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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"representations of women"”.
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Amazonian Vision: Representations of Women Artists in Victorian Fiction
This dissertation examines representations of women artists—writers, musicians, painters, and photographers—in nineteenth-century British novels and poetry written by Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Anne Brontë, Dinah Craik, Charlotte Yonge, and Amy Levy. It analyzes how …
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Cinematic representations of women in France and Germany, 1918-1933
This thesis is an examination of the cinematic representations of women in the inter-war period in France and Germany. By investigating five films produced during the period from 1918 to 1933, this work analyses the portrayal of women in two societies facing great upheaval. I examine the …
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From paternalism to individualism : representations of women in the nineteenth century English novel
<p>Three of the most notable English women authors, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot, explore similar themes of the individual, particularly the young woman, in relation to a hierarchical, patriarchal society, more specifically a crumbling paternalist society. My focus is on three …
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Representations of Women in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Man of Law’s Tale” and “Tale of Melibee”
This thesis project discusses stereotypical representations of women as it explores Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Understanding the Middle Ages and its treatment of women in society and art, the first section explores the idea of clergy and aristocracy as dominant groups responsible for …
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En-gendering theatre in Eritrea : the roles and representations of women in the performing arts
… at writing a modern theatre historiography of Eritrea, with emphasis on the roles and representations of women. It covers a period of some fifty years, from the late 1930s to 1991, the year of the country's de facto independence. The study is divided into three major sections; Part One …
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"Verie needfull for this time" : representations of women in sixteenth-century English prayer manuals.
… English prayer manuals set rigid boundaries for women by representing them in limited ways. Analyzing and comparing Thomas Becon's The Flour of Godly Praiers (1550), Thomas Bentley's The Monument of Matrones (1582), and Anne Wheathill's A Handfull of Holesome (1584) highlights the various ways …
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The roles and representations of women in religious change and conflict in Leinster and south-east Munster, c.1560-c.1641
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Avenging women: an analysis of postfeminist female representation in the cinematic Marvel’s Avengers series
… that present uncritical and monolithic representations of women. This thesis examines female characters in the Marvel Avengers series and uses them to exemplify and probe the woeful lack of meaningful representation of women in film. Widespread social contexts of sexism and postfeminism …
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Framing Identity: Repudiating the Ideal in Chicana Literature
… The poem chronicles the historic oppression of a transnational, Mexican people as well as revolutionary acts of their forefathers in resisting tyranny<em>.</em> Coinciding with a series of renewed, sociopolitical campaigns, collectively known as the Chicano Movement, Gonzales’ poem uses vivid …
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Roman Catholic women religious in Ireland, 1849-1907: self representations and public perceptions
… This resulted in more people, particularly women, joining religious orders. While there has been significant research into the activities of female religious congregations in Ireland, very little has examined representations of women religious in the Irish public sphere. This thesis …
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Maladamatjuate and the theatre of difference : staging the female body in South Africa
… that critically and creatively explore representations of women in South African theatre. I interrogate representations of the female body of' difference' and the theatrical interpretation of complex identity in South Africa. Imperative questions are raised around the renegotiation of …
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ENDURING TENSIONS: THE PRESSURES OF MODERNITY AND THE HOLD OF TRADITION IN THE LIVES OF QATARI WOMEN
… nation-building in Qatar and analyzes how Qatari women are negotiating the challenges of modern development and social change. I address the questions of how the state of Qatar’s modern nation-building projects utilize representations of women and gendered developmental initiatives to fulfill …
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Women’s Voices in a Fourteenth-Century Chansonnier: Representation and Performance in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 308
… unica, and numerous chansons de femme. Scholars of medieval lyric have associated the female voice with repetition and simplicity, but I demonstrate that representations of women in the Douce 308 lyrics instead bend formal conventions and subvert genres. Using case studies from the chansonnier’s …
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Free falling bird : an encounter with the Trojan women of Euripides.
The focus of this research relates to finding praxis for making theatre within a contemporary feminist framework with specific emphasis on writing for the theatre. It explores ways of opening up the possibility of feminist conversations beginning with the written text and how playwriting may …
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Rethinking the female body : gender and nation in Zee Edgell's Belize
This study explores Zee Edgell's literary representations of women who challenge destructive gender ideologies in Belize, Central America. My analysis focusses on the roles women's bodies play in their oppression, resistance and transformations of consciousness. The aim is to discover where sexual …
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Power and pleasure : the politics of film analysis and feminist community media education
This dissertation examines the value of feminist film theory for the analysis of representations of women in visual media, and the potential of media education for establishing a culture of critical viewing. Feminist film theory is thus critically considered, as are associated debates within …
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Gender identities and roles : the representation of women and children in South African films about HIV and AIDS
This dissertation examines representations of women and children in South African films about HIV and AIDS, paying particular attention to issues relating to the advancement and empowerment of the two groups. The dissertation focuses on two films: Yesterday (Darrell Roodt, 2004) and Life Above All …
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Identity of a Single Black Woman
… not much literature that speaks to the identity of singles, considering this is a growing group in our society today. Singleness may be by choice or by circumstance; nevertheless, this is a group worth investigating. Over the course of the last decade there have been various media programs that …
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Remembering the nation, disremembering women? : stories of the South African transition
The thesis explores the making of nationhood, and its contestation, in narrative representations of women during the South African transition. This temporal span extends across the first decade of democracy and the first two terms of governance following the historic 1994 elections. The transition …
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