The Tag Glossary: F

FAMILY is a DIV1 content element, one of the 16 major elements in the BIOGRAPHY section of profiles, defined as integral to mapping a woman's life. FAMILY contains all information about a person's family life (both her birth family and her married family) and, when no MEMBER sub-element is used, captures general family information and allows for a discussion of multiple family members at the same time.

For the purposes of Orlando, we are defining family in the strict sense of the state-sanctioned institution. We acknowledge the politically offensive nature of constructing the family as including only biological, by-marriage and by-adoption members. But, in order to ensure that we do not erase the material and ideological effects of this construction, we do not want to merge alternative families with state-sanctioned families, thereby hiding their very real differences. By including alternative families under another of 16 major life elements in BIOGRAPHY, INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS, we hope to facilitate research on the politics of the family. If the woman had a lifelong relationship with a lover whom she did not marry, but the relationship played itself out in a family-like manner, then we tag family MEMBER=partner. If they defined their relationship in opposition to the heterosexual family, then it would be tagged in the INTIMATERELATIONSHIPS element.

In most instances, a FAMILY element is placed after BIRTH and CULTURALFORMATION to introduce her parents and general early family life. The element (and its sub-elements, MEMBER, CHILDREN, CHILDLESSNESS, SEPARATION and DIVORCE) can be used again later in the profile to discuss her married family, or later developments within her birth family. Any combination of multiple member sub-elements and general FAMILY discussion can be used within one FAMILY element.

This element belongs within WRITING > RECEPTION. It refers to the appearance of author as fictitious character in someone’s later writings - Aphra Behn as freedom fighter, Ada Byron as detective etc. (but not recasting of her works, for which use RSHEINFLUENCED). It should contain a full sentence, and any titles that occur within it should be tagged as such. It has no mandatory or optional attributes or sub-elements.

This element is conceptually a part of BIOGRAPHY > PRODUCTION. It captures the first significant writing activity, published or otherwise, of the subject. It is not used for publications unless there's strong evidence that the publication actually sprang from the actual earliest writing activity. This element should contain a full sentence spelling out if possible (and tagging) the title of the work, its date of creation of publication, and its TGENRE. It has no mandatory or optional sub-elements or attributes.

FRIENDSASSOCIATES is one of the 16 major content elements defined as integral to mapping a woman's life in the BIOGRAPHY section of her entry. Because of the ability of our digital literary history to make links between people, mapping the friendships and personal connections of writers is a very high priority. Systematizing the people that a woman writer knew will allow us to make hitherto unrecognized connections between writers. This original research will provide users with a wealth of information about personal, political, intellectual, and other relationships. The title Friends and Associates is meant to reflect the fact that not all of a woman's associates may be friends. This element may discuss enmities, business relations, or associations that are not strictly friendships. Discussions of friendships or relationships that impinged upon the woman's sense of her own sexuality, would be best captured within either Sexuality or INTIMATERELATIONSHIPS. Sometimes, however, the same name needs repeating in both FRIENDSASSOCIATES and INTIMATERELATIONSHIPS. This element has one content sub-element, LIVESWITH.