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Horn, Jessica. "Maternal Misogyny: Absent Mothers in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2001. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0327101-132957/restricted/horn0412.pdf.
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Stone, Mitzi R. "Beyond misogyny : Penelope and Clytaemnestra as paradigms for society." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2001. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/305.
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Hester, Vicki M. (Vicki Martin). "D. H. Lawrence: Misogyny as Ideology in His Later Works of Fiction and Nonfiction." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500651/.
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Critics continue to debate Lawrence's attitude toward women: Some say Lawrence is a misogynist, some say he is an egalitarian, and others say he is ambivalent toward women. If Lawrence's works are divided into two chronological periods, before and after 1918, these differences of opinions begin to dissolve. Lawrence is fair in his treatment of women in the earlier works; however, in his later works Lawrence restricts women to what he calls the sensual realm, the realm of feelings and emotions. In addition, Lawrence denounces all women who assert individuality and self-responsibility. In the later works, Lawrence's ideology restricts the role of women and presents male supremacy as the natural and necessary order for human existence.
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Calero, Fernández Ángeles. "La imagen de la mujer a través de la tradición paremiológica española lengua y cultura /." Online version, 1990. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/23721.
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Jackson, Gregory Richard. "La Misogynie à visage féminin: Hircan's Role as Marguerite's Anti-Feminist Voice in the Heptaméron (VII & XLIX)." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2067.
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The following document is a meta-commentary on the article, "La misogynie à visage féminin: Hircan's Role as Marguerite's Anti-feminist Voice in the Heptaméron (VII & XLIX)," co-authored by Dr. Robert J. Hudson and myself, which will shortly be submitted for publication. It contains an annotated bibliography of all our primary and secondary sources and an account of writing the article. Our article examines what Marguerite de Navarre, the sixteenth-century French Renaissance author of the Heptaméron (a collection 72 nouvelles, all supposedly true stories being told by a group of ten devisants to one another), intended by her inclusion of the misogynist, Hircan. As we demonstrate, current scholarships views Marguerite as one of the first authors to create a space for women in literature, and further, that the Heptaméron was meant to serve the didactic purpose of forming young ladies' perspectives and behavior. Given this, Hircan, whose debasing views on women are shared in each of his stories and interlocutory commentaries, seems an odd devsiant for Marguerite to create; and so, we ask, why did she include him? We conclude that Hircan serves as Marguerite's straw man for the worst aspects of sixteenth-century French society, allowing her to subvert him and demonstrate how Hircan (and by extension, French society's) views towards women ought to be considered inappropriate. To support our reading, we start by explaining the historical context, demonstrating that the attitudes Hircan represents did indeed exist and were prevalent. We then show how Marguerite undermines Hircan: first, by making him so grotesque that the reader finds his views repugnant, and second, in allowing other devisants—especially Parlamente and Oisille—to use superior arguments to overturn his perspectives. Finally, we demonstrate how Marguerite uses Hircan's own tales against him, by having his fellow devisants interpret his stories completely differently from his womanizing and debasing purposes—instead find praise for women in them.
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Caton, Hannah Noelle. "A Rhetorical Analysis of Modern Day Retro-Sexism: Misogyny Masked by Glamour in Mad Men." University of Findlay / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=findlay1439993165.
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Thompson, Christopher P. "Discreet Feminism: Neil Gaiman’s Subversion of the Patriarchal Society in American Gods." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2026.
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Neil Gaiman’s use of a hyper-masculine American culture in American Gods sheds light upon the multiple issues surrounding a misogynistic society in which women are treated as sexual objects and punished for their independence as sexual beings. Gaiman’s efforts at highlighting these issues are discreet and hidden under layers of patriarchal expectations, but through the use of his protagonist, Shadow, Gaiman is able to provide an alternative to the society he represents. While he successfully illustrates this more “ideal” society, his endeavors fall short and are almost imperceptible throughout his novel. Gaiman’s work in American Gods, while lacking in its overall presence, brings attention to the issues within a hyper-masculine society and it is through this unique, feminist approach that Gaiman is able to present his strong argument for change.
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Walls, Abby. "Libro de las claras e virtuosas mugeres: A Critical Edition and Study of Alvaro de Luna's 15th Century Castilian Manuscripts." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/187515.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to produce a critical edition of Álvaro de Luna's 15th century manuscript, Libro de las claras e virtuosas mugeres. This Castilian text is a compilation of biographies of good and virtuous women similar to that of the widely studied De claris mulieribus by Giovanni Boccaccio. Scholars however, have neglected Luna's version for various reasons that are discussed within this dissertation. Libro de las claras e virtuosas mugeres is a significant work because it complements other texts within the genre of defense literature and provides a good argument against the misogynistic texts in the debate on women in the Middle Ages. Within this dissertation, the Introduction serves to orient the reader through the debate on women in 15th century Castile and to contextualize the Libro de las claras e virtuosas mugeres within it. Through the discussion of the debate on women in medieval Iberia, we will show how Luna's work is a necessary, but forgotten element. Also pertinent is the notorious past of don Álvaro, and how this has negatively impacted the reception of his work. This dissertation also compiles all critical studies and editions currently in print and discusses their merits. Finally in the Introduction, we explain how we took into account Bernard Cerquiglini's concept of variance and John Dagenais' theory that in order to come close to the medieval reading of the text, it is necessary to replicate the manuscripts, not to modernize them. Thus, we produced transcriptions that were as close to the original texts as possible, rather than attempting to correct or modernize them. In order to produce the critical edition necessary for a proper study of the Libro de las claras e virtuosas mugeres, this dissertation contains two transcriptions of the two oldest extant manuscripts: ms. B (2654) and ms. S (207). Within ms. B we also provide a critical apparatus, which shows the lexical and orthographical differences between the two. Additionally for the benefit of the reader, we provide four Appendices: the missing chapter of the Queen of Sheba (not included in ms. B), a list of all the women Luna included in his work, and facsimilar samples of both manuscripts. It is our desire to promote a renewed interest in this forgotten, yet extremely important 15th century Castilian manuscript.
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Lahti, Davidsson Elisabeth. "Batikhäxan – ett kvinnligt supermonster : En kritisk diskursanalys av tre politiska pamfletter." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-86034.
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This thesis shows how misogynous and stereotypical images of women, which historically have been used to transform them into witches and monsters, are now reused in the construction of the term “batikhäxa” (“tie-dye witch”). Feminist and discourse theory form the framework of this study which includes the analysis of three opinion pieces, or political pamphlets, that were published between 2010 – 2018: "Batikhäxorna och makten" by the pseudonym Julia Caesar, "Refugee 'Children" & The Women Who Sexually Exploit Them" by the pseudonym Angry Foreigner and "De ansvariga för Sveriges kaos behöver en intervention för att ställas till svars " by Katerina Janouch. I use critical discourse analysis to study how discursive strategies are applied in these political pamphlets to delegitimate women, making them the scapegoats of society by use of the concept of the tie-dye witch. My thesis argues that the use of the tie-dye witch discourse reproduces patriarchal power relations by denying women the right to have and express their opinions, decide over their own bodies and exercise power in society. The tie-dye witch can therefore also be understood as an anti-feminist counterimage to the feminist witch who was established as a female role model in the 1960s. The study also uncovers the psychological function of the tie-dye witch as a female super monster who demarks the borders of nation, culture, religion, body and gender. In the studied texts, the tie-dye witch is constructed to separate "us" from "the others", and in doing so she also acts as a unifying figure in and of anti-feminist, islamophobic, xenophobic, nationalist and apocalyptic discourses.
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Assis, Anne Caroline Moraes de. "A misoginia medieval como resíduo na literatura de cordel." http://www.teses.ufc.br, 2010. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/2807.
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The inferiority´s idea of women has been widespread in eastern and western civilizations. This design reached its apex in the Middle Ages, especially during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when the Catholic Church severally controlled the social and religious life of Christians - especially women - backed by the religious tenets trough the Inquisition. That mentality misogynist supporters and gained strength and continued by subsequent centuries, being in the residual pulp fiction and contemporary perceptible through the experience, vocabulary and expressions used by cordelistas to describe and portray women. The popular character of literary discourse also denotes a relationship of power veiled in which the woman is labeled as inferior and sinful. Crystallized over the centuries, this thought came to the events taking place in contemporary literature. The Brazil´s northeast is largely patriarchal and sexist in its cultural roots, which are observed in the production of popular literature in verse, when the cordelistas construct their narratives from the social, cultural and religious, which back, usually at the thought of the Middle Ages. The aim of this work was to identify, from the reading and analysis of cordage, misogynist morality and the construction of the female characters such as waste mentality inherited from the Middle Ages, found in popular narratives. Therefore, the Teoria da Residualidade, and its related concepts, namely: Residual, Cristalização, Mentalidade and Hibridação Cultural is the basis of this analysis. After analyzing the cordéis, it was clear that the terms and expressions, as well as religious morality, referring to the feminine reinforce and confirm the thinking of medieval clerics that the origin of evil lies with the woman, in essence. In this context, the line appears as an instrument for maintaining social order and the preservation of morals and morality, according to the Christian mentality.
A ideia da inferiorização da mulher tem sido disseminada nas civilizações orientais e ocidentais. Tal concepção atingiu o seu ápice na Idade Média, sobretudo, durante os séculos XIII e XIV, quando a Igreja Católica controlava com severidade a vida social e religiosa dos cristãos – em especial da mulher – respaldada nos dogmas religiosos através da Inquisição. Essa mentalidade misógina ganhou força e adeptos e perdurou pelos séculos subsequentes, sendo residual na literatura de cordel contemporânea e perceptível através da vivência, do vocabulário e das expressões usadas pelos cordelistas para descrever e retratar a mulher. O discurso literário de caráter popular também denota uma relação de poder velada, na qual a mulher é rotulada de inferior e de pecadora. Cristalizado ao longo dos séculos, este pensamento chegou à contemporaneidade ocorrendo nas manifestações literárias. Como a sociedade nordestina é, em grande parte, patriarcal e machista em suas raízes culturais, os quais são refletidos e percebidos na produção da literatura popular em verso, quando os cordelistas constroem suas narrativas a partir de elementos sociais, culturais e religiosos, os quais remontam, geralmente, ao pensamento da Idade Média. Pretende-se com este trabalho identificar, a partir da leitura e da análise de cordéis, a moral misógina e a construção das personagens femininas como resíduos dessa mentalidade herdada do medievo, presentes nas narrativas populares. Para tanto, a Teoria da Residualidade, bem como os seus conceitos correlatos, a saber: Residualidade, Cristalização, Mentalidade e Hibridismo Cultural, é a base condutora dessas análises. Após a análise dos cordéis, ficou claro que os termos e as expressões, bem como a moral religiosa, referentes ao universo feminino reforçam e confirmam o pensamento dos clérigos medievais de que a origem do mal está na mulher, na sua essência. Nesse contexto, o cordel configura-se como um instrumento de manutenção da ordem social e da preservação da moral e dos bons costumes, segundo a mentalidade cristã.
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Assis, Anne Caroline Moraes de. "A misoginia medieval como resÃduo na literatura de cordel." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2010. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=5204.
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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel SuperiorA ideia da inferiorizaÃÃo da mulher tem sido disseminada nas civilizaÃÃes orientais e ocidentais. Tal concepÃÃo atingiu o seu Ãpice na Idade MÃdia, sobretudo, durante os sÃculos XIII e XIV, quando a Igreja CatÃlica controlava com severidade a vida social e religiosa dos cristÃos â em especial da mulher â respaldada nos dogmas religiosos atravÃs da InquisiÃÃo. Essa mentalidade misÃgina ganhou forÃa e adeptos e perdurou pelos sÃculos subsequentes, sendo residual na literatura de cordel contemporÃnea e perceptÃvel atravÃs da vivÃncia, do vocabulÃrio e das expressÃes usadas pelos cordelistas para descrever e retratar a mulher. O discurso literÃrio de carÃter popular tambÃm denota uma relaÃÃo de poder velada, na qual a mulher à rotulada de inferior e de pecadora. Cristalizado ao longo dos sÃculos, este pensamento chegou à contemporaneidade ocorrendo nas manifestaÃÃes literÃrias. Como a sociedade nordestina Ã, em grande parte, patriarcal e machista em suas raÃzes culturais, os quais sÃo refletidos e percebidos na produÃÃo da literatura popular em verso, quando os cordelistas constroem suas narrativas a partir de elementos sociais, culturais e religiosos, os quais remontam, geralmente, ao pensamento da Idade MÃdia. Pretende-se com este trabalho identificar, a partir da leitura e da anÃlise de cordÃis, a moral misÃgina e a construÃÃo das personagens femininas como resÃduos dessa mentalidade herdada do medievo, presentes nas narrativas populares. Para tanto, a Teoria da Residualidade, bem como os seus conceitos correlatos, a saber: Residualidade, CristalizaÃÃo, Mentalidade e Hibridismo Cultural, à a base condutora dessas anÃlises. ApÃs a anÃlise dos cordÃis, ficou claro que os termos e as expressÃes, bem como a moral religiosa, referentes ao universo feminino reforÃam e confirmam o pensamento dos clÃrigos medievais de que a origem do mal està na mulher, na sua essÃncia. Nesse contexto, o cordel configura-se como um instrumento de manutenÃÃo da ordem social e da preservaÃÃo da moral e dos bons costumes, segundo a mentalidade cristÃ.
The inferiorityÂs idea of women has been widespread in eastern and western civilizations. This design reached its apex in the Middle Ages, especially during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when the Catholic Church severally controlled the social and religious life of Christians - especially women - backed by the religious tenets trough the Inquisition. That mentality misogynist supporters and gained strength and continued by subsequent centuries, being in the residual pulp fiction and contemporary perceptible through the experience, vocabulary and expressions used by cordelistas to describe and portray women. The popular character of literary discourse also denotes a relationship of power veiled in which the woman is labeled as inferior and sinful. Crystallized over the centuries, this thought came to the events taking place in contemporary literature. The BrazilÂs northeast is largely patriarchal and sexist in its cultural roots, which are observed in the production of popular literature in verse, when the cordelistas construct their narratives from the social, cultural and religious, which back, usually at the thought of the Middle Ages. The aim of this work was to identify, from the reading and analysis of cordage, misogynist morality and the construction of the female characters such as waste mentality inherited from the Middle Ages, found in popular narratives. Therefore, the Teoria da Residualidade, and its related concepts, namely: Residual, CristalizaÃÃo, Mentalidade and HibridaÃÃo Cultural is the basis of this analysis. After analyzing the cordÃis, it was clear that the terms and expressions, as well as religious morality, referring to the feminine reinforce and confirm the thinking of medieval clerics that the origin of evil lies with the woman, in essence. In this context, the line appears as an instrument for maintaining social order and the preservation of morals and morality, according to the Christian mentality.
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Hughes, Camryn E. "Postmodern Blackness: Writing Melanin Against a White Backdrop." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1619188755992646.
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Spedalieri, Francesca. "Seeing the Unseen, Staging the Unspoken: The Gender Politics and Political Language of Emma Dante’s Theatre in the Berlusconi Era (1994-2011)." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1480594504188268.
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Lima, Leonila Maria Murinelly. "O Amadis de Gaula entre as fendas de dois códigos: o da cavalaria (O Livro da Ordem de Cavalaria de Ramon Llull) e o do amor cortês (Tratado do Amor Cortês de André Capelão)." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2007. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4249.
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A partir dos pressupostos teóricos dos pesquisadores da Nova História e dos estudos literários do comparativismo, este trabalho analisa o Amadis de Gaula entre os dois códigos: o da cavalaria de Ramon Llull expressão do ideal cristão do cavaleiro virtuoso e perfeito , e o do amor cortês, de André Capelão, que expressa os ensinamentos do refinado amor cortesão, dentro de uma ética feudo-vassálica. Entre os interstícios desses códigos e numa Península Ibérica marcada por uma ascese cristã, erige uma história de amor que se constitui num paradigma da expressão do desejo carnal e da busca do re(encontro) com o feminino. É na via oposta ao contexto peninsular da Reconquista ibérica que se efetua a caminhada de Amadis rumo à perfeição amorosa ao encontro do AmorThe theoretical presuppositions of the researchers of the New History and the literary studies of comparativism are the starting point of this paper to analyze the Amadis de Gaula between the two codes: the chivalry by Ramon Llull the expression of the christian ideal of the virtuous and perfect knight , and the courteous love, by André Capelão, the schooling of the refined courteous love, inserted in a feud-vassal ethics. A love story is put up between the gaps of these codes in an Iberian Peninsula encarved by a christian ascese. It is compounded in an instance of the carnal desire and the search for the (re)encounter with the feminine. It is in the opposite way to the peninsular context of the Iberian Reconquest that Amadis enhances his way towards the loving perfection to meet Love
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Monteiro, Ana Claudia de Lemos. "Não se pode amar e ser feliz ao mesmo tempo: casamento e tragédia em Otelo, de William Shakespeare, e A mulher sem pecado, de Nelson Rodrigues." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2009. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=962.
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Este trabalho realiza uma leitura comparativa entre as peças Otelo, de William Shakespeare, e A mulher sem pecado, de Nelson Rodrigues. A hipótese que se investiga é a de o casamento ser um cenário profícuo para a precipitação da tragédia, na medida em que o relacionamento conjugal pode se constituir em lugar de choque entre o discurso de auto-definição do indivíduo e discursos outros, circulantes no social, veiculadores de preconceitos patriarcais, sobretudo a misoginia, incorporados pelo próprio indivíduo como verdades. Reproduz-se, assim, no casamento, o conflito definidor por excelência da tragédia, a saber, a tensão entre o indivíduo e uma potência superior a ele, que pode estar incorporada à sua própria subjetividade, no caso da tragédia modernaThis dissertation will provide a comparative reading of William Shakespeares Othello and Nelson Rodriguess A mulher sem pecado. The hypothesis to be investigated is that marriage constitutes a profitable scenario for the emergency of tragedy, as we think of marriage as a possible site of tension between individual discourse and the confluence of other discourses that circulate in society, introducing patriarchal prejudice misogyny in particular which is incorporated by the individual as absolute truth. It would be thus reproduced in marriage the conflict that defines tragedy, that is, the tension between the individual and some power superior to it, which may be embodied in its own subjectivity if we consider modern tragedy
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Szuhaj, Katalin. "Le portrait satirique baroque. L'oeuvre de Charles-Timoleon de Sigogne dans le reflet d'une analyse comparée de l'art du dessin et de la peinture." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00966490.
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Cette thèse est le fruit d'une étude comparative de la peinture et de la poésie des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Dans ce document, la poésie et la peinture se répondent, s'entrecroisent, s'éclairent à tour de rôle, grâce à une analyse comparée des similitudes et différences qu'elles expriment sur le même thème, qui est le portrait satirique baroque. Notre étude est ancrée dans une approche esthétique de l'univers visuel baroque, et met l'accent sur la réception des œuvres d'art par le spectateur. Quant à la poésie, nous nous éloignerons du modèle classique de la satire, pour pénétrer la littérature satirique, riche d'une langue imagée, et bien souvent obscène. Notre thèse est composée de cinq chapitres. Nous donnerons tout d'abord une définition du portrait en poésie et en peinture. Dans un deuxième temps, nous montrerons qu'en représentant un individu, l'artiste dévoile également son âme, et que, dans cette époque tourmentée, l'âme apparaît à travers laideur et difformité dans les portraits sociaux et misogynes. Le troisième chapitre sera consacré à la notion d'esthétique paradoxale, qui montre l'homme et l'univers de façon renversée, comme un écho au monde bouleversé du tournant de XVIème siècle, avec les conséquences que cela implique sur le récepteur de l'œuvre d'art. Nous analyserons ensuite plus particulièrement la poésie misogyne de Sigogne, avant de conclure notre travail sur l'étude du monde fantastique et surnaturel qui s'empare de sa poésie, et de la poésie baroque de manière générale.
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"Maternal Misogyny: Absent Mothers in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature." East Tennessee State University, 2001. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0327101-132957/.
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Schuyler, Carole A. "Persephone in Taos: A refutation of misogyny in D. H. Lawrence's new world fiction." 1999. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9950209.
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Lawrence was familiar with the Demeter-Persephone-Hades triangle from his extensive reading in literature and other disciplines that study myth. He was perhaps too familiar with it from enacting and observing the roles of the three principals in his parents' marriage and his own. Because his fiction followed from his life, the Persephone myth threads through his oeuvre from The White Peacock to The Man Who Died. In this dissertation, I examine the four New World stories, written in 1922–1925 in New Mexico and Mexico, for narrative details of the myth. I first discuss the most authentic version of the myth, Hesiod's Homeric Hymn to Demeter . Then, for each story, I point out which version(s) of the myth and which Great Mother figure(s)—Demeter, Persephone, or Hecate—predominate. Because Lawrence read and responded to Freud and Jung, I use psychoanalysts and analytical psychologists for clarification. Critics accuse Lawrence of misogyny in these works because the myth seems an excuse to visit travails upon women: murder of the Woman in “The Woman Who Rode Away,” a direly rundown ranch for Lou and a nervous breakdown for Mrs. Witt in St. Mawr. multiple rapes for Dollie in The Princess and, for Kate in Ouetzalcoatl and The Plumed Serpent, coarsening of sensibility and danger of assassination. Therefore, I end the interpretation of each story with an explanation of why it's inappropriate to apply “misogynist” to Lawrence. In all of them, Lawrence believes that women need rescue (as do men) from a patriarchal matrix of organized religion', industrialization, and various “isms.” Once sprung, as he and Frieda are, they too can struggle towards individuation, an integration of the four levels of life: intrapsychic, interpersonal, socio-political, and cosmic. What appears to be misogyny I see as an attempt to resolve the isolation/assimilation dilemma and an example of Freud's “feminine repudiation” in “Analysis Terminable and Interminable”: hostility to men who were his real-life competitors and empathy verging on self-masochism towards women which forced him to battle those closest to him for breathing space.
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Churchill, Laurie J. "Heroic erotics the anatomy of misogyny in the Ars amatoria /." 1985. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/12529009.html.
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Friesen, Sandra A. "The rise and fall of Seigneur Dildoe: the figure of the dildo in restoration literature and culture." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7750.
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Seigneur Dildoe, as this dissertation will contend, was a fixture in Restoration literature and culture (1660-1700). But what was his provenance, by what means did he travel, and why did he come? This dissertation provides a literary history of the fascinating and highly irreverent dildo satire tradition, tracing the dildo satire’s long and winding progress from antiquity to Restoration England, where the tradition reached its early modern zenith. Adding breadth, context, and texture to existing treatments of the trope’s political and sexual potency, this dissertation investigates the dildo satire’s roots in both Greek comedy (Aristophanes, Herodas) and Latin invective (Martial, Juvenal), its influential association in early modern Italy with Catholicism and monastic life (Aretino), and its introduction in early modern England (Nashe), where it cropped up in the works of a surprising number of literary giants (Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Marvell). In Restoration England, we find in the satiric dildos of Butler, Rochester, and the contextually rich “Seigneur Dildoe” articulations of a dildo gone viral: the mock-heroic Seigneur deployed as a politically central motif symptomatic of its society’s acute patriarchal fissures. Throughout I argue that the dildo satire’s longevity is due not to a uniformity of purpose or signification (misogynist, anti-Catholic, emasculating, or otherwise), but to its innate versatility and ambiguity as a fugitive sexual and political figure. I also argue that what does in fact unite the satiric dildo’s variety of contingent ends, against what has been assumed in the scholarship, is its status as a markedly anti-Phallic figure.Graduate
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Knight, Mary Leslie. "Sympathy for the Devil: Volatile Masculinities in Recent German and American Literatures." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/3830.
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This study investigates how an ambivalence surrounding men and masculinity has been expressed and exploited in Pop literature since the late 1980s, focusing on works by German-speaking authors Christian Kracht and Benjamin Lebert and American author Bret Easton Ellis. I compare works from the United States with German and Swiss novels in order to reveal the scope - as well as the national particularities - of these troubled gender identities and what it means in the context of recent debates about a "crisis" in masculinity in Western societies. My comparative work will also highlight the ways in which these particular literatures and cultures intersect, invade, and influence each other.
In this examination, I demonstrate the complexity and success of the critical projects subsumed in the works of three authors too often underestimated by intellectual communities. At the same time, I reveal the very structure and language of these critical projects as a safe haven for "male fantasies" of gender difference and identity formation long relegated to the distant past, fantasies that continue to lurk within our cultural currencies.
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Pollock, Katharine J. "‘It’s not the biggest story ever, I know, but it’s telling’ : women, music, and the confessional mode and Her Fidelity : a novel." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:62296.
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This dissertation investigates the extent to which women confessing to their experiences in music speaks to women’s experiences outside of the music industry. Further, it questions whether such a dialogic exchange can be considered as political rhetoric or even social activism. The final question posited in this thesis is whether dialogue of this type can create impactful and lasting change. Through concrete examples drawn from two primary case studies as well as a number of other examples, I determine that women in music inevitably bring their individual experiences to bear on systemic issues when they confess to their experiences of sexism in the industry. I take the music industry as a microcosm of society, suggesting that accounts which draw on lived experience can practically illustrate broader issues of sexism and misogyny in the wider culture. The dissertation is comprised of a novel, entitled Her Fidelity, and an exegesis which investigates several texts by women, all of whom use aspects of the confessional mode. By confessional mode I am referring to works which invite the reader to witness the narrator’s experiences through the lens of a candid first-person point of view. Aspects and specific elements of this confessional genre allow writers to unsettle readerly expectations and play in the in-between space of subversion and complicity. Examples of this include self-deprecatory humour, sexual self-objectification, and the writing of shame. To exemplify my thesis, I analyse excerpts from singer Lily Allen’s 2018 memoir My Thoughts Exactly, and writer Caitlin Moran’s 2018 novel How to Be Famous as well as other resources, including social media posts and songs. I also analyse confessional moments from women in music – including Riot Grrrl manifestos, Lady Gaga’s grotesquery, Beyoncé’s body politics, and Courtney Love’s kinderwhore clothing. The examples highlight many of the issues faced by women who work in the music industry, such as juggling the expectations of a pernicious industry with the demands of motherhood, declaring the lived reality of being a Person of Colour in a white mainstream culture, and celebrating the queer experience. Her Fidelity is my contribution to women’s confessional texts about the music industry. It contributes both a unique, and in many ways a shared, perspective to confessional literature and to the broader discourses to which it speaks.
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Stanjurová, Martina. "Chronická nevinnost: queer čtení." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-393651.
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Bc. Martina Stanjurová The Chronic Innocence: A Queer Reading Abstract: The Master's thesis analyses Klaus Rifbjerg's novel The Chronic Innocence (1958), one of the central works of the Danish literature. The analysis is carried out from the gender studies perspective, namely through the principles of the post structuralist queer theories. The thesis deals with the analysis of the dynamics of the relationship between the central figures, the narrator Janus and his classmate Tore. By using the queer reading method, the thesis unveils how the narrator expresses and conceals his platonic fascination for the friend. Moreover, the thesis tries to explain the essence of the narrator's relationship to the female figures, which shows misogynic traits.
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Arbizu-Sabater, Victoria. "La satira misogina en el "Cancionero de obras de burlas provocantes a risa" (Valencia, 1519)." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/17248.
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El objetivo de la presente tesis es aportar un mayor conocimiento sobre la tradicion misogina de la poesia castellana del siglo XV y su configuracion literaria especifica a traves de una atenta lectura de los textos que componen el Cancionero de obras de burlas provocantes a risa, impreso por vez primera en 1519. A tal fin, se procede previamente a trazar sendas panoramicas acerca de la difusion de la lirica cancioneril y los estudios consagrados a la investigacion sobre la mujer en la literatura espanola. A continuacion se desarrolla un analisis de las diversas tipologias y del tratamiento satirico a lo largo de la obra: las piezas procedentes del Cancionero General de Hernando del Castillo (1511 y 1514) y la Carajicomedia, extenso poema cuyo primer testimonio es justamente el conservado en esta impresion.