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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"woman question"”.
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The Woman Question in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: the interaction of Romanticism and mid-nineteenth-century Victorian England
<p>Near the end of the twentieth century, various and even contradictory literary criticisms are available. Which one is best for interpretation? Specifically, which one is best for interpreting <em>Jane Eyre</em>? The answers vary. Terry Eagleton, for example, declares that "there are indeed …
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Fashioning Women Under Totalitarian Regimes: "New Women" of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia
… early twentieth-century debates on the so-called Woman Question and the New Woman and were culturally specific. I map the evolution of the Woman Question and the New Woman in the decades directly preceding and following the Nazi and Bolshevik seizure of power, defining changing standards of …
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Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Lady Jeune's Views on Victorian Culture, Society and Education
… a new layer of analysis to the Victorian Woman Question. The study of the feminine acquisition of Greek culture, and representations of Hellenism in the Victorian era are expanded by analyzing the writing of all female authors of the nineteenth century, including the aristocratic women who …
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Writing in the Raw: Rhetorical Moves of Female Essayists During the Spanish Fin De Siglo
… was not involved in the debates surrounding the woman question during the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries."
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Freed by Ideology, Imprisoned by Reality: the Representation of Women in the Cinemas of The Thaw and Perestroika
… of the “three related looks” which explores the woman’s passive role as a sexual object on screen for the male gaze, and Yana Hashamova’s analysis of the psychological dynamics of the gender paradigm in the transitional period during and after Perestroika. Building on and diverging from existing …
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Postavení žen ve vrcholné politice na konci šedesátých let 20. století a jejich postoje k sovětské okupaci ČSSR
… a chapter following on relation of communism and woman question in theory (communist ideology) and in the everyday practice. The centre of the thesis lies in its second part which deals with the situation and position of women in the public and political offices at the end of the 1960's. It is …
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Boundaries and traditions: defining American evangelicalism from 1965-1980
… change. The second case study examines ""the woman question,"" or how evangelicals contested the home as a microcosm of divine order that either upheld hierarchical gender roles or functioned as a place to resist those roles. The final case study analyzes how evangelicals engaged and contested …
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Ikitchini : the hidden side of women's labour
… Chapter Two examines Marxist approaches to the Woman Question. Chapter Three examines the silence arourid women's experience in South African historiography, while Chapter Four is a critical examination of the recorded history of domestic workers. Chapter Five examines aspects of black working …
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Socialist women in Australia, c.1890-c.1918 / Joy Damousi.
… It also examines socialists' response to the question of women's position in society and the attitude by socialists towards the contemporary feminist movement. These themes are explored through an analysis of the ideas and activism of leading socialist women in their respective parties. The …
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Socialist women in Australia, c.1890-c.1918 / Joy Damousi.
… It also examines socialists' response to the question of women's position in society and the attitude by socialists towards the contemporary feminist movement. These themes are explored through an analysis of the ideas and activism of leading socialist women in their respective parties. The …
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The Boundaries of Femininity: A Case for Two Women Artists Working in Eighteenth-century France
… for my argument by discussing the long-debated “woman question.” I focus my study on how women artists navigated their careers. Juxtaposing the careers of Vigée-Lebrun and Labille-Guiard with their contemporary, Jacques-Louis David, shows how societal constructs of gender impacted the different …
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Anne Brontë's New Women: Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as Precursors of New Woman Fiction
… type that the Victorians called the “New Woman;” yet, both novels contain characteristics of New Woman fiction. By considering how Brontë's novels foreshadow New Woman fiction, the reader of these novels can re-enact the “gentlest” Brontë as an influential feminist whose ideology informed …
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The political evolution of Vera Ivanovna Zasulich: populist, Marxist, socialist
"Late 19th century Russia grappled with the ""woman question,"" or the proper role of women in society. Vera Zasulich, quite literally, shot herself into this conversation by firing upon General F.F. Trepov in 1878. However, the existing literature has not adequately addressed the political career …
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The Victorians' "unclaimed dividend" : a literary study of the middle-class spinster.
… culture instigates, what I term, the single woman question: what does a middle-class woman do if she does not marry? I seek answers to this conundrum and investigate what sustenance, material and otherwise, the middle-class spinster possesses in Victorian fiction. Precluded from the societal …
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Women working for their freedom : FCWU and AFCWU and the women question
… to refine the theoretical understanding of the woman question in South Africa. Research methods have relied on use of archival documents, both published and unpublished; oral history; secondary sources on the union being studied and on South African society; as well as classical and contemporary …
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“Alles, was ich schreibe, steht im Dienst der Frauen.” Zum essayistischen und fiktionalen Werk Hedwig Dohms (1833-1919)
… of her essays on women’s emancipation and the ‘Woman Question’ (‘Frauenfrage’) she is regarded as one of the most important ‘foremothers’ of contemporary feminism in Germany. In contrast, the less easily accessible fictional work has received little attention. The aim of this thesis is to …
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Gender, feminism and talk on British television, 1970-1990
… of Women: Sexuality (Channel 4, 1984), Watch the Woman (Channel 4, 1985), and Question Time (BBC One, 1979-present). These case studies offer a deliberate selection of television texts that differ according to their institutional contexts; their position in the schedules; their status in existing …