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TzanakeÌ?, DeÌ?meÌ?tra. "Gender and nationalism in the Hellenic world 1836-1897." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244240.
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Roos, Bonnie. "Reviving Pygmalion : art, life and the figure of the statue in the modernist period /." view abstract or download file of text, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3045092.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2001.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 277-283). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Photiou, Maria. "Rethinking the history of Cypriot art : Greek Cypriot women artists in Cyprus." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2013. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/12139.
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This thesis brings together women artists art practices situated in five key periods of Cyprus socio-political history: British colonial rule, anti-colonial struggle, 1960 Independent, the 1974 Turkish invasion and its aftermath of a divided Cyprus, which remains the case in the present day. Such study has not been done before, and for this, the current thesis aims to provide a critical knowledge of the richness and diversity of Greek Cypriot women's art practices that have frequently been marginalised and rarely been written about or researched. As the title suggests, this thesis engages in rethinking the history of Cypriot art by focusing on the art produced by women artists in Cyprus. By focusing primarily on the work of Greek Cypriot women artists I am interested to explore the conditions within which, through which and against which, women negotiate political processes in Cyprus while making art that is predominantly engaged in specific politicised patterns. The meeting point for the artists is their awareness of being women artists living in a colonised, patriarchal country under Greek Cypriot nationality. While these artists assumed very different positions in their experience of the several phases of Cyprus history, they all negotiate in their practice territorial boundaries and specific identity patterns. Significant to my thesis are a number of questions that I discuss in relation to women artists professional careers and private lives: nationalism, militarism, patriarchy, male dominance, social and cultural codes, ethnic conflict, trauma, imposed displacement through war, memory and women's roles, especially as mothers, in modern and contemporary Cyprus. Thus, I address questions of how women artists in Cyprus experienced such phenomena and how these phenomena affected both their lives and their art practices.
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KARANTONAKI, AFRODITI. "Female representations on Greek media and Greek women’s (un)employment before and after the Covid-19 pandemic : Examining whether and how media gender stereotypes can affect Greek women’s development in light of a crisis." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-39317.
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Women around the world face various kinds of discrimination, which vary from country to country and from culture to culture. Socio-economic crises and global emergencies can accentuate such gender inequalities being particularly detrimental to women. During Covid-19 pandemic women have experienced significant hardships, disproportionately affecting 740 million women worldwide (Rivera, Hsu, Esbry & Dugarova, 2020). According to the United Nations, “across the globe, women earn less, save less, hold less secure jobs, are more likely to be employed in the informal sector. They have less access to social protection and are the majority of single-parent households. Their capacity to absorb economic shocks is, therefore, less than that of men.” Furthermore, the unfair treatment of women is also reinforced by derogatory female stereotypes spread around the media, making it extremely difficult for women to rebound after a crisis (Milford, 2020). In the case of Greece, the pandemic aggravated the economic inequalities faced by women, which could be traced only after one meticulously delves into some formal documents and statistics provided by Greek open data or governmental institutions. Furthermore, the Greek mass media continue to maintain a stiff discriminative stance against women, feeding the Greek mindset with gender stereotypes affecting negatively the way females are evolving within the society, and in particular as entrepreneurs or employees. The outburst of the Covid-19 pandemic added to this, as the immediate reflexes of the Greek power and authority agents was to ‘protect‘ the existing dominant system with all its weaknesses and distortions that it may bear. Under this notion, Greek mass media, did not project the real repercussions of the pandemic, but it kept projecting the same distorted gender representations, as if the pandemic has had exclusively health repercussions. In fact, there is a large gap, with no clear conclusions regarding research on the impact the produced stereotypes by the Greek media have on women’s ability to contribute to any form of development. So, I aim to investigate how Greek women perceive their position and the way they are treated within the society and the working sector, and how the Greek mass media represent the female figure, especially after the pandemic outburst. I interviewed eight women and included extracted information from two magazines, two newspapers, and four television advertisements. I also used statistical data from governmental and other official sources investigating related data before and after the pandemic. Although recent Greek official satistical data indicate that women have been more by the Covid- 19 pandemic compared to men, results have shown that not all women have experienced gender discrimination in the workplace, nor have they been exclusively socio-economically afflicted from the Covid-19 pandemic; they have been negatively affected, though, as everybody else has. Moreover, all participants recognize the extensive stereotyped representation of women on the Greek mass media, which is also evident from the provided media extracts in this study. Furthermore, Greek mothers seem to struggle to balance between family and career, as they are not on the top choices of employers, although female entrepreneurship in Greece is steadily evolving. Finally, the place of residence appears to play a role in the way women are treated, as in large cities, people are more open-minded and less stuck with the old-fashioned gender roles of the Greek culture.
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Antoniadou, Alexandra. "Realisations of performance in contemporary Greek art." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31283.
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This is the first study to approach, both historically and theoretically, the emergence and development of performance art in Greece from the 1970s to the 2010s. Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework - including feminist theory, philosophy, sociology, art history, and more - the study aims to address an evident gap in histories of contemporary Greek art. The research begins with the emergence of performative artistic practices in the 1970s, in the conditions set out by the seven-year Dictatorship (1967-1974) and follows, selectively, the complex trajectory of these practices while investigating their connection with wider socio-political and economic developments. The thesis should not be read as a survey, despite being the first book-length analysis of Greek performance art in both English and Greek. The material included here has been selective (drawn out of years of field research) and yet presents, and represents, the spectrum of themes and positions making up the history of performance art in Greece. My contention is that the rise and establishment of performance art in Greece reflected both the political ferment of the time (early 1970s) and an enquiry into the possibility of flight from traditional media. The dual aim of this study is, first, to facilitate and encourage the integration of performance art in a revised Greek art history; and, second, to contribute to an expansion of performance art histories in an international context through the negotiation of hitherto unknown material synthesised in a study of adequate length. This thesis has required large-scale in situ research and overcoming the major obstacle of the absence of relevant publicly held archives. This was one reason why even an elementary linear history of performance art had been such an overwhelming task in the past; a second reason is the overall marginalisation of performance art theory in the Greek context. Through the Greek paradigm, the thesis illuminates new aspects not only of performance but also of post-performative participatory practices, engaging new conceptualisations. By identifying fundamental issues in the production, dissemination, and reception of performance art in Greece, I provide a critical analysis not only of its achievements and potential but also of its impasses and failures. My intention in undertaking this research has been to disprove the notion - implied or stated as a matter of fact in histories of contemporary Greek art - that performance art has had only a sporadic and inconsistent presence in this 'periphery' scene. I argue that the artists investigated in this study are conclusively part of the history of performance in the 20th and 21th centuries, thereby setting the terms and calling for further research on the subject.
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Vagena, Eftychia. "Writing the next Chapters of our Books : Every-day resistances by Greek women in Sweden." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-143482.
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This work is dedicated to exploring the possibilities of everyday knowledges and practices to re-address the issue of resistance, problematise the existing notions and create re-articulations. In what follows, I am investigating the main intersections of discrimination in the experience of the latest wave of Greek women migrants in Sweden in order to single out and analyze the ways and tools of their everyday resistance and re-existence. Grounded in the geo-politics and body-politics of knowledge this research begins with challenging the Greek crisis and migration to transgress all-encompassing categories such as crisis, migrant, woman, everyday, resistance and at the same time propose alternative ways and tropes to comprehend and handle their content. In order to reconfigure everyday resistance and expose the marginal layers between “obedience” and “disobedience”, I will unlearn and relearn the Greek history, decolonize the Greek identity, and at last reaffirm the experiential knowing through being, a knowledge that has been durably repressed.
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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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Kataiftsis, Dimitris. "Les communautés grecques en URSS (1917-1956) et les questions du genre." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040228.
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Pour former nos hypothèses, il fallait examiner les discours scientifiques sur le genre et leurs applications dans le cas grec, ce que nous avons essayé de faire dans notre introduction.Notre travail s’est articulé en cinq grandes parties. La première aborde la formation de la diaspora grecque de la fin du 18ème siècle aux révolutions de 1917 et les représentations féminines dans l’historiographie gréco-pontique. La deuxième partie aborde l’accès des femmes au savoir, les modes d’intégration à la nouvelle société soviétique. La conservation des rôles culturels nous mène à dresser une typologie des femmes « grecques » et des femmes « soviétiques ». La troisième s’intéresse à la reformation ou disparition des rôles au cours des répressions politiques qui affectèrent considérablement la diaspora grecque. Nous avons également dressé un bilan des femmes-victimes des purges. La dernière partie a montré enfin que l’exile constitua un moment-rupture avec le passé, au moins dans les témoignages oraux de ses protagonistes. Les femmes qui nous ont parlé d’elles-mêmes et les hommes qui se sont demandés sur les questions de genre nous ont offert une image du passé originale, digne d’intérêtIn order to form our hypothesis, it would be necessary to examine the scientific discourse on gender and its application to the greek case, and this is what we tried to do in our introduction. Our study was organized in five large parts. The first one approaches the formation of greek diaspora from the end of the 18th century to the revolutions of 1917 and the woman representation in pontic-greek historiography. The second one approaches the access of women in education, the ways of integration in the new soviet society. The preservation of the cultural roles leads us to develop a typology between “greek” women and “soviet” women. The third part focuses on the reformation or disappearance of the roles during political repressions that would have an impact on greek diaspora. Furthermore, we discussed on the women-victims of purges. Finally, the last part demonstrates that the exile constituted a rupture with the past, at least as it resulted from its protagonists’ oral testimonies. The women who talked about themselves and the men surveyed on gender issues give us an original image of the past, worthy of interest
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Totskas, George. "Penthesilea : woman as hero /." Online version of thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11327.
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Ladianou, Aikaterini. "Logos Gynaikos: Feminine Voice in Archaic Greek Poetry." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1236711421.
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Reuter, Victoria. "Penelope differently : feminist re-visions of myth." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4f1ffe10-d690-441d-8726-7fe1df896cb4.
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This thesis examines feminist rewritings of the Penelope myth and the intersections between poetry, myth, and feminist theory. The theoretical framework develops from Rosi Braidotti’s theory of memory and subjectivity which has its roots in the work of Michel Foucault. In Braidotti’s understanding, subjectivity is constructed through narratives of the past including myth. In order to support new, minority, and dissident subjectivities, a re-remembering of mythical narratives needs to happen. This process is linked to Judith Butler’s recent work on narrating the self and to Adrienne Rich’s idea of “Re-vision”. What Butler’s theory adds to Braidotti’s is the notion of dispossession: that as subjects we do not own our identities. We are, instead, dependent on others for recognition. This co-dependence based notion of subjectivity has ethical implications for how we interact with one another and what kind of narratives we iterate and reiterate. The writers discussed in this thesis, namely, Francisca Aguirre, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, Gail Holst-Warhaft, and Margaret Atwood, not only rewrite Penelope, but perform Re-visions of the myth. They look back at it with a critical eye and remake it. This thesis further contends that Re-vision provides contemporary feminist writers with a reading and writing strategy that allows them to engage with myth in a way that parallels feminist theory’s efforts to construct new forms of subjectivity. Chapter 1 frames feminist appropriations of myth in a contemporary context and discusses Adrienne Rich’s theory of Re- vision. The next four chapters focus on specific writers who carry out a sustained dialogue with Penelope; they each take an element of the myth and tease it out towards a modern relevance. In looking at how Penelope is revised, this thesis demonstrates that women writers are engaged in a process of remaking canonical, mythic texts in such a way that speaks to contemporary issues of ethical subjectivity and self-making.
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THIEBOLD, VERONIQUE. "La mort au feminin dans les romans de julien green." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996STR20016.
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Toute femme dans les romans de julien green fait face a la mort qu'il s'agisse de la sienne ou de celle des autres. Dans cette etude on a releve un certain nombre de personnages feminins (recensement de cent un personnages). On a effectue une typologie de la mort et analyse la maniere dont elle etait ecrite. On observe une evolution dans l'ecriture romanesque de green. La mort tend a s'effacer mais devient, paradoxalement plus inquietante et plus presente. Ce travail etudie les differents cas de la mort feminine, les comportements des femmes face a la mort et sa representation symboliqueAlmost all the female characters in the novels of julian green are confronted by death, be it their own or that of another. A certain number of female characters are listed in this study detailing their manner of death and the literary style with which these events are treated. A certain evolution is evident in green's novels, death itself is less overtly described but, paradoxically, becomes more apparent. This study examines different cases of death, the behaviour of women confronted by death and the symbolic representation of death
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Mallory, Chaone. ""Subject to the laws of nature" : ecofeminism, representation, and political subjectivity /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1283960851&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 176-185). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Frendo, Molly Elizabeth. "GENERATIONAL FEMINISM AND ACTIVISM: USING BGSU AS A CASE STUDY." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1150228848.
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Territo, Melissa. "Silencing and assaulting the feminine : an analysis of institutions that perpetuate a rape-supportive culture /." View online, 2009. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131591858.pdf.
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Baney, Jennifer. "Poison Ivy's green screen debut: A rhetorical criticism on erasing identity on screen." Scholarly Commons, 2019. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3630.
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This project investigates the loss of power on screen for female comic book characters. Specifically, I investigate how scenes create narratives using heteronormativity and over-sexualization of female characters. The artifact of analysis included in this project is Batman and Robin (1997). This text focuses on Poison Ivy, including the background of the character before dissecting her role in the film. Turning to Sonja J. Foss (2009) and her feminist critique as a guide to understanding the implications of this research. Using feminist criticism, I argue that Poison Ivy was put in a lesser position, removed of her power, and was made dependent on men more than she is in comics. Poison Ivy was created from the feminist movement, and Batman and Robin (1997) create tension between the comic book representation and the expectation of gender. Superheroes have skyrocketed in popularity over the past fifteen years, and their narratives are extending to individuals that are not necessarily comic readers. This cultural significance of superheroes suggests that comic books and therefore their characters appeal to a wide audience who has the potential to be influenced, even implicitly, by these messages.
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Ferreira, Lilian Tavares de Bairros. "Blusas-verdes à beira-mar: mulheres integralistas - Santos (1932-1937)." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21538.
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The aim of this study is to discuss the participation of women in the Integralist movement in the city of Santos between 1932 and 1937. This thesis recovers stories from the feminist movement and women‘s fights in the harbor city of Santos. Also, it shows how the leaders of the Integralist movement perceived the possibility of engaging women among their militants. Thus, the Integralism tried to attract women with speeches about defending the family and Catholicism; in order to do so, they proposed that women would participate more effectively in the institutional politics by assigning functions to the group of women whom participated in the movement. In the development of this research, it was possible to observe that the Blusas-Verdes ("Green Blouses", as the women who acted within the Brazilian Integralist Action – AIB were called) operated in well-defined roles: activities in the educational segment, assistance to poor children, matters of public health and preventive medicine. Therefore, the aim of this research is to observe the relations and the development of women‘s participation in the Integralist center of Santos
Este trabalho discute a participação das mulheres no movimento integralista na cidade de Santos entre os anos de 1932 e 1937. A dissertação recupera histórias do movimento feminista e das lutas das mulheres na cidade-porto de Santos. Além disso, mostra como a liderança do movimento integralista percebeu a possibilidade de engajar as mulheres entre seus militantes. Desta forma, o integralismo buscou atrair as mulheres apregoando o discurso em defesa da família e do catolicismo; para tanto, propuseram uma participação feminina mais efetiva na política institucional, outorgando papéis aos grupos de mulheres no movimento. Pela pesquisa desenvolvida, pode-se observar que as Blusas-Verdes (como eram chamadas as mulheres que atuavam dentro da AIB) operavam em funções bem definidas: atividades no setor educacional, assistencialismo às crianças pobres, questões de saúde pública e medicina preventiva. Portanto, o que se pretende nesta pesquisa é observar as relações e a relevância das atuações femininas no núcleo integralista santista
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Leite, Letticia Batista Rodrigues. "Sobre os fragmentos poeticos de Safo de Lesbos e ideias da existencia de uma voz feminina : reflexões sobre Historia, Linguistica e Literatura." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/279188.
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Orientador: Pedro Paulo Abreu FunariDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: O objetivo central desta dissertação é problematizar como a relação linguagem/discurso aparece intimamente relacionada à questão do sexo/gênero, no âmbito dos trabalhos dos estudiosos que se propuseram a tratar dos fragmentos poéticos de Safo. Para tanto, realizase um exercício de tradução e leitura analítica de quatro fragmentos da poetisa grega Safo de Lesbos (VII-VI a.C.). Exercício este, que visa destacar alguns aspectos formais e de conteúdo presentes nestes fragmentos, tendo em vista que alguns estudiosos buscam, a partir destes, sublinhar uma singularidade presente nos compostos sáficos, que seria atribuível ao fato de que estes dariam a ouvir uma voz feminina. Nessa perspectiva, buscarse-á, também, apontar e problematizar os principais pressupostos teóricos que, em diferentes medidas, perpassam os trabalhos destes estudiosos - no que diz respeito as suas concepções da relação linguagem/discurso e sexo/gênero daquele que enuncia. Para tanto, propor-se-á, aqui, uma discussão acerca das maneiras pelas quais as questões relativas à linguagem, em interface com as discussões de caráter feminista, aparecem, sobretudo, no âmbito da disciplina histórica e da literatura. Assim como, chamar a atenção para as particularidades que devem ser levadas em consideração, no trato com as composições gregas de caráter poético produzidas no Período Arcaico (VIII - VI a.C.)
Abstract: The main objective of this dissertation is to discuss how the relation between language/discourse is closely connected with the question of sex/gender, in the work of scholars who seek to study the fragments of Sappho's poems. To accomplish this, there will be an exercise in translating and analytically reading four fragments by the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos (VII-VI BC). This exercise aims to highlight some formal and contentoriented aspects present in these fragments, since some scholars have sought to stress a singularity in this sapphic compositions, owing to the fact that they would allow us to hear a female voice. Accordingly, this research wants to emphasize and study the theoretical assumptions that, in different ways, permeate the work of these scholars - regarding the conceptualization of the liaison between language/discourse and sex/gender of who enounces. In order to do so, a discussion will be held on the manners in which the issues of language, in interface with the discussions of feminist character, appear, especially in History and literature, drawing attention to the particularities that should be taken into account when dealing with the Greek poetic compositions produced in the Archaic period (VIII - VI BC)
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Fullerton, Kristi. "Respectable Woman." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1459261307.
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Ceccarelli, Serena. "Launching a thousand ships : the beauty of Helen of Troy in Isocrates." University of Western Australia. School of Humanities, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0087.
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[Truncated abstract] This thesis focuses on the significance of the beauty of Helen of Troy in the Encomium of Helen written by the fourth-century philosopher Isocrates. Previous traditions, and especially epic poetry and tragedy, had assessed Helen’s beauty and either blamed or excused her for causing the Trojan War. Isocrates moved beyond this dichotomy to create a new focus on her beauty as the ultimate source of all that made Greek culture distinctive. Modern scholarship, however, has been generally unsympathetic we may almost say blind to this projected beauty. The meaning of beauty in Isocrates’ work has been overlooked by scholars in favor of its rhetorical structure. The work was criticized for its disjointed arrangement and lack of seriousness. The Helen has been interpreted as a reaction to contemporary rhetorical issues or as merely an educational manifesto. This thesis aims to identify and clarify the ideology underlying Isocrates’ construction of Helen’s beauty in his encomium. … The Helen of Isocrates is also compared with the contemporary Platonic work Phaedrus, which explores beauty as a means of arriving at pure knowledge. In this case, comparisons are drawn thematically and reveal that while the two works share similar topics and aims regarding the notions of beauty, Isocrate’s aesthetic idea is much more practically grounded and intended to be of benefit to the entire society when compared to the more idealistic and individual Platonic notion. Finally, the reasons for Isocrates’ choice of beauty as a major theme for the Helen are explored through a comparison of Helen’s beauty to that of Hellas an equation which Isocrates deems important for the fourth-century society.
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Provencher, Olga JoAnn. "Ecofeminism and Religion: Christianity and the Ethical Approach to the Environment." UNF Digital Commons, 2013. https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/482.
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In this paper I attempt to formulate the Christianity-based ecocentric ethics, to answer the ecofeminists' quest to spiritually ground such ethics; I use the living example of the practices of the Catholic ''green sisters''.
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Becker, Bonnie. "A feminist analysis of Lyman Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/1290.
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The primary aim of this project is to provide a close contextual and textual analysis of the selected children’s classics: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Anne of Green Gables and The Secret Garden using the feminist literary theory. From this perspective I have shown how the selected works of Lyman Frank Baum, Lucy Maud Montgomery and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s writing have contributed to women’s stereotypical roles within society and perpetuated their subjugated position. I have also conducted an examination of the extent to which the female protagonists attempt to emancipate themselves from gender oppression. A comparative study of the selected children’s texts has not yet been conducted and therefore this project serves as a significant contribution to this field of study. An exploration of the historical background of the authors and children’s literature is conducted to provide an overview into the inner workings of the writers’ lives and the historical significance of children’s literature as a genre. The theoretical framework of feminist literary theory is used in the analysis of the selected texts. The connection between feminist literary theory and children’s literature is highlighted and provides further understanding of the purpose of this study. The history of feminism as both a movement and a contemporary literary criticism is explored. Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex is used when analysing the texts’ characters and how they are based on society’s stereotypical gender roles. Luce Irigaray’s Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which is Not One is examined to aid in an exploration of psychological female oppression through feminine and masculine discourse evident in the creation of the novels’ female and male characters. Hélène Cixous’ “The Laugh of the Medusa” and The Newly Born Woman is interrogated according to the stereotypical ideology surrounding the terms masculinity and femininity and how these terms are interpreted in the selected works. Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble and Undoing Gender are additionally explored to assist in the understanding of the concept of gender performativity and through the lens of Butler’s interpolation of gender the move towards the emancipation of women is seen in the selected children’s texts. The close textual feminist analysis focuses on the female protagonists: Dorothy, Anne and Mary as well as the secondary female characters: the wicked witches, Aunt Em, the Queen of the Field-Mice, the princess made from china, Glinda’s female soldiers from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Marilla Cuthbert, Rachel Lynde and Diana Barry from Anne of Green Gables and Martha, Mrs Sowerby and Mrs Craven from The Secret Garden. The portrayal of the secondary male characters are additionally explored according to feminist literary theory: The Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Lion and the wizard Oz from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Matthew Cuthbert and Gilbert Blythe from Anne of the Green Gables’ and Mr Craven, Colin Craven and Dickon Sowerby from The Secret Garden. The comparison of these children’s classics by Baum, Montgomery and Burnett provides insight into the selected works of all three writers, through the lens offered by feminist literary theory. Through the interrogation of these representative female protagonists found in early children’s literature, an understanding of not only the subordination of women, as evident in literature during this era, is illustrated but also the comprehension that women’s liberation was foreshadowed in these early children’s novels.
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Patchell, Kathleen M. "Faith, Fiction, and Fame: Sowing Seeds in Danny and Anne of Green Gables." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19811.
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In 1908, two Canadian women published first novels that became instant best-sellers. Nellie McClung's Sowing Seeds in Danny initially outsold Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, but by 1965 McClung's book had largely disappeared from Canadian consciousness. The popularity of Anne, on the other hand, has continued to the present, and Anne has received far more academic and critical attention, especially since 1985. It is only recently that Anne of Green Gables has been criticized for its ideology in the same manner as Sowing Seeds in Danny. The initial question that inspired this dissertation was why Sowing Seeds in Danny disappeared from public and critical awareness while Anne of Green Gables continued to sell well to the present day and to garner critical and popular attention into the twenty-first century. In light of the fact that both books have in recent years come under condemnation and stand charged with maternal feminism, imperial motherhood, eugenics, and racism, one must ask further why this has now happened to both Danny and Anne. What has changed?
The hypothesis of the dissertation is that Danny's relatively speedy disappearance was partly due to a shift in Canadians' religious worldview over the twentieth century as church attendance and biblical literacy gradually declined. McClung's rhetorical strategies look back to the dominant Protestantism of the nineteenth century, in contrast to Montgomery's, which look forward to the twentieth-century's waning of religious faith. Although there is enough Christianity in Montgomery's novel to have made it acceptable to her largely Christian reading public at the beginning of the century, its presentation is subtle enough that it does not disturb or baffle a twenty-first-century reader in the way McClung's does. McClung's novel is so forthright in its presentation of Christianity, with its use of nineteenth-century tropes and conventions and with its moralising didacticism, that the delightful aspects of the novel were soon lost to an increasingly secular reading public. Likewise, the recent critical challenges to both novels spring from a worldview at odds with the predominantly Christian worldview of 1908. The goal of the dissertation has been to read Sowing Seeds in Danny and Anne of Green Gables within the religious contexts of a 1908 reader in order to avoid an unquestioning twenty-first-century censure of these novels, and to ascertain the reasons for their divergent popularity and recent critical condemnation.
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Silva, Mariza Miranda da. "MAIS DEUSA DO QUE ESCRAVA: A MULHER DE PROVÉRBIOS 31,10-31." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2006. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/937.
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Previous issue date: 2006-08-31This dissertation considers that Pr 31,10-31 possess helenistc traces and can be interpreted in the perspective of the greek goddesses Aphrodite, Athene, Artemis, Demeter and Hestia that are present in the space between lines of this acrostic. Therefore, the research continues to enter in the questions of the myth, of the imaginary, gender and feminist hermeneutics; finishing through the bridge with today; in an analysis of popular proverbs on the brazilian woman, through the woman of the mouth of the people and its relation with the woman-goddess of Pr 31,10-31.
Esta dissertação propõe que Pr 31,10-31 possui traços helenistas e pode ser interpretada na perspectiva das deusas gregas Afrodite, Palas Atena, Ártemis, Deméter e Héstia que estão presentes nas entrelinhas desse acróstico. Por conseguinte, a pesquisa continua a adentrar nas questões do mito, do imaginário, estudos de gênero e hermenêutica feminista; finalizando ao realizar a ponte com o hoje, numa análise dos provérbios populares sobre a mulher brasileira, através da mulher da boca do povo e a sua relação com a mulher-deusa de Pr 31,10-31.
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Wagner, Casey L. "Restoring Relationship: How the Methodologies of Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement in Post-Colonial Kenya Achieve Environmental Healing and Women's Empowerment." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3164.
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The effects of the colonial project in Kenya created multi-faceted damages to the land and indigenous people-groups. Using the lens of ecofeminism, this study examines the undergirding structures that produce systems such as colonization that oppress and destroy land, people, and other beings. By highlighting the experience of the Kikuyu people within the Kenyan colonial program, the innovative and ingenious response of Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement proves to be a relevant and effective counter to women's disempowerment and environmental devastation in a post-colonial nation. The approach of the Green Belt Movement offers a unique and accessible method for empowering women, restoring the land, and addressing loss of cultural identity, while also contributing a theoretical template for addressing climate change.
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Ingebrigtsen, Anna. "Grounds For Healing : Tales of Toxic Terrain." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-140580.
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This project proposes the restoration of Vinterviken’s contaminated grounds, a legacy of Nobel’s dynamite production. How can we live with toxicity? The design sows phytoremediating meadows, extracts toxins, harvests, decomposes, burns, and grows new crops. Elevated pathways offer a procession through the site, to green roofs, mountain paths, an open kitchen & hearth, a floating barge with biopools & a sauna. As the fields are healed, the structures move into the barge and sail to other polluted sites.Projektet är ett förslag till återställandet av Vintervikens förorenade marker, ett arv från Nobels dynamitproduktion. Hur kan vi leva med toxicitet? Modellen sår fytoremedierande ängar, skiljer ut gifter, skördar, bryter ned, bränner, och odlar nya grödor. Förhöjda stigar erbjuder en gångväg genom området, till gröna tak, bergsstigar, ett öppet kök och härd, en flytande pråm med biopooler och en bastu. När områdena har läkts, flyttar strukturerna in i pråmen och seglar till andra förorenade platser.
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DeVoe, Lauren E. "Erichtho’s Mouth: Persuasive Speaking, Sexuality and Magic." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2020.
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Since classical times, the witch has remained an eerie, powerful and foreboding figure in literature and drama. Often beautiful and alluring, like Circe, and just as often terrifying and aged, like Shakespeare’s Wyrd Sisters, the witch lives ever just outside the margins of polite society. In John Marston’s Sophonisba, or The Wonder of Women the witch’s ability to persuade through the use of language is Marston’s commentary on the power of poetry, theater and women’s speech in early modern Britain. Erichtho is the ultimate example of a terrifying woman who uses linguistic persuasion to change the course of nations. Throughout the play, the use of speech draws reader’s attention to the role of the mouth as an orifice of persuasion and to the power of speech. It is through Erichtho’s mouth that Marston truly highlights the power of subversive speech and the effects it has on its intended audience.
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Cochrane, Regina M. "Feminism, ecology, and negative dialectics toward a feminist green political theory /." 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ39260.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--York University, 1998. Graduate Programme in Political Science.Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 496-521). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ39260.
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KUO, WEI-HSUAN, and 郭瑋瑄. "Feminist Translation Strategies in the Chinese Translation of The Green Bicycle." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8k72th.
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The purpose of the study is to discuss the feminist translation strategies in the Chinese Translation of The Green Bicycle. The thesis includes six chapters. Chapter One, Introduction, introduces the motives, the purposes and the research methods of the study, as well as the backgrounds of the author and translator. Chapter Two, Literature Reviews, contains the development of feminism in the West, China, Taiwan, and Islamic countries. It also reviews the theory of feminist translation and feminist translation strategies, followed by a final discussion of the application of feminist translation theory in the translation of different literary works. Chapters Three, Four and Five are the main body of this study. These chapters are based on the three major categories of feminist translation strategies proposed by Louise Von Flotow, respectively supplementing, prefacing and footnoting, hijacking or appropriation. These systematic categories have been used to analyze the specific application of feminist translation strategies in "The Green Bicycle" by the translator to show the implied meaning in the source text accompanied by translation examples and evaluation. Chapter six outlines the conclusion and the suggestion. This study has the potential to provide meaningful reference for translation teaching and research.
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Liang, Hsiao-Ching, and 梁曉菁. "Research on Feminine Subject Consciousness－－Take the dancer of the role of “Green Snake” in Yunmen Dance Collection “White Snake” as an example." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62atv6.
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Abstract This study aims to explore the deep core prototype of women, In order to understand the social existence value and symbolic meaning of women. An image of the snake in the Chinese folk story “Tale of the White Snake” being transforming and tender love symbolizes the femininity that fully displays the image of female virtue, which is mysterious, cool and beautiful yet gentle and wise. From that the choreographer Lin Hwai-min at Taiwan’s Cloud Gate Dance Theatre employed, in his work“ Tale of the White Snake”, skillfully the archetype of snake symbol on the character of the “ Green Snake”, and made unconventional creation by combining Chinese classical dancing skills and those of contemporary dance, aiming to unveil desires that lie deep in human nature and loves of homosexuality and between the genders. This study is to serve as the three female dancers in the role of “Green Snake” in a Cloud Gate Dance, “Tale of the White Snake”, exploring the life course with semi-structured focus interviews , the researcher summed up and presented the feminine subjectivity of the feminine inner nature of femininity and dominance and autonomy. Keywords: Feminine subjective consciousness, Green snake, Snake symbol
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Gravel-Patry, Fanny. "Orientalisme 2.0 : la Révolution verte iranienne en images." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11971.
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Depuis la colonisation jusqu’aux plus récents conflits qui affectent le « Moyen-Orient », le visuel participe à la création d’une image raciale et sexuelle du monde musulman dans laquelle l’Orient « archaïque » est représenté comme l’opposé moral de l’Occident « moderne ». Ce discours nommé Orientalisme (Saïd 1994) transforme l’Orient en objet du savoir et du regard occidental (Nochlin 1989). La peinture, la photographie, et les expositions universelles sont autant de moyens qui permettent d’instaurer un point de vue privilégié de l’Occident sur l’Orient. Avec le Web 2.0 et les technologies mobiles, le partage d’images fait partie intégrale de notre quotidien et celles-ci nous proviennent de partout et de n’importe qui. En considérant que l’Orientalisme est indissociable des techniques modernes de représentation du monde (Mitchell 2013), le présent mémoire souhaite interroger l’impact de ces nouvelles technologies sur la production, la circulation et la réception des images du dit Orient. Nous concentrerons notre étude sur les images captées et partagées depuis les manifestations de la Révolution verte iranienne de juin 2009, entre autres la vidéo de l’assassinat de la jeune Neda Agha Soltan qui a fait la une des médias occidentaux. En prenant comme base les écrits d’Edward Saïd, que nous réviserons par le biais de lectures féministes, nous verrons que l’Orientalisme visuel mute au rythme des changements politiques, culturels et technologiques qu’il rencontre. En plus d’éclairer les images de notre corpus, la question féministe nous permettra d’élargir la définition et les mécanismes de l’Orientalisme proposés par Saïd. Nous démontrerons que tout en ayant le potentiel de bouleverser l’image que construit l’Occident de l’Orient, le Web 2.0 actualise aussi l’Orientalisme visuel sous de nouveaux modes de production du savoir.From the colonization era until the most recent conflicts in the "Middle East," visual culture contributes to the creation of a racial and sexual image of the muslim world, in which the "archaic" Orient is represented as the moral opponent of "modern" Occident. This discourse entitled Orientalism (Saïd 1994) transforms the Orient into an object of knowledge and of occidental gaze (Nochlin 1989). Painting, photography, and universal exhibitions are but a few of the means through which the West's privileged point of view is constructed over the Orient. With the Web 2.0 and mobile technologies, sharing images from everywhere and everyone has become part of our daily life. Assuming that Orientalism is indissociable from modern techniques of the world's repressentation (Mitchell 2013), this thesis aims to question the impact of such new technologies on the production, circulation and reception of images from the so-called Orient. This study will focus on images captured and shared since the protests of the Iranian Green Movement of June 2009, especially the video of the murder of the young Neda Agha Soltan, which made the headlines of Western media. Building on the writings of Edward Saïd, which will be revised through feminist readings, it will be demonstrated that visual Orientalism evolves in accordance with the political, cultural and technological changes it encounters. The feminist question will not only shed light on the images of this corpus, but also contribute to widen the definition and mechanisms of Orientalism suggested by Saïd. It will be demonstrated that if the Web 2.0 has the potential of disrupting the constructed image of the Orient by the Occident, it also updates visual Orientalism through new modes of knowledge production.
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Sze, Gillian. "The erring archive in Anne Carson." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/12451.
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L’archive erronée dans l’œuvre d’Anne Carson enquête sur les effets que peuvent entraîner l’archive classique sur la poésie d’Anne Carson et révèle que le travail de cette dernière est issu de l’espace situé entre la critique et la créativité, ce qui génère ce qu’on appellera une « poétique de l’erreur ». La poésie de Carson se démarque par sa prédilection pour les accidents, les imperfections et les impondérables de la transmission. La présente dissertation émerge des attitudes critiques ambivalentes face à la dualité de l’identité de Carson, autant poète qu’universitaire, et leur offrira une réponse. Alors que l’objectif traditionnel du philologue classique est de reconstruire le sens du texte « original », l’approche poétique de Carson sape en douce les prétentions universitaires d’exactitude, de précision et de totalisation. La rencontre de Carson avec l’archive classique embrasse plutôt les bourdes, les mauvaises lectures et les erreurs de traduction inhérentes à la transmission et à la réception de traductions classiques.
La poésie de Carson est ludique, sexuée et politique. Sa manière de jouer avec l’épave du passé classique torpille la patri-archive, telle que critiquée par Derrida dans Mal d’Archive ; c’est-à-dire cette archive considérée comme un point d’origine stable grâce auquel s’orienter. De plus, en remettant en question la notion de l’archive classique en tant qu’origine de la civilisation occidentale, Carson offre simultanément une critique de l’humanisme, en particulier au plan de la stabilité, du caractère mesurable et de l’autonomie de « l’homme ». L’archive, pour Carson, est ouverte, en cours et incomplète ; les manques linguistiques, chronologiques et affectifs de l’archive classique représentent ainsi des sources d’inspiration poétique.
La présente dissertation étudie quatre dimensions de l’archive classique : la critique, la saphique, l’élégiaque et l’érotique. Grâce à ces coordonnées, on y établit le statut fragmentaire et fissuré du passé classique, tel que conçu par Carson. Si le fondement classique sur lequel la culture occidentale a été conçue est fissuré, qu’en est-il de la stabilité, des frontières et des catégories que sont le genre, la langue et le texte ? L’ouverture de l’archive critique de manière implicite les désirs de totalité associés au corps du texte, à la narration, à la traduction et à l’érotisme.
En offrant une recension exhaustive de sa poétique, L’archive erronée dans l’œuvre d’Anne Carson tente d’analyser l’accueil hostile qu’elle a subi, contribue à renforcer la documentation sans cesse croissante dont elle fait l’objet et anticipe sa transmutation actuelle de médium et de genre, sa migration de la page à la scène.The Erring Archive in Anne Carson investigates the responsiveness of Anne Carson’s poetry to the classical archive and argues that Carson works from within the space between the critical and the creative, generating what I call a “poetics of error.” Carson’s poetics is distinguished by a predilection for accidents, imperfections, and the contingencies of transmission. My dissertation also responds to and emerges from the ambivalent critical attitudes to Carson’s dual identity as both a scholar and a poet. While the traditional aim of the classical philologist is to reconstruct the meaning of the “original” text, Carson’s poetic approach self-consciously undermines scholarly pretensions to accuracy, precision, and totalization. Rather, Carson’s encounter with the classical archive embraces the mistakes, misreadings, and mistranslation inherent in classical transmission and reception. Carsonian poetics is ludic, gendered, and political. Her play with the wreckage of the classical past undermines the patri-archive, as critiqued by Derrida in Archive Fever; that is, an archive that is considered to be a stable, governing point of origin. Furthermore, by challenging the notion of the classical archive as the origin of Western civilization, Carson simultaneously offers a critique of Humanism, particularly the stability, measurability, and autonomy of “Man.” The archive, for Carson, is open, ongoing, and incomplete; the linguistic, temporal, and affective gaps of the classical archive are thus opportunities for poetic production. My dissertation examines four dimensions of the classical archive: the critical, the sapphic, the elegiac, and the erotic. By means of these coordinates, I establish the fragmentary and ruptured status of the classical past, as conceived by Carson. If the classical bedrock upon which Western culture has been conceived is fractured, what does this mean for the stability, borders, and categories of genre, language, and the text? The openness of the archive implicitly critiques related desires of totality associated with the textual body, narrative, translation, and Eros. The Erring Archive in Anne Carson is keen to analyze Carson’s own vexed reception and contributes to growing Carsonian scholarship, as it provides a comprehensive entry into her poetics and anticipates her current generic and media shift from the page to the stage.
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Vidug, Kristina. ""It Doesn't Need to be Industrial Strength": An Analysis of Women's Adoption of a Chemical-Free Lifestyle." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10214/3223.
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This thesis seeks to uncover women’s concerns about chemicals in the household, and, more specifically, in cleaning products. The research is based on semi-structured interviews with women who are primarily responsible for household cleaning and who consciously avoid conventional cleaning products. From a sociological standpoint, the topic remains unstudied. The women were critical of greenwashing and the institutions responsible for chemical regulation. Further, the women’s chemical-free lifestyle defied conventional definitions of activism. Sociological theories of risk are used to help understand women’s avoidance of chemicals. It was found that tenets of the precautionary principle were reflected in their reasoning for avoiding chemicals. Recent biomonitoring and body burden studies have influenced women’s knowledge of chemical risk and their decision to avoid them. The thesis demonstrates that risk-management, in this context, has become an individualized pursuit reflective of the neo-liberal ideology informing chemical regulation.Canadian Institutes of Health Research
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Nhanenge, Jytte. "Ecofeminism: towards integrating the concerns of women, poor people and nature into development." Diss., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/570.
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Ecofeminism perceives an interconnection between the domination of women and poor people, and the domination of nature. This domination is founded on modern, Western, patriarchal, dualised structures, which subordinate all considered as "the other" compared to the superior masculine archetype. Hence, all feminine is seen as inferior and may therefore be exploited. This is presently manifested in the neo-liberal economic development ideal. Its global penetration generates huge economic profits, which are reaped by Northern and Southern elites, while its devastating crises of poverty, violence, environmental destruction, and human rights abuses makes life increasingly unmanageable for Southern women, poor people and nature. Feminism and ecology have therefore come together aiming at liberating women, poor people and nature. They want to change the dualised, reductionist perception of reality into a holistic cosmology. Ecofeminism consequently aims to integrate the concerns of women, poor people and nature into development.Development Studies
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