Browsing OU - Theses by Author "McDonald, William Henry"
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Agency, Gender, and Constraint: Examining Shame in The Awakening
Hefner, McKinze (2019-05)This thesis focuses on The Awakening by Kate Chopin and examines how shame constrains the performance of gender through the lens of Butler’s theory of gender performativity. Judith Butler claims that gender is the “practice ... -
Domesticity, Utopia, and Biopolitics: A Critical Study of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Moving the Mountain
Nepomnick, Allison (2018-05-11)With the rise of first-wave feminism in United States, often characterized by the movement to secure women the right to vote and enact a voice in the public sphere, the early twentieth century indicated a clear ideological ...