Entre a regra e as estratégias: uma abordagem antropológica do processo de escolha do cônjuge

O trabalho é um desdobramento de meu Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso e procura analisar padrões de escolha do cônjuge na interface entre teoria antropológica, literatura e etnografia, tendo como campo de análise a interação entre indivíduos em processo de casamento. O objetivo é compreender este fenômeno a partir da análise de 2376 registros de matrimônio, onde se estudou a estrutura e os perfis de casamentos ocorridos em Belém, entre 1995 e 2006. Busco, assim, avaliar os perfis dos cônjuges tendo como cenário as transformações sociais pelas quais passaram as sociedades ocidentais nos últimos séculos, cujo aparecimento da literatura romântica, do individualismo enquanto valor e de diferentes modelos de arranjos familiares, exerceu profunda influência no tipo de escolha afetivo-sexual dos indivíduos, e com isso no tipo ideal de parceiro com quem se quer/deve casar. Metodologicamente o trabalho se desenvolve a partir da revisão da literatura antropológica que trata do tema da escolha conjugal nas ciências sociais com ênfase nos estudos que abordam sua evolução histórica e conceitual, assim como numa análise pormenorizada do processo de escolha em três obras da romancista inglesa Jane Austen (Orgulho e Preconceito, Razão e Sensibilidade, e Emma). Destaca também minha pesquisa junto ao Curso de Noivos da Paróquia de Nossa Senhora de Nazaré, em Belém-PA, onde analisei, por meio das falas de seus freqüentadores, a experiência da escolha e o sentido de ser escolhido como cônjuge. Minha proposta com isto é tentar compreender não só os perfis de seleção e os discursos sobre o cônjuge preferencial, mas o porquê da escolha com vistas à união conjugal.

Women in Eighteenth Century London: Female Coming of Age in Frances Burney’s Evelina, Cecilia, and The Witlings

The late eighteenth-century author Frances Burney is best known for popularizing the “comedy of manners,” a literary style later adopted by Jane Austen. Burney’s novels, journals, and plays offer an intriguing commentary on contemporary social customs and etiquette. In particular, she voices the concerns and desires of women, leading scholars to focus on the feminist overtones of her writing. Although she carefully examined female roles in the household and family structure, Burney also provided an insider’s perspective into London high life. As an acclaimed author and member of the royal court, Burney offers a rare insight into the lives of the urban elite. For these reasons, I have chosen to examine three of her works within the context of their London setting. In Evelina, Cecilia, and The Witlings, Burney examines women’s struggle for independence against the backdrop of the city. These works offer a new interpretation of the female Bildungsroman, or coming of age story. Burney shows how London life influences her heroines’ expectations, ambitions and desires. Evelina’s coming of age centers around the quest for family and social acceptance, while the two Cecilias of Cecilia and The Witlings confront the financial pressures that accompany their inheritance. Ultimately, the three protagonists learn important lessons that are specific to city life. Although Burney concludes each story with the heroine’s marriage, her focus is not on romance, as has been suggested, but on the cultural landscape of the city. Coming of age in her stories is inextricably connected to the diverse challenges and opportunities presented to urban women.

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Bibliographical footnotes.

Twelve English authoresses ...

Hannah More.--Fanny Burney.--Maria Edgeworth.--Harriet Martineau.--Jane Austen.--Felicia Hemans.--Mary Somerville.--Jane Taylor.--Charlotte Brontë.--Elizabeth Gaskell.--Elizabeth Barrett Browning.--George Eliot.

[Novels]

v.1. Sense and sensibility.--v.2. Pride and prejudice.--v.3. Mansfield Park.--v.4. Emma.--v.5. Northanger abbey. Persuasion.--v.6. Lady Susan. The Watsons. A memoir of Jane Austen [by J. E. Austen Leigh] Letters of Jane Austen.

Beyond orientalism: 'The Stranger' and 'Colonial Cosmopolitanism' in the romantic period novel

Going beyond Orientalism in its examination of novels dealing with British colonisation in the West, as well as the East Indies, the postcolonial frame of my thesis develops recent theorisations of the Romantic ‘stranger’. Analysing a range of novels from the much anthologised Mansfield Park (1814), to less well-known narratives such as John Thelwall’s The Daughter of Adoption (1801) and Sir Walter Scott’s Saint Ronan’s Well (1823), my thesis seeks to account for a model of ‘colonial cosmopolitanism’ within fiction of the period. Considering the cosmopolitan dimensions of the transferential rhetoric of slavery, my thesis explores the ways in which, Jane Austen, Amelia Opie and Maria Edgeworth consider the position of women in domestic society through a West Indian frame. Demonstrating the need for reform both at home and abroad, such novels are representative of a fledgling cosmopolitanism that is often overlooked in current criticism. In seeking to account for ‘colonial cosmopolitanism’ as a new model for reading fiction composed during the Romantic period, my thesis attempts to add further nuance to current understandings of sympathetic exchange during the process of British colonisation. In chapters four and five I will develop my analysis of novels dealing with colonial expansion in the Caribbean to consider novels which deal with the Indian subcontinent. Although stopping short of questioning colonial expansion, discourses of ‘colonial cosmopolitanism’, as my thesis demonstrates, provided a foundation for humanitarian and cultural engagement which was mutually transformative for both the coloniser and the colonised.

Jane McCredie - Making Girls and Boys : Inside the Science of Sex [Book Review]

Activists, Feminists, queer theorists, and those who live outside traditional gender narratives have long challenged the fixity of the sex and gender binaries. While the dominant Western paradigm posits sex and gender as natural and inherent, queer theory argues that sex and gender are socially constructed. This means that our ideas about sex and gender, and the concepts themselves, are shaped by particular social contexts. Questioning the nature of sex can be puzzling. After all, isn’t sex biology? Binary sex – male and female – was labelled as such by scientists based on existing binary categories and observations of hormones, genes, chromosomes, reproductive organs, genitals and other bodily elements. Binary sex is allocated at birth by genital appearance. Not everyone fits into these categories and this leads queer theorists, and others, to question the categories. Now, “some scientists are also starting to move away from the idea of biology as the fixed basis on which the social artefact of gender is built” (5). Making Girls and Boys: Inside the Science of Sex, by Jane McCredie, examines theories about gender roles and behaviours also considering those who don’t fit the arbitrary sex and gender binaries.

Jane

This case study describes the use of antipsychotic medication by an adult woman with learning disabilities. The study first provides detailed clinical information about Jane, drawing on a comprehensive mental health assessment and then provides a thematic analysis of Jane's experiences of antipsychotic medication.

Health assessment of the Christmas Island flying fox (Pteropus melanotus natalis)

During July/August 2010, 28 Christmas Island flying foxes (Pteropus melanotus natalis) were captured and anesthetized for examination, sample collection, and release to determine the potential role of disease in recent population declines. Measurements and samples were taken for morphologic, hematologic, biochemical, and parasitologic analysis. These are the first blood reference ranges reported for this species. These data are being used to inform investigations into conservation status and population management strategies for the Christmas Island flying fox.

The hard work of leisure: Healthy life, activewear and Lorna Jane

Since the 2000s activewear has grown as a fashion category, and the tropes of gym wear – leggings, leotards and block colours – have become fashionable attire for both men and women outside the gym. This article examines the rise of activewear in the context of an on-going dialogue between fashion and sport since the beginning of the twentieth century. Through an analysis of the Australian activewear label, Lorna Jane, we consider the fashionable female body as both the object and subject of a consumer culture that increasingly overlays leisure with fashion. Activewear can be seen as the embodiment of an active and fashionable lifestyle that is achieved through a regime of self-discipline, and that symbolizes the pleasure in attaining and displaying the healthy and fit body.

The Cambrian Muse: Welsh Identity and Hanoverian Loyalty in the Poems of Jane Brereton (1685-1740)

Prescott, S. (2005). The Cambrian Muse: Welsh Identity and Hanoverian Loyalty in the Poems of Jane Brereton (1685-1740). Eighteenth -Century Studies. 38(4), pp.587-603. RAE2008

Quels sont les TIC utilisés par les étudiants pour choisir leurs études supérieures ?Analyse des focus group organisés lors de la JANE 2015 sur l’image de l’ULB

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