Creative Women Research Articles

Empowerment of Women's Creativity at Dians Songket and Endek Housein the Village of Gelgel, Klungkung: A Perspective of Presidential Instruction

Empowerment of Women's Creativity at Dians Songket and Endek Housein the Village of Gelgel, Klungkung: A Perspective of Presidential Instruction

Decolonising and depatriarchalising research cultures: a conversation with RAMA, the transnational Latin American women’s audiovisual research network

ABSTRACT Conference panels allow for free-flowing conversation with panellists and the audience. They lead to insights that come through thinking together with people that can bring complementary knowledge to the discussion. Yet these exchanges can also be ephemeral with ideas evaporating as we engage with the next paper or panel discussion. We address this in a search for a lasting contribution to debates in this write up of a panel on women and cinema, for the conference ‘Women and Cinema in Ibero-America: Politics, Histories, Representations, Intersectionality’, at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in September 2022. We agreed that the topics and the discussion at our panel were of broad interest and provide food for thought for academics wanting to adopt a decolonial feminist approach. Topics that we discussed included, how to approach archival research in women’s film and video, and how to ‘depatriarchalise’ the archives, and democratise access to them, as fundamental to offering a feminist perspective in archival research; how to challenge a Western androcentric paradigm and auteurist perspectives that too often erase women’s contribution to film cultures; and, how to challenge epistemological barriers that deny women creators voices. In addition, the panel presented a first-hand perspective of eurocentrism and the experience of European academia for a researcher from Brazil and discuss how a decolonial feminist film curator/programmer can be a gate-opener rather than a gate-keeper.

Queerowa biografia autorki Lata leśnych ludzi, czyli lata (leśnych) kobiet

This article reviews Emilia Padoł’s biography of Maria Rodziewiczówna (Rodziewiczówna. Gorąca dusza, Krakow 2023) in the broader context of other Polish life writings that can be described as both biographies of creative women and lesbian biographies, as well as biographies of couples (in particular Karolina Dzimira-Zarzycka’s biography of Maria Dulębianka, published in 2022). The author discusses Padoł’s treatment of gender and sexual identity in her book, contrasting it with Dzimira-Zarzycka’s approach, which she finds more sensitive to the contexts of the era and not projecting contemporary LGBTQ+ categories onto Dulębianka to such an extent. The article presents the so-called “Boston marriage” as an important theme of both biographies (even if Padoł does not refer to this concept). It also presents the effects of the feminist revision to which Padoł subjects Rodziewiczówna’s work.

Pemberdayaan Hak-Hak Perempuan Berdasarkan Konsep HAM di Jorong Lundang Kecamatan Ampek Angkek Kabupaten Agam

<p>This paper discusses the Empowerment of Women's Rights in Lundang and the Purpose of Empowering Women's Rights Based on the Concept of Human Rights in Jorong Lundang. The purpose of this study is to reveal or describe how women's rights are empowered and the purpose of this empowerment is based on the concept of human rights in Lundang. The method used by the author in this study is a qualitative method, namely a research method carried out by observation and interviews while the approach used is snowball sampling. The results of this study show that in realizing gender equality, one of them is by mainstreaming the empowerment of women's rights in Lundang, we can see this empowerment that Lundang women are no longer only involved in the domestic world but have also entered the public sphere, namely working as one of the by establishing the Panjaik Patah Sulaman Gallery house and forming PKK activities as a forum to increase women's creativity and self-confidence so that no more women are intimidated and banned from working in Lundang.</p>

Motivations and Obstacles to Women's Creativity in Arab Society from the Point of View of Academic Women in Saudi Universities in Riyadh

This study aimed to identify the drivers and obstacles to women's creativity in the Arab society from the point of view of the academics in Saudi universities in Riyadh,. To achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive survey approach was used. The study ends with a set of findings, the most prominent of which are: that political and systemic drivers are at the forefront of the motivations for women’s creativity in Saudi society, foremost among which is the reliance of the Kingdom’s 2030 vision on women on an equal basis with men in achieving leadership based on innovation and creativity. As for social drives, they came in third place, and at the main is: Supporting thought and opinion leaders for creative Saudi women. Finally, the fourth was the economic and financial drives, and the most important were: State support for Saudi women's projects in the field of entrepreneurship. Regarding the obstacles to the creativity of Saudi women the economic and financial obstacles topped them, the most important were: the weakness of the orientation towards creative industries and benefiting from the creative capabilities of Saudi women in them, and the lack of sufficient capital to finance. This was followed by social and cultural obstacles, mainly; customs and traditions, and the very conservative socialization, Then the obstacles associated with the personality of the Saudi women, Then the fifth one was the systemic obstacles.

Social obstacles and enrichment to women's creativity: a possible connection

Gender stereotypes are still present in society and tend to privilege certain groups. Prejudice, discrimination, sexist norms, pressure, low valuation are some of the obstacles that women must face since an early age and affect them in the professional stage. Although they have the same creative potential as men, there are fewer eminent female creators in most diverse domains. In this theoretical essay, we analyzed biographies and investigations about those who were recognized for their creative contributions in socially valued domains. It is argued that overcoming gender barriers may have favored their motivation, determination, non-conventionality, as well as adding diversified resources for creative ideas. Nevertheless, the path to gender equity in creative recognition and social justice must not involve teaching women to benefit from overcoming barriers, but rather tearing them down. Considering creativity in a systemic perspective, it is necessary to change domains and fields. There will be more women recognized as creative when we manage to break gender stereotypes, favoring the openness of the domains and the impartiality of the fields.

Las ciudades que somos (‘The cities we are’): A review of three Latin American comics by women creators

This short-form article reviews three texts by women comics artists published with publishing house Sexto Piso. María Luque’s graphic novel, titled Casa transparente (‘Transparent house’) (2017), won the first Premio Novela Gráfica Ciudades Iberoamericanas (Ibero-American Cities Graphic Novel Prize) and captures her travels to Bariloche, Rosario, Buenos Aires, Cusco and Mexico City. The volume Las ciudades que somos (‘The cities we are’) (2018), authored by Chicks on Comics, won the second Premio Novela Gráfica Ciudades Iberoamericanas (Ibero-American Cities Graphic Novel Prize). It contains comics in Spanish by an international collective of seven creators from Argentina, Colombia, Holland, Latvia and Singapore (Bas, Caro Chinaski, Clara Lagos, Delius, Power Paola, Weng Pixin and Zane Zlemeša). The third text discussed is Power Paola’s graphic novel Virus tropical (2018), a Künstlerroman or autobiographical portrait of the artist covering her adolescence and family connections to both Ecuador and Colombia.

Anna Magdelana Bach’s Missing Thimble: Reflections on creative poetic process

Three artefacts thought to belong to Anna Magdalena Bach, soprano singer, harpsichordist (and second wife to Johann Sebastian)—ring, thimble and buckle—are mentioned in the Bach archive in Leipzig. Much uncertainty surrounds them; perhaps they have been ‘lost’, or were destroyed by Allied bombing during the Second World War, or perhaps they didn’t even actually belong to her. The uncertain status of the objects is emblematic of how poorly the knowledge about this ‘creative woman of accomplishment’ has been treated over the centuries, overshadowed by interest in, and information about, her eminent spouse. This has allowed authors to project their own views onto Anna Magdalena, in some instances leading to misrepresentations (Talle 2020), and even misappropriation by the Nazis (Yearsley 2019). However, as poetic biographer, it has also given me rich opportunity to imagine into her life. Anna Magdalena is one of the research subjects about whom I am writing poetic biographies, a project of restitution seeking to redress the omission of creative women of accomplishment from the historical record. This paper looks at the composition process I employed in writing about her thimble (one poem in a sequence), taking a quote from Susan Howe as its starting point which suggests that archival objects are ‘pre-articulate theatres’ (1985), positioning the archival object, even if missing, as a site for unfolding drama.

Community Development Melalui Program Kampung Sejahtera Mandiri (Ksm) Sebagai Sarana Pemberdayaan Perempuan

This research uses a descriptive qualitative approach. Data were collected by means of observation, interviews, and documentation. While the research data analysis stage used in this study includes the stage before in the field, the stage while in the field, and the conclusion stage. The theoretical concept used in this study is the Lubis theory. Consists of 5 dimensions, namely, Advocacy, Community Organizing, Capacity Building, Network Development, and Communication, Information and Education. The results of the research and discussion that the researcher has carried out, and based on the dimensions of the research that are the basis for this research, include the standards and objectives of Advocacy, Community Development, Capacity Building, Network and Communication Development, Information and Education. The supporting factors are the support from across sectors, the tenacity and creativity of women there and the development of technology that has improved. The inhibiting factors in this empowerment are high population but low quality of human resources, low per capita income, community economy is still lacking for product marketing. And Knowledge of technology in product marketing.

Subverting technologies of gender in male-dominated gender regimes: (self) representations of Spanish and Swedish women filmmakers

ABSTRACT This article analyses (self)representations of women filmmakers active in the Swedish and Spanish film industries, looking at how “technologies of gender,” as theorised by Teresa de Lauretis, work to resist change within the industry’s “gender regimes” (as conceptualised by Raewyn Connell), but are also simultaneously reinvented by women film workers. Even though the gender regimes of Spain and Sweden are quite different, and despite the diversity of positions adopted by women film workers concerning cinema—as art, commodity, and socio-political technology—there are striking similarities in the obstacles faced by women in a male-dominated industry. We identify these similarities in a series of interviews with women filmmakers from both countries. What emerges as shared across both contexts is the ambivalent negotiation that women film workers have to carry out in their self-representations, when entering an industry built around a male norm. But along with these representations marked by the relation to patriarchal technologies of gender, many women creators also search for bottom-up narratives and appropriations of such technologies to construct themselves and their works outside and beyond the androcentric model of the current film industry.

Female Genealogies of Creation: Marie Darrieussecq and Paula Modersohn-Becker, Tatiana de Rosnay and Tamara de Lempicka

ABSTRACT Excluding women’s art from public attention significantly affects the possibility of building female genealogies of creation. As such, women artists must constantly recreate their foremothers, because all too often history has erased them from view. Nonetheless, women creators are redressing this imbalance, by rewriting women into history. This article analyses two such contemporary examples: Marie Darrieussecq’s text on Paula Modersohn-Becker [Être ici est une splendeur: Vie de Paula M. Becker (2016)], and Tatiana de Rosnay’s work on Tamara de Lempicka [Tamara par Tatiana (2018)]. Paula Modersohn-Becker was an artist of many firsts, having painted the first (known) nude self-portrait by a woman, the first (known) nude pregnant self-portrait in art history (destroyed in 1943), and having the first museum in the world dedicated exclusively to the works of a woman (opened in 1927). Tatiana de Rosnay in collaboration with her daughter, Charlotte Jolly de Rosnay, unpacks the glamourous life of Tamara de Lempicka, the queen of Art Deco, highlighting the struggles and identity quests of a woman artist in the Parisian art world of the 1920s. This article comparatively examines the way Darrieussecq and de Rosnay adapt the traditional artist’s biography to facilitate the emergence of female genealogies of creation.

The determinants of Tunisian influencer-mompreneurs’ success: an exploratory study of a new form of female web entrepreneurship on Instagram

PurposeThis paper is designed with the aim to enlarge our understanding of a new form of women’s entrepreneurship in an emerging market, which is Tunisia. By exploring the role of nowadays’ “influencer-mompreneurs” on Instagram, our research provides a springboard to holistically investigate an up-to-date facet of female entrepreneurship in the digital era and to identify the determinants of its success.Design/methodology/approachThis study took place in Tunisia and examined a sample of 20 female followers of three successful influencer-mompreneurs. A qualitative exploratory study was conducted through semistructured interviews. To analyze the collected data, the authors used thematic analysis, through which the determinants of influencer-mompreneurs’ success on Instagram bearing on Tunisian followers’ perspectives and previous literature were identified.FindingsThe results suggest that the key determinants of influencer-mompreneurs’ success from their followers’ perspectives depend on their personal traits and their shared content. This is consistent with previous theories and models. In particular, source credibility theory and Ducoffe’s model of advertisement value, which to our knowledge, has not yet been wholly served with regard to influencer marketing research. Paradoxically, the findings reveal that “sharenting” details of their private lives as well as those of their children is also a determinant of influencer-mompreneurs’ success.Originality/valueResearch into influencer-mompreneurs’ success with presence of their children on Instagram can help to provide valuable insights because existing literature into the subject is ambiguous and requires further research to clarify this research gap. Furthermore, by broadening the view of a new form of women entrepreneurship in relation to mother-influencer marketing, this study will inspire future research to dig deeper into creative women owned businesses and to support such emerging economies in the African context.

At the red table: how intergenerational Black women are using Facebook Watch to cultivate critical conversations on health, identity, and relationships

ABSTRACT Red Table Talk, a web series exclusively aired on Facebook Watch, represents the narrative of intergenerational Black women who tackle critical conversations. The show, developed by Jada Pinkett-Smith and featuring her daughter and mother, brings in special guests for discussions on race, gender identity, sexual and mental health, co-parenting, and relationships. This paper relies on both qualitative and quantitative data from an audience survey, supplemented by thematic analysis to explore these themes. We show how the alternative media model of Facebook Watch and the series itself act as rebellions against institutionalized narratives that perpetuate stereotypes against people of color. We examine how Black women creators reclaim agency and resist generational forms of silencing by authoring a counter-narrative at the intersection of their lived cultural experiences.

Streaming Giants Carve New Paths in India: The Rise of Female Production, Content, and Consumption

Abstract This article examines how through their competitive drive to expand in India’s rapidly growing market, the streaming services Netflix and Amazon Prime are contributing to a shift in the country’s media production and content by opening up the market to more women creators and consumers. Beginning by looking at production shifts, this article will then explore how these shifts are impacting content. Streaming series examined here will include Netflix’s Bombay Begums (Alankrita Shrivastava, 2021) and Masaba Masaba (Ashvini Yardi, 2020) and Amazon Prime’s Four More Shots Please! (Rangita Pritish Nandy, 2019–2020) and Made in Heaven (Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti, 2019). All these shows not only center on female protagonists, but are created, written, and directed by women. Just as the new possibilities of multiplex cinema impacted mainstream cinema as filmmakers crossed between the alternative and multiplex markets and the mainstream, this shift has the potential to have ramifications in further content creation and will be something to watch as the streaming service sector continues to grow in India.

Strategies and experiences of the training process for women creators of productive initiatives

Within the framework of the research and extension project, financed by the Research and Extension Revolving Fund of the Francisco de Paula Santander University (UFPS), entitled "Appropriation of ICT for the integral development of women in the urban area of the municipality of San José de Cúcuta", the UFPS and the Vive Digital Lab, in alliance with the governmental entities, developed the implementation of an inter-institutional strategy, based on the participatory action research method, with the active collaboration of the entities involved in the strategy, which benefited 492 women creators of productive initiatives to promote and transform their businesses. The conclusion is the need to follow up the digital transformation of the productive initiatives benefited and identify new training opportunities to continue expanding the digital skills of this population of women.

Chinese Women’s Art

The article discusses the origin and evolution of women's visual art in China. The development of this artistic direction was due to the radical social transformations since the beginning of the Open Door Policy in 1978. Analysis of the art by Li Hong, Cui Xiuwen, Feng Jiali, Yuan Yaomin and others reveals main features of the evolution of women's creativity in China. The search and acquisition of female identity, the destruction of psychological barriers imposed by traditional ideas and stereotypes about a woman, her physicality, beauty, etc., the study of gender differences, the reflection of female subjectivity, the assertion of a new status for women in modern society - all this makes the content of Chinese women's art. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the article studies the works of quite reputable Chinese artists who were not presented earlier in Russian art history science. This article is intended to contribute to the study of the processes of emancipation of the consciousness of the Chinese and raising the status of women artists in society. Reflections on personal experience, social problems and historical destinies determine the specifics of the artistic language of women's works. In view of the active feminist movements of our time, increasing attention to the inner world of women and criticism of patriarchal foundations, addressing this topic seems very relevant today.

Polish Lace Makers: Gender, Heritage, and Identity

Polish Lace Makers: Gender, Heritage, and Identity

Self-Employment creating opportunities for women in Fashion Items and Handicraft Designing in India- A Study

Beyond the trendy and stylish lifestyle of fashion designers, there are still challenging competitions and tasks around every corner. But no day is identical and the world of fashion is unlikely to get dull. Fashion designing is a demanding career, as fashion designers need to combine their creativity with managerial skills to sustain in this industry. Thus, if the designer can create enchanted with colours, designs and shapes, then just obtain a professional course to begin a successful career in the fascinating world of fashion designing. Today, the clothing industry and making handicraft satisfies both the artistic creativity and the self-centered needs of the people. On the other hand, it offers glamour, fame, popularity and a high-paying package to creative women. This study highlight the existing employment opportunities of fashion designer for women in India.

Women and Crime: The Egyptian Women's Prison in Drama

When the television drama series The Women's Prison (Sijin al-Nisā’) was aired in Egypt during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in 2014 (covering thirty episodes, each around 30 to 40 minutes), it became a hit and attracted a huge audience (Fig. 1). This was partly due to the popularity of its major theme, which focused on women and crime through characters inhabiting the famous al-Qanatir al-Khayriyya women's prison, located on the outskirts of Cairo. Another reason for its success was the group of creative women who produced it: director Kamla Abu-Zikri, scriptwriter Maryam Naʿum, art director Shirin Farghal, costume designer Rim al-ʿAdil, and director of photography Nancy ʿAbd al-Fattah. Abu-Zikri and Naʿum had collaborated on earlier works, most notably for their 2009 acclaimed film One-Zero (Wahid-Sifr) and the drama series Zaat, adapted from a famous novel of the same name by the veteran Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim, which aired during Ramadan in 2013. Moreover, the key female role in both Zaat and The Women's Prison was played by the popular star actress Nelly Karim, guaranteeing high viewing rates.

Ravenna M. Helson (1925-2020).

Memorializes Ravenna M. Helson (1925-2020). Helson was a pioneering feminist researcher whose studies advanced the understanding of women's development and creativity, and revealed the power of personality across the life span. She spent her 55-year career at the University of California Berkeley's Institute for Personality Assessment and Research. In 1955, she was the only woman on staff, and remained the only woman for decades. In 1958 with a 2- and a 1-year-old in tow, she launched the Mills Longitudinal Study of creative potential in 142 female seniors at Mills College. In those times, before second wave feminism or a women's movement, and without any psychology of women, she worked hard to attain visibility for her findings. In 1980 the Mills study transformed to a 50-year research program about women's adult development. Helson died October 2, 2020. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).