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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Feminist writing"”.
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The Epistemologies They Carry: An Investigation of Feminist Writing Assignments
<p>This dissertation examines feminist writing assignments as one pedagogical site that influences students’ engagement and thinking. Drawing on rhetorical genre studies, feminist pedagogy, and composition scholarship on writing assignments, I argue that because writing assignments are genres that …
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<em>Waiting for Mary Jane</em>: A Collection of Modern Appalachian Short Stories in the Joycean Tradition.
… works of James Joyce yet with an Appalachian and feminist voice. <u>Waiting for Mary Jane</u> should appeal to readers interested in experimental styles as well as feminist and Appalachian literature. The protagonist of the collection is Mary Jane, a female from present day East Tennessee. The …
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Is gestalt therapy compatible with feminist theology?: a study of "practical-values"
… both. This thesis examines gestalt therapy and feminist theology as possible candidates for interdisciplinary work. By reading and interrogating the literature of both disciplines, it identifies their origins and analyses their core ideas. The thesis affirms disputed links between gestalt …
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The relationship between technology and the body in Muriel Rukeyser's poetry
… creativity anticipated Hélène Cixous‟s ideas of feminist writing.</p>
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‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763): Agency, Authority and the “female spirit of contradiction”’‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763): Agency, Authority and the “female spirit of contradiction”’
… both inaugural and atypical of women’s travel writing, and scholarship is largely orientated around Montagu’s focus on women and their lives in the different countries she travelled to and stayed in between 1716 – 18. While this dissertation maintains a primary engagement with gender, it …
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Genital sensation: abrasive bodies in feminist performance
… the practice of “cunt art” as a diverse range of feminist performative works that represent the female genitalia and questions whether vulvar works can disrupt the phallocentric models of exclusion, absence and lack. Working from a poststructuralist perspective and drawing on notions of the …
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Kantian Relationality: A Reinterpretation of the Kantian Self through Feminist and Intersectional Discourses
… of ‘remote discursive precursorship’ between feminist writing on selfhood and concepts relating to selfhood from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). Apart from providing a rereading of the Kantian subject from a feminist perspective, its aim is to present and apply workable frames of …
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A Reconsideration of the Interpretation and Analysis Typically Applied to Edward Hopper’s Art During the 1940s
… These theories, in particular Existentialism and Feminist writing, are here applied to Hopper’s own work. The research provided evidence to support the initial proposal, and helped draw clear comparisons between Abstract Expressionism (Modernism) and Hopper’s work. The investigation opened up new …
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Clowndance: Convergences in contemporary dance and theatrical clowning for pleasure-led performer training
… and performer training. It articulates how feminist writing on collective pleasure (Segal, 2018) and utopian thinking(Dolan, 2010) influences my work and research focus. I explore current performance practice that combines dance and clown through interviews with eight UK-based artists, to …
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Literature as intervention : challenging normativity in the writing of Elisabeth Reichart, Charlotte Roche and Elfriede Jelinek
… analysis reveals the continuing relevance of feminist authorial voices to the present day. At the same time, through the engagement with authors of different generational and professional backgrounds who might have diverging and in some regards contrasting perspectives on gender and sexuality, …
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The Seduction of Feminist Theory
<p>My dissertation, "The Seduction of Feminist Theory," comes out of my research on South African fiction and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and focuses broadly on feminist theory and the question of female power. Traditionally feminist theory has sought to empower women by insisting on …
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Transfiguring the female: women and girls engaging the transnational in late twentieth century Japan
… and other transfigurations of early radical feminist writing from the US, the landmark texts Our Bodies, Ourselves (1971) and The Hite Report (1976), as well as twentieth century literature with an eye toward acts and impacts of translation. Chapter five, “Travel” considers the effects of …
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Navigating the Wreck: Writing women’s experience of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore. Salvaged from the Wreck: A novel -and- Diving into the Wreck: A critical essay
… bricolage approach of this thesis, its feminist and phenomenological framework and my ethical responsibility and outsider authorial position as a white Australian woman reliant on local witness accounts. Feminist concerns addressed in the thesis are invisibility, plurality and …