Molière and Modernity: Absent Mothers and Masculine Births

2006 ◽  
Vol 101 (4) ◽  
pp. 1115
Author(s):  
Marie-Claude Canova-Green ◽  
Larry Riggs
Keyword(s):  
Absent Mothers

Discourses in accounts of rape by sex offenders in Limpopo province, South Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 008124632096055
Author(s):  
Mandu Selepe ◽  
Graham Lindegger ◽  
Kaymarlin Govender
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Dress Code ◽  
Sexual Offences ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Sex Offences ◽  
The Government ◽  
Sexual Power ◽  
Absent Mothers

South Africa is known for having the highest number of sexual violence cases in the world. In response to these reports, the government has declared rape as a priority crime, and various measures have been put in place to address this scourge. Despite these measures, rape statistics have continued to escalate. It is against this background that this study sought to explore accounts of sexual offences, particularly reports of rape, from a sample of sex offenders. Data were drawn from five Correctional Centres in the Limpopo province. Nineteen sex offenders were selected through a purposive sampling approach and interviewed face-to-face. Discourse analysis was used to identify and analyse the patterns of talk that sex offenders drew upon to account for their sex offences. Findings revealed that ‘blame’ was the most dominant discourse cited. The ‘rhetoric of blame’ revolved around uncontained sexual desires, sexual entitlement, absent mothers, provocative dress code by women, and unfair laws that discriminated men when they asserted their sexual power in relationships with women. Multi-sectoral intervention strategies are recommended for deconstructing blame discourses that perpetuate rape offences in South Africa.

scholarly journals The Mother, Who Is Not One: Reflections Of Motherhood In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet, The Tempest, And The Taming Of The Shrew

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-47
Author(s):  
HATICE KARAMAN
Keyword(s):  
Female Subjectivity ◽  
Romeo And Juliet ◽  
The Tempest ◽  
Mother Figure ◽  
Absent Mothers

Abstract The lack of proper motherhood in Shakespeare's plays has been a point of attraction for many feminist critics actively engaged in emphasizing the patriarchal aspect of Shakespeare's plays. This paper aims to analyze motherhood and the lack of mother/mother-figure in The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew through Luce Irigaray's theory of gender and the work of other feminist critics. The issues of gender, father-daughter relations and the reflections of the absent mothers will be discussed. Male/Female Subjectivity will also be questioned, in view of Irigaray's conceptualization of gender by relating it to Subject.

ABSENT MOTHERS BY CHOICE:

2021 ◽  
pp. 143-166
Author(s):  
Susanne Moraw
Keyword(s):  
Absent Mothers

scholarly journals Narrare per esistere: la (in)visibilità della maternità nella letteratura italiana contemporanea

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
Maria Reyes Ferrer
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Italian Literature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
Letteratura Italiana ◽  
Absent Mothers ◽  
Female Experience

From the second half of the 20th century, the issue of women’s writing has been of considerable interest in literary studies, highlighting the need to know women as writers and as literary subjects, in order to understand female experience first-hand. This approach to written texts is based on two fundamental aspects of study: women as writers and the representation of women in the text. This has made it possible to examine how women are represented and what topics women writers prefer, for example, motherhood, a literary topos par excellence in Italian literature. Despite this, although motherhood is present in numerous works, the voices of actual mothers are largely absent: mothers and motherhood are in fact narrated from the point of view of daughters. In view of that, there are two main aims of this study: (1) to examine the possible reasons for the absence of the mother’s point of view and (2) to analyze some contemporary Italian literarature narrated by mothers themselves.

scholarly journals Of absent mothers, strong sisters and peculiar daughters: the constructional network of English NPN constructions

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lotte Sommerer ◽  
Andreas Baumann
Keyword(s):  
American English ◽  
Theoretical Modeling ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Acquisition Process ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
General Schema ◽  
Skin To Skin ◽  
Absent Mothers ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Cognitive Plausibility

Abstract This paper analyzes symmetric NPN constructions (e.g., day to day, face to face, step by step) qualitatively and quantitatively by examining data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies, Mark. 2008–. The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA): 570 million words, 1990–present. http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/). The constructions’ frequency and productivity, as well as their semantics and extension potential (i.e., modification, complementation) is investigated (e.g., by conducting collostructional analysis). In terms of theoretical modeling, the paper takes a Usage-based, Cognitive Construction Grammar approach (UCCxG) and sketches the constructional network of this constructional family, postulating various constructional templates on different levels of specificity – among others – the existence of the following subtypes [CNsg,time i after CNsg,time i]Cx (e.g., day after day, night after night), [CNsg,measurement i by CNsg,measurement i]Cx (e.g., inch by inch, step by step) or [CNsg,bodypart i to CNsg,bodypart i]Cx (e.g., skin to skin, shoulder to shoulder). We show how these templates are vertically and horizontally connected to each other. Ultimately, we argue that in a usage-based model which strives for cognitive plausibility it is not always feasible to postulate the entrenchment of an abstract overarching schema (i.e., a ‘mothernode’) like [CNi P CNi]Cx or even [N P N]Cx high up in the network. It is unlikely that speakers abstract such a general schema in a bottom-up acquisition process for this family. Rather, the NPN group is a constructional family characterized by many sister ties and by the absence of mother nodes from which information can be inherited.

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