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Reverential Feminism: (Re) Considering The Status Of Women In The African Novel, Joseph M. Brogdon Jan 2012

Reverential Feminism: (Re) Considering The Status Of Women In The African Novel, Joseph M. Brogdon

The Corinthian

In assessing the African novel from a twenty-first century Western perspective, the tendency inevitably arises to interpret the culture as inherently bearing an excessive force of patriarchal subjugation against which all African women must struggle. Perhaps such a reading is not entirely unwarranted, but if this is the chosen lens for interpretation, it then becomes necessary distinguish the author’s beliefs from those represented in the cultural attitudes of their text. In failing to make this ideological distinction between the world of the novel and the world of the novelist, it becomes easy to err in the way of too readily …

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Anticipative Feminism In F. Scott Fitzgerald’S This Side Of Paradise And Flappers And Philosophers, Andrew Riccardo Jan 2012

Anticipative Feminism In F. Scott Fitzgerald’S This Side Of Paradise And Flappers And Philosophers, Andrew Riccardo

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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Power In Arda: Sources, Uses And Misuses, Edith L. Crowe Oct 1996

Power In Arda: Sources, Uses And Misuses, Edith L. Crowe

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Power and renunciation of power has long been recognised as an important theme in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. This paper will examine the issue of power with particular attention to Riane Eisler's dominator/partnership model of power relations and the power within/power over dichotomy. It will consider the sources of power: spiritual, political, physical; and how these are wielded by the various peoples and individuals of Middle-earth.

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Sheri S. Tepper And Feminism's Future, Beverly Price Apr 1992

Sheri S. Tepper And Feminism's Future, Beverly Price

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Defines the “patriarchal feminist heroine” as an almost superhuman individual who exists within a patriarchal society without changing it. Sees a shift in Tepper’s work from such individuals to a focus on groups and whole societies, which are more effective at causing social change.

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