Salient Features of Feminist Literary Criticism

Feminist literary criticism as criticism schools is marked by gender, widespread gender awareness, and feminine consciousness is its elementary characteristics. This study introduces the different phases of Feminism through various insidious social and cultural mores. The main objective of this study to Criticism the Salient Features of Feminist Literary. The main content of this paper is divided into three aspects, the first, second, and third wave of feminism from the 19th century to date. Methodology Employed based on qualitative research. The secondary sources of this study are taken from various books, articles, diaries, proposals, official records, archives, Govt. Gazetteers, Manuals and sites, and so on.

Sentiment analysis of popular-music references to automobiles, 1950s to 2010s

In recent years, there has been a scholarly debate regarding the decrease in automobile-related mobility indicators (car ownership, driving license holding, VMT, etc.). Broadly speaking, two theories have been put forward to explain this trend: (1) economic factors whose impacts are well-understood in principle, but whose occurrence among young adults as a demographic sub-group had been overlooked, and (2) less well-understood shifts in cultural mores, values and sentiment towards the automobile. This second theory is devilishly difficult to study, due primarily to limitations in standard data resources such as the National Household Travel Survey and international peer datasets. In this study we first compiled a database of lyrics to popular music songs from 1956 to 2015 (defined by inclusion in the annual “top 40”), and subsequently identified references to automobiles within this corpus. We then evaluated whether there is support for theory #2 above within popular music, by looking at changes from the 1950s to the 2010s. We demonstrate that the frequency of references to automobility tended for many years to increase over time, however there has more recently been a decline after the late 2000s (decade). In terms of the sentiment of popular music lyrics that reference automobiles, our results are mixed as to whether the references are becoming increasingly positive or negative (machine analysis suggests increasing negativity, while human analysis did not find a significant association), however a consistent observation is that sentiment of automobile references have over time become more positive relative to sentiment of song lyrics overall. We also show that sentiment towards automobile references differs systematically by genre, e.g. automobile references within ‘Rock’ lyrics are in general more negative than similar references to cars in other music genres). The data generated on this project have been archived and made available open access for use by future researchers; details are in the full paper.

Performance and informality: the key to sustainability in small scale agrifood systems

In small scale societies and developing nations, agrifood systems tend to be structurally less complex than in developed nations but have a complexity introduced in the form of strict social and cultural mores which both help to formulate decision making and create governance mechanisms. Informality in the economic underpinning of these agrifood systems has worked for these small-scale societies for thousands of years but the question is whether and how they can remain sustainable in the fast moving change situation of today’s global business. In this paper we discuss sustainability from a modified Triple Bottom Line perspective and analyse data from horticultural product chain studies in two Pacific Island countries to investigate the informal framework of sustainability in these systems. We use the theoretical paradigm of theatre performance (frontstage:backstage) to understand how a ‘habitus of informality’ is both a threat and an opportunity to sustainability in these small scale, yet complex, systems.

Parental Bereavement in Older Age: A Scoping Review

A scoping review of parental bereavement in older age was conducted to identify the unique needs of older adults after the loss of an adult child. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were developed in accordance with the stated objectives of this review, which was guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). In total, 26 research studies were included. The data were then analyzed using a systematic approach for organizing and synthesizing key data. The results indicated that some consequences and mediators of parental bereavement are similar regardless of age. But, older adults experience greater loneliness, isolation, and stigma than their younger counterparts. Older parents are also at greater risk for physical decline, mortality, and institutionalization following the death of an adult child. Religious and cultural mores also have influence on the bereavement process.

Trends in Abortion Policies in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

The decision to terminate a pregnancy is not one that is taken lightly. The need for an abortion reflects limited sexual autonomy, ineffective or lack of access to contraceptive options, or a health indication. Abortion is protected under human rights law. That notwithstanding, access to abortions continues to be contested in many parts of the world, with vested interests from politically and religiously conservative states, patriarchal societies, and cultural mores, not just within local contexts but also within a broader geopolitical context. Criminalization of a women's choice not to carry a pregnancy is a significant driver of unsafe procedures, and even where abortions are provided legally, the policies remain constrained by the practice or by a lack of coherence. This review outlines the trends in abortion policy in low- and middle-income countries and highlights priority areas to ensure that women are safe and able to exercise their reproductive rights. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Public Health, Volume 42 is April 1, 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

The Journey

Chapter 2 recounts the first-generation Greek immigrants’ journey to America. Travel from Greece to America, settlement in urban and rural areas, and adaptation to new social/cultural mores are examined. Women immigrants’ lives and the lives of the women left behind in Greece are highlighted.

The ‘Malang Declaration’: Models of Engagement within Research Programs

With the rapidly changing ‘internationalization’ of the educational market in Indonesia, the manner and conduct of ‘foreign’ models of engagement have a discernable and culturally ‘sensitive’ impact. We acknowledge that whilst ‘foreign models’ may be still applicable in an Indonesian context, it is becoming increasingly important that the extent to which these models are culturally applicable in an Indonesian milieu is evaluated. In this article we examine the approach used by Australian practitioners in developing the Malang Declaration, which was an attempt to codify an agreed model for use in scholarly research. We acknowledge that it is essential that the selected ‘model’ is transparently seen as being applicable in Indonesian circumstances, and that the cultural mores of the site of the intervention are respected and addressed.

Why Were the Founders of Liberal Judaism in Britain Opposed to Zionism?

Until recently, scholars have assumed that Liberal Judaism’s pre-war stance against Zionism was motivated primarily by a desire to assimilate into bourgeois English cultural mores. This article argues to the contrary: that the founders of Liberal Judaism were expressly trying to combat secular assimilation. Focusing on speeches and writings from Liberal Judaism’s three primary founders, Lily Montagu, Claude Montefiore and Rabbi Israel Mattuck, I find they took a nuanced and principled approach to opposing Jewish nationalism. Their opposition to Zionism stemmed, instead, from a desire to contest definitions of Jewishness. In particular, they were concerned that national conceptions of Jewishness undermined their ethical and spiritual project. I conclude that many of their concerns anticipate problems in modern-day Israel, so that their arguments are worth revisiting.

Introduction

The introduction provides a background of the first public health nurses to begin work for the State Board of Health under Jim Crow laws by highlighting the dire need for their outreach, particularly in the rural areas among both black and white folk who were out of reach of medical care. Public health nursing came of age in the Progressive era, but Florida was behind Northern public health initiatives. Once Florida’s new group of black and white professional nurses began work, they illuminated how attitudes among national, regional, and state nursing leaders, as well as medical and public health authorities, created a wide variety of opportunities for them to grow their profession and deliver a service. White and black public health nurses were active agents for change, but cultural mores informed their practices differently. Professional patterns and social customs influenced the manner they could exert power to improve health and literally save people’s lives.

Authentic Cultural Values

In this chapter antiviolence ideas emerge about the needed reshaping of basic cultural values are sparked by examples of how Ghanaian activist leaders grappled with local cultural mores in order to create systemic change. A custom of sexual slavery related a traditional religious practice in Ghana sparks reflections on the depiction of sexual slavery in the United States by leaders such as Jimmy Carter. It features conversations with leaders in the wake of their successful struggle to pass a national domestic violence law (2007) as well an exploration of certain cultural factors that impede efforts to outlaw heterosexual marital rape in Ghana and in the United States.