Jag har i mitt examensarbete gjort en kollektion kläder till den fiktiva Madame Brilliant, baserad på färgstarka personligheter som bl. a Anna Piaggi och Elsa Schiaparelli. Slår man upp ”glamourös” i en svensk-fransk ordbok finner man glamourös heta brilliant och det är just glamour mitt examensarbete handlar om, vardagsglamour.Jag har till Madame Brilliant skapat drömgarderoben. De plagg den excentriska kvinnan alltid drömmer om men aldrig hittar ute i butikerna; Färgstarka feminina kappor, klänningar och hattar att bära till vardags.Jag har i mitt arbete lagt stor vikt på färgkombinationerna, därför är stylingen och de små detaljerna mycket viktiga. Liksom färgerna i en tavla förhöjer varandra, förhöjer kläderna i min kollektion varandra och ger varandra karaktär.Färgsprakande kläder upplevs ofta som billiga, ofta för att de är gjorda i dåliga kvalitéer till tonåringar eller så är de tantiga och gjorda i linne för kulturtanten. Jag har därför gjort en kollektion till kvinnan som varken vill vara tonåring eller tant, kvinnan utan ålder, mina plagg har ingen ålder, bara personlighet. Jag har valt att använda mig av lyxiga material som man oftast inte använder till färgstarka kläder; siden, ull, sammet, viscosecrepe, fjädrar och hårfilt. Jag har även använt mig utav enklare material som bomull och syntetmaterial, men då just för att det ska ge en viss känsla åt plagget. Tygerna har jag gjort mer personliga genom applikationer och att blanda olika mönster och färger i plaggen.För att ge kollektionen en tidlös känsla har jag använt mig av klassiska feminina siluetter, timglasformen, prinsess-skärningen, fodralklänningen. Kläderna i min kollektion ska hålla i flera säsonger och vara bärarinnans favoritplagg. De plagg man aldrig slänger för att de är unika, tidlösa och gjorda i material av bra kvalité.Kollektionen är inspirerad av den kvinnliga kurviga kroppen, d v s kvinnor med midja , byst och rumpa. Mycket av modet ute i butikerna är gjorda till pojkflickan. Mitt mål är att framhäva kurviga kvinnors skönhet, men även personlighet hos var och en, att det inte handlar så mycket om kropp och ett vackert ansikte, med mina kläder spelar det ingen roll hur man ser ut, allt handlar om personlighet. Jag vill med min kollektion sprida färg, glamour, energi, humor och glädje. Säga nej till vardagstristessen och ja till vardagsglamouren!I have in my degree collection made a wardrobe for the fictive lady Madame Brilliant based on colourful women like Anna Piaggi and Elsa Schiaparelli. I have been working with everyday glamour and bright colours. I have created for Madame Brilliant the dream wardrobe. I have made the clothes the colourful women dream of, but never find in stores, feminine coats, dresses and hats, glamorous clothes for everyday life in exclusive fabrics.In my design process I’ve been working with the combination of colours, that’s why the styling and the small details are very important. Just like the colours in a painting give each other life, the clothes in my collection give each other life with the colours and pattern in the fabric.Many people experience brave colour as cheap, often because they’re made in cheap fabrics and are made for teenagers or old ladies without any sense of style and fashion. I have made my collection for the woman/girl without any age who likes clothes with a lot of personality and in exclusive fabrics. I have made my clothes in materials such as wool, silk, velvet, viscosecrepe, feathers to give them a more exclusive look that colourful clothes mostly don’t have.With my collection I want to spread colour, glamour, energy, humour and happiness. / Program: Modedesignutbildningen

This study discusses how adolescent Black and Latina girls read the femininities made available in pop culture texts and how they take up those femininities when they narrate personal experiences. The purpose of the study is to explore how girls engage in pop culture on an ongoing basis, how these everyday engagements shape their understandings of themselves as girls, and how these engagements are themselves performances that both maintain and threaten the boundaries between boy and girl. In addition, this study witnesses the deconstruction of those meanings (Derrida, 1967/1997), exploring how attempts to make femininity mean something ultimately undermines itself. As pop culture has come to saturate everyday life, American schools, following the Common Core State Standards’ (NGA, 2010) mandate for curriculum driven by “sufficiently complex,” canonical texts, have narrowed the scope and purposes of literacy instruction in schools. This research serves as a starting point for curricula that support young people in making sense of pop culture and their relationship to it. Situated within a poststructural feminist theoretical framework, this study uses qualitative methods to make the literacy processes through which girls make sense of pop culture texts visible and to elicit narrations of the personal experiences in which girls take up the femininities made available pop culture texts. The findings suggested that girls make sense of these femininities by reading both in-narrative and out-of-narrative—standing back from the text and treating it as a text. In their readings and discussions of pop culture texts, the girls cited and inscribed discourses of femininity, constituting themselves as respectable girls by deliberately making judgments about women’s physical appearance on screen. Specifically, they acted to draw a line between what they saw as appropriate and what they saw as inappropriate. This repetitive act was one way they performed respectable femininity, stabilizing discursive meanings of gender and also holding open the possibility of the line being placed differently. The findings also suggested that storytelling as a site of discursive agency as the distance between the moment of experience and the moment of narration held open the possibility of reformulation and renegotiation of meanings.

黃震宇. / "2011年9月". / "2011 nian 9 yue". / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 241-250). / Abstract in Chinese and English. / Huang Zhenyu. / 摘要 --- p.i-ii / 致謝 --- p.iii / 目錄 --- p.iv-v / 緒論 --- p.1-21 / 研究緣起 --- p.1 / 文獻回顧 --- p.4 / 研究資料 --- p.12 / 研究方法及關鍵概念 --- p.13 / 論文結構 --- p.19 / Chapter 第一章、 --- 五四時代的中國文壇與女作家 --- p.22-46 / Chapter 1.1 --- 石評梅及其時代 --- p.22 / Chapter 1.2 --- 五四的女兒 --- p.28 / Chapter 1.3 --- 五四後的中國文壇 --- p.33 / Chapter 1.4 --- 女性、副刊與文學 --- p.41 / Chapter 1.5 --- 小結 --- p.45 / Chapter 第二章、 --- 薔薇社和（蔷薇〉的歷史概略 --- p.47-69 / Chapter 2.1 --- 薔薇社的出現（1923-1924年） --- p.47 / Chapter 2.2 --- 《薔薇》的先聲：《婦女週刊》(1924-1925年） --- p.50 / Chapter 2.3 --- 她們的《薔薇》 --- p.54 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- 早期的《薔薇》（1926-1928年） --- p.57 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- 中期的《薔薇》（1928-1931年） --- p.59 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- 晚期的《薔薇》（ 1931-1934年） --- p.61 / Chapter 2.4 --- 小結 --- p.68 / Chapter 第三章、 --- 《蔷薇》與文政治 --- p.70-105 / Chapter 3.1 --- 文壇的「政治」 --- p.70 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- 兩次「抄襲」事件：石評梅與歐陽蘭 --- p.72 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- 男子世界：「純陽性」的文壇 --- p.75 / Chapter 3.2 --- 《薔薇》與「週刊」的文化生產 --- p.77 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- 週刊：一種獨特的文化生產方式 --- p.78 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- 《薔薇》的自主性與其局限 --- p.80 / Chapter 3.3 --- 《薔薇》：文藝的園地 --- p.86 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- 無名作家的文學園地 --- p.86 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- 讀者的反應 --- p.92 / Chapter 3.4 --- 《薔薇》：婦女的發聲空間 --- p.95 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- 婦女問題 --- p.96 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- 女性的情感空間 --- p.101 / Chapter 3.5 --- 小結 --- p.104 / Chapter 第四章、 --- <薔薇〉中的女性聲音 --- p.106-136 / Chapter 4.1 --- 《薔薇》與女性文學 --- p.106 / Chapter 4.2 --- 石評梅：女性的心聲 --- p.108 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- 《心海》：女性的精神異域 --- p.110 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- 《濤語》：潛行的獨身主義 --- p.115 / Chapter 4.3 --- 書寫內心：另一種「現實」書寫 --- p.122 / Chapter 4.4 --- 石評梅的女性主義關懷 --- p.126 / Chapter 4.5 --- 石評梅的「革命」小說 --- p.129 / Chapter 4.6 --- 小結 --- p.136 / Chapter 第五章、 --- 《蔷薇》中的記憶與歷史 --- p.137-162 / Chapter 5.1 --- 紀念：記憶與歷史 --- p.137 / Chapter 5.2 --- 悼念：歷史的創傷 --- p.139 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- 三一八慘案與《三一八紀念特刊》 --- p.139 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- 濟南慘案與《薔薇國恥紀念號》 --- p.144 / Chapter 5.3 --- 傷逝：追憶石評梅 --- p.149 / Chapter 5.4 --- 記憶政治：女性與歷史 --- p.153 / Chapter 5.5 --- 小結 --- p.162 / 結論 --- p.163-167 / 附錄 --- p.168-240 / 附錄一：論文附表 --- p.169 / 附錄二：論文附圖 --- p.174 / 附錄三：人物小傳 --- p.191 / 附錄四：石評梅生平年表 --- p.199 / 附錄五：石評梅作品繫年目錄 --- p.202 / 附錄六：《薔薇週刊》總目錄 --- p.210 / 參考書目 --- p.241-250

Este trabalho investiga a associação entre a violência e o feminino no cinema contemporâneo. Em virtude das mudanças nas formas de apresentação da violência feminina no cinema dos últimos anos, a primeira parte deste trabalho dedica-se, a partir das análises de Sedução e Vingança e Valente, a percorrer os caminhos que permitem considerar a especificidade do imaginário cinematográfico relativo à violência feminina e emergência de um novo tipo de personagem feminino, a guerreira, expressão do embate discursivo em torno da feminilidade da violência. Na segunda parte deste trabalho, composta pela análise dos filmes em que três personagens-ícone do período aparecem Nikita, Lara Croft e Beatrix Kiddo , dedica-se a chamar a atenção para as transformações e contradições que permeiam as diferentes caracterizações da guerreira. / This research investigates the connection between femininity and violence in contemporary cinema. While considering the changes in which female violence has been portrayed in recent years, the first part of the work explores, through the analysis of Ms. 45 and The Brave One, the particularity of female violence cinematographic imagery and the emergence of a new kind of character, the warrior. The second part analyses the movies that featured three distinct icons of this period Nikita, Lara Croft and Beatrix Kiddo exploring the transformations and contradictions relative to the stereotypical female violence aspects presented in these different warriors.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:38:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Thalita Lacerda Nobre.pdf: 2860440 bytes, checksum: 6ae666c84c882989d714b5b6b21c2395 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-11-09 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This present work brings a doctoral thesis that in some cases of hysteria, the phallicity, when articulates with Eros force, promotes a sublimatory condition called me by the condition of positivity. The interest for this study began in my practice in both private practice and in public service desk, where I observed that some patients who considered carrying hysterical neurosis, had a tendency to sublimation. This mode of pulsional satisfaction employed by these patients allowed their psyches to leave making use of phobic symptoms or conversive, besides bringing social recognition from the cultural establishment. In order to deepen these clinical questions, I used as an object of study French designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, who can be recognized until the current days as one of the most creative designers. Her revolutionary creations have allowed the woman of the twentieth century a freedom to be in the public space, from the changes that were taking place in the private sphere. Besides comfortable clothing that guaranteed elegance and appreciation of female body, Chanel created a specific haircut model, created pants, perfumes, fake jewelrys and exclusive shoes that bear her name until the current days. Her life history is marked by suffering and rejections, and some hysterical symptoms were impossible to overcome, however, which can be obtained in this research, as a result, is that her sublimatory condition allowed to remain productive until the last days of her life, valuing and being valued by the production, which made her symptoms remained in a secondary condition, that is, they do not incapacitated her / O presente trabalho de doutorado traz a tese de que em alguns casos de histeria, a falicidade, ao se articular à força de Eros, promove uma condição sublimatória, denominada por mim de condição de positividade. O interesse por este estudo teve início em minha clínica tanto em consultório particular como em serviço de atendimento público, onde pude observar que algumas pacientes, que considerei portadoras de neurose histérica, apresentavam uma tendência a sublimação. Este modo de satisfação pulsional utilizado por estas pacientes permitiram que seus psiquismos deixassem de lançar mão de sintomas fóbicos ou conversivos, além de trazer reconhecimento social, a partir da criação cultural. A fim de aprofundar essas questões clínicas, utilizei como objeto de estudo a estilista francesa Gabrielle Coco Chanel, que pode ser reconhecida até os dias atuais como uma das mais criativas estilistas. Suas criações revolucionárias permitiram à mulher do século XX uma liberdade para situar-se no espaço público, a partir das modificações que decorriam do espaço privado. Além de roupas confortáveis que garantiam elegância e valorização do corpo feminino, Chanel criou um modelo específico de corte de cabelo, inseriu calças, perfumes, bijuterias e sapatos exclusivos que levam seu nome até a atualidade. Sua história de vida é marcada por sofrimento e rejeições, além de alguns sintomas histéricos impossíveis de serem superados, porém, o que se pode obter nesta pesquisa, como resultado, é que sua condição sublimatória permitiu que se mantivesse produtiva até os últimos dias de sua vida, valorizando e sendo valorizada pela produção, o que fez com que seus sintomas se mantivessem em uma condição secundária, isto é, que não a incapacitavam

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:38:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Glaucia Valeria Pinheiro de Brida.pdf: 1065196 bytes, checksum: 746d7a48ae0f34ea8e0a02fac70f4004 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present psychoanalytical research aims to investigate the repercussions of incestuous sexual abuse engendered by the father on daughter s psychic constitution. This is a clinical research based on supervision of psychological treatment to people in situation of sexual violence. The theoretical reference that based this thesis is psychoanalysis, which settles that the incestuous sexual abuse of girls is linked to children sexual fantasies and with femininity structuring. Having observed passionate relationships in clinic cases of women who were victims of incest when children, the present work defends the thesis that incestuous sexual abuse engendered by the father promotes the establishment of the daughter s perversion. Such thesis is founded on Sigmund Freud s work on his theory concerning feminine psychic and perversion, and also on Piera Aulagnier s theory concerning historic reality and the desire and parents speech on dialectic of identification and self constitution, and on perversion and passionate relationships as manifestations of polymorphic potential. Two supervision clinic cases were examined and we conclude that incestuous sexual abuse engendered by the father during childhood perverts femininity through the girl s narcissistic disqualification as object of desire / A presente pesquisa psicanalítica objetiva investigar as repercussões do abuso sexual incestuoso praticado pelo pai sobre a constituição psíquica feminina. Trata-se de uma pesquisa clínica com base na supervisão de atendimento psicológico às pessoas em situação de violência sexual. O referencial teórico-metodológico que fundamenta esta tese é a psicanálise, segundo a qual o abuso sexual incestuoso da menina está imbricado com as fantasias sexuais infantis e com a estruturação da feminilidade. Ante a constatação de que na vida adulta mulheres vítimas de incesto na infância estabelecem com seus parceiros relações passionais, no presente trabalho defendo a tese de que as práticas incestuosas praticadas pelo pai na infância favorecem o estabelecimento da perversão na filha. Esta tese está fundamentada na obra de Sigmund Freud em suas teorizações acerca da constituição psíquica feminina e acerca da perversão, bem como nas teorizações de Piera Aulagnier sobre o desejo dos pais e a dialética identificatória na constituição do Eu e sobre a perversão e as relações passionais como manifestações da potencialidade polimorfa. Foram examinados dois casos clínicos de supervisão. Conclui-se que o abuso sexual incestuoso do pai na infância perverte a feminilidade por meio de uma desqualificação narcísica da menina como objeto de desejo

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:38:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria de Lourdes Turbino Neves.pdf: 1089685 bytes, checksum: f8c635949e41121d92e9caa2f25958e7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation developed a study about hysteria and femininity in the light of Freudian psychoanalytic theory. It starts through the clinical observation of women considered to have hysterical neurosis with a tendency of sublimation, including a common feature, which is the ability to turn adversity into motivation for growth, for the fulfillment of wishes in the personal and professional fields. This instinctual satisfaction allows that their psyche does not succumb to a phobic or conversion symptoms and those they are socially recognized for their talent for cultural creation. Seeks to set this hysterical neurosis viewpoint, in the object of study chosen for this research work, which is the biography of Elis Regina, still one of the greatest singers in the country. The interpretations of the artist, who also explored the performing arts, yielded contributions to the role of women in the public and private sectors of the Brazilian society of the 1960s and 1970s. Elis lived a poor childhood and adolescence, but in adulthood, built a meteoric career of successes. Her life was marked by a stubborn desire to achieve your goals. The sublimatory condition which assumed allowed her to keep productive until the last days of her life, reaping the rewards of your artistic trajectory which built. This implies that their symptoms remained relegated to a secondary position / Nesta dissertação, desenvolve-se um estudo sobre a histeria e a feminilidade à luz da teoria psicanalítica freudiana. Parte-se da observação clínica de mulheres consideradas portadoras de neurose histérica com tendência à sublimação, entre as quais uma característica comum é a capacidade de transformarem adversidades em motivações para o crescimento, para a realização de desejos nos âmbitos pessoal e profissional. Essa satisfação, pulsional, permite que seus psiquismos não sucumbam a sintomas fóbicos ou conversivos e que elas sejam socialmente reconhecidas por seu talento para a criação cultural. Busca-se configurar esse quadro de neurose histérica no objeto de estudo eleito para este trabalho investigativo, qual seja a biografia de Elis Regina, até hoje uma das maiores cantoras do país. As interpretações da artista, que também se enveredou pelas artes cênicas, renderam contribuições para a atuação da mulher nos espaços público e privado da sociedade brasileira das décadas de 1960 e 1970. Elis viveu uma infância e uma adolescência pobres, mas, na idade adulta, construiu uma carreira meteórica de sucessos. Sua vida foi marcada pelo desejo obstinado de concretizar seus objetivos. A condição sublimatória que assumiu permitiu-lhe manter-se produtiva até os últimos dias de sua vida, colhendo os louros da trajetória artística que edificou. Isso implica que seus sintomas mantiveram-se relegados a uma posição secundária

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:38:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Fernanda Pereira Gurian.pdf: 2122627 bytes, checksum: 4558f231d72074e7d260c1646e5b3075 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-18 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Focusing on maternal perspective, this paper aims to reflect through psychoanalytic theory some conflicts that involve a woman meeting her son with Down Syndrome. A son for being so different from the idealized can cross the maternal psyche, producing unimaginable effects and totally unique. The paper looks at Sandra s story for she has a son with Down syndrome. Using the interview as a method in psychoanalysis Sandra reported her experience conveying in her speech conscious and unconscious contents, which were essential, not only for a later link with the theory, but for further reflection on this difficult encounter. From her speech, the theoretical research was constructed and articulated with the case, in other words, from a singular story it was possible to capture plural issues that can be seen in other women and other meetings. The theoretical study was based on psychoanalysis developed by Freud and the contributions from Piera Aulagnier, as well as some of its interpreters. The desire to have children in women is the result of a long and complex process that culminates in the psychic constitution of femininity and it is settled after the dissolution of the Oedipal complex and the assumption of symbolic castration. Such process brings about narcissistic and imaginary expectations whose effect on that woman in the idealization of her son. Even in small traces a child will never match this mother idealization, but, in the case of a baby with Down syndrome, this perception is even more concrete as the phenotypic characteristics, shortcomings and impossibilities that the syndrome carries open up the difference in her child. So after the baby is born, the mother faces a strange body, distinct from that one expected during her pregnancy. The difference in the child's body might produce a concussion in the woman s narcissistic illusion whose baby would answer her unconscious ambitions, therefore maternal castration is highlighted by the void that is opened. This encounter might cause discomfort and anguish in the mother as the stranger disturbs and frightens. This narcissistic injury, in some cases, can trigger a trauma of encounter , as the mother might not anchor the psychic representative created and invested during her pregnancy on to the body of her baby, hindering the libidinal investment. The elaboration of such encounter will depend on the psychic mechanisms of each woman subjective constitution and her resources to go through this mourning / psicanalítica alguns conflitos que envolvem o encontro de uma mulher e seu filho com Síndrome de Down. Um filho que por ser tão distinto do idealizado pode atravessar o psiquismo materno, produzindo efeitos inimagináveis e totalmente singulares. O trabalho parte do relato de Sandra, que tem um filho com síndrome de Down. Utilizando como método a entrevista em psicanálise, Sandra relatou sua experiência trazendo em seu discurso conteúdos conscientes e inconscientes, que foram fundamentais, não só para uma posterior articulação com a teoria, mas para novas reflexões sobre este difícil encontro. A partir do testemunho obtido, a pesquisa teórica foi construída e articulada ao caso, ou seja, a partir de uma história singular foi possível captar questões plurais que podem ser vistas em outras mulheres e em outros encontros. O estudo teórico foi fundamentado na psicanálise desenvolvida por Freud e nas contribuições de Piera Aulagnier, assim como alguns de seus intérpretes. O desejo de ter filhos na mulher é resultante de um longo e complexo processo de constituição psíquica que culmina na feminilidade e estabelece-se após a dissolução edípica e a assunção da castração simbólica. Neste desejo se depositam expectativas narcísicas e imaginárias desta mulher, que idealiza este filho. Mesmo em pequenos traços um filho nunca corresponderá a estas idealizações maternas, mas que no caso de um bebê com síndrome de Down, esta percepção fica ainda mais concreta vez que as características fenotípicas, as deficiências e as impossibilidades que a síndrome carrega, escancaram a criança em sua diferença. Assim, após o nascimento do bebê, a mãe se encontra com um corpo estranho, distinto do que imaginou na gestação. A diferença no corpo do filho pode produzir um abalo na ilusão narcísica de que ele responderia as ambições inconscientes desta mulher e assim se evidencia a castração materna frente ao vazio que se abre. Esse encontro com o bebê pode causar angústia e um mal estar na mãe, visto que o estranho perturba e apavora. Esta ferida narcísica, em alguns casos, pode desencadear um traumatismo do encontro , visto que a mãe pode não ancorar o representante psíquico criado e investido na gestação sobre o corpo real do bebê, dificultando o investimento libidinal a esta criança. A elaboração deste encontro vai depender dos mecanismos psíquicos de cada mulher e dos recursos que encontra para elaborar este luto

The aim of this study is to map out the gendered constructions of terrorism and terrorists within the Swedish political discourse. The starting point of the research are the recent terror attacks in Paris 2015 and in Brussels 2016, a time at which the Swedish government presented a number of new and more aggressive counterterrorism strategies for combating terrorism and Daesh. Seeking to understand how these strategies are justified and legitimized to the Swedish people, the study seeks to contribute to the literature of gender and terrorism, with a specific focus on gendered nationalism and masculinity. Based in the belief that everything in the social world is structured in gendered hierarchies of masculinities and femininities, a discourse theoretic analysis is carried out on Swedish government minister’s speeches and statements. Empirical findings indicate several gendered constructions; a hegemonic masculinization of Sweden and the EU and a subordinate masculinization and feminization of Daesh.

This dissertation examines constructions of femininity in three male-authored Latin/o American comics: Gabriel Vargas' La Familia Burrón (Mexico, 1948-2009), Quino's Mafalda (Argentina, 1964-1973), and Love and Rockets (Los Bros. Hernandez, 1981-1996; 2000-present). After first establishing an analytical context from which to explore these works, discussing contemporary trends in national comics production as well as the ways in which femininity has been prescriptively constructed in each particular time and place, I then analyze the ways in which each author questions, challenges, and/or completely reconstructs their own version of "graphic femininity." As the following chapters will show, each articulation of femininity as constructed within the three serial comics under examination here takes different forms in each comic under analysis; while female characters in one title might embody a socially idealized model of femininity such as the "angel in the house," or the cult of "true womanhood", characters in other comics (or even within the same title) might play inverse roles, defying the mandates of the role assigned to them by contemporary society and ideological institutions such as compulsory heterosexuality or patriarchal power. A variety of models of feminine behavior and subjectivity are present in the panels of these comics, but in contrast with other contemporary constructions of femininity in cultural texts, products and sociopolitical discourse, they are presented critically rather than prescriptively, depicted in ways that disrupt the limits of femininity as it has traditionally been construed and, in some cases, offer visions of alternative, liberating paths.