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11	Ženské postavy ve vybraných románech Charlese Dickense / Female Characters in Selected Novels of Charles Dickens Palášková, Martina January 2017 (has links) This thesis deals with the topic of the female characters in selected novels of Charles Dickens. The theoretical part is focused on describing the characteristic features of the women in the Victorian period. The practical part analyses the most important female characters according to the author's personal choice, shows similarities and differences among them and compares them with the society at that time.
12	Negotiating Self: Strategies of Selfhood in Austen, Brontë, and Alcott Cicero-Erkkila, Erica Eileen 15 May 2012 (has links) No description available. Literature Alcott, Bront&235
13	The Angel in the House and The Woman in White: The Unfolding and Decoding of a Victorian Stereotype Spencer, Sandra L. 08 1900 (has links) Abstract: Modern readers frequently perceive female characters in Victorian novels as insipid and inane, blaming the static portrayals on the angel in the house stereotype attributed to Coventry Patmore's poem of the same name. The stereotype does not accurately reflect the actual Victorian woman's life, however. Examining how the stereotype evolved and how the middle-class Mid-Victorian woman really lived provides insight into literary devices authors employed either to reinforce the angel ideal or to reconcile the ideal with the real. Wilkie Collins's portrayal of Marian Halcombe in The Woman in White features a dynamic female who has both androgynous characteristics and angel-in-the-house qualities, exemplifying one more paradox in a society riddled with contradictions. Victorian women English literature Victorian era Women in literature.
14	Fashioning the gothic female body : the representation of women in three of Tim Burton's films Smith, Julie Lynne 10 1900 (has links) This study explores the construction of the Gothic female body in three films by the director Tim Burton, specifically Batman Returns (1992), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and Dark Shadows (2012). Through a deployment of Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection, the intention is to indicate the degree to which Burton crafts his leading female characters as abject Others and embodiments of Barbara Creed’s ‘monstrous-feminine’. In this Gothic portrayal, the director consistently draws on the essentialised stereotypes of Woman as either ‘virgin’ or ‘whore’ as he shapes his Gothic heroines and femmes fatales. While a gendered duality is established, this is destabilised to an extent, as Burton permits his female characters varying degrees of agency as they acquire monstrous traits. This construction of Woman as monster, this study will show, is founded on a certain fear of femaleness, so reinstating the ideology of Woman as Other. / English Studies / M.A. (English Studies) Tim Burton Gothic Abjection Monstrous-feminine The Angel in the House Gothic heroine Virgin/Whore Female Other Embodiment Femme fatale 791.436 Burton, Tim, 1958- Gothic fiction (Literary genre) Human body in motion pictures Horror films -- History and criticism
15	The mischiefmakers: woman’s movement development in Victoria, British Columbia 1850-1910 Ihmels, Melanie 11 February 2014 (has links) This thesis examines the beginning of Victoria, British Columbia’s, women’s movement, stretching its ‘start’ date to the late 1850s while arguing that, to some extent, the local movement criss-crossed racial, ethnic, religious, and gender boundaries. It also highlights how the people involved with the women’s movement in Victoria challenged traditional beliefs, like separate sphere ideology, about women’s position in society and contributed to the introduction of new more egalitarian views of women in a process that continues to the present day. Chapter One challenges current understandings of First Wave Feminism, stretching its limitations regarding time and persons involved with social reform and women’s rights goals, while showing that the issue of ‘suffrage’ alone did not make a ‘women’s movement’. Chapter 2 focuses on how the local ‘women’s movement’ coalesced and expanded in the late 1890s to embrace various social reform causes and demands for women’s rights and recognition, it reflected a unique spirit that emanated from Victorian traditionalism, skewed gender ratios, and a frontier mentality. Chapter 3 argues that an examination of Victoria’s movement, like any other ‘women’s movement’, must take into consideration the ethnic and racialized ‘other’, in this thesis the Indigenous, African Canadian, and Chinese. The Conclusion discusses areas for future research, deeper research questions, and raises the question about whether the women’s movement in Victoria was successful. / Graduate / 0334 / 0733 / 0631 / mlihmels@shaw.ca Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Canadian Women's History first wave feminism racialization race history gender history separate sphere ideology angel in the house western egalitarianism women's rights social reform suffrage Women's Christian temperance Union Women's Council Times Colonist Frontier mentality ethnicity legal reform Maria Grant Maternal Feminism women's equality sexual equality political equality Frances Willard Susan B. Anthony

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