H. D. and Freud: Bisexuality and a Feminine Discourse

1993 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Ann L. Ardis ◽  
Claire Buck ◽  
Marianne DeKoven ◽  
Susan Stanford Friedman ◽  
Donna Krolik Hollenberg
Keyword(s):  
Feminine Discourse

scholarly journals Gilka Machado e Florbela Espanca: uma poética do donjuanismo feminino

2002 ◽  
Vol 22 (31) ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Cleonice Nascimento da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Poetic Discourse ◽  
Building Process ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Feminine Discourse

<p>Este trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar como está representada a imagem feminina em alguns poemas selecionados da obra de Florbela Espanca e Gilka Machado. As marcas de sensualidade e o natural rompimento com a tradicional visão do amor no discurso feminino, atuam como características predominantes do universo poético dessas poetisas. Tais características explicitam o processo de individuação feminina que reflete em seu discurso libertário e irreverente uma espécie de <em>donjuanismo </em>feminino. Nosso propósito é focalizar a construção desse processo de individuação feminina que, se por vezes mostra uma sensibilidade exacerbada por fortes impulsos eróticos, por outras, revela toda a angustiante experiência sentimental nas quais as poetisas extravasam as lutas que travam dentro de si entre tendências e sentimentos opostos. Acreditando que a trajetória e a representação da imagem feminina no discurso poético florbeliano e gilkiano refletem uma proposta pioneira de valores transgressores da sociedade burguesa cristã, o estudo mostra o perfil da mulher na obra de Florbela Espanca e de Gilka Machado.</p> <p>This written work aims to show how Florbela Espanca and Gilka Machado have represented the feminine image in some selected pieces of their poetry oeuvre. Sensuality traits and natural rupture with the traditional point of view about love affection within feminine discourse act as predominant features into the authors’ poetic universe. Such features expound the women individualization process which express through authors’ setting-free and non-obeying discourse a kind of feminine donjuanism. It is intend here to spot the building of this feminine individualization process. sometimes this building process exposes a sensibility exaggerated by strong erotic impulses, and in others times that process reveals the very sentimental anghuishening experience through which both poets set free their inner struggles involving oppostie tendencies and feelings. This study draws a woman’s profile inside Floberla Espanca and Gilka Machado’s poetry by taking for granted that the feminine image trajectory and representation within authors’ poetic discourse expresses a pioneer proposal of breaking-rules values of christian burgeois society.</p>

A Feminine Discourse of Illness: Transformation and Modality

2010 ◽  
pp. 87-118
Author(s):  
Jonathan Charteris-Black ◽  
Clive Seale
Keyword(s):  
Feminine Discourse

scholarly journals Gender projections in the novel Soul in A Mask by N. V. Nedobrovo

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 188-200
Author(s):  
Marianna V. Kaplun
Keyword(s):  
Opposite Effect ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Gender Discourse ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
The Social ◽  
Feminine Discourse ◽  
Basic Ideas ◽  
Modern Era

The prose novel by N. V. Nedobrovo Soul in A Mask, written in 1914, incorporates basic ideas of the writer’s work and continues development of gender (feminine) discourse of the modern era. To a large extent, the search for a “soul in a mask”, the ability to express a lyrical “I”, coupled with the theatricality of being, the need for a social masquerade, are characteristic of the majority of modernist works. The theme of masks is equally present in the lyrics of symbolism and close to Nedobrovo acmeism (for example, in the work of A. A. Akhmatova, Nedobrovo’s closest friend). The masquerade performs two functions in the novel — plot-forming and philosophical. Having made the center of the story of the reflecting heroine Olga, Nedobrovo displays a number of male characters, a collision which meant to reveal the title female character. Male / female opposition (masculinity / femininity) informs the main conflict of the novel, related to the inability of an intelligent woman of expressing herself in a male society without wearing a mask. The paper shows that the mask serves as a kind of gender projection and represents an attempt to overcome the social masquerade, which is always associated with an identity crisis. Mask, as applied to the heroine and her ready-made social mask gives an opposite effect, only emphasizing the gender difference and, accordingly, leading to the disclosure of the heroine’s femininity. Based on this, “female issue” raised in the story is resolved in compliance with patriarchal ideas of the conservative gender discourse of the turn of the century.

scholarly journals Cosmo Girls: The Construction of Feminine Discourse in Cosmopolitan Magazine

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabella Burlon
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Education Technology ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Major Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Societal Norms ◽  
Modal Verb ◽  
Feminine Discourse

This Major Research Paper will examine the ways in which Cosmopolitan magazine’s cover page headlines have constructed, aligned with, or challenged discourse around femininity in the past decade (2010-2019). The purpose of this study is to make the linguistic devices used to manipulate readers transparent and reveal the media’s role in creating and maintaining societal norms – which can be liberating or restricting. A critical discourse analysis will be applied to examine Cosmopolitan’s communications to their target audience and how such communication earns social meaning. This paper finds that while Cosmopolitan magazine becomes slightly more progressive towards the end of the decade, its content remains heavily focused on sex and beauty which presents women and their interests in a trivial manner. Cosmopolitan’s headlines instruct readers on how to become a ‘Cosmo Girl’, suggesting that any other type of woman is subpar. Cosmopolitan’s headlines reveal societal assumptions about women and promote outdated expectations by encouraging readers to prioritize men and romantic relationships. With very little content about education, technology, or other modern topics, Cosmopolitan headlines are determined to be limiting. Keywords: Headlines, Discourse, Gender, Presupposition(s), Interdiscursivity, Intertextuality, Diachrony, Idiom(s), Modal Verb(s), Sex, Relationships, Beauty, Fashion, Lifestyle, Health, Fitness, Career

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