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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Relational subjectivity"”.
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Heterosexual couples, gender discourse, and the production of relational subjectivity
… shaping effects of patriarchal discourses on the relational subjectivity of a woman partner; how a woman partner responds to and refuses this shaping; and why and how a man might change his positioning in relation to his partner. The data were generated through focus group discussions with women, …
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The Path Toward the Other: Relational Subjectivity in Modern Chinese Literature, 1919-1945
This thesis explores the uncharted territory of relational subjectivity in modern Chinese literature. As a model of identity that positions the self in a web of social interaction, emotional connectivity, relational subjectivity suggests that the self is continually partial, open, and constantly …
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Creating absence to acknowledge presence : relational subjectivity and postmodernism in Carol Shields’s 'The Stone Diaries'
This paper explores the relationship between postmodernist discourses and feminist discourses, asking, firstly, whether or not feminist political action is possible within a postmodernist theoretical climate that scrutinizes the construction of universalizing group identities, and, secondly, how …
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Navigating the Void: Subjectivity and Contemporary Critical Theory
… and contingency in efforts to theorize subjectivity and ethics in contemporary critical theory. Chapter One explores the role of antihumanism in contemporary critical theory as dramatized by the Foucault-Habermas debate. Chapter Two argues that narrative theories of self are constitutive …
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Jane Austen and the civilized woman: moral development and gender
… as its starting point the idea of an embedded, relational subjectivity that emerges thanks to and in constant exchange with communities of other selves. Elias’s investigations, in particular, allow us to read Austen’s female protagonists as being immersed in a civilizing process which …
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Transparent animism: a framework for participating in ecological design as agonism
… through form, landscape architects can use subjectivity as a tool to create alternative frameworks where the boundaries between human and nonhuman existence are open to discussion. Designs can interrupt passive experience to build broader constituencies that support a more egalitarian …