Margaret Cavendish, a female author of two utopian texts: “The Convent of Pleasure” and The Blazing World, seems to subvert the gendered binary of utopian writing and even of utopian characters. Although she is a female author herself and her works are, in one manner, continuous with the feminine mode of utopian writing because they suggest that her utopias are better than the world in which we live and that we ought to emulate them, Cavendish is not completely in line with this mode. Indeed, she also utilizes components of the masculine mode of utopian writing. The main character of The Blazing World, the Empress, despite being female herself, can eventually be categorized as a typical male utopian character. But again, she is not completely in line with the masculine mode of utopian writing either. Therefore, Cavendish ultimately exists outside of this gendered binary by drawing strategies from both of them.

Texte remanié de: Diss. Ph. D.--Physics--Cambridge (Mass.)--Harvard university, 1991. / Bibliogr. p. [187]-215. Index.

Zugl.: Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Magisterarbeit, 2002

Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of English, 1983. / Typescript (photocopy).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1965. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-161).

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Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of English, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-116).

Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T12:20:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Jaene Guimaraes Pereira.pdf: 1924609 bytes, checksum: 4fe01fea06bc914063b3e3d3008fedd6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-12-17 / This research intends to address a lack of historical studies which can be useful to science teaching. We propose posting a historical episode on a blog to reach teachers who want to use history and philosophy in their classes. We chose the Henry Cavendish experiment about the density of the Earth as the historical episode and the methodology adopted was to divide the research into three distinct steps. First, we performed the historical and epistemological study about the episode. We looked for the primary and secondary sources which helped us to understand the experiment and the hypotheses already done proposed on about the value of the Earth s density and how it was related to the gravitational law proposed by Isaac Newton. Then, we considered how this episode can make explicit some aspects of the nature of science, such as the role of the experiment in the construction of a theory and the controversies about the value of the density during the 18th century. We also explored the physics concepts related to the Cavendish experiment such as the torsion pendulum, torque and moment of inertia. The second goal was to investigate why and how blogs are employed in science teaching and in the history of science. This investigation helped us define the necessary elements in our blog to interact with teachers and students and, at the same time, to propose a historical material based on specialized studies. The third step consisted of preparing the text and complementary activities to post on the blog and to complement the blog with pictures, drawings, sound files, original sources, etc. (http://lordecavendish.blogspot.com.br/). Because the nature of the blog is dynamic and in progress, this research is partly finished and will depend on the answers and suggestions posted in the future by the followers to know if it has achieved its purpose. The construction of the blog is only the first part of a bigger project that intends to inform science teachers of the history of science by an in-depth study and presentation of historical material. / Nossa pesquisa busca minimizar um problema com relação à divulgação e à acessibilidade de materiais históricos potencialmente significativos no ensino de ciências, auxiliando professores interessados em realizar trabalhos em sala de aula e ao mesmo tempo discutir o papel da experimentação na física e a natureza da ciência com o uso de um episódio histórico. Escolhemos como episódio histórico o experimento de Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), que permite associar discussões sobre as tentativas de obter a densidade da Terra durante o século XVIII, o papel de destaque dos experimentos neste século e a lei da gravitação universal de Newton, entre outros. O episódio histórico será aprofundado considerando três perspectivas: a histórica, explorando o contexto em que o experimento foi desenvolvido, seus pressupostos, a descrição detalhada e os resultados obtidos; a epistemológica, discutindo o papel da experimentação no século XVIII e a conceitual, que versará sobre os conteúdos de movimento oscilatório, pêndulos, força restauradora, momento de inércia, segunda lei de Newton na forma angular, gravitação e torque. Nossa proposta consiste em usar um blogue como fonte de divulgação da pesquisa histórica, ferramenta que nos possibilitará uma ampla discussão com os interessados no assunto, auxiliando-os no uso do episódio em sala de aula. Propomos um material histórico interativo, onde os professores assim como seus alunos possam tirar dúvidas e comentar ao mesmo tempo online, facilitando o acesso e a aprendizagem.

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Nos travaux ont permis d'étudier l'effet combiné de la maturation, du mûrissement et des périodes climatiques, sur le profil des composés bioactifs de la banane Musa Cavendish, issus des French West Indies (FWI). La teneur en polyphénols des bananes 400 Degrés Jour (dj) est restée inchangée, tandis que les bananes 600 et 900 dj ont présenté une augmentation significative de leurs teneurs en polyphénols pendant la maturation (p<O,OS). En outre, les résultats ont également montré que, bien que la dopamine ait été déterminée comme étant le polyphénol le plus élevé dans la peau de bananes pendant le stade verte de développement et la maturation, sa cinétique différait du profil observé pour celle des polyphénols totaux. Les facteurs post-récolte ont été optimisés. L'ensemble de nos résultats ont montré que la sélection d'une matrice de choix tenant compte de la maturation, du mûrissement et du climat permettait d'atteindre un statut optimal de Musa Cavendish pour des concentrations optimales en composés identifiés pertinents pour la santé humaine. C'est effectivement le cas des concentrations de dopamine, médiateur vasoactif, dépendantes des stades physiologiques, du mûrissement et climat. Nos travaux ont ainsi démontré que le totum de banane présentait un effet contracturant dose dépendant sur l'aorte moins puissant que celui enregistré pour les composés de référence à concentrations plus faibles mais toutefois significatifs. Dans les mêmes conditions, il a été démontré que la prazosine modifie l'effet contracturant de la banane en l'inhibant de manière compétitive. Le récepteur alpha-l adrénergique vasculaire joue un rôle dans les effets vasoconstricteurs de la banane. Les phénomènes ulcéreux étudiés à travers l'inhibition ou non de la pousse de Helicobacter pylori après addition ou pas d'extraits polaires et apolaires de bananes ont indiqué le rôle non-inhibiteur de Musa cavendish sur la croissance de Helicobacter pylori. / The combined influence of maturation, ripening and climate periods on French West Indies (FWI) bananas, Musa Cavendish, bioactive compounds profile was studied. The polyphenol content of the 400 dd bananas remained unchanged, while the 600 and 900 dd bananas exhibited a significant polyphenol increase during ripening (p<O.OS). Furthermore, the results showed that although dopamine was deterrnined as the highest polyphenol in the banana peels during the green developmental stage and ripening, its kinetic differed from the total polyphenol profile. Together ours results showed that this matrix of choice (maturation, ripening and climate may allow selection of Musa Cavendish status for optimal concentration in identified compounds with human health relevance. Indeed, this is the case of dopamine, a vasoactive mediator, which is dependent on physiological stages, ripening and climate. Thus, our work has demonstrated that the banana totum showed a dose-dependent contracture effect on aortic which was less powerful than the one recorded for reference compounds at lower concentrations. Nevertheless it was significant. In the same conditions, it was demonstrated that prazosin modifies the effect of banana contracture inhibiting it competitively. Receptor alpha-I adrenergic vascular plays a role in the vasoconstrictor effects of bananas. The study of ulcers through inhibition! non inhibition of Helicobacter pylori growth after addition of polar and apolar banana extracts indicated the role of Musa cavendish as a non-inhibitor of Heiicobacter pylori growth