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GIRLHOOD AND FEMININE IDEALS: LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION OF FEMININITY IN INDONESIAN FOLKTALES

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the linguistic construction of the femininity for girl characters in Indonesian folktales retold in children’s books. During the phase of their lives as girls, female characters in Indonesia folktales are narratively bound up in attempts to confront, fulfill, and sometimes defy, social prescribed feminine roles.
 Methodology: The data are twenty Indonesian folktales depicting girls as the main characters. The lexical, as well as clausal constructions in the stories in relation to girls are analyzed using content analysis and Halliday’s transitivity within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics.
 Results: The results show that ideal femininity attributed to girls in Indonesian folktales are mainly of three dimensions
 i.e. beauty, virtue, and passivity. The lexical representation of girl femininity reveals that girls in Indonesian folktales are typically stereotyped with either traditional femininity or non-conforming femininity.
 Implications: The clausal analysis shows how the stories present the attempt of the girls to fulfill the ideal feminine roles. There seems to be a reward for girls who fulfill ‘proper’ feminine qualities and punishment for girls who defy the ideal femininity. However, there are girls who seem to be non-conforming to the ideals of traditional femininity but rewarded as well as girls who fail at feminine roles but not punished with the provision of forgiveness. Thus, this paper contributes to the discussion on the girlhood femininity in contemporary children’s books.

Dowling, S.,Pontin, D. and Boyer, K. (eds). Social Experiences of Breastfeeding: Building bridges between research, policy and practice. Bristol: Policy Press. 2018. 280pp. £60.00 (hbk) ISBN: 978‐1447338499.

Dowling, S.,Pontin, D. and Boyer, K. (eds). Social Experiences of Breastfeeding: Building bridges between research, policy and practice. Bristol: Policy Press. 2018. 280pp. £60.00 (hbk) ISBN: 978‐1447338499.

Feminism and Solidarity on the Left: Rethinking the Unhappy Marriage Metaphor

In the context of efforts to revive and reconfigure the left, fraught solidarity relations between feminism and other left forces are again under the political spotlight. This article revisits the widespread use of the ‘unhappy marriage’ metaphor to characterise these relations, given that metaphors play a significant role in structuring political discourse and action. We argue that the metaphor has been used in uncritical and limiting ways, and turn to feminist reconfigurations of the institutions of marriage to develop a more expansive, reflexive conceptual lens. We then apply this lens to three case studies of left organising in Scotland around the time of the 2012–2014 Scottish independence referendum, showing that the expanded marriage metaphor captures a more complex story of solidarity relations. Nonetheless, aspects of the marriage metaphor remain irredeemable, and we end with a call for the continued development of alternative frameworks that imagine political solidarity differently.

The “Simple” Way to Climb a Racial Mountain

ABSTRACT This essay examines Langston Hughes's vision and cultural politics via his fictional character Jesse B. Semple. Known as the Simple stories, Hughes's sketches were collected in five volumes published during his lifetime, including Simple Speaks His Mind (1950), Simple Takes a Wife (1953), Simple Stakes a Claim (1957), The Best of Simple (1961), and Simple's Uncle Sam (1965). A sixth volume, titled The Return of Simple, was published in 1994. The author examines the stories in relation to his 1926 essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” and argues that Simple's musings were largely representative of black working-class ethos in the twentieth century. At the same time, the author situates Hughes's stories in the broader context of African diasporic literary and cultural history.

The Impact of Self-Narrative Framing of a Close Person’s Sudden Death on Coping With the Meaning in Life

Sixty-eight participants who lost a close one on a sudden death were assigned to one of two experimental conditions. They described own story of relations with the deceased person or answered a questionnaire regarding the mourning process. The effects of self-story construction were measured after 2 weeks and then 3 months. The self-story framing of the death increased meaning in life and stress-related growth, and decreased anxiety. The effects became most apparent 3 months after the story description. Higher plot structuring was related to lower anxiety and greater feeling of purpose in life.

When Team Conflicts Threaten Quality of Care: A Study of Health Care Professionals' Experiences and Perceptions.

ObjectivesTo explore professionals' experiences and perceptions of whether, how, and what types of conflicts affected the quality of patient care.Patients and MethodsWe conducted 82 semistructured interviews with randomly selected health care professionals in a Swiss teaching hospital (October 2014 and March 2016). Participants related stories of team conflicts (intra-/interprofessional, among protagonists at the same or different hierarchical levels) and the perceived consequences for patient care. We analyzed quality of care using the dimensions of care proposed by the Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America (safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equity).ResultsSeventy-seven of 130 conflicts had no perceived consequences for patient care. Of the 53 conflicts (41%) with potential perceived consequences, the most common were care not provided in a timely manner to patients (delays, longer hospitalization), care not being patient-centered, and less efficient care. Intraprofessional conflicts were linked with less patient-centered care, whereas interprofessional conflicts were linked with less timely care. Conflicts among protagonists at the same hierarchical level were linked with less timely care and less patient-centered care. In some situations, perceived unsatisfactory quality of care generated team conflicts.ConclusionBased on participants' assessments, 4 of 10 conflict stories had potential consequences for the quality of patient care. The most common consequences were failure to provide timely, patient-centered, and efficient care. Management of hospitals should consider team conflicts as a potential threat to quality of care and support conflict management programs.

Dismembered by Colonialism: On Nadine Gordimer’s July’s People and Its Engagement with the Dynamics of a Black Family Structure under Apartheid South Africa

Nadine Gordimer’s much celebrated novel, July’s People (1981), largely narrates the story of white and black community relations a decade before South Africa’s post-apartheid moment (1994). Whilst overtly focusing on various themes of racial relations, one of the passing, yet key thematic, concerns of the novel revolves around settler colonialism, including its apartheid chapter and how it dismembered black family structures in South Africa. Thus, the focus of this article is on July’s People and its capacity to register and pinpoint some of the continuities and discontinuities that have rendered black biological fathers absent from their families, especially from their young and growing children. The article concentrates on the novel’s ability to unmask the lasting negative impact of colonialism on the institution of fatherhood among black South Africans who have been subjected to settler colonialism. Whether these fathers were dismembered from their families as a result of employment migration systems or the alienation that developed as a result of their extended absences from home is a question this article addresses by analysing the novel in relation to such forms of family disintegration. Lastly, by juxtaposing the “perfect” family structure of the Smales against that of July’s (Mwawate’s), the article grapples with the way in which the novel acts as a register of how settler colonialism, including its apartheid moment, dismembered black South African families.

Peat swamp forest conservation withstands pervasive land conversion to oil palm plantation in North Selangor, Malaysia

ABSTRACTTropical deforestation remains one of the major global challenges of the twenty-first century driven to a large extent by the conversion of land for agricultural purposes, such as palm oil production. Malaysia is one of the world’s largest palm oil producers and has seen widespread conversion to oil palm from primary forest, including peat swamp forest (PSF). This study investigates the rate and extent of pervasive oil palm expansion in and around North Selangor Peat Swamp Forest (NSPSF) over the last three decades, exploring how land conversion has affected the region’s tropical forests, and assessing the relative success of PSF conservation measures. Time-series Landsat imagery was used to assess thematic land cover change and improvement in vegetation condition since NSPSF was given protected status in 1990. The results show a near tripling in oil palm cover throughout North Selangor, from 24,930 ha in 1989 to 70,070 ha in 2016; while at the same time tropical forest cover shrank from 145,570 ha to 88,400 ha. Despite concerns over the sustainability and environmental impact of such rapid oil palm conversion at a regional level, at the local scale, NSPSF represents a relative conservation success story. Effective land stewardship by government and non-governmental organization (NGO) management actors has limited illegal encroachment of oil palm around the reserve boundary. PSF rehabilitation measures have also markedly improved vegetation condition in NSPFS’s interior. These findings have broad significance for how oil palm agriculture is managed and especially for PSF stewardship and conservation, and the approaches described here may be usefully adopted elsewhere in Southeast Asia and around the world.

Visions and Revisions in Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"

Visions and Revisions in Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" Christine L. Grogan In "How I Accompanied Katherine Anne Porter on the Last Great Pilgrimage of Her Life," Charlotte Laughlin recounts a conversation she had with Porter regarding "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall." Like most readers of "Jilting," Laughlin was curious about the destiny of Ellen Weatherall. She questioned: "despite all Granny Weatherall's good work, the priest had been in the house the second time and the 'bridegroom' had not come. 'Was it because she had never forgiven the man who jilted her? … Is that why she couldn't go to heaven?'" Porter responded that she did not know where Ellen went when she died, adding that "We all have too much to forgive." After a pause, Laughlin noted that her voice became "nearly mischievous," as she said, "But the first bridegroom had given her plenty." After receiving puzzled looks, Porter clarified: "The baby. She fainted you know" (238). One of Porter's most popular stories, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" leaves many questions to ponder, among them the identity of the baby to whom Porter refers. In a 1975 interview with Mary Anne Dolan of The Washington Star, Porter states that this "particular story has brought more letters from students and teachers. Hundreds of them in the last 25 years" (181). Indeed, this story has been one of Porter's most anthologized out of her many highly crafted works. However, the version that the majority of us read and teach is not the one she originally published. Even though the later version does not make explicit all the ambiguous parts in the original, a comparison of the first one published with the version collected just seven months later reveals that Porter made significant changes that merit exploration and that somewhat clarify the protagonist's relationships with other characters. Crafting her story in 1927, Porter first printed the tale of Ellen Weatherall's last day in the February 1929 (fifteenth) issue of Eugene [End Page 49] Jolas's transition, the literary magazine widely regarded as the most influential in shaping the modernist avant-garde. Already published in Century, she was still building her name, reputation, and confidence. Most likely, Porter's friends Josephine Herbst and Matthew Josephson encouraged her to submit her stories to transition. Never really a member of the so-called Lost Generation, Porter nonetheless published "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" and "Magic" alongside the works of James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway, all of whom went to Paris while Porter went to Mexico. According to Joan Givner, the publication of these two stories in a magazine of international standing marked a turning point in Porter's career: "their completion was a significant achievement because they show that she was at last finding her own subject matter and establishing some control over it" (197). On September 11, 1930, the story appeared in revised form in Porter's first collection of short stories, Flowering Judas, a slim volume (comprising "María Concepción," "He," "Magic," "Rope," "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," and the title story, "Flowering Judas") with a limited run of six hundred copies published by Harcourt, Brace that established her critical reputation. With slight modifications to spelling, punctuation, and capitalization, this 1930 version of the story was reproduced in three subsequent volumes published by Harcourt, Brace during Porter's lifetime: Flowering Judas and Other Stories in 1935, a revision of sorts to the 1930 collection that published all of the 1930 stories and an additional four ("Theft," "That Tree," "The Cracked Looking-Glass," and "Hacienda"); The Old Order in 1955; and the version recognized as the definitive one, The Collected Stores of Katherine Anne Porter in 1965. Several recent articles read Porter's collected stories in relation to their original magazine publications. In her 2015 article, "Katherine Anne Porter, Magic, and transition," Kerry Hasler-Brooks charts the role of "Magic" in the transformation of Jolas's magazine from a transnational monthly into what Jolas subtitled "an international quarterly for creative experiment" (222). She credits Porter's story for speaking the political potential of patois...

The determinants of a pornography actress’s career life

Statistics on Japanese adult video (A.V.) indicated that it is an industry that produces over 4500 videos every month and has recently provided 5.27 hundred million U.S. dollars a year. All related stories and sex toys promote the culture and trades of sex goods in Japan at home and abroad. They even affect the mass in sexual life, knowledge, chats as well as values in both good and bad ways. Nonetheless, almost no empirical analysis exists of this industry. This study investigates empirically the influences of debuting age, risky-sex movies and other related factors on the career life of Japanese A.V. actresses. By analysing data concerning the Japanese A.V. actresses whose careers commenced between 2002 and 2014, the authors found that the larger the cup size of an actress, the more likely she also serves as a model entertainer, and the longer she stays. On the contrary, an A.V. actress has to retire earlier or leave the industry because of a later starting age or the numbers of risky-sex movies she has produced.

An Examination of the Effect Enhanced Comprehension of Sex Related Stories Has on Preventing SEXUAL VIOLENCE for Children of Age Five

Purpose; The purpose of this research is to examine the effects of the promotion of understanding sex related stories for the prevention of sexual violence on the children of age 5. The subjects were 58 children of age 5(19 children of experimental group, 20 children of comparison group, and 19 children of control group) in the city of P. The experimental group performed the music drama activity using the picture books for sex education for 36 times. The comparison group conducted the sex education picture book activities used in the experiment group. The control group did not engage in sexual violence prevention activities and instead conducted daily life subject centric activities at the national level. Data analysis was conducted by t-test and ANCOVA using the SPSS 21.0 program. The results of the research yielded that the experimental group showed a better understanding of the sex related story than the comparison group and the control group, and the comparison group also showed a statistically significant difference in understanding the sex related story than the control group. These results showed that the promotion of comprehension of sex related stories was effective in preventing sexual violence for children.

Influence of mean period of ground motion on inelastic drift demands in CBFs designed to Eurocode 8

The influence of mean ground motion period, Tm, on the inelastic drift response of steel Concentrically Braced Frame (CBF) structures designed to Eurocode 8 is investigated. Incremental dynamic analysis is performed for a set of case study frames with varying structural characteristics at four different seismic intensity levels. From the results of these analyses, regression models for predicting both global and inter-storey drift are developed. It is shown that that both global and inter-storey drift tend to increase nonlinearly as the ratio of fundamental structural period to mean ground motion period, T1/Tm, decreases below unity. The rate of this increase is dependent on the ground motion intensity, represented by the EC8 behaviour factor q. The first mode participation factor, relative storey stiffness and column-to brace stiffness are also shown to influence inter-storey drift response. The values of drift predicted by the developed regression models are compared to values predicted by design codes as well as other predictive models developed in previous studies. It is observed that design codes can under predict drift at lower T1/Tm values.

A Study on Success Strategies of Performances with Theme at Local Festival

본 연구는 지역사회에 이바지하는 대표적 축제들의 공연콘텐츠인 주제공연의 발 전방향을 모색하고자 한다. 지역의 문화와 연관성이 있는 스토리를 설정하여 집객의 성공을 유도하기 위해 주제공연이 이루어지고 있으며, 메인콘텐츠는 연극, 무용, 뮤지컬, 클래식음악, 대중음악, 넌버벌 퍼포먼스 등의 장르가 있다. 현재까지 이와 같은 주제공연에 참가한 적이 있는 관객 50명을 대상으로 장르별 공연에 대한 인식을 조사하여 적합성 분석 및 문제점을 도출하고자 하였다. 나아가 비교적 역사가 오래되고 지속적으로 개최되고 있는 대표 축제 중 ‘제 63회 백제문화제’의 주제공연과, 세계의 우수한 공연콘텐츠라 할 수 있는 ‘태양의 서커스’, ‘블루맨 그룹’ 등의 특징을 파악하고자 하였다. 이를 토대로 주제공연 그 자체를 성공시킬 수 있다는 가능성을 제시하고 성공적인 메인콘텐츠로서 육성할 수 있는 방안을 모색하였다. 지역축제의 주제공연은 연관성 찾기와 스토리텔링의 부재, 상업성 결여, 지역화(Localization)의 실패 CT(Culture Technology)의 인식 부족, 멀티미디어에 대한 인식 부족, 지역민과의 상호작용(Interaction)의 부재 등의 문제점을 드러내고 있었다. 본 논문에서는 이를 바탕으로 주제공연에서 메인 주제에 맞는 스토리텔링을 완성하는 것, 상상력의 부재를 해결하기 위한 기존의 소재를 찾고 주제와 연관된 스토리로 다양한 공연콘텐츠로 제작하는 것, 상호작용 요소를 추가하여 관객과 소통하게 만드는 것, 참여형 공연으로 지역민과의 교류를 확대하여 정체성을 확립하는 것, 축제에서 주제공연의 비중을 높이고 다양한 발전방향을 수립하는 것 등 다양한 발전전략을 도출하였다. 추후 이러한 지역축제의 주제공연에 대한 지속적인 연구를 통해 보다 나은 공연콘텐츠의 발전과 지역축제의 발전이 이루어졌으면 한다.This study is designed to explore development plan of performances with theme as performing contents for representative festivals which contribute to local society. The performances set stories related to local culture to induce tourists and are staged. For genres of the performances, there are play, dance, musical, classical music, pop music, non-verbal performance, and etc. The audiences totaling 50 people, who have ever watched the performances with theme, were studied for recognition for performances by genre to draw the suitability analysis and problem. This study also intended to determine the characteristics of the performances at the 63rd Baekje Cultural Festival , one of the old and constantly held representative festivals, and of Cirque du Soleil and Blue Man Group , which are the outstanding shows in the world. Building off of this, this study considered the possibility to make the shows itself a great success and sought ways to foster the show. The problems of the performances at local festival have been identified as following: No connection to local culture, Absence of storytelling, Lack of commercial potential, Failure to Localization, Ignorance of CT(Culture Technology) and multimedia, and Lack of local interaction. Based on this data, this paper initiated many different ways to improve: Make storytelling fit the main theme. Look for ideas and offer a variety of content using theme related stories. Add interactivity elements to interact with audience. Expand local exchanges through engaging shows to establish identity. Place more importance on the performances and advance further plans. Continuous studies on performances with theme at local festival are needed afterward for growth of performing contents and local festivals.

The Posthuman and Transboundary Imagination in Contemporary Korean Literature: Considering the Works of Pae Myŏnghun and Yun Ihyŏng

Abstract Literature limited to the eyes of “humanity” as created by humanism is insufficient to explore the conditions faced in the twenty-first century. The posthuman forms prevalent in contemporary South Korean literature, such as cyborgs, humanoids, and artificial intelligence, go beyond reflecting scientific developments; they operate as critical, political rhetoric with regard to discourses of modernity. This article focuses on the posthuman forms and also future time and space in Pae Myŏnghun’s and Yun Ihyŏng’s short stories in relation to critical posthumanism. Although Pae’s allegorical approach may seem somewhat simplistic, the posthuman forms that are brought to life in his works are highly innovative and effectively criticize modern systems. In contrast to Pae, Yun uses the futuristic subject to concentrate on humans, through narratives of coexistence where nonsynchronism is in operation. Yun’s narratives focus on a performative posthuman discourse that traverses gender, age, and class-based dualisms. With hybrid, multilayered, and performative identities and the transgression of boundaries, the two writers undermine the modern notion of linear, progressing time and cast doubt on notions of objectivity or totalized knowledge, urging a rethinking of the “here and now.”

能因と公任の相互認識 ― 関連説話と『玄々集』の公任詠を中心に ―

能因と公任の相互認識 ― 関連説話と『玄々集』の公任詠を中心に ―

A Self-Study of Researcher Relationships with Research Participants

ABSTRACTIn this article we present two narratives that have generated pedagogical insights into our identities in becoming researchers. We are concerned with the interaction of the self-as-researcher in a context, over time, with others who also have an expressed commitment to the educational world. Our commitment to better understanding educational research led us to share our stories in relation to the participants in our research studies. Movement, identity shifting and vulnerability emerged as major threads after journaling and discussing the data we collected. We conclude that, in connection with others and with a community, self-study research has the potential to generate powerful and ultimately far-reaching ways to influence our research practice and our ability to explore and understand ourselves as beginning researchers.

What do the Angels Say? Alterity and the Ascents of Emanuel Swedenborg and the Baal Shem Tov

Abstract This paper examines the history of boundary crossing and boundary preservation between Jews and Christians in the eighteenth century via an unorthodox path. Two men, a Swedish Lutheran natural philosopher and a charismatic Polish Rabbi, give their accounts of ascents to the heavens, both in the 1740s. The lives of Emanuel Swedenborg and the Baal Shem Tov did not intersect, but their otherworldly experiences tell related stories of strife between Jews and Christians while betraying something of a shared horizon concerning the future of their religious communities, and concerning sacred texts and their interpretation. Using a phenomenological framework informed by Emmanuel Levinas, and with theories of experience articulated by Steven Katz and Martin Jay at hand, this paper understands these accounts as articulations of relationship: not just the relationship between the subject and God, scripture, or the heavens, but articulations of the fraught relationship with the religious other in the earthly, human realm. By placing Swedenborg and the Besht, as it were, face to face, this paper emphasizes the presence of the religious other in their experiences, even in their private encounters with the Divine, and even though the intersubjectivity these experiences expose is characterized by difference, difficulty, and asymmetry.

LGBT bullying in school: a troubling relational story

School bullying is an oppressive mode of interpersonal conflict that rattles the bodies and beings of young people. While no youth is exempt from being bullied, some populations tend to be more vul...

A story of peer relations based on the popularity of young children

A story of peer relations based on the popularity of young children

Development of Link Column Frame System for Seismic Resistance of Reinforced Concrete Structures

Abstract The purpose of the link column frame is to provide acceptable collapse prevention performance and to allow for easy repairs following a moderate earthquake. The experimental and analytical studies that are presented in this article mainly focus on the behavior of normal and link column reinforced concrete (RC) frames with different connection configurations. Quasi-static cyclic load experimental results are presented and discussed for seven 1:3 scaled RC frames with and without link columns. There are various connections between the main beam and the link column. With respect to experimental results and using ANSYS software, the finite element model related to these frames is made and calibrated, and then nonlinear analysis under cyclic static loading is performed. The experimental results show that the yield strength and ultimate strength capacities of the link column frames increase with a decrease in relative story drifts, especially in the hinged link column frame that was designed according to IS 12303-1987, Criteria for Design of RCC Hinges. Greater amounts of energy were dissipated by the link column frame, which has a hinge connection designed according to IS 12303-1987; this connection was found to be more effective and reliable. When compared with the normal frame, the link column frame with the proper connection dissipates more energy by shear yielding of the link beam. The additional link provides extra stiffness to the entire system.