Women Studies
M. Pourrajabi; A. Ghobadi
Abstract
The concept of beauty in the contemporary society is closely linked to gender. In this research, the concept of makeup and beauty has been explored from the perspective of women by using qualitative method techniques. Therefore, 35 young women of Tehran city were interviewed through in-depth and semi-structured ...
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The concept of beauty in the contemporary society is closely linked to gender. In this research, the concept of makeup and beauty has been explored from the perspective of women by using qualitative method techniques. Therefore, 35 young women of Tehran city were interviewed through in-depth and semi-structured questionnaire, and the samples were selected based on theoretical sampling and theoretical saturation. After extracting primary, secondary, and intermediate concepts of the three main categories, i.e. 1- general areas of beauty and signs, 2- make-up; and 3- consumption of media, the need for beauty and make-up was determined. The results show that make-up and beauty are defined as an important activity for young women. Beauty and makeup are intertwined with people's lifestyle and are adjusted and coordinated by it i.e., the amount and manner of makeup of women changes with their understanding of the culture that governs different environments, the type and gender of the audience, the amount of communication and the type of activity. It can be stated that make-up and beauty provide women with the possibility of creating many social relationships. In the analysis and interpretation of the interviews, we found a range of reasons such as increasing social capital, coercion or group conformity, building a new identity and self-idealism, and increasing self-confidence in explaining why makeup is done.
Sociology
A. Babaiefard; T. Yoosefifar; Z. Amjadi
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The present study aimed to investigate the effect of social factors on women’s Body Management in Qom. The theoretical framework was based on various theories by Giddens, Goffman, Nan Lane, Cooley, and Homans. This study was based on a survey design, and the data were collected by a researcher-made ...
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The present study aimed to investigate the effect of social factors on women’s Body Management in Qom. The theoretical framework was based on various theories by Giddens, Goffman, Nan Lane, Cooley, and Homans. This study was based on a survey design, and the data were collected by a researcher-made questionnaire. The statistical population included all women aged 16-60 years old in Qom. A total of 384 participants were selected using the Cochran’s Formula and quota sampling. SPSS software (Version 22) was used for data analysis. The findings indicated that body management had a significant and direct relationship with social pressure, social acceptance, and life satisfaction as well as achieving a higher social status and attracting the opposite sex. In addition, the results of regression analysis revealed that the aforementioned variables could explain 41% of the changes in ‘Body Management’. Furthermore, implications of the findings for social policy making were discussed. Finally, some suggestions were made for dealing with extreme tendency towards Body Management.
Women Studies
S. Shafiei
Abstract
In the Iranian family sociology, the dominant approach is based on this general idea that the family is the center of patriarchy. Based on this view, women at home are in subjugation and under male dominance. To support this idea, a lot of researches have been conducted in recent years. However, the ...
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In the Iranian family sociology, the dominant approach is based on this general idea that the family is the center of patriarchy. Based on this view, women at home are in subjugation and under male dominance. To support this idea, a lot of researches have been conducted in recent years. However, the present study does not seek to identify the patterns of female subjugation; rather it is in the process to identify the patterns of their resistance to male dominance within the home. As such, the study seeks to answer the question as how women use "culture" as a tool of resistance as well as to change the balance of power in the family. In this regard, 36 married women were interviewed. Findings showed that women use the strategies such as "struggle for meaning", "reverse decoding", "resistance to gender stereotypes", "resistance through tradition" and "appearance of obedience but hidden resistance within family" to resist the male dominance. Through these, they try to control male power in the home and balance it accordingly. Various resistance strategies indicate that women’s “resistance sources" in the family are numerous, which take place in different domains and in different ways.
S. Mohammad Mehdizadeh; Hadi Khaniki; Hamid Azizi
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This article studies women’s reading of TV shows aired on Gem satellite channel. This is a qualitative research using unstructured interviews. The statistical society is all the female audiences of GEM TV-shows in the city of Kamyaran. To select the sample, the non-probability sampling ...
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This article studies women’s reading of TV shows aired on Gem satellite channel. This is a qualitative research using unstructured interviews. The statistical society is all the female audiences of GEM TV-shows in the city of Kamyaran. To select the sample, the non-probability sampling technique of snowball sampling was used and the sample size for the interviews was 26. For analyze the data, they were coded and the resulting codes were interpreted.The results show that the interviewees tend to compare the lives of the women in the TV shows with their own lives. More over most of the women believe that the TV shows do not really affect them. It seems that the subconscious effects on their thoughts are being ignored. In general, it can be said that the women want to change their relations with men, as well as share of power and gain independency.
S. Abolhassan Ryazi; Banou Dokht Najafianpour
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The purpose of the present research was to study socio-cultural and psychological effective factors contributing to suicide, as well as comparing these factors among Iranian and Tajik women who attempted suicide. The present study was a qualitative study in which 60 patients (30 from each ...
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The purpose of the present research was to study socio-cultural and psychological effective factors contributing to suicide, as well as comparing these factors among Iranian and Tajik women who attempted suicide. The present study was a qualitative study in which 60 patients (30 from each country) participated. Each of these participants went through an in-depth interview. Results of the study showed that the most important factors considering suicide attempt in both groups were as follows: domestic violence, cultural induction, family cold relations, forced marriages, too much responsibility, lack of privacy, polygamy, irrational biases and lack of communication between generations. Tajik men, despite the law of monogamy, prefer polygamy and marry more than one woman. Tajik people also, prohibit burring body of a woman who is dead after a suicide atempt in Muslim cemetery.
Shahram Jalilian; Seyed Ali Fatemi
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This paper, adopting a historical-descriptive approach, aims at studying women’s clothing in Achaemenid Period. Therefore all of the sources in which there is some information about women’s clothing are studied critically in this research. At first, the way Achaemenid ascended the throne ...
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This paper, adopting a historical-descriptive approach, aims at studying women’s clothing in Achaemenid Period. Therefore all of the sources in which there is some information about women’s clothing are studied critically in this research. At first, the way Achaemenid ascended the throne is studied and Iranians’ and Greeks’ different attitudes on Achaemenid women’s life are presented, then women’s representation in Achaemenid archeological evidences is investigated and a precise description of women’s clothing and costume is given. The findings of this research, which are based on historical resources and the representation of women in Achaemenid archeological evidences such as seals and reliefs over stones/engraves, clearly reveal that despite of political and economic activities and considerable freedom women had in Achaemenid Period, they used a kind of clothing that covered all over their bodies. Using this kind/style of clothing was based on this attitude that in fact Iranian women in Achaemenid Period considered nudity and bareness obscence/dirty and inappropriate so they wore a kind of costumes that covered all over their bodies.
Sara Talebi; Mohammad Gholi Minavand
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Playing right role of media in our country needs to examine the way of performing the announced policy by the Islamic republic of Iran broadcasting(IRIB) for the media production. The family is one of the attractive subjects between the films and serials. And the women in modern society need them to ...
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Playing right role of media in our country needs to examine the way of performing the announced policy by the Islamic republic of Iran broadcasting(IRIB) for the media production. The family is one of the attractive subjects between the films and serials. And the women in modern society need them to model their role properly in the family. This article which has been investigated by qualitative deep interview method with religious experts and media specialists wants to convey both the role of the presence of women among their family and the norm and the quality of their presence according to the Islamic values announced by the program Producing organization of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB).
Mohammad Reza Hatami; Saroyeh Mazhabi
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It seems that Identity in one of most important element in social life, which could be the subject of new factors. In this case, the women have been being influenced by various factors in order to finding their own Gender Identity in recent years. The position and situation of today's women is so different ...
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It seems that Identity in one of most important element in social life, which could be the subject of new factors. In this case, the women have been being influenced by various factors in order to finding their own Gender Identity in recent years. The position and situation of today's women is so different from which used to be in the past. The society and the women both have more acceptable vision about women's gender identity toward moderating. One of the efficacious element of this changing is the mass media especially Internet. This literature will discuss about the definition of Identity and its relation with gender after the introduction, then the elements of the Identity in relation with the mass media. The bulls eye of this literature is to deliberate the gender Identity of women and its relation with the mass media especially Internet.
Bijan Khajehnoori; Ali Ruhani; Somaye Hashemi
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This study investigated the relationship between lifestyle which seems as a scale of globalization process with body image. Required data was collected by systematic random sampling among 508 women in Shiraz. Based on existing theories and studies theoretical framework has constituted based on Giddens ...
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This study investigated the relationship between lifestyle which seems as a scale of globalization process with body image. Required data was collected by systematic random sampling among 508 women in Shiraz. Based on existing theories and studies theoretical framework has constituted based on Giddens theory. Six hypotheses have been established. For collecting information, survey method and self reported questionnaire were used. In data analysis and explanation, multiple regression and unilateral dispersion analyses were used. The result showed that among effective factors on body image, modern musical lifestyle, religious\' lifestyle, leisure lifestyle and participative lifestyle explained 23 percent of variations of body image. Among these variables, only religious lifestyle had negative relationship with body image and other variables had positive relationship with dependant variable.
Azam Ravadrad; Mahdi Montazer Ghaem; Parisa Sarkarati
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Regarding the importance of representation in redefining individuals and social groups’ identity, the interpretation of women from representation of feminine identity in television is examined in this article. The main question asks: what is the relationship between women’s interpretation ...
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Regarding the importance of representation in redefining individuals and social groups’ identity, the interpretation of women from representation of feminine identity in television is examined in this article. The main question asks: what is the relationship between women’s interpretation of feminine identity in television and their media consumption. It was assumed that women resist against those media contents which reproduce unwanted identity for them, and they do this through not consuming the presented contents. The research method was qualitative, using intense interviews with women from different social groups having different characteristics. Using Stewart Hall’s concept of Encoding and Decoding, it is examined that how women with different characteristics in terms of occupation, education and their marital status, adopting different readings, produce different meanings for those serials which try to reproduce a housewife identity for women. The results showed that the kind of women’s interpretation of media representations is different according to their different characteristics, and that this is in relation to their selective usage of media contents and shaping the desired contents for them.
