Modern Women Research Articles

Problems of Studying the Spiritual and Moral Potential of Modern Women: Political and Legal Aspect

The article deals with the problems ofstudying the spiritual and moral potential of modern women and their social and economic rights. The article analyzes the historical - and methodological foundations of studying the spiritual and moral potential of women. Themain directions of implementation and technologies for strengthening the spiritual and moral potential of modern women in society and the familyare studied. Attentionis paid to the role of education in improving the spiritual and moral potential of women. The article analyzes the legal basis forimproving the spiritual and moral potential of women through their active participation in the power and political structures of modern Uzbekistan.

Occurrence of Injuries Among Female Athletes in Different Sports: Their Causes and Types

The article presents the results of a study aimed at identifying the main causes and types of injuries, both during training and during the competitive period, among female athletes of different age groups involved in a number of types of modern women's sports. Injuries and injuries of the musculoskeletal system of athletes are considered, with the involvement of the bones, ligamentous-tendon and muscular apparatus of athletes in the traumatic process, primarily the girdle of the upper and lower extremities, the chest, various parts of the spine, as well as the soft tissues of the body.

“Complicating images of the modern Chinese woman, from only child to ‘leftover woman’”

ABSTRACT Two recent documentaries, Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang’s One Child Nation (2019) and Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia’s Leftover Women (2019), investigate the legacy of China’s one-child policy and its social impacts on marriage, career and motherhood in the present day. In the films, seemingly progressive young women subjects are depicted against a backdrop of culturally backward and brainwashed individual community members, representing Chinese culture at large, which results in a confusing narrative replete with logical gaps and unanswered questions. This article brings together qualitative data collected from interviews with “leftover women” with film analysis and scholarship on transnational feminism to argue for the importance of critical modes of representation and cautions against the tendency to blame culture.

The Impact of Postpartum Depression on Socio-professional Integration

The modern woman nowadays is subjected to more and more challenges. Whether it is due to her work, her appearance or her marital status, she must always show that she is coping in the most efficient way. This constant measurement and confrontation of the performance achieved in a certain field leads to the perception of otherwise normal, physiological actions as stressful. The mother who raises her child wants to face the multiple challenges, even when she is being subjected to pressures from the family, her own requirements, values ​​and beliefs and at the same time from the micro group she belongs to or from society. That's why her slip into depression is extremely easy. The support she might receive from family, friends, professionals can save her from further complications such as deepening depression, job loss, long-term loss of self-esteem, child neglect and child abuse, the transition to a suicidal act in a moment of imbalance or the transition to alcohol misuse, sometimes witnessed by the child. Identifying factors involved in the onset and maintenance of postpartum depression can help prevent it and provide early intervention within vulnerable families with the aim of making women stronger and children healthier and happier. Postpartum depression is a fairly common phenomenon in the female population, the cumulative forms giving a percentage of 31%, of which minor forms occupy 19% and moderate and severe forms 12%. Among the factors that have an important influence we list: a weaker support of the mother by her support group, problems related to the mother's low self-esteem, the more difficult temperament of the child who can be more agitated and disrupts the mother's sleep-wake rhythm, but also the existence of other previous episodes of postpartum depression of the mother and the number of previous births.

“[An] old battle constantly re-fought”: Why Language Matters when Editing Early Modern Women’s Letters: A Case Study Of the Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489–1541)

ABSTRACTThrough a case study of the holograph letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489–1541), this article examines the centuries-old editorial debate of whether to modernise or preserve the old-spelling of early modern texts. I examine how historical biographers and editors have approached and presented the language of Margaret Tudor’s letters and consider the implications their editorial approaches have on how readers perceive the figure and epistolary voice of Margaret Tudor. I then draw upon two recent studies in the field of linguistics to show how the detailed analysis of diplomatic transcriptions of Margaret Tudor’s holograph letters can provide important new insights and a fuller understanding of Margaret’s sociolinguistic history, her dual identity as English princess and Queen of Scots, and the processes and agents involved in the production of her holograph correspondence. This article argues for the necessity of diplomatic editions and for an editorial approach that carefully attends to and contextualises the language of early modern women’s letters. The article contends that such an approach is central to developing more advanced and nuanced understandings of early modern women and their letters.

A Devolutionary Approach to Editing the Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde

ABSTRACT“To devolve”, explains John Kerrigan, “is to shift power in politics or scholarly analysis from a locus that has been disproportionately endowed with influence and documentation to sites that are dispersed and more skeletally understood”. This “devolutionary” approach has had some success in shaping our understanding of the history and culture of early modern Ireland; in this article, I consider its impact on scholarly editing. I suggest that the “expansive, multilevelled, discontinuous, and polycentric” approach described by Kerrigan is particularly valuable for editing collections of letters. I draw upon my experience of editing the more than three hundred surviving letters of Elizabeth Butler, née Preston, Baroness Dingwall and first Duchess of Ormonde to outline what a “devolutionary” editorial practice involves and what insights it brings. I show how a “polycentric” approach influenced all aspects of my own editorial work, from the selection and arrangement of letters, the transcription policy, the presentation of headnotes, the content of annotations, the Introduction, illustrations, and editorial apparatus such as family trees and lists of persons and places. Ultimately, I suggest that editing early modern women’s letters from Ireland and elsewhere is not only uniquely suited to but demands a “devolutionary” approach.

Editing what is Lost: Histories, Metatexts and the Extant Letters of Elizabeth Cary

ABSTRACTThis article argues that the editorial history of Elizabeth Cary’s letters has powerfully influenced how the letters are read and understood today. In particular, it suggests that an editorial organisation that cleaves to Cary’s conversion has had a narrowing effect, straightjacketing the letters as “conversion writing” and underplaying the significances of texts actually enmeshed in a more expansive range of epistolary activity. The article forwards an alternative editorial strategy – a site-based method which allows for the consideration of Cary not only as a Catholic convert (an exceptional figure) but also as an early modern woman with companionate connections to other early modern writers deploying the epistolary form to address quotidian matters such as penury, precarity, homelessness and family breakdown. Dealing with the neglected issue of “extant-ness” throughout, the article argues that editors of early modern women’s letters can be more explicit about the ways in which chance, contingency and curation influence that which survives. It makes a case for embracing “extant-ness” as a concept which might usefully undergird all epistolary enquiry.

The aesthetic ideal of a modern woman in English-language advertising: sociolinguistic aspect

This article is devoted to the topic of gender stereotypes and ways of their verbalization in language by the example of the aesthetic ideal of a modern woman in the texts of English-language advertising. The rapid development of feminism as a social and cultural phenomenon has been reflected in various types of discourse – from artistic to advertising. The redistribution of social roles between women and men caused, first of all, the transformation of the image of an ideal woman both at the level of external characteristics and at the level of the axiological paradigm of a woman's personality as a full-fledged member of society. The main means of constructing the concept of the "ideal woman" at the text level are keywords. The lexical and semantic analysis of the description of women in English-language advertising allowed us to make our own classification of the dominant components of the aesthetic ideal of a modern woman based on the theory of archetypes, which determines the novelty of the study. The most famous archetypes of ancient Greek goddesses are taken as a basis. It has been established that the modern English-language advertising text extrapolates four leading archetypes: "the seductress woman" (Aphrodite), "the hearth keeper woman" (Hestia), "the independent woman" (Artemis) and "the warrior woman" (Athena). The choice of an archetype is carried out according to the practical and social orientation of the advertised product. The perspective of the research is seen in the comparison of these archetypes with female images in Russian advertising discourse, taking into account the specifics of linguistic, cultural and sociolinguistic identity

Gender semiology in folklore traditions: Russia, China and Adygea

The article presents an analytical analysis of the linguosemiotic features of the female portrait in the folklore fund of the linguocultures of Russia, the North Caucasus and China in the aspect of the intergender dichotomy "male-female" as the implementation of the policy of "soft power" of the ethnos to preserve its vitality. Hypothesis: The dichotomy of masculinity and femininity in traditional culture is presented as the result of the interaction of ethno-cultural strategies of the ancestral cult, in which the role of a woman is defined as the keeper of the knowledge of the people with the competencies of a housewife who needs help and care from a man. The relevance of the study is due to the growing research interest in the vitality of traditional cultures, which continue to influence the lives of modern women. Chinese, Adyghe and Russian folklore for the first time becomes the object of comparative analysis of the linguosemiotic characteristics of the image of femininity in the form of "feminine" folkloratives identified for the first time. The methodology uses a linguosemiotic approach and the theory of complex metagraphs in modeling the speech-behavioral gender matrix of women through the prism of folklore. The results show that folklore is a reproducible mechanism of "soft power" of gender regulation in the ethno-cultural practice of folk art.

СОВРЕМЕННАЯ ЖЕНЩИНА В ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ МЕЧЕТИ: ВЛИЯНИЕ ИСЛАМСКОГО ФЕМИНИЗМА

В статье рассматривается одна из малоизученных, и в то же время, достаточно спорных проблем современного общества – роль и место женщины в пространстве мечети. Вопрос гендерной сегрегации в религиозных местах сегодня становится трендовой темой среди ученых в различных социальных контекстах. Поскольку гендерные проблемы отражаются в пространствах, само пространство также формирует гендерные отношения. Женщины мусульманки во всем мире сталкиваются с различными проблемами в мечетях и по-разному отвечают на них. Вместе с тем усиливается тенденция влияния исламского феминизма на формирование исламской идентичности женщин мусульманок. Целью исследования было показать, как изменилась роль женщин в исламе и их отношение к пространству мечети.

Women's Morality Education Values in 'Aisyiyah

Aisyiyah is a women's organization that contributes to various fields/assemblies, including education, tabligh, health, social, law and human rights, environment, economics, etc. It has been explained in the history and maps of the women's movement in Indonesia, 'Aisyiyah occupies a very exclusive position. This research is a qualitative method and case study approach. The case study method is a form of research that focuses on examining the background, interactions and conditions of a particular community. Values of women's moral education found in 'Aisyiyah, the first is role of women in the family especially as a wife and mother because in Islam a mother is the first educator for a child. Second, women's position in the public must be based on moral education, so that every activity they carry out is always positive. Third is opportunities for women in education are a preventive step so that women can increase their potential, but this must be balanced with moral education, one of which is so that women have wise character. And the fourth women in fashion, Islam has a great attention to women. Modern women have made fashion an effort to implement religious values.

Colloquialism as a phenomenon in modern women’s prose (based on V. Tokareva’s novella “Nichevo osobennovo” (“Nothing Special”))

We associate the relevance of addressing the problem of the colloquial speech usage within the framework of a literary text and, in general, the consideration of individual techniques for creating colloquiality in the text with the need to determine the range of colloquial vocabulary use by masters of the word. Colloquiality is one of the most striking features of everyday speech related to spontaneity in communication. In everyday speech behavior of native speakers, colloquial speech clearly demonstrates both a function of communication and an expressive function. Colloquial speech is traditionally widely used by writers in a literary text to create a characters’ speech portrait and increase the impact of the author’s speech in works of fiction. The representatives of modern women’s Russian prose are no exception. The purpose of the study is to identify the specifics of creating colloquiality in a literary text in the works of outstanding authors of modern women’s prose. The study is based on V. Tokareva’s novella “Nothing Special”. This article uses descriptive and structural methods, as well as the method of linguistic and stylistic analysis in the study of the literary text. Particular attention is paid to individual techniques used for creating colloquialities in the text. We have come to the conclusion that V. Tokareva strives to bring the narrative closer to real life, to increase the expression of the narrative; therefore, she actively uses the elements of colloquial speech.

Visual Modernity of Contemporary Chinese Women from the Movie Full River Red

This article explores the visual modernity of contemporary Chinese women reflected in the image of geisha in the movie Full River Red. This paper mainly uses Laura Mulvey's gaze theory and Foucault's power theory, combined with the female image of geishas in the movie, to explore the social relations embodied in Chinese women's visual modernity. In the movie, a total of eight scenes of female scenes appears. There will be a flow of female power in every scene, and selected two representative plots for analysis. In the process of women going from being powerless to having power in the movie, it can be found that gaze has changed into another kind of "make themselves seen". Recently, a large number of female audiences have become viewers and the flow of power corresponds to the change of female power in real life. In general, based on the female cases in the film, and then to dissemination and reception of images and the changes in the production of image meanings and the other, discusses the relationship between this visual experience and Chinese female subjectivity.

Pengaruh Harga, Kelengkapan Produk, Dan Wom (Word Of Mouth) Terhadap Kepuasan Konsumen Pada Store Jelita Cosmetic

Competition between the personal care and cosmetics industry markets is increasingly competitive, this is proven by the many types of cosmetics in circulation, both domestic and foreign production. The large number of cosmetic products on the market influences a person's attitude towards purchasing and using goods. Purchasing a product is no longer to fulfill a need but because of a desire. In addition, it was discovered that consumers decided to use certain products (cosmetics) in order to beautify themselves and to be seen well in certain communities. Beauty is the basic capital for modern women who always want to show their existence in sociality. There are many ways that women can do in their efforts to achieve the beauty they dream of.

منهج القصة القرآنية في بناء الشخصية الفتاة المسلمة قصة مريم -عليها السلام- نموذجا

This study discusses the story in the Qur'an in building the character of Muslim women based on the story of Maryam ‘alaihassalam to be a role model, example, and method in their lives. This story is to reform the corrupted condition of society and to show the purpose of the Qur'an and the highest values raised for society. The researcher thought to discuss and discover the current deviation of Muslim women clarifying the features of the Qur'anic approach to the story of Maryam ‘alaihassalam and how to treat it. The researcher used inductive and descriptive analysis methods to design Qur'anic methodology to solve the problem. The researcher has achieved important results through the research, namely the strength of Maryam's ‘alaihassalam unification in her worship of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala. She maintained her chastity and sought refuge in Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala when a strange man came to her, even though it was the angel Jibril, and was content with Allah's decree when the lord of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala chose her to conceive without being touched by humans. This is one of the purposes of the Qur'an, telling the story of Maryam ‘alaihassalam in her worship and praiseworthy qualities as she emulates Muslim women in building the perfect modern women personality.

Tessa Hadley and William Wordsworth: Literary Lineage and Patriarchal Legacy in The Past

ABSTRACT In Tessa Hadley’s The Past (2016), a ruined cottage evokes the dilapidated structure featured in William Wordsworth’s poem “The Ruined Cottage” (1797–98), a poem that privileges the male gaze and male Romantic imagination. I argue Hadley subverts the Romantic tropes bound up in these patriarchal structures by deploying the tropes in such a way as to transfer the powers of perception and imagination to female characters. Through this gynocentric redeployment, Hadley suggests how modern women might surpass Wordsworth’s Margaret in their potential to construct realities in which they have agency while simultaneously reminding us how women remain oppressed by male conceptions of reality. Reading “The Ruined Cottage” alongside The Past also reveals poetry as an under-recognized element of Hadley’s literary lineage and illuminates how this contemporary fiction writer approaches the modernist dual imperative of innovation and inheritance. Reading Hadley’s examination of Romanticism’s androcentric poetic legacy in the context of her modernist heritage positions her as a metamodernist writer. My reading of The Past suggests that a full consideration of modernist continuities and metamodernist practice in contemporary fiction should include poetry, as well as prose, and lineages that predate the twentieth century.

Japanese trendy dramas: new imaginaries of Japanese women in Tokyo Love Story

ABSTRACT During the bubble era (1986–1991) Japanese television dramas attained their golden age, brought about by the innovative narrative formula of ‘trendy dramas’ – love stories that displayed a trend towards urban, consumer-oriented, glamorous lifestyles [Lukács, Gabriella. 2010. Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan. Durham: Duke University Press]. Drawing from media anthropology, cultural studies, and gender studies, this paper explores the ways in which trendy drama discourses redefined the politics of Japanese women’s identity and to what extent they reproduced patriarchal views towards women’s selfhood. Through an ethnographic study of one of the most popular trendy dramas, Tokyo Love Story (TLS) [1991. Produced by Ōta Tōru, featuring Suzuki Honami, Oda Yūji, Arimori Narimi, and Eguchi Yōsuke, aired January 7, 1991, on Fuji TV], involving qualitative questionnaires, and analysis of newspaper articles, I will argue that TLS not only contributed to the redefinition of the modern and urban woman, but was also a pioneer in reinventing Japanese womanhood for the future generations.

The Characteristics of Donna Elvira in Mozart's Opera "DonGiovanni "

Don Giovanni is an opera adapted by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1787. In the play, perhaps one of the strongest voices conveying the minds of modern women is Elvira. This articlestarts from the female character Elvira (Elvira), analyzes her role in the opera, and concludes thatElvira is a truth-bearer with a strong desire for revenge. Through her transformation andsublimation from abandonment to revenge, she discusses the interpretation of the characters, andfurther conveys the understanding of the performance of opera characters. Finally, this paper alsosummarizes the views on Elvira's role interpretation.

Change in the Characteristics of Patients Qualified for Hearing Aids over the Last 25 Years in Poland.

Hearing loss is one of the most common causes of disability worldwide. The aim of the study was to compare the demographic structure and the results of hearing tests in people qualified for hearing aids over the last 25 years. The material covered 1246 patients qualified for hearing aids in the years 1996-2001 and 2016-2021. Patients were divided into two groups according to the time of qualifying for hearing aids. Group 1 (G1) consisted of 759 people qualified in the years 1996-2001, and Group 2 (G2) comprised 487 people qualified in the years 2016-2021. Statistical analysis was performed on the results of pure tone threshold audiometry and the demographic structure in both groups. Patients in G1 had statistically significantly elevated hearing thresholds (HT) in the air conduction range at frequencies from 2000 to 8000 Hz in relation to G2 patients. The opposite situation was observed for the bone conduction threshold. G2 patients had significantly elevated bone conduction HT at frequencies from 250 to 1000 Hz compared to G1 patients. The age structure in both groups was similar; however, the gender distribution was statistically significantly different. In G1 women accounted for 40%, and in G2, they became the dominant gender (53%). Over the last twenty years, there has been a change in the structure of patients qualified for hearing aids. Although the age has remained similar, today, patients decide to use hearing aids at an earlier stage of hearing loss than 25 years ago. Modern women began to use hearing aids much more often.

Urban Space for Indonesian Women: Ambiguity in Nanti Kita Cerita Tentang Hari Ini (2019) Web Series

The depiction of Indonesian women’s experiences in urban spaces has been little discussed. Do urban spaces provide equal opportunities and access for Indonesian women and men? This paper tries to answer this question. It investigates how Indonesian women experience urban spaces as represented in an Indonesian web series entitled Nanti Kita Cerita Tentang Hari Ini (2019). The paper uses the multimodal analysis method. The result of the analysis shows that there is a discrepancy in the portrayal of the female protagonist and of the urban spaces that she experiences. The ambiguity is seen in the depiction of an urban woman who is empowered, but on the other hand, has limited rights in urban spaces. In particular, the female protagonist is portrayed as an independent urban woman who can make her own choices for her future. The depiction is in line with the idealization of a modern woman, which Indonesian women have long dreamt of. However, the female protagonist does not fully enjoy this freedom and independence as there is still gender stratification that regards women as being inferior to men. It is seen in the spaces that she experiences. The patriarchal system that has long dominated Indonesian society confines women’s mobility and existence in the public space.