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Copley-Bishop, Julie Irene. "Women's Studies - to interpret or change the world - the Marxist question." Thesis, Griffith University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365200.
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Karl Marx writes in his Theses on Feuerbach (1845) ‘the philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it’. This is key to the work called Women’s Studies — to interpret or change the world - the Marxist question. The thesis queries this concept of transformation through hypothesising that ‘If the academic programme of Women’s Studies is based on feminist theoretical principles, then it will empower their students to praxis’. In contrast to other streams of thought within the feminist perspectives, Marx and Engels locate women’s oppression in capitalism within the drive for profit. It is argued here that this analysis is still relevant for contemporary Australian women as the Marxist philosophical and theoretical perspective critiques capitalism as a source of exploitation, subordination, and oppression of women as mother and worker: reproducer and producer. The dissertation’s hypotheses emerge from the literature review in Chapter One, which forms the contextual framework for this inquiry. The review provides an insight into Australian women’s political history beginning with the Suffragist Era at the end of the nineteenth century, and facilitates an understanding of how political changes occur for women and/or are resisted by the state. Enfranchisement for the Suffragists proves not to alter a culture of antipathy towards women into one of acceptance and inclusion: this type of historical reading of social movements attempts to make intelligible the past one hundred years of women’s political orientation within the capitalist state’s need for worker-friendly reform. From the feminist perspective the state is informed by liberalism, and is still identified as the arena to contest women’s social and economic positioning. This approach does not politically seek disengagement from the state, instead aiming to ‘appease’ and ‘assuage’ it without calling for basic structural reform. This study locates Women’s Studies, and its genesis in the 1970s Australian Women’s Liberation Movement. The programme is seen to have a feminist theoretical and philosophical foundation that encourages debate in the classroom; develops critical perspectives; fosters appreciation for diversity; and induces a sense of social IV responsibility and political participation by the student — praxis. This dissertation raises questions as to whether or not this occurs, and whether Women’s Studies is an agent for social change and the role of feminist theory in this process. For this reflexive study of women and their place in the contemporary world, the thesis draws from a sample of tertiary students: predominantly women, enrolled in academic Women’s Studies programmes at twelve Australian universities between 1999, and 2004. The attitudinal survey approach discussed in Chapter Two is used as the data-gathering strategy as it allows original data to be drawn from within the Australian academic context to test the dissertation’s hypotheses. The sample population of students are asked to respond to three questionnaires conducted at different times, and were designed to assess, and document, the impact of the Women’s Studies experience on its relevance to their ‘feminist’ development; primarily in a ‘post-feminist’ politically conservative environment.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Humanities
Arts, Education and Law
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Arora, Swati. "Performing Delhi : understanding the street through Marxist, feminist and ritual theatres." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/27674.
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This thesis is concerned with the relationship between the street theatre practices in Delhi and the spaces of their performance. Writings on theatre practices within the boundaries of Delhi have overlooked the role cultural capital affords practitioners owing to their geographical, ideological and social affiliations understood as spatial networks. This research project undertakes to identify spatial structures that frame the reading of street theatre in Delhi to open up questions of privilege and access through an analysis of its performance sites. I focus on five case studies across three categories of performance – feminist performers Maya Rao and Mallika Taneja, street theatre company Jana Natya Manch (Janam) and the Ramlila as performed in New Delhi and Old Delhi. In order to do this, the research has drawn extensively on Henri Lefebvre’s two sets of trialectics as outlined in The Production of Space (1991), which are adapted in order to provide an approach to identifying the spatial frameworks within which performances are situated. My three categories, 'geographical', 'affective' and 'discursive' space are applied to each of the three sets of case studies, and my conclusion assesses the usefulness of such a methodology for prompting consideration of previously-ignored contexts for Indian performance. I propose that my thesis provides a prompt to engage with the spatiality of Indian theatrical performance, while also demonstrating the extent to which an understanding of the politics of performance relies on the understanding of spatial practice, both contemporary and historical.
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Ahmadi, Sanaz. "Will I Ever Be Enough? : A Marxist Analysis of Women Protesting Obligatory Veiling in the Islamic Republic of Iran." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-364820.
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The My Stealthy Freedom (MSF) movement on social media has garnered over 1 million likes on Facebook and continues to make headlines in major media outlets. The founder Masih Alinejad routinely speaks out against obligatory veiling in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). This study analyses hijab and the MSF movement from a Marxist feminist perspective, evaluating the emancipatory potential for women. The study attempts to untangle Islam from the discourses around the oppression of women to find the material roots of oppression upon which the discourse has been built. The legislation of women’s clothing and women’s bodies has a long history, with just the hijab having been made compulsory and forbidden three times in Iran within the previous century. Through the use of Multimodal Critical Discourse analysis, photographs and videos from the MSF movement are compared to hijab propaganda by the IRI to identify whether the concern of the MSF movement is limited to obligatory hijab, or if it places within the broader movement for women’s emancipation. The results show that despite the visual emphasis on the hijab, the MSF movement has a broader aim emancipating women as expressed by the activists of the movement.
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Brooks, Allison Marie. "An Atlas of a Difficult World System: A Marxist Feminist Reading of Adrienne Rich’s Poetry and Prose." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1585837295633261.
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Modig, Andrew. "The Rational State : A feminist look, supported by Althusser’s Marxist theory, at how Mr. Scogan views and interacts with the women in Aldous Huxley’s Crome Yellow." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-12167.
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This paper analyses Mr. Scogan and his treatment of women with the use of Althusser’s Marxist theory which (supposedly and in this case successfully) reveals the ideology which infuses every State and every larger social group. Feminist theory is then used to analyse his philosophy which influences both his utopia, “the Rational State”, as well as his treatment of women – the conclusion drawn after analysing several events or discussions in Crome Yellow, such as on the Home Farm, the Rational State and the Charity Fair was that Mr. Scogan is perhaps not representative of all men and certainly not of men (and men’s notions) at the timeof Crome Yellow’s publication, but he is representative of a stereotypical man who oppress women based on their femininity. The worst case scenario drawn was that Mr. Scogan could be a rapist of young virgins.
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Nunes, Débora Machado. "O pensamento feminista na economia : revisão teórica e crítica a partir de uma perspectiva marxista." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/158156.
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Este trabalho realiza uma revisão teórica e crítica dos debates marxistas relacionados à questão da mulher dentro de um escopo econômico, buscando identificar sua inserção acadêmica atual e sua possível capacidade de interpretação da posição econômica das mulheres. O trabalho apresenta um levantamento bibliográfico, apresentando as principais premissas e conceitos utilizados por essa vertente de pensamento e suas correntes internas, e um estudo de caso da Rússia Soviética desde o triunfo da revolução bolchevique até a década de 40 (período da chamada “contrarrevolução feminista”), a fim de verificar como alguns desses preceitos foram aplicados e como as experiências de socialismo real contribuíram para o desenvolvimento da teoria tanto internamente, quanto em relação ao seu prestígio perante as demais escolas de pensamento feministas. Conclui-se que houve um período de fértil debate no marxismo feminista nas décadas de 60 e 70, mas que seu desenvolvimento posterior rumou ou para a fusão entre a teoria marxista e outras correntes de pensamento, afastando-se da economia, ou para o debate interno relacionado à inclusão de um recorte de gênero aos conceitos marxianos. Atualmente, o feminismo marxista parece voltar sua atenção para o resgate à obra original de Marx, em uma tentativa de propôr uma nova teoria feminista anticapitalista metodologicamente ortodoxa.This paper presents a theoretical and critical review of Marxist debates related to the woman’s question inside the economic scope, seeking to identify it's current academic status and it's capacity to interpret the economic situation of women. A literature review is exhibited in order to present the main assumptions and concepts used by this school of thought and its internal divisions, and a case study of the Soviet Russia since the triumph of the Bolshevik revolution until the 40s (the period of the "feminist counterrevolution") is presented in order to see how some of these principles were applied and how socialism experiences contributed to the development of the theory and to its prestige towards the other feminist schools of thought. It concludes that there was a period of fruitful discussion of feminist Marxism in the 60s and 70s, but it's further development headed or to the merge between Marxist theory and other currents of thought, moving away from the economic scope, or for the debate related to the inclusion of a gender approach to Marxian concepts. Currently, Marxist feminism seems to turn it's attention to the rescue of Marx's original work, in an attempt to propose a new anti capital feminist theory methodologically orthodox.
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Ribeiro, Letícia de Souza. "Diálogos entre Heleieth I. B. Saffioti e Daniil B. Elkonin : uma contribuição à análise histórico-cultural da idade pré-escolar /." Araraquara, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/192604.
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Orientador: Juliana Campregher PasqualiniResumo: A presente pesquisa promove o encontro de dois grandes autores, Heleieth Saffioti e Daniil Elkonin, uma socióloga brasileira e um psicólogo soviético, tecendo diálogos em torno da necessidade da incorporação da crítica feminista marxista pela psicologia histórico-cultural. Tal teoria psicológica desde sua origem se constituiu como uma ciência marxista – porque não desconsiderou as contradições das classes sociais e a exploração de uma sobre a outra no regime capitalista. Além disso, se propôs a análise materialista histórico e dialética dos indivíduos a fim de atingir o complexo fenômeno do desenvolvimento psicológico a partir da concreticidade da vida em sociedade. O mote desse estudo foi a perspectiva de que essa ciência explicitamente herdeira da tradição marxista possa também reivindicar-se – e constituir-se como – ciência feminista, abrangendo, em suas análises e formulações, a organização de gênero (e de raça) na sociedade patriarcal-capitalista, que descreve uma relação social concreta de dominaçãoexploração entre homens e mulheres. O objetivo geral que guiou a investigação foi explorar possibilidades de aproximação entre a psicologia histórico-cultural do desenvolvimento e o feminismo marxista de Heleieth Saffioti, focalizando a teorização de Daniil Elkonin sobre a idade pré-escolar. Para tanto, foram delineados como objetivos específicos: i) identificar implicações do feminismo marxista para o estudo do desenvolvimento infantil na idade préescolar; ii) identificar co... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: This research promotes the meeting of two great authors, Heleieth Saffioti and Daniil Elkonin, a Brazilian sociologist and a Soviet psychologist, weaving dialogues around the need to incorporate Marxist feminist criticism into historical-cultural psychology. Such a psychological theory since its origin was constituted as a Marxist science – because it did not disregard the contradictions of the social classes and the exploitation of one over the other in the capitalist regime. In addition, a historical and dialectical materialistic analysis of individuals was proposed in order to achieve the complex phenomenon of psychological development based on the concreteness of life in society. The motto of this study was the perspective that this science explicitly heir to the Marxist tradition can also claim – and constitute itself – feminist science, encompassing, in its analyzes and formulations, the organization of gender (and race) in society patriarchal-capitalist, which describes a concrete social relationship of domination-exploitation between men and women. The general objective that guided the investigation was to explore possibilities of approximation between the historical-cultural developmental psychology and the Marxist feminism of Heleieth Saffioti, focusing on Daniil Elkonin's theorization about preschool age. Therefore, the following objectives were outlined: i) to identify implications of Marxist feminism for the study of child development in pre-school age; ii) to id... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
Resumen: Esta investigación promueve el encuentro de dos grandes autores, Heleieth Saffioti y Daniil Elkonin, una socióloga brasileña y uno psicólogo soviético, tejiendo diálogos en torno a la necesidad de incorporar la crítica feminista marxista en la psicología histórico-cultural. Tal teoría psicológica desde su origen se constituyó como una ciencia marxista, porque no ignoraste las contradicciones de las clases sociales y la explotación de una sobre la otra en el régimen capitalista. Además, se propuso un análisis materialista histórico y dialéctico de los individuos para lograr el complejo fenómeno del desarrollo psicológico basado en la concreción de la vida en sociedad. El lema de este estudio fue la perspectiva de que esta ciencia explícitamente heredera de la tradición marxista también puede reclamar, y constituirse a sí misma, como ciencia feminista, que abarca, en sus análisis y formulaciones, la organización del género (y la raza) en la sociedad patriarcal-capitalista, que describe una relación social concreta de dominación-explotación entre hombres y mujeres. El objetivo general que guió la investigación fue explorar las posibilidades de aproximación entre la psicología del desarrollo históricocultural y el feminismo marxista de Heleieth Saffioti, centrándose en la teorización de Daniil Elkonin sobre la edad preescolar. Por lo tanto, se delinearon los siguientes objetivos: i) identificar las implicaciones del feminismo marxista para el estudio del desarrollo infantil en la... (Resumen completo clicar acceso eletrônico abajo)
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Andrade, Joana El-Jaick. "O Marxismo e a questão feminina: as articulações entre gênero e classe no âmbito de feminismo revolucionário." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-24052012-163347/.
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As profundas transformações sociais, políticas e econômicas em processo na Europa no final do século XIX e início do século XX, decorrentes da expansão das relações de produção capitalistas, afetaram indelevelmente inúmeros aspectos da vida privada, trazendo à lume as contradições insertas no modelo de família reproduzido pela sociedade patriarcal burguesa. O relevante papel desempenhado pelos teóricos marxistas neste período histórico possibilitou o desenvolvimento de um movimento feminino organizado com vistas à concretização de um projeto emancipatório socialista, capaz de colocar fim à opressão de gênero e classe. O trabalho em questão pretende analisar a visão de mundo, organização e estratégias de ação formuladas pelos membros da social-democracia no tocante às novas mulheres revolucionárias, bem como a sua repercussão sobre as futuras gerações de feministas socialistas, a fim de questionar a possibilidade de articulação entre as categorias de gênero e classe social no âmbito da teoria marxista.The deep social, political and economical transformations in process in Europe at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, due to the expansion of the capitalist relations of production, affected countless aspects of the private life, shedding light on the contradictions inserted in the family model reproduced by the bourgeois patriarchal society. The relevant role performed by Marxist theorists in this historical period made possible the development of an organized feminine movement aiming at the materialization of an emancipative socialist project, capable of putting an end to both gender and class oppressions. This study intends to analyze the world vision, organization and action strategies formulated by social-democrats concerning the new revolutionary women, as well as their repercussions for the future generations of socialist feminists, in order to question the possibility of articulating the categories of gender and social class within the Marxist theory.
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Rein, Sandra. "Women's revolutionary agency, re-igniting the Marxist/Feminist debate." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0007/MQ28906.pdf.
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Nordenbro, Malena. "Vägen till kvinnans hjärta-via radikalfeminism eller marxism?" Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Humanities (HUM), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-547.
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Denna studie behandlar konflikten mellan radikalfeminism och marxism i Sverige på 1970-talet. Syftet är att visa hur denna ideologiska konflikt yttrade sig i praktiken när de båda kvinnoorganisationerna Grupp 8 och Arbetets Kvinnor debatterade om sexualitet, abort samt moderskap och barnuppfostran. Materialet som använts i studien är dessa båda organisationers egna tidskrifter. Studien visar hur Grupp 8: s och Arbetets Kvinnors skilda åsikter gällande de ovan nämnda frågorna var beroende av deras ideologiska tillhörighet.
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Lilburn, Sandra G. "In defense of morality : reflecting on Marxist and feminist theoretical practice /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1989. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arl7278.pdf.
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Scott, Karyn L. "Contemporary reception of the historical document, semiotic, marxist and feminist readings of Christopher Columbus' narrative." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0024/MQ37629.pdf.
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Kranz, Susanne. "Between rhetoric and activism: Marxism and feminism in the All India Democratic Women's Association, 1981 - 2006." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487736.
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The focus of this thesis is the All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) placed within the wider context of Indian women's movements. Its purpose is to understand and assess the functioning of AIDWA as an all-India, left-oriented and party-affiliated women's organisation with particular reference to its national and state level operation.
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Kessler, Justine L. "The Voices of Sex Workers (prostitutes?) and the Dilemma of Feminist Discourse." Scholar Commons, 2005. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/722.
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The existence of prostitution has been a longtime concern for many societies. It has also been a complicated issue within feminist discourse. Some women choose sex work as a viable economic option while others are forced into prostitution by traffickers and pimps and some are forced into it due to disadvantaged circumstances. The presence of sex work and prostitution is one of the occurrences that accompany a patriarchal capitalist system. Many feminists indeed argue that prostitution is a byproduct of a patriarchal capitalist system. The migration of women for sex work and the trafficking of women into prostitution cannot occur without participation of a dominant more powerful group, and a marginalized less powerful group. Sex work and prostitution are complicated components in an ever increasingly connected world. However, all too often, the belief that a patriarchal capitalist system supports the migration of women for sex work and the trafficking of women into prostitution fails to encompass all the complexities surrounding these occurrences.
The existence of sex work and prostitution involves legal, economic, political, and moral implications that deserve broad theorization. In order to more fully understand the legal, economic, political, and moral implications that contribute to the existence of sex work and prostitution, the voices of women that are involved must be illuminated. While this interview does not yet exist, I argue that only through interviews of women in sex work and prostitution can we fully understand the issue. Illuminating the voices of these women will help to reveal how issues surrounding sex workersí agency and victimization of trafficked women are present and absent within feminist discourse.
This thesis focuses on the differences between women sex workers with agency and women who are victims of trafficking and pimping. It also discusses the migration of women into the sex industry. The discussion of agency and victimization is applied to modern and postmodern feminist theory. Modern feminist theory is useful to an understanding of how sex work and prostitution are oppressive to the women involved and how conditions of agency and victimization are supported and/or negated. Postmodern feminist theory transforms the focus of the discussion from the identity of sex workers and prostitutes as agents and victims to a discussion of these women as subjects. First person interviews by sex workers reveal their subjectivity and supports the argument that what they do is indeed work, and it is viewed as such by the women themselves. Inclusion of the voices of sex workers and prostitutes also reveals the issues and concerns that they experience as employees in sex work and prostitution.
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Ribot-Bayé, Cristina. "La representació de la dona en l'obra d'Hermen Anglada-Camarasa." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/385364.
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Hermenegild Anglada-Camarasa (1871-1959) va ser un artista català amb una trajectòria professional remarcable que es va estendre al llarg de la primera meitat del segle XX, en l’àmbit nacional però fonamentalment en l’internacional. Des d’aleshores, però sobretot a partir de l’últim quart del segle XX, s’ha generat discussió a l’entorn de la seva vida i obra, encara que des d’un punt de vista majoritàriament històric i biogràfic, i fora de tot context acadèmic. Les seves representacions de dones, que conformen un dels motius més rellevants de la seva obra plàstica, prenen diferents formes, característiques i noms, però totes esdevenen el reflex d’unes ideologies i creences pròpies de les societats contemporànies a ell: les cortesanes parisenques, les gitanes, les folklòriques espanyoles, ja siguin andaluses o madrilenyes, les dames aristòcrates o les mallorquines. A través d’una metodologia interdisciplinària que integra les teories feminista, marxista i postcolonial, s’observa que aquestes representacions de dones d’Anglada-Camarasa esdevenen el reflex d’una societat viscuda per l’artista i que emfasitza les diferències i els conflictes entre gèneres, classes socials i grups ètnics. Aquestes figures angladianes pretenen potenciar els estereotips, allunyats de la realitat en diferents graus, que Occident ha abocat sobre aquests models iconogràfics femenins. L’objectiu del projecte de recerca, doncs, és, a partir de les disciplines de la Història de l’art i l’Estètica i la Teoria de l’art, localitzar i deconstruir els tòpics d’origen romàntic i divuitesc que afecten diferents models o prototipus de dona emprats per Anglada i que eliminen la frontera entre imatge i realitat.Hermen Anglada-Camarasa (1871-1959) was a Catalan artist with a remarkable career through the first half of the twentieth century. Their life and works have given rise to a big discussion since the last quarter of the twentieth century. However, the bibliography has taken a largely historical and biographical point of view out of academic context. His depictions of women are one of the most important motifs of his artistic work. They take different forms, features and names, as a reflection of the ideologies and beliefs of their societies: the Parisian courtesans, the Gypsy women, the Spanish folk women, whether Andalusian or Madrilenian, the aristocrat ladies or the Majorcan women. Through an interdisciplinary methodology based on Feminism, Marxism and Postcolonialism, one can notice that Anglada-Camarasa’s depictions of women reflect a society experienced by the artist. Moreover, their female depictions emphasize difference and unrest between genders, social classes and ethnic groups. These Angladian figures strengthen the iconographic female prototypes and stereotypes created by The West during the Romanticism. Therefore, the aim of this research project is to locate and deconstruct these stereotypes from the disciplines of Art History and Aesthetics and Art Theory. This view obviously regulated the different female prototypes depicted by Anglada and erased the borders between image and reality.
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Hestetun, Øyunn. "A prison-house of myth? symptomal readings in Virgin land, The madwoman in the Attic, and The political unconscious /." Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35577879j.
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FRANCISCO, CARLA DA CUNHA DUARTE. "WHAT CAN THE ENCOUNTER AMONG FEMINISM AND MARXISM DO?: THE FEMALE EXPLOITATION IN THE REPRODUCTION OF CAPITAL AND ITS RESISTANCES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=29417@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
Essa dissertação pretende debater o encontro entre feminismo e marxismo, a partir da análise central da Campanha Internacional Salários pelo Trabalho Doméstico, que tomou forma na década de 1970. A atual relevância da produção teórica e atividade política dessas feministas se dá na medida em que contribui para uma crítica da situação das mulheres no contexto de sua inserção no sistema capitalista, ou seja, das relações que se estabelecem entre elas e o capital. Segundo as autoras cujos trabalhos serão fundamentais para esta dissertação, no capitalismo, a posição social da mulher está atrelada, em boa medida, a sua exploração invisibilizada na esfera da reprodução social – aquela que engloba tudo que é necessário à reprodução da classe trabalhadora em sua condição de dependência e subordinação – da qual o modo de produção capitalista é dependente. Essas análises se desenvolveram à luz dos debates sobre a exploração do trabalho doméstico e sexual das mulheres no interior da família e perderam sua força desde a chamada virada neoliberal. A partir da década de 80, a agenda feminista se concentraria cada vez mais em pautas liberais, refletindo uma política individualista e abandonando, em boa medida, os debates em torno dos efeitos que a reorganização mundial da reprodução social, nesse período, impunha sobre os corpos e as subjetividades femininas. Acreditamos que, sem atentar para essas questões, arrisca-se a manter um feminismo que cuide sempre de sintomas, entendendo-os como a raiz dos problemas.
This dissertation intend to discuss the encounter among feminism and Marxism, based on the main analysis of the International Campaign Wages for Housework, which took shape in the 1970s. The current relevance of the theoretical production and political activity of these feminists is given as it contributes for a critique of the women situation in the context of their incorporation in the capitalist system, that is, of the relations established between them and capital. According to the authors whose work will be fundamental to this dissertation, in capitalism, women s social position is, to a large extent, tied to their invisible exploitation in the sphere of social reproduction – that which encompasses all that is necessary for the reproduction of the working class in conditions of dependence and subordination – on which the capitalist mode of production is dependent. These analyzes have developed in the light of the debates about the exploitation of women s domestic and sexual work within the family and have lost their strength since neoliberal politics has taken place. From the 1980s, the feminist agenda would increasingly focus on liberal patterns, reflecting an individualistic political view, and largely abandoning debates about the effects of the worldwide reorganization of social reproduction on the female bodies and subjectivities. We believe that, without looking at these issues, we risk maintaining a feminism that always takes care of symptoms, understanding them as the root of problems.
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Daugherty, Jacqueline D. Ph D. "Talking about the Revolution? The Place of Marxist Theory in the Core Course Curriculum of US Undergraduate Degree-Granting Women's Studies Programs." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1342464036.
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Cooke, Maureen Lynch. "The Great Escape: Modern Women and the Chick Lit Genre." Thesis, Boston College, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/418.
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Thesis advisor: Elizabeth K. WallaceThis thesis uses a cultural studies approach to study the contemporary "chick lit" genre. These novels written by women, for women may be dismissed as frivolous, but their immense popularity proves that they have tapped into a cultural tension. Their target readers are young women who have grown up in a post-feminist revolution society and face unique issues unknown to any other generation of women. Blending feminist, Marxist, and formalist theories, this thesis attempts to discover how this genre functions in contemporary society – what does it do to its readers? While trying to respect the readers at all times, this thesis will discuss the failure of the genre to provide a new space for women to escape to. The conclusion discusses the potential of chick lit to do more; the genre has captured a "zeitgeist" among young women and its popularity reaches a wide audience. In the future, chick lit could serve as a genre that discusses women's issues, prompting its readers to question gender roles, consumerism, and the global status of women
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2006
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
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Triisberg, Airi. "The Workers of Society – the Artist, the Housewife and the Nun : A Feminist Marxist Analysis on the Intersections of Art, Care Work and Social Struggles." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-113403.
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What do art workers, nuns and care workers have in common? How can these commonalities be conceptualised from the perspective of feminist Marxism? How would such conceptualisation open up intersectional and transversal perspectives for social movements struggling against precariousness? Departing from an auto-ethnographic account on activist experiences originating from the art workers’ movement in Tallinn, this thesis aims to theorise the intersection of precarious labour and gender. By using the thinking technology of diffractive reading, it places the debates around unwaged labour within art and care sector into the context of autonomist Marxist thinking. Furthermore, affinities and entanglements between feminist politics and the struggles of precarious workers are configured and imagined, in order to interlink and converge spatially and temporally isolated resistive practices that are constructed from the experience of unwaged and precarious workers.
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Souza, Terezinha Martins dos Santos. "Emoções e capital: as mulheres no novo padrão de acumulação capitalista." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2006. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/17155.
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O capital sempre incidiu na subjetividade da classe trabalhadora, aprisionando-a, mas no capitalismo contemporâneo apresenta um traço novo que é a conformação, por mediações distintas, dessa subjetividade. No atual momento de reestruturação produtiva, surgem novas e refinadas formas de dominação, com ênfase na potenciação das emoções do conjunto dos/as trabalhadores/as. De acordo com essa premissa, este trabalho analisa o significado do crescimento que ocorre, no atual padrão de acumulação, no número de mulheres em cargos de direção, bem como os rebatimentos que recaem sobre a constituição da subjetividade dessas mulheres. Utilizou-se o arsenal metodológico marxista para abordar as categorias do modo de produção capitalista e sua relação com o controle/gestão da força de trabalho, categorias que são principais para entender o desenho da dupla subordinação - de gênero e de classe - que o capital faz recair sobre parcela da classe trabalhadora, que são as mulheres. A análise revela que, no atual momento de reestruturação produtiva, uma das formas de potenciar a extração da mais valia relativa é a exploração de certas emoções da força de trabalho das mulheres em cargos de direção, enquanto gestoras e responsáveis pelo controle e otimização da produção, propiciando, como conseqüência, um incremento da mais valia relativa. O capital não efetua gastos para qualificar a mulher gestora para isso, visto que as mulheres são historicamente treinadas pela educação de gênero para lidar bem com as emoções. Dessa forma, a força de trabalho das mulheres gestoras desonera o capital. O crescimento do número de mulheres em cargos de direção não representa um rompimento com o padrão de divisão social e sexual do trabalho, bem como, nos moldes em que se dá, contribui para emersão, nessas mulheres, de uma subjetividade que apresenta forte aderência à lógica societal do capital
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Mays, Jenny. "Perception of the Experience of Domestic Violence By Women with a Physical Disability." Queensland University of Technology, 2003. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15799/.
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The disability movement drew attention to the struggle against the oppression of people of disability. The rise of disability activism contributed to increased awareness of the need for a social theory of disability, in order to account for the historical, social and economic basis of oppression. Emerging studies of disability issues by disability theorists, such as Sobsey (1994), highlighted the higher prevalence and nature of violence against people with a disability, in comparison to the general population. However, the limited research concerning women with a physical impairment experiencing domestic violence contributes to this social problem being underestimated in the community. Contemporary theoretical conceptualisations of both domestic violence and disability fail to explain the causal framework that leads to women who have a disability experiencing violent situations. Similarly, by explaining domestic violence as a solely socially constructed gender inequality and power differential, feminism provides insufficient recognition of the structural dimension of disability. As a preliminary inquiry, this study draws on the premises of historical materialism, and feminism to explain disability and investigates disabilism as a means to examine the experience of domestic violence by women with a physical impairment. The research design incorporated the use of qualitative methods for data collection and encapsulated critical social science and interpretivist epistemology. This study provided the basis for generating an understanding of the nature of domestic violence against women with a physical impairment within this sample group. From this investigation, causal hypotheses can be advanced for subsequent extended research. This study revealed that disabilism together with the interacting structural dimensions of disability, gender and class operated to marginalise and alienate these women with a physical impairment in a violent relationship. This tended to reinforce and entrench violence against women with a physical impairment. The study provides insight into the way social conditions and disabilism interrelate to maintain this group of women with an impairment in a violent relationship and contribute to the experience of poverty and lower social status upon leaving the relationship.
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O'Rourke, Drevfjäll Johannes. "Which side are you on? : Kvalitativ idéanalys av Vänsterpartiets valmanifest genom tiderna." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-104580.
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This essay compares two party programmes with each other, both of the programmes are from the Swedish party Vänsterpartiet. The first program was written in 1917 and the second is the latest form 2018. However, before delving into the two programmes this essay takes a lending hand from Andrew Heywood and borrows his definition of socialism, Marxism and feminism. Further on in the essay the two party programmes are presented, starting with the oldest section and followed by the latest. To each section a comment follows with my analysis on the chosen segment. The essay’s aim is to discover how Vänsterpartiet have changed it’s program from 1917 to 2018. The analysis shows that the party Vänsterpartiet has developed a more diverse party program, they party program includes socialism, neomarxism and socialistic feminism. The new party program contrasts the previous party program from 1917 which mainly focuses on Marxism and socialism. The result indicates a party that is moving forward as the times changes, however, some values from the 1917 program still exists in these modern times.
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Mays, Jennifer. "Perception of the experience of domestic violence by women with a physical disability." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15799/1/Jennifer_Mays_Thesis.pdf.
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The disability movement drew attention to the struggle against the oppression of people of disability. The rise of disability activism contributed to increased awareness of the need for a social theory of disability, in order to account for the historical, social and economic basis of oppression. Emerging studies of disability issues by disability theorists, such as Sobsey (1994), highlighted the higher prevalence and nature of violence against people with a disability, in comparison to the general population. However, the limited research concerning women with a physical impairment experiencing domestic violence contributes to this social problem being underestimated in the community. Contemporary theoretical conceptualisations of both domestic violence and disability fail to explain the causal framework that leads to women who have a disability experiencing violent situations. Similarly, by explaining domestic violence as a solely socially constructed gender inequality and power differential, feminism provides insufficient recognition of the structural dimension of disability. As a preliminary inquiry, this study draws on the premises of historical materialism, and feminism to explain disability and investigates disabilism as a means to examine the experience of domestic violence by women with a physical impairment. The research design incorporated the use of qualitative methods for data collection and encapsulated critical social science and interpretivist epistemology. This study provided the basis for generating an understanding of the nature of domestic violence against women with a physical impairment within this sample group. From this investigation, causal hypotheses can be advanced for subsequent extended research. This study revealed that disabilism together with the interacting structural dimensions of disability, gender and class operated to marginalise and alienate these women with a physical impairment in a violent relationship. This tended to reinforce and entrench violence against women with a physical impairment. The study provides insight into the way social conditions and disabilism interrelate to maintain this group of women with an impairment in a violent relationship and contribute to the experience of poverty and lower social status upon leaving the relationship.
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Ljunggren, Forsberg Vilma. "EN HANDELSVARA I FEMINISTKLÄDER : En studie av feminism inom mode som exempel på reifikation." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för etnologi, religionshistoria och genusvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-145598.
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This essay aims to establish a marxist perspective upon a phenomena that could be seen as typical neoliberal–femvertising. I have noticed an expanding trend in fashion; the use of feminism as branding. Fashion brands such as Dior and H&M have lately profiled themselves with feminism, framing it as radical as well as feminist. Meanwhile, the theory of reification by Georg Lukács claims that capitalism fools us to believe that we may acccomplish human aims and characteristics through commodities. I will investigate if it is possible to look upon this phenomena as an example of reification? The attempt brings the capitalistic dimension of femvertising into daylight and questions it´s feminist pretense.
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Inácio, Miriam de Oliveira. "A emancipação das mulheres no Projeto Ético-Político do Serviço Social: contribuições e dilemas das relações entre Marxismo e Feminismo." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2013. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/11456.
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O estudo sobre a constituição de uma perspectiva “feminista emancipatória” no Projeto Ético-Político do Serviço Social na contemporaneidade pretendeu investigar os componentes teóricos e ético-políticos desta perspectiva nas dimensões desse Projeto, no período entre 2000 e 2011. No aspecto Normativo, a pesquisa abrangeu a apreciação do Código de Ética Profissional e das Diretrizes Curriculares. Na dimensão Organizativa, a investigação apreendeu a incorporação de uma perspectiva “feminista emancipatória” pelos sujeitos coletivos da categoria profissional, o Conselho Federal de Serviço Social (CFESS) e a Associação Brasileira de Ensino e Pesquisa em Serviço Social (ABEPSS). E na dimensão Teórica, a pesquisa identificou as concepções teórico-políticas acerca da “emancipação” das mulheres nos artigos sobre feminismo e “emancipação” das mulheres publicados nos Anais dos Congressos Brasileiros de Assistentes Sociais (CBAS’s), Encontros Nacionais de Pesquisadores em Serviço Social (ENPESS’s) e na Revista Serviço Social e Sociedade. O estudo tomou como pressuposto que o movimento feminista emerge historicamente como um movimento de luta pela “emancipação” das mulheres, sendo esta restrita ao campo da emancipação política, marcada por uma perspectiva liberal; ou concebida como parte do processo mais amplo de emancipação humana a partir da influência do pensamento marxista e das lutas socialistas. Ademais, diversas tendências feministas socialistas e marxistas construíram várias análises sobre a “emancipação” das mulheres a partir da interlocução do feminismo com o marxismo, consubstanciadas nas reflexões sobre “classe social-gênero”,“capitalismo-patriarcado”, “relações sociais de sexo-divisão sexual do trabalho”. Com base numa reflexão de caráter histórico-crítico, o estudo adotou os seguintes procedimentos metodológicos: apreciação de documentos e publicações conduzidas pelo CFESS (Código de Ética Profissional e Boletim“CFESS Manifesta”) e ABEPSS (Diretrizes Curriculares para o Curso de Serviço Social e Grupos Temáticos de Pesquisa); análise dos artigos publicados nos Anais dos ENPESS’s, CBAS’s e na Revista Serviço Social e Sociedade;e aplicação de Questionário junto ao CFESS e ABEPSS. Os resultados da pesquisa revelaram que há uma unidade entre as dimensões Normativa, Organizativa e Teórica do Projeto Ético-Político em torno da defesa da emancipação das mulheres na perspectiva da emancipação humana. De outro lado, a incorporação de diferentes enfoques oriundos do campo feminista socialista e marxista trouxe contribuições e limites à defesa da emancipação humana das mulheres. As abordagens sobre “classe social-gênero”, presentes em todas as dimensões do Projeto Ético-Político; seguida por enfoques de “capitalismo-patriarcado”, incorporados nas esferas Organizativa (CFESS e ABEPSS) e Teórica; e, por último, a vertente das “relações sociais de sexo/divisão sexual do trabalho”, também identificada nas dimensões Organizativa (ABEPSS) e Teórica, representam tensões à perspectiva da emancipação humana e à direção social marxista deste Projeto, uma vez que nessas abordagens prevalece uma negação ou ocultamento da centralidade de classe social na acepção marxista. A defesa da emancipação das mulheres na perspectiva da emancipação humana supõe considerar o caráter estratégico da superação das contradições de classe social. Portanto, esse estágio do debate feminista e sobre emancipação das mulheres no âmbito do Projeto Ético-Político revela que a constituição de uma perspectiva “feminista emancipatória” está em processo de desenvolvimento, o que representa uma pré-condição para a sua consolidação e conquista da hegemonia em todas as dimensões do Projeto Ético-Político.
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VENOY, MELISSA DAWN. "REVALUING GENDER-BASED SYMBOLISM IN ARCHITECTURE." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053382240.
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scharffenberg, melissa. "The Lacy Hotel Site: Gender Ideologies and Domestic Activities in a 19th Century Boardinghouse Context." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/anthro_theses/53.
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The Lacy Hotel was a part of the "Great Locomotive Chase", a significant historical event in Kennesaw, Georgia during the Civil War (AD 1861-1864), yet little is known of this site. The Lacy Hotel was a boardinghouse that operated for roughly six years until General William Tecumseh Sherman burned it in 1864. This research utilizes historical records along with archaeological fieldwork in order to provide a more detailed analysis of daily life within the Lacy household. Dominant ideologies influence the roles of women concerning their activities and choices of consumption within the household. Although the results show that the boardinghouse is not a typical household, the social dynamics and consumption are still constrained by the culture and ideology of the time period. In conclusion, this research offers a case study about the role of women on the eve of turmoil and contends that the boardinghouse is emblematic of broader changes within the rural South during the 19th century.
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Karagyozova, Tanya. "Genre et tradition : circulation, réception et appropriation de la « question féminine » dans la culture balkanique slavophone au XXème siècle." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA184.
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A l’échelle de l’Histoire des Balkans du XXème siècle, la percée des femmes dans l’économie rémunérée, dans l’enseignement supérieur et l’activisme féministe se sera concrétisée de manière toute aussi remarquable qu’ailleurs en Europe. Cependant, dans le contexte des Balkans slavophones en général et en Bulgarie en particulier, les conditions concrètes de cette évolution se négocient selon les critères inéluctables d’un rapport singulier à la tradition. Nous proposons, tout d’abord, de situer ce contexte (rarement abordé à travers l’histoire des femmes et encore moins dans une perspective féministe) à partir d’un regard ethnographique sur la culture traditionnelle et la spécificité des interdits pesant sur le corps et la parole des femmes. Nous prolongerons notre observation à travers la modernité balkanique qui induit de profondes transformations des notions de culture, de nation et de minorités ethniques. Nous les mettrons en perspective avec la réponse de l’État-nation moderne à la « question féminine » [Zenski vapros / Женски въпрос] qui, de fait, valida constitutionnellement nombre de logiques d’exclusion. Il s’agira également de resituer les mouvements féministes de la première heure en mettant l’accent sur ceux s’étant associés aux luttes ouvrières et la difficulté du mouvement socialiste féminin [zhensko sotsialistichesko dvizhenie / женско социалистическо движение] de résister à l’assimilation. Dans la continuité de notre réflexion, nous interrogerons le discours égalitariste de l’époque communiste, en privilégiant un cadrage sur les années 1970-1980. Afin de mettre en lumière les conditions concrètes de l’émancipation dans la vie privée (avortement, divorce, rapports de sexe), nous explorons un corpus homogène articulé autour de l’unique revue féministe éditée par les successeurs du mouvement socialiste féminin du début du siècle. Ce retour sur l’histoire mouvementée de la seconde moitié du XXème siècle, effectué sous le prisme du genre, évoque ce qui dérange le plus dans l’idéologie des régimes communistes, mais aussi dans le discours marxiste, tel qu’interprété localement. Cette thèse révèle les mécanismes à l’œuvre lors de la réception et l’appropriation de la réponse marxiste à la « question féminine » sur le terrain, en insistant sur les résonances singulières avec le discours traditionaliste d’époques antérieures; tel que nous le retraçons dans le folklore, dans la littérature classique de la Renaissance balkanique à la croisée d'influences européennes et orientales, mais aussi dans le sillage du processus d’européanisation à relier, notamment, aux circulations éditoriales. Tout au long de cette recherche, nous plaçons au centre l’analyse générale de la « question féminine » comme discours, tout en questionnant la longévité des résistances face à ses ambitions émancipatrices et ceci jusqu’à l’époque contemporaine de transition néolibérale. En effet, aborder les remaniements des discours d’émancipation revient à poser la question du renouvellement des modèles de féminité, à (re)penser leur réception et à réfléchir au rôle des femmes dans ces processus et ceci dans une investigation de vaste chronologie, de temps long, sans aucunement prétendre à l’exhaustivitéOver the course of 20th century Balkan history, the advancement of women in the paid economy, education, and female activism had concretized itself as prominently as throughout Europe. Within the context of Balkan Slavic culture in general, and its translation within the national domain of Bulgaria in particular, the precise conditions of this evolution resulted from a compromise of the inevitable criteria of a distinct relationship to tradition. We intend to illuminate and situate this context, rarely approached in the discourse of women’s studies, and even less from a feminist perspective. This examination aims to undertake two challenges: A general analysis of “The woman question” as discourse, and further, a more critical observation on the nature of resistance against ambitions of emancipation. While not claiming to be exhaustive, the objective is to put into perspective the theoretical contributions of reflection on hierarchical representations of gender diversity, and the territorial nuances that we explore. Addressing revisions of “The woman question” is to invite the notion of renewing models of femininity, to rethink the effects of discourse, and to reflect on the role of women in the process. Finally, a second glance at the eventful history of the second half of the 20th century, executed under the prism of gender, explores the most distorted in the aesthetic of communist regimes. The purpose of this study is to shed light on the social realities of women in the socialist era in parallel with traditionalist discourse as we retrace the cross of European, Oriental, orthodox, folklore, and modern influences in Slavic literature. Thus, from this approach emerge new prospects for understanding Women’s Studies in the Slavic Balkans in general, and Bulgaria in particular
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Gallion, Alexis Ryan Marie. "Her Name is Blood: Situating Gertrude Blood Within the Flaneuse, and Walking Virtually." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1619708258772437.
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Pueyo, Torquero María Teresa. "El contractualismo en la génesis de la teoría de género: El poder como constructor de la realidad." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673072.
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Las consecuencias de la teoría de género ocupan la actualidad cultural y política de muchos países occidentales. Recientemente, además, el desarrollo biotecnológico está permitiendo nuevas maneras de construcción de la identidad que van más allá de la transexualidad. Para poder comprender estas dinámicas, es imprescindible atender a las fuentes de la teoría de género, que se suelen trazar en el freudomarxismo y el existencialismo. Sin embargo, esta tesis propone que se puede comprender el desarrollo de la teoría de género como parte de un proceso de desnaturalización que comienza con la Modernidad política, en el contractualismo. En este sentido, la teoría de género podría ser un instrumento que sirve no a la liberación de la persona, sino a la absolutización del sistema de poder. Se pretende demostrar que este mecanismo, que se ha denominado paradoja de la libertad y el control ya operaba en el Estado moderno clásico respecto de las libertades religiosa, de conciencia y opinión y que es el mismo que se da respecto del sistema de poder posmoderno y las libertades sexuales.
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Gunnarsson, Payne Jenny. "Systerskapets logiker : en etnologisk studie av feministiska fanzines." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Institutionen för kultur och medier/Etnologi, Umeå universitet, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-856.
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Granberg, Magnus. "Care in revolt : Labor conflict, gender, neoliberalism." Doctoral thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för samhällsvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-27171.
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The present thesis is an exploration of normalization processes and the problem of appropriation in labor conflict. More specifically, it analyses the way contemporary labor conflicts in nursing relate to, and thereby help to illuminate, changes in modes of gender normalization under neoliberalism, and how nurse labor conflict thereby sheds light on wider patterns of labor strife. Analysis shows how a “virtue script” bound up with long-lasting patterns of gender normalization in nursing becomes tangled with forms of abstract labor related to “new public management” reform. Although the restructuring of work threatens public professionals’ autonomy, at the same time, it provides opportunities for resistance through collective action. What is more, this restructuring process facilitates the appropriation by nurses and, by implication, other public workers, of the discourses and ideals that belonged to the ethos of the Keynesian welfare state. However, this is a contradictory process, since the discourses and ideals thus appropriated inhere in modes of labor exploitation and normalization. Analysis indicates that although appropriation risks to reinforce gendered and exploitative ideas about work, the strategy can be a lever of collective mobilization, and one of its possible outcomes is the radical transformation of the entities it takes possession of. This interview study is mainly based on four journal articles, attending to different aspects of an act of collective resignation taken by registered nurses at a Swedish hospital ward. This is an emerging form of collective action and the thesis provides one of the first analyses of this new grassroots and workplace-based phenomenon, which may be considered its particular empirical contribution. On the other hand, the chapters of the cover essay unfold a sustained argument on normalization and appropriation, thereby elaborating theoretical themes broached in the articles. The focal point of this discussion is a certain concept of form, deployed in Marxist and feminist theory, a concept pointing to the identity of thought-forms and practically enacted forms. Further, these forms migrate: they are evoked in practices wherein “the mind is not active as sentient” (Hegel), later to be projected by the mind onto different entities. The results of the discussion thus question common approaches to normalization. In particular, it is untenable to oppose a tacit and internal mode of control where individuals are induced to comply by attaching to identifications (by becoming/being made into subjects) to an overt and external mode reliant on sheer coercion. This matter–form dichotomy should be dissolved, and modes of coercion should be understood to leave subjective imprints—not at the level of identity but at the level of thought’s infrastructure, that is, form.Föreliggande avhandling utforskar normaliseringsprocesser och problem rörande appropriering i samband med arbetskonflikter. Avhandlingen analyserar hur sam-tida arbetskonflikter i sjuksköterskeprofessionen relaterar till och sålunda belyser förändrad genusnormalisering i en nyliberal tid, samt hur dessa konflikter belyser övergripande konfliktmönster i arbetslivet. Analysen påvisar hur en ”dygdighets-norm” kopplad till långlivade modaliteter av genusnormalisering sammanvävs med en form av abstrakt arbete relaterad till sentida NPM-reformer. Men medan denna omstruktureringsprocess urholkar den autonomi som professioner i offentlig sektor länge innehaft medför den också möjligheter till kollektiva motståndshandlingar. Vidare möjliggör denna nyliberala omstrukturering sjuksköterskors—liksom andra offentliga professioners—appropriering av diskurser och ideal som var centrala i den tidigare, keynesianska, välfärdsstaten; men detta är en motsägelsefull process då dessa diskurser och ideal är sprungna ur, och präglade av, historier av utsugning och normalisering. Analysen visar att medan appropriering visserligen riskerar att reproducera former av normalisering underlättar denna strategi mobilisering och kan i förlängningen omvandla övertagna diskurser och ideal. Denna intervjustudie är huvudsakligen baserad på fyra artiklar: de analyserar olika aspekter av en kollektiv uppsägningsaktion bland sjuksköterskor vid en sjukhus-avdelning. Detta är en framväxande typ av aktion i Sverige och avhandlingen är en av de första studierna av denna gräsrots- och arbetsplatsbaserade kampform, vilket kan ses som dess empiriska forskningsbidrag. I kappan förs, å andra sidan, en kon-tinuerlig teoretisk diskussion kring normalisering och appropriering som utvecklar teman som lyfts i de enskilda artiklarna. Diskussionen kretsar kring ett visst form-begrepp, som härrör ur marxistisk och feministisk teori och som påvisar en identitet mellan tankeform och praktiskt artikulerad form. Dessa former migrerar; de uttrycks omedvetet i praktiker där individens fokus är annorstädes och projiceras sedan på andra praktiker. I diskussionen ifrågasätts sålunda vedertagna förståelser av norma-lisering: det är teoretiskt ofruktbart att ställa omedvetna, interna, former av kontroll där lydnad eller konformitet uppnås via internaliseringen av påbjudna identiteter mot medvetna, externa, eller tvingande, former av kontroll. En häri latent dikotomi om materia respektive form bör upplösas i syfte att synliggöra hur ett slags kontroll över arbete lämnar subjektiverande avtryck, inte genom att påbjuda identifikationer utan genom att forma vad som kan beskrivas som tänkandets minsta beståndsdelar.
Vid tidpunkten för disputationen var följande delarbeten opublicerade: delarbete 2 och 4 inskickat.
At the time of the doctoral defence the following papers were unpublished: paper 2 and 4 submitted.
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Flournoy, Ellen L. "Powerful submission : popular texts and the subjectivity of Christian right women." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001796.
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Afzal, Amina. "The Beauty and the Beast : Magical Realism in Salman Rushdie’s Shame." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-27801.
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Mild psychological effects, such as sleep-deprivation, on an oppressed and tortured human being can be characterized as “normal”. However, Shame by Salman Rushdie uses magical realist style to describe the psychological effects of shame in a patriarchal society which is based on capitalistic class values. This essay will focus on the Marxist feminist reading of the novel with a psychoanalytical perspective which is going to help analyse the effects of the oppressed female characters, Bilquis Hyder, Sufiya Zinobia and Rani Harappa. The essay focuses on different incidents in the lives of these characters with the help of critics such as Aijaz Ahmad and Timothy Brennan. Both have written critically about Rushdie. This essay will discuss the different aspects of Marxism, feminism as well as psychoanalysis and connecting them to the novel, which would give the answers as to what shame can do to a person’s psyche. The Beauty and the Beast fairy-tale gets a different perception in this story, as Sufiya Zinobia is both the characters in one.
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Heinze, Franziska. "Postkoloniale Theorie." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-220194.
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Postkoloniale Theorie bezeichnet ein breites Spektrum theoretischer Zugänge zu und kritischer Auseinandersetzungen mit historischen und gegenwärtigen Machtverhältnissen, die im Zusammenhang mit dem europäischen Kolonialismus und seinen bis heute währenden Fortschreibungen stehen. Als Gründungsdokument postkolonialer Theorie gilt Edward Saids Studie „Orientalism“ (1978). Postkoloniale feministische Theorie fokussiert auf die Situation von Frauen bzw. auf vergeschlechtlichte Identitäten in (neo-)kolonialen Settings. Neben der Konstruktion von Gender und Geschlechterrollen sind Sexualität und Begehren wichtige Topoi postkolonialer Theorie. Ein weiteres Themenfeld stellt die Dekonstruktion eurozentrischen / westlichen Wissens dar.
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Yip, Sheenie. "Sinofuturism." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1174.
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Heinze, Franziska. "Postkoloniale Theorie." Universität Leipzig, 2015. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15382.
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Postkoloniale Theorie bezeichnet ein breites Spektrum theoretischer Zugänge zu und kritischer Auseinandersetzungen mit historischen und gegenwärtigen Machtverhältnissen, die im Zusammenhang mit dem europäischen Kolonialismus und seinen bis heute währenden Fortschreibungen stehen. Als Gründungsdokument postkolonialer Theorie gilt Edward Saids Studie „Orientalism“ (1978). Postkoloniale feministische Theorie fokussiert auf die Situation von Frauen bzw. auf vergeschlechtlichte Identitäten in (neo-)kolonialen Settings. Neben der Konstruktion von Gender und Geschlechterrollen sind Sexualität und Begehren wichtige Topoi postkolonialer Theorie. Ein weiteres Themenfeld stellt die Dekonstruktion eurozentrischen / westlichen Wissens dar.
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Robertson, Abigail G. "The Mechanics of Courtly and the Mechanization of Woman in Medieval Anglo-Norman Romance." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1415804460.
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Alvandi, Nazanin. "Literary Theory in Upper Secondary School : Should It Be Used Before Higher Education?" Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-44612.
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This essay examines the use of literary theory when teaching literature before higher education. The objective isto see how and if the integration of literary theory facilitates students’ engagement with and understanding of literature. The study is conducted with the qualitative method of interviews. Four teachers, certified for upper secondary school, were deemed appropriate to interview about their current use of literary theory, as well as their attitudes towards an increased use of literary theory. Besides the data collected through interviews, this study finds its theoretical foundation in the literary theories feminist, Marxist and postcolonial theory as well as in the Swedish curriculum for English at upper secondary level. Presently, the teachers do not use literary theory distinctly; however, they do consider the use of literary theory together with literature to be beneficial for the students’ understanding of literature and the world around them. Teachers stated that while some students only will grasp the idea of the theories, other students will be able to use and apply them. The curriculum supports the use of literary theory in the core values for students of upper secondary level.
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Howell, Danielle Marie. "Cloning the Ideal? Unpacking the Conflicting Ideologies and Cultural Anxieties in "Orphan Black"." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1460059315.
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Nandi, Miriam. "Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak." Universität Leipzig, 2018. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A31261.
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak gilt als eine der Gründungsfiguren des postkolonialen Feminismus. Ihr Profil als postkoloniale Theoretikerin gewann sie mit der Veröffentlichung ihres Werkes In Other Worlds – Essays in Cultural Politics. In ihren Texten weist Spivak auf Widersprüche innerhalb der Nationen des Globalen Südens hin. Sie fokussiert, u. a. mit Hilfe der analytischen Konzepte Repräsentation (representation) und Subalternität (subaltern), insbesondere auf die problematische Rolle von Geschlechter- und Klassenverhältnissen in postkolonialen Widerstandsbewegungen, auf den Gegensatz zwischen den indischen Eliten und den unteren Bevölkerungsschichten und auf die gewaltsame Unterdrückung von Frauen des Südens.
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Sung, Chen-Jung, and 宋振榮. "The Oppressed Woman: A Marxist Feminism Reading of Sophocles' Antigone." Thesis, 1999. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22197228933181678068.
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Antigone, according to Marxist feminism, admits the truth that the oppression of women results from a gender / biology system, a marriage system, male violence, and false consciousness in Sophocles' Antigone. In Antigone-Ismene's scene, Ismene will not help her to bury their brother Polyneices because she must submit to Creon's order. Submission is described as Ismene's femininity and aggression as Creon's masculinity. In a gender / biology system, masculinity and femininity are constructed by male-ruling ideology. A series of negative female values are imposed by men. Femininity equates with submission and irrationality, but masculinity with aggression and rationality. Creon's exposing the dead is rational; but, Antigone's burying her brother Polyneices is irrational. As Creon's aggression means that man is the creator of state, so does Ismene's submission that woman is the subordinate of man's order. Antigone does not accept marriage because she hopes that her reproduction will not be a tool for the transfer of Haemon's future throne. The relationship between husband and wife is not equal. Husband is the oppressing and wife the oppressed. In Third Choral Ode, the Chorus praise the greatness of love. Marriage, as to men, is a peaceful harbor. Men has kept women convinced that mothering is their job. In accordance with Marxist feminism, marriage is based not on love but on property. In marriage, women's reproduction serves as a vehicle for the transmission of a father's private to children. The relationship between Mother and Child is isolated. Speaking of motherhood, men encourage women to be mothers. Antigone refuses to be the tool for the heritage of Haemon's future throne. The princess seems to be the dominant woman. But, wife means having no Self and must be obedient to man's order. There is no personal freedom for her if she gets married. Creon's punishment on Antigone-burial alive-is a violence to prohibit women from going into the public sphere. Burial is a public activity. Women are associated with the private sphere and men with the public one. If women have been limited in the private sphere, they are the captives in a man-made institution. Antigone's burial for her brother Polyneices calls for women's equal rights to enter the public sphere. Male violence devalues women as subordinate. The Chorus and Teiresias are the representatives of the public sphere. Although they admit the fidelity and piety of Antigone's burial for Polyneices, they blame Antigone for her having offended against the state's law. Burial is held by men, not by women. Women must keep themselves in the private sphere, not try to go into the public one. At the beginning of the play, Antigone acknowledges that she and Ismene, destined to be the princesses, have no equal right with Creon, the king. The princess seems superior to the common people. But, if she does not obey the king's order, she will be punished like the common people. Therefore, her "superior" is false consciousness. At the end of the play, Eurydice, the queen, protests against Creon's authority through her death. On the surface, the queen has an equal stance with the king. As a matter of fact, she is inferior to him. False consciousness is that men the oppressing deceive women the oppressed into thinking they have equal rights with men and are able to act as men. True consciousness is based upon sex class and reproduction. Sex class means that when women recognize themselves as a class and work together, then they will have an equal stance with men. To respect reproduction is to respect the ties of blood, the maternal lineage. Antigone's brotherly love for Polyneices belongs to reverence for those of the same womb. Eurydice grieves over her dead son Haemon. To lose Haemon is to lose her maternal lineage, her reproduction. True consciousness allows women to perceive reality with their eyes, not with those of the man-ruling class. Antigone's acceptance for burial alive, Ismene's willing to share with Creon's punishment on Antigone, and Eurydice's protesting against Creon through suicide mean that in order to acquire true consciousness, they must get rid of false consciousness through sex class and reproduction. They, however, are not in fear of man the oppressing class any more because death is a resource of rebirth
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CHI, SHU-YU, and 紀舒瑜. "Concepts of Marxist Feminism in New Peking Opera The Golden Cangue." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54ae5b.
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This master’s thesis discuss the oppressed women under the patriarchal in the New Peking Opera The Golden Cangue by GuoGuang Opera Company. The aim is to understand how the New Peking Opera The Golden Cangue has adapted the original novel and how the feminist thinking after the adaptation is presented. The full text is divided into five chapters. The first chapter is an introduction to illustrate the motivation, the aim of this study and the research methods. The second chapter is the literature discussion, expounding several schools ideas of feminist development. The third chapter is the adaptation of the New Peking Opera to the original novel. The fourth chapter is to discuss Marxist feminism in the New Peking Opera The Golden Cangue. The fifth chapter is the conclusion. This study finds that the New Peking Opera The Golden Cangue applies the stream of consciousness, montage and the content of The Rouge of The North. In the analysis of feminism, many characters in The Golden Cangue have class consciousness, especially Qiqiao Cao. Qiqiao Cao thought that she had been deceived by Jiang’s marriage so there had many complaints. This is actually the result of the exploitation of women by the capitalism. When Qiqiao Cao left the family of Jiang, Qiqiao Cao became an agent of the patriarchal. On the one hand, she controlled her children with the bourgeoisie, and on the other hand she oppressed the wife of her son.
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Pribyl, Ashley Marian. ""Pretty women" : urban crisis and female objectification in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeny Todd." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22701.
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Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 award-winning musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street was produced during a time of great political and economic uncertainty in New York City. Although not overtly political, the themes of urban crisis and class inequality that birthed the original legend of Sweeney Todd in Industrial Revolution London continued to play a large role within the modern musical, reflecting leftist political concerns at large. The main political argument within the work is the critique of class hierarchies created by capitalism and how the upper classes abuse the lower classes, ie. how Judge Turpin uses his power to abuse Sweeney Todd and the grave consequences of such actions. Less obvious, however, are the importance of gender hierarchy and the objectification of women within this anti-capitalist critique. This paper focuses on the character of Johanna and the three songs sung about her by the three main male leads. These songs provide a case study of how gendered objectification and commodification play a significant role in the overall Marxist critique intrinsic to the musical and the Sweeney Todd legend overall. The work’s rootedness in the anti-capitalist critique of the New Left in the 1970s and the concurrent rise of Marxist and socialist feminism provide clues to understanding the context and meaning behind the violent treatment of women within the musical as an extension of the anti-capitalist critique that is fundamental to the work.text
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Stokes, Tonja LaFaye. "Informing practice and sabotaging membership growth: an ideological rhetorical analysis of discursive materials from Kiwanis International." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/7982.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)This study utilizes an ideological rhetorical analysis, applying Marxist and Feminist lenses, to artifacts from Kiwanis International, a prominent global service organization. These artifacts are: "The Permanent Objects of Kiwanis," guiding principles that were codified in 1924; "The Man Who Was God": a brief story about transforming from Kiwanis member to "Kiwanian," published in 1935 and 1985, respectively; and the 2012 "Join the Club" Membership Brochure. The rhetoric of discursive materials is one of the most salient representations of group ideology. In turn, ideology, particularly when it reflects and perpetuates social hegemony, has a normalizing effect on itself. Ideology shapes identity; identity shapes strategies to set process norms that create social cohesion. Norms of social cohesion become culture; culture reinforces ideology. When these components mirror social hegemony and replicate hegemonic power, they create institutions, like service organizations; these institutions then legitimate and normalize positions of social privilege. Ultimately, ideology and social hegemony reveal themselves through organizational and member practices and organizationally-produced discursive material. The purpose of this study is to analyze the historical, socio-political, and socio-cultural roots of Kiwanis International in order to draw logical conclusions about the organization's ideology for the purposes of understanding how that ideology contributes to, justifies, and perpetuates an unconscious, neo-colonial view of philanthropy. Kiwanis International, on an organizational (macro) level and at the club/member (micro) level, is structured around positions of racial, ethnic, socio-economic, linguistic, gender, and religious privilege, and so mimics the hegemonic power centers and dominant ideologies of society at large. In turn, the products and practices of the organization reflect these positions of privilege and inhibits the organization's ability to attract traditionally excluded, disenfranchised, or under-represented groups. Understanding that it is a contentious and futile to simply point where power relations exist and assert themselves, this study emphasizes where "othering" occurs in hopes of mitigating relations of domination and oppression between Kiwanis members and perspective members, and of moving forward the interests of those who have not traditionally been counted among Kiwanis' members but whose presence could save the organization.
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Newell, Jesse Leah. "Selling students short : a neo-Marxist feminist analysis of formal career education policy in Ontario /." 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR52161.
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Thesis (M.Ed.)--York University, 2009. Graduate Programme in Language, Culture and Teaching.Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-111). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR52161
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(6617549), Donald J. Perry. "High-Low Art Distinction & Class: A Critique of Marxist Aesthetics." Thesis, 2019.
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The concept of high and low art have a very close relation to social class. There is a prevailing notion within developed countries that certain forms of art are more legitimate and deserving of respect than others due to their association with the upper class. This social aspect of art leads to the question of how art is used in society and whether it should be used in that way. Marxists’ deep interest in class have made their perspective particularly prominent concerning debate on the subject. Having such a deep interest in class, it is expected they have their own opinions on the role of class in art’s usage. Despite their immense influence on the subject, I find the Marxist perspective concerning class and art lacking. In this work, I will attempt to critique the Marxist position on the relation of art and class and attempt to provide a unique perspective on this subject. I will be examining art and class in terms of two questions. First, what is the relationship between class and art and how is art used by social classes? Second, what should the relationship between art and class be and how should art be treated in society? I will first examine the Marxist position through Theodor Adorno and Hebert Marcuse, present Bourdieu’s sociological findings on the subject, and present thinkers outside of the Marxist position while building my position in contrast to these thinkers.
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Gayle, Curtis Anderson. "Raising their voices : the emergence of local and regional women's history in early post-war Japan." Phd thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/149670.
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Saministrado, Maria Luisa S. "Female victimhood and suicide in the naturalistic novel." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1059825.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)This literary study explores the female condition in four naturalistic novels, namely, Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Street, Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. The purpose is to reconsider the context of “woman” in this genre by extending from dialectical views with positive and negative connotations towards a reimagining of the “female” with some degree of agency despite claims of “determined conditions” in naturalism. The study’s examination of the heroine’s interplay with “forces” in society illustrates that as exemplified in my chosen novels, these “forces” do not demonstrate total control of an individual’s fate. In exploring the female condition in the novels, the study goes through three steps: namely, examining the condition of the female protagonist in society, analysing the relation between suicide and the role of free will, and investigating the role of the spiritual dimension within the frame of Gaudium et Spes for issues raised in the novels. In relation to the female condition, the study incorporates important issues on female disempowerment and displacement namely, commodification, conspicuous consumption, consumerism, and rugged individualism culled from Marxist-Feminist criticism, Foucault’s and Beauvoir’s concepts on power or free will, and discourses on spirituality within the frame of Gaudium et Spes to clarify issues on marriage, family, human dignity, and self-preservation raised in the novels. It is found that the female protagonist’s non-conformism and defiance of societal “forces” are expressions of willpower that compromises self-preservation and continuity. Despite the socio-cultural disadvantages experienced by the female protagonist, her tragic fate is the result of her choice that suggests a clamour for spiritual regeneration. Her misdirected passions and quest for individuality and self-fulfilment imply a need for something more, which links to the spiritual dimension of her nature. Spirituality within the tradition of Gaudium et Spes highlights the good of the human person with the acknowledgment of divine will, the same aspiration (with emphasis on social awareness) that naturalism conveys for humanity, with its lens however on individual will. Hence, the criticism on naturalism’s reductionist treatment of the non-physical and intense focus on the physical social realities actually point to the same aspiration that Gaudium et Spes projects – the betterment of the human condition and humanity as a whole.