Surviving the patriarchy (mostly) intact: mothers and daughters in selected works by Margaret Atwood

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dc.contributor.authorMorrison, Dorothea Rae
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorLadd, Heather
dc.contributor.supervisorCarter, Adam
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-08T17:51:19Z
dc.date.available2020-05-08T17:51:19Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractProbably Canada’s best-known author, Margaret Atwood has defined Canadian literature not only through her successful ‘doing’ of it, but also through her critical work. This thesis explores her first three novels, The Edible Woman (1969), Surfacing (1972) and Lady Oracle (1976), as well as Cat’s Eye (1988), through the lens of contemporaneous works by Luce Irigaray. Atwood’s representations of women have one important consistency: the troubling, or outright subversion, of idealized concepts of women, particularly in the relationships between mothers and daughters. Women struggle both with and against each other in order to find, or keep, a sense of self-identity and path within the patriarchal, and often explicitly misogynistic, culture which permeates their lives. This focus exposes the often-contradictory social pressures and expectations held for women by the heteronormative and patriarchal culture which refuses to recognize women’s legitimacy outside of their relationship to men.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5719
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.proquest.subjectCanadian literature [0352]en_US
dc.proquest.subjectEnglish literature [0593]en_US
dc.proquest.subjectModern literature [0298]en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Englishen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Englishen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectAtwood, Margaret, 1939 - Cat's eyeen_US
dc.subjectAtwood, Margaret, 1939 - Edible womanen_US
dc.subjectAtwood, Margaret, 1939 - Lady Oracleen_US
dc.subjectAtwood, Margaret, 1939 - Surfacingen_US
dc.subjectAtwood, Margaret, 1939 --- Criticism and interpretationen_US
dc.subjectPatriarchyen_US
dc.titleSurviving the patriarchy (mostly) intact: mothers and daughters in selected works by Margaret Atwooden_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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