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(Psiho)patološki fenomeni u Ekstazama Mele Hartwig

Author(s): Eldi Grubišić Pulišelić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2021

The focus of this paper is on (psycho)pathological phenomena that connect female heroines from four literary works by the Austrian writer Mela Hartwig. The link between them is the position of protagonists in relation to social values, standards and expectations, i.e. their outsider status. In the novellas The Crime, The Records of an Ugly Woman, and The Fantastical Paragraph, the heroines must confront different paradigms of the misogynist Austrian culture of the early twentieth century. In The Witch, a novella set in the seventeenth century, the social constellation is somewhat different, hence the heroine is confronted with modified concepts of power. Hartwig examines various (psycho)pathological phenomena that occur in her female characters and discovers (extra)institutional mechanisms that establish or erase the boundary between normal/acceptable and sick/unacceptable behavior. Her heroines react to oppression by attempting suicide, promiscuous behavior, delusions, retreating into a parallel world of fantasies, constructing supernatural experiences, and even by murder. Psychopathological phenomena that become an integral part of their identity and accompany their physical and mental expression, project their desperate call for help. Their struggle ends in defeat because as lonely individuals, they cannot triumph over the power embodied by institutional authorities. In her texts, the author shows the anxious, depressive, and even psychotic reality of women, the shocking and/or bizarre situations she literarizes allow readers to reconstruct the atmosphere of an era that is, paradoxically, in written sources and collective memory known under the phrase The Golden Twenties.

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(Re)Viewing Maggie and Tess through the Lens of Standpoint Theory

Author(s): Sardar M. Anwaruddin / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2013

Literary critics admire George Eliot’s touching portrayal of Maggie Tulliver in The Mill on the Floss. Many readers prefer to read Maggie’s character as a reworking of Eliot’s own life. In this article, I compare Maggie with another famous literary heroine, Tess Durbeyfield of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Tess is a ‘low-born’ country girl whose suffering begins as soon as her family discovers that they have noble connections. Both Maggie and Tess go through hardship and humiliation due to their sense of responsibility and commitment to do the best for their families. Looking at these two characters through the lens of feminist standpoint theory, I argue that Maggie and Tess’ social locations, imposed gender-roles, and families’ expectations are among the primary causes of their tragedy. As members of the oppressed (gender) group, their epistemologies to understand the reality and to make sense of their social relationships contradict with those of the dominant group—masculine.

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(Над)гледање женског тела на тржишту спектакла: род и музика

Author(s): Miroslava Lukić-Krstanović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2021

The paper problematizes roles and positions of women artists and women consumers through the complex processes of spectacle. The question of women’s body is related to the questioning of the gender roles on the performative level, with the aim to emphasize existing paradigms (as sexuality, dimorphism, dominations and subordinations, phalogocentric spaces), but also to make complex constructive options in the sphere of popular music and subculture (ambivalence, equivalence, variable qualities, subject representationalism, subject intentionality). The most noticeable examples stem from rock and roll culture and rock scenes where feminist resistances to male hegemonies are created, especially in the zones of power of management and fabrication of women’s body.

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(Не)једнаке и непослушне патријархату: прве српске лекарке Драга Љочић Милошевић и Смиља Костић-Јоксић и њихово место у друштву

Author(s): Ivana Pantelić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2021

This paper analyses professional biographies of the first female Serbian doctor Draga Ločić Milošević (1855–1926) and Smilja Kostić-Joksić (1895–1981), a female paediatrician and a professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade. Although they did not belong to the same generation, their biographies have so much in common. Similarities are obvious especially considering their social status and political and intellectual elite’s attitude towards first educated women. Draga Ločić, the first woman with diploma in medicine from Zurich University, was not able to find the job in the state medical institutions after returning to Belgrade. Only after being persistent and taking additional professional exams she managed to get position but only as a medical assistant, with twice lower salary than her male colleagues. She did not manage to achieve equal status until the end of the professional career. Doctor Draga Ločić was a philanthropist, feminist and active suffragette. Her professional and educational heiress, female paediatrician and scientist Smilja Kostić-Joksić, managed to become a part of the intellectual elite but to a limited extend. Before the beginning of World War II she had an assistant status and was a woman with the highest academic status in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In the socialist Yugoslavia due to ideological disagreements, she was dismissed from the University. These two biographies are evident examples how concept of public patriarchy functions in practice. Public patriarchy is not conditioned with any chronological nor ideological context but instead, it is always present and dominant within the discourse of women’s position in the society.

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(Раз)откривање квир идентитета

Author(s): Jelena G. Reljić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 23/2021

Review of: Перишић, Игор (2020), Српски (о)квир. Прилози за читање српске књижевности у светлу квир теорије, Београд: Институт за књижевност и уметност.

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[Inter]sections

Frequency: 1 issues / Country: Romania

<p>[Inter]sections is the annual double-blind peer reviewed journal of American Studies at the University of Bucharest (ISSN 2068 – 3472). The language of the journal is English (US). Its first peer reviewed issue came out in 2009. From 2009 to 2012, it was a quarterly peer-reviewed publication. Between 2012 and 2014, [Inter]sections was on hiatus. It returned in 2015 as an annual double-blind peer reviewed open access publication.</p>

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10–16 metų mokinių nuostatos dėl matematikos ir metakognityvaus sąmoningumo sąsaja

Author(s): Raminta Seniūnaitė,Birutė Pociūtė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 35/2015

Poor results in mathematics, negative attitude towards mathematics, anxiety during math lessons and the lack of confidence in the capabilities of solving math problems are the most serious problems in today’s school environment. The aim of this study was to measure the relationship and expression of 10–16-year-old children’s attitudes towards mathematic and met cognitive awareness. In the present quantitative research, 4–9 grade learners took part. The participants filled in a questionnaire which consisted of a measurement of self-efficacy (Pajares, Miller, 1997), Junior Met cognitive Awareness Inventory (Jr. MAI) (Sperling et al., 2002), Attitude towards Math Inventory (ATMI) (Tapia & Marsh, 2004), problems from the “Kengūra“ contest. Firstly, learners tried to predict their ability to solve three mathematical problems. After that they solved these problems. Finally, they filled all the questionnaires. The results have shown that the attitude towards mathematics is positively related with the met cognitive awareness and self-efficacy. Met cognitive awareness is linked with academic achievements. The attitude to mathematics correlates 10–16-YEAR CHILDRENS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS MATHEMATICS RELATIONSHIP WITH METACOGNITIVE AWARENESS Raminta Seniūnaitė, Birutė Pociūtė Summary with age, gender and academic achievements. Met cognitive awareness was the same among different grade students. Older learners showed the tendency to have a lower attitude to mathematics, in contrast to younger learners. Younger children are more confident in their abilities in mathematics and enjoy more this discipline. In this research study, the girls had a lower attitude to mathematics than boys. In addition, girls dominated among the learners who had a lower than average attitude to mathematics. Older learners showed the tendency to overrate their capabilities to solve math tasks while younger learners rated their capabilities more accurately. Learners with higher academic achievements showed a more positive attitude to mathematics. According to multiple regression results, the attitude towards mathematics is a predictor of academic achievements, while met cognitive awareness is a predictor of the attitude towards mathematics. According to the results, the positive attitude towards math could be formed by teaching met cognitive awareness.

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16.-19. YÜZYIL DÖNEMİ SOSYAL YAŞAMINDA OSMANLI KADINI VE OSMANLI TOPRAKLARINDA YAŞAMIŞ SANATÇILARIN ESERLERİNE YANSIMALARI

Author(s): Hülya Kalyoncu / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 35/2021

The presence of women in Ottoman social life, which is expressed with different interpretations by different historians, is a subject that is heavily debated even today. In this study, which is based on the existing discussions, it is aimed to find an artistic approach to the issue of women in Ottoman social life in terms of the discipline of art history through the light of the visual artworks made by the painters. It is known that the Ottoman Empire was a civilization covering a very long period of 600 years and that the empire had very variable periods. However, the period between the 16th and 19th centuries is a similar process from the point of view of women, and in this study, the works of artists who depicted Ottoman women with different aspects of social life during the period between the mentioned centuries were discussed. The artists of the works included in the scope of the study are foreign artists who lived for certain periods in the Ottoman lands personally and Ottoman citizens residing in the Ottoman Empire. Memories of travelogues written by travelers who came to the Ottoman lands and state archive documents, which deal with this subject and whose originals are preserved in various world libraries today, are also data that will shed light on the subject. For this reason, scanning and examining the literary data describing the period and synthesizing the scenes seen in the visual documents of the painter artists with the data at hand have been the method of the study. With this study, in which visual works belonging to artists and literary sources belonging to historians and travelers are evaluated together. It is concluded that Ottoman women were quite limited in some conditions of the social life which is divided into sub-titles, and in some conditions, they had a relatively free life period.

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2021 COMAGI - 1st International Conference on Migration and Gender Issues - Book of Abstracts

Author(s): / Language(s): English

This Collection of abstracts is devoted to exploring migration and gender problems worldwide during the 1st International Conference on Migration and Gender Issues (2021 COMAGI). Among the problems that have been explored during the conference, were issues of human capital, social Inequalities, gender-specific consumption patterns, behavioural insights, gender quotas, labour migration, gender policy, local governments, physically challenged women, women’s emigration, etc.

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27. Dönem Milletvekili Seçiminde Toplumsal Cinsiyet Eşitliği

Author(s): Nuray Karaoğlu,Ayşe Kaşıkırık / Language(s): Turkish Publication Year: 0

The right of women to vote and be elected is the output of a difficult and long-term struggle. In Turkey, women won the right to vote and be elected in 5 December, 1934. The Swiss women were 36 years later, in 1971. In 2021, the rate of female deputies in the Turkish Grand National Assembly is 17.2% and in Switzerland it is 42%!Although the number of female MPs in the Turkish Grand National Asembly reached the highest rate (17.8%) in the June 2015 elections, it has been decreasing since 2015. It is seen that there is no positive situation regarding equal representation of women in decision-making mechanisms and the current situation is below the global average. In order to ensure equal participation of women and men in socio-economic life, it is critical that the government implements gender equality policies and that the selected women create pressure on this issue.In this study, the programs, statutes and election manifestos of 11 parties (AK Party, BTP, BBP, CHP, DP, HDP, IYI Party, MHP, SP, VP and HÜDA-PAR) that entered the 27th term parliamentary elections will be analyzed in a gender equality perspective. However, the data of the parties on women's representation during the election period and the election results will be evaluated comprehensively.

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9 Haftalık Kuvvet ve Dayanıklılık Antrenmanlarının Kız Basketbolcularda Aerobik Performansa Etkisinin Araştırılması

Author(s): Murat Bekleyiş Apaydın,Emin Süel,Hacı Ahmet Akkaya / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 3/2021

This study aimed to investigate the effect of a 9-week strength and endurance training on the aerobic performance of female basketball players. The study group consisted of athletes (n=15 mean age=16±0.7) who are actively competing in the basketball development league (BGL). Before any assessment informed consent form obtained from the parents of the athletes. In the study, additional strength (10 days) and endurance (20 days) trainings were applied to the existing basketball trainings for 9 weeks. The 30-15 Interval Fitness Test was applied to the athletes in different time periods, 9 weeks before and after the program, and the data were recorded statistically. In the study, as the data showed a normal distribution parametric statistical tests were used. As a result of the study, it was found that there was a significant difference p<0.05 in the values of running distance and maximum aerobic speed (MAS), as well as significant differences in the body weight, body mass index and height of the athletes.

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A (Thin) Boundary Not to Be Crossed, or Lakṣmaṇ-rekhā

Author(s): Danuta Stasik / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

This paper discusses the concept of lakṣmaṇ-rekhā that originates in the later Rāmāyaṇa tradition and for centuries has functioned as a metaphorical expression denoting a strict (moral) boundary that should not be crossed, as its transgression inevitably exposes one to danger. It has featured prominently in Indian public discourse on female chastity and is also very much present in different socio-cultural and political contexts, often vocalised in literature, works of art, etc. In the concept of lakṣmaṇ-rekhā, one of the most basic and at the same time most important functions performed in culture by symbolic boundaries is manifested-the function of delineating the known, familiar, safe and permissible from the unknown, unfamiliar, dangerous, impermissible. Significantly, these boundaries have inherent moral weight and help individuals as well as whole societies to structure and regulate the universe they live in, on the micro- and macro-scale. In this paper, first I discuss textual evidence that can be found in wellknown Hindi Rāmāyaṇas such as the Rāmcaritmānas, the Rāmcandrikā and Rādheśyām Rāmāyaṇ, as well as in the Sūrsāgar. This analysis of literary material is meant to contextualise various levels of explicit and implicit meanings of the concept of lakṣmaṇ-rekhā that emerge from traditional sources in Hindi. In the second part of this article, I offer a survey of relevant Hindi dictionary entries and then focus on modern non-literary (and not only Hindi) usages of lakṣmaṇ-rekhā. Finally, I place the previously examined literary and linguistic material in the context of the findings of contemporary social scientists on the concept of symbolic boundaries (Epstein 1992). It is hoped that this study that gives emphasis to structuring and regulating (but not only) aspect of boundaries can contribute to our understanding of how broadly understood safety and values are negotiated in contemporary Indian society by way of drawing (ethical) boundaries and what happens if they are compromised.

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A Brief Scale to Measure Marital/Relationship Satisfaction by Domains: Metrics, Correlates, Gender and Marriage/ Relationship Status Differences

Author(s): Renata Glavak Tkalić,Tihana Brkljačić,Lana Lučić,Ines Sučić,Ljiljana Kaliterna Lipovčan / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2019

The aim of the study was to analyse psychometric properties of the Marital /Relationship Satisfaction Scale (MRS) developed for the purpose of this research, and its association with other well-being indicators. Additionally, differences in well-being between participants who were married or in a relationship and single participants, and gender differences were tested. The sample consisted of 1087 adult internet users from Croatia. We assessed general well-being, satisfaction with specific life domains, marital/relationship satisfaction and demographic variables. MRS proved to be a reliable single factor instrument which correlated moderately with all well-being indices, but highest with satisfaction with love life and family relations. Men and women did not differ regarding MRS. Participants who were married or in a relationship showed higher levels of well-being.

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A Case Study of Retraditionalization and Clericalization of Croatian Society: “Feminist Threat” at the Governing Position of a Higher Education Institution

Author(s): Branka Galić / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

A case-study from a governing position of a higher education institution in Croatia will seek to demonstrate processes of dynamics of governance, manipulation and patriarchal power relations towards professional and feminist engagement and resistance to the authoritarian imposition of patriarchal norms and expectations by personal case study with autoethnography method. This is a case of professional and personal working experience in the top-administration of a higher education institution in Croatia, where was expressed a whole range of manifold forms and abuses of power, public insults and defamations in an attempt to maintain the patriarchal power system, value system etc, further imposing a more rigid form of patriarchy, even more “cemented”. In this process various actors, individuals, groups, institutions, various social influential groups have been involved. We shall examine especially repressive approach in an attempt to eliminate one person from her workplace in a higher education institution who was labelled as a secular and “feminist threat” who publicly expressed her opinion on the perspective of a non-transparent hidden and later attempted networking of incompatible types of institutions with different religious versus scientific principles, values and legal foundations as well as patriarchy interests.

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A comparison of early maladaptive schemas in single and married females

Author(s): Mahsa Mojallal,Mansour Hakim Javadi,Abbas Ali Hosseinkhanzadeh / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2013

The time between sexual maturation and marriage has increased significantly during past decades. This situation can be the result of various factors and one of these likely variables is people’s schemas about interpersonal relationships. Thus, current study aims to compare early maladaptive schemas (EMSs) in single and married females. For this purpose 150 female university students completed the Short Form of Yang Schema Questionnaire (YSQ-SF). Results indicated no significant difference between two groups’ EMSs. This finding shows there are other important factors effecting on people’s decision and attitudes about marriage, and we cannot consider EMSs as the only effective variable.

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A contribution to the debate about social recognition of marriage-like and family-like social phenomena

Author(s): Uroš V. Šuvaković / Language(s): English,Serbian Issue: 3/2021

The paper elaborates on the relation between marriage and the family, on one hand, and marriage-like and family-like homosexual unions such as so-called homosexual marriage and same-sex union (or same-sex life partnership). With a brief theoretical introduction and a comparative overview of the manner in which this matter is regulated in other countries, certain solutions are analyzed from the Proposal Draft Law on Same-Sex Unions of Serbia (2021). It is indicated that it is no longer possible to equalize marriage and the family with the same-sex union because the content of these concepts is substantially different. The society is interested in protecting marriage and the family and to take special care of them since they perform extremely important social functions, whereas without some of them the survival of the society itself would be brought to question (the reproduction function). On the other hand, homosexual marriage and/or same-sex unions do not perform any social function, but are formed exclusively for the purpose of relatively longer-standing satisfaction of sexual needs of same-sex partners. Since the society and the state do not protect marriage only because sexuality is regulated within it, but because it legitimizes sexual relationships aimed at having children, in the event of homosexual marriage-like unions it should also be proceeded in an identical manner: solely those rights and obligations of partners deriving from a relatively longer-standing homosexual partnership should be legally regulated. Moreover, having in mind the principle that every man’s right is limited by other people’s rights, it is impermissible to give priority to the protection of the rights of same-sex partners for the purpose of longer-standing homosexual relationships over the protection of children’s rights. Children need both a father and a mother (an ideal condition), and the family in which they will be socialized. In line with those homosexual marriage-like unions, neither adoption nor assisted insemination can be allowed.

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A Different Type of Gender Gap: How Women and Men Experience Poverty

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A Different Type of Gender Gap: How Women and Men Experience Poverty

Author(s): Éva Fodor,Lilla Vicsek / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2006

While recent surveys do not find that poverty is feminized in post-communist Hungary, this project explores gender differences in the experience of destitution. Drawing on a content analysis of in-depth interviews in twentyseven very low-income households, the author exposes the particularly gendered daily practice of poverty in Hungarian families. The author argues that one of the major gender differences in the experience of poverty is that men often find themselves in a gender role crisis when they are too poor to function as successful breadwinners. Women, on the other hand, tend to feel their roles as caretakers intensified and thus avoid a conflict with (newly) hegemonic ideals of femininity. As a response, poor marriedcouple families devise ways in which they try to alleviate men’s gender shame. The goal of the article is to identify four such strategies, which are used by poor couples to devise livable alternatives to hegemonic gender roles.

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A Feminist Analysis: Sexual Violence in the Bosnian War (1992-1995)

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A Feminist Analysis: Sexual Violence in the Bosnian War (1992-1995)

Author(s): Özgenur Çaputlu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

Throughout history, war violence has disproportionately affected women, especially in patriarchal societies. Wartime rape, which is the most common and destructive type of conflict-related sexual violence, is the clearest example of these effects. This study clarifies the sexual violence experiences of Yugoslavian women during the Bosnian War, which had lasted between the years 1992-1995, with an anti-militarist feminist perspective. The first part of the article includes hypotheses of feminist theory about conflict-related sexual violence. The second part handles types of sexual violence such as wartime rape, forced prostitution, and forced pregnancy that had affected women in Yugoslavian conflict areas between 1992-1995. The last part of the study describes the numerical dimensions of the sexual violence used in the Bosnian War and its ef-fects on Yugoslavian women. Throughout history, war violence has disproportionately affected women, especially in patriarchal societies. Wartime rape, which is the most common and destructive type of conflict-related sexual violence, is the clearest example of these effects. This study clarifies the sexual violence experiences of Yugoslavian women during the Bosnian War, which had lasted between the years 1992-1995, with an anti-militarist feminist perspective. The first part of the article includes hypotheses of feminist theory about conflict-related sexual violence. The second part handles types of sexual violence such as wartime rape, forced prostitution, and forced pregnancy that had affected women in Yugoslavian conflict areas between 1992-1995. The last part of the study describes the numerical dimensions of the sexual violence used in the Bosnian War and its effects on Yugoslavian women.

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A Feminist Stylistics Analysis of “The Laugh of the Medusa,” by Héléne Cixous

Author(s): Fatma Batular / Language(s): English Issue: 97-1/2019

This present study adapts feminist stylistics framework to examine and analyse the gender representations and language of the laugh of the Medusa a speech written by Héléne Cixous. The paper, using a content analysis method, will mainly focus on issues related to gender representations and the language to interpret and uncover the implied and underlying meanings of the text. Héléne Cixous in her speech brings samples from the ancient Greek mythology of Medusa to give advices to her young female audience to write for themselves. She highlights the challenges and struggles that females have been repressed themselves through the patriarchal society. She encourages young girls to express themselves, their strengths and strong points in bravely through writing and boys to understand the feminine world. The study will scrutinize the speech to reveal the foregrounded features related to gender.

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A Foucauldian-Feminist Understanding of Patterns of Sexual Violence in Conflict

Author(s): Harriet Gordon / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Foucault’s theories of power, resistance, and agency provide useful tools of analysis to support a stronger understanding of the individual experiences of survivors of sexual violence in conflict situations, as many feminist accounts have tended to focus analysis at the macro-level. This paper will outline key Foucauldian concepts, before discussing how Foucauldian and feminist theories can be complementary and indeed useful tools in understanding sexual violence. This paper will then apply a Foucauldian-Feminist framework to better understand patterns of sexual violence in conflict, and to propose modes of resistance for survivors of sexual violence.

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