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Femmes scandaleuses : le pouvoir transformatif de la transgression chez Virginie Despentes, Nelly Arcan et aurélia aurita
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- Author / Creator
- Gheno, Marine
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This study focuses on scandals in the feminine, or the media turmoil triggered by women’s writing demonstrating an awareness of women’s oppression. Scandalous women subvert norms by addressing sexuality, pleasure, desire as well as racism, hybrid identities, and power and domination relationships engrained in all aspects of daily life. Their speech generates indignation in the public sphere as it brings to the surface taboos and uncomfortable issues. The transgression of scandalous women invokes both the principle of visibility of our current societies and the commitment in the feminine to fight for the inclusion of women in the public sphere. The three authors examined in this dissertation, Virginie Despentes, Nelly Arcan, and aurélia aurita, are scandalous women inasmuch as their works and their public persona have been the subject of polemic, scandal or media buzz. The study of their productions deemed scandalous alongside their reception according to a research framework informed by the structures of the public sphere and artistic fields in the contemporary media era as well as feminist criticism brings to light the norms imposed on women in the public sphere. This study also highlights the commitment in the feminine exemplified by the articulation of a feminine agency and the constitution of a woman subject in these works. The media coverage of scandals widens the public audience of those transgressive works and instigates, potentially, debates about social taboos, and eventually, the transformation of the dominant ideology. Scandalous women in cultural and media representations open up a space for transgressive, excessive, out of place, minority, and disobedient subjects to speak, shake up the status quo, and expand the possible.
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- Graduation date
- Fall 2016
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- Type of Item
- Thesis
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- Degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
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- License
- This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.