WOMAN IN CULTURE AND ART (WOMEN'S RESEARCH)
Year:2013 | Volume:5 | Issue:2|Papers Count:8

The progress and excellence of females in the Islamic society is one of the fundamental concerns of Imam Khomeini in his interviews and speeches. He would frequently admit the importance and influence of women in the Islamic movement, as well as their important role in the progress of various fields in Iran. According to Imam Khomeini’s belief, women compared to men had an equal, and even sometimes bigger, role in the victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran. The sacred defense dramatic literature has been principally formed to reflect historical incidents of the Islamic revolution and imposed Iran-Iraq war occurred between 1980-1988. The level of appropriateness and adaptability of the sacred defense dramatic literature productions on the imposed war historical incident was assessed by comparing such productions with Imam Khomeini's opinions as the main axis of the sacred defense concept. The method used in this research is descriptive-comparative. The statistical society of this research is all of the holy defense dramatic literature works published between 1978 and 2009.The statistical samples include 120 plays including works of female and male authors. In this study, the influence of females on the sacred defense dramatic literature against the words of Imam Khomeini have been considered as a basis to assess the conformity level of these works to the aforementioned historical incidents. Hence, females’ involvement in the production such works (as a writer) was firstly compared to male’s involvement. Then, statistics obtained regarding females’ involvement were compared to Imam Khomeini’s view points expressed in Imam's Sahifeh (a twenty-two volume book contained Imam's speeches and letters).The results showed that females have not enjoyed the historical status in the aforementioned art movement as desired by Imam Khomein.

The present article aims at giving a formative psychoanalysis of Iran cinema in the 2000s. Itseems that all distinct movies in this decade have been produced in an atmosphere that was are presentation of everyday-life and living ethics of middle class citizens. Drawing on the movie “how simple it is” directed by Reza MirKarimi (2009) as a typical sample of discursive formation, the present study aims to analysis a representation of everyday-life of the urban middle class, which in this decade turned into an Iranian culturally problematic issue. Utilizing its internal narration, this film indicates that “objet petit a” is penetrating through the everyday-life and within the “objet petit a” there are reasons formed which have directed the everyday affairs to the path of the unconscious affairs of subjectivity. The purpose of the present study is to expound the “objet petit a” based on a psychoanalysis perspective. According to the way the movie represents the subjects, this research also intends to show how the everyday-life of the subjects mainly dominated by women is constructed and how “objet petit a” involved in split subjects plays a key role in the current everyday-life.

the evolution of the family in the contemporary world has been one of the focal topics in the family sociology studies over past decades. The impact of modernity, especially from its cultural aspect, on the family development in the west that has led to the formation of the modern and post-modern family has been paid attention in recent theoretical and experimental studies. This research aimed to investigate the impact of modernity on the family development from the perspective of social actors especially from a gender perspective. In addition, the research intended to find those elements affecting such a development in the Iranian families, and analyse its consequences. This research was based on a qualitative approach with limited and selective samples in Tehran. The data collection was undertaken via comprehensive interviews. Findings showed that, from a gender perspective, there were considerable differences between males and females in (i) the definition of the modern and traditional family characteristics, (ii) their understanding of the transformation of the structure of the family and family relations during the transformation, (iii) their reaction and acceptance to the changes, and (iv) their different discourse formed during the changes.

Communities’ worldview has an important role in shaping arts. Exploring the evolution of the Persian art and architecture indicates that, in different periods, despite the change of aesthetic and expression, there have relatively been some similar meanings in different forms of art. On the words, in different forms of art, expression might be changed but a unique meaning would bemarinated.In this research it is assumed that the roots of these semblances are in philosophical theories that have been dominant in the society. Art can be inspired by different theories, symbolism in Persian Mythological and mystical texts, and ultimately leads to the creation of a special aesthetic expression that could create a similar meaning in different kinds of forms.The results of this research indicate that there has been an obvious connection between the Persian art and architecture and philosophy. In Safavids, the combination of various philosophical schools led to the creation of one of the most glorious periods of the Persian art and architecture. The belief in the sanctity of the symbols of fertility that are visible in the historical Iranian thoughtsas well as in various forms of art such as Anahita and tree of life have been replaced with waterfront and domes in the Safavids architecture. In all these shapes, a similar meaning would be visible.

Contemporary poets have enjoyed the effect of colour on man's spirit and used them to express their feelings about social and political matters. Fadava Toghan as an influential Palestinian poet has used colours in her poems to reflect people's pains, wishes and hopes. Woman's feeling and the delicate spirit of the poet on the one hand and political and social situations dominated on Palestine land on the other hand have urged her to use colour. In this research, an analytical-descriptive method was applied and the most frequent concepts of colour have been extracted from her poetry book. The findings show that black, green and red have been the most frequent colours. In her works, green would stand for happiness, hope, beauty, movement and/or Palestine and the nature of the country. Black would stand for sadness, hopelessness, oppression, and the presence of Zionists. Red would mean martyr's blood, national rise and movement.

The purpose of the present study was to determine gender differences in the language development and skills of first grade students of primary schools in Marivan-Iran. To do this, 260 first grade students (140 males and 120 females) were chosen by multi stage cluster sampling and stratified random sampling methods among the first grade students in elementary schools in the 2011-2012 academic year. The test method was based on Test of Language Development-Primary Third Edition (TOLD-P-3) in order to assess language development and skills, which consists of 6 basic subscales and 3 secondary subscales. The obtained data were analyzed using the t independence test for comparing two groups. Results showed that girls outperformedin language development components like listening, speaking and semantics. However, there was no significant difference between the performance of boys and girls in the organizing component (P£0.01).

Stories and fictions are important cultural resources which in many cultures are narrated by women. These stories can bea reflection of ideals and desires of women in different levels of a society. Therefore, reviewing these stories and fictions would bebeneficial to better understand the various aspects of women’s life in a society. This research aims to study women’s position in Bakhtiary’s culture using thirty written stories. Bakhtiary’s culture is patriarchal anddespite positive attitude towards women in this culture, they are still looked upon inferior. In such a culture women have less contribution and influence in economical and political activities where are dominated by men. However, Bakhtiary’s women have challenged discriminating attitudes of the patriarchal setting and rejected the existing sexual discriminations particularly in social settings. In this respect, they have even succeeded in altering some traditional views of their men toward themselves.The most significant preoccupations of women in these types of stories include marriage and combating patriarchal thoughts. For instance, women have been culturally obliged to obey men’s will on the matter of marriage, whereas, on many occasions, they have rejected this and married on their own choice. In this paper, the presence of women in these stories has been subjected to qualitative and quantitive analysis. In addition, the presence of women in the political and economical activities, struggling patriarchal thinking, partaking in naming their children, marriage, womanly issues, women characters, and the number of women in the stories are those that have been dealt with in this paper.

As the form and appearance of a literature work inevitably affect the structure and shape of that work, they play an important role in its permanence. In this study, factors and elements affecting the cohesion, coherence, form and structure of allegories and debates in Parvin's collection were analyzed using a systematic method. The results of the study can be categorizedin four groups. First, in Parvin's debates, since different parts of her poems aredialogically interconnected, the cohesion and coherence in her worksisquite evident. Second, Parvin's narration in allegories and debates has resulted in a reciprocal relationship between different parts so that an organic and coherent structure emerges. Third, the creative use of rhythms appropriate to the content of herallegories has resulted in thatthe coherence and the reciprocal relationship between different parts of her allegories would be maintained. Fourth, by using powerful and well-organized imagery along with the organization of linguisticelements (sounds, words and syntactic structures) in her poetry, Parvin could create a coherent structure as well as an everlasting image of her works in the reader's mind.