Out of the realm of immanence : women's work and transcendence in the novels of Carol Shields
Date
2008Author
Guenther, Bethany Ruth
Type
ProjectDegree Level
MastersMetadata
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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
EnglishProgram
EnglishSupervisor
Roy, WendyCopyright Date
2008Subject
immanence
Carol Shields
women
work
feminism
Simone de Beauvoir
art
transcendence
domestic