A gynocritical study of The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter
Autor/in:
Nouri, Azadeh; Aziz Mohammadi, Fatemeh
Quelle: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (2015) 48, S 100-106
Inhalt: In 1979, Carter published one of her mast renowned collections of short fiction, The Bloody Chamber. 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. which she promotes feminist due to her style, referred to as "Galm-Rock" feminism 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 Werewolf, The Wolf-Alice, and mainly in The Company of Wolves 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.
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.
Life narratives, common language and diverse ways of belonging
Titelübersetzung:Biografische Erzählungen, gemeinsame Sprache und multiple Zugehörigkeiten
Autor/in:
Kwapisz Williams, Katarzyna
Quelle: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 16 (2015) 2, 19 S
Inhalt: In diesem Beitrag diskutiere ich meine Erfahrungen des allmählichen Eintauchens in die Community in Australien lebender polnischer Migrant/innen, welcher ich beigetreten bin, als ich dort die Lebensgeschichten polnisch-stämmiger Autorinnen der Nachkriegszeit untersuchte. Ich zeige, wie sich meine Annahmen hinsichtlich der Gemeinsamkeiten von Kultur und Sprache während meiner Forschungsbegegnung mit den Autorinnen gewandelt haben: Zunächst nahm ich an, dass die Tatsache, dass ich dieselbe Sprache sprach wie die untersuchten Autorinnen, mich in die Lage versetzen würde, dasselbe kulturelle Wissen zu teilen und dadurch einen unmittelbaren Zugang zu den Forschungsteilnehmerinnen zu gewinnen. Die Sprache, so stellte es sich für mich heraus, markiert aber eher die Vielfalt statt der Einheitlichkeit von Erfahrungen, Positionierungen und gedanklichen Welten. Die Kategorie des Geschlechts, die ich zunächst als fluide und instabile Kategorie verstand, ersetzte jedoch die Sprache in ihrer Funktion eines Bindeglieds zwischen mir als Forscherin und meinen Forschungsteilnehmerinnen. Die Beispiele aus meiner Studie illustrieren, dass die Forschung zur Diaspora die Multiplizität der Identitätsmarker beachten muss, die die Forscher/innen diesseits und jenseits der Diaspora positionieren. Mein Beitrag basiert auf einer Vielzahl an Datenmaterial, einschließlich Feldnotizen, Feldtagebüchern und Interviews mit polnischen Autorinnen sowie Sekundärliteratur über Pol/innen und Australier/innen polnischer Abstammung in Australien. (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: The article discusses my experiences of gradual immersion into the community of Polish migrants to Australia, which I joined while researching life writing of Polish post-war women migrants to Australia. I focus on how my assumptions concerning commonality of culture and language transformed during the preliminary stages of my research. I initially assumed that speaking the same language as the writers whose works I study, and their ethnic community, would position me as a person sharing the same cultural knowledge, and allow me immediate access toresearch participants. Yet, the language I considered to be the major marker of ethnic identity exhibited multiplicity instead of unity of experiences, positions and conceptual worlds. Instead, gender, which I had considered a fluid and unstable category highly context-dependent especially
in the migration framework, proved to be an important element of interaction and communication
between myself and my research participants. I have learnt that it is critical for research on
diaspora, including diaspora's literary cultures, to account for other identity markers that include meas a researcher into some Polish community groups while excluding from others. I base my contribution on various kinds of materials, including field notes, fieldwork diaries and interviews with Polish writers as well as secondary literature on Poles and Australians of Polish extraction in Australia. (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Ethnizität; Pole; Polen; Migration; Pole; Diaspora; Biographie; Australien; Sprache; Sprachverhalten; gender; ethnicity; observation; diaspora; language; Beobachtung; Sprachgebrauch; kulturelle Identität; Poland; cultural identity; language usage; Australia; migration; language behavior; biography
SSOAR Kategorie:Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Migration
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
Outsiders within: framing and regulation of headscarves in France, Germany and the Netherlands
Autor/in:
Lettinga, Doutje; Saharso, Sawitri
Quelle: Social Inclusion, 2 (2014) 3, S 29-39
Inhalt: While women in Europe who wear the Islamic headscarf are generally seen as outsiders who do not belong to the nation, some countries are more tolerant towards the wearing of headscarves than others. France, Germany and the Netherlands have developed different policies regarding veiling. In this paper we describe how headscarves became regulated in each of these countries and discuss the ways in which French, Dutch and German politicians have deliberated the issue. The paper is based on a content analysis of parliamentary debates on veiling in France (1989-2007), Germany (1997-2007) and the Netherlands (1985-2007). Our aim is to discuss what these national political debates reveal about the way in which the social inclusion of Islamic women in (or rather exclusion from) the nation is perceived in these three countries. Our claim is that veiling arouses opposition because it challenges national self-understandings. Yet, because nations have different histories of nation building, these self-understandings are challenged in various ways and hence, governments have responded to headscarves with diverse regulation. While we did find national differences, we also discovered that the political debates in the three countries are converging over time. The trend is towards increasingly gendered debates and more restrictive headscarf policies. This, we hypothesize, is explained by international polarization around Islam and the strength of the populist anti-immigrant parties across Europe.
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.
Quelle: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 15 (2014) 1, 49 S
Inhalt: "Die soziologische Forschung hat die Spielfilmanalyse als Erkenntnismittel zur Gesellschaftsanalyse bisher weitgehend vernachlässigt. Die vorliegende Analyse reiht sich in die aktuellen Bemühungen ein, eine visuelle Soziologie, einschließlich einer Filmsoziologie zu etablieren. Anhand der Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojektes zur kulturellen Fundierung der Familien- und Geschlechterordnung wird diskutiert, welchen Beitrag Spielfilmanalysen für die soziologische Forschung leisten können. Dafür wird eine Analyse der Filme 'Das doppelte Lottchen' (1950, Regie: Josef v. Baky) und einer seiner Remakes 'Charlie und Louise. Das doppelte Lottchen' (1994, Regie: Joseph Vilsmaier) vorgestellt. Die Spielfilme werden als 'diskursive Ereignisse' in öffentlichen Diskursen verstanden. Die entwickelte Methode knüpft an die wissenssoziologische Diskursanalyse (WDA) an und erweitert sie um audiovisuelle Methoden, insbesondere dient die dokumentarische Videoanalyse als 'Werkzeugkasten'. Herausgearbeitet wird, welche diskursiven Deutungsangebote die Filme dem Publikum hinsichtlich der Lebensform anbieten: Trotz Pluralisierung der Lebensformen konstruieren beide Filme die vollständige Kernfamilie als Ideal und schreiben damit die kulturelle Leitidee einer vermeintlich universellen und vollständigen Eltern-Kind-Familie fort. Die Scheidung der Eltern wird im 1950er-Jahre-Film tabuisiert, im 1990er-Jahre-Film fungiert sie hingegen als Ausgangspunkt der filmischen Erzählung. In dieser Hinsicht lassen sich diskursive Verschiebungen hin zu einer Institutionalisierung und Normalisierung von Trennung und Scheidung aufzeigen, die kulturelle Leitidee der intakten und harmonischen Kernfamilie wird jedoch nicht hinterfragt, sondern im Diskurs aktualisiert." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "Sociological research has so far largely underestimated the potential of film analysis as a means of analyzing societal change. The findings presented in this article are part of current efforts to establish a visual sociology, and specifically a sociology of film. Based on a research project on the cultural foundations of the family and gender order, the article is centered on the potential contribution of film analysis for sociological enquiry. For this purpose, it introduces research on the films Das doppelte Lottchen ('Two Times Lotte', 1950, director: Josef von Baky) and its remake Charlie und Louise. Das doppelte Lottchen (1994, director: Joseph Vilsmaier). Both movies are understood as 'discursive events' within broader public discourses. The author's methodology draws on a sociology of knowledge approach to discourse analysis and takes it further by applying audio-visual methods. Documentary video analysis serves as a particularly important toolkit. The article examines the interpretative options with respect to different ways of private life that these movies discursively offer. Both films deny the widely observed social developments towards a pluralization of ways of private life and support an ideal image of the nuclear family. In the 1950 film, the parents' divorce is considered unacceptable, whereas the 1994 remake takes the separation as the starting point of its narration. This discursive transformation can be interpreted as an institutionalization and normalization of separation and divorce. However, the general cultural principle of an intact and harmonious family is not challenged, but rather discursively updated, affirmed and reproduced." (author's abstract)
SSOAR Kategorie:Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie, andere Medien, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften, Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie