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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Misogyny"”.
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John Donne'S Misogyny
… called for the sake of inquiry John Donne's "misogyny." In other words, this thesis, through a remembrance of the fact that a twenty-first century feminist conceptualization of misogyny cannot be applied to the work of an Elizabethan poet without consciousness of developments in gender …
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Maternal Misogyny: Absent Mothers in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature.
<p>Through four novelists from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-Haywood, Defoe, Austen, and Chopin-this work examines the way the mother's importance evolves throughout literature. In Haywood's works, motherhood is seen as a dominant force in her child's life, but not a dominant force in …
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Masculinity Threat, Misogyny, and the Celebration of Violence in White Men
This study aims to understand the relationship between masculinity and the endorsement of attitudes towards guns and violence and aggressive fantasies. I examine threatened masculinity and masculine gender role stress in addition to a newly developed measure, which assesses traits associated with …
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Weaponised Misogyny: News Media Representation of the Northern Ireland Conflict (1960-1986)
This thesis presents an empirical study of how gendered rhetoric in print media shaped public perceptions in Northern Ireland circa 1960 to 1986. It examines how portrayals of women were weaponised to reinforce sectarian divides, advance political agendas, and influence public opinion. By analysing …
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The Precarious Man: Measuring masculine discrepancy and its relationships with aggression and misogyny
… be related to the endorsement of aggression and misogyny. The aim of this dissertation is to develop and validate a scale to operationalize masculine discrepancy as it is theorized; this scale will then be used to examine the following research questions: does masculine discrepancy impact males' …
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“Misogyny is Self Defense”: A Critical Analysis of Incel Discourse and Belief on Incels.is
… are not a mere fringe abnormality, rather their misogyny is a logical but extreme extension of patriarchal, heteronormative and white supremacist power relations.
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On a Good Day, You Get to Kill a Whore: Narrative Misogyny and Female Audiences in Supernatural
In this paper, I attempt to analyze the function of gender messages in media texts and the engagement of audiences with these messages. I adopt an interdisciplinary approach, applying theoretical and methodological concepts from both film studies and audience studies, in order to develop a new …
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Online misogynistic harassment and response rhetoric: A case study of Anita Sarkeesian and her harassers
… expectations, harmful ideologies such as misogyny continue to flourish in posts, threads, and comment sections. Therefore, it is both important to know how to recognize when ideologies such as misogyny are causing harm online while also being able to understand certain ways that people …
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Perceval's sister and Juliet Capulet as disruptive guides in spiritual quests
… as a fundamental disruption to the systemic misogyny of the Morte or her Eucharistic significance. She challenges both the chivalric misogyny that sees her as an object of rescue and the spiritual misogyny that sees her as a detriment to holiness.</p> <p>Though Romeo wants to use Juliet as a …
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Motherhood, Female Ageing and Samuel Beckett
… into two parts: part one investigates themes of misogyny, maternity and motherhood in a selection of the young Beckett’s writing. I consider how the trope of misogyny, which spans twenty years, provides a gateway to investigating how matters of sex and reproduction profoundly structure Beckett’s …
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Embracing Evil: The Threat and Allure of the Female in Greek Poetry
… them as simply part of the tradition of Greek misogyny' that exists throughout ancient Greek texts from the archaic period to classical times. This project argues that these sentiments, which have so often been described as 'Greek misogyny' in literature, in fact embody a more complicated and …
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Violence against women in the novels of Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor
… has the purpose of warning women about the cruel misogyny of men."
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Weaving with words: Recording women’s experiences in feminist revisionary adaptations of Greek myth
… her, a somewhat absent mother, internalized misogyny, sexual double standards, and parenting woes, all of which combine to create an image of women’s issues and realities in the early 2000s. As the third wave of feminism begins to taper off and the fourth wave rises, Madeline Miller’s Circe …
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An exploration of the gender and sexual dynamics for women performers in the Cape Town jazz community
… committed to continuing violent displays of misogyny. The study argues that despite the prevalence of this misogyny, women jazz artists actively design strategies which skilfully and innovatively allow them to pursue influential careers, deepening the meaning of “jazz” in Cape Town and …
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Making Up Race in Early Modern England
… white English identity and inspire new forms of misogyny after her death, like those encoded in Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy (1606). Chapter three explores the theme of racial impersonation in The Masque of Blackness, while Chapter four focuses most intensely on the forms of agency …
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Reclaiming the virgin birth narrative in Latin America feminist liberation theology
… undertaken. Firstly, it attempts to unveil the misogyny of the Catholic Church fathers' andocentric miss-reading of the Virgin Birth narrative. Secondly, it looks at feminist theologians' critical analyses of Marian devotion in Latin America as being about the veneration of an archetypal figure …
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Just Passing Through
… effects of the 2008 Recession, racism and misogyny, Greek mythology, and the opioid crisis.
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Navigating The Manosphere: An Examination Of The Incel Movements’ Attitudes Of Sexual Aggression And Violence Against Women
… Of particular interest is the networked misogyny and sexism of the online group that self-identifies as “involuntary celibates”, or “incels”. Drawing on data collected from online forums and chat rooms, the language and discourse of this particular group are analyzed through an integrated …
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Beyond the Abyss: American Gaslight and Popular Literature
… theories about gender dynamics, patriarchy, and misogyny. Secondly, to understand and resist patriarchal oppression, women must confront racism and classism that has historically divided the feminist movement by intentionally creating inclusive spaces and opportunities for women to share and …
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A Garden Locked, A Fountain Sealed: Female Virginity as a Model for Holiness in the Fourth Century
… alike assigning and/or accepting an entrenched misogyny in the writings of Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine, close examination of their work on its own terms and in its own time reveals that, in fact, they did not hold women in lesser esteem than men. Rather, time and again, in the writings of …
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