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Exchanging Symbolic Patriarchy for Narrative Patriarchy in The Royal Tenenbaums
This essay critiques the ideological basis of the conventional family unit by dissecting the presentation of patriarchy in Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums. The film’s portrayal of patriarchy is analysed through reference to deeply embedded cultural attitudes that permeate societal structures through storytelling. The prevalence of Christianity within American society is acknowledged to justify both situating Tenenbaum’s narrative within a predominantly Judeo-Christian tradition and referencing the Old Testament as a key influence upon standards of patriarchy. The research of biblical scholars is consulted to outline the various privileges afforded to Hebrew patriarchs within the thirteenth century B.C.E., revealing that the standards of patriarchy within this era informed the archetype of idealised patriarchy within the Old Testament. The attitudes of Royal Tenenbaum are recognised as acquiescent with the expectations of the idealised biblical patriarch, close analysis of the film revealing the ways in which he exhibits such entitlement. Analysis reveals that whilst the removal of Royal’s conventional privileges occurs within the film, this reduction and realtering of his position as a father-figure allows for a subliminal patriarchal privilege to emerge. The film exposes the narrative privilege allocated to the patriarch in conventional storytelling, such that the portrayal of growth and redemption within the father-figure is heightened and glorified, and the patriarch is privileged as the focal point to the viewer’s narrative catharsis. The film exposes the functioning of this process on an ideological level.
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Olga Neuwirth, Orlando . Wiener Staatsoper, December 2019
The Vienna State Opera made headlines around the world last December, boasting that it had finally commissioned a full-scale opera by a female composer. Olga Neuwirth, known for her difficult, unrestrained character (both musical and personal), was a curious and adventurous choice for the Wiener Staatsoper, the embassy of a conservative cultural landscape and gatekeeper of highbrow art. Choosing Virginia Woolf's seminal novel about a poet who lives through the ages and who one day miraculously changes sexes was a fitting choice for this maverick, whose work blurs the lines between genius – in all its anachronistic complexities – and fremdschämend , the well-established German equivalent of the facepalm, always scoring particularly high on listicles of ‘quintessential German words’.
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The big push : exposing and challenging the persistence of patriarchy
\"For over a century and in scores of countries, patriarchal presumptions and practices have been challenged by women and their male allies. \"Sexual harassment\" has entered common parlance; police departments are equipped with rape kits; more than half of the national legislators in Bolivia and Rwanda are women; and a woman candidate won the plurality of the popular votes in the 2016 United States presidential election. But have we really reached equality and overthrown a patriarchal point of view? The Big Push exposes how patriarchal ideas and relationships continue to be modernized to this day. Through contemporary cases and reports, renowned political scientist Cynthia Enloe exposes the workings of everyday patriarchy--in how Syrian women civil society activists have been excluded from international peace negotiations; how sexual harassment became institutionally accepted within major news organizations; or in how the UN Secretary General's post has remained a masculine domain. Enloe then lays out strategies and skills for challenging patriarchal attitudes and operations. Encouraging self-reflection, she guides us in the discomforting curiosity of reviewing our own personal complicity in sustaining patriarchy in order to withdraw our own support for it. Timely and globally conscious, The Big Push is a call for feminist self-reflection and strategic action with a belief that exposure complements resistance.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Persisting patriarchy : intersectionalities, negotiations, subversions
\"This book examines the operational dynamics of patriarchy that is deeply woven into the Indian cultural fabric and its persistence in spite of women advancing in Human Development Indices. In studying the situation of women of the Catholic Syrian Christian community of Kerala, South India, as a case of analysis, Kochurani Abraham identifies caste consciousness and religious prescriptions of this community as the main factors that intersect with gendered identity construction and succeed in keeping women within its patriarchal confines. While women do engage in negotiating patriarchy through what can be termed simulative, tactical, and 'agensic' bargains, this remains a 'politics of survival' as it does not challenge the established gender order. In this context, making a shift from 'politics of survival' to a 'politics of subversion' is imperative for challenging persisting patriarchies\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Zdeněk Kučera (30. března 1930 – 15. června 2019)
Pak pomalu následovaly recenze a záhy články v Náboženské revui (časopis vychází od roku 1929 dodnes, od roku 1968 pod změněným názvem Theologická revue). Nastal jeho učednický rok, ke kterému by ovšem za normálních okolností došlo o více než deset let dříve. Jmenovací dekret asistenta pro křesťanskou filozofii na Husově fakultě měl od roku 1968 v kapse a zdálo by se, že slibné akademické kariéře a postupně se rozvíjející publikační činnosti nestojí nic v cestě. Pozdě ale přece, se Zdeňku Kučerovi dostalo několika významných poct, z nichž zmiňme výběrově rakouský spolkový kříž Za zásluhy o vědu a umění I. stupně (2013), čestný doktorát filozofie Zakarpatské univerzity Augustina Vološina v Užhorodu a papežskou medaili Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice (1999).
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