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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"patriarchal ideology"”.
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Nuns' stories, nuns' voices: Resistance at the margins of patriarchal ideology
… the way nuns and convents are represented by patriarchal historical texts and the way they are reinterpreted by feminist historians as they take into account female subjectivity.
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Subversive acts : the politics of the female subject in performance
… theatrical discourse in the relationship between patriarchal ideology and gendered subjectivity. It explores ways in which theatre might be used to encourage the social transgression of patriarchal gender norms and investigates the problems associated with the practical realisation of these …
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The Chorus in Elizabeth Cary's 'Tragedy of Mariam'
… events is informed by its participations in patriarchal culture. The Chorus’s prescriptions for wifely virtue and judgements of Mariam’s moral standing frequently contain contradictions. Comparing the contradictions in the Chorus’s statements with similar contradictions in early modern …
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New materialism and gender - (re) configuring human and robotic embodiment
… of sex, gender and sexuality align with patriarchal ideology that maintains misogyny, sexism and male supremacy. A critical feature of the aforementioned gender paradigm is strict mutually exclusive binarism and essentialism. By taking a queer feminist perspective on gender (and the …
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Exploring the role of the postmodern feminist voice in the development of the school language text
… into the postmodern feminist challenge against patriarchal ideological extravagances that have valorized Enlightenment significations of knowledge. Building on the postmodern feminist insight, that the discourses that constitute women as deficit Other permeate every aspect of the social …
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Mental Illness and Psychiatry in the Victorian Era: An Analysis of the Prevailing Power Dynamics Between Women and Male Authority Figures Through Gilman and Freud.
… placed women in a subordinate position through patriarchal ideals of femininity and unapologetically labeled them “insane” if their behavior and personality dared deviate from the prevailing social norms and conventions. In addition, I hope to shed light on the way male authority figures …
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My hart kry swaar: reconsidering patriarchy through queer abstraction, phenomenology and the haptic
… engage with the pervasive influence of patriarchal ideology, specifically from a queer and personal perspective, contextualised within Afrikaner culture in South Africa. Key theoretical concerns include queer abstraction, narratology, phenomenology, hapticity and kinship, which highlight …
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Towards a feminist hermeneutic of Mark 7: 24-30
… recognised as primarily reflecting the dominant patriarchal ideology of the day, this thesis attempts to discern whether Mk7.24-30 contains a message of liberation. In reading the text from the perspective of the Syro-Phonoecian woman, and by examining the actions of both Jesus and the woman, we …
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"You're doing mother's work. Women suffer, don't they?" (A third-wave feminist reading of Pachinko, Half of a Yellow Sun and The Four Winds)
… in the face of impossible circumstances, and how patriarchal societies not only trap women in dire predicaments but also judge and shame women for the choices they make in such predicaments. I illustrate how women within these novels become the sole providers and caretakers of their families, and …
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The Voice Behind The Veil: Working Experiences of Saudi Female Accountants
… Arabia. The main findings indicate that the patriarchal ideology embedded within the social structure and cultural norms of the country impose certain barriers that hinder a full and equal participation of working women in general and female Saudi accountants in particular. The study suggests …
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Oppressed female protagonists and their survival strategies: An ecofeminist perspective in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
… main premise, which states that the patriarchal ideology authorizes the oppression of women and many other marginalized groups, which leads to the actions of the legitimization of the destructions of nature. In both Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, …
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A woman's reckoning: a feminist analysis of the power of the internationally accepted conception and implementation of the United Nations System of National Accounts
… historical contingency, the over-riding ideology of power inherent in the conception and implementation of the UNSNA is patriarchy. Given the maintaining this system in place are devastating - both to and for the majority of the human species, and for the eco-system of the planet. This …
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The discourse of women writers in the French Revolution: Olympe de Gouges and Constance de Salm
… how Rousseau's domestic discourse impacted the patriarchal ideology in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and contributed to women's exclusion from the public sphere. Joan Landes, Lynn Hunt, and many others, argued that the French Revolution excluded women from the public sphere and …
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Performing to Reclaim: War Trauma and Female Non-Combatant Recovery in Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, and H.D.
… aim to renounce the restrictive influence of patriarchal ideology upon womanhood. By exercising autonomy, woman equips herself to withstand future disruptions to her reemerging narrative.</p><p> With the exception of the chapter on Woolf--which approaches Between the Acts (1941) as a return to …
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The Rise of Romantasy: Female Desire, Monstrous Feminists, Fairy Tale Ideology, and Societal Panic
… and contemporary fantasy romance, I contend that patriarchal ideology has long constructed women according to a restrictive binary: either silent and compliant, or monstrous and punishable. Drawing on theorists including Jack Zipes, Barbara Creed, Cristina Santos, Maria Tatar, Louis Althusser, and …
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Battered women in Muslim communities in the Western Cape : religious constructions of gender, marriage, sexuality and violence
… is seen as the manifestation of a sexist and patriarchal ideology. This study examines the manner in which Islamic gender discourses inform and impact upon the phenomenon of violence against women. The related tensions between patriarchal and egalitarian Islamic perspectives are explored. This …
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Woman is a Parable
… different societies are generally based on a patriarchal ideology - that of women's supposed position in society. Women's view of the world was therefore along these patriarchal standards. An African womanist epideictic approach, therefore is employed as a liberative tool in dealing with this …
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Written narratives as an avenue for Swazi women to debate marginalization and inconsistencies of patriarchy
… socio-economic challenges as a result of patriarchal customs like polygamy, forced or arranged marriage, levirate marriage, and bride price. Marginalizing cultural norms push Swazi women to the periphery of decision-making, and this exposes them to sexual abuse, physical abuse, poverty, …
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The Reproduction of Patriarchal Ideological Hegemony in Soap Opera: A Case Study
<p>This research analyzes the reproduction of patriarchal ideological hegemony in the soap opera <em>Another World</em> using Stuart Hall's theory of the mass media and his conceptualization of ideology. A structural analysis of five one hour video-taped episodes of <em>Another World</em> reveals …