A History of Things That Did Not Happen: The Life and Work of Two Fictitious Hungarian Women Authors

Aspasia ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beata Hock
Keyword(s):  
Women Authors ◽  
History Of

From Culturazing Nature to Naturalizing Culture: The Differing Function of Animal Imagery in Defining Bodies from Homer’s Odysseus to Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Begüm Tuğlu
Keyword(s):  
Primary Sources ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Male Voice ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Animal Imagery ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
History Of

Feminist authors have long been trying to alter the patriarchal structure of the Western society through different aspects. One of these aspects, if not the strongest, is the struggle to overcome centuries long dominance of male authors who have created a masculine history, culture and literature. As recent works of women authors reveal, the strongest possibility of actually achieving an equalitarian society lies beneath the chance of rewriting the history of Western literature. Since the history of Western literature relies on dichotomies that are reminiscences of modernity, the solution to overcome the inequality between the two sexes seems to be to rewrite the primary sources that have influenced the cultural heritage of literature itself. The most dominant dichotomies that shape this literary heritage are represented through the bonds between the concepts of women/man and nature/culture. As one of the most influential epics that depict these dichotomies, Homer's Odysseus reveals how poetry strengthens the authority of the male voice. In order to define the ideal "man", Homer uses a wide scope of animal imagery while forming the identities of male characters. Margaret Atwood, on the other hand, is not contended with Homer's poem in that it never narrates the story from the side of women. As a revisionist mythmaker, Atwood takes the famous story of Odysseus, yet this time presents it from the perspective of Penelope, simultaneously playing on the animal imagery. Within this frame, I intend to explore in this paper how the animal imagery in Homer's most renowned Odysseus functions as a reinforcing tool in the creation of masculine identities and how Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad defies this formation of identities with the aim of narrating the story from the unheard side, that of the women who are eminently present yet never heard.

scholarly journals ‘Dancing through the Minefield’: Canon Reinstatement Strategies for Women Authors

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-67
Author(s):  
Reghina Dascăl
Keyword(s):  
Women Authors ◽  
Edward Ii ◽  
History Of ◽  
Biographical Criticism ◽  
Tragedy Of Mariam

Abstract The paper explores the limiting and detrimental effects of biographical criticism and exceptionalism in the efforts of reinstating women authors into the Renaissance canon, by looking into the literary merits of Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry and The History of The Life, Reign and Death of Edward II. Whereas the conflation of biography and fiction is a successful recipe for canonization and for the production of feminist icons, it renders the text impotent because of its resulting inability to compete with or to be seen in correlation and interplay with other contemporary texts.

scholarly journals Del reconeixement a la comunicació científica. La presència de la dona als Premis Nacionals d''Investigació (1982–2019).

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús Segarra Saavedra ◽  
Tatiana Hidalgo Marí ◽  
Victoria Tur Viñes
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
H Index ◽  
Dissemination Of Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

Objective. This study analyses the history of the "Premios Nacionales de Investigación", a suite of awards for scientific research organised by the Spanish government, from the creation of the first awards in 1982 to 2019 and from the perspective of gender, in order to identify differences and similarities between the awards given to men and to women. Methodology. The study describes and compares the awards using the five indicators award name, area of research, recipient, recipient gender and award money. To determine the scope, visibility and impact of the awards, the study also examines the award winners' presence in Google Scholar using the four indicators presence, citations, h-index and i10-index. Results. The overall results reveal a persistent and pronounced gender gap. Of the 113 awards granted in the period under study, 102 (92.3%) went to men, and of the 1,340,649 citations counted in Google Scholar, only 4.7% were of women authors. The study concludes that women are clearly under-represented in Spain's national awards for scientific research, although when the data are related to visibility in Google Scholar, the results regarding the dissemination of research by women is more promising.

scholarly journals Reading Black Female Voices in Spain: Towards a translation history of African American women’s literature

2021 ◽  
pp. 245-264
Author(s):  
Sandra Llopart Babot
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Women's Literature ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
American Women Writers ◽  
American Women ◽  
Main Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
African American Women Writers

This paper presents a descriptive approach to the reception of African American women’s literature in Spain through the study of its translation history. In this context, the first part of the paper describes the endeavor of developing AfroBib, a bibliographical tool that compiles exhaustive data about translations of African American women authors published in Spain. The second part of the paper discusses the translation history of African American women’s literature in the target country based on the statistical analysis of the data provided by our main research tool. The results display clear evidence of the increase in the circulation of African American women’s works and illustrate a complex network of social and literary factors that have influenced choices and strategies governing the translation of African American women writers in the country. This study offers unprecedented data, thereby holding out the prospect of encouraging parallel research lines.

scholarly journals Del reconocimiento a la comunicación científica. La presencia de la mujer en los Premios Nacionales de Investigación (1982–2019).

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús Segarra Saavedra ◽  
Tatiana Hidalgo Marí ◽  
Victoria Tur Viñes
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
H Index ◽  
Dissemination Of Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

Objective. This study analyses the history of the "Premios Nacionales de Investigación", a suite of awards for scientific research organised by the Spanish government, from the creation of the first awards in 1982 to 2019 and from the perspective of gender, in order to identify differences and similarities between the awards given to men and to women. Methodology. The study describes and compares the awards using the five indicators award name, area of research, recipient, recipient gender and award money. To determine the scope, visibility and impact of the awards, the study also examines the award winners' presence in Google Scholar using the four indicators presence, citations, h-index and i10-index. Results. The overall results reveal a persistent and pronounced gender gap. Of the 113 awards granted in the period under study, 102 (92.3%) went to men, and of the 1,340,649 citations counted in Google Scholar, only 4.7% were of women authors. The study concludes that women are clearly under-represented in Spain's national awards for scientific research, although when the data are related to visibility in Google Scholar, the results regarding the dissemination of research by women is more promising.

scholarly journals Dysmenorrhea among students in Yaounde, Cameroon: associated factors and socio-cultural aspects

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 3339
Author(s):  
Jeanne Hortence Fouedjio ◽  
Florent Ymele Fouelifack ◽  
Jovanny Tsuala Fouogue ◽  
Lionel Etame ◽  
Loic Dongmo Fouelifa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Social Stress ◽  
P Value ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control

Background: Dysmenorrhea is very common disorder. It affects the quality of life and is the main cause of school absenteeism’s among teenagers. The goal of this study was to determine socio-cultural aspects of dysmenorrhea among students in Yaounde and factors associated with it.Methods: Authors carried out a cross sectional analytic study in 2 secondary schools and a higher institute in Yaounde, from December 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018 (7 months). Authors included all students aged at least 15, in form 5 and above. In the higher institute, sampling was consecutive, while it was stratified into 2 clusters in the secondary schools.  Odds ratios were determined to assess association between variables and P-value ˂0.05 was considered significant.Results: Of the 1059 participants, 800 had dysmenorrhea (prevalence: 75.5%). Mean age was 18.88±3.62 years (range: 15-45 years). Family history of dysmenorrhea (OR: 4.20 (95% CI: 3.02-5.83)) and stress ((OR: 2.16 (95% CI: 1.55 - 3.02)) were significantly associated with dysmenorrhea. A duration of menses ≤3 days was protective ((OR: 0.31 (95% CI: 0.12-0.82)). Dysmenorrhea remains a taboo for 23.6% of participants.Conclusions: Family history of dysmenorrhea and stress are risk factors for dysmenorrhea which remains a taboo for almost a fourth of affected women. Authors recommend educating women about dysmenorrhea and control psycho-social stress.

scholarly journals M.N. MAKAROV’s “MATERIALS FOR THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN WOMEN-AUTHORS”

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-502
Author(s):  
N.N. Puryaeva
Keyword(s):  
Women Authors ◽  
History Of ◽  
Female Writers

The article discusses a series of publications which appeared in 1830 in “The Ladies’ Magazine” and were dedicated to Russian female writers and translators. The article analyzes the structure of publications, outlines a possible range of sources on which Makarov relied, characterizes the place of Makarov’s "Materials" in the codification of female literature.

Oman

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Michalak-Pikulska ◽  
Waïl S. Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Women's Literature ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter traces the origins of the novelistic tradition in Oman. It first considers the history of prose writing in Oman, focusing on the undisputed pioneer of Omani fiction, ‘Abd Allah al-Ṭ ā’ī (1927–1973). It then discusses the works of major contemporary novelists such as Sayf bin Sa‘īd al-Sa‘dī and Su‘ūd bin Sa‘d al-Muẓaffar. The chapter explores some of the themes used in the Omani novel, including social changes, the perceived loss of moral values, and the relationship between city and countryside. It also discusses the beginning of Omani women’s literature and the contributions of women authors such as Emily Ruete, Badriyya al-Shiḥ ḥ ī’s, Jūkha al-Ḥ ārthī, and Ghāliya F. T. Āl Sa‘īd.

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