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The Power of the Phallus in Kate Chopin's The Awakening: A Contemporary Feminist Reading

Bear, Sarah M
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1187627954

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2007, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, English/Literature.
Much of the scholarship on The Awakening looks at the text through a psychoanalytic lens, but the lens tends to be limited to a Freudian psychoanalytic reading. However, despite the large amount of feminist scholarship, psychoanalytic scholarship, and feminist psychoanalytic scholarship on this novel, no one has examined the context of the novel from the perspective of feminist critiques of psychoanalysis. Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler provide the basis of my argument. I argue that Chopin not only anticipated Freud’s psychoanalytic theories, but she also anticipated Irigaray’s critics of phallocentric psychology. Chopin humanizes the damage that a phallocentric society can cause a woman who dares to defy the conventions, and who begins to see her life in her own terms rather than functioning under erasure.
Kimberly Coates (Advisor)
58 p.
Literature, American
The Awakening; Kate Chopin; phallocentrism; Irigaray; Butler; phallus

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  • Bear, S. M. (2007). The Power of the Phallus in Kate Chopin's The Awakening: A Contemporary Feminist Reading [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1187627954

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bear, Sarah. The Power of the Phallus in Kate Chopin's The Awakening: A Contemporary Feminist Reading. 2007. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1187627954.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bear, Sarah. "The Power of the Phallus in Kate Chopin's The Awakening: A Contemporary Feminist Reading." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1187627954

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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