- Bib ID:
- 3284382
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Aucoin, Pauline Karen Mckenzie
- Description:
- 323 p.
- ISBN:
- 0612690881
- Summary:
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In western Viti Levu, Fiji, hegemonic constructions of gender and status are asserted by men through ritual, kinship ideology, the social organization of space, and the use of force. In this thesis, I examine how Fijian women resist this hierarchical gender ideology through an insubordinate discourse that is conveyed through narrative, satirical dance performances, and mythology. Through their irreverent discourse, women engage in a symbolic politics that transforms signs of male dominance into their opposite: an order of space that privileges men is inverted, male mythological figures are portrayed as powerless, and a system of knowledge that excludes women is challenged. By contesting dominant meanings, a politics of representation is played out between men and women.
- Notes:
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- (UnM)AAINQ69088
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-06, Section: A, page: 2288.
- Adviser: Michael Lambek.
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2002.
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International.
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- Other authors/contributors:
- University of Toronto (Canada)
- Copyright:
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