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Fleitz, Elizabeth J. "Troubling gender : bodies, subversion, and the mediation of discourse in Atwood's The edible woman." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1112551802.
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Fleitz, Elizabeth J. "Troubling Gender: Bodies, Subervision, and the Mediation of Discourse in Atwood's the Edible Woman." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1112551802.
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Rutherford, Lisa. "Objectification, fragmentation, and consumption, a consideration of feminist themes in Margaret Atwood's The edible woman." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ57683.pdf.
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Rutherford, Lisa (Lisa Jane) Carleton University Dissertation English. "Objectification, fragmentation, and consumption: a consideration of feminist themes in Margaret Atwood's the Edible woman." Ottawa, 2000.
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Drewett, Anne. "Women, Animals and Meat : A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Approach to Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman and Michel Faber's Under the Skin." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-117278.
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In this thesis, Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman and Michel Faber’s Under the Skin are analysed from the perspective of feminist-vegetarian critical theory. Both texts deal with the idea of feeling like or being meat, but approach this idea from different angles. In The Edible Woman, the connection to feeling like meat is metaphorical and rooted in gender relations, while in Under the Skin, it is literal, related to the idea of being animal. What becomes clear through an analysis of these two texts is that they both deal with the interlocking oppressions of women and animals. In The Edible Woman, protagonist Marian loses her subjectivity and stops eating meat when, as a result of the dynamics of her relationship with her boyfriend (later fiancé), she starts identifying with animals that are hunted or eaten. In Under the Skin, the alien protagonist Isserley, as female, non-human and in her natural form looking like a kind of mammal, represents both women and animals in her objectifying returned gaze on human men. Examining these two texts together highlights the interlocking nature of patriarchy and speciesism, and shows how these oppressions are better understood in relation to each other.
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Reichenbächer, Helmut. "Reading hidden layers, a genetic analysis of the drafts of Margaret Atwood's novels The edible woman and Bodily harm." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0008/NQ41492.pdf.
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Johnson, Marie. "Gender is war : a battle over the female self in Margaret Atwood's The robber bride, the edible woman and the handmaid's tale /." Title page and introduction only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arj678.pdf.
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Hall, Jackie. "Cultural Constructions of the Female Body : Narrative as Resistance in Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman, Adele Wiseman's Crackpot and Gabrielle Roy's La Rivière sans repos." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2008. http://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/handle/11143/2564.
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In this study I explore narrative resistance in three Canadian novels: Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman , Adele Wiseman's Crackpot and La Rivière sans repos by Gabrielle Roy. I argue that the first two novels counter the dominant constructions of the virgin as the thin, acquiescing body and the whore as the out of bounds, devouring body respectively. I also reflect on whether these texts recognize the importance of a common narrative that speaks to the specificities of female experience, helping us move beyond the dominant constructions that continue to frame our day-to-day lives. La Rivière sans repos is a postcolonial narrative, but it is also a text about mothers. It exposes the containment Western consumerism has placed on the role of mother, the subsequent devaluing of that role and consequently a devaluing of the women who fill that role. Throughout this study I draw from recent theorists who combine feminist perspectives with theories on the body including Susan Bordo and Elizabeth Grosz along with feminist literary critics such as Linda Hutcheon and Patricia Smart. By incorporating feminist theory and theory on the body along with literary criticism I approach the texts with an interdisciplinary analysis that offers a new reading of these narratives. Feminist thought was only just emerging into our cultural consciousness, and theory on the body was little known when Wiseman, Atwood and Roy were writing these novels in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Classical texts reflect and create the construction of women as objects of beauty, who are selfless, inherently weak and needy or they condemn us as "bitchie", manipulative and threatening if expressive of our desires. I seek alternatives to such cultural constructions by exploring how the three novels present and represent the body in relation to female subjectivity and agency by writing against classical representations. In my reading of The Edible Woman I suggest that Atwood's protagonist deviates from the virgin stereotype by following the knowledge of her body rather than that of her intellect. In Crackpot I argue that the fat, sexual body of Wiseman's Hoda asks the reader to question assumptions about normative beauty, female sexuality and marginalization. In La Rivière sans repos I explore how Roy places mother at the centre of the text, which allows for an exploration of the contrast between mothering as experience and motherhood as institution. Each novel proposes a complexity to our experience that has generally been limited to virgin, whore and mother and, consequently, I argue that each offers a discourse of resistance and the possibility of social, cultural and political change.
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Guerra, Grande Stephanie Elizabeth. "Factores del comportamiento del consumidor que influyen en la decisión de compra de productos comestibles en un supermercado en línea, en la mujer moderna entre 26 y 35 años de niveles socioeconómicos B y C, en el año 2018." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/656043.
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El comercio electrónico ha ido evolucionando alrededor del mundo, cambiando el entorno comercial de las tiendas tradicionales. La competencia ya no se limita a los servicios que brinda una tienda física, sino que se ha vuelto necesario incursionar en el mundo digital. Asimismo, los productos comestibles en línea están en la categoría con mayor evolución en el mundo. Sin embargo, en Perú no se la ha logrado explotar debido al poco estudio de los factores que influyen en la decisión de compra. Partiendo de esta realidad, la presente investigación busca determinar qué factores externos en el comportamiento del consumidor influyen en la decisión de compra de productos comestibles en supermercados en línea.
Para ello, se revisó bibliografía sobre la venta de alimentos en supermercados en línea y sobre los factores del comportamiento del consumidor. Además, se obtuvo información cualitativa mediante entrevistas a expertos y tres focus groups, para conocer la percepción acerca de este canal de comercialización. Respecto al análisis cuantitativo, se realizó encuestas con el objetivo de conocer qué factores en el comportamiento del consumidor influyen en la decisión de una compra de productos comestibles en supermercados en línea.
Finalmente, se identifican características de la mujer moderna, entre las edades de 26 a 35 años, de la generación Millennial, de los niveles socioeconómicos B y C de Lima Metropolitana. Asimismo, como resultado del análisis, se presentan las conclusiones y recomendaciones en relación a la influencia de los factores externos en la decisión de compra de productos comestibles en un supermercado en línea.In recent years, e commerce progress has evolved around the world, changing the commercial environment of traditional stores. The competition is no longer limited to the services provided by a physical store but it is necessary to enter the digital world. In that sense, the online food products sector is the category with the greatest evolution in the world. However, in Peru this sector has not been exploited due to the little study of external factors that influence in the purchase decision. Based on this, the present investigation seeks to determine which external factors of consumer behavior influence the decision to buy grocery products in online supermarkets. Therefore, bibliography was reviewed based on the sale of food in online supermarkets and based on the factors of consumer behavior. In addition, qualitative information was obtained through interviews with experts and three focus groups, this to know the perception about this commercialization channel. Regarding the quantitative analysis, surveys were carried out as planned in order to know the factors of consumer behavior that influence the decision to purchase grocery products in online supermarkets. Finally, characteristics of modern women are identified, between the ages of 26 to 35 years, of the Millennial generation of the NSE B and C of Metropolitan Lima. Likewise, as a result of the analysis, the conclusions and recommendations are presented in relation to the influence of external factors in the decision to buy grocery products in an online supermarket.
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Pearson, Kerry. "OPTIMIZING MICRONUTRIENT INTAKE OF LACTATING WOMEN IN KWAZULU-NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA, THROUGH INCREASED WILD EDIBLE PLANT CONSUMPTION." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2011. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/545.
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OPTIMIZING MICRONUTRIENT INTAKE OF LACTATING WOMEN IN KWAZULU-NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA, THROUGH INCREASED WILD EDIBLE PLANT CONSUMPTION
Kerry Pearson
Micronutrient consumption in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, is insufficient to meet the needs of lactating women. Inadequate intake negatively impacts the health of both the mother and infant. Increasing consumption of wild edible plants has been recommended to combat these deficiencies, but information has not yet been provided on which types of wild plants should be eaten or in what quantity. The objective of this study was to determine the optimal mixture of wild edible plants that needs to be consumed to meet the micronutrient needs of lactating women in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. This was done by creating optimization models using linear programming. Components of these models included identifying gaps between current micronutrient intake and recommended intake levels and the creation of composite nutrient profiles for groups of wild edible plants available in KwaZulu-Natal. One model calculated the optimum amount of wild edible plants that would need to be consumed in addition to the current diet to meet micronutrient recommendations. A second semi-isocaloric model calculated the optimum amount of wild edible plants that would need to be consumed if half the additional calories would replace an equivalent number of calories of the main staple food, maize. A combination of 250g leafy vegetables and 349g fruit, replacing 54g of maize meal, was determined to be the best model. This mixture will meet the micronutrient needs of 50% of lactating women and would add only 192 calories to the diet. The same blend will meet the needs of 75% of women for all nutrients except calcium, zinc, thiamin, and riboflavin. It is hoped that increased use of wild plants will also increase physical activity and make the consumption of high quality animal products more economically feasible. Understanding forces that have brought about current dietary patterns in this population and working in tandem with other nutrition intervention programs will be the best way to successfully implement these goals. More complete information is needed on the nutrient profiles of wild edible plants in South Africa and on how anti-nutrients in these plants effects bioavailability of nutrients and the health of the consumer. Despite these limitations, it is clear that a reasonable increase in wild edible plant consumption can have a tremendous positive impact on micronutrient consumption of lactating women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Elaman, Sevinc. "A feminist dialogic reading of the new woman : marriage, female desire and divorce in the works of Edith Wharton and Halide Edib Adıvar." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-feminist-dialogic-reading-of-the-new-womanmarriage-female-desire-and-divorce-in-the-works-of-edith-wharton-and-halide-edib-advar(40c93772-81fa-4c80-af7e-4b3fd6c1ae80).html.
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This thesis examines the depiction of female characters as New Women in a comparative analysis of the fiction of two authors from fin-de-siècle United States of America and late Ottoman/early Republican Turkey: Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905), The Custom of the Country (1913) and The Age of Innocence (1920), and Halide Edib Adıvar’s Raik’in Annesi (Raik’s Mother, 1909), Handan (Handan, 1912) and Kalp Ağrısı (Heartache, 1924). It argues that these novels can be read as examples of New Woman fiction, with their challenge to conventional fictional treatments of womanhood and their depiction of complex female heroines struggling against restrictive social roles, conventions and moral codes. Examining these texts together opens up a hitherto unexplored area of comparison into how the construct of New Womanhood was perceived and dealt with differently (and similarly) in the American and Turkish societies of the era. The thesis brings a new approach to the analysis of the novels under question not only by reading Wharton’s and Adıvar’s fiction in a comparative perspective but also by approaching New Woman fiction by means of Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of dialogism, complemented by the work of feminist critics such as Dale M. Bauer, Gail Cunningham, Luce Irigaray and Lyn Pykett. A feminist dialogic approach informs my reading of the novels as texts that present a pluralistic exchange between multiple discourses and that resist a singular interpretation - instead offering multiple “readings”, with a surface narrative and counter narrative: whilst the surface narrative appears as authoritative and seeks to maintain the status quo (through voices that attempt to stabilise the New Woman and assert the authority of conventions and moral codes), this is disrupted and destabilised by the subversive marginal voices of the counter narrative. By attending in this way to the juxtaposition of a multiplicity of conflicting voices on the New Woman question in the texts - particularly as these are expressed in the heroines’ inner dilemmas and conflicts and around the issues of marriage, divorce and sexuality - I attempt to go beyond a reading of the texts as reflections of the biography of the authors or their views regarding a certain model of female identity, instead emphasising the problematisation and unfixing of identity in the novels and their depiction of New Women that are complex, fragmented and contradictory. Furthermore, influenced by the ideas of feminist thinkers such as Judi M. Roller and Elizabeth Bronfen, I propose that the unhappy endings of Wharton’s and Adıvar’s novels can be read as critiques of the oppressive effects of hegemonic discourses about women and a recognition of female agency and struggle. By examining these aspects of the novels, this comparative thesis aims to contribute to feminist studies focused upon the “woman question” and to the growing body of scholarly work on the New Woman.
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Ogle, Britta M. "Wild vegetables and micronutrient nutrition : Studies on the significance of wild vegetables in women's diets in Vietnam." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Univ.-bibl. [distributör], 2001. http://publications.uu.se/theses/91-554-5068-7/.
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陳惠雁. "Metamorphosis in Margaret Atwood's the Edible Woman." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89965006067341398234.
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碩士國立政治大學
英國語文研究所
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Lacanian reading of Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman offers a way to lay bare the symbolic cannibalism that lies at the center of this text. Theory of the mirror stage is the prototype of Lacan’s theoretical structure though Lacan gradually embellished his theories as he found necessary. The focal point of Lacanian theory lies in “lack.” The mirror image serves as an armour that protects the subject from realizing a sense of incompleteness and fragmentation in part of the subject. In other words, this process is “orthopaedic” and “meconnaissances” in Lacanian terms, which functions to weave an image of totality and plentitude for the subject. Similarly, the Symbolic Order weaves a fantasy for the subject in order to cover up the lack. Such an act aims to regulate and subjugate the subject for easy manipulation. This thesis attempts to lay bare the fantasy in The Edible Woman. That is, the symbolic cannibalism is employed as a fantasy to entrap women into a model of femininity, which is constructed by the male idea. The female protagonist in this text sees through the rupture in such a fantasy. Her awareness ushers in a stage of self-laceration and eating disorder, which manifest themselves as working of the Real. Marian’s recovery from anorexia results from her awareness of such an asymmetrical relationship which posits her as the consumed and the hunted. Julia Kristeva’s ix theory of abjection is a useful and insightful tool to examine Marian’s gesture of baking and eating a cake for herself. Such a gesture is, in fact, a way to rid herself of what endangers her sense of subjectivity and what disturbs her distinction between self and other. Anorexia is traditionally conceived as a strategy of the subject to cater to the ideology of the consumer market. In that way, the subject remains a product to be able to circulate in the economy market and maintains its economy value. Through psychoanalytical reading of anorexia nervosa, we understand that such a symptom is employed as a strategy to rebel against part of the self that succumbs to the discursive ideology. In the case of Marian, anorexia is not so much a way to cater to the symbolic cannibalism as a strategy to fight against such a discursive atmosphere.
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Hsu, Nai-Wen, and 許乃文. "The Invisible Woman: Rethinking Female Identity in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/qak33b.
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碩士東吳大學
英文學系
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I would like to thank sincerely my advisor Dr.Shang-kuanChang. Without his kindness and encouragement, I would not have been able to finish my thesis smoothly. Dr. Chang isa most patient advisor who carefully listened to my opinions and tried to evaluate the possibilities of combining my interest in feminism with psychoanalytic theories. When I had difficulty, Dr. Chang always stood by my side to help me deal with the writing problems. Without his help, I could not haveovercome the problem of English writing the thesis in such a short time. His mentoringhas helped me to become a future scholar. Furthermore, I would like to show my appreciation to my committee members, Professor Mao-sung Lin and An-chi Wang. Without their advice, I would not have realized the shortcomings of my logic in this thesis nor had the chance to improve my learning. I would especially like to thank Professor Lin for hismany comments on how to do the research while keeping my hobby of reading extensively. I would also like to thank my high school teacher Wan-chen Tsai for giving me concrete suggestions about how to write a successful thesis. Without her I would have been unable to finish reading such a complex novel in a limited time. Her caring attitude helped me to discover the pleasure of doing research while also gaining confidence to finish this thesis. Last but not least, I would like to thank my classmates in the graduate program. Although everyone was doing research in different fields, we still shared ideas with each other in order to improve our English ability. Thesis writing is hard work. After encountering many issues related to feminism, I believe that this experience will guide me on the road to being a professional researcher in the future.
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Zhang, Pei-Qing, and 張珮青. "The gendered consumer society, the constitution of self, and The Edible Woman." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09949824378051555314.
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Lin, Hsiu-Yu, and 林秀宇. "To Be or Not to Be a Woman, That is the Question: Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman in the Psychoanalytic Perspective." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89938742655885247070.
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碩士國立交通大學
外國語文學系外國文學與語言學碩士班
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This thesis adopts the psychoanalytic perspective to analyze Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Edible Woman. Under the framework of psychoanalysis, we discuss the protagonist’s, Marian’s, awareness of being a woman and also her subjectivity of being a hysteric woman. Besides, this thesis will re-examine the relationship between Marian and other characters via the problems confronted in a woman’s life and offer a new definition of femininity. The thesis is divided into five parts. Chapter One describes the significance of the thesis topic, the literature review of the novel, and the methodology I will apply for in the following chapters. Chapter Two concerns what Marian desires. In addition to explaining why the hysteric’s body is an erotogenic body, I will further elucidate that Marian’s desire is actually an unsatisfied desire. In this chapter, I will also discuss the relationship between Marian’s anorexia nervosa and her mother. Chapter Three discusses Marian’s sexual confusion and what it is to be a woman for her. In Chapter Four, I want to prove that transference between Duncan and Marian is the key point for the restoration of Marian’s health and her “normal” life. Finally, after a series of discussions, we understand what it would be like to be a woman for Marian and redefine femininity in psychoanalytic perspective. Therefore, in my conclusion, I will combine the above theses to unveil the message hidden in the novel’s title, “The Edible Woman.”
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Tsai, Wan-Chien, and 蔡宛倩. "Eating and Gender Politics in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/j5nv75.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
外國語文學研究所
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Food and eating are essential elements in works of Virginia Woolf and Margaret Atwood, two significant female writers of the twentieth century. Both utilize eating disorders to intervene in the discursive construction of a healthy gendered body and to problematize the mainstream values of body proportions and body management. By delving into eating politics in Woolf’s and Atwood’s novels, this thesis addresses the problematics of gender and sees if eating or not eating serves as effective bodily resistance to sexist oppression. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach including psychoanalytic, sociologist, and feminist accounts of orality, eating and body, and their relation to self-formation and social order, this thesis investigates how one’s eating politics reflects social normalization of a gendered body and explores the potential and pitfalls of eating disorders as a means of self-empowerment in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman. In addition to an Irigarayian reading of the political meaning in bodily textuality, the thesis addresses the double bind between self-assertion and self-destruction seen on disorderly eaters. Through comparing diverse eating politics and the respective critiques of social hierarchy and patriarchal commodification in postwar London and in Canadian consumer society in the 1960s, the thesis further attempts to envision a survival agenda in Mrs. Dalloway and The Edible Woman.
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Chang, Pei-chin, and 張珮青. "The Gendered Consumer Society, The Constitution of Self, and "The Edible Woman":Theory and Practice." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/34976185866076321274.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
外國語文學系研究所
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Starting from the consitution of individuals in the capitalist society fromfou r respective perspective, use/exchange value, commodification, consumption,and proprietorship, I gain a footing for further investigation into the construct ion of women under the consipracy between patriarchal culture and capitalist s ystem.When capitalist society presupposes that human worth lies in its exchang evalue, which objectifies everyone and reifies social relations, women are fur ther objectified and thus alienated from themselves in the male order.Men's do minance has been perpetuated under the long-term presumption thatwomen are bio logically and so essentially different. Women either settle downwith their in evitably inferior feminine fate or have hard time struggling withit or they ta ke the initiative to create their space for maneuvering. InTHE EDIBLE WOMAN, Margarate Atwood gives a vivid illustration as woman'sissue by the three femal e characters' respective action and reaction towardthe presupposed feminine fa te, which is dealt with as gender politics,substantiated by food images recurr ent in Atwood's fictions. Symbolically,Marian presents herself edible in fron t of Peter, who indeed ventures on todevour her subjectivity gradually. Yet M arian eventually declines to beconsumed by Peter, and reemerges as a virile co nsumer. Nevertheless, thepredator-prey cycle implied which characterizes this consumer society maygrow malignant and destructive when such a pattern is ren ewed among peoplerepeatedly.
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LEE, YU-SHAN, and 李郁珊. "Of Female and Food: The Feminine Identification in Margaret Atwood''s The Edible Woman and Lady Oracle." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3s3gxn.
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碩士國立中山大學
外國語文學系研究所
106
With the overt motif of food and eating in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman (1969) and Lady Oracle (1976), it is hard not to probe into the significant implications from the text. Using this perspective, the proceeding thesis explores the relationship between female and food; arguing food connects with the social construction of women’s roles. Nancy Chodorow’s object-relations theory questions whether maternity for women is biological or psychological. Owing to the biological fact that female bodies have the capacity to reproduce and provide nourishment for infants, feeding and mothering become women’s responsibilities. In Chapter One, I begin to identify the food-related imagery in The Edible Woman and Lady Oracle. I examine society’s expectations in terms of femininity for the female characters in the fiction, demonstrating women’s inferior identity. In Chapter Two, I decipher the food metaphors; portraying the tangible inequality between males and females in both the public and domestic spheres in The Edible Woman. I use Chodorow’s observations on gender role acquisition and identification to analyze Marian McAlpin’s (the heroine) level of compliance and her assumption of marriage and motherhood. To prove Marian’s resistance, I examine her anorexic appetite and the woman-shaped cake. Chapter Three concerns the other heroine, Joan Foster, and her “bulimarexic” appetite and the relationship with her mother in Lady Oracle. Applying Chodorow’s perspectives demonstrates that forced feminine identification creates ambivalence in motherhood for Joan’s mother. This not only affects the quality of parenting but also causes an unusual pattern in Joan’s diet.
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Lee, Shin-yi, and 李欣怡. ""Thinking of Myself in the First Person Singular Again": The Reconstruction of Self in Margaret Atwood''s The Edible Woman." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26714907686427115645.
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碩士國立中正大學
外國語文研究所
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The Edible Woman, is the Canadian woman author, Margaret Atwood’s first published novel in 1969. By presenting the experiences of the female protagonist, Marian, the novel intends to render the confined and objectified woman role in the patriarchal society. Being framed in the powerful patriarchy, women’s self-identity is mostly defined as an Other, which is “standardized” as a flat and fixed role as a consumable product, without any unique-ness and independent thinking, only existing to satisfy men’s needs and desires. Moreover, by entrapping women into the Other-oriented role, men assure their self-image as a leading center in the society. However, a lot of women even internalize the masculine point of view, adjusting themselves to their Other-role, and re-objectifying themselves to the ideal feminine image created and shaped by the patriarchal society. This thesis is divided into five parts, including introduction, three chapters for the main body of my thesis, and finally, conclusion. The aim of this thesis is to examine the mutual relationship between the woman role and the patriarchal society in The Edible Woman. Through the discussion of Marian’s interpersonal relationships with people, and even with herself, I attempt to analyze the process of how a woman comes to be aware her objectified self under this powerful patriarchal society, and then moves forward to re-construct a new self, which is unbound by any imposed values. Chapter One aims to analyze the objectified role of the conventional women in the patriarchal society. Since the feminine image is mostly framed and approved by men, women’s social role thus becomes subordinate to men’s needs as an alienated and fixed object. And Chapter Two serves as a reflection of this conventional patriarchal society. Being under the suppression of patriarchy, women are not the only victims. In the male world, the powerless men would also share the same social situation as the fragile feminine. On the contrary, women could also reverse their objectified image as prey to entrap men. In the sexual hunt, women could be the active hunters just like men. In order to examine Marian’s relationship to herself, Chapter Three would mainly focus on Marian’s anorexia and her psychological reactions. In the novel, suffering from anorexia, Marian becomes representative to symbolize women’s bodies and minds have been split under the social suppression. Women could not help controlling themselves to be objectified and mirrored in men’s eyes. However, by controlling her appetite, Marian’s body attempts to reassert her refusal to carry the image as a consumable item framing in the patriarchal values. Eventually, as Marian comes to be aware that she is only an object mirrored in men’s eyes, she chooses to bake a cake, a substitute of herself in a woman-shaped image. And by “eating” the cake, she intends to give up her former objectified self. During the process of women’s search for self-identity, self-awareness is the drive for women to transform themselves from the objectified role into the autonomous self. The woman image should not be shaped and assigned by others. Instead, women should assume their identity deliberately, choose what they want to be, and achieve the “reconstruction” of their Self actively.
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Hsieh, Julia Pei-Hsuan, and 謝佩璇. "The Female Body as a Site of Control, Reaction and Resistance: Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman and The Handmaid's Tale." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06179839068042029408.
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碩士輔仁大學
英國語文學系
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In Margaret Atwood’s works, the issue of the female body is an important one that she explores from different angles of perspectives. Starting from the early years of her writing, the female body has been a site for Atwood to examine, criticize and reflect her viewpoints toward women’s situation. The Edible Woman, Atwood’s first published novel, and The Handmaid’s Tale, a female dystopia set in the near future, bespeak Atwood’s concern on the female body presented, understood and abused in societies of different spaces and times. This thesis examines how the female body serves as a site of control for women under patriarchal societies, how women’s bodies react to the demands of submission and utility of their female bodies, and how resistance take place through the female body in Atwood’s two novels, The Edible Woman and The Handmaid’s Tale. Based on Michel Foucault’s elaboration of the concepts of the intelligible body and the useful body, and Susan Bordo’s further elaboration of the these two concepts to the contemporary social phenomenon of anorexia nervosa, the thesis argues that the female bodies presented by Atwood in her two novels, are not just docile; rather, they are sites of reaction and resistance against the social demands for being useful and intelligible. The thesis’s introduction, besides presenting the main argument, explains how Atwood’s novels, in comparison with some contemporary North American feminist novels, are socially specific in their treatments of the issues of the female body. The first chapter examines how the female body is presented with the images of various fragmentary body parts, food, birthing, and so on in The Edible Woman. Through a very restricted body that has been acting in accordance with patriarchal demands and expectations, the protagonist’s body reacts violently and hence awakes her awareness which later helps her resist against society and patriarchy that intend to “consume” her. The second chapter deals with The Handmaid’s Tale, which depicts how the female body is reduced to a reproductive machine in a totalitarian realm in which women are deprived of all rights and power and categorized into different work machines. Through the protagonist’s point of view, the female body is presented as a birthing tool that has scarcely any power in a very limited space. Similar to The Edible Woman, Atwood employs images of female body parts and closely interweaves these images with those of food and birthing. Through trying to eat, to nourish their bodies, to make a cake or to narrate, the two female protagonists distance themselves from the controlled bodies and reconstruct their subjectivities to resist against the patriarchal society they are in.
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Shao-ChiWei and 魏韶綺. "Reclaiming a Room of One's Own: The Self-Development and Spatial Experiences in Margaret Atwood's The Edible Women." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67975569376195494948.
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碩士國立成功大學
外國語文學系碩博士班
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The gendering of spaces stands as a crucial factor in constructing an intelligible body in contemporary society. The spatial dichotomy of public and private, workplace and domestic, has its gendered reference to how masculinity and femininity should perform in their lived space. In order to understand how a woman’s sense of dis/location in public and private spaces reflects her self-perception, this thesis, drawing on the approach of feminist geography, takes Margaret Atwood’s first novel, The Edible Woman (1969), as the text to discuss the gendering of spaces in post-war North American society. The first chapter offers an introduction of feminist geographers’ studies on body and space in contemporary western context, followed by a glance of women’s situation in post-war Canada, and a reading of Margaret Atwood’s literary work as social criticism. The second chapter explores the material construction of Marian, the heroine in The Edible Woman, her lived surroundings including her home, workplace, and the public streets. As a 24-year-old single office lady, Marian is uncertain about her female identity, and this confusion reflects on her sense of being entrapped in both private and public spaces. The third chapter focuses on how Marian confronts the patriarchal spatial appropriation through her bodily performance, and finally reclaims a female identity as well as personal space of her own. By rereading Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman into a feminist geographical interpretation, this thesis suggests that this “pro-feminist novel”, as in Atwood’s own words, not only a piece of literary work but also a social text worthy of the study of feminist geography.
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Adak, Hülya. "Intersubjectivity : Halide Edib (1882-1964) or the "Ottoman/Turkish (women)" as the subject of knowledge /." 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/dlnow/3019885.
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Battista, Francesca. "Italská rétorika a dvorská láska v Listáři královny Kunhuty: kritická edice sbírky Mistra Bohuslava s anglickým úvodem (Codex Vindobonensis Palatinus 526)." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-353551.
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In Czech historiography Queen Kunhuta has been quite neglected. Her figure has not been investigated in monographs or specific studies. She can be somehow included within the group of defamed queens, which is especially rich in the Middle Ages. This negative image of the queen finds its origin in medieval chronicles, which blamed Kunhuta for her love affair with Záviš of Falkenštejn, who was accused of being one of the promoters of the defeat of Otakar II. Kunhuta's negative portrayal has been very stable and despite its rehabilitation in the most recent studies, it probably influenced scholars' disinterest in the part she performed as a political agent. The documentary material preserved shows that her active role in Bohemian society of the thirteenth century deserves more attention. She was involved in various administrative and political tasks. The first chapter of the thesis should provide an approach to the study of the queen, which mediates between a partial point of view and Kunhuta's multi-faceted image. It should introduce a figure to whom is linked a letter collection, which represents the main theme of the present dissertation (i.e. the letter collection of master Bohuslav, probably a chaplain and notary of the queen). The analysis and the critical edition of the source can be found in...