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Journal articles on the topic "World Woman's Party"
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Amorosa, Paolo. "Pioneering International Women’s Rights? The US National Woman’s Party and the 1933 Montevideo Equal Rights Treaties." European Journal of International Law 30, no. 2 (May 2019): 415–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chz025.
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Abstract Histories of equal rights for women in international law normally begin with post-World War II initiatives. Such an approach leaves out two treaties signed at the 1933 Montevideo Pan-American Conference, the Equal Nationality Treaty and the Equal Rights Treaty, which remain forgotten among international lawyers. By reconstructing their inception and intellectual background, this article aims to raise awareness about debates on international law among feminist activists in the interwar years. In turn, the focus on activist work allows for the recovery of the contribution of women to the development of the discipline in that seminal period, a contribution usually obfuscated by men’s predominance in diplomatic and academic roles. By outlining the contribution of two key promoters of the Montevideo treaties – Doris Stevens and Alice Paul of the National Woman’s Party – the article takes a step towards the re-inclusion of women’s rights activists within the shared heritage of international law and its history.
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Lin, Xuc. "Woman Survival in Chinese Feudal Patrilineal Society: An Analysis of Song Lian's Destiny in Qi Qie Chenqun By Su Tong." Lingua Cultura 3, no. 1 (May 30, 2009): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/lc.v3i1.333.
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Article depicted woman’s difficulties in maintaining her life as well as her aggressiveness in the patrilineal society in Chinese feudal time. Article analyzed Song Lian’s bad fate. She was the main character of qi qie chenqun novel, written by Su Tong. Article analysis consisted of three parts. The first part described Song Lian’s background of life and her becoming a mistress. The second part indicated Song Lian’s attacking behavior to other woman because of defending her life. His third part analyzed some causes that made Song Lian did not survive in life. It can be concluded that the fact, Song Lian is able to be survive but she decides to be a mistress caused by both personal and o social reasons. Song Lian’s attacking other woman is caused by her anger representing her unsuccessful life. Principally, Song Lian’s failure in the feudal life is caused by her unsuccessful in becoming a respected woman. If she had been a respected woman, she would have also competed with other women in achieving a better life.
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Babow, Irving, and Robin Rowe. "Suicide Career: A Young Woman's Story in Phenomenological Perspective." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 26, no. 2 (March 1993): 91–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/1tca-f00c-nlry-lnn1.
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As part of a wider study of young suicide attempters' unmet service needs, a suicidal woman diagnosed as catatonic schizophrenic told her story in a state mental hospital. Her account in this case study revealed much about her life history, suicide career, problems of living, needs for help, and perceptions of relevant systems. The patient's diagnosis and readmissions seemed inappropriate. Regarded as a chronic schizophrenic, she experienced therapeutic nihilism in the hospital and benign neglect in the community. Accepting the expectation of not getting well reinforced helplessness and hopelessness. A proposed model would use parts of the patient's story for preventive intervention regarding suicidal behavior and improving her social competence, social networks, and support systems. A starting point could be her eating disorder, obesity, derogatory self-image, and related substance abuse and psychological problems. Patient perceptions of needs and priorities can help systems involved plan and deliver appropriate services.
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Kamau, Njoki. "From Kenya to North America: One Woman’s Journey." Issue: A Journal of Opinion 24, no. 2 (1996): 40–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047160700502376.
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It was during my early years in high school (in Kenya), that I was first exposed to the idea that far away in the Americas lived people who were black. I was greatly fascinated by this idea. Until then, history was just another mundane class that focused on Europeans colonizing Africa and large parts of the rest of the world. Because the syllabus did not include the stories of the real makers of African History—the Africans themselves—as a young African student I found the learning experience to be fairly alienating. Part of the materials covered in class included David Livingstone’s three missionary journeys. No effort was made to bring to the student’s awareness that the caravans of the so-called “slaves” that Livingstone stumbled on in the interior of Africa were Africans like ourselves.
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Mitchell, Elizabeth. "HORACE, ODES 3.27: A NEW WORLD FOR GALATEA." Cambridge Classical Journal 58 (November 26, 2012): 165–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1750270512000061.
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Horace, Odes 3.27 consists of two relatively distinct parts: a long farewell to a woman named Galatea, and an even longer retelling of the myth of Europa. Europa's story is staged as an analogy to Galatea's situation (v. 25 sic et Europe…) but the apparently awkward comparison has long failed to satisfy readers. This paper reconsiders the poem in the light of a recent development in imperial geography, the transformation of Galatia in Asia Minor into a vast new Roman province in 25 BCE, and examines some of the implications of the proposed affinity between Galatea and Galatia.
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Kelly, T. Mills. "Feminism, Pragmatism or Both? Czech Radical Nationalism and the Woman Question, 1898–1914." Nationalities Papers 30, no. 4 (December 2002): 537–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2002.10540506.
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During a debate on the franchise reform bill in the Austrian Reichsrat on 12 September 1906, the Czech National Socialist Party deputy Václav Choc demanded that suffrage be extended to women as well as men. Otherwise, Choc asserted, the women of Austria would be consigned to the same status as “criminals and children.” Choc was certainly not the only Austrian parliamentarian to voice his support for votes for women during the debates on franchise reform. However, his party, the most radical of all the Czech nationalist political factions, was unique in that it not only included women's suffrage in its official program, as the Social Democrats had done a decade earlier, but also worked hard to change the political status of women in the Monarchy while the Social Democrats generally paid only lip service to this goal. Moreover, Choc and his colleagues in the National Socialist Party helped change the terms of the debate about women's rights by explicitly linking the “woman question” to the “national question” in ways entirely different from the prevailing discourse of liberalism infin-de-siècleAustria. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, liberal reformers, whether German or Czech, tried to mold the participation of women in political life to fit the liberal view of a woman's “proper” role in society. By contrast, the radical nationalists who rose to prominence in Czech political culture only after 1900, attempted to recast the debate over women's rights as central to their two-pronged discourse of social and national emancipation, while at the same time pressing for the complete democratization of Czech political life at all levels, not merely in the imperial parliament. In so doing, and with the active but often necessarily covert collaboration of women associated with the party, these radical nationalists helped extend the parameters of the debate over the place Czech women had in the larger national society.
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Barger-Lux, M. Janet, and Robert P. Heaney. "Calcium Absorptive Efficiency Is Positively Related to Body Size." Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 90, no. 9 (September 1, 2005): 5118–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/jc.2005-0636.
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Abstract Background: Calcium absorption efficiency is a more important determinant of calcium balance than calcium intake itself. The sources of variability in absorptive performance are only partly elucidated. Purpose: The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between body size and calcium absorption efficiency. Design and Setting: Metabolic studies were performed on an inpatient metabolic unit in an academic health sciences center. Subjects: One hundred seventy-eight women, with an average age of 50.2 yr, were studied from one to five times and yielded an aggregate data set containing 633 individual studies. Methods: Calcium absorption fraction was measured by the dual-tracer method. Observed values were expressed as residuals from predicted values for each woman’s actual calcium intake, using the previously published relationship between intake and absorption. Results: Absorption residuals were significantly positively correlated with height, weight, and surface area, and after adjusting for estrogen status, these body size variables accounted for approximately 4% of the total variability. Conclusion: The magnitude of the effect is such that a woman 1.8 m in height would absorb 30+% more calcium from a given intake than a woman 1.4 m tall.
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Allman, Jean. "Rounding up Spinsters: Gender Chaos and Unmarried Women in Colonial Asante." Journal of African History 37, no. 2 (July 1996): 195–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700035192.
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Between 1929 and 1932 in a number of villages and towns throughout rural Asante, chiefs were ordering the arrest of all women who were over the age of fifteen and not married. A woman was detained until she spoke the name of a man whom she would agree to marry and the man in question paid a release fee. If the man refused, he too was imprisoned or fined up to £5. If he agreed, he paid a small marriage fee to the woman's parents and one bottle of gin. Based on the correspondence of colonial officials, customary court records and the life histories and reminiscences of women who were among the spinsters caught, this article explores gender and social change in colonial Asante by dissecting and contextualizing the round-up of unmarried women. It seeks to understand this unusual episode in direct state intervention into the negotiating of marriage and non-marriage as part of the general chaos in gender relations that shook Asante in the years between the two World Wars. This chaos, often articulated in the language of moral crisis was, more than anything, about shifting power relationships. It was chaos engendered by cash and cocoa, by trade and transformation. From 1921 to 1935, with cocoa well-established in many parts of Asante, women's roles in the cash economy were changing and diversifying. Many wives were making the move from being the most common form of exploitable labour during the initial introduction of cocoa to themselves exploiting new openings for economic autonomy. That women were beginning to negotiate their own spaces within the colonial economy precipitated a profound crisis in conjugal obligations in Asante - a crisis requiring drastic measures. The rounding up of unmarried women was one of several weapons used by Asante's chiefs in the struggle to reassert control over women's productive and reproductive labour.
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Dr. Aasia Nusrat, Yusra Ashraf, and Rabia Wasif. "Consciousness Raising in the New Woman of Shobhaa De’s novels Starry Nights & Socialite Evenings." Research Journal of Social Sciences and Economics Review (RJSSER) 1, no. 2 (July 30, 2020): 70–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.36902/rjsser-vol1-iss2-2020(70-78).
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Women have been the “Second Sex” for far too long and there are parts of the world where the patriarchy still has the noose of suppression hanging around women’s necks. In India, women are treated like goddesses as long as they don’t turn their backs on the ideals of Sita and Savitri; the epitome of self-sacrifice, tolerance, endurance, and blind loyalty towards the men in their life. The New Woman in Shobhaa De’s novels is conscious and well aware of what’s been done to her and is concerned with her personal growth. The research further forays into the comprehension of the insights the New Woman has and how she turns her life around for her betterment through the power of ‘Consciousness Raising’. Catherine McKinnon’s piece on ‘Consciousness Raising’ talks about the radicalization, internalization, and oppression of the women. In the paper, De’s novels Starry Nights and Socialite Evenings would be analyzed through the lens of McKinnon’s views.
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Wahaibi, Fatma Al, Vaidyanathan Gowri, Suad Al Kharusi, and Thuria Al Rawahi. "Prevalence of gestational choriocarcinoma in a parous population in ten years." International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology 9, no. 9 (August 27, 2020): 3537. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2320-1770.ijrcog20203824.
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Background: Choriocarcinoma is a rare disease with varying incidence in different parts of the world. Asian, American Indian and Africans are quoted to be at a higher risk. There are no epidemiological data from Middle East and hence authors studied the prevalence of choriocarcinoma in Oman, a Middle East nation with a high parity.Methods: This is a retrospective, descriptive, observational study done at tertiary care hospital; Royal Hospital from Jan 2010 to Dec 2019. Since all women are referred to a single center from all over the country, authors believe all cases are included over ten years.Results: There were 22 patients and the prevalence were 1 in 36966 live births. The main presenting symptom was abnormal uterine bleeding and all were gestational type of choriocarcinoma. Median gravidity was 6 and median parity was 5. Almost 80 % received chemo as their risk scoring was more than 7 and one woman died.Conclusions: The prevalence of choriocarcinoma was much similar to Europe and USA though the median gravidity and parity was high. Clinical features were comparable to the literature and management protocols were as per international recommendations.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "World Woman's Party"
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Curran, Jennifer. "To make war unthinkable : the Woman's Peace Party of New York, 1914-1919 /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0026/MQ34176.pdf.
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Addams, Jane. Peace and bread in time of war. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
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Kuzmack, Linda Gordon. Woman's cause: The Jewish woman's movement in England and the United States, 1881-1933. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1990.
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Kanasaka, Kiyonori. Isabella Bird and Japan. Translated by Nicholas Pertwee. GB Folkestone: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9781898823513.
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This book places Bird's visit to Japan in the context of her worldwide life of travel and gives an introduction to the woman herself. Supported by detailed maps, it also offers a highly illuminating view of Japan and its people in the early years of the 'New Japan' following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, as well as providing a valuable new critique on what is often considered as Bird's most important work. The central focus of the book is a detailed exploration of Bird's journeys and the careful planning that went into them with the support of the British Minister, Sir Harry Parkes, seen as the prime mover, who facilitated her extensive travels through his negotiations with the Japanese authorities. Furthermore, the author dismisses the widely-held notion that Bird ventured into the field on her own, revealing instead the crucial part played by Ito, her young servant-interpreter, without whose constant presence she would have achieved nothing. Written by Japan's leading scholar on Isabella Bird, the book also addresses the vexed question of the hitherto universally-held view that her travels in Japan in 1878 only involved the northern part of Honshu and Hokkaido. This mistaken impression, the author argues, derives from the fact that the abridged editions of Unbeaten Tracks in Japan that appeared after the 1880 two-volume original work entirely omit her visit to the Kansai, which took in Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe and the Ise Shrines. Bird herself tells us that she wrote her book in the form of letters to her sister Henrietta but here the author proposes the intriguing theory that these letters were never actually sent. Many well-known figures, Japanese and foreign, are introduced as having influenced Bird's journey indirectly, and this forms a fascinating sub-text.
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Magnus, Shulamit. A Woman's Life. Liverpool University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906764524.001.0001.
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Pauline Wengeroff was born in 1833 into a pious Jewish family in Bobruisk. Her life, as recounted in this biography, based in part on the author's critical edition of Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother, was one of upheaval and transformation during Russian Jewry's passage from tradition to modernity. Wengeroff's narrative refracts communal experience and larger cultural, economic, and political developments through her own family life. In this, her memoirs are the basis for much new thinking about gender and modernity. This book probes Wengeroff's consciousness and social positioning as a woman of her era and argues that, though Wengeroff was well aware of the women's movement in Russia, she wrote not from a feminist perspective but as a by-product of her socialization in traditional Jewish society. This book gives readers entrée to Wengeroff's life, aspirations, and her disappointments, and raises the question of Wengeroff's actual intended audience for Memoirs of a Grandmother. Finally, the book probes the reception of Memoirs, to reveal a surprising story of the same work being read both as an apologia for tradition and for assimilation and even conversion. When Wengeroff died in 1916, the world was very different from the one in which she had grown up. Her story makes a significant contribution to Jewish women's history; to east European Jewish history; to the history of gender, acculturation, and assimilation in Jewish modernity; and to the history of Jewish writing and Jewish women's writing.
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Siddiqi, Asiya. Ayesha’s World. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199472208.003.0007.
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In this chapter, we present a relatively detailed account of the life and milieu of one woman, Ayesha, gleaned from court documents related to the petition of her son Ismael, an insolvent butcher. Ayesha’s strength of character, her independence, and her ability to manage her affairs come across in her testimony. Our study of Ayesha and her family also sheds light on commercial culture and social relationships in the neighbourhood near Mohammad Ali Road where she lived. This part of the city had a population that was heterogeneous with regard to religion, ethnicity, and occupation. The testimony of witnesses and the evidence indicates that Ayesha and her family had a wide circle of acquaintances from different communities. In this close-knit, urban milieu the core categories of identity, caste, and religion took on new meanings.
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Faxneld, Per. Theosophical Luciferianism and Feminist Celebrations of Eve. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190664473.003.0004.
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Chapter 4 deals with Theosophical Lucifierianism and its feminist implications. The argument is that Helena Petrovna Blavatsky’s explicit sympathy for the Devil should be understood not only as part of an esoteric world view, but that we must also consider the political—primarily feminist—implications of such ideas. Several feminists, it would appear, drew on Blavatsky’s Satanic counter-myth to attack the patriarchal use of traditional Bible readings to keep women in their place. Blavatsky’s counter-reading of the Bible is here related to a selection of nineteenth-century feminist texts treating Genesis 3, in particular those from The Woman’s Bible (2 vols., 1895, 1898), edited by the leading American suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902), a project on which several female Theosophists were among the collaborators.
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Cox, Fiona. Saviana Stanescu. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779889.003.0007.
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Born in Romania, Saviana Stanescu emigrated to the USA as a young woman. Her extended poem ‘GOOGLE ME!’ invokes Ovid as part of her meditation on fame, and one’s ability to control the boundaries of the self, in a virtual world. In a connected play For a Barbarian Woman Stanescu reimagines Ovid’s exile in Tomis (now Constanţa in modern Romania), and uses his plight to think about the relationship between colonizer and colonized. The play moves back and forth between the ancient and modern world, establishing echoes between Rome and Tomis, and the USA and Iraq. Furthermore, as its two pairs of lovers (one from the ancient world, and one from the contemporary world) struggle with their fraught relationships, they threaten to play out one of the most doomed literary partnerships of recent years—the story of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
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McLarney, Ellen Anne. The Redemption of Women's Liberation. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691158488.003.0003.
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The concept of women's liberation has become an integral part of a transnational Islamic discourse, deployed in contexts as diverse as debates over the freedom to wear the headscarf in France, in the writings of exiled Muslim Brothers in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and in the rhetoric of the Ennahda Party in postrevolutionary Tunis. The idea of women's liberation, identified as growing out of colonial feminism and an imperialist secular liberalism, has now become part of a popular Islamic discourse reiterated by activists and scholars alike. This chapter charts the origins of a discourse of women's liberation in Islam during the nineteenth-century awakening known as the naḍda and its revival for the late twentieth-century ṣaṭwa. The concept of women's liberation was vilified in the naḍda, with Qasim Amin's Liberation of Woman being called a “sermon of the devil.” The later ṣaṭwa, however, would appropriate the concept and language of women's liberation, making it a most potent ideological weapon.
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illustrator, Henderson Robbin commentator, and DeVault, Ileen A., writer of afterword, eds. Immigrant girl, radical woman: A memoir from the early twentieth century. ILR Press, 2017.
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Woloch, Nancy. Different versus Equal: The 1920s. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691002590.003.0006.
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This chapter revisits Adkins and considers the feud over protective laws that arose in the women's movement in the 1920s. The clash between friends and foes of the Equal Rights Amendment—and over the protective laws for women workers that it would surely invalidate—fueled women's politics in the 1920s. Both sides claimed precedent-setting accomplishments. In 1923, the National Woman's Party proposed the historic ERA, which incurred conflict that lasted for decades. The social feminist contingent—larger and more powerful—gained favor briefly among congressional lawmakers, expanded the number and strength of state laws, saw the minimum wage gain a foothold, and promoted protection through the federal Women's Bureau. Neither faction, however, achieved the advances it sought. Instead, a fight between factions underscored competing contentions about single-sex protective laws and their effect on women workers.
Book chapters on the topic "World Woman's Party"
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Sakakibara, Eisuke. "Treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder or Neuroenhancement of Socially Accepted Modesty? The Case of Ms. Suzuki." In International Perspectives in Values-Based Mental Health Practice, 229–35. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47852-0_26.
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AbstractThis chapter presents the case of Ms. Suzuki, a modest Japanese woman who had worked as a clerk for more than 20 years. After she was promoted at age 43, she found herself unable to adapt properly to her management position because it required assertiveness and leadership. She saw a psychiatrist following her supervisor’s advice. She had some of the symptoms of social anxiety disorder (SAD), but it was uncertain whether she met the diagnostic criteria. To elucidate the considerations involved before initiating or refraining from pharmacotherapy, I refer to the ethical debates on neuroenhancement. First, medication would spoil her authenticity, because her modesty is part of her virtue. Second, medicating a person seeing a psychiatrist at her boss’s instigation might constitute a milder form of coercive treatment. Third, diagnosing Ms. Suzuki with SAD seems to endorse her company’s culture, whereas denying her disorder status would affirm Japanese culture’s oppressiveness toward women. When a case lies on the border between normality and pathology, relying on the psychiatric diagnosis for ethical guidance disguises value judgments for matters of fact. Therefore, we should explicitly state the conflicting values and the cultural influences on them to make better clinical decisions.
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Dumenil, Lynn. "Women, Politics, and Protest." In The Second Line of Defense. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631219.003.0002.
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This chapter on American women and politics during World War I explores African American women’s wartime activism and efforts of such women as Nannie Burroughs, Madame C. J. Walker, and Ida Wells-Barnett to transcend barriers of race and gender. It examines pacifist (such as Jane Addams) and radical (such as Emma Goldman) women who resisted war as well as those who called for war "preparedness." Finally it compares the approach of the National American Woman Suffrage Association led by Carrie Chapman Catt with that of Alice Paul's National Woman's Party in using the war effort to further the suffrage cause and women's equality.
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Zawadzki, Hubert. "Introduction to Part Two." In A Polish Woman’s Experience in World War II. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350079953-011.
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Magnus, Shulamit S. "A Woman’s Life." In A Woman's Life, 208. Liverpool University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906764524.003.0008.
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This epilogue recounts how, terrified of anti-Jewish violence, Pauline Wengeroff died, ‘lonely and miserable’, in Minsk in 1916, at the age of 83, in the midst of the First World War and a disintegrating tsarist empire, having encouraged one grandson to practise the piano so that he might get to America. The grandson, Nicolas Slonimsky, eventually succeeded in reaching the United States, as did three of Wengeroff's children, after Wengeroff's death. Ultimately, through her resonance with a generation hungry for what she had to offer, Wengeroff tried to help right some of the losses of Jewish modernity, to which she knew she had contributed. With her memoirs she hoped to inscribe herself, and some chosen others, on the tablet of Jewish memory but, above all, to perpetuate and give life, a future, to Jewish memory. In that goal she was not alone but part of a vigorous stream. Whether Memoirs of a Grandmother or the conviction that it had reached its target audience and purpose gave her any comfort in her last days no one knows; but one can hope.
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Doostdar, Alireza. "Crossing the Line." In The Iranian Metaphysicals. Princeton University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691163772.003.0002.
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This chapter narrates a woman's encounter with the rammal, an occult specialist, that took her into the world of the metaphysical. The woman, Nafiseh, was a twenty-nine-year-old divorcée and an avid enthusiast of metaphysical experimentation. Nafiseh had honed her skills at lucid dreaming and claimed that she could pick up nonverbal communications from other people while asleep. She had encountered jinn on more than one occasion. She read widely on all matters related to the metaphysical and the occult, and attributed the greater part of her dedication to metaphysical inquiry to an unsetling meeting with a rammal. The chapter shows how Nafiseh discovered a new world when she crossed the line, a world filled with novel experiences, friendships, and insight. According to Nafiseh, she had learned to accept certain notions and discard others in the course of her spiritual journeys.
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Chiweshe, Manase Kudzai. "More Than Body Parts." In Handbook of Research on Women's Issues and Rights in the Developing World, 170–88. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3018-3.ch011.
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This paper questions the reduction of human experience and identity to anatomical determinism in which the category of ‘woman' or ‘man' becomes a universal concept. Through a review of literature on African gender, feminist and masculinity studies, it highlights how people are more than their body parts. It notes how identities are shaped by an intersectionality of various factors such as education, employment status, class, age, physical condition, nationality, citizenship, race and ethnicity. These factors can be spatial and temporal producing differing experiences of gendered lives. African scholars have built up a rich collection of work that repudiates the univerlisation of gender identities based on Western philosophical schools of thought. This work explores in detail current and historical debates in African gender studies.
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Inserra, Incoronata. "Tarantella for U.S., Italian American, and Cosmopolitan Markets." In Global Tarantella. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252041297.003.0005.
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This chapter illustrates the export of tarantella to the United States by focusing on the work of New York–based artist Alessandra Belloni, particularly her tarantella dance performance and her “Rhythm Is the Cure” dance workshop. The chapter examines Belloni’s work both within a world music framework and from a woman-centered, New Age perspective. This work includes a complex process of adaptation of the Southern Italian rhythms, since it enhances an exotic image of Italy as it often emerges in Anglo-American culture, while at the same time adding a woman’s perspective to it. Belloni’s reinterpretation of tarantella plays a particularly significant role within the Italian-American cultural scene. The second part of the chapter situates Belloni’s work within the larger process of post-WWII Italian migration to the United States, while also discussing larger issues of representation of (southern) Italian culture within the Anglo-American context.
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Aronson, Amy. "Discovering Crystal." In Crystal Eastman, 41–68. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199948734.003.0003.
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Crystal Eastman entered Vassar’s class of 1903, rooming with Lucy Burns, later the chief lobbyist of the National Woman’s Party. She then attended Columbia University, studying with John Bates Clark and Franklin Henry Giddings and earning a master’s degree in sociology in 1904. After a year teaching high school, she entered New York University Law School in the fall of 1905, finishing her doctor of law in 1907, second in her class. Beginning in her law school years, Eastman lived in Greenwich Village, first supporting herself by working as athletics director at the Greenwich House Settlement. In this downtown bohemia, she met Progressive and “New Woman” leaders including Lillian Wald, Florence Kelley, Mary Simkhovitch, Madeleine Doty, and Ida Rauh. She also enticed her brother Max to follow her to Greenwich Village, launching his career as a suffrage lecturer and into the editorship of The Masses, the work that would make his name.
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Burgos, Elvira. "La Idea «Se Convierte En Una Mujer»." In The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, 20–25. Philosophy Documentation Center, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/wcp20-paideia199820363.
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The starting point for the reflection carried out in this essay is part of Nietzsche's «Story of an Error», contained in Twilight of Idols. The essay will make use of other texts by the philosopher which also link Christianity and the woman, more specifically the contrast between the myth of Prometheus and that of the original sin, which he mentions in Birth of Tragedy. In a first reading, the essay discusses the criticism that relates both Chistianity and the woman, together with the philosophical implications suggested by such a relationship. In a second reading, it traces in Nietzsche a criticism of Christianity's tendency to use the woman and the feminine in a biased fashion. According to this second notion, which the essay posits as the richest and most interesting interpretation, Nietzsche's thought, in its denunciation of Christianity through the woman, foreshadows a new course for humankind which is neither essentialist nor inmutable.
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Santangelo, Lauren C. "From Confrontation to Collaboration, 1916 and 1917." In Suffrage and the City, 124–48. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190850364.003.0007.
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This chapter examines the second referendum campaign in 1917, as collaboration with public officials replaced confrontation. Less than a month after New York men rejected political equality in 1915, the Empire State Campaign Committee hosted a “Reorganization Convention,” one outcome of which was the birth of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party. For years activists had aggressively claimed a “right to the city.” Now, those in the Woman Suffrage Party used that right to help the city during a devastating polio outbreak and World War I: distributing medical information to tenement dwellers, tracking sanitary code violations, and facilitating the wartime military census. The change in strategy was stunningly effective. New York women finally won the ballot, with Gotham carrying the state amendment.
Conference papers on the topic "World Woman's Party"
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Tucak, Ivana, and Anita Blagojević. "COVID- 19 PANDEMIC AND THE PROTECTION OF THE RIGHT TO ABORTION." In EU 2021 – The future of the EU in and after the pandemic. Faculty of Law, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.25234/eclic/18355.
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The COVID - 19 pandemic that swept the world in 2020 and the reactions of state authorities to it are unparalleled events in modern history. In order to protect public health, states have limited a number of fundamental human rights that individuals have in accordance with national constitutions and international conventions. The focus of this paper is the right of access to abortion in the Member States of the European Union. In Europe, the situation with regard to the recognition of women's right to abortion is quite clear. All member states of the European Union, with the exception of Poland and Malta, recognize the rather liberal right of a woman to have an abortion in a certain period of time after conception. However, Malta and Poland, as members of the European Union, since abortion is seen as a service, must not hinder the travel of women abroad to have an abortion, nor restrict information on the provision of abortion services in other countries. In 2020, a pandemic highlighted all the weaknesses of this regime by preventing women from traveling to more liberal countries to perform abortions, thus calling into question their right to choose and protect their sexual and reproductive rights. This is not only the case in Poland and Malta, but also in countries that recognize the right to abortion but make it conditional on certain non-medical conditions, such as compulsory counselling; and the mandatory time period between applying for and performing an abortion; in situations present in certain countries where the problem of a woman exercising the right to abortion is a large number of doctors who do not provide this service based on their right to conscience. The paper is divided into three parts. The aim of the first part of the paper is to consider all the legal difficulties that women face in accessing abortion during the COVID -19 pandemic, restrictions that affect the protection of their dignity, right to life, privacy and right to equality. In the second part of the paper particular attention will be paid to the illiberal tendencies present in this period in some countries of Central and Eastern Europe, especially Poland. In the third part of the paper, emphasis will be put on the situation in Malta where there is a complete ban on abortion even in the case when the life of a pregnant woman is in danger.
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Chen, Wenqing, Jidong Tian, Caoyun Fan, Hao He, and Yaohui Jin. "Dependent Multi-Task Learning with Causal Intervention for Image Captioning." In Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-21}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/312.
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Recent work for image captioning mainly followed an extract-then-generate paradigm, pre-extracting a sequence of object-based features and then formulating image captioning as a single sequence-to-sequence task. Although promising, we observed two problems in generated captions: 1) content inconsistency where models would generate contradicting facts; 2) not informative enough where models would miss parts of important information. From a causal perspective, the reason is that models have captured spurious statistical correlations between visual features and certain expressions (e.g., visual features of "long hair" and "woman"). In this paper, we propose a dependent multi-task learning framework with the causal intervention (DMTCI). Firstly, we involve an intermediate task, bag-of-categories generation, before the final task, image captioning. The intermediate task would help the model better understand the visual features and thus alleviate the content inconsistency problem. Secondly, we apply Pearl's do-calculus on the model, cutting off the link between the visual features and possible confounders and thus letting models focus on the causal visual features. Specifically, the high-frequency concept set is considered as the proxy confounders where the real confounders are inferred in the continuous space. Finally, we use a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) strategy to enable end-to-end training and reduce the inter-task error accumulations. The extensive experiments show that our model outperforms the baseline models and achieves competitive performance with state-of-the-art models.