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Akbay, Hivda. "Gender Roles And Community Formation In Kurdish Migrant Women." Master's thesis, METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1011808/index.pdf.
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The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of the intersecting dynamics of gender and ethnic identities for Kurdish Migrant women in Turkey. For this aim, it attempts to investigate Kurdish migrant women's everyday lives in their private and public domains, which include in-family, out-family social and ecomomic relations. It is expected that Kurdish women'
s gender and ethnic identities will intersect in these domains and will be effective in creating a specific ethnic community
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Gifford, Ben. "Reviewing the critics: Examining popular video game reviews through a comparative content analysis." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1377089044.
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Wardrop, Alex. "Feminist criticism and Plato's Timaeus-Critias : rethinking chora." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.574593.
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McFadden, Caroline. "Critical white feminism interrogating privilege, whiteness, and antiracism in feminist theory." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/472.
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It is vital that feminist theory and critical white studies be combined in order to form what I call critical white feminism. Both critical white studies and feminist studies are often limited in their ability to adequately address the complex interconnectivity of racial and gender privilege and oppression. In general, feminist scholarship produced by white feminists excludes and oppresses women of color and is therefore inadequate. I refer to this problem as white feminist racism and argue that white feminists are ignorant of the ways in which whiteness and privilege facilitate problematic theorizing. Unlike white feminist theories, the emerging field of critical white studies provides a foundation for exploring whiteness in a racist society. However, critical white theories often examine racism and whiteness without attention to gender, and are therefore inadequate, as well. Consequently, another approach is necessary for the development of liberatory theories that sufficiently conceptualize social change. As a solution to the limitations of both feminist studies and critical white studies, I propose critical white feminism, which encourages white feminists to interrogate whiteness and privilege. The purpose of critical white feminism is to a) conceptualize an inclusive and transformative antiracist feminist framework and agenda, b) challenge white feminist racism and white feminist hegemony, c) encourage open and honest communication between feminists across differences, and d) facilitate feminist solidarity and mobilization.B.A.
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Gualda, Linda Catarina [UNESP]. "Representações do feminino em Dom Casmurro e The Turn of the Screw." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94121.
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Esta dissertação objetiva investigar como se constrói a representação feminina nas obras Dom Casmurro e The Turn of the Screw, tendo como ponto de partida as personagens Capitu e a governanta, respectivamente. Os ideais femininos apresentados são criações masculinas e por isso merecem atenção especial. Ambas as personagens fazem referência a uma construção social que tem a ver com a distinção masculino/feminino, colocando a mulher numa posição de inferioridade e veiculando uma imagem negativa dessas mulheres adúltera e insana. Estamos interessados nesses estereótipos de mulher que se constroem a partir dos mitos concebidos e se incorporam ao gênero dando-lhes um caráter de naturalidade. Acreditamos que tais representações equivalem, no contexto das obras, a uma apropriação do olhar masculino sobre o corpo feminino. Machado de Assis e Henry James não captam apenas a alma da mulher, mas também transferem essa criação para a superfície da palavra com a qual esses enredos, narrados em primeira pessoa, se constroem. Por fim, com auxílio da linha feminista da crítica literária que se preocupa com a questão da mulher consumidora de uma literatura produzida por homens, pretendemos gerar uma reflexão a respeito da identidade de gênero criada e veiculada sob uma ótica masculina.
This dissertation intends to investigate how the feminine representations are built up in the novels Dom Casmurro and The Turn of the Screw, whose starting points are the characters Capitu and the governess, respectively. The feminine ideals are masculine creations and so they deserve special attention. Both characters refer to a social construction that is related to the distinction between masculine/feminine, which includes the woman in an inferior position and projects a negative image of these women adulterous and insane. We are interested in these stereotypes of women that are built from established myths and are incorporated into gender showing a character of naturalness. Concerning the novels context, we believe that these representations are equivalent to an appropriation of the masculine view over the feminine body. Machado de Assis and Henry James grasp not only woman s soul, but they also transfer their creations to the word surface, with which the plots in first person are built. To conclude, with the support of the feminist literary criticism which deals with the issue of women as consumers of a literature produced by men, we intend to encourage a reflection about gender identity created and presented according to a masculine view.
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Azevedo, Célia Cristina de [UNESP]. "Conduzir o banquete da vida: a presença feminina na obra de Muriel Spark." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94129.
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azevedo_cc_me_assis.pdf: 1000048 bytes, checksum: e139ece903eccd25566cd36fa1a96e7d (MD5)Constitui objetivo principal deste trabalho a observação da presença feminina nos romances The Driver.s Seat e Symposium, da escritora escocesa Muriel Spark, como fator que possibilite traduzir a realidade das mulheres que buscam autonomia e que, conseqüentemente, ofereça uma relação entre esta atitude e as reações sociais que causam. Com base nos estudos que tratam de questões identitárias (dentro dos estudos de gênero, especificamente, a crítica feminista) será averiguada a recorrência de alguns temas. Dentre eles, destacam-se a morte, a loucura e o aparente controle da situação que, de alguma forma, revelam problemas, conflitos e aflições das personagens estudadas. No primeiro capítulo, situamos a autora com relação ao movimento das mulheres, com o objetivo de, ao contextualizá-la, ter uma melhor compreensão de sua obra. Assim, observam-se as características mais evidentes de seu trabalho com relação às práticas das mulheres em um plano global. Dentre as questões que marcam os estudos da escrita das mulheres, no segundo capítulo serão abordadas algumas linhas críticas que por ela se interessam e a diferenciam da escrita dos homens. A proposta da crítica centrada na mulher (ginocrítica) trata da diferença a partir da ênfase no corpo, na linguagem, na psique e na cultura das mulheres. À luz destas críticas, será realizada uma análise preliminar dos romances sparkianos. No terceiro capítulo, as questões de gênero passam a ser discutidas como fator de análise que prevêem diferenças internas ao grupo das mulheres, bem como semelhanças com trabalhos masculinos. Este aspecto do gênero ocasiona uma leitura não mais binária e hierarquizada de textos, mas que permita às diferenças tornarem-se fator de liberdade e autonomia. Finalmente, a contribuição da autora para a literatura e sua relação com o movimento das mulheres constitui objeto de breves comentários.
The main aim of this work is to observe the female presence in Muriel Spark.s novels The Driver.s Seat and Symposium as a factor that can translate the reality of women who look for autonomy and that also offers, as a result, a relation between this attitude and the social reactions they cause. Based on studies that deal with identity matters (within gender studies, specifically, the feminist criticism) the recurring use of certain themes will be verified. Among them we can point out death, madness and an apparent control on the situation which in some way reveal problems, conflicts and afflictions of the observed characters. In the first chapter, the author is placed within the women.s movement as a way to have a better comprehension of her work by putting her in a specific context. Then, her work.s most evident characteristics are observed in relation to women.s practices as a whole. Among those questions that mark women.s writing studies, in the second chapter will be mentioned some critical trends interested in those writings and which differentiate them from men.s writing. The proposal of the criticism centered in the woman (gynocritics) deals with the difference emphasizing the women.s body, language, psyche and culture. Based on these critics it will be made a preliminary analysis of Spark.s novels. In the third chapter, gender matters begin to be discussed as an analytic factor which foresees internal differences in women.s group as well as similarities to men.s works. This gender aspect causes a reading no longer binary and based on hierarchies, but one that allows the differences to become a factor of freedom and autonomy. Finally, the author.s contribution to Literature and her relation to the women.s movement will be subject to brief comments.
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Vajjala, Emily. "GENDER-CRITICAL/ GENDERLESS? A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF TRANS-EXCLUSIONARY RADICAL FEMINISM (TERF) IN FEMINIST CURRENT." OpenSIUC, 2020. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1789.
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Feminist Current is a multi-author Canadian self-proclaimed feminist website which frequently publishes trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) discourse via blogs, podcasts, and global news. This project is a critical discourse analysis of the ways in which Feminist Current communicatively constructs and deconstructs transgender identity in problematic and exclusionary ways. In this study, I consider significant definitions given through Feminist Current, entertain the question of whether TERF is a slur, and discuss the major themes. Based on twenty-three sampled essays published on Feminist Current, I find that Feminist Current authors use five major themes in their discourse: violence against women, strategic censorship, antimanipulation and pro-bodily autonomy, performances of humor and naivete, and calls for solidarity. This discourse functions to separate transwomen from women’s spaces and position transwomen as illegitimate and aggressive, while simultaneously repositioning radical feminism as a superior ideological framing.
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Oliveira, Maria Aparecida [UNESP]. "A representação feminina na obra de Virginia Woolf: um diálogo entre o projeto político e o estético." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103691.
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Virginia Woolf’s feminist ideas, which are explored in A room of one’s own and in Three Guineas, are also present in her novels. The corpus of the analysis comprises two of her most important novels - To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway. The intention is to demonstrate that there is a coherent body of thought in her work, which clearly indicates an aesthetic and political project that underpins her texts and defines her writing. The main theoretical texts that will be used are The Madwoman in the Attic, the three volums of No Man’s Land, the first The War of the Words, the second Sexchanges and the third Letters from the Front by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar; A Literature of their Own: British Women Novelists from Brönte to Lessing by Elaine Showalter; Teoria Literária Feminista by Toril Moi and Mark Hussey’s Virginia Woolf: A to Z among others
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Evans, Matthew. "A critical stylistic analysis of the textual meanings of 'feminism', 'feminist(s)' and 'feminist' in UK national newspapers, 2000-2009." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2016. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/30184/.
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This thesis is a critical stylistic analysis of the meanings of the lexemes 'feminism', 'feminist(s)' and 'feminist' in UK national newspapers, 2000-2009. It uses the textual-conceptual functions set out in Jeffries (2010a) to investigate the linguistic contexts in which these lexemes occur within the data in order to assess to what extent the movement, the people who represent it, and things that are described as feminist are imbued with different textually constructed meanings. The analysis tests previous studies' findings concerning portrayals of feminism and feminists in the media. Expanding on and responding to this research, this study reports on five main findings: • 'Feminism', 'feminist(s)' and 'feminist' have positive, as well as negative, meanings. • 'Feminism' and 'feminists' are a western phenomenon, with different types in the past and present. • 'Feminism' has a complex meaning, with no single, universal definition and a variety of types. • 'Feminism' is presented as having undergone changes in meaning, as antonymous to other ideas and containing opposed meanings. • Portrayals of 'feminism' are complex, with articles recognising and contesting different meanings of the lexemes. These findings both confirm and question previous studies, which have argued that feminism and feminists are portrayed negatively in newspaper texts. It provides linguistic evidence to support claims made by other non-linguistic studies of the same genre and time period: that portrayals of feminism are 'fragmented' (Mendes, 2011a, p. 49) and that they present feminism as consisting of approved and disapproved types (Dean, 2010). I also discuss the lexemes 'feminism', 'feminist(s)' and 'feminist' in with regard to contested meaning, using critical stylistic tools to analyse how newspaper articles textually construct different meanings of the lexemes, and explicitly discuss and compare different definitions. The thesis argues that the analysis of textual meaning can be used to explore how the meanings of a lexeme or set of lexemes that 'involve ideas and values' (Williams, 1983, p. 17) are constructed in a variety of ways through the linguistic context in which they occur. I also reflect on the usefulness of the textualconceptual functions in the manual analysis of a large dataset, identifying ways in which an analysis that seeks to provide as full as possible an account of the textual construction of meaning can produce findings not possible through other means of analysis.
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Camargo, Monica Hermini de. "Versões do feminino: Virginia Woolf e a estética feminista." Universidade de São Paulo, 2001. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-03072002-231829/.
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Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar as condições e possibilidades do feminismo de Virginia Woolf à luz do momento sócio-econômico e cultural em que viveu e do qual foi um dos ícones. Por causa de sua formação e do panorama histórico da época, suas posições assumem um caráter extremamente ambíguo. Este estudo mostra que a autora oscila entre ser ícone de toda uma geração e outsider, romancista e crítica literária, intelectual e leitora comum, senhora das letras e feminista, crítica do gosto e proponente de uma nova estética literária, vitoriana esnobe e modernista. Tanto sua natureza criativa quanto os elementos propostos em sua estética literária resultam de sua visão de mundo e de sua relação ambígua com a realidade.The aim of this dissertation is to analyze the conditions and possibilities of Virginia Woolfs feminism in the light of the social, economical and cultural environment in which she lived and of which she became one of the icons. Because of her background and of the historical setting of her time, her positions take on an extremely ambiguous character. This study shows that the author bends from a whole generation icon to an outsider, from novelist to literary critic, from highbrow to common reader, from lady of letters to feminist, from woman of taste to proponent of a new literary aesthetics, from Victorian snob to modernist. Both her creative nature and the elements she suggests in her literary aesthetics result from her view of the world and from her ambiguous relationship with reality.
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Todd, Sharon. "The politics of knowledge : a critical theoretical approach to feminist epistemology and its educational implications." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61314.
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Stemming from the dialectical concepts of critical epistemology developed by feminism and Critical Theory (specifically, the Frankfurt School), this thesis attempts to articulate the political dimension of knowledge and to demonstrate how this dimension is incorporated into the liberatory pedagogical theory of Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux and various feminist authors. Hence the epistemological significance of domination and oppression is explored in relation to the concepts of subjectivity and objectivity held by critical epistemology.In ultimately aiming at liberation from social oppression, both Critical Theory and feminist epistemology provide theoretical insights into the social construction of knowledge, the intersubjective character of knowledge and the depth psychological dimension of the knower. It is maintained that a synthesis of these insights can provide the groundwork for a liberatory educational theory based on the interrelation between experience and knowledge. Also, in dialectical interaction, a liberatory educational theory provides a means for actualizing the liberatory aim of critical epistemology.
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Altieri, Emanuelle Cristina de Oliveira. "Emancipação e silenciamento em Save Me the Waltz (1932), de Zelda Fitzgerald /." Assis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/192081.
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Orientador: Cleide Antonia RapucciResumo: O presente trabalho propõe uma análise do romance publicado pela estadunidense Zelda Fitzgerald (1900 – 1948), intitulado Save Me the Waltz (1932), segundo o olhar da crítica feminista. A análise contempla como os papeis de gênero aparecem incutidos nas personagens, reproduzidos por meio de padrões de masculinidade e feminilidade nos quais são construídos. Também discute sobre a vida e obra de Zelda Fitzgerald, junto ao contexto em que a obra foi publicada (mesmo contexto em que a trama se passa), tendo em vista tratar-se de uma narrativa de autoria feminina com suas particularidades. Por fim, atrelado tanto à crítica feminista quanto à escrita de autoria feminina, foi feita a análise sobre o gênero da obra levando-se em conta a ficcionalidade, o autobiográfico, a literatura sulista e a literatura de formação e de artista. O método de análise do corpus orienta-se pela crítica feminista e tem o trabalho de Showalter (1977 e 1994) como base. Os gêneros textuais abordados alinham-se com as ideias de Lejeune (2008), Jones (2002), Nanney (1993) e Pinto (1990).
Abstract: The present work analyses the only novel published by the American writer Zelda Fitzgerald (1900 - 1948), named Save Me the Waltz (1932), according to the feminist criticism. The analysis takes into consideration how the gender roles appears engrained in the characters behavior, reproducing the patterns of masculinity and femininity in which they are constructed. It also discusses Zelda Fitzgerald's life and work along with the context the novel was published (same as the story), considering as a narrative of female authorship with its specific aspects. At last, related to the feminist criticism and the female authorship, the genre of the novel is going to be discussed, taking into account the fictional, the autobiography, the Southern Literature and literature of formation or the artist. The method of analysis is guided by the feminist criticism, Showalter's work (1977 and 1994) is our methodology model. Lejeune (2008), Jones (2002), Nanney (1993) and Pinto (1990) are aligned with the ideas of the textual genres mentioned.
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Tvardovskas, Luana Saturnino 1983. "Figurações feministas na arte contemporanea : Marcia X., Fernanda Magalhaes e Rosangela Renno." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/278878.
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Orientador: Luzia Margareth RagoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: Focalizando as poéticas visuais das artistas Márcia X., Fernanda Magalhães e Rosângela Rennó, essa pesquisa aborda as relações estabelecidas entre a produção artística contemporânea e a crítica cultural feminista. Evidencia a permanência do ¿dispositivo da sexualidade¿ na contemporaneidade, na perspectiva aberta por Foucault, ao que procura contrapor as formas da resistência feminista encontradas em instalações, performances e objetos artisticamente construídos a partir de um olhar diferenciado, que visam provocar e polemizar com as verdades instituídas, em especial em relação ao corpo feminino, à sexualidade e à subjetividade
Abstract: This research explores the interconnections between artistic production and feminist cultural criticism, focusing on Brazilian artists Marcia X., Fernanda Magalhães and Rosângela Rennó¿s works of art. It shows the continuity of ¿the dispositif of sexuality¿ in contemporary world, considered through Foucault¿s concepts, and it points at the feminist forms of resistance as they appear in installations, performances and artistic objects construed by a diferenciated regard, that aims at polemizing with natural truths as they are imposed in relation to female body, sexuality and subjectivity
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Preece, Georgia. "Women, painting and critical practice in Britain 1984-1992." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368175.
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Murphy, Kylie. "Bitch : the politics of angry women /." Murphy, Kylie (2002) Bitch: the politics of angry women. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2002. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/217/.
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'Bitch: the Politics of Angry Women' investigates the scholarly challenges and strengths in re theorising popular culture and feminism. It traces the connections and schisms between academic feminism and the feminism that punctuates popular culture. By tracing a series of specific bitch trajectories, this thesis accesses an archaeology of women?s battle to gain power.
Feminism is a large and brawling paradigm that struggles to incorporate a diversity of feminist voices. This thesis joins the fight. It argues that feminism is partly constituted through popular cultural representations. The separation between the academy and popular culture is damaging theoretically and politically. Academic feminism needs to work with the popular, as opposed to undermining or dismissing its relevancy.
Cultural studies provides the tools necessary to interpret popular modes of feminism. It allows a consideration of the discourses of race, gender, age and class that plait their way through any construction of feminism. I do not present an easy identity politics. These bitches refuse simple narratives. The chapters clash and interrogate one another, allowing difference its own space.
I mine a series of sites for feminist meanings and potential, ranging across television, popular music, governmental politics, feminist books and journals, magazines and the popular press. The original contribution to knowledge that this thesis proffers is the refusal to demarcate between popular feminism and academic feminism. A new space is established in which to dialogue between the two.
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Mapes, Margarethe. "GLOBALIZED BACKLASH: WOMEN AGAINST FEMINISM’S NEW MEDIA MATRIX OF (ANTI) FEMINIST TESTIMONY." OpenSIUC, 2016. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1163.
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Feminisms are oftentimes confronted with dissonance, resistance, and backlash. Invested in criticizing the cultural and institutional emergence of patriarchy and calls to re-order structures of inequality make feminism threatening to status quo power dynamics. “Women Against Feminism”—a social media phenomenon and space for women to post anti-feminist messages—began gaining notoriety in 2013. By 2015, “Women Against Feminism” expanded to multiple social media platforms, gained thousands of anti-feminist submissions, and received ample support and criticism across news outlets. This study explores “Women Against Feminism” as a potential site of 21st feminist backlash, noting nuanced rhetorical strategies that rely on fearing feminism, declarations of interpersonal and intrapersonal love, and co-opting feminist ideology to propagate anti-feminist narratives. I situate backlash as a communicative phenomenon of perception rather than a clear-cut movement reacting toward a stated goal of progress by a social group. In this way, feminist progress functions as an illusory cultural script where backlash reacts toward the perceived enactment of a feminist goal, rather than (although not excluding) the successful feminist execution of that goal. Thus, this study dually investigates what backlash strategies are used while also uncovering how differing audiences perceive feminism. Finally, I set forth a series of suggestive practical methods for feminist engagement across dissonance and difference.
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Mayes-Elma, Ruthann Elizabeth. "A Feminist Literary Criticism Approach to Representations of Women's Agency in Harry Potter." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2003. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?miami1060025232.
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Dunn, Angela Frances. "The continental drift : Anglo-American and French theories of tradition and feminism." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63972.
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Katona, Leah Andrea. "The Use of Violence as Feminist Rhetoric: Third-Wave Feminism in Tarantino's Kill Bill Films." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2759.
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For the purpose of this thesis, the main focus of the feminist rhetorical criticism method was specifically linked to gender-related power inequities. This method was especially appropriate for the analysis of how film violence is used as a feminist rhetorical strategy in the Kill Bill films. This thesis is more closely aligned with challenging rhetorical standards as it sought to identify feminist counter positions of rhetoric in film violence.
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Wilkinson, Susan J. "Constructing a critical feminist psychology." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1999. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/27126.
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The first part of the thesis analyses the conditions for the development of a critical feminist psychology, while the second part exemplifies the practice of a critical feminist psychology in relation to health - specifically breast cancer. The chapters in Part One consider, in turn, the institutional context within which a critical feminist psychology is necessarily located; the theories upon which it might draw; and the methods which it might use, with a particular emphasis on focus group methodology. The chapters in Part Two offer reviews of the feminist and psychosocial literature on breast cancer; and analyses of a data set consisting of thirteen focus group discussions in which women with breast cancer talk about their experiences. The analyses draw upon critical and discursive approaches to examine, in particular, the women's talk about "thinking positive", and about the "causes" of breast cancer.
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Borges, Noélia. "Rethinking female archetypal images in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre at the turn of the century /." Florianópolis, SC, 1999. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/80520.
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Garrett, Roberta. "Postmodernist cinema and feminist film criticism." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272823.
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Garber, Elizabeth Jessie. "Feminist polyphony : a conceptual understanding of feminist art criticism in the 1980s /." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487671640055385.
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Kuykendall, Sue A. Morgan William Woodrow Strickland Ron L. "The subject of feminist literary practices radical pedagogical alternatives (teaching subjects/reading novels) /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1993. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9411040.
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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1993.Title from title page screen, viewed February 23, 2006. Dissertation Committee: William Morgan, Ronald Strickland (co-chairs), Victoria Harris, Thomas Foster, Anne Rosenthal. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 228-242) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Layman, Amanda. "The Problem with Pussy Power: A Feminist Analysis of Spike Lee's Chi-Raq." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1490453172203067.
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Mietka, Helena Budzynska. "White Feminist Tears: Understanding Emotion, Embracing Discomfort, Exploring Dominant Femininities At Scripps College, and Stepping Towards a Critical White Anti-Racist Feminism." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/656.
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In this thesis, I trace my personal journey and the precursors of unlearning and conversation necessary to start to move towards anti-racism. With a focused look on specific aspects of feminist history, Scripps College as a place was historically contextualized. This allowed for an exploration of its student body, a look at the ways in which traditional gender meanings and expectations necessarily operate within that space. White students who claim the label feminist add complexity to that space, though their reactions to conversations of race can be traced back to the historic and gender over-determined systems of domination and victimhood that produce caustic white feminist tears. Finally, different ways of having difficult conversations are discussed, along with detailed understandings of why those conversations are necessary. In conclusion, I try to envision a kind of feminism that I would like myself and my peers to continue to work for, and emphasize again the sort of education that one must undergo in order to continue their awareness and work.
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Threadgold, Terry. "Feminist textual practice performance and critique." Monash University, School of Literary, Visual and Cultural Studies, 1999. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8576.
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Gualda, Linda Catarina. "Representações do feminino em Dom Casmurro e The Turn of the Screw /." Assis : [s.n.], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94121.
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Orientador: Cleide Antonia RapucciBanca: Heloísa Helou Doca
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Resumo: Esta dissertação objetiva investigar como se constrói a representação feminina nas obras Dom Casmurro e The Turn of the Screw, tendo como ponto de partida as personagens Capitu e a governanta, respectivamente. Os ideais femininos apresentados são criações masculinas e por isso merecem atenção especial. Ambas as personagens fazem referência a uma construção social que tem a ver com a distinção masculino/feminino, colocando a mulher numa posição de inferioridade e veiculando uma imagem negativa dessas mulheres adúltera e insana. Estamos interessados nesses estereótipos de mulher que se constroem a partir dos mitos concebidos e se incorporam ao gênero dando-lhes um caráter de naturalidade. Acreditamos que tais representações equivalem, no contexto das obras, a uma apropriação do olhar masculino sobre o corpo feminino. Machado de Assis e Henry James não captam apenas a alma da mulher, mas também transferem essa criação para a superfície da palavra com a qual esses enredos, narrados em primeira pessoa, se constroem. Por fim, com auxílio da linha feminista da crítica literária que se preocupa com a questão da mulher consumidora de uma literatura produzida por homens, pretendemos gerar uma reflexão a respeito da identidade de gênero criada e veiculada sob uma ótica masculina.
Abstract: This dissertation intends to investigate how the feminine representations are built up in the novels Dom Casmurro and The Turn of the Screw, whose starting points are the characters Capitu and the governess, respectively. The feminine ideals are masculine creations and so they deserve special attention. Both characters refer to a social construction that is related to the distinction between masculine/feminine, which includes the woman in an inferior position and projects a negative image of these women adulterous and insane. We are interested in these stereotypes of women that are built from established myths and are incorporated into gender showing a character of naturalness. Concerning the novels context, we believe that these representations are equivalent to an appropriation of the masculine view over the feminine body. Machado de Assis and Henry James grasp not only womans soul, but they also transfer their creations to the word surface, with which the plots in first person are built. To conclude, with the support of the feminist literary criticism which deals with the issue of women as consumers of a literature produced by men, we intend to encourage a reflection about gender identity created and presented according to a masculine view.
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Di, Guglielmo Antoinette Christine. "Sex and the city: A postmodern reading." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3239.
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Sex and the City was a television show that aired on Home Box Office from 1998-2004. The tv show succeeded because of feminist's wanting a modern woman's drama rich in episodes about consumption, women's sexuality, financial independence, fashion and contemporary relationship dynamics. The characters captured and perpetuated just that. The modern take on the ideologies that drive women's perception of personal fulfillment, body image, consumerism, social behavior and values and romantic relationship dynamics made this tv show the phenomena that it became.
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Renaud, Michelle Carleton University Dissertation Sociology and Anthropology. "Critical theory, utopia and feminism." Ottawa, 1995.
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Brunsdon, Charlotte Mary. "The feminist, the housewife and the soap opera : feminist television criticism and soap opera." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396230.
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Luckner, Victoria. "“I AM NOT A PRINCESS BUT…”: AN IDEOLOGICAL CRITICISM OF “FEMINIST” IDEOLOGIES IN DISNEY’S MOANA." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/753.
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In 2016, Disney animation studios released their newest princess film Moana. The film follows a seemingly feminist plot line of a young female heroine who saves the world from destruction. This study examines Moana (2016) in relation to the views on feminism in the U.S. Disney’s large social and economic influence provides rich grounds for this research. Using an ideological rhetorical criticism, I uncovered the presented and suggested elements of the film. These elements combined with research on U.S. feminist ideology allowed three ideological themes to emerge: ecofeminism, power feminism, and post-feminism. The three themes are threaded to create a seemingly feminist patchwork ideology. I argue that the patchwork ideology that is created is a result of the political and economic conditions present around the production of Moana. Furthermore, I argue that this patchwork ideology is ultimately harmful to current feminist ideology in the U.S. This study adds insight into how feminist ideology is used in popular media.
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Allen-Johnstone, Claire. "Dress, feminism, and British New Woman novels." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dd38da33-efbb-463f-86fd-9fcc1c4f707e.
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This thesis examines the close and complex relationship between dress, feminism, and British New Woman novels. It provides in-depth analysis of six New Woman novels and draws comparisons with numerous other works. The case study texts are Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm (1883) and From Man to Man: Or Perhaps Only ... (1926, posthumously), Sarah Grand's Ideala: A Study from Life (1881) and The Heavenly Twins (1893), and Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did (1895) and The Type-Writer Girl (1897). I explore why dress was so important to such novels, and examine the diverse, individual, developing, and shared ways in which authors engaged with dress as a feminist strategy and feminist concern. Areas considered include From Man to Man's use of functional clothes and dress production to celebrate female labour, Grand's interest in both dress reform and dressing to impress, Allen's shift in focus from the white-clad free lover to the sensibly-dressed working woman, and authors' use of deceptively clean clothes to address male immorality and disease. The thesis looks beyond as well as within New Woman narratives, demonstrating that writers, and publishers, were broadly concerned with dress in its various literal and more metaphorical manifestations. Focuses include self-styling, authorial cross-dressing, and bindings. Dress does not, however, always seamlessly support these texts' feminisms, I argue. For example, Grand elevated cross-class feminism, but she belittled middle-class women's taste, side-lined poor women's most pressing sartorial concerns, and dressed to impress. I also stress that dress, being so closely bound up with New Woman novels' feminisms and their ambiguities, is a revealing lens through which to read such texts, and one often capable of prompting re-readings. Attention to Allen's rejection of sartorial realism in parts of The Woman Who Did problematises the dominant conception of this novel as straightforwardly pro-free union, for instance. The thesis, as well as gesturing towards dress's centrality to the production and interpretation of literary feminisms and anti-feminisms broadly, emphasises the importance of dress to New Woman literature and its analysts, and uses dress to provide fresh readings of various novels and genre-wide issues.
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MacKeen, Alison. "From discovery to creation : feminist literary criticism's aesthetic turn." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59590.
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This thesis challenges the way feminist literary criticism has been represented as a field polarized between American and French positions. As an alternative to the American/French distinction, I propose one between feminist criticism oriented to research and feminist criticism oriented to aesthetics. In keeping with this alternative distinction, I relocate the shift in feminist criticism within American feminism. The "aesthetic turn" inaugurated by American "gynocriticism" is itself identified in relation to a more general philosophical shift from discovery to creation. While the relativistic and voluntaristic tendencies which distinguish the latter pole are exemplified by French feminism, I argue that they are anticipated by American feminism's "aesthetic turn." Finally, this thesis not only relocates and redefines the shift in feminist literary criticism, but provides arguments in favour of a research-oriented feminist criticism.
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Pearce, Margaret. "A.S. Byatt : writing feminist issues." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26302.
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A. S. Byatt attempts to recover lost voices in Possession and Angels and Insects (a collection of two novellas) by examining the limiting roles of women in literature and society. Chapter one examines Possession in which the characters search for their connections to the literary past, ultimately locating them through a lesser-known, female, Victorian poet. In chapter two I consider "Morpho Eugenia," the first novella in Angels and Insects. Byatt illustrates how the male gaze names women and defines their roles. In the second novella, "The Conjugial Angel," analyzed in chapter three, Byatt (re)tells Emily Jesse's story, one formerly appropriated by Alfred Tennyson in In Memoriam. I conclude that Byatt attempts to relocate her heroines from the margins to the center by deconstructing hierarchical patterns of storytelling. Rather than replacing male-monopolized narratives with female ones, Byatt undermines the dominating viewpoint by demonstrating the way in which it obscures all other perspectives.
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Macdonald, Sheila. "ESOL in the UK : a critical feminist analysis." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4028/.
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This thesis examines the provision of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) for immigrant adults in early 21st century Britain from a critical feminist perspective to gain insight into the process of learning English through adult education in the lives of women with bi/multilingual children. Few studies in this field focus on gender as a central social category within a multi-dimensional analysis. This research in south east England from 2010 to 2012 involved twenty participants from a variety of ethnic and linguistic backgrounds whose insights into their migration and learning journeys, family relationships and local communities are contextualised and set alongside a critical discourse analysis of selected political and policy texts. These are examined for overt and subtle forms of discrimination which may exert a detrimental material and symbolic effect on women’s lives and learning, primarily those which enter the local and domestic sphere in matters of community cohesion and family language practices. This study challenges discourses which view English as a commodity to be acquired, immigrants as reluctant to learn English or linear progression routes to qualifications based on low expectations as appropriate. Research participants are committed to a multilingual future for their families and develop complex strategies to support their languages. A key finding is that emotional, internal transitions are at least as significant in their perception of themselves as successful language learners, mothers and immigrant citizens as are material resources and conditions. External life experiences and personal relationships are integrally linked to linguistic confidence and self esteem and although ESOL provision is vital it is currently constructed on a social deficit model which does not fully meet participant’s learning needs. For many other women, there are considerable legal, financial and childcare barriers
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Redmond, Malika A. "A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Marketing of Merck & Co.'s Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Gardasil®." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/wsi_theses/26.
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This is a critical discourse analysis research project that examines the print and television advertisements of Merck & Co.’s Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine GARDASIL®. There are three commercial campaigns identified for this project: “Make the Connection/ Charm4Life,” “Tell Someone,” and “One Less/ I Choose.” Two print and two television commercials per campaign are analyzed. I used black feminist and girls studies theoretical frameworks to address how representations of race, class, “girl power,” and the cooptation of feminist language are both expressed and utilized in the marketing as a method to target consumers. I conclude with “parody/ protest” advertisements of the vaccine featuring young women demonstrating a critical consumer voice towards the marketing of the vaccine. As a result, I found that the PSAs used fear-driven messages about HPV’s link to cervical cancer beginning a year before the FDA’s approval of GARDASIL® in order to market and sell its product.
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Brum, Gabriela Eltz. "Sexual blinging of women : Alice Walker's african character tashi and issue of female genital cutting." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/4506.
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Este trabalho consiste em uma leitura das diferentes formas de representação que podem ser atribuídas à personagem Tashi, protagonista do romance Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), da escritora negra estadunidense Alice Walker. Antes desta obra, Tashi já havia aparecido em dois romances de Walker, primeiro em The Color Purple (1982), como personagem periférica, e depois como menção em The Temple of my Familiar (1989). Com Tashi, surge a temática da prática da circuncisão feminina, ritual ao qual a personagem se submete no início da idade adulta. O foco de observação do trabalho se volta para a maneira na qual a revolta da autora é transformada em um meio de representação criativa. Walker utiliza sua obra abertamente como instrumento ideológico para que o tema da “mutilação genital” (termo utilizado pela autora) receba ampla atenção da mídia e da crítica em geral. O propósito da investigação é avaliar até que ponto o engajamento social da autora contribui de uma forma positiva em seu trabalho e até que ponto o mesmo engajamento o atrapalha. Para a análise das diferentes questões relacionadas ao tema de “female genital cutting” (FGC), termo que eu utilizo no decorrer da pesquisa, os trabalhos de críticas e escritoras feministas como Ellen Gruenbaum, Lightfoot-Klein, Nancy Hartsock, Linda Nicholson, Efrat Tseëlon e a egípcia Nawal El Saadawi serão consultados. Espero que esta dissertação possa contribuir como uma observação sobre como Alice Walker usa seu engajamento social na criação de seu mundo fictício.This thesis provides a reading of the different forms of representation that can be attributed to the character Tashi, the protagonist of the novel Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), written by the African American writer Alice Walker. Before this work Tashi had already appeared in two previous novels by Walker, first, in The Color Purple (1982) and then, as a mention, in The Temple of My Familiar (1989). With Tashi, the author introduces the issue of female circumcision, a ritual Tashi submits herself to at the beginning of her adult life. The focus of observation lies in the ways in which the author’s anger is transformed into a means of creative representation. Walker uses her novel Possessing the Secret of Joy openly as a political instrument so that the expression “female mutilation” (term used by the author) receives ample attention from the media and critics in general. The aim of this investigation is to evaluate to what extent Walker’s social engagement contributes to the development of her work and to what extent it undermines it. For the analysis of the different issues related to “female genital cutting”, the term I use in this thesis, the works of feminist critics and writers such as Ellen Gruenbaum, Lightfoot-Klein, Nancy Hartsock, Linda Nicholson, Efrat Tseëlon and the Egyptian writer and doctor Nawal El Saadawi will be consulted. I hope that this thesis can contribute as an observation about Alice Walker’s use of her social engagement in the creation of her fictional world.
Este trabajo consiste en una lectura de las diferentes formas de representación que pueden ser atribuidas al personaje Tashi, protagonista de la novela Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), de la escritora negra norte-americana Alice Walker. Antes de esta obra, Tashi ya había aparecido en dos romances de Walker, primero en The Color Purple (1982), como personaje periferica y después como mención en The Temple of My Familiar (1989). Con Tashi, surge la temática de la circuncisión femenina, ritual al cual Tashi se somete en el principio de la edad adulta. El foco de observación del trabajo se vuelca sobre las maneras en las cuales la revuelta de la autora se tranforma en un medio de creación creativa. Walker utiliza su obra abiertamente como instrumento político para que el tema de la “mutilación genital” (termino utilizado por la autora) reciba amplia atención de los medios y crítica en general. El propósito de la investigación es evaluar hasta que punto el envolvimiento social de la autora contribuye positivamente o interfiere en el desarrollo de su trabajo. Para el análisis de las diferentes cuestiones relacionadas al tema de “female genital cutting” (FGC), termino utilizado por mi en el decorrer del trabajo, las obras de las críticas y escritoras feministas como Ellen Gruenbaum, Lightfoot-Klein, Nancy Hartsock, Linda Nicholson, Efrat Tseëlon y la egipcia Nawal El Saadawi serán consultadas. Deseo que el trabajo realizado pueda contribuir como una observación sobre como Alice Walker utiliza su envolvimiento social en la creación de su mundo fictício.
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Burnett, Linda Avril. "The argument against tragedy in feminist dramatic re-vision of the plays of Euripides and Shakespeare /." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35857.
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This dissertation examines the arguments against tragedy offered by feminist playwrights in their "re-visions" of the plays of Euripides and Shakespeare.In the first part, I maintain that feminist dramatic re-vision is one manifestation of an unrecognized tradition of women's writing in which criticism is expressed through fiction. I also argue that the project of feminist dramatic re-vision embodies a feminist "new poetics."
In the second part, I examine the aesthetics and politics of tragedy from a feminist perspective. Feminist arguments against tragedy are, in effect arguments against patriarchy. But it is the theorists and critics of tragedy---not the playwrights---who are unequivocally aligned with patriarchy. Playwrights like Euripides and Shakespeare can be seen to destabilize tragedy in their plays.
In the third part, I show how recent feminist playwrights (Jackie Crossland, Dario Fo and Franca Rame, Deborah Porter, Caryl Churchill and David Lan, Maureen Duffy, Alison Lyssa, The Women's Theatre Group and Elaine Feinstein, Joan Ure, Margaret Clarke, and Ann-Marie MacDonald) counter tragedy by extrapolating from the arguments presented by Euripides and Shakespeare in The Medea, The Bacchae, King Lear, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Othello , and by allocating voice and agency to their female protagonists.
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Gomes, Natalia de Oliveira Ribeiro Candido. "Violette Leduc: a travessia do deserto ao arco-íris." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8146/tde-14082017-121201/.
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Essa dissertação percorre a obra da escritora francesa, Violette Leduc, elaborando uma reflexão crítica a partir das noções de performatividade e performance, tal como conceituadas por Judith Butler. O núcleo da investigação proposta é a maneira como tais noções operam na obra leduciana, sobretudo sua trilogia autobiográfica, composta pelos livros La bâtarde, La folie en tête e La chasse à lamour. A partir da lente da crítica feminista, com especial atenção aos estudos queer (sem, no entanto, esquecer as vertentes críticas que os precedem), a análise da obra de Leduc torna-se, também, uma discussão sobre poder, gêneros, sexualidades e potências da linguagem literária. As narradoras-personagens dos livros de Leduc constantemente se debruçam sobre a própria obra da autora e a tomam para si: reescrevem os livros publicados como ficcionais, denunciam suas estratégias criativas, falam sobre os impasses do exercício da escrita, desestabilizam a obra de Violette Leduc, transformando-a constantemente. Para além disso, há na literatura leduciana um questionamento recorrente das estruturas sociais, culturais e políticas que regulam os gêneros, os desejos e as práticas sexuais. Tanto a lesbiandade, a bissexualidade, a heterossexualidade, a fluidez dos desejos e das possibilidades para sua práxis quanto as feminilidades e masculinidades, são temas narrados e explorados ao longo de toda a trilogia autobiográfica e também dos romances. Tais indagações culminam em transformações na própria escrita literária, revelando como característica central da literatura leduciana a relação simbiótica entre criação (performance) e citação (performatividade).The following dissertation explores the work of french writer, Violette Leduc through Judith Butlers definition for both gender performativity and performance notions. The investigations core is the part such notions play in Leducs work, especially her autobiographical trilogy, which comprehends the novels La bâtarde, La folie en tête and La chasse à lamour. This research views Leducs work from the feminist criticism perspective, with special attention to queer studies (but without losing account of the critical thinking that preceded it). The result is an literary analysis that transforms into a discussion of various themes, such as power, genders, sexualities and the different potentials for literary language. Leducs autobiographical protagonist-narrators constantly address Leducs own literary work and claim their ownership over it: they rewrite Leducs fiction and also denounce their creative strategies as well as her impasses with literary writing. The result is a narrator that destabilizes Violette Leducs work, persistently transforming it. Beyond that, in the leducian literature there is a recurrent interrogation of social, political and cultural structures that regulate genders, desires and sexual practices. Lesbianhood, bissexuality, heterossexuality, feminility and masculinity as well as desire and its practical potentialities are themes explored throughout the entire autobiographical trilogy and also in the fictional work. Such inquiries result in transformations on the very literary writing, revealing a key aspect of Leducs literature: the symbiotic relationship established between creation (performance) and citation (performativity).
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Azevedo, Célia Cristina de. "Conduzir o banquete da vida : a presença feminina na obra de Muriel Spark /." Assis : [s.n.], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94129.
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Orientador: Cleide Antonia RapucciBanca: Thomas Bonnici
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Resumo: Constitui objetivo principal deste trabalho a observação da presença feminina nos romances The Driver.s Seat e Symposium, da escritora escocesa Muriel Spark, como fator que possibilite traduzir a realidade das mulheres que buscam autonomia e que, conseqüentemente, ofereça uma relação entre esta atitude e as reações sociais que causam. Com base nos estudos que tratam de questões identitárias (dentro dos estudos de gênero, especificamente, a crítica feminista) será averiguada a recorrência de alguns temas. Dentre eles, destacam-se a morte, a loucura e o aparente controle da situação que, de alguma forma, revelam problemas, conflitos e aflições das personagens estudadas. No primeiro capítulo, situamos a autora com relação ao movimento das mulheres, com o objetivo de, ao contextualizá-la, ter uma melhor compreensão de sua obra. Assim, observam-se as características mais evidentes de seu trabalho com relação às práticas das mulheres em um plano global. Dentre as questões que marcam os estudos da escrita das mulheres, no segundo capítulo serão abordadas algumas linhas críticas que por ela se interessam e a diferenciam da escrita dos homens. A proposta da crítica centrada na mulher (ginocrítica) trata da diferença a partir da ênfase no corpo, na linguagem, na psique e na cultura das mulheres. À luz destas críticas, será realizada uma análise preliminar dos romances sparkianos. No terceiro capítulo, as questões de gênero passam a ser discutidas como fator de análise que prevêem diferenças internas ao grupo das mulheres, bem como semelhanças com trabalhos masculinos. Este aspecto do gênero ocasiona uma leitura não mais binária e hierarquizada de textos, mas que permita às diferenças tornarem-se fator de liberdade e autonomia. Finalmente, a contribuição da autora para a literatura e sua relação com o movimento das mulheres constitui objeto de breves comentários.
Abstract: The main aim of this work is to observe the female presence in Muriel Spark.s novels The Driver.s Seat and Symposium as a factor that can translate the reality of women who look for autonomy and that also offers, as a result, a relation between this attitude and the social reactions they cause. Based on studies that deal with identity matters (within gender studies, specifically, the feminist criticism) the recurring use of certain themes will be verified. Among them we can point out death, madness and an apparent control on the situation which in some way reveal problems, conflicts and afflictions of the observed characters. In the first chapter, the author is placed within the women.s movement as a way to have a better comprehension of her work by putting her in a specific context. Then, her work.s most evident characteristics are observed in relation to women.s practices as a whole. Among those questions that mark women.s writing studies, in the second chapter will be mentioned some critical trends interested in those writings and which differentiate them from men.s writing. The proposal of the criticism centered in the woman (gynocritics) deals with the difference emphasizing the women.s body, language, psyche and culture. Based on these critics it will be made a preliminary analysis of Spark.s novels. In the third chapter, gender matters begin to be discussed as an analytic factor which foresees internal differences in women.s group as well as similarities to men.s works. This gender aspect causes a reading no longer binary and based on hierarchies, but one that allows the differences to become a factor of freedom and autonomy. Finally, the author.s contribution to Literature and her relation to the women.s movement will be subject to brief comments.
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Gomes, Michele Cristina Ramos. "Sororidade, substantivo feminino: reflexões linguísticas e sociais sobre abordagens do feminismo no jornal O Globo." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2017. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/5371.
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Este trabalho tem por objetivo realizar reflexões linguísticas e sociais sobre os fenômenos ideológicos (THOMPSON, 1995) que envolvem o tema “feminismo” na comunicação de massa, especialmente na mídia impressa, realizando uma comparação histórica sobre a abordagem do tema. Para isso, o jornal O Globo foi selecionado como objeto de análise, pois é um importante meio de comunicação de massa (MCQUAIL, 2003) no país. Os textos escolhidos para análise referem-se a recortes temporais realizados de 1925 a 2016. Assim, reconhecendo a importância da comunicação de massa como o local para a produção e a propagação da ideologia (THOMPSON, 1998), através de uma perspectiva qualitativa com base na Análise Crítica do Discurso (FAIRCLOUGH, 2001[1989],1992,1995) e considerando os gêneros textuais (MARCUSCHI, 2005) historicamente situados, buscamos refletir sobre as representações ideológicas do feminismo e das lutas pelos direitos das mulheres realizadas no jornal. O termo já aparecia nos jornais desde 1925, evidenciando a preocupação da mídia impressa em posicionar-se sobre o assunto. Conforme notamos, ao comparar historicamente os dados, a abordagem realizada por essa mídia sobre o assunto é ora positiva, ora negativa, conforme os interesses desse meio de comunicação e mediante à época.
This work aims to carry out linguistic and social reflections on ideological phenomena (THOMPSON, 1995) which involve the theme "feminism" in mass communication, especially in the print media, making a historical comparison on the approach of this subject. For this, the newspaper O Globo was selected as an object of analysis, since it is an important mean of mass communication (MCQUAIL, 2003) in the country. The texts chosen for analysis refer to time cuts made from 1925 to 2016. Thus, recognizing the importance of mass communication as the locus for the production and propagation of ideology (Thompson, 1998), through a qualitative perspective based In Critical Discourse Analysis (FAIRCLOUGH, 2001 [1989], 1992, 1995) and considering textual genres (MARCUSCHI, 2005), we seek to reflect on the ideological representations of feminism and struggles for women's rights in the newspaper. The term “feminism” had appeared in the newspapers since 1925, evidencing the concern of the print media to position themselves on the subject. As we have seen, in comparing the data historically, the approach taken by this media on the subject is sometimes positive, sometimes negative, according to the interests of this medium and through the time.
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Potts, Tracey. "Can the Imperialist read? : race and feminist literary theory." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1997. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/63653/.
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Since the mid 1980's it has been unthinkable for white feminist literary critics to neglect race in their theoretical work. Strong challenges from black feminists have been effective in placing race high on the critical agenda. No longer is the kind of exclusivity that marked early (white) feminist literary theory possible. However, despite the evident commitment to addressing the race question in their work, the black feminist challenge has been greeted with a considerable degree of anxiety by white feminist critics. I suggest that the main source of anxiety is a failure to square the pressing need to 'include' race on the feminist agenda with doubts about straying into what is perceived to be black feminist territory. In other words, white feminist critics have yet to resolve their relation to the black feminist project. This anxiety has meant that a concern over the notion of exclusion has given way to that of appropriation. This has tended to place the white feminist reader in the paralysing position where there seems little available ground between the twin poles of exclusion and appropriation. Typical questions that have arisen out of this dichotomy are: should white feminists teach black women's writing? Should white feminist critics produce critical readings of texts authored by black women? Can white women readers read black women's writings without imposing onto them their own critical agendas? Is a non-appropriative reading relation possible? How should white feminists deal with the fact of their own race privilege and what bearing does this privilege have upon the readings they, potentially, might produce? This project examines some of the ways in which white feminists have attempted to address their relation to the race question in feminist literary criticism. Over the space of six chapters I focus on a number of specific reading strategies offered as positive critical interventions. My main contention is the impossibility of a guaranteed anti-imperialist theory or reading position. I also argue for the necessity of asking the question: whether the imperialist can read, as a complement to that of whether 'the subaltern can speak'. Chapter 1 questions the white feminist ambition of arriving at the truth of the black text as a means of decolonising the text. Through an examination of the Rodney King events some of the perils of appeals to pure seeing are highlighted. Chapter 2 explores the implications of white feminist abstention from the race debates. Chapter 3 looks at the issue of identification as a basis for reading. Chapter 4 questions the identifications that inhere in applying theory to a text. Chapter 5 challenges the use of contextualisation as a source of textual limits. Chapter 6 examines the limits of self-reflexivity as an anti-imperialist method.
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Corrêa, Jaquelini Aparecida Silva. "A representação textual-discursiva do feminino em crônicas de Marina Colasanti." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2015. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14366.
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Previous issue date: 2015-10-07This thesis is situated in the research area of text and discourse in oral and written modalities of the postgraduate studies program in Portuguese Language of the PUC-SP. It is based on the Critical Discourse Analysis with socio-cognitive aspects and in the Textual- Discursive Linguistic. The thesis has as theme the different forms of representation of feminine in Marina Colasanti's chronicles having as a starting point the relationship between the categories: society, cognition and discourse. The general purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the linguistic-discourse studies of feminine gender in Brazil. It has specific objectives as: 1) to identify the social roles of feminine in Marina Colasanti's chronicles; 2) to verify the opinion of the chronicler regarding the values attributed to the female; according to the social cognition; 3) to situate the feminine gender representations in the argumentative structure of the opinion of the chronicler. 4) to identify in the narrative textual sequences the way the feminine is represented. The methodological procedure used is theoretical and analytical with qualitative analysis of documentary material. This is a multidisciplinary research ranked by the cognition sciences. For a good understanding of the process of this thesis, should be mentioned the fact that it is based on the theoretical foundations of Discursive-Textual Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis with socio-cognitive aspects. The analytical categories are: society, discourse and cognition. The corpus consisted of the Marina Colasanti s chronicles that were analyzed from the themes, and their semantic progression for the representation of feminine s social roles in Brazilian society. The results indicate that female representations in Marina Colasanti s chronicles are paradoxical because confront the social cognitions (macho ideology), with the view of the chronicler (feminist ideology). To sum up, these results indicate a change in Brazilian society, in the seventies and eighties, due to the emergence of the contraceptive pill and the professionalization of women in Brazil
Esta dissertação está situada na linha de pesquisa texto e discurso nas modalidades oral e escrita do programa de estudos pós-graduados em Língua Portuguesa da PUC-SP. Está fundamentada na Análise Critica do Discurso, com vertente sociocognitiva e na Linguística Textual-Discursiva. Tem por tema as formas de representação do feminino em crônicas escritas por Marina Colasanti a partir da interrelação entre as categorias sociedade, cognição e discurso. O objetivo geral é: contribuir com os estudos linguístico-discursivos do gênero feminino no Brasil. São objetivos específicos: 1) Identificar os papéis sociais do gênero feminino em crônicas de Marina Colasanti; 2) Verificar a opinião da cronista frente os valores atribuídos ao feminino, conforme as cognições sociais; 3) Situar a representação do feminino na estrutura argumentativa da opinião da cronista; 4)Tratar das sequências narrativas e a representação do feminino. O procedimento metodológico é teórico-analítico, com análise qualitativa de material documental. Trata-se de uma pesquisa multidisciplinar hierarquizada pelas ciências da cognição. Para bem situar o processo de constituição da dissertação, parte-se das fundamentações teóricas da linguística textual discursiva e da Análise Crítica do Discurso com vertente sociocognitiva. As categorias analíticas são: sociedade, discurso e cognição. O corpus foi constituído por crônicas de Marina Colasanti analisada a partir de temas e sua progressão semântica para a representação dos papéis sociais do feminino na sociedade brasileira. Os resultados obtidos indicam que as representações do feminino em crônicas de Marina Colasanti são paradoxais, pois confrontam as cognições sociais (ideologia machista), com a opinião da cronista (ideologia feminina). Em síntese, esses resultados indicam uma mudança na sociedade brasileira, nas décadas de setenta e oitenta, decorrente do aparecimento da pílula anticoncepcional e da profissionalização da mulher, no Brasil
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LeDrew, June Elizabeth. "Women and primary physical education, a feminist critical ethnography." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq21939.pdf.
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Rose, Patricia Elizabeth. "The Role of medieval and matristic romance literature in spiritual feminism /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2001. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16284.pdf.
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Ask, Celia Cristina de Azevedo [UNESP]. "Sparkianas texto adentro: narrativa e relações humanas nos contos de Muriel Spark (1918-2006)." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103660.
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Este trabalho tem por objetivo realizar uma leitura dos contos da autora escocesa Muriel Spark, nos quais a importância das práticas narrarativas se manifesta como a característica mais evidente: a estrutura narrativa e as construções significativas agem em favor da expressão de um modo de estar no mundo e, mais regularmente, representam também o grande desafio que a leitura poderá abrigar ao tratar das personagens, em especial as femininas. No entanto, é necessária a identificação das referências que constituem os mundos ficcionais, geralmente atreladas à realidade e à proposição de novas formas de inteligibilidade. Em geral, estas formas estão implícitas no texto e cabe às leitoras e aos leitores acessá-las; para que isto ocorra, devemos reconhecer que estrutura narrativa e caracterização de personagens encontram-se intrinsecamente relacionadas. Por meio dos contos sparkianos, é possível ter uma ampla visão da obra da autora e, ao mesmo tempo, das práticas e experiências das mulheres historicamente situadas. Assim, a tese que defendemos é a de que os contos de Muriel Spark, com base nas construções significativas presentes no texto, permitem um diálogo entre o texto e a realidade sob o enfoque da personagem feminina. Servindo-se das referências adequadas, a leitura dos contos sparkianos pode contribuir para a compreensão das formas de interação das mulheres em seu próprio grupo e com o grupo dos homens
This study aims to perform a reading of the short stories of Scottish author Muriel Spark, in which the importance of the narrative practices manifests itself as their most evident feature: the narrative structure and the building of significances may favor the expression of a mode of being in the world and, more regularly, they also represent the great challenge that reading can accommodate concerning the characters, especially the female ones. However, it is necessary to identify the references that constitute the fictional worlds, usually tied to reality and proposing new forms of intelligibility. In general, these forms are implicit in the text and it is a readers’ task to access them; for this to occur, we must recognize that narrative structure and characterization are intrinsically linked. Through the sparkian characters it is possible to get a broad overview of the work of the author and, at the same time, the practices and experiences of women historically situated. Thus, the thesis we defend is that the stories written by Muriel Spark, based on significant buildings in the text, enable a dialogue between text and reality from the perspective of female characters. With the appropriate references, the reading of those sparkian short stories can contribute to the understanding of the ways by which women interact within their own group and with the male group
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Gungor, Derya. "Femicide In Turkey: A Descriptive And Critical Study Based On News Texts Of Femicide Incidents In 2009." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614017/index.pdf.
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The purpose of the study is to develop both a descriptive and critical understanding towards the phenomenon of femicide in Turkey. First, the answers to the questions who commits femicide, where it takes place, what the ages of the victims and perpetrators are, in what ways femicide is committed and what are the 'reasons'
of committing femicide will be revealed through news reports of incidents of femicide. Second, the news texts of incidents of femicide will be analyzed based on the framework of Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis (FCDA). The discourse of framing the incidents will be identified. In particular, '
justifying discourse'
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Henderson, Susan E. "Details, baby, details : a feminist criticism of The crying game." Virtual Press, 1994. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/902494.
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This study examined gender portrayals in the film, The Crvinq Game. The societal labels for gender, "masculine" and "feminine," are not negative in and of themselves. However, when they are coupled with stereotypes, their power to direct behavior and perception formation can rob people of their freedom to be simply "human." This study primarily focused upon the costs of maintaining, challenging, and abandoning gender role stereotypes as illustrated in The Crvinq Game. Sonja Foss's four-step approach to feminist criticism was used as a tool for examination of this film.By examining the appearances, attitudes, and behaviors of the four central characters in the film, two messages emerged. First, in all four cases, being of a feminine nature was less desirable than being of a masculine nature. Second, Neil Jordan, the film's director, prescribes that all people should transcend the boundaries of gender, and simply allow themselves and others to be human.Jordan's humanistic message also provides insight into expansion of rhetorical methods and theories. Feminist criticism and Queer theory could attempt to transcend the boundaries of gender, and work toward the inclusion of all non-traditional sex roles.Department of Speech Communication
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Schmiedel, Stevie. "Contesting the oedipal legacy : Deleuzean vs psychoanalytic feminist critical theory." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289082.
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