عنوان

Mrianne's Chroniclers:

شماره

TLets490527

عنوان اصلي

Mrianne's Chroniclers:

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Shearer, Joanna Marian

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

The Political Journalism of Selected French Female Writers of the First World War

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Oxford Brookes University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2007

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Oxford Brookes University

امتياز متن

2007

متن يادداشت

This thesis analyses the political journalism of a number of early twentieth-centuryFrench female writers, namely Colette, Marcelle Capy, Jane Misme, MadeleinePelletier, Nelly Roussel, and Madeleine Vernet. The aim of the study is to examine howthese female journalists shaped media representations of women throughout the FirstWorld War in France. Their journalism did this by moving away from the establishedtwo-dimensional helpless and/or negative female 'characters'Ã,· (such as the victim ofrape, the self-sacrificing baby-maker, the profiteer, the spy or the defeatist) so prevalentin wartime print culture, and, instead, encouraged powerful alternative female roles.This work's ultimate aim, and most innovative contribution, is to propose a morecomplex understanding of women's roles and opinions in First \Vorld \Var France andÃ,·how these were represented, constructed and codified by a number of female journalistsin reaction to the mainstream discourse of the national press.This thesis begins with a historical examination of women's entry into thejournalistic medium in France. Then, using textual analysis and consideration of thehistorical context, I demonstrate how this selected First \Vorld \Var women's journalismdeveloped from its initial focus on the female body to examine other political wartimepropagandist female images. Though these writers often constructed their arguments byborrowing from and building on ideas originating in the pacifist and minority press, Iargue that their privileged position as women (and therefore so-called moral guardiansof the nation) gave their value-laden and eloquent arguments added influence in a timeofwar.This thesis evaluates a number of sources, ranging from archived newspapers,published collections of journalism, special archival collections concerning particularjournalists (including autobiographical and biographical texts) and, in the case of theHelene Brion trial, legal documents and transcripts. In aggregate, these texts areindicative ofwomen's representation at a key moment in history: the 'golden age' of theFrench press. In drawing together and reading across such diverse source materials, aqualitative analysis is proposed, firstly, of the persuasive counter-arguments utilised andcounter-icons created by women in reaction to national press in selected journalisticpieces, and secondly, of the manner in which these writers encouraged a particularised space of dialogue that facilitated the growth of an 'imagined community' of femalereaders, writers and correspondents.Though women's roles in the Great War have regained popularity as a subject ofresearch, there still remains a dearth of study on women's journalism of the period.Despite the large number ofwomen who were involved in newspaper writing, there areno studies that focus solely on French women's First World War journalism as animportant field of study. This thesis therefore adds another important dimension to thegrowing area of research concerning women's writing of the First World War.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Shearer, Joanna Marian

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Oxford Brookes University

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y