This thesis examines representations of trust in selected British sentimental novels of the eighteenth century. It focuses principally on the manner in which sentimental prose fiction reflects and participates in the shift from premodern to modern formations of trust. Commenting on the nature of modern trust, Anthony Giddens claims that, with the move to modernity, trust relations in the intimate sphere become increasingly dependent on emotional mutuality, while trust in institutions becomes increasingly impersonal and disengaged from assessments of moral character. / My work explores this dual shift in three sentimental novels. It first analyzes Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) and contends that Richardson denies the concept of honor its epistemological role in practical deliberations. The denial of the epistemology of honor uncouples the mechanism of personal trust from assessments of role and role performance and thus makes the trust in persons in the intimate sphere less dependent on institutional forms of trust. To replace honor's role in the formation of trust, Richardson proposes that the sentiments can provide reliable grounds for trust in the intimate sphere. However, he denies the sentiments a role in the formation of an encompassing social trust among strangers and mere acquaintances. The thesis proceeds to read Henry Fielding's Amelia (1751). In order to argue that Fielding envisioned divergent grounds for trust relations, it maintains that Fielding considers trust relations in the intimate sphere and trust relations in public life as based on the sentiments and fair distribution respectively. To conclude, the thesis investigates Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) to uncover the manner in which Goldsmith distinguishes personal trust in the intimate sphere from general system trust, which Goldsmith ultimately envisions as an ontological trust in providence.

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After World War II in Italy the cultural scene was in need of resuscitation. Artists searched for tools with which to revifify their works. Central to this, for many key figures in the fifties and sixties, was an engagement with English-language Modernism. This phenomenon has been widely recognised, but this thesis is its first sustained analysis. I draw together the receptions of three English-language Modernist authors – T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and James Joyce – who, as a triad, were instrumental in the radicalisation of the arts in Italy in the fifties and sixties. I show that their works were elevated as models of an experimental approach to language that was revisited by Italian artists – most notably by poets associated with the Neoavantgarde. The specific Modernist linguistic techniques which were adopted by the Italians that we will consider here are the mingling of languages and styles, the use of citations, and the perversion and manipulation of single words and idioms. The poets considered in most depth to exemplify this phenomenon are Edoardo Sanguineti, who was a major exponent of the Neoavantgarde, and Amelia Rosselli, who was more peripherally and problematically associated with the movement. Both poets desecrated the traditional language of poetry and energised their own poetry with recourse to Modernist techniques which they consciously and deliberately adopted from Eliot, Pound and Joyce. An unpicking of the mechanics of these techniques in Sanguineti's and Rosselli's poetry reveals that their texts necessitate an active mode of reading. This aligns with the intellectual ideas propounded by Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes and Umberto Eco, all of whom grounded their theories on readership in analyses of the linguistic experiments of Modernism. Sanguineti's and Rosselli's poetry fulfil the characteristics of Eco's “open” work, Barthes' “polysemous” work, and bring about Benjamin's “shock-effect” in the reader. These radical linguistic techniques, appropriated from the Modernists, contribute to each poets' overall poetic projects – they enact Edoardo Sanguineti's anarchic and revolutionary impulses, and stage Amelia Rosselli's thematic conflicts.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:22:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Audrey Debei.pdf: 12183799 bytes, checksum: a61bce8b84f4ccaf13bf77df2bb31959 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-11-14 / The main objective of this research is Instituição Assistencial Educacional Amélia Rodrigues, located in Santo André-SP. The context of this search is the period which takes 1989 to 2002, and refers to social policies that were developed in Santo André's district, once they are an inflection point in approach of "social issues", as much to the project of reconstruction of district' s identities, thus of the project Regional Strategic Planning. This research seeked, in these programs, comprehend the emphasize to the volunteer work within a critical point of view about the roll of Non Governamental Organizations (NGO's) into the execution of neoliberal policies. The organization was founded in 1979, as bunâ1e up activities promoted by Social Assistant Department of "Centro Espírita Bezerra de Menenzes", which emerges as an organization that blows the line between traditional philanthropy and the redeployment into "social entrepreneurs", especially during the decades of 1980 and '1990. As long as the institution consolidate e rearrangements to the "third sector" administrative way, lined up to district strategic planning. In this way, is possible to detect an aporia between the speech based on citizenship, at the same time theirs focus in social management built obstac1es to theirs programs and activities, in the sense of goes beyond the line of social needs, taking down the emancipation perspective of struggle / O principal objetivo desta pesquisa centrou-se na Instituição Assistencial Educacional Amélia Rodrigues ,localizada no município de Santo André - SP. O contexto da pesquisa abrange o período que vai de 1989 a 2002, e refere-se às políticas sociais mais amplas desenvolvidas no município, visto que as mesmas constituem-se em um ponto de inflexão importante tanto para a abordagem das questões sociais, quanto para a reflexão sobre a reconstrução da identidade no município por intermédio do Plano Estratégico Regional. Procurou-se ver, nestes programas, a ênfase dada à questão do voluntariado no interior de uma perspectiva crítica sobre o papel das Organizações Não-Governamentais (ONGs) na implementação das políticas neoliberais. Fundada em 1979, através dos desdobramentos das atividades promovidas pelo departamento de Assistência Social do "Centro Espírita Dr. Bezerra de Menezes", emerge como uma entidade exemplar que rompeu o limiar entre a "filantropia tradicional" e o "empreendedorismo social", sobretudo nos anos que vão de 1980 a 1990. Ao se reestruturar ao padrão de gestão do chamado "terceiro setor", alinha-se ao planejamento estratégico municipal. Nesta trajetória, é possível detectar ~ma aporia entre um discurso voltado para a cidadania, ao mesmo tempo em que seu foco na gestão social constitui-se em obstáculo aos beneficiários de seus programas e atividades, no sentido de ultrapassarem os limites de suas carências sociais, esmaecendo o horizonte da emancipação social

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:57:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Audrey Debei.pdf: 12183799 bytes, checksum: a61bce8b84f4ccaf13bf77df2bb31959 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-11-14 / The main objective of this research is Instituição Assistencial Educacional Amélia Rodrigues, located in Santo André-SP. The context of this search is the period which takes 1989 to 2002, and refers to social policies that were developed in Santo André's district, once they are an inflection point in approach of "social issues", as much to the project of reconstruction of district' s identities, thus of the project Regional Strategic Planning. This research seeked, in these programs, comprehend the emphasize to the volunteer work within a critical point of view about the roll of Non Governamental Organizations (NGO's) into the execution of neoliberal policies. The organization was founded in 1979, as bunâ1e up activities promoted by Social Assistant Department of "Centro Espírita Bezerra de Menenzes", which emerges as an organization that blows the line between traditional philanthropy and the redeployment into "social entrepreneurs", especially during the decades of 1980 and '1990. As long as the institution consolidate e rearrangements to the "third sector" administrative way, lined up to district strategic planning. In this way, is possible to detect an aporia between the speech based on citizenship, at the same time theirs focus in social management built obstac1es to theirs programs and activities, in the sense of goes beyond the line of social needs, taking down the emancipation perspective of struggle / O principal objetivo desta pesquisa centrou-se na Instituição Assistencial Educacional Amélia Rodrigues ,localizada no município de Santo André - SP. O contexto da pesquisa abrange o período que vai de 1989 a 2002, e refere-se às políticas sociais mais amplas desenvolvidas no município, visto que as mesmas constituem-se em um ponto de inflexão importante tanto para a abordagem das questões sociais, quanto para a reflexão sobre a reconstrução da identidade no município por intermédio do Plano Estratégico Regional. Procurou-se ver, nestes programas, a ênfase dada à questão do voluntariado no interior de uma perspectiva crítica sobre o papel das Organizações Não-Governamentais (ONGs) na implementação das políticas neoliberais. Fundada em 1979, através dos desdobramentos das atividades promovidas pelo departamento de Assistência Social do "Centro Espírita Dr. Bezerra de Menezes", emerge como uma entidade exemplar que rompeu o limiar entre a "filantropia tradicional" e o "empreendedorismo social", sobretudo nos anos que vão de 1980 a 1990. Ao se reestruturar ao padrão de gestão do chamado "terceiro setor", alinha-se ao planejamento estratégico municipal. Nesta trajetória, é possível detectar ~ma aporia entre um discurso voltado para a cidadania, ao mesmo tempo em que seu foco na gestão social constitui-se em obstáculo aos beneficiários de seus programas e atividades, no sentido de ultrapassarem os limites de suas carências sociais, esmaecendo o horizonte da emancipação social

In previous research in this field of study, the messages from the female magazines have often been aimed at bodily changes in the woman. The opinions that exist about what a woman should look like and what kind of body corrections are accepted in society is of different character. Likewise, opinions differ on the impact from the media in this context. Our survey is based on a constructivist approach where we believe that the media creates a need for the reader to want to change their looks as well as it encourages to consume.   In our survey, we used a quantitative content analysis where we analyzed 93 covers of Amelia, Tara and M-magasin – lifestyle magazines aimed at women of different ages. The theories that we decided to use are gender and female representation, consumer culture and constructivism. With the selected theories we have analyzed the result which has shown that there is a difference between how the magazines form their messages. Something that is common between the three analyzed magazines is that they use a famous model with several messages on the covers. What differs most between the different magazines is how often they send messages about body corrections to the reader. / I den tidigare forskning som vår undersökning har tagit avstamp i hur ofta kvinnomagasinens budskap syftat till kroppsliga förändringar hos kvinnan. De åsikter som finns om hur en kvinna bör se ut och vilka kroppskorrigeringar som är accepterade i samhället skiljer sig åt. Likaså skiljer sig meningarna om vilken påverkan medierna har i detta sammanhang. Vår undersökning utgår från ett konstruktivistiskt synsätt där vi menar att medierna skapar ett behov hos läsaren till att vilja förändra sitt yttre samt en uppmaning till att konsumera.   Vi har i vår undersökning använt oss av en kvantitativ innehållsanalys där vi har analyserat 93 omslag på magasinen Amelia, Tara och M-magasin – livsstilsmagasin riktade till kvinnor i olika åldrar. De teorier som vi har valt att använda oss av är genus och kvinnlig representation, konsumtionskultur samt konstruktivismen. Med de utvalda teorierna har vi analyserat resultatet som har visat att det skiljer sig åt mellan hur magasinen utformat sina budskap i textpuffarna. Något som är gemensamt mellan de tre analyserade magasinen är att de använder sig av en känd modell tillsammans med många textpuffar på omslagen. Det som skiljer sig mest åt mellan de olika magasinen är hur ofta de använder sig av textpuffar med budskap om kroppskorrigering.

Cotutelle Université de Montréal et Université Sorbonne Nouvelle / Ce travail se propose d’étudier la poésie d’Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996), de Toni Maraini (1941), de Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936-2005) et d’Yona Wallach (1944-1985) sous l’angle de la contestation. L’objectif principal est d’analyser l’hybridité poétique et son potentiel politico-contestataire chez ces femmes qui, à travers leur écriture, se rebellent contre les diktats du système patriarcal. L’après-guerre en Italie (Rosselli et Maraini) et la fondation de l’État d’Israël (Ravikovitch et Wallach), deux époques marquées par une forte valorisation du virilisme militariste et héroïque, constituent les contextes d’énonciation de ces œuvres. Selon notre hypothèse, c’est aussi en raison de cette valorisation du virilisme que l’expression poétique de ces femmes se conçoit comme une bataille : chacune à sa manière, les auteures aspirent à une révolution sociétale, concernant en particulier le statut des femmes et de leur écriture. Quelles sont les modalités de configuration de cette bataille, et comment celle-ci se reflète-t-elle dans la poésie de nos auteures ? Comment leur écriture s’exprime-t-elle en tant qu’espace de négociation au sein de la langue des pères ? Cette réflexion prendra la notion d’hybridité comme point de départ, examinant l’idée d’une expression contestataire qui émanerait des interstices mêmes du discours dominant (Bhabha). L’étude sera développée en trois parties principales. D’abord, il s’agira de montrer en quoi l’absorption et l’altération du langage masculin peuvent être utilisées par les femmes comme un outil de révolte aboutissant à un langage renouvelé. Ensuite sera abordée une autre manière, plus subtile, de s’approprier la langue et le pouvoir masculins : l’appropriation et l’ingestion du corpus des hommes, entendu au double sens de matière littéraire (intertextualité) et de corps stricto sensu (cannibalisme). Enfin, nous verrons comment le sujet-femme se déplace à la conquête de l’espace et du temps – ceux-ci étant définis comme des dimensions du privilège masculin – qu’elle hybride aussi. Nous constaterons que la traduction est consubstantielle à cette opération d’hybridation : l’acte traduisant se réalise par une nouvelle cannibalisation du corpus, lequel est alors déplacé vers une autre dimension spatio-temporelle, elle aussi conséquemment hybridée. En étudiant des textes en langue originale (italien, français, hébreu) et dans leurs langues de traduction (anglais, français, italien), nous verrons comment celle-ci agit comme une caisse de résonnance pour poursuivre le geste originaire de bataille et le prolonger dans une autre dynamique à même d’en amplifier le caractère hybride et d’en attiser la flamme contestataire. À travers ces nouvelles pistes interprétatives qui mettent de l’avant la dimension subversive de la poésie de ces auteures, ce travail démontre comment, substituant aux catégories fixes imposées par la société patriarcale une vision plus fluide du monde, l’écriture hybride des femmes fait de la page un espace révolutionnaire depuis lequel un nouveau paradigme peut surgir. / This thesis analyzes the poetry of Amelia Rosselli (1930–1996), Toni Maraini (1941), Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936–2005), and Yona Wallach (1944–1985) from the angle of protest. The main aim of this research is to study the subversive potential of poetic hybridity, as it shows in the work of these women poets. Through their writing, in fact, they rebel against the dictates of the patriarchal system. The context of these works are post-war Italy (Rosselli and Maraini) and the founding of the State of Israel (Ravikovitch and Wallach), both periods marked by militarist virilism and heroic values. According to my hypothesis, such virilism is one of the reasons why the poetic expression of these women is conceived as a battle. Each in their own way, the authors aspire to a social revolution, which focuses on the status of women and their writing. Which shapes does this battle take, and how is it reflected in the poetry of these authors? How is their writing expressed as a space for negotiation within the language of the fathers? Starting from the notion of hybridity, this thesis investigates the idea of a protest expression emanating from the interstices of the dominant discourse (Bhabha). This work is divided into three main parts. Firstly, I show how women appropriate and alter male language as a tool of dissent, thus creating a renovated language. Secondly, I focus on the appropriation and ingestion of the corpus of men: both in the sense of literary material (intertextuality), and as body stricto sensu (cannibalism). Finally, I analyze how the woman-subject conquers and hybridizes space and time, which have been normally defined by male privilege. The act of translation is directly connected with the process of hybridization. Translating, in fact, resolves in a new cannibalization of the corpus, which is then moved to another space-time dimension. By approaching the texts in the original languages (Italian, French, Hebrew), as well as their translations (English, French, Italian), I show how the translation acts as a sounding box, amplifying the original intention of battle. Thanks to these new interpretive trajectories, focusing on the subversive dimension of these authors’ poetry, this work highlights the transformative power of substituting fixed categories imposed by patriarchal society with a more fluid vision of the world. Thus, the hybrid writing of women has the potential to transform the written page into a revolutionary space from which a new paradigm can emerge.

Historian David Bell recently suggested that scholars reconsider the impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815) upon modern culture, naming them the first "total war" in modern history. My thesis explores the significance of the wars specifically in the British mourning culture of the period by studying the war literature of four women writers: Anna Letitia Barbauld, Amelia Opie, Jane Austen, and Felicia Hemans. This paper further asks how these authors contributed to the development of a national consciousness studied by Georg Lukács, Benedict Anderson, and others. I argue that women had a representative experience of non-combatants' struggle to mourn war deaths occurring in relatively foreign lands and circumstances. Women writers recorded and contributed to this representative experience that aided the development of a national consciousness in its strong sense of shared anxieties and grief for soldiers. Excluded physically and experientially, women would have had an especially difficult time attempting to mourn combatant deaths while struggling to imagine the places and manners in which those deaths occurred, especially when no physical bodies came home to "testify" of their loved ones' experiences. Women writers' literary portraits of imagined women mourning those whose bodies never came home provide interesting insights into the strategies employed during the grieving process and ultimately demonstrate their contribution to a collective British consciousness based on mourning. The questions I explore in the first section of this thesis circle around the idea of women as writers and mourners: What were writers saying about war, death, and mourning? What common themes begin to appear in the women's Romantic war literature? And, perhaps most importantly, how did such mourning literature affect the growing sense of nationality coming out of this period? In the second section, I consider more precisely how these literary contributions affected mourning culture when no bodies were present for burial and advanced the development of a national consciousness that recognized the wars' "nobodies." How did women's experiences of being left behind and marginalized in the war efforts prepare them to conceptualize destructive mass deaths abroad, and, conceptualizing them, to mourn them?

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The murders and suspicious disappearances of women across Canada over the past forty years have received considerable national attention in the past decade. The disappearances and murders of scores of women in British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba have highlighted the vulnerability of women to extreme violence. Girls and women of Aboriginal ethnicity have been disproportionally affected in all of these cases and have high rates of violent victimization. The current socio-economic situation faced by Aboriginal women contributes to this. To provide publicly available data of missing and murdered women in Canada, a database was created containing details of 3,329 women, including 824 who are Aboriginal. There are key risk factors that increase the probability of experiencing lethal violence: street prostitution, addiction and insecure housing. The vast majority of sex workers who experience lethal violence are street prostitutes. The dissertation examines the legal status and forms of prostitution in Canada and internationally, as well as the individual and societal impacts of prostitution. A review of current research on violence and prostitution is presented. The thesis provides summaries from 150 serial homicide cases targeting prostitutes in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. The trends and questions posed by these cases are identified. The cases of the missing women of Vancouver and Robert Pickton are detailed. The key findings from the provincial inquiry into the missing women cases and an analysis of the most egregious failings of the investigations (Projects Amelia and Evenhanded) are discussed. Frequently encountered challenges and common errors, as well as investigative opportunities and best practices of police, and other initiatives and recommendations aimed at non-police agencies are evaluated. The three other RCMP-led projects, KARE, DEVOTE and E-PANA, which are large, dedicated units focused on vulnerable women, are assessed. All Canadian women deserve to live free of violence. For women with vulnerable life histories, violence is a daily threat and a common occurrence. More must be done to prevent violence and to hold offenders responsible when violence has been done. This dissertation is a plea for resources and attention; to turn apathy into pragmatic, concrete action founded on solid evidence-based research.