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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Proto-feminism"”.
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Religion and Proto-Feminism in Victorian Women's Poetry
… and Amy Levy and their use of religion in their proto-feminist works, “Goblin Market” (Rossetti), the verse novel Aurora Leigh (Barrett Browning), and the dramatic monologues “Xantippe,” (1881) “Magdalen,” (1884) and “A Prayer” (1881) (Levy). This thesis examines the secular and religious …
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The Evolution of Marie de France's Lanval
… a curious new age aura, and elements of proto-feminism especially in terms of female agency, empowerment and eroticism. While some of these motifs seem to reflect more modern understandings of gender dynamics and conceptualizations of women, a critical analysis of Marie's original text in …
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Celebrating the Feminine: Daoist Connections to Contemporary Feminism in China
<p>Contemporary feminism and its emergence in the early 20th century may seem like a recent phenomenon; however, the idea of feminism has been evolving over the centuries and what may be called a “proto-feminism” could be found in one of China’s classical literary masterpieces, known as the …
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Shopping for Pleasure: The Fashion Lover in Victorian Fiction
… its relationship to motherhood, consumerism, and proto-feminism. Moving from mid-century corseting controversies and the emergence of a consumer culture to the dress reform movement, the study suggests that the definitions of fashion's transgressive pleasures shifted over the course of the …