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A Three Hour Credit Course in Women in Literature: Toward a Prototype
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The Riddle of Turandot
… is an essay entitled The Representation of Older Women in Contemporary Fiction. Feminist theorists argue that it is difficult if not impossible to represent feminine subjectivity within the constraints of a phallocentric language. In my essay I will show that the fictional portrayal of older women …
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The attitude toward women in the eighteenth century as reflected in English literature.
… the eighteenth century attitude toward women it is necessary to know those things which caused it--its background. For a long time the literature of this period has been passed as being unimportant and mediocre. Now, however, it is attaining a vast importance. The age is being recognized …
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Sentimentalism and Marginality: Empathy and Empowerment for the Adult women in The Heir of Redclyffe, Jessica's First Prayer, and Misunderstood
In this thesis, I will examine the ways that three. Victorian women writers-Charlotte Yonge (1823-1901), Hesba Stretton (1823-1911), and Florence Montgomery (1843-1923)-worked out of their societal position to create texts that influenced a wide number of readers and even constructed their tastes. …
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Constructions of Female Identities in Mary Gordon's The Other Side and Maureen Howard's Before My Time
<p>In Women's Time Kristeva designates three broad currents of feminist struggle: first, the suffragist movement declaring a universalist view of women's experience regardless of class, age, and cultures; second, the phase of difference, that she regards as "returning to an archaic (mythic) memory …
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Birds with Wolf Hearts, a Collection of Poetry, with an Analysis of Contemporary Nepalese Women’s Poetry
This thesis is comprised of a collation of women’s poetry from Nepal and its contextualising material, and a creative element which is poetry of my own responding to that work. The critical introduction argues that contemporary women’s poetry expresses female experiences and exposes a movement in …
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Re-Examining the Female Voice in Chaucer's Italian-Sourced Works: A Study in Paleography, Textual Transmission, and Masculinity
<p>Research on women in medieval literature is abundant but often focused on broad questions of narrative and character development. Among the areas seldom examined is what I will term "female voice," a term that encompasses the thoughts and speech of women in literature. This project analyzes the …
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Racialization, sexualization, and resistance: a “subtle” look at Our Nig and “a subtlety”
… of racialization and sexualization of black women and how those patterns have created visual depictions of black women that are not only still being shown today, but also powerfully reclaimed and resisted by black women activists as forms of protest. With the rise of these careful …
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She "Too much of water hast": Drownings and Near-Drownings in Twentieth-Century American Literature by Women
Drowning is a frequent mode of death for female literary characters because of the strong symbolic relationship between female sexuality and water. Drowning has long been a punishment for sexually transgressive women in literature. In the introduction, Chapter 1, I describe the drowning paradigm …
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A qualitative study of women perpetrators of domestic violence: comparison with literature on men perpetrators of domestic violence
This qualitative study examines the difference between male and female domestic violence offenders. An overview of the literature includes a discussion of the controversies surrounding the prevalence of female domestic violence offenses, and a discussion of theories of the underlying causes of …
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"Too disconnected/too bound up": the paradox of identity in Mercé Rodoreda's The time of the doves
Feminist theory has shown how women's lives are paradoxically both marginal to, yet affected by, hegemonic discourses of power. However, as long as women's experiences are viewed singularly along an axis of sexual difference, placing paradox as a trope for female identity risks reinscribing a …
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"I Love Mischief Strangely, As Most of Our Sex Do": Aphra Behn and the Trickster Archetype
… frequently connected to Native American tales in contemporary literature, the archetype can be found in the mythology and folk tales of nearly every time and culture. Trickster heroines can be found throughout fairy tales and folk tales, in the stories of girls and women who use their wits to …
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Maids in Their-Land: A Study of the Effects of the Cult of True Womanhood on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915) and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1986)
… as it came to be called by many modem day feminist critics, began in the early 1800's and thrived until it was trampled by the social and sexual revolution of the 1920's. According to the philosophy of true womanhood, the four basic feminine virtues necessary to being a prize to husband and …
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Hybridity, border-crossings and the homeland in contemporary literature by women
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