stories and fictions are important cultural resources which in many cultures are narrated by women.these storiescan bea reflection of ideals and desires of women in different levels of a society. therefore, reviewing these stories and fictions would bebeneficial to better understand the various aspects of women’s life in a society.this research aims to study women’s positionin bakhtiary’s cultu...

There are several ways in which gays and lesbians are portrayed on television, many of which, arguably, create problems both for the programme maker and for the viewer. Homosexuality is still not fully accepted in today's society and traditional patriarchal portrayals of both men and women are still dominant, with few exceptions to such images. This is, perhaps, particularly true of men. Whilst...

this research effort to understand the qasim amin thinking about the woman question. this article responds to this question that how did  he formulat­ his texts? in this regard, he used fairclough critical discourse analysis theoretical approach­. theory of this article is his books shows inequality in social rights of women. he undermines traditional egyptian society and he influenced by the w...

He Chengyao's performance art works not only reflect the collectivist immersion of contemporary people, but also trauma that generations Chinese women have suffered after facing persecution patriarchal thinking. From works, this paper explores women's thinking and outlook on identity motherhood.

This paper is a work of autoethnography in which I (the author) observe critical practices that and my colleague, Aisha, thought, said, embodied during our tenure as the only Muslim Nostra Aetate Fellows at St. Catherine Center for Interreligious Dialogue Vatican City, Italy. The focuses on survival strategies took an interreligious anti-patriarchal character within interreligious, Muslim–Chris...

This study aims to find out how the discourse of 19th century women in Little Women movie. The analytical method is using critical analysis Norman Fairclough's model with three dimensional models, dimensions text, practice and socio-cultural practice. results show that emerging feminist liberal feminism. text dimension shows Jo March not wanting get married, struggling alone, being able be empo...

BACKGROUND Theories of fertility collapse in the post-socialist era imply a decline in the moral primacy of traditional social institutions. Yet gender inequality actually increased in many countries, and there is a scarcity of empirical evidence for the role played by traditional social institutions in reproductive decision-making. OBJECTIVE We investigate whether patriarchal institutions sust...