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"An interpretive study of Chaucer's ""Legen of Good Women"""
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Being Good Women: The Rise and Appeal of Femininity Among Globalist Women
… large, growing group of geographically dispersed women united in their devotion to a neo-Buddhist relationship guru who instructs them, online, in the embodiment of femininity as the means to realizing success in their desired heteronormative relationships. This is Feminine Magnetism™, a global …
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Penance and Penitential Intent within Religious Themed Works of Chaucer
… and Criseyde, the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women, and the Canterbury Tales told by the Friar, Pardoner, and Parson. All of these draw attention to the importance of penitence despite their emphasis on classical mythology and then-current social themes. This thread culminates in the …
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VIRGIN POLITICS: AN IDEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF "VIRGINITY" IN THE EGYTPIAN VIRGINTY TESTS
… used to demarcate the role of the "good women." I also analyze Samira Ibrahim's response to the virginity tests and argue that her use of a rhetorically rich counter-cultural discourse interrupted the operationalization of "virginity" in the military's response. My thesis adds to …
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THE 'ENTENTE' OF THE NARRATOR: A POET SPEAKS TO HIS AUDIENCE IN CHAUCER'S VERSIONS OF THE DIDO AND AENEAS LEGEND
… and in "The Legend of Dido" in The Legend of Good Women, Geoffrey Chaucer offers his versions of the classical love story of Dido and Aeneas. Each story is told through the voice of a well-developed narrator who regularly interrupts his narration to speak to an audience addressed in the poem. …
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Misogynistic Language in the Comedies of Ben Jonson: Jonson's Social Commentary on a Degenerating London
… to present an almost entirely negative view of women; the plays are full of misogynistic language and their portrayal of women looks bleak. The good women in his comedies, such as Celia in <em>Volpone</em> or Dame Pliant in <em>The Alchemist</em>, are passive, weak characters who subject …
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Islamist Biographies: Religious Experiences of South African Muslim Activists
… study reveals not only their firm resolve to be ‘good’ Islamists, but also their aspirations to be ‘good’ women within their personal domains. I thus contend that, included in an investigation on Islamist journeys, should be the ambiguities and personal challenges they encountered in private …
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Enduring "lateness": biomedicalisation and the unfolding of reproductive life, sociality, and antenatal care
The dissertation examines how pregnant women seeking antenatal care at a state facility in the Southern Peninsula of Cape Town conceptualise and experience their pregnancies in relation to the biomedical model that informs state practices of care. I specifically explore the experiences that …
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Contemporary French women poets: a bilingual and critical anthology
… bilingual anthology of contemporary French women poets grew out of my long-time interest in the poetry being written today in Europe and the Americas, and, in particular, the poetry written by French-speaking writers. In my research over the past two years I have noticed that very few women …