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1	Women, Animals and Meat : A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Approach to Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman and Michel Faber's Under the Skin / Kvinnor, djur och kött : En feministisk-vegetarisk läsning av Margaret Atwoods The Edible Woman och Michel Fabers Under the Skin Drewett, Anne January 2016 (has links) In this thesis, Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman and Michel Faber’s Under the Skin are analysed from the perspective of feminist-vegetarian critical theory. Both texts deal with the idea of feeling like or being meat, but approach this idea from different angles. In The Edible Woman, the connection to feeling like meat is metaphorical and rooted in gender relations, while in Under the Skin, it is literal, related to the idea of being animal. What becomes clear through an analysis of these two texts is that they both deal with the interlocking oppressions of women and animals. In The Edible Woman, protagonist Marian loses her subjectivity and stops eating meat when, as a result of the dynamics of her relationship with her boyfriend (later fiancé), she starts identifying with animals that are hunted or eaten. In Under the Skin, the alien protagonist Isserley, as female, non-human and in her natural form looking like a kind of mammal, represents both women and animals in her objectifying returned gaze on human men. Examining these two texts together highlights the interlocking nature of patriarchy and speciesism, and shows how these oppressions are better understood in relation to each other. Margaret Atwood The Edible Woman Michel Faber Under The Skin Carol J. Adams feminist-vegetarian critical theory interlocking oppressions absent referent patriarchy speciesism gender sexualisation objectification women animals meat
2	The Monstrous Self: Negotiating the Boundary of the Abject Yakubov, Katya 01 January 2017 (has links) Through the lens of the horror film and the fairy tale, this thesis explores the notion of the grotesque as a boundary phenomenon—a negotiation of what is self and what is other. As such, it locates the function that the monstrous and the grotesque have in the formation of a personal and social identity. In asking why we take pleasure in the perverse, I explore how permutations of guilt, victimhood, and desire can be actively rewritten, in order to construct a stable sense of self. Antichrist Under the Skin fairy tales horror film carnival female grotesque Feminist Philosophy Film Production Visual Studies

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Women, Animals and Meat : A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Approach to Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman and Michel Faber's Under the Skin / Kvinnor, djur och kött : En feministisk-vegetarisk läsning av Margaret Atwoods The Edible Woman och Michel Fabers Under the Skin

The Monstrous Self: Negotiating the Boundary of the Abject