The Bodily and Mental Individuality of the Woman and her Insanities [L'Individualità somato-psichica della Donna e le sue Frenopathie]. (Il Manicomio, Anno xvii, Nos. 1, 2.) Del Greco

1902 ◽  
Vol 48 (200) ◽  
pp. 169-170
Author(s):  
William W. Ireland
Keyword(s):  
Sympathetic Ganglia ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Outer World ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Structural Differences ◽  
Cellular Secretion

This thoughtful paper treats of the different characters of nervous diseases manifested in women from those in man. It groups the mental alienations of women into six classes, distinguished by temperament, and profound alterations of constitution brought about by disease. In the mental derangements of the female, observes the professor, there is a more pervading change in the whole temperament, not only mental perversions, but a multiplicity of organic sensations which act upon the entire personality, inducing states of exaltation and depression, emotions of joy and grief, of fear and anger. These complex changes sometimes culminate in the reeling of altered personality. The structural differences between the male and female render the latter less able to react upon external nature. Her frame is adapted to maternity, conception, gestation, labour, lactation; then the renewal of the periods induces profound changes in her organism. These functions affect even the disposition of the bones and ligaments, the increase and diminution of the unstriped muscular fibres, the activity of the sympathetic ganglia, the vascularisation of organs, and the augmented cellular secretion and enlargement of the glands. The totality of changes, so diverse and profound, subject the feminine constitution to grave fluctuations, which alter its relations to the outer world and affect the psychical manifestations.

Thomas Aquinas on Sexual Difference: The Metaphysical Biology and Moral Significance of Human Sexuality

Pro Ecclesia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-215
Author(s):  
Paul Gondreau
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Moral Significance ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Biological Design ◽  
Moral Excellence ◽  
Structural Differences ◽  
The Mean ◽  
And Gender

Thomas Aquinas offers for his time a novel take on human sexual difference, in that he grounds human sexuality in what we might term a metaphysical biology and accords it a privileged role in the moral life. Though his biology is drawn from Aristotle, which leads Aquinas to make problematic statements on sexual difference, he nonetheless offers a perspective that remains deeply relevant and significant for today. His method or approach of tethering sexual difference first and foremost to our animal-like biological design remains perennial, particularly at a time when many seek to dismiss biology as irrelevant to sexual identity and gender difference. The latest findings of the emerging field of neurobiology, which have uncovered structural differences between the male and female brains, offer key support to Aquinas’s approach. Even more important, he holds, in an unprecedented move, that sexual design and inclination provide a veritable source of moral excellence. He goes so far as to locate the mean of virtue in our sexual design and appetites.

A new species of Medinodexia Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Japan, with a discussion on phylogenetic implications of the female postabdomen in Blondeliini

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4638 (4) ◽  
pp. 584-594
Author(s):  
TAKUJI TACHI ◽  
YU-ZEN HUANG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Leaf Beetle ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Adult Leaf ◽  
Phylogenetic Implications ◽  
Structural Differences ◽  
A New Species

Medinodexia japonica sp. nov. is described from Japan and an adult leaf beetle, Aulacophora nigripennis Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), is recorded as its host. A piercing-type ovipositor is one of the characteristics of the genus Medinodexia Townsend, but it is also found in other blondeliine genera. To evaluate the structural differences of the piercing-type ovipositor, the female postabdominal characters were examined within Blondeliini and their phylogenetic implications are briefly discussed. Females of Medinodexia are similar to those of Medina Robineau-Desvoidy for the presence of invaginations on tergite 6 and sternite 6 of the abdomen. Medinodexia exigua Shima and M. orientalis Shima are not treated here, because they are considered to belong to an undescribed genus due to differences in the male and female postabdominal characters distinguishing them from the remaining species of Medinodexia. 

Proliferative and structural differences between male and female mouse submandibular glands

1993 ◽  
Vol 235 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Chai ◽  
Donna K. Klauser ◽  
Patricia A. Denny ◽  
Paul C. Denny
Keyword(s):  
Female Mouse ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Submandibular Glands ◽  
Structural Differences

Revision of European species of Siphona Meigen (Diptera: Tachinidae)

1982 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stig Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Female Genitalia ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
European Species ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
Structural Differences ◽  
Host Parasite ◽  
First Time

AbstractA revision of the European species of Siphona Meigen (1803) is presented. New diagnostic characters, especially based on structural differences in the male and female genitalia, are introduced. Also the traditionally used characters are revised. Four species are described as new: ingerae, mesnili and variutu from Denmark, and martini from Sweden. Thirteen other species are diagnosed. All seventeen species are keyed, and details of the genitalia are illustrated. Two lectotypes are designated. Notes on the affinities and distribution of the species are given. The biology is reviewed and possible host-parasite relationships are presented in an annotated list. True aerial swarming (synorchesia) of male Tachinidae is reported for the first time.

scholarly journals The feminine image of Russia in the religious and philosophical writings by Russian thinkers at the turn of the 20th century

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 01041
Author(s):  
Arcady G. Sadovnikov ◽  
Alina E. Korzheva ◽  
Farrukh Begidjon Khudoidodzoda
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Philosophical Writings ◽  
The Universe

The article looks at the versions of the feminine image of Russia in the religious and philosophical reflections of the Russian thinkers who worked during the Silver Age (the period of Russian culture covering approximately 1890–1917): Vladimir Solovyov, Nikolai Berdyaev, and Sergei Bulgakov. Special attention is paid to the balance between the male and female principles, which are endowed with certain characteristics in different works by Russian thinkers, not only from the perspective of human nature but also in terms of the nature of Russian culture and mentality, as well as the cosmic nature of the universe. Analysis of the religious and philosophical pursuit of the Silver Age relating to the feminine image of Russia allows the authors to specify the ideas of the characteristics of femininity engrained in the Russian culture and clarify the role of this pursuit in the development of the reflexive Russian thought directed towards becoming aware of these characteristics. The belief about the salvatory mission carried out by the feminine aspect of the human and cosmic nature distinctively identified in the religious and philosophical writings by the Russian thinkers belonging to the Siver Age requires further study. The research has been conducted within the framework of the symbolic direction of cultural studies with the help of comparative analysis, the method of theoretical reconstruction, and problematic-logical, functional, and systemic approaches. These methods allowed the authors to specify the problematic field of the research and define the main concepts to examine the statements about the feminine aspect of Russian culture by different authors as a unified system of forms aimed at the comprehension of the value and symbolic foundation of the national ethnic culture.

scholarly journals Neurologe of liever neuroloog? : Het effect van vrouwelijke functiebenamingen op de geloofwaardigheid van medisch specialisten

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-63
Author(s):  
Eva de Cocq ◽  
Theresa Redl
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medical Specialist ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Medical Specialists ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Job Titles ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Job Title ◽  
Female Professionals

Abstract The effect of female job titles on the credibility of medical specialistsSpeakers of Dutch as spoken in the Netherlands often use masculine job titles for female professionals. We tested the influence of gender(in)congruent job titles on the credibility of medical specialists in Dutch as spoken in the Netherlands. More specifically, we investigated whether the credibility of female medical specialists is boosted by referring to them with a masculine job title (e.g., neuroloog ‘neurologist (masc.)’) as opposed to a feminine job title (e.g., neurologe ‘neurologist (fem.)’). We also tested if this effect is moderated by participant gender.We constructed three news articles in which a medical specialist ‐ either a neurologist, oncologist or a surgeon ‐ shared their opinion on a health topic. The medical specialist was referred to by either the masculine or the feminine job title, thereby being incongruent or congruent with the female medical specialist’s actual gender, respectively. After having read the article, participants had to rate the medical specialist on several dimensions, based on which we calculated the health professional’s perceived credibility.The results of this study showed a significant difference between female and male participants regarding the influence of gender(in)congruent job titles on the credibility of medical specialists. Women perceived male and female medical specialists as equally credible, regardless of their job titles. Men, on the other hand, evaluated the credibility of female medical specialists to be lower when they were referred to with a masculine job title. Gender congruent job titles thus increase female medical specialists’ credibility from the perspective of men.

scholarly journals Sexus-Genus-Beziehungen im Hindi

1989 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Börner-Westphal
Keyword(s):  
Political Movements ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Linguistic Means ◽  
Rule Out

SummaryIn Hindi within the category of gender masculine and feminine can be distinguished. To a certain extent the opposition of male and female is reflected in the opposition of masculine and feminine and sex can be identified by the gender of the noun as well as by secondary gender identifiers of tho language. Yet, mainly in the case of nouns denoting trades and professions, posts, representatives of intellectual and political movements and relations between individuals the feminine opposites are missing. This gap in the language is bridged by the respective masculine plus a secondary gender identifier or by this masculine plus a lexical supplement and secondary gender identifiers. Yet, the above mentioned linguistic means that are used for denoting male and female individuals cannot be employed indiscriminately or regardless of tho context. Certain sentence structures, too, rule out the use of certain means of the language for denoting gender explicitely.

scholarly journals To be Forever Young? Towards Reframing Corporeal Subjectivity in Maturity

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Schwaiger
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Cultural Perceptions ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Ageing Body ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

In this paper I examine the relationship between the body in midlife and subjectivity in contemporary western cultures, drawing on both social constructionist and psychoanalytic perspectives. Referring to recent theoretical accounts, I take the position that how we are aged by culture begins in midlife, and that this period is therefore critical in understanding how the body-subject in western consumer cultures is aged and gendered through culturally normative discourses and practices. I also address the gendering of ageing bodies, and argue that, like the feminine, ageing has been marked by ambiguity and lack. This ambiguity has presented a problem for dualistic age theories, in that it has been difficult to theorize the ageing body productively since the binary language used to theorize it already devalues old age. I contend that our tacit understanding of both male and female ageing bodies is as discursively constituted as ’feminine’, based on cultural perceptions of loss of bodily control and the ambiguity of ageing bodies that become increasingly recalcitrant in the ’correct’ performance of cultural age and gender norms. Finally, I inquire whether alternative, non-dualistic perspectives might be developed that redress this problem, and disrupt the alignment of ageing with negative associations such as lack and loss, perspectives that, rather than associating gendered ageing with decline, loss or lack, associate it with the goal of living an abundant life into deep old age.

scholarly journals A Male Transformation into a Female Character on the Noh Stage

Asian Studies ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-52
Author(s):  
Violetta BRAZHNIKOVA TSYBIZOVA
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Female Roles ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Feminine Roles

Femininity and the feminine figure itself in Noh theatre plays an important role, though nowadays the interpreter is fundamentally masculine. The central aim of impersonating feminine roles by masculine performers, and therefore creating the masculine femininity consists of transmitting the spirit and the state of mind in place of ordinary copies of external femininity signs. That is the basis of the work of interpretation of the actor in the Noh theatre, similar in the case of both male and female roles. However, this paper will examine the technique in both occasions, and the difference in the event that there is a difference.

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