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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"feminist and queer theory"”.
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A vindication of fallen women : Victorian women writers reconceiving gender.
… writers rework Mary Wollstonecraft’s pioneering feminist text A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) to generate a new ideology of gender. Using feminist and queer theory to read George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Anne Brontë, I contend that this ideology challenges conventional Victorian …
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Intimate Exegesis: Reading and Feeling in Early Modern Devotional Literature
… modern devotional literature offers feeling, and particularly bad feeling, as a productive matrix for interpretation. In this body of work, feeling – haptic, sensory, affective – generates an intimacy between reader and text in a reading practice that is also a means of coping with the …
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Transitional subjects: gender, race, and the politics of temporality
… the relationship between continental philosophy, feminist and queer theory, and transgender studies. Despite their related genealogies, these theoretical frameworks often give different accounts of the claim to an essential or real identity, as well as the relationship between identity, …
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Translation, gender in Disney’s live-action productions: a translation studies perspective on the representation of gender stereotypes in Pinocchio, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast
… in Disney’s live-action adaptations of Beauty and the Beast (Condon 2017), Aladdin (Ritchie 2019), and Pinocchio (Zemeckis 2022), through the lens of Translation Studies. It draws on Lefevere’s theory of translation as rewriting, Butler’s theory of gender performativity, and Bassnett’s model of …
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Desire Lines: An Annotated Screenplay
… under theorized questions of power, sexuality, and gender on the film set by analyzing the role of the Intimacy Coordinator (IC), a recent arrival in that space. A film set has its own culture, built from conventions, rituals, and hierarchies. The work of the IC occurs at the nexus of some of …
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The Erotic, the Speculative, and the Surreal: Considering the Spiritual as a Site of (Modal) Knowledge Cultivation through the lens of a Queer Black Feminist Radical Imagination
… may mean to respond to the decolonial question, and the murky ontological and epistemological waters such a response may take us in to. I make the case that modern movements towards freedom and liberation are, by virtue of epistemicide, based in scientific materialism, the belief that only the …
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Assessing Industry Ideologies: Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Sexual Violence in the Book Versions and Film Adaptations of The Hunger Games Trilogy, The Divergent Trilogy, and The Vampire Academy Series
In this study, I use social constructionist feminist and queer theory and narrative analysis to identify messages about gender, sexuality, and sexual violence in both the book versions and film adaptations of The Hunger Games trilogy, the Divergent trilogy, and the Vampire Academy series. These …
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Kinky Reading: Power, Pleasure, and Performance in Middle English Texts
This dissertation expands upon the vibrant field of medieval queer studies by considering literary instances of medieval sexual power play via theory on contemporary BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism). It begins with a chapter outlining the history …
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Deconstructing motherhood and fatherhood: An exploration of same-sex parents’ experiences and construction of their parenting roles
Dominant discourses regarding motherhood and fatherhood are entrenched in Australian culture and are often implied during public discussions of families with same-sex parents. Using a post structuralist approach, this project aimed to identify how parents in same-sex relationships experience and …
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How to Participate: A Multi-Genre Coming-of-Age Story of a Student Anthropologist
… that the ethnographic project had on me, and the effects that I and my project had on the people I worked with. Largely, this dissertation intervenes in academic discourse in general and anthropological discourse in particular that tends to abstract the researcher, or depersonalize them, …
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Embodied Dissent: Exploring the Activist Turn in Contemporary Cuban Art
… to work within Castro’s prescribed ideals and others seeking to problematise them. Those artists deemed counterrevolutionary have faced significant consequences, including imprisonment, erasure, and exile, retributions that have garnered international attention and cultivated an Activist …
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Fantasies of citizenship: adolescence and temporality in young adult literature
… of the adolescent is represented, constructed, and disciplined as a potential citizen in young adult (YA) literature at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Engaging the field of children's and YA literature through queer and feminist theory, I analyze how the …