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Chan, Lai-tak, and 陳勵德. "Louis Cha's misogyny complex." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B44622508.
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Tucker, John W. Carroll Anne. "Misogyny in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree." Diss., A link to full text of this thesis in SOAR, 2007. http://soar.wichita.edu/dspace/handle/10057/1180.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English."May 2007." Title from PDF title page (viewed on Dec. 29, 2007). Thesis adviser: Anne Carroll. Includes bibliographic references (leaves 36-38).
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Berkland, Darren Gary. "Androcentrism and misogyny in late twentieth century rock music." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1021199.
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Judith Butler’s writings on gender ostensibly changed the way gender is considered with regard to an individual’s subjectivity. Her writings expressed a discursive parameter that changed the theoretical standpoint of gender from that of performance, to that of performativity. In short, the notion of gender became understood as a power mechanism operating within society that compels individuals along the heteronormal binary tracts of male or female, man or woman. Within the strata of popular culture, this binarism is seemingly ritualized and repeated, incessantly. This treatise examines how rock music, as a popular and widespread mode of popular music, exemplifies gender binarism through a notable ndrocentrism. The research will examine how gender performativity operates within the taxonomy of rock music, and how the message communicated by rock music becomes translated into a listener’s subjectivity.
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Patrick, Tegan Rae. "Legitimising Misogyny: Representations of Women in Three Shakespeare Films." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Humanities, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10015.
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The plays of William Shakespeare have long been considered a source of cultural and educational interest by both academics and filmmakers, and the practice of adapting Shakespeare’s works to film has existed for almost as long as film itself. The name “Shakespeare” evokes ideals of cultural legitimacy and importance, and Shakespeare film as a genre is always caught up in questions of fidelity and legitimacy. In adapting Shakespeare to the screen, filmmakers also adapt, whether deliberately or not, the various cultural beliefs that his work is steeped in. Early modern ideas about gender, race and class are reproduced in modern film through the adaptation of Shakespeare, often excused or unexamined in the name of fidelity. This thesis discusses Shakespeare’s three plays Hamlet, Richard III and The Taming of the Shrew, all of which deal in some way with gender roles and the place and power of women, whether that power is sexual, political or verbal. I also examine three film adaptations of the plays: Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet, Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine’s Richard III, and Gil Junger’s 10 Things I Hate About You. All three films serve as examples of the way the misogyny present in Shakespeare’s works is reproduced and sometimes magnified through adaptation to the screen. The reproduction of early modern gender hierarchies is naturalised in a number of ways across the three films, including the use of star power, the invocation of Shakespeare as a cultural authority, and specific filmic techniques such as flashback and the cutting and editing of film and screenplay. I argue that in all three films, the faithful adaptation of Shakespearean ideas of gender comes at the expense of both the women characters and those women who make up the films’ audience.
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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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Jones, Jennifer A. "Myth, misogyny and the old woman in early modern France /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arj77.pdf.
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Arrowsmith, Anna. "Rethinking misogyny : men's perceptions of female power in dating relationships." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/50801/.
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My PhD research explores the role of men's subjective accounts of interactions with the women they date, especially with reference to whether they experience women to have power in dating relationships. It comprises a qualitative analysis of the responses gained from semi-structured interviews conducted with 20 British men and 10 Pick Up Artists (men who attended classes to learn how to increase their confidence when dating women) all aged 21-40. Current debates around gendered power are largely focused on female subjectivities, and are core to political and theoretical differences between second and third-wave/post-feminisms. I argue that in order to understand the workings of (heterosexual) gendered power relations, we must pay attention not only to issues of structural power but also to men's perceptions of the lived experiences of such relationships. At a time of increased uncertainty about gendered identity and increased pressure to see the ‘self' as a project, such perceptions may be both very varied and at variance with accepted structural analyses of gendered power. Following three introductory chapters in which I trace the debates around masculinity and a contemporary social order focused on risk and individuality, I analyse the interviewees' responses in order to explore how the men position themselves within the gender and dating discourses that are available to them. The effects of what Ulrich Beck described as ‘individualism' and the use of ‘constructed certitude' are explored, as is how the men deal with conflicting ideas borne out of living in an age when ideals from both hegemonic and inclusive masculinities co-exist. Whether men acknowledge their own insecurities or whether they focus on perceived external triggers, such as female culpability, and whether men respond to insecurities by focusing on an active process of overcoming them (thus remaining inside hegemonic ideas), is also a focus. Subject areas explored include the role of homosocial behaviour in dating, the gendered dating process, the power of female beauty, men's bodily anxieties, media representations of dating, men's body image, unwanted pregnancies and female aggression. I conclude that we cannot dismiss men's perceptions of female power in dating as mistaken, as has been argued. If men's realities include such perceptions, then their un/willingness to relinquish 'more' power needs to be understood if equality between the sexes is to be increased.
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Machado, Elsa Cascais Silva Andrade. "Masculinity, melancholia and misogyny in the films of Sam Peckinpah." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/22904.
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Doutoramento em Estudos CulturaisWith this thesis I have attempted to analyse three salient features in Sam Peckinpah’s films: masculinity, melancholia and misogyny. Having made only fourteen films, Peckinpah distinguished himself as an important director in the history of American cinema not only because of his innovative techniques but also because his work was so much in tune with the zeitgeist of the turbulent times in which he lived. The analysis of these three main themes aims to cast some light on the work of a director whose temperamental traits and difficult relation with the film industry tend to obfuscate an un-romanticized view of his oeuvre. Peckinpah’s best work was within the generic traits of the Western but he also made forays into other genres, never forsaking the main worries and worldview that give his films a sense of thematic coherence. While American cinema is inclined to foreground a strong patriarchal hegemonic model, Peckinpah’s films, although centered on masculinity, unwittingly undermine this model by disclosing flaws and weaknesses in his protagonists, rendering them more vulnerable and prone to suffering. This singularity allowed me to bring into relief the elegiac mood of his films, a characteristic which entwines with the perception of a fading West and with the obsolescence of his male characters. Peckinpah became notorious in his association with misogyny not only because of his impromptu comments in the interviews he gave but also because he displayed a problematic relationship with women in real life, giving them a dismissive treatment in his films. This thesis attempts to deal with this unsavoury feature which many critics disavow or simple ascribe to inflamed feminist criticism. I hope in this work I have managed to address the richness of Peckinpah’s films and to reveal how he left a legacy which surpasses the technical artistry for which he became known and the violence which he stylised with the details of his obsessive directorial flair. This legacy lies in the melancholy mood that suffuses his work, resulting from disenchantment and loss.
Com esta tese procurei abordar três aspectos que se salientam na obra de Sam Peckinpah: masculinidade, melancolia e misoginia. Tendo realizado apenas catorze filmes, Peckinpah distinguiu-se na história do cinema Americano não apenas pelos elementos técnicos inovadores mas também pelo facto de os seus filmes estarem em sintonia com o zeitgeist dos tempos turbulentos em que viveu. A partir da análise destes três aspectos, pretendi realçar o trabalho de um realizador cuja personalidade temperamental e a difícil relação com os estúdios tendem a obfuscar uma exploração menos romanticizada do seu trabalho. Apesar de se ter distinguido no Western, Peckinpah aventurou-se por outros géneros, nunca abandonando as principais preocupações e mundividência que conferem ao seu trabalho uma coerência temática. Enquanto o cinema Americano promove um modelo fortemente patriarcal e hegemónico, os filmes de Peckinpah, apesar de se centrarem na masculinidade, tendem a subverter este modelo ao colocarem em evidência as falhas e fraquezas dos seus protagonistas, que se revelam vulneráveis e mais suscetíveis ao sofrimento. Esta singularidade permitiu-me sublinhar a disposição elegíaca dos seus filmes e a sua relação com melancolia, uma característica que se associa à perceção de um Oeste em declínio e ao anacronismo dos seus protagonistas. Peckinpah ficou marcado pela sua postura misógina não apenas através dos seus comentários precipitados e irrefletidos, presentes nas várias entrevistas que concedeu, mas também porque manifestou uma relação problemática com as mulheres, algo que se refletiu na forma como as tratou e representou no ecrã. Esta tese procura assim abordar uma vertente menos agradável da sua obra que muitos críticos minimizam ou percecionam como resultado de uma crítica feminista inflamatória. Espero assim que, com este trabalho, tenha conseguido explorar a riqueza do cinema de Sam Peckinpah, demonstrando que a herança que este nos deixou ultrapassa em muito a técnica artística dos seus filmes ou a violência que ele explorou exaustivamente com a sua entrega à realização. Esta herança reside na melancolia que atravessa o seu trabalho, resultante de desencanto e perda.
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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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Kane, Maureen Kay. "The Restoration of Venus : the Nude, Beauty and Modernist Misogyny." Thesis, Griffith University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367838.
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The title of this project is intended to convey the main thrust of my studio research, in which I articulate a series of female nudes in an Australian landscape. It is also, however, a response to Wendy Steiner’s book, The Exile of Venus: The Rejection of Beauty in 20th-Century Art, which argues that, in many respects, the history of elite art in the twentieth century is one of resistance to the female subject as the symbol of beauty. Steiner traces this resistance to Kant’s theory of the sublime in art, whose effect was to identify feminine beauty with impurity, an identification taken to extremes by avant-garde modernists whose art, in the words of abstract expressionist Barnett Newman, sought “to destroy beauty.” The result was art that, in Steiner’s words, turned the female subject from paragon into “a monster, an animal, an exotic, a prostitute … in the name of purity and civilized values.” I argue that modernism’s quest for purity was actually a quest for truth which took art in two broad directions: a) toward increasing abstraction and minimalism that sought the unadorned pure forms that underpin all art, giving it value; and b) toward the deliberate portrayal of abject ugliness on the assumption that reality was, after all, not beautiful and that truthfulness therefore demanded that we represent it as it was. The first path is not (necessarily) inimical to beauty, but the rejection of beauty by the latter caused not just a rejection of the female form as symbol, but, as Steiner claims, a misogynistic denigration of woman that led to a century of pornography, shock and alienation in work that often provoked anger and outrage.
Although I had commenced my nudes-in-the-landscape project some years before reading Steiner’s work, her analysis offered me an explanation for my own alienation from much of the modern art world, with what seemed to me its repeated and deliberate perversions. It also helped confirm and support my persistent interest, not only in pursuing traditional modes of art practice, but in creating works intended to be beautiful. If the twentieth century proved that art need not be beautiful to be art, it nevertheless did not succeed in expunging the human desire for and responsiveness to beauty, certainly not in the female form which became more blatantly deployed, often in debased form, in popular culture. The challenge for an artist now concerned with beauty and the female nude is to inquire how and whether the undeniable but problematic power of female beauty can any longer be used for artistic purposes.
My research also inevitably raised the question of the place of theory in art. Against the theory-dominated practice of much modern art, I felt the need to defend an older idea (which I felt verified in my personal history) that theory may grow significantly out of the practice as much as the other way around.
The five panels completed for this DVA project are my response to these challenges using the most traditional symbol of beauty, the female nude drawn from life. Indeed the paintings try to make an emphatic point by using multiple nudes integrated into a Queensland rainforest landscape and painted on such a scale as to envelop the viewer. This exegesis expounds this work by explaining first the artist and her artistic trajectory, with both her persistent and developing concerns, and second the means and methods she employed to try to achieve the strong but implicit structure of composition that must support any work that aspires to beauty.Thesis (Professional Doctorate)
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Scaptura, Maria N. "Masculinity Threat, Misogyny, and the Celebration of Violence in White Men." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/93239.
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This study aims to understand the relationship between masculinity and the endorsement of attitudes towards guns and violence and aggressive fantasies. I examine threatened masculinity and masculine gender role stress in addition to a newly developed measure, which assesses traits associated with incels, who believe that social liberalism, feminism, and more sexually active men (“Chads”) are to blame for their lack of sex with women. Incels are largely a disorganized group of men interacting online, but a few self-identifying members have been associated with a number of mass violence events in recent years. The data were constructed from an original self-report survey distributed to men aged 18 to 30 years old, the group most responsible for violence against women and mass violence. I hypothesize that men who perceive that men are losing status as a group (status threat) (1), who feel less acceptance as members of that category (acceptance threat) (2), or who exhibit incel traits (3) are more likely to (a) approve of guns, violence, and aggression, and (b) exhibit aggressive fantasies. This study’s findings support three hypotheses: status threat is positively associated with an approval of guns and violence; acceptance threat is positively associated with approval of guns, violence, and aggressive fantasies; and incel traits are positively associated with aggressive fantasies. Men who experience status or acceptance threat or share incel traits exemplify issues of toxicity present in masculinity today. Their support for gun use, violence and aggressive fantasies further show the connection between male insecurity, aggressive attitudes, and fantasizing about violence.M.S.
This study aims to understand the relationship between masculinity and the endorsement of attitudes towards guns and violence and aggressive fantasies. I examine masculinity and feelings of threat in addition to a newly developed measure, which assesses traits associated with incels (“involuntary celibates”), who believe that social liberalism, feminism, and more sexually active men are to blame for their lack of sex with women. Incels are largely a disorganized group of men interacting online, but a few self-identifying members have been associated with a number of mass violence events in recent years. The data were constructed from a survey distributed to men aged 18 to 30 years old, the group most responsible for violence against women and mass violence. I hypothesize that men who perceive that men are losing status as a group (1), who feel less acceptance as members of that category (2), or who exhibit incel traits (3) are more likely to (a) approve of guns, violence, and aggression, and (b) exhibit aggressive fantasies. This study’s findings support three hypotheses: feelings of group status loss are positively associated with an approval of guns and violence; stress in one’s masculine gender role is positively associated with approval of guns, violence, and aggressive fantasies; and incel traits are positively associated with aggressive fantasies. Their support for gun use, violence and aggressive fantasies further show the connection between male insecurity, aggressive attitudes, and fantasizing about violence.
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Stein, Sharon. "Images of women in André Gide's Les Faux-Monnayeurs : misogyny or feminism?" Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28546.
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This study consists of an analysis of the major female characters in Andre Gide's Les Faux-Monnayeurs. The theme of insubordination, as exemplified in the personal growth of the novel's hero, Bernard, provides an important contrast to the author's portrayal of women. Bernard's refusal of
subordination drives him toward disponibilite and authenticity. In Gidian terminology, to be disponible is to be receptive to the plenitude of life, to dare all. It is only after experimenting with life's excesses that Bernard arrives at a personal regie de vie that respects both his natural impulses and conventional moral standards.
The discussion of the female characters focuses on the female's status in the social milieu portrayed in the novel. Society's traditions appear to encourage and maintain women's subordination and suppress the female's natural impulse for freedom; female disponibilite and authenticity seem unattainable.
In analysing individual, female characters in light of their subordination and denial of authenticity, they will be classified into three categories: myths, stereotypes and archetypes. Bronja and Lilian, who are diametrically opposed personifications of good and evil, assume the roles of mythical figures. Sophroniska, Sarah and Rachel, who are typified depictions of the female "intellectual", the "feminist" and the "religious devotee" respectively, constitute stereotypes. The category of archetypes is comprised of Pauline, Marguerite, Mme Vedel, Mme de La Perouse and Laura, who are all similar in their roles as wives and mothers. They adhere to the conventional role of woman in their society. Consequently, archetypes illustrate most poignantly the problematic existence of women in the novel.
After examining how the female characters are representative of their particular groups, we will attempt to ascertain why the author's portrayal of them is not only limited, but also pejorative. Conclusions will be drawn in light of the male characters' attitudes toward women. The male point of view is dominant and tends to overshadow and efface the female presence in the text. Furthermore, females are denigrated and disparaged from two distinctly different male perspectives: that of the homosexual and that of the heterosexual. The homosexual male vilifies and refuses women in their capacity as objects of male sexual desire. The heterosexual male advocates and adheres to traditional values that tend to privilege men; his deprecation of women is rooted in traditional, male chauvinism. It is from this second perspective that the feminist statement emerges. The author's deference toward the male is entwined with his sympathy for women and the plight of their existence. That the female characters are forbidden personal freedom and authenticity is never overtly stated; yet this conclusion emerges clearly from a critical analysis of the images of women in the novel and of male responses to the female characters. Exploration of the subtext produces many indications that support the notion that the author sees a potential for women's emancipation and for a resolution of the problems of female existence. The author's sympathy serves as an invitation to the reader to reconstruct the feminist statement and propose a personal solution.Arts, Faculty of
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Wiklund, Maria. "The misogyny within the manosphere. A discourse analysis in a Swedish context." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-24615.
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Existing research about the manosphere and the subculture of Incels is primarily focused on the discourse on the American online discussion forums. After several high-profile attacks performed by Incels, resulting in severe casualties, the phenomenon of Incels has reached the mainstream media as well as public interest in the forums where members of the manosphere communicate. The discourse displays a highly misogynistic worldview, where the belief in a hegemonic patriarchy is oozing with toxic masculinity. The shared misogyny has also led to discursive interactions between Incels and the alt-right movement. Men are considered to be entitled to women, and a rejection is an excuse for violence. This study aims to investigate if the of misogynistic discourse expressed in the American manosphere as well as in the alt-right has gained hold in a Swedish context. Mainstream media, as well as alternative media, have been investigated and analysed with discourse theory. In discourse theory, language plays an active role in constructing the social world and discourse creates a world that looks real or true for the writer. The Swedish online discussion forum Flashback is where most of the communication seems to take place for groups within the manosphere as well as the alt-right and where most of the misogynistic context can be identified. Themes and concepts from the American misogynistic manosphere can be recognised and has gained a strong hold in the alternative media as well as mainstream media in Sweden. The strong hold of the misogyny in a Swedish context may display a risk for future violent actions.
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Kirtland, Debra Dee. "Early familial misogyny: Its impact on attachment security and later caregiving behaviors." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3301.
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The purpose of this study was to look at the impact of early misogynistic treatment of females on subsequent attachment security and the quality of the later caregiving of their own children. A Misogyny Scale was created for use in this study.
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McKenzie, Richard M. "The misogyny of the Trümmerfilm : space and gender in Post-War German film." Thesis, University of Reading, 2017. http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/69832/.
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Scholarly reviews of the Trümmerfilm1 have hitherto concentrated on the its redemptive qualities. In these readings of the films, the defeated German soldiers, Landser, or émigrés return to Germany and into the arms of their beautiful and faithful wives. The wives provide the safe space that the returned men need in order to be restored, reconciled and re-integrated into the new Germany. In this role, Germany’s women are responsible for ‘setting their men on course’ to rebuild the new nation and bring it out of its defeat. Robert Shandley has suggested2 that it is possible to view the original Trümmerfilm, Wolfgang Staudte’s 1946 film Die Mörder sind unter uns, through a genre lens, namely that of the Western movie. He notes that the genre expectations of this film were “thwarted” (Sieglohr, 2000, 99) by the intervention of the film’s female lead, but he does not carry this idea on by examining the gender implications of this thwarting, nor does he conduct a Cross-German study of the Trümmerfilm in its western and eastern forms to explore whether this is a trend. This thesis will build on Shandley’s comments and will first attempt to show whether the Trümmerfilm can indeed be seen as constituting a “genre” and then explore the implications of Shandley’s comments across eight Trümmerfilme, four from the western zones and four eastern zone. These films will be examined through the lenses of the Western and Kriminalfilm genres. These are used at Shandley’s suggestion and are genres that have clear sets of codes, spaces, gender relations and trope outcomes. This use of a genre lens reveals that male dominance of space is slowly ceded to the films’ leading women and the standard trope outcomes are “thwarted”, thereby contradicting trope expectations. The transgression of the expected genre expectations and ceding of the control of male spaces expose the implicit criticism of German women inherent in these films. The interpretation of the films thus changes from redemptive to critical and this study thereby exposes the misogyny of the Trümmerfilm.
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Bullock, Katherine Mary. "The Reproduction of Hypermasculinity, Misogyny and Rape Culture in Online Video Game Interactions." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28667.
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Playing video games is a popular past time for many, and the introduction of online gaming allows people of various backgrounds to interact with one another. Yet, it is clear in the wake of incidences such as Gamergate which saw threats directed towards women, that gaming is still considered a male space that is hostile towards women. Through content analysis of online spaces, this research sought to understand how violence towards femininity manifests in gaming. Through Louis Althusser?s (1972) concept of Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs) I explore how hypermasculine and misogynistic ideologies are reproduced in online gaming culture. It was found that violence towards women, hypermasculinity, and misogyny were perpetuated through the expression of dominant ideologies that place men above women. That being said, there were a significant number of people who spoke out against these ideologies thus working to dismantle the dominant attitudes that contribute to violence towards women.
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Wiatrowski, Michael Jr. "A Man's Gotta Do: Myth, Misogyny and Otherness in Post-9/11 America." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1340022877.
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Gränglid, Olivia Signe Afrodite. "Misogyny in the Marshlands : female Characterization in Seamus Heaney’s “Bog Queen” and “Punishment”." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för lärarutbildning, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-22122.
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This essay argues that the depiction of women in Seamus Heaney’s poems “Bog Queen” and “Punishment” results from the male gaze in three ways: the narrative viewpoint, stereotypical characterization, and the objectification of the female body. The following essay analyses the poems through an ecofeminist perspective that enables examination of the female characters as personifications of nature – “Bog Queen” as Mother Earth and the victim of “Punishment” as Nerthus, the fertility goddess. The analysis explores three areas; historical context, ‘The Feminine Principle,’ and Nussbaum’s list of ‘Feminist Perspectives on Objectification’ to answer how the male gaze is present in the three aspects. The male gaze is argued to be attributed to an androcentric narrative that presents a man and country’s sense of revenge, stereotypes that are totems of the male fantasy, and dehumanizing sexual objectification that enables appreciation of the dead bodies of women.
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Easterling, Michael H. "U.N.I.T.Y. Addressing Misogyny and Transcending the Sista-Ho Dichotomy in Hip Hop Culture." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5939.
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In this thesis I investigate the portrayal of women in Hip Hop as either a sista' or a ho, a dichotomy that mirrors the Freudian Madonna-whore complex prevalent in Western Society. Belittled and disparaged by the sexism implied by this dichotomy, women have become victims of various forms of misogynistic abuse. Queen Latifah stands up against this misogyny, using Hip Hop in the very way it was designed to be used “as a voice for the disenfranchised“ speaking out against the sexism in Hip Hop in the same way African American males use Hip Hop against White mainstream society. She thus challenges the sista'-ho dichotomy and becomes empowered to decry gender discrimination in the same way African American males become empowered to denounce racism through the performance of Hip Hop.
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Griswold, Lisa. "Minnewater." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/631.
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Anderson, Kathryn B. "Cognitive and personality predictors of male-on-female aggression : an integration of theoretical perspectives /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9737907.
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Delano, Cristina L. "Misogyny and (mis)representation the female subject in the poetry of jos ̌de espronceda /." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001043.
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Grimwood, Thomas David. "Ironology and the Interpretation of Misogyny in the Philosophy of Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504168.
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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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Carlsson, Anneli. ""¡Cáncer es una mujer pegada como una sanguijuela sesenta años succionándole el alma!" : Un examen de los rasgos misóginos en la novela El desbarrancadero de Fernando Vallejo." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Spanska, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-13623.
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El desbarrancadero, published in 2001 by Colombian author Fernando Vallejo is foremost a moving story about brotherly love, but it is also a highly critical novel that lashes out on a number of phenomena such as the catholic church, the Pope and the very idea of religion. It also addresses the poverty of Colombia, its corrupt politicians, the drug trade, viral diseases and animal abuse to mention a few more subjects. This essay however, does not aim to explore any of the above mentioned matters but rather examine how women are portrayed in this novel. The objective of this investigation, based on feminist theories, is to establish the very clear presence of misogyny attitudes.
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Graso, Jana. "The “Reality” of Misogyny in Online Gaming Communities : A Qualitative Study on Female Minecraft Players." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, JMK, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-133643.
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This study explores the implications of misogyny in the virtual and physical worlds. The 2014 GamerGate scandal shed light on the immense violence to which female gamers and gaming entertainment consumers are so frequently exposed to. Minecraft is the most played mass online multiplayer game in the world with over 100 million copies sold. The open gameplay mode of Minecraft and the non-linearity of the objective of the game has grown into a lush ground for violence, as there are seldom physical or virtual repercussions for verbal violence online. Gendertrolling has become a pastime within the gaming world on its own and focuses on specifically targeting women and ranges from benign jokes to violent threats of rape and murder. There seems to be a feeling of lack of physical world consequences for those that keep women from fully participating online. By drawing upon the concept of digital dualism, this study discusses the implications of being exposed to online threats online and women’s self-regulation and ways of navigating the hostility of the online gaming world.
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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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Mehmeti, Denis, and Devin Radianu. "Kvinnoförtrycket i virtuella spelvärlden : “Vi är som slagpåsar” - En kvalitativ intervjustudie om kvinnors upplevelser av spelvärlden." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för hälsa och välfärd, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-42411.
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This essay is based on a study that presents the result of interviews directed at women who are integrated in the gaming community. The purpose is to get clarification on the topic about how women experience gaming and if they are treated differently than men in the community. With the question “How do women experience the male dominated gaming world and how does it affect them?”, subordination, misogyny, male dominance and gender are keywords that can be identified within the targeted area. The theoretical framework has been based on Sylvia Walby's theoretical interpretation of patriarchy, Judith Butler’s performativity theory, and Eve, K Sedgwick’s theory about homosociality. The results show that women are worse treated in the gaming community than men. The women experience that they are subordinate men where her entry in the gaming world is considered to be deviant. The gaming world has patriarchal traits where the men through performative and homosocial behaviour reproduce and maintain these structures. The effects have been that the gaming world is now characterized by misogynistic premises where the man can get away with hate speech against women without consequences.
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Wretman, Josefine. "Inte alla män - men : En diskursanalys om incels som fenomen." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-44224.
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Studiens syfte är att granska och utforska incels som fenomen genom att analysera dominerande diskurser och centrala komponenter på hemsidan incels.is. Studiens frågeställningar har uppkommit genom de främst dominerande och centrala diskurserna som upprätthålls på incels.is, vilka är: samhället, kön och feminism samt våld. Studiens teoretiska ramverk har utgått från en socialkonstruktivistisk diskursanalys med inspiration från den Foucauldianska diskursanalysen. Michél Foucaults begrepp makt, språk och kunskap har vidare använts för att undersöka maktaspekten och maktlösheten som uttrycks på incels.is. Begreppen har även använts i syfte att undersöka språkets betydelse och vad som är tillåtet att säga och inte samt vem som har tillåtelse att säga något. Vidare har Yvonne Hirdmans och Raewyn Connells teorier kring genussystemet och hegemonisk maskulinitet använts i syfte att undersöka maskulinitetsdiskursen, konstruktionen av kön samt våldsfrågan. Studien har genom en kvalitativ metod och netnografisk ansats använt diskursanalys för att analysera inlägg på hemsidan incels.is i syfte att belysa vilka dominerande diskurser som kan urskiljas. Empirin till studie är publicerade i citatform och har alla publicerats under mars månad 2021. Uppsatsens resultat har visat på att användarna på incels.is upplever att resten av världen är emot dem samt att de inte får plats i den socialistiska och feministiska världsbild som de beskriver. Användarna uttrycker vidare att det är feminismen och kvinnor som är skyldiga det upplevda förtryck som användarna upplever. Användarna uttrycker såväl stark misogyni, våld, hot om våld gentemot kvinnor genomgående i resultatet. Vidare visar även resultatet att det finns vissa mindre dominerande diskurser kring självhat, hat gentemot HBTQI-personer, rasism samt avvikande diskursen kring hur misogyni inte alltid är svaret vilka också belyses i resultatet.The purpose of the study is to examine and explore incels as a phenomenon by analyzing dominant discourses and key components on the website incels.is. The study's questions are developed through the mainly dominant and central discourses that are maintained on incels.is which are: society, gender and feminism and violence. The theoretical framework of the study has been based on a social constructivist discourse analysis with inspiration from the Foucauldian discourse analysis. Michél Foucault's theories about power, language and knowledge have been used further to examine the power aspect and powerlessness expressed on incels.is. The theories have also been used for the purpose of examining the meaning of language and what is allowed to say and not and who is allowed to say something. Furthermore, Yvonne Hirdman's and Raewyn Connell's theories about the gender system and hegemonic masculinity have been used in order to explore the discourse of masculinity, the construction of gender and the issue of violence. Through a qualitative method and netnographic approach, the study has used discourse analysis to analyse posts on the website incels.is in order to shed light on which dominant discourses can be distinguished. The empirical data for the study is presented citation form and were all published during the month of March 2021. The results of the essay have shown that the users on incels.is feel that the rest of the world is against them and that they do not fit into the socialist and feminist worldview they describe. The users further express that it is feminism and women who are guilty of the perceived oppression that the users experience. Users express strong misogyny, violence, threats of violence against women throughout the result. Furthermore, the results also show that there are some less dominant discourses about self-hatred, hatred towards LGBTQI people, racism as well as the divergent discourse about how misogyny is not always the answer, which is also highlighted in the results.
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Basili, Tiffany. "Final Girls and ‘Mother’: Representations of Women in the Horror Film from the 1970s to the Present." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25706.
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) marked the beginning of what is now referred to as the modern or contemporary era of the horror film. Prior to Psycho’s release, during the classical era, danger came from outside the traditional, nuclear family unit. Following Psycho, the perils in horror films now prevalently come from within: within the home, within the family, and within the psyches of average-seeming, relatable, Anglo-Saxon men and women.
In this thesis I will argue that, aside from its contributions to the horror genre as a whole, Psycho provided the template for the three most common archetypes of women characters in the horror genre: the good (Final) girl, the ‘slut’, and ‘Mother’. Through an examination of key North-American and British horror films of the 1970s onwards, I will discuss and evaluate how these reductive representations of women have prevailed, and how they have evolved, as social and cultural attitudes towards women have developed and changed, allowing for more complex representations of women in the horror film.
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Banks, Rochelle G. "Exploring the impact of sexual harassment on teacher identity: An autoethnography." Thesis, Griffith University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/396521.
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This research examines the impact of sexual harassment on teacher identity and, in so doing, opens up conversations around gendered harassment in institutional settings. Drawing from my own experiences, I use autoethnography to lift the curtain on the unacknowledged, misunderstood and often overlooked. Autoethnography moves beyond traditional methods of inquiry to wholly embrace the subjective position of the researcher (Chang, 2008). In this way it is able to offer insights into the ways that identity, power, and culture interrelate in institutional settings. In documenting and then critically reflecting on my personal and professional challenges of being an experienced white female teacher newly employed at an Independent Australian School in a large capital city, I shed light on the gendered nature of workplace harassment from a position that is often silenced. In intertwining my first-hand experiences with the literature, I weave between feelings of powerlessness, critical reflexivity, and scholarly reflection to explore the construction of institutionalised norms and examine how language, subjectivity, and power-relations impact on gender. This research builds on existing knowledge by offering an alternative perspective – that of the researcher’s – to deepen understandings of the social complexities and challenges many women face in institutional workplaces.Thesis (Masters)
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Johansson, Elise, and Alexander Hansson. "I näthatarnas tanke : Hur ideologier och normer främjas i näthat." Thesis, Jönköping University, HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-51823.
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Näthat är idag en förväntad nackdel av att använda internet och sociala medier. Även när hatet är riktat mot en individ blir det oftast en attack mot en kollektiv identitet. Syftet med studien var att analysera vilka normer och ideologier som främjas i hatkommentarer och hur de samspelar med varandra baserat på mottagarens kön, ålder, hudfärg och sexualitet. Totalt analyserades kommentarer från åtta videoklipp publicerade på Youtube, fyra vardera spel- respektive sminkbranschen. Genom att använda ett Python script och Googles’ Perspective API, kunde kommentarer med en viss nivå av toxicitet väljas från videoklippens kommentarsfält. Sedan analyserades kommentarerna av författarna utifrån olika diskurskritiska kriterier utifrån metoden kritisk diskursanalys. Analysen visade att nationalism och misogyni var de största ideologierna bakom hatkommentarerna och många avsändare hade tydligt använt olika härskartekniker. Förutom de nämnda ideologierna, hittades även patriarkat och skönhetsideologin. Resultaten visade att även fast det är samma ideologi bakom flera hatkommentarer, vad som specifikt attackeras och kritiseras varierar beroende på mottagarens kön, ålder, hudfärg och sexualitet. För framtida studier skulle en liknande analys kunna göras fast med fokus på hur mycket och vilken sorts näthat personer med färre följare och engagemang får.Online hate is an expected downside of using the internet and even when hate is solely targeted towards an individual, it becomes an attack on a collective identity. The purpose of this study was to examine which norms and ideologies could be found in hate comments and how they interact with each other – based on gender, age, skin colour, and the sexuality of the receivers. In total, the comments of eight YouTube videos were examined. Four in the gaming genre and four in the beauty genre. Using a Python script and Google’s Perspective API, comments above a certain toxic threshold were taken from the videos which were then analysed by the authors based on different criteria. The analysations were done using critical discourse analysis. The analysis showed that nationalism and misogyny were the main ideologies behind the hate comments and multiple comments used master suppression techniques. In addition to the mentioned ideologies, patriarch and the ideology of beauty were also found. The results show that even if the same ideology is behind multiple hate comments, what is being attacked or criticised varied depending on the receiver’s gender, age, skin colour, and sexuality. Due to many of the youtubers having a big following and engagement, many of their followers defended them against online hate. For future studies, a similar analysis could be done but with a focus on people with less followers and engagements.
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Hill, Cassandra. "Gendered Nature of Cyber Victimization as a Mechanism of Social Control." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35368.
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This research used a deductive post-hoc statistical design and Statistics Canada’s 2009 General Social Survey on victimization to explore the social control function of cyber victimization and determine whether this is gendered. Social control was operationalized as a composite measure of self-responsibilization. A multiple regression analysis identified predictors of social control and additional multiple regression models were used for a gender specific examination of social control. A total of 14 predictor variables were entered into three blocks: cyber victimization; sociodemographic characteristics; and violent victimization in physical space. The results reveal that cyber victimization remains a significant predictor of social control in addition to gender, a number of other sociodemographic characteristics of respondents, and physical space victimization types. The findings suggest that the theory of social control, which has been applied to violence against women in physical space, can also be applied to cyber space victimizations. This study also provides insights into the compound effects of physical space and cyber space victimizations on women and identifies implications for policy, methods, and theories for addressing and examining violence against women in cyberspace.
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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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Hörmark, Andreas, and Tobias Sundin. "“Misogyny is Jewish? So is feminism, my dear.” : En tematisk analys av kvinnoideal på det högerextrema forumet Stormfront.org." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-446440.
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White nationalism is an ideology on the rise. Thus, it is important to understand why many men and women chose to engage with the ideology. This study aims to deepen the understanding of how women in online white-nationalist communities construct their gender through discursive practices, by using theories and concepts developed by Judith Butler and V. Spike Peterson. By researching this mostly uncharted phenomenon this study provides insight into how gender roles and white-nationalist ideas intersect and how the female users on Stormfront.org self express in relation to these ideas. Using netnography and thematic analysis the users' posts were presented in themes that illuminate different aspects of how they construct their gender. The key findings of this study reinforce earlier studies in emphasizing the role of motherhood and child rearing as essential parts of being a woman. They also show how femininity and white skin are constructed as inseparable, as women can not have one without the other. The need for a woman to have knowledge about white culture and to be educated is also a recurring theme. Lastly, the study also concluded that a renegotiation of the gender roles is taking place on the forum, where some users object to the overly traditional ideals of how a woman should be, requesting a more progressive way to view gender within white nationalism.
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Rizkallah, Matilda, and Mary Bagenda. "Prostitution and Race : An Intersectional Analysis of a Black Woman's Experiences in the Swedish Sex Industry." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Globala studier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-40673.
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Prostitution, arguably one of the world’s oldest profession has become a current and growing business across societies today. In Sweden, there has been an increasing recognition of the constant exploitation and abuse of women who are in the business of selling sexual services. As a majority of the sex workers in Sweden are non-ethnic Swedes, it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish the misogyny from the racism or exotification experienced in prostitution. This qualitative study explores if the intersection of race, misogyny and exotification has given rise to different kinds of vulnerabilities amongst women in prostitution in the Swedish sex industry. The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences of a black woman who has been prostituted in the sex industry in Sweden. The aim is to provide knowledge of intersectionality in prostitution and the complex effects it has on an individual woman’s experiences. The authors made use of case study as research design and relied on a semi-structured interview with a black woman who has been in prostitution and her experiences. The results of the study, with comparison to the literary review showed the different intersecting factors that affect a black woman, and how it, with the use of intersectionality as an analytical framework, can be argued that these factors give rise to a distinct experience in a woman with multiple marginalised identities. The study does also suggest the need for further research in the field with a larger selection of respondents that aims at acquiring national data as well as research on prostitution that focuses on power structures and the intersecting identities of persons with multiple dominant identities.
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Woodward, Marian. "Ditch the Witch: Julia Gillard and gender in Australian public discourse." Thesis, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9554.
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This thesis explores the interplay of gender, media, politics and women’s political representation in Australia. I examine how the Australian media has tended to reinforce rather than challenge dominant cultural aspects of Australian politics. Specifically, I analyse the ways in which Australian media has reflected women’s marginalisation in parliament. As Australia’s first female head of state, Julia Gillard’s term as Prime Minister provides a unique opportunity to analyse explicit and implicit ways in which gender has been used by media commentators in their assessment of her achievements. Analysis of the media’s treatment of Julia Gillard is used throughout the thesis, as her time in office exposed underlying conflicts surrounding gender and sexism in Australian media and public discourse. Media response to Gillard’s so-called Misogyny Speech is used as a particular case study. The thesis draws on a range of scholarship and commentary, including the works of Erving Goffman, Walter Lippmann, Pierre Bourdieu, Robin Lakoff, Anne Summers, Julia Baird, Pippa Norris and Marian Sawer, to construct a framework through which to examine the period of Gillard’s prime ministership. The last two writers (Norris and Sawer), inter alia, discuss the significance of women’s representation in parliament. In particular, the analysis highlights the significance of Anne Summers’ contribution to Australian feminism and draws on her Newcastle Speech (August 2012). I argue that Summers’ ideas and writing have been influential in shaping public discourse on Julia Gillard. I place the widely varied media responses to Gillard’s Misogyny Speech into a historical and comparative context to demonstrate the conflict within Australian society around issues of gender, feminism and female participation in public life.
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Chamberland, Alexander Alvina. ""You don't always like your sisters, but you always love them" : Trans feminine accounts of misogyny, sisterhood and difference in New York City." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-28093.
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This thesis examines six trans feminine informants in New York City's experiences of oppression, trans-misogyny, femi-negativity, racism, and classism, as well as their experiences of community support, conflicts and resistance practices through the lens of the term sisterhood and the practice of sisterhooding. Focus has also been placed on the informant's views on allyship and coalition, and their relationship to other communities, such as the trans masculine community. The research has been conducted through in-depth, semi-structured, qualitative interviews with six trans feminine activists in New York City. The informant group was heterogenous in regards to age, race/ethnicity, as well as in regards to where in the city they resided and which parts of the movement they were engaged in. My findings follow Jenny Gunnarsson Payne's (2006) theory on sisterhood as an empty signifier, as my informants had different definition's of the term and concept of sisterhood, and while all of them expressed ambivalences towards the term and concept, they also all used the term to varying degrees. Several saw advantages in using the term to describe kinship and solidarity between trans feminine people. The participating informants in the study listed several different conflicts within trans feminine movements. Many of them were generally skeptical to conflicts, especially to those related to cattiness, competition, language and terminology – sentiment's which I agree with, albeit with the addition, which some of my informant's also stressed, that certain conflict's regarding differences in oppressions related to intersectional hierarchies, may be necessary. In the concluding chapter I argue for an understanding of trans-sisterhood based both on an understanding of similarities and difference's in experience and an understanding of solidarity that prioritizes the voices, perspectives and leadership of the most marginalized. My informant's described grave street harassment, employment discrimination and experiences of desexualization from gay/queer men and hypersexualization from so-called tranny chasers. Because of the lack of previous research on trans femininities from the perspective of an understanding of the specific oppressions of trans-misogyny and femi-negativity, this thesis has had a broad, rather then detailed, perspective and following in the foot steps of Julia Serano (2007) argues for an analysis on the position of trans women and other trans femininities beyond the gender neutral category of transgender. A majority of my informants sharp statements on the subordination of trans femininity to trans masculinity supports my argument for the need of more research in the field of trans femininity studies with perspectives from both transgender studies and critical femininity studies.Genom djupintervjuer undersöker uppsatsen sex olika transfeminina informanter i New Yorks erfarenheter av förtryck, trans-misogyni, femi-negativitet, rasism och klassism, såväl som deras erfarenheter av stöd, konflikter och motståndspraktiker, vilket sker genom ett undersökande av deras inställning till termen systerskap och den systerskapande praktiken. Fokus har också legat på informanternas syn på allierade, koalitioner och deras relation till andra grupper, som till exempel transmaskulina personer. För att fånga in en intersektionell bredd av erfarenheter var informantgruppen heterogen i förhållande till ålder, “ras”/etnicitet, samt i förhållande till var de bodde i staden och vilka delar av rörelsen de var engagerade i. Informanterna beskrev grova erfarenheter av trakasserier på gatorna och diskriminering på arbetsmarknaden, samt erfarenheter av hypersexualisering från så kallade tranny chaser's och avsexualisering från homosexuella och queera män. I linje med Jenny Gunnarsson Payne's (2006) teori om systerskap som tom signifikant, hade mina informanter många olika definitioner av begreppet systerskap, och medan många av dem uttryckte ambivalenser i förhållande till termen, använde sig alla av begreppet i varierande grad. Flera av dem såg stora fördelar i att använda termen för att beskriva samhörighet och solidaritet mellan transfeminina. Mina informanter listade flera olika konflikter inom de transfeminina rörelsen och var allmänt skeptiska till konflikter, framförallt till de som handlade om elaka attityder, tävlande, språk och terminologi – vilket jag håller med dem om, med tillägget, som en del informanter också tydliggjorde, att visa konflikter gällande intersektionella hierarkier kan vara nödvändiga. Jag argumenterar för en förståelse av trans-systerskap som baseras både i en förståelse av likheter och skillnader i erfarenheter sam i en förståelse av solidaritet som prioriterar perspektiven och ledarskapet av de mest marginaliserade rösterna. Uppsatsen har ett brett perspektiv eftersom det tidigare gjorts väldigt lite forskning om transfemininiter utifrån den specifika förståelsen av trans-misogyni och femi-negativitet. I likhet med Julia Serano (2007) argumenterar jag för ett analyserande av transkvinnors och andra transfemininas situation bortanför trans som könsneutral kategori och får stöd i majoriteten av mina informanters skarpa uttalanden om den hierarkiska underordningen av transfemininitet gentemot transmaskulinitet. Slutligen menar jag att det behövs mer forskning inom fältet transfemininitetsstudier med perspektiv både från kritiska femininitetsstudier och transstudier.
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Quitschal, Patricia Maia. "Os Diários de Vampira: a sexualidade livre e dominadora das vampiras e o tratamento dado pela mídia." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/100/100135/tde-05062014-154818/.
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Objetivo: Verificar a atribuição de um teor de negatividade para a liberação sexual feminina em produtos culturais, focando no caso do seriado estadunidense The Vampire Diaries, levando em consideração a concepção de feminino predominante na cultura ocidental e os significados que a figura da vampira adquirem dentro dela. Metodologia: Analisar a cultura de violência contra a mulher, os preconceitos que a justificam e como isso aparece de forma ideológica em produtos culturais; comparar a vampira Katherine Pierce e seu duplo, a humana Elena Gilbert, ambas do seriado The Vampire Diaries, utilizando teoria semiótica francesa; comparar as contrapartes masculinas Damon e Stefan Salvatore e verificar reações do público alvo, predominantemente feminino, diante de suas condutas; observar o tratamento dado à sexualidade feminina em diversos produtos culturais. Resultados: A mensagem ideológica velada no seriado é de que a vampira Katherine e sua sexualidade exuberante representam o mal, enquanto a humana Elena e sua conduta recatada representam o bem. Entretanto, a conduta sexual violenta de Damon Salvatore não é representada como algo passível de punições. Conclusão: O presente estudo conclui que a sexualidade feminina é apresentada de forma negativa no seriado, e que isso é um reflexo de valores arraigados na cultura ocidental. A conduta sexual é, de modo geral, utilizada como um dado definidor do caráter de personagens femininos em produtos culturais, sendo que a atividade sexual \"excessiva\" predominantemente acarreta punições.Purpose: Determining the attribution of a level of negativity towards sexual liberation of women in cultural products, focusing on the case of the U.S. series The Vampire Diaries, considering the prevailing conception of women in Western culture and the meanings that the figure of the female vampire acquires within it. Methods: Analyzing the culture of violence against women, the prejudices justifying it and how it is displayed in ideological ways in cultural products; comparing the vampire Katherine Pierce and her doppelganger, the human Elena Gilbert, both of the series The Vampire Diaries, using French semiotic theory; comparing the male counterparts Damon and Stefan Salvatore and verifying reactions by the target audience, predominantly female, in the face of their conduct; observing the treatment given to female sexuality in different cultural products. Results: The ideological message veiled on the series is that the vampire Katherine and her exuberant sexuality represent the evil, while the human Elena and her modest demeanor represent the good. However, Damon Salvatore\'s violent sexual conduct is not represented as something liable to punishment. Conclusions: This study concludes that female sexuality is presented in a negative way on the show, and that is a reflection of values entrenched in Western culture. Sexual conduct is in general used as a defining of the character in female characters in cultural products, and the \"excessive\" sexual activity predominantly entails punishment.
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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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Singson, Brian A. "They Said What About Women!?: An Ethnographic Content Analysis of Mainstream Rap and R&B Lyrics, 2002–2005." Cincinnati, Ohio University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ucin1178296739.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Cincinnati, 2007.Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed July 18, 2007). Includes abstract. Keywords: Rap; Hip hop; Misogyny; Lyrics; Content Analysis Includes bibliographical references.
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Leoni, Sara. "Måleribranschen fångad i maskulinitetsnormens bur? : En kvalitativ studie om kvinnliga målares upplevelser av risker och säkerhet i arbetet." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-24948.
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Den här uppsatsen handlar om hur normer, förväntningar och traditioner inom måleribranschen styr hur målare handskas med säkerhetsfrågor i sitt arbete. Syftet är att studera kvinnliga målares upplevelse av säkerhet och risker i måleribranschen. Valet av ämne grundar sig i hur jag på nära håll fått följa en familjemedlems arbete inom måleribranschen och oron jag känt över att risker och säkerhetsfrågor inte verkade tas på allvar av fackförbund, företagsledning eller kollegor. Detta upplevde jag som anmärkningsvärt då en målares arbete tar plats i en ofta smutsig och farlig miljö som följaktligen kan vara skadlig för hälsan. Jag har intervjuat tre målare och deras svar tyder bland annat på att de är bekanta med risker inom måleribranschen och att säkerhetsfrågor från företagsledning, kollegor tas på varierande allvar. Respondenterna ger uttryck för att bli motarbetade av kollegor och arbetsledare när de vill måna om den egna säkerheten. Jag har studerat mina resultat i ljuset av genusteorier, maskulinitetsteorier och minoritetsteorier. De slutsatser jag dragit från min studie är att målarens kropp står i centrum i arbetet då den används som ett verktyg i likhet med en målarpensel. Respondenterna måste dessutom handskas med kvinnofientliga yttringar från de aktörer som de interagerar med i arbetet. Denna kvinnofientliga attityd, visar tidigare forskning, får många kvinnor att lämna branschen. Mina resultat ger mig en bild av en bransch med lågt i tak när det gäller samtal om risker och säkerhet och en trång norm om hur en målare ska vara. Min studie ger en bild av att maskulinitetsnormen begränsar det fria samtalet när det gäller risker och säkerhet i arbetet för målare.This essay is about how, norms, expectations and traditions within the painting industry has an influence on the way painters deal with security issues in their labor. The purpose with this essay is to study female painter’s experiences of security matters and risks within the painting industry. The choice of theme of essay is based on the working life experiences in the painting industry of one of my family member´s. I felt worried about the painting union, managers of the painting enterprise and colleagues of my family member’s lack of interest regarding security matters. I found this attitude regarding security matters remarkable when knowing how dangerous and dirty the working environment is for painters and how high the risks of getting injured are. I have studied my results from my interviews in the light of gender, masculinity and minority theories. The conclusions I have made from my study are that a painter’s body is seen as a tool just like, for example, a brush. Security – and risk issues are not seen as priorities in my respondents working environments, these issues rather tend to get counteracted by colleagues and managers. My respondents also have to deal with the misogyny their working surroundings express. This misogynist attitude, show early studies, forces a great amount of female painters to leave the painting industry. My study gives me the notion of an industry with a narrow discussion climate when it comes to security and safety issues and a narrow norm about how the ideal painter is.
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Petkova, Preslava. "‘We are not the same, sis’ : A qualitative study of the negotiation of femininity in online spaces." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-44217.
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The thesis examines how the logic of misogyny and post-feminism has perpetuated the negotiations of femininity in digital environments. Employing thematic analysis, the study explores online depictions of the phenomenon Not Like the Other Girls in order to explain its relation to internalized misogyny. The data has been formed as a case study of Instagram #Notliketheothergirls and Reddit - r/notliketheothergirls. The result of the analysis unveiled the expression of traditional notions of femininity and post-feminist ideas and be found, resulting in a paradoxical idea of femininity. Moreover, the method has developed three central themes repeated within the data around the phenomenon of Not Like the Other Girls. Their significance spurs on the opposition between the patriarchal and post-feminist ideal of woman and discovers a new term - internal dichotomies. The constant comparison throughout the paper requires analysis of the role of ‘the other’. As findings claim, it is an essential part of finding one’s position and developing a sense of belonging. The overall findings conclude that internalized misogyny can be explained as the driving power of phenomena such NLOGs. However, further research should focus on the age aspect of women protagonists of internalized misogyny, engaging in the negotiations of femininity.
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Adebjörk, Andrea. "Misogyny: a hate crime or a private affair? : A socio-cultural study of the intersection between hate crime legislation and men’s violence against women." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-421488.
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Hate crime and men’s violence against women are two well-recognised and highly prioritised human rights phenomena in both international and local contexts. Yet, the idea of linking the two phenomena together has received very limited support. As a series of lethal acts of Incel- violence – violence characterised by misogynistic motives and an alt-right ideology of male supremacy – have taken place globally in recent years, a discussion on the region of the human rights spectrum where gendered violence and hate crime legislation overlap is more relevant than ever. Thus, this study’s overarching purpose is to – through a comparative analysis of studies on hate crime and men’s violence against women from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden – investigate the definition of hate crime and its scope in relation to gendered violence with a primary objective of identifying factors that explain why violent crimes against women motivated by misogynistic principles are rarely, if ever, recognised as hate crimes. By drawing on explanatory models of normalisation and theories on power relations, the practice of othering, the male norm and the norm of masculinity, and gendered spheres, the study sets out to evaluate a thesis that suggests that the infrequent inclusion of violent crimes with female victims in the legal and general perception of hate crime can be at least partially explained with reference to the normalisation of male violence against women, and the traditional expectation and assumption that violence against women is rooted in personal, emotional conflicts rather than impersonal hate motives. The analysis initially explores how the gender category is positioned within the legal phenomenon of hate crime by looking at a generalised criteria for hate crime, the normative view on hate crime victims, the reporting and statistics of hate crime, and arguments for and against the inclusion of a gender category in legal statues on bias crimes. The analysis then moves on to analyse three different categories of violence against women – domestic abuse, sexual assault and rape, and Incel-violence – in relation to gendered power dynamics and norms. The study’s results show that even though motives of hate can be linked to different forms of gendered violence, the traditional understanding of what constitutes a hate crime and a hate crime victim along with stereotypical assumptions on what male-on-female violence looks like, makes men’s violence against women appear incompatible with the hate crime phenomenon even in situations when cases of gendered violence actually fit into the generalised hate crime criteria that legal authorities and the public accept as the definition of a hate crime.
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Pernoud, Hermeline. "Féeries pour une autre fois : réécritures et renouvellement des paradigmes des contes de fées (1808-1920)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA011.
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Cette thèse, qui recense plus de mille contes de fées composés entre 1808 et 1920, s’intéresse au renouveau du merveilleux, un registre vieillissant faisant face au désenchantement. Ce travail montre comment le conte, en juxtaposant la modernité et l’imaginaire, bascule dans le comique (parodie des auteurs du Grand Siècle, désacralisation des héros, sapement des valeurs chevaleresques). En même temps, les figures masculines chutent de leur piédestal en engendrant une modification des représentations du féminin.Dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle, les fées et les princesses sont réduites aux stéréotypes de genre : elles sont seulement belles, riches et bienfaisantes. Puis l’esprit fin-de-siècle impose de nouveaux canons, attribuant aux héroïnes les vices de leurs contemporains. Notre thèse dissèque cette vision misogyne afin de montrer comment la crainte de l’extinction de la « race » est née : les pouvoirs magiques des fées et la considération qu’on leur porte diminuent ; les princesses constatent que l’heureux dénouement promis n’est plus. Désormais, ces femmes au cœur de glace deviennent la source des souffrances masculines.Notre travail engage également une réflexion sur les perversions au XIXe siècle et démontre comment les auteurs de contes décadents se servent de motifs propres au merveilleux (manducation, servage des héroïnes) afin d’esthétiser la souffrance et la transformer en plaisir. Enfin, les réécritures de « La Belle au bois dormant » sont emblématiques de la fin-de-siècle. Cette princesse endormie incarne à la fois l’intouchable virginité et la pire des perversités. Sa passivité illustre les violences physiques et psychiques que la société lui impose et justifie ; son éveil revendique les droits des citoyennes et annonce le féminismeThis thesis, taking an inventory of more than one thousand fairies tales written between 1808 and 1920, examines the marvellous’ renewal, an outmoded register facing disenchantment. This study shows how the fairy tale, placing modernity next to imagination, turns to comic (parody of the authors of the XVIIe century, deconsecration of heroes, destruction of chivalrous values). At the same time, male characters fall from their pedestal, making an alteration of the female’s representations.In the first half of the XIXe century, fairies and princesses are reduced to gender stereotypes : they are only beautiful, wealthy and benevolent. But the fin-de-siècle’s mind imposes new models, assigning to heroines the contemporaries’ vices. Our thesis reviews this misogynous representation to show how the fear the “race’s extinction” was born : the fairies’ magic power and the esteem for them decrease; the princesses notice that the promised happy end is not anymore. Henceforth, these ice-hearted women become the origin of male sufferings.Our work develops a thought about perversions in the XIXe century and shows how the decadent authors of tales use marvellous subjects (erotic devouring, serfdom of the heroines), in order to anesthetize suffering and transform it into pleasure. Finally, rewritings of “Sleeping Beauty” are emblematic to the fin-de-siècle. This sleeping princess personifies the untouchable virginity and the worst of the perversities both. Her passivity illustrates the physical and mental violence that society imposes her and justifies; her awakening claims female citizens’ rights and announces feminism
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Palder, Amy. "So, Who Feels Pretty: Negotiating the Meaning of Femininity in a Nonheterosexual Community." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07162008-085113/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2008.Title from file title page. Ralph LaRossa, committee chair; Elisabeth O. Burgess, Wendy Simonds, committee members. Electronic text (154 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Sept. 29, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-149).
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Agnolon, Alexandre. "Uns epigramas, certas mulheres: a misoginia nos \"Epigrammata\" de Marcial (40 d.C - 104 d.C)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8143/tde-10012008-112116/.
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O presente trabalho tem por objetivos: em primeiro lugar, arrolar, traduzir e analisar epigramas de Marcial em que a mulher é objeto de invectiva; em segundo lugar, visa a rastrear, na tradição anterior ao poeta, o tema da misoginia, desde Hesíodo, no célebre episódio de Pandora (Teogonia, vv. 570- 612), passando pelos poetas iâmbicos arcaicos (Arquíloco, Hipônax e Semônides), até o uso que poetas latinos, como Catulo, Horácio e Juvenal, fizeram do tema, entendido agora como tópos. Em terceiro lugar, o presente trabalho pretende observar de que maneira o epigrama, ou melhor, sua possibilidade invectiva, se apropriou da misoginia, adequando-a às características principais do gênero, a saber, brevidade e agudeza, e, finalmente, tentar demonstrar que o vitupério a mulheres em Marcial é regulado e percebido mediante práticas retóricas (como os progymnásmata) e alguns trópoi (como a écfrase), que à época do poeta participavam da formação educacional do cidadão. Nesse sentido, pretendemos estudar particularmente as relações que a invectiva mantém, nos epigramas de Marcial, com a construção de imagens viciosas de mulher e suas relações com o gênero epidítico.The aims of the present work are first, to list, translate and analyse Martial\'s epigrams in which women are the object of invective; second, to try to investigate, in the former tradition, the theme of misogyny, both in Greece (from Hesiod, in the celebrated episode of Pandora (Teogony, vv. 570-612), to the archaic iambic poets, Archilochus, Hipponax and Semonides), and in Rome (how misogyny, as a tópos, is treatead by Catullus, Horace and Juvenal). In the third place, the present research intends to study in what manner epigram, or more precisely, its vituperative possibility, appropriated the theme of misogyny, adapting it to the main characteristics of the genre, such as conciseness and acuteness. Finally, we attempt to demonstrate that the vituperation against women, in Martial, is regulated and perceived through various rhetorical practices (such as the progymnásmata) and trópoi (such as ekphrasis) that at the poet\'s time were an important part of the citizen\'s education. Therein, we intend to study, in particular, the analogies that the invective maintain, in Martial\'s epigrams, non only with the construction of images in which women are corrupted, but also with the relationship between these images and the epidictic genre.
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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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Filipiak, Anna. "Malheur à celles par qui le scandale arrive : subversion, sexisme et misogynie dans les films à scandale en France, 1972-1975." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 3, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023PA030054.
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Le début des années 1970 en France est caractérisé par deux phénomènes de société qui affectent en profondeur les dynamiques genrées de l’époque. D’un côté, la révolution sexuelle héritée de Mai 1968 abolit les tabous, dénude et sexualise les corps (surtout féminins). De l’autre, le mouvement féministe, cristallisé autour du Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (MLF), gagne de la visibilité et réclame une vraie réflexion sur la nouvelle place des femmes dans la société, influençant toute une série de lois votées dès 1972. Le point de rencontre de ces deux tendances ne va pas sans heurts, les féministes dénonçant la récupération du corps féminin à des fins d’asservissement sexuel ou de gain commercial, tout en défendant en même temps la liberté des femmes de disposer librement de leur corps. Le cinéma français de l’époque fonctionne comme une caisse de résonance de cette société en pleine mutation. L’évolution progressiste des mœurs allant de pair avec un affaiblissement de l’appareil de la censure, le début de la décennie 1970 voit déferler sur les grands écrans français une vague de films « à scandale » d’une teneur subversive et d’une charge sexuelle inconnues jusqu’alors. Mais si ces films porteurs de la révolution sexuelle s’attaquent à des sujets jusqu’alors tabous et tentent de redessiner de nouveaux rapports entre les deux sexes, ils ne remettent pas pour autant en question l’ordre social en place. Bien au contraire, sous couvert de progressisme et de modernité, ces films n’ont de cesse de revenir à un cadre normatif plutôt archaïque, reposant sur des valeurs patriarcales traditionnelles, et se soldant par une misogynie souvent proportionnelle à la libération sexuelle des femmes qui y est présentée. L’analyse des six films « à scandale » du corpus permet de réfléchir sur ces enjeux de pouvoir entre les deux sexes, visibles non seulement dans la trame diégétique mais aussi, à plus large échelle, dans le fonctionnement de l’industrie cinématographique de l’époqueThe early 1970s in France were characterized by two social phenomena that profoundly affected the gender dynamics of the time. On one hand, the sexual revolution inherited from the May 1968 protests broke social taboos, stripped and sexualized bodies (specifically women’s ones). On the other hand, the feminist movement, crystallized around the Women's Liberation Movement (MLF), gained visibility and demanded a real reflection on women’s newfound social standing in society, triggering a whole series of laws enacted from 1972 onwards. The juncture of these two trends didn’t go smoothly, with feminists denouncing the recovery of the female body for the purposes of sexual enslavement or commercial gain, while simultaneously defending women’s freedom to use their bodies.French cinema at the time may be seen as a sounding board for the changing society. Due to progressive changes in moral attitudes and a weakening of the censorship apparatus, the onset of the 1970s bore a wave of "scandal" films of subversive content and sexual charge which had been unknown to French screens. Yet, these films, bearers of the sexual revolution, tackling hitherto taboo subjects and redrawing new relationships between women and men, did not question the existing social order, as their subversive dimension was often limited to the sexual sphere. On the contrary, under the guise of progressive freedom and modernity, they constantly reaffirmed a rather archaic normative framework, one based on traditional patriarchal values. This resulted in a misogynistic narrative, which violence against women was often proportional to the degree of their sexual liberation in the movies. The six “scandal” films selected in this thesis reflect this war of the sexes characteristic of that period, both in the narrative and, on a larger scale, in the power relations existing in the film industry of the time
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RAY, OLIVIA SUNDIATA. "SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN POPULAR RAP MUSIC AND OTHER MEDIA." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/618766.
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This paper examines the prevalence of sexual violence in American media with particular focus on attitudes of sexual violence as a contribution to rape culture. Included is a content analysis of the prevalence of sexually violent lyrics in popular rap music, and a literature review of articles and studies on the effects of sexually violent media. The media discussed in the literature review includes films, television, and pornography. The relationship between the presence of sexually violent media and its impact on public opinion on sexual assault and rape proclivity are analyzed. The literature reviewed includes studies on differences in response to sexually violent media based on gender. Also included are explanation and summary of a study utilizing the excitation transfer theory and the social learning theory as they apply to the understanding of the perpetuation of rape myth acceptance based in the viewing of sexually violent media. These studies utilize the rape myth acceptance scale, the acceptance of interpersonal violence scale, and the adversarial sexual beliefs scale, among other scales of measurement to assess rape myth acceptance and rape proclivity. The high prevalence of sexual assault in the United States calls for an analysis of the acceptance of beliefs that perpetuate sexual assault and the media which support and increase the presence of these beliefs.