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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"female agency"”.
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Gynocentric Apuleius: Female Agency in 'The Golden Ass'
… and Psyche function as positive examples of female sexual authority and autonomy and effectively challenge the phallocentric theories commonly applied to Greek and Roman gender and sexuality, the Penetrative Model associated with Foucault, and structuralism, associated in classics with French …
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Female agency and the sacramental vision of early modern Catholicism
<p>While more and more attention is given to the writing and concerns of English women in the early modern period, one specific group has been overlooked, English Catholic women who became religious sisters in convents on the Continent. These women produced writings detailing their lives, …
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Bodies of Refusal: Food, Power, and the Paradox of Female Agency
<p>This thesis examines representations of female food refusal across <em>Wuthering</em> <em>Heights</em>, <em>Play </em><em>It</em> <em>As</em> <em>It</em> <em>Lays</em>, “Los Angeles,” and <em>The</em> <em>Vegetarian</em>, arguing that restrictive food behavior extends beyond individual …
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Female Agency in Religious Disassembly of Culture: Where Do Women Fit In?
… Some focus is placed on Alice Walker's views on female genital mutilation and how that was impacted by Christian viewpoints. Theoretical perspectives from Homi Bhabha and Chandra Mohanty emphasize the role of so-called "third world women" in world politics and feminism. </p>
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Rape, revenge, reclamation: An analysis of female agency in American rape-revenge films
… will argue that the violent actions taken by the female protagonist during her revenge against her rapist(s) serve to allow her to reclaim her agency that was stolen from her during the rape(s). I will show that the rape-revenge narrative is more diverse than it might seem, as the five films I …
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Transgressive matriarchs: an exploration of female agency and resistance in South African telenovelas
… this paper interprets the two Black female protagonists under this study within a political and historical framework. Through close textual analysis, this study examines the narrative construction and characterisation of Lindiwe Dikana from (The River 2018 - 2024) and Harriet Khoza …
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Patterns in the Parables: Black Female Agency and Octavia Butler's Construction of Black Womanhood
… primarily through Butler's celebration of black female physicality and the agency the black body provides. The project is divided into five sections beginning with an intensive examination of Butler's ur-character, Anyanwu. This character is vitally important in discussing Butler's canon because …
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The Real and the Digital: Female Agency and Resisting the Male Gaze in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Works
… grapple with the construction and potential of female identity. Considering the works within the context of Laura Mulvey’s seminal text “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” this paper will attempt to elucidate how Hershman Leeson’s works have engaged with the male gaze and its social and …
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"She should have more if she were ruled and guided by them" : Elizabeth Woodville and Margery Kempe, female agency in Late Medieval England.
… middle and upper classes were able to exercise agency to a certain degree through using both the patriarchal bargain and an economy of makeshifts. While the methods used by women differed due to the resources available to them, the agency afforded women by the patriarchal bargain and economy of …
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"Trifles of value": Craft as communication in Victorian literature
… as a form of communication that expresses female identity in Elizabeth Gaskell's <em>Cranford</em> and Margaret Oliphant's <em>Miss Marjoribanks</em>. By looking at the novels through the lens of Talia Schaffer's craft paradigm in connection with Thing theory, it is possible to make …
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Reframing Femininity: Collecting Pictures of Early Christian Virgin Martyrs in Seicento Naples
… production and consumption of early Christian female martyr imagery in seventeenth-century Naples. Although it was the second largest city in Europe at the time, scholars have only recently begun to study the flourishing art market and the prevalence of devotional culture in the lives of …
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Narratives of sex work : exploring stories of entry, experience and meaning
… perspectives attribute entry to reasons such as female agency and empowerment, and social and financial independence, while constraint perspectives attribute entry to reasons such as economic necessity, drug and alcohol abuse, childhood sexual abuse, lack of education and job opportunity, and …
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An Inquiry into the Relationship between Community and Text: Narratives and Iconography Depicting Christian Women with Authority in Late Antiquity
… artists transformed these early depictions into female caricatures that reinforced a very different system of values with respect to female agency. This study uses changes in texts, both narrative and iconographic, to illuminate subtly changing cycles of gender politics within the larger cultural …
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Noah's Woods
… the speaker's evolving definitions of womanhood, female agency, and sense of self.
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Putting Women Back on Top?: (Re)constituting Power and Audience in The Vagina Monologues
… in patriarchy and another supposedly grounded in female agency and dialogue—to reveal the problems within the current ideology in hopes that her audience will adopt her new ideology and resolve the detrimental silence women endure. To evaluate its success, this study utilizes an eclectic …
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Fashioning the Self: Performance, Identity and Difference
… that fashion can instead be viewed as a tool for female agency and expressing individuality, rather than just a mode for reinforcing gendered norms. Using feminist rhetorical analysis and visual content analysis, this project examines imagery found on three popular fashion blogs to a determine how …
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The Evolution of Marie de France's Lanval
… 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 combination with an exploration of …
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Stand Perfectly Still: Statues, Nudity, and the Pygmalion Myth in Victorian Theatre and Culture
… addresses questions pertaining to how the nude female body is vieon the theatrical stage by focusing specifically on the myth of Pygmalion as presented in W. S. Gilbert’s Pygmalion and Galatea and George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. I argue that the image of the moving statue, especially in the …
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Widening the Feminist Lens: Gillian Flynn's Exploration of Female Villainy
… fiction's male-dominated presence by asserting female presence in number, relevance, and agency. Instead of following patriarchal expectations which maintain that female characters must be virtuous, Flynn evokes female villains whose complexities and monstrous actions extend beyond the limits of …
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The chronotope of walking in the films of Andrea Arnold
… mobilises a reading of the landscape and the female body that articulates their combined resistance to hegemonic narratives of exclusion and deprivation. Furthermore, by examining its chronotopicity, the function of walking as a discrete element is analysed to reveal its narrative, aesthetic, …
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