Book Women Research Articles

‘Dis Köstliche Büchli’: the books of the Dünz, Wyss, and d’Hervart families at Nostell Priory

ABSTRACT The arrival of books by dowry or inheritance into family libraries frequently introduces unexpected evidence of book ownership. Often fragmentary and out of context, these collections are routinely overlooked. This paper examines one such collection, a group of c. 140 books which arrived at Nostell Priory in 1781, part of the inheritance of Louise Sabine d'Hervart (1734–1798), shipped from her childhood home in Vevey, Switzerland. Primarily Germanic, printed between 1550 and 1700, these books chart the reading, interests, and circles of acquaintance of three generations of the Dünz family, an important Brugg dynasty of artists, glass painters, and architects active in the cultural and political life of Bern and its locality. The paper opens with a discussion of some of the methodological challenges facing those working with women's books in private libraries. It then examines the Swiss German books at Nostell, showing how they inform us of the cultural, intellectual, and social lives of members of the Dünz and related families, both male and female. Specifically, these books reveal a culture of book giving and the recording of the exchange of books, but also of close and long-standing relationships between their owners and significant members of the Swiss book trade.

창암 박만환의 『여사서』 언해본의 특징과 의의

The purpose of this article is to examine the patterns and significance of the interpretation of 『Yeosaseo』, a Chinese teaching book for women, written by Changam Park Man-hwan during the Enlightenment period. 『Yusisaseo』 is a book of instruction for women edited and annotated by Wang Sang during the Qing Dynasty in China. In 1907, Park Man-hwan translated and published it at Yeongjujeongsa. This paper studied the translation of Park Man-hwan's 『Yeosaseo』 and examined the publication process, the interpretation pattern, and its characteristics. We also looked at the meaning within the context of women's instruction books at the time. In 1907, Park Man-hwan interpreted 『Yeosaseo』 and received verification from Jeun woo. He published it with Yeosaseo with a preface written by Song Byeong-soon and an afterword written by Jeun woo. If you look at the system, the original Chinese text and the Korean translation of the language are placed separately. This method is different from the one that was translated into Korean during the Yeongjo period of the Joseon Dynasty and wrote the sound of Chinese characters. And Park Man-hwan selected only the exemplary deeds of women from the contents of the commentary and translated them into Korean. In particular, the annotations of 『Yeogye』『Naehun』『Yeo Analects』, which contain a lot of didactic content about women and behavioral norms that women should follow, were not explained at all. On the other hand, 『Yeobeomcheoprok』 explained the exemplary behavior of women in detail in the annotations, and Park Man-hwan faithfully explained this. In this way, Park Man-hwan tried to interpret 『Yeosaseo』 focusing on the exemplary examples of women and encourage women to use it as an example and put it into practice. During the Enlightenment period, the need for women's education was emphasized, and many textbooks teaching women were produced, and Park Man-hwan's interpretation of 『Yeosaseo』 was in line with this trend. In addition, women's loyalty and attitude toward the state and wages were emphasized as they recognized women as members of the state, and this trend is reflected in the women's guidebook, and Park Man-hwan's interpretation of the 『Yeosaseo』 focused on responding to social demands and expanding women's consciousness.

Research on the Application of Women's Book Symbols in Cultural and Creative Products Based on the Perspective of Cultural Experience

Women's calligraphy, a long-standing Chinese character variant font, has long been loved and cherished for its unique beauty and profound cultural connotations. However, how to combine this traditional culture with modern cultural and creative product design, so that it can be more widely used in modern life, becomes the issue to be explored. Through practice, retaining the original characteristics of the Women's Calligraphy symbol while giving modern design elements, a new cultural and artistic experience can be created.

Reflections on women’s activism in twentieth-century Britain

ABSTRACT This article is based on a talk I gave at the London School of Economics in March 2023. The talk was structured in a way to give me the freedom to reflect upon some of the key themes in my book Women’s Activism in Twentith Century Britain; making a difference across the political spectrum. I wrote the book during the pandemic. Archives were closed and even when they opened I could not use them as I had to shield because of health issues. Consequently, the material I relied on was what I could access on-line and on people who I could interview on Zoom. My book drew on my own experiences as an activist and my own theoretical development as a feminist. History and activism intertwined: my story as a former activist and my view that feminist historical scholarship is itself a type of activism came together to give direction and meaning both to my research and to my writing. In my talk, and in this Viewpoint, I want to show the heterogeneous nature of activism, of how individuals and groups from a range of different class and racial background sought to make a difference to their locality, their country and sometimes the world. I argue that women are not a homogenous group but are united—and divided—by class, ethnicity, gender and so on. For instance, not all female activists campaigned for progressive measures, indeed many promoted reactionary agendas.

The Female Economic Independence in Mother Courage and Her Children

This research investigates female economic independence throughout the war in Brecht's play Mother Courage and her Children (1941). Mother Courage is a single mother alongside her three children making sacrifices and hustling to provide for herself and her children not being dependent on a male to live but only on her personal wagon. The methods used to prove her perseverance to achieve economic independence are through the lenses of two materialist feminist theories the first one is Simone De Beauvoir and her theories are taken from her book The Second Sex (2011). The second theory belongs to Charlotte Gilman and her book Women and Economics (1898). These theories are used to analyze the text of the play and spot the whereabouts of materialist feminism and how this character is following what is called materialist feminism, even though it was written before the theories. At the end of this study, a clear picture is formed of how Mother Courage truly proved herself worthy of the title “Mother Courage” in a sense of achieving or at least never giving up to create her financial goals to be an independent working mother through the worst possible scenarios.

Innovative Research on College Art Education Based on the Cultural Experience of Women's Book Symbols

Women's calligraphy, also known as female calligraphy, is a kind of writing style used by women in ancient China. It has become a unique and attractive form of writing art with its unique strokes and character characteristics. This paper discusses innovative paths for the experience of women's calligraphy symbolic culture in college art education, emphasizing the importance of integrating women's calligraphy symbolic culture resources, innovating ways of teaching women's calligraphy symbolic culture and advocating interdisciplinary cooperation and cross-cultural exchange. Through interdisciplinary cooperation and cross-cultural communication, it can enrich the expression and connotation of Women's Calligraphy symbolic culture in college art education, cultivate students' comprehensive literacy and cross-cultural cognition, and promote the inheritance and development of Women's Calligraphy symbolic culture in contemporary art and design fields.

Fair representation and the gender perspective

Any justice system without women, and more specifically without women judges, is incomplete and lacks equality. Having women judges ensures fair representation, such that the courts are reflective of the composition of the society. Understanding the role of women judges is fundamental to understanding the relevance of the gender perspective. The gender perspective is a narrative which is based on the experiences of women in the context of their stories, their responses, and their needs. The lack of a gender perspective in the justice sector is a common issue in this region, and the book Women and the Judiciary in the Asia-Pacific is a comprehensive collection of articles by authors from Asia-Pacific that address it and talk about the challenges and opportunities women judges face in different areas, from the appointment process to the rendering of judgments. This collection of experiences of women judges expands on the role and impact of women judges and raises two questions: What is the role that courts play in promoting gender equality, and what difference, if any, do women judges make? The book examines the causes and implications of not having enough women on the bench, and elaborates on how women judges contribute this different thinking along with a different set of emphases; this, in turn, brings out the gender perspective which is necessary for equity and cohesion. The book makes for a relevant and compelling read and constitutes a useful resource for policymakers and lawmakers in the region, as it draws on the experiences of Asia-Pacific. In fact, it opens up necessary debates, as it invites readers to consider the challenges of gender equality in the Global South, a region often overlooked in the prevailing literature.

Women in the Sky: Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea

Women in the Sky: Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea

Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations: An Anthology of Cases from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Other Countries

Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations: An Anthology of Cases from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Other Countries

Studi Komparatif Pemikiran M. Quraish Shihab dan Amina Wadud Tentang Nusyûz

Marriage is a physical and spiritual bond between a woman and a man with the intention of forming a family with tranquility, love, and mercy. In marriage, there are rights and obligations between husband and wife that must be fulfilled. If a husband and wife do not perform their obligations, it can be said to be nusyūz. This article reviews the wife nusyūz and husband nusyūz solutions based on Q.S. an-Nisa verses 34 and 128 in a comparison of M. Quraish Shihab and Amina Wadud's thoughts. The research approach uses library research with the main source of Tafsir Al-Misbah by M. Quraish Shihab and the Qur'an and Women Book by Amina Wadud. This study uses the comparative-descriptive method by data collection techniques using documentation. The results of the research concluded that M. Quraish Shihab and Amina Wadud have differences in formulating solutions to the nusyūz conflict. The word ḍaraba which is found in Q.S an-Nisa verse 34, is more defined as "beaten" by M. Quraish Shihab. Although it is also not always understood as meaning a hard, harsh, and painful blow. Meanwhile, by Amina Wadud, it is more defined as "troubling the heart". Then for a solution, if there is nusyūz from the husband's side, as found in QS an-Nisa verse 128, M. Quraish Shihab recommends making peace without the other party knowing. While Amina Wadud recommends peace through arbiters or hakam (a mediator).

Women's Book Ownership in Wales, c.1770–1830: The Ladies of Llangollen, Hester Thrale Piozzi and Elizabeth Greenly

In A Nation and its Books (1998), numerous chapters emphasise the cultural impact of book collecting in Wales; however, apart from one entry, a history of women's book ownership is largely absent. This article seeks to redress this imbalance by providing an account of three women's libraries in Wales from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The records for these libraries provide statistical evidence about book-buying trends, as well as information about the materiality of the books, and the spaces they were housed in. Importantly, revisiting such collections helps differentiate and document women's cultural legacies through books in Wales.

Knowledge Of Pregnant Women About The Benefits Of Pregnancy Books In Ottawa

This study was conducted using quantitative study approach with cross sectional design and the data collected is primary data obtained by distributing questionnaires. The study was conducted on pregnant women who checked their pregnancy at canal Hospital in canada. based on the results of research conducted that the utilization of pregnant women's books as much as 74.4% who utilize pregnant books, while 25.6% who do not utilize pregnant books, variables related to utilization is vaiabel family encouragement and availability of time and the most dominant is family encouragement(or=2.659). Suggestions from the authors need to strengthen maternal and child health programs by continuously evaluating the performance of health workers in socializing the importance of pregnant books for pregnant women.

ENSURING THE SOCIO-POLITICAL ACTIVITY OF WOMEN IN ANDIJAN REGION DURING THE YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE

During the years of independence, the attention to Uzbek women has risen to the level of state policy. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said that further strengthening the role and place of women in public administration is one of the priorities of our reforms. Under her leadership, the problems of more than 6 million women have been thoroughly studied by door-to-door visits by officials, banks and local governments. Although it is bitter, we must admit the truth: as a result of our studies, for the first time, the real situation on the ground has emerged. On this basis, the "Women's Book" is being formed, practical solutions are being found to many socio-economic problems that afflict women. The newly established "Women's Advisory Councils" in the mahallas are also closely assisting in this work. But this is just the beginning of what we need to do to solve women's problems.

3 - Slavery as a Human Institution

Scholars of slavery have long been divided between those who define slaves primarily as human property and those who define slaves primarily as kinless outsiders. This article reconciles these competing definitions by using the new understanding of definitions popularized by George Lakoff in his book Women, Fire and Dangerous Things. The two formal definitions that have been offered are really two sides of the same coin. Slaves in Africa were property because they were kinless outsiders, while slaves in the United States were kinless out- siders because they were property. Slaves in other societies also had this dual character as both property and kinless outsiders. Slavery is a human institution that began in the psychological dependence caused by the shame of kinlessness experienced by isolated individuals. It was thus a mechanism for the incorpora- tion of new members into a society. It spread and developed in human societies, coming to have various extensions in different societies, but always so recog- nizably similar that slaves could easily be transferred between cultures that had very different understandings of slavery.

Prevalence and trends of sexually transmitted infections among pregnant women in Mizan Tepi University Teaching Hospital, Southwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study.

Introductionsexually transmitted infections are the most common causes of illness in Africa. They are public health important diseases because of their magnitude, potential complications, and interactions with HIV/AIDS during pregnancy. In our country, especially in our study area, limited studies have been conducted to assess the magnitude and trends of sexually transmitted infections among pregnant women. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the prevalence and trends of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among pregnant women.Methodsan institution-based cross-sectional study design was conducted in Mizan Tepi University Teaching Hospital in Southwest Ethiopia from August 1-30, 2019. Three hundred women were selected using a simple random sampling method from the women's registry book who visited the hospital for antenatal care (ANC) follow-up in the last five years. The data was collected by using checklists. Finally, the data were entered into Epi Info 7 and analyzed with statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) version 25.0.Resultsthe prevalence of sexually transmitted infections was 50 (16.7%). HIV infection was 15 (5%), genital candidiasis 11 (3.7%), T. vaginitis 10 (3.3%), Hepatitis B virus 9 (3.0%), Hepatitis C virus 2 (0.7%), and Chlamydia 3 (1.0%). The trend of sexually transmitted infections over the last five consecutive years was increasing, decreasing, and again increasing.Conclusionthis study showed that the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections in pregnant women was relatively higher than in other similar studies conducted in different study areas. The trend of sexually transmitted infections in the last five years was not constant.

Neoliberal feminisms, late-night comedy, and the public sphere, or: Samantha Bee takes on Ivanka Trump

ABSTRACT The article analyzes the humor of a 2017 Full Frontal skit concerned with the publication of Ivanka Trump’s “feminist” self-help book Women Who Work. In the skit, Full Frontal’s host Samantha Bee takes issue with how the book misrepresents feminist (labor) politics, and calls out as politically dangerous the alignment of Ivanka’s neoliberal rhetoric of empowerment with the neoconservative or “retrotopian” politics of the Trump administration. The article suggests that the skit performs its critical intervention in two ways: on the one hand, by humorously appropriating Ivanka’s language in order to criticize her neoliberal resignification of feminist politics, and on the other hand, by highlighting the contrast between Ivanka’s composed, traditionally feminine behavior and Bee’s unruly comic bodily comportment. As the article shows, the skit creates humor around this contrast to call attention to the gendered mechanisms that have prevented women’s bodies from appearing both as comedians and as public speakers. The article closes with a caveat, pointing to the recent commodification of humor itself in neoliberal news media contexts, a development that severely curtails the transgressive feminist potential of Bee’s skit.

Roundtable on Dina Ligaga's Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media

One of the fundamental issues that Dina Ligaga addresses in her book Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media (2020), is how the Kenyan public culture controls Kenyan femininities. It...

Reflections

Contemporary artists Elizabeth Colomba and Fabiola Jean-Louis employ eighteenth-century subject matter, iconography, and media to reimagine the visual history of Black women. Putting Colomba’s and Jean-Louis’s work in dialogue with my own, I return to the premises of my book Women, Performance, and the Material of Memory: The Archival Tourist (2019), to re-examine, interrogate, and acknowledge my position as a white scholar.

THE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD WHICH HAS NO ALTERNATIVE TO THE SOLUTION OF WOMEN'S PROBLEMS

In this article analysed opportunities and the conditions for women created by our President Sh.M. Mirziyoyev, the role of women in the spiritual renewal of society, the social environment created to increase women's social activism, the activities of governmental and non-governmental organizations struggling to address pressing issues in women's lives, Opportunities based on national laws to increase girls' social activism, social protection, activism, socio-philosophical analysis of activism, the need to motivate people, the "Iron Book" and the "Women's Book", social services for families included in it, social problems The role and necessity of social services in the development of the country, the creation of a system in our country that has no alternative to the solution of women's problems in the world.

THE MOTHERHOOD CONTINENT AS A WRITING SPACE IN THE WORKS OF JASMINA TEŠANOVIĆ

The phenomenon of motherhood is a challenging focus for research in the feminist literary theory/critique. The motherhood continent as a controversial point of contention in the society has become (or remains) a polemicized field between the traditionalism, critical, essentialist feminism and epistemology. Advocating for the deconstruction of social postulates of patriarchy starts with a revision of the positive connotations of motherhood, demonization of abortion/birth control, and the right to birth self-determination. In the struggle for power and control at the waning of matriarchy, the androcentric order established the purpose, model and objectives of motherhood. The examination in this work destabilizes elements of motherhood in A Women's Book, The Mermaids, Matrimonium, and Nefertiti Was Here. The objective of this work is to deconstruct the concept of motherhood that is present in our paternal/patriarchal traditions by denouncing the harmful and deeply rooted stereotypes. Simultaneously the work exposes and highlights the need for affirmation of authentic feminine legacy, elucidates aspects of the mother daughter relationship, and promotes the accomplishments of regional literature. In this scientific approach to the phenomenon of motherhood, the work makes use of such theoretical concepts as: ideology of intensive motherhood, creation of body language and women's writing, motherly instinct, maternal ideology, matriarchy and mythology, the black continent, identification with the mother, as well as the mother-daughter relationship, the child's belonging, motherhood and non-motherhood and abortion-birth sterility. The inclusion of these themes in the narratives is an indicative question of the subjective affirmative experience of motherhood, where we find transcendental impulses for generating women's language and creation, which juxtapose ideological norms, intensity of motherhood and achieve autonomy in literary creation.