Adverse economic and social conditions during the 1930s prompted fears that Britain and its populace were becoming feminized. Mass unemployment, the collapse of the older forms of masculinist industry, and the sudden expansion of London's consumer culture were three major events that contributed to perceptions of declining masculinity and rampant feminization. Unemployment, it was feared, transformed muscular, self-reliant laborers into emasculate, dependent idlers. The demise of industry (coal mining, ship building, and iron/steel working) turned symbolic garrisons of imperial strength and power into derelict wastelands. London's consumerism in the form of cheap goods and escapist entertainment was thought to pacify and enfeeble the (male) inhabitants. These three pivotal events fueled apprehensions about the breakdown in traditional, patriarchal structures and heightened sensitivities to and furthered the use of masculine/feminine dichotomies within public discourse.The aim of my dissertation is to explore the ways in which complex networks of gender anxieties resonate in 1930s British fiction through the establishment and erosion of rhetorical gender/ed boundaries. Although fears regarding the political landscape, social unrest, and war were instrumental in shaping the literary responses of the decade, those fears were also informed by and articulated through a gender-conscious rhetoric. Emasculation imagery worked in concert with the complementary feminization imagery to capture the popular imagination. Apprehensions about women's potential to disrupt traditional boundaries (sexualized women, i.e. women taking men's jobs) merged with generalized fears of the feminine (constructed Woman, i.e. an undefined fear femaleness), and both were inscribed with the power to disrupt, threaten, and subsume. These "discourses of gender and gendered discourses," to adopt Lyn Pykett's phrase, played an integral part in shaping how the 1930s populace interpreted their rapidly changing world. By promoting gender to the center of my interpretive paradigm, I aim to identify how representations of the private realm interact with and contribute to the public/political narrative thrusts. / Department of English

Thesis (MPhil(R)) - University of Glasgow, 2008. / MPhil(R) thesis submitted to the Department of Scottish Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Glasgow, 2008. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

Thesis--Universität Mainz, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--Universität Mainz, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003. / Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 258 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-258). Abstract available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2008 July 29.

Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2009. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 84 p. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-80).

Margaret Atwood speaks about a now common and yet still predominant question of female identity. Eye images, appearing frequently, correlate with ideas of observation, perception, and reflection as the woman seeks to understand herself. Introductory material examines three female archetypes, five victim positions, and male-female worlds. Eye imagery in early poetry expresses female feelings of frustration and submission to unfair roles and expectations. Imagery in the middle poetry presents causes for male-female manipulations. In later poetry eye imagery underscores the woman's anger and desire to separate into a new self. Concluding this study is an analysis of female options. From denial and anger the poet moves to recognition of choices open to today's woman, offering a possibility of wholeness.

by Wanda Wing Yi Tsui. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-101). / Chapter CHAPTER ONE --- Gender and Identity: Subjectivity in Women's Writing --- p.1 / Chapter CHAPTER TWO --- The Androgynous Personality Celebrated in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse --- p.20 / Chapter CHAPTER THREE --- The Inner Growth of the Female Characters in Wang Anyi's Stories --- p.53 / Chapter CHAPTER FOUR --- Female Identity: the Significance of Androgyny --- p.80 / NOTES --- p.90 / WORKS CITED --- p.92

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

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on March 6, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.