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Women and the avant-garde: Sexual difference in discourse and art, 1900--1950.
(2002)
This study seeks to understand the critical influences shaping the literary and artistic exchanges between women and the modernist avant-garde. It analyzes texts disclosing expressions of gender and sexual difference ...
The life and work of Gretel Karplus/Adorno: Her contributions to Frankfurt School theory.
(2004)
This dissertation uses the insights of contemporary rhetorical theory and feminist biography to acknowledge the contributions of Gretel Karplus/Adorno to the productivity of her husband, Theodor W. Adorno, of her dear ...
Bells and whistles: The mass (re)production of female bodies for male consumption.
(2003)
In this work I examine the way female bodies are constructed by contemporary ethnic U.S. women writers in the clash of cultures, thus involving a process of negotiation between the dominant culture and ethnicity. Of special ...
Prefacing the poetess: Gender and textual presentation in seventeenth-century England.
(2000)
A.B.'s Covent Garden Drollery (1672) is important to the history of the anthologized preface. The prologues and epilogues in the drollery participate in the discourse of the professional woman in theatre, representing women ...
Naming the violence: Women's domestic violence narratives.
(1998)
Long before our twentieth-century, psycho-socio-political understanding of domestic violence, women wrote about this form of oppression in their letters, diaries, journals, essays, novels, poetry, and tracts. These highly ...
The feminist imaginary in the early writings of the poet/critic Susan Howe.
(2003)
Susan Howe's early work---the poetry collected in Frame Structures, Europe of Trusts, and My Emily Dickinson, reveals the emergence of a feminist imaginary. The feminist imaginary is writing which participates in the rupture ...
Female fear: The body, gender, and the burdens of beauty.
(2001)
The popularity of beauty culture is a constant reminder of the ways in which the female body is associated with fear. The decisions regarding participation in beauty culture seem to revolve around the fear-inspired need ...
From orality to literacy: The intellectual traditions of black South African women.
(2003)
Black women in South Africa have a long history of intellectualism as evidenced by their expertise as oral performers, rehearsing and revitalizing vibrant storytelling traditions that have been inherited by matrilineal ...
Resisting madness: Women's negotiation of social control in early modern English literature.
(2000)
The first chapter deals with studies of madness and gender, referring to Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy as well as Erik Midelfort's and Michael MacDonald's analyses of mental illness during the Renaissance. This ...
Performative designs: Female identity in Louisa May Alcott's sensational and sentimental fiction.
(2000)
This is a study of Louisa May Alcott's conceptions of female identity in her sensational and sentimental fiction. Presenting a historical and cultural analysis of the sentimental notion of femininity, I analyze how Alcott's ...