In the light of Lacanian dichotomy “Being” and “Meaning,” present article intends to illuminate how protagonist’s journey life in Jibanananda Das’s masterwork “Banalata Sen” (1942) proves be a retreat Jungian “mother-imago.” This “imago” is idealized image mother constituted by one’s infantile memory her fulfilling self that remains preserved unconscious. It imbibes all facets womanhood. essenc...

Rabiʿa al-Aʿdawiyya (717-801 A.D.) the first female Sufi in the Muslim world, who introduced the concept of ‘love’ into mysticism, was popular for her witticism, sharp reprimands of her contemporary male Sufis and her gender-bending practices. In ʿAttar’s Tadhkirat al-Awliya, Rabiʿa is portrayed as a challenger of the established gender norms of her day. Rabiʿa’s crossing of gender boundaries a...

This study examines how Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants have played a contributing role in expanding categories of women's "mental illness" in relation to categories of "normal" behavior. We hypothesized that between 1985 and 2000, as Premenopausal Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD), postpartum depression, and perimenopausal depression were increasingly treated with SSRIs, ...

A funny thing happened on the way to theorizing medicalization: men’s bodies were ignored. This seems a startling statement, given the sheer number of articles and books written on the medicalization of—well, everything, it would appear. But with the exception of a few scattered but important pieces (see Ehrenreich 1983; Tiefer 1994; Potts 2000; Riska 2002, 2004; Mumford 1997), most of which ar...

In this essay, I draw on the lyrics of a viral song by Shervin Hajipour titled “Baraye” (meaning: for sake of) that was released 28 September 2022 and immediately became anthem protests in Iran. quote excerpts three sections connecting them to slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” chanted streets symbolic act cutting one’s hair has come represent protests. first these sections, woman, reflect regime’s ...

This article addresses a body of works by the video artist Ruth Patir, in which Israeli womanhood 2020s is interrogated through Iron Age female statuettes, known as Judean Pillar Figurines. By means motion capture technology and 3D animation, Patir features contemporary women uncannily moving speaking bodies millennium-old figurines, whose history function are still under debate. In Petah Tikva...

Abstract This article investigates the role of contemporary women in reggae music and details unexpectedness their growing current industry, given relative absence since 1970s. Through critical studies singers Janine “Jah9” Cunningham Kelissa [McDonald], I historicize evolution female songstresses contributions to changing rhetoric around women's positionalities relationship Caribbean feminisms...

This article is not a contemplation on women and politics. Neither it discussion Muslim women, the hijab, Islamism. Instead, this testimony to remark Şule Yüksel Şenler, an Islamist vernacular intellectual who blazed trail in politics of Türkiye commencing 1960s but existed Islamism literature rather through her absence. Şenler vernacularised by mobilising public talks, cinema, literature, jour...

Between 1930 and 1932, German-Jewish sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) undertook a world journey that he eventually reported in Die Weltreise eines Sexualforschers (1933), arguably the first non-Eurocentric, anti-colonialist critique of Asian cultures from a sexological perspective. Saluted as "the modern Vatsyayana of the West," Hirschfeld met during his stay in India personalities such...