Journal of Woman Cultural Psychology
Year:2013 | Volume:4 | Issue:15|Papers Count:10

Although the number of female poets has been less than man, it is not a good reason to neglect their very important role in creating poems and literary works all around the world. All literary movements seem to have some women with magnificent literary works and very wonderful poems, all the time. In Iran, even in the most traditional historical periods, women had created wonderful literary works. It is obvious that social and historical status of men and women poets have been different, in spite of that, their values were not affected by their status. Even most of the time, it could be seen that women have been much more kind and affectionate in creating an artistic literary work. The purpose of this article was to show women's role playing process in creating literary works from the very beginning of the existence of modern poetry. The name of all the female poets and some of their influential poems were mentioned and their success and failure was discussed too. The author tried not to ignore any well-known name from the list, meanwhile, social concerns of such kind of evolutions was considered.

This research was administered with the aim of studying the moderating role of conflict management styles in relationship between conflict with supervisor and coworkers and female nurses’ deviant behaviors. The research pattern was correlation one. The statistical population was the whole 140 female nurses from a hospital in Esfahan city.100 nurses were selected by using convenience sampling method. The research instruments consisted of Conflict Management Styles Questionnaire (De drew et al, 2001), researcher made questionnaire of conflict with coworkers and supervisor, and Deviant Behaviors Questionnaire (Robinson and Bennett, 1995). Data were analyzed with the use of Pearson correlation coefficient and hierarchical regression analysis. Results revealed that forcing moderated the relationship between conflict with supervisor and coworkers and deviant behaviors toward hospital and coworkers. Current research evidences showed that when forcing as a conflict management style was high, and women nurses exposed to conflict with supervisor and coworkers, increase in deviant behaviors toward coworkers and supervisor occurred.

The marriage contract and family establishing were reconfirmed in Islam and The Muslims were encouraged in such practices. However some times the divorce becomes a necessity. Otherwise in such cases if either the man or the woman would not claim for divorce, exhausting difficulties, crimes, mental problems and sever worries might occurred which not only make the marital life difficult but also may cause catastrophic events in the society. “Talagh” (divorce) rooted from the word “talgh” (separation) which meant either a man or woman would be separated from him/her spouse. Kole divorce occurs when a woman due to her hate of her husband would bestow her bel longings to him to dissolve the marriage bond between. By studying the Quran and the tradition we could end to the conclusion that there is no any discrimination between man and woman regarding the divorce verdict. The woman could claim for divorce due to her aversion toward her husband.

The aim of this research was to examine the relationship between secure attachment style, optimism and social support with life satisfaction in female undergraduate students of Shahid Chamran University. The sample included 300 individuals that were selected through multistage random sampling among all female undergraduate students of Shahid Chamran University. Simpson Adulat Attachment Inventory (AAI), Life Orientation Test-Reviseved (LOT-R, Scheier, Carver and Bridge), Phlips Social Support Inventory (PSSI), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS, Ryff, Lee, Essex and Schmutte) were used for data collecting. The research was designed as correlation type. Results of data analysis by using Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariable regression showed that there was significant positive relation between secure attachment style, optimism and social support with life satisfaction. Finally, the results also indicated that optimism, social support, avoidant insecure attachment and secure attachment, respectively, were the best predictors of life satisfaction.

This research was an analytic descriptive investigation that intended to explain if Islam and consequently Islamic Republic of Iran considered the political rights for women. And also whether or not such an important issue was taken into consideration in human rights international documents. And how the women political rights in Islamic and Iranian society to be enforced into practice. Do they play any significant role in governmental and administrative professions? With reference to jurisprudence resources, international documents and their analysis the following result was achieved: in Islamic jurisprudence resources like Quran in verses such as “enjoin good and forbid evil”, “loyalty to Prophet Mohammad” peace upon Him and... and also in traditions and infallibles anecdotes referred to women political rights. Also in constitutional law in some codes such as 6, 13, 56 women and men participations were equally confirmed. Following this law, women can enter various administrative and governmental professions. Looking at human rights documents showed that these documents also supported women political rights.

The Tobacco protest (1309 A.H) was an Iranian people uprising led by Mirza Hassan Shirazi when the king, Nasir al-Din Shah granted a concession, known as Reggie Contract, to an English man, Major Talbot, for production, sale and export of tobacco, for fifty years. The women as half part of the society had an active role at that uprising. This research tried to explain the role of women in the tobacco protest and reviewed its causes. It seems that the economic problems and increase of women awareness on political and social situation was effective in participation on that protest. The participation and leadership of women in the movement of tobacco‚ in some cases‚ the support of the clergy and their compliance with fatwas of ayatollahs and their armed struggle to achieve their aim, the revocation of Reggie contract was more than anything else because of their awareness on the political and economic situation of the society. Religious motives contributed very decisive role in the success of tobacco movement. The research was a theoretical study and the data was gathered through written historical documents.

In fictional literature, Sedegh Hedayat was one of the multidimensional characters. In his work, he has been considered as an anti-feminine person, because of his attitude toward women- as a reflective element of fertility. But by a little contemplation on his work, and the social, educational and psychological aspects of his character, one might find out that he was not an anti-feminine person. In the present study, the unknown aspects of women in Hedayat's works was studied, and concluded that not only was not he an anti-feminine person but also he looked at women by a particular kindness.

Reviewing the woman poison in Iranian literature would be possible by reading prominent poetry and prose works. One of the salient works that most concerned about woman was Jami Haft Orang Masnavi and love story of it, Liely va Mjnoun. In the mentioned love story Leily as woman was a beloved sweetheart that possessed features alike beauty, wisdom, self esteem, fidelity, tenderness, delightfulness and so on. Jami narration of woman differed from Nezami, Maktabi and Dehlavi ones regarding his positive look toward woman. The word woman was more frequent in his works comparing to the word man.