Modern Women Research Articles

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.

(Post-)Modernism and Cyborg Writing in George Egerton’s “The Regeneration of Two” (1894)

(Post-)Modernism and Cyborg Writing in George Egerton’s “The Regeneration of Two” (1894)

Coercion or Consent? Women, Property and Legal Authority in Early Modern Scotland

During the early modern period women's ownership of property was significantly constrained by the marital relationship. Scots law stipulated that much of a woman's property passed to her husband on marriage and that her ability to sell, control or dispose of much property without her husband's consent was severely restricted. Yet, despite such strict legal rules, jurists were aware that a married woman could be placed in a difficult position if her husband abused his position, with legal procedures introduced to mitigate a husband's extensive property powers. As a result, a husband could not sell land his wife brought to the marriage, or any land they held jointly, without her consent, indicated by her signature or mark on the deed and her declaration in a private examination that she acted under her own free will and not under coercion or pressure from her husband. This article interrogates the legal requirement of the wife's consent in Scots law from two conflicting positions: first, as a restraint on the husband's administrative powers in that she was entitled to openly challenge a mortgage or sale; and second, as an endorsement of the husband's superior position in that she was most likely unable to publicly challenge her husband's patriarchal authority during his lifetime. In doing so, it argues that women's legal authority in early modern Scotland was complex and, at times, contradictory, and that this legal ambiguity entitled the courts to make decisions that routinely looked beyond fixed rules when women's property rights and patriarchal rules overlapped.

Spiritual Degeneration and Redemption: Exploring Indian Philosophy in T.S Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’

This study analyzes T.S Eliot's epoch-making poem ''The Waste Land'' to deeply investigate the crises of post-war modern European society manifested in the poem as spiritual degeneration, skepticism, adultery, temptation, mechanism, hypocrisy, anxiety and unfaithfulness. Qualitative method has been applied in the study to collect data and analyze them.The paper also explores the ways of salvation of the crises that are mentioned by the poet as giving, sympathizing and controlling. Moral crises occupy a great position in human civilization in the modern period where man has forgotten all his ethics, spiritual rebirth and even religion. It also examines how modern men and women lead their lives in life-in-death, how they follow their traditional routine and how modernism captures them. Again, the study brings out the moral degradation and its various aspects and argues that T.S Eliot is heavily influenced by Hinduism to find out the way of regeneration that is terribly important for the entire human race.Keywords: Sterility, Anxiety, Frustration, Mechanical Life, Hypocrisy, Salvation

Role of Kanchnar Guggulu in Ovarian Dermoid Cyst

Today we see the age of menarche has dropped to as 10 years of age. In fast growing world, over workload, pesticides rich food, hormone-based fruits and vegetables, stress, over ambition, avoiding pregnancy all are the major causes of these new diseases in modern woman. Premenstrual syndrome, irregular menses, ovarian cyst, uterine fibroids are commonly seen now a days. Due to defective lifestyle of women in modern era, ovarian cyst has become a burning problem in current scenario affecting all age group of women. There is no such effective treatment in modern science rather hormonal therapy and laparoscopy and hormonal therapy has its own harms, regardless of the presence of this disease laparoscopy or surgical management is certainly a treatment option; it is not necessarily the only option. Hormonal therapy is not a ‘cure’. Due to limitation of Modern science, Ayurveda has a great scope in this filed. This is the high time to develop an effective Ayurvedic treatment protocol for its prevention & cure.

Redefining a Woman’s Journey from Self-Effacement to Self-Actualization in Manju Kapur’s Novel A Married Woman

The present paper throws light on woman’s journey from self-effacement to self-actualization in Manju Kapur’s second novel A Married Woman. Manju Kapur is one of the modern woman novelist like Arundhati Roy, Shashi Deshpande, Shobha De, Kamala Markhandaya, Anita Desai and so on open the way for woman’s feelings in the traditional society of this world, where they raised voices against the male-domination in their works. The novels of these authors have mirrored the female in Indian and Western set up entangled in different circumstances.

A Dilemma: Women in Turkish Sport News Amidst Modernization and Traditionalism

This study demonstrates how Turkey’s first two female athletes, Halet Çambel and Suat Fetgeri Aşeni, served to promote policies of a new modern woman image in the Olympic games during the early republican period. Çambel and Aşeni, Olympians in the fencing competition at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, were the most accomplished Turkish female athletes. Review of the daily newspapers and sports magazines of the period has allowed identification of the modern women’s policy of the early republican period and the performance styles of the two athletes in the Olympics. The daily newspapers Tan, Ulus, Haber, Açık Söz, Akşam, Son Posta, Yeni Asır and Cumhuriyet from 1 August to 31 August 1936, as well as the periodicals of the sports magazines Top and Türk Spor Kurumu from 1 July to 30 September 1936, were reviewed for this purpose. As a result, the female Olympians appeared to receive merely coverage in sports bulletins as anticipated by the early republican era’s modern women’s policies. This endeavour, however, parallels the policies of the early republican period, which sought to retain a women’s image that preserved their traditional identity within the nation-state.

Spatialising domestic practices: Hong Kong women’s life stories of domesticity and their disjunctive modern womanhood

How do women manage domestic work spatially? How does that change throughout life and relate to their subjectivities and womanhood? Informed by feminist geographers’ concept of ‘lived’ space and queer studies’ concept of disjunctive modernity, this paper spatialises women’s domestic practices through examining 43 older Hong Kong women’s life stories on domesticity. Hong Kong women, since childhood, have creatively employed temporal-spatial strategies to multiply and shrink domestic space to negotiate domestic responsibilities and gender hierarchy prescribed by family and society. Domestic space changes throughout life and intersects with other spaces, including work, institutional, entertainment and public spaces. Through performing various domestic spatial practices at different points in their life course, these women have developed gendered subjectivities such as self-reliant and independent ‘modern’ womanhood, dutiful daughters and tiresome working mothers, which complement, negotiate and contradict with each other, constituting what we term ‘disjunctive modern Hong Kong womanhood’.

Gender Concepts In The Novels of Nazar Sajjad In The Context Of Feminist Reform

Thousands of years ago, system “Madr sari” system was prevalent. Women used to live independent life. Modern agricultural system introduced “Padar.shahi” system which changed the whole situation and women became subjugated and negligible, which placed them in defiance of the historical powder and dominance under the British Rule women were granted some of basic rights giving rise to their recognition in the society. The authors including female writers presented women as a subject of their novels. One of the female writers of that era is Nazar Sajjad Haider who presented the concept of modern and independent women with bravely.She is the mother of Qrat u lain Haider. She emphasized over the issues such as modern and higher education for the women, important of women consent at the time of marriage and men’ s right of second marriage, in her writings . This research work will analyze the social position of women under the novels of Nazar Sajjad Haider. She was practically a feminist who fought against the old fashioned and feudal prevalent traditions of her time.

Remembering the Suffragette for Interwar Feminism: Vera Brittain’s Honourable Estate

This article is concerned with Vera Brittain’s 1936 feminist historical novel, Honourable Estate, focusing on the novel’s efforts to represent a feminist past as it contemplates its present moment of ‘transition’. Brittain meets the difficult task of making sense of the present moment by juxtaposing two backward-looking literary forms—the feminist historical novel and the diary—which suggest two very different attitudes to temporality. The layering of these forms in Honorable Estate allows for a nuanced treatment of the new challenges and opportunities of the interwar period for modern women and creates a space for ambivalence.

Application of Market Basket Analysis on Beauty Clinic to Increasing Customer’s Buying Decision

Beauty care and the need for cosmetics have become the lifestyle of modern women, especially in big cities. Public awareness to look beautiful makes modern women competing to take care of themselves to be more beautiful. The body care industry in Indonesia continues to grow. The growth has reached 6% and is predicted to continue to grow along with the high concern of Indonesian women in caring for their skin. To win the competition, companies need to know the market and consumer situation. One strategy that can be applied by the company is to use a promotional or advertising strategy. This research was conducted at the Ariana Audy beauty clinic in 2022 with the aim of identifying customer buying patterns which will then be used as reference material in the development of promotional menus for products and services offered by the beauty clinic. The approach used to design components on the promotional menu is Market Basket Analysis by applying the fp-growth algorithm using rapid miner software. Market basket analysis is focused on finding relationships between products based on customer purchases. The market basket analysis conducted resulted in 5 association rules that define consumer purchasing patterns for products and services provided by the Ariana Audy clinic. Through the 5 association rules formed, 3 promotional menus were produced, namely menu 1 consisting of baby skin crystal and oxy blue cream, menu 2 consisting of brightening cream products and sunscreen brightening, and menu 3 consisting of oxy jet peel and photodynamic therapy.

The Effect of Gender Sensitivity for Self-Esteem and Protection and Convergence on Appearance Recognition Behavior of Women in Their 20s

Purpose: Unlike in the past, the modern women have destroyed the frame of stereotypes that women must be feminine and men must be masculine through their own arguments and active actions. This has resulted in changes in the women’s self-esteem as their independent tendencies have strengthened due to changes in ste-reotypes about their roles and the women's advancement into society. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of self-esteem and gender sensitivity on the appearance recognition behavior of women in their 20s. Method: The questionnaire items for scale development of the study were used for the women in their 20s for empirical research. The composition of the questionnaire consisted of self-esteem, gender sensitivity, appearance recognition behavior, and demographic variables. A stepwise multiple regression analysis was conducted to in-vestigate the relationship between demographic variables, self-esteem, gender sensitivity, and appearance recognition behavior. Results: First, as a result of analyzing the effect of self-esteem on gender sensitivity, it turned out that positive self-esteem had a positively significant effect on gender sensitivity, and negative self-esteem had a negatively significant effect on gender sensitivity. Second, as a result of analyzing the effect of gender sensitivity on the appearance stereotypes, it turned out that gender positive attitude had a positively significant effect on the appearance stereotypes, and gender sen-sitivity also had a positively significant effect on the appearance stereotypes. Third, it turned out that gender sensitivity has a mediating effect when the positive self-esteem affects ap-pearance evaluation and respect for appearance, and the negative self-esteem affects appearance evaluation and appearance stereotypes. Conclusion: It is considered that the research on the direction of the beauty industry and between the classes that become direct consumers must be conducted in various ways because the gender sensitivity that women have as a human being can bring about changes in appearance recognition behavior, thereby breaking away from stereotypes about gender. It is hoped that this study will help understand the gender sensitivity of women in their 20s and contribute to the development of the beauty industry.

The Effect of Gender Sensitivity for Self-Esteem and Protection and Convergence on Appearance Recognition Behavior of Women in Their 20s

Purpose: Unlike in the past, the modern women have destroyed the frame of stereotypes that women must be feminine and men must be masculine through their own arguments and active actions. This has resulted in changes in the women’s self-esteem as their independent tendencies have strengthened due to changes in ste-reotypes about their roles and the women's advancement into society. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of self-esteem and gender sensitivity on the appearance recognition behavior of women in their 20s. Method: The questionnaire items for scale development of the study were used for the women in their 20s for empirical research. The composition of the questionnaire consisted of self-esteem, gender sensitivity, appearance recognition behavior, and demographic variables. A stepwise multiple regression analysis was conducted to in-vestigate the relationship between demographic variables, self-esteem, gender sensitivity, and appearance recognition behavior. Results: First, as a result of analyzing the effect of self-esteem on gender sensitivity, it turned out that positive self-esteem had a positively significant effect on gender sensitivity, and negative self-esteem had a negatively significant effect on gender sensitivity. Second, as a result of analyzing the effect of gender sensitivity on the appearance stereotypes, it turned out that gender positive attitude had a positively significant effect on the appearance stereotypes, and gender sen-sitivity also had a positively significant effect on the appearance stereotypes. Third, it turned out that gender sensitivity has a mediating effect when the positive self-esteem affects ap-pearance evaluation and respect for appearance, and the negative self-esteem affects appearance evaluation and appearance stereotypes. Conclusion: It is considered that the research on the direction of the beauty industry and between the classes that become direct consumers must be conducted in various ways because the gender sensitivity that women have as a human being can bring about changes in appearance recognition behavior, thereby breaking away from stereotypes about gender. It is hoped that this study will help understand the gender sensitivity of women in their 20s and contribute to the development of the beauty industry.

Following in the Footsteps of Cléo

This study aims to analyse the film Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) by following in the footsteps of Cléo who is a great representative of modern woman. In the embodiment of Cléo, some threads that are attributed to the women will be brought into the discussion, together with the artistic techniques subtly applied by the director Agnes Varda. This study whose aim is to discuss the film within the woman and city representation takes its basis from the feminist framework. Thus, how the long lasting women representations are subverted through the woman and city interaction, which bears a hope for transformation will be suggested.

Modern, Empowered, but Stigmatized: Analyzing the Construction of Menstrual Cups as Feminist Technologies

Menstrual products have long shaped how women manage their menstruating bodies and how menstruation is socially constructed. Historically, these products have simultaneously promoted messages of shame—menstruation is dirty and requires concealment—and modernity or have linked their use to overcoming the constraints of menstruation to become modern and liberated. In this article, which analyzes the websites of companies that produce menstrual cups (an insertable, reusable menstrual technology), I identify a new use of this “modern” discourse that emphasizes the interrelationship between “modern women” and female empowerment. Notions of modernity are connected to depictions of menstrual cups as modern technologies that invoke modern ideologies and promote living a modern lifestyle—all conceptions of modernity that seek to empower women in their menstrual health and wider lives. Although these intertwined discourses of modernity and empowerment reflect those of feminist menstrual activists, menstrual stigmas often remain embedded within these messages. Analyzing the persistent intermixing of these contrasting discourses allows for expanding the theories of feminist technologies to consider how technologies may benefit, empower, and destabilize patriarchal systems in subtle and diverse ways.

Influence of Financial Attitude, Financial Socialisation and Digital Financial Literacy on Personal Financial Management Behaviour of Women of Punjab

Women are important segment of society who actively take part in each and every activity from house core work to fulfilling their professional responsibilities. As the society transformed from traditional to modern women become more empowered and able to take their own financial decisions but Personal financial management behaviour is still low in women as compared to men. An attempt has been made in this paper to study the personal financial management behaviour of women of Punjab. The factors like financial attitude, financial socialization and digital financial literacy are studied to know their impact on personal financial management behaviour of women. The data is collected from 400 working and non- working women through purposive and snow ball sampling method from Punjab with the help of questionnaire. The analysis has been done with the help of SPSS 25 by using multiple regression technique. The findings revealed that financial attitude, financial socialization and digital financial literacy has positive and significant influence on personal financial management behaviour of women.