WOMAN IN CULTURE AND ART (WOMEN'S RESEARCH)
Year:2018 | Volume:9 | Issue:4 |Papers Count:7

One of the ways to study linguistic changes in society is to study the cultural products of the community, such as stories, novels, musical productions, films and series; furthermore, gender, in particular, gender representation of women is the media interest with a significant role. Representation of women varies in different cultures, and the way of portraying a woman is influenced by the particular cultural look to its role and stance. The current paper aims at investigating women's representation in Shahrzad series from the perspective of Sociolinguistics. To this end, sequences of the series, which are closely linked to the subject of research, namely gender-based linguistic interaction, have been selected and analyzed using the Barrett's three-dimensional semiotic analysis method, woman' s representation, as well as the linguistic status of women against men from the perspective of Sociolinguistics. The most significant results show the representation of the type of linguistic control by women, the men language superiority to the inferiority of the language of women; the inferiority as a result of women linguistic absence, as well as sexuality in linguistic communication, which is based on ideology and patriarchal discourse in society.

The Increase in the penetration rate of the Internet and the number of membership in social networks through mobile phones has been remarkable in recent years in Iran. The presence of women in social media and the impact of social media on their lives is important from the sociological point of view. This article, while reviewing the conceptual framework and some of the researches and theories related to women's bonding with communication technologies, has a special focus on Cyber-Feminism. The main question of the article is the impact of membership on social networks on the lives of employed and housewives. The authors conducted a deep interview with 15 housewives and employed women in the city of Rasht based on a qualitative method and a non-objective sampling with snowball technique. The findings of the study indicate that social networks increase the domain of social relationships and so facilitate their participation in various social, cultural, scientific and educational arena, which corresponds to the ideas of Cyber feminism. The authors believe that the issues such as the patriarchal system, lack of security in cyberspace, lack of adequate media literacy and media skills among women, challenge the empowerment and the active presence of women in cyberspace which is the claim of Cyber-feminism.

The Golestan Palace complex, Tile is covered with lavish decorations. These tiles are Haftrang and practices are under glazed painting And have a video collection of flower and vase, fruit, birds, male and female roles, geometric patterns, etc. are all features and social conditions, political Qajar acting up to the show. All Qajar's motifs under the influence of various arts such as lithography, a Coffee shop drawings, Photography and Western postcards were formed. The authors of the present articles regarding The ancient area Golestan Palace features tile designs. What this research has studied how to draw the image of women in Tile ancient area Golestan Palace. Accordingly, the following research questions were addressed in this study: How is the Image of Women in Golestan Palace courtyard tiles? What are features of Sun and Angel in tiles of Golestan Palace ancient area? The required data were collected by documentary (library) and field surveying method in the current study and its method is historical- analytical one. Studies show that women represented in the resulting tile is in the form of the Sun and Angels. The Sun is drawn according to the characteristics of Oriental Women and the role of the Angel of the influence of Byzantine art and painting West as well as charts.

Given the range of spirituality in different aspects of human life and the need to evaluate the role of spirituality in quality of life, the aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between dimensions of quality of life and the dimensions of spiritual intelligence in female nurses working in Ahvaz' hospitals. This study has a descriptive and correlation method. The sample included 200 married female nurses who were selected by stratified random sampling. Data have been gathered by the questionnaires of King Spiritual Intelligence and the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale (short form). Data have been analyzed by descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, and multiple regressions. There were a meaningful positive relationship among spiritual intelligence and its dimensions, the personal meaning-production, transcendental consciousness and critical existential thinking with quality of life. However, the personal meaning-production of the spiritual intelligence, conscious state expansion and transcendental consciousness has significant and positive relationship with the quality of life and its components. It can be concluded that the dimensions of spiritual intelligence explained 9.3 percent of the variance quality of life.

Changes in lifestyle and its contributing factors to some extent resulted in delayed marriage or no marriage as one of the fundamental problems of today society. The problem is more frequently observed in graduate students. The objective of this study is to examine the girls lived experiences of graduate students of Tabriz University of late marriage. This study was conducted based on the qualitative approach using phenomenological method. Participants in this study were 22 delay marriage girls who were selected by the purposive sampling. Data were collected via in-depth and semi-structured interviews. The transcribed interviews were analyzed based on Strabert and Carpenter method. Five main themes were achieved from the experiences of the people. The factors are including the economy, education, culture, cyberspace and the consequences and outcomes. Some Sub-themes are the role of the socioeconomic issues, false beliefs and traditions, and virtual spaces. These factors have caused widespread late marriage that has consequences such as depression, Delaissement, anxiety of alone, and humiliation. Some strategies such as promotion of Islamic lifestyle can be improve this phenomenon.

Patriarchy is a term for a system or structure that has women under its control through social, political, and economic institutions. Patriarchy is also a subset of patriarchal system that its main aim is domination over women and their subjugation. Since many Arab critics and intellectuals have some reasons for women problems and backwardness in the domination of patriarchal system, they also consider their development and liberation in fighting with this system. Accordingly, along with the start of awakening movements in Arab world, women’s libertarian movements were also formed by a struggle with patriarchal system among their objectives. Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, the Egyptian writer, politician, journalist, and jurist is one of the pioneers of this field in Egypt. A part of his works is dedicated to present women’s problems and issues and the criticism of patriarchal system in Egypt. Among these works are his short story collection titled “Gosas Mesriat” in which many of women’s issues in Egypt in the years following World War II is portrayed. The applied analyses in this collection indicate patriarchal culture as the most important discourse criticized by Heikal. It can be studied in three individual, familial, and social fields.

Madayan i Hazar Dadestan, The book of Thousand Judgments is one of the most important social history sources and juridical text in Middle Persian language and script. This text has been written in dawn Sasanian era i.e. the early 7th century A.D. and it is the only text remained from juridical tradition of Zoroastrianism that discusse in legal and civil issues for surviving in its original form and language, It belongs to the era before Islam. In this book a compilation of law terms is mentioned like as: slavery, warranty, partnership, marriage, divorce, disobedient or misconduct and etc. In Sasanian period women's position depends on their status class and the women that didn' t follow of principles and social norms, have been punished in multiple reasons. The kind of their punishments depends on their social levels and these women were called disobedient. Therefore In this article, discussion of misconduct's concept and legal aspects that is related to it in various levels (Padixšay-wife and čagar-wife), analysis the verdicts of it, quality of partnership and woman's possession in properties, before and after of her misconduct's confirmation, conditions of accuring properties and inherited for disobedient's woman's children and also quality of their incoming, has been studied.