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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"French feminism"”.
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IN THE SPIN
… a collection of poems influenced by the work of French Feminism, Shakespeare and Faulkner, and hybrid lyric-narrative poets of the last fifty years.</p>
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Learning to Create: A Collection of Personal Essays
… for choosing personal essay as a genre and French feminism as the guiding theory in writing the essays. Six personal essays center on the author's attempts to have a child and the discoveries and failures along the way. Throughout literary history, women's bodies have traditionally been …
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"Sometime There is Breath": Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons as Maternal Lexicon
… womb warrant a reassessment of Stein's stance on feminism. This thesis identifies and elucidates the poetic exploration of the womb as a space containing one not yet formed, that is, the unnamed, ungendered, uninscribed in the restrictive and hegemonic yoke of culture. In this space, Stein …
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Kristevan theory: meanings, contexts, feminist "uses"
… between Kristevan thought and contemporary French feminism, aspects of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, postmodemism, and other contemporary theory. I demonstrate that none of these categories or theories can adequately contain Kristevan thought and that her roots in, or resonances with …
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Problems of representation and representativeness in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction
Using a nexus of discourse theory, the French Feminism of Helene Cixous and the deconstructive Marxist Feminism of Gayatri Spivak, this work examines the production of the sign 'woman' in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction. I locate Ngugi's semiotics of the feminine in the conflicting discursive …
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The contribution of Victor Hugo to the liberation, emancipation, and changing perceptions of women in 19th century French society
… views firmly in the context of Enlightenment feminism and 19th century feminism, while also drawing heavily on the illuminating principles of Enlightenment feminism. In particular, this thesis examines Hugo’s support for several of the most determining issues of 19th century French feminism, …
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A gendered musicological study of the work of four leading female singer-songwriters: Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, and Tori Amos
… are discussed, drawing primarily upon French feminism. Theories which establish a foundation for my arguments are Julia Kristeva’s the semiotic, Luce Irigaray’s feminine multiplicity and Hélène Cixous’s écriture féminine, as well as Joan Riviere’s womanliness as masquerade. The …
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Bending Gen(re)der: A Negotiation of Identity through Language in Helene Cixous and the Self
… in Hélène Cixous and the Self analyses the French author Hélène Cixous and her most recently published book, Love Itself in the Letterbox. The book cannot be said to fit into a specific genre but moves through a series of musings surrounding her personal history with France, New York, …
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Bending Gen(re)der: A Negotiation of Identity through Language in Helene Cixous and the Self
… in Hélène Cixous and the Self analyses the French author Hélène Cixous and her most recently published book, Love Itself in the Letterbox. The book cannot be said to fit into a specific genre but moves through a series of musings surrounding her personal history with France, New York, …