Real Woman Research Articles

A Real New Woman: Covert Progression and Character in Henry James's "Paste"

Abstract: Henry James's "Paste" (1899) displays enormous complexity, if we consider the possibility of a "covert progression" or counter-narrative, in which the character of Mrs. Guy is not antagonist, but protagonist, and potentially an admirable example of the late-nineteenth-century "New Woman." James is sometimes associated with anti-feminist views; yet here he creates a bold and defiant alternative to subjugated femininity and to conventional Victorian sexual morality. Whether readers are meant to find this figure appealing, however, is ultimately left open, as is much in this short story, which explicitly highlights the difficulty of assessing "value" in either human or material terms.

Domestic violence and servile vulnerability in the House of the Vettii, Pompeii

ABSTRACT This article explores the susceptibility of enslaved household members to physical and sexual violence, using the House of the Vettii at Pompeii as a case study. It first re-examines the house’s material evidence (including frescoes of cupids and psyches performing manual labour and statuettes of children with bound hands) to highlight previously overlooked similarities with the real tasks and punishments that enslaved children and adults might have faced. To give a vivid sense of the physical and affective dimensions of violence in this house, the article then offers an archive-based short story (using critical fabulation, a methodology developed by Saidiya Hartman to study trans-Atlantic slavery) about a real enslaved woman named Eutychis, whom graffiti record as a prostituted homeborn slave (verna). Ultimately, the article illuminates both the acute and long-lasting forms of violence that enslaved individuals encountered on a regular basis.

Woman, Mother, and the Other: Unraveling the Matrix of Feminine Self

A woman as a mother in Indian society is a subject of great reverence. The mother is considered an embodiment of the divine mother goddess. But due to the pronatalist Indian social structure, a woman has less value outside of marriage and motherhood. The question arises here—as a personified goddess, is she equally valued in her real life and free to make her procreative choices as an independent Self? There is continued inequality and persistent sexism between men and women that structure the way they are viewed in society. Men construct the idea of women from their own perspective instead of what women are in reality, expressing themselves as the subject and women as “the other.” Ancient scriptures state that a woman is created to facilitate men in the act of procreation. For this, society further imposes various restrictions on her subjectivity through social practices to control her sexuality and maternal body. This paper explores and examines the social layers of a woman in general, and the way mythology perpetuates the idea and influences her life even today. Illustrations of various mythological texts glorify her position solely as subjugated procreator and caregiver, not as a woman as self but as mother and the other. In the contemporary social context of globalization and the consequential challenges presented to the traditional ways of life, the contentious issues in relation to these texts will be taken up for discussion and analysis. This paper concludes with caution that a real woman cannot be seen as the personification of goddesses in relation to the oppressive elements of a patriarchal society. Her pseudo-glorification merely unravels her enslaved otherness, and cannot be her empowered Self.

Women’s Theme in the Works by V. S. Solovyov

The article is devoted to the consideration of the views of the philosopher Vladimir Solovyov on the nature of a woman and her place in society. The purpose of the study is to reveal Solovyov’s position in relation to a woman, her essence, relationship with a man, family and society, as well as to demonstrate the attitude of the Russian philosopher to the women’s movement. The relevance of the study is due to the low level of knowledge of the positions of Russian philosophers in general and Solovyov in particular in resolving issues raised by the women’s feminist movement. Hermeneutic, comparative and comparative historical methods were used for analyzing philosophical works, literary and journalistic works of the philosopher. The author of the article shows that Solovyov’s reflections on the Divine Sophia, Eternal Femininity, the image of the Beautiful Lady does not prevent the philosopher from unequivocally rejecting the idea of female emancipation, education, paid professions. The female ideal created by the philosopher is a vivid example of a feminine image, represented by a man and reflecting masculine ideas about the nature of a woman. A specific woman as a bearer of the Divine Sophia is called by Solovyov the keeper of a religious secret, but at the same time she is deindividualized, depersonalized. Speaking of a woman as a mediator between the earthly world and the heavenly world, the philosopher emphasizes the secondary nature of her nature, functional complementarity in relation to a man.The author comes to the conclusion that V. Solovyov did not accept the idea of a woman’s independence and her desire for liberation from male control. The article shows that Solovyov is inclined to a negative assessment of a real woman, speaks negatively about the feminist movement and those ladies who actively defend their rights.

Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in VermontThe Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont, Drawn by New England Cartoonists

Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in VermontThe Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont, Drawn by New England Cartoonists

An Accidental Historian

An Accidental Historian

Concept of Modern Woman in Feminist Poetry

This article discusses the role of women in modern Urdu poetry, what has been done in poetry writing and what has been done in different periods, as well as the sexual aspects of women in relation to the beloved. presented where there were no social walls between women and men, if Mir Aji's attitude of sexual freedom is found, but despite this, there are other aspects of women, namely mother and sister, in Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Mahbub is also seen as a unique entity, instead of presenting an imaginary image, they present a real woman. This is the reason why they mock love

Repeating Her Autonomy: Beauvoir, Kierkegaard, and Women's Liberation

AbstractIn The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir diagnoses “woman” as the “lost sex,” torn between her individual autonomy and her “feminine destiny.” Becoming a “real woman” in patriarchal societies demands that women lose their authentic, autonomous selves to become the “inessential Other” for Man. To better understand this diagnosis and how women might refind themselves, I rehabilitate the influence of Søren Kierkegaard and his concept of repetition as what must be lost to be found again in Beauvoir's account of freedom and, specifically, the liberation of women. Beauvoir offers a dual account of repetition, that of mundane repetition and sacrificial repetition, bringing them to bear both on her diagnosis of women's oppression and her theorization of our liberation. Sacrificial repetition becomes a temporality for freedom—one must be able to repeat or retake their autonomy continuously toward an open future. For this to happen concretely, Beauvoir insists that we must sacrifice the (racist, classist) patriarchal ideals of the “real woman” and “real man” as we retake our autonomy and reconfigure the meaning of sex difference anew.

Women’s Agency in Action: Higher Education and Career Paths for Young Muslim Women in Indonesia

This article is an analysis of narratives of young Indonesian Muslim women to explore their behavior and thoughts on being well-educated women in their chosen career path. It examines women’s thoughts on completing higher education and their lifelong study; whether pursuing a career or being a full-time mom. Having the capability to choose the career they want and implementing the beliefs of Islam’s teaching are attributed as their main responsibilities for being a real woman in this world and hereafter. The biographical interpretive method is engaged in this study to more deeply explain and explore the main idea selected. The research findings show that higher education allows women to become a new version of themselves. Obviously it can be said that education is the key for the next, better, future generations of Indonesia.

Changing Times

Changing Times

The Artistic vs the Useful Opposition in Nataliia Kobrynska’s Prose Texts

Some of Nataliia Kobrynska’s prose texts refer to the modernist motif of beauty that opposes materialistic and pragmatic world. The symbolic language of “The Hebrew Child” relies on the beautiful vs the useful opposition, given that this text is about the uselessness of beauty rather than about Hinda’s greed. In this mostly realistic sketch, the influence of aestheticism (the self-sufficiency of beauty) and decadence (the fragility of beauty) is sufficiently tangible. In “Liebesahnung,” Kobrynska in a specific way experiments with the unconscious work of memory and desire. The picture here is a trigger both for actualizing Denys’ monomania, obsession with the pictured girl, and for launching of his memory mechanism. Protagonist’s hallucinatory visions are structured according to the matrix of artwork – since Denys imagines his dream as an artwork, it remains distant. In contrast to male narratives with similar plots, the object of aesthetic appropriation in Kobrynska’s text is not a real woman but a portrait that has no real prototype. The real and the imaginary are clearly separated: the protagonist’s obsession with the beautiful woman in the painting is in fact an aesthetic experience, and an attempt to extrapolate the male phantasm to a real experience remains fruitless. In “The Creature”, the principle of reality is manifested through the concept of an honest and morally consistent job for the protagonist. On the contrary, blacksmith’s art is an exception, some kind of anomaly. Within the conventional attitudes, this anomaly works as an escape from reality; it is immoral in all senses – not only as a result of blacksmith’s alcoholic inspiration, but also as his refusal to remain within socially appropriate roles and norms. Accordingly, the process of creation is treated here as a rebellion and a break with a conventional worldview. To sum up, Kobrynska is extremely sensitive to fin de siècle aesthetic searches; on the stylistic level, realist, symbolist, impressionist, aestheticist, and even decadent elements are entwined in her prose texts.

Transatlantic Romance and the Deconstruction of Gender Norms: Rhoda Broughton and Elizabeth Bisland’s A Widower Indeed (1891)

This article focuses on A Widower Indeed (1891), a novel written by Rhoda Broughton in collaboration with American journalist Elizabeth Bisland. Drawing upon gender and cultural theories, the article examines the provocative discourse woven by Broughton and Bisland, revealing the contribution they made to late-century debates on evolving models of femininity and masculinity. Besides caricaturing dominant views of True Womanhood, A Widower Indeed offers a thought-provoking characterisation of a New Woman combined with transatlantic views of femininity. Reverberations of the late-century rethinking of gender are also found in the novel’s neurotic protagonist, who is almost a parody of modern masculinity. All frustrated by social pressures to conform, these characters bear evidence of late-Victorian discussions of what it meant to be a real man or a real woman within a highly normative society that thwarted individual aspirations to free choice. In giving voice to these limitations, Broughton and Bisland addressed pressing cultural concerns of their age, establishing meaningful relations with the popular literature composed on both sides of the Atlantic.

Looking for Diouana Gomis (1927–58): The Story behind African Cinema’s Most Iconic Suicide

Nearly all analyses of Ousmane Sembène’s novella La Noire de… (Voltaïque, 1962) and its eponymous film adaptation (1966) mention the fact that Sembène found inspiration for his text and film in a French newspaper report of a real suicide. However, scholars have not tracked down a copy of the original report or excavated the history of Diouana Gomis, the real woman whose suicide in 1958—on the heels of the 1958 Referendum and on the eve of Senegalese independence (1960)—served as the inspiration for one of the most iconic of African films. Indeed, the figure of Diouana has become synonymous with Sembène’s literary and cinematic character, in particular her “screen memory” as Senegalese actress’s Mbissine Thérèse Diop’s powerful performance in the film. Until now, traces of the “real” Diouana have remained buried in French police archives, her story receding from view. My essay makes a significant contribution to the study of Sembène’s art and to the memory of Diouana Gomis by reconstructing the backstory of her suicide through unstudied archival documents. Diouana Gomis (1927–58), a thirty-one-year-old, unmarried woman from Boutoupa in the Ziguinchor region of Senegal arrived in Antibes during the second week of April in 1958 and died by suicide less than three months later. The faint archival traces sewn in the wake of her suicide make it possible, and necessary, to reconstruct some of the details of her life and death so that the ghostly signature of this real woman might shadow the “Diouana” whom we see and hear on screen.

I am grateful to fate for this hour of grace: Children and Motherhood in the Life and Writings of Rosa Lebensbaum

Anna Margolin's innovative poetry has attracted the attention and admiration of Yiddish cultural research centers and literary critics worldwide. However, Rosa Lebensbaum—the real woman behind this pseudonym—has remained hidden for many years under the shadow of her well-known public figure. A family archive, carefully preserved by Rosa Lebensbaum's granddaughter in Israel, now allows the attention to be turned from Anna to Rosa. Private correspondence between Lebensbaum and her family—her divorcé, author Moshe Stavsky, and their son—reveals contradictions and understandings that illuminate new aspects in the poet's writing, as well as in her life and the lives of those around her. Based on this newly presented personal material, this article explores two aspects in the context of the life and writing of Rosa Lebensbaum; the first is personal while the other is cultural-historical. There was, on the one hand, a national, social, and creative renewal inspired by the Zionist movement, encouraging Jews to return to the land of Israel and the Hebrew language; yet, on the other hand, an American Jewish attempt to preserve and maintain the Yiddish culture, the language of exile against which the Jewish Yishuv in pre-state Israel fought vigorously. This clash of culture and languages—its implications and the price that many Jews were required to pay in pre-state Israel and America—form an additional central topic in this research.

ОБРАЗ «НАСТОЯЩЕЙ ЖЕНЩИНЫ» В КАРТИНЕ МИРА БЕЛОЗЕРСКОГО КРЕСТЬЯНИНА

The article examines the lexemes that represent the image of a “real woman” in the Belozersky subdialect. The lexical-semantic field under consideration is divided into the following thematic microfields: “Attitude to work”, “Physical abilities”, “Moral qualities”, “Intellectual abilities”, “Appearance features”. Lexeme analysis was performed in accordance with the nominative density of each microfield. The article also describes some distinctive features of the dialect language picture of the world.

Real-time miscarriage prediction: A comprehensive real-world dataset and a new model

Nowadays, sensors and mobile phones remain important tools for gathering real-time data about human's behaviors and context information; in order to make predictions and advanced preventions of outcomes and diseases. In the specific field of healthcare, real-time decisions are in need to save lives and to make people's lives easier and healthier. In the present paper, we propose a new e-monitoring system for real-time miscarriage prediction that use real time risk factors of miscarriage prediction; which are collected from both healthcare sensors and mobile phones. The challenge of this study is to gather real-time risk factors to make predictions and to propose a model for real time decisions; instead of using only echography because it is often too late to save baby's life. We used two categories of data: data coming from wearables (collected using IoT technologies) and data collected from mobile phones. A mobile phone application that we created collects all risk factors (every 60 s) for analysis and process. Data generated contains real-world data of real pregnant woman for testing and validating the proposed model in term of efficiency and effectiveness. Our dataset of 15 features that represent risk factors of miscarriage, presents an important source that can be used in future researches for further applications. The proposed dataset is available in Mendeley repository through the following link: http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/5sbmhh6t3r.1.

The Analysis of Einar’s Gender Identity in “The Danish Girl” by David Ebershoff

This study aims to discover LGBT has become the most potential threat to the existence of sexual identity. In some religious countries, LGBT which stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender will give complicated conflicts. It raises the pros and cons in the society. This study investigates LBGT as the unfamiliar issues in societies as reflected in The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff. This issue sometimes becomes ‘scourge’ because it against the principle of certain religion. LGBT is considered to violate the nature to which has been given by God. This issue is a ‘scourge’ in some societies groups. Meanwhile, it is often discussed by certain institutions supporting LGBT. This study is a qualitative research which applies Harry Benjamin’s theory of transsexual related to gender studies. The results reveal that 1) Einar Wegener is described as a man who has feminine tendency, submissive, inferior and emotional, 2) there are internal conflicts such as Einar’s having less confident in wearing man’s clothes, being sexually attracted to the same gender and struggling for identity determination, 3) Having the presence of finding identity, Einar has solution for his identity how to be a real woman by genital surgery.

Is that a real woman? Reality TV viewing and black viewers’ beliefs about femininity.

Is that a real woman? Reality TV viewing and black viewers’ beliefs about femininity.

Divisão sexual do trabalho, Cuidados e Capitalismo: um debate a partir do filme “Entre Nós”.

A esfera doméstico-familiar e de cuidados sempre esteve designada às mulheres, as atividades dessa esfera são invisibilizadas e, a sua importância para o espólio do trabalho não assalariado pelo capital, pouco valorizada. Partimos do pressuposto de que o cuidado é definido como uma atividade primordial de mulheres, a partir da divisão sexual do trabalho, que não só explica a base material da opressão das mulheres, mas também como essa opressão e esse trabalho invisível de cuidados são elementos-chave do sistema de exploração e dominação na formação social capitalista. Para conduzir o debate ao longo do texto, partimos do fio condutor da história de Mariana, uma mulher real, retratada no filme “Entre Nós”. A partir de sua história trazemos o debate sobre gênero, divisão sexual do trabalho e cuidados.

Perception of Lima Women about the Representation of ‘Real Woman’ in the Advertising Discourse of Beauty and Feminine Care Products

Advertising has been present in people’s lives through strategies for the sale of products, satisfying their needs, and interacting with them. The advertising of beauty and feminine care products has been one of the most constant through the traditional formula of using stereotypical models of women highlighting their beauty and perfection. However, the evolution of advertising and the empowerment of women is generating new responses in consumers. Precisely, the purpose of this exploratory study is to identify the perception of Peruvian women on how advertising represents the ‘real woman’ in Peru in the field of beauty and personal care products. This study concludes that Peruvian women recognize that there is still a limited presence of ‘real women’ in advertising despite the widespread social demand for a change in the advertising discourse.