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The article describes an extracurricular learning opportunity for young women on the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and mathematical modeling. The project course "Girls in STEM - solving real problems with math and AI" at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is aimed at girls from grade 10 and teaches the basics of modern AI technologies. The participants work on current problems in the fields of Data Science and AI, such as developing a film recommendation system based on a dataset from Netflix. The course also includes a networking event with women working in Data Science professions. The course has been positively evaluated and will now be offered permanently to convey the relevance of mathematics and computer science to more young women. [Extracted from the article]

This article deals with humor at the end of life: After introductory remarks on the complex of topics dying, death and humor, a text can be read, which was written by a young woman six months before her death for this article: Sarah Braun became ill with the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at the age of 24. In her text, she reflects on the importance of humor in her life and death. Following Sarah Braun’s text »Ich lach mich in den Tod« (I laugh myself to death), a theoretical-conceptual reflection on my part follows: The focus is on the aspects of humor as a survival strategy (relativization, distancing, coping) as well as types of humor, whereby the question is explored whether there is good/bad humor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What role did the rose play in the construction of pink as a »girl’s colour«? Little has been written about all the flowers that make girls’ pink consumer culture bloom. In this article, I focus on recurring topoi in the construction of normative femininity as a blushing rose and interrogate the colour names – incarnadine, vermilion, rosé, rose red and pink – used to describe the rosy, blushing or rouged cheeks of young women and girls. The protagonists of selected canonical fairy tales and works of art provide illustrative material, including La belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault, Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and Snow-White and Rose-Red. As Gertrude Stein’s well-known line »A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose« emphasises, the (colour) name of a thing always evokes images, stories and feelings that form part of the cultural imaginary. I argue that rose images, stories and colours have been used in Western Europe since the sixteenth century to reproduce a floral ideal of femininity defined by liveliness and receptivity, seduction and deception, as well as complementarity. Current popular children’s characters like Princess Lillifee continue the story of the fair-skinned, receptively blushing and ›naturally‹ blooming female ideal of beauty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article deals with the developmental progress of young female offenders in juvenile detention in Hesse. It is noted that most young women show positive development during their incarceration and that their progress is higher than that of male offenders. This is attributed to the intensive care and treatment work in female juvenile detention. It is also pointed out that girls commit less serious offenses than boys and have a lower recidivism rate. Female juvenile detention in Hesse offers fewer opportunities for typical youth activities, and female juvenile prisoners have specific problems and challenges compared to adult women. An investigation shows that most female juvenile prisoners had no previous convictions and that about half of the girls consumed drugs. The results show that the girls have experienced overall positive changes, but also lower progress in some areas such as education and aggression processing. Some girls also showed negative developments in substance abuse. Of the individuals examined, 21.7% were re-incarcerated, with only 8.7% being convicted of new offenses. The results suggest that juvenile detention is successful in promoting young female offenders in some areas, but there is also room for improvement. [Extracted from the article]

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This article is about the psychotherapeutic journey of a young patient with a pronounced social phobia and a hided intellectual giftedness: Her creative, neurotic solutions to holding on to her identity as a person, who stays inside, to her first test steps to become a person, who starts to go outside. It describes, how the young woman, as a result of early childhood traumatic relationship experiences decided during her puberty to almost completely separate herself socially from the outside world and rested inside her room for several years. During her isolation, she developed her own identity and vision of how she would like to live in her imagination. With the help of literature and a tragic contemporary historical figure, who she used as a »fellow sufferer« and alter ego, she carefully began to reconnect with the outside world, first only in her imagination. In the course of the modified analytical adolescent psychotherapy and by using the analyst as a real bridge to the outer world, the young woman found a way to reconnect better and better with her real self in mourning, loving and appreciating and thus developed ways out of her inner and outer isolation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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One Girl, Three Names. The Political Participation of New Women in Maria Leitner’s Work. This contribution presents a reading of Maria Leitner’s novel Mädchen mit drei Namen (1932). The novel intervenes in the contemporary discourse on the New Woman and extends it by two crucial aspects. First, it documents the desolate living and working conditions of young working women in Berlin in the early 1930s. Second, it addresses these women as potential activists of the workers’ movement. The article investigates whether or under what conditions the literary mobilization of the young generation of women succeeded. The analysis of Leitner’s novel is complemented by examining the discussion of Irmgard Keun’s novel Gilgi, eine von uns in the social democratic newspaper Vorwärts. Drawing on these two exceptional contributions to Weimar’s new generation of women, the article reveals the intricate intertwining of the discourse on their political participation with the ongoing debate about female representations in the mass media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is hardly any other art form as immersive as film. Thus, if a movie focuses on the abyss of human behaviour, dealing with crimes, violence or even murder, it is often accused of being immoral and corrupting its audience. On the basis of selected examples from Alfred Hitchcock’s ›Rope‹ to Martin Scorsese’s ›Taxi Driver‹ and Lars von Trier’s ›Dogville‹, this critical essay explores the question of the moral claims movies can make. Considering contemporary films such as ›Promising Young Woman‹ and ›Joker‹ this text asks how modern anti-heroes influence the audience and what changes can be seen over the last decades in the moral reception of movies. Finally, the essay concludes with the latest attempts of censorship and looks at who determines the moral value of art. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Devil as an Earworm. On Hearing and Sensing Voices in the Sensory Space of the Asylum. This article examines sensory experiences as well as spatial practices in the asylum. The case history of an unmarried maid who was treated at the insane asylum in Hall in Tyrol around the middle of the nineteenth century serves as a central thread. Her medical record thematizes senses and spaces 'outside' and 'inside' the body, focusing on individualized dimensions of experiencing psychiatric sensescapes. The spatial and sensual references in medical records often point beyond the epistemic institutional place and can be elaborated based on more dynamic concepts of space, such as those provided by Henri Lefebvre. This article further links the case of the young woman plagued by terrible visions and haunted by inner voices with reflections on spatial and metaphorical resonance phenomena and addresses the space-arranging practices of physicians in the asylum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Science Barometer 2021 shows that despite the Corona pandemic, the population's trust in science and research remains high. In particular, people trust the statements of scientists regarding the pandemic situation and trust doctors and medical personnel. However, there are also skeptical voices who believe that scientists are not disclosing all information about the coronavirus and that the pandemic is being exaggerated. Most respondents wish for political decisions based on scientific knowledge and for science to contradict political decisions when they ignore scientific findings. The internet is the most common source of information about science and research, with websites and media libraries of news media being the most used. The Fraunhofer Institute and Kairntech have created a knowledge graph for psychiatric illnesses to assist medical professionals in making decisions about therapies. The Tagesspiegel paper archive is looking for a new location to preserve its historical collection from 1945 to 1993. Scientists are calling for the strengthening of STEM education in all areas of education in a position paper. The use of the internet has become even more important for many people during the Corona pandemic. However, there is also an increased digital divide in society, which is based on factors such as age, level of education, and household net income. A representative survey by the Bertelsmann Foundation shows that the pandemic has further exacerbated existing differences in digital sovereignty. Older people, people with low levels of education, and people with low incomes are particularly affected. The results of the survey highlight the need to take measures to improve digital participation for all population groups. A study shows that younger people and women attach more importance to the internet than older people and men. The use and value of the internet also increase with higher levels of education. However, for older people over 60, the importance of internet use has decreased compared to the pre-corona period. Independent searching for solutions on the internet has increased the most compared to 2019. Around half of the respondents use the internet to search for answers and solve problems. Many wish for support in learning digital skills, especially in the form of instructional videos or online courses. [Extracted from the article]

From the historic women’s movement until the current queer-feminist movement feminists have published their issues and concerns in self-published, of - ten hand-made magazines, pamphlets, and flyers. Feminist zines (self-published and -distributed magazines) show vividly that many girls, young women, LGBTQI, and marginalized people do not feel heard or misrepresented by society and mainstream media. Therefore, they produce their own, alternative media in which they create self- defined and empowering images, content, and networks and express social critique. Especially in the “riot grrrl movement” a wide variety of zines arose. Part of this zine production found its way into the “Grrrl Zine Collection” at the University of Salzburg. In this article, I show what so-called “Grrrl Zines” are, why we should collect them and which archives and libraries do so already. Although they face some challenges, I argue that archives and libraries should collect zines as important, even though unconventional, chaotic, and difficult to archive, artifacts and as “living archives”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Katja Petrowskaja, born in Kiev in 1970, won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2013 with an excerpt from her book Vielleicht Esther. Five years later, it is again a young woman from Ukraine, Tanja Maljartschuk, born in 1983 in Ivano-Frankivsk, who wins the prestigious prize with the text Frösche im Meer. The two writers also have in common their late learning of the German language. “My German remained somehow inaccessible and saved me from routine” (Petrowskaja). “I can fool myself in Ukrainian” (Maljartschuk). Why two Ukrainian women made the choice to write in a foreign language and how their attempts have influenced their literary work is discussed in the article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Migration, with its diverse manifestations, is one of the most important phenomena in the global world, both in the present and in the past. It shapes the societies and lives of individuals in different ways including profound transformations. Social spheres such as politics, economics, science and religion are fields of action within the migration phenomenon that at the same time generate narratives of migration. In this lecture, following Albrecht Koschorke, the possible speaker positions within migration narratives will be elaborated. Afterwards, based on two passages from a group discussion with two young Muslim women, the effects of the narratives on the individual level of action will be analysed. In this way, the role of the subjects and the interaction with the narratives at the level of everyday life will be examined closely. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The review discusses the book "Female Juvenile Offenders in Germany" by Johanna Beecken. The book provides a comprehensive assessment of the situation of female juvenile offenders in Germany and includes reform proposals for the penal system. It is based on a study conducted by the University of Cologne, in which female juvenile offenders in nine out of ten institutions responsible for female juvenile detention were interviewed. The book describes the legal requirements and the actual situation of young women in the penal system and discusses specific challenges and possible suggestions for change. The review praises the structured and differentiated work as recommendable for anyone interested in understanding the situation and challenges of female juvenile detention. [Extracted from the article]