scholarly journals Maria Pia fecit / By Maria Pia: the observed and the observer. Some reflections on gender issues considering the case of Queen Maria Pia, the photographer

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 123-145
Author(s):  
Teresa Mendes Flores
Keyword(s):  
Gender Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
History Of Photography ◽  
Limited Access ◽  
Women Photographers ◽  
The Status ◽  
Gender Constructions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Asking Questions ◽  
Status Of Women

his article discusses some aspects of the status of women amateur photographers during the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, considering the case of the Portuguese Queen Maria Pia of Savoy (1847-1911). We acknowledge the difficulties of making the historiography of women photographers in Portugal, due to the scarcity of sources and archives, and the lack of questions about these absences and their reasons. These facts have contributed to a history of photography in Portugal that consists of a succession of male names of “great photographers”. Asking questions about “the other half”, as well as broadening conceptions of photography to include the diversity of their practices may contribute to highlight the gender constructions raised by photographic practice. It also will help to understand the factors contributing to the limited  access of Portuguese women to this practice and the lack of their public visibility, during this period.

Beyond Overcoming: A Woman Writer’s Articulation of Pain in Socialist China

NAN Nü ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-336
Author(s):  
Daniela Licandro
Keyword(s):  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Party State ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Status Of Women

Abstract Feminist inquiries into the status of women in Mao-era China have shed light on the challenges women experienced in their double role as producers and reproducers in the nascent socialist state. Less is known about how women lived up to expectations of (re)productivity while struggling with illness. Drawing on gender studies, literary studies, history, and the history of medicine, this article examines articulations of pain in the diaries that writer Yang Mo (1914-95) kept between 1945 and 1982, and published in 1985, to explore intersections among normative configurations of pain, gender politics, and identity construction in socialist China. Yang’s diaries show that the narrative of pain is fundamentally shaped by cultural and political discourses of “overcoming” physical and ideological shortcomings – discourses that the party-state upheld to transform the Chinese people into physically-fit, ideologically-correct socialist citizens. Within this context, this study focuses on Yang’s embodied experience to reveal both the empowering potential of these discourses and their inherent limits.

Hawthorne on Romantic Love and the Status of Women

PMLA ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-98
Author(s):  
Morton Cronin
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Love ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Hester Prynne ◽  
Status Of Women

The women that Hawthorne created divide rather neatly into three groups. Such fragile creatures as Alice Pyncheon and Priscilla, who are easily dominated by other personalities, form one of these groups. Another is made up of bright, self-reliant, and wholesome girls, such as Ellen Langton, Phoebe, and Hilda. The third consists of women whose beauty, intellect, and strength of will raise them to heroic proportions and make them fit subjects for tragedy. Hester Prynne, Zenobia, and Miriam—these women are capable of tilting with the world and risking their souls on the outcome. With them in particular Hawthorne raises and answers the question of the proper status of women in society and the relation, whether subordinate or superior, that love should bear to the other demands that life makes upon the individual. With the other types Hawthorne fills out his response to that question.

scholarly journals Examining Asghar Ali Engineer’s Qur’anic Interpretation of Women in Islam

2007 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-414
Author(s):  
M. Agus Nuryatno
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Metaphorical Language ◽  
Women In Islam ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Sociocultural Background ◽  
Fundamental Values ◽  
Status Of Women

This article discusses Asghar Ali Engineer’s interpretation of women in Islam. Two topics discussed in this article are the status of women in Islam and the veil. Engineer offers an approach in understanding the Qur’an to deal with these topics and his method is based on three principles: firstly, the Qur’an has two ingredients: normative and contextual. Normative ingredient refers to the fundamental values and principles of Qur’an such as equality and justice, and these principles are eternal and can be applied in various social contexts. Contextual revelations, on the other hand, deal with verses that were tailored to socio-historical problems of the time. In line with the changes in context and time these verses can be abrogated. Secondly, the interpretation of the Quranic verses is very dependent on one’s own perceptions, world-view, experiences and the sociocultural background in which he/she lives. Thus, a ‘pure’ interpretation of the Scripture is not possible; it is always influenced by sociological circumstances, no one can be free of such influences. Thirdly, the meaning of the Quranic verses unfolds with times, therefore, the interpretations of classical scholars can be radically different from the interpretation of modern scholars. This is because Quranic verses often use symbolic or metaphorical language that is ambiguous in meaning. This ambiguity serves, of course, to promote flexibility and creative change. These three principles can be employed to understand the status of women in Islam and the veil.

scholarly journals Global Middle Ages ou as virtudes do anacronismo. A lição do texto medieval

2019 ◽  
Vol 02 ◽  
pp. 117-149
Author(s):  
Carlos Carreto
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Medieval Literature ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literature Mapping ◽  
History Of Literature

Has the Middle Ages invented globalization or revealed a clear consciousness of globality? On the other hand, may this anachronistic notion prove to be an appropriate and productive operative and analytical concept for rethinking medieval literature beyond its territorial and linguistic boundaries and the epistemological view of the world imposed by a (neo)positivist conception of the history of literature? Mapping the medieval literature in a global perspective implies a methodological repositioning and a process of deterritorialization of the concepts themselves that leads us to reinvest motives, forms, structuring notions (from the chivalric queste to the concept of romance as translatio, passing through the status of the marvelous) with new meanings and, consequently, new cultural and poetic implications.

scholarly journals The Boundaries of Funniness and the Dilution of Audience Identity in the Musical-Dramatic Art

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-82
Author(s):  
Viktor L. Levchenko ◽  
Nina I. Kovalova
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Museum Exhibits ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
European Theatre ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The One

This paper sets out to examine the transformation of comedy in the history of European theatre. Musical performance extends the semiotic space of the original genre into a field of fluid and open meanings and signs incorporating and suggesting many interpretations, some of which are ironic. It is argued in contemporary aesthetics that, on the one hand, art cannot exist without a discourse interpreting it, while on the other, there exists the demand to avoid interpretation, which at once legitimizes the aesthetic effect and castrates the object of art. Provocation is used as an instrument for solving the problems of observing the object of art in a new way and understanding modern reality, and provocation is not complete without irony and self-irony. Wit, irony, and comicality are transformed as fitting into the style of the absurd and deconstructing the border between the funny and the serious. The purpose of such provocations is to put the viewer into a position of uncertainty and aesthetic shock, and this stupor inexorably leads the beholder to encounter the object of art and nurtures a new understanding of their own self. This clash of the spectator’s viewpoint created by provocative shows dispossesses theatre productions of the status of “museum exhibits”. This paper will examine the organicness of elements of the laughter culture and comic devices for musical and dramatic theatre.

scholarly journals To complications of pregnancy and childbirth with cervical cancer

1897 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-93
Author(s):  
S. Yu. Khazan
Keyword(s):  
Cervical Cancer ◽  
Uterine Cancer ◽  
The Other ◽  
Normal Delivery ◽  
Pregnancy And Childbirth ◽  
Normal Term ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of

The author recounts the history of two cases of uterine cancer he observed, in one of which the cancer was diagnosed in the seventh week of pregnancy and the uterus was successfully removed through the vagina. In the other case, although the delivery occurred at a normal term, it was a slow but completely normal delivery. Based on the literature, the author outlines the status of this disorder as a complication of pregnancy and childbirth.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Faisal Devji ◽  
Zaheer Kazmi
Keyword(s):  
Church And State ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Litmus Test ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Status Of Women

The relationship between Islam and liberalism has been a subject of scholarly as much as popular debate for at least a century and a half. Its progress sometimes hailed and at other times found wanting, this relationship has been marked by the unchanging and even stereotypical terms in which it has been debated, including issues such as the separation of church and state, the status of women and the rights of non-Muslims. Each of these issues serves as a litmus test to measure the liberalism of Muslim individuals as well as societies, and each is also drawn from the real or imagined history of liberalism in Europe. However, as a historical and variable phenomenon, liberalism does not in fact possess a normative definition but constitutes a family of shifting and overlapping ideas having to do with the freedoms of property and contract, speech and movement, or of rights and representation....

“I’ll Dance for You, I’ll Dance for Me, I’ll Dance for the Sake of Dancingˮ

Hawwa ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Dorit Gottesfeld
Keyword(s):  
West Bank ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Status Of Women

Abstract This article examines ʿAtaba thaqīlat al-rūḥ (“Threshold of heavy spirit,” 2011), a novel by the new generation West Bank writer Māyā Abū l-Ḥayāt, who is considered one of the prominent new generation Palestinian West Bank writers, in which diverse and unique use of a dance motif is found. The article reviews the history of dance in Arab society and the meanings that it had in the past and currently has in Arab society and culture. It illustrates how Abū l-Ḥayāt uses each of these meanings throughout her novel in order to reveal the female soul and the status of women in Arab society. The article shows how Abū l-Ḥayāt incorporates this motif into her novel in a unique and original way, thus exposing woman’s yearning for freedom, creating a new feminine language and undermining accepted norms.

Women’s Rights in Islamic Shari’a: Between Interpretation, Culture and Politics

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Dina Mansour
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
The Status ◽  
International Human ◽  
Human Rights Norms ◽  
Free Women ◽  
Status Of Women

AbstractThis article analyses existing biases – whether due to misinterpretation, culture or politics – in the application of women’s rights under Islamic Shari’a law. The paper argues that though in its inception, one purpose of Islamic law may have aimed at elevating the status of women in pre-Islamic Arabia, biases in interpreting such teachings have failed to free women from discrimination and have even added “divinity” to their persistent subjugation. By examining two case studies – Saudi Arabia and Egypt – the article shows that interpretative biases that differ in application from one country to the other further subject women to the selective application of rights. Dictated by norms, culture and tradition rather than a unified Islamic law, the paper shows how culture and politics have contributed to such biases under the pre-text of Islamic dictate. As such, it proposes a re-examination of “personal status” laws across the region in light of international human rights norms.

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