Dissertations / Theses: 'A room of one's own (Woolf)'

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Olefalk, Hanna. "A Body of One's Own : A Comparison Between Woolf's A Room of One's Own and Moran's How To Be a Woman." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-31874.

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In this essay the author compares Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1928) to Caitlin Moran’s How To Be a Woman (2012). The two texts have both been described as feminist manifests of their time. The essay focuses on differences and similarities between the two texts, mainly focusing on the authors’ reasons for writing their texts and on the rhetoric they use to reach the audience. The comparison shows that there are many similarities between the texts, given the historical context they were written in. For instance, both Woolf and Moran use humor as rhetorical means and they both see cooperation between women and men as the solution for a better future.

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Sriratana, Verita. ""Making room" for one's own : Virginia Woolf and technology of place." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3458.

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This thesis offers an analysis of selected works by Virginia Woolf through the theoretical framework of technology of place. The term “technology”, meaning both a finished product and an ongoing production process, a mode of concealment and unconcealment in Martin Heidegger's sense, is used as part of this thesis's argument that place can be understood through constant negotiations of concrete place perceived through the senses, a concept based on the Heideggerian notion of “earth”, and abstract place perceived in the imagination, a concept based on the Heideggerian notion of “world”. The term “technology of place”, coined by Irvin C. Schick in The Erotic Margin: Sexuality and Spatiality in Alteritist Discourse (1999), is appropriated and re-interpreted as part of this thesis's adoption and adaptation of Woolf's notion of ideal biographical writing as an amalgamation of “granite” biographical facts and “rainbow” internal life. Woolf's granite and rainbow dichotomy is used as a foreground to this thesis's proposed theoretical framework, through which questions of space/place can be examined. My analysis of Flush (1933) demonstrates that place is a technology which can be taken at face value and, at the same time, appropriated to challenge the ideology of its construction. My analysis of Orlando (1928) demonstrates that Woolf's idea of utopia exemplifies the technological “coming together”, in Heidegger's term, of concrete social reality and abstract artistic fantasy. My analysis of The Years (1937) demonstrates that sense of place as well as sense of identity is ambivalent and constantly changing like the weather, reflecting place's Janus-faced function as both concealment and unconcealment. Lastly, my analysis of Woolf's selected essays and marginalia illustrates that writing can serve as a revolutionary “place-making” technology through which one can mentally “make room” for (re-)imagining the lives of “the obscure”, often placed in oblivion throughout the course of history.

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Jayakrishna, Louise. "The Exclusion of Working-Class Women in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-7462.

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In Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own the narrator clearly expresses her rage and resentment exposing the absence and exclusion of women through history and she also focuses on the unfair position of women in her contemporary society. The narrator encourages women to emancipate themselves and to be aware of the idiosyncratic nature of society that restricts them to the private sphere. The aim of this paper is to offer a different interpretation of A Room of One’s Own and demonstrate how Woolf excludes contemporary working-class women from partaking in her feminist message. In order to demonstrate the exclusion of working-class women three major perspectives have been integrated throughout the text: readings of A Room of One’s Own, a historical aspect including classism, and the significance of Woolf’s biographical background. My analysis highlights Woolf’s unintentional class bias, her ladylike manner, and the centrality of financial independence in A Room of One’s Own and displays how these features entail the exclusion of working-class women. The conclusion demonstrates that the amalgamation of the three perspectives mentioned above provides a nuanced and critical reading of A Room of One’s Own.

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Gallagher, Maureen. "Thinking Back through Our Fathers: Woolf Reading Shakespeare in Orlando and a Room of One's Own." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07112008-152735/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008. Title from file title page. Randy Malamud, committee chair; Meg Harper, Paul Schmidt, committee members. Electronic text (61 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Oct. 3, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 58-61).

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Holman, Crystal Gail. "The Dilemma of Woolf's Androgyny: A Close Look at Androgyny in A Room of One's Own and Orlando." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2001. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0719101-133906/restricted/holman0731.pdf.

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Johansson, Ellen. "Chained Thoughts Broken by Chains of Thought : An Analysis of the Narrative Style Used in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Education, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-276.

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AbstractChained Thoughts Broken by Chains of ThoughtAn Analysis of the Narrative Style Used in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s OwnThe purpose of this essay is to analyse the narrative style used in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own in order to show in which ways it supports and reinforces the author’s arguments in her quest for a more equal society. One of the most prominent stylistic means applied by Woolf is her ‘train of thought’, linking one reflection to another like wagons in a railway convoy or like loops in a chain (therefore also sometimes referred to as ‘chain of thought’ in dictionaries). By examining how different rhetorical devices are applied within this train or chain of thought and in which ways these strategies are linked to the main elements of persuasion (ethos, pathos and logos) in Aristotelian Rhetoric, I have found that one of Woolf’s central themes - the resentment against confinement and the advocacy of androgyny or mixed-gendered thinking - is mirrored in her style. It reflects the author’s call to resist society’s restrictions by its unrestricted combination of different rhetorical strategies; this mixture of stylistic, partly gender-neutral devices helps her to create a common ground where she can reach and appeal to both genders in a very effective and innovative way, thus enabling her chain of thoughts to break some of our chained thoughts.Ellen JohanssonEngelska C

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Barnickel, Amy J. "A screen of one's own the TPEC and feminist technological textuality in the 21st century." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4520.

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In this dissertation, I analyze the 20th century text, A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf (2005), and I engage with Woolf's concept of a woman's need for a room of her own in which she can be free to think for herself, study, write, or pursue other interests away from the oppression of patriarchal societal expectations and demands. Through library-based research, I identify four screens in Woolf's work through which she viewed and critiqued culture, and I use these screens to reconceptualize "a room of one's own" in 21st Century terms. I determine that the new "room" is intimately and intricately technological and textual and it is reformulated in the digital spaces of blogs, social media, and Web sites. Further, I introduce the new concept of the technologized politically embodied cyborg, or TPEC, and examine the ways 21st Century TPECs are shaping U.S. culture in progressive ways. ID: 030423289; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Central Florida, 2010.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-225). Ph.D. Doctorate Department of English--Texts and Technology Arts and Humanities

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Guigou, Issel M. "Women Creators: Artistry and Sacrifice in the Novels of Virginia Woolf." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2250.

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This thesis examines different facets of feminine artistry in Virginia Woolf's novels with the purpose of defining her conception of women artists and the role sacrifice plays in it. The project follows characters in "Mrs. Dalloway," "To the Lighthouse," and "Between the Acts" as they attempt to create art despite society's restrictions; it studies the suffering these women experience under regimented institutions and arbitrary gender roles. From Woolf’s earlier texts to her last, she embraces the uncertainty of identity, even as she portrays the artist’s sacrifice in the early-to-mid twentieth century, specifically as the creative female identity fights to adapt to male-dominated spaces. Through a close-reading approach coupled with biographical and historical research, this thesis concludes that although the narratives of Woolf's novels demand the woman artist sacrifice for the sake of pursuing creation, Woolf praises the attempt and considers it a crueler fate to live with unfulfilled potential.

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Stenemo, Lina. "Virginia Woolf : Lobbyist for Intellectual Freedom, Creativity, and Individuality in A Room of One’s Own and Other Works of Non-Fiction." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Language and Culture, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-115.

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Blomgren, Linnea. "A room of one's own : woven structures." Thesis, Konstfack, Textil, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5425.

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I have explored the combination of sound, textile and space. How can one create textiles to use as sound dampening material in an arts and craft practice? To enhance the architectural aspect of textile as one of the five building materials I have chosen to weave walls. Walls don´t have to be straight or go from floor to ceiling but they should somehow create room and divide the space. I felt the need of walls working within Konstfack because of the distraction of fellow students in the open space classroom. Torn walls tells a story, we see the left traces. These traces I wanted to convert into woven textile. Sounds of people and objects in public spaces bounces between hard surfaces often without dampening, this creates an environment that causes stress and distraction. In Virginia Wolf´s essay “A room of Ones Own” (1929) she points at how important it is to create a workspace for the professional you, to take place and be part of the public realm. A big part of this master project has been making the actual materials to build with and executing fibre. Does the material do the job of sound absorption? Wool and silk both have a fibrous cell, which is suitable for sound absorption they also have low flammability and is biodegradable; therefore I chose to work mainly with these fibres. I share my knowledge through the experience of the space I create. How to create o Room of one´s own in an open office.

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Bergqvist, Sandra. "The Angel in the House och dess motsats i Virginia Woolfs författarskap : En jämförande och analytisk närläsning av kvinnliga karaktärer i The Voyage Out och To the Lighthouse." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-37780.

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Marsh, Rebecca Kirk. "Refiguring Milton in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2602.

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Since 1979 feminist scholars have misread key images in Virginia Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own'. They delineated the extended essay as a groundbreaking feminist polemic that advocates abolishing the literary patriarchy, expressing distain for John Milton as chief offender. Through rhetorical analysis and close readings of passages, there seems advocacy for change in patriarchial education and for opening of the literary canon to women.

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Grant, Brooke Leora. "A Virginia Woolf of One's Own: Consequences of Adaptation in Michael Cunningham's The Hours." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2163.pdf.

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Levine, Lisa Karin. "A Voice of One's Own: Virginia Woolf, the Problem of Language, and Feminist Aesthetics." W&M ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625831.

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Shankarnarayan, Vidya. "A room of one's own, making a place for on-line communities." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0017/MQ52691.pdf.

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Arndt, Karin Leah. "A room of one's own, revisited| An existential-hermeneutic study of female solitude." Thesis, Duquesne University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3603241.

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This study presents an existential-hermeneutic analysis of nine women's first-person accounts of extended periods of solitude. The accounts were analyzed along the five existential dimensions of spatiality, temporality, embodiment, language, and co-existentiality, producing a rich portrait of the women's lived experience of solitude. One of the first-person accounts was provided by the author of the study, who underwent three solitary retreats in the interest of this project, adding an autoethnographic component to the work. Theory from the existential-phenomenological, monastic, ecopsychological, and feminist literatures was applied to the data, enabling us to interpret the significance of the shifts the women experienced through an interdisciplinary set of lenses. The women experienced both subtle and profound shifts in their senses of self and modes of being in the world over the course of their retreats. In the absence of direct human relations, the women developed greater intimacy with things, non-human beings, and the Divine. Through the practice of simplicity, the women cultivated humility and more contemplative modes of seeing, revealing previously hidden contours of the material world and fostering a child-like sense of wonder. By leaving clock time and slowing down, the women became increasingly oriented toward the present moment, entrained to the rhythms of the natural world, and attuned to their desire. By retreating from the gaze of the (human) other, the women worked to heal a sense of alienation from their own bodies, experienced a respite from feminine performativity, and came to move through the world more seamlessly and comfortably. And by observing silence, the women cultivated the ability to listen beyond the human conversation and the chattering of their own minds, developed a more sacred relationship to language, confronted their emotional "demons," and found themselves increasingly drawn toward the poetic. Overall, through their solitudes, the women developed a greater stance of receptivity toward the more-than-human world, deconstructed elements of identity and modes of being aligned with the "false self," and recovered aspects of their lived experience which had been neglected or suppressed over the course of becoming an adult, and especially a woman, in the context of contemporary American culture.

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Jannborg, Elsa. "In Search of a Room of Their Own." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-169489.

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This diploma thesis in architecture is a book composed of a combination of embedded anthropological documentation and creative fiction, written with help from Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust. It is a story built up, fragment by fragment, that describesregular visits to the Girls Night events at a Youth Centre in Fittja, in Northern Botkyrka, south of Stockholm, where the author went to meet and spend time with a group of local girls on Thursday evenings in the Spring of 2015. Ungdomens Hus is a Youth Centre in Fittja for locals between the ages of 15 to 22. Many boys come and play games here, including pool, ping-pong, video games, the Turkish game Okey, boxing, they also watch TV and generally hang out. The ability for girls to occupy this room, on the other hand, tends to be reduced to three hours a week, when the room becomes a space for the girls alone: A room of their own. On Thursday evenings Rädda Barnen and the municipality Botkyrka arrange the Girls Nights in the Youth Centre in Fittja. This forum is open for all girls between the ages of 15 to 20 years old who live in Northern Botkyrka. The Girls Nights exists to make it possible for young women to make their presence visible, and for them to be able to take space at the Youth Centre, developing their courage to take place in other public spaces and in the context of contemporary society more generally. Detta examensarbete i arkitektur är en bok som fått sin form från en kombination av antropologisk dokumentation och fiktion, skriven med hjälp från Virginia Woolf och Marcel Proust. Historien byggs upp fragmentariskt och beskriver regelbundna besök på Tjejforum på en ungdomsgård i Fittja, Norra Botkyrka, Stockholm, där författaren mötte och spenderade tid med en grupp tjejer på torsdagskvällar under våren 2015. Ungdomens Hus är en ungdomsgård i Fittja för ungdomar (15-22 år) i området Norra Botkyrka. Många killar går dit. De spelar biljard, pingis, tevespel, okey, boxas, tittar på teve och umgås rent allmänt. Möjligheten för tjejer att ta plats i detta rum, å andra sidan, tenderar att reduceras till tre timmar per vecka då Ungdomens Hus förvandlas till ett rum för bara tjejer: deras eget rum. På torsdagskvällar anordnar Rädda Barnen tillsammans med Botkyrka kommun Tjejforum på Ungdomens Hus i Fittja. Verksamheten är öppen för alla tjejer (15-20 år) i Norra Botkyrka. Tjejforum finns för att unga kvinnor i Norra Botkyrka ska få synas och ta plats på Ungdomens Hus, i andra offentliga rum och i hela vårt samhälle.

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Ratcliffe, Krista L. "Words of one's own : toward a rhetoric of feminism in selected essays of Virginia Woolf and Adrienne Rich /." Connect to resource, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1244661816.

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Kahane, Muriel. "A room of one's own in a house for all : feminist considerations on autonomy and multiculturalism." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2010. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2425/.

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This thesis has four separate but connected areas of interest: multiculturalism, autonomy, equality and feminism. These are brought together by considering an important critique of multiculturalism: that of the paradox of multicultural vulnerability. The case of minorities within minorities challenges whether multiculturalism does indeed help within minority groups. One of the ways these disputes have been resolved is through the evaluation of the alleged autonomy women practice in choosing illiberal practices. Whether women (and other at risk members) are considered to be autonomous will determine whether the practice will be tolerated by liberal states or not. However, what do we mean by autonomy. In the thesis I look at three different modern conceptions of autonomy through two intervening variables: socialisation and multiple identities. Theories of autonomy have been criticised by feminists because of the reliance on the idea of atomistic selves. The notion of socialisation places autonomy within embodied experiences, but it also brings to light the issue of adaptive preferences. Intersectionality or multiple identities also highlights the plural self as variable, conflicting and contradictory - all qualities that aptly describe the realities of lived experience. In the thesis I defend a tripartite understanding of autonomy that correlates with a differential understanding of the self. Through this it might become possible to speak about autonomy without essentialising identities, whilst simultaneously being sensitive about inequality.

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Póvoa, Tiago João Duarte dos Santos. "A room of one's own. Intervenção no Convento de Santo António dos Capuchos para centro de estudos." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Arquitetura de Lisboa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/5758.

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Hynes, Claire. "A proper life and angel in the house : a revision of Virginia Woolf's A room of one's own." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658711.

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My novel, A Proper Life, is about a 14 year old girl called Marey who runs away from foster care and becomes a prostitute. I aim, in this creative section of my thesis, to convey a voice little heard in British writing, and to give that voice a significant place in the text. Therefore, the novel is written entirely in the first person pronoun and conveys Marey's distinctive London vernacular speech. The novel follows Marey's decline after she meets a man who becomes her pimp and becomes involved with a punter, who she terms her 'Sugar Daddy.' The novel is set at the end of the 1990s and culminates with the Brixton nail bomb attack. The critical section of my thesis, Angel in the House: A Revision of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, continues my concern with marginalised individuals. I start with the premise that a non-white uneducated woman like Marey is largely excluded from discussions in A Room of One's Own concerning the restrictions placed on a woman's creativity. I combine critical and creative writing techniques to imagine that Virginia Woolf has returned in spiritual guise to update her compelling essay. My Woolf character furthers her idea that writer's must find a suitable language in which to express themselves by embarking on an examination of contemporary vernacular fiction. She also imagines a set of contemporary characters to illustrate her new ideas that a writer needs resources and 'soul spaces,' in addition to a room and money, if she is to thrive. When I began to pastiche Woolfs voice I kept at the forefront of my mind black musical techniques of 'versioning,' in which artists lend their own lyrics to an original tune. I was also inspired by Woolfs own views about the fluidity of being and by post-modern ideas that no one has a final say.

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Spears, Jamie. "A seance room of one's own : spiritualism, occultism, and the new woman in mid-to late-nineteenth century supernatural fiction." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2016. http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/6503/.

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This thesis will examine the nineteenth-century supernatural stories written by women connected to Spiritualism. These include ‘standard’ ghost stories, esoteric novels and works infused with Spiritualist and occult themes and tropes. The middle- and upper-class Victorian woman was already considered something of a spirit guide within her own home; following the emergence of Modern Spiritualism in the 1850s, women were afforded the opportunity to become paid spirit guides (that is, mediums and lecturers) in the public sphere. Spiritualism was an empowering force for female mediums like Elizabeth d’Espérance and Emma Hardinge Britten, and Spiritualist philosopher Catherine Crowe. In this thesis I will examine how these new power dynamics—to use Britten’s phrasing, the ‘place and mission of woman’—are reflected in society and literature. This thesis sees Spiritualism as the impetus for several occult movements which emerged near to the end of century, including Marie Corelli’s Electrical Christianity, Madame Blavatsky’s Theosophy, and Florence Farr’s Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Each of these women founded, or had significant input in the founding of, their respective creeds. There is an area of critical neglect around the fiction written by these women. Corelli’s works are often analysed in the New Woman framework, but rarely in the spiritual or occult; scholarly interest in Blavatsky focuses on the incredible power she consolidated, but her Theosophical fiction tends to be dismissed in favour of her treatises; d’Espérance’s fiction has not been properly examined thus far. With this thesis I hope to offer a re-reading or re-framing of this supernatural literature by placing it, and its authors, in its socio-political context at the tumultuous end of the nineteenth century.

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"Gender identity and androgyny in Shuang shen 雙身 (Dual Bodies), Orlando, A room of one's own and The illusionist". 1999. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5890047.

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by Kung Siu Bing. Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-121). Abstract and appendix in English and Chinese. by Kung Siu Bing. Abstract --- p.iii Acknowledgement --- p.v Abbreviations used for the four literary works --- p.vi Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 Chapter Chapter 2 --- Femininity and Masculinity --- p.14 Chapter Chapter 3 --- Androgyny --- p.51 Chapter Chapter 4 --- Sex，Gender and Sexual Identity --- p.80 Chapter Chapter 5 --- Multiple Selves --- p.102 Chapter Chapter 6 --- Conclusion --- p.112 Works Cited --- p.114 Appendix I Chinese version of quotations of Shuang Shen --- p.122 Appendix II Table of major characters of Shuang Shen and The Illusionist --- p.126

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Yang, Yu-jen. "A Room of One's Own: Space and Self in Samuel Richardson's Pamela." 2007. http://www.cetd.com.tw/ec/thesisdetail.aspx?etdun=U0002-2601200715482800.

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Shao-ChiWei and 魏韶綺. "Reclaiming a Room of One's Own: The Self-Development and Spatial Experiences in Margaret Atwood's The Edible Women." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67975569376195494948.

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碩士 國立成功大學 外國語文學系碩博士班 100 The gendering of spaces stands as a crucial factor in constructing an intelligible body in contemporary society. The spatial dichotomy of public and private, workplace and domestic, has its gendered reference to how masculinity and femininity should perform in their lived space. In order to understand how a woman’s sense of dis/location in public and private spaces reflects her self-perception, this thesis, drawing on the approach of feminist geography, takes Margaret Atwood’s first novel, The Edible Woman (1969), as the text to discuss the gendering of spaces in post-war North American society. The first chapter offers an introduction of feminist geographers’ studies on body and space in contemporary western context, followed by a glance of women’s situation in post-war Canada, and a reading of Margaret Atwood’s literary work as social criticism. The second chapter explores the material construction of Marian, the heroine in The Edible Woman, her lived surroundings including her home, workplace, and the public streets. As a 24-year-old single office lady, Marian is uncertain about her female identity, and this confusion reflects on her sense of being entrapped in both private and public spaces. The third chapter focuses on how Marian confronts the patriarchal spatial appropriation through her bodily performance, and finally reclaims a female identity as well as personal space of her own. By rereading Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman into a feminist geographical interpretation, this thesis suggests that this “pro-feminist novel”, as in Atwood’s own words, not only a piece of literary work but also a social text worthy of the study of feminist geography.

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"The Dilemma of Woolf's Androgyny; A Close Look at Androgyny in A Room of One's Own and Orlando." East Tennessee State University, 2001. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0719101-133906/.

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Wen, Li-Ying, and 溫力穎. "Virginia Woolf ''s Poetic Politics and Subject Formation in A Room of One''s Own." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91500129834576224442.

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碩士 淡江大學 英文學系碩士班 98 Virginia Woolf was born into what she once described as a very communicative, literary, letter writing, visiting, articulate, late nineteenth century world. Her talent in literature, art and criticism is intellectually acknowledged. Hence in this thesis, we would see how she constructs a feminist discourse and fulfill her gender politics. My thesis aims to demonstrate that Woolf, as a feminist writer, with her discourse of poetic politics, tries to raise people’s attention to feminist literature. Furthermore , Woolf thinks that the binary restriction on sex serves the reproductive aim of a system of compulsory heterosexuality. I also take Cixous’s argument of life writing to show that the artists’creation is also a process of self- fulfilling . The ontology of patriarchy gets control over the sexuality. Woolf writes to refuse the phallus.The subjects work by themselves, a woman becomes a woman; and gender is socially construction. On the other hand, Woolf manipulates the retrospective and poetic politics to touch the harrowing part of life and raise the self-awareness of feminism.

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