This thesis takes its point of departure in the recognition that contemporary literary representations of female selfhood and motherhood are permeated by a neoliberal discourse of false idealizations, which can be traced all the way back to the ideas proposed by the eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Since Rousseau laid the grounds for the domestic ideology of the nineteenth-century, femininity has been based on a false mythification depicting the natural woman as a selfless object that is destined for motherhood. As a result of this deep entangling, the demands of maternal perfectionism and dedication still have a powerful hold on our consciousness. This has led to a naturalized cult of motherhood to favor ...
Historically, the concept of woman has varied and changed in keeping with the ruling ideology of the...
Motherhood is not an inconsequential and ideologically neutral individual role in society. Instead, ...
This dissertation studies the thematic and cultural conflation and significance of madness and woman...
This thesis takes its point of departure in the recognition that contemporary literary representatio...
This thesis was inspired by a perceptible increase and change in depictions of motherhood in fiction...
Woolf, Lawrence, and Joyce all have a deep interest in the problem of the mother, and especially in ...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2021Fifty years after a high point of feminist theories of...
In this dissertation I argue that despite the liberatory promises of mid-century American social jus...
This dissertation considers the problem that maternal difference represents inequality and inferiori...
Because today’s feminism is largely—and rightly—intersectional, there is currently little attention ...
The aim of this essay is to study motherhood in The second sex by Simone de Beauvoir and see how it ...
This thesis explores the representation of motherhood as ideology, identity, and experience in conte...
The exegesis portion of my thesis examines representations of feminine masochism in 20th-century lit...
Despite significant change in women's lives in recent decades, the prevailing ideology of motherhood...
This thesis is comprised of two components: a novel titled “Lolly Poppins” and a scholarly dissertat...
Historically, the concept of woman has varied and changed in keeping with the ruling ideology of the...
Motherhood is not an inconsequential and ideologically neutral individual role in society. Instead, ...
This dissertation studies the thematic and cultural conflation and significance of madness and woman...
This thesis takes its point of departure in the recognition that contemporary literary representatio...
This thesis was inspired by a perceptible increase and change in depictions of motherhood in fiction...
Woolf, Lawrence, and Joyce all have a deep interest in the problem of the mother, and especially in ...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2021Fifty years after a high point of feminist theories of...
In this dissertation I argue that despite the liberatory promises of mid-century American social jus...
This dissertation considers the problem that maternal difference represents inequality and inferiori...
Because today’s feminism is largely—and rightly—intersectional, there is currently little attention ...
The aim of this essay is to study motherhood in The second sex by Simone de Beauvoir and see how it ...
This thesis explores the representation of motherhood as ideology, identity, and experience in conte...
The exegesis portion of my thesis examines representations of feminine masochism in 20th-century lit...
Despite significant change in women's lives in recent decades, the prevailing ideology of motherhood...
This thesis is comprised of two components: a novel titled “Lolly Poppins” and a scholarly dissertat...
Historically, the concept of woman has varied and changed in keeping with the ruling ideology of the...
Motherhood is not an inconsequential and ideologically neutral individual role in society. Instead, ...
This dissertation studies the thematic and cultural conflation and significance of madness and woman...