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Articulating the Female Subject: The Example of Marian Engel's Bear Fee, Margery

Abstract

Lou, the heroine of Marian Engel's Bear, attempts to confront the difficulties she has with male domination in a relationship with a semi-tame bear, but fails to resolve them because both female subjectivity and the patriarchy are socially constructed.

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Title
Articulating the Female Subject: The Example of Marian Engel's Bear
Creator
Fee, Margery
Publisher
Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal/Journal d'etudes sur la femme
Date Issued
1988
Description
Lou, the heroine of Marian Engel's Bear, attempts to confront the difficulties she has with male domination in a relationship with a semi-tame bear, but fails to resolve them because both female subjectivity and the patriarchy are socially constructed.
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932006 bytes
Subject
Marian Engel; Bear (novel); animal-human divide; patriarchy
Genre
Article
Type
Text
File Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Date Available
2009-07-24
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0074528
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11252
Affiliation
Arts, Faculty of; English, Department of
Citation
Margery Fee. "Articulating the Female Subject: The Example of Marian Engel's Bear." Atlantis 4 (1988): 20-26.
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Copyright Holder
Margery Fee
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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