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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"female subjectivity"”.
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Tamed: Hair and Female Subjectivity
This thesis explores the continued discrimination against women in China today, and examines my art research throughout the study of the Master of Fine Arts degree at University of Calgary. Although, since 1949, Mao Zedong had proclaimed that “women hold up half of the sky,” in fact societal …
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Toward a Theory of Female Subjectivity
<p>Poststructuralist accounts of gender provide a useful theoretical space to unpack the workings of power and domination as they structure the organization of our language, representations, concepts, and discourse in general. One significant flaw of this theory is a failure to adequately account …
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"The Island Has Two Sides": Female Subjectivity in Postcolonial Adaptation
… is entitled: “The Island has two sides: Female Subjectivity in Postcolonial Adaptation.” In it I will argue that many postcolonial narratives either consciously or unconsciously adapt Shakespeare’s The Tempest in an effort to resurrect repressed female narratives of resistance. Through an …
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Distortions, Collections, and Mobility: South Asian Poets and the Space for Female Subjectivity
… and locate how this unease with the South Asian female body in the U.K. is reflected in poetic language. In particular, these poets seem to complicate how the body is used as a focal point for discussions about female empowerment and agency. However, this focus on the female body is still …
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Double bind: female subjectivity in selected works by Elfriede Jelinek and Anne Duden
… takes as its central focus constructions of female subjectivity in selected texts by the writers Elffiede Jelinek and Anne Duden. At the time of writing, few full-length studies which engage with this concept in texts by German women writers have been published. A clear preference is still …
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Reflection/Reflected The Construction of Female Subjectivity in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and The Death of the Heart
… Reading The Last September, I puzzled over the female protagonist's relationship to an ancillary character, which Bowen repeatedly represents in terms of the father-daughter relationship. Reading both The Last September and The Death of the Heart, I was struck by the fact that although Bowen is …
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The ambiguous female voice : recovering female subjectivity in Elizabeth Cary's The tragedy of Mariam, the fair queen of Jewry
… In the play Cary debates the actions of several female characters, presenting the reader with the understanding that they are wilful subjects who act to push the boundaries of the patriarchal confines of the royal household in which they find themselves. But Cary does not unequivocally endorse …
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Through A Glass Darkly: The Mirror Trope and Female Subjectivity in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor
… of recognition, and the dilemma of black female subjectivity and agency in a racist and misogynistic American society. I argue, then, that because the mirror trope is where patriarchal and racist structures of power collide, it signifies a critical point of intersectionality between race …
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Female subjectivity and agency in popular Mexican corridos (Ballads): an examiniation of images and representations of soldaderas (female soldiers) in the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920
… of the study is to examine the paradox of female subjection and agency in the images and representations of women in Mexican popular culture. This study proposes to explore the " intersectionality" (Collins 1998) of gender, race, and class in female subjectivity and agency, during the …
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Of Space and Time: Film and the Female Performer
… investigates the question of representing a female space-time through a visualevocation of interiority and female subjectivity by creating a form of haptic ‘cinema’. My practice draws on the concept of haptic visuality in order to explore an embodied immersive filmmaking. The films explore …
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Nuns' stories, nuns' voices: Resistance at the margins of patriarchal ideology
… practice of womanhood. Chapter I looks at female religious communities and analyzes their ideological meaning, i.e., their importance as separate female spaces. It considers different historical representations of nuns and convents and emphasizes the gap between the way nuns and convents …
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An analysis of 'The Gold Diggers' (1983) by Sally Potter : feminist film, Julia Kristeva and revolutionary poetics
… politics of feminism. It poses the question of female subjectivity through a critical exploration of the structuring linearity of classic narrative film. Casting Julie Christie and Colette Laffont as co-stars, the film explores the relationship between the female spectator and two cinematic …
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Sinofemcentrism and its manifestations in art by Yu Hong, Cui Xiuwen, and Xiang Jing
… in art by three contemporary Chinese female artists: Yu Hong, Cui Xiuwen, and Xiang Jing. Sinofemcentrism is designated to the possibilities of a Chinese-female-centered worldview emerged from a strong sense of agency, self-awareness, and consciousness concerning the world about …
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Black And White Women In Blue: A Case Study Of Policewomen
… of fourteen African American and White female police officers using interviews and observations. There is ample research that addresses the ability of women to perform policing duties, but most of the literature presumes that White and African American policewomen are a single aggregate. …
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Sickly Sentimentalism: Sympathy and Pathology in American Women's Literature, 1866-1900
… to challenge the medical trend of treating female sentiment as a sickness. At the level of narrative, this challenge took the form of deviating from the domestic and marriage plots prevalent in women’s popular fiction of their period. Through forms of sentimental writing my selected authors …
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Uncertain surrenders: The coexistence of beauty and menace in the maternal bond and photography
… ‘mother photographer’ to broaden the scope of female subjectivity, increase the status of motherhood and to agitate conventional restrictive notions of maternity that persist in the twenty–first century.
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The burden of the body : selfhood and representation in the works of Dionne Brand
… Not Here (1996), Brand develops a notion of subjectivity in which the interior self strives for full expression through the performances of its body. The self's ability to determine its corporeal performances, however, is regulated by social forces which 'read' bodies according to hierarchies …
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Interartistic Tendencies and Performativity in the Works of Three Women Photographers
… also like to touch upon Heather Agyepong, a female photographer’s work from the 21st century by focusing exclusively on the performative quality of her photography. Thus, demonstrating the art of these three women photographers I would like to give an overarching evaluation of how and by what …
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An End in Herself: Non-Motherhood in Contemporary French Women's Writing
… homonormative queer paradigm. I show how the female protagonists appeal to female biological determinism and normative affective responses towards the childless body to assert their right to become mothers. I also explore the convergence of racial discrimination in the context of (queer) …
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Genital sensation: abrasive bodies in feminist performance
… feminist performative works that represent the female genitalia and questions whether vulvar works can disrupt the phallocentric models of exclusion, absence and lack. Working from a poststructuralist perspective and drawing on notions of the feminist nomad and transdisciplinarity as a related …
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