Discussions of rape inevitability tum to the actions of the victim. This thesis documents some of the ways that American law tends to blame rape victims for the crimes against them, rather than blame the perpetrators of rape. This study contends that such an anti-victim reaction arises because patriarchal anthropology, the philosophy of living which grows out of patriarchal theology, proclaims that women are not only sinful but the very cause of sin. The central focus of this thesis is American case law pertaining to rape, critiqued through the lens of patriarchal anthropology. The cultural bias against the victim extends into the heart of the American legal system. This study seeks to demonstrate that patriarchal anthropology and the normalization of rape culture has created a justice system in which blaming the victim is acceptable, and in which the state of mind, previous actions, or appearance of the victim are inappropriately considered when deciding the innocence or guilt of an alleged rapist.

In the mid-twentieth century many critics considered Eudora Welty’s work regionalist, which limited the interpretation of its social and political implications. However, by the late 1980s there was a renewed dedication to examining the subtle social and political implications present in her fiction. In keeping with this critical trend, I examine Welty’s revisions to four stories in A Curtain of Green and Other Stories. Previous interpretations of “Clytie,” “Why I Live at the P.O.,” “A Memory,” and “A Curtain of Green” do not adequately address how the female protagonists of these stories challenge traditional expectations for women. I argue that Welty’s revisions provide fundamental support for the female protagonists so that they can challenge existing social order in covert ways.

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<p>This research analyzes the reproduction of patriarchal ideological hegemony in the soap opera <em>Another World</em> using Stuart Hall's theory of the mass media and his conceptualization of ideology. A structural analysis of five one hour video-taped episodes of <em>Another World</em> reveals how the soap opera text constructs meaning fulfilling the three functions of the mass media, and thus, reproducing patriarchy's hegemony. This research confirms Hall's theory of the mass media and the propositions which flow from his conceptualization of ideology. Moreover, this research is the first attempt to systematically apply Hall's theory to the study of soap opera. It goes beyond the generalizations of his theory to look at the particularities of soap opera which contribute to the reproduction of patriarchal ideological hegemony. However, it is seen that what is problematic to this research, and all research on soap opera, is a lack of a theory of the reader.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur professionella inom Sveriges kvinnojourer beskriver vad hedersrelaterad utsatthet innebär på individ –och strukturell nivå och hur hederskontexten och samhället påverkar män och kvinnors förutsättningar för integration och delaktighet i det svenska samhället. Individer som lever i hederkontexten lever med en dubbel utsatthet. Detta innebär att dessa individer är dubbelt förtryckta, dels från kontexten de lever i men även samhället har en bidragande roll till utsattheten då vi har kommit fram till att det finns mycket inbäddad diskriminering i samhället. Integrationen för individer inom hederskontexten påverkas också av faktorer som kan relateras till individerna inom hederskontexten och samhällets bemötande av individerna. Hedersrelaterad utsatthet har ofta förknippats med kulturella normer och våld mot kvinnor, den här uppsatsen vill belysa hur problematiken och integrationen av dessa individer kan se ut ur ett individ – och samhällsperspektiv. Uppsatsen kommer att ha en kvalitativ utgångspunkt där vi besvarar syftet genom att intervjua kvinnojourer från sex av Sveriges kvinnojourers berättelser. Intervjuerna har varit semistrukturerade vilket bidragit till att undersökningen fått fylliga berättelser då intervjupersonerna själva kunnat påverka vad de ansetts som viktigt att belysa. Anledningen till att vi valt kvinnojourer var att de kunde bidra med den information som krävdes då de är insatta i hedersrelaterad utsatthet och deras integration.Vi har tagit hjälp av fem stycken teoretiskautgångspunkter för att kunna förklara den problematik som förekommer inom några av Sveriges familjer och för att förstå hur hederskontexten och samhället påverkar integrationen. Dessa teorier omfattar teorin om patriarkatet och genus, ackulitivering, socialisering och teorin om strukturell diskriminering. / The purpose of this paper is to examine how professionals in some of Swedens shelterhomes describes what honor related vulnerability involves on an individual and structural level and how the honorcontext and society affect men 's and women's opportunities for inclusion and participation in the Swedish society. Individuals living in the honourcontext live with a double vulnerability. This means that these individuals are doubly oppressed, both from the context in which they live but also the society has a contributory role of the vulnerability. We have come to the conclusion that there are a lot of embedded discrimination in society. The integration of individuals within the honorcontext is also affected by factors that can be related to the individuals within the context and societies treatment of individuals. Honour related vulnerability has often been associated with cultural norms and violence against women, this paper wants to illustrate how the honorproblems and the integration of these individuals can look like from an individual - and societal perspective. The essay will have a qualitative perspective where we answer the purpose by interviewing professionals from six of Sweden's shelterhomes. The interviews were semi-structured, which contributed to rich stories when interviewees themselves were able to influence what they regarded as important to highlight. The reason we chose sheltershomes was that they could provide the necessary information about honor related vulnerability and integration. We have taken the help of five theoretical bases to explain the problems that exist in some of Sweden's families and to understand how the honorkontext and society affect integration. These theories include the theory of patriarchy and gender, ackultivisation, socialization and the theory of structural discrimination.

Honour killings are considered by the perpetrators the only path to maintain theirs and their family honour, preventing other's to follow behaviours that move away from traditional patriarchal values. With the aim of exploring how honour killings are characterised, a qualitative study within three European newspapers, in three different languages, was conducted. The findings showed that often the victims are characterised as young women and girls that want to live independently from their birth cultures or that acted in a way considered to be a dishonour to their family culture. Perpetrators are often described as family members, mostly males to whom honour is worth more than life. However, some of the news articles launch the debate of the thin line that divides honour crimes and domestic violence making this not a cultural problem but a widespread cross-cultural reality.

This paper examines the influence of the dominant masculine-hegemonic ideology and gender- compliance on agenda setting and framing texts in the context of a healthy diet, respectively vegetarianism, which is considered a healthy alternative if this diet is balanced. With reference to the already existing academic work on the topic of health discourse in the context of patriarchal ideology, this thesis aims to uncover through discourse analysis of texts in Czech lifestyle magazines for men and for women latent and subtle ideological structures supporting the social status quo and at the same time reveal the influence of the social construction of masculinity and femininity to the discourse of vegetarianism.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:49:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Clovis Ecco.pdf: 799435 bytes, checksum: 257b2cf8028be51f75fe333e1d081058 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-02-15 / This text is about the cultural construction of the male supremacy. It aim to understand the influence of the religious ideas in the construction of the sort identity. To reach this objective, we look for to understand the influence of the religion in the social construction of the masculinities and, also, to understand the social and religious reasons that propitiate the institution of the masculine supremacy hierarchic. Speaking about of masculinities estimates that means to speak of objectivity, responsibility, tradition, power, steps, virility, these expressions they means to be able in the social interrelation of sort. Such affirmations find cultural and historical endorsement in the philosophy and the theology. The domination is understood in this work as characteristic trace of the relations of hierarchy sort. Our tradition culture has presented the idea that the sacred one for excellence, God, is a masculine entity, with patriarchies traces. The result of this cultural construction is the predominant characteristic of the masculine identity of sort, today, the conception is the man as dominator. / Esta dissertação versa sobre a construção cultural da supremacia masculina. Visa compreender a influência das idéias religiosas na construção da identidade de gênero. Para atingir este objetivo, procuramos compreender a influência da religião na construção social da masculinidade e, também, compreender os motivos sociais e religiosos que propiciam a instituição da supremacia hierárquica masculina. Falar de masculinidade pressupõe falar de objetividade, responsabilidade, tradição, potência, providência, virilidade, expressões estas que significam poder na inter-relação social de gênero. Tais afirmações encontram respaldo cultural e histórico na filosofia e na teologia. A dominação é entendida, neste trabalho, como traço característico das relações de gênero hierarquizado. Nossa tradição cultural tem apresentado a idéia de que o sagrado por excelência, Deus, é uma entidade masculina, com traços patriarcais. O resultado dessa construção cultural é que a característica predominante da identidade de gênero masculina, hoje, é a concepção do homem como dominador.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-02-22T11:41:05Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo Garcia da Costa.pdf: 581645 bytes, checksum: 0a59ed1a1ed3ac7c6b62012aa4d297e4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-22T11:41:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo Garcia da Costa.pdf: 581645 bytes, checksum: 0a59ed1a1ed3ac7c6b62012aa4d297e4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-16 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The family is the basic institution of society. However, its conceptualization has been changing drastically in recent years, especially after the anti-cultural movements initiated in the mid-1960s and the erosion of patriarchal ideology and modernity, as well as the weakening of religious influence in Brazilian society. This mutation, which includes enlargement and socio-cultural changes, has effects in several areas of the humanities that reflect, as it could not be, the Law. The concept of family, in the legal and legislative spheres, is indicative and can be used to reflect social demands. In this way, the present work makes a historical progression of the origin of the Modern and Democratic State of Law, in order to examine the contemporary conceptualization of the family from the point of view of the country's legal scholars, the principles protected in our legal system and then, a legal definition of family will be proposed. Author: Rodrigo Garcia da Costa - Title: For a Legal Concept of Family in the Contemporaneity / A família é a instituição basilar da sociedade, contudo, sua conceituação vem se alterando drasticamente nos recentes anos, principalmente após os movimentos contra-culturais iniciados em meados da década de 60 e do desgaste da ideologia patriarcal e da modernidade, assim como o enfraquecimento da influencia religiosa na sociedade brasileira. Tal mutação, que engloba ampliação e modificações socioculturais, geram efeitos em diversas áreas das humanidades que refletem, como não poderia deixar de ser, no Direito. O conceito da família, no âmbito legal e legislativo é indicativo pautável para refletir as demandas sociais. Dessa forma o presente trabalho faz uma progressão histórica da origem do Estado Moderno e Democrático de Direito, para, em seguida, debruçar sobre a conceituação contemporânea da família na ótica dos doutrinadores pátrios, os princípios protegidos no nosso ordenamento e diante desse patamar, será proposta uma definição legal de família. Autor: Rodrigo Garcia da Costa - Título: Por um Conceito Jurídico de Família na Contemporaneidade

Despite the broadening of the subject matter of English drama in its ???new wave??? period from the late nineteen fifties, it is striking to see how much of enduring mainstream English drama has a domestic focus. The purpose of this thesis is to provide the first full-length study of marriage on the English stage from 1930-1990. The thesis examines the way in which a number of important playwrights have fashioned drama from the conflict between the public, or institutional, functions of marriage and the private, or relational, functions of marriage. The thesis places this conflict into historical context. This will show that the conflict between the private and public aspects of marriage is not one of clearly opposed opposites but one that is made dynamic by significant social and legal changes to the status, function and conventions of marriage. The thesis also demonstrates that this conflict is further complicated by class considerations and by the particular circumstances of each marital partnership. From the wealth of material available, I have chosen to examine in detail the work of seven playwrights who have made significant contributions to domestic drama or domestic comedy. Playwrights have been selected because their plays gained a strong audience on first performance and because, through numerous revivals and through publication of scripts, they have earned an enduring place in English drama. John Osborne???s Look Back in Anger, which in 1956, ushered in the ???new wave???, is pivotal play for discussion. The previous generation is represented by Noel Coward, J. B. Priestley and Terence Rattigan. The ???new wave??? and its aftermath are represented by Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard and, finally Alan Ayckbourn. Despite a wide variety of approaches to the topic of marriage, these writers tend to assume a middle class audience and to follow or adapt the traditions of realism or comedy of manners. This thesis argues that despite real, even radical, changes to marriage, to accepted sexual practices and to the status of women in the sixty years under discussion, the mainstream theatre has tended to be conservative in its presentation of marital and sexual matters, especially in continuing to reinscribe a public/private opposition determined by gender.