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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The Blonde Paradox: Power and Agency Through Feminine Masquerade and Carnival

Burton, Laini Michelle, n/a January 2006 (has links)
Blonde hair is a potent and highly visible sign in western culture. Although the popularity and desirability of blonde hair in the West is well documented, since the 1950s, blonde hair has also generated many negative associations and these have contributed to myths around blondeness. In particular, women who dye their hair blonde find themselves in a paradoxical position; they simultaneously evoke desire and derision. This thesis uses the model of feminine masquerade outlined by Joan Riviere (1929) as a locus for discussing the transgressive potential of the knowing use of blondeness as a sign. When women wear blondeness in this way they embrace it as an oblique means to access privilege. This self-reflexivity allows women to enter sites of power that they are otherwise excluded from. Drawing on ideas of the carnivalesque, as described by Mikhail Bakhtin (1968), this thesis also proposes that the carnivalesque is employed by women in order to transgress patriarchal boundaries through an ironic masquerade of the archetypal blonde. These paradoxical meanings of blondeness are evoked in the work of performance artist Vanessa Beecroft. Beecroft stages both the reflexive awareness of today's blonde woman and the way in which she is shaped by socio-cultural forces beyond her control. Through reference to Beecroft's art, this dissertation builds upon the optimism and transgressive potential of Bakhtin's 'carnival' and Riviere's 'feminine masquerade' to re-present the identity/position of blonde women as one of agency and power.
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Les blogs personnels de mode en tant que nouvelles technologies de genre : Construction/déconstruction de l’éthos féminin / Personal fashion blogs as new gender technologies : Construction / deconstruction of the feminine ethos

Irimescu, Alexandra 06 July 2017 (has links)
Le blog est un catalyseur idéal des transformations sociales et technologiques définitoires pour les sociétés occidentales. Il traduit une double prise de distance des individus: la première anti-hégémonique, par le refus du monopole de la production de modèles de genre et de l’information, et la deuxième expressiviste et identitaire liée à la prise de parole non-médiée des femmes dans l’espace public digital. Cette recherche prolonge les questionnements sur la possibilité de manifestation dans le numérique d’un expressivisme de genre. En ce sens, le blog personnel de mode est questionné comme une voie d’intervention dans la culture, un nouveau média de mode et un genre discursif émergent, un espace d’affirmation des contre-publics et une nouvelle technologie de genre qui permet la redéfinition de la féminité contemporaine. Son objectif majeur a été de comprendre comment les femmes se présentent, parlent et agissent dans le numérique en rapport avec le contexte, leur condition de femmes et surtout leurs intentions. Il s’agit de la mise en question de leur investissement numérique en tant qu’actrices qui assument les épreuves de la nouvelle socialité féminine.L’analyse exploratoire, qui a été à la base de la construction du corpus d’analyse, dévoile l’ampleur de la fragmentation de la blogosphère de mode. Il s’agit d’un travail de pionnier qui a le grand avantage de ne pas rester à la surface du phénomène investigué. La fragmentation de la blogosphère annonce moins la disparition du phénomène, mais son évolution dans des tendances qui anticipent des changements futurs et qui sont en synergie avec le développement d’Internet. Les blogs sont une source riche de données qualitatives qui nous a permis une triangulation méthodologique efficace: une observation ethnographique en ligne, une analyse de discours cadrée par l’éthos et une analyse visuelle. Ainsi, nous avons analysé un répertoire diversifié de l’éthos féminin (corporel, contestataire, professionnel et familial), dont l’intérêt a été de prouver qu’il y a une forme de détachement du modèle dominant de la féminité. A partir d’un corpus international de blogs personnels écrits par des femmes, nous avons identifié et analysé le modèle dominant de la blogueuse de mode, défini par la vision consensuelle sur la féminité et un positionnement de partenariat avec l’industrie de la mode, et toute une série de positionnements contre-hégémoniques. Cette recherche indique le passage de la féminité comme identité imaginée à une féminité conçue en relation avec le statut de l’acteur social. Dans ce basculement réside l’intérêt d’une pratique qui recèle un pouvoir représentationnel.Cette recherche propose la redéfinition des blogs personnels de mode en tant que nouvelles technologies de genre et contribue à l’analyse générique du blog de mode par l’identification des différentes scénographies dans la sous-catégorie visée. Celle-ci a produit la première typologie des blogs personnels de mode qui implique les catégories suivantes: male gaze, pratiques hédonistes, posture critique, activisme social. Suite à la neutralisation du social, à la réactivation persistante de la mascarade féminine et l’enfermement dans l’identité unique de femme, le blog personnel de mode devient un instrument d’aliénation participative. Par contre, suite au défigement de la mascarade féminine, la construction des communautés diasporiques en ligne, la mobilisation des identités féminine plurielles et des degrés variables d’ancrage social, le blog personnel de mode devient un instrument de soft power qui atteste de la prise en charge des femmes des représentations de leur propre genre. L’approche interdisciplinaire nous a permis d’analyser cet objet d’étude syncrétique qui est le résultat du développement technologique, de la transformation des conditions et des formes de communication et, finalement, des mutations sociales en cours. / Nowadays, the blog actively mobilizes social and technological transformations that are characteristic for the Western society. As such, it encompasses two directions: a counter- hegemonic one, dismissing the monopoly of gender models and of information production, and an identity-related one, aspiring to the promise of unaltered self-expressionin the public sphere. This study aims to contribute to the body of research about the online manifestation of gender expressivism. Personal fashion blogs are analyzed as a form of cultural intervention, an emergent discourse, and a space of affirmation for contra-audiences, as well as a new gender technology, that facilitates the redefinition of contemporary femininity. The purpose is to explore how women represent themselves, how they relate to their social context, their gendered status, and how they communicate their intentions. To this end, I depart from the premise that their interventions in the digital space are enacted as agents seeking to validate new forms of feminine sociality. The corpus is built on an exploratory analysis revealing the fragmentation characterizing personal fashion blogs. Although this is a pioneering work, it does not treat superficially the investigated phenomena. Beyond the analysis, it emphasizes the future shifts of personal fashion blogs, in synergy with Internet developments. The blogosphere has constituted a rich source of qualitative data, which has allowed a methodological triangulation: an online ethnographical observation, a discourse analysis centering on the notion of ethos and a visual analysis. I selected and analyzed a varied repertoire of the contemporary feminine ethos (physical, disruptive, professional and familial), which demonstrates that in this media there is a trend to detach oneself from dominant model of femininity. By employing a cross-national corpus of fashion blogs, owned by women, I have identified the traits of the dominant fashion blog – presenting what it appears to be a consensual view on femininity, in partnership with the fashion industry - but also a series of counterhegemonic positionings. This research signals the transition from an imaginary femininity towards a feminine identity which materializes in close relationship with social status. In this shift of perspective resides our interest in a practice which grants access to self-representation.The study suggests defining personal fashion blogs as new gender technologies. It starts with a generic analysis of fashion blogs by circumscribing various scenographies based on which a series of visual sub-categories can be distinguished. Thus, I introduce an original typology of personal fashion blogs: male gaze, hedonistic practices, critical stance and social activism. On the one hand, personal fashion blogs neutralize the social context through the continuous activation of the feminine masquerade and by claiming a monolithic feminine identity, the blog becomes an instrument of participative alienation. On the other hand, through the deconstruction of the feminine masquerade, by building online diasporic communities, and shifting between identities, personal fashion blogs become an instrument of soft power, a place of resistance that establishes women’s representations as something achieved by them, not imposed upon them. An inter-disciplinary approach has made possible the analysis of this syncretic object of study, which is the result of digital technologies, but also of existing social transformations / of evolving gender relations.
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情慾三角與性別政治: <<法國中尉的女人>>之女性主義再探 / Erotic Triangles and Sexual Politics: Feminism in THe French Lieutenant's Woman Revisited

蔣勇南, Chiang, Yung-Nan Unknown Date (has links)
傅敖斯的《法國中尉的女人》是否為一女性主義文本一直是批評家爭議的焦點;絕大多數的女性主義批評家都認為傅氏挑戰父權偏見不成而自陷 於其迷宮中。本論文旨在探討傅氏小說中女性主義議題,剖析小說人物的三 角關係與性別政治。 本論文共分四章:首章討論拉岡和李維史托從亂倫禁忌的情慾三角論 述;藉由女性主義家依希葛萊對拉岡和李維史托的批判和挪用,闡釋父權文化如何使女性在心裡和社會層面皆化為第二性。 第二章結合李維史托和依 希葛萊的理論,從查爾斯和提娜的婚盟以及查爾斯的紳士俱樂部集體嫖妓行 為,討論傅氏小說女性淪為男性的交換物,形成依希葛萊所謂父權社會的底 層結構--男(同)性(戀)經濟。 第三章融和拉岡和依希葛萊的精神分析理論 ,討論在查爾斯與提娜, 莎拉的三角戀情呈現的性別政治。第四章討論激 進女性主義和莎拉,蜜莉,克莉絲迪納三人的同性戀:在簡述女同志愛與女性 主義之契合後,由依希葛萊,維蒂格等人的分離主義指出莎柆如何在女人之間的情慾三角糾葛,逾越父權社會定義下的男女性別界限,並且建立獨立男性之外的女性主體。 / Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman~U1;'s feminism has been a point of contentions among feminist critics; most feminist critics argue that Fowles is not a feminist but a phallocratic wolf clothed in feminist clothes. This thesis intends to readdress the feminist issues in Fowles's novel by probing onto the multiple layers of triangular relationships and sexual politics among the characters. This thesis consists of four chapters. A theorectical base of this thesis, Chapter one is a discussion on the "the discourse of erotic triangle" posited repectively by Lacan and Levi-Strauss through the idea of incest taboo. Through French feminist Luce Irigaray's critigue and appropriation of Lacan and Levi-Strauss, this chapter lays bare the subordination of women in patriarchal society, psychological or social. Chapter Two is concentrated on what Irigaray calls the foundational structure of patriarchal society--"hom(m)osexual economy". The matrimonial alliance between Ernestina and Charles and the sexual escapade of Charles' gentlemen club are singled out to illustrate how women are exchanged as objects between men. Chapter Three focuses on the sexual politics in Charles' s love triangle with Ernestaina and Sarah. Chapter Four deals with radical feminism and Sarah's lesbianism with Millie and Christina. Irigaray's and Wittig' separatist politics are deployed to show how Sarah transgresses the patriarchally-defined boundary between the sexes, destroys the Victorians' mythologization of women as asexual--yet produtive--Madonna, and then forges an subjectivity independent of the male sex.

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