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The San Francisco Experiment: Female Medical Practitioners Caring for Women and Children, 1875-1935
Get PDFPrior to 1911 when California women gained suffrage, women’s health issues were rarely deemed important. In early 1875, Drs. Charlotte B. Brown and Martha E. Bucknell established the Pacific Dispensary Hospital for Women and Children as a public health model for indigent children and an urban clinical-training facility for female health professionals. This paper will look at how Dr. Charlotte Blake Brown (1846-1904) and Dr. Adelaide Brown (1867-1940), mother and daughter activists for women and children’s health, shaped medicine in San Francisco. They had forceful personalities, yet their experiment to foster a community of female health care providers to directly serve women and children proved to be more fragile than anticipated. After Dr. Charlotte Brown’s death in 1904, her daughter picked up where her mother left off despite opposition to take on the dairy industry throughout her career in long campaigns to regulate milk products
Towards a Theory of Eccentricity
Get PDFThis essay seeks to develop a literary theory of eccentricity taking as its point of departure everyday usages of the word eccentric, Helmuth Plessner’s notion of the eccentric positionality of human beings, and Thomas Nagel’s model of the interplay of subjective and objective viewpoints in human (self)positioning. Its key assumption is that eccentricity should be thought of as an attitude to life determined by a systematic indifference to “objective,” external viewpoints and values. While this is taken to characterize eccentricity as a personality trait, by extension the concept can then be made to also work for literary texts. These are also be seen to be indifferent to important external determinants, thus producing the “eccentric text.” These suggestions are tested and developed in an analysis of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1760-1767), which is being read as a novel featuring both eccentric characters and an eccentric literary technique
Frontmatter and Editorial
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The boundaries of the private and public self appear to have become less discernible within the last two decades. The expanding and ceaseless dissemination of personal pictures and narratives through different media have led to a vanishing sense of shielded privacy and intimacy. By the same token, the sense of continuously performing oneself because of seeing oneself as being seen increasingly shapes our perceptions and expectations of the gendered self. The notion of gender and sexual identity as a continued and staged performance renders the idea of an authentic and natural self ever more questionable. The three articles in this issue address the implications of altered relations of Private I, Public Eye for the general engagement with gender and sexual “identity”and its consequences for indivdual agency
Gendered performances and norms in Chinese personal blogs
Get PDFThis paper focuses on a study of identity-related performance in personal blogs. The study is based on an analysis of three A-list Chinese personal blogs (Muzi Mei’s blog, Liumang Yan’s blog, and Acosta’s blog) selected from the top blog service providers in China between 2003 and 2006. A lifestyle mapping model composed of layers of social demographics, interests, activities, and opinions was employed in the data analysis. The analysis revealed that gender was a critical aspect of the performances in personal blogs. Their performances revolved around gendered social norms in terms of compliance, contention, negation, and recreation, even though the performances were diverse and heterogeneous. The study proposes that personal blogs have become an online space and medium for enacting gender and gendered performances
Frontmatter and Editorial
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For those working in the theory and practice – or both – of performing arts today, we can no longer speak only of drama or even theatre to describe what is actually going on before spectators. A shift of critical and creative interest from dramatic theatres to performance began to infiltrate the Northern hemispheric academy in the 1970’s. In the USA, Joseph Schechner (e.g. Performance Theory. New York: Routledge 2003), in the spirit of Grotowski, Brook, Barba and other theatre leaders’ interest in inter, cross and multiculturality, influentially applied sociology and anthropology to reconfigure what ‘performance studies’ could and should articulate beyond a euro-centric cultural frame of reference. Into this brew we must add of course group theatres, ensembles, experimental and devised work by a new post-1968 generation, many of whom were moving beyond the realms of new writing (though this has remained a force for change in some quarters) to find what a non-bourgeois theatre could mean. Liberation movements and their many ‘isms pushed forth new voices and new dramaturgies. Writing about our discipline, in terms of critical theories to describe and interpret developments in theatrical performance in the last forty years (during which the Women’s Liberation Movement emerged), is becoming as heterogeneous, intercultural and interdisciplinary as its practice. It simply had to, in order to keep up
Missing in Action: Fathers Making a Quick Exit in Mojisola Adebayo’s Muhammad Ali and Me
Get PDFSet in an English foster home in the mid 1970’s, Muhammad Ali and Me tells the story of Mojitola, a child who is abandoned by her father and grows up in care. The space her father leaves is filled through a fantastical friendship with athlete and activist, boxer and dancer, pugilist and poet, hero and hate figure, sportsman and disabled man, Muslim and magician, the legendary, Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali and Me follows the parallel lives of this gay girl child and a Black male hero, tracing their struggle for survival and self definition in a system set against them. The play invites the audience to consider the complex relationship between children, absent fathers and father figures; the establishment, war and Islamic masculinity; the Black community and gay identity; the USA and urban Britain today, through what Adebayo describes as an ‘Afri-Queer’ multi-media accessible storytelling style. Deirdre Osborne provides an introduction which examines Adebayo’s work by investigating representations of sport in plays by Black writers; Black, Mixed and ‘trans’ racial identity and the experience of the care system in performance; Black male heroism and the marginalisation of Black women writers on the British stage
Don.Juan.Who?/ Don.Juan. Kdo?: From Cyberspace to Theatre Space
Get PDFThis article traces the genealogy of the production Don Juan. Who?/Don Juan.Kdo? by Anna Furse. This was a co-production between my company Athletes of the Heart UK and Mladinsko Gledalisce, Ljubljana. The emergence of the production concept and its development by writing anonymously in cyberspace over eighteen months prior to live rehearsals is contextualised in consideration of the Don Juan archetype as he appears in historical and contemporary culture. The article is accompanied by a brief background to Don Juan in the culture in various media and the Production Programme.
Notes on the Effect of Mr. Max Beerbohm on a Woman Writer
Get PDFAlthough Regina Barreca, the feminist comic theorist, has lamented the anxiety that supposedly keeps women from joking at the expense of those who have hurt them, Dame Rebecca West (1892–1983), the British novelist and critic, felt no such compunction. The laughter, moreover, that underpinned West’s “Notes on the Effect of Women Writers on Mr. Max Beerbohm,” from Ending in Earnest: A Literary Log (1931), was very angry indeed, and its origins were both political and personal. Her comic assault on Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) was a defense of working women in general, and of professional female authors in particular, against his attacks on their wish to be self-sustaining and competent human beings, rather than anachronistic ornaments. It was also, however, a response rooted in private grievance, for West was both an avowed admirer and an emulator of Beerbohm’s satirical and fantastic narratives, and she deeply resented his failure to respect her as she respected him. Indeed, it is impossible to understand West’s modernist fiction, such as Harriet Hume (1929), without acknowledging its debt to Beerbohm and to his 1890s Aesthetic Movement male contemporaries, such as Oscar Wilde, from whom she derived many of her comic strategies
Colorism Awareness im Literaturunterricht der Grundschule
No full textDer Artikel beschäftigt sich mit colorism als Diskriminierung von Menschen unterschiedlichen Aussehens. Colorism Awareness als Bewusstmachung dessen ist für Lernende und Lehrende eine aktuelle Herausforderung. In einer explorativen Studie in der Grundschule steht die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Bilderbuch Sulwe (2021) im Zentrum. Die Studie widmet sich dem Desiderat, Colorism Awareness primarstufendidaktisch zu begründen.
This article deals with colorism as discrimination against people of different appearances. Colorism Awareness is a current challenge for both learners and teachers. In an explorative study on racism-sensitive literacy eduaction in a primary school, the focus is on the picture book Sulwe (2021). The study results show a desideratum of colorism awareness in primary school didactics.Colorism Awareness is a current challenge for both learners and teachers. This exploratory study conducted in a German primary school shows that critical literacy education must diversify the books teachers choose to read in favor of the visibility of marginalized groups. By engaging with the own-voices-picture book „Sulwe” (2021), the students dealt with the discrimination against people of different appearances, known as colorism, and the devaluation of skin tones considered dark. The study addresses the desideratum of establishing Colorism Awareness as a long-term goal in primary school didactics