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The thesis How mothers and daughters perceive and use fashion themes in lifestyle magazines for women is aimed at generational differences when it comes to perception of media content. Specifically, it examines differences in perception of fashion phenomenon presented in lifestyle magazines for women (e.g.: ELLE and Cosmopolitan) by mothers and their daughters. Today, not only individuals, but also family relations are influenced by new media, new technologies, and new forms of media content, therefore I focused on differences in consumption of those lifestyle magazine between two generations of women within a family. The thesis first introduces some theories on social construction of reality; how fashion is presented in magazines; how women as readers perceive fashion and how this influences readers' identities as a result of magazines' consumption, and how advertising is perceived by readers. Theoretical knowledge is then researched. Qualitative research was conducted on ten pairs of respondents (mother - daughter) in the form of interviews. The results show that lifestyle magazines do not serve as a main source of information about fashion anymore. Many young women are more likely to search for information related to fashion on the Internet today. Mothers and daughters do not happen to read and...

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This thesis argues for significant correlations in the politics of representation of Chinatown and mother-daughter relationships in two literary texts by Maxine Hong Kingston and Fae Myenne Ng. The two novels do not follow traditional representations of Chinatown and provide critical representations of Chinatown and mother-daughter relationships. First, Kingston's The Woman Warrior reveals how the heroine demystifies a powerful image of her mother and a mystic image of Chinatown in a process of establishing her autonomy. Second, Ng's Bone describes how the heroine tries to free her mother from a dismal image of Chinatown to live her own life outside Chinatown. The analyses of representation of Chinatown and mother-daughter relationships rely on close readings of the textual motifs through a psychoanalytic framework and cultural theories. / Graduation date: 2012

Mon poste de psychologue clinicienne au sein d’une maison de retraite m’a sensibilisée à la souffrance psychique des aides-soignantes. A partir de l’écoute des aides-soignantes dans le cadre de ma mission de support technique à l’équipe, émerge la plainte récurrente d’un déficit égotiste de désinvestissement émotionnel et affectif et la non reconnaissance de la pénibilité de leur tâche, qui me conduit à poser l’hypothèse d’un burn out. La recherche porte donc sur le Syndrome d’Épuisement Professionnel. Elle étudie les relations complexes entre le personnel médico-social aides-soignantes et la cadre de santé, et entre la personne âgée et sa fille. Un questionnaire clinique a fait ressortir l’ampleur du ressenti subjectif d’être épuisé. L’échelle standardisée MSP de Louise Lemyre, celle du ressenti subjectif d’être stressé. Le stress étant convoqué dans la position conceptuelle théorique retenue du Syndrome d’Épuisement Professionnel.L’analyse de ces deux ressentis a révélé les rapports complexes entre soignante–soignée et la cadre et entre fille–mère et grand-mère. C’est ainsi que l’enjeu narcissique du personnel fait ressurgir les origines archaïques de la sexualité infantile dans le lien intime au corps. En même temps, à cause d’une féminisation généralisée de la profession, la spécificité de la fonction du Féminin Psychique s’impose.Cette recherche souhaite apporter, grâce à ce Féminin Psychique, un éclairage autre sur la position intermédiaire de la Cadre. Le statut de bonne ou mauvaise mère que les aides-soignantes lui reconnaissent, aggrave ou diminue le Syndrome d’Épuisement Professionnel et le stress. Enfin, cette recherche insiste une nouvelle fois sur la nécessité impérieuse de la formation permanente institutionnelle et du travail d’élaboration psychique de ces personnels et ce, à périodicités constantes. / As a psychologist in an EHPAD (a regulated home for dependent seniors), I became very much aware of the auxiliary nurses’ psychological sufferings. Listening to them during my team-supporting mission, I heard a recurring complaint emerge, that of an egotistical deficit of emotional and affective disinvestment and of a lack of recognition of the painfulness of their task. This has led me to hypothesize professional exhaustion. The research in this thesis therefore focuses on the burn out syndrome. It studies the complex relations between the auxiliary nurses as medico-social staff and the health manager in charge as well as between the elderly person and his/her daughter.A clinical questionnaire highlighted the depth of the subjective feeling of exhaustion while Louise Lemyre’s standardized scale highlighted the depth of the subjective feeling of stress, an operational notion in the theoretical concept of burn out.The analysis of both feelings revealed the complex relations between patient-auxiliary nurse and manager as well as between daughter-mother and grandmother. The narcissism at stake with the staff reactivates the archaic origins if child sexuality in the nursing place. A t the same time, because of the general feminization of the profession, the specificity of the feminine psyche is of foremost importance.Thanks to this notion, the research paper aims to shed a different light on the intermediary position of the manager. The status of good or bad mother figure that auxiliary nurses grant her worsens or lessens the burn out and stress.Last, this research paper further insists on the absolute necessity of permanent institutional training and of psychic elaborative work for the staff at regular intervals.

Au cours des premières décennies du XXIe siècle, les écrivaines latino-américaines dépeignent des personnages féminins qui remettent en question la figure traditionnelle de la mère, remettant en cause simultanément le schéma traditionnel du lien entre mère et fille. Les approches de Judith Butler sur la performativité et le corps, ainsi que la méthode déconstructive de Jacques Derrida, sont à l’origine de cette analyse comparative des romans : Nueve lunas (Gabriela Wiener), La débil mental (Ariana Harwicz) et La hija única (Guadalupe Nettel). Butler soutient que la performativité du genre découle d’une construction soumise à une série de pratiques significatives qui ont perpétué un discours. Ce discours, instauré dans un contexte patriarcal, a été rendu opérationnel grâce à la reconnaissance de certaines normes qui ont historiquement placé les femmes dans une position subalterne. Dans ces romans, nous découvrons des mères qui remettent en question les normes établies par le discours dominant, offrant ainsi de nouvelles perspectives aux futures maternités de leurs filles. De même, les écrivains abordent la maternité au-delà du binôme de la bonne ou mauvaise mère, élargissant la chaîne des significations de la maternité et recensant des maternités alternatives. En dernier lieu, l’étude s’intéresse à la critique sociale que les écrivaines expriment dans leurs romans concernant l’application de la normativité imposée au corps maternel pour assurer une reproduction réussie, ainsi qu’à la violence associée à la défaillance de ces normativités. / In the early years of the 21st century, Latin American female writers engendered female characters that deconstruct the traditional model of the mother while questioning the traditional structure of the bond between mothers and daughters. Judith Butler’s approach to performativity and the body, together with Jacques Derrida’s method of deconstruction are the theoretical background to the comparative analysis of the novels Nueve lunas (Gabriela Wiener), La débil mental (Ariana Harwicz) y La hija única (Guadalupe Nettel). Butler argues that gender performativity stems from a construction anchored in a series of meaningful practices that have been perpetuated in the sociocultural discourse. This discourse, established under a patriarchal system, achieved its effect by naturalizing certain norms that have historically placed women in a subordinate position. In these novels, we find mothers who subvert the norms established by the dominant discourse, opening new perspectives to the future maternity of their daughters. Furthermore, the writers address motherhood beyond the binomial of good or bad mothers to expand the chain meaning of motherhood and take into account the present imprint of maternity. Finally, this study considers the social claim that the novels raise regarding the regulations that are imposed on the maternal body to ensure successful reproduction and the violence associated with the breach of those regulations. / Durante las primeras décadas del siglo XXI las escritoras latinoamericanas presentan en sus textos literarios personajes femeninos que deconstruyen la figura tradicional de la madre, cuestionando simultáneamente el esquema tradicional del vínculo entre madre e hija. Los planteamientos de Judith Butler sobre la performatividad y el cuerpo, así como el enfoque deconstructivo propuesto por Jacques Derrida sirven en este trabajo como marco para el análisis comparativo de las novelas Nueve lunas (Gabriela Wiener), La débil mental (Ariana Harwicz) y La hija única (Guadalupe Nettel). Butler argumenta que la performatividad de género resulta de una construcción sujeta a una serie de prácticas significativas que se han perpetuado en el discurso sociocultural. Este discurso, establecido bajo un sistema patriarcal, ha naturalizado ciertas normas que históricamente han situado a las mujeres en una posición subalterna. En las novelas del corpus encontramos madres que subvierten las normas establecidas por el discurso dominante, abriendo con ello nuevas perspectivas a las futuras maternidades de sus hijas. Asimismo, las escritoras abordan la maternidad más allá del binomio de la buena o mala madre, ampliando la cadena de significaciones de la maternidad y registrando maternidades alternativas. Por último, el trabajo considera la denuncia social que las novelas plantean con respecto al cumplimiento de la normativa impuesta sobre el cuerpo materno para garantizar una reproducción exitosa, así como con respecto a la violencia asociada al incumplimiento de dichas regulaciones.

Mirrors and Vanities is a multi-modal collection which showcases the diversity of working in long and short storytelling forms. Featured in this thesis are fiction, nonfiction, graphic narrative, and screenplay. Using unconventional approaches to storytelling in order to achieve emotional resonance with the audience while maintaining high standards for craft, these stories and essays explore the costs inherent to the subtle nuances of interpersonal relationships. The fiction focuses on the complications of characters keeping secrets. A husband discovers the truth behind his wife’s miscarriage. A girl visits her fiancé in purgatory. A boy crosses a line and loses his best friend. Meanwhile, the nonfiction centers on self-discovery and gender roles associated with power struggles. A schizophrenic threatens to ruin my mother’s wedding. I rediscover my relationship with my father through food writing. Sword-work teaches me to fail and succeed at making martial art. The title work of the thesis is a collaged story highlighting the tribulations of a physicist fixated on recovering his lost love by manipulating the multiverse. The multi-modal format implicates the nebulosity of physics theories and how different aspects of the narrative can be presented in various formats to best suit the nature of the storytelling. Through the interactions of characters in mundane and extraordinary circumstances, the works in this thesis examine the consequences of choice, the contrast between reality and expectation, coming of age, and the Truth of narrative.