Browsing by Subject "Public sphere"

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Cult of Domesticity
(SAGE Publications, Inc., 2004) Winter, Thomas; Carroll, Bret E.
The “cult of domesticity” was first explored as a historical phenomenon in antebellum U.S. society by Barbara Welter, who wrote in 1966 of a “cult of true womanhood,” though the phrase itself was coined by the historian Aileen Kraditor in 1968. Part of a broader nineteenth-century northern middle-class ideology of “separate spheres,” the cult of domesticity identified womanhood with the private or domestic sphere of the home and manhood with the public sphere of economic competition and politics. While the cult of domesticity primarily concerned a definition of femininity, defining the home as a space governed by women's sentimental, moral and spiritual influence, this ideology also contributed to definitions of manliness and sought to control male passions at a time when the market revolution, urbanization, ...
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Gender in political sex scandals in contemporary Turkey: women’s agency and the public sphere
(Routledge, 2015) Cindoglu, D.; Unal, D.
Sex scandals in politics lead to intense public debates about fundamental issues, such as morality, publicity, and privacy, rendering gender inequalities more visible than ever. This article aims to reveal the complex gendered dynamics of the political culture by looking at sex scandals in contemporary Turkey. The ways in which these scandals have been narrated, negotiated, and resolved among the public and political actors provide grounds for analysis about the nature of patriarchal dynamics regarding women’s agency and public credibility communicated through their sexuality in contemporary Turkey. Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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Gendered urban imaginations: literary representations of Lahore and Heera Mandi
(2023-08) Jamil, Maryam
Lahore is culturally and architecturally one of the wealthiest cities in the South Asian sub-continent. It has seen its days of glory and days of obscurity. From Mughal Emperors to the colonialization of the British to the nationalism of Pakistani leaders, it has witnessed drastic changes in its cultures, architecture, and urban spaces. These changes were due to either religious, political, or social reasons. This thesis deals with two significant eras in Lahore's history that shaped the cultural identity of the city; Colonial Lahore (1858-1947) and post-colonial Lahore (1970-present). The thesis explores how the urban sphere of Lahore was imagined by different genders in the colonial and post-colonial periods. It scrutinizes the literature, memoirs, and archives of the people experiencing the city at their respective ages. It explores how these experiences varied for gender and whether it was equally an ideal space by respective genders. It also discusses the effects of one of the biggest red-light districts in the sub-continent, Heera Mandi (Diamond Market), on the city's urban space and religious culture before and after the independence from the British. Furthermore, the thesis investigates the interaction between power, patriarchy, and urban development in Lahore's postcolonial modernization attempts. Authors such as Bapsi Sidhwa, Sara Suleri, Louise Brown and Mohsin Hamid's postcolonial fiction give unique insights into minority worries, women and Khawajasira’s struggles, and the clash between tradition and modernity as impacted by political events and cultural transformations. The study improves our knowledge of Lahore's gender dynamics and their consequences for urban development by analyzing these representations.
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On streaming-media platforms, their audiences, and public life
(Routledge, 2021-05-10) Özgün, A.; Treske, Andreas
Over the past decade, streaming-media platforms have emerged as new and natively digital forms of content delivery. For the audience, streaming-media platforms appear as the new way of watching TV or a new kind of film distribution at the outset. Yet they radically transform the spatial and temporal settings of audience activity, introducing an algorithmically modulated logic of programming that we provisionally call microcasting and changing the way we relate to entertainment content in general. This essay critically evaluates how streaming-media platforms restructure the temporal, spatial, and relational dynamics of audience activity and strip off its collective essence. It discusses this new technological form’s actual and potential effects on public life by referring to certain foundational concepts from television, audience, and film studies.
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Professional veiled women: the everyday life strategies of professional Islamic women in 1990s Bursa
(1999) Öztimur, Neşe
The major aim of this thesis is to examine the multiple bases on which professional, married, veiled Islamic women organize their everyday lives, and understand how do they legitimize their everyday activities with using different discourses. The professional veiled women reproduce and reformulate their gender roles and relations with regards to material necessities of everyday life and also with regards to the necessities of Islamic discourse. The professionally working veiled women legitimize or reconcile their everyday life experiences on the one hand with respect to their Islamic values, and on the other hand with their working woman status. The relationship between the social structure, Islamic discourse and individual agency is constructed by using different strategies, to cope with the necessities of everyday life. These strategies show differences according to the material well being of the Islamic women. The social class is an important factor for the transformation of Islamic discourse into a living social practice.