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Tennholt, Karolina. "Patriarchal madness : Patriarchal oppression and madness in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Language and Culture, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-609.
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Justus, Michelle. "Patriarchal Trauma in Appalachian Literature." UKnowledge, 2016. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/40.
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Patriarchal Trauma in Appalachian Literature examines the effects of subjugation on women as it is represented in three novels set in Appalachia. I define patriarchal trauma as an act causing mental anguish to a woman and perpetrated against her because she is a woman. I use the term to encompass violent, catastrophic harms but more particularly to pinpoint the traumatic effects of the quotidian, systemic deprivation of women’s autonomy. Reconsidering classic texts such as James Still’s River of Earth and Robert Morgan’s Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage as narratives of women’s trauma establishes a lineage on the subject, which culminates in Lee Smith’s more recent Guests on Earth. This project eschews authenticity as an analytical tool, turning instead to modes of argument in feminism’s toolkit to delineate the potentially grim outcomes for women whose agency is constricted or usurped. While patriarchal control mechanisms such as domestic violence and sexual abuse inflict readily observable injuries on women, I argue that common, everyday subordination to men can exact a similar emotional toll, especially on women who strenuously defy male dominance. These traumatic states, I further contend, have previously been read as inevitable acquiescence or a genuine desire for subjugation in River and Gap Creek, respectively, while experiences of trauma in Guests are directly portrayed as mistaken interpretations of madness. Reassessing women characters’ numb, compliant, depressed, or enraged emotions as responses to patriarchal trauma challenges the practice of pathologizing women’s rebellion.
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Tasel, Linda. "Patriarchal Society : Three Generations of Oppression in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Language and Culture, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-225.
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Setyawan, Yusak Budi. "Models of God of Sallie McFague and its relevance to Indonesian patriarchal culture." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Bauer, Christian. "Stereotypical Gender Roles and their Patriarchal Effects in A Streetcar Named Desire." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-17170.
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Stereotypical gender roles have probably existed as long as human culture and are such a natural part if our lives that we barely take notice of them. Nevertheless, images of what we perceive as typically masculine and feminine in appearance and behavior depend on the individual’s perception. Within each gender one can find different stereotypes. A commonly assumed idea is that men are hard tough, while women are soft and vulnerable. I find it interesting hoe stereotypes function and how they are preserved almost without our awareness. Once I started reading and researching the topic of stereotypes it became clear to me that literature contains many stereotypes. The intension of this essay is to critically examine the stereotypical gender roles in the play A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams in 1947. It is remarkable how the author portrays the three main characters: Stanley, Stella and Blanche. The sharp contracts and the dynamics between them are fascinating.
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Neal, Madelyn Grace. "Feminist Reclamations of the Patriarchal Representation of Linear Time in Film and Literature." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1624466870121231.
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Sunesson, Malin. "Traducir en una forma que apoya la igualdad : -buscando un lenguaje no sexista." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-46063.
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The present paper treats translation difficulties arising in the area of language and gender in the translation work from Spanish into Swedish of the article “Radiografía del posfemismo” published in El país semanal 2013. The investigation focuses on how translation can be made avoiding the use of expressions that residues from patriarchal language, with the intention to use a language as neutral in gender as possible. To delimit the paper the focus lays on specific linguistic expressions not exhibiting neutrality: the impersonal gramatical form and the Spanish form of inclusive gender. The results show that to translate the impersonal form, that in Swedish often is expressed with the male biased pronoun man, you can rewrite the entire phrase, using for example the passive voice, or, depending on the pragmatic context, use the neutral pronoun en, avoinding the use of man. The conclusions are also that the translation of the Spanish inclusive gender ought to be made using primary a neutral expression, and only emphasize on the gender if it is needed in the target text, adding for example the adjective female/male.
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De, Villiers Stephanie. "Divinest Sense : the construction of female madness and the negotiation of female agency in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Margaret Atwood's Surfacing." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62672.
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The aim of this dissertation is to critically examine the representation of female madness in The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath, Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys, and Surfacing, by Margaret Atwood, with a particular emphasis on the depiction of madness as a form of revolt against the oppression of women in patriarchal societies. I focus specifically on the textual construction of female insanity in three twentieth-century reading of these depictions in relation to an influential contemporary example of Western psychological discourse, namely The Divided Self (1960). Drawing on the work of Western feminist scholars such as Elaine Showalter and Lillian Feder, I engage with the broader questions of the female malady and dilemma. I pay attention not only to the various tropes, metaphors and images which are employed in the representation of madness, but also give attention to the explanations of madness that are offered in each text as well as the ways in which the various stories of madness are resolved. In the introduction, I offer an overview of the history of madness (and female madness in particular) and consider the importance of Laing and the antipsychiatry movement in challenging conventional definitions. In Chapter 1, I explore the depiction of madness in The Bell Jar, with the focus on the protagonist, Esther, whose madness, I argue, is represented as a conflict between female creativity and mid-twentieth century feminine ideals. In Chapter 2, I discuss Wide Sargasso Sea, a novel which gives a voice to the madwoman in the attic in Charlotte Jane Eyre. I argue tha rather that a particular construction of madness that of the stereotypical wild madwoman is imposed upon her. In addition, I argue that her madness is presented as the result of being abandoned and cast as insane by her husband, whom she marries as part of an economic exchange. In Chapter 3, I explore the ways in which, in Surfacing madness is attributed both to her abortion as well as to the realisation of her own complicity in the patriarchal oppression of women and nature. In all three novels, I suggest, female madness is represented sympathetically as a reaction to, and revolt against patriarchal oppression. In addition, I argue that each novel makes a contribution to an emancipatory feminist politics by suggesting several routes of transcendence or escape. In my concluding chapter, I draw on the previous discussion of the various ways in which madness is figured in the novels in order to show how, in contesting stereotypical views, the three authors must create new vocabularies and metaphors of madness, thus engaging with patriarchal language itself. In this way, they not only contest normative constructions of the female malady but also bend patriarchal language into new shapes.Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Lyle, Timothy Scott. ""Check with Yo' Man First; Check with Yo' Man": Perry Appropriates Drag as a Tool to Recirculate Patriarchal Ideology." Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/52/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2009.Title from title page (Digital Archive@GSU, viewed June 8, 2010) Shirlene Holmes, Kameelah Martin Samuel, committee co-chairs; Chris Kocela, committee member. Includes bibliographical references(p. 85-87).
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Updike, Hannah. ""The Subordination of the Privileged: Patriarchal Constructions of Femininity in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald's Save Me the Waltz"." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/482.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Zelda Fitzgerald provide unique insight into the patriarchal worlds they lived in through autobiographical accounts of their lives. The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the diaries of Gilman and her first husband, Charles Walter Stetson, serve as Gilman’s autobiographical texts of the period before, during, and immediately after her breakdown. The correspondence between Fitzgerald and her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, as well as Scott’s letters to Zelda’s psychiatrists serve as a biographical (and, in the case of her letters to Scott, autobiographical) account of her life during the period of her institutionalizations, from 1930 up to Scott’s death in 1940. These biographies and autobiographies, studied in conjunction with their fictionalized autobiographical accounts, Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and Fitzgerald’s Save Me The Waltz, illustrate the struggles these women, and by extension, many women of their time, experienced when they were unable to live up to the expectations a patriarchal society placed on them to be perfect wives and mothers. The construction of the feminine by the patriarchy required women to be complacent, meek, dependent, and infantile, and this construction, complicated by the issues of institutionalization and hysteria, is at the heart of the works of Gilman and Fitzgerald. The subtexts present in their fiction demonstrate that Gilman and Fitzgerald not only understood and felt the pressure of the patriarchal construction of femininity, but were acutely aware of how it could exert itself on women, particularly white, economically privileged women. Both authors, victims of the same patriarchal mechanism that dominated society during the turn of the twentieth century, provide insight into their own perspectives through their autobiographies, and then create fictional worlds in which the implications of these perspectives are realized to the detriment of their protagonists. While critics have examined this focus within individual stories by these writers, they have not been examined together in a comprehensive discussion of the patriarchal construction of the feminine and its manifestation in the autobiographical/biographical and fictional works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Zelda Fitzgerald.
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Braden, Heidi Elizabeth. "Lily Bart and Isabel Archer: Women Free to Choose Lifestyles or Victims of Fate?" ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/453.
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This thesis argues that Isabel Archer of Henry James’s novel The Portrait of a Lady and Lily Bart of Edith Wharton’s novel The House of Mirth were nineteenth-century characters struggling to assert their social and sexual independence in a male dominated society. Although Isabel inherits a fortune that allegedly enables her to have more autonomy than Lily, both characters are negatively affected by their inability to conceive of their lives outside of social convention.
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Peksen, Yanikoglu Seda. "Psychological Bisexuality And Otherness In The Novels Of Angela Carter, Virginia Woolf, Marge Piercy And Ursula Le Guin: A Study From The Perspective Of Ecriture Feminine." Phd thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609454/index.pdf.
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This study analyses The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin from the perspective of écriture fé
minine. After a thorough discussion of the roots of é
criture fé
minine, the theory of the French feminists is put into practice in the analysis of the novels. The study asserts that the concepts of bisexuality, the other and the voice are common elements in novels of é
criture fé
minine, thereby the novelists mentioned in the study follow the propositions of Hé
lè
ne Cixous, Julia Kristeva and Lucé
Irigaray. The argument of the study is that the use of é
criture fé
minine as portrayed with reference to the novels, can be an efficient way in deconstructing the patriarchal system of language. Literature has a significant influence on social life, however women cannot make themselves heard using the language of patriarchy. Therefore an alternative such as é
criture fé
minine is essential. This study shows how this alternative can be practiced in various ways and it also creates the opportunity to consider the possibilities of alternative lives if this kind of thinking is widespread.
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Azuah, Unoma Nguemo. "Sky High Flames." VCU Scholars Compass, 2003. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/123.
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Sky-high Flames is about Ofunne Ofili, an intelligent and ambitious young woman in a Nigerian oppressive patriarchal society who, nevertheless, dreams of becoming a teacher. Once in school, her high spiritedness leads her to constant trouble. After her mother falls ill, Ofunne's father demands that she withdraw from school. But she completes her education with the help of Reverend Sister Dolan, who was her school principal, and who was drawn to Ofunne's personality. After graduation, Ofunne's father insists that she marry a man she barely knows. She consents only because the man is both Catholic and educated. After three years of marriage, her in-laws threaten her with divorce because she has not yet produced a child. While suffering from the guilt of childlessness, Ofunne discovers that her husband has infected her with syphilis. Sky High Flames is about how our hopes and dreams can turn out to become the very tools that destroy us.
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O'Loughlin, Antoinette, of Western Sydney Nepean University, and of Performance Fine Arts and Design Faculty. "The ambivalent skin of language." THESIS_FPFAD_XXX_OLoughlin_A.xml, 1993. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/208.
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The position of the maternal body within patriarchy is the topic of this discussion where, rather than looking at a linear sequence of events, various aspects of this position are explored. On an individual level, the intrusion of the father into the dyadic, and potentially incestuous mother-child relationship, marks the entry of the child into the Symbolic Order, and this reflects the mythical account of creation in the Old Testament, where actual maternity is repressed in favour of a paternal monopoly in creation. Just as monotheism both represses and appropriates many aspects of the goddess cult which preceded it and which it replaces, the maternal body is repressed and appropriated within patriarchy. The acquisition of language and awareness of sexual difference marking entry into the 'Law of the Father,' are constructed on a duality of self and other, a dichotomy of inside and outside with a border, represented by the skin, separating the two. This border, separating the symbolic from its other is tenuous and ambiguous, for it is not entirely impermeable barrier. What seeps across this border, what transgresses the barrier between inside and outside, is considered by Kristeva to be abject. Positioned at the threshold separating inside and outside, abjection is the threat of the ever present, but submerged mother crossing the threshold and disrupting social order. Throughout the paper are images selected from an entire body of related visual research which is closely linked to the ideas contemplated here.Master of Arts (Hons)
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Clausen, Marianne. "Disrupting Female Stereotypes : The Feminine Difference and the Challenge of Patriarchal Norms in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-21127.
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Gillilan, Emily Ellen. "Poetry Matters." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1277316897.
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Jahed, Yasaman. "Simin Daneshvar's Savushun: Examining Gender Under Patriarchy." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/462.
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The author covers issues of gender and Iranian national identity as reflected in Iran’s first published woman novelist, Simin Daneshvar. Her novel, Savushun, is the first novel to be published by an Iranianwoman in 1969. The novel depicts Iran at the start of the country’s governmental factions in 1941 when Reza Shah Pahlavi overthrew years of Iranian dynasty and established a monarchy. This thesis explores how the novel is a vital part of Iran’s historical literature as well as essential to the present day discussion of gender and politics, especially for women within the patriarchal paradigm.
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Wallace, James R. "Taking Eudora Welty's Text Out of the Closet: Delta Wedding's George Fairchild and the Queering of Saint George." unrestricted, 2009. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07172009-110754/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2009.Title from file title page. Pearl Amelia McHaney, committee chair; Calvin Thomas, Thomas McHaney committee members. Description based on contents viewed Nov. 12, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-82).
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Smith, Peter Lincoln. "What do the patriarchs have to do with the resurrection? Jesus' use of covenant language in his debate with the Sadducees /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1232.
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Kadi, Bouchakour Sadek. "L’image et le rôle de Zahra dans La Nuit sacrée de Tahar Ben Jelloun : The image and the role of Zahra in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s The Sacred Night." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Franska, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-25279.
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Ce travail vise initialement le rôle et l’image de Zahra/Ahmed qui représente la femme marocaine bucolique dans le roman La Nuit sacrée de Tahar Ben Jelloun qui lutte pour chercher son identité féminine perdue. Pour cela, nous avons utilisé au début de notre analyse le schéma de Greimas car il nous a aidé à montrer le rôle de Zahra/Ahmed dans le récit. Nous avons également approfondi notre travail en analysant l’environnement familial de Zahra et ses relations, la libération du corps, l’aspect religieux, l’obéissance dans le but de confirmer la tragédie de Zahra qui reflète la femme rurale au Maroc. Enfin, notre travail s’est achevé avec une étude sur le statut de la femme dans la société traditionnelle, à travers le personnage principal du récit, dans les sociétés traditionnelles patriarcales dans lesquelles l’homme instaure son pouvoir sur la femme.This work initially aims at the role and image of Zahra / Ahmed, who represents the bucolic Moroccan woman in the novel The Sacred Night by Tahar Ben Jelloun who struggles to find her lost female identity. For this, we used Greimas’s scheme at the beginning of our analysis because it helped us to show the role and the dramatic situation of Zahra / Ahmed in the story. We also deepened our work by analysing the family environment of Zahra and its relations, the liberation of the body, the religious aspect, obedience in order to confirm the tragedy of rural women in Morocco. Finally, our work ends with a study of the status of women in a traditional society in which man establishes his power over woman.
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Charat, Hildegarde. "Competition, Domination and Relationships between Serena and Offred : Challenging Gilead's Rules and Patriarchy in Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-37329.
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McCrery, Sue. "Language and images of God the effects of feminist theology over three generations (1943-2000) /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Weiss, Katherine. "Knotting Patriarchy in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles and Catherine Bush’s The Quiltmaker." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2273.
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Reak, Taylor Michael. ""The Problem is You!": The Role of Patriarchy and Language of Binary Opposition in the Structural Discrimination Against LGBT People in Turkey." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/244531.
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The LGBT community in Turkey faces a system of structural discrimination. It is not afforded the same rights as those of the hetero-normative majority of Turkish society, and most fundamentally, there exists a reciprocal relationship between the actors of the hetero sociopolitical sphere of state and non-state actors and the sphere of "homo-society". This relationship feeds into and is fed by the culture of patriarchy replicated in the homosexual sphere and the language of sexual binary opposition inherent in - but not unique to - the Turkish public domain to create a society in which structural discrimination and violence against sexual minorities is the norm. The existence of a strict patriarchy in the sphere of "homo-society", manifested through language of sexual binary opposition, provides the framework for structural discrimination against sexual minorities by the Turkish state and its tools of enforcement, as well as the nonstate actors of the public domain at large. This systematic discrimination against the LGBT community reinforces the patriarchy in LGBT spheres and categorizes its members as sexual deviants existing outside of the circle of hetero-normativity, and it has ultimately become entrenched into the Turkish cultural psyche.
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Bolmefalk, Jennifer. "Removing the Blindfold and Adding a Fedora : Challenging the Role of Women in Patriarchal Society through the Act of Cross-dressing in Siri Hustvedt’s The Blindfold. A Feminist/Queer Reading." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-25405.
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Sundberg, Björn. "Patriarchy and Masculinity in Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child and in Ben in the World." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-8471.
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The English novelist, Doris Lessing elucidates the rigidity of a society, which is based upon patriarchy, in her novels, The Fifth Child and Ben in the World. This essay illustrates the causes and the effects of a patriarchal system in the light of feminist ideology supported by Freud’s theories about the acquisition of gender roles. The analysis in this essay of patriarchy and masculinity shows that the novels’ societies as a whole, as well as their criminal subcultures are upheld by people who hold prejudice against others, who do not fit in society’s normal structures, believe in authoritarian social systems and prefer rational solutions to decisions for reasons of conscience. Lessing depicts the complexity of the social relations between characters of different social classes and their relations to society’s institutions. Her unprejudiced penetration into the minds of society’s marginalized people and into the minds of those who represent the oppressive established society illuminates different sides of patriarchy. Lessing gives us to understand that it is extremely difficult, from a moral point of view, to distinguish the established society from its criminal subcultures or society’s oppressors from its victims. Society’s accepted gender roles in the patriarchal system are often ironically described in these novels, certainly with the aim of making us question normative manners, habits and attitudes.
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Sanauddin, Noor. "Proverbs and patriarchy : analysis of linguistic sexism and gender relations among the Pashtuns of Pakistan." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6243/.
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This study analyses the ways in which gender relations are expressed and articulated through the use of folk proverbs amongst Pashto-speaking people of Pakistan. Previous work on Pashto proverbs have romanticised proverbs as a cultural asset and a source of Pashtun pride and ethnic identity, and most studies have aimed to promote or preserve folk proverbs. However, there is little recognition in previous literature of the sexist and gendered role of proverbs in Pashtun society. This study argues that Pashto proverbs encode and promote a patriarchal view and sexist ideology, demonstrating this with the help of proverbs as text as well as proverbs performance in context by Pashto speakers. The analysis is based on more than 500 proverbs relating to gender, collected from both published sources and through ethnographic fieldwork in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Qualitative data was collected through 40 interviews conducted with Pashto-speaking men and women of various ages and class/educational backgrounds, along with informal discussions with local people and the personal observations of the researcher. The study is informed by a combination of theoretical approaches including folkloristics, feminist sociology and sociolinguistics. While establishing that patriarchal structures and values are transmitted through proverbs, the study also reveals that proverbs’ meanings and messages are context-bound and women may, therefore, use proverbs in order to discuss, contest and (sometimes) undermine gender ideologies. More specifically, it is argued that: (1) Proverbs as ‘wisdom texts’ represent the viewpoint of those having the authority to define proper and improper behaviour, and as such, rather than objective reality represent a partial and partisan reality which, in the context of the present research, is sexist and misogynist. (2) While proverbs as ‘texts’ seem to present a more fixed view of reality, proverbs as ‘performance in context’ suggest that different speakers may use proverbs for different strategic purposes, such as to establish and negotiate ethnic and gendered identities and power which varies on the basis of gender, age, ethnicity, and class of the interlocutors. The thesis concludes that, rather than considering folk proverbs as ‘factual’ and ‘valuable’ sources of cultural expression, scholars should pay more attention to their ‘performatory’, ‘derogatory’ and ‘declaratory’ aspects as these often relegate women (and ‘other’, weaker groups) to a lesser position in society.
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Ibrahim, Loren. "LA CONDITION DE LA FEMME DANS LE VENTRE DE L’ATLANTIQUE DE FATOU DIOME." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Franska, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-29605.
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Le but de ce mémoire est d’analyser la condition et la conception des femmes dans le roman Le Ventre de l’Atlantique de Fatou Diome. Cette analyse est effectuée à la lumière des travaux de plusieurs écrivaines africaines. Fatou Diome évoque et dénonce la position de la femme sur l’île de Niodior au travers de nombreuses thématiques telles que : la soumission, le mariage forcé, la stérilité, la polygamie, la société́ patriarcale, la femme traditionnelle, la femme moderne, la liberté́, la femme en tant qu’objet et victime des coutumes et traditions.The purpose of this essay is to analyze the condition and conception of women in Fatou Diome's novel Le Ventre de l’Atlantique. This analysis is done in light of the work of several African women writers. Fatou Diome evokes and denounces the position of the women on the island of Niodior through many topics such as submission, forced marriage, infertility, polygamy, patriarchal society, traditional versus modern woman, freedom, women as objects as victims of customs and traditions.
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Na, Pattalung Piengpen. "An Analysis of Sexist Language in ESL Textbooks by Thai Authors Used in Thailand." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9057/.
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This study identified the types of sexist language that appear in ESL textbooks by Thai authors. The study analyzed the ESL textbooks by Thai authors sold at the Chulalongkorn University bookstore during spring 2007. It was a qualitative case analysis of fifteen ESL textbooks covering the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of ESL instruction. The study used feminist criticism to discover what gender roles are sanctioned as appropriate in ESL textbooks by Thai authors and if the language used supports or challenges patriarchy. The results of this study show that sexist language is present in the textbooks and that the textbooks contain content that promotes sexist assumptions concerning gender roles. As a whole, the language and examples used in ESL textbooks by Thai authors support patriarchy.
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Ntálntas, Níkos Ath. "Le patriarche oecuménique de Constantinople et le statut canonique de la diaspora orthodoxe de langue grecque : le cas de la France /." Katérini : Éd. Epektasis, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39205991s.
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Texte remanié de: Thèse--Faculté de droit Jean Monnet--Paris--Université Paris XI, 1994. Thèse--Faculté de droit canonique--Paris--Institut catholique, 1994.Titre de collection translittéré du grec (polytonique) selon la norme ISO 843 (1997). Contient en annexe de nombreux documents officiels en français ou grec moderne. Bibliogr. p. 451-498.
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Daldas, Nikolaos A. "Le patriarche oecuménique de Constantinople et le statut canonique de la "diaspora" orthodoxe de langue grecque : le cas de la France." Paris 11, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA111002.
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In connection with the french situation in the xxth century - the area in which the problem of the "diaspora" first appeared - this study examines the question of the orthodox "diaspora" in relation with the different political orthodoxies of the patriarcates of the orthodox church. The question of the "diaspora" is examined and analyzed along cultural lines, and has as its goal the creation of a model which will first serve to realize canonical unity among the different orthodox migrations in france, and then in other countries of the e. E. C. This presupposes the study of concepts which resulted from the orthodox inheritance, because, since the beginning of the church and throughout the centuries, different theologies of the "diaspora" have appeared. Different canonical languages connected with cultural differences between ethnic communities and the orthodox patriarcates of the east have caused an institutional crisis. Confronted with this situation, and taking into consideration the realities of post-war europe and the preparation of the "holy and great council", this study proposes to realize canonical unity around the ecumenical patriarch of constantinople and his exarcates in the "diaspora", according to the uninterrupted canonical tradition of the orthodox churchEn relation avec le contexte francais du xxeme siecle, dans ce pays d'accueil ou la problematique de la "diaspora" a ete soulevee, ce travail etudie la question de la "diaspora" orthodoxe par rapport aux differentes orthodoxies politiques des patriarcats d'orient. La question dite de la "diaspora" est analysee sous l'angle culturel et dans l'objectif de definir un modele qui puisse servir a realiser l'unite canonique des differentes migrations orthodoxes en france, puis dans les autres pays de l'union europeenne. Cela presuppose l'etude des concepts issus de l'heritage de l'orthodexie car, depuis les origines de l'eglise et a travers les siecles, differentes "theologies de la diaspora" sont apparues. Differents langages canoniques lies aux distances culturelles entre les communautes ethniques et les patriarcats orthodoxes d'orient, ont entraine une crise institutionnelle. Face a cette situation, en tenant compte des realites de l'europe de l'apres-guerre et de la preparation du "saint et grand concile", il est propose de realiser l'unite canonique autour du patriarche oecumenique de constantinople et de ses exarques dans la "diaspora", selon la tradition ininterrompue de l'eglise orthodoxe
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Weber, Megan M. "Refusing To Go Silently: Female Wit As Combating A Culture Of Silence In Frances Burney And Elizabeth Inchbald's Texts." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1805.
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In the hands of two prominent authors, Elizabeth Inchbald and Frances Burney, a critical paradox concerning female silence arises: while both authors operate very successfully in the publishing world, both do so while subverting impositions of silence, exhibiting a clear breach of propriety. An examination of Inchbald's novel A Simple Story and play Wives as they Were, Maids as they Are and Burney's novel Cecilia and play The Witlings, elucidates how each author adapts literary genres to portray female wit, exposing eighteenth-century impositions of silence in the process. By engendering female characters with the ability to employ humor as young women, Burney and Inchbald develop characters with agency and articulation.
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Svetlana, Milašinović. "Романескни јунак српске модерне између индивидуализма и патријархалности." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Filozofski fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2016. http://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=100124&source=NDLTD&language=en.
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Roman moderne i njegovi junaci u ovom istraživanju posmatrani su u procepu između novog i starog, između individualnih želja koje sve više jačaju i patrijarhalnih normi čiji koreni su i dalje izuzetno jaki. Pokušali smo, prema tome, da odgovorimo na pitanje da li je roman kao žanr nastao upravo kao jedina forma koja je mogla da izrazi to dvojstvo (s obzirom da u tom smislu prostor pripovetke, kao to svedoči većina istraživača, ipak nije bio dovoljan). Na ovaj način, pomalo zalazimo i u proučavanje književnosti onako kako to rade savremene književne teorije - kao poetiku kulture. Interesuje nas, dakle, da li u moderni zaista dolazi do razaranja patrijarhalne društvene matrice, jer na njenu još uvek izuzetno prisutnu jačinu ukazuje i činjenica da je romneskni junak itekako razočaran urbanim životom, kao i da se usled toga sve više okreće idealizovanju.Roman and his modern heroes in this study were observed in the gap between the new and the old , between individual desires that are growing and patriarchal norms whose roots are still very strong . We tried , therefore , to answer the question whether the novel as a genre emerged just as the only form that is able to express this duality (recall that in this sense, space stories , as exemplified most researchers , however, was not sufficient ) . In this way , a little bit goes back to the study of literature as they do modern literary theory - as poetic culture . We are interested , therefore , whether in the modern really comes to the destruction of patriarchal social matrix because of its still very present strength shown by the fact that the hero romneskni very disappointed with urban life , and that consequently increasingly turning idealizing.
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Oyagüez, Karlsson Luna. "Mujer y naturaleza : La relación entre la naturaleza y la esfera femenina en La Vorágine de José Eustasio Rivera." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-100154.
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The ecological crisis and gender inequality are two serious problems in society today and a study conjoining them can contribute to a deeper understanding surrounding the issues. This paper argues that there is a relation between these problems with the support of ecofeminist theory. This relation can be analysed in literature and in the following study the colombian novel La Vorágine (1924), by José Eustasio Rivera, works as the base of interpretation since its main theme is the Amazonian jungle and its relation to humans. The objective of this study is to firstly, interpret and analyse the descriptions of nature and how it relates to the feminine sphere, secondly analyse the correlation between them in the question of domination and finally, look at how the masculine play a role in this relation. This writing concludes after the hermeneutic analysis, that feminine associations can be detected in the descriptions of nature and a correlation between the domination of women and the exploitation of the jungle in the story is visible, since both phenomena’s occupy a similar position within the patriarchal society. It also concludes that the masculine plays an important part, the white man acts as the exploiter of the female and nature. But they are at the same time not a homogenous group, and have different roles depending on class. The feminine characters are likewise not a homogenous group.La crisis ambiental y la desigualdad entre los géneros son dos problemas graves en la sociedad actual y un estudio conjunto de ambos puede contribuir a una comprensión más profunda de estas cuestiones. La tesina que sigue se basa en el marco teórico del ecofeminismo y su idea de que existe una relación entre estos dos problemas. Esta relación puede ser analizada en la literatura, y en este estudio se parte de la novela de José Eustasio Rivera, La Vorágine (1924), ya que su tema principal es la selva amazónica y su relación con el ser humano. El objetivo de esta tesina es, en primer lugar, analizar e interpretar las descripciones de la naturaleza y cómo esta se relaciona con la esfera femenina. En segundo lugar, analizar la correlación entre ambas en lo que se refiere a la dominación. Finalmente, ver cómo aparece el papel de lo masculino en esta relación. Después de un análisis llevado a cabo con el método hermenéutico, se concluye que se detectan asociaciones con lo femenino en las descripciones de la selva y una correlación entre la dominación de la mujer y la explotación de la selva en la historia de la obra, ya que parece que se encuentran en situaciones similares en la sociedad patriarcal. Se concluye también que lo masculino tiene un papel importante. Por un lado, el hombre blanco actúa como explotador de lo femenino y de los recursos naturales, pero por otro lado, el masculino no es un grupo homogéneo y su papel cambia según la clase social, algo que también ocurre con los personajes femeninos.
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King, Kristen. ""Something Begins its Presencing": Negotiating Third-Space Identities and Healing in Toni Morrison's Paradise and Love." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3438.
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Toni Morrison’s Paradise deconstructs the pathology of patriarchy and its oppressive nature, which limits language and knowledge. Patriarchal language silences female voice as they unknowingly adopt male definitions of gender and femininity. As long as the women are denied access to a language that allows them to define themselves, their existence is marked by a perennial state of self-destruction and stasis. As the women, specifically Consolata, begin to reject patriarchal limitations, they gain agency and with it an access to words and ideas that allow them to identify and articulate their own definition of self.
Morrison’s Love illustrates the individual’s need to negotiate a language apart from the patriarchal narrative in order to heal. Love critiques the extreme and excessive ways in which people allow themselves to be taken over, not only by emotions, but also by social constructions of gender, race, and class. Morrison’s Love interrogates the same patriarchal narrative that renders characters ignorant of their own condition in Paradise; however, she approaches this critique from a different direction. While Paradise analyzes the damaging effects of an institutionalized patriarchal ideology adopted and enforced by an entire community by contrasting it with a community of women who reject this system of belief, Love illustrates the still pervasive vestiges of the organized patriarchal ideology apparent in Ruby. While the Convent women create a community that rejects racist, classist, institutionalized views of gender, the women in Love do not have a clearly defined group of oppressors to unite against. Theirs is an unconscious battle against fragmented notions of male control, which surfaces as fights against one another. The patriarch removed, Christine and Heed battle one another.
Within a framework of Bhabha’s Third Space, Butler’s gender continuum, and bell hook’s analysis of patriarchy and female relationships, I argue that Morrison’s Paradise and Love demonstrate the crippling effects of racist, sexist, classist discourses and the need to access a new, liberatory language in order to heal the pathological wounds of patriarchy.
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Presley, Erin Melinda Denise. "Wrestling with Father Shakespeare contemporary revisions of King Lear and the tempest /." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2004. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0319104-135906/unrestricted/PresleyE040204f.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A.)--East Tennessee State University, 2004.Title from electronic submission form. ETSU ETD database URN: etd-0319104-135906. Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet at the UMI web site.
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Xu, Hui. "Nǚ Shū (女书), la langue des femmes." Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCC070.
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Nǚ Shū est une langue et écriture dont la spécificité est de n'être utilisée que par les femmes du canton Shangjiangxu dans la province du Hunan en Chine. Pour dévoiler l'énigme de cette langue, nous déployons nos recherches à partir des études historiques et anthropologiques sur la rencontre millénaire entre les deux ethnies, soit le Han et la minorité de Yao. Avec les études sur les oeuvres en Nǚ Shū , ainsi que la transmission de cette langue entre les femmes, surtout le rapport entre les soeurs jurées [lau31 tan 51] dont les anciennes femmes en Nǚ Shū étaient passionnées, je démontre dans ma thèse que le Nǚ Shū est une invention pour résister à la hiérarchisation et à la restriction de l'amour entre hommes et femmes, qui sont imposés par la politique de Han vis-à-vis de la minorité de Yao. Cette hypothèse est confirmée par le déclin du Nǚ Shū après les années 1950Nǚ shū is a language and script whose particularity is to be used only bay women Shangjiangxu district in Hunan province. To unveil the mystery of this language, we deploy our research from historical anthropological studies on the minority. With studies on the works in Nǚ Shū and the transmission of the language between women, especially the relationship between the sworn sister [lau31 tan 51] that old women Nǚ Shū were passionate, I demonstrate in my thesis that the Nǚ Shū is an invention to resist the hierarchy and to the restriction of love between men and wornen, whieh are imposed by the Han policy towards minority Yao. This is confirmed by the déclin of Nǚ Shū after the 1950s
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Nilsson, Birgitta. "Deux générations d’écrivaines africaines. Les femmes qui se conforment aux normes et les femmes qui font du bruit. Mariama Bâ et Calixthe Beyala." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-33864.
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The title of this paper is "Two generations of African writers: Women who conform to norms, and women who make noise. Mariama Bâ and Calixthe Beyala”. In this study we analyze two novels, Une si longue lettre by Mariama Bâ (1979) and Assèze l’Africaine by Calixthe Beyala (1994). We examine the similarities and differences in expression, style and themes. Our objective is to determine whether Bâ and Beyala are representing two different groups of African female writers. We have combined a postcolonial approach with a comparative method. Our hypothesis is that the two novels stand in contrast to each other through differences in themes and styles. In order to test this hypothesis we use previous research. Our analysis shows that the work of Bâ has a sober and refined style of writing. Bâ is raising awareness of the situation of women, without deviating from social norms, choosing themes such as polygamy, sisterhood and the value of education. In the work of Beyala we see a more pronounced political criticism, in a bolder and more agitating style of writing. Our conclusion is that the two novels are strongly differentiated through themes and styles. Bâ and Beyala belong to two different generations of female French-speaking African authors.
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Berenstein, Natalia. "Female Ashes, Knowledge, and the Construction of Masculinity : Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Engelska, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34342.
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In Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, knowledge is illegal, and popular culture is promoted as a way to control society. Guy Montag, the central character of the book, undergoes through a journey of liberation from the oppressive system to the further achievement of the forbidden knowledge. The female characters in the book are key to his awakening and evolvement. Unfortunately during the course of the story these women perish. Using the theories of Simone De Beauvoir and Janice Radway, this essay explores the concept of “otherness” and the consumption of popular culture in a patriarchal and oppressive society. This paper also argues that the construction of the masculinity of the protagonist would not be possible without the women, and their death is a violent reaffirmation of a patriarchal order.
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Djossou, Agboadannon Koumagnon Alfred. "African women's empowerment : a study in Amma Darko's selected novels." Thesis, Le Mans, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LEMA3008/document.
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Cette thèse entreprend une analyse des romancières africaines qui ont un avis différent sur la question de la description des personnages féminins et un point de vue différent du rôle de leurs fictions qui peuvent être utilisées pour promouvoir les femmes. La thèse examine l'influence de la culture et des coutumes africaines dans les romans de l'écrivaine ghanéenne, Amma Darko. Ses écrits, de la 3e génération, partent de l'hypothèse générale de l'existence de groupes minoritaires au sein de la littérature parmi lesquels se trouve celui de l'écrivaine, dont les textes ont un écho de plus en plus fort dans le champs littéraire. La thèse pose un problème de refondation du paradigme, culturel et à cet effet Amma Darko propose des solutions de règlement de la crise homme/femme. Finalement, mis à part le point de vue esthétique, la thèse montre combien Darko est aux avant-postes de la littérature engagée au service de la société et d'une idéologie féministeThis thesis adresses the question of wether African female novelists have a different view in portraying their female characters ans it investigates on wether their fiction can inspire women'e empowerment. It examines the influence of culture and customs in the selected novels by Amma Darko. Focusing on thse novels of the third generation, the thesis explores mods of memories, trauma and history writing and highlights the way she represents, reaffirms ans re-positions women in her creative writings to empower them in society.It analyses the solutions o issues raised through the novelist's choracters. This thesis finally shows how much Amma Darko' is at the forefront of a committed African litterature written by African women with an ideological point of view
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Chihota-Charamba, Audrey. "An analysis of how Zimbabwean female audiences decode meaning from the Shona-language radio programme Nguva Yevanhukadzi (Time for Women) against the background of their lived experiences." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011750.
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This study investigates the Zimbabwean women listeners of a gender-focused radio programme Nguva yevanhukadzi (Time for Women) to find out what meanings they take from the programme. Located within the broad theoretical framework of cultural studies and drawing on audience reception theories, the study focuses on the ways in which Shona-speaking women bring their understandings of their social roles, derived from their lived socio-cultural experiences of patriarchy, to their decoding of the text. The study was set in Harare’s high-density suburb of Mbare and used the qualitative research methods of individual and focus group interviews. The study was conducted against the backdrop of the signing of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) of September 2008, which ended the impasse among the warring political parties, ZANU PF, MDC-T and MDC and introduced a new era of collectively tackling socio-economic development, including redressing gender disparities through women’s empowerment. This study examines the factors shaping the audiences’ readings of the programme and seeks to establish whether the mass media has determining power on its audience in the reception of messages or if the audiences (women) have interpretive freedom. Using Hall’s (1980) Encoding/ Decoding model, the study examines the factors that influence the audiences’ choice in making preferred, negotiated or oppositional readings and the arguments they advance in line with those readings. While the interviews revealed that most of the female listeners “negotiated” the dominant encoded meanings, seeking their relevance to their varied situations and contexts (O’ Sullivan et al. 1994:152; Ang 1990: 159), of interest is the manner in which the women dealt with the discourse of patriarchy within the context of promoting women empowerment. The contestation between women empowerment and addressing patriarchy reflected the subverted notions of maintaining the status quo, while applauding the women’s commitment and ability to interrogate the practicality of issues under discussion and drawing lessons relevant to their day to day lives prior to making the preferred reading. As such, the study revealed that preferred readings are not always automated, but can be a result of intense interrogation among media audiences.
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Rine, Dana. "Small Flowerings of Unhu: the Survival of Community in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Novels." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3312.
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This thesis examines the presence of unhu, a process of becoming and remaining human through community ties, in Nervous Conditions and The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembga. Dangarembga interrogates corrupt versions of community by creating positive examples of unhu that alternatively foster community building. Utilizing ecocritical, utopian, and postcolonial methodologies, this thesis postulates that these novels stress the importance of retaining a traditional concept like unhu while also acknowledging the need to adjust it over time to ensure its vitality. Both novels depict the creativity and resilience of unhu amid toxic surroundings.
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Mirza, Maryam. "L'Intimité inter-classes 5 : une étude de la littérature féminine anglophone contemporaine de l'Inde et du Pakistan." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012AIXM3048.
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En prenant appui sur dix romans anglophones contemporains par les auteures indiennes et pakistanaises, cette étude explore et évalue les enjeux politiques et poétiques de la représentation de l'amitié et de l'amour inter-classes dans une littérature souvent considérée comme essentiellement ‘élitiste'. Cette thèse s'écarte de l'approche habituelle dans les études postcoloniales qui privilégie l'idée d'hybridité conçue uniquement en termes binaires (Occident/Orient ou Nord/Sud) et au cœur de l'étude se trouvent la figure du subalterne et la négociation complexe des identités liées à la classe, à la caste et au sexe dans le sous-continent indien. Si les textes examinés révèlent la précarité des rapports humains qui transgressent les diverses frontières sociales, ils soulignent également leurs possibilités contestataires. Cette étude s'intéresse aussi aux enjeux éthiques des choix formels dont témoignent les textes examinés et à la manière dont ces choix peuvent à la fois confirmer et contredire le projet politique du texteThis dissertation is a detailed analysis of ten contemporary Anglophone novels by women writers from India and Pakistan. It explores and evaluates the politics as well as the poetics of the literary depiction of cross-class love and friendship in Anglophone literature of the Indian sub-continent, which is often considered ‘elitist'. The figure of the subaltern lies at the heart of our study and by focusing on the portrayal of the negotiation of class, caste and gender identities in the Indian sub-continent, this dissertation moves away from postcolonial studies' customary focus on the notion of hybridity, often conceived solely in East/West or North/South terms. The texts examined reveal not only the tenuousness of cross-class relationships but also underscore their subversive possibilities. The ethical ramifications of questions of form are also explored as are the ways in which the poetics of a text can both confirm and contradict its politics
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Dixon, Leena-Maaretta. "“Han Skulle Vara En Kille Som Pappa Inte Kunde Klaga På” : Subversive And Imaginative Masculinity In Lygia Bojunga’s Work." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Litteraturvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-35804.
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This thesis centers on three children’s novel, “Sex gånger Lucas”, “Min Vän målaren”, and “Den gula väskan”, written by the very appreciated and much awarded Brazilian Author Lygia Bojunga. All three of these novels discuss masculinity in young boys and men. In “Sex gånger Lucas”, the centerpiece of this thesis, the essential conflict in the novel is played out in the interchange between Lucas and his authoritarian father. The father, throughout the text, showcases toxic masculinity and its concurrent traits, such as verbal abuse and serial infidelity. This tyrannical parenting attempts to mold Lucas’ personality to what is deemed in the culture as acceptable masculine behavior. Lucas narrative journey finds him firstly internalizing this belief system, but, as the novel progresses, Lucas learns to accept himself, in all his gendered guises, and reject the father's binary opinions. “Min vän målaren” follows the tale of the sensitive young boy, Claudio, who struggles against an environment that doesn’t support him, in his many and varied attempts towards personhood. In “Den gula väskan” the protagonist Rakel confronts an open and oppressive sexism in society, community and the many dismissals of the family. “Den gula väskan” utilizes, at many junctures of the narrative, a fable structure as a means to discuss political oppression as well as the oppressive binary masculine norms. This Fable sub-tale focuses on the character Alfonso, a talking rooster. Alfonso rejects the expectations put on him as a rooster, but his cousin Skräcken is not as fortunate. The cousin, who it is heavily implied is the victim of masculine brainwashing, is unable to stop himself from fighting, even when it ends up killing him. Throughout these three novels lies an illustration of the downfalls of an oppressive and toxic masculinity (that men must be stoic, aggressive and in control) as well as highlighting the freedom for a more fluid gender expression. Lucas, Claudio and Alfonso give subversive, alternative depictions of masculinity, where it is acceptable to feel, be vulnerable, reject violence, and have healthy relationships built on companionship. This thesis explores how Bojunga's novels, through her characters struggles and triumphs, give the young male identified readers alternative ways to be a man. In other words, these novels liberate the male gender from a binary performance.Denna avhandling bygger på tre barnromaner, "Sex Times Lucas", "Min Vän målaren" och "Den gula väskan", skriven av den uppskattade och prisbelönta brasilianska författaren Lygia Bojunga. Alla tre av dessa romaner diskuterar maskulinitet I relation till unga pojkar och män. I "Sex Times Lucas", den centrala verket i denna avhandling, är konflikten mellan Lucas och hans auktoritära far det centrala handlingen. Faderns beteende genom hela romanen skildrar en obehaglig uppfatning av maskulinitet, med att psykisk misshandla Lucas and vara ständigt otrogen mot modern. Genom hans tyranniska föräldraskap försöker han att forma Lucas’ personlighet till vad han anser acceptabelt maskulint beteende. Lucas först internaliserar dessa normer, men sen genom romanens växling lär Lucas att acceptera sig själv som han är och avvisar faderns översträngda idéer om manlighet. "Min vän målaren" visar en känslig ung pojke, Claudio, som kämpar mot en miljö som inte stöder honom. Trots detta motstånd försöker han inte förändra sig själv. I "Den gula väskan" diskuterar Rakel öppet sexismen som hon möter. Boken använder också fabel som ett medel för att diskutera politisk förtryck samt strängda genus normer genom Alfonso, en talande tupp. Alfonso går emot vad man förväntar av honom som tupp, men hans kusin Skräcken däremot går med på förväntningarna. Kusinen, som det är starkt underförstått, är offer för hjärntvätt, kan inte stoppa sig från att slåss, och tillslut dör på frund av det. I alla dessa tre romaner ligger en gestaltning av en kritik mot manlighetsnormer (att män får inte visa känslor, vara aggressiva och dominanta) samt framhävda friheten för ett mer flytande könsuttryck. Lucas, Claudio och Alfonso ger subversiva, alternativa skildringar av maskulinitet, där det är acceptabelt att känna, vara sårbar, avvisa sig från våld och ha jämställda relationer byggt på vänskap. Denna avhandling forskar i hur romanen, genom att skildra dessa karaktärer och deras kamp och seger, ger de unga pojk-identifieranda läsare alternativa sätt att vara en man. Med andra ord befriar dessa romaner det manliga könet från en binära normer.
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Magnusson, Inger. "Un estudio diacrónico del desarrollo del feminismo a partir de la representación femenina y masculina en la literatura peruana contemporánea." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Romanska och klassiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-196613.
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Este estudio comparativo pretende examinar la representación femenina y masculina en la literatura moderna y contemporánea peruana. El propósito de nuestro trabajo es enfocar las fuerzas y las debilidades de la mujer y del hombre a la luz de los movimientos feministas desde una perspectiva diacrónica en el desarrollo de feminismo durante el siglo XX. Nos preguntamos cómo ha cambiado el rol de la mujer desde finales del siglo XIX centrándonos en la lectura de una selección de novelas de escritoras, y escritores peruanos, para observar si hay cambios grandes o si permanece una cultura patriarcal hasta nuestra actualidad en el siglo XXI. Fundamos el debate sobre las relaciones de género y la distinción del sexo y género en las teorías críticas feministas de Toril Moi y Judith Butler. Nos interesa la idea del Otro según Simone de Beauvoir desde una perspectiva existencialista feminista. Para estudiar el desarrollo del feminismo y las relaciones de género en el contexto peruano la investigación de Ágata Cáceres Sztorc examina la mujer y el hombre desde una perspectiva sociopolítica feminista en la cultura contemporánea por medio del cine, la televisión y la creación literaria. Estas producciones reflejan en varios aspectos cómo se presenta la representación femenina y masculina en la serie de las novelas de, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Claudia Salazar y Alonso Cueto de este estudio. Teniendo en cuenta el rol que empeña la literatura en nuestra sociedad hemos considerado la relación entre el autor y los lectores en la obra literaria donde se sitúan los personajes. Parecen reales, aunque no lo son – los personajes de ficción juegan un papel importante para poner en cuestión las caracterizaciones estereotípicas.My current project deals with the representation of femininity and masculinity in a comparative and diachronic study of Peruvian modern literature which originated in the late 19th C. and of the Peruvian contemporary literature in the late 20th C. and the early 21st C. The main purpose of the study focuses on women’s and men’s strength and weakness in the light of the feminist movements of the 20th C. In particular, my study is based upon a close-reading of the novels written by female and male authors such as Clorinda Matto, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Claudia Salazar and Alonso Cueto. According to women’s liberation I am, specially, interested in gender relations and how the roles and the identities of women and men relate to one another. The feminist theoretical, fictional and philosophical theory, Simone de Beauvoir’s existential idea of Otherness involves the controversy between the feminist theorists Judith Butler and Toril concerning the binary distinction between sexual differentiation vs. gender bifurcation as well as the sociopolitical study by Ágata Cáceres Sztorc with a feminist perspective on Peruvian contemporary cultural production of television, movies and literary fiction. The importance of literature in our society draws our attention the relation between the author and the readers and the complexity of doing justice to a literary oeuvre created in an other time and space in which the authors situate their fictional characters. The women and the men in the narratives seem to be real. The characters play an important role in our study focusing on the purpose with other, focusing on, and call in question the stereotyped characterizations.
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Skagerström, Karl-Johan. "The “defiant but insane look of a species once dominant” – The Problems of Emancipation in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-104898.
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Margaret Atwood’s novel Surfacing has received considerable critical attention on the issue of “a positive female identity” in a patriarchal society. However, given Atwood’s own stress on the fact that the novel is about the ways both genders work in relation to each other, this criticism has lacked in scrutiny of the novel’s male characters. With a relational approach to the female and male characters, this thesis argues that while creating a positive identity for its female protagonist, the novel effectively creates a rather negative one for its male characters. In order to examine certain sets of relations and the qualities which represent the most honored way of being a man in the novel, I apply the concept of “hegemonic masculinity,” which can be understood as the pattern of practices that explain male domination over women. It is indeed this hegemonic masculinity that the Surfacer rejects in her quest for emancipation. By looking at the hegemonic masculinity in Surfacing, I argue that the novel depicts very typically patriarchal characters in Joe and David and that the society is typically patriarchal. The thesis is divided into three main sections, each examining the most important sets of relations concerning Atwood’s female emancipation. First, I analyze hegemonic structures in the world of the protagonist, including the issues of power, emancipation, and complicity. Then I look into the sexual division of labor to show that the characters assume their default roles without much reflection. Finally, I scrutinize the characters’ relation to the Symbolic and how it affects their sense of identity. In each section, the analyses show that the male characters are reduced to tropes who only serve one function: to be stereotypically oppressive, patriarchal figures in order to facilitate the protagonist’s positive change and empowerment. I argue that Atwood’s failure to imagine male emancipation somewhat taints the development of female identity because the female emancipation becomes arrested.
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Oliveira, Gabriela. "A subversão dos estereótipos de gênero nos contos fantásticos de Lygia Fagundes Telles." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7538.
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Em meio às mudanças políticas e sociais no Brasil da segunda parte do século XX, Lygia Fagundes Telles começa a se destacar literariamente através de seus romances e coletâneas de contos com caráter intimista. Apesar de não se considerar naquela época uma escritora militante, ela era engajada socialmente e realizava sua crítica de maneira sutil utilizando-se de táticas literárias, como a presença do gênero fantástico. Ela escreve durante uma época de extrema censura e repressão, aonde o conservadorismo impera principalmente nos moldes familiares. A sociedade continha um modelo de como cada homem e mulher deveria agir para se encaixar e ser aceito. A fim de criticar o pensamento da sociedade retrógrada da qual ela fazia parte, Lygia escreve os contos fantásticos: “Venha ver o pôr do sol”, “A caçada”, e “As formigas”. Através de acontecimentos insólitos e aterrorizantes, os personagens enfrentam a realidade acerca de seu gênero e encontram as limitações impostas dos estereótipos mantidos pela sociedade conservadora. Nesses contos, Lygia encontra três possibilidades finais para quem pretende ir contra o tradicional: prisão pessoal, morte lenta ou fuga.
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Smith, Roberta. "La Maison Tellier : Une Analyse psychanalytique féministe." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Franska, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-35175.
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L’objectif de ce mémoire est une analyse du conte de Maupassant, La Maison Tellier, basée sur les principes de la critique littéraire féministe psychanalytique. Après avoir revisité l'histoire de la critique littéraire féministe et les différents courants philosophiques et politiques qui ont influencé la pensée féministe en général et, en particulier, la critique littéraire, nous avons défini notre approche critique qui est basée sur la théorie psychanalytique lacanienne du développement du sujet et sa révision féministe réalisée par Luce Irigaray. Plus précisément, nous avons montré comment dans le conte, les femmes sont soumises à la double domination du regard masculin du narrateur et d’un discours phallogocentrique omniprésent. Nous avons soutenu que ce discours phallocentrique hégémonique limite les femmes au rôle de spécula (selon la définition d’Irigaray) pour l’assertivité de la subjectivité masculine. Ainsi, nous avons conclu, le véritable protagoniste du conte n'est pas le groupe de femmes de la Maison Tellier mais l’ego masculin qu'elles sont contraintes à refléter passivement. Nous avons également réfléchi sur la fonction particulière assignée au personnage de Mme Tellier et à l’importance de sa position liminale entre les rôles masculins et féminins.The present memoire is an analysis of Maupassant’s short story La Maison Tellier based on psychoanalytic feminist literary criticism principles. After revisiting the history of feminist literary criticism and the different philosophical and political undercurrents that have influenced feminist thought in general and, in particular, literary criticism, we have defined our critical textual approach which is based on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory of subject development and its feminist reworking by Luce Irigaray. More specifically, we have demonstrated how in the short story women are subject to the double dominance of the narrator’s male gaze and of the pervasive phallogocentric discourse. This hegemonic phallic discourse, we have argued, confines women to the role of specula (in Irigaray’s definition) for the affirmation of man’s subjectivity. Thus, we have concluded, the real protoganist of the short story is not the group of women from the Maison Tellier but the male ego that they are made to passively reflect. We have also reflected on the special role of the character of Mme Tellier and on the significance of her liminal position between men’s and women’s roles.
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Weber, Minon. "Wilde's Women : A feminist study of the female characters in Oscar Wilde’s comedies of manners: Lady Windermere’s Fan, A woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-33191.
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Towards the end of the 19th century, Wilde produced the three comedies that I will focus on in this essay. These plays, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, are all comedies of manners: intelligent dramatic comedies satirising contemporary fashionable circles of society and its manners, as well as social expectations. This type of comedy is often represented by stereotypical characters, such as the fallen woman, the good woman and the young innocent maiden, all three of which I will investigate in this essay.
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Lotun, Martina. "An Illusion of the American Dream : The Great Gatsby from a Feminist Perspective." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Engelska, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35874.
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald encapsulates the Roaring Twenties, a period of social and political change. The economy is thriving, and the American Dream, with its promise of monetary wealth, happiness and upward mobility, is seemingly within reach. Females gain suffrage, and a New Woman emerges, the flapper, who can be seen challenging stereotypical gender roles with her short skirts and bobbed hair. Ostensibly enjoying increased freedom, she dances the night away at speakeasies, a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other, defying Prohibition. This essay aims to evidence that the American Dream as constructed in the novel is a dream available only to the male gender, as the women remain shackled by a patriarchal society. By looking at The Great Gatsby through a feminist lens and with the help of well-established concepts within feminist critical theory and feminist narratology, this essay analyzes how the female characters are portrayed, along with their language, and their actions. The result reveals that in Gatsby’s world women orbit around the men, maneuvering for their attention, affection, and material wealth. Any transgressions of stereotypical gender roles result in punishment: loss of status, withheld affections, dismissal, or death. Consequently, instead of following their own American Dream, women are limited to pursuing the man who most successfully embodies it. Thus, for the females in The Great Gatsby, the American Dream stays an elusive idea as they remain reliant on the men to manifest it.