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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"female desire"”.
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Female Desire in Contemporary Indian Cinema
… in Bollywood films in the development of female authorship, particularly in the last decade. The journey of women’s representation in Bollywood, from the homogeneous image of a m other, a sister and a wife who is submissive but can also dance or sing beautifully to the independent woman in …
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The Rise of Romantasy: Female Desire, Monstrous Feminists, Fairy Tale Ideology, and Societal Panic
… literary and cultural development through which female desire, agency, and subjectivity are being renegotiated. Tracing a historical continuum across Gothic horror, fairy tale discourse, and contemporary fantasy romance, I contend that patriarchal ideology has long constructed women according to …
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Equal Ardor: Female Desire, Amatory Fiction, and the Recasting of the Novel, 1680--1760
… a character who challenges the notion that female novelistic subjectivity must be based on absolute sexual virtue. By placing novels by Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood at the center of the history of the novel, I argue that female selfhood in the early novel was contingent on the heroine's …
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Utopia, Deseo Y Consumismo: Interpretaciones De Lo Queer En La Literature Y El Cine Postfranquistas
My dissertation explores the ways in which female desire is used as a political metaphor to parody traditional gender roles imposed during the Francoist dictatorship. I focus on a series of discursive strategies that are structured around two fundamental thematic axes: island-isolation and …
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Female Bonds in Shakespeare's Plays
… Shakespeare's representations of bonds between female friends, mistresses and servants, and mothers and daughters in the context of early modern discourses on female friendship, focusing specifically on the ways female characters mediate for one another. Although the majority of Renaissance …
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Representation of marriage in selected Harold Pinter plays
… while simultaneously confining or disciplining female desire. As a result, the wives in Pinter's plays find that their desires may only be satisfied through infidelity. This infidelity subverts the domestic order, calling into question patriarchal notions of truth and love. Yet, as Pinter's …
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Feminism, psychology and the work of Charlotte Mew
… institutions, and her exploration of male and female desire, subtly but significantly, undermine the phallocentric status quo. I acknowledge the problematic elements of Mew's work, particularly with reference to her male narrative voice and her preoccupation with unrequited love. However, I …
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The Construction of the Subject in the Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
… the symbolic emergence from repression of active female desire, perceived as threatening in the male unconscious ('The Oval Portrait', 'Ligeia'); and the disintegration of the subject under the pressure of its own repressions ('The Fall of the House of Usher'). Particular stress is laid throughout …
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‘Transportation is physical, communication is psychical’ : female sexuality and modes of communication in nineteenth-century transatlantic literature
… correspondence, in relation to discourses of female sexuality and power in Anglo-American literature. The exploration of these modes from a feminist point of view will help re-evaluate the presence of women within nineteenth-century transatlantic communication systems and specifically the …
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Literatur und Emanzipation von Frauen in der Frühromantik : Bettine von Arnim und Karoline von Günderrode
… of authorship which allows a representation of female desire, as defined by French theory, through a reflection in Karoline as her other. While both women enjoy the advantage of education. Bettine rejects this as an example of male norms. Karoline imitates these norms to emancipate herself. …
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IN THE SPIN
… of family, marital infidelity, loyalty, the female body, and the tension between political vs. aesthetic existence. This is a collection of poems influenced by the work of French Feminism, Shakespeare and Faulkner, and hybrid lyric-narrative poets of the last fifty years.</p>
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Look at Me: Japanese Women Writers at the Millennial Turn
… today. These writers offer jarring narratives of female protagonists whose bodies are exposed to intense psychological, physical, and sexual harm. Drawing from psychoanalytic as well as cultural theories, I posit that important counter narratives reside in the abjected, obscene, and traumatized …