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Inhabited space : writing as a practice in early modern England; Margaret Hoby, Eleanor Davies, Katherine Philips / Paul Ian Lobban.Lobban, Paul January 2001 (has links)
Bibliography: leaves 466-497. / x, 497 leaves : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of English, 2001
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Representations of the mother-figure in the novels of Katharine Susannah Prichard and Eleanor DarkNoble, Jenny Austin, School of English, UNSW January 2005 (has links)
This thesis argues that through bringing together two branches of inquiry???the literary work of Katharine Susannah Prichard and Eleanor Dark and socio-feminist theory on health, contagion and the female body???the discursive body of the mother-figure in their novels serves as a trope through which otherwise unspoken tensions???between the personal and the political, between family and nation and between identity and race in Australian cultural formation???are explored. The methodology I use is to analyse the literary mother-figure through a ???discourse on health??? from a soma-political, socio-cultural and historical perspective which sought to categorise, regulate and discipline women???s lives to ensure that white women conformed to their designated roles as mothers and that they did so within the confines of marriage. The literary mother-figure, as represented in Prichard???s and Dark???s novels, is frequently at odds with the culturally constructed mother-figure as represented in political and religious discourses, and in popular forms of culture such as advertising, film and women???s magazines. This culturally constructed ???ideal??? mother-figure is intimately linked to nationalist discourses of racial hygiene, of Christian morality, and of civic and social order controlled by such patriarchal institutions as the state, the church, the law and the medical professions during the period under review. This is reflected in Prichard???s and Dark???s inter-war novels which embody unresolved tensions in a way that challenges representations of the mother-figure by mainstream culture. However, their post-war novels show a greater compliance with nationalist ideologies of the good and healthy mother-figure who conforms more closely with an idealised notion of motherhood, leading up to the 1950s. Through a detailed analysis of the two writers??? changing representations of the mother-figure, I argue that the mother-figure is a key trope through which unspoken tensions and forces that have shaped (and continue to shape) Australian culture and society can be understood.
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Puffball and The handmaid's tale : the influence of pregnancy on the construction of female identityBetts, Lenore 12 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2002. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis uses an analysis of Fay Weldon's Puffball and Margaret Atwood's The
Handmaid's Tale to explore the construction of identity, particularly female identity.
It takes into consideration the influence of both biology and culture on identity and
explores how, within the context of the patriarchal societies depicted by the novels,
female identity is closely linked to reproductive function. It examines how the
construction of female identity based on reproductive function further objectifies the
female body in society, and how it can aid patriarchal domination and oppression of
women. The analysis of the novels draws on both essentialist and social
constructionist feminist approaches to oppression and female identity. The essentialist
approach views female biological difference (reproductive function) as responsible
for the way in which women are oppressed. The social constructionist view argues
that female oppression stems from the social construction of female identity around
concepts of motherhood and femininity. The thesis takes both approaches into account
as it seeks to explain how patriarchy oppresses women through the construction of
female identity.
The thesis also explores how control over the female body and identity can be
exercised through reproductive technology. An examination of the role reproductive
technology plays in contributing to patriarchal dominance, suggests that new
technologies may compel women to conform to stereotypes of femininity based on
pregnancy and motherhood. The thesis considers the impact infertility and the choice
not to have children have on female identity and takes into account the options
available to these women. The main focus, with regard to infertility and choice, is on
the relationship between women who have children and those who do not. This thesis
refutes the notion that there is solidarity between women based on shared childbearing
experience, and focuses on the conflict that occurs between fertile and childless
women. It finds that the conflict that occurs is a result of the socialisation of women
into viewing motherhood as an essential aspect of 'normal' femininity. The thesis also
considers what causes the desire to have children and finds that, as in the case of the
conflict between women, it is as a result of socialisation and an innate/instinctual
biological drive. The thesis investigates options available to women in order for them to avoid
constructing their identities solely around their reproductive function. It considers the
alternatives women are presented with when constructing their identity and how these
may contribute to or liberate them from patriarchal oppression. If they choose to
identify themselves using patriarchal norms, then they are contributing to their
objectification; but if they choose to construct their identity on their own terms, and
offer some resistance to patriarchal constructions, they will be more liberated than
women who conform to stereotypes. Evidence of such resistance can be seen in both
novels in the narrative structure the respective authors have chosen: just as the main
characters subvert traditional stereotypes through the construction of their own
identity, embracing female experience on their own terms, so do both authors subvert
traditional narratives. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis is gegrond op die analisering van die novelle Puffball deur Fay Weldon
en The Handmaid's Tale deur Margaret Atwood ter ondersoek van die konstruksie
van identiteit, naamlik die vroulike identiteit. Die analise neem beide die biologiese
en kulturele invloed van identiteit in ag, veral binne die konteks van die patriargale
samelewing wat in novelles voorkom.Die wisselwerking tussen vroulike identiteit en
die funksie van reproduksie word aangeraak. Die tesis ondersoek die wyse waarop die
konstruksie van die vroulike identiteit gebasseer op die reproduksie funksie, verder
die vroulike liggaam binne samelewingskonteks tipeer en hoe dit indirek patriargale
dominansie ondersteun sowel as die onderdrukking van die vrou.
Die analise van die novelles steun sterk op beide die essensialistiese en sosiale
konstruksialistiese feministiese benaderings ten opsigte van onderdrukking en
vroulike identiteit. Die essensialistiese benadering blameer die vroulike biologiese
verskil, met verwysing na die reproduksie funksie, vir die wyse waarop die vrou
onderdruk word. In kontras hiermee, argumenteer die sosiale konstruksialistiese
seining dat vroulike onderdrukking voortspruit uit die sosiale konstruksie van vroulike
identiteit binne die konsep van moederskap en vroulikheid. Die tesis neem beide
standpunte in ag daar dit hom ten doel stelom te verduidelik waarom patriargie die
vrou onderdruk deur die konstruksie van die vroulike identiteit.
Die tesis fokus ook op die wyse waarop kontrole oor die vroulike liggaam en identiteit
uitgeoefen kan word deur die reproduktiewe tegnologie. 'n Ondersoek na die rol wat
reproduktiewe tegnologie speel ter ondersteuning van patriargale dominansie,
argumenteer dat nuwe tegnologieë "Toue kan verplig tot die konformering van
stereotipes van vroulikheid gebasseer op swangerskap en moederskap. Die analise
neem ook die impak wat onvrugbaarheid op die vroulike identiteit het, in ag , sowel as
die besluit om nie kinders te hê nie. Verder neem dit ook die verskeie opsies wat
beskikbaar is vir die vrou wat daarteen besluit om kinders te hê, in ag, sover dit die
konstruksie van identiteit raak. Die hooffokus met betrekking tot onvrugbaarheid en
keuse, is gebasseer op die verhouding tussen vroue wat wel kinders het en diegene wat kinderloos is. Die tesis weerlê die idee dat daar solidariteit is tussen vroue
gebasseer op gedeelde ervarings en gemeenskaplike doelwitte en begeertes en fokus
op die konflik wat ontstaan tussen kinderlose en vrugbare vroue.
Die ondersoek ondervind dat die konflik wat onstaan, 'n produk is van die
sosialisering van vroue met die idee van moederskap as 'n essensiële aspek van
"normale" vroulikheid. Die tesis ondersoek ook die oorsake van die begeerte om
kinders te hê en ondervind dat, soos ook die geval met konflik, dit die produk is van
sosialisering en instinktiefbiologies gedrewe is.
Die tesis ondersoek die opsies beskikbaar vir die vrou ten einde haar te verhoed om
die konstruksie van haar identiteit te grond alleenlik op die reproduktiewe funksie.
Die analise neem die alternatiewe waarmee die vrou gekonfronteer word tydens die
konstruksieproses, in aanmerking, en bevraagteken die wyse waarop hierdie
alternatiewe kan bydra tot , of die bevryding van, die patriargale onderdrukking.
Indien die vrou verkies om haarself te identifiseer deur patriargale norme te gebruik
sal sy bydra tot haar objektivering binne die tradisionele patriargale konteks; maar
indien sy kies om haar eie identiteit te konstruktueer volgens haar eie norme en
terselfdertyd patriargale konstruksie teenstaan, sal sy meer geëmansipeerd wees as
haar eweknie wat tot die stereotipe gekonformeer het.
Deel van die weerstand wat voorkom in beide novelles, kan opgemerk word in die
naratiewe struktuur gekies deur die skrywer. Paralelle word aangetref tussen
enersyds, die wyse waarop die hoofkarakters hulself aan die tradisionele stereotipes
ondermyn deur die konstruksie van hul eie identiteit, terselfdertyd deur die koestering
van vroulike ervarings, en andersyds die wyse waarop beide skrywers hulself aan
tradisionele naratiewe onderwerp.
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Quem é o sujeito dos direitos humanos na declaração universal e na autobiografia de Eleanor Roosevelt (1950-1960) / Who in the subject of human rights in the universal declaration and Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1950-1960)Pereira, Fernanda Linhares 22 February 2016 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2016-02-22 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The present work aims to discuss the general theme of the subject of human rights, and in particular, search to answer the question: who is the subject of human rights in the 1950 - 1960. Therefore, the emphasis is placed both in the trajectory life and the construction of the subject as Eleanor Roosevelt in political networks that made possible the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. A dialogue is established between the Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, two of the main sources used in this study. The objective is then to identify who is the subject of human rights in after World War II, starting dialogue between these two sources. At the same time make an evaluation of the historical, legal and philosophical transformations driven by new project of nascent human rights after conflicts from World War II. / O presente trabalho pretende dissertar sobre a temática do sujeito dos direitos humanos em geral, e em particular, busca responder à pergunta: quem é o sujeito dos direitos humanos nas décadas de 1950 a 1960. Para tanto, a ênfase é colocada tanto na trajetória de vida e na construção do sujeito Eleanor Roosevelt quanto nas redes políticas que tornaram possível a elaboração da Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos de 1948. Um diálogo é estabelecido entre a Autobiografia de Eleanor Roosevelt e a Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos, duas das principais fontes utilizadas neste estudo. O objetivo deste trabalho é então identificar quem é o sujeito dos direitos humanos no pós-Segunda Guerra, a partir do diálogo entre essas duas fontes. Ao mesmo tempo fazer uma avaliação das transformações históricas, jurídicas e filosóficas impulsionadas pelo novo projeto de direitos humanos nascente após os conflitos da Segunda Guerra Mundial.
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Deliberative Rhetoric in the Twelfth Century: The Case for Eleanor of Aquitaine, Noblewomen, and the Ars DictaminisRamsey, Shawn D. 26 July 2012 (has links)
No description available.
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Richard I: Securing an Inheritance and Preparing a Crusade, 1189-1191Humpert, Edward M. 26 July 2010 (has links)
No description available.
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A study of local color in New England short stories written between 1860 and 1900 by Harriet Beacher Stowe, Rose Terry Cooke, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman and Alice BrownHoward, Lois Elda. January 1938 (has links)
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1938 H63
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The representation of madness in Margaret Atwood's Alias GraceKreuiter, Allyson 01 1900 (has links)
The central tenet of the study is that language and madness are bound together, language both
including madness and perpetuating the exclusion of madness as 'other'. The first chapter
considers the representation of madness in Atwood's novels The Edible Woman, Surfacing
and Alias Grace from the perspective ofFoucauldian and Kristevan theories oflanguage and
madness. Alias Grace becomes the focus in the second chapter. Here the syntax of madness
is traced during Grace's stay in the mental asylum. Language, madness and sexuality are
revealed as a palimpsest written on Grace's body. The final chapter looks at Grace's
incarceration in the penitentiary and her dealings with the psychologist Dr. Simon Jordan
where Grace's narrative tightly threads language and madness together. Underlying each
chapter is a concern with how language and madness are in permanent interaction and
opposition writing themselves onto society and onto Grace. / English Studies / M.A. (English)
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British women's views of twentieth-century India an examination of obstacles to cross-cultural understandings /Bhattacharjee, Dharitri. January 2007 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of History, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-85).
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The representation of madness in Margaret Atwood's Alias GraceKreuiter, Allyson 01 1900 (has links)
The central tenet of the study is that language and madness are bound together, language both
including madness and perpetuating the exclusion of madness as 'other'. The first chapter
considers the representation of madness in Atwood's novels The Edible Woman, Surfacing
and Alias Grace from the perspective ofFoucauldian and Kristevan theories oflanguage and
madness. Alias Grace becomes the focus in the second chapter. Here the syntax of madness
is traced during Grace's stay in the mental asylum. Language, madness and sexuality are
revealed as a palimpsest written on Grace's body. The final chapter looks at Grace's
incarceration in the penitentiary and her dealings with the psychologist Dr. Simon Jordan
where Grace's narrative tightly threads language and madness together. Underlying each
chapter is a concern with how language and madness are in permanent interaction and
opposition writing themselves onto society and onto Grace. / English Studies / M.A. (English)
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