The Grotesque Old Woman, by Renaissance painter, Quinten Metsys illustrates an old and unattractive woman of the 16th century. Her voluptuous, weathered breasts are on displayed and her headdress is one of astute fashion of an earlier German period and her eloquent dress and corset are fashionable to Italy in this time period. Her aged hands hold a small and delicate red bud, a symbol of engagement, and her slightly lifted chin is of poised position. All of this beauty and detailed is over shadowed with the features of a rather controversial “ugliness.”…
“Against Love”: immediately controversy is conveyed by the title of Laura Kipnis’ article on modern relationships. The reader is put on the defensive as Kipnis starts her argument with strong metaphors attacking one of the most basic human interactions that we see as natural and embrace without question. Namely, love, a word held in superposition between complex and simple. Kipnis argues it has been overrated and too much is sacrificed in the pursuit of making it last. Defining her own terms that apply to most relationships such as “advanced intimacy” and “mutuality” she provides a new perspective on old notions. Her tone throughout is consistently sarcastic but make no mistake, Kipnis is addressing a real issue on what we value as a society. Descriptive language is Kipnis’ fishing line that keeps you reading, often creating vivid and objectionable images that no one can avoid cringing at. Concepts surrounding love and the ideal couple change from age to age and from culture to culture but Kipnis doesn’t disregard this. She compares today’s norms to historical precedence as she identifies the shift from focusing on the convenience of financially organized marriages to the achievement of unending life-long love. Kipnis’ article presents a fascinating argument by proposing an idea…
Have you ever seen anyone go through a rough patch in their life and feel a tingle in your heart surging and making you feel gratitude? Well that’s appreciation for you, in all its sheer beauty and purity, making you feel appreciative for what you have. Krik Krak displays this analysis through short stories and its characters. In the book, Krik Krak, a series of short stories, the author Danticat utilizes juxtaposition to create unselfish characters that in return create an overall sense of appreciation. Examples that display unselfish characters are a mother, an angry father, and another mother.…
Many forms of literature paints us an interesting portrait of women in Puritan society. by Women,s roles, specifically concerning religious conviction, are very interestingbjhighlighted…
The title of our zine is Fatal Femininity, which brings artistic awareness through poetry, comics, beautiful song lyrics, artwork, and empowering words from famous women. What we want our readers to know about our zine is that it strongly focus on the empowerment of women and brings up the issues dealing with the conformity of women (i.e, how society tells us how we are supposed to act and dress). Our zine shows images, and artwork of how women do not need to conform to society, but instead be whoever the hell we want to be. The first page of our zine we have poetry by Maya Angelou called phenomenal women, which uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language explaining how remarkable women are and how women are in control of themselves. On the second page, we have a comic…
Life for American Indians on reservations was very difficult to live. Not only were there few jobs on the reservation for the Indians but it was very difficult for them to get jobs outside of the reservation. With this seclusion, many Indians turned to drinking alcohol since there was not much else they could do. This was also a way to forget the pain and misery that they faced on the reservations. This way of dealing with their reservation lives then led to violence amongst themselves and caused many people serious injuries. However, getting drunk with friends and driving around in old beat up cars was fun to some Indians because there was nothing else to do inside the reservations.…
Returning to the novel, the gender roles of females in Korean culture can be connected to the pillars of the ‘Cult of True Womanhood’ from the Victorian era. These pillars are presented by Barbara Welter in her article “The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860” that speak of what is truly feminine in the eyes of Victorian women. This mean that the pillars could be seen as keys towards the gender role of femininity. While they are from another time period and geographical setting, the pillars can be seen in virtually any culture, including the one presented in the novel. There are four pillars explained by Welter in her article – piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity…
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican surrealist artist born on July 6th 1907, in Coyoacán, Mexico. Kahlo is best known for her self-portraits that were usually created with the purpose of depicting her physical and mental struggles. Kahlo is also known as one of the first feminist icons. Her unconventional characteristic and behaviour, that would have been seen as rebellious in the early 1900’s, inspired countless other female artists and influenced feminist movements around the world.…
This paper will look at existing organizations and programs that provide parent home visits for infant and child loss in culturally diverse populated areas in the United States. These programs generally do not encompass grief recovery for the Native American community. As social workers and providers of these services, it is important to understand this cultural group, know their rituals and beliefs surrounding death and the burial of their dead, and to be open to changes that might be needed within their programs to address the needs of the Native American community. This paper will address the Native American beliefs on death, their rituals after death, the funeral process, and suggestions to organizations for modifications to accommodate this community.…
Civil rights and legal mobilization movements all start from a root. The root being a grievance in which a person’s fundamental rights are being compromised whether it be a right that is explicitly written in the constitution or an enumerated right. The Fundamental rights are rights that are recognized by the Supreme Court as being fair and legal. The fundamental rights are illustrated in the first amendment. As it reads “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”.…
Cherokee traditionally buried their dead in the earth as they believed that the plants fed the animals as for the animals and plants fed the people, and the people, at their death, should return the favor by being buried into Earth and fedding the plants. They stongly believed in fairness and giving back.…
Immediately following the conclusion of World War II, the average age of women getting married significantly dropped and the number of births skyrocketed. Young men and women yearned to settle down in the suburbs with white picket fences in order to have the perfect family. While on the outside, the suburbs epitomized the perfect family, on the inside tension and discontent quietly loomed in many households. “The postwar suburbs were either heaven or hell for their inhabitants—endless stretches of brand-new houses on quarter-acre lots occupied, during weekday hours, entirely by women and children” (Collins 1).…
Today, if someone were to die in a Western household, the general reaction would be to get the body to a morgue as quickly humanly possible, as to keep the unsightly relic of an ended human life out of sight and mind, or to keep any “death diseases” away from the living. Generally, hugs and kisses are not shared with the deceased, and preparation of the body for a funeral is definitely out of the hands of most Western families. When the funeral does commence, the mood is, more often than not, somber and dark. It’s as if individuals are being taught from an early age that death is the worst possible fate one can meet, and that the dead must be sterilized and not handled. Meanwhile in other societies around the world, death is treated as a celebration of one’s success in life. In Madagascar, a ritual known as famadihana includes a group dance after the exhumation of the deceased. The remains are wrapped in fine silk, sprayed with wine or perfume and carried overhead during festivities (April Holloway). It is not to say that others should be quite so intimate with their dead, however, perhaps something could be taken from such a display of love and joy, and be applied to the current stiff and grief filled ceremonies sometimes seen…
The New Woman was conveyed through the artists illustrations beginning in the 1880’s and continuing through the years, ending in the 1920’s. These images such as the works titled, “What Are We Coming To”, “In a Twentieth Century Club”, “Picturesque America”, and “Women Bachelors In New York”, all conveyed this idea of a “New Woman”. The qualities that a New Woman must have included a woman who pursued the highest education and made effort to move up in the professional world. “She (the New Woman) also demonstrated new patterns of private life, from shopping in the new urban department stores, to riding bicycles, and playing golf.” (pg. 374) The artists attempted to create this perfect all around woman who’s lives closely resembled what the men of that time were doing. Such as in figure 6.8 titled “In a Twentieth Century Club” which shows women dressed in clothing which closely resembled that of a mans attire for that era, at leisure, socializing with other woman. This “club” looked very similar to a men’s drinking and eating club. “ Although role reversal still provides the humor, the women waitresses and patrons are physically attractive, while the women’s unladylike posture and clothing would have been viewed as shocking equally significant is the cross dressing entertainer.” (pg. 374) Not only did artists attempt to convey a way that the New Woman should act, but they also created this popular physical image of what one should look like such as the Gibson Girls pictured in image 6.9. Most all of the illustrations showed a white woman of the leisure class, however African American women still envisioned and strived to become a New African American Woman.…
Nawal El Saadawi’s novel Woman at Point Zero is a story set in Egypt in the 1970s, full of many different and yet similar characters. However, with all of the characters in this novel, the women are portrayed in a very specific way; they tend to be characterized as dependent, and less capable. They are also the main recipients of much of the violence included within this text. This will be shown through the main character, Firdaus, and another woman, Sharifa. The environment and context of Woman at Point Zero had a profound effect on the women in this story, affecting their behavior; however, El Saadawi had her reasons for writing this way.…
