Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Graduate Studies in the College of Religious Instruction. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-101).

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-22T17:27:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 daniela palazzo.pdf: 4236863 bytes, checksum: 47a8b62aec149e0d1bb0df8bba512400 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-12-04 / Fashion, in this thesis, considered to be a communicative tool crossed over for effects of meanings involved in social practices, is the focus of the analysis of the discursive setting of the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969). The objective is to investigate in which ways fashion materializes discourses throughout the clothes style, as it unveils the teacher´s behavior, beliefs, teaching practice and ideology. According to Garcia and Miranda´s view (2010), to whom fashion is communication, its interpretation can lead us to the understanding of experience, memory and links of the subject of the discourse. Placed in Scotland in the 1930s, the film narrative is divided into 17 sequences located in contextual spaces ─ the school, the street and the house ─, thus named by me, due to the use of Lefebvre´s concept of social/abstract space (2007). Miss Brodie, the teacher, performs her function incessantly, that is, without restraining herself to the school schedule and physical spaces, for her aim is to provide her distinct group of girl students ─ la crème de la crème ─, with readiness for the practical life, fact that raises the question of professional responsibility. Such a trajectory, besides showing a permanent conflict between the subject and the educational institution, determines its referentiality in the teacher´s fashion. Such a relationship attests her movement of social inclusion/exclusion. The analytical procedures applied to the verbal and imagistic materiality are also based on the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) categories, as it is proposed by Norman Fairclough (2001), combined with principles of the visual design by Kress and Van Leeuwen (2006) and with the perspective of the social gender according to feminist critics´ view, such as Joan Scott (1990), Teresa de Lauretis (1994) and Jane Flax (1991) among others. My approach to the theme takes into account the cultural, the social and the historical context in which one can read in the teacher´s fashion the basis of women s role as teachers / A moda, considerada nesta dissertação uma ferramenta de comunicação atravessada por efeitos de sentidos envolvidos nas práticas sociais, é o foco da análise do ambiente discursivo do filme The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969). O objetivo é investigar de que formas a moda materializa discursos por meio do estilo das roupas, na medida em que desvelam o comportamento, as crenças, a atuação docente e a ideologia da professora. Conforme entendimento de Garcia e Miranda (2010), para quem a moda é comunicação, interpretá-la, pode levar à compreensão de experiências, memória e vínculos do sujeito do discurso. Situada na Escócia da década de trinta do século XX, a narrativa fílmica é dividida em 17 sequências de cenas, alocadas em espaços contextuais ─ da escola, da rua e da casa ─, assim denominados por mim, a partir da utilização da concepção de espaço social/abstrato de Lefebvre (2007). A Srta. Brodie, a professora, exerce a docência de modo contínuo, isso é, sem observar horário nem os espaços físicos, pois seu objetivo é realizar a formação de seu seleto grupo de alunas ─ la crème de la crème ─, preparando-as para enfrentar a vida prática, que suscita o questionamento acerca da responsabilidade profissional. Esse percurso, além de evidenciar um conflito constante entre o sujeito e a instituição educacional, encontra referencialidade no modo de vestir da professora. Essa relação atesta o seu movimento de inclusão/exclusão social. Os procedimentos analíticos aplicados à materialidade verbal e imagística são também embasados em categorias da Análise Crítica do Discurso (ACD), proposta por Norman Fairclough, combinadas com princípios da gramática visual de Kress e Van Leeuwen e com a perspectiva de gênero social, na visão de críticas feministas como Joan Scott (1990), Teresa de Lauretis (1994), Jane Flax (1991), entre outras. A abordagem ao tema considera também o contexto sócio-histórico e cultural em que se possa ler, na moda da professora, a concepção do papel das mulheres no exercício docente

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This thesis conveys the history of reproductive politics in Oregon through the life of Dr. Jessie Laird Brodie (1898-1990). Brodie was a key figure in this history from the 1930's until the 1970's, mainly through the establishment of family planning programs through social and medical channels in Oregon and throughout Latin America. Oregon's reproductive legislation walked a fine line between conservatism and progressivism, but in general supported reproductive healthcare as a whole in comparison to the rest of the United States and Latin America. The state passed controversial contraceptive legislation in 1935 that benefited public health, but also passed eugenic laws, specifically a 1938 marriage bill, that attempted to limit specific population's reproductive control. By the time family planning was solidly rooted in the national and international sociopolitical discourse in the 1960's, due to the advent of the "pill," population control rhetoric, and the Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) Supreme Court decision, eugenic laws were virtually obsolete. Portland's history suggests that leaders in local reproductive politics sought to appeal to a diverse clientele but were restricted to the confines of federal funding mandates, specifically the war on poverty, that were fueled by postwar liberalism in an increasingly global age. The first chapter concentrates on the history of women's health and reproduction in Oregon prior to the 1960's. Dr. Jessie Laird Brodie's experiences with families in poverty during medical school in the 1920's disheartened her and motivated her to seek ways for these women to efficiently and affordably access birth control information. In response to public health concerns, she helped get positive contraception legislation passed in Oregon in the 1930's that set guidelines and restrictions for manufacture of contraceptives. This law was the first of its kind in the country and set a precedent for other states to follow. Brodie also supported a marriage bill in the 1930's that mandated premarital syphilis and psychological testing, in the hopes that it would lead couples to seek contraceptive, or "hygienic," advice from their physicians as efforts to establish a birth control clinic had failed up to this point. The second chapter focuses on Brodie's continued involvement in Oregon in the 1940's and 1950's, a period marked by a high tide of pronatalism in the U.S., and how she took Oregon's vision for women to a national and international level. Locally, she was involved with the E.C. Brown Trust, an organization dedicated to sex education, and was the President for the Pacific Northwest Conference on Family Relations, a group focused on the postwar family adjustments of higher divorce rates and juvenile delinquency. In 1947, Brodie was one of the founding members of the Pan-American Medical Women's Alliance, an organization created to provide a professional arena for women physicians throughout the Americas to discuss problems specific to women and children. Involvement with these groups helped her gain recognition nationally and in the late 1950's she served as President, and then Executive Director, of the American Medical Women's Association. Lastly, the third chapter looks at the establishment and growth of Planned Parenthood Association of Oregon (PPAO) in the 1960's under Brodie's leadership and her foray into the international establishment of family planning programs through the Boston-based Pathfinder Fund, an organization whose mission involved bringing effective reproductive healthcare to developing countries. Brodie acted as Executive Director for PPAO, where she was able to use her medical expertise and connections to bring the new organization credibility and respect throughout Oregon that they lacked before her involvement because the board was mainly comprised of a younger generation on the brink of second-wave feminism and the sexual revolution. In her career with Pathfinder she assessed the needs for family planning in Latin American and Caribbean countries and facilitated the establishment of programs in the region, largely in cooperation with the U.S. federal government and the Population Council. The conclusion offers a brief history of Dr. Brodie's continued involvement in the local and international communities beyond 1975 and the awards she received highlighting her career in the battle for effective healthcare for all women. In short, this thesis argues that legal and rights-based contestations that were prevalent in other regions of the U.S. and throughout the world were not characteristic of Oregon, allowing Brodie and PPAO to bring birth control to the state with relatively limited opposition.

In her attempt to find a strictly human origin for certain doctrines contained in the Book of Abraham, and the later teachings of Joseph Smith, Mrs. Fawn M. Brodie relies upon the writings of one Thomas Dick. Dick was a nineteenth century Scottish scientist-theologian who wrote several volumes on religious and scientific subjects. It is known that at least two volumes were known to at least some of the early Latter-day Saints, for passages from them were quoted in the Messenger and Advocate. The purpose of this thesis has been to research the entire ten volumes of Dick's writings in order to determine the entirety of his theology. The paper first relates the life and general philosophy of Thomas Dick, and then investigates specifics of his theology under the general chapter headings of "God," "Man," and "Salvation." The final two chapters of the thesis deal with those specific aspects of Joseph Smith's theology which Mrs. Brodie claims were influenced by Dick's writings. The conclusion reached as a result of this study is: while it cannot be demonstrated that any of the Prophet's theology has any direct foundation in Thomas Dick's, there may have been impetus gained from Dick's writings in the direction Joseph Smith's theology took, but only if it could be demonstrated that Joseph Smith had read them, and this has not been done, by Mrs. Brodie, nor anyone else.

The author argues that the Court Challenges Program’s 2006 cancellation was based on claims that judicial review is undemocratic, including those made by three academics, Rainer Knopff, F.L. Morton and Ian Brodie; the Court Party Theorists (the “CPT”). Through a study of Charter equality cases, this paper examines the CPT’s arguments regarding judicial activism, interest groups and interveners and finds they are largely unsupported by statistical evidence. Further, the debate about judicial review and democracy obscures judicial review’s important auditing function over the legislature’s constitutional adherence. This audit depends on individuals’ capacity to pursue Charter litigation, an ability compromised by the access to justice crisis. The author examines this crisis and the efforts to fill the funding gap left by the CCP’s cancellation and concludes that a publicly-funded program like the CCP is best-placed to ensure that the Charter remains a relevant tool for enforcing fundamental human rights in Canada.

The author argues that the Court Challenges Program’s 2006 cancellation was based on claims that judicial review is undemocratic, including those made by three academics, Rainer Knopff, F.L. Morton and Ian Brodie; the Court Party Theorists (the “CPT”). Through a study of Charter equality cases, this paper examines the CPT’s arguments regarding judicial activism, interest groups and interveners and finds they are largely unsupported by statistical evidence. Further, the debate about judicial review and democracy obscures judicial review’s important auditing function over the legislature’s constitutional adherence. This audit depends on individuals’ capacity to pursue Charter litigation, an ability compromised by the access to justice crisis. The author examines this crisis and the efforts to fill the funding gap left by the CCP’s cancellation and concludes that a publicly-funded program like the CCP is best-placed to ensure that the Charter remains a relevant tool for enforcing fundamental human rights in Canada.

This thesis is an investigation into the nature of the 'postmodern' narrative strategies and fictional methods in the work of two British Catholic writers. The work of David Lodge and Muriel Spark is here taken as an example ofthe 'Catholic novel'. In order to determine ifthe overlap ofpostmodern. and Christian-influenced narrative strategies constitutes more than a convergence or coincidence of formal concerns, narrative form in these novels is analyzed in the light of neo-Tho mist and Tho mist aesthetics, a traditional Catholic Christian theory of the arts. The 'postmodern' in these 'Christian' texts becomes largely a coincidence of terminology. Narrative forms which can be classified as 'postmodern' can also be categorized using the terminology of Thomas Aquinas. The apparent similarities betray radically divergent metaphysical presuppositions, however. The nature of the Catholic 'difference' lies in the way postmodern forms are used to challenge the metaphysical bases of those forms. / English Studies / M.A. (English)

This thesis is an investigation into the nature of the 'postmodern' narrative strategies and fictional methods in the work of two British Catholic writers. The work of David Lodge and Muriel Spark is here taken as an example ofthe 'Catholic novel'. In order to determine ifthe overlap ofpostmodern. and Christian-influenced narrative strategies constitutes more than a convergence or coincidence of formal concerns, narrative form in these novels is analyzed in the light of neo-Tho mist and Tho mist aesthetics, a traditional Catholic Christian theory of the arts. The 'postmodern' in these 'Christian' texts becomes largely a coincidence of terminology. Narrative forms which can be classified as 'postmodern' can also be categorized using the terminology of Thomas Aquinas. The apparent similarities betray radically divergent metaphysical presuppositions, however. The nature of the Catholic 'difference' lies in the way postmodern forms are used to challenge the metaphysical bases of those forms. / English Studies / M.A. (English)