Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carleton University, 1997. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Open University. BLDSC no. DX96544.

This thesis examines the day to day practices that constituted Anne Lister’s (1791–1840) sexuality and sociability within the range of her writings, as well as her society. Anne’s writings were a detailed account, spanning her lifetime, of her own love and relationships with the ‘fairer sex’ (Whitbread 1988, 145). Anne’s sociality, seen in her correspondence and plain handwritten journal entries, has been explored by Muriel Green in Miss Lister of Shibden Hall and Jill Liddington in Female Fortune and Nature’s Domain (Green 1992; Liddington 1998; 2003). As a gentlewoman of adequate means, Anne has garnered some attention from women’s historians interested in her agency within an early nineteenth century social and historical context. Anne’s sexual identity has been extensively analysed over the past nearly twenty years by lesbian feminists, queer theorists, women’s historians and historians of sexuality concerned with the history and development of modern Western female homosexuality and gender. The source for theorising Anne’s sexuality has been the edited selections of the crypted journal entries, published by Helena Whitbread in I Know My Own Heart and No Priest but Love (Whitbread 1988; 1992). However, many analyses deal either with the theorisation of Anne’s sexuality or her sociality; the theoretical difficulty with reconciling these categories has troubled the analysis of her complex subjectivity. Drawing upon the archival materials, I have used an interdisciplinary feminist approach to analyse the sexual and social processes of Anne’s everyday interactions in her writings. Taking the seven month period of the sojourn to Paris in 1824–25, I have focused upon Anne’s textual practices within her journal volume and letters during her residence in Paris, her social practices with the other guests at the guesthouse 24 Place Vendôme and her sexual practices with her lover, the widow Mrs. Maria Barlow. The journal volumes and correspondence are a valuable historical record of one gentlewoman’s engagement with early nineteenth century British culture.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas at El Paso, 2009. / Title from title screen. Vita. CD-ROM. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-80).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--City University of New York, 1997. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 403-418).

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The focus of this study is Clorinda Matto de Turner’s novel, Índole. After an introduction to the topic in Chapter I, Chapter II will explore the feminist ideas that Matto de Turner described in her essays and other short writings. It will specifically deal with the idea of a community of women, gender and androgyny, Matto de Turner’s appeal for women’s rights, the concept of “la mujer peruana”, and the duties of women workers. In Chapter III, I will analyze Índole and examine the domestic community that the novel presents. I will discuss female morality and responsibility for the morality of the family. Lastly, I will conclude this work with an examination of the three distinct classes of women presented in Matto de Turner’s works, reflect on the characteristics of each class, and explain how Matto de Turner’s role as an author relates to this class system.