in 1938, Ada Gobetti translated one of the benchmarks of American black feminism, Z.N. Hurston's Their eyes were watching God, it was certainly not just a literary project. Who were the women who bravely engaged in the "decade of translations"? Did this process of cultural exchange and mediation affect their practices, lifestyles and mentalities? This article examines the private archive of translator Alessandra Scalero, an emblematic case study of the ‘gender transformations' that affected the translation industry between the two world wars


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