World View Of Women Research Articles

Breaking the Silence: A Critical Analysis of Dalit Women's Worldview in Urmila Pawar's Motherwit

The Dalit group is among the most oppressed under the contentious but widely accepted social structure known as caste, but some Dalit women have experienced even worse subjugation. The perspective of oppressed Dalit women is examined in this essay. Not Dalit women in isolation, but rather Dalit women collectively. In doing so, Motherwit, a collection of short stories by Urmila Pawar, is the main subject of this essay. It aims to initiate a conversation about the worldview of Dalit women, which is situated at the nexus of gender, caste, and class. It also aims to address the worldview that has largely gone unchallenged in both the well-known Dalit and feminist discourses in India. The article has been divided into three sections. The first section provides a brief biography of Urmila Pawar and then discusses the rise of Dalit women writers, focusing on her collection of short stories Motherwit. The second section discusses the text's themes, offers a commentary on how it uses language, and ends with a statement on Dalit feminism. Women from various castes and social classes may identify with Pawar's feminism since it is not exclusive to any one lady.

Не хочу замуж, хочу учиться: к социологии повседневности

The paper examines everyday practices associated with female gender socialization and specific aspects of women's social life in Russia during the first decades of the 20th century. The study is based on materials of the journal “Rabotnitsa” (The Female Worker) from the 1910s to 1920s. It explores the formation of women's worldviews, changing perspectives on women's education, the development of beauty standards, and the emergence of new behavioral models. The paper demonstrates how socio-economic transformations influenced the lifestyles, thought patterns, and appearances of women in the early 20th century, a time when mass industrialization and urbanization processes were taking place simultaneously. The authors propose a well-founded hypothesis about the changes in the concept of the “Rabotnitsa” journal compared to the late 19th century, when the journal existed in a completely different social paradigm. The conclusions of the study address what remained essential in a woman's life despite revolutionary upheavals and the new way of life. In the 1920s, women were no longer seen as helpless, weak creatures, dependent on men. The image of a modest, delicate, weak woman was left in the past. The new image of a woman encompassed such qualities as strength, independence, and freedom. The journal articles illustrate how new gender stereotypes, norms of behavior, and patterns of communication between men and women gradually formed.

Developing indigenous women´legal status in the inter-amerian law

In this study, we begin by analysing the guiding legal principles and international standards that States must consider when developing laws, programs, and policies to protect indigenous women's human rights. Besides, we try to find out what priority issues States are trying to address. Once we establish the theoretical framework, we will review how, in practice, the Inter-American Commission and Court have examined some of the leading cases concerning the protection of the economic, social, and cultural rights of indigenous women. All this will lead us to understand the bases of indigenous women's worldview. Thus, we can propose the (de)construction of their legal status, which should suggest a necessary conquest of public spaces and conceive them as individuals, protecting their honour and recognizing their dignity.

ARTISTIC PRINCIPLES OF MATERNITY RECEPTION IN THE NOVEL BY V. LYS «LAND OF BITTER TENDERNESS»

The article analyzes the artistic principles of the representation of motherhood in the prose of V. Lys on the example of his novel «The Land of Bitter Tenderness» by studying the female images of this work. The writer uses the motif of depicting several generations of mothers of the same family. The maternal images of the work acquire an experimental character, because he presents them through a combination of his own vision and real historical and biographical materials. In the novel «The Land of Bitter Tenderness», the reception of a woman-mother is realized as a social function. In order to show the power of motherhood of the women of the depicted family, V. Lys focuses on the relationship between Sofia the Elder and her biological daughter Sofia the Younger against the background of historical changes that affected both the worldview of women and the awareness of their maternal role. Motherhood in the novel is realized in the context of memories of the past of grandmother Dazdraperma and mother Vitaliya, which certainly affects current and future events in Olesya’s life. V. Lys proves that motherhood is a sacrifice for the sake of children, their happiness, well-being and a decent future. We believe that the manifestation of motherhood in the image of Daza is a desire to care, to love someone close, to avoid future loneliness, and at the same time it is a sacrifice of one’s personal life. In Vitaliya’s life, a kind of transformation of goals took place: from self-affirmation as a woman to self-affirmation through motherhood, with which she fills her own lacunae of loneliness. The main female characters in the novel are connected not biologically, but socially. The women in V. Lys’s novel strive to realize their motherly love for other people’s children. Daza and Vita realize the brightest feelings of motherhood while raising their daughters in love. It was these two women who achieved motherhood despite giving up their personal life. They assert themselves through the vocation of preserving and multiplying life. The image of Sofiaelder is the opposite, she sees her role as a mother in total control, which does not give her children the opportunity to spread their wings and build their own lives. So the author proves that the main goal of a woman is to preserve the family, but the heroine must independently choose her own path to realize this goal. Daza and Vita realize their maternal desire in love for other people’s children. Women passed their lives with a series of trials, but managed to keep the light within themselves, which they will be able to pass on to the next generation, so that the conscious nation of Ukrainians will develop and strengthen in the future.

Indigenous women's worldview in food-related research: Rematriating food, bodies and lands.

Western discourses around food (in)security and nutrition often focus on food access primarily through male-driven efforts. In turn, the gendered dimension is missing. Yet Indigenous food systems cannot be fully understood without Indigenous women's worldview, challenges, and labour. Our critique points to the importance of centring Indigenous women's embodied knowledge systems in our food related research. Novelty: Rematriating food research regenerates the complexities of kinship wellbeing, sustainable economies, and body sovereignty.

Social Axioms Mediate Gender Differences in Gender Ideologies Among Guatemalan University Students

Gender role ideologies are embedded in cultural values and assumptions about life. Women’s greater endorsement of egalitarian beliefs may stem from gender differences in world views as indexed by social axioms. The purpose of this study was to examine potential mediators of gender differences in gender ideologies among university students in Guatemala, a country where traditional views are prevalent. Participants, 2,134 university students from nine campuses in different regions of Guatemala (43% male, 85% emerging adults), completed a Social Axioms Scale, along with three culturally relevant measures of gender ideology: the Historic-Sociocultural Premises Scale (HSCP) and the Machismo Measure that taps both traditional machismo and caballerismo (gentlemanliness). Consistent with previous research in other countries, men held more traditional attitudes about gender and the family than did women on all measures. Gender differences on all scales were mediated by cynicism and religiosity. Fate control mediated the gender differences in traditional machismo and the HSCP. These findings suggest that Guatemalan women and men through socialization, cultural demands, and life experiences develop gender-specific ways of viewing the world, and their attitudes about gender roles are shaped by those worldviews. The achievement of gender equality, a U.N. sustainable development goal, may require attention to the underlying world views of women and men.

“You can glorify your daughter in her song”: Exploring Musical Narratives of Gassuus Initiates

Gassuus is a Jola women's ritual that prepares girls and young women for their futures as mothers while reinforcing women's vital roles as community leaders. In this article, Rosner examines the ways Jola women from one community in Thionck Essyl, Senegal, establish and strengthen gendered relationships through musical narratives. Songs from the gassuus ritual are performative sites for expressing Jola women's worldviews and collective identity, as girls are prepared for the responsibilities of motherhood. Decades later, women still remember the songs written by the women who shaped their lives, and they recall this period as a time when they began to define themselves and their futures.

Beliefs About Gender Predict Faking Orgasm in Heterosexual Women.

The majority of women have faked an orgasm at least once in their lives. In the current study, we assessed how women's worldviews about gender relate to their faking orgasm behavior. A survey of 462 heterosexual women from the UK (Mage=38.38years) found that those who espoused anti-feminist values-that is, those high in hostile sexism-had faked significantly more orgasms over their lifetime. In contrast, those who espoused ostensibly positive but restrictive ideas of gender relations-that is, those high in benevolent sexism-had faked significantly fewer orgasms over their lifetime. Furthermore, the more that women believed female orgasm was necessary for men's sexual gratification, the more likely they were to have faked an orgasm at least once in their lives compared to women who had never faked an orgasm. These effects were small to moderate and emerged after controlling for demographics, sexual history, ease of orgasm, and previously established psychological correlates of faking orgasm, including suspected partner infidelity and intrasexual competition.

The World View of Women Reflected in ‘Pragmatism Ideology’

The World View of Women Reflected in ‘Pragmatism Ideology’

Femmes précaires et religion en Allemagne de l’Est

The authors explore the role of religion for women in precarious conditions of life in Eastern Germany, one of the most secularized regions in the world. Based on biographical interviews with recipients of welfare benefits they analyze the worldviews of women without religious affiliation in precarious conditions of life, which are characterized by biographical insecurity, low material and symbolic resources and few possibilities for planning and participation. The empirical findings show a dominant scientific worldview, a heritage of the socialist GDR, but also an openness to religious semantics with regard to experiences of contingency. The authors underline the gender differences in relation to religion: the women’s exclusion from the labour market is determined by the perception of contingency while their children offer them an alternative space in which they experience a sense of both hope and duty.

Un análisis de la primera ley sobre anticoncepción en Argentina: El Programa de Procreación Responsable en la provincia de La Pampa

The passage of a Law requires previous negotiation processes that consider the background, arguments, support and the appropriate terminology for approaching the issue. The legal domain is a discursive field in which a dual struggle develops: to establish designations and to introduce that which the law establishes into everyday practice. Hence, conflictive processes are unleashed in which social agents are confronted by political parties, by institutions and by their own political and subjective identities. This article analyses the development of the "1363 Law", which was passed in November 1991 in the legislature of La Pampa province (Argentina). This Law created a provincial programme for responsible procreation, the first provincial legislation on contraception to be established. Although reproduction also involves males, special account is taken of speeches referring to females, given that the culture superimposes maternity on the female identity and references are therefore weighted towards the condition of women. We use the particularity of this case and its analytical potential in order to understand others, using as empirical material the parliamentary debate and interviews with the author of the Law and with key informants. We address the following questions: What was the national and provincial context in which the Law on responsible procreation was framed? What were the strategies adopted to achieve it? How was contraception articulated within the Peronist worldview of women? What meanings did the term "responsible procreation" bring into play? Finally, we present a brief assessment of the law's application.

Assumptive Worldviews and Religious Coping With Bereavement and Type 2 Diabetes

This study explored the effects of deferring and self-directed religious coping on the assumptive worldviews of women following the death of a child, the death of another friend or family member, or diagnosis with type 2 diabetes mellitus (n = 284). Participants completed the World Assumptions Scale (Janoff-Bulman, 1989), the Religious Problem-Solving Scales (Pargament et al., 1988), and the Deistic and Supportive but Nonintervening God Scale (Phillips, Pargament, Quinten, & Crossley, 2004). Women who had lost a child saw the world as least meaningful, followed by women otherwise bereaved, followed by women diagnosed with diabetes. Different religious coping styles offered different advantages in coping with these stressors. Across groups, deferring coping was associated with greater world meaning, whereas self-directed coping was associated with greater self-worth. The findings are discussed in the context of previous research finding inconsistent relationships between deferring and self-directed religious coping styles and adjustment.

From being to becoming: Nüshu and sentiments in a Chinese rural community

ABSTRACTIn this article, I explore the sentiments of kelian (the miserable) that were accentuated in the Chinese literature written in a script called nüshu (female writing), which men could not read. Not known to the outside world until the 1980s when it was becoming extinct, nüshu was used for centuries by peasant women in Jiangyong County, Hunan Province, southern China. By examining the textual, contextual, and performative meanings of nüshu, I argue that sentiment is not only part of human phenomenological experience, but it also partakes in the way lives are defined, articulated, reflected, and reconfigured. In Jiangyong, sentiment was not merely a carrier of nüshu women's worldview or an embodiment of their existence as isolated and powerless beings in a Confucian–androcentric agrarian community. More importantly, it functioned as an energy flow that prompted inspiration and engagement—which these women needed to offset and transform their isolation and powerlessness. This research fills the void in understandings of peasant women's expressive traditions in rural China in the early 20th century. It also lends insights into the dialectical relations between human existence (perspective and lived reality, being and becoming, subjectivity and collectivity) and forms of emotional expression.

RETHINKING LITERACY AND WOMEN'S HEALTH: A BANGLADESH CASE STUDY

Health and literacy are two major areas of women's development in the Third World. Although health and literacy have been recognized as essential elements for improving the quality of women's lives, questions emerge from Eurocentric and colonial assumptions about development, including the following: Does literacy have an impact on women's health? If it does, what are the mechanisms whereby literacy could have an impact on women's health? Using Bangladesh as a case study, I question the Eurocentric and colonial nature of dominant discourses in the answers to questions about literacy and women's health. I argue that literacy and women's health need to be reconsidered from the local women's standpoint since dominant discourses fail to take into consideration local women's worldviews, indigenous knowledge, and oral traditions. Finally, I make some recommendations for future research and programming in literacy and women's health in Bangladesh and in health care in Third World contexts.

International Service Learning in Midwifery and Nursing Education

The health of women and childbearing families is a global concern that must be addressed if we are to be successful in ensuring healthy families. Numerous strategies have been suggested to increase appreciation for the global factors that influence maternal and child health and the overall health status of a community. Inclusion of cultural content in courses offered in educational programs and provision of clinical learning experiences in diverse communities have commonly been used in midwifery and nursing education. This article reviews the concept of service learning and its application in a course that provides an opportunity for students to participate in an international immersion program. Evaluation of the course found that participants increased their knowledge and skills in providing reproductive health care, developed appreciation for the knowledge and skills of traditional birth attendants, and expanded their worldview of women and families in communities.

International service learning in midwifery and nursing education

The health of women and childbearing families is a global concern that must be addressed if we are to be successful in ensuring healthy families. Numerous strategies have been suggested to increase appreciation for the global factors that influence maternal and child health and the overall health status of a community. Inclusion of cultural content in courses offered in educational programs and provision of clinical learning experiences in diverse communities have commonly been used in midwifery and nursing education. This article reviews the concept of service learning and its application in a course that provides an opportunity for students to participate in an international immersion program. Evaluation of the course found that participants increased their knowledge and skills in providing reproductive health care, developed appreciation for the knowledge and skills of traditional birth attendants, and expanded their worldview of women and families in communities.

Worldviews of Women: Comparisons Between White American Clients, White American Counselors, and Chinese International Students

Worldviews of White American women clients, White American women counselors, and Chinese international women students were surveyed. Multivariate planned comparisons showed significant differences between (a) White American clients and White American counselors and (b) Chinese international students and White American counselors. Income was a significant predictor of worldviews for White American clients. Age and marital status contributed strongly to the worldviews of White American counselors. Among the Chinese students, the Taiwanese and the Mainland Chinese held significantly different worldviews. Worldviews of women are discussed from feminist as well as cross‐cultural perspectives. Future directions for practice, research. and theory are suggested regarding the multicultural counseling process with clients of different worldview orientations.

Gender Transformative Learning and Environmental Action

A gendered critique of the theory and practice of popular education and of environmental policy and planning processes, gives visibility to the means by which women's world views and ways of knowing and doing motivate their environmental and educational work. With reference to experience in India, Bolivia, El Salvador, Brazil, and Canada, a case is made for the recognition of non-violent, but holistic resistance strategies. These are based on women's approaches to environmental action learning, to change attitudes, behaviour and responsibility for personal and social transformation and to inhibit the continued degradation of human support systems.

Being a Mother and a Por Dia Domestic Worker Companionship and Deprivation

This article presents qualitative findings concerning women's maternal roles, based on interviews conducted in a study on role integration and health, in a Colombian sample of 60 women who are "por día" domestic workers. The results describe the women's worldview as they discuss the stresses and the satisfactions of their mothering roles. The results also include the coping strategies used to deal with the stresses inherent in the maternal role. Women describe how the companionship of their children, watching their children grow, and the nurturing they give their children provides them with pride and deep satisfaction. These satisfying aspects of their role are burdened by the stress related to worry about children's bad behavior, their illness, and a pervasive generalized sense of constant worry. Being single parents adds more stress to these women's lives. Participants coped emotionally through distraction and through talking with friends. Other coping strategies included calming self, problem solving, talking with children, and substance use. The authors conclude with a discussion of the relationship between poverty and work situation as contexts for understanding maternal roles.

The world views of export processing workers in Northern Mexico: A study of women, consciousness, and the new international division of labor

Data on women in export processing plants and service occupations in northern Mexico are used to assess the character and social roots of attitudes and world views of women working within the new international division of labor. The data show the predominant world view of these women includes a sense of personal autonomy, attitudes favoring gender equality and political participation for women, and commitment to one’s family. Analyses of hypotheses from developmental, class analytic, and feminist theories suggest the utility of each perspective in clarifying the social roots of this world view. Consideration of the international system suggests that both economic and cultural/institutional dimensions of the world system helped produce this world view, largely by setting in motion intra-societal processes.