Quelle: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (2015) 47, S 174-183
Inhalt: Feminists, among others, have found Eve's representation in Milton's Paradise Lost problematic over the last centuries. Some of them consider Eve to be Adam’s inferior while others find traces of egalitarian relationship between them. This study uses Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson's Politeness Theory and applies it to the conversations between Adam and Eve prior to the Fall in order to address this issue. It is demonstrated in this article that, before the Fall, Eve always exercises less power than Adam except for a brief moment that she achieves equality.
A study of carter's The Snow Child in the light of Showalter's theories
Autor/in:
Aziz Mohammadi, Fatemeh
Quelle: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (2015) 48, S 133-137
Inhalt: Angela Carter was an English fiction writer and journalist. Her female protagonists often take an empowered roles where they rise up against oppression and fight for both sexual and political equality. The actions of these women are direct reflections of the feminist movement that took place in the 1970s. The concepts within this movement relating specifically to the ideologies of radical-libertarian feminist, and regarding the extent to which she promotes feminist due to her style, referred to as "Galm-Rock" feminism. Carter began experimenting with writing fairy tales in 1970, which coincided with the period of second wave feminism in the Unites States. The majority of Angela Carter's work revolve around a specific type of feminism, radical libertarian feminism and her critique of the patriarchal role that have been placed on women. In this article, the main concentrate is on heroine's internalized consciousness which echoes in their behavior. All of the female protagonists in carter's short stories; such as The Courtship of Mr. Lyon, The Tiger's Bride, The snow child and mainly in The Bloody chamber have similar characteristics with different conditions, in which they are represented in a very negative light with less than ideal roles. In these stories, the protagonist is a young girl who has many conflicts with love and desire. Carter attempts to encourage women to do something about this degrading representation.
Becomings: narrative entanglements and microsociology
Titelübersetzung:Künstlerisches Werden: narrative Verstrickungen und Mikrosoziologie
Autor/in:
Tamboukou, Maria
Quelle: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 16 (2015) 1, 18 S
Inhalt: "In diesem Beitrag befasse ich mich mit einem Experiment, in dessen Rahmen ich Künstlerinnen zu einer Ausstellung und einer Podiumsdiskussion während einer Soziologie-Tagung eingeladen habe. Die Künstlerinnen waren zuvor bereits für das feministische Forschungsprojekt 'In the Fold Between Life and Art, a Genealogy of Women Artists' interviewt worden. Die Ausstellung ermöglichte den Künstlerinnen, ihre Arbeiten einem akademischen Publikum vorzustellen, während sie bei der Podiumsdiskussion eingeladen waren, über ihr künstlerisches Werden zu berichten. Ausgehend von dem während der Konferenz gewonnenen Material reflektiere ich Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Verwendung von Erzählungen in mikrosoziologischen Untersuchungen. Theoretisch angelehnt an Hannah Arendt interessieren mich dabei insbesondere Bezüge und Spannungen zwischen Sozialem, Politischem und Kulturellen in der narrativen Forschung." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "In this article, I look back in an art/ research experiment of convening an exhibition of women artists and inviting them to a round-table discussion in the context of a sociological conference. The artists who took part in this event had been previously interviewed for a feminist research project, entitled 'In the Fold Between Life and Art, a Genealogy of Women Artists'. The conference exhibition gave the artists the opportunity to appear to an academic audience and present their work while the round-table discussion created a forum for a narrative event where all women were invited to recount stories of becoming an artist. In looking at this event I want to explore questions around the possibilities and limitations of narratives in microsociological inquiries. In following trails of Arendt's theorisation of stories, I explore connections and tensions between social, political and cultural entanglements in narrative research." (author's abstract)
Western feminist consciousness in Buchi Emecheta's The joys of motherhood
Autor/in:
Barfi, Zahra; Alaei, Sarieh
Quelle: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (2015) 42, S 12-20
Inhalt: Feminism is a collection of movements which struggles for women's rights. Focusing on gender as a basis of women's sexual oppression, feminist scholarship attempts to establish equal rights for women politically, economically, socially, personally, etc. The Joys of Motherhood highlights Buchi Emecheta's critical view toward colonialism and racism affecting Third world women's lives. Besides this, Emecheta goes further to display African women's invisibility and marginalization-which were out of sight for a long time-in terms of some aspects of Western feminist discourse. Her creative discourse, in this regard, casts further light upon the issue of gender oppression in African feminist study. Hence, this study attempts to examine the way in which Emecheta furthers Western feminist ideology.
Images von Gewicht: Soziale Bewegungen, Queer Theory und Kunst in den USA
Herausgeber/in:
Hieber, Lutz; Villa, Paula-Irene
Quelle: Bielefeld (Gender Studies), 2015. 262 S
Inhalt: Der Begriff der Postmoderne ist äußerst vielschichtig. Er bezieht sich auf eine sozialwissenschaftlich-politische Zeitdiagnose, versucht neuartige kulturelle Entwicklungen zu fassen und bezeichnet zudem ein heterogenes Diskurs-Feld. In diesem Band ist vor allem die US-amerikanische Counter Culture und der damit verknüpfte künstlerische Aktivismus von Interesse, der sich um queer identity politics und die damit verbundenen politischen Ziele - u.a. Reflexivierung und Politisierung von Sexualität - entfaltet hat. Das Buch stellt den kulturellen und intellektuellen Kontext vor, in dem sich seit einer Dekade in den USA die Queer Theory entwickelt hat. Die Queer Theory, als deren profilierteste Vertreterin Judith Butler gilt, stellt Sexualität und sexuelle Identitäten als eine Hauptachse sozial produzierter Differenzen ins Zentrum theoretischer und politischer Überlegungen. Der Band rückt eine zeit-historische Konstellation von Kunst, Wissenschaft und Politik in den Vordergrund, die ihre Beschreibung im Begriff der Postmoderne findet.
Schlagwörter:Queer Studies; queer studies; kulturelle Entwicklung; cultural development; Identität; identity; Sexualität; sexuality; Politisierung; politicization; Butler, J.; Butler, J.; Gender; gender; Protestbewegung; protest movement; USA; United States of America; Postmoderne; postmodernism; Feminismus; feminism; soziale Bewegung; social movement; ziviler Ungehorsam; civil disobedience; Kulturwissenschaft; cultural studies; Cultural Studies; Queer Theory; Sexuelle Identität
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie, politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Margaret Atwood in the second and third waves of feminism on the basis of Julia Kristeva's theories
Autor/in:
Barfi, Zahra; Alaei, Sarieh
Quelle: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (2014) 40, S 13-21
Inhalt: Although Margaret Atwood started writing in the second phase of feminism, some of her works show the features of the second and the third wave of feminism. It's clear in Atwood’s Cat’s Eye. Elaine, protagonist of the novel, and other female characters indicate these features. Some of Atwood’s works imply Kristeva's theories. Unlike the second wave of feminism, Julia Kristeva as a postmodern feminist rejects the distinction between sex and gender believing that these two terms respectively represent biology and culture which cannot be separated from each other. This idea can be examined in Margaret Atwood's novel, Cat's Eye, as a feature of the third wave of feminism. The authors of this article seek to analyze Atwood's famous novel, Cat's Eye, in the second and third waves of feminism based on Julia Kristeva's theories.
Schlagwörter:Literatur; literature; Feminismus; feminism; Theorie; theory; Kristeva, J.; Atwood, M.
SSOAR Kategorie:Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie, Ökologie und Umwelt
Visions of the daughters of Albion: the influence of Mary Wollstonecraft's life and career on William Blake
Autor/in:
Abbasi, Pyeaam; Keshavarzian, Ramin
Quelle: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (2014) 40, S 48-63
Inhalt: The present study discussed the influence of one of the eighteenth-century British women of color, the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, on William Blake. By adopting a biographical and also a comparative approach, the authors tried to highlight the influences of Wollstonecraft's personal life, character, and career, chiefly her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), on one of William Blake's less-referred-to poems Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793). The study will help readers to both know Wollstonecraft's prominence and also to grasp more of William Blake and his poetry. The authors also attempted to show that William Blake was part of the early feminism of the late eighteenth century.
Zwischen Realität und Utopie: Geschlechterkonzepte und Selbstbilder in der zeitgenössischen bildenden Kunst
Titelübersetzung:Reality or utopia? Concepts of gender and self-images in contemporary visual arts
Autor/in:
Friauf, Heike
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 4 (2012) 1, S 54–74
Inhalt: "Die politische Emanzipationskraft der in den
1960er und 1970er Jahren entwickelten femi
nis tischen Kunst ist heute teilweise der
Genderdebatte zum Opfer gefallen. Weiterhin
notwendige feministische Arbeit wird
vernachlässigt, feministische Kunst musealisiert
und entpolitisiert. Außerdem führt die
populäre Beschäftigung mit Genderfragen
mit unter zur Vernachlässigung künstlerischer
Fragen. Dabei bietet das „Neogeschlecht“
spannenden Stoff für künstlerische Selbstrepräsentation.
Die Grenzen zwischen den
Genres werden aufgelöst, auch die Grenzen
zwischen realem Abbild und Wunschprojektion,
klassischem Selbstporträt und gendersensitiver
Selbstinterpretation verfl ießen." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "Part of the emancipatory force of 1960s and
1970s feminist art was lost along the way because
the gender debate now dominates public
discourse. While feminist action is still necessary,
feminist art is being historicized and
depoliticised. In addition, the popular focus
on gender issues sometimes results in a neglect
of artistic issues. Nonetheless, “neogen
der” offers exciting material for artistic
self-representation. The boundaries between
genres are melt away as do the distinctions
between realistic image and desired icon,
classic self-portrait and gender-sensitive selfinterpretation." (author's abstract)
Die Wiedergeburt der jüdischen Gemeinschaft in Polen aus der Perspektive von Frauen
Titelübersetzung:The renaissance of the Jewish community in Poland from women's perspective
Autor/in:
Czerwonogóra, Katarzyna
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 4 (2012) 3, S 77-91
Inhalt: "Seit der Wende 1989 erfahren die jüdischen Gemeinden in Polen eine Wiederbelebung und ein wachsendes Interesse, ihre Traditionen zu bewahren. Diese Revitalisierung ist aus der Geschlechterperspektive auch kritisch zu betrachten, sofern sich diese auf orthodoxe religiöse Traditionen bezieht. Eines der problematischen Symptome ist die Stärkung der Geschlechterhierarchie und die Unterprivilegierung der Frauen. Andererseits haben die weltlichen jüdischen Organisationen emanzipatorische Wirkungen für polnische Jüdinnen. Der Beitrag präsentiert Erfahrungen von Frauen in der Jüdischen Community in Polen. Er basiert auf Interviews mit Frauen der jüdischen Gemeinden in Krakau und Warschau, die zwischen 2006 und 2009 geführt wurden, und gibt einen kritischen Einblick in ein Phänomen, das im Allgemeinen sehr positiv gesehen wird." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "The Jewish community in Poland has been experiencing a revival since the democratic transformation in 1989. Proof of that is the growing number of Jewish institutions, educational programmes and the increasing interest in preserving Jewish heritage. However, when analyzed from a gender perspective, this revival is problematical. One of its symptoms is the strengthening of gender biases and hierarchies that keep women in underprivileged positions. On the other hand, Jewish organizations serve as a vehicle of emancipation for Polish Jewish women. This article presents some aspects of women's experience in the contemporary Jewish community in Poland. It is based on qualitative research done between 2006 and 2009 in Krakow and Warsaw and gives a critical analysis of a phenomenon that is generally seen as very positive." (author's abstract)