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Chui, Siu Shan Remy. "Reading 'Third World' women's autobiography /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22763491.
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Imran, Rahat. "Islamic laws, gender discrimination and legal injustices: the Zina Hudood Ordinance of Pakistan and its implication for women /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2114.
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徐少珊 and Siu Shan Remy Chui. "Reading 'Third World' women's autobiography." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31222547.
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Wang, Jing. "Strategies of Modern Chinese Women Writers' Autobiography." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392046947.
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Piroli, Marta. "Finding Voices: Italian American Female Autobiography." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1145368184.
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Carver, Mary Heather. "Autobiography in performance : cinematic representation of women's lives /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Chen, Yuling, and 陳玉玲. "A study of subjectivity in the autobiography of modern Chinese women =." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B44569713.
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Marching, Soe Tjen 1971. "Negotiating identity : Indonesian women's published autobiographies and unpublished diaries in the New Order." Monash University, Dept. of Asian Languages and Studies, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5825.
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Collins, Lindsey. "Dissimulating women Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John and Autobiography of my mother /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0010833.
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Perez, Melissa C. "Vibia Perpetua's diary a woman's writing in a Roman text of its own /." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002731.
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Marqués-Martin, Claudia. "Shaping the Francoist female body politic : female right-wing life-writing." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2016. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=231868.
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War-focused life-writing and the study of the female subject in a period where war had the potential to destabilise traditional women's roles and identities remains an under researched topic. This thesis focuses on how the self-representation of the lives of right wing women were discursively constructed and reflexively represented in relation to large scale political, social and economic contexts. It supports Passmore's view that by deconstructing the traditional binary position in which right-wing women found themselves, they 'are no longer seen simply as such as victims or victimisers, but as both simultaneously. This thesis draws upon the life-writing of four women who belonged to Franco's elite regime: Maria Rosa Urraca Pastor, Regina García, Pilar Millán Astray and Pilar Primo de Rivera and explores the (re)construction and reflexive representations of the self. It shows how they not only struggled to identify with one collective group, but adopted and shifted between different collective identities. It demonstrates how womanhood and motherhood were created, recreated, redefined and modified to become a politicised and patriotic idea of woman. It shows how these four women reconstructed a new (female) identity by adapting their femaleness and their expected role as women in order to achieve acceptance within the Francoist movement. This thesis shows the need to rethink the right-wing meaning of womanhood, motherhood, and female agency in contemporary scholarship.
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Vanacker, Sabine Anne. "The presence of women : modernist autobiography by Dorothy Richardson, Gertrude Stein and H.D." Thesis, University of Hull, 1994. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:3480.
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Christodoulou, Jacqueline Ann. "An autobiography of health : a study of health and identity amongst perimenopausal women." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442700.
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Mosher, Sarah Elizabeth. "Shooting The Canon: Feminine Autobiographical Voices of the French-Speaking World." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194135.
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In the field of literary production, women's autobiographical writing has been one of the most powerful means of artistic expression. Life-writing is a genre of ambiguity and paradox intertwined with some of the most fundamental questions of literary studies. Within the domain of lettres françaises, new canons of female-authored literary works from France and the various regions of the non-Western French-speaking world have emerged during both the colonial and postcolonial periods. This body of published autobiographical texts has worked to re-define the very nature of twentieth and twenty-first century literary canons. In addition to the traditional autobiographical novel, other literary genres such as travel journals, diaries, poetry, confessions, memoirs, and autobiographical fiction provide authors with a wide array of literary alternatives to the classical autobiography. Focused on the autobiographical texts and films of five French-speaking women of the twentieth century, this study examines both canonical and marginal female authors from France, Northern Africa, and the Caribbean. In addition to dealing with issues such as personal freedom, language, social class, the desire to write, family, alterity, and space, this project seeks to analyze how five French-speaking women autobiographers of different generations and social and national origins established a literature of their own through a métissage of autobiographical forms. Since autobiography is a mode that historically has been defined by mostly white, Christian, European men of the upper social echelon, I propose to show the different ways in which the women of this study have in fact been “shooting the autobiographical canon” by taking over, taking aim at, or altering the established domain of male-authored life-narratives as in the case of Simone de Beauvoir, Elisabeth Lacoin and Maryse Condé, or in filming a new canon of autobiographical expression in the case of Assia Djebar’s and Yamina Benguigui’s documentaries.
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Griffiths, Jacquelynn Kleist. "Persuasion and resistance: how migrant women use life writing." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2215.
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Migrant women use life writing not only to share pieces of their own lives, but also to write powerful narratives which confront racism, patriarchal oppression, and US imperialism. The four texts I have selected represent skillful negotiation between drastically different languages, cultures, and social systems, evinced both through the experiences the authors represent within the text and through their careful rhetorical and narrative strategies, which are tailored for particular audiences. As these narratives demonstrate, migrant women can use life writing to contest and destabilize dominant narratives of history and race.
In I’ve Come a Long Way (1942), Chinese author Helena Kuo demonstrates the worth, dignity, and superiority of Chinese culture in order to convince US readers to ally with China in their fight against Japan. Kuo’s work was intended not only to garner military support for China, but also to create a more positive view of the Chinese people. Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales, a mother and daughter born in New York City and Puerto Rico, respectively, write together in Getting Home Alive (1986), layering stories from the mainland United States and the island of Puerto Rico while protesting US imperialism and US military presence on the island. By enacting resistance from a variety of subject positions, the authors are able to share pieces of their life stories while also creating an alternate history of Puerto Rico, one that reveals the violence and imperial domination of the US government. In When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (1989), former Vietcong collaborator Le Ly Hayslip tells the story of the Vietnam War from the perspective of a Vietnamese villager, explaining why some Vietnamese resisted US forces. Through her narrative, Hayslip transforms herself from a Vietcong enemy into a reliable narrator for US readers, detailing her own suffering, empathizing with her US readership, and encouraging peace and forgiveness between nations, while still questioning the ethics of US involvement in the war. By retelling stories from her childhood on the US-Mexico border in Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera (1995), Mexican author Norma Elia Cantú challenges the impermeability of borders, both between fact and fiction and between nations. By simultaneously retelling and fictionalizing her past, Cantú is able to preserve and reclaim her childhood while creating a subversive counternarrative of border life which contests dominant governmental and patriarchal narratives.
All of these authors use life writing in an innovative way, tailoring their texts to the political and social context in which they were publishing and striving to build a relationship with readers at a particular time in US history. By challenging conventional, governmental, and media representations of events and contesting existing social structures, these authors provide a more comprehensive understanding of US history and society.
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Tsai, Li-Hui. "Women, autobiography and criticism : The life writing of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Robinson, 1770-2009." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.528961.
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Romeo, Caterina. "Narrative tra due sponde memoir di italiane d'America /." Roma : Carocci : Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza", 2005. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/60340203.html.
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Scalpato, Lauren Ann. "Overcoming Anonymity: The Use of Autobiography in the Works Of Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte." Thesis, Boston College, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/452.
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Thesis advisor: Susan MichalczykIn nineteenth-century England, women were struggling to find an outlet for the intelligence, emotions, and creativity that the patriarchal society around them continuously stifled. For women such as Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, writing served as an opportunity to defy restrictive social structures and offered a needed public voice. By expressing their own thoughts and frustrations, Austen and Brontë helped to overcome the anonymity imposed upon women of their time, as they illuminated the female experience. The following paper takes a look at the ways in which Austen and Brontë imparted autobiographical elements to their female characters, as both authors underwent important catharses and inspired the women around them. To this day, their literature provides critical insight into the troubled existence of the nineteenth-century woman, while revealing their own struggles with their constricted identities
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2004
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
Discipline: College Honors Program
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Bowles, John Parish. "Bodies of work autobiography and identity in Adrian Piper's conceptual and performance art /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2002. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/53916455.html.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2002.Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-256).
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Floyd, Janet. "Leaving the world : narratives of emigration and frontier life written by women in Upper Canada and the Old Northwest." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239577.
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Anicic, Maria, and Anna Kristiansson. "Bröstcancer vänder upp och ner på hela livet : En studie av självbiografier om kvinnors erfarenheter av att leva med bröstcancer." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-11700.
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Bakgrund: Varje år drabbas tusentals kvinnor av bröstcancer i Sverige. Sjukdomen förändrar livet på olika sätt för kvinnorna. Diagnosen ger upphov till olika känslor såsom oro, ångest och rädsla. Behandlingen medför olika biverkningar som kan ge känslan av att tappa sin identitet. Dessa erfarenheter kräver att sjuksköterskan har kunskap för att kunna ge rätt stöd, vård och bemötande för att lindra lidande och främja hälsa. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att belysa kvinnors erfarenheter av att leva med bröstcancer Metod: En kvalitativ innehållsanalys av modellen beskriven av Lundman och Hällgren Granheim (2014) baserad på fem självbiografier. Resultat: Ur analysen framkom fyra huvudkategorier; Rädsla för framtiden, Mista sin kvinnliga identitet, behov av samverkan samt förändrad livssyn med åtta underkategorier. Diskussion: Det är viktigt att sjuksköterskan har kunskap om de psykiska och fysiska förändringarna som sker i samband med bröstcancer hos kvinnorna. Genom att sjuksköterkan är medveten om kvinnornas erfarenheter och upplevelser ökar kunskapen för individanpassad vård. Slutsats: Kvinnorna som drabbas av bröstcancer lever med en ständig rädsla, ångest och oro. Stöd av personer i samma situation och sjuksköterskor har en viktig inverkan på kvinnornas hälsa och minskar deras lidande.Background: Every year thousands of women are affected with breast cancer in Sweden. The disease changes the womens life in different ways. The diagnosis gives them different emotions like worry, anxiety and fear. The treatment involves different side effects that can give the feeling of losing your identity. These experiences require that the nurse have the right knowledge to give support, care and treatment to relive the suffering and promote health. Aim: The aim was to illustrate women's experiences of living with breast cancer. Method: Five autobiographies was chosen and analyzed with a qualitative content analysis described by Lundman and Hällgren Graneheim (2014). Results: Four categories emerged from the analysis; Fear of the future, Lose her female identity, The need for interaction and Altered outlook, with eight subcategories. Discussion: It is important that the nurse has knowledge of the psychological and physical changes that occur in women with breast cancer. If the nurse is aware of women's knowledge and experience the knowledge for individualized care increases. Conclusion: Women with breast cancer live with a constant fear, anxiety and worry. Support from people in the same situation and nurses have an important impact on women's health and helps to reduce their suffering.
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Kulbaga, Theresa A. "Trans/national subjects genre, gender, and geopolitics in contemporary American autobiography /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1150386546.
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Wahlin, Leah Joy. "Minor Movements: (Re)locating the Travels of Early Modern English Women." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1196786416.
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Aydogdu, Zeynep. "Modernity, Multiculturalism, and Racialization in Transnational America: Autobiography and Fiction by Immigrant Muslim Women Before and After 9/11." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1557191593344128.
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Adcock, Rachel C. "Daughters of Zion and Mothers in Israel : the writings of separatist and particular Baptist women, 1632-1675." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2011. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/8452.
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During the 1630s, congregations began to separate from the established Anglican Church forming new autonomous groups. This study examines separatist and Baptist women s writings from this period, as they struggled under the persecution of the religious authorities and under the increasingly strict rules of their congregations. These women s writings could not have been imagined without the proliferation of these new congregations, but, as well as providing a platform for women to publish, these groups imposed their own rules on what women could express in public. Considering separatist and Baptist women as part of their congregations is integral to an understanding of their work, and it is on this that this study focuses. Although their writings relate and analyse their own relationship with God, this is always presented as a sign of the progress of God s people as a whole. Through an analysis organised along doctrinal and congregational lines, this study draws attention to women who have received little or no literary critical (or indeed historical) attention, by considering the genres they utilised as part of their membership. Women writers of conversion narratives, in particular, have not received as much critical attention as more remarkable women who prophesied or who were associated with male writers. The voices of little-studied women like An Collins, Sarah Davy, Deborah Huish, Sara Jones, Susanna Parr, Katherine Sutton, Jane Turner, Anne Venn, the anonymous speaker of Conversion Exemplified and the contributors to the collections of John Rogers and Henry Walker deserve to be heard alongside the reported words of Mary Allein, Anne Harriman, Dorothy Hazzard, and Elizabeth Milbourne, and better known writers such as Anna Trapnel and Agnes Beaumont. The study will also draw on works that are not currently widely available, which have therefore received very little critical attention. Often compared to Deborah, the biblical Mother in Israel (Judges 5:7), women in these gathered churches were instrumental in bringing forth joy to their metaphorical children of Israel, by prophesying ways in which enemies of their congregations would face retribution and by continually strengthening church practices in time for the second coming of Christ. This study explores the various ways in which these mid-seventeenth-century women worked to strengthen their congregations through their writings, believing that they had been divinely inspired to edify those whose practice was wanting, and vindicate rightful walking in his name. During the 1630s, congregations began to separate from the established Anglican Church forming new autonomous groups. This study examines separatist and Baptist women's writings from this period, as they struggled under the persecution of the religious authorities and under the increasingly strict rules of their congregations. These women's writings could not have been imagined without the proliferation of these new congregations, but, as well as providing a platform for women to publish, these groups imposed their own rules on what women could express in public. Considering separatist and Baptist women as part of their congregations is integral to an understanding of their work, and it is on this that this study focuses. Although their writings relate and analyse their own relationship with God, this is always presented as a sign of the progress of God's people as a whole. Through an analysis organised along doctrinal and congregational lines, this study draws attention to women who have received little or no literary critical (or indeed historical) attention, by considering the genres they utilised as part of their membership. Women writers of conversion narratives, in particular, have not received as much critical attention as more 'remarkable' women who prophesied or who were associated with male writers. The voices of little-studied women like An Collins, Sarah Davy, Deborah Huish, Sara Jones, Susanna Parr, Katherine Sutton, Jane Turner, Anne Venn, the anonymous speaker of Conversion Exemplified and the contributors to the collections of John Rogers and Henry Walker deserve to be heard alongside the reported words of Mary Allein, Anne Harriman, Dorothy Hazzard, and Elizabeth Milbourne, and better known writers such as Anna Trapnel and Agnes Beaumont. The study will also draw on works that are not currently widely available, which have therefore received very little critical attention. Often compared to Deborah, the biblical 'Mother in Israel' (Judges 5:7), women in these gathered churches were instrumental in 'bringing forth' joy to their metaphorical children of Israel, by prophesying ways in which enemies of their congregations would face retribution and by continually strengthening church practices in time for the second coming of Christ. This study explores the various ways in which these mid-seventeenth-century women worked to strengthen their congregations through their writings, believing that they had been divinely inspired to edify those whose practice was wanting, and vindicate rightful walking in his name.
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Cloud, Christine M. "Embodied authority in the spiritual autobiographies of four early modern women from Spain and Mexico." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1143222943.
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Heim, Robin. "Autobiography as self-defense in the works of Agnes Newton-Keith and Michelle Kennedy." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/135.
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This thesis examines the captivity narrative, Three Came Home, written in 1947 by Agnes Newton-Keith, and the poverty narrative, Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America: My Story, written in 2005 by Michelle Kennedy. When examined together through the lens of Trauma Theory, these narratives provide evidence of how similar the survival skills and strategies are between the American female POW's and the American females experiencing downward mobility. This thesis will also show how language uncovers and decodes the presence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder not often associated with women in poverty.
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Attarian, Hourig. "Lifelines : matrilineal narratives, memory and identity." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115621.
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This inquiry explores matrilineal autobiographical narratives in the contexts of family stories and memories. This self-study traces the stories of a collective of five women of a common Armenian heritage, who represent various generational, homeland and diasporic portraits and experiences. Carrying the burden of being descendants of genocide survivors, the memories we reconstruct and interpret deal with issues of inherited exile, dispossession, loss, trauma, survival and healing. In exploring these narratives, I engage in self-reflexivity as we construct, re-construct, re-present our narratives and their impact on our constructions and negotiations of self and identity.I use the family album metaphor as a foundation for my narrative framework and weave together the participants' and my autobiographical reconstructions through the intertwined stories of memory, trauma and displacement. The self-reflexive nature of our multilayered autobiographical narratives reconnects our selves with our pasts. Within a diasporic frame, I use the narratives as interpretive tools to explore the effects of multigenerational diasporic experiences on constructions of identity and agency.
The relationships we develop using face-to-face group conversations, virtual discussions through a Web forum and emails, personal reflexive journals, photo props and collaged images, highlight a dialogic process of imagined possibilities for the transformative power of storying. The autobiographical inquiry bridges voice to self and self to voice. This authoring process is an essential medium to writing ourselves as women. The process also allows us to reclaim our vulnerabilities as sources of inner strength and to embrace this understanding as the locus of writing.
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Gumbar, Dziyana P. "Autobiographical subjectivity in Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent dancing and Marjorie Agosín's The alphabet in my hands." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/4567.
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Thesis (M.A.)--George Mason University, 2009.Vita: p. 154. Thesis director: Ricardo F. Vivancos Pérez. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Oct. 12, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-153). Also issued in print.
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Otero, Ellan B. "The Fiction of The Rime: Gaspara Stampa’s “Poetic Misprision” of Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1733.
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This study maintains that although Gaspara Stampa's Rime (1554) appears to straddle two popular literary genres-lyric poetry and autobiography-analysis of the Rime within its cultural context demonstrates that while Stampa (1523-1553) used Petrarchan conventions, she also both borrowed and swerved from Giovanni Boccaccio's Elegy of Lady Fiammetta (1334-1337) to imagine a non-Petrarchan narrative of an abandoned woman. In the Renaissance, lyric poetry and autobiography were distinguished not only by their style-prose vs. verse-but, more importantly, by the treatment of their distinctive subject matter. Lyric poetry focused on those emotions involving love, whereas Renaissance autobiography shunned emotions. A comparative analysis of the Rime with the Elegy concludes that the Rime is not a lyric version of Boccaccio's Elegy; however, a consideration of Harold Bloom's "anxiety of influence" demonstrates that although Stampa borrowed the Boccaccian idea of the woman as narrator to tell the story of love and abandonment, she creatively adapted-or, to use Bloom's term, swerved from-Boccaccio's presentation of the abandoned narrator's psychological pain. Instead, Stampa depicts the frustrations and the pain of the narrator whose love is unrequited although her beloved remains nearby.
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Dantzler, Camille Ciara. "Exchange of Fictions: Exploring the Intersections of Gendered Self-narration and Testimonio Representations on the Rwandan Genocide." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343847882.
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Flinders, Emily Marie. "A Page of Her Own: How Women Navigate the Public and Private Facets of Blogging." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5679.
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This paper explores the complexity of the texts women create through blogging and their inherent value. I seek to explore how the mothers who blog are constructing online identities for their family units and family members in this space and how those constructions affect and inform the mothers' construction of their personal identities online. I analyze how perceptions of gender norms and practices of gender performance may affect and inform the identities thus constructed, and further complicate the liminal nature of blogging spaces. I begin with the sociological framework of Erving Goffman, which is commonly used to deconstruct identity performance in social and digital mediums through his explanation of social performance and identity construction. After presenting the shortcomings of this framework, such as its inability to deal with the more private aspects of blogging, I introduce theories of gender performance and feminist autobiographical studies to frame a constructive discussion of the subjectivities and constructed identities within women's blog posts. I explore the role and effects of audience relationships in creating autobiographical writing. I illustrate the co-constitutive relationship between understood norms, gender norms, and genres in blogging, as well as the forms that bloggers' self-representations take. , I analyze factors that inform female authorship and how these factors are shaped by prior models of female authorship, demonstrating how the private/public paradox of blogging informs how women perceive of their audiences in a gender-conscious way, and how that in turn affects their blogging behavior. I offer suggestions for how the study questions in this thesis can inform the decisions women make when they perform their identities through disclosive blogging. I demonstrate how an increased awareness of the unique qualities and tendencies of female subjectivity can decrease women's inclination to define their experiences as an “other” to a male normative. I also show that as women highly regard their autobiographical blogging, blogging can become more effective in fulfilling the autobiographical urge and can have a democratizing effect on global dialogue about blogging.
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Brundin, Petra, and Erika Tovgård. "Kampen mot bröstcancer : Kvinnors upplevelser av vad som ger livskraft." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-34052.
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Bakgrund: I Sverige drabbas över 7000 kvinnor av bröstcancer varje år. Kvinnor med bröstcancer kan uppleva ångest och oro inför framtiden. Att vara optimistisk och fokusera på överlevnad behövs för att ta sig igenom behandlingarna. Kvinnor behöver stöd från sin omgivning för att må bra och hålla hoppet uppe. Kvinnornas partner drabbas också hårt av cancerdiagnosen. Vad som ger kvinnor livskraft från diagnos till avslutad behandling är oklart. Syfte: Att belysa vad bröstcancerdrabbade kvinnor upplever ger livskraft under behandlingsperioden Metod: En litteraturstudie baserad på fem självbiografier skrivna av kvinnor som drabbats av bröstcancer har använts. Vid analysen av självbiografierna har en kvalitativ manifest innehållsanalys använts. Resultat: Resultatet visade att stöd behövdes för att ge livskraft att orka ta sig igenom behandlingsperioden. Genom positivt tänkande och hopp blev det lättare för kvinnorna att kämpa mot bröstcancern. Strävan efter ett normalt vardagsliv med intressen och familj var också betydelsefullt för att hitta livskraft. Slutsats: Det som kvinnorna upplevde gav livskraft var bland annat stöd från familj och vänner och en vilja att överleva. Livskraften utgår från positivt tänkande och en stöttande familj, vänner och sjukvårdspersonal.
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Sandsjö, Emma, and Lili-Ann Carlsson. "När livet aldrig mer blir sig likt : Att leva med bröstcancer." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-12084.
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Bakgrund: Bröstcancer är en av de vanligaste cancerdiagnoserna bland kvinnor och varje år drabbas cirka 8000 kvinnor. När kvinnorna drabbas av bröstcancer kommer cancerbeskedet ofta oväntat och kan medföra ett stort lidande. Efter olika behandlingar sker en förändring av kvinnans kropp och kvinnorna upplever att deras kvinnlighet och identitet går förlorad. Kvinnorna måste lära sig att leva med och acceptera förändringen, detta är en daglig utmaning för många av kvinnorna. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att beskriva kvinnors upplevelser av att leva med bröstcancer. Metod: En kvalitativ datainsamling användes och åtta självbiografiska böcker skrivna av kvinnor som upplevt hur det är att leva med bröstcancer lästes. Biografierna analyserades med hjälp av en narrativ analys. Resultat: I analysen framkom tre kategorier; en förändrad livssituation, att inte vara ensam och en förlorad kvinnlighet. Diskussion: När kvinnorna drabbas av bröstcancer förändras deras livsvärld och ett lidande uppstår. Att övervinna cancern och öka välbefinnandet är det stora målet. För att klara av att leva krävs bra information och ett bra stöd. Möjligheten till en bättre hälsa kan då upplevas. Slutsats: Kvinnornas livsvärld förändras och behovet av stöd är viktigt. När sjuksköterskan har kunskap om kvinnornas upplevelser ökar förutsättningarna för personcentrerad vård.
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Hershkowitz, Robin Hershkowitz. "Popular Memoirs of Women Held Captive." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1530381667241048.
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Karlsson, Lena. "Multiple Affiliations : Memory and Place in Autobiographical Narratives of Displacement by (Im)migrant US Women." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Moderna språk, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-12674.
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Multiple Affiliations explores the autobiographical negotiations of memory and multilocality articulated by five (im)migrant women writers writing from, and being read (primarily) within, the US. Texts as diverse as Korean-American Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée (1982), Polish (Jewish)-American Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation: Life in a New Language (1989), Chinese-American Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976) and China Men (1980), Caribbean/African-American Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982), and Pakistani-American Sara Suleri's Meatless Days (1989) highlight how various (cross-race and transnational) experiences of location, dislocation, and relocation resonate with each other and "immigrant America." Whereas the conventional immigration/assimilation paradigm assumes the resolvability of difference, (im)migration, related to the concept of diaspora, is sensitive to "different differences," related to race, class, gender, etc. Further, (im)migration points to the variability and mobility within the immigrant experience. I use the concept of diaspora, not as a metaphor, but as a lens through which to investigate subjectivities that disturb the assumed union between place, culture and identity. I further employ various exigencies of "locational feminism" to take into account shifting, unstable, postmodern identities and, at the same time, pay attention to historical and material particularities. Multiple Affiliations shows how "diasporic" dialectics - negotiations of here and there, continuity and change, roots and routes - continually shape (im)migrant subjectivities, even if the possibility of returning to the homeland is precluded and even if the experience of immigration is not firsthand. Acts of imaginative memory are called upon to re-configure diasporic identity by linking the present and the past, here and there, self and ethnic group, and with marked insistence, to rewrite history, frequendy to trouble national schemes. I propose that, far from inhabiting separate spheres, immigrant and diasporic sensibilities often overlap.digitalisering@umu
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Bochixio, Lucimara Bauab. "\'Three Tall Women\', de Edward Albee: autobiografia ou crítica à sociedade norte-americana?" Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-05032008-142441/.
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No prefácio da peça Three Tall Women, o dramaturgo norte-americano Edward Albee declara ter-se baseado em sua mãe adotiva para a composição de sua personagem. Por esse motivo, a crítica teatral norte-americana passou a considerar a peça simplesmente como uma autobiografia de seu autor. É fato que Edward Albee se utilizou de elementos de sua própria vida na obra, mas a peça não se restringe a isso: a autobiografia serviu de ferramenta para a realização de uma crítica contundente aos valores cultivados pela classe média alta norte-americana. Grande parte da crítica norte-americana, ao se referir à peça Three Tall Women, ressalta seu aspecto autobiográfico, mas não toca, de forma alguma, no aspecto de crítica à ideologia norte-americana presente na obra. Dessa forma, a presente dissertação propõe-se a identificar e analisar os elementos de crítica à sociedade norte-americana encontrados na peça Three Tall Women, por meio da análise dos diálogos de seus personagens. Finalmente, este trabalho também analisará a convergência entre a forma e o conteúdo nessa obra, ou seja, a forma mais adequada, escolhida pelo autor, para a exposição de determinado conteúdo.In the play Three Tall Women, the American playwright Edward Albee states that one of his characters is based on his adoptive mother. For this reason, American critics consider the play essentially an autobiography of its author. It is true that Edward Albee has used some elements of his life in his play, but Three Tall Women is not limited to that: Edward Albee\'s autobiography is like a tool for the crushing criticism concerning some values supported by the American high-middle class. A great part of the American critics emphasizes the autobiography element concerning the play Three Tall Women, but definitely they do not mention the aspect of criticism about the American ideology in the play. In this way, this paper aims to identify and to analyze the elements of criticism concerning the American society found in the play Three Tall Women through the characters dialogues. Finally, this paper also aims to analyze the convergence between form and theme; the most adequate form, chosen by the author, for the presentation of such theme.
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Petersson, Amanda, and Karin Eemland. "“Jag började snegla på omgivningens beteenden, hur skulle man vara för att smälta in?” : En kvalitativ studie om kvinnor med autism och deras hanteringsstrategier i sociala sammanhang." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Socialt arbete, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-38588.
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The study examines the experiences of autism and the strategies women with autism use to bridge the socio-communicative difficulties that autism may result in. The investigated material consists of autobiographical books written by women with an autism diagnosis. The method used is a qualitative content analysis, focusing on the manifest content. The result is discussed in relation to norms and normality and to hide stigma with the help of Goffman's theories on stigma and dramaturgical perspectives. The study shows that women use different strategies to mask their autistic difficulties. It also suggests that women use camouflage to reach up to the expectations and standards that are in interaction with neurotypical people. The study also shows that there is a downside to using a masking method. To constantly hiding their true self to others can lead to stress, psychological distress and confusion about their identity. Furthermore, the study shows that the use of strategies is based on an internal and external pressure to fit into social contexts.Studien undersöker upplevelser av autism och de handlingsstrategier kvinnor med autism använder för att överbrygga socio-kommunikativa svårigheter som autism kan medföra. Det undersökta materialet utgörs av självbiografiska böcker som är skrivna av kvinnor med en autism diagnos. Metoden som använts är en kvalitativ innehållsanalys med fokus på det manifesta innehållet. Resultatet diskuteras i förhållande till normer genom Goffmans teorier om stigma och det dramaturgiska perspektivet. I studien framgår att kvinnorna använder sig av olika strategier för att maskera sina autistiska svårigheter samt för att nå upp till förväntningar och normer som finns i samspelet med neurotypiska personer. Studien visar även på att det finns en baksida med att använda en maskerande metod. Att ständigt dölja sitt sanna jag för andra människor kan leda till stress, psykisk ohälsa och förvirring kring den egna identiteten. Vidare visar studien att användandet av strategier bottnar i en inre- och yttre press för passa in i sociala sammanhang.
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Andersson, Melinda, and Clara Gustavsson. "Att leva med ett dödshot : När bröstcancern tog över livet." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-16396.
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Bakgrund: Varje dag drabbas kvinnor i Sverige av bröstcancer som är den vanligaste cancerformen hos kvinnor. Att få ett bröstcancerbesked är omvälvande och sätter hela livssituationen på spel, särskilt när dessa kvinnor befinner sig mitt i arbetslivet med familj och barn. Det är viktigt för sjuksköterskor att veta hur dessa kvinnor upplever sin situation för att kunna bedriva bästa möjliga vård. Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva kvinnors upplevelser av hur det är att leva med bröstcancer. Metod: En kvalitativ undersökningsmetod med ett induktivt förhållningssätt valdes där datamaterialet bestod av självbiografier. Resultat: Ur analysen av datamaterialet framkom sju teman; en tid av ovisshet, en vilja att överleva, en påfrestande behandling, hoppfulla tecken, en stödjande omgivning, en förändrad livssyn samt en förändrad kropp. Slutsats: Kvinnor som lever med bröstcancer har ett turbulent liv som medför flera påfrestande behandlingar vilket påverkar deras livskvalitet. Upplevelsen är individuell och det krävs stöd från både närstående och vårdpersonal för att kvinnor ska orka ta sig igenom sjukdomsprocessen då de känner sig utlämnade i sjukdomen.Background: Every day women in Sweden suffer from breast cancer, that also is the most common cancer form for women. Getting a breast cancer diagnosis is overwhelming and puts the whole life situation at stake, especially when these women are in the middle of working life with family and children. It is important for nurses to know how these women experience their situation in order to provide the best care possible. Aim: The aim of the study was to describe women's experiences of living with breast cancer. Method: A qualitative survey method with an inductive approach was chosen where the data consisted of autobiographies. Results: From the analysis of the data, seven themes are shown; a time of uncertainty, a willingness to survive, an urgent treatment, hopeful signs, a supportive environment, changing view of life and a changed body. Conclusion: Women with breast cancer live a turbulent life that causes several stressful treatments that affect their quality of life. The experience is individual and requires support from both close relatives and healthcare professionals, to help the women get through the disease process as they feel exposed to the disease.
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Hyder, Evelyn. "Women in the Holocaust the memoirs of Ruth Kluger, Cordelia Edvardson, and Judith Magyar Isaacson /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1241209221.
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Everson, Elisa Ann. ""A Little Labour of Love": The Extraordinary Career of Dorothy Ripley, Female Evangelist in Early America." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04212007-161752/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2007.Title from file title page. Reiner Smolinski, committee chair; Tanya Caldwell, Malinda Snow, committee members. Electronic text (661 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Nov. 7, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 633-661).
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Vallier, Elise. "Pour la défense des femmes : étude d’écrits d’Africaines-Américaines, de 1860 jusqu’au début des années 1920»." Thesis, Paris Est, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PESC0090/document.
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Au XIXème siècle et jusqu’au début du XXème siècle, les Africaines Américaines étaient exclues des codes de féminité américains, qui posaient en modèle la « femme victorienne ». Souvent jugées « immorales », elles étaient la cible de nombreuses critiques, notamment dans la presse. Au tournant du siècle, lorsque le modèle victorien laissa peu à peu la place à celui de la « nouvelle femme », les Africaines Américaines continuèrent à revendiquer leur statut de femmes et redéfinirent ce que signifiait être une femme noire aux États-Unis.Nous avons voulu étudier la façon dont certaines activistes, membres de clubs de femmes et intellectuelles appartenant à la classe moyenne et supérieure, envisageaient leur identité de femmes entre le début des années 1860 et le début des années 1920. Cette étude s’appuie sur leurs récits de vie, tels que leurs autobiographies, journaux intimes, correspondance, ainsi que sur leurs discours, essais, et articles parus dans la presse.Le but de cette thèse est d’analyser les attitudes et les stratégies adoptées par ces femmes pour défendre l’image de la femme noire aux États-Unis, à une période charnière de l’histoire américaine. Cette biographie collective examine tout particulièrement la vie et la pensée de quatre activistes majeures de cette période: Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944), Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931), dont la voix s’éleva contre le lynchage, Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954), et Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964), qui fut l’une des premières féministes noires américainesIn the nineteenth century, African American women’s womanhood was denied and constantly under attack. After emancipation (1865), they crafted their own definition of what it meant to be a woman of color in the United States. At the turn of the century, as Victorianism was gradually yielding ground, the model of the modern, “new woman” emerged. In this context, African American women went on redefining the meaning of black womanhood. This dissertation examines how some African American women activists, clubwomen and intellectuals belonging to the middle and upper-classes reflected upon being a woman and asserted their womanhood between the 1860s and the early 1920s.This study analyzes the attitudes and strategies they adopted, in their life writings, – such as their autobiographies, diaries and letters – their articles, essays and speeches and in their club work, to defend the image of women of color in the rapidly changing society of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This dissertation also explores the importance of the notions of region and nation in the definition of womanhood. This interpretive collective biography particularly examines the lives and thoughts of four major activists of the time period: Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944), Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931), the famous crusader against lynching, Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954), and Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964), one of the first black feminists in America
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Martin, Victoria. "Creating a space in the freak show Katharine Butler Hathaway's The little locksmith /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1798481001&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Eppel, Ruth. "The limitations and possiblilites of identity and form in selected recent memoirs and novels by white, female Zimbabwean writers : Alexandra Fuller, Lauren Liebenberg." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001985.
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This study examines selected works by four white female Zimbabwean writers: Alexandra Fuller, Lauren Liebenberg, Bryony Rheam and Lauren St John, in light of the controversy over the spate of white memoirs which followed the violent confiscation of white farms in Zimbabwe from 2000 onwards. The controversy hinges on the notion that white memoir writers exploit the perceived victimhood of white Zimbabweans in the international sphere, and nostalgically recall a time of belonging – as children in Rhodesia – which fails to address the fraught colonial history which is directly related to the current political climate of the country. I argue that such critiques are too generalised, and I regard the selected texts as primarily critical of the values and lifestyles of white Rhodesians/Zimbabweans. The texts I have selected include a range of autobiographical and fictional writing, or memoirs and pseudo-memoirs, and I focus on form as a medium enabling an exploration of identity. The ways in which these authors conform to and adapt particular narratives of becoming is examined in each chapter, with a particular focus on the transition from innocence to experience, the autobiography, and the Bildungsroman. Gender is a recurring point of interest: in each case the female selves/protagonists are situated in terms of the family, which, in reflecting social values, is a key site of conflict. In regard to trends in white African writing, I explore the white African (farm) childhood memoir and the confessional mode. Ultimately I maintain that while the texts may be classified as white writing, as they are fundamentally concerned with white identity, and therefore evince certain limitations of perspective and form, including clichéd tendencies, all the writers interrogate white identity and the fictional texts more self-reflexively deconstruct tropes of white writing.
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Birgersson, Elsa, and Sofia Lundberg. "Unga svenska kvinnors erfarenheter av att leva med Anorexia Nervosa : En självbiografistudie." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-16824.
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Bakgrund: Anorexia nervosa (AN) innebär en viljestyrd viktnedgång där en låg sjukdomsinsikt ofta förekommer. Bland de psykiska sjukdomarna har AN den högsta mortaliteten och antalet som vårdas för sjukdomen har sedan 1990-talet tredubblats. För att kunna förstå och på ett djupare plan kunna hjälpa unga kvinnor som lever med sjukdomen behövs kunskap och erfarenhet av deras upplevelser. Syfte: Att beskriva unga svenska kvinnors erfarenheter av att leva med Anorexia nervosa. Metod: Induktiv ansats där datamaterialet bestående av självbiografier analyseras med kvalitativ innehållsanalys.Resultat: Ur analysen framkom tre kategorier; påverkan på självkänslan, svårigheter i relationen med familj och vänner och sjukdomen reglerar vardagen med sex underkategorier. Konklusion: Unga kvinnor med AN har ett kontrollbehov som orsakar en social hämning och ångest. Dessa kvinnor behöver bekräftelse från sin omgivning och hälso- och sjukvården på att de är sjuka och har rätt till att må bättre.Background: Anorexia nervosa (AN) means a will-controlled weight loss and there is often a low disease insight. AN has the highest mortality rate among mental illnesses, and the number of people who are cared for because of the disease have tripled since the 1990s. Knowledge of young womens expirence of AN are needed to be able to in a deeper level understand and help young women living with the disease. Purpose: To describe young Swedish women's experiences of living with Anorexia nervosa. Method: The data were analysed using qualitative content analysis. The data material consists of five autobiographies. Results: The analysis revealed three categories; the influence on self- esteem, difficulties in the relationship with family and friends and the disease regulates everyday life with six subcategories. Conclusion: Young women with AN have a need of control that causes a social inhibition and anxiety. These women need confirmation from both their environment and health care that they have a disease.
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Fisher, Leona C. "Fortune Personified and the Fall (and Rise) of Women in Chaucer's Monk's Tale and the Autobiographical Writings of Christine de Pizan." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd848.pdf.
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Bastos, Laísa Marra de Paula Cunha. "As estratégias dos best-sellers e os processos de produção de autobiografias de mulheres muçulmanas." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2015. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/4774.
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The study aims to understand the ways in which best-selling autobiographies by Muslim women are produced. As a representative corpus, the books Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali; Princess, by Jean Sasson/Sultana; and I am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai/Christina Lamb were selected. Using Pierre Bourdieu's methodology – for whom a literary work should not be studied only by its text, but also by its insertion and circulation in various fields (literary, political, social) – the study conjectures that these narratives of life, since manufactured in the West and founded on the logic of the cultural industry of mass production of popular literature, are presented to the public circumscribed by neo-Orientalist discourses of the clash of civilizations. We refer to the discourses displayed in the post-September 11, 2001, which, reiterating the Orientalist discourse criticized by Edward Said, divided the world into superior West versus inferior Middle East. Therefore, we investigate, in the first chapter, the implications of the discourse of War on Terror to the commercial interest in personal narratives of Muslim women. Furthermore, we describe the corpus of narratives in order to characterize the subgenre of best-selling autobiographies of Muslim women, especially with regard to the dichotomies freedom/oppression, subversion/submission. In the second chapter, we analyse the importance of the autobiographical genre and the concepts of truth and authenticity to the rise of these books, as well as the relations of co-authorship present in such narratives. Then, in the third chapter, the focus is on making visible the editorial voices and their contributions to the spectacularization of the topos of the Muslim woman as a victim to be rescued from her society. To do so, the discourses of the peritext (cover, back cover and tabs) of these autobiographies will be examined. Therefore, we seek to question the limits and possibilities of self-representation of the subaltern subject in contexts marked by inequality of forces and intermediations of the speech.
O trabalho objetiva compreender os modos de produção de autobiografias best-sellers de mulheres muçulmanas. Como corpus representativo, selecionamos os livros Infiel, de Ayaan Hirsi Ali; Princesa, de Jean Sasson/Sultana; e Eu sou Malala, de Malala Yousafzai/Christina Lamb. Usando metodologia de Pierre Bourdieu, para quem uma obra literária não deve ser estudada apenas por seu texto, mas também por sua inserção e circulação nos diversos campos (literário, político, social), parte-se da hipótese de que essas narrativas de vida, uma vez que fabricadas no Ocidente com base nas lógicas da indústria cultural de massa e da literatura de grande produção, são apresentadas ao público circunscritas pelos discursos neoorientalistas do choque de civilizações. Referimo-nos aos discursos veiculados no pós-11 de setembro de 2001, que, reiterando o discurso orientalista criticado por Edward Said, dividiram o mundo em Ocidente superior versus Oriente inferior. Assim sendo, investigam-se, no primeiro capítulo, as implicações dos discursos da Guerra ao Terror para o interesse comercial em narrativas pessoais de mulheres muçulmanas. Além disso, as narrativas do corpus são examinadas no intuito de caracterizar o subgênero de autobiografias best-sellers de mulheres muçulmanas, principalmente no que concerne às dicotomias liberdade/opressão, subversão/submissão. No segundo capítulo, problematizam-se os pressupostos e a importância do gênero autobiográfico e dos conceitos de verdade e autenticidade para a ascensão desses livros, bem como as relações de coautoria presentes em tais narrativas. Depois, no terceiro capítulo, o foco está em tornar visíveis as vozes editoriais e suas contribuições para a espetacularização do topos da mulher muçulmana enquanto vítima a ser resgatada de sua sociedade. Para tanto, serão analisados os discursos peritextuais dessas autobiografias (capa, contracapa e abas). Assim sendo, busca-se problematizar os limites e as possibilidades da auto-representação do sujeito subalterno em contextos marcados pela inequidade de forças e por agenciamentos da fala.
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Abu, Sarhan Taghreed Mahmoud. "Voicing the Voiceless: Feminism and Contemporary Arab Muslim Women's Autobiographies." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1322605173.
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Smit, Lizelle. "Narrating (her)story : South African women’s life writing (1854-1948)." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97034.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University. 2015ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Seeking to explore modes of self-representation in women’s life writing and the ways in which these subjects manipulate the autobiographical ‘I’ to write about gender, the body, race and ethnic related issues, this thesis interrogates the autobiographies of three renegade women whose works were birthed out of the de/colonial South African context between 1854-1948. The chosen texts are: Marina King’s Sunrise to Evening Star: My Seventy Years in South Africa (1935), Melina Rorke’s Melina Rorke: Her Amazing Experiences in the Stormy Nineties of South-African History (1938), and two memoirs by Petronella van Heerden, Kerssnuitsels (1962) and Die 16de Koppie (1965). My analysis is underpinned by relevant life writing and feminist criticism, such as the notion of female autobiographical “embodiment” (239) and the ‘I’s reliance on “relationality” (248) as discussed in the work of Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson (Reading Autobiography). I further draw on Judith Butler’s concept of “performativity” (Bodies that Matter 234) in my analysis in order to suggest that there is a performative aspect to the female ‘I’ in these texts. The aim of this thesis is to illustrate how these self-representations of women can be read as counter-conventional, speaking out against stereotypical perceptions and conventions of their time and in literatures (fiction and criticism) which cast women as tractable, compliant pertaining to patriarchal oversight, as narrow-minded and apathetic regarding achieving notoriety and prominence beyond their ascribed position in their separate societies. I argue that these works are representative of alternative female subjectivities and are examples of South African women’s life writing which lie ‘dusty’ and forgotten in archives; voices that are worthy of further scholarly research which would draw the stories of women’s lives back into the literary consciousness.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In ‘n poging om metodes van self-uitbeelding te bespreek en die manier waarop die ‘ek’ van vroulike ego-tekste manipuleer om sodoende te skryf oor geslagsrolle, die liggaam, ras en ander etniese kwessies, ondersoek hierdie verhandeling die outbiografieë van drie onkonvensionele vrouens se werk, gebore vanuit die de/koloniale konteks in Suid-Afrika tussen 1854-1948. Die ego-tekste wat in hierdie navorsingstuk ondersoek word, sluit in: Marina King se Sunrise to Evening Star: My Seventy Years in South Africa (1935), Melina Rorke se Melina Rorke: Her Amazing Experiences in the Stormy Nineties of South-African History (1938), en twee memoirs geskryf deur Petronella van Heerden, Kerssnuitsels (1962) en Die 16de Koppie (1965). My analise word ondersteun deur relevante kritici van feministiese en outobiografiese velde. Ek bespreek onder andere die idee dat die vroulike ‘ek’ liggaamlik “vergestalt” (239) is in outobiografie, asook die ‘ek’ se afhanklikheid van “relasionaliteit” (248) soos uiteengesit in die werk van Sidonie Smith en Julia Watson (Reading Autobiography). Verder stel ek voor, met verwysing na Judith Butler, dat daar ‘n “performative” (Bodies that Matter 234) aspek na vore kom in die vroulike ‘ek’ van Suid- Afrikaanse outobiografie. Die doel van hierdie tesis is om uit te lig dat hierdie selfvoorstellings van vroue gelees kan word as kontra-konvensioneel; dat die stereotipiese uitbeelding van vroue as skroomhartig, nougeset, gedweë ten opsigte van patriargale oorsig, en willoos om meer te vermag as wat hul onderskeie gemeenskappe vir hul voorskryf, weerspreek word deur hierdie ego-tekste. Die doel is om sodanige outobiografiese vertellings en -uitbeeldings te vergelyk en sodoende uiteenlopende vroulike subjektiwiteite gedurende die periode 1854-1948 te belig. Ek verwys deurlopend na voorbeelde van ander gemarginaliseerde Suid-Afrikaanse vroulike ego-tekse om aan te dui dat daar weliswaar ‘n magdom ‘vergete’ en ‘stof-bedekte’ vrouetekste geskryf is in die afgebakende periode. Ek voor aan dat die ‘stem’ van die vroulike ‘ek’ allermins stagneer het, en dat verdere bestudering waarskynlik nodig is.
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Cremonese, Bárbara. "Vozes silenciadas: as mulheres da geração beat." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2018. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/9048.
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This research looks for to extend the knowledge on the history of the women, being taken as base and example the history of the women beats. Before going into in the history of the women who had been part of this generation, we made an analysis on the contracultural movement Beat generation, the historical context of the period and, after these considerations, we ponder of that forms the women were inserted inside of the circle. As research source, we use the autobiográfico book of the writer beat Carolyn Cassady -, My Years With Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg -, to be able to understand as it inserted itself in the movement and as the men beats, exactly that involuntarily, they strengthened the sort papers. At the same time, we search to analyze the United States society of the second half of century XX, to be able to understand which they had been the places denied to the women and of that forms the relations of being able and the imaginary one on the place of each one had been being constituted. We lead in consideration, also, the difficulties in if studying the women in history. For the analyses that in we consider them to make, it is important to evaluate as the society dealt with these women, which was the relations of being able that already they permeavam the society and of which forms these relations (reverse speed) were constructed and strengthened daily. As cloth of deep, we take in consideration the history of the women and the deletion of these personages in our history, memory and in our books, that is, of that it forms these absences in /de the historical sources daily are reflected in the didactic materials and taught History/learned. We look for to extend the notion of the importance of the women in history and memory, not leaving that the silence and the deletion of its lives and histories hinder its appearance in the historical knowledge and the History taught in classrooms.
Este trabalho busca aprofundar o conhecimento sobre a história das mulheres, tomando como base e exemplo a história das mulheres beats. Antes de adentrarmos na história das mulheres que fizeram parte dessa geração, fizemos uma breve análise sobre o movimento contracultura que ficou conhecido como Beat generation, o contexto histórico do período e, após essas considerações, ponderamos de que formas as mulheres estavam inseridas dentro do círculo. Como fonte de pesquisa, utilizamos o livro autobiográfico da escritora beat Carolyn Cassady –,My Years With Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg –, para podermos compreender como ela se inseria no movimento e como os homens beats, mesmo que involuntariamente, reforçavam os papéis de gênero. Ao mesmo tempo, buscamos analisar a sociedade estadunidense da segunda metade do século XX, para podermos entender quais foram os lugares denegados às mulheres e de que formas as relações de poder e o imaginário sobre o lugar de cada um foram sendo constituídas. Levamos em consideração, também, as dificuldades em se estudar as mulheres na história. Para as análises que nos propomos a fazer, é importante avaliarmos como a sociedade lidava com essas mulheres, quais eram as relações de poder que já permeavam a sociedade e de quais formas essas relações eram (re)construídas e reforçadas diariamente. Como pano de fundo, levamos em consideração a história das mulheres e o apagamento dessas personagens em nossa história, memória e, consequentemente, em nossos livros, ou seja, de que forma essas ausências nas/das fontes históricas são diariamente refletidas nos materiais didáticos e na História ensinada/aprendida. Procuramos ampliar a noção da importância das mulheres na história e memória, não deixando que o silêncio e o apagamento de suas vidas e histórias impeçam a sua aparição no conhecimento histórico e na História ensinada em salas de aula.