A Feminist Mythology
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A Feminist Mythology
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Author : Chiara Bottici
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
A Feminist Mythology written by Chiara Bottici and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Feminism categories.
The Feminist Companion To Mythology
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Author : Carolyne Larrington
language : en
Publisher: Pandora
Release Date : 1992
The Feminist Companion To Mythology written by Carolyne Larrington and has been published by Pandora this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Literary Criticism categories.
Contains articles related to women and mythology on regional themes; includes articles by White and Payne on Aboriginal mythology annotated separately.
The Goddess Myth In Contemporary Literature And Popular Culture
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Author : Mary J. Magoulick
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2022-02-04
The Goddess Myth In Contemporary Literature And Popular Culture written by Mary J. Magoulick and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-04 with Social Science categories.
Honorable Mention for the 2022 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize awarded by the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people initially perceive. Goddesses in film, television, and fiction project worldviews and messages that reflect mostly patriarchal culture (included essentialized gender assumptions), in contrast to the feminist, empowering levels many fans and critics observe. Building on critiques of other skeptical scholars, this feminist, folkloristic approach deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient past reflects a contemporary worldview and rhetoric. Structures of contemporary goddess myths often fit typical extremes as either vilified, destructive, dark, and chaotic (typical in film or television); or romanticized, positive, even utopian (typical in women’s speculative fiction). This goddess spectrum persistently essentializes gender, stereotyping women as emotional, intuitive, sexual, motherly beings (good or bad), precluded from complex potential and fuller natures. Within apparent good-over-evil, pop-culture narrative frames, these goddesses all suffer significantly. However, a few recent intersectional writers, like N. K. Jemisin, break through these dark reflections of contemporary power dynamics to offer complex characters who evince “hopepunk.” They resist typical simplified, reductionist absolutes to offer messages that resonate with potential for today’s world. Mythic narratives featuring goddesses often do, but need not, serve merely as ideological mirrors of our culture’s still problematically reductionist approach to women and all humanity.
Feminist Companion Mythology
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Author : Carolyne Larrington
language : en
Publisher: Harper Festival
Release Date : 1992-10-01
Feminist Companion Mythology written by Carolyne Larrington and has been published by Harper Festival this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-10-01 with categories.
A Feminist Mythology
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Author : Chiara Bottici
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-10-21
A Feminist Mythology written by Chiara Bottici and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-21 with Philosophy categories.
A Feminist Mythology takes us on a poetic journey through the canonical myths of femininity, testing them from the point of view of our modern condition. A myth is not an object, but rather a process, one that Chiara Bottici practises by exploring different variants of the myth of “womanhood” through first- and third-person prose and poetry. We follow a series of myths that morph into each other, disclosing ways of being woman that question inherited patriarchal orders. In this metamorphic world, story-telling is not just a mix of narrative, philosophical dialogues and metaphysical theorizing: it is a current that traverses all of them by overflowing the boundaries it encounters. In doing so, A Feminist Mythology proposes an alternative writing style that recovers ancient philosophical and literary traditions from the pre-Socratic philosophers and Ovid's Metamorphoses to the philosophical novellas and feminist experimental writings of the last century.
Laughing With Medusa
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Author : Vanda Zajko
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006-01-12
Laughing With Medusa written by Vanda Zajko and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Laughing with Medusa explores a series of interlinking questions, including: Does history's self-positioning as the successor of myth result in the exclusion of alternative narratives of the past? How does feminism exclude itself from certain historical discourses? Why has psychoanalysis placed myth at the centre of its explorations of the modern subject? Why are the Muses feminine? Do the categories of myth and politics intersect or are they mutually exclusive? Does feminism's recourse to myth offer a script of resistance or commit it to an ineffective utopianism? Covering a wide range of subject areas including poetry, philosophy, science, history, and psychoanalysis as well as classics, this book engages with these questions from a truly interdisciplinary perspective. It includes a specially commisssioned work of fiction, `Iphigeneia's Wedding', by the poet Elizabeth Cook.
Women S Encyclopedia Of Myths And Secrets
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Author : Barbara G. Walker
language : en
Publisher: Book Sales
Release Date : 1996
Women S Encyclopedia Of Myths And Secrets written by Barbara G. Walker and has been published by Book Sales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Reference categories.
A comprehensive reference on mythology, anthropology, religion and sexuality from a feminist point of view.
Female Mythologies In Contemporary Chicana Literature
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Author : Nadine Gebhardt
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2007-08
Female Mythologies In Contemporary Chicana Literature written by Nadine Gebhardt and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08 with American literature categories.
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, language: English, abstract: In Mexican-American/ Chicano culture, feminine archetypes from the Mexican tradition play an important role for woman's subjectivity. Traditionally, such archetypes epitomize Catholic-patriarchal constructions of womanhood. Idolized by the figures of the Virgin of Guadalupe, La Malinche, and La Llorona, the most prevailing representations of female sexuality and motherhood evolve around the passive virgin, the sinful seductress, and the traitorous mother. Along the lines of Chicana feminism, the traditional definitions of these feminine archetypes can be seen as promoting an image of woman that is detrimental to female subjectivity. Although there are three figures, these archetypes evoke a binary opposition that defines woman as either "good woman" or "bad woman," "virgin" or "whore." As such, they limit and circumscribe the Chicana's development of subjectivity. But these cultural icons may also epitomize feminine power, and hence provide the Chicana with possible feminist role models to back up her emancipation. Chicana feminists have employed creative writing to counter the Catholic-patriarchal discourse on the Virgin of Guadalupe, Malinche, and La Llorona. As they explore these cultural archetypes in their novels, short stories, and poems, Chicana feminists attempt to reveal the mechanisms by which the original images of these mythic figures have been subverted, disempowered, and distorted. But most importantly, they seek to deconstruct the virgin/whore dichotomy by rewriting the mythic figures. Through a revision of existing myths, Chicana writers are able to create a feminist mythology that is rooted in cultural tradition but simultaneously serves as an act of resistance to the dominant discourse. This Master's thesis will explore the mythic figures of Guadalupe, Malinche, and La Llorona in all
Gender Myths And Feminist Fables
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Author : Andrea Cornwall
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2009-02-23
Gender Myths And Feminist Fables written by Andrea Cornwall and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-23 with Political Science categories.
This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers whoexamine the struggles for interpretive power which underliesinternational development. Questions why the insights from years of feminist gender anddevelopment research are so often turned into ‘gendermyths’ and ‘feminist fables’: women are morelikely to care for the environment; are better at working together;are less corrupt; have a seemingly infinite capacity tosurvive Explores how bowdlerized and impoverished representations ofgender relations have simultaneously come to be embedded indevelopment policy and practice Traces the ways in which language and images of development arerelated to practice and provides a nuanced account of the politicsof knowledge production Argues that struggles for interpretive power are not onlyimportant for our own sake, but also for the implications they havefor women’s lives worldwide An informed analysis of how ‘gender’ has beentransformed in its transfer into development policy and how manyauthors are now revisiting and reflecting on their earlierwork
The Beauty Myth
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Author : Naomi Wolf
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-08-31
The Beauty Myth written by Naomi Wolf and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-31 with Social Science categories.
The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity . Every day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma – how to look. In a society embroiled in a cult of female beauty and youthfulness, pressure on women to conform physically is constant and all-pervading. In this iconic, gripping and frank exposé, Naomi Wolf exposes the tyranny of the beauty myth through the ages and its oppressive function today, in the home and at work, in literature and the media, in relationships between men and women, between women and women. With pertinent and intelligent examples, she confronts the beauty industry and its advertising and uncovers the reasons why women are consumed by this destructive obsession. ‘Essential reading’ Guardian ‘A smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom. Every woman should read it’ Gloria Steinem