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Fending off feminization: Erecting gender/ed boundaries and preserving masculinity in 1930s British fiction.

机译：抵制女性化：建立1930年代英国小说中的性别/性别界限并保留男性气质。

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Adverse economic and social conditions during the 1930s prompted fears that Britain and its populace were becoming feminized. Mass unemployment, the collapse of the older forms of masculinist industry, and the sudden expansion of London's consumer culture were three major events that contributed to perceptions of declining masculinity and rampant feminization. Unemployment, it was feared, transformed muscular, self-reliant laborers into emasculate, dependent idlers. The demise of industry (coal mining, ship building, and iron/steel working) turned symbolic garrisons of imperial strength and power into derelict wastelands. London's consumerism in the form of cheap goods and escapist entertainment was thought to pacify and enfeeble the (male) inhabitants. These three pivotal events fueled apprehensions about the breakdown in traditional, patriarchal structures and heightened sensitivities to and furthered the use of masculine/feminine dichotomies within public discourse.; The aim of my dissertation is to explore the ways in which complex networks of gender anxieties resonate in 1930s British fiction through the establishment and erosion of rhetorical gender/ed boundaries. Although fears regarding the political landscape, social unrest, and war were instrumental in shaping the literary responses of the decade, those fears were also informed by and articulated through a gender-conscious rhetoric. Emasculation imagery worked in concert with the complementary feminization imagery to capture the popular imagination. Apprehensions about women's potential to disrupt traditional boundaries (sexualized women, i.e. women taking men's jobs) merged with generalized fears of the feminine (constructed Woman, i.e. an undefined fear femaleness), and both were inscribed with the power to disrupt, threaten, and subsume. These “discourses of gender and gendered discourses,” to adopt Lyn Pykett's phrase, played an integral part in shaping how the 1930s populace interpreted their rapidly changing world. By promoting gender to the center of my interpretive paradigm, I aim to identify how representations of the private realm interact with and contribute to the public/political narrative thrusts.
机译：1930年代不利的经济和社会状况引发了人们对英国及其民众日益女性化的担忧。大规模失业，男子气概的较旧形式的瓦解以及伦敦消费文化的突然扩张是三大事件，这导致人们对男子气概下降和女性化猖ramp的看法。人们担心失业会把肌肉发达，自力更生的工人转变成割的，依赖的懒惰者。工业的衰落（煤矿开采，造船和钢铁加工）将具有帝国实力和权力的象征性驻军变成了废弃的荒地。伦敦以廉价商品和逃避现实的娱乐形式的消费主义被认为平息和削弱了（男性）居民。这三个关键事件激起了人们对传统父权制结构崩溃的担忧，对公众话语中男性/女性二分法的敏感性提高并得到了进一步的运用。我的论文的目的是通过建立和消除修辞性的性别界限来探索复杂的性别焦虑网络在1930年代英国小说中的共鸣方式。尽管对政治形势，社会动荡和战争的恐惧有助于形成十年来的文学反响，但这些恐惧也通过关注性别的言论得以表达和表达。射精图像与互补的女性化图像协同工作，以捕捉流行的想象力。对女性可能破坏传统界限的担忧（性化的女性，即从事男性工作的女性）与对女性的普遍恐惧（构造的女性，即不确定的女性恐惧感）融合在一起，两者都被赋予了破坏，威胁和包容的力量。用林·皮凯特（Lyn Pykett）的话来说，这些“性别话语和性别话语”在塑造1930年代民众如何解释其迅速变化的世界方面起着不可或缺的作用。通过将性别提升到我的解释范式的中心，我的目标是确定私人领域的表征如何与公共/政治叙事重点互动并做出贡献。

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    McFaden, Gwen Marie.;

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    Ball State University.;

  • 授予单位 Ball State University.;
  • 学科 Literature English.; Womens Studies.; History General.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2002
  • 页码 237 p.
  • 总页数 237
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 社会学;世界史;
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