The Matriarchitects: The Creation and Maintenance of the British Imperial Simulacrum in the Journalism of Helen Gregory MacGill, Madge Macbeth, and Kathleen Blake Coleman

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dc.contributor.advisorMcPherson, Kathryn M.
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Melanie Vanessa
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-04T15:18:17Z
dc.date.available2023-08-04T15:18:17Z
dc.date.issued2023-08-04
dc.date.updated2023-08-04T15:18:17Z
dc.degree.disciplineInterdisciplinary Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the lives and work of three early Canadian women journalists, Helen Gregory MacGill, Madge Macbeth, and Kathleen Blake “Kit” Coleman. The argument expands on the work of Sara Mills in Discourses of Difference (1991), using a similar Foucauldian approach to determine constraints on the production and reception of the three women’s writings; additionally, Jean Baudrillard’s simulacrum theory is used to determine the effects produced by those writings. The analysis focuses on articles the three journalists wrote about nations beyond the control of the British empire – Japan, Spain, and Cuba respectively – using an interdisciplinary approach. By situating the three journalists within the Canadian context of British high imperialism, and then assessing their articles as travel writing rather than journalism, the impact of their work emerges: through their journalism work, MacGill, Macbeth, and Coleman contributed to the creation and maintenance of a simulacrum of the British empire.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/41376
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectCanadian history
dc.subjectBritish and Irish literature
dc.subjectGender studies
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian
dc.subject.keywordsCanada
dc.subject.keywordsWomen journalists
dc.subject.keywordsWoman journalist
dc.subject.keywordsFemale journalist
dc.subject.keywordsHelen Gregory MacGill
dc.subject.keywordsHelen Emma Gregory
dc.subject.keywordsHelen Gregory
dc.subject.keywordsHelen Gregory-Flesher
dc.subject.keywordsElsie Gregory MacGill
dc.subject.keywordsMadge Macbeth
dc.subject.keywordsKathleen Blake “Kit” Coleman
dc.subject.keywordsKathleen Blake Coleman
dc.subject.keywordsKit Coleman
dc.subject.keywordsCatherine Ferguson
dc.subject.keywordsFoucauld
dc.subject.keywordsFoucauldian
dc.subject.keywordsBaudrillard
dc.subject.keywordsSimulacrum
dc.subject.keywordsSimulacra
dc.subject.keywordsJournalism
dc.subject.keywordsBritish empire
dc.subject.keywordsBritish high imperialism
dc.subject.keywordsTravel writing
dc.subject.keywordsSara Mills
dc.subject.keywordsDiscourses of Difference
dc.subject.keywordsBarbara Freeman
dc.subject.keywordsMarjory Lang
dc.subject.keywordsEva-Marie Kroller
dc.subject.keywordsAnne McClintock
dc.subject.keywordsCarole Gerson
dc.subject.keywordsNew imperialism
dc.subject.keywordsHigh imperialism
dc.subject.keywordsRace
dc.subject.keywordsGender
dc.subject.keywordsClass
dc.subject.keywordsWhite
dc.subject.keywordsWhiteness
dc.subject.keywordsLady
dc.subject.keywordsDomestic sphere
dc.subject.keywordsJapan
dc.subject.keywordsSpain
dc.subject.keywordsCuba
dc.subject.keywordsSpanish-American war
dc.subject.keywordsCWPC
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian Women's Press Club
dc.subject.keywordsVictorian England
dc.subject.keywordsVictorian
dc.titleThe Matriarchitects: The Creation and Maintenance of the British Imperial Simulacrum in the Journalism of Helen Gregory MacGill, Madge Macbeth, and Kathleen Blake Coleman
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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