Document 2 illustrates a lithograph and a photograph from English and Japanese factories. The manufacture of textiles was critical in both civilizations. The lithograph of workers in England displays power loom mills while Japan’s photograph presents women who are working in a silk-reeling factory. An additional document that would help expand the understanding of Japan and England’s background would be a more advanced point of view on regional advantages and disadvantages to inform the differences in both countries work ethic. In both countries the manufacture of textiles was critical in their rise to power.
Rosie the Riveter Revisited Women, The War, and Social Change Gluck, Sherna Berger. Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987 Author Sherna Berger Gluck is Director Emeriti of the Oral History Program at California State University, Long Beach. She has concentrated most of her academic career developing and endorsing what is now officially recognized as an individual discipline (Women’s Oral History). Gluck completed her undergraduate work at Shimer College (the Great Books College of Chicago) in Illinois and completed advanced degree work at UCLA and University of California, Berkeley.
Yasumasa Morimura- postmodern, Japanese, contemporary photographer. Explores the different identity roles of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, time and the influence of western culture on Japanese culture. Practices include scanning and printing photos and uses costumes, sets, originals images, camera and computer. Digitally appropriates European masterpieces by inserting himself into the work and uses a postmodern strategy of humour and irony as seen in the art work “criticism and the lover A” (1990). Rejects traditional methods of working and modern ideas of originality.
“Killing Us Softly 4” “Killing Us Softly 4,” is a documentary that explains the effect of femininity advertising. Jean Kilbourne is the creator of the renowned “Killing Us Softly4,” advertising image of women film series and the author of award winning books. Kilbourne is the internationally recognized for her innovative work on the image of women advertising and her critical studies of alcohol and tobacco advertising. Today’s new generation “Killing Us Softly 4,” is a challenge for students to take advertising seriously, and to think critically about popular culture and its relationship to eating disorders, sexism, and gender violence. In the late 1960’s, Jean Kilbourne began her investigation of the connection between advertising and several public health issues, including violence against women, eating disorders, and addictions.
Amy Heckerling’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Emma” has transformed a 19th century classic English novel into a teen flick romcom film of the 20th century entitled “Clueless”. Despite the vastly different historical settings and societal values of the two texts, Amy Heckerling’s “Clueless” still retains the essential values of the original text by adapting these values into a modern society of our time and a modern audience of our age. Comparatively through the themes of class and social structure and the attitudes towards love and marriage, a greater insight can be gained of the context in which it appropriates further enhanced by the use of satire and irony employed by both composers. “Emma” by Jane Austen was written in the Regency period of the 1800s; a time of inequality as it featured a wide gap between the rich and the poor while at the same time a rise in the merchant middle class. In response to this context, Austen tends to satirise the common source of power by creating a microcosmic world of a genteel community evolving round a “handsome, clever and rich” young woman who "seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence."
This paper will focus on the popular subject of women Ukiyo-e, and look into some specific examples of how the art of women during the Edo Period created an effect on society. Looking specifically into the general social status of women, this paper will start off with a background of how women lived in this period, and why these beautiful women were such a heavy and popular subject of interest for these popular pictures. As the paper progresses, there will be an analysis of two specific examples of Ukiyo-e that exposes the reality of their social status in their daily lives. From such pictures, one is able to get a fresh sense of the vitality and energy of women as the paintings depict women at work in a surprisingly diverse array of occupations. In addition, these images remind one of the importances placed on women’s roles in society at the pleasure quarter of Edo, Japan.
Good Morning, Today I am going to talk to you about the changing role of women in the educational system of Japan during the 20th century and how Durkheimis’ functionalist theory of social change can be used to explain these changing roles. In traditional Japanese society, specifically during the tokugawa shoganates rule in the late Edo period, becoming educated was a role largely dominated by males. This was mostly due to the agrarian social structure and patriarchal hierarchy at the time. Education was required by high authoritative figures, such as Daimyo and Samurai, roles that were customarily male. As women were never meant to fill these roles, educating them seemed waste of both time and resources when they were far more useful in the home raising children and farming the land.
Society's perceptions of women are shaped by the way that they are represented in a variety of texts. In order to gain a more balanced perspective of women, it is therefore necessary to examine and dissect more that one text. Some perceptions may overlap and find common ground within the different texts and other perceptions may glaringly contradict each other. Factors that may influence the perceptions of women being portrayed include societal beliefs within the era in which the text is set and the author's perspective and purpose within the text. Three texts that portray women in a different way are the film, Ever After, the play, MacBeth, and the poem, Phenomenal Woman.
Article : Reitman, Oonagh, “Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critique of International Human Right”, 1997, pp. 100-114. The journal titled Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critique in International Human Right is basically talking about the similarity and the tension between two major groups which is Cultural relativism and feminism. They both critique about International Human right. The newest critique happened in United Nation Conference in 1994 that discussed about Family planning and the rights of women to control their own body.
Cinematic depiction of the condition of women of Afghanistan under the Taliban regime in the movie Osama – Preeti Goswami E-mail – spiritraga@gmail.com BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE- Preeti Goswami is doing her post graduation in MS Communication and is specialising in Communication management from Manipal Institute of Communication, Manipal University. She has done her graduation in Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University. Her interests are gender, international relations, politics and history. Word count- 7508 Abstract: Films connect people despite language barriers and cultural backgrounds. It is a culture in itself and the communication forms stronger than spoken words.