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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Beauvoir"”.
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Traduzindo "As bocas inúteis" de Simone de Beauvoir
… da peça Les bouches inutiles, de Simone de Beauvoir (1945). O ineditismo da obra em português e a relevância do tema principal impulsionaram a escolha do corpus. O enredo retrata a cidade de Vaucelles, no século XIV, assolada pela fome que sucedeu o estado de cerco. Para conter a crise de …
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The Heart and Mind of Simone de Beauvoir
This thesis will examine Beauvoir's views on women, her unique brand of feminism. The following questions will be pursued: How did Beauvoir break out of the traditional female role as a young woman? What were Beauvoir's views on women in general? On various types of women? How do Beauvoir's novels …
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Centralizing Ambiguity: Simone de Beauvoir and a Twenty-First Century Ethics
… I examine the relevance of Simone de Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity to contemporary feminist thought on the self, autonomy, and ethics. More specifically, I argue that this text has the potential to make unique contributions to these areas of contemporary feminist philosophy.</p>
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An examination of Simone de Beauvoir's theme of situated embodiment
… This thesis is an examination of Simone de Beauvoir's theme of situated embodiment. The aim of the thesis is to demonstrate that the theme of situated embodiment was a concern of Beauvoir's since early childhood and that it was this interest which was the impetus for Beauvoir's later …
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Pýrrhos og Kíneas. Þýðing á fyrsta siðfræðiriti Simone de Beauvoir og greinargerð um þýðinguna
… rithöfundsins og heimspekingsins Simone de Beauvoir, verkið ber heitið Pyrrhus et Cinéas á frummálinu og er einfaldlega þýtt sem Pýrrhos og Kíneas. Þetta er fyrsta heimspekilega verk Beauvoir og kom út árið 1944, stuttu eftir að eitt helsta verk tilvistarstefnunar kom út þ.e. Vera og Neind …
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Human dignity and intellectual disability: Thinking with Beauvoir over the influence of the Kantian view
… disabilities. Guided by the thought of Simone de Beauvoir I attempt to formulate, instead, a phenomenological-existential model of human dignity, to approach the concept in a way that includes all human beings, and thus of necessity, people with intellectual disabilities. Beauvoir uses a concept …
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La maternité selon Simone de Beauvoir. Traduction et discussion sur une partie du chapitre « La mère »
Hitt kynið eftir Simone de Beauvoir kom út árið 1949 og hafði gríðarleg áhrif á vestrænan femínisma. Bókin fjallar ítarlega um tilveru kvenna, til dæmis mismunandi „aðstæður“ þeirra, þar á meðal móðurhlutverkið, sem Beauvoir fjallar um í einum kafla bókarinnar. Hitt kynið hefur aldrei verið þýdd á …
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Ethics, ambiguity, and the existential novel; A study of Simone de Beauvoir's works of fiction
… of the existentialist French author Simone de Beauvoir. It seeks to challenge the arguments presented by many scholars, which regard Simone de Beauvoir's work as subordinate to and dependent on Jean Paul Sartre's work. Secondly, too many see her only as a feminist philosopher and little more. …
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The Genealogy of the Concept of Situation in Simone de Beauvoir, 1940-49: History, Oppression, and Sexual Difference
… but rather genealogical development of Simone de Beauvoir’s concept of “situation” in her works from 1940 to the publication of The Second Sex in 1949. The starting point of this thesis is the belief that situation, which grounds Beauvoir’s perspective to comprehend the complex relationship …
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"To Mississippi, Alone, Can They Look For Assistance:” Confederate Welfare In Mississippi
… post-war pensions (1888-1992), and through the Beauvoir Jefferson Davis Memorial Soldiers’ Home (1903-1957). This thesis challenges the existing historiography, showing that Mississippi began aiding indigent soldiers and families as early as 1861, and the 1888 pension law operated outside the …
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From future homemaker of America to the lesbian continuum: the queering of Mary Ann Singletone in Armistead Maupin's Tales
… Adrienne Rich, Eve K. Sedgewich, and Simone de Beauvoir are vital in understanding how a straight woman journeys onto the lesbian continuum as a revolt against gender roles (defined by Butler and Beauvoir) and as a result of her friendship with Michael Tolliver. Michael's character provides a …
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"Mrs. Brown's" Journey: An Imagined Correspondence Between Virginai Woolf and Jean-Paul Sartre
… and writers. Sartre introduces Simone de Beauvoir into the correspondence and Beauvoir and Woolf also exchange letters about a proposed biography of the fifteenth-century author and women s rights advocate, Christine de Pizan.</p>
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Combating the Banality of Evil: Portrayals of the Literary Female Villain in Günter Grass's Danziger Trilogie and Novella, Im Krebsgang.
… review of Le Deuxième Sexe by feminist Simone de Beauvoir reveals several crucial components contributing to woman's position in society. Most essentially, a woman's natural attributes and (dis)abilities and the conventions of society have enforced her historical submission to man. This thesis …
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The great problems are in the street : a phenomenology of men's stranger intrusions on women in public spaces
… gendered existential-phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir and insights on habitual embodiments from Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Using this theoretical framework the empirical evidence is investigated for what it reveals about modalities of embodied subjectivity women enact in public spaces. The …
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O feminismo pós-colonialista de Jamaica Kincaid: rumo à liberdade
… como Stuart Hall, Roland Walter, Simone de Beauvoir, Carole B. Davies, entre outros.
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Can the life stories of adult learners offer insights into the development of understanding and knowledge for critical adult and community education? An exploration of the experimental reflections of four adult learners in Ireland.
… of society, those who are viewed as Others (Beauvoir, 1989). 4 These people are excluded through domination and control to prevent a challenge to the status quo. The research further identifies the imperative of understanding a problem through experience – our own, or that of another human …
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Bernard Shaw's Conception of the "Womanly" Woman
… mixed opinions about woman's role. Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, and Sidney Callahan have sought, to update the traditional concept of woman as mother and housewife in The Second Sex, The Feminine Mystique, and The Illusion of Eve, while Phyllis McGinley, on the other hand, has celebrated …
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Paradoxical Subjects - Women Telling Birth Stories
… including the work of Julia Kristeva, Simone de Beauvoir, Iris Young and materialist feminists such as Nancy Hartsock and Maria Mies, this study explores the forms of embodied subjectivity that emerge in birth narratives. Engaging in both an ideological analysis and a narrative analysis, the …
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