Kevod Hatzibbur: Towards a Contextualist History of Women's Role in Torah Reading

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 261-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alick Isaacs
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
Women's Role

Accompanying the Path of Maternity: The Life History of a Colombian Doula

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-158
Author(s):  
Daniel F. M. Suárez-Baquero ◽  
Jane Dimmitt Champion
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Life History ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Care Experience ◽  
Health Care Experience ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women's Role

Doulas have fundamentally improved the health-care experience of pregnant women internationally. Women who recognize the importance of not being alone during pregnancy have embraced this role for centuries. However, less is known about doulas practicing in countries experiencing health inequities like Colombia. Miller's methodology and Atkinson's interview domain was used to answer the question “What life experiences led a Colombian woman to become a doula?” A central theme emerged, “A calling from within: Growing up to accompany the transition from woman to mother.” The path to becoming a doula evolved from life experiences involving health inequities, and a sense of femininity, maternity, and the women's role in rural Colombia.

The female contribution to language studies in Portugal

2020 ◽  
pp. 145-166
Author(s):  
Sónia Coelho ◽  
Susana Fontes ◽  
Rolf Kemmler
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
History Of Linguistics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women's Role

This chapter analyses the contribution of women to the history of linguistics in Portugal from the sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth century. To carry out this investigation archivist, bibliographic, and hemerographic sources have been consulted in order to understand this specific context. It has been used in a variety of sources that are representative of the women’s role in the linguistics field but also in the area of education and in the society in general. These sources range from grammars, dictionaries, and translations to texts on feminine conduct and education, literary and official texts. This essay follows a chronological order with a section for each century. In order to understand the role played by women and the difficulties they faced at that time, each section starts with an educational context, followed by the contributions in the production of materials in the field of linguistics by and for women.

A Recent Movement to Redefine the Role and Status of Women

1977 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 591-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Croll
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Self Image ◽  
History Of ◽  
Stated Time ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

At the outset of the recent anti-Confucian and Lin Piao campaign it was forecast that this movement would “ surely create still more •r favourable conditions for the emancipation of women.” x To create conditions advantageous to women the campaign set out to identify the obstacles inhibiting the redefinition of the role and status of women, j The identification of problem areas is not a new element in the history of the women's movement, indeed the problems have been stated time and again. The significance of this campaign lies in its concentrated and analytical attempt to integrate the redefinition of the female role with a nation-wide effort to change the self-image and expectations of both men and women. In this it provides a contrast with the strategy of the previous national campaign, the Cultural Revolution. Historically the women's movement has been very much concerned with raising the confidence of women in their own individual and collective abilities and translating the individual experience of suppression into a coherent analysis of oppression, but there is evidence to suggest that there was too little attention given to the position of women in the Cultural Revolution. For instance many associations and enterprises encouraged their members to believe that so long as overall revolutionary aims were fulfilled, there was no need to pay” particular attention to the position of women.2 The recent campaign and its application to practical problems among both men and women is a new recognition that because of their history of oppression it is still necessary to pay special attention to the restraints that continue to hinder the redefinition of women's role and status in society.

Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific, 1850-1949

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gold Rush ◽  
Chinese Diaspora ◽  
Integrated Network ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Settler Societies ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Diaspora Networks ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Charitable Activities

Charity is common to diaspora communities the world over, from Armenian diaspora networks to Zimbabwean ones, but the forms charitable activity takes vary across communities and sites of settlement. What was distinctive about Chinese diaspora charity? This volume explores the history of charity among overseas Chinese during the century from 1850 to 1949 with a particular focus on the Cantonese "Gold Rush" communities of the Pacific rim, a loosely integrated network of émigrés from Cantonese-speaking counties in Guangdong Province, centering on colonial Hong Kong where people lived, worked and moved among English-speaking settler societies of North America and Oceania. The Cantonese Pacific was distinguished from fabled Nanyang communities of Southeast Asia in a number of ways and the forms their charity assumed were equally distinctive. In addition to traditional functions, charity served as a medium of cross-cultural negotiation with dominant Anglo-settler societies of the Pacific. Community leaders worked through civic associations to pioneer new models of public charity to demand recognition of Chinese immigrants as equal citizens in their host societies. Their charitable innovations were shaped by their host societies in turn, exemplified by women's role in charitable activities from the early decades of the 20th century. By focusing on charitable practices in the Cantonese diaspora over a century of trans-Pacific migration, this collection sheds new light on the history of charity in the Chinese diaspora, including institutional innovations not apparent within China itself, and on the place of the Chinese diaspora in the wider history of charity and philanthropy.

scholarly journals LEE MILLER, UMA FOTOJORNALISTA NA LINHA DE FRENTE: reflexões sobre a atuação da mulher na cobertura de guerra

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 492
Author(s):  
Kátia Hallak Lombardi
Keyword(s):  
Judith Butler ◽  
War Photography ◽  
Susan Sontag ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
History Of ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Object Of Study

A guerra é comumente considerada um espaço masculino. Dificilmente encontramos mulheres nos campos de batalha. Mais rara ainda é a presença de fotojornalistas na cobertura de guerra. Neste artigo, recorremos às autoras Susan Sontag e Judith Butler para refletirmos sobre a atuação da mulher na história da fotografia de guerra. Tomamos como objeto de estudo as singularidades da vida e obra da fotógrafa Lee Miller.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Fotografia de guerra; fotógrafas de guerra; corpo; Lee Miller.     ABSTRACT War is commonly seen as a male space. We hardly encounter women on the battlefields. Even more rare is the presence of women photojournalists in the coverage of the war. In this article, we resorted to authors Susan Sontag and Judith Butler to reflect on women's role in the history of war photography. We take as object of study the singularities of the life and work of the photographer Lee Miller.   KEYWORDS: War photography; female photographers; body; Lee Miller.     RESUMEN Guerra es comúnmente considerado como un espacio masculino. Casi no encontramos mujeres en el campo de batalla. Aún más rara es la presencia de reporteras gráficas en la cobertura de la guerra. En este artículo, utilizamos las autoras Susan Sontag e Judith Butler, para reflexionar sobre el papel de las mujeres en la historia de la fotografía de guerra. Tomamos como objeto de estudio las singularidades de la vida y la obra de la fotógrafa Lee Miller.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Fotografía de guerra; fotógrafas de guerra; cuerpo; Lee Miller.

Work–Family Reconciliation Policy in France

Making Waves ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 73-84
Author(s):  
Jan Windebank
Keyword(s):  
Labour Force ◽  
Women's Employment ◽  
Women’S Employment ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Domestic Labour ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Reconciliation Policies

This chapter examines the history of French work-family reconciliation policies from the 1970s until the present day. It considers the extent to which the development of these policies does and does not link to second wave feminist ideas about women’s domestic labour that emerged in the 1970s. It argues that while in Scandinavian countries, for example, debates and policies addressing work-family reconciliation debates considered men’s roles in the home as well as women’s employment, in France men’s roles were not addressed. This has meant that while French women today are well integrated into the labour force, and have used a variety of resources available to them to free themselves from domestic and caring responsibilities, men’s role in the family has changed very little in comparison with women’s role in the workforce.

scholarly journals Woman’s Status in the Kalmyk and Buryat Buddhist Tradition: History and the Current State

2020 ◽  
pp. 1195-1206
Author(s):  
Mergen S. Ulanov ◽  
Valeriy N. Badmaev ◽  
Andrey V. Radionov
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Buddhist Tradition ◽  
Current State ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Female Clergy ◽  
Female Part ◽  
History Of ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Women's Role

The article deals with the problem of the woman’ status in the history of Buddhism of the Mongol-speaking peoples of Russia, such as the Kalmyks and the Buryats. Special attention is paid to the female clergy issue in the religious history of these indigenous groups. The authors note that with the spread of Buddhism, women in Buryatia and Kalmykia acquired a higher social and religious status, which is enshrined in legal documents. At the same time, in the traditional Kalmyk and Buryat society a woman was generally excluded from active social life and could not make a career in the religious sphere. In the 20th century, the position of Kalmyk and Buryat women in the society underwent significant societal changes. The Soviet state sought to involve the women of Kalmykia and Buryatia into building a new society, actively fighting against the Buddhist religion and conducting the nation-wide atheistic propaganda. All these contributed to the significant decrease in the religiosity of the population in these regions, including its female part. Today, the position of women in the religious life of Kalmykia and Buryatia is characterized as ambivalent. On one hand, in traditional Buddhist organizations women can only occupy the positions of worshipers, secular employees, or perform certain religious duties during rites. On the other hand, the women’s role in the laity is more significant. They take an active part in the life of Buddhist communities and organizations, study Buddhist philosophy and medicine. Buddhist activists in modern Buddhist communities in these regions of Russia make a great contribution to the revival of Buddhism. Even though the majority of the Buddhist clergy is made up by men, these are women who constitute the majority of lay practitioners both in Kalmykia and Buryatia

scholarly journals PERAN SOSIAL PEREMPUAN DALAM ISLAM: KAJIAN HISTORIS-NORMATIF MASA NABI DAN KHULAFA’ RASYIDUN

EGALITA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Hadi Masruri
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Religious Doctrine ◽  
Historical Root ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Economics And Politics

The debate on women’s social role in Islam is an endless issue. What hasbeen done by contemporary muslim thinkers to cover women issues is notenough to influence central feminism issue, gender equality and genderequity. It can be shown from the stereotype for women to limit women’ssocial role only in domestic area still exists. The stereotype on womenis based on the understanding religious doctrine which is inherited byprevious generation and it is considered to have historical root in Prophet’stradition and His followers. This writing tries to prove that   in the age ofthe Prophet and the age of khulafa ar Rasyidun can be the pilot project ofsocial role of women historically as well as normatively. At least, womenplayed significant role during that age in social, economics, and politics areas. All the facts of women’s role are included within Qur’an and hadith and they are also released in classical history of Islam such as Tarikh alThabariand Thabaqat Ibn Sa’ad.

scholarly journals ‘Voglio una donna!’: On Rewriting the History of International Criminal Justice with the Help of Women Who Perpetrated International Crimes

2019 ◽  
pp. 110-129
Author(s):  
Immi Tallgren
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
International Crime ◽  
International Criminal Law ◽  
International Criminal Justice ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
International Crimes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women's Role

In histories of international criminal law, perpetrators of crimes are represented almost exclusively as men. Historiography, criminology, gender studies, and legal studies offer differing views on whether women perpetrators are actually so very few or merely excluded from accounts. This chapter analyses the quest of rectifying the absence (or exclusion) of women by a retroactive ‘search’ and inclusion of women perpetrators. It starts by discussing the discursive practices of ‘becoming’ a perpetrator and the tropes of histories featuring a woman accused of an ‘international crime’. Far from innocuous, various stereotypes of women are instrumental for either obscuring or elucidating women’s role as perpetrators in court practice as well as in ‘academic’ and ‘popular’ histories, serving gendered and racialized ideological discourses which also inform nations and nationalisms. To conclude, the chapter advances an intuitive explanation for the derivative histories of perpetrators, whilst pointing out the possibility of another kind of histories.

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