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      Out of the realm of immanence : women's work and transcendence in the novels of Carol Shields

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      Date
      2008
      Author
      Guenther, Bethany Ruth
      Type
      Project
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      Carol Shields has not always been acknowledged as a feminist thinker by scholars, but an examination of women’s work and art in her novels shows how her novels employ the feminist theories of Simon de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan in the creation of her own feminist philosophy. De Beauvoir’s ideas on transcendence and immanence find expression in Shields’s novels, A Fairly Conventional Woman, The Stone Diaries, and Unless, as her female characters use work (both domestic and artistic) to transcend powerlessness.
      Degree
      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      English
      Program
      English
      Supervisor
      Roy, Wendy
      Copyright Date
      2008
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-08112008-163334
      Subject
      immanence
      Carol Shields
      women
      work
      feminism
      Simone de Beauvoir
      art
      transcendence
      domestic
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