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Hallstein, D. Lynn O'Brien. "Transforming feminist rhetorical theory and schizoanalysis: a collaboration between feminist rhetorical theory and schizoanalytic theory /." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487850665559636.

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Cochrane, Regina M. "Feminism, ecology, and negative dialectics, toward a feminist green political theory." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0022/NQ39260.pdf.

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McFadden, Caroline. "Critical white feminism interrogating privilege, whiteness, and antiracism in feminist theory." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/472.

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It is vital that feminist theory and critical white studies be combined in order to form what I call critical white feminism. Both critical white studies and feminist studies are often limited in their ability to adequately address the complex interconnectivity of racial and gender privilege and oppression. In general, feminist scholarship produced by white feminists excludes and oppresses women of color and is therefore inadequate. I refer to this problem as white feminist racism and argue that white feminists are ignorant of the ways in which whiteness and privilege facilitate problematic theorizing. Unlike white feminist theories, the emerging field of critical white studies provides a foundation for exploring whiteness in a racist society. However, critical white theories often examine racism and whiteness without attention to gender, and are therefore inadequate, as well. Consequently, another approach is necessary for the development of liberatory theories that sufficiently conceptualize social change. As a solution to the limitations of both feminist studies and critical white studies, I propose critical white feminism, which encourages white feminists to interrogate whiteness and privilege. The purpose of critical white feminism is to a) conceptualize an inclusive and transformative antiracist feminist framework and agenda, b) challenge white feminist racism and white feminist hegemony, c) encourage open and honest communication between feminists across differences, and d) facilitate feminist solidarity and mobilization.
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Nylund, Mia-Lie. "A fully feminist foreign policy? : A postcolonial feminist analysis of Sweden's Feminist Foreign Policy." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-339481.

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This thesis is a postcolonial feminist discourse analysis of Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy. Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy is unique to the world, but it is not the only case of incorporating a gender perspective as a central part of national or international politics. Feminism and gender perspectives are increasingly receiving attention and space in global politics. The Swedish case could therefore inform us about where politics are heading. Previous research on the Feminist Foreign Policy has aimed mainly at examining what it means and what challenges it likely will face. The aim of the analysis is to examine whether and to what extent the discourse of the Feminist Foreign Policy interrelates with gendered postcolonial narratives. Feminist scholars have for decades argued for the need to recognize the ways in which gendered and postcolonial structures are interrelated. Excluding either a gender or postcolonial analysis will convey only part of the problem. The method used is discourse analysis, or more specifically, critical discourse analysis. Discourse is an essential part of our social world. It is both constituted by and constitutive of how we understand our surroundings. Critical discourse analysis in particular is a useful method to illuminate power relations in society and how they are reproduced or countered through discourse. Two opposing ideal types are developed based on ideas from postcolonial theory and postcolonial feminist theory: gendered postcolonial discourse and fully feminist discourse. The ideal types are used in order to measure whether, how and to what extent the Feminist Foreign Policy interacts with gendered postcolonial discourse. The analysis looks at official documents, statements and speeches of different forms issued or produced by the foreign office. Using several texts, with varied aims and settings, the material will arguably be representative of the Feminist Foreign Policy. The results show that the Feminist Foreign Policy cannot be placed exclusively in either ideal type. The texts interrelate with gendered postcolonial discourse, reproducing unequal relations of power. Conversely, other parts of the texts are fully feminist, both transforming discourse and contributing to knowledge about what it can look like when discourse manages to avoid gendered postcolonial narratives.

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Sargisson, Lucy. "Contemporary feminist utopianism." Thesis, Keele University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295799.

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Scott, Shelley. "Feminist theory and Nightwood Theatre (Ontario)." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ45828.pdf.

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Gipson, Michael Eugene. "Asymptotes and metaphors : teaching feminist theory." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001827.

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Lury, Celia. "Feminist literary theory and women's writing." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.370953.

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Cousins, Jane M. "Towards a feminist theory of drama." Thesis, Cousins, Jane M (1987) Towards a feminist theory of drama. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1987. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/52894/.

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The thesis attempts to theorize the conditions of a feminist practice (or practices) of drama through a series of readings of plays, framed by a theoretical introduction and conclusion. In the form of a feminist critique of current theories of subjectivity and signification - notably those of psychoanalysis, semiotics, marxist literary theory, and discourse analysis - the introduction sets the theoretical scene for an exploration of the possibility of producing meaning for feminism, in the practices of reading and writing drama. It examines the conceptual tools provided, in particular, by psychoanalysis and semiotics, and appropriates and transforms them for feminist use in the following chapters. Through readings of Shakespeare's The Taming Of The Shrew, 19th century British melodrama, three plays by Ibsen, some Australian plays from the 1950's and 70's, and finally a play by the contemporary French feminist director Simone Benmussa, these five chapters suggest how a feminist politics of the unconscious might usefully connect with a feminist politics of representation, developed through a formal and historical understanding of textuality. The plays themselves have not been selected on the basis of any single criterion but rather for the range of literary-historical and theoretical questions they provoke. Each chapter attempts, in different ways, to read the plays by informing its focus on specific contexts of production and reception with questions both of genre (of the formal, discursive conditions underlying the constitution of reading formations) and of gender and class. Finally, in an attempt to draw out the more general implications of these particular readings both for practice and theory, the thesis concludes by addressing certain questions of genre.

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Gibbs, Anna. "Gertrude Stein and feminist literary theory." Thesis, Gibbs, Anna (1989) Gertrude Stein and feminist literary theory. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1989. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/52950/.

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This thesis attempts to render intelligible some significant issues in feminist literary theory - and perhaps 'feminist theory' more generally - through a reading of some of Gertrude Stein's writing, concentrating especially on The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and some of Stein's shorter prose. The issues explored all arise out of the confrontation of Anglo-American empiricism with what has been qualified - too neatly - as French theoretical work in the domains of philosophy, and literary theory. I refer particularly to a body of work that may be broadly termed 'postmodern', though in fact it is heterorather than homo- geneous. While this work is troubling to feminists for its reinscription of metaphors of Woman, local rather than global uses of it may open up new possibilities for feminist readings of texts other than those that form a part of the realist canon and have come to dominate (especially) American thought about feminist strategies of writing and reading. Modernist and postmodernist texts fit less easily into a critical framework which concerns itself primarily with defining and delimiting a female literary tradition, and hence depends upon notions of the self as individual, autonomous entity; of experience as conscious and transparent; and writing as representation. My reading of Gertrude Stein aims to show both how her texts resist this kind of interpretation, and how, within a framework of sexual difference, they may be mobilized to elaborate (and problematize) questions of authorship, of the possibility of feminine subjectivity, and of 'writing the body'. Further, I argue that a focus on these issues reveals the androcentric bias of most discussions of modernism, especially as it is opposed to postmodernism, and that an adequate reading of Stein's writing must force a redefinition of the relations between the two. Thus, the very theoretical work which facilitates a new understanding of Stein's textual strategies can in turn be revised by such a reading.

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Illert, Pamela Anne. "Kristevan theory : meanings, contexts, feminist "uses" /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armi29.pdf.

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O'Donnell, Carolynn. "A philosophical account of feminist solidarity between women /." Connect to online version, 2007. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2007/216.pdf.

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Kaufman, Hall Virginia. "Women transforming the workplace : collaborative inquiry into integrity in action /." View thesis View thesis, 1996. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030610.123935/index.html.

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Conway, Joel Sidler Michelle. "Multigenre rhetoric where genre theory and feminist composition theory meet /." Auburn, Ala., 2006. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2006%20Spring/master's/CONWAY_TIMOTHY_23.pdf.

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Smith, Lawrencine. "Towards developing a feminist political economy: a comparative analysis of socialist feminist theory." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1988. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1909.

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The primary intent of this thesis is to analyze socialist feminist literature in order to ascertain conclusions about the nature of this framework of feminist thought. The most distinguishing characteristic of this type of feminist theory is that some form of Marxian economic analysis is utilized. Therefore, understanding the relationship between female oppression and economic exploitation is the orienting problem of all socialist feminist theory. In order to examine this relationship, this thesis explores the methods of analysis found in socialist feminist literature. A case study approach is used in which three methods of socialist feminist theory are examined. They include: (1) Marxist feminism, (2) Black feminism, and (3) a synthesis between Marxist and radical feminist theories. Although each of these methods is described as socialist feminist in nature, each examines the problem of female oppression in a somewhat different vein. In order to enhance these discussions, each case study is grounded in the writings of a particular feminist theorist. Correspondingly, they include: (1) Alexander Kollontai, (2) Angela Y. Davis and the Combahee River Collective, and (3) Zillah R. Eisenstein. This study concludes with a comparative analysis of the methods presented in the three case studies. It is emphasized in this section that although all socialist feminist theory is grounded in the early writings of Marx and Engels, all theory of this nature does not agree with the conceptualizations presented in these works. The socialist feminist method most compatible to the classical Marxian conception of female oppression is "Marxist feminism." In this method, the problem of female oppression is defined strictly in terms of comprehending the nature of domestic work in terms of its nexus to social production. On the other hand, socialist feminist methods that incorporate some form of radical feminist theory expand the scope of the problem of conceptualizing female oppression. In these methods, female oppression is not equated to the rise of capitalism, nor is it assumed that socialism will liberate women. Also, female liberation is not considered to be a function of labor force participation as if most women were only housewives. Instead, these methods move towards developing a feminist political economy.

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Blomdahl, Alexandra. "Virginia Woolf's Orlando and the Feminist Reader : Feminist Reader Response Theory in Orlando: a Biography." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-32476.

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This essay is a close reading of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: a Biography that focuses on representation of gender in the novel and the possible response it elicits in the reader. The essay argues that the implied reader of Orlando - as manifested in the novel - is a feminist one, as well as it explores the possibility of this implied feminist reader being a female. The reasons as to why this could be are extensively examined by analyzing the main character Orlando as he metamorphoses from an English nobleman into a grown woman. To support the thesis, the essay looks both into reader response criticism and feminist criticism to clarify what an implied reader actually is. The similarities between Orlando and “A Room of One’s Own” are also touched upon as these suggest that the implied reader is a feminist. The essay then takes a closer look at the narrator of the novel and what this narrator suggests about the identity of the implied reader of the novel. In addition to this it is also concluded that s/he controls the reader’s perception of Orlando’s gender in the novel, and that this also echoes the ideals presented in “A Room of One’s Own”. The essay concludes that the implied reader of Orlando indeed is a feminist, but not necessarily a female one.

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Tobin, Erin C. "Campy Feminisms: The Feminist Camp Gaze in Independent Film." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1594039952349499.

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Gilman, Todd Nathaniel. "Communicative Action as Feminist Epistemology." PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4906.

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This thesis proposes that feminist social and political theory adopt the epistemology inherent in Jurgen Habermas's communicative ethics in order to more coherently work toward the goal of freeing individuals from social oppression. This thesis first examines the fundamental differences that exist between the particular claims for knowledge made by the three major schools of feminist theory; the empirical feminists, the standpoint feminists, and those allied with postmodernism. After illuminating the specifics of these feminist claims, the conception of knowledge central to Habermas's thought is explored and shown to be split into three distinct realms; the objective, the social, and the subjective. It is shown that the three realms of Habermas's knowledge account for the underlying claims of the differing groups of feminist theory, and provide a basis for reconciling the differences between them. Habermas's objective realm of knowledge corresponds to the concerns of empirically oriented feminists. A need for an accurate description of the events and conditions of the actual world is shared by both, as is a trust in the human potential for grasping these objects and events accurately. Standpoint feminism's concern for interpersonal relations, accounting for the context of an individual's or group's existence, is reflected in the type of knowledge that Habermas considers social in nature. Habermas's conception of our capacity for social knowledge, which guides our actions with other human beings, is shown to be dependent upon both social existence and communication. Finally, Habermas acknowledges the human potential for critical knowledge to explain the individual's ability to differentiate herself from the group, a task which a postmodern feminism demands to avoid essentializing any aspect of women. If feminist theory is able to move beyond the entrenched differences that it now finds itself locked within, perhaps then it will be able to continue with the project shared with Habermas, that of providing a meaningful emancipation for human beings.

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Todd, Sharon. "The politics of knowledge : a critical theoretical approach to feminist epistemology and its educational implications." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61314.

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Stemming from the dialectical concepts of critical epistemology developed by feminism and Critical Theory (specifically, the Frankfurt School), this thesis attempts to articulate the political dimension of knowledge and to demonstrate how this dimension is incorporated into the liberatory pedagogical theory of Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux and various feminist authors. Hence the epistemological significance of domination and oppression is explored in relation to the concepts of subjectivity and objectivity held by critical epistemology.
In ultimately aiming at liberation from social oppression, both Critical Theory and feminist epistemology provide theoretical insights into the social construction of knowledge, the intersubjective character of knowledge and the depth psychological dimension of the knower. It is maintained that a synthesis of these insights can provide the groundwork for a liberatory educational theory based on the interrelation between experience and knowledge. Also, in dialectical interaction, a liberatory educational theory provides a means for actualizing the liberatory aim of critical epistemology.

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Grant, Jane W. "Governance, continuity and change in the organised women's movement." Thesis, University of Kent, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.342137.

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Chen, Szu-chin Hestia. "Reading Julia Kristeva's novels : revisiting French feminist theory." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/24365.

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Internationally known as a practising psychoanalyst, literary theoretician and critic, the French feminist Julia Kristeva has recently shifted her interest from theory to the novel, albeit that the boundary between theory and novel is indeterminate for her. This research is a study of her novels to date, Les Samouraïs, Le vieil homme et les loups, and Possessions, and the way in which they embody her theoretical works in the context of the relationship between French feminist theory and post-colonial (feminist) theory, as well as between French feminist theory and Anglo-American feminism. It is divided into two parts and six chapters. Part one examines the implications of how Kristeva’s problematic status as a French feminist can be situated in relation to post-colonial (feminist) theorists and critics. The starting point for this part is the feminist post-colonial theorist and critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s critique of Kristeva’s Des Chinoises, of which narcissism is the theme. A comparison is made, in the first chapter, between Spivak’s argument that Kristeva is a privileged informant in representing Chinese women in Des Chinoises and Kristeva’s fictional portrayal of her characters as a reincarnation of narcissus, which serves as the basis of my exploration into Kristeva’s theory of love. This is followed by a study of the correlation between Kristeva’s theory of melancholia and her fictional representation of it in the second chapter. The focus on the relationship between the work of Kristeva and that of the post-colonial critic David Punter at the end of the second chapter also continues to be the object of analysis in the third chapter. This aspect of the relationship between French feminist theory and post-colonial theory paves the way for my reading of Kristeva’s theory of the abject and abjection, an interpretation which brings part one to a conclusion. Part two starts with an introduction to Kristeva’s relationship with the other two French feminist theorists Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray, whose work and Kristeva’s become representative of French feminism. This understanding of French feminist theory among the Anglophone feminist reading public obscures the theoretical positions of feminist thought in France. The objective of this part is to destabilise the underlying assumption that French feminist theory is apolitical and Anglo-American feminism is political.

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Vrablikova, Lenka. "Tremendous pedagogies : feminist theory, deconstruction and the university." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18458/.

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This thesis contributes to the theorization of the concept of the university and strives to imagine its future by bringing together particular threads within feminist and deconstructive thought. Through deconstructive textual analysis of three theoretical debates – on the disciplinarity of women’s studies, on resistance against the so called ‘neoliberalization’ of the university, and on narratives of feminist studies – this study seeks to establish the theoretical ground necessary for generating a university beyond its phallocentric and neoliberal predicament. This attempt is conveyed under a heading ‘tremendous pedagogies’. Part I discusses how the possibility of women’s studies can be further re-thought. This discussion triggers a critique of the discourses through which the current university is most commonly accounted for. Part II examines how deconstructive scholars theorize resistance to the so called ‘neoliberalization’ of the university. Here, the exploration proceeds through the word and the concept of ‘accountability’. Finally, drawing form these insights, Part III examines how narratives of feminist studies can help us articulate premises under which a university and its future beyond its current ‘neoliberal’ and ‘phallocentric’ predicament can be made possible.

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Haran, Joan. "Re-visioning feminist futures : literature as social theory." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1239/.

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This thesis explores the relationships between science fiction, social theory and social transformation through an in-depth analysis of three feminist science fiction novels. It develops innovative reading practices that bring together narrative theories and methodologies from a range of disciplines, including Sociology, Cultural Studies and Literary Studies. With reference to feminist psychoanalytic theory, the thesis also develops an original theorisation of the 'utopian impulse' and the workings of passionate identification in the formation of interpretive communities, with particular reference to feminist, social theoretical, and science fiction (fan) communities. The three novels focused on — The Gate to Women's Country, Body of Glass and The Fifth Sacred Thing — were selected because they crystallise an extensive range of debates conducted in a period of productive crisis for feminist theory and praxis from the mid 1980s through the mid 1990s. The thesis conducts an in-depth analysis of the transformations in social relations, including intimate social relations, that the novels theorise are necessary for the re-visioning of feminist futures. These include issues surrounding Sex, Gender and Sexuality; Mothering and Fatherhood; the relationship between investments in Spirituality, Technology and Hope for the Future. These debates are all set in the larger context of the historical (and epistemological) rupture between Modern and Post-Modern thought caused by the traumatic events of the Holocaust. The thesis argues that the heteroglossic genre possibilities of science fiction enable the novel texts to embody diverse strands of contestatory feminist theorising. They can thus hold open debates that might be foreclosed in more academic genres of theory that prefer texts to embody a single coherent authorial voice. Throughout the thesis I argue that this is a particularly timely moment to examine such questions, when feminist theory in the academy is apparently dominated by post-structuralist theory, and other feminist theories, namely those clustered around radical feminism, have been and continue to be abjected. I argue that feminist hope for the future requires that no feminist theories should simply be rejected, but that they require conscientious re-readings. Feminists, I argue, must take account of their passionate longings for inclusion in feminist interpretive communities as well as the pain caused when feminist theories exclude their subjective experience and / or alternative theories. The reading practices that can be developed when reading feminist science fiction can facilitate such a process.

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Yonamine, Noriko. "Words and action : a feminist theory of pornography." Thesis, University of York, 2005. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10971/.

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Lowe, Julia (Julia Margaret) Carleton University Dissertation English. "Re-inscribing the mother: feminist theory and fiction." Ottawa, 1991.

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Xausa, Chiara <1991&gt. "Feminist environmental humanities: intertwining theory and speculative fiction." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2022. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/10435/1/XAUSA_CHIARA_TESI.pdf.

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This dissertation explores the entanglement between the visionary capacity of feminist theory to shape sustainable futures and the active contribution of feminist speculative fiction to the conceptual debate about the climate crisis. Over the last few years, increasing critical attention has been paid to ecofeminist perspectives on climate change, that see as a core cause of the climate crisis the patriarchal domination of nature, considered to go hand in hand with the oppression of women. What remains to be thoroughly scrutinised is the linkage between ecofeminist theories and other ethical stances capable of countering colonising epistemologies of mastery and dominion over nature. This dissertation intervenes in the debate about the master narrative of the Anthropocene, and about the one-dimensional perspective that often characterises its literary representations, from a feminist perspective that also aims at decolonising the imagination; it looks at literary texts that consider patriarchal domination of nature in its intersections with other injustices that play out within the Anthropocene, with a particular focus on race, colonialism, and capitalism. After an overview of the linkages between gender and climate change and between feminism and environmental humanities, it introduces the genre of climate fiction examining its main tropes. In an attempt to find alternatives to the mainstream narrative of the Anthropocene (namely to its gender-neutrality, colour-blindness, and anthropocentrism), it focuses on contemporary works of speculative fiction by four Anglophone women authors that particularly address the inequitable impacts of climate change experienced not only by women, but also by sexualised, racialised, and naturalised Others. These texts were chosen because of their specific engagement with the relationship between climate change, global capitalism, and a flat trust in techno-fixes on the one hand, and structural inequalities generated by patriarchy, racism, and intersecting systems of oppression on the other.

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Holst, Cathrine. "Feminism, epistemology & morality." Bergen : University of Bergen, 2005. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/77564206.html.

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Threadgold, Terry. "Feminist textual practice performance and critique." Monash University, School of Literary, Visual and Cultural Studies, 1999. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8576.

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Wallace, Aurora. "Of shadowboxing and straw-women : postfeminist texts and contexts." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26354.

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This thesis is a discursive and historical analysis of the concept and usage of 'postfeminism' in contemporary feminist debates. The importance of the vocabulary used to frame these debates is demonstrated through a survey of popular feminist discourses in the 1920s, and the circulation of the term 'postfeminism' in 1980s and 1990s mainstream and feminist media, academic journals, and bestselling books. Foremost among these contexts are mainstream newspaper and magazine articles in which postfeminism is used as a descriptive term applied to trends in fashion, television and film. Through an investigation of the texts and contexts in which post feminism is used, associations to generational disparity, antifeminism, the 'death of feminism,' commercialism, and other 'post-' discourses such as postmodernism, will be illustrated. In the process, it will be demonstrated that feminism, as it is represented through discourses of postfeminism, resides in an area of cultural criticism which straddles the spheres of the academic and the popular.

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Singh, Michelle Marie. "Feminist subjects: issues of sexual politics and the problem of subjectivity." Thesis, Griffith University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366079.

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This dissertation sets out to re-describe (hetero)sexuality as a theoretical and political problem for feminism. I pursue this task two ways: by historicising both heterosexuality and feminist sexual politics, and by critically assessing the effects of the conceptions of subjectivity and power that have shaped primary feminist approaches to sexuality. I begin this project by examining a specific feminist attitude of antagonism towards post-structuralist theories, and drawing out its underlying ideal of feminism as a closed and coherent theoretical and political system. I argue that this conception of ‘proper’ feminist theory and politics has significant bearing on how sexuality – especially heterosexuality – can be conceived and dealt with. I also take up alternative feminist responses to post-structuralist theories: engagements which reflect very different notions of feminism generally, of subjectivity and power, and consequently, of (hetero)sexual politics. In the last two chapters, I examine some specific problems of sexuality, including anti-rape politics, and debates over the sexualisation of culture, in order to test the utility of the post-structuralist-influenced approach I have developed. Throughout the dissertation, I avoid a sole focus on corrective, theoretical critique, aiming to also acknowledge the significance of emotional affect, and historical location.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Humanities
Arts, Education and Law
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Bedore, Pamela. "Open universes, contemporary feminist science fiction and gender theory." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0023/MQ51297.pdf.

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Hundleby, Catherine. "Feminist standpoint theory as a form of naturalist epistemology." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ58217.pdf.

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Tay, Sharon Lin. "Beyond sexual difference : sustaining feminist politics in film theory." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.405693.

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Potts, Tracey. "Can the Imperialist read? : race and feminist literary theory." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1997. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/63653/.

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Since the mid 1980's it has been unthinkable for white feminist literary critics to neglect race in their theoretical work. Strong challenges from black feminists have been effective in placing race high on the critical agenda. No longer is the kind of exclusivity that marked early (white) feminist literary theory possible. However, despite the evident commitment to addressing the race question in their work, the black feminist challenge has been greeted with a considerable degree of anxiety by white feminist critics. I suggest that the main source of anxiety is a failure to square the pressing need to 'include' race on the feminist agenda with doubts about straying into what is perceived to be black feminist territory. In other words, white feminist critics have yet to resolve their relation to the black feminist project. This anxiety has meant that a concern over the notion of exclusion has given way to that of appropriation. This has tended to place the white feminist reader in the paralysing position where there seems little available ground between the twin poles of exclusion and appropriation. Typical questions that have arisen out of this dichotomy are: should white feminists teach black women's writing? Should white feminist critics produce critical readings of texts authored by black women? Can white women readers read black women's writings without imposing onto them their own critical agendas? Is a non-appropriative reading relation possible? How should white feminists deal with the fact of their own race privilege and what bearing does this privilege have upon the readings they, potentially, might produce? This project examines some of the ways in which white feminists have attempted to address their relation to the race question in feminist literary criticism. Over the space of six chapters I focus on a number of specific reading strategies offered as positive critical interventions. My main contention is the impossibility of a guaranteed anti-imperialist theory or reading position. I also argue for the necessity of asking the question: whether the imperialist can read, as a complement to that of whether 'the subaltern can speak'. Chapter 1 questions the white feminist ambition of arriving at the truth of the black text as a means of decolonising the text. Through an examination of the Rodney King events some of the perils of appeals to pure seeing are highlighted. Chapter 2 explores the implications of white feminist abstention from the race debates. Chapter 3 looks at the issue of identification as a basis for reading. Chapter 4 questions the identifications that inhere in applying theory to a text. Chapter 5 challenges the use of contextualisation as a source of textual limits. Chapter 6 examines the limits of self-reflexivity as an anti-imperialist method.

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Chaparro, Martinez A. "Dignity in feminist political theory : rape, prostitution, and pornography." Thesis, University of Essex, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654721.

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This dissertation attempts to make advances in two debates in political theory: the first debate is about the nature of dignity and its demands and the second debate is about how feminists should address key issues of concern to them that involve sexuality. I show that the widespread use of the term "dignity" is accompanied by several objections regarding its nature and demands. Objections to dignity highlight its context-dependent, subjective, empty, and indeterminate nature. I reply to these objections and argue that dignity is a useful concept. My proposal is that in order to give dignity a more determinate nature we should focus on what dignity demands. More specifically, I suggest that dignity demands expressive affirmation, or at least the absence of expressive disaffirmation. By expressive affirmation I mean acts or expressions, verbal or non-verbal, which affirm the equal value of human beings. Bearing this understanding of dignity in mind I consider the second debate addressed in the dissertation regarding how feminists should respond to certain issues of central concern to them. These issues are rape, prostitution, arid pornography. I argue that what is wrong with rape and what might be wrong with some kinds of prostitution and pornography can be better understood in light of the idea that dignity demands expressive affirmation. The strategy I follow in order to support this claim relies significantly on my discussion of rape. I use the case of rape as a basis for insights about the status of prostitution and pornography because rape is a case in which our moral convictions are most certain. I argue that rape helps us to see how the demand for expressive affirmation is a demand to respect a person's sexual integrity. This provides a point of departure for justifying further conclusions about some instances of prostitution and · pornography where our convictions about the demands of dignity are initially less certain. In particular, I argue that · prostitution and some forms of pornography are morally problematic and may require legal regulation even under conditions of background equality.

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Kaedbey, Dima. "Building Theory Across Struggles: Queer Feminist Thought from Lebanon." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405945625.

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Pinnegar, Simon (Simon Michael) Carleton University Dissertation Geography. "Men, masculinities and feminist theory: having a gender too." Ottawa, 1995.

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Donovan, Kathleen McNerney. "Coming to voice: Native American literature and feminist theory." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186769.

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This dissertation argues that numerous parallels exist between Native American literature, especially that by women, and contemporary feminist literary and cultural theories, as both seek to undermine the hierarchy of voice: who can speak? what can be said? when? how? under what conditions? After the ideas find voice, what action is permitted to women? All of these factors influence what African American cultural theorist bell hooks terms the revolutionary gesture of "coming to voice." These essays explore the ways Native American women have voiced their lives through the oral tradition and through writing. For Native American women of mixed blood, the crucial search for identity and voice must frequently be conducted in the language of the colonizer, English, and in concert with a concern for community and landscape. Among the topics addressed in the study are (1) the negotiation of identity of those who must act in more than one culture; (2) ethnocentrism in ethnographic reports of tribal women's lives; (3) misogyny in a "canonical" Native American text; (4) the ethics of intercultural literary collaboration; (5) commonality in inter-cultural texts; and (6) transformation through rejection of Western privileging of opposition, polarity, and hierarchy.

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Hertrampf, Susanne. ""Zum Wohle der Menschheit" feministisches Denken und Engagement internationaler Aktivistinnen 1945-1975 /." Herbolzheim : Centaurus, 2006. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/70177837.html.

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Layman, Amanda. "The Problem with Pussy Power: A Feminist Analysis of Spike Lee's Chi-Raq." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1490453172203067.

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Richardson-Self, Louise Victoria. "Justifying Same-Sex Marriage: A Feminist Perspective." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9900.

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This research asks whether same-sex marriage can result in the equal regard of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender men and women (LGBTs). Chapter 1 focuses on the advent of ‘small change’ toward LGBT legal inclusion; the emerging transnational norm of same-sex relationship recognition; and the deliberate framing of LGBT equality claims as matters of human right. Chapter 2 considers difficulties particular to rights discourse, arguing that rights rhetoric has not fully redressed the inequalities faced by marked persons. Chapter 3 analyses the ‘personhood account’ of human rights and its justification for same-sex marriage. Problematically, this approach implicitly relies on arguments from sameness in order to ground the justification of same-sex marriage. Chapter 4 alternatively considers the ‘basic right to justification’ approach. This theory is constructivist, and all shared norms are intersubjectively justified. However, this approach calls into question whether LGBTs and their practices should be respected or merely tolerated. In Chapter 5 the philosophy of Luce Irigaray is introduced in order to address this question. I then propose a combined approach to LGBT equality which provides a stronger claim for the respect of LGBTs. Chapter 6 conclusively determines the better argument for same-sex marriage. Political expediency should not be favoured ahead of the recognition of difference(s). The combined argument I propose encourages a positive attitude toward a plurality of intimate and familial relationships between subjects. I ultimately conclude that same-sex marriage can contribute to ending LGBT discrimination, so long as the justifications offered do not depend upon arguments from sameness.

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Markey, Bren April. "Feminist methodologies in moral philosophy." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9107.

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This thesis develops a critique of the methodology of mainstream academic moral philosophy, based on insights from feminist and more generally anti-oppressive political thought. The thesis consists of two parts. In the first, I loosely characterise a certain dominant methodology of philosophy, one based on giving an important epistemological role to existing, 'pre-theoretical' moral attitudes, such as intuitions. I then argue that such methodologies may be critiqued on the basis of theories that identify these moral attitudes as problematically rooted in oppressive social institutions, such as patriarchy and white supremacy; that is, I identify these attitudes as ideological, and so a poor guide to moral reality. In the second part, I identify and explore of a number of themes and tendencies from feminist, anti-racist, and other anti-oppressive traditions of research and activism, in order to draw out the implications of these themes for the methodology of moral philosophy. The first issue I examine is that of how, and how much, moral philosophers should use abstraction; I eventually use the concept of intersectionality to argue for the position that philosophers need to use less, and a different type of, abstraction. The second major theme I examine is that of ignorance, in the context of alternative epistemologies: standpoint epistemology and epistemologies of ignorance. I argue that philosophers must not take themselves to be well placed to understand, using solitary methodologies, any topic of moral interest. Finally, I examine the theme of transformation in moral philosophy. I argue that experiencing certain kinds of personal transformation may be an essential part of developing accurate ethical views, and I draw out the political implications of this position for the methodology of moral philosophy.

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Cheng, Kin-sang. "Social theory and gender bias /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13671480.

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Bonnevier, Katarina. "Behind Straight Curtains : Towards a queer feminist theory of architecture." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : School of Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology : Axl Books, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4295.

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McGrath, Shelly A. "Explaining the gender gap in voting using feminist consciousness theory." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1266034.

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Previous research shows that women are more likely to vote Democrat than men. Using the 2000 Middletown Area Survey this paper tests the Feminist Consciousness Theory as a possible explanation for the gender gap in voting. Results indicate that women in the study voted more Democrat than men. Those who scored higher on the NonTraditional Gender Role Ideology scale, the Support for Gender Equality Scale and who said that they were a feminist were more likely to vote Democrat. Women were more likely to support gender equality and identify as being a feminist than were men. This means that because women are more likely to have a feminist conscious they are more likely to vote Democrat.
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Schmiedel, Stevie. "Contesting the oedipal legacy : Deleuzean vs psychoanalytic feminist critical theory." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289082.

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Bennett, Jane Andrea. "Revisioning boundaries : feminist theory and the space of abstract painting." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.433944.

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Macleod, Patricia. "Conscionable consumption : a feminist grounded theory of porn consumer ethics." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2018. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/25930/.

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Much scholarship on pornography consumption has revolved around porn harms or porn empowerment discourses. Moving away from pro- and anti-porn agendas, the research presented in this thesis was designed as an exploratory, qualitative investigation of consumer experiences of pornography, using grounded theory in an effort to transcend the polarised porn debates. By means of a two-stage data collection process involving an online group activity and in-depth interviews, this research set out to extend our understanding of how feminists experience, understand and articulate their engagements with porn. Grounded theory's focus on iterative data collection, structured analysis and inductive theory development lent itself to several key aims for this project: (a) eschewing, as far as possible, commonly-held assumptions about the research topic and research subjects; (b) resisting agenda-driven frameworks that seek to validate pro- or anti-porn stances; and (c) allowing for the voices of porn consumers themselves to be heard and taken seriously, in a way that hasn't tended to be prioritised in pornography effects research or the public arena more widely (Mowlabocus and Wood 2015: 119). The iterative approach to data collection advocated by grounded theory also enabled participants to take a more agentive role in determining the direction of the research. As a result, certain elements of the project took unforeseen trajectories, shedding light on additional substantive areas for inquiry beyond those initially intended. Namely, the study provided key insights into the interaction between ethics and practice in porn consumption amongst London feminists. This gave rise to the development of the 'conscionable consumption' model; a theoretical framework for conceptualising the experiences and processes described. Results indicated that feminists' experiences of porn consumption were heavily influenced by their beliefs about what constituted 'ethical enough' (conscionable). These were accompanied by contemplative moments, whose nature tended to correlate with the degree to which the individual felt they had strayed from their own conceptions of conscionable practice, and the degree to which these decisions could be justified or dismissed afterwards. Respondents described an interactive relationship between such reflections and future intentions and/or attitudes, illustrating a cycle of evolving and adapting behaviour complemented by fluctuating definitions of conscionability. In this way, rather than referring to an achieved or failed 'ethical consumer' status, the porn ethics project was conceptualised as an ongoing process of 'conscionable' negotiation. Such findings enhance our understanding of the ways in which ethics and porn use are woven together and navigated by feminist consumers of pornography, whilst simultaneously extending our knowledge of a demographic hitherto unexplored within both the fields of porn studies and consumer ethics research alike.

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Fibbe, Leigh Ann. "Personal theorizing: a strategic approach to third wave feminist theory." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1382549735.

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Fricker, Miranda. "Perspectival realism : towards a pluralist theory of knowledge." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320948.

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