Journal of Woman Cultural Psychology
Year:2012 | Volume:4 | Issue:13|Papers Count:11

Vitiligo is a pigmentation disorder in which melanocytes; the cells that make pigment in the skin are destroyed. As a result, white patches appear on the skin in different parts of the body. Vitiligo affects males and females of all races equally. Its study significance in Islamic texts was due to some religious prescripts in which such a disease has been considered as one of the conditions that might revoke the marriage contract of a couple in accordance with jurisprudence and legal edicts. This research was an analytic-descriptive investigation that intended to explain why some of the jurisprudents considered the vitiligo to be particularly true to women and some others took it as equally common conditions to men and women. With referring to jurisprudence references, Shiite and Sunni prescripts and religious decrees jurisprudents and lawyers doctrines and analyzing their documentations, it was concluded that famous Shiite jurisprudents and consequently the Islamic Republic of Iran civil laws considered the vitiligo to be particularly true to women. To prove their points of view they discussed and invoked the hadith, a record of the words and deeds of the Prophet of Islam and Imams of the Shiite. Some other of Shiite and the Sunni jurisprudents also took the vitiligo as the equally common conditions to men and women. They cited the hadith to justify their prescripts too.

The aim of this research was the sociological study of women’s presence and power in men’s professional environment. The sample was selected randomly via multiple-stage cluster sampling. The data was collected by implementation of the researcher initiated questionnaire in a sample of 200 women living in the City Jiroft in Kerman province in Iran. To investigate the relations and correlations among variables, the analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Pearson correlation were applied. The so-called equality theory was the theoretical basis for the research. The research was proposed to examine how women are socialized in a man’s environment and how they try to influence this field. The results of the research showed that there was a significant relationship between social sense of belonging, hope of promotion, avoiding the deviant patterns of behavior, level of education, family education and social participation of women. No any significant relationship between types of occupations of women and social participation was obtained. Research showed that workplace become richer by the presence of women.

This study analyzed the status and rights of women that were discussed in Nahjolbalaqa. One of the critical resources that have long been discussed about the role and status of women in the religious attitude has been the word “Menin” in the Nahjolbalaqa. Some appear to adhere to his word and denied the perfection seeking and high humane values of woman. Some others while insisting on woman nobility and dignity discussed that His speech ignored the true position and dignity ofwoman and disconfirmed His word. This study intended to prove that in spite of his ignorance of tradition, He respected the character and position of women. Imam Ali (Salute to Him) introduced the woman as the epitome of beauty and kindness. He emphasized on the restoration of the rights of women, including political, economic, cultural, educational, social. In addition, He advised the men to respect the rights of women.

Postmodernism as a great intellectual movement affected the arts, politics, economics, science, culture, identity, therapeutics and… The present article with help of the documentary and analytical methods intended to analyze the epistemological and sociological dimensions of Postmodernism and introduce its fundamental principles and finally reviewed the various influences of postmodernism on psychology as an interdisciplinary science. Postmodernism is essentially the logic of negation and rejection of the intellectual foundations of any eternal and universal values, emphasize the relative orientation in all affairs. Identity in this regard as the most important aspects of human personality was affected by the change of semantic relativism of postmodernism and other areas of human thought such as women and men in social status, personal identity and social and therapeutic approach.

More than six decades have passed since Palestinians began their struggle against Israel and its powerful backers. Many times during this period, the world had witnessed legendary resistance initiated by the people of Palestine. The news of such resistance became the headlines both in the region and all around the world, whilst at the same time the world opinion was overawed by the news of many tragedies befalling the Palestinians. The question that has been raised was that what were the reasons which made the resistance to last for sixty years. It is a fact that one important reason for such phenomenon to be continued in such a way and for so long has been the presence of Palestinian women in the heart of the struggling resistance. Present article was an attempt to understand and clarify the role played by Palestinian women in sustaining and continuing the resistance movement. For example we can mention of military cultural activities and establishing of the autonomous organizations.

This article was purposed to introduce the current status and evolution of women’s clothing during the period of ancient Persia to Islam. The study of religious texts, including the Torah, the Bible and the civil code of the Islamic societies such as Iran and…that were obeyed the holly gospels and reviewing the history and quality of clothing indicated that clothing was considered as moral virtue and an ethic by the human civilizations. All the societies’ members were obligated to proposed clothing. Deviations from the proposed clothing were regarded as a challenge and a campaign against the ongoing values that was to be punished. The article concluded that the clothing has kept the basic principles which have not been changed over time except for a slight difference that depended on the culture and customs and time requirements and circumstances in each era.

The goal of current study was to investigate the efficacy of life skills training on reducing anxiety of divorced women. The sample included 40 divorced women that referred to Tehran Health Home. The subjects were allocated randomly in to experimental and control groups. Only the experimental group received life skills training weekly for seven sessions. The instruments that were applied in this study was Beck Depression Inventory that were performed on the experimental and control group in two pre- test and post- test stages. The data were analyzed by Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) statistic method. The results indicated that life skills training caused significant reduction in anxiety scores in experimental group rather than control group (p<0.001).

This paper aimed to discover if there was a relation between characteristics of online database and the perceptions of female faculty members of the zone 8 of Islamic Azad University in Tehran based on Rogers’ theory of Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) such as relative advantage, compatibility, trialability and observability attributes. The samples included 105 female faculty members who were selected randomly by stratified sampling procedure. The analytical research survey method was applied. The data were gathered by implementing a questionnaire based on previous writings and theories of Rogers. The findings indicated that all independent variables correlated significantly to the female faculty members’ compliance within Rogers’ innovation diffusion theory (p<0.0001). The relative advantage and compatibility were stronger predictors of adoption rate compare to other online databases characteristics.