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Gascón, Christopher Doherty. "Desire and the woman saint in the Spanish Baroque drama /." Digital version, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p9983211.

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Van, Dort Catherina Theodora Hendrika. "Ideas about women in the earliest printed Dutch vernacular books : female saints' lives, exempla, and their female readers." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299830.

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Donovan, Leslie Ann. "The old English Lives of Saints Eugenia and Eufrosina : a critical edition /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9397.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1993.<br>Includes portions of British Library Manuscript Cotton Julius E VII. in the original Old English and modern English transcription. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [291]-312).

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Mulhern, Kathleen Ann. "Saint Bernard, the Virgin, and women twelfth century womanhood in history and literature /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.

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Hayes, Lydia Helen. "Looking beyond Guinevere : depictions of women in Chrétien de Troyes’ Arthurian romances, the cult of saints, and religious texts of the twelfth century." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12100.

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This thesis provides a reading of Chrétien de Troyes' Arthurian romances that reflects the cultural and intellectual context of twelfth-century Christianity. The impact of this context on Chrétien's romances is examined by identifying the influence that contemporaneous biblical expository texts, hagiography, and the material culture of the cult of saints had upon his work. Although scholars have devoted much attention to the study of Chrétien's romances, and some have examined the potential influences of various medieval Christian beliefs, practices, and symbols on his work, none have yet to p

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Marquis, Rebecca. "Daughters of Saint Teresa authority and rhetoric in the confessional narratives of three twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American women writers /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3240037.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2006.<br>"Title from dissertation home page (viewed July 16, 2007)." Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-10, Section: A, page: 3815. Adviser: Kathleen A. Myers.

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Prus, Erin S. "Divine presence, gender, and the Sufi spiritual path: An analysis of Rabi’ah the Mystic’s identity and poetry." Xavier University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1274714058.

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Hale, Frederick. "Literary challenges to the heroic myth of the Voortrekkers : H.P. Lamont's War, wine and women and Stuart Cloete's Turning wheels." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52325.

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Thesis (PhD)--University of Stellenbosch, 2001.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is an interdisciplinary study of various historical novels which dealt to a greater or lesser degree with the Great Trek and were written between the 1840s and the 1930s in Dutch, Afrikaans and English but with particular emphasis on H.P. Lamont's War, Wine and Women and Stuart Cloete's Turning Wheels (1937). The analysis of all these fictional reconstructions focuses on the portrayal of the Voortrekkers found in them. Much attention is also paid to the historical contexts in which the two principal wo

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Rondou, Katherine. "Le thème de sainte Marie-Madeleine dans la littérature d'expression française, en France et en Belgique, de 1814 à nos jours." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210807.

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Le présent travail enrichit la thématologie à un double niveau, à la fois par une réflexion méthodologique sur les différents modes de manifestation du thème, et par une meilleure connaissance d'un "mythe" littéraire précis, celui de sainte Marie-Madeleine, dont la vitalité ne laisse aucun doute, tant dans la fréquence de l'utilisation du personnage depuis deux mille ans, que dans l'originalité des interprétations, malgré d'inévitables redites et banalités. <p>Sur la base d'une analyse minutieuse des différentes composantes du thème magdaléen dans la littérature franco-belge d'expression franç

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Malo, Roberta. "Saints' relics in medieval English literature." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1186329116.

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Ibarra, Mary-Claire. "Fragile Saints." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2508.

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FRAGILE SAINTS is a magical realist novel set in contemporary Peru. Elsa is struggling with her recent divorce and childhood memories of her family’s silk-producing farm haunt her, so when Elsa’s dying grandmother requests to see her, she visits Peru. There, Elsa learns she has inherited a country house, near the old family hacienda, which is haunted by a dark secret. Elsa is intrigued with the house, its caretakers, and her new lover Gustavo, yet she encounters disturbing ghostly visitors. The novel is written primarily from Elsa’s point of view, as she discovers her purpose, but an omniscien

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Thompson, Angela Myers. "Leaving Her Story: The Path to the Second Marriage in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Middlemarch." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2004. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd593.pdf.

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Schenck, William Casper. "Reading Saints’ Lives and Striving to Live as Saints : Reading and Rewriting Medieval Hagiography." Thesis, Boston College, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1368.

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Thesis advisor: Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner<br>This study demonstrates the essential connection between literature and history by examining the way selected saints’ lives were read and rewritten in Latin and Old French from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries. Building on the concept of the horizon of expectations developed by Hans Robert Jauss, it argues against both the model of literature as a series of timeless classics whose meaning is apparent to the intelligent reader of any age and the tendency to reduce literature to the more or less successful imitation of historical realities. Not onl

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Balombin, Clare Ruth. "Saints in the Roman de Renart." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374062333.

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Jones, Allison. "Saints and sirens : how popular culture creates female icons /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20151044.

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Krook, Ann Sofi. "The portrayal of women in Irish hagiography to circa 900 AD." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326342.

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Perez, Alyssa. "Margaret of Cortona, the second Mary Magdalene a model for the sexual female rendered sexless /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1018.

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Johnson, Melissa Ann. "Subordinate saints : women and the founding of Third Church, Boston, 1669-1674." PDXScholar, 2009. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3662.

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Although seventeenth-century New England has been one of the most heavily studied subjects in American history, women's lived experience of Puritan church membership has been incompletely understood. Histories of New England's Puritan churches have often assumed membership to have had universal implications, and studies of New England women either have focused on dissenting women or have neglected women's religious lives altogether despite the centrality of religion to the structure of New England society and culture. This thesis uses pamphlets, sermons, and church records to demonstrate that

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Cutlip, Andrea. "The influence of holiness : religion, politics, and the veneration of Maria Maddalena De' Pazzi /." Electronic version (PDF), 2003. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2003/cutlipa/andreacutlip.html.

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Diadamo, Fiona. "Nino Ricci's Lives of the saints : le ambiguità dell'immigrato." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79932.

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A large part of Canadian literature being produced today is being done by immigrants and the children of immigrants. Struggling between the dominant culture and the history and traditions of their parents, whom they desire to honor, these writers adopt modes of representation ranging from the elegiac to the ironic.<br>Nino Ricci's first book Lives of the Saints begins from the perspective of Vittorio as an adult, but the narrative that the reader follows is developed from his perspective as a child focusing on his ethnic roots. The narrative structure is two-fold: it is a combination of

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Pendleton, Michael Scot. "Sainthood in the writings of Frederick Buechner." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1997. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p048-0203.

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Phelpstead, Carl Luke. "Dialogues on sainthood : a Bakhtinian reading of saints' lives in the Icelandic Kings' Sagas." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285428.

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Connors, William P. "Mormon Opposition Literature: A Historiographical Critique and Case Study, 1844-57." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1994. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTAF,24572.

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Romanczuk, Barbara L. "Screening Zola's women /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486402544590054.

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Adams, Sarah Joy. "Wonder, derision and fear the uses of doubt in Anglo-Saxon saints' lives /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1185822398.

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Prasad, Anjali. "Does "Little Women" Belittle Women?: Female Influence in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625888.

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Headrick, Ashlee S. Sherman Carol L. "Images of women mentoring women in French literature 1650-1750." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,258.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 10, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Romance Languages (French)." Discipline: Romance Languages; Department/School: Romance Languages.

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Fridriksdottir, Johanna Katrin. "Women, bodies, words and power : Women in old Norse literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527305.

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Hadjitheodorou, Francisca. "Women speak the creative transformation of women in African literature /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08022006-130211/.

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Constantinou, Stavroula. "Female corporeal performances : reading the body in Byzantine passions and lives of holy women /." Uppsala : Uppsala university library, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb402099981.

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Damon, John Edward 1951. "Soldier saints and holy warriors: Warfare and sanctity in Anglo-Saxon England." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282648.

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It is common but too simplistic to say that Old English literature shows the unconscious blending of the traditional Germanic heroic ethos and the early Christian aversion to war. The matter is more complex. Throughout the Latin West, Christian perceptions of a tension between sanctity and warfare changed over the period from the arrival of Roman Christianity in England (AD 597) to the period following the Norman Conquest of 1066. Christian disdain for and rejection of warfare (at times no more than nominal) gave way eventually to active participation in wars considered "just" or "holy." Anglo

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Rauer, Christine. "'Beowulf' and dragon-fights in early medieval hagiography." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368507.

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Oxendine, Jessica Grace. "Warrior Women in Early Modern Literature." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271872/.

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Fantasies about warrior women circulated in many forms of writing in early modern England: travel narratives such as Sir Walter Ralegh's The Discoverie of Guiana (1595) portray Amazon encounters in the New World; poems like Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1596) depict women's skill with a spear; and the plays of Shakespeare, John Fletcher, and others stage the adventurous feats of women on the battlefield. In this dissertation, I analyze the social anxieties that emerge when warrior women threaten gender hierarchies in the patriarchal society of early modern England. The battlefield has tr

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Castro, Lingl Vera. "Assertive women in medieval Spanish literature." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.704745.

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Hay, Jody L. "Native American women in children's literature." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291972.

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This thesis focuses on the roles of Native women in children's literature. The study explores the works of five Native women writers in the United States that have successfully published adult literature and at least one children's book since 1990. The purpose of the research is to gain a better understanding of what these writers reveal about the roles of Native women in their literature for children. The data was collected using content analysis on the books and a questionnaire to determine (1) what roles the Native writers convey in their children's literature; and (2) what these women are

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Nichols, K. Madolyn. "The women who leave : Irish women writing on emigration." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2014. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/66161/.

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This thesis explores the relationship between fin-de-siècle anti-emigration propaganda and fiction written by upper middle-class Irish women. Specifically, it examines the ways in which Catholic authors used the medium of fiction to propound an anti-emigration message analogous to that found in Catholic and nationalist press. Often at stake in their work is the degree to which the peasant female emigrant is to blame for the act of emigration, and the degree of agency she possesses in relation to the events or conditions that lead to this event. Class is a dominant determinant of agency in the

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Richards, Anna. "Passivity or protest? : women, illness and wasting in German novels by women." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312712.

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Brown, Patricia. "The role and symbolism of the dragon in vernacular saints' legends, 1200-1500." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1998. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5414/.

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This thesis looks at the role and function of the dragon in the saint's encounter with the monster in hagiographic texts, written primarily in the vernacular, between 1200 and 1500. Those connotations accrued by the dragon which are relevant to this thesis are traced from their earliest beginnings. Although by the middle ages the multi-valency of the dragon is reduced to one primary symbolic valency, that of evil and significantly, the evil of paganism, the dragon never loses completely its ancient associations and they help to colour its function within the narrative. The symbolic use of the

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Hurwitz, Melissa. "Dispossessed Women| Female Homelessness in Romantic Literature." Thesis, Fordham University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10281988.

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<p> “Dispossessed Women” examines the status of homeless women in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature, with special attention to both the cultural assumptions and aesthetic power that accrued to these figures. Across the Romantic era, vagrant women were ubiquitous not only in poetry, children’s fiction, novels, and non-fiction, but also on the streets of towns and cities as their population outnumbered that of vagrant males. Homeless women became the focus of debates over how to overhaul the nation’s Poor Laws, how to police the unhoused, and what th

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Taylor, Georgina. "Talking women : H.D. and the public sphere of modernist women writers, 1913-1961." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339927.

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Likosky, Marilyn Schron. "Representations of women in Theocritus /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11453.

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McGucken, Stephenie Eloise. "Saints, mothers and personifications : representations of womanhood in Late Anglo-Saxon illustrated manuscripts." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31323.

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Scholars including Christine Fell, Pauline Stafford and Catherine Cubitt have tried to explain the status of women in Late Anglo-Saxon England in a variety of ways. Some, such as Fell, have framed the earlier Anglo-Saxon period as a golden Age which saw greater freedoms; others, like Stafford, Cubitt and Patricia Halpin, have argued for a more complicated reading, one that acknowledges the impact of the tenth-century monastic reform and the changes in types of religious life open to women. Occasionally studies draw on the art of the period to demonstrate their claims, but none foreground the v

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Chung, Yuen-lam Carmen, and 鍾婉霖. "Modern American women: victims or victors?" Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45007433.

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Brennan, Zoe. "Representations of older women in contemporary literature." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271040.

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This study argues that novels by contemporary women writers, such as Doris Lessing, May Sarton, Barbara Pym and Jenny Diski, through their representation of older female protagonists, create alternative discourses of ageing to those that dominate Western society. By placing these figures at the centre of their narratives, the texts counteract the silence and pejorative stereotyping that routinely surrounds the lives of the aged. The technique of studying literary representations of women is not new; in fact, it is a trusted part of feminist methodology. However, one of the assertions of this d

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Petty, Sue. "Working-class women and contemporary British literature." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2009. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/5441.

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This thesis involves a class-based literary criticism of working-class women s writing. I particularly focus on a selection of novels by three working-class women writers - Livi Michael, Caeia March and Joan Riley. Their work emerged in the 1980s, the era of Thatcherism, which is a definitive period in British history that spawned a renaissance of working-class literature. In my readings of the novels I look at three specific aspects of identity: gender, sexuality and race with the intersection of social class, to examine how issues of economic positioning impinge further on the experience of

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Skomp, Elizabeth Ann. "Women and violence in postwar Russian literature." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.406677.

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Wright, Eamon David. "British women writers and race." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298874.

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Bretag, Tracey. "Subversive mothers : contemporary women writers challenge motherhood ideology /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armb844.pdf.

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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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Shepherd, Hannah. "'Neither in the world nor out' : space and gender in Latin saints' vitae from the thirteenth-century Low Countries." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25840.

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This thesis explores space and gender in twenty-three Latin saints’ vitae from the thirteenth-century Low Countries. In the midst of urbanisation and rejuvenating apostolic zeal, the vitae emerged from a milieu in which groups of women who were unable or unwilling to pursue a traditional religious vocation chose to live a vita mixta, a combination of the contemplative and active life, while remaining in the world. Recent scholarship has moved away from viewing the women through the lens of institutionalisation. However, continued focus on the women’s ecclesiastical status and the labels used t

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