Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

This study was designed to examine the effects of identifying as a butch, androgynous, or femme lesbian on self-esteem, internalized homophobia, and passing behaviors. It was hypothesized that butch lesbians would have higher self-esteem, lower internalized homophobia, and fewer passing behaviors than femme lesbians, with androgynous lesbians falling between the butch and femme groups. Self-esteem was measuring using the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. Internalized homophobia was assessed by the Lesbian Internalized Homophobia Scale. Passing behaviors were addressed through questions in the demographic questionnaire. Data were analyzed by conducting an ANOVA analysis. Results indicated that butch lesbians have the lowest internalized homophobia and the lowest amount of passing behaviors; androgynous lesbians have a highest self esteem. Implications of this study for research and practice are discussed.Ball State UniversityMuncie, IN 47306 / Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services

En esta tesina, investigo el arquetipo de la mujer araña . Empiezo en el primer capítulo con el prototípo--Aracne, joven tejedora de la mitología grecorromana, de cuyo nombre viene la raíz de todo lo “arácnido.” Según la fábula, Aracne, famosa tapicera, fue transformada en una araña por ofender a Minerva. Investigo el mito—como primero apareció, recordado por Ovidio en las Metamorfosis (8 a.D)--y su propia metamorfosis a lo largo de dos milenios. Me enfoco en la tradition exegética de L’ovide moralisé, nacida en Francia en el siglo XIV, como ejemplo del discurso moralista que ha envuelto a Aracne, y, por consiguente, la mujer araña. En el segundo capítulo, expongo, a grandes rasgos, el arquetipo de la araña que se ha desarollado. Pasando revista al arte y literatura hispánica tanto como lo francófono, estudio algunas representaciones claves de la mujer-araña. Ato los elementos en común para entretejer tres sub-arquetipos de la mujer araña: la blasfema (Aracne), la depredadora (Femme Fatale), y la storyteller (Grandmother Spider).En el tercer capítulo, propongo que El beso de la mujer araña presenta, refleja, cuestiona, invierte, y finalmente reconcilia estas tres caras para presentar una nueva version de la mujer araña. Es una historia de conciliación de polos opuestos, y también de re-lectura—igual que la de Aracne, y de toda la tradición araña.

The hardboiled hero is recognised as a central trope in the film noir cycle, and particularly in the classical noir texts produced in Hollywood in the 1940s. Like the films themselves, this protagonist has largely been understood as an allegorical embodiment of a bleak post-World War Two mood of anxiety and disillusionment. Theorists have consistently attributed his pessimism, alienation, paranoia and fatalism to the concurrent American cultural climate. With its themes of murder, illicit desire, betrayal, obsession and moral dissolution, the noir canon also proves conducive to psychoanalytic interpretation. By oedipalising the noir hero and the cinematic text in which he is embedded, this approach at best has produced exemplary noir criticism, but at worst a tendency to universalise his trajectory. This thesis proposes a complementary and newly historicised critical paradigm with which to interpret the noir hero. Such an exegesis encompasses a number of social, aesthetic, demographic and political forces reaching back to the nineteenth century. This will reveal the centrality of modernity in shaping the noir heros ontology. The noir hero will also be connected to the flaneur, a figure who embodied the changes of modernity and who emerged in the mid-nineteenth century as both an historical entity and a critical metaphor for the new subject.

Thèse (Ph. D.)--Université Laval, 2008. / Bibliogr.: f. [132]-138. Publié aussi en version électronique dans la Collection Mémoires et thèses électroniques.

Thèse (de maîtrise)--Université Laval, 2003. / Bibliogr.: f. 59-70. Publié aussi en version électronique.

Thèse (M.A.) -- Université Laval, 2003. / Bibliogr.: f. [147]-156. Publié aussi en version électronique.

Thèse (de maîtrise)--Université Laval, 2002. / Bibliogr.: f. 145-153. Publié aussi en version électronique.