scholarly journals Notes on Penthesilea: The marks of a past of female heroism

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-294
Author(s):  
Samantha Da Silva Diefenthaeler
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Additional Item ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Women In Cinema ◽  
Representations Of Women

The goal of this paper is to construct an image map that will allow us to understand archetypes characteristics that accompany heroic representations of women in cinema. We will begin with the myth of Penthesilea, an Amazon queen whose tragic loss of feminine power will then guide us in the search for new archetypal deflections. We believe the archetype of Penthesilea signifies new leak points in representation of power as connected to the feminine. To prove that will be one of the main goals of this paper. We insist on highlighting that the images associated with the description of this character are allied to a structure linked with a kind of force and power commonly related to the male. Penthesilea bears the mark of an essentially solar/diurnal heroism, in which love will configure as an additional item that makes the characters confront each other violently. The result of this analysis will be a visual trajectory from a moment in the past that connects to contemporary representations of feminine heroism.

Disruptions of the Local, Eruptions of the Feminine: Local Reportage and National Anxieties in Egypt’s 1890s

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Booth
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Female Images ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Advocacy Role ◽  
Representations Of Women ◽  
Gendered Expectations

This chapter demonstrates that inscriptions of female images in Cairo’s late nineteenth-century nationalist press were part of a discursive economy shaping debates on how gender roles and gendered expectations should shift as Egyptians struggled for independence. The chapter investigates content and placement of ‘news from the street’ in al-Mu’ayyad in the 1890s, examining how these terse local reports – equivalent to faits divers in the French press – contributed to the construction of an ideal national political trajectory with representations of women serving as the primary example in shaping a politics of newspaper intervention on the national scene. In this, an emerging advocacy role of newspaper correspondents makes the newspaper a mediator in the construction of activist reader-citizens.

Performing Gender and Political Recognition: Israeli Reform Jewish Life-cycle Rituals

2020 ◽  
pp. 089124162096826
Author(s):  
Elazar Ben-Lulu
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Political Performance ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Reform Jewish ◽  
Cultural Constructions ◽  
Jewish Religion

Anthropologists see life-cycle rituals as a significant way to understand gender roles and identities in religious communities. While in the past, these compulsory rituals involved a significant change in a person’s social status, today many of their traditional features have been transformed. This ethnographic inquiry examines Bat Mitzvah ceremonies (coming of age rituals for girls) in Israeli Reform Jewish congregations. By including new blessings, appropriating masculine religious symbols, and creating new bodily gestures, the feminine life-cycle ritual challenges the traditional Jewish laws and contemporary socio-cultural constructions of the Israeli Jewish community. The exclusion of the Israeli Reform community from mainstream Jewish religion turns this ritual into a subversive act that battles local Jewish Orthodoxy authority. The ceremony is a political performance, which positions the Reform congregations as an activist religious agent for gender equality in the Israeli public space.

“It Never Happened”: The Perpetuation of Female Powerlessness and Male Superiority in Nigerian Christian Films

Imbizo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bimbola Oluwafunlola Idowu-Faith
Keyword(s):  
Gender Issues ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
Social Oppression ◽  
The Past ◽  
Textual Representations ◽  
Divine Retribution ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Male Superiority

The feminine image, as a gendered discourse, requires attention to ethical and gender details so that its textual representations do not promote biases and discriminations but rather counter them. While previous studies have investigated the gendering of the feminine figure in secular Nollywood, few have extended similar investigations to Nigerian Christian/evangelical films. This article attends to this gap with the feminist stylistic/textual analysis of Tumini’s Song (2005) and Never Happened (2008). Chronicling the lives of girls who defy a childhood characterised by abuse and social oppression and grow into womanhood defined by personal fulfilment and the erasure of the past because of their Christian faith, it is implied that the two films advocate sociocultural conditions in which vulnerable females have a right to life and self-fulfilment. However, because the films are sermon films that intend to teach the doctrines of forgiveness and divine retribution, they neither formulate appropriate responses to the breaches of women’s rights nor counter women’s constant vulnerability. Consequently, the films perpetuate female powerlessness and male superiority rather than countering these dynamics. This article concludes that Christian films may need to pay attention to ethical and gender issues alongside their intent to proselytise.

scholarly journals Oscuras quimeras: metamorfosis e híbridos humano-animal en algunos textos de literatura hispanoamericana contemporánea

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
Ilaria Stefani
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Patriarchal Family ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Identity Concept ◽  
Human Animal

RESUMEN: Este estudio se propone investigar las distintas formas de construcción de identidades posthumanas a partir del elemento arquetípico de la metamorfosis y del híbrido humano-animal. Estas nuevas figuraciones rescatan una perspectiva acerca de lo animal procedente de un imaginario premoderno para deconstruir las categorías que han definido el sujeto humano a partir de la modernidad europea. En algunos textos publicados en los últimos veinte años, la mezcla entre especies plantea un nuevo concepto de identidad: por un lado, se examina cómo el devenir-animal se acompaña a la emancipación de la figura femenina y a la deconstrucción de la idea de familia patriarcal; por el otro, se exploran las conjunciones entre el híbrido humano-animal y el cyborg.   ABSTRACT: This article aims to study the different ways of shaping posthuman identities, which originates from archetypical metamorphoses and human-animal hybrids. This new imaginary rescues a premodern perspective about the animal, in order to dismantle the boundaries that have defined the human subject since the European modern age. In some books published in the past twenty years, the interspecies encounter outlines a new identity concept. Firstly, the article examines how the becoming-animal concept merges with the feminine subject’s emancipation, as well as with the deconstruction of the patriarchal family structure; secondly, it explores the conjunctions between human-animal hybrids and cyborgs.

The Raven and the White Dove

2021 ◽  
pp. 285-300
Author(s):  
Emilia Ivancu
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Status ◽  
Representations Of Women

Starting with mid-19th century, song collecting in Brittany has remained important especially as the status of the Breton language depreciated in favour of French. Today the traditional Breton ballads (gwerziou) are an important instrument of remembering and understanding of both the past of the Breton people, and of their culture, as well as treasure of folk Breton language. The present chapter aims at analysing the representations of women in the traditional Breton ballads, ranging from witches, such as in Janik Kokard's leprotic lover, sinners such as Mari Kelen or saints like Bertet, Virgin Mary's kind midwife, all with the end of understanding the engines that led to (un)customary representations in which the woman is portrayed as both by the gaze of male sovereignty and the restrictions and projections of Catholicism.

scholarly journals The Use of Politeness Strategies in Whatsapp Discussions about Sensitive Topics

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Junita Junita
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sensitive Topics ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Politeness Strategies

The studies about language use in the past several years showed the existence of gender inequalities. According to Lakoff (1975), women are pressured to show the feminine qualities of weakness and frequently subordinate status toward men in a male-dominated society. However, nowadays, women's position in society is equal to men's position. The evidence that women are now equal to men invites the writer to study men's and women's language features and the politeness strategies used by men and women, especially in CMC (Computer-Mediated Communication). This study was a Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) study used to describe the meaning of qualitative data systematically. The result did not align with the previous studies: it showed that women were also aggressive when giving an argument, and politeness strategies were not the most used in the forum discussion; it was bald of record instead. In sum, Herring's (1993) features of women's and men's language were not valid in this study, and some of them need to be revised. Further studies about politeness strategies in CMC should be explored more.

scholarly journals The bodies of Zuzanna Ginczanka

Tekstualia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (57) ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Kumala
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
Social Body ◽  
The Past ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Ambiguous Position

The article focuses on the representations of the body in Zuzanna Ginczanka’s poetry. There are four crucial poetic constructions in this respect that need to be properly contextualized: the Jewish body (Ginczanka’s beauty and stigma, her legendary eyes), the lyrical body (the feminine origin of her poetry, its erotic, emancipatory character, the meaning of victim and revenge themes), the individual and the social body (the ways of shaping her identity and some of her key performative gestures), and, fi nally, the visual body (the poet’s public image in the past and now). Aside from Bożena Keff’s and Agata Araszkiewicz’s discussions of Jewishness in Ginczanka’s poetry, the article refers to Erving Goffman’s, Jean-Paul Sartre’s and Richard Schechner’s theories to illuminate the complex mechanisms behind Zuzanna Ginczanka’s ambiguous position in the literary and cultural discourse through the years.

Women and the Making of Miami’s Heterosexual Culture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio Capó
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Sexual Liberation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
A Site

This chapter unearths the queer origins of what became normative heterosexuality by locating fairyland’s distinct promotion of transgressive, white, and predominantly middle-class women’s bodies in the 1920s and 1930s. Urban promoters aggressively marketed a fairyland that touted the arrival of a new modern woman who was simultaneously white, moneyed, attractive, and available. The modern and scantily clad “Miami mermaid” became a commodity that permitted urban boosters to continue promoting the area as a fairyland for gender and sexual renegades. While sexual liberation became normative through processes that emphasized women’s ultimate submission to a man and their collective whiteness, the chapter makes clear that these women laid claims to their own bodies and sexualities in significant and extraordinarily queer ways that abandoned the feminine propriety of the past. Middle-class men responded to these changes with a recharged hetero-masculine sense of self undergirded by an articulation of white superiority. Indeed, the marketing of Miami as a site for heterosexual romance and tourism also depended on the city’s proximity to the Caribbean, particularly Cuba.

Women, Gender and Colonialism: Rethinking the History of the British Cape Colony and its Frontier Zones, c. 1806–70

1996 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Bradford
Keyword(s):  
Women And Gender ◽  
Imperial History ◽  
Slave Rebellion ◽  
Gender Differentiation ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Colonial Encounter ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Representations Of Women

That many studies in African and imperial history neglect women and gender is a commonplace. Using a case-study – the British Cape Colony and its frontier zones – this article attempts to demonstrate some consequences of this neglect. It argues, firstly, that it generates empirical inaccuracies as a result of the insignificance accorded to gender differentiation and to women themselves. Secondly, representations of women as unimportant, and men as ungendered, result in flawed analysis of both men and the colonial encounter. This view is argued in detail for two events: an 1825 slave rebellion and an 1856–7 millenarian movement. The article concludes that if gender and half the adult populace are marginalized in this way, the price is frequently interpretations which have limited purchase on the past.

scholarly journals Representations of Women in Tudor Historiography: John Bale and the Rhetoric of Exemplarity

1998 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krista Kesselring
Keyword(s):  
John Bale ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Role ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anne Askew ◽  
Representations Of Women

The writings of Anne Askew and the Princess Elizabeth have received attention as two of a small number of published works by women in the Tudor period. The lengthy additions and glosses of their editor, John Bale, have garnered much less notice. Bale appropriated these writings for the use of protestant polemic, and presented their authors as exemplary historical agents worthy of emulation by men and women alike. By situating these two women in his apocalyptic rewriting of the past, he created for women a place in the new protestant history of the realm. The struggle of the True and the False Churches provided for Bale a fluid situation in which women might be required to assume behaviours typically labeled masculine; he used these writings, and the sanction of historical precedent, to advocate an active, public role for educated women.

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