En genusteoretisk stickprovskontroll. Uppsatsen genomlyser Camilla Grebes Älskaren från huvudkontoret ur ett genusteoretiskt perspektiv med focus på Luce Irigaray teorier. Inledningsvis presenteras Luce Irigaray övergripande och hennes arbete ställs i relation till Simone de Beauvoirs. Irigarays teorier om maskulint och feminint subjekt gås igenom och teoridelen avslutas med ett destillat av teorierna här kallat; typiska drag. Utifrån dessa typiska drag analyseras delar, utvalda med heuristisk metod, av Camilla Grebes roman Älskaren från huvudkontoret från 2015. I analysen diskuteras utöver undersökningen och de presenterade teorierna även paralleller till Janice Radways Kvinnor läser romantik: om samspelet mellan text och kontext. Resultaten av undersökningen och slutsatsen diskuteras och ifrågasätts. / <p>--</p>

This study examines the feminist ideas in Calixthe Beyala's fictional novel Les Honneurs perdus (1996) and her essay Lettre d'une Africaine à ses sœurs occidentales (1995). The description of women's situation and their possible liberation in these two texts are analyzed, notably based on the feminist theories articulated by Simone de Beauvoir and by Judith Butler. The analysis demonstrates that the women in these texts live in a patriarchal society where they are oppressed and dominated by men. Religion and tradition serve as a way of internalizing this oppression. Early on, the women learn that their sexuality is owned by men, and that the main purpose of their existence is to get married and have children. However, Beyala also demonstrates a possiblity for women to reclaim their subjectivity and to liberate themselves from men's oppression, mainly through gaining awareness of the oppression, getting access to education and finding solidarity between women. In the last chapter of the analysis, Beyala's vision of the woman as the savior of the world is questioned, and the importance of the postcolonial context is considered. The study concludes that Beyala's feminist ideas consist of a fusion of, on one hand, Western feminist theories such as those based on the works of Beauvoir and, on the other hand, ideas of solidarity characteristic for the African continent. This creates a feminism which, just like Beyala herself, straddles two continents.

This diploma thesis Feminist philosophy influenced by Simone de Beauvoir is focused on exploring the difference between men and women and their unequal social position, which is complemented by perspective on the domain in ancient society. In the analytical part is focused on a significant part of the feminist author Simone de Beauvoir. The theoretical section is oriented at the distinction of the key terms, such as the concept of gender, sex or gender stereotypes, and then to the definition of basic phases of feminism. Subsequently, this work reflected the concept of feminist theology, politics and ethics, which is the issue is also very substantial. The views of life and work of the author S. de Beauvoir, is pointed out especially unusual access and future proof notes which have contributed to the emergence of feminist philosophy.

xii, 278 p. / My dissertation is an existential-phenomenological account of human relations and ethics in dialogue with feminist care ethics. Using the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir, I describe how the ambiguity of human relationships results in an ambivalent ethical orientation, contingent as it is on negotiating the interrelated yet separable interests of the self and the other. Central to my work is a phenomenological description of maternal ambivalence (mothers' simultaneous desires to nurture and reject their children), an empirical case study that demonstrates how the conflicted nature of human relationships operates. Ultimately, I argue that ethical ambivalence is morally productive insofar as it helps one to avoid moral absolutism, recognize the alterity of others, attend to the particularities of situation, and negotiate one's own needs and desires with those of other people. This dissertation includes previously published material. / Committee in charge: Dr. Beata Stawarska, Co-Chair; Dr. Bonnie Mann, Co-Chair; Dr. Mark Johnson, Member; Dr. Sara Hodges, Outside Member

Made available in DSpace on 2015-08-20T17:10:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-03-17. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2015-08-20T17:25:57Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000841155.pdf: 1220968 bytes, checksum: 94a3b7cbcbdfe790ec1a15a6f90c11f5 (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Nesta pesquisa abordamos aspectos do feminismo pelo viés da crítica feminista anglo-americana em duas obras ficcionais publicadas no final dos anos sessenta e início da década de setenta: La Femme Rompue (1967), de Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), e A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970), da escritora irlandesa Iris Murdoch (1919-1999). Primeiramente, estabelecemos um diálogo entre o pensamento filosófico de Beauvoir e o de Murdoch. Posteriormente, estabelecemos uma relação entre a crítica literária feminista e o pensamento beauvoiriano e murdochiano no que tange a questão do papel da mulher como leitora e escritora de textos literários. Dessa forma, examinamos o papel do leitor(a) como instância fundamental no processo de desconstrução do caráter discriminatório das ideologias de gênero e demonstramos que, assim como Virginia Woolf, Beauvoir e Murdoch defendem o conceito de androginia na literatura. Finalmente, analisamos os diferentes recursos estéticos que Beauvoir e Murdoch utilizam na caracterização de suas personagens femininas, uma vez que La Femme Rompue apresenta as características de um romance moderno, enquanto A Fairly Honourable Defeat possui traços de um romance realista / The aim of this research is to address some aspects of feminism from a feminist Anglo-American critical stance in two fictional works that have been published in the late sixties and early seventies: La Femme Rompue (1967) by Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) and A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970) by the Irish writer Iris Murdoch (1919-1999). First, we establish a dialogue between the philosophical thought of Beauvoir and Murdoch. Then, we firm a relationship between feminist literary criticism and Beauvoir's and Murdoch's thoughts regarding the issue of women's role as a reader and as a writer of literary texts. Thus, we explore the role of the reader as a key instance in the process of deconstruction of the discriminatory nature of gender ideologies and we demonstrate that, just as Virginia Woolf, Beauvoir and Murdoch defended the concept of androgyny in literature. Finally, we analyze the different aesthetic features that Beauvoir and Murdoch use in the characterization of female characters, since La Femme Rompue presents the characteristics of a modern novel while A Fairly Honourable Defeat has some traces of a realist novel

Abstracto: Mediante la teoría feminista El Segundo Sexo (1949), de la escritora y filósofa francesa Simone de Beauvoir, se analiza la novela Hasta Siempre, Mujercitas (2004) de la escritora chilena Marcela Serrano. El análisis se enfoca en la otredad y la subjetividad en el personaje de Ada, para investigar si es un personaje que actúa como un sujeto libre e independiente o si cae víctima bajo las normas e ideales patriarcales. Palabras claves: Marcela Serrano, Simone de Beauvoir, otredad, transcendencia, inmanencia, feminismo, el otro, crítica feminista, perspectiva de género. Abstract: With The Second Sex (1949), by the French writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir as theory, the novel Farewell, little women (2004) by Chilean writer Marcela Serrano is analysed. The analysis focus on the otherness in the character Ada, to investigate if it’s a character that acts as a free and independent subject or if she falls victim for the patriarchal norms and ideals.

Syftet med den här intervjustudien är att belysa hur sju kvinnliga gymnasieelever med en utomeuropeisk bakgrund upplever och förhåller sig till den eurocentriska och manliga kanon inom historieundervisningen. Metoden som har använts är semistrukturerade djupintervjuer med en teoretisk utgångspunkt i grundad teori samt existentiell hermeneutik. Det som har framkommit av elevernas utsagor har sedan problematiserats utifrån Edward Saids teorier presenterade i Orientalism samt Simone de Beauvoirs teorier i Det andra könet. Samtliga intervjupersoner är kritiska till den eurocentriska och manliga kanon i historieundervisningen. Det finns dock en distinkt skillnad mellan hur eleverna resonerar kring dessa två företeelser där den manliga kanon betydligt enklare legitimeras och på så sätt blir immun mot kritik. Eleverna upplever generellt att de inte kan identifiera sig med sin historieundervisning. De tillskriver sina egna identifikationer som kvinnor och som utomeuropéer, och/eller som personer med insikt i en annan kultur, viss betydelse för hur de resonerar kring frågor som rör kanon i undervisningen.

This study examines how the désir triangulaire, first defined by the French sociologist andanthropologist René Girard in his essay Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque (1961), ispresented in the novel Les inséparables (2020), written by the French author Simone deBeauvoir. The result of this study indicates a presence of desire in the four main relationshipsof the novel due to a désir triangulaire present between the parts of the relationship. Thepresence of the désir triangulaire results in relationships with the dynamic of three parties,even though the relationship only consists of two people.

This study investigates the impact of masculinity norms on the male and female characters in the novel En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (2014) by Édouard Louis and seeks to understand how these norms affect their relations. The study is using the theories of Raewyn Connell and Simone de Beauvoir to answer the main research question. The findings show that the masculinity norms have an effect on men’s options regarding education and employment, and by extension, their quality of life because of their reluctance towards medicine. Moreover, the masculinity norms keep homosexual men in a subordinate position. The same norms affect women’s liberation and reduce their opportunities to work outside the household, the norms also affect their relations to other women. In conclusion, the findings show that the prevailing masculinity norms have a negative impact on life of both men and women in the book, and their relations. The findings also shows that the masculinity norms maintain women in a subordinate position.

La presente tesis analiza los presupuestos existencialistas del concepto de libertad de Simone de Beauvoir, con el fin de sostener que la concepción de libertad que Beauvoir emplea en El segundo sexo para referirse a la emancipación de la mujer tiene sus bases en sus primeros ensayos existencialistas. Así, defendemos que proyecto, intencionalidad, mala fe, angustia, facticidad, situación y trascendencia son algunos de los principales presupuestos sobre los que Beauvoir sustenta su noción de libertad. El análisis de los mismos nos lleva a rastrear la influencia de Husserl, Heidegger y Sartre en la conformación de estos en el pensamiento beauvoiriano. Nuestro estudio resulta necesario frente a la alarmante situación de violencia y discriminación hacia las mujeres en nuestro país, en tanto, pretende ofrecer herramientas filosóficas que permiten desvelar las razones de la opresión a la mujer. Con estos fines, la tesis se centra en la pregunta: ¿pueden las mujeres ser libres, a pesar de encontrarse en un universo masculino? Nuestra conclusión principal es que, según Beauvoir, para ser libres, las mujeres deben transformar el mundo “masculino” en el que se encuentran, transformación que no pueden emprender aisladamente, sino que requiere de una lucha colectiva y de una educación sexual que promuevan el “olvido” de las estructuras sociales que limitan las acciones de las mujeres exclusivamente a la “esencialidad” de lo femenino.