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The tragedy of women’s emancipation.
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Goldman, Emma
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This item is part of the Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements (PRISM) digital collection, a collaborative initiative between Florida Atlantic University and University of Central Florida in the Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM).
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Date Issued
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1913
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00002593
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Feminism
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Angels and Monsters: Exploring the Restraining Binary in Late Victorian Fiction.
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Boyar, Michelle, Buckton, Oliver, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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This thesis explores the limited economic, professional, and political opportunities for women in the Victorian era and how these roles are perpetuated through literature. Often, the lack of opportunities confined women to two choices: the angel or the monster. While there has been significant research on this binary, Virginia Woolf’s cry to “kill the angel of the house” has not been rectified. To discuss the binary, I have analyzed Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret and Charlotte...
Show moreThis thesis explores the limited economic, professional, and political opportunities for women in the Victorian era and how these roles are perpetuated through literature. Often, the lack of opportunities confined women to two choices: the angel or the monster. While there has been significant research on this binary, Virginia Woolf’s cry to “kill the angel of the house” has not been rectified. To discuss the binary, I have analyzed Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret and Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper” to discuss how these female writers reflect their authorial anxieties through Gothic tropes and a close identification with their heroines. Additionally, I have analyzed Thomas Hardy’s Tess of D’Urbervilles and Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets to discuss how these male authors take a naturalistic approach to critique the fallen woman trope.
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Date Issued
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2021
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013719
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Victorian literature, Feminism, Tropes
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Document (PDF)
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WOMEN IN MOSQUE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF MUSLIM WOMEN EXPERIENCES AT TWO MOSQUES IN SOUTH FLORIDA.
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Akhter, Afsana, Harris, Michael S., Florida Atlantic University, Department of Anthropology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Women's participation and roles in contemporary mosques in Western nations differ from that of many Muslim-majority countries. Yet, women’s presence and function are contentious within and outside Muslim communities, and research on the issue is limited. Most extant research on Muslim communities and religious institutions comes from Europe. Moreover, while seeking an opinion or firsthand knowledge of religious opinions in Muslim communities, the male voice takes precedence. This qualitative...
Show moreWomen's participation and roles in contemporary mosques in Western nations differ from that of many Muslim-majority countries. Yet, women’s presence and function are contentious within and outside Muslim communities, and research on the issue is limited. Most extant research on Muslim communities and religious institutions comes from Europe. Moreover, while seeking an opinion or firsthand knowledge of religious opinions in Muslim communities, the male voice takes precedence. This qualitative research investigates Muslim women’s experiences at two mosques in south Florida. I aimed to gain a better understanding of mosques’ impact on women’s religious practices, their adaptation to American society, and their views on male-dominated religious places, including the topic of gender segregation. By using narrative data collected from participant observation and interviews with informants, this study demonstrates that Muslim women at these south Florida mosques engage in their religious and social activities, creating a meaningful space to worship in the mosque while following the dominant patriarchal norms in the religious institution. The findings from this study also highlight the need for a more extensive quantitative analysis of women's demands for inclusion and equality in mosques and Muslim men's (including imams') responses to such requests as well as the significance of generational, age, and national-ethnic differences when it comes to the issue of gender in mosques.
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Date Issued
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2023
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014219
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Muslim women, Islam, Feminism
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5th Wave: The Fault of Women.
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Koppisch, Patricia, Cunningham, Stephanie, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Visual Arts and Art History, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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As a reaction to the demand for women’s suffrage and equal rights in the late-1800s, American antifeminism emerged. In the article by Janet Saltzman Chafetz and Anthony Gary Dworkin, “In the Face of Threat: Organized Antifeminism in Comparative Perspective,” the authors concluded that the growth of a countermovement is contingent upon the success and size of the movement it opposes.1 This conclusion is applied to the actions, counter-actions and subsequent growth of both antifeminism and...
Show moreAs a reaction to the demand for women’s suffrage and equal rights in the late-1800s, American antifeminism emerged. In the article by Janet Saltzman Chafetz and Anthony Gary Dworkin, “In the Face of Threat: Organized Antifeminism in Comparative Perspective,” the authors concluded that the growth of a countermovement is contingent upon the success and size of the movement it opposes.1 This conclusion is applied to the actions, counter-actions and subsequent growth of both antifeminism and feminism. However, as feminism succeeds with small advancements in equality, antifeminism escalates its oppositional strength by creating accusations against women, using labels based on gender stereotypes and initiatives that incite divisive discourse in the pursuit of equal rights for all human beings. Graphic design is a catalyst for both antifeminism and feminism visual language. To find inspiration for my exhibition, I examined one-hundred years of design used by both movements. Based by my research, the exhibition, “5th Wave: The Fault of Women,” navigates through the growth and history of antifeminism and visually examines antifeminist labels and initiatives and the culmination of these techniques used during the fifth wave of antifeminism. The exhibition, “5th Wave: The Fault of Women,” exposes and challenges the efforts of the fifth wave of antifeminism in an effort to evoke an understanding of the importance of feminism’s fight for equality and the betterment of all human beings. Using research and design to expose antifeminism’s growing labels and initiative, feminism can combat the techniques used to punish those who challenge patriarchy and heteronormativity.
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2020
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013596
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Graphic design, Anti-feminism
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Document (PDF)
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Rape and Reverence: Culling the Lessons from 20th Century Ethics.
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Piconi, Gabriella, Miller, Timothy, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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This thesis aims to contribute to contemporary feminist theory through the integration of several interdisciplinary texts from the last century, all of which challenge an existing, male-oriented norm of woman as ‘lesser’ in a particular field of study. The historical position of woman as ‘other’ in a negative light is a postulate that contemporary feminist studies may take too much for granted. The supposed lack of prominence of women in scripture, such as what Phyllis Trible gestures to, for...
Show moreThis thesis aims to contribute to contemporary feminist theory through the integration of several interdisciplinary texts from the last century, all of which challenge an existing, male-oriented norm of woman as ‘lesser’ in a particular field of study. The historical position of woman as ‘other’ in a negative light is a postulate that contemporary feminist studies may take too much for granted. The supposed lack of prominence of women in scripture, such as what Phyllis Trible gestures to, for example, is not erasure at all, but women present as archetypes, a mode of representation later dispersed in literature and film. The textual ‘absence’ of the feminine which has been previously understood as erasure may in fact be a clandestine interpretative tool which must be sought for, or, within a textual framework, explicated. Instead of accepting woman as a minimized ‘other’ to be merely a given in biblical and other texts, her peripheral role must be teased out in order to be fully appreciated. The critical most important to this claim include Carol Gilligan’s In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development and film theorist Molly Haskell’s From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, the latter of which lends this thesis its title. Lastly, I will be using erasure as an interpretative method as applied to a series of case studies: to analyze the female figures in Hamlet using Carol Gilligan’s psychological development framework; to consider Haskell’s rigorous critique of American cinema alongside Woman in the Dunes, a 1964 film based on a fabulist novel, which uses erasure as its modus operandi; and to apply Phyllis Trible’s hermeneutic interpretive method to Lot’s wife. The interdisciplinary design of this thesis allows for the inclusion of scholars from a variety of inherently ethical disciplines to showcase how societal perceptions of women have informed women’s ethical decision-making and identity.
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Date Issued
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2022
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014081
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Subject Headings
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Feminist theory, Feminism, Feminist ethics
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Document (PDF)
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Tracing feminisms in Brazil: an analysis of gender and race in academic discourses and online activism.
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Bozzetto, Renata Rodrigues, Njambi, Wairimũ N., Graduate College
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Date Issued
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2013-04-12
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361909
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Feminism--Brazil, Women's studies, Internet and activism, Content anaylysis
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Postcolonial feminist body studies: the case of female genital practices.
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Kennedy, Amanda, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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In this thesis, I argue that all bodies are material-semiotic entities, produced by both natural and cultural processes. Western anti-FGM discourse is predicated upon the belief that the body must be kept in its "natural" or "pristine" state, and that any practice which violates the body's natural "perfection" is mutilation. Implied by this discourse is the false notion that Western bodies are given and left unaltered. By drawing comparisons between Western genital practices and non-Western...
Show moreIn this thesis, I argue that all bodies are material-semiotic entities, produced by both natural and cultural processes. Western anti-FGM discourse is predicated upon the belief that the body must be kept in its "natural" or "pristine" state, and that any practice which violates the body's natural "perfection" is mutilation. Implied by this discourse is the false notion that Western bodies are given and left unaltered. By drawing comparisons between Western genital practices and non-Western genital practices, I undermine the ideology that erases the working of culture on Western bodies while highlighting the "mutilating" powers exercised on the bodies of Others. Current imperialist hegemony perpetuates the view of African women as passive victims of barbaric tradition in need of rescuing by Western liberated women. We must, instead, work toward theories that account for differences in experience and history, rather than those which posit universal understandings of patriarchy and domination.
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Date Issued
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2007
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11616
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Feminist theory, Postmodernism, Female circumcision, Feminism and science
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Document (PDF)
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Never Mute: Deaf Poet Voices. (Original poetry).
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Mosier, Teri Lynn., Florida Atlantic University, Peyton, Ann
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The work is an original volume of poetry with an introduction by the author, which both discusses the influence of other poets and places the work within the canon of American literature. The poetry lies within the lesbian feminist tradition associated with Audre Lorde, Judy Gahn and Adriene Rich. This is a free verse poetry that combines extensive use of the confessionalist school's "I" voices with the concrete school's sculpting of the poem on the page. By drawing on a variety of divergent...
Show moreThe work is an original volume of poetry with an introduction by the author, which both discusses the influence of other poets and places the work within the canon of American literature. The poetry lies within the lesbian feminist tradition associated with Audre Lorde, Judy Gahn and Adriene Rich. This is a free verse poetry that combines extensive use of the confessionalist school's "I" voices with the concrete school's sculpting of the poem on the page. By drawing on a variety of divergent sources, such as T. S. Eliot, Robert Browning and Marge Piercy, the poet provides a diverse range of dramatic voices and approaches. This is an attempt to further expand through the process of integration the stylistic options available in the general poetic canon. In addition, the poet hopes to deepen the representation of individuals who have been traditionally "muted" in Western literature, by providing them with a "voice" in her poetry.
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Date Issued
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1991
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14715
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American fiction--20th century, Poetry, Lesbian feminism
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Document (PDF)
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Production of meaning in a gendered environment: A communication study of nurses in management.
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Summerlot, Lisa A., Florida Atlantic University, Scodari, Christine
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This study explores the ways in which female nurses in management negotiate their roles within the male dominated institutions of medicine and administration. Our culture provides to this highly gendered profession a dominant construction of unambiguous identities for both management and nursing. The principles of semiology and feminist media criticism are used to show that negotiation with dominant messages takes place in lived reality in ways that are very similar to the negotiation in...
Show moreThis study explores the ways in which female nurses in management negotiate their roles within the male dominated institutions of medicine and administration. Our culture provides to this highly gendered profession a dominant construction of unambiguous identities for both management and nursing. The principles of semiology and feminist media criticism are used to show that negotiation with dominant messages takes place in lived reality in ways that are very similar to the negotiation in which consumers of media texts engage. Nine interview transcripts of nurses in management positions were analyzed for evidence of negotiated decodings of dominant meanings. The analysis reveals the presence of preferred readings, oppositional readings and resistive readings of the dominant construction of identities with an emphasis on the oppositional reading.
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Date Issued
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1997
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15515
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Subject Headings
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Nurse administrators, Sex role in the work environment, Feminism
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Document (PDF)
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Nursing practice in a contemporary health care corporation: Nurses' tensions and torment.
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David, Beverly Ann., Florida Atlantic University, Appleton, Cathy
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Tensions exist between the ideology of caring as a nursing practice ideal, and the corporately managed health care settings in which nurses work. The objective of this critical feminist ethnography was to understand these tensions by grounding them in nurses' experiences and perceptions. Data was gathered through ethnographic interviewing and participant-observations of a nurse key informant and her co-workers in the pediatric unit of a corporately managed acute care hospital. The data were...
Show moreTensions exist between the ideology of caring as a nursing practice ideal, and the corporately managed health care settings in which nurses work. The objective of this critical feminist ethnography was to understand these tensions by grounding them in nurses' experiences and perceptions. Data was gathered through ethnographic interviewing and participant-observations of a nurse key informant and her co-workers in the pediatric unit of a corporately managed acute care hospital. The data were analyzed according to the coding procedures and comparative method described by Strauss and Corbin (1990). Four characteristics of the corporate health care culture that conflict with nurses' practice ideals were identified: The Corporate Productivity Motive; The Priority of a Medical Regime Over Nursing Care; The Tolerance of Risk to Patient Safety; and The Hospitality Perspective. A critique of the patriarchal value structure that influences the health care system and recommendations for nursing practice, education, and research is provided.
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Date Issued
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1996
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15341
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Nursing--Philosophy, Caring, Feminism, Medical care, Health services administration
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Document (PDF)
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Making WonderWomen: Recursive Tendencies in Feminist Utopias.
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Norris, William, MacDonald, Ian, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Making Wonder Women: Recursive Tendencies in Feminist Utopias argues that reduplications of patriarchal hegemonies exist in William Marston’s Wonder Women. Using several close readings of Marston’s original comics as well as three modern (2011, 2017, 2020) reimaginings by Greg Rucka, Grant Morrison, and Daniel Warren Johnson, this thesis highlights how the design of Paradise Island, the Amazons, and Wonder Woman serve to reproduce Rockwellian demands of femininity through the guise of sexual...
Show moreMaking Wonder Women: Recursive Tendencies in Feminist Utopias argues that reduplications of patriarchal hegemonies exist in William Marston’s Wonder Women. Using several close readings of Marston’s original comics as well as three modern (2011, 2017, 2020) reimaginings by Greg Rucka, Grant Morrison, and Daniel Warren Johnson, this thesis highlights how the design of Paradise Island, the Amazons, and Wonder Woman serve to reproduce Rockwellian demands of femininity through the guise of sexual radicalism and the religious rhetoric of liberation through servitude. This culminates in the position that Marston’s feminist ideals calcified into pop-culture a confusing and muddled icon of white colonial feminism.
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Date Issued
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2022
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014002
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Subject Headings
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Marston, William Moulton, 1893-1947. Wonder Woman, Feminism
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Document (PDF)
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Cinematic Portrayals of Ancient Women: Cleopatra VII, Livia Augusta, Servilia Caepionis and the Three Waves of Feminism.
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Schwab, Andrea, Buller, Jeffrey, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
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This project examines the modern perception of ancient women, specifically through the creative (and often anachronistic) lens of film. All three women examined, Cleopatra VII, Livia Augusta, and Servilia Caepionis, all exemplify the modern influence on interpreting historical sources, resulting in all three becoming agents of feminism in their own times. Each woman did not culminate the probable influence they had in Roman society, but they are instead reflective of the patriarchal paradigms...
Show moreThis project examines the modern perception of ancient women, specifically through the creative (and often anachronistic) lens of film. All three women examined, Cleopatra VII, Livia Augusta, and Servilia Caepionis, all exemplify the modern influence on interpreting historical sources, resulting in all three becoming agents of feminism in their own times. Each woman did not culminate the probable influence they had in Roman society, but they are instead reflective of the patriarchal paradigms understood by 20th and 21st century audiences. The burgeoning feminist ideologies of the 20th century would influence the depictions of each character in an anachronistic fashion, distorting the actual control such figures had in history. While Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra capitalized on youth and sexuality as tools of powers, Siân Phillips’ Livia emphasized age and experience to advance in patriarchal Rome. Servilia, however, was an older matron who had both the experience and the sexuality to control those around her. Whileeach figure approached it in very distinct methods, their common goal of changing Roman politics was reflective of the continued (and relatively unchanged) perception of ancient Roman women: as intelligent, yet dangerous, figures that served to derail patriarchal Roman politics.
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Date Issued
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2016
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004780, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004780
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Subject Headings
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Feminist theory., Feminism and motion pictures., Third-wave feminism., Women--Rome--Historiography., Mistresses--Rome--Historiography.
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Document (PDF)
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Teaching to transform: toward an action-oriented feminist pedagogy in women’s studies.
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Siddiqui, Shereen, Brown, Susan Love, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
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This qualitative study was conducted to develop a better understanding of the place of praxis in higher education women’s studies programs in the U.S. Built upon theories of feminist pedagogy, feminist praxis, activism, experiential education, and academic service-learning, the research explores how praxis is reflected and taught in women’s studies programs, how these programs impact students’ understanding of feminist theory and practice, and what factors affect the implementation of action...
Show moreThis qualitative study was conducted to develop a better understanding of the place of praxis in higher education women’s studies programs in the U.S. Built upon theories of feminist pedagogy, feminist praxis, activism, experiential education, and academic service-learning, the research explores how praxis is reflected and taught in women’s studies programs, how these programs impact students’ understanding of feminist theory and practice, and what factors affect the implementation of action-oriented pedagogy. Examples of several action-oriented projects that have successfully been implemented in women’s studies courses are offered, and a case study demonstrates the impact of these projects. The methods used include document review of women’s studies mission statements and syllabi, and interviews with women’s studies faculty and alumnae. The interview data were coded and analyzed using a grounded theory approach.
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Date Issued
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2015
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004410, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004410
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Communication in social action -- Study and teaching, Critical pedagogy, Feminism -- Study and teaching (Higher), Feminism and higher education, Mentoring in education, Social action -- Study and teaching, Women's studies
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Document (PDF)
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“Satan in high heels”: representation of the feminine in the American popular songbook and its impact on performance, interpretation, and audience reception.
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Bridwell-Briner, Kathryn E., Walters, Tim, Graduate College
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Date Issued
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2013-04-12
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361912
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Feminism and music, Jazz vocals, Femininity in music, Jazz vocals, Cabaret
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Document (PDF)
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The Women Behind the Camera: The Reclamation of Body, Pleasure, and Physical Space through Experimental Film and Video, 1965-1975.
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Herbert, Erin M., Robé, Christopher, Florida Atlantic University, School of Communication & Multimedia Studies, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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This study investigates the use of film and video as political tools for women to promote collectivity, raise consciousness, and incite both social and political change. Through textual analysis of seven experimental films and videos, from the years 1965-1975, it is apparent that women used techniques of reclamation of three major aspects of identity formation—namely, body, pleasure, and physical space—to individually take steps toward liberation, while adding to the social phenomenon of...
Show moreThis study investigates the use of film and video as political tools for women to promote collectivity, raise consciousness, and incite both social and political change. Through textual analysis of seven experimental films and videos, from the years 1965-1975, it is apparent that women used techniques of reclamation of three major aspects of identity formation—namely, body, pleasure, and physical space—to individually take steps toward liberation, while adding to the social phenomenon of second-wave feminism. Through this analysis the following question is addressed: how, and why, did the female media makers of the women’s liberation movement and sexual revolution implement both film and video to challenge social constructions and ideas regarding femininity, domesticity, and sexuality? The textual analysis performed in relation to this research question is rooted in cultural materialism and takes historical, economic, and cultural factors into account.
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Date Issued
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2019
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013376
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Subject Headings
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Feminism, Experimental films, Experimental videos, Women motion picture producers and directors, Sexuality
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Document (PDF)
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Through the North Door: The Invocation of Invitational Rhetoric in Wiccan Rituals.
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Howald, Kayleigh, Mulvaney, Becky, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
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Wiccan witchcraft, a contemporary religion, frequently suffers from misunderstandings; the worst of which, arguably, being that it thrives in a postfeminist society. Although it remains unclear why witches, despite their specific traditions, would not immediately embrace feminism, this study claims that whether practitioners agree or disagree, they are performing feminism. In this study, I argue that Wiccan rhetoric (both discursive and non-discursive) functions epistemically to encourage...
Show moreWiccan witchcraft, a contemporary religion, frequently suffers from misunderstandings; the worst of which, arguably, being that it thrives in a postfeminist society. Although it remains unclear why witches, despite their specific traditions, would not immediately embrace feminism, this study claims that whether practitioners agree or disagree, they are performing feminism. In this study, I argue that Wiccan rhetoric (both discursive and non-discursive) functions epistemically to encourage feminist values. The thesis analyzes three typical forms of Wiccan rhetoric using Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin’s approach of invitational rhetoric and the values of equality, immanent value, and self-determination.
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Date Issued
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2016
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004698, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004698
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Feminism -- Religious aspects, Feminist theory, Goddess religion, Magic, Wicca, Witchcraft, Women and religion
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Document (PDF)
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Tracing feminism in Brazil: locating gender, race and global power relations in Revista Estudos Feministas.
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Bozzetto, Renata Rodrigues, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Women's movements and feminisms in Brazil have taken various forms throughout the years, contributing significantly to socio-political actions that favor gender justice. However, Brazilian feminisms remain on the margins of American academic discourse. In the United States, conceptualizations of feminism are often complicated by epistemological practices that treat certain political actions as feminist while dismissing others. The invisibility of Brazilian feminisms within feminist...
Show moreWomen's movements and feminisms in Brazil have taken various forms throughout the years, contributing significantly to socio-political actions that favor gender justice. However, Brazilian feminisms remain on the margins of American academic discourse. In the United States, conceptualizations of feminism are often complicated by epistemological practices that treat certain political actions as feminist while dismissing others. The invisibility of Brazilian feminisms within feminist scholarship in the United States, therefore, justifies the need for further research on the topic. My research focuses on feminist articles published by Revista Estudos Feministas, one of the oldest and most well known feminist journals in Brazil. Using postcolonial, postmodern, and critical race feminist theories as a framework of analysis, my thesis investigates the theories and works utilized by feminists in Brazil. I argue that Brazilian feminisms both challenge and emulate the social, economic, and geopolitical orders that divide the world into Global North and South.
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Date Issued
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2013
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3362338
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Feminism, Popular culture, Women and democracy, Postmodernism (Litearture), Social life and customs
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Document (PDF)
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Adulterous wives, obstreperous widows, disdainful daughters and courtesans: Disreputable women in Aphra Behn's comedies.
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Hoyos, Adris E., Florida Atlantic University, Anderson, David R.
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In Aphra Behn's comedies, disreputable women rebel against patriarchal authority by refusing to conform to conventional images of femininity. Because they believe in self-determination, they often come into conflict with the men who attempt to impose their will on them. They also come into conflict with the characters in the play who idealize love, because they give more importance to practical matters. Although they are criticized within the plays, Behn portrays them as sympathetic because...
Show moreIn Aphra Behn's comedies, disreputable women rebel against patriarchal authority by refusing to conform to conventional images of femininity. Because they believe in self-determination, they often come into conflict with the men who attempt to impose their will on them. They also come into conflict with the characters in the play who idealize love, because they give more importance to practical matters. Although they are criticized within the plays, Behn portrays them as sympathetic because they often help other characters by objecting to forced marriage. They are Behn's most aggressive and assertive female characters, and thus use patriarchy to their own advantage, often to obtain wealth. Disreputable female characters allow Behn to discuss issues of money, class, and sex.
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Date Issued
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1994
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15033
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Behn, Aphra,--1640-1689--Criticism and interpretation, Feminism and literature
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Document (PDF)
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"I'm a feminist": Gender issues in selected short stories by Dorothy Parker.
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Hahn, Lynne Barbara., Florida Atlantic University, Berry, Faith
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Abstract/Description
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Dorothy Parker made her "I'm a feminist" claim in a 1956 Paris Review interview with Marion Capron. This thesis proposes that Parker showed an acute awareness of women's issues. As a working woman who demanded equal pay for equal work, she was aware of gender influenced inequalities. Parker examined the cultural institutions that subordinated women by gender, class and race through her realist fiction. She anticipated the political feminist critique as we know it today. This thesis will...
Show moreDorothy Parker made her "I'm a feminist" claim in a 1956 Paris Review interview with Marion Capron. This thesis proposes that Parker showed an acute awareness of women's issues. As a working woman who demanded equal pay for equal work, she was aware of gender influenced inequalities. Parker examined the cultural institutions that subordinated women by gender, class and race through her realist fiction. She anticipated the political feminist critique as we know it today. This thesis will examine three of her works of short fiction which reveal her political feminist consciousness: "Big Blonde," "Clothe the Naked," and "Mr. Durant."
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Date Issued
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1992
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14876
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Subject Headings
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Parker, Dorothy,--1893-1967--Criticism and interpretation, Feminism and literature
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Document (PDF)
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Female identity in the novels of Marge Piercy.
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Creator
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Gordon, Darcy Dianne., Florida Atlantic University, Paton, Priscilla
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Abstract/Description
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Women have traditionally formed their identity around standards created by a patriarchal society. In this way, they have often denied themselves autonomy and the process of self-discovery. With this knowledge, Marge Piercy through fiction re-imagines "the traditional female concern with personal relationships and the details of daily life and then expand (s) these concerns to include a wider and wider swath of human experience" (Snitow 719). Most of Piercy's novels intertwine politically...
Show moreWomen have traditionally formed their identity around standards created by a patriarchal society. In this way, they have often denied themselves autonomy and the process of self-discovery. With this knowledge, Marge Piercy through fiction re-imagines "the traditional female concern with personal relationships and the details of daily life and then expand (s) these concerns to include a wider and wider swath of human experience" (Snitow 719). Most of Piercy's novels intertwine politically motivated plots with female characters who reach a new conscious level of understanding about origins of identities, and thus these characters engage in an awareness that allows them to discover a self-formed identity. Piercy realizes that she must challenge the prescribed identity of women before she can concern herself with personal identity. In doing this, she understands that gender precedes identity (Lorraine 18), and politically, she relates her ideas in a feminist way. Because her writing takes place from the 1950s through the 90s, Piercy's work realizes the change in women's identity through this particular time. Moreover, Piercy is able to show the history of the confinement and limitations suffered by women in a sexist society. In doing this, she empowers both her female characters and her female readers to begin to realize personal choice in creating a self-identity.
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Date Issued
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1997
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15378
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Subject Headings
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Piercy, Marge--Criticism and interpretation., Feminism and literature., Women and literature.
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Document (PDF)
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