This dissertation engages in a critical analysis of the poetry of Emily Dickinson which, to me, suggests that the poet suffered from a type of manic-depression known specifically in psychiatric parlance as bipolar disorder. I argue that although Dickinson experienced much pain and suffering she learnt, through time, to address, understand and contain adversity - that ultimately, she transformed these experiences into the raw materials for poetic creation. Dickinson's poetic achievements are often obscured by a misunderstanding of her mental and emotional constitution. This thesis provides an alternative to the views of those commentators who maintain that Emily Dickinson was insane, neurotic or delusional. I intend, ultimately, to offer the reader a fresh insight into Emily Dickinson's poetry by reading it from the assumption that she suffered from bipolar disorder. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.

This thesis explores the question, “What literary strategies can be employed to allow as many people as possible to identify themselves positively with South Africa as a nation and a country?”. I focus in particular on the possibilities for identification open to white South African women, engaging with Antjie Krog's English texts, A Change of Tongue, Down to My Last Skin and Body Bereft. I seek to identify the textual strategies, such as a fluid structure, shifts between genre and a multiplicity of points of view, which Krog employs to examine this topic, and to highlight the ways in which the literary text is able to facilitate a fuller engagement with issues of difference and belonging in society than other discursive forms. I also consider several theoretical concepts, namely supplementarity, displacement and diaspora, that I believe offer useful ways of understanding the transformation of individual subjectivity within a transitional society. I then explore the ways in which women identify with, and thereby create their own space within, the nation. I investigate the ways in which Krog represents women in A Change of Tongue, and discuss how Krog uses „the body‟ as a theoretical site and a performative medium through which to explore the possibilities, and the limitations, for identification with the nation facing white South African women. I also propose that by writing „the body‟, Krog foregrounds her own act of writing thereby highlighting the construction and representation of her „self‟ through the text. I proceed to consider Krog's use of poetry as a textual strategy that enables her to explore the nuances of these themes in ways which prose does not allow. I propose that lyric poetry, as a mode of expression which emphasises the allusive, the imaginative or the affective, has a capacity to render in language those experiences, emotions and sensations that are often considered intangible or elusive. Through a selection of poems from Down to My Last Skin and Body Bereft, I examine the way in which Krog constantly re-writes the themes of belonging and identity, as well as interrogate Krog's use of poetry as a strategy that permits both the writer and the reader access to new ways of understanding experiences, in particular the way apparently ephemeral experiences can be rooted in the body. I also briefly consider the significance of the act of translation in relation to the reading of Krog's poems. I conclude by suggesting that in A Change of Tongue, Down to My Last Skin and Body Bereft Krog engages with the project of “[writing] the white female experience back into the body of South African literature” (Jacobson “No Woman” 18), and in so doing offers possible ways in which white South African women can claim a sense of belonging within society as well as ways in which they can challenge, resist, re-construct and create their identities both as women, and as South Africans. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2006.

Typescript (Photocopy) / Bibliography: leaves 305-319 / [5], 319 leaves ; 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 History, 1989

x, 215 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries under the call number: KNIGHT PQ149 .A56 2004 / This dissertation project seeks to connect the thematic concerns of Francophone women's post-colonial fiction to broader issues of breaking cycles of violence and resisting the negative effects of globalization. An important part of the study will be a discussion of the historical trend towards the mechanization of nature to account for an ideology of domination that the West has exported to its colonies. Borrowing especially from Carolyn Merchant and the Frankfurt School of critical theorists but also from feminist object relations theorist Jessica Benjamin, I trace masculine culture's will to mastery over a weaker other to a primal fear of chaotic nature and the omnipotent Mother. Violence that is currently directed at nature, women and children, and that is a central theme in the narratives I consider, has a long history. Colonization in all its forms stands out as the main characteristic of this history that will continue to repeat itself if left unexamined. My project demonstrates how these particular post-colonial novels engage with the past in such a way as to diffuse the internal mechanism of abusive power. There are two principle components of this engagement: one is the bringing-to-light of a buried history, personal and collective, that Western, masculine culture strives to repress. The other is the creation of an aesthetic that offers a means to mourn a traumatic past, thereby initiating a process of emotional and social healing. Both phenomena serve as political resistance to a hegemonic system based on denial of loss. In these novels I refer to this aesthetic of mourning as a "feminine symbolic of loss" to distinguish it from a traditional male canon of melancholy literature which instead capitalizes on loss for its own advancement. Their representations of oft-tabooed subjects attest to a refusal to comply with the cultural mandate of silence, driving a wedge into that mechanism of power that perpetuates itself by the disavowal and repression of loss. / Committee in Charge: Karen McPherson, David Castillo, Linda Kintz, Wolf Sohlich

The endeavor of this thesis is to throw light on the portrayal of women by the Austrian-Jewish writer Joseph Roth. Roth’s women are regarded as highly negative and thus the author has increasingly been judged a male chauvinist and misogynist. This opinion seems particularly questionable since hardly any studies on his fictitious women have ever been conducted. The present study aims at filling that void and thereby presenting Roth’s views in a more differentiated manner. A new approach to Roth is thus called for. The analysis draws from the socio-historic background in which Roth’s work is situated. In his journalism as in his fiction, Roth strived to demonstrate and deal with the challenges of the times he lived in. His work frequently revolves around the “damaged” post-war generation in the 1920s and 30s, the feeling of being literally and metaphorically homeless. His later works are mostly set in the past, although this should not be viewed as escapism but as an attempt to come to terms with present reality. The worlds he portrays are dominated by men who are neither whole nor strong. But although women are few and it is said they are depicted only in crude stereotypes, the study shows that Roth does address their problems and plights. By observing women within established types, modern and traditional, it is revealed that Roth indeed shows depth when characterizing women, and that his interest in them is to use them as examples to illustrate fundamental aspects of the human condition. Rather than portraying them subservient to man, Roth demonstrates their common humanity. His understanding for the condition of women in his times often becomes apparent only when the narrative perspective is isolated from the protagonists. Simultaneously his work presents a valuable literary contribution for Gender Studies. / Classics and Modern European Languages / (D. Litt. et Phil.) (German)

Each of these novelists, in her own way, presents a critique of the idealised woman of the nineteenth-century. My aim in this dissertation is to reveal the degree to which each is successful in her mission to 'explode the lie' of angelic womanhood, and, in so doing, free her long-incarcerated Victorian sisters. It took great courage and fortitude to utter at times a lone dissenting voice; and female writers of the present owe a great debt of gratitude to their pioneering Victorian counterparts, who cleared the way for them to take up the banner and continue the march towards female liberation from a stifling ideology. / English Studies / M.A. (English)

Orientador: Leila Mezan Algranti / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T06:09:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gandelman_LucianaMendes_D.pdf: 1139080 bytes, checksum: 42e240d59bcbfe48f01c7ef9a7fe02fd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: Ao longo do século XVIII um número crescente de instituições, tanto no Reino como em Ultramar, voltou-se para o recolhimento e dotação de meninas órfãs. A maioria destes recolhimentos estava sob a administração da irmandade da Misericórdia. As Santas Casas da Misericórdia eram irmandades leigas, de direto patrocínio régio, restritas a homens que se organizavam em torno da realização de obras de caridade. Criada originalmente em Portugal, sua influência e poderio se espalhou por todo império português, tornando-as palco das disputas em torno da expressão da caridade pessoal, de estratégias locais de poder e clientelismo e de projetos de colonização. Através da comparação dos casos dos recolhimentos do Rio de Janeiro, Salvador e Porto a presente tese procura discutir o auxílio prestado às órfãs conjugando as implicações religiosas e morais, os valores e as relações de poder e hierarquia social que estavam em jogo no estabelecimento e funcionamento dessas instituições de recolhimento e casamento de meninas órfãs presentes no Reino e no Ultramar / Abstract: Throughout the XVIII century an increasing number of institutions, both in Portugal and overseas, began to shelter and to give out dowries to orphan girls. Most of theses shelters were managed by the Irmandade da Misericórdia. The Santas Casas da Misericórdia were lay brotherhood under the auspices of the Portuguese Crown. They were restricted to male individuals who aimed to carry out charitable work. Originally created in Portugal, its power and influence were spread throughout the Portuguese empire. The present thesis focuses on the comparative analysis of the shelters established in Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Porto / Doutorado / Doutor em História

[pt] O circuito que esta dissertação desenha começa pelas mulheres presas e encarceradas por crimes considerados políticos, entre 1968 e 1979, em duas construções específicas, o Instituto Penal Talavera Bruce, no estado do Rio de Janeiro, e o Presídio Tiradentes, no estado de São Paulo, terminando nestas instituições carcerárias onde foram enclausuradas. Uma grande gama de elementos, contudo, entremeia tal percurso: o projeto político dessas mulheres e das organizações de esquerda revolucionária às quais se filiaram, a sociedade em que elas viviam e que gestava papéis de gênero extremamente específicos, e até a forma como o campo da História das Mulheres fornece lentes pelas quais a história delas é desenvolvida. Logo, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar o encarceramento de presas políticas, abordando o momento de sua entrada no mundo das organizações revolucionárias de esquerda, e a sua passagem pelos órgãos da repressão como capítulos de sua vida. Dentro dos presídios, identifico as questões que envolvem gênero e aprisionamento num regime de exceção, de forma que possam ser compreendidas as diferenças de tratamento das mulheres encarceradas por crimes políticos em relação a um universo masculino que engloba, numa configuração mais imediata, o próprio espaço prisional e, depois, as relações simbólicas estabelecidas dentro da prisão. Insere-se aqui a adaptação da mulher a tais espaços elaborados para o gênero masculino, que não possuíam estrutura física para lidar com questões como a gravidez. Ao mesmo tempo, são perpassadas as diferenças de experiências - físicas e psicológicas - específicas ao aprisionamento feminino, traçando também paralelos com as presas comuns enclausuradas nos dois presídios. / [en] This master s thesis examines women who were arrested and imprisoned for crimes regarded as political between 1968 and 1979. These events took place in two specific venues: Talavera Bruce Penal Institute, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, and Tiradentes Penitentiary, in the state of São Paulo. A wide range of elements intertwine between their detention and their imprisonment in those two institutions. These events include their political projects and the different revolutionary left-wing organizations they joined, the society in which they lived that created extremely specific gender roles, and even the way in which the Women s History field provides the lenses through which this history is developed. Therefore, this dissertation aims to analyze the incarceration of these female political prisoners in these two prisons. I consider the moment they entered the world of revolutionary left-wing organizations and their passage through the organs of repression as chapters of their lives. Inside these prisons, I identify issues that relate gender and imprisonment in an exception regime, analyzing differences in the treatment of imprisoned women in relation to their male counterparts. Such differentiation includes the prison space itself and then the symbolic relations established in it. Here we can insert women s adaptation to an architectonic space projected for the male gender, which did not have a physical structure capable of encompassing typically female issues, such as pregnancy. Thereby, this work investigates the differences of experience – physical and psychological – related to female imprisonment. I also draw parallels between political and common female prisoners that were locked up in these two prisons.

[pt] A presente dissertação tem por objetivo analisar o caso de Margarida Hirschmann, acusada de traição à pátria e aliciamento de militares em função de sua atuação na Auri-verde, uma rádio de conteúdo pró-Eixo durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Hirschmann atuou como locutora dessa rádio e, segundo a justiça militar brasileira, foi responsável por pronunciamentos em português destinados aos pracinhas da FEB, que tinham como objetivo abalar o moral das tropas e convencê-los à deserção, apelando para mentiras e terror psicológico diante da conjuntura de conflito bélico. Ao ser capturada, Hirschmann é trazida ao Brasil, processada e julgada. Durante esse período, é notado grande interesse da mídia de massa brasileira por seu caso e, principalmente, por sua aparência em conjunto com os crimes que cometera. A bela espiã, apelido cunhado pelos próprios jornais e revistas da época, é condenada a 20 anos de reclusão. Enquanto esteve presa, deu uma série de entrevistas onde negava reiteradamente o caráter político de seu caso e engendra o que convém chamar de construção imaterial da diferença, destacando sua própria situação em relação às demais mulheres em situação de cárcere na recém-construída Penitenciária Feminina da Capital Federal. Essa construção imaterial da diferença tem como base uma série de estereótipos de gênero em diálogo com o contexto socio-histórico em que o caso aconteceu e, principalmente, em diálogo com uma determinada moral sexual e ideal de feminilidade presentes na construção da mulher moderna. Serão utilizados como fonte jornais e revistas da época, o processo-crime de Hirschmann diante da justiça militar brasileira e a bibliografia que trata da historiografia das mulheres e problemas de gênero. / [en] This dissertation analyzes the case of Margarida Hirschmann, accused of treason and military persuasion due to her performance on Auri-verde, a pro-Axis content radio during World War II. Hirschmann acted as the announcer of this radio and, according to the Brazilian justice, was responsible for pronouncements in portuguese destined to the Brazilian military force (FEB), that had as objective to shake the morale of the troops and to convince them to desertion, appealing to lies and psychological terror during war. When captured, Hirschmann is brought to Brazil and judged by the Military Justice. During this period, the Brazilian mass media shows great interest for her case and, especially, for her appearance along with the crimes she allegedly committed. The beautiful spy, nicknamed given by the newspapers and magazines of the period, is condemned to 20 years of imprisonment. While in prison, she gives a series of interviews where she repeatedly denies the political motivation behind the case and engenders an immaterial construction of the difference, highlighting her own situation in relation to the other women in jail in the newly built Feminine Penitentiary of the Federal Capital in Rio de Janeiro. This immaterial construction of the difference is based on a series of gender stereotypes in dialogue with the socio-historical context in which the case takes place and, mainly, in dialogue with a certain sexual morality and ideal of femininity present in the construction of the modern woman. Newspapers and magazines will be used as the main sources for this dissertation, along with the text of the process of Hirschmann before the Brazilian military justice and the bibliography that discusses the historiography of women and gender problems.

In this thesis I have endeavoured to throw light on both the private and public aspect of the lives of women living in the Roman African provinces from the first century BC to the seventh century AD. Funerary inscriptions reveal that the role of women in private life was projected in a manner which reflected the ideals for Roman womanhood (pudicitia, castilas,fides and fecunditas), even when they clearly came of Afro~Punic stock. In terms of the quality of their lives Roman African women of the propertied status groups (about whom we know the most) had a good standard of living compared to other parts of the Roman Empire, and for example were well~educated in the urbanized areas compared to provinces such as Gaul. Roman African women of the elite also enjoyed a degree of autonomy enhanced by the increased financial independence granted to them in terms of Roman law, which enabled them to function as benefactors in their communities in the same way as their male counterparts, donating money for temples, baths and markets. In return for this they were duly recognized in honorary inscriptions by their communities. Although this public role may appear to be in conflict with the 'ideal' domestic or private role of the Roman matron, this activity was sanctioned by the fact that they were acting in the interests of male family members who were engaged in municipal careers. In the 2nd and 3rd centuries there are a few signs that women were beginning to act more in their own interests, but much of their public role faded with the increasing dominance of the Christian Church which prescribed a more limited role for women. The only exceptions occurred in the times of persecution through the temporary prominence gained by women as martyrs and confessors, although this prominence cannot be said to have advantaged women in general. During the Vandal and Byzantine period we know of only a few women, primarily those with connections to the elite at Rome and Constantinople, who acted with the independence and authority of their class. / History / D.Litt. et Phil. (Ancient History)