Log in

Relevant bibliographies by topics / Feminist literary criticism Women's studies / Dissertations / Theses

To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Feminist literary criticism Women's studies.

Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Feminist literary criticism Women's studies'

Author: Grafiati

Published: 4 June 2021

Last updated: 14 February 2022

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles

Select a source type:

Consult the top 40 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Feminist literary criticism Women's studies.'

Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.

You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.

Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.

1

Gress, Priti Chitnis. "Tar Baby and the Black Feminist Literary Tradition." W&M ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626111.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

2

Mayes-Elma, Ruthann. "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.

Full text

Abstract:

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of Educational Leadership, 2003.<br>Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 147 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-141).

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

3

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.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

4

Taghavie-Moghadam, Mariah. "A Miraculous Deliverance: An Adaptation Through Historical Criticism and Feminist Theory." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5740.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis attempts to reconstruct the narrative of Anne Greene, a young female servant in 1650 England that was wrongfully found guilty of infanticide and made into a spectacle by her peers as an example of what happens when one breaks societies gender norms and is met by the influence of the gender politics of the period. Her female body was objectified and placed on display by a ritual performance of the hangman’s noose and the criminal corpse to further the process of by maintaining fear among members of the population, especially rebellious women. Thus, making Anne Greene a subversive fi

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

5

Delchamps, Vivian. "“Of the Woman First of All”: Walt Whitman and Women's Literary History." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/420.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis contemplates Walt Whitman's role in the lives of 19th and 20th century women writers and his significance to early American feminism. I consider the ways women inspired him to develop pro-feminist ideas about maternity, womanhood, and female liberation.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

6

Muus, Elaine Janice. "Articulate bodies, or, Encore, en corps, sense-ing the body as (re)presentation of women's subjectivities." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ26934.pdf.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

7

Stead, Nicola Jayne. "The anxiety of feminist influence : concepts of voice in Margaret Atwood and Carol Shields." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/69973.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis explores the concepts of “voice” and “influence” through the case studies of two famous English-speaking Canadian women writers, Margaret Atwood and Carol Shields. The “voice” is multiple, ambiguous and influenced, but it is also apparently unique. How, therefore, is it constructed and where does it come from? I examine, work with and adapt Harold Bloom’s paradigmatic study of influence to a feminist context, exploring the idea that a literary voice can be developed and influenced by Atwood and Shields. I discuss how these writers searched for an appropriate literary role model, ex

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

8

Prandini, Beatrice. "Femminismo nel genere letterario Young Adult: analisi del fenomeno attraverso la prosa di Holly Bourne e proposta di traduzione di What’s a Girl Gotta Do?" Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/17755/.

Full text

Abstract:

This final dissertation is aimed to analyse the different ways in which feminism can influence and convey its ideas and values through literature, especially Young Adult fiction. In fact, this dissertation relies upon the translation of various paragraphs of Holly Bourne’s YA novel, What’s a Girl Gotta Do? As for the structure of the dissertation, the first chapter will explore the contributions to literature of feminist translators and critics, by illustrating their aims and strategies. As evidence, the second chapter will establish a general framework regarding the role of women in the his

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

9

McNenny, Geraldine Roberta. "Situated knowledge and the teaching of writing: A rhetorical analysis of the professional writing of women's studies scholars." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186888.

Full text

Abstract:

Feminist scholars have in many instances led the way in challenging the tendency of academics to make transcendent claims from a disembodied and unmarked position, often in the name of objectivity. One means of reinstating the writer in the act of writing and thus circumventing discourse that, in effect, erases the writer as well as the complexities of the subject is to teach from the perspective of situated knowledges: that is, from the understanding that knowledge is mediated by one's cultural, ideological, and historical position. Moreover, the concept of situated knowledges challenges the

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

10

Stayton, Corey. "Too Terrible to Relate: Dynamic Trauma in the Novels of Toni Morrison." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2017. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/69.

Full text

Abstract:

This study examines trauma, particularly in the thematic contexts of the individual and the community as reflected in her novels Sula, Song of Solomon, and Beloved. By utilizing the specific theoretical modes of new historicism and trauma theory, the veil of double consciousness imposed on African Americans is explicated and exposes various forms of trauma in the individual and the community. The unspoken atrocities experienced as a result of slavery, Jim Crow, and physical and sexual violence in many of Morrison’s novels, suggest the common thread of trauma. The particular traumas depicted in

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

11

Wiedeman, Megan. "A Queer and Crip Grotesque: Katherine Dunn's." Scholar Commons, 2018. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7244.

Full text

Abstract:

The grotesque has long been utilized in literature as a means for subverting societal constraints and inverting constructions of normalcy. Unfortunately, in many instances, it has been constructed at the expense of disabled characters using their embodiment as metaphorical plot devices rather than social and political agents. Criticism of the grotesque’s use of bodily difference has prompted this analytical project in order to rethink disability as socially and politically positioned within texts, rather than simply aesthetics for symbolic means. The aim of this paper is to explore the ways th

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

12

Saraogi, Avantika. "The Bollywood Item Number: From Mujra to Modern Day Ramifications." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/215.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis deals with the “item number” genre of Bollywood song and dance sequences. I argue that the item song has evolved from a combination of the historically rich culture of prostitution in old India and the western influence of modern times; and that it contributes highly to the male dominated patriarchal society perpetuated by Hindi films by means of the voyeuristic male gaze and objectification of the female body. In conjunction with this research I choreographed a dance called Item No. 3 that was performed in Scripps Dances 2013. A discussion of the significance and decisions behind

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

13

Di, Guglielmo Antoinette Christine. "Sex and the city: A postmodern reading." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3239.

Full text

Abstract:

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.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

14

Slagle, Judith Bailey. "Literary Activism: James Montgomery, Joanna Baillie, and the Plight of Britain’s Chimney Sweeps." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/720.

Full text

Abstract:

Excerpt: On 6 February 1824, Joanna Baillie Notified Her Friend Walter Scott that Scottish poet James Montgomery, then living in Sherrield, England, had written to ask her for a poem on the plight on chimney sweeps, also known as climbing boys.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

15

Persson, Örtman Lisa. "The suppressed goddess of Beowulf : A feminist reading of Grendel’s mother as a representation of Norse goddess Gefion in a changing world order." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-82020.

Full text

Abstract:

The aim of this study has been to investigate in feminist terms whether or not the character Grendel’s mother symbolizes early matrilineal tribes in the form of the Norse goddess Gefion, also claimed to be the Earth goddess. The claim has been brought forward in an article by Frank Battaglia on the grounds that the chthonic deity is mentioned on several occasions in Beowulf. However, Grendel’s mother’s possible connection to the goddess has not been treated extensively in a feminist context, despite the apparent link between feminism and matrilineal tribes in a patriarchal hierarchy. The moder

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

16

Breedlove, Allegra B. "Hamlet #PRINCEOFDENMARK: Exploring Gender and Technology through a Contemporary Feminist Re-Interpretation Of Hamlet." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/667.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

17

Montecillo, Victoria. "Gynecologists, Bureaucrats, and Stoners: The Rise of Women in Television Comedies and Critiquing the Postfeminist Perspective." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/750.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis looks to explore the rise of women in television comedy and the accompanying implications of this phenomenon. Using a historical framework, this thesis looks at the progression of representations of women in television comedies beginning in the 1950s up to today. Considering factors such as the rise of social media, as well as online television streaming services such as Hulu and Netflix as more legitimate avenues to distribute content, this thesis traces women’s place within television comedy, and argues that shows such as Parks and Recreation, The Mindy Project, and Broad City se

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

18

Nunez, Lena M. "The Female Bildungsroman in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2349.

Full text

Abstract:

This project examines the concepts of the female bildungsroman in literature. In particular it looks at two female characters created by George R.R. Martin, the sisters, Sansa and Arya Stark. The project focuses on the characteristics of the female bildungsroman and whether or not the female bildungsroman is a valid literary concept. This has been done by examining what is a bildungsroman and is there a difference between male and female bildungsroman. The goal is to show that the female bildungsroman is valid and that Sansa and Arya are perfect examples.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

19

Frechette, Mariel. "Danger in Deviance: Colonial Imagery and the Power of Indigenous Female Sexuality in New Spain." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/210.

Full text

Abstract:

The primary objective of this work is to understand the importance of the indigenous, female body in early New Spain through the study of visual media from the first two centuries of colonization: specifically looking at illustrations from Book 10 (of 15) in the Florentine Codex and images of indigenous Christian wedding ceremonies such as the painted folding screen Indian Wedding and a Flying Pole (c.1690). I argue through visual, theoretical and historical analysis that regulating indigenous female sexuality was a critical component to in the creation of colonial New Spain and that imagery p

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

20

Törnqvist, af Ström Richard. "Ordning och Kaos : En receptionskritisk granskning av Jordan B. Petersons bibliska bruk av kön och sexualitet, samt hur hans narrativ förhåller sig till historisk-kritiska och feministiska läsningar av Genesis 1-3." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-428273.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

21

Mohammed, Pshtiwan Faraj. "The representation of the Iraq War in selected Anglo-American and Iraqi novels." Thesis, Brunel University, 2015. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13584.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis explores representation of the Iraq War in selected Anglo-American and Iraqi novels, examining how several authors have employed this theme in their narratives. The featured novelists are chosen from many writers who focus their efforts and their writing on this conflict. Criterion for selection included offering a critique of the diverse perspectives from which the conflict was perceived, the texts‘ engagement with the political conundrums underpinning war and its approach, how such fiction engages with a contemporary audience and what perspective are deployed to do so. Their publ

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

22

Lindstrom, Alexandra Elizabeth Anita. "A skeptical feminist exploration of binary dystopias in Marion Zimmer Bradley's The mists of Avalon." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2742.

Full text

Abstract:

In Marion Zimmer Bradley's retelling of the Arthurian legends, The Mists of Avalon, she creates two dystopic cultures: Avalon and Camelot. Contrasting Bradley's account of the legends with the traditional version, Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, reveals that Bradley's sweeping revisions of the tradition do little to create a feminist ideal. A skeptical questioning of the text's plot and characters with the Women's Movement in mind opens an interpretation of the text as a critique of feminism itself.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

23

Senger, Saesha. "Gender, Politics, Market Segmentation, and Taste: Adult Contemporary Radio at the End of the Twentieth Century." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/150.

Full text

Abstract:

This dissertation explores issues of gender politics, market segmentation, and taste through an examination of the contributions of several artists who have achieved Adult Contemporary (AC) chart success. The scope of the project is limited to a period when many artists who figured prominently in both the broader mainstream of American popular music and the more specific Adult Contemporary category were most commercially viable: from the mid-1980s through the 1990s. My contention is that, as gender politics and gendered social norms continued to change in the United States at this time, Adult

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

24

Clarke, Patricia, and n/a. "Life Lines to Life Stories: Some Publications About Women in Nineteenth-Century Australia." Griffith University. School of Arts, Media and Culture, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040719.150756.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis consists of an introduction and six of my books, published between 1985 and 1999, on aspects of the history of women in nineteenth-century Australia. The books are The Governesses: Letters from the Colonies 1862-1882 (1985); A Colonial Woman: The Life and Times of Mary Braidwood Mowle 1827-1857 (1986); Pen Portraits: Women Writers and Journalists in Nineteenth Century Australia (1988); Pioneer Writer: The Life of Louisa Atkinson, Novelist, Journalist, Naturalist (1990); Tasma: The Life of Jessie Couvreur (1994); and Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist (1999)

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

25

Allen, Leah Claire. "Facts and Fictions: Feminist Literary Criticism and Cultural Critique, 1968-2012." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/9054.

Full text

Abstract:

<p>"Facts and Fictions: Feminist Literary Criticism and Cultural Critique, 1968-2012" is a critical history of the unfolding of feminist literary study in the US academy. It contributes to current scholarly efforts to revisit the 1970s by reconsidering often-repeated narratives about the critical naivety of feminist literary criticism in its initial articulation. As the story now goes, many of the most prominent feminist thinkers of the period engaged in unsophisticated literary analysis by conflating lived social reality with textual representation when they read works of literature as docume

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

26

Costello, Katherine Ann. "Inventing "French Feminism:" A Critical History." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/12235.

Full text

Abstract:

<p>French Feminism has little to do with feminism in France. While in the U.S. this now canonical body of work designates almost exclusively the work of three theorists—Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva—in France, these same thinkers are actually associated with the rejection of feminism. If some scholars have on this basis passionately denounced French Feminism as an American invention, there exists to date no comprehensive analysis of that invention or of its effects. Why did theorists who were at best marginal to feminist thought and political practice in France galvanize fe

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

27

Musgrove, Kristie Leigh. "Lilith rising American gothic fiction and the evolution of the female hero in Sarah Wood's Julia and the illuminated baron, E.D.E.N. Southworth's The hidden hand, and Joss Whedon's Buffy The vampire slayer /." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10106/1096.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

28

Nadar, Sarojini. "Power, ideology and interpretation/s : womanist and literary perspectives on the book of Esther as resources for gender-social transformation." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3449.

Full text

Abstract:

This study argues that literary and womanist perspectives on the book of. Esther can be used as resources for gender-social transformation in the South African Indian Pentecostal community. It maintains that Biblical scholarship cannot be confined only to the academy, while the Bible is used in the community to oppress women. When culture and interpretation both collude in the oppression of women, putting their lives at risk, it is imperative, this study argues, for those working in the field of liberation hermeneutics to not restrict their work to the academy. Hence, this study seeks to find

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

29

Ciobanu, Calina. "Disposable Life: The Literary Imagination and the Contemporary Novel." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/9955.

Full text

Abstract:

<p>This dissertation explores how the contemporary Anglophone novel asks its readers to imagine and respond to disposable life as it emerges in our present-day biopolitical landscape. As the project frames it, disposable life is not just life that is disposed of; it is life whose disposal is routine and unremarkable, even socially and legally sanctioned for such purposes as human consumption, scientific knowledge-production, and economic and political gain. In the novels considered, disposability is tied to excess--to the "too many" who cannot be counted, much less individuated on a case-by-

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

30

Peay, Aisha Dolores. "Reading Democracy: Anthologies of African American Women's Writing and the Legacy of Black Feminist Criticism, 1970-1990." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/1103.

Full text

Abstract:

<p>Taking as its pretext the contemporary moment of self-reflexive critique on the part of interdisciplinary programs like Women's Studies and American Studies, <italic>Reading Democracy</italic> historicizes a black feminist literary critical practice and movement that developed alongside black feminist activism beginning in the 1970s. This dissertation addresses the future direction of scholarship based in Women's Studies and African-American Studies by focusing on the institutionalized political effects of Women's Liberation and the black liberation movements: the canonization of black wom

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

31

Van, Ras Tamara L. "Women's voices : the emergence of female identity in Bleak House and Little Dorrit." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/35566.

Full text

Abstract:

Dedicated to recording, portraying, and indicting the social inequities that he witnessed in nineteenth century Victorian England, one of Charles Dickens' many concerns was the roles assigned to women both in the public and private spheres. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the narratives of Amy Dorrit and Miss Wade in Dickens' Little Dorrit and Esther Summerson in Bleak House to explore the ways in which each woman conforms to, subverts, or rejects her socially prescribed roles as she seeks to create her own identity while simultaneously complying to the duties and roles assigned her.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

32

true, Caleb J. "Eugenothenics: The Literary Connection Between Domesticity and Eugenics." 2011. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/730.

Full text

Abstract:

This is an analysis of the connection between the domestic science and eugenics. While it is made clear by historians such as Megan Elias and Kathy Cooke that there is ample connection between eugenics and euthenics, there has not been as comprehensive an analysis of the direct connections between domestic science and eugenics. Close examination of literature from the domestic science movement reveals the shared goals of domestic science and eugenics. The domestic science movement was also a necessary precursor to the euthenics movement, not simply a “re-envisioning” of home economics by E

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

33

Hiebert, Luann E. "Encountering maternal silence: writing strategies for negotiating margins of mother/ing in contemporary Canadian prairie women's poetry." 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/31201.

Full text

Abstract:

Contemporary Canadian prairie women poets write about the mother figure to counter maternal suppression and the homogenization of maternal representations in literature. Critics, like Marianne Hirsch and Andrea O’Reilly, insist that mothers tell their own stories, yet many mothers are unable to. Daughter and mother stories, Jo Malin argues, overlap. The mother “becomes a subject, or rather an ‘intersubject’” in the text (2). Literary depictions of daughter-mother or mother-child intersubjectivities, however, are not confined to auto/biographical or fictional narratives. As a genre and potentia

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

34

Papadelos, Pam. "Derridean deconstruction and feminism: exploring aporias in feminist theory and practice." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/39506.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis examines the politics of deconstruction within the interdisciplinary field of Women’s Studies and the question as to whether deconstruction has a politics, or can enhance the political goals of western feminism. This thesis argues that philosophy, and deconstruction in particular, is extremely useful for re-thinking feminist issues, especially around subjectivity and agency, but is not always seen to be so by some Australian feminists. As a result, Australian feminism, like feminism in other Anglophone countries, founded on the dichotomy of sameness-difference, has run out of theor

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

35

Bradford, Lesa M. "Women in reality: a rhetorical analysis of three of Henrik Ibsen’s plays in order to determine the most prevalent feminist themes." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/1115.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

36

"Multiples Discursos De La Diferencia En Tres Autoras Bolivianas De Fines Del Siglo XX: Gaby Vallejos, Ericka Bruzonic y Giovanna Rivero Santa Cruz." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.17876.

Full text

Abstract:

abstract: In the last years of the twentieth century, while the narrative of women in other Latin American countries has received critical attention, Bolivian women's narrative has been widely ignored. The fact that the voice of Bolivian women in Latin American feminist discourse is rarely discussed in Latin American criticism is enough to justify the present study. This work focuses on three prominent Bolivian writers: Gaby Vallejos, Giovanna Rivero Santa Cruz, and Erika Bruzonic. The short stories of these three authors are characterized by accentuating certain telluric features revealed in

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

37

Clearwood, Maegan. "ancestral hauntings and utopian conjurings: a fool’s journey into COVEN-19, or Magicks for Unprecedented Times." 2021. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/1039.

Full text

Abstract:

Conceived in the wake of a global pandemic and the unanticipated need to create digital theatre, COVEN-19, or Magicks for Unprecdented Times as a devising project consisted of two witchcraft-inspired performances: a fall 2020 Samhain ritual and a spring 2021 Beltane ritual. The company of undergraduate and graduate theatre witches explored decentralized, iterative, slow, caretaking, queer forms of devising over digital platforms. The written portion of this thesis takes the form of a digital tarot blog: 22 (plus a bonus) interconnected essays and spells that interrogate feminist and queer theo

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

38

Brooks, Amy. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: 60 Years of American Dialogue on Sex, Gender, and the Nuclear Family." 2016. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/316.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis is a two-part work. Its components, a written paper and a one-night symposium/film screening event entitled Tennessee Williams: Gender Play in 2015 and Beyond, have been closely coordinated with my dramaturgical research for the February 2015 University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Theater production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The written inquiry is structured around a chronological, selected American production history of Cat; this history, rendered in a series of three case studies, will (1) synthesize preexisting analyses of Cat’s dramaturgical profile, its impact on Am

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

39

Young, Janice E. "Spider Woman imagery in second wave feminist fiction : "Lady Oracle", "The woman who owned the shadows" and "The temple of my familiar"." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/998.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis is a journey into the realm of Spider Woman—the Cosmic Weaver—and explores ways in which Spider Woman figures and textile imagery became increasingly important and powerful healing metaphors in literature, during the rise of second wave feminism. Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle, Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, and Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar illustrate the importance of these healing metaphors in women's fiction. Framing the analysis is Mary Daly's concept for creating a gynocentric literature (Gyn/Ecology) that escapes patriarchal linguistic constrai

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

40

Dowling, Finuala Rachel. "Subversive narrative and thematic strategies : a critical appraisal of Fay Weldon's Fiction." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16680.

Full text

Abstract:

Fay Weldon is a popular, prolific author whose oeuvre stretches from 1967 to the present and includes 20 novels, three collections of short stories and numerous stage, radio and television plays, scripts and adaptations. This thesis limits itself to her fiction and follows the chronological course of Weldon's writing career in five chapters. Fay Weldon's fiction, situated at the intersection of postmodemism and feminism, is doubly subversive. It both overturns 'reasonable' narrative conventions and wittily deconstructs the specious terminology used to define women. Weldon's disobedient f

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

We offer discounts on all premium plans for authors whose works are included in thematic literature selections. Contact us to get a unique promo code!