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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"woman warrior"”.
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The Self-(un)Made Mother: Jungian Archetypes in Dickens's Little Dorrit
… forms of femininity—the crone, the maiden, the woman warrior, and the seductress. These women negate themselves willingly in actions that would seem to reinforce the gender norms of their time, but their self-negation actually leads to empowerment and sustainability for themselves and for …
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Warrior Women and the Shaping of Narrative in Medieval French Literature
<p><em>Warrior Women and the Shaping of Narrative in Medieval French Literature</em> focuses on the representation of women warriors in medieval French literature, but it is also concerned with contemporaneous historical accounts and texts. Additionally, it examines representations of the woman as …
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Studying the Hyphen: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Selected Works by Amy Tan
… Kingston raises these ideas in her novel The Woman Warrior, where on one hand her protagonist embraces her Chinese heritage, and refers to herself as a "Chinese girl" (Kingston 25), yet she dismisses certain parts of Chinese tradition: "And I don't want to go to Chinese school anymore. I want …
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Ég um mig frá mér til mín. Umfjöllun um birtingarmyndir sjálfsins í sjálfsævisögum Maxine Hong Kingston og Jenny Diski
… um tvær tilraunakenndar sjálfsævisögur, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1975) eftir Maxine Hong Kingston og Skating to Antarctica (1997) eftir Jenny Diski. Segja má að þessar frásagnir einkennist af margræðni þar sem hugmyndir um eðlislægt, einsleitt og heilsteypt sjálf …
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Cease Fire: One Woman's Search for Self in a Culture of War
<p>Cease Fire is a war story told from one woman’s perspective. It’s about a farm girl and her battles fought as young soldier serving on a remote nuke site during the Cold War. It’s the interpretations of lived experiences, highs and lows of a military career fused with family life, and spanning …