Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-142). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.) - Carleton University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-149). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Anthropology, 1989. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-211).

Observa-se na presente dissertação um conflito social perene nas sociedades: o choque entre discurso legitimado pelo campo jurídico de gênero e o discurso cotidiano de gênero. A partir da experiência etnográfica no grupo de Assessoria Jurídica Universitária G8- Generalizando (SAJU/UFRGS), vivencia-se o contexto em que há uma intersecção jurídica e de gênero, na qual seus significados modificam-se no tempo. Para contextualizar a existência do campo de pesquisa observam-se significados de gênero na história da legislação brasileira (como o Estatuto da Mulher Casada e a Lei Maria da Penha). Da mesma forma, precedentes de tribunais demonstram significados de interpretação das leis (misturam-se a linguagem do direito e a do cotidiano), ressignificando o direito legitimado pelo campo. Por fim, apresentase a vivência no campo de pesquisa, buscando relatar o que acontece com alguns problemas de gênero e jurídicos que chegam ao G8-Generalizando. Busca-se apontar os diferentes significados das conflitualidades de gênero dentro e nas margens do campo jurídico. / The present dissertation observes an enduring social conflict in today society: the clash between the legal understanding of gender and the average person concept of gender. From the ethnographic experience in the group of University Counsel G8-Generalizando (Assessoria Jurídica Universitária G8-Generalizando – SAJU/UFRGS) the context in which there is a legal and gender discourse, in which their meanings change in time. The present dissertation also studies the history of the research field that observes the understanding of gender in the history of Brazilian legislation (such as the Statue of Married Women and the Maria da Penha Statute). The work also presents the courts understanding of laws that interprets gender issues and shows the daily clash of law and everyday meaning of gender. Finally, the dissertation shows the experience in the case-by-case research, seeking to demonstrate what happens to legal issues concerning gender that are represented by G8- Generalizando. That way the thesis demonstrates the different meanings of gender on different levels of society and the problem that it brings to the legal system.

Observa-se na presente dissertação um conflito social perene nas sociedades: o choque entre discurso legitimado pelo campo jurídico de gênero e o discurso cotidiano de gênero. A partir da experiência etnográfica no grupo de Assessoria Jurídica Universitária G8- Generalizando (SAJU/UFRGS), vivencia-se o contexto em que há uma intersecção jurídica e de gênero, na qual seus significados modificam-se no tempo. Para contextualizar a existência do campo de pesquisa observam-se significados de gênero na história da legislação brasileira (como o Estatuto da Mulher Casada e a Lei Maria da Penha). Da mesma forma, precedentes de tribunais demonstram significados de interpretação das leis (misturam-se a linguagem do direito e a do cotidiano), ressignificando o direito legitimado pelo campo. Por fim, apresentase a vivência no campo de pesquisa, buscando relatar o que acontece com alguns problemas de gênero e jurídicos que chegam ao G8-Generalizando. Busca-se apontar os diferentes significados das conflitualidades de gênero dentro e nas margens do campo jurídico. / The present dissertation observes an enduring social conflict in today society: the clash between the legal understanding of gender and the average person concept of gender. From the ethnographic experience in the group of University Counsel G8-Generalizando (Assessoria Jurídica Universitária G8-Generalizando – SAJU/UFRGS) the context in which there is a legal and gender discourse, in which their meanings change in time. The present dissertation also studies the history of the research field that observes the understanding of gender in the history of Brazilian legislation (such as the Statue of Married Women and the Maria da Penha Statute). The work also presents the courts understanding of laws that interprets gender issues and shows the daily clash of law and everyday meaning of gender. Finally, the dissertation shows the experience in the case-by-case research, seeking to demonstrate what happens to legal issues concerning gender that are represented by G8- Generalizando. That way the thesis demonstrates the different meanings of gender on different levels of society and the problem that it brings to the legal system.

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

This thesis examines the ways in which Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s 2016 album Lemonade works as a culturally significant text in the realm of popular media. Situated within Black feminist theoretical concepts of freedom practices and Black Feminist Love Politics, the thesis argues that Lemonade mobilizes stylistic and strategic intertextual references to develop a transmedia storyworld within a paradigm of resistance to, and healing from, white supremacist histories. Such intertextual information exists within the musical, lyrical, visual, poetic, and transmedia domains of Lemonade. The transmedia extensions include interviews, live performances, speeches, social media posts, and photoshoots. Combined with theories from Black feminist thought of freedom practices—which include talking back (bell hooks 1989), dark sousveillance (Simone Browne 2015), and interruptions to whiteness (DiAngelo 2011)— and Black Feminist Love Politics (Jennifer Nash 2013), the intertextual data present in Lemonade can be analyzed using methodologies from the field of popular musicology (intertextuality and mediality).

Observa-se na presente dissertação um conflito social perene nas sociedades: o choque entre discurso legitimado pelo campo jurídico de gênero e o discurso cotidiano de gênero. A partir da experiência etnográfica no grupo de Assessoria Jurídica Universitária G8- Generalizando (SAJU/UFRGS), vivencia-se o contexto em que há uma intersecção jurídica e de gênero, na qual seus significados modificam-se no tempo. Para contextualizar a existência do campo de pesquisa observam-se significados de gênero na história da legislação brasileira (como o Estatuto da Mulher Casada e a Lei Maria da Penha). Da mesma forma, precedentes de tribunais demonstram significados de interpretação das leis (misturam-se a linguagem do direito e a do cotidiano), ressignificando o direito legitimado pelo campo. Por fim, apresentase a vivência no campo de pesquisa, buscando relatar o que acontece com alguns problemas de gênero e jurídicos que chegam ao G8-Generalizando. Busca-se apontar os diferentes significados das conflitualidades de gênero dentro e nas margens do campo jurídico. / The present dissertation observes an enduring social conflict in today society: the clash between the legal understanding of gender and the average person concept of gender. From the ethnographic experience in the group of University Counsel G8-Generalizando (Assessoria Jurídica Universitária G8-Generalizando – SAJU/UFRGS) the context in which there is a legal and gender discourse, in which their meanings change in time. The present dissertation also studies the history of the research field that observes the understanding of gender in the history of Brazilian legislation (such as the Statue of Married Women and the Maria da Penha Statute). The work also presents the courts understanding of laws that interprets gender issues and shows the daily clash of law and everyday meaning of gender. Finally, the dissertation shows the experience in the case-by-case research, seeking to demonstrate what happens to legal issues concerning gender that are represented by G8- Generalizando. That way the thesis demonstrates the different meanings of gender on different levels of society and the problem that it brings to the legal system.

It is by now a truth universally acknowledged that the world’s subaltern women (in Gayatri Spivak’s understanding of the term) cannot make their voices heard, that what we think we know about them are mostly stereotypes of our own making. It is likewise acknowledged that literature has a privileged status when it comes to representing these women, given its unique prerogative to retrieve their traces and convey their subjectivity through imagining. Literary texts which embark on this task can be seen as symbolic speech acts and, as such, they depend upon their illocutionary force for success in the public sphere. In this thesis I have chosen to discuss The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (2011) – a novel I perceive as a collective speech act – from the combined perspective of speech-act criticism (J. L. Austin, S. Petrey), subaltern studies (G. Spivak, G. Pandey) and feminist theory (M. P. Lara, S. Lanser). My analysis explores the interrelation between this little-known story of the first-generation Japanese women immigrants to the US and the sophisticated narrative strategy which sustains it, continually balancing between the women's heterogeneity and their shared experiences, especially their systematic silencing by the dominant population. Finally, the thesis discusses the novel’s larger illocutionary implications for the public sphere, in particular how the reclaiming of the past creates new understandings of the present as well as opens up onto the future.               Keywords: Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic, migrant literature, picture brides, subalternity, feminist theory, communal voice, speech-act criticism, illocutionary force.

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