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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Simone de Beauvoir"”.
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Traduzindo "As bocas inúteis" de Simone de Beauvoir
… brasileiro da peça Les bouches inutiles, de Simone de Beauvoir (1945). O ineditismo da obra em português e a relevância do tema principal impulsionaram a escolha do corpus. O enredo retrata a cidade de Vaucelles, no século XIV, assolada pela fome que sucedeu o estado de cerco. Para conter …
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The Heart and Mind of Simone de Beauvoir
This thesis will examine Beauvoir's views on women, her unique brand of feminism. The following questions will be pursued: How did Beauvoir break out of the traditional female role as a young woman? What were Beauvoir's views on women in general? On various types of women? How do Beauvoir's novels …
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Centralizing Ambiguity: Simone de Beauvoir and a Twenty-First Century Ethics
… this dissertation, I examine the relevance of Simone de Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity to contemporary feminist thought on the self, autonomy, and ethics. More specifically, I argue that this text has the potential to make unique contributions to these areas of contemporary feminist …
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An examination of Simone de Beauvoir's theme of situated embodiment
Abstract This thesis is an examination of Simone de Beauvoir's theme of situated embodiment. The aim of the thesis is to demonstrate that the theme of situated embodiment was a concern of Beauvoir's since early childhood and that it was this interest which was the impetus for Beauvoir's later …
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Pýrrhos og Kíneas. Þýðing á fyrsta siðfræðiriti Simone de Beauvoir og greinargerð um þýðinguna
… franska rithöfundsins og heimspekingsins Simone de Beauvoir, verkið ber heitið Pyrrhus et Cinéas á frummálinu og er einfaldlega þýtt sem Pýrrhos og Kíneas. Þetta er fyrsta heimspekilega verk Beauvoir og kom út árið 1944, stuttu eftir að eitt helsta verk tilvistarstefnunar kom út þ.e. Vera …
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La maternité selon Simone de Beauvoir. Traduction et discussion sur une partie du chapitre « La mère »
Hitt kynið eftir Simone de Beauvoir kom út árið 1949 og hafði gríðarleg áhrif á vestrænan femínisma. Bókin fjallar ítarlega um tilveru kvenna, til dæmis mismunandi „aðstæður“ þeirra, þar á meðal móðurhlutverkið, sem Beauvoir fjallar um í einum kafla bókarinnar. Hitt kynið hefur aldrei verið þýdd á …
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Ethics, ambiguity, and the existential novel; A study of Simone de Beauvoir's works of fiction
… five novels of the existentialist French author Simone de Beauvoir. It seeks to challenge the arguments presented by many scholars, which regard Simone de Beauvoir's work as subordinate to and dependent on Jean Paul Sartre's work. Secondly, too many see her only as a feminist philosopher and …
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The Genealogy of the Concept of Situation in Simone de Beauvoir, 1940-49: History, Oppression, and Sexual Difference
… the non-linear but rather genealogical development of Simone de Beauvoir’s concept of “situation” in her works from 1940 to the publication of The Second Sex in 1949. The starting point of this thesis is the belief that situation, which grounds Beauvoir’s perspective to comprehend the …
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The great problems are in the street : a phenomenology of men's stranger intrusions on women in public spaces
This thesis contributes new and unique evidence to the limited body of empirical literature on men’s stranger intrusion in public space, commonly termed ‘street harassment’, through a transdisciplinary study bringing a philosophical framework to the study of violence against women and girls (VAWG). …
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O feminismo pós-colonialista de Jamaica Kincaid: rumo à liberdade
Este trabalho tem por finalidade analisar os romances Annie John (1985), Lucy (1990) e The Autobiography of My Mother (1996); a fim de compreender as representações femininas e pós-coloniais que são desenvolvidas na obra da escritora caribenha Jamaica Kincaid. Entramos em contato com personagens …
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From future homemaker of America to the lesbian continuum: the queering of Mary Ann Singletone in Armistead Maupin's Tales
… Butlter, Adrienne Rich, Eve K. Sedgewich, and Simone de Beauvoir are vital in understanding how a straight woman journeys onto the lesbian continuum as a revolt against gender roles (defined by Butler and Beauvoir) and as a result of her friendship with Michael Tolliver. Michael's character …
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"Mrs. Brown's" Journey: An Imagined Correspondence Between Virginai Woolf and Jean-Paul Sartre
… earlier writers and her contemporaries the “moderns” in writing fiction. This project explores the idea that Woolf’s experimental stream of consciousness writing style anticipates themes of Existentialism, the twentieth- century philosophical interpretation of existence based on existence …
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Bernard Shaw's Conception of the "Womanly" Woman
… authors have mixed opinions about woman's role. Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, and Sidney Callahan have sought, to update the traditional concept of woman as mother and housewife in The Second Sex, The Feminine Mystique, and The Illusion of Eve, while Phyllis McGinley, on the other hand, has …
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Paradoxical Subjects - Women Telling Birth Stories
… resources, including the work of Julia Kristeva, Simone de Beauvoir, Iris Young and materialist feminists such as Nancy Hartsock and Maria Mies, this study explores the forms of embodied subjectivity that emerge in birth narratives. Engaging in both an ideological analysis and a narrative …
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The Amazon in antiquity and on television : deployments of a figure within gender (re)negotiations
… as a site of the continuous process of gender negotiation. After drawing upon the work of feminists such as Simone de Beauvoir, Teresa de Lauretis and Judith Butler in order to establish a position from which to address gender and the important questions of gender subversion and …
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The Dandelion diary : die perdeblom kalender
… van my gedigte in Afrikaans en Engels. Verder word die digterlike stemme van Antjie Krog en Ingrid Jonker verken met die oog daarop om my eie poesie te verstaan. The thesis also focuses on the impact of illness and disability on my own creative processes and is an analysis of the gender …
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Staðalímyndir asískra kvenna á Íslandi og endurspeglun þeirra í bókmenntum og kvikmynd
… John Stuart Mill, Hariett Taylor Mill og Simone de Beauvoir. Einnig er hugað að sköpunarsögu kvenna úr Biblíunni og væntingum samfélagsins til kvenna í fornum samfélögum, t.d. í gamla assýríska ríkinu, íslömskum samfélögum, fornum taílenskum bókmenntaritum og evrópskum samfélögum miðalda. …
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Combating the Banality of Evil: Portrayals of the Literary Female Villain in Günter Grass's Danziger Trilogie and Novella, Im Krebsgang.
… Pokriefke in the other works, Katz und Maus, Hundejahre, and Im Krebsgang. This antagonistic female type is not like other women in these works. A review of Le Deuxième Sexe by feminist Simone de Beauvoir reveals several crucial components contributing to woman's position in society. Most …
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