The Religious Roots of the Feminine Identity Issue: Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel and Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing

1987 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-31
Author(s):  
Evelyn J. Hinz
Keyword(s):  
Feminine Identity ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Identity Issue

scholarly journals A Quest for Identity - A Feminist Approach in Manju Kapur’s Home

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
S. Shobana
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Feminine Identity ◽  
Indian Family ◽  
Female Hero ◽  
Search For Self ◽  
The Feminine

The paper aims to research the search for self-identity and feminism in Manju Kapur's Home. Home is a masterful novel of the acts of kindness, compromise, and secrecy that lies at the center of each family. The novel, narrate of Indian family life spans three generations whose destiny and dreams are pasted to the Banwarilal cloth shop.  Nisha the protagonist has got to struggle for establishing her identity and to survive during this male-dominated world.  In Indian society, women have never been acknowledged as a person outside their              pre-destined roles of a woman, daughter, and mother.  The female hero of Home tries to free herself of ‘dependence syndrome' thrust upon her by the agents of social organization. The paper focuses on the journey of the feminine protagonist, Nisha towards individuality and self-identity and don't wish to be seen as a self-sacrificing rubber-doll. She had to struggle for her existence as, like different heroines of Manju Kapur, she is within the transformation to innovate the search of autonomy and feminine identity.  

scholarly journals Perspectivas de género en las canciones a través de los libros de textos musicales en Educación Primaria / Gender Perspectives on Nursery Rhymes Through Music Textbooks for Primary Education

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Desirée García Gil ◽  
Begoña Lizaso Azcune
Keyword(s):  
Primary Education ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Feminine Identity ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Female Stereotypes ◽  
Publishing Houses ◽  
Gender Perspectives ◽  
Music Specialist ◽  
Educación Primaria ◽  
Textual Content

ABSTRACTAlthough it is conceived as an eminently practical subject, frequently the music specialist in Primary Education supports his teaching on a book of text which holds a great part of the musical contents that the teacher offers to the group. Inside them, it can be observed a great amount of rhythmic and melodic exercises, listenings, theoretical explanations and activities for instruments or movement which the teacher articulates his own methodology on. Among them it is necessary to emphasize the use that the musical textbooks do of the infantile songs from a historical, "folkloric" or didactic origin, used to work with diverse procedures. However, what is the paper of the feminine identity inside those songs? According to his textual content, what role does woman occupy? Is it suitable to present in a society where the gender equality should be a top priority? The present proposal analyzes the female stereotypes contained in the infantile songs on the books of music of three of the main Spanish publishing houses: SM, Santillana and Anaya. From the study, conclusions will be able to be obtained about the exposition and transmission of the feminine model which nowadays is being implanted in the school.RESUMENAunque es concebida como una asignatura eminentemente práctica, frecuentemente el especialista de música en Educación Primaria apoya su docencia en un libro de texto sobre el que sustenta gran parte de los contenidos musicales que ofrece al grupo. En ellos, pueden observarse una gran cantidad de ejercicios rítmicos, melódicos, audiciones, explicaciones teóricas y actividades para instrumentos o movimiento sobre los que articula su propia metodología. Entre ellos cabe destacar el uso que los libros de texto musicales hacen de las canciones infantiles de procedencia histórica, folclórica o didácticas, empleadas para trabajar con diversos procedimientos. Ahora bien, ¿cuál es el papel de la identidad femenina dentro de esas canciones? ¿según su contenido textual, qué rol ocupa la mujer? ¿es apropiado para presentarlo en una sociedad dónde debe primar la igualdad de género? La presente propuesta analiza los estereotipos femeninos contenidos en las canciones infantiles de los libros de música de tres de las principales editoriales españolas: SM, Santillana y Anaya. A partir del estudio se podrán obtener conclusiones sobre el planteamiento y transmisión del modelo femenino que actualmente se está implantando en la escuela.

scholarly journals Wysokie obcasy i konstrukcje tożsamości kobiet. Dynamika asymetrii płciowej, seksualności i emancypacji

2019 ◽  
pp. 61-86
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Gromkowska-Melosik
Keyword(s):  
Feminine Identity ◽  
The Third ◽  
Main Thesis ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
High Heels ◽  
Women's Emancipation ◽  
Feminine Body

The article is devoted to the role of high heels in the construction of feminine identity. The various contexts of the main problem are analysed. The first one refers to the use of high heels as a confirmation of men’s domination over the feminine body, and identity. The second one is connected with sexual connotations of high heels. And the third one with the paradoxical use of the high heels as a source of women’s emancipation. The main thesis of the article is based on the assumption that every, even smallest feminine (or masculine) thing is involved into contradictory values and practical consequences.

scholarly journals Performing gender through stand-up comedy in Spanish

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonor Ruiz-Guerillo
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Group Boundaries ◽  
Feminine Identity ◽  
Stand Up Comedy ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Status ◽  
Feminist Humor ◽  
Gender Based

The aim of this paper is to examine Eva Hache’s humorous gender-based monologues, broadcast in the show El Club de la Comedia [The Comedy Club] in Spain between 2012 and 2013. The corpus comprises 24 Stand-up monologues, which have been analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The present paper offers a case study in three different ways. Firstly, an analysis of different humorous sequences makes it possible to distinguish a representation of both feminine and masculine identities, as well as a confrontation between the two genders. In fact, Eva Hache’s style supports the feminine identity and facilitates the teasing and mockery of men. Secondly, a polyphonic study of men as speakers (locutors) and utterers (Ducrot, 1986) will serve to differentiate certain features of their identity from a discursive perspective. Finally, a detailed examination of humorous sequences shows how these performative sequences can prove useful to maintain hierarchy, to reinforce an in-group, i.e. a women’s group, to solidify men’s group boundaries, and even to subvert gender normativity (Bing, 2004). As it will be demonstrated in our analysis, humorous markers and indicators play an important role in the construction of jab lines and the final punch line of these sequences. Furthermore, results show that there are few strategies aimed at challenging the status quo in this database, though they illustrate an ongoing movement towards a feminist humor that has been almost non-existent in Spain so far.

Feminism and psychoanalysis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Whitford
Keyword(s):  
Vantage Point ◽  
The Self ◽  
Luce Irigaray ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
Feminine Identity ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Scientific Status ◽  
The Status ◽  
Epistemological Basis

Broadly speaking, there have been two main types of philosophical response to psychoanalysis. The first sets out to assess the scientific status of Freud’s hypotheses; the second uses the insights of psychoanalytic theory to re-evaluate the status and foundations of philosophy. Feminists in philosophy have overwhelmingly adopted the second stance, which in practice turns the first on its head, since the epistemological basis of science itself becomes a problem from the vantage point of psychoanalytic accounts. Although in the popular imagination feminism and psychoanalysis are sworn enemies, and many feminists continue to be hostile to Freud, serious feminist engagement with psychoanalysis began with post-1970 feminism in the work of Juliet Mitchell, Luce Irigaray, Dorothy Dinnerstein and Nancy Chodorow. Feminists in philosophy turned to psychoanalysis in an attempt to understand what they perceived as the masculinism of philosophy and its attempt to exclude the feminine. Since psychoanalysis is specifically concerned with issues such as the formation of masculine and feminine identity at the level of the unconscious, it provides a framework for arguing that rationality and knowledge are always unconsciously gendered, thus challenging the self-proclaimed neutrality and universality of philosophy, a claim which feminists had come to see as increasingly suspect.

scholarly journals Bruxas Modernas: um estudo sobre identidade feminina entre praticantes de wicca

2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andréa Osório
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Feminine Identity ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Ritual Practices

Entre 1999 e 2000, estudou-se um grupo de bruxas praticantes de wicca. Este grupo é formado por uma maioria de mulheres, que se designam como bruxas. Operam dentro da idéia de uma bruxaria moderna que retoma características da bruxaria tradicional, mas sem a idéia de acusação ou malefício. A wicca utiliza concepções tradicionais sobre os gêneros, invertendo a valoração costumeiramente encontrada para ambos, dando ao feminino maior valor, o que se traduz na preeminência das mulheres em sua teologia e práticas rituais. A pesquisa de campo permitiu estabelecer um perfil para praticantes de wicca na área do Rio de Janeiro. Modern Witches: a study of feminine identity among wicca practitioners Abstract A group of witches practitioners of wicca has been studied between 1999 and 2000. This group is composed mostly by women who designate themselves as witches. They operate with a notion of modern witchcraft that appropriates some characteristics of traditional witchcraft, but not the idea of accusation or misdeed. The wicca also uses traditional gender conceptions, inverting the valuation of both genders usually found, giving the feminine a higher value, which is translated in the preeminence of women in its theology and ritual practices. Field research allowed the establishment of the profile of wicca practitioners in the Rio de Janeiro area.

scholarly journals Hermenêutica bíblica cristã: abordagem e implicações a partir da teologia feminista

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Tiago Dias de Souza, Flávio Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theology ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
Feminine Identity ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Times ◽  
Present Text

O presente texto aborda alguns aspectos referentes à hermenêutica bíblica cristã a partir da perspectiva da Teologia Feminista. Percebemos que dentro desta temática existem uma diversidade de perspectivas e uma multiplicidade de correntes que transitam dentro do tema. Não dá para falar de Teologia Feminista sem levar em consideração todos os pressupostos existentes, bem como sua atual composição. Assim, a Teologia Feminista nos convida a repensar as próprias crenças e fazer uma releitura que esteja de acordo com as necessidades de diversos grupos sociais. Embora paulatinamente tenha surgindo algumas linhas de pensamento dentro desta teologia, estas linhas de pensamento são correntes e/ou vertentes que contribuem para o fortalecimento do pensamento de que é preciso refletir/desconstruir a identidade feminina, pois esta identidade construída ao logo dos tempos não passa de uma construção patriarcal.The present text addresses some aspects related to Christian biblical hermeneutics from the perspective of Feminist Theology. We realize that within this theme there are a diversity of perspectives and a multiplicity of currents that move within the theme. We can’t speak of Feminist Theology without taking into account all the existing presuppositions, as well as its present composition. Thus, Feminist Theology invites us to rethink our own beliefs and rethink the needs of different social groups. Although some lines of thought have gradually emerged within this theology, these lines of thought are currents and/or strands which contribute to the strengthening of the thought that it is necessary to reflect/deconstruct the Feminine identity, since this identity built over the times is nothing more than a patriarchal construction.

scholarly journals The Eternal Quest for Feminine Identity: An Analysis of Isabel Allende’s Daughter of Fortune

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-60
Author(s):  
Anjely Aravindan
Keyword(s):  
Young Girl ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Feminine Identity ◽  
Male Domination ◽  
Equal Status ◽  
Unequal Treatment ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The World ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
To Come

The objective of this paper is to mirror the feminine quest for freedom, self-discovery, identity, revelation and the declaration of equal status along with their male counterparts in society. Hence, it does not justify the male domination which tries to establish a right to impose their will upon the fellow-creature. Feminism is a theory that investigates the various aspects of culture which are inherently patriarchal and the unequal treatment meted out to the women in the established sections of society. Isabel Allende’s Daughter of Fortune points out the various aspects of feminism through the portrayal of the hostile atmosphere where the women strive for their eternal quest for freedom and self-identity. The paper also intends to analyze and explain the transition of a young girl into a powerful woman figure which is indicative of the inner strength and power of the living spirit which is inherited in each woman. Eliza acts as a representative who stands against the constricting forces of patriarchy. This points out the ability of the woman to come out of their cocoons to explore the world. It asserts the value of every woman’s self-identity. The paper analyses how the “quest” of Eliza turns out to be the quest of the woman folk for genuine freedom and self-identity.

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