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This article reviews the impact of cultural factors on mental health of an Indian women. Marked gender discrimination in India has led to second class status of women in society. Their mobility, work, self-esteem and self-image, in fact their worth and identity, seem to depend upon the male members of a patriarchal society. Women’s lack of empowerment and both financial and emotional dependence have restricted their self-expression and choices in life. This, along with family, social and work pressures, has a definite impact on women’s mental health. This paper discusses some recent advances in the area of movements that has gained tremendous impetus in the humanities and social sciences is the rediscovery of the role of women in history and their contributions to human culture. These diverse collections demonstrate the far-ranging impact women have had on all aspects of culture. From innovative women artists and pioneering scientists and technologists to the woman who campaigned for universal suffrage and social equality, their stories provide a window on to women’s multifaceted contributions to our shared heritage.
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Based on the theoretical insights of Nira Yuval Davis’ and Carol Pateman’s path-breaking research and on a number of Southeast European examples the article spells out the relationship between gender and nation-state (XIX-XX c.). The author shows various practices of (gender) discriminations concerning women’s citizenship in the realms of education, social, political rights, etc. and argues that the social contract in the modern nation-states (including in the Balkans) is a „fraternal social contract“ and the nation-state has а male gender.
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The article discusses one particular film, “Man, don’t get angry”, with director Ivaylo Trenchev and script-writer Kiril Topalov. By analyzing published opinions and reviews as well as archival materials the author notes specifics in the functioning of the socialist mass media and traces out institutions and mechanisms for controlling the cinema process. These are mechanisms which affect the view/perception and visual re-creation of the world, the writing and talking, the thinking and attitude of the people in their different roles – (film-) makers, spectators and readers, journalists and reviewers. blicistically carnival. The reader of the novel and the spectator of the movie ejaculate with one voice: this is impossible be¬cause it is...true! From Aleko (Konstantinov) to Alek (Popov) – it‘s all true...
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This paper deals with part of the dramatic woks by a most tolerated and staged Bulgarian playwright under communism, Todor Manev, who published his plays under the penname Kamen Zidarov. The study focuses on those of his dramatic works that feature the recent past such as “Tsar’s Pardon” (1949), “For the Honour of the Epaulette (1957), etc., rather than on his dramas presenting moments of Bulgarian history that have unfolded in the remote past. Analysing them, the article highlights four main female figures, constructed and functioning in a historical and political context of the coming and development of communism with the ideology and normative aesthetics characteristic of this regime.
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The paper opens by briefly outlining the development of women’s literature in the ex-„East European” countries since 1989. Then it turns to feminist literary theory tracking two different periods of its reception by, and adaption to, literary criticism in post-communist academic research. The concepts of women’s generations and women’s literary canon, vital for the western tradition of gynocriticism, are closely analyzed in line with their relevance to present-day women’s literature in post-communist culture. The paper closes by outlining a threefold model of the prospective to speak of women’s literature imbedded in, or in counter stance to, the traditional literary canon.
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The author offers a critical judgment of Lacanian psychoanalysis, pointing out its normativizing aspect. He acknowledges the impossibility of reconciliation of psychoanalytic thought with the theory of radical difference, the example of which is queer, which has been postulated by such scholars as Judith Butler, Lee Edelman or Leo Bersani. As Eribon claims, queer theory constitutes a continuation of (anti-psychoanalytic) philosophy of Michel Foucault, and it would be theoretically much more inspiring – Eribon further argues – to try to juxtapose Foucault’s thought with Sartre rather than with Freud or Lacan.
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The direct objective of the suicide bomber is not only to bring their own death, but to cause the largest possible number of casualties among the community of potential adversary. The death of the executive intensifies the feeling of fear, because it shows complete intransigence of bomber and his willingness to submit biggest sacrifice in the form of his life. When planning terrorist attacks, the terrorists are counting primarily on the psychological effect, and it is much greater when made by woman, in many traditional environments identified as vulnerable, fragile, unable to harm. Article aims to describe the phenomenon of female suicide Islamic terrorism, on selected examples that clearly show similarities and differences among female suicide bombers in the various communities.
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Question of culture/nature difference is one of the key questions, to which mistakable interpretations, result in patriarchal oppression over female and nature. Misogynistic matrix of behavior is founded in this conception, therefore women represent nature, emotional principle, and men represent culture or rational principal. There are continual examples, of patriarchal praxis and values, which are in contradiction to Ruling Conventions, on Women Human Rights Protection. These praxes are in the domain of traditional particular praxis of individual cultures, and therefore, particular praxis, that are usually different of dominant culture praxis. Sati in India, foot binding in China, female genital mutilation originating from African rituals, are only several out of them. The dominant Legal norms, refuse to accept, those praxis, but in closed particular communities, the rituals of socialization and cultural praxis involve female sacrifices, in different ways, and females are prepared , from their early childhood, to accept “ Great sacrifices” , as though if the only true life goal of femininity is to be victim, to be victim for others, or even more tragically “ enjoy in oneself sacrifice for Others” especially if the victim is to be done for masculine representatives or leaders of communities, for which women are respectable only if they are a victim.
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The article represents the empirical study of the use of images of angels and their functions in consumer advertising. The aim of the study is to examine changes in the angelic image in the course of time and to question if it is possible on their basis to draw conclusions about religious beliefs and modern value understandings of the people in Estonia as well as in other countries following Western economic models. The study is based on approximately 50 ads (photographs and videos) from Estonia, Germany, France, United States, South Africa and the Philippines disseminated over the last decade. It should be noted that in many cases these are advertisements translated into many languages and it is quite difficult to identify which is their country of origin. Even more, this is definitely not the aim of the article as far as the attention is focused predominantly on the general picture which shows relative homogeneity.
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Living and engaging in a society means living with others, accepting changes (gender, regional, political, cultural), and being able to maintain uniqueness. Albania is a small country, but it faces a high level of intolerance and regional, gender, political, cultural prejudices, etc. In this paper, we will try to apply Hans-Georg Gadamer’s theory on communicative understanding and fusion of horizons as a model that can lead us at reducing the level of prejudice and intolerance towards each other. For Gadamer, communicative understanding occurs only through a way of being with the other person. The purpose of dealing with Gadamer’s theory on understanding is to show the practicality of his hermeneutic theory to create new knowledge, to overcome the challenges of diversity in a society, as well as to create a just society where change and diversity are normal. This research is a qualitative theoretical research in which the hermeneutic research methodology and secondary data analysis are used. Through a textual analysis, we will focus on the treatment of Gadamer’s theory and the importance of the principles of dialogue, tolerance, prejudice, solidarity, reciprocity, equality and freedom in creating an open-minded and tolerant society. According to Gadamer, if we want to create a just and peaceful society, we must understand the others and not simply accept their presence, we have to accept our prejudices and try to overcome them. By identifying the important values of Gadamer's theory we can create a more tolerant environment and overcome the prejudices we have towards each other in a society like ours. Overcoming the divisions within us will bring us together to lead our society towards further cultural and political development.
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The purpose of this article is to analyse the influence of the pandemic on the grades obtained in different subjects that comprise the University entrance exam. With this purpose, we analysed a significant database containing grades related to four consecutive academic annual editions of the entrance exam to the University of La Laguna (Canary Islands, Spain) divided into two periods, pre-pandemic (academic years 2017-2018 and 2018-2019) and the post-pandemic (2019-2020 and 2020-2021). Bivariate data analysis along with multiple linear regression was performed on the data. According to the results, it is confirmed that in the post-pandemic period some grades have suffered a significant boost, and it is also possible to detect the social impact of that increase in social variables, i.e. gender significant differences.
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The study aimed to map the prevalence of social media disorder in secondary school youth. We used an abbreviated version of the Social Media Disorder Scale (SMD) and the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ-16B). The reliability of the questionnaires used in the research, indicates that they have sufficient internal consistency. A total of 637 rerespondents participated in the study. Their ages ranged from 15 to 19 years (AM=16.63). The results of the study showed social media impairment in 11.1% of the respondents, confirming a statistically significant difference in terms of the gender of the adolescents in favour of girls, and in terms of the degree of concern about their appearance, in favour of those who are more concerned about their appearance. Furthermore, a statistically significant difference in the degree of concern about their appearance in terms of gender, was confirmed in favour of girls.
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In the jubilee year of Timisoara's opera scene, 75 years after the first performance, we pay a pious homage through this work in the memory of the unique voices in their timbral diversity of two exceptional dramatic sopranos: Margareta Nica Popescu and Michaela Grama Ștefan. Among the many roles performed, the memorable interpretations of the role of Aida, from the opera of the same title by G. Verdi. This emblematic inaugural performance of the first opera scene in Banat, was taken over by the two personalities in the title role, amplifying over the years the fame of the newly founded opera. Through the main roles played by both opera artists, we remember the roles of Verdi's operas: Abigail from Nabucco, Amelia from Bal Mascat and Leonora from Trubadur as well as Floria Tosca from Puccini's opera of the same name and others. Through their pedagogical qualities, the two sopranos contributed to the development of the vocal art and of the post-december roumanian singing school in Banat .
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Review of: Jolanta Sikorska-Kulesza: Tolerated Evil. Prostitution in the Kingdom of Poland in the Nineteenth Century. (Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Bd. 30.) Aus dem Poln. von Julita M a s t a l e r z . Peter Lang. Berlin 2020. 353 S. ISBN 978-3-631-81584-7. (€ 78,50.)
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Review of: Irena Protassewicz: A Polish Woman’s Experience in World War II. Conflict, Deportation and Exile. Hrsg. von Hubert Zawadzki und Meg Knott . Bloomsbury Academic. London u. a. 2019. XXXV, 257 S. ISBN 978-1-3500-7992-2. (£ 90,–.)c
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Review of: Jakub Gałęziowski, Niedopowiedziane biografie. Polskie dzieci urodzone z powodu wojny (Undertold biographies. Polish children born of war), Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2022, pp. 458.
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This paper examines the interviews with four Ukrainian women – war refugees, who came to Poland after February 24, 2022 (two of them were reinterviewed after a year of their stay in Poland). The authors were interested in the description of the crisis in which the respondents found themselves, as well as in their presentation of coping with crisis, thus, “coping with crisis” became the main interpretive category. The research aims to reveal the self-image of the women refugees and identify changes that have taken place in 2022 and 2023 (including the perception of themselves, war context, and living conditions to which they have adapted after fleeing). The authors used the multidisciplinary theoretical approach because, in addition to psychological concepts related to the main interpretative category, the reflection was based on the cultural anthropology of emotions, the anthropology of experience, as well as on the ethics of care, and autoethnography.
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Projekt badawczy zatytułowany CCINDLE, realizowany w ISNS od października 2022 roku nawiązuje brzmieniem do angielskiego czasownika kindle oznaczającego czynność podpalania czy rozniecania ognia. Jednocześnie CCIN DLE to skrócona nazwa projektu, którego pełny tytuł brzmi Co-Creating Inclusive Intersectional Democratic Spaces Across Europe i nawiązuje do głównego celu przedsięwzięcia, jakim jest współtworzenie, rozniecanie włączających, intersekcjonalnych i demokratycznych przestrzeni w Europie.
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The research project entitled CCINDLE, underway since October 2022, refers in its wording to the English verb kindle, which means the act of setting fire or inspiring. At the same time, CCINDLE is the abbreviated name of the project’s full title which is Co-Creating Inclusive Intersectional Democratic Spaces Across Europe, and refers to the project’s main objective of co-creating and re-kindling inclusive, intersectional and democratic spaces in Europe.
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