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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Fallen women."”.
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A vindication of fallen women : Victorian women writers reconceiving gender.
In my dissertation, “A Vindication of Fallen Women: Victorian Women Writers Reconceiving Gender,” I argue that nineteenth-century women writers rework Mary Wollstonecraft’s pioneering feminist text A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) to generate a new ideology of gender. Using feminist and …
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Reading prostitution in American fiction, 1893-1917
… depict the harsh conditions which caused many women to prostitute themselves for survival. Contemporary critical interpretations of novels addressed in this dissertation began before major shifts in women's roles in the workplace, before trends towards family planning, before women could …
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Dirty Pictures—Not for Sale: Re-reading Bellocq’s Storyville Portraits
… more broadly, the stereotypical late Victorian “fallen women” that has been read into history - both by historians and popular culture. However, my focal point is indeed the portraits and how they might be re-read and fruitfully explored when considering a variety of pertinent factors that …
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Religious Control Within Georgia's Women's Prisons and How It Influences Sexual Identities
… exerts an excess of control over the bodies of women, regulating not only their bodies through community isolation, that is, imprisonment, but also simultaneously denying women their right to form intimate relationships. Especially vigilant over same-sex relationships, the institution enforces a …
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Forming Ideology: The Work of Narrative Form in the Victorian Novel
… the mid-Victorian male hero, or the writing of fallen women, the lower-class, or non-British subjects into the histories of dominant subjects and families, which is made possible and more palatable through the causal logic and manipulation of readerly desire embedded in the Victorian mystery …
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A Poetics of the Soul: Devotional Poetry in Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; and Christina Rossetti
… reveals a powerful way in which disempowered "fallen" women might regain their spiritual and social equilibrium. One goal of this dissertation is to work against the assumption that devotional poetry is merely simplistic piety in verse, which becomes less relevant and interesting as poetry of …