Quel est l'impact du combat pour l’égalité qui tente de s'imposer dans la famille et dans la démocratie ? A-t-on besoin de la hiérarchisation des places ou plutôt de la différenciation des dites places ? Le point de départ sera, en France, l'évolution de l'autorité au sein de la famille, l'apparition de l'autorité parentale qui accompagne le déclin du pater familias. Le questionnement portera sur l'impact de la parentalité dans l'introduction de la fonction paternelle. Il portera également sur le masculin et le féminin. Un parallélisme sera effectué avec la société démocratique et les bouleversements qu'induit cette recherche d'égalité. L'hypothèse est que les changements perceptibles qui s'opèrent actuellement au niveau de la famille et de la société ouvrent vers une pluralité d'avenirs possibles. Aussi, nous interrogerons l’inaltérabilité de la fonction parentale liée au symbolique. La recherche dans le champ de la psychanalyse est ici menée en articulation avec d’autres domaines, en particulier l’anthropologie, le juridique et la sociologie. / What is the impact of the combat for equality which is tending to develop in the family and democracy? Do we need the hierarchisation of the places or rather differentiation of these places? The Starting point will be, in France, the evolutionof the authority within the family, i.e. the advent of parental authority which accompanies the decline of the paterfamilias. This questions the impact of the parenthood on the introduction of the paternal function. It also relates to the masculine and the female one. A parallelism will be carried out at the scale of the democratic society, studying the upheavals which the seek for equality induces. Our assumption is that the perceptible changes, which currently take place at the level of the family and society, open towards a plurality of possible futures. So, we will examine inalterability of the parental function relate to symbolic. The research in the Psychoanalysis field is being carried out in connexion with over regulation fields as anthropology, sociology, law.

This thesis argues for the centrality of the Howard women to their family's political fortunes by exploring key dynastic episodes, themes, and events of Henry VIII's reign from a new female perspective. The Howards were England's premier aristocratic dynasty during this period. However, existing narratives have prioritised the careers of the Howard men, notably the two Dukes of Norfolk and the Earl of Surrey. Here, the family's women are foregrounded. They are not considered in isolation, but discussed alongside their male relations in order to create a fuller, more complex dynastic picture than currently exists. Themes of rebellion, dynastic identity, matriarchy, patronage, treason and religion are woven through events of familial and national importance, allowing new conclusions to be drawn regarding the Howard women and the Howard narrative itself; the way that aristocratic dynasties operated; the activities of women within the political sphere; and the relationship between this family and the Henrician state. This thesis draws its conclusions from new archival research into the activities of five Howard women: Agnes Tylney (c. 1477-1545) and Elizabeth Stafford (c. 1497-1558), the wives of the 2nd and 3rd Dukes of Norfolk respectively; Agnes' daughters Anne, Countess of Oxford (c. 1498-1558) and Katherine, Countess of Bridgwater (d. 1554); and Elizabeth's daughter Mary, Duchess of Richmond (c. 1519-1557). These five women cover three generations and two concurrent branches of the Howard family across the entirety of Henry's reign. The thesis differs from traditional gender studies by focusing on women all from one family rather than those of particular court status or geographical location, as this facilitates exploration of the relationship between kinship networks and politics. Thus it also builds on recent scholarship emphasising the role of the family in early modern politics, and reveals the Howard women as important actors on a public, political stage.

Thesis (M.S.)--Florida State University, 2004. / Advisor: Dr. R. Bruce Bickley, Florida State University, college of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (Jan. 19, 2005). Includes bibliographical references.

In this thesis the Swedish author Elin Wägner’s debate book Alarm clock and the American author Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novel Herland are analysed and compared from an ecofeminist perspective. Since the use of an ecofeminist perspective can be perceived as anachronistic as the term ecofeminism was drafted far later than the literary works in question I have chosen to distinguish between empirical and analytical concepts to approach their texts. In order to interpret their texts in their intellectual and historical contexts, concepts such as ecofeminism, matriarchy, utopia, vision and science have been of significance. This as the authors’ theoretical approaches in matriarchal theories, utopic perception, vision and science shaped their literary point of departure. The sociologist Lester Frank Ward’s theories on social planning had a huge impact on Gilman’s ideas as had the influence of the Darwinian movement focusing on evolution and eugenic, theories that at the time around the turn of the 19th century influenced social science, history and psychology. Elin Wägner found her inspiration in works by Johan Jakob Bachofen, Rosa Mayreder and Mathilde Vaerting, anchored in the Central European literacy discourse of her time; ideas significant for her civilization-critical thinking focusing on the relationship between women’s subordination and the environment, where the ruling of the earth is understood by the same logic that drives men’s dominion over women. Wägner and Gilman follows a line in the eco-feminist theorem, based on the statement that women are more responsive than men to nature and environmental issues, a biological determinism, conceptual essentialism and universalism, based on women’s different experiences in a gender society.

Cette étude a pour objet d’explorer une figure d’origine mythologique réactualisée et réinterprétée dans la première moitié du XXe siècle par des ouvrages anthropologiques d’abord, puis à leur suite par certaines œuvres poétiques : il s’agit de la Grande Déesse de l’Antiquité, devenue tout simplement chez certains « la déesse ». De la construction anthropologique à la réécriture littéraire, la déesse apparaît comme une figure composite à la fois de la mère et de la mort. En tant que femme, elle s’oppose à l’homme, en tant que déesse-mère, au dieu-père. Autour d’elle se développe tout un réseau de récits et de représentations d’origines diverses : récit de la quête du héros affrontant la déesse, théorie du matriarcat originel, révélation à la fois sexuelle et spirituelle, énigme de la poésie. A travers elle, c’est en réalité la question des rapports problématiques entre le sexe féminin et l’humain qui se pose. / The object of this study is to explore a figure of mythological origin which has been actualized and reinterpreted in the first half of the XXth century by anthropologists first and then, in their wake, by a few poetic works – the Great Goddess of Antiquity, now popularized as the Goddess. From anthropological construction to literary rewriting, the goddess appears as a composite figure, embodying both the idea of the mother and of death. As a woman, she is opposed to man, as a mother-goddess, to the father-god. A whole network of diversely originated representations and narratives develops around her: the narrative of the hero’s confrontation with the Goddess, the theory of prehistoric matriarchy, revelations both sexual and spiritual, the enigma of poetry. Through her, the question of the problematic relations between female gender and humanity is ultimately raised.

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The thesis examines representations of the matriarch in three Chinese Canadian texts: SKY Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe, Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony, and Denise Chong's The Concubine's Children. The matriarch is the female head of the Chinese household who is able to gain substantial power by manipulating the assets granted to her in a patriarchal system. Dislocated from her home in China, she serves in these texts as the focal point for the collision between the New World, Canada, and the Old World, China. Confronted by a new environment, the matriarch must decide whether she will choose conformity or identity experimentation. The thesis is concerned with the way Chinese Canadian writers negotiate multiple identities through narrators who must come to terms with the divided loyalties of the women of the past. The analysis of the matriarch's identity shifts is informed by the work of the feminist theorists, Elspeth Probyn and Moira Gatens, who explore the productive potentials of rebelling against binary codes. The thesis is divided into three chapters that discuss how the texts come close to embracing identity fluidity, but cannot overcome the need to reach a coherent representation of the matriarch. The first chapter is devoted to Disappearing Moon Cafe, and argues that Lee's narrator sacrifices her female characters, albeit reluctantly, in order to privilege feminism over her Chinese heritage. The second chapter turns to The Jade Peony and discusses how Choy's child narrators give in to binary thinking by relegating Poh-Poh, the Old One, to the realm of memories to make room for the New Ways. The final chapter on The Concubine's Children explores Chong's desire to redeem a grandmother who wreaked havoc on the family when she defied traditional gender roles. The thesis concludes by determining that Lee, Choy, and Chong are reaching for a multi-voiced reading of the past, but cannot yet articulate a way out. The uncertainty of their representations of the matriarch signals their efforts to move beyond binaries to a state of coexisting identity categories.

Originally presented as the author's thesis, Columbia. / "RPL 14." Original ed. issued in series: Columbia University studies in Romance philology and literature. Bibliography: p. 252-267.

Originally presented as the author's thesis, Columbia. / "RPL 14." Original ed. issued in series: Columbia University studies in Romance philology and literature. Bibliography: p. 252-267.

The thesis examines representations of the matriarch in three Chinese Canadian texts: SKY Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe, Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony, and Denise Chong's The Concubine's Children. The matriarch is the female head of the Chinese household who is able to gain substantial power by manipulating the assets granted to her in a patriarchal system. Dislocated from her home in China, she serves in these texts as the focal point for the collision between the New World, Canada, and the Old World, China. Confronted by a new environment, the matriarch must decide whether she will choose conformity or identity experimentation. The thesis is concerned with the way Chinese Canadian writers negotiate multiple identities through narrators who must come to terms with the divided loyalties of the women of the past. The analysis of the matriarch's identity shifts is informed by the work of the feminist theorists, Elspeth Probyn and Moira Gatens, who explore the productive potentials of rebelling against binary codes. The thesis is divided into three chapters that discuss how the texts come close to embracing identity fluidity, but cannot overcome the need to reach a coherent representation of the matriarch. The first chapter is devoted to Disappearing Moon Cafe, and argues that Lee's narrator sacrifices her female characters, albeit reluctantly, in order to privilege feminism over her Chinese heritage. The second chapter turns to The Jade Peony and discusses how Choy's child narrators give in to binary thinking by relegating Poh-Poh, the Old One, to the realm of memories to make room for the New Ways. The final chapter on The Concubine's Children explores Chong's desire to redeem a grandmother who wreaked havoc on the family when she defied traditional gender roles. The thesis concludes by determining that Lee, Choy, and Chong are reaching for a multi-voiced reading of the past, but cannot yet articulate a way out. The uncertainty of their representations of the matriarch signals their efforts to move beyond binaries to a state of coexisting identity categories. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate