Thesis (S.T.D.)--Catholic University of America, 1939. / At head of title: The Catholic university of America. S. Facultas theologica, 1938-39. no. 56. Bibliography: p. 42-54.

Thesis--São Paulo, 1957. / Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1972. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2005. / Vita. Thesis advisor: Tim Harris. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 307-337). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 363-390).

Orientador: Anderson Deo / Banca: Antonio Carlos Mazzeo / Banca: Angélica Lovatto / Resumo: Este trabalho tem o objetivo de recuperar o conceito de autocracia burguesa presente na obra A Revolução Burguesa no Brasil: Ensaio de interpretação sociológica, de Florestan Fernandes, por partimos da hipótese da atualidade do seu conceito para a problematização sobre o caráter da democracia no Brasil. Subjacente a essa hipótese está a de que as potencialidades explicativas das contribuições sobre o caráter autocrático da dominação burguesa nos países de capitalismo dependente são intensificadas com o recrudescimento da crise estrutural do sistema do capital. Para essas reflexões, o trabalho se dedica à análise das categorias centrais para o entendimento da autocracia burguesa segundo Florestan Fernandes. Assim a autocracia burguesa é aqui entendida como a expressão política máxima e síntese das contradições do tipo de capitalismo aqui possível, o capitalismo dependente, que mantém a extrema concentração de riqueza e de poder político presentes desde o período colonial. / Abstract: This work aims to recover the concept of bourgeois autocracy present in the work A Revolução Burguesa no Brasil: ensaio de interpretação sociológica, Florestan Fernandes, for today we start from the assumption of its concept for questioning about the nature of democracy in Brazil. Underlying this hypothesis is that the explanatory potential of contributions on the autocratic character of bourgeois rule in the countries of dependent capitalism are intensified with the intensification of capital's structural crisis of the system. To these reflections, the work is dedicated to the analysis of the main categories for understanding the bourgeois autocracy under Florestan Fernandes. Thus the bourgeois autocracy is understood here as the maximum political expression and synthesis of the contradictions of the type of capitalism here possible, dependent capitalism, which keeps the extreme concentration of wealth and political power present since the colonial period. / Mestre

North America, the United States in particular, has established an unique and distinct connection to the the wildspaces outside of urban environments. The two spaces, urban and wilderness, are placed in opposition to one another in a sliding valuation scale that is based on the degradation experienced in these urban areas, due to industrialized capitalist means of production, by the inhabitants. These effects are the source of both literary and visual art protests that originate in the 19th century in both generations of the Hudson River School painters, American pastoral writing, philosophy, and photographs. These romanticized views of natural space and out interactions with natural spaces create a deeply sentimental and mythic connection to America's wilderness. This spurs the creation of the National and State Parks and Forests systems that preserve and embalm the idealistic settings for industrialized man to commune with wilderness. These spaces, however, are inherently flawed in their construction and execution. This fact began my investigation into what American society presents as natural, or in some cases, more natural, in the Parks and public lands systems and natural history museums. I argue that the three works presented in my thesis are linked to the greater American pastoral art tradition, but engage wild spaces as a means to create a critical discourse into the authenticity of the ideals established by previous authors and artists. This claim is supported historically through links in methodology and subject matter, but depart from the Romantic and Modernist systems of representation in that my work reveals the manipulated structures that construct both the parks systems and the natural history museums.

This thesis reads three American Naturalist novels, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, and Kate Chopin's The Awakening, as challenges to both domestic ideology and to the market. Exploring the boundaries of an individual's interiority and exteriority, these novels suggest an alternate, more fulfilling existence, though never fully conceptualizing it. Naturalism presents characters who must make sense of their world almost wholly on a material level; the world presented in Naturalism is concerned with the what of a person, not the who. Capitalism splits the self by valuing the outward performance rather than the inward development. The female protagonists of these three novels attempt to gain happiness promised by consumerism through the only plot available to them, that of marriage. When this fails, they all three turn to artistic expression as a way to find the inner fulfillment their commercial society refuses. Carrie, Lily, and Edna value the art they pursue not because of its economic value, but because of the emotional liberation it allows them. In developing their art, each of these women gets the chance to examine the interior life that their societies deny. Looking at marriage and the market within these novels, this thesis examines the split between an individual's exterior and interior in fin-de-siècle American fiction.

Gifford Pinchot’s principles of conservation embody the democratic principles of the United States and how those principles remain relevant today. The three central characteristics of Pinchot’s principles of conservation are wise use, avoiding waste, and securing the autonomy of democratic citizens by preventing monopolistic control over our natural resources. Pinchot’s aim place democratic aspirations at the fore. A case study of the environmental degradation revealed throughout the life-cycle of the cellular phone exhibits how Pinchot’s principles are not only relevant, but sorely needed today. Furthermore, this case study also reveals how globalized corporatism has become the antithesis of the democratic aims of the global citizenry. Pinchot’s principles advise us to check the global monopolies of multinational corporations and greed for greed’s sake to secure a democratic future for the most people, in perpetuity. Though his principles are often neglected, they are more relevant now than ever.

My study focuses on the working lives of Chinese women in the light of China's attempt to incorporate its socialist system into the world economy in the Reform era. My cardinal concern is the formation of a new social body - dagongmei - in contemporary China. The great transformation experienced during the reform era creates significant social changes, and the lives of dagongmei are the living embodiments of such paradoxical processes and experiences. The first part of my thesis looks at how the desire of the peasant girls - the desire of moving out of rural China to the urban industrial zones - is produced to meet the demands of industrial capitalism. The second part, based on an ethnographic study of an electronic factory in Shenzhen, studies the processes of constitution of the subject - dagongmei - in the workplace. First, I look at the disciplines and techniques of the production machine deployed over the female bodies, and see how these young and rural bodies are turned into docile and productive workers. Secondly, the politics of identity and differences is analyzed, to see how the existing social relations and local cultural practices are manipulated to craft abject subjects. Thirdly, the processes of sexualizing the abject subjects in relation to cultural discourses and language politics is unfolded. The final part examines the relation of domination and resistance inside the workplace. Dream, scream and bodily pain are seen as the actual form of struggle against the enormous power of capitalist relations in Chinese society. In short, my study explores the process, the desire, the struggle of young rural girls to become dagongmei; and in the rite of their passages, unravels how these female bodies experience the politics and tension produced by a hybrid mixture of the state socialist and capitalist relations.