Discussion: The feminine self

1990 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-65
Author(s):  
Esther Menaker
Keyword(s):  
The Feminine ◽  
Feminine Self

Charlotte Bronte and the feminine self

1990 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Kavaler-Adler
Keyword(s):  
Charlotte Bronte ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Feminine Self

scholarly journals Kierkegaard and the Feminine Self

Hypatia ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 131-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie A. Howe
Keyword(s):  
Relative Value ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Feminine Self

Kierkegaard shows two contrary attitudes to woman and the feminine: misogyny and celebration. The Kierkegaardian structure of selfhood, because combined with a hierarchical assumption about the relative value of certain human characteristics, and their identification as male or female, argues that woman is a lesser self. Consequently, the claim that the Kierkegaardian ideal of selfhood is androgynist is rejected, though it is the latter assumptions alone that force this conclusion.

Memorial Narratives as Salvation for the Feminine Self

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rivkah Zim
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Catastrophic Events ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Feminine Self ◽  
The French Revolution

This chapter presents a reading of Marie-Jeanne Roland's Memoirs (1793) and Anne Frank's The Diary and Tales from the Secret Annexe (1942–44). Both writers wrote memorial narratives to preserve details of their lives because they believed that writing about their ideas, experiences, and feelings would help to sustain them in the exceptional circumstances of confinement. Both writers also became popular heroines: their prison writings have been continuously in print since shortly after their deaths. Yet their personal memoirs of different kinds have been read and valued as historic witness accounts of wider, catastrophic events: the French Revolution and the Holocaust. Both writers were conscious of their roles as historic witnesses, but the chapter seeks to refocus attention on their ideas of themselves as writers and the primary functions of their texts as literary testimony to unique personal identities rather than the historic victims of terror they came to represent for later readers.

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