British Women Research Articles

O-15 CUTANEOUS SARCOIDOSIS PRESENTING AS ASYMPTOMATIC PTH-INDEPENDENT HYPERCALCEMIA

Abstract Introduction Sarcoidosis is a rare disease primarily affecting the pulmonary system in approximately 90% of cases. (1) Cutaneous involvement occurs in 20-35% of sarcoidosis patients and can present without systemic manifestations (2). The skin is the second most commonly affected organ after the lungs in sarcoidosis (3). Clinical Case We report a unique case of cutaneous sarcoidosis presenting with asymptomatic hypercalcemia. An 81-year-old White British woman with a medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus, anemia, hypertension, and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) was managed for left leg cellulitis. Examination revealed a systolic murmur, clear chest, bilateral erythema, raised temperature, and pitting edema at the infection site. An admission chest x-ray showed a known large hiatus hernia. Routine blood tests revealed adjusted calcium levels of 3.52 mmol/L (2.20-2.60 mmol/L), and PTH levels were low at 0.9 pmol/L (1.6-6.9 pmol/L), indicating PTH-independent hypercalcemia. Further blood tests showed normal vitamin D (129nmol/L, n>50nmol/L), ACE levels (<5 IU/L), and thyroid funct,on tests (TSH 7.17mU/L, n0.30-4.20mU/L, T4 15.6pmol/L, n11.9-21.6pmol/L, TPO antibody<10IU/mL, n0-34). Myeloma screen (no monoclonal bands, Serum Kappa Free Light Chain:31.03 mg/L,n 3.30 - 19.40; Serum Lambda Free Light Chain:22.57 mg/L,n:5.71 - 26.30) and autoimmune screens (IgG:7.8 g/L,n:6.0 - 16.0; IgA:1.26 g/L,n:0.80 - 4.00; IgM*0.41 g/L,n:0.50 - 2.00) were negative. Elevated 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D (calcitriol) was noted at 246 pmol/L. Occult malignancy was ruled out via normal CT chest, abdomen, and pelvis, gastroscopy with biopsy, and CT head scans. Initial PET CT results were reported as normal. Hypercalcemia management included intravenous fluids, zoledronic acid, denosumab, steroids, and cinacalcet. Subsequent detailed PET CT report revealed extensive moderate FDG uptake in the subcutaneous tissue of both arms. Physical examination identified subcutaneous nodules, and histology confirmed a florid dermal non-necrotizing granulomatous reaction, diagnosing extra-pulmonary cutaneous sarcoidosis. Interestingly, the patient had been on long-term prednisolone (10 mg) for PMR, recently reduced to 4 mg prior to admission. Her calcium levels normalized (2.57 mmol/L) after weaning off prednisolone. Conclusion Hypercalcemia in cutaneous sarcoidosis without pulmonary involvement is rare. Long-term follow-up is essential, as patients with cutaneous sarcoidosis may develop systemic involvement. She was referred to pulmonary and dermatology specialists for further evaluation.

The Psychical State of British Women during and after the First World War

This article explores the impact of the First World War (1914–1918) on the psyche of the British women at the battle front and on the home front. It examines the origin and nature of the problem, presenting the various types of trauma and mental illness that arose as a result of the war, their symptoms and negative effects. Other issues affecting the female psyche in the post-war period are explored, such as the lack of adequate medical care, possible risks to life and honour, and discrimination and neglect of women’s mental health conditions.

Same script, different sway: ethnolinguistic accent hierarchies in hiring evaluations in southern Ontario

ABSTRACT Canadians are perceived worldwide as being welcoming to people of diverse backgrounds, partly due to the government’s adoption of official multiculturalism. Nevertheless, immigrants face substantial barriers to integration. The present study explores whether bias exists against job applicants with non-Canadian English accents in the province of Ontario and what variables influence listeners’ evaluations of candidates’ responses. Verbal guises of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ answers to job interview questions were recorded by British, Chinese, German, Indian, Jamaican, and Nigerian women, and Canadian women with at least one parent from these countries. Ninety-six human resources students from nine post-secondary institutions in southern Ontario rated (1) the content of job interview responses, whether candidates were (2) easy to understand and (3) desirable employees, and (4) determined what job they should be interviewed for. Quantitative analysis via conditional inference trees and random forests reveals accent discrimination. Local voices received significantly higher ratings than non-local voices on all parameters and were recommended for more managerial-level and customer-facing job interviews. These results indicate that linguistic assimilation is expected of immigrants and bias against accents can lead to inequitable access to employment, contra to multiculturalism. Consequently, we call for language to be added to Ontario’s grounds for discrimination.

How can more women with pre-existing type 1 and type 2 diabetes be supported to prepare for pregnancy after a baby loss? A qualitative exploration of lived experiences in the UK

ObjectivesExplore, understand and analyse how women with pre-existing diabetes can be better supported during the inter-pregnancy interval—the time after a baby loss and before a subsequent pregnancy.DesignQualitative, semi-structured online interviews...

Animalistic Vocabulary in Animal Tales

The article is devoted to consideration of animalistic vocabulary in Kazakh and English. The purpose is to consider animalistic vocabulary based on Kazakh and English animal tales from the linguocultural and comparative aspects. Despite the universality of animalistic vocabulary, research in this area is limited. Animalistic vocabulary reflects the relationship between language and culture, linguocultural information related to the way of life, traditions, and beliefs of the Kazakh and English peoples. The article identifies similarities and differences in animalistic vocabulary in Kazakh and English. As part of our research methodology, comparative and linguocultural analysis of lexical units from English fairy tales about animals and their counterparts in Kazakh was carried out. Fairy tales about animals were collected in both languages, the meaning of animal-related vocabulary was identified, and their shared and unique cultural characteristics were analyzed. As a result, ethnocultural codes unique to a particular nation were identified and analyzed. It has been observed that the accumulated human experience is determined in culture by various character systems. The scientific value of the article is determined from the linguistic and cultural points of view on the world perception and cognition problem based on animalistic vocabulary. The results of the study can be practically used in preparation of such courses as fairy tale discourse, and cognitive linguistics.

Verbalization of the spatial model of the world in modern Russian and English women’s prose (based on the works of A. Matveeva and E. Gilbert)

The article analyzes the explication of the spatial model of the world in modern women’s fictional discourse. The focus of attention is on the ways of constructing space and their linguistic representation in the works of A. Matveeva and E. Gilbert, modern women authors of Russian and English literature. A comparative analysis of the two pieces of discourse helps to reveal the individual characteristics of the female authors, as well as the national characteristics of the two linguistic worldviews. The research is aimed at identifying the influence of gender identity on the formation of a spatial model of the world. The novelty of this work lies in the fact that for the first time it has examined the peculiarities of space perception by modern female authors. As a result of the research, we determined the parameters of space perception by the female authors. The analyzed material showed that the main features of A. Matveeva and E. Gilbert’s space are “length”, “volume”, “livability”, “openness”, “evenness” and “spaciousness”. The article highlights the following parameters in the spatial model of the analyzed authors’ world: features of the objects’ location; binary signs of space characteristics; correlation of the category “ours-theirs”; horizontal and vertical perception of space; temporal significance of space. The spatial model of A. Matveeva is built in the form of a straight line; among binary oppositions, “top-bottom” and “in front-behind” prevail; the key spatial loci are apartment, temple, camino and albergo; the discourse describes the space that surrounds her, where she is in the center. In her fictional discourse, the key binary opposition is “heaven-earth”. To achieve the goal, we used the following methods: descriptive, comparative, contextual and a stylistic analysis.

Authorial communicative strategy in female English-language literary nonfiction discourse

The paper explores functions of communicative strategies in the female English-language biographical discourse in the second half of the 20th century. The analyzed works are biographies written by British and American women writers: “Emily Bronte. Her Life and Work” by M. Spark (1953), “Sartre: Romantic Rationalist” by I. Murdoch (1953), “Saint-Exupéry. A Biography” by S. Schiff (1994) and “Blonde” by J.C. Oates (2000). The objectives of the study were to analyze the genre characteristics of the texts, to identify their linguistic and extralinguistic means of presenting the main character and to reveal the gender-marking of English-language biographical discourse. In the course of the analysis, we formulated the main verbalization techniques of the female view on the image of the Other in its historical, national, social and cultural perspective. The article focuses on the ways authorial communicative strategies affect the reader’s perception of the main character in the presented biographies. We have come to the conclusion that the gender-marked text is characterized by the accentuated female subjectivity and the domineering evaluative component in creating the image in the realistic discourse (M. Spark, S. Schiff) and gamification in the postmodernist one (I. Murdoch, J.C. Oates). The choice of the main character is determined by national features, so while the English biographical discourse is characterized by its appeal to the phenomenon of creative consciousness, American biographers focus on the mechanisms of mythologization and demythologization of a cult personality.

Formation of national cultural myths about Europe in “Letters of a Russian Traveler” by N. Karamzin

The article is devoted to the formation mechanism of national cultural myths about Europe in “Letters of a Russian Traveler” by N. Karamzin. Using the example of four countries, visited by the Russian traveler (Germany, Switzerland, France and England), we explore the main models for creation of national cultural myths. The example of Germany shows the importance of the traveler’s empirical experience in the absence of literary cultural mythology concerning this country. The experience of Switzerland allows the traveler to project his own personal experience on the myth already established in literature, describing Switzerland as the Arcadia of modern times, the country where the “golden age” reigns. The national cultural mythology of France allows the traveler to compare the 18th-century myth of Francocentric Europe, when France performed the role of cultural hegemon, with the historical realities of the French Revolution, which gradually turn France into an outsider country in the eyes of other European monarchies. N. Karamzin’s world image of England is the most complex version of the national cultural myth. On the one hand, the Russian traveler compares the realities of genuine English life with the image of foggy Albion and its inhabitants, which he formed under the influence of reading English novels in the context of the Enlightenment bibliophilic cultural myth. On the other hand, his analysis of the main national features of the English people allows the traveler to think about identifying himself as a Russian person, to compare the English world image with the Russian one, stating the existence of a number of differences between them.

FUNCTIONS OF EMOTIONAL CONNOTATION IN ENGLISH WOMEN'S MAGAZINES THROUGH LITERARY DEVICES

The paper explores the complex process of perceiving emotional connotation triggered by stylistic devices in English women's magazines and the impact it exerts on the female readership. The core of the study is the emotional connotation created by literary devices, namely, metaphor, epithet, oxymoron, hyperbole, simile, personification, rhetorical question, parallelism, anaphora, and alliteration. By employing the method of textual analysis and focus group research method, the research elucidates the functional range that implied emotional connotation may have on the reader, namely, information and advice, inspiration and aspiration, fashion and beauty, community building, empowerment, advocacy and awareness, educational function, cultural representation, social commentary, consumerism and advertising, and entertainment and escapism. The article presents an elaborate analysis of the implied emotional connotation underlying each literary device in question in English women's magazines and the functional impact it creates.

Austerity's implications: Parasitism and charity in an English village

AbstractEnglish political discourse has long featured accusations of parasitical behavior. In this article, I provide insight into how discussions of parasitism feature in English people's daily lives. Specifically, I discuss how more than a decade of austerity has informed perceptions of parasitical behavior. In exploring this, I make use of more than a dozen months of fieldwork conducted with residents of Lyon, a rural, postindustrial village in North East England. My specific focus is discussions of parasitism occurring in two fixtures of austerity‐era England: the food bank and the charity shop. After more than a decade of austerity, even those villagers volunteering at charity shops and food banks frequently engaged in conversations about parasitism. I draw on Michel Serres's scholarship on the parasite and place it in conversation with George Foster's various writings on the image of the limited good and the static economy to explain why this occurred. I suggest that the development of a worldview informed by a sense of limited good has encouraged beliefs about parasitism's contemporary prevalence.

Педагогическая деятельность английской писательницы Ханны Мор на рубеже XVIII–XIX веков

The article examines the pedagogical activity of the English writer and teacher of the turn of the XVIII–XIX centuries Hannah More. It is shown that she not only wrote about the need to provide girls with the opportunity to receive education, but also organized schools and women’s creative circles for them, popularized charitable activities among English women. The main attention is paid to the difficulties that H. More had to overcome in this field.

“Oxford housewife” or the only british woman to have ever won the Nobel Prize in science? – Dorothy Hodgkin

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, a British chemist and Nobel Prize winner, who extended the method of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules that furthered the development of structural biology. In 1964, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances”, particularly vitamin B12 and antibiotic penicillin. Five years after winning the Nobel Prize, Dorothy Hodgkin also established the structure of insulin. Although The Daily Mail headlined her as an “Oxford housewife”, Dorothy Hodgkin overcame gender inequality to become the third woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and remains the only British woman researcher to be awarded the most prestigious prize in the sciences. Keywords: Dorothy Hodgkin, insulin, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, structures of penicillin, vitamin B12, X-ray crystallography

LINGUOCULTURAL FEATURES OF SPEECH ETIQUETTE IN KAZAKH AND ENGLISH (GENDER SPECIFIC WORDS)

The aim of the present paper is to study the speech etiquette in the Kazakh and English languages from the lingual-cultural viewpoint.A comparative study of gender relations in the linguocultural aspect is one of the promising areas of modern linguistics. Despite the universality of the concepts of “masculinity” and “femininity,” gender relations have a certain national specificity, which is revealed during their comparative analysis. Linguistic and cultural analysis of gender relations in the Kazakh and English languages reveals significant overlap, however, a comparative analysis allows us to judge the differences caused by ethnocultural traditions and the national specifics of the language. The relevance of the study is determined by the lack of comparative works of Kazakh and English speech etiquette. The findings of this study will contribute to theoretical research and practical development in the sphere of intercultural communication. The research is based on some gender studies, normative acts regulating gender linguistic issues, data from statistical studies, explanatory and etymological dictionaries. The sampling method was used for the selection of language material. The methods of analysis and synthesis of theoretical and actual material were applied for data collection. The analysis showed that gender differences in the linguistic culture of Kazakh and English people have a bright national and cultural colour. On the basis of the material collected and analyzed as the main groups of gender related words such words as male and female names of Turkic-speaking peoples, kinship terminology, names containing the word "ul" (English: son) and feminitives in Kazakh culture were identified. The theoretical significance of this study is determined by the development of a linguoculturological direction in comparative studies in relation to the gender related words. The practical significance of the work is that the results obtained can be used in theoretical courses in cultural linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and comparative typology of the Kazakh and English languages.

Twenty year analysis of professional men’s rugby union knee injuries from the English premiership shows high rates and burden

ObjectivesTo determine the rates, severity and burden of knee injuries in professional male rugby union from the English Premiership.MethodsInjury and exposure data were captured over 20 seasons using a prospective...

ЧУЖИНКА: ПРОЄКЦІЯ АЛІЄНОВАНОЇ ЖІНОЧОЇ ОСОБИСТОСТІ В МАЛІЙ ПРОЗІ ДЖИН РІС

The present study examines the prose texts written by Jean Rhys (1890–1979), a British woman writer of modernist literature. It is based on the perusal of several short stories, among others: “In the Rue de l’Arrivée”, “A Night”, “La Grosse Fifi ”; “Outside the Machine”, “The Lotus”, “Till September, Petronella”, and “Let Them Call It Jazz” which were included in two collections of her fi ction – “The Left Bank and Other Stories” (1927) and “Tigers are Better-Looking” (1968). The purpose of the paper is to analyze the author’s concept of lonely, alienated, vulnerable and defenseless female individuals which forms the core of her artistic imagination. The scientifi c research uses gynocritics as its methodological background. According to the theory of its critic E. Showalter, it was possible to identify four models of woman writing having been realized in Jean Rhys’s short prose: a) psychoanalytic; b) biological; c) linguistic and d) cultural. The psychoanalytic model of Rhys’s fi ction is viewed in the context of both the emotional and conscious worlds of an alienated female identity. The woman protagonist being rejected by a hostile society, becomes a stranger and outcast. The feelings of deep loneliness, pain, fear, and loss, intertwined with the death wish and with resistance, determine the constants of female existence. An important aspect of woman personality is the dimension of female friendship and solidarity. The biological model of short prose by J. Rhys is explored through the concept of female corporeality. The corporeal vulnerability of women protagonists is shown as a form of the fragility of their inner world. An unattractive woman image created by the author manifests the psychological uncertainty and brittleness of female characters. And a metaphor of the looking glass as a refl ection of their appearance reveals the concept of the female Self as a loss which varies from the loss of a woman’s youth to the loss of feminine identity or its splitting. The linguistic model of Rhys’s short stories testifi es to the bipolar artistic world of the writer, which is demonstrated at the confrontation between French and British cultures with the signs of laconism, subtext, and silence as the main features of her writing manner. Meanwhile, the cultural model of J. Rhys’s prose is read through the prism of the intertextual discourse of literature, music and painting. Key words: loneliness, fear, suff ering, alienation, hostility, corporeality, vulnerability.

Change of Value Paradigm in Women’s Prose (On The Example of the Novels of British and American Women Writers of Late 20th /Early 21st Centuries)

Our study focuses on gender issues from the perspective of “women’s literature”, gives a brief overview of female writers’ works from ancient times to the beginning of the 21st century, and explores how gender stereotypes have affected the texts created by women and about women. The point of view that literature is not gendered, and that there is simply good or bad literature which cannot be called either "masculine" or "feminine", is the starting point of our research, but with one caveat: women bring to literature their own, unique female experience, bio-philosophy, their own hierarchy of values. The aim of our research is to conduct a mapping of existing literature on how “women’s issue” and value paradigm are represented in women’s prose, and, using gender and axiological approaches of analysis, to confirm the belief that the “issue of woman”, gender dominants, as well as thematic and symbolic structures, character and value systems in women’s writings have undergone abrupt changes in historical and cultural context. On the example of the works of British and American women writers of late 20th and early 21st centuries, we can conclude thatcontemporary female writers build their literary activity on the paradigm of individual's psychological problems, thanks to which their works are identified by emotional and valuespecific measurements presented in a new aesthetic and artistic fashion.

Analysis of performance in English women’s domestic Twenty20 cricket

ABSTRACT Cricket has progressed over the years to adapt to crowd demands to increase levels of excitement, hence the introduction of Twenty20 (T20) cricket. The purpose of this paper was to identify the key variables that impact winning and to investigate if there are differences between men’s and women’s cricket. Primary research collected match data from scorecards of all 26 games of an English women’s T20 regional competition. Independent t-tests and Cohen’s d-test of effect size (ES) indicated significant differences between the winning and losing teams. Innings run rate (ES 1.12), total number of boundaries (ES 0.90), total wickets taken (ES 0.88), fours scored (ES 0.85), run rate in powerplay and percentage of runs from boundaries (both ES 0.67) revealed to be most significant for success in the competition. Secondary analysis explored the effect of bowling line and length. Bowling short lengths resulted in more than expected wickets in powerplay overs, and 66% of fours were scored off full pitched deliveries. Although many of the key variables that contribute to success within women’s cricket were similar to men’s cricket, differences were evident. Further research on women’s cricket is therefore required to confirm whether these differences between genders persist across multiple studies.

Menstrual cycle performance barriers experienced by elite women football players and their management strategies applied: A semi-structured interview-based study

ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to investigate the barriers experienced by elite women football players due to their menstrual cycle, and coping strategies utilised against these barriers. Fifteen elite women footballers from two English Women’s Super League clubs (age: 25.2 years [18–33]) were interviewed using semi-structured interviews, developed using piloting and peer review. Data was audio recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed thematically using NVivo. Analysis of 27,438 words unveiled key themes: internal barriers, external barriers, coping strategies, and player needs. Fear of leakage, associated with kit colour (n = 15) and lack of effective sanitary products (n = 12), and injury anxiety (n = 7), associated with ACL injury (n = 5), were the most common barriers. To combat these issues, players use internal (feeling fortunate n = 9) and external (support from teammates n = 6; support from club staff n = 4) coping strategies. The findings indicated that menstruation presents significant barriers to players. Increased awareness of menstruation-related barriers to performance and targeted intervention are achievable through staff and player involvement and by minimising concerns of visible leakage by kit interventions.

Otherness, Belonging, and Production of Space: The Case of Amenity Migration in Fethiye, Türkiye

The article delves into the intricate dynamics of amenity migration and rural gentrification, investigating the challenges that arise when residents and newcomers encounter. Amenity migration, which occurs when individuals relocate to an area in search of desirable features, often leads to rural gentrification. This process involves economic and social changes brought about by the arrival of wealthier residents. While amenity migration can bring economic advantages, it also presents difficulties such as displacement and cultural transformations within the community. The study recognizes the concept of "otherness" is introduced to shed light on potential cultural and social conflicts between amenity migrants and the existing community. With a specific focus on British immigrants in Fethiye, Türkiye, the research aims to unravel how these immigrants establish connections with the place. It explores whether they identify themselves as locals or tourists and examines their sense of belonging within the spatial context. In order to comprehend the relational generation of distinctiveness based on person and place attributes in connection with relevant entities, the decision-tree method is employed. Moreover, an ANOVA matrix is used to recognize the most effective decision mechanisms among spatial and demographic attributes.

Kimono in the Age of Japonisme: From Japanese Merchandising Strategies to Signs of British Women’s Liberty

Abstract In the early twentieth century, one could find kimono-like garments of various kinds in Britain: kimono made originally for Japanese consumers, contemporary robes made in Japan expressly for export, and kimono-inspired clothing made domestically. The present essay probes the merchandising of these new products in Britain, examining both British consumer tendencies and Japanese marketing practices, through analysis of Japanese trade statistics and reports on the international expositions of the day. Ultimately, this paper argues that kimono played a role, both literally and figuratively, in staging increased social justice for British women in the twentieth century, offering at least occasional relief from the debilitating fashions of the period, all of which required a corset, and providing a metaphor for a less restrictive social environment. While other scholars have hinted at such associations, this paper provides evidence, through analysis of contemporaneous journalism and advertising, that the women who wore these garments explicitly made such connections. More than an artistic stimulus of japonisme, the kimono and the fashions it subsequently inspired became symbols of the women’s suffrage movement in early twentieth-century Britain.