Women In Love Research Articles

Man-Animal relationship in D. H. Lawrence's twin novels, The Rainbow and Women in Love: A Zoocritical Perspective

Man-Animal relationship in D. H. Lawrence's twin novels, The Rainbow and Women in Love: A Zoocritical Perspective

Interpreting the Symbolism of “Flowers” in Sons and Lovers by David Herbert Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence is one of the major writers of 20th-century English literature. His representative works include Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, and Women in Love, which cover different fields such as novels, poems, essays, and dramas. He is known for his depiction of human emotions, sexuality, and social issues. His novel Sons and Lovers uses symbolism skillfully and intensely, in which darkness, coal mine, sunset, the moon, flowers, and so on are imagery. The use of this imagery profoundly reveals the complex emotions and feelings of the characters, thus better interpreting the various psychological activities deep inside the characters as well as the complex relationships between the characters. This paper contains two parts. The first part discusses the functions of symbolism in this novel, including four aspects: enriching the meaning, revealing the characters in depth, intensifying the emotional experience, and focusing on the theme. The second part focuses on the three aspects of the symbolism represented by the “flowers”, namely, the “flower” as a symbol of family, the “flower” as a symbol of freedom, and the “flower” as a symbol of growth and change. Through these interpretations, this study hopes to interpret the main idea of the novel in a deeper way and to enable readers to have a better understanding of the characters, the plot, the relationship between the characters, and the use of symbolism in the novel.

The Speech Act of Promising in Romantic Love

Abstract Full of men and women in love, Shakespeare's comedies have triggered abundant discussions of the dramatist's treatment of romantic relationships, which, however, nearly ignore the importance of language use. This pragmatic reading of Shakespearean comedies undertakes to explore the speech act of promising of characters in love. By incorporating quantitative data and qualitative insights, the research outlines the attributes and distribution of promising in four comedies, compares gender differences in the use of promising, and scrutinises the change of promising during the shift in love dynamics. In doing so, we anticipate providing a fresh interpretation of speech acts and Shakespeare's dramas.

Women's Love in Antigone by Sophocles and The Tale of Kiều by Nguyễn Du

Abstract Comparative studies have identified “Antigone's sisters” across the globe, excepting for Southeast Asia. Yet in Vietnam, there exists Kiều, the protagonist in Nguyễn Du's The Tale of Kiều, whose cultural significance is comparable to Antigone. What insights can be gained about feminist political power by comparing Antigone to Kiều? Proposing a shift in focus on Kiều and Antigone's love from the questions of who and why to how, the paper argues that their love shares three fundamental commonalities related to their living conditions, actions, and choices. First, they are women who live a life full of love in worlds where love is forbidden. Secondly, they are women who practice love during dark times. And third, they choose to love in unconventional ways, and in doing so, they engender possibilities, particularly in terms of contemplating the interplay between life, death, and freedom. This analysis demonstrates a multiplicity of women's love and the experiences that possess a transcultural dimension, one that signals a type of harmony in the resistance of war through love. Therefore, Antigone and Kiều represent a different direction of a feminist world-building project—that of constructing a world through love.

The Traditional New Woman and Emerging New Man in Republican China

This study focuses on the agony of married New Women, as well as the emerging New Man, in the 1920s and 1930s. While the New Woman in love has attracted considerable scholarly attention, the dilemma of New Women after marriage remains mostly ignored. Relying on literary works as well as articles in newspapers and periodicals, this essay attributes the New Woman's acute dissatisfaction to the uncontested gendered division of labor and the discontinuity between romantic relationships and institutionalized marriage. Intellectuals proposed communal childcare as the solution to the New Woman's dilemma; however, this still left the gendered labor division intact. This essay identifies the traditional role of the New Woman in the family and observes the emergence of xianfu liangfu (賢夫良父, “good husband and wise father”), a counterpart to xianqi liangmu (賢妻良母, “good wife and wise mother”). This understudied discourse demands equal responsibility at home and an attentive fatherhood from men.

Research on the Theme of Creativity in D. H. Lawrence’s Works

The theme of creativity is a common theme in D. H. Lawrence’s main novels, including Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Sons and Lovers remains blurry in the possibility of true creative fulfillment. In The Rainbow, Lawrence begins to ponder over creativity clearly. Lawrence’s Women in Love handles the theme of creativity in a more dismal and realistic way. The novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover does not directly portray the realistic societal level within the process of creativity. It only portrays creative self-renewal on a personal level. If seen as the sole means to creative fulfilment, the process of sextual exploration has its great limits.

A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright by Mark Borthwick (review)

A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright by Mark Borthwick (review)

“His Numbering Clock”: Clockwork Men in Literary and Popular Culture

Abstract The image of a man turning into a clock has haunted literary and popular culture for the last four hundred years. This essay surveys the trope of the clockwork man from Shakespeare’s Elizabethan age to the modernist era and beyond. I explore two modernist examples of the trope, E. V. Odle’s The Clockwork Man (1923) and D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love (1920), before turning to the postwar example of a DC comic book supervillain named the “Clock King,” who adorns his costume with clock dials and whose traumatic backstory involves the failure of mechanical devices to accurately measure human existence. Bookended by two examples of “clockwork kings,” this essay charts the relationship between a persistent cultural trope and the technological/ sociocultural history of time measurement.

21세기 중국 가극 속 여성의 이미지 연구

In 21st-century China, amidst the trend of internationalization, Chinese opera has been narrating various themes relevant to the contemporary context. This study aims to explore both the differences and similarities between the portrayal of women in 21st-century Chinese opera and the traditional female image of the past. Chinese opera is categorized into three thematic categories: 'Red Revolution', 'Traditional Legend', and 'Reality and Women's Love'. This study analyzes the formation of heroine roles and the status and functions of women within these themes. The conclusions of the study are as follows: First, while the representation of females in 21st-century Chinese opera often adheres to established archetypes, it also explores a variety of expressive possibilities. Second, the social status of women is intricately linked to their depiction in opera, where women are not only performers but also creators. Third, a distinctive characteristic of Chinese opera is the creation of new female characters, diverging from traditional portrayals. Through these roles, Chinese opera delves into social issues and values, significantly influencing the empowerment and development of women's identity and inner strength in this century.

#199 : Does Hysteroscopic Evaluation of Uterine Characteristic Improve Outcome of Thin Endometrium in Patients with a History of Repeated Implantation Failures?

Background: Repeated implantation failure (RIF) is a problem for many patients suffering from infertility and their physicians. Despite numerous developments in the field of assisted reproduction, the implantation rate remains low. Among the various reasons of implantation failure, endometrial regularity has an important role. Recently, hysteroscopy is an accurate method for evaluating the endometrial integrity, with the ability to treat uterine pathology for repeated implantation failure patients. Objective: The aim of this study to evaluate the incidence of uterine pathology among infertile women with a history of two implantation failures after IVF and estimate the effect of diagnostic hysteroscopy and hysteroscopic procedures in uterine cavity on achieving a pregnancy in these patients in Mongolia. Materials and Methods: The retrospective study population included infertile women who attended the outpatient department of the Creation and Love Women’s infertility clinic, between August 2020 and July 2022 in Mongolia. The study inclusion criteria were women who had more than two RIF of IVF/ET cycle. Pregnancy and nonpregnancy rate after hysteroscopic procedures were analyzed included in patients reports archived in clinical data. Results: Hysteroscopy were performed on 35 women who had at least two RIFs. The participants’ mean age was 40.3±5.3 and mean duration of infertility year was evaluated 5.53±3.7. Mean AMH level was 1.4±1.6 ng/ml. All patients were diagnosed abnormal uterine cavity by hysteroscopy. Out of 35 patients participated in this study who underwent hysteroscopic evaluation, 20 patients (57.1%) showed synechiae (mild, moderate and severe synechiae). Second most frequent hysteroscopic finding was the endometrial polyp, accounting for 15 (42.9%) patients. Pregnancy rate after hysteroscopic procedures was 8 patients (23%) in this study group. The duration of infertility year was significantly different in pregnant and nonpregnant women underwent hysteroscopic correction (p<0.05). Conclusion: The intrauterine pathology diagnosed by hysteroscopy in patients with previous IVF failure were found all patients in this study. The synechiolysis was common abnormality in Mongolia may cause by artificial abortion. The correction of abnormalities such as and polyp synechiolysis might improve the outcome of successful pregnancy rate.

A Queer Omission in Sir Orfeo

Abstract: Sir Orfeo is a retelling of the Orpheus myth that allows the hero to keep his bride. This paper counters readings of the poem as a vindication of married love by focusing on its reception in the shadow of a significant omission: both Virgil and Ovid state that after losing Eurydice, Orpheus gave up loving women; Ovid adds that Orpheus loved boys. The significance of these missing conclusions is explored for readers of the poem from its scribes to their patrons and their patrons' families. The paper shows the usefulness of a reception-oriented approach for queer readings of the text.

Water and Insularity as Structural Elements in D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and Women in Love

Water and Insularity as Structural Elements in D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and Women in Love

Conrad, Lawrence, and the Sabotage and Salvage of Genre

Abstract This article considers Joseph Conrad's Nostromo and D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love as modernist reworkings of the industrial novels of the mid-nineteenth century, such as Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and Charles Dickens's Hard Times. Conrad and Lawrence, the article argues, rework the industrial-novel genre as a way to figure a crisis of British culture—and of the novel as a form. In the era of British imperial decline, the apparent massification and globalization of modern Western culture, and revolutionary changes in gender relations and family life, the synoptic historical narratives of Nostromo and Women in Love describe the transformation of the earlier promise of development into an apocalyptic present, and, in turn, the dissolution of the progressive assurance of the realist novel. While the nineteenth-century novels plead for reform and paternalistic care to moderate but protect the free market and liberalism, Nostromo and Women in Love narrate precisely the historical fulfillment of this wish—but, then, in turn, also narrate the end of that reformist logic and the triumph of a fully globalized and “perfected” capitalism, which they characterize as worse than the free-market capitalism that the earlier novels both criticize and celebrate. Drawing on Marxist-feminist theories of “social reproduction,” the article describes especially how the modernist novels imagine the family as a machine for maintaining and servicing capitalist production: the regeneration of the family—a trope so important to the resolution of plot in the realist novel—is now a sign of decay instead of resilience.

Research on Womens Love and Womens Rights under the Background of Strong Males and Weak Females

With the powerful communication power of the Internet, people have a better understanding of feminism. Feminism varies from culture to culture, country to country, and situation to situation. There are at least a dozen schools of feminism, each with its own goal, but all of them ultimately aim to achieve equality between men and women. Whether men are strong and women are weak under patriarchy in the past or in todays film and television works and short videos, many descriptions of the relationship between men and women convey the concept of men being strong and women being weak. Therefore, this paper focuses on how to make women realize the hidden male power in love and how to map and solve the male love power in media. Through the comprehensive induction, this article tries to make deep male power no longer hurt women in love and make feminism more practical in love, filling the gap of feminist research in love and exploring ways to solve this problem. In the end, most of the conclusions reveal certain rules in the description process, like the stereotype, and women should defend their rights to give full play to the maximum advantages of womens rights. This is the greatest significance and purpose of research.

From Hill’s Slant: after Ed Roberson

Abstract: This poem is about a woman in love with Earth, neither of which may have a future.

Reminiscences of Kothas: Exploring Spatial Intimacies in Ruth Vanita’s Memory of Light

This paper aims to study the representation of same-sex desire in Ruth Vanita’s Memory of Light (2020) and analyze how the socio-spatial dynamics of the kotha helps to reconstruct female-to-female intimacy and convey a different idea of community and a sense of belonging in history. The novel, which traces the relationship between two courtesans, is also a recreation of the pre-modern Lucknow and its vibrant kothas with distinct architectural features. Beyond its overt function of entertaining the male patrons, the kothas as all-female establishments also served as a space of security and intimacy for women. The paper outlines the politics of situating same-sex desire in the historical backdrop of pre-colonial era. It uses concepts from Feminist Theory, Cultural Geography and Memory Studies, to examine the importance of kothas as a material and an ideological space, in facilitating discourses on gender variance, intimacy, and friendship that entered the cultural production of the time. In particular, the analysis intends to emphasize the frequent entanglement between the spatial features and women’s intimate practices as a distinct way of articulating same-sex desire that dissolves the binary understanding of hetero/homosexuality. Therefore, by insisting on the remembrance of kothas, the paper delineates how the ‘memory of places’ carves out two functions in the context of lesbian politics. On the one hand, it generates a ‘symbolic continuum’ to the history of women loving women to reframe postcolonial categorical understanding of ‘lesbian’ in contemporary times, and on the other, by infusing strategic use of metafictional elements, it emerges as a subversive mode of narrating stories of same-sex love while negotiating with the historical erasure of spaces of female-to female desire.

Caregiving Among Older Black Same-Gender-Loving Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings From Qualitative Research.

Few data on caregiving during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic use an intersectional lens to attend to how multiple social categories, such as gender, age, race, and sexual orientation, shape caregiving experiences. This analysis sought to explore caregiving experiences of aging Black same-gender-loving women. Sixteen focus groups were conducted with 4-8 participants each (N = 102) from across the United States. Audio-recorded discussions lasted for approximately 90 min and were transcribed verbatim. Two analysts coded transcripts for discussions related to caregiving and used content analysis to identify themes. Participants engaged in caregiving for children, parents, family, friends, and neighbors. They provided physical, economical, instrumental, and/or secondary caregiving; and sometimes received care themselves. The pandemic heavily affected their stress level and mental health as well as their intimate partner relationships. Discussions mostly offered descriptions of increased caregiving difficulty caused by the pandemic. However, a few participants identified ways the pandemic made caregiving easier; changed caregiving without making it easier or harder; or thwarted their ability to provide care. Older Black same-gender-loving women described some pandemic caregiving experiences that diverged from the existing literature, demonstrating the importance of considering how gender, race, age, and sexual orientation affect caregiving experiences during a pandemic fraught with health inequities. Ensuring the multiply marginalized caregivers have access to the practical and emotional support they need is critical for advancing health equity and preparing for future pandemics.

Queer Mapping as Decolonial Praxis

Queer Mapping as Decolonial Praxis

The Novel and the Problem of New Life

The Novel and the Problem of New Life

Indecent Female Images in Wong Kar-wais Films

Wong Kar-wai's movie text has its own unique female image, feminism and male position, which are intertwined. It seems to have different flavor and unresolved contradictions. The indecent women's films are reborn and subverted. The important carrier of Wong Kar-wai's movie narrative link-love, and discusses the status and identity of women in love, and summarizes the fate of women's love. In Wong Kar-wais films, women are the contradictory body that longs to break through the shackles and to obtain ideological liberation, economic liberation and personality liberation. The thesis mainly combines two films: "2046" and "the hand". Based on the feminist theory, this paper analyzes the indecent images of women in Wong Kar-wais films. This paper expounds the theme expression and construction method of Wong Kar-wais female narration, and relates the indecent female image with the drifting social groups, so as to form a cultural review of the indecent images of women in the movies.