This thesis explores women's emigration from Malta in the aftermath of the second world war. The work employs an analysis that draws upon a gendered critique which splits the work up into a three...Show moreThis thesis explores women's emigration from Malta in the aftermath of the second world war. The work employs an analysis that draws upon a gendered critique which splits the work up into a three-tiered analysis model. Beginning with a historiographical review, the work goes on to include and analyse women's oral histories, as well as the fictional-historical novels of the author Lou Drofenik whose perspective and narratives are informed by the interviews she conducted with first-generation Maltese-Australian female emigrants. In this way, Maltese women's gendered and colonial subjecthood is counter-opposed to their agency in working with and against these historical structures.Show less
This thesis describes the ways in which hosting a salon opened up opportunities for eighteenth century French women, divided in practical opportunities and opportunities to challenge contemporary...Show moreThis thesis describes the ways in which hosting a salon opened up opportunities for eighteenth century French women, divided in practical opportunities and opportunities to challenge contemporary ideas about women.Show less
This thesis exlores the interlinkage between cats and women in the domestic sphere. It goes into the more overall image and treatment of cats around 1900, but also more explicitly within the...Show moreThis thesis exlores the interlinkage between cats and women in the domestic sphere. It goes into the more overall image and treatment of cats around 1900, but also more explicitly within the domestic sphere and the ideal of domesticity. However, the final chapter demonstrates how cats could actually be utilized by women to escapte the narrow notion of domesticity. Animal agency and the animal experience are important factors as well.Show less
A comparison between the feminist movements of the French Revolution and the French Revolution of 1848, focused on the ideological and historical context that shaped both movements and on the...Show moreA comparison between the feminist movements of the French Revolution and the French Revolution of 1848, focused on the ideological and historical context that shaped both movements and on the actions taken by the feminists of both revolutions.Show less
