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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Feminist Politics"”.
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Vulnerability and the feminist politics of sexual violence
… how does understanding vulnerability enable feminists to engage with sexual violence? Whilst there has been a ‘return to vulnerability’ (Murphy 2012: 70) in the recent feminist literature, sexual violence is notably absent. These contributions to the field emphasise the shared character of …
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Being “Other”: Ana Mendieta’s Artistic Practice and Feminist Politics within Arts Institutions
This thesis examines the art and politics of Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta through her engagement with three arts institutions: 1) the University of Iowa; 2) Heresies: A Journal of Feminist Art and Politics; and 3) Artist in Residence Gallery (A.I.R.). I explore these three institutions …
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A Feminist Politics of Discursive Embodiment: Rethinking Iris M. Young's Gender Seriality
… of female embodiment have prompted contemporary feminist theorists to depart from gender essentialism and draw attention to the heterogeneity of gender performances in the (re)conceptualisation of 'women'. I argue feminist politics may become ossified and repressive if the public arena fails to …
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The evolution of feminist politics: the life and times of a rape crisis organisation
… This study critically examines the evolution of feminist politics within Rape Crisis (RC) from the 1970s to the present day (RCCTT, 2019). Drawing on personal narratives, organisational dynamics, and different feminist theoretical frameworks, the research explores intersecting power relations, …
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Prophecy and Group Identity and Purpose: Connecting the Leadership Conference of the Women Religious with the Catholic Legacy of Feminist Politics
… of the Faith and episcopal hierarchy. The feminist resistance of these women recapitulates forms of what Bucar calls “creative conformity,” which the church has embraced for its forbearers.</p>
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A Politics of the Everyday: Identity and Normalizing Power
In Chapter Five, I reexamine feminist politics, arguing that its goal should be altering the very practices by which gender is constituted. This focus on micro-level practices of gender formation reveals that everyday, seemingly innocuous practices constitute the political and should be the target …
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Geographies of Feminist Activism in Berlin and Dublin: Hybrid Feminist Counterpublic Spaces of Resistance
Feminist activists have long confronted violence against women (VAW), re-defining violence and defying narratives that normalise or excuse it. This thesis explores how feminist activisms challenge violence in place in ways that elucidate the complex reality of violence across a range of spaces and …
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Josephine, Josie, Jo
<p>This work of feminist children’s literature was inspired by Aimee Carrillo Rowe’s article, “Be Longing: Toward a Feminist Politics of Relation.” Rowe’s theory of relational belonging suggests that our identities are made in relation to the individual people we come into contact with as well as …
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We too shall be mothers : her story, our story, history: feminism and postmodernism in the contemporary historical novel
… First, it illustrates the profound influence of feminist psychoanalytic theory on WTSBM, but also argues that the novel reformulates and departs from specific aspects of the feminist psychoanalytic paradigm. Second, the exegesis argues that WTSBM can be classified as a 'postmodernist, …
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Conflicts, contradictions and commitments : men speak about sexualisation of culture
… of sexualised cultural landscapes to feminist politics and women’s social positions. A striking feature of these discussions however, is a lack of empirical, as well as theoretical, considerations of men and masculinities. Men’s accounts, perspectives and experiences of sexualisation …
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White feminist stories : locating race in the narratives of British feminism
This thesis examines dominant feminist discourses emerging from liberal media, the academy, and activist networks in contemporary Britain. In particular, it traces stories and representations of feminism’s recent past (from the 1960s onwards) which are constructed and reproduced through these …
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In search of the subject: locating the shifting politics of women's performance art
… wider society. However, as both the nature of feminist politics and the contexts within which the work has been produced have changed, the enactment of such oppositional strategies has also shifted. This thesis aims to locate and account for such shifts by mapping multiple subjects, including …
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Making Home : (Re)Writing Motherhood and Identity in African American Women’s Fiction
… novels of the twentieth century. Combining black feminist critique, maternal theory and historical enquiry, the work develops across four chapters, beginning with Paule Marshall’s 1959 novel Brown Girl, Brownstones, and progressing chronologically in its discussions of Sarah E. Wright’s This …
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Housework and Social Subversion: Wages, Housework, and Feminist Activism in 1970s Italy and Canada
… and Social Subversion: Wages, Housework, and Feminist Activism in 1970s Italy and Canada, presents a history of the Wages for Housework movements in Italy and Canada (1972-1978), looking at the parallel development of autonomist feminist politics in these locations. Based on a series of …
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Caught in the mirror: Fictional representations of "cyborgs" and "serials" in postmodern American technoculture.
… change and possibility, one in which socialist-feminist Donna J. Haraway labours to redefine feminist politics by constructing a borderless and especially, genderless, cyborg subjectivity. "Cyborgs" and "serials" are figures of social and fictional "reality," that, together, reflect the …
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"If It Is Sincere, It Will Rouse Hostility": The Freewoman, Feminisms, and Print Culture in Early Twentieth-Century England
… an examination of The Freewoman (1911-12) as a feminist publication, and its editor Dora Marsdens (1882-1960) particular role in the journal. It examines periodical culture and feminisms, and the possibilities that periodicals open up for feminist thought and politics through the characteristics …
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Feminism for Sale: Commodity Feminism, Femininity, and Subjectivity
… consumer to be targeted using appropriated feminist discourses. This dissertation theorizes commodity feminism, a play on Marxs conception of commodity fetishism, at the intersections of Marx/Marxism, feminist theory, and Freud/Freudianism. My method involves exploring a series of …
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Genealogies of feminism : leftist feminist subjectivity in the wake of the Islamic revival in contemporary Morocco
… ethnographic and genealogical study of leftist feminist subjectivity in the wake of the Islamic Revival in contemporary Morocco. It draws on two years (2004-2006) of field research amongst founding members of the Moroccan feminist movement whose activism emerged out of their immersion in and …
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