著者

別府 惠子

出版者

神戸女学院大学

雑誌

女性学評論 (ISSN:09136630)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.25, pp.1-23, 2011-03

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The two periods, which stand out in the literary history of the United States,are the "American Renaissance" of mid-nineteenth century,and the 1920s which began with the May Day riots in 1919, and died a spectacular death in October 1929. " The jazz age" is the name given to this special decade, " an age of miracles, an age of art , an age of excess, and an age of satire." After the end of the First World War, the United States suddenly found itself on its way to a world's superpower, to quote F.Scott Fitzgerald," it danced into the limelight" on the international political stage. The age gave women their suffrage, and liberated women dramatized themselves as flappers. They had got rid of the Victorian mores of genteel tradition, smoked and drank in public,enjyoying free sex. Their lifestyle and fashion became the cultural symbol of the decade, when " a whole race[went] hedonistic, deciding on pleasure." The same 1920s produced a rich variety of artists, novelists, and poets: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Dreiser, Dos Passos, and such modernist poets as Ezra Pound, T.S.Eliot, W.C.Williams, and Wallace Stevens. Also, a group of gifted women poets- Amy Lowell, Mina Roy, Dorothy Parker, Elinor Wylie, and Edna St.Vincent Millay- gave the 1920s its distinct color and " a lovely light." However, later on they have either been critically ignored or simply forgotten in the literary history of the United States. This essay is a vindication of Edna St.Vincent Millay(1892-1950), the first woman poet who won a Pulitzer Prize for The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver(1923), through an examination of her representative poems in their historical context then and now. She is the "savage beauty, " who dedicated her life to the creation of beauty, leaving significant poetical works including some 200 sonnets written on the ecstasy and the anguish of love.

著者

井硲 薫

出版者

神戸女学院大学

雑誌

女性学評論 (ISSN:09136630)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.17, pp.155-156, 2003-03-31

著者

高橋 雅人

出版者

神戸女学院大学

雑誌

女性学評論 (ISSN:09136630)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.17, pp.37-53, 2003-03-31

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It is well known that Plato insists in the Books II-III of his Republic that guardians' education should be consisted of both music and gymnastics. While one of these, i. e. music (or poetry), is widely and thoroughly argued in this dialogue, the other, i. e. gymnastics, is much less discussed. However, this does not lead us to the conclusion that gymnastics is not so important for the education. In this paper I analyze 403c9-412bl of Republic III, 'the gymnastics part', with two purposes : first, to show the unity of 'the gymnastics part', which is at first sight seemed to have a digression ; second, to clarify the feature of gymnastics in Plato's educational system. Before analyzing 'the gymnastics part', I check how Plato uses the word 'rouvaotikn (gymnastics) in all of his dialogues. According to these data, when he argues art as itself (as in mainly Gorgias), he always treats gymnastics with medicine. On the other hand, when his concern is about the application of art (as in Republic and in Laws), Plato never discusses gymnastics without music. In the next section I propose the unity of 'the gymnastics part', which can be divided into three segments. This reading shows that the second segment (405al-410a6) is not digressive but significant for our understanding of Plato's treatment of gymnastics. The reason why he discusses medicine here is that gymnastics is important not only for childhood and youth but also for a person's whole life in order that one does not need physicians except unavoidable wounds or seasonal diseases. And Plato's critic against Herodicus, who mixed gymnastics with medicine, is to be linked with the final segment (410a7-412bl) in which he tells us that the mixture of gymnastics with music is good and desirable. In this blend the other and main purpose of gymnastics is newly uncovered. In the first segment (403c9-404e6) gymnastics is said to be for physical strength, but in the final it is declared to be for psychic harmony. The last section of my paper deals with the question how and by whom gymnastics can be mixed with music. That a 'philosopher' can mingle the two arts most befittingly with his wisdom is my answer.

著者

Imura Wendy J.

出版者

神戸女学院大学

雑誌

女性学評論 (ISSN:09136630)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.22, pp.21-40, 2008-03

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西洋の文化は、昔から日本人女性の"謎"に興味を掻き立てられてきた。外国のジャーナリスト・学者・研究者達にとって、伝統的な日本の家庭における女性の役割とこれとは相反する現代のビジネス界におけるキャリア・ウーマンの立場にみられる矛盾は、特に魅力的なテーマである。本論文では、日本語の出典と英語メディアの評論の対比を通して、時に時代遅れで、固定観念に囚われた日本のキャリア・ウーマン像への反論を試みる。具体的には、職場における日本女性の役割定義や女性総合職に関する誤った描写についてである。このような視点は、家庭における日本の男性像や男女の役割分担についても示唆する。こうしたイメージの脱構築後、英語メディアにおける"誤訳"の陰に潜む原因について論文の最後で考察する。これら全体を通して、日本女性が直面している変遷していく社会や家庭や職場における現実といかに西洋のメディアで頻繁に報道されている構図とは異なるかということに光をあてることができればと考える。

著者

高橋 友子

出版者

神戸女学院大学

雑誌

女性学評論 (ISSN:09136630)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.21, pp.67-92, 2007-03-31

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The Sicilian Mafia, an organized group of criminals like Japanese "Yakuza", is not fully understood even in its native Italy. Historically, it has developed the cozy relationship with Italian political circles. Recently, it is difficult to observe the activities of the Mafia, because it goes under the disguise of construction companies or industrial waste companies. The secrets of the Sicilian Mafia, originally a male-only group, have been closely kept. However, after the 1980s, the judicial authority has been making a vigorous investigation of the whole picture of the secretive organization. Also, in the 1990s, articles titled, for example, "Women's Lib in the Mafia?" were featured in the Italian press. This paper will be based upon the research done under the Centro siciliano di documentazione "Giuseppe Impastato" which is the first full-fledged reserch center of the Italian Mafia. We would like to review the past and the present of the Mafia, and make a gender-analysis of this male-only organization. Also, this paper will examine the relationship between women and the Mafia, introducing several women who supported the criminal organization or who were to live in a close relationship with the Mafia. Finally, we would like to take a close loot at the activities of Giuseppe Impastato, who were murdered in the late 1970s because of his accusation of the Mafia (featured in an Italian film in 2000). At the same time, the judicial strife for his honour fought by his family and friends over the past 20 years, activities of "The Association of Women fighting against the Mafia, " recent anti-Mafia activites by the young Palermitans will be reviewed. This paper, we would like to hope, will shed new light on the changing society of Sicily and the relationship between women and the Mafia.

著者

藤井 幸之助

出版者

神戸女学院大学

雑誌

女性学評論 (ISSN:09136630)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.22, pp.41-67, 2008-03

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I touched some linguistic textbooks through the lessons of some universities. Although many outstanding things had come out, the indifference to many authors gender was worrisome. There were some things taken care when oneself concerned with creation of a Korean textbook. This paper focused on characters, the illustration, and the example, and some textbooks were actually analyzed in it. It is considered to be a textbook which gender bias does not require what kind of thing and with what kind of posture a teacher should be expected to a lesson again.