Part Of Women Research Articles

QIRÂAH FÎ KHIȚÂB AL-MAR'AH: A STUDY OF GENDER ISSUES IN THE BOOK DAWÂIR AL-KHAWF

This article examines gender issues in the thoughts of Naṣr Ḥāmid Abu Zayd as stated in his book entitled Dawâir Al-Khawf Qirâah Fî Khițâb Al-Mar'ah. Naṣr Ḥāmid was originally a follower of Al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun, who later turned into a liberal intellectual figure from Egypt who was known for his controversial and controversial thoughts. This study uses a literature study which refers to several main books of his works and is added to secondary sources in the form of several writings resulting from research on the thoughts of Naṣr Ḥāmid Abu Zayd. The results of this research show that Naṣr Ḥāmid criticizes the interpretations that have developed over time, especially regarding qiwâmah, inheritance, talak, polygyny and women's private parts (hijab). According to him, women are part of the substance that is rooted in human social existence in certain historical realities. These conditions of social relations determine the position of men and women equally in the social, cultural and intellectual framework. Both are equal as complete human beings. This thinking places him at the level of progressive thought and attracts many groups, which is sometimes in harmony with the ideas of early Egyptian Muslim feminists, namely Muhammad Abduh.

Construction of Inheritance Distribution Based on Gender Equality in Thematic Tafsir Studies

Gender equality in inheritance is an issue that is often debated today. One of the controversial verses is verse 11 of surah al-Nisa' which regulates that the men's portion is equal to two women's parts. This study aims to examine the verses of the Qur'an regarding gender equality in inheritance through thematic studies and spark a shift in the concept of inheritance which demands equal parts through the interpretation of the meaning of verse 11 surah al-Nisa'. This research is literature research with descriptive qualitative type through thematic tafsir approach and syar'i approach. This research found that the verses of the Qur'an regarding gender equality in inheritance based on thematic studies produced the theme, namely the verses about men and women being equally entitled to inherit and the share of men and women heirs, as well as the share of men and women. Through thematic studies, the concept of inheritance based on gender equality can be explained more comprehensively. The concept of inheritance in verse 11 of surah al-Nisā' has gradually shifted in meaning from section 2:1 to become an equal part marked by the birth of the concept of bilateral inheritance which fully supports gender equality in inheritance. It's just that it is still possible for disputes to occur so fiqh mawāris becomes a solution. So it is recommended that before dividing the inheritance with the principle of gender equality, it must first be divided based on the provisions of the mawāris fiqh and then an agreement can be made so that the rights of the heirs are considered.

Menafsir Ulang Hijab: Dinamika dan Makna Dalam Konteks Global

This article discusses the dynamics of wearing jilbab and its meaning in the context of globalization, focusing on the influence of cultural globalization on norms, values, and lifestyles in religious traditions. This research is a qualitative study using a netnography approach with data obtained from the response of the Indramayu Muslim fashion griya whatsApp group. This article discusses the evolution of the concept of hijab from a separator between free women and slaves to a tool to protect women's private parts from prying eyes. In addition, the article also highlights the different views on hijab, including the views of contemporary scholars and the impact of globalization on the views and practices of hijab in contemporary society. Thus, this article highlights how globalization, fashion trends, religious identity, and cultural values affect the dynamics of hijab and its meaning in contemporary society.

Margaret Atwood as a Feminist

Abstract: Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario. When she was seven years old, her family moved to Toronto. Her father, an entomologist and professor of zoology, studied tree-dwelling insects. Atwood's passion for Canada's wilderness is present in most of her writings. Atwood is famous for the outspoken feminism in her books. From her first novel, The Edible Woman, to the dark masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale (1985), which cemented her international reputation, Atwood demonstrated deeply concerned with the constraints society places on women and the facades they adopt in response. . The Handmaid's Tale, which Atwood refuses to call "science fiction", depicts a society in which women are stripped of all rights except those to marry, run a household, and reproduce. After The Handmaid's Tale made Atwood an international celebrity, she wrote a series of novels dealing with relationships between women, including Cat's Eye (1988) and The Robber Bride (1993). In 1992, she published Good Bones, short, witty articles about women's body parts and the limitations that have been placed on them throughout history. Atwood explores the historical role of women in other works including her famous poetry collections, the Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970) and her novel Alias Grace (1996). Both recreate the lives of famous feminism women in Canadian history.

Muhammad Shahrur's millenial interpretation of women’s issues

Background: This study examines Muhammad Shahrur's theory of limits and women’s issues. This theory adjusts the muhkamat verses to remain relevant to sociocultural conditions while remining within the jurisdiction of Allah SWT. Shahrur's approach conveyed women as different from traditional ulema, and controversial. Therefore, it is necessary to describe Shahrur's theory and interpretation on women issues. Methods: This was an exploratory bibliographic study using descriptive-hermeneutic analysis. Two of Shahrur's books were selected and five chapters from Al-Kitāb wa Al-Qur’ān, Qirā’ah Mu’āshirah and five chapters from Nahw Ushūl al-Jadīdah Li al-Fiqh al-Islāmy; Fiqh al-Mar'ah . Results: Shahrur’s interpretations on women issues are: a) relationships between teenagers of the opposite sex without marriage or living together is "halal" if it follows their will, without a contract, being accompanied by syecih or permission, b) The maximum limit of hijab is to cover the entire body except the face and palms. In contrast, the minimum limit covers the juyūb, including cleavage under the armpits, body parts, genitals, and buttocks. Apart from these, it does not include intimate parts and adapts to the community. c) women's intimate parts are shown only to the seven groups; brothers, fathers, children of a sibling, parents of one's wives and their children, d) Polygamy has both an upper limit and lower limit. Shahrur allows polygamy under two conditions: widows with children whose husbands left them to protect them, polygamy has two limitations, limit for quantity and limit for quality, e) the law of adultery has a lower and upper limit. Conclusion: According to Shahrur, women's issues are divided into four limits, sometimes they are at the upper limit and sometimes at the lower limit. Shahrur's linguistic approach finally led him to draw a conclusion that the product of Islamic law is highly dependent on the sociocultural context.

Muhammad Shahrur's millenial interpretation of women’s issues

Background: This study examines Muhammad Shahrur's theory of limits and women’s issues. This theory adjusts the muhkamat verses to remain relevant to sociocultural conditions while remining within the jurisdiction of Allah SWT. Shahrur's approach conveyed women as different from traditional ulema, and controversial. Therefore, it is necessary to describe Shahrur's theory and interpretation on women issues. Methods: This was an exploratory bibliographic study using descriptive-hermeneutic analysis. Two of Shahrur's books were selected and five chapters from Al-Kitāb wa Al-Qur’ān, Qirā’ah Mu’āshirah and five chapters from Nahw Ushūl al-Jadīdah Li al-Fiqh al-Islāmy; Fiqh al-Mar'ah . Results: Shahrur’s interpretations on women issues are: a) relationships between teenagers of the opposite sex without marriage or living together is "halal" if it follows their will, without a contract, being accompanied by syecih or permission, b) The maximum limit of hijab is to cover the entire body except the face and palms. In contrast, the minimum limit covers the juyūb, including cleavage under the armpits, body parts, genitals, and buttocks. Apart from these, it does not include intimate parts and adapts to the community. c) women's intimate parts are shown only to the seven groups; brothers, fathers, children of a sibling, parents of one's wives and their children, d) Polygamy has both an upper limit and lower limit. Shahrur allows polygamy under two conditions: widows with children whose husbands left them to protect them, polygamy has two limitations, limit for quantity and limit for quality, e) the law of adultery has a lower and upper limit. Conclusion: According to Shahrur, women's issues are divided into four limits, sometimes they are at the upper limit and sometimes at the lower limit. Shahrur's linguistic approach finally led him to draw a conclusion that the product of Islamic law is highly dependent on the sociocultural context.

Pedagogies and Practices of Teaching Girlhood Studies

Girlhood Studies, as an academic discipline, is continually growing. Since some educational institutions include girls’ studies as part of a special curriculum, an academic program, a certificate course, a minor, or as part of Women’s Studies or Gender Studies, Girlhood Studies has a presence in academia although at this stage rarely in an autonomous department. This interest in the pedagogies and practices of teaching Girlhood Studies is an important aspect of its growth as a field of study not only at the university level but also in other academic settings and outside of them, be they workshops, special programs for girls, and summer camps, among others. Depending on these formal and informal educational contexts, the discussion of approaches to teaching Girlhood Studies ranges from the theoretical to those that outline hands-on projects that invite and promote the discussion of girlhood. As Claudia Mitchell (2021) states in her editorial “What can Girlhood Studies be?” the research and scholarly work in Girlhood Studies “stands as its own theoretical and practical area” (vi) that warrants its study and teaching and that prompted the production of this special issue on teaching Girlhood Studies.

The Part of Women in Environment Security

The current Age is witnessing continuous environmental poverty which needs to be taken into thought seriously and the pains must be made for the defense of the nature. The environment is receiving deteriorate day by day with the advent of new knowledge and the selfish thinking of the people. The rising population, massive manufactures, luxurious life, and desert of the people towards trust environment strong; are the main character in polluting the nature. The serial changes, the increase in generating and spreading distinct fatal viruses, climate change, the hazardous effect on the health of the human beings and the non-human beings, universal warming, big hole in the ozone layer, the probability of melting the iceberg, such different disturbing consequences are occurred due to numerous manmade actions and thinking. The unequal nature of the male subjugated society always cast its damaging impact upon the dignity and nonviolent life of the woman. The same male dominated society treats nature carelessly and makes use of the natural resources massively irrespective of thinking with respect to the protection of nature. Nature and the woman possess various similar qualities. Nature and the woman bear close and amicable relation with each other.

THE DYNAMICS OF DETERMINING MEN AND WOMEN PARTS IN MATTERS OF INHERITANCE: A STUDY OF ISLAMIC LAW

This study aims to understand the dynamics of determining men's and women's parts of inheritance; explore thoughts related to contemporary inheritance formulations and analyze from the perspective of Islamic law. This research is library research with a normative approach (syar'i) in the form of literary analysis relevant to the research object, namely the problem of determining men's and women's parts in the matter of inheritance. The Data were collected structurally through document studies to be analyzed. Data analysis uses qualitative content analysis of relevant documents or texts. As a result, determining men's and women's parts is currently experiencing dynamics 2:1 to 1:1 concept because of the influence of customary law, distribution of inheritance level of welfare, and understanding of the justice value, which has shifted from based on rights and obligations which interpreted according to the needs and conditions. The 1:1 inheritance paradigm or equal share results from the ijtihad of contemporary figures by understanding the value of justice according to social situations and conditions and gender equality. The initiators of the paradigm are Hazairin with the concept of bilateral inheritance, Munawir Sjadzali with his quantitative equation, Muhammad Syahrur, and Yahya Harahap with the concept of boundary theory. According to Islamic law, the 1:1 inheritance paradigm is not contradictory because the goal is for the common good of the heirs. In contrast, the benefit is the goal of Islamic law through the concept of maqāsiḍ sharia by paying attention to the rules of Islamic law, such as not ignoring human rights and maintaining good relations with others. Islamic law, with its flexibility that can adapt to place, time, and circumstances, has also blended with the results of contemporary ijtihad.

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Bahawalpur fiction writers share women's part in Urdu post-Independence

Bahawalpur fiction writers share women's part in Urdu post-Independence

Situating the Religious Market Theory in Ghanaian Religious Context : Merits and Demerits

This study reviewed the religious market theory in relation to the religious economy of Neo-Prophetic Pentecostal-Charismatic churches in Ghana. Using unstructured qualitative interviews and focus group discussions, the study discovered that the theory in its present western context ignored Ghanaian religio-cultural sensibilities that affect decision-making in every aspect of the Ghanaian's life. It also ignored ethical and human rights cases such as flogging or at times stepping on pregnant women for alleged involvement in sinful acts. In other cases, prophets/pastors touch women's private parts for alleged claims of casting out demons. These missing links in the theory appear to produce a distorted view of the realities of religious actors in Ghana. Thus, the analysis implicates the widening of the theoretical framework to encompass the missing links that significantly influence the behavior of religious actors in Ghana.

Housework Lock (her) Down

Housework Lock (her) Down Jocelyn Ho (bio) and Margaret Schedel (bio) Housework Lock (her) Down (2020), for three or four Embedded Irons in telematic performance, is part of Women's Labor, a feminist project directed by Ho that uses embedded technologies to transform domestic tools into new electronic musical instruments. These musical instruments are featured in sound installations, new compositions by female composers, participant workshops, and performance. Women's Labor addresses gender and class inequality in domestic labor division and challenges persistent gendered social norms through music-art activism. While public policies have made strides in promoting workplace gender equality, women continue to shoulder the majority of unpaid domestic work in opposite-sex households. Moreover, the outsourcing in affluent households of domestic labor to poorer women of color reinforces domestic labor as women's work while perpetuating class inequality. Traditionally relegated to the private sphere, domesticity is recast in a new light through public engagement and performative spectacle. The instrument Embedded Iron is based on an early twentieth-century wooden ironing board and antique iron. Players can "iron" fabrics, including their own pieces of clothing, to make music. It has a color-sensing ability that uses spectroscopy to "see" the color of the fabric to play different timbres and pitch modes. The Embedded Iron is trained to recognize a few fabrics/colors; however, it interpolates new sounds from untrained fabrics through the machine-learning software Wekinator. The Embedded Iron's placement on the horizontal axis of the ironing board determines pitch using LIDAR and ultrasonic technology. Pure Data drives sound synthesis, resident on a Raspberry Pi. A speaker and a transducer are attached to the underside of the wooden ironing board, which acts as a [End Page 26] Click for larger view View full resolution Fig 1. resonator. The Embedded Iron is an Embedded Acoustic Instrument that includes all necessary components for performer interaction, data-mapping, synthesis, and sound generation in a single self-contained body. Because it is not dependent on computers or speakers that are used for other tasks, it gains more agency and identity. Written for Nownet Arts Conference 2020: Network Arts and Social Distance, Housework Lock (her) Down was premiered as a telematic performance by Meenah Alam, Theresa Dimond, and Taylor Long, highlighting the unequal burden of housework and expectations on women, which have been especially spotlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic. We explore the gestures and frustrations of housework, elicited by the different gesture-sound mappings of items of clothing. Text chosen from an oppressive nineteenth-century marriage manual are mapped to a special "white apron" for ironing. While the text may seem ludicrous and outdated, the intentions behind the text are still eerily prevalent today. The interaction and listening between the players are inspired by Pauline Oliveros's Sonic Meditations (1974) for ♀ Ensemble, a continuation of her feminist creative work through music activism. For performance materials, please contact jocelynhcho@gmail.com. [End Page 27] [End Page 28] [End Page 29] [End Page 30] [End Page 31] [End Page 32] Jocelyn Ho jocelyn ho's artistic practice involves the exploration of the relationship between sound, bodily gesture, and culture, as well as the rethinking of the classical music genre through multimedia technologies, interdisciplinarity, and audience interactivity. As a pianist, composer, and theorist, Ho engages practice and scholarship in a dialogic process to challenge and enliven contemporary concert practices. She directs, composes, and performs in interdisciplinary performance projects involving collaborators from vastly different fields, including the soldout music-art-tech concert Synaesthesia Playground, as well as Women's Labor. As pianist and composer, she has been featured internationally at Radio France, the Sydney Opera House, New York Symphony Space, and Berlin's Radialsystem V, among others. Ho is a Steinway artist and an assistant professor of performance studies at UCLA. Margaret Schedel margaret schedel has an interdisciplinary career blending classical training, sound/audio data research, and innovative computational arts education. Schedel transcends the boundaries of disparate fields to produce integrated work at the nexus of computation and the arts. Internationally recognized for the creation and performance of ferociously interactive media and her work in the sonification of data, she has a diverse creative output with works...

Germiyanoğlu Vakıflar Hammam

Amaç: Denizli’nin tarihi dokusunun önemli bir parçası olan Germiyanoğlu Vakıflar Hamamı’nın tarihi, günümüzdeki durumu ve şehrin sosyo kültürel yaşamına katkıları ile ilgili bilgi vermek ve akademik yazına kazandırmaktır. Gereç ve Yöntem: Hamam ile ilgili bilgilere ulaşmak için 2019 Mayıs ayında Denizli Müze Müdürlüğü Arşivi’nden kurumun izni alınarak fotoğraf ve hamamın yapısal özelliklerine ilişkin bilgilere ulaşılmıştır. Ayrıca Hamam’ın işletmecisi ile görüşülmüş ve fotoğraflar çekilerek belgeler toplanmıştır. Selçuklu dönemi hamam yapısı ve hamam kültürünü değerlendirmek için akademik yazın incelenmiş dönemin hamamları ile Germiyanoğlu Vakıflar Hamamı’nın ortak yönleri bakımından bir değerlendirme yapılmıştır.Bulgular: Denizli’deki Germiyanoğlu Vakıflar Hamamı 774 yıllık bir geçmişe sahiptir. Kitabesi bulunmayan hamamın temelinin şehrin ilk Selçuklu Valisi Esedüddin Ayaz tarafından atıldığı, ikinci Vali Seyfeddin Karasungur zamanında 1246 yılında yapımının tamamlandığı düşünülmektedir. Denizli’nin önemli tarihi yapıları arasında yer alan hamam sıcaklık, ılıklık, soğukluk ve külhan bölümlerinin bulunuşu ile Türk hamam mimarisinin tipik bir örneğidir. Germiyanoğlu Vakıflar Hamamı kadınlar ve erkekler bölümüne sahip olduğu için çifte hamam, kullanım amacına göre, genel halk hamamı veya çarşı hamamı tarzında inşa edilmiştir. Halk arasında, önemli gezginler olarak bilinen İbn Batuta ve Evliya Çelebi’nin yanı sıra Yıldırım Beyazıt’ın da hamamı ziyaret ettiği ve yıkandığına inanılmaktadır. Günümüzde erkekler bölümü hamam olarak kullanılan tarihi yapının, kadınlar bölümü bir tekstil firmasının satış mağazası olarak kullanılmaktadır.Sonuç: Denizli’de yer alan Germiyanoğlu Vakıflar Hamamı 13. yüzyıl Selçuklu Dönemi Türk hamamlarının özelliklerini taşımaktadır. Hamam erkekler ve kadınlar hamamı olarak iki bölüm şeklinde inşa edilmiş, ancak günümüzde sadece erkekler bölümü aktif olarak kullanılmaktadır. Çeşitli dönemlerde aslına uygun olarak restore edilen hamam, Türk hamam kültürünün yaşatılması açısından önemli bir yapıdır.

Fear and Anxiety as a Part of Women’s Spatial Stories in the City

This paper considers women’s fear of male violence experienced in motion. The topic has been developed in the Anglo-American feminist geography and criminology in the 1970–90s. I attempt to describe urban contexts of fear of male violence considering women everyday mobility. As theoretical framework I use work by geographer Doreen Massey, supplemented by ideas from emotional geography and sociology of emotions. I collected 10 semi-structured interviews with young women aged 18 to 25 years old. All of them are residents of non-central districts of Moscow and Moscow region. The analysis includes two parts. In the first part I try to draw the line between fear and anxiety as close but different emotions. I also talk about construction of women’s fear of a male violence and different agents involved in the social construction of threats. In the second part I describe conjunctions of spatial histories as gender orders, in which women’s fears are reproduced regardless of actual male threat. I consider conjunctions of material environment (streets, transport, lighting, etc.), human stories (“not suspicious people”, “suspicious people”, “companions”), natural stories (time of day) as fluid, unstable and situational. I conclude that it hardly can be any “formula of women’s fear”. Fear and anxiety significantly affect women’s spatial stories. I give examples of coping strategies women take to change the geometry of power within such gender orders.

Consideration of Cosmetic Surgery As Part of Women's Benefit-Provisioning Mate Retention Strategy.

Individuals perform mate retention behaviors to minimize the risk of partner infidelity and relationship dissolution. The current study investigates whether consideration of cosmetic surgery can be conceptualized as part of a broader strategy of mate retention for women, but not men. We hypothesized that women’s consideration of cosmetic surgery would be positively associated with performance frequencies of Benefit-Provisioning and Cost-Inflicting mate retention behaviors. We recruited 203 individuals (54% women) in committed heterosexual relationships from Tehran, Iran. Results indicate a positive association between consideration of cosmetic surgery and Benefit-Provisioning mate retention behaviors for women, but not men. There was no association between consideration of cosmetic surgery and Cost-Inflicting mate retention behaviors. Women therefore may consider cosmetic surgery to improve their physical attractiveness as part of a Benefit-Provisioning strategy to retain a long-term mate. We discuss limitations of the study and highlight future directions for research from an evolutionary perspective.

Evidence of Hepatitis C Virus Antibodies amongst Pregnant Women in Parts of North Central Nigeria

Evidence of Hepatitis C Virus Antibodies amongst Pregnant Women in Parts of North Central Nigeria

Społeczny wymiar funkcjonowania rodziny i kobiety w środowisku wiejskim

The woman's part is subject of my study and the country family in Poland in period of alternatively. Yet to recent, country family more considerably often than municipal she was numerous, and so with many children and many generations. She was perceived as more durable, less subject on divorces and separations. Beyond this nation in the country more seldom than they in city live in informal relationships, extramarital. It was can so - peaceably with social picture - at least in this field recognise the occupants of village not only za more tradycjonalnych, but and more moral. First of all however living in the country men be perceived by Poles' totality as more religious than occupants cities and it turns out, that they are tray really.

Shakespeare in Company by Bart Van Es (review)

Reviewed by: Shakespeare in Company by Bart Van Es Tim Fitzpatrick (bio) Bart Van Es . Shakespeare in Company. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 357 + 12 b/w illus. $45.00. This is an important book that ably treads the fine line between, on the one hand, explaining or even discounting the artistic work by recourse to a consideration of its conditions of production, and, on the other, consigning it to an autonomous decontextualized realm of "universality": There is inevitably a connection between the literary features of a work and the material conditions of its creation. Of course, lines of poetry are crafted by individuals, but they are also moulded by surrounding social contexts and tailored to specific practical demands. (37) The author claims, and makes his argument with considerable sophistication, that the strength of his approach lies in the welding of theater history to textual criticism—an approach that enables the development of a complex argument that, without minimizing their artistic and literary merit, places Shakespeare's plays in their historical context of production and delineates the ways in which they reflect that context: This book has set out a history of Shakespeare's writing that is based on his evolving material circumstances and institutional affiliations.... It could be said to bring together two separate stands of current thought on the playwright. On the one hand there is the work of theatre historians, doing more and more to uncover the practical realities of early modern performance.... On the other there is a more literary criticism that explores the classically informed wit of the playwright and connects him to a Renaissance culture of imitation. (309) At its center is the argument "that Shakespeare's decision to become a stake-holder in the theatre industry transformed and would continue to affect the way that he wrote his plays" (2). But Shakespeare was always, Van Es argues, writing "in company": initially in the literary company of other playwrights, with whose works the early plays are in intertextual dialogue; then in the company of actors when he joined the Lord Chamberlain's Men; then in the closer company of sharers and householders at their new fixed venue, the Globe; and finally again in the company of playwrights through collaboration and (again) intertextual links to the work in particular of Fletcher. Van Es stresses "the deep, fibrous intertextuality of Shakespeare's early work" (28); his suggestion that it is "often spectacularly imitative" (36) has important ramifications for reading characters such as Aaron in Titus Andronicus, or Richard III. He then links already well-attested stylistic developments around 1594 to the fact that at this time Shakespeare became a sharer in the Lord Chamberlain's Men (81). He argues for the significance of an emerging interest in the mechanics [End Page 410] of a play's preparation for the stage in Love's Labour's Lost and A Midsummer Night's Dream (79), a move to relational characterization (93), and evidence of writing for the skills and profiles of the performers of the company (98). "The company—its sharers, its hired men, and its apprenticed boy players taking women's and children's parts—were the matrix through which he could structure his thinking" (111). This put Shakespeare in a unique position among his contemporaries (125), a singularity further increased with the building of the Globe in 1599: "During these early years of the fellowship Shakespeare was singular as a playwright within a company of relative equals, but with the construction of the Globe the nature of this singularity would change" (146). The author's treatment of the Globe period (1599 until the long-postponed initiation of Blackfriars in 1608) concentrates on Shakespeare's relations with Robert Armin and Richard Burbage, and the extent to which their particular talents and "roles" fed into the plays: "More fully than any other player, Armin illustrates the effect of Shakespeare's position as a sharer and housekeeper. The two men were bound together in a close association that left its imprint on at least five plays" (193). Van Es argues that the initiation of the Blackfriars as a second performance venue in 1608 was another watershed, but...

4050세대 여성의 다운-에이징(Down-aging) 의류 구매실태 및 치수만족도 조사

This study investigated purchasing practice and size satisfaction to offer basic data to establish a marketing strategy and produce down-aging clothes for females in their 40s-50s. For the data analysis, crosstabs, factor analysis, and one-way ANOVA were used. The results were as follows; first, middle-aged women were observed to purchase down-aging clothes "to look younger" and not purchase clothes "due to the lack of right sizes." For women who answered to 'not purchase clothes', they also acknowledged that they intended to purchase down-aging clothes in the future if the right size is available. Second, people in their early 40s significantly considered perceptual qualities such as fashion and brand names while people in their late 50s placed the most importance in practicality and wearability. For body shapes, people with overweight body types were found to significantly consider physical performance, practicality, and wearability. Third, the examination of purchase satisfaction levels by age groups showed that younger age groups had high satisfaction level for wear functionality related items that included size and activity however, the late 50s group had the lowest satisfaction level. Middle-aged women purchased clothes to look younger however, they simultaneously wear clothes that are plain and conservative or respectable and graceful. Therefore, the development of products reflect the analysis of designs that can help create a more youthful appearance and women's preferred styles are needed in addition to the establishment of a differentiated sizing system for middle-aged female consumers in the incorporation of the characteristics of middle-aged women's body parts.