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Abdelbaky, Ashraf. "A Perfect World or an Oppressive World: A Critical Study of Utopia and Dystopia as Subgenres of Science Fiction." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 4, no. 3 (March 28, 2016): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v4i3.1201.

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In this article, I investigates the concept of utopia and dystopia in literature since the time of Plato and Thomas More and how it became a significant subgenre of science fiction. I present the kinds of utopia and its fundamental purposes as well as the different explanations for the term utopia and dystopia by numerous critics. I stress the function of science fiction as a literary tool to depict the grim picture and the weaknesses of current societies, dystopias, and to provide a warning for the future of these societies by presenting alternative peaceful societies; utopias. Therefore, I seek to investigate how utopian writings play a central role in uncovering the shortcomings of societies and presenting a formative criticism towards them. I also discuss how utopia and dystopia give women the chance to present their feminist demands using science fiction.

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Gilarek, Anna. "Marginalization of “the Other”: Gender Discrimination in Dystopian Visions by Feminist Science Fiction Authors." Text Matters, no. 2 (December 4, 2012): 221–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10231-012-0066-3.

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In patriarchy women are frequently perceived as “the other” and as such they are subject to discrimination and marginalization. The androcentric character of patriarchy inherently confines women to the fringes of society. Undeniably, this was the case in Western culture throughout most of the twentieth century, before the social transformation triggered by the feminist movement enabled women to access spheres previously unavailable to them. Feminist science fiction of the 1970s, like feminism, attempted to challenge the patriarchal status quo in which gender-based discrimination against women was the norm. Thus, authors expressed, in a fictionalized form, the same issues that constituted the primary concerns of feminism in its second wave. As feminist science fiction is an imaginative genre, the critique of the abuses of the twentieth-century patriarchy is usually developed in defamiliarized, unreal settings. Consequently, current problems are recontextualized, a technique which is meant to give the reader a new perspective on certain aspects of life they might otherwise take for granted, such as the inadequacies of patriarchy and women’s marginality in society. Yet there are authors who consider the real world dystopian enough to be used as a setting for their novels. This is the case with Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy and The Female Man by Joanna Russ. Both texts split the narrative into a science fictional and a realistic strand so as to contrast the contemporary world with utopian and dystopian alternatives. Both texts are largely politicized as they expose and challenge the marginalized status of women in the American society of the 1970s. They explore the process of constructing marginalized identities, as well as the forms that marginalization takes in the society. Most importantly, they indicate the necessity of decisive steps being taken to improve the situation.

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Gurung, Lina. "The Digital Divide: An Inquiry from Feminist Perspectives." Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology 12 (December 31, 2018): 50–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/dsaj.v12i0.22179.

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Exponential use of ICT has brought colossal opportunities as well as challenges to the present society. In spite of increasing women’s involvement in Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) , gender inequality has yet remained critical across the nations and globe. The uneven access and skills to technology has intensified the degree of digital divide specially for the women. Further the multifaced attribute of ICT and its relation with women is changing discourses among the feminist scholars. This is a conceptual paper which focuses on the deliberations of different feminists based on optimistic and pessimistic perspectives. Some studies show that the gender digital divide is getting intense while some have reported of alleviating gaps with more involvement of women. The concept of digital divide is beyond the access and includes various dimensions such as perception, usage, motivation, participation and skills. The paper deals with the tension between utopian and dystopian views on technology benefits. Through literature review this conceptual paper examines and discusses the diverse standpoints of feminist scholars from west and east which buzzes to redefine the relationship of gender with technology. It recommends that empowerment of women in technological domain is equally important as social, economic and political. Further women should be motivated from within to embrace ICT and get benefitted from its prospects. Resisting modern technology in the digital era would further widen the digital gap and thus make difficult to observe gender equality. More studies are required to explore the strategies for technological empowerment of women.

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Aliaga-Lavrijsen, Jessica. "Ectogenesis and Representations of Future Motherings in Helen Sedgwick’s The Growing Season." Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 43, no. 1 (June 28, 2021): 55–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2021-43.1.04.

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After the boom of feminist science fiction in the 1970s, many such novels have tackled the different sociocultural understandings of gender and sexual reproduction. Conventionally, patriarchal thinking tends to posit a biological explanation for gender inequality: women are supposed to be child bearers and the primary caregivers, whereas men should provide for the family through their work. However, if men could share procreation, would these views change? A recent work of fiction exploring this question from multiple perspectives is Helen Sedgwick’s The Growing Season (2017), a novel that presents a near future in which babies can be grown in artificial wombs that can be carried around. As an analysis of the novel will show, The Growing Season creatively explores the existing tensions among contemporary understandings of motherhood and feminism(s), as well as developments in reproductive biotechnology, through the different perspectives offered by the heterodiegetic third-person narration and multiple focalisation. Ultimately, the voices of the different characters in the novel convey a polyhedral vision of possible future feminist motherhood(s) where ideas of personal freedom and codependency are radically reconceptualised—a rethinking that becomes especially important nowadays, for the biotechnological elements of this fictional dystopia are already a reality.

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Baccolini, Raffaella. "The Persistence of Hope in Dystopian Science Fiction." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 3 (May 2004): 518–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x20587.

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It is widely accepted todaythat, whenever we receive or produce culture, we do so from a certain position and that such location influences how we theorize about and read the world. Because I am an Italian trained in the United States (specializing in American modernism) in the 1980s, my reading of science fiction has been shaped by my cultural and biographical circumstances as well as by my geography. It is a hybrid approach, combining these circumstances primarily with an interest in feminist theory and in writing by women. From the very beginning I have foregrounded issues of genre writing as they intersect with gender and the deconstruction of high and low culture. Such an approach, however, must also come to terms with the political and cultural circumstances that characterize this turn of the century.

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Bracke, Astrid. "Feminist Ecocriticism: Women, Environment, and Literature." English Studies 96, no. 4 (February 26, 2015): 483–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2014.998042.

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Musgamy, Awaliah, Muhammad Rusydi, and Kurniati Kurniati. "Gender Mainstreaming in Arabic Literature." Jurnal Al Bayan: Jurnal Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Arab 12, no. 2 (September 2, 2020): 245–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.24042/albayan.v12i2.6468.

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Arabic literature is a means of gender mainstreaming which is very rich in gender issues. This is based on the social fact that Arab society in its historical footsteps has a stereotype as a community that is very thick with its patriarchal culture. Consequently, the social condition which is less responsive to gender influences the birth of Arabic literary works in various types in which gender issues such as marginalization of women, subordination of women to men, violence, negative stereotypes, and others. This article is qualitative research by using feminist Arabic literary criticism as a perspective, gender mainstreaming in Arabic literature is carried out by tracing the gender issues that exist in Arabic literature in its various forms. Through feminist Arabic literary criticism, various theories of feminist literary criticism consisting of ideological criticism, gynocritical criticism, socialist criticism, psychoanalytic criticism, ethnic criticism, and lesbian criticism, are applied in transforming and reconstructing gender-responsive relations between men and women.

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Shuddhodhan P. Kamble. "Repression and Resistance in Dalit Feminist Literature." Creative Launcher 6, no. 3 (August 30, 2021): 79–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.6.3.16.

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Feminist movements and Dalit feminist movement in India are mainly based on the experience of Repression and gender discrimination. Patriarchy, gender disparity and sexual violence are the basic reasons for these movements and they also find place prominently in the writings of Dalit women as they have come forward to write their experiences from women's point of view around 1980s. Baby Kamble, Urmila Pawar in Marathi, Geeta Nagabhushan in Kannada, P. Shivakami, Bama in Tamil have got national level consideration. Dalit women were raped; insulted and abused by the upper caste people. They are insecure in the society as they have been exploited on the various levels. This feeling of insecurity of the Dalit women is the central theme of their writings. These women writers have come forward to express their ideas, their experiences in social violence as well as in domestic violence and thus they protest their traditional existence with anger and anguish. Geeta Nagabhushan’s dalit novels, Barna’s Sangati (2005), P. Shivakani's Grip of Change (2006) are initial important writings of dalit feminism; Datit feminism writing is different from the conventional way of Feminist writing. Their experiences, expression, method of narration are extremely different from the upper caste women writers. It is found that every woman in the world has been degraded to second grade citizenship. The Dalit women in India suffer more due to their Dalit identity.

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S. Sahib, Dr Suhad. "Women in Literature (Fadila Faruq)." ALUSTATH JOURNAL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 212, no. 1 (November 12, 2018): 241–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.36473/ujhss.v212i1.661.

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After the finishing of the research, we found the following results: The writer has sought to search for what they were through the heroines were often open text voice of equality, and take the heroines of women's rejecting voices the marginalization and persecution and to advocate openness to the world, it owes a world governed by traditions and superstitions. Touched on topics of interest to women crossing of the suffering of Arab women that hurt of sexual oppression, spinsterhood, and the violence of the man, her novel represent a cry against feminist ideas of traditional and stereotypical suffered by mothers in the stillness and silence. Taken from the body axis of subjects and penetrated the depth of the social relations and psychological generated through it, but most of her novels are breaking taboos has boldly as high in the description of intimate relations. - The masculine power is considered as the strategic entrance to the persecution of feminist is the central authority and control over the oppressed in society and especially the Algerian society, especially as this was the authority is the authority of the Father. Did not denounce the authority of the Father, but long-pen authority of the husband and brother. Masculine authority is in the eyes of the writer is the authority racist dictatorship, they are calling for the lost harmony between the female and masculine power, they are rejecting the personality of the woman in Haramlik or Psychological tension which is necessary characters and suffering from spiritual unity in spite of the presence of the man, the husband. Then enter into a world of utopia to achieve what cannot be achieved on the ground. At the level of the language we note that it choose the language appropriate to the contents of that address Sometimes it tends to discipline and sometimes tend to slang, but it did not disturb the nerve, especially with male photographed moments of intimate relationships.

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Wajiran, Wajiran. "Polygamy and Muslim Women in Contemporary Indonesian Literature." Jurnal Humaniora 30, no. 3 (October 2, 2018): 291. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jh.34821.

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This paper will examine the ways in which polygamy is addressed in contemporary Indonesian literature. The literature that will be analysed is that published after the reformation era, whereby new freedoms have encouraged many Muslim writers to raise this controversial issue. This paper will apply feminist theory especially that of the Muslim feminist Amina Wadud. Furthermore, in order to understand the contextuality of the works, a cultural materialist approach is also applied. There are some Indonesian writers who overtly depict polygamy in their literature, such as Habiburrahman El Shirazy and Alfina Dewi. Although they are all Muslims they have different perspectives in presenting the issue of polygamy in their works. These differences reflect Indonesian Islamic society where polygamy is controversial. Some Muslims accept polygamy as Islamic teaching but others do not.

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Wajiran, Wajiran. "Polygamy and Muslim Women in Contemporary Indonesian Literature." Jurnal Humaniora 30, no. 3 (October 2, 2018): 291. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jh.v30i3.34821.

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This paper will examine the ways in which polygamy is addressed in contemporary Indonesian literature. The literature that will be analysed is that published after the reformation era, whereby new freedoms have encouraged many Muslim writers to raise this controversial issue. This paper will apply feminist theory especially that of the Muslim feminist Amina Wadud. Furthermore, in order to understand the contextuality of the works, a cultural materialist approach is also applied. There are some Indonesian writers who overtly depict polygamy in their literature, such as Habiburrahman El Shirazy and Alfina Dewi. Although they are all Muslims they have different perspectives in presenting the issue of polygamy in their works. These differences reflect Indonesian Islamic society where polygamy is controversial. Some Muslims accept polygamy as Islamic teaching but others do not.

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Moraga, Cherrie, and Barbara Smith. "Lesbian Literature: A Third World Feminist Perspective." Radical Teacher 100 (October 9, 2014): 92–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/rt.2014.163.

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"A Baseline From Which to Build a Political Understanding: The Background and Goals of the Course."Barbara Smith: I'd taught Black women's literature, interdisciplinary courses on Black women and talked about Lesbianism as an "out" lesbian in my "Introduction to Women's Studies" courses, but I really wanted to do a Lesbian lit course. Lesbian literature had never been offered by the Women's Studies program at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, although the program is almost ten years old. There was a gay literature course that had been co-taught by a gay man and a lesbian, but its orientation was quite a bit different from what I had in mind.

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Charles, A. "The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice; Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias." American Literature 81, no. 4 (January 1, 2009): 877–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-066.

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Kim, Sang Hun. "A Study on Feminist Literature and Women Writers in Croatia." East European and Balkan Institute 44, no. 1 (February 28, 2020): 3–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.19170/eebs.2020.44.1.3.

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Isla, Ana. "Douglas A. Vakoch, editor. Feminist Ecocriticism: Environment, Women, and Literature." Environmental Philosophy 10, no. 1 (2013): 127–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/envirophil201310111.

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Dayan, Joan. "Poe's Women: A Feminist Poe?" Poe Studies 24, no. 1-2 (June 12, 1991): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-6095.1991.tb00049.x.

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CHEN, Zhongxiang. "Interpretation of the Women in the Biblical Literature." Review of Social Sciences 1, no. 6 (June 29, 2016): 09. http://dx.doi.org/10.18533/rss.v1i6.36.

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<p>Bible as literature and Bible as religion are comparative. It is without doubt that Bible, as a religious doctrine, has played a great role in Judaism and Christianity. It is meanwhile a whole literature collection of history, law, ethics, poems, proverbs, biography and legends. As the source of western literature, Bible has significant influence on the English language and culture, English writing and modeling of characters in the subsequent time. Interpreting the female characters in the Bible would affirm the value of women, view the feminist criticism in an objective way and agree the harmonious relationship between the men and the women. </p>

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Maraucci, Tina. "Women in Law, Women in Literature: Gender Equality in Turkish Constitutional Experience." Oriente Moderno 98, no. 2 (September 7, 2018): 166–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22138617-12340199.

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Abstract This paper tries to reconstruct the historical evolution of the Turkish-Ottoman debate on the subject of women’s rights and emancipation through a cross-analysis of the three Republican-era constitutions. The analysis will refer to the narrative productions of female writers, both Muslim and secular, as an auxiliary source for inquiring legal effects at the sociocultural level with regard to the redefinition of gender relations. I will thus attempt to illustrate, on the one hand, the positions that countered the emergence of feminist discourse and, on the other, the ways in which women’s claims took shape within the unique Turkish dialectic between secularism and Islam.

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Budlender, Debbie, and Marilyn Waring. "If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics." Agenda, no. 18 (1993): 104. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4065679.

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Jain, Sushil, and Rukhsana Ahmad. "We Sinful Women: Contemporary Urdu Feminist Poetry." World Literature Today 66, no. 3 (1992): 585. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40148585.

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Homans, Margaret. ""Women of Color" Writers and Feminist Theory." New Literary History 25, no. 1 (1994): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/469441.

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De Oliveira e Silva Lemos, Marcela. "Writing in no-man’s land: Women, war, and literature." Em Tese 23, no. 3 (August 29, 2018): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/1982-0739.23.3.41-58.

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The relationship between war and women is characterized by the exclusion of women, who, relegated to the margins of the systems of power and government, are historically deprived of participation in the decisions, actions, and representations related to conflicts. This article discusses the destabilization of this view, described by Adrienne Rich as "the archaic idea of women as a 'home front,'" in face of the total wars and feminist movements of the twentieth century. It also proposes new ways of thinking the divergent place from which women write war literature and contribute to that dismantlement. Finally, it points out remaining traces of the idea Rich denounces, which suggest the reproduction of hierarchies within the area of the literature of war written by women and indicate the necessity of expanding the borders of this field and its study.

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Naidoo, Salachi. "Re-thinking the feminist agenda in selected female authored Zimbabwean literature." DANDE Journal of Social Sciences and Communication 2, no. 2 (2018): 33–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.15641/dande.v2i2.51.

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This article investigates the feminist agenda in female authored Zimbabwean literature, with emphasis on the novel. It focuses largely on Virginia Phiri's Destiny and Highway Queen as well as Violet Masilo's The African Tea Cosy. The paper argues that Zimbabwean female authorship is flavoured with precepts of African feminism(s) in its representations of African women's agency in gender adversities. Framed within African feminism, women's agency derives from and gives meaning to an inescapable African-ness that needs to be accepted in the fight for emancipation. In light of this, the study analyses Zimbabwean women writers’ literary contributions to discourses on gender based violence and it explores how female characters have embraced the concept of agency to recreate their identities and to introduce a new gender ethos in the context of lives that are often shaped by severe restrictions and oppression. Although largely women focused, the African feminist text is concerned about the survival of both men and women.

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Gaddy, Kerstin, Patricia Herminghouse, and Susanne Zantop. "Women in German Yearbook 16: Feminist Studies in German Literature and Culture." German Studies Review 25, no. 3 (October 2002): 654. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1432659.

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Carstens-Wickham, Belinda, Patricia Herminghouse, and Susanne Zantop. "Women in German Yearbook 17: Feminist Studies in German Literature and Culture." German Studies Review 27, no. 2 (May 2004): 442. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1433147.

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Roethke, Gisela, Jeanette Clausen, and Sara Friedrichsmeyer. "Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature and Culture 7." German Quarterly 66, no. 2 (1993): 275. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/407497.

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Rohr, Martina. "Women in German yearbook 7 — Feminist studies in German literature & culture." Women's Studies International Forum 16, no. 3 (May 1993): 306–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0277-5395(93)90071-g.

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Khachibabyan, Mane. "Modernism and Feminism Representations of Women in Modernist Art and Literature." WISDOM 1, no. 6 (July 1, 2016): 118. http://dx.doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v1i6.71.

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This article demonstrates the place and role of the image of women in modernist art and literature, mainly focusing on Impressionism and Post-impressionism. It discusses the unique works of modernist painters and writers (Marie Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Pablo Picasso and Virginia Woolf) to explore how modernist art and literature both defined, reflected and shaped gender roles. The article discourses on the representations of feminist views and gender inequality in the works of some modernist artists.

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Woodhull, Winifred. "Rereading "Nedjma": Feminist Scholarship and North African Women." SubStance 21, no. 3 (1992): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3685114.

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Retno M, Laura Andri, and Khotibul Umam. "Dukuhseti Pati in Literature and Social Reality: A Perception About Women." E3S Web of Conferences 202 (2020): 07027. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202020207027.

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Prostitution is a phenomenon in people's lives and is considered a "social problem". The condition of women as objects also appears in literary works, as a reflection of the perception of their society. Therefore, studies are needed in the perspective of feminism, especially radical feminists to explore the issue of prostitution that occurs in women. Feminist Literary Critical Approach is carried out in this study with the type of qualitative research. Data were collected from female sex worker informants and formal figures with in-depth interview techniques and field data observations.

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Galytska, Iuliia. "Alias in women's literature: feminist aspects in a gender context." Grani 23, no. 4 (July 5, 2020): 28–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/172038.

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The problem of the identity of the woman hiding her gender under a male pseudonym makes us recollect U. Eco’s arguments about the truth and the purpose of literature as well as A. F. Losev’s ideas about the name and the meaning, the theories of the feminist literary critics K. Millett, M. Ellman, T. Moi, E. Showalter, etc. who have presented "women`s writing" and "writing about women" in the feminist field. As one of the central principles of feminist criticism is that no scientific view can ever be neutral, the problem of pseudonyms occupies an important place in the contemporary gender studies, explicitly or implicitly highlighting the artificially constructed debate, which divides "serious male literature" and "superficial and secondary female writing". On the one hand, this is the problem of feminism itself, on the other, it is a question of the role and place of the woman in the world` culture and history. In this kind of the analysis we cannot ignore such an epiphenomenon of postmodernism as "label change" with the postmodern emphasis on the sociocultural role of the context, which is especially relevant in aspects of the gender "name problem". The last one, undoubtedly, is included in the problematization of postmodern culture on the whole, since all cultural narratives have always been gender "stories". Today an individual construct his or her gender-reflecting reality, still the modelling of the new gender system is far from being complete. The created sign systems are ambivalent, the meanings are very unstable and can easily be hermeneutically interpreted. However, the role of hermeneutics in analyzing the relationship between the author and the sociocultural context is in the core of the gender aspects of literature, in general, and in the problems of the pseudonym as a change of "name", in particular. The latter is by all means relevant and important. Undoubtedly, one of the main incentives for feminist scholars in their turn to women's literature is connected with the patriarchal demand for women's "silence", their "dumbness" in culture and, accordingly, in literature. Obviously, there are two main interpretations of the concept of "female literature" in feminist criticism. The first one is the representation of female subjectivity in its difference from the male one. The second approach is the representation of "non-essentialist" female subjectivity, which is understood as the logical structure of the difference. In general, in the patriarchal dichotomy of the femininity and masculinity "women who write" are always dangerous. "Three strange sisters" – Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bronte wrote their novels under disguise of male pen names, exactly specifying two conceptual motives: the "Other" concept and the image of "Veil". In this context the motive of androgyny is also important from the point of view of both analysis and literary criticism. In ХIXth century George Sand (Aurora Dupin), having most vividly represented this concept, became an example for many subsequent generations of feminists – writers, actresses and media representatives. However, in our era of gender plurality, the question of the pseudonym as a problem of "genders" is not so relevant; more likely it is still a question of the priorities in the feminist theory. In the contemporary discourse of literary criticism many of the author’s socially significant features are perceived as gender neutral. In the postmodern paradigm the question of the androgynous identity of the man/woman writer requires its further actualization as the androgynous is often replaced by the bisexuality (J. Irving` "In One Person"). In general, it should be recognized that postmodern approaches to gender identity, which paint a "picture of the world" today, transform the female experience of being as the "Other", secondary and insignificant with a conceptual orientation to a fundamental variety of postmodern cognitive perspectives.

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Wigmore, Juliet, Jeanette Clausen, and Sara Friedrichsmeyer. "Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature and Culture, 8, 9." Modern Language Review 91, no. 2 (April 1996): 527. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3735101.

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Zantop, Susanne, Jeanette Clausen, and Sara Friedrichsmeyer. "Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature and Culture. Vol. 7." South Atlantic Review 58, no. 2 (May 1993): 169. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3200979.

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Gaddy, Kerstin, Sara Friedrichsmeyer, and Patricia Herminhouse. "Women in German Yearbook, Vol. 14: Feminist Studies in German Literature & Culture." South Atlantic Review 64, no. 4 (1999): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3201510.

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Workman, Simon. "Maeve Kelly: Women, Ireland, and the Aesthetics of Radical Writing." Irish University Review 49, no. 2 (November 2019): 304–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2019.0408.

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This article considers the work of Irish writer and feminist Maeve Kelly arguing that she has been not only a radical and, to some extent, seminal voice within modern Irish writing, but an author whose work self-consciously reflects upon the production and mediation of Irish women's writing within British and Irish culture. While Kelly is not unique in adopting a feminist approach in her writing, aspects of her fiction are somewhat discrete within modern Irish literature in terms of how they express, delineate, and resolve the challenges – material, psycho-cultural, aesthetic – attendant upon the representation of feminist political thought and occluded Irish female experience. Particularly within an Irish context, Kelly's writing provides a significant case study of the aesthetic problematics of politically radical fiction. Her oeuvre represents a vital contribution to Irish writing of the twentieth century as well as to the history of women in post-war Ireland.

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Kehler, Grace. "Becoming Divine Women: Miriam Toews’ Women Talking as Parable1." Literature and Theology 34, no. 4 (October 13, 2020): 408–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/litthe/fraa020.

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Abstract This article attends to the ways in which Canadian Mennonite novelist Miriam Toews’ Women Talking crafts a feminist theological parable of women envoicing and incarnating pacifism in the context of a purportedly pacifist colony devastated by patriarchal violence. I argue that the novel, like the biblical parables, functions as a ‘mythos (a heuristic fiction) which has the mimetic power of “redescribing” [pained] human existence’ in reparative terms (Ricoeur). More particularly, as a feminist theological parable, the novel displays in literary form what Luce Irigaray philosophically conceives of as ‘becoming divine women’. I first explore definitions of biblical parables and divine becomings, prior to turning my attention to the Bolivian crisis, and then to Toews’ hopeful, revisionist narrative.

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Shobana, H., and M. Kumar. "Feminist Ideology in Lakshmi Novels." Shanlax International Journal of Tamil Research 5, no. 4 (April 1, 2021): 32–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/tamil.v5i4.3868.

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Feminism is a political concept centered on the welfare of women. A political position demanding equality, liberation and justice for women. This political concept cannot be used as a theory for literary study unless it is transformed into a literary study approach. Feminist literary theory is art. In the literature the woman is portrayed as very vulnerable, consumerist, emaciated and exposed to them as opposed to being identified as a tool to fulfill her sexual needs. The aim of feminist literary theory can be to find in social literature the social factors that contribute to the status of today’s woman of inequality and freedom.

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Conley, Verena Andermatt, and Tania Modleski. "The Women Who Knew Too Much, Hitchcock and Feminist Theory." SubStance 18, no. 2 (1989): 122. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3685318.

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Qbilat, Nizar, and Awni El-Faouri. "The Other’s Image in Arabic Feminist Narrative." Journal of Arts and Social Sciences [JASS] 7, no. 2 (June 1, 2016): 337. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jass.vol7iss2pp337-345.

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This study aims at shedding some light on the images of women in some feminist novels known as Feminist Literature. The research depicts a number of Arabic feminist writers concentrating on the structure of Feminist Literature generally, and Arabic women writers specifically. The study examines the characters, the narrative angle and the narrative sequence and its objective sensitivity at three levels: the woman as an author, a narrator, and the artistic character dealing with issues of justice, liberty and equality with man, considering the various humanitarian models: the striver, the lover and the educated within the borders of the forbidden, the fear, and the limitations. The popularity of Feminist Literature is one of the issues of modernity in the Arab world. The role of Jordanian women writers is apparent in literature. Their creative works compete with those of dominant men in terms of imagery and artistic presence. The inner persona of the woman writer is dominant even though her work represents a realistic view. The problematic issue of writing for women writers seems to be plunged in paradox and sharp in its novelistic representation. The novelistic modules studied indicate the success the Arab woman writer achieved in terms of the use of artistic tools, and the ability to confront and reveal the untold. Although the feminists’ novels seem to dwell in an anxious environment, they represent an arena of conflict representing the artistic and living realities.

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Sharma, Dr Shreeja, and Prof Shubhra Tripathi. "Unshackling the tribal women in Indian English Literature: dreams and visions." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 5, no. 7 (July 30, 2017): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v5i7.2136.

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The marginalised tribal women comprise the weakest section of the Indian society. It is a sad reality that their identity remains weak, unvoiced and largely unexplored. Invigorating them would enhance the collective national capability as it will carry justice, equity and development to the most vulnerable segment of the nation, thereby reinforcing and the frailest of its stalk. The portrayal of tribal women in literature can go a long way in spreading awareness about the cause, not only on the national, but also on an international scale. Writing on these marginalised, poor, and socially excluded women can in the long run, change the perception of the society and bring to attention the neglected lot, integrating them rightfully with society. Prominent writers including Mahasweta Devi, Kamala Markandaya and Gita Mehta among others have made important contributions in this area. While the tribal narratives voice the concerns of the tribals, there still remains lot of room for exploring and expressing the concerns of these women for a feminist rendition . This paper examines the potential of writings on the female tribal protagonist.

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Henderson, Karla A. "A Feminist Analysis of Selected Professional Recreation Literature about Girls/Women from 1907–1990." Journal of Leisure Research 25, no. 2 (April 1993): 165–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222216.1993.11969916.

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Ackerman, Susan, and J. Cheryl Exum. "Fragmented Women: Feminist (Sub)versions of Biblical Narratives." Journal of Biblical Literature 114, no. 3 (1995): 489. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3266268.

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Mullins, Lauren Bock. "Pink Tape: A Feminist Theory of Red Tape." Public Voices 13, no. 2 (November 29, 2016): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.22140/pv.114.

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This article links literature on the glass ceiling to literature on red tape by analyzing how red tape fits into a larger discussion of substantive and formal equality and offers three propositions toward forming a theory of pink tape, as a stepping-stone for future exploratory research to advance the agenda of women in public administration. The theory of pink tape has implications for organizational training, psychological/social health of women, effective management of the public sector, and representative bureaucracy.

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T, Kavitha. "Feminine construction in Yatchi Short Story." International Research Journal of Tamil 3, S-1 (April 24, 2021): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt21s11.

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‘Feminism’ has emerged in the Western Countries as a political concept concerned with the welfare of women. Over time the literature evolved into a theory of understanding the depictions of women that women create. Some approaches are needed to understand a theory. Thus, to access literature in a feminist perspective, Vijayalakshmi.T in her article identified nine types of Feminist attitudes. This article aims to explore how the first of these approaches “Feminine Construction” is found in Jeyamohan`s Short story “Yatchi”.

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Mandell, L. "The First Women (Psycho)analysts; or, The Friends of Feminist History." Modern Language Quarterly 65, no. 1 (March 1, 2004): 69–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00267929-65-1-69.

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Mishra, Indira Acharya. "Feminist Voice in Rajan Mukarung's Hātā Jāne Aghillo Rāta." Dristikon: A Multidisciplinary Journal 9, no. 1 (December 31, 2019): 39–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/dristikon.v9i1.31155.

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Some of the poems in Rajan Mukarung's latest anthology Hātā Jāne Aghillo Rāta [The Night before the Market Day] (2019) are written from the feminist perspective. However, the feminist voice raised in these poems is different from the feminist voice of the main stream Nepali feminist literature which raises the issues of urban, middle class, educated upper caste women from the hills (bourgeoisies women), who aspire liberation from the restrictive traditional gender roles. Unlike the main stream Nepali feminist literature, in these poems, he dramatizes the issues of women from the margin. These are poor and illiterate women from Dalit and ethnic communities who bear the brunt of not only gender discrimination, but also suffer from class and caste discriminations. The article aims to analyze three of the poems from the anthology from the Multicultural feminist perspectives. The finding of the article suggests that these poems raise the voice of marginalized women and demand justice to lower caste and ethnic women whose mores are different from the bourgeoisies' women.

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Gvili, Gal. "Gender and Superstition in Modern Chinese Literature." Religions 10, no. 10 (October 21, 2019): 588. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10100588.

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This article offers a new perspective on the study of the discourse on superstition (mixin) in modern China. Drawing upon recent work on the import of the concept “superstition” to the colonial world during the 19th century, the article intervenes in the current study of the circulation of discursive constructs in area studies. This intervention is done in two ways: first, I identify how in the modern era missionaries and Western empires collaborated in linking anti-superstition thought to discourses on women’s liberation. Couched in promises of civilizational progress to cultures who free their women from backward superstitions, this historical connection between empire, gender and modern knowledge urges us to reorient our understanding of superstition merely as the ultimate other of “religion” or “science.” Second, in order to explore the nuances of the connection between gender and superstition, I turn to an archive that is currently understudied in the research on superstition in China. I propose that we mine modern Chinese literature by using literary methods. I demonstrate this proposal by reading China’s first feminist manifesto, The Women’s Bell by Jin Tianhe and the short story Medicine by Lu Xun.

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Sharpe, J. A. "Plebeian Marriage in Stuart England: some Evidence from Popular Literature." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 36 (December 1986): 69–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3679060.

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THERE is a considerable body of opinion which holds that marriage in early modern England, and especially marriage among the lower orders, was uncaring, affectionless, and entered into for economic rather than emotional reasons. This view was, for example, axiomatic to those writing from a feminist perspective in the 1970s. Thus Sheila Rowbotham felt that in the pre-industrial world The peasant judged his woman by her capacity to labour and to breed more hands for toil…among the peasantry women were essential in the family economy. The peasant's wife bore children which meant more hands to toil and she laboured herself. She was like cattle, a means of production.

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do Vale, Fellipe. "Can a Male Savior Save Women?" Philosophia Christi 21, no. 2 (2019): 309–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/pc201921230.

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This paper attempts to answer, as well as give metaphysical specificity to, a question within the philosophy and theology of gender which strikes the heart of the Christian confession of the gospel. Against critics who say that the masculinity of Christ’s human nature renders him unable to save women as well as men, it draws on the recent literature on feminist metaphysics and analytic Christology (two very resurgent bodies of literature) to develop a model of the Incarnation able to avoid such criticisms.

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Mohamed Ali, Halimah. "Searching New Paradigms of Malay Women: What We Can Learn from Literature?" Malay Literature 28, no. 1 (June 1, 2015): 107–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.37052/ml.28(1)no5.

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Paradigms according to science and epistemology describe distinct concepts of thought patterns. For the purpose of this paper we have to understand gender paradigm. According to Gamble, a paradigm is a belief structure about the ways men and women should act and the roles they should perform. The Malaysian gender paradigm is very much controlled by religion and culture. The paradigm has shifted through time, but is the shift significant? Basically the Malay woman in Malaysia is controlled by culture and Islam. These are two prominent factors that influence her life and her interaction with fellow women, men and society. The paradigm used to be that women were weak, not as smart as men, could not lead, and were destined to be homemakers even if they were educated. An old saying goes, a woman’s place is in the kitchen, no matter how highly educated she is. This paradigm has not been challenged by women, especially by romance novel writers as will be discussed in this paper. This paper analyses two Malay novels, Tak Seindah Mimpi by Sharifah Abu Salem and Adam dan Hawa by Aisya Sofea, and looks at how the gender paradigm is portrayed vis-à-vis these two novels using the feminist theory. Keywords: new paradigm, Malay woman, romance novel, feminist theory, gender role Abstrak Paradigma berdasarkan sains dan epistemologi menerangkan konsep pemikiran tertentu. Dalam kajian ini yang perlu difahami ialah paradigma gender. Menurut Gamble, paradigma ialah struktur kepercayaan mengenai cara lelaki dan wanita sepatutnya bertindak, dan peranan yang harus mereka laksanakan. Paradigma gender di Malaysia amat dikawal oleh agama dan budaya. Paradigma ini mengalami perubahan dengan berlalunya masa, tetapi adakah peralihannya signifikan? Pada dasarnya dua faktor utama yang mempengaruhi interaksi antara sesama wanita, dengan lelaki dan masyarakat. Paradigma lama menampilkan wanita bersifat lemah, tidak sebijak lelaki, tidak boleh memimpin, dan telah ditentukan sebagai suri rumah meskipun mereka berpelajaran. Pesan orang tua-tua, walau setinggi mana pelajaran seseorang wanita itu, tempatnya masih di dapur. Paradigma ini dicabar oleh wanita terutamanya penulis novel roman yang akan dibincangkan dalam makalah ini. Makalah ini menganalisis dua novel Melayu, Tak Seindah Mimpi oleh Sharifah Abu Salem dan Adam dan Hawa oleh Aisya Sofea. Tumpuan penelitian terhadap paradigm gender yang dipaparkan dalam kedua-dua novel ini menggunakan teori feminis. Kata kunci: paradigma baharu, wanita Melayu, novel roman, teori feminis, peranan gender

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