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Psychological androgyny and attitudes towards women's sex roles.
Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1982 .W456. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1982.
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The Dilemma of Woolf's Androgyny: A Close Look at Androgyny in <em>A Room of One's Own</em> and <em>Orlando</em>.
<p>This thesis explores Woolf's concept of androgyny through a comparison of her nonfiction essay <em>A Room of One's Own</em> and her fiction-fantasy novel <em>Orlando</em>. Recent and past critical writings on Woolf and androgyny have been consulted, as well as primary sources including her …
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Paul Gauguin’s Self-Portraiture and the Concept of Androgyny
… within the nineteenth-century notion of androgyny. The first chapter explores Gauguin’s textual figurations of self in relation to the contemporary medical and philosophical understanding of androgyny and to the literary representations of an androgyne in the works by Honoré de Balzac, …
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Sex-role stereotypes, androgyny, and clinical judgments of mental health
… a primary personality attribute, psychological androgyny and sex role identification may make up a limited, situation-specific aspect of personality. This suggests the possibility that sex-typed as well as androgynous clinicians may not hold differential attitudes about men and women.Although …
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Tennessee Williams and the southern dialetic : in search of androgyny
… like Christ, would successfully integrate them.Androgyny, for Williams, was not strictly hermaphroditism, though he was drawn to the asexual, but the ideal state of human existence--the integration of paradoxically repellent and attractive forces created by the dialectic. Though his Grail-like …
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Indexing androgyny: The transgendered phenomenon and its challenge to ethnology
This thesis will focus on the life experiences of transsexual individuals living in the Las Vegas community. This is an ethnographic study that includes field research, extensive interviews, and library research; Through this study I hope to gain better insight as to what motivated these …
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The effect of androgyny and self-esteem on classroom behavior
… the effects of middle-school students' levels of androgyny and self-esteem on classroom behavior, as well as to examine the impact of these variables on students' performance attributions and classroom perceptions. Students were asked to complete questionnaires assessing their levels of androgyny …
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Androgyny and Dominance: Gender Construction in Anaïs Nin's Erotica Series
Anaïs Nin's Diary and her fiction have been lauded by critics for their imagery, Freudian allusions, and creativity. What has not been considered, and is equally important, is her Erotica series, Delta of Venus and Little Birds. These books, her most popular, not only address the issues that she …
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A Cross-Cultural Study of the Relation Between Degree of American Acculturation and Androgyny
<p>Problem. Research has identified culture as one of the factors which reinforces sex-appropriate behaviors and punishes inappropriate behaviors for each gender. The purpose of this study was to validate the theory that culture is an influencing factor in the development of sex-role acquisition …
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Perceptions of sexual harassment in the workplace: impact of gender, psychological androgyny, and job status
Sexual harassment has serious implications for both the individual and the organization. However, there appears to be confusion among different groups of people as to what behaviors constitute sexual harassment. The present study was designed as an aid in defining sexual harassment and an attempt …
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English Literature's Father of Authorial Androgyny: The Innovative Perspective of Chaucer and the Wife of Bath
… as English literature’s father of authorial androgyny, specifically through an analysis of his Wife of Bath character. Through a close reading of the “General Prologue” descriptions of the Pardoner and the Wife of Bath as well as an analysis of the “Wife of Bath’s Prologue” and the “Wife of …
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A Study of the Relationship Between Psychological Androgyny and College Adjustment Among Korean American College Students
… (BSRI), Short Version, measuring psychological androgyny, and the Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (SACQ), measuring college adjustment. Each subject's Bem score was determined. The score from the Bem indicated if an individual was identified as androgynous, undifferentiated, …
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Family-functioning, sex-role ideology, psychological androgyny and self-actualisation in dual-career and traditional families
… role changes are occurring; (3) psychological androgyny, a concept which finds expression in an age seeking alternatives to masculine and feminine stereotypes; and (4) self-actualisation, as theoretically the dual-career family offers opportunities for increased personal fulfilment. The scales …
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The androgynous ideal in twentieth-century feminist literature : Woolf, Carter, Winterson and Harpman
… thesis is an investigation of the concepts of androgyny used in the work, both theory and fiction, of Virginia Woolf, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson and Jacqueline Harpman. Androgyny is an idea which is thousands of years old, and an overview of its presence in religion, mythology and …
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Vibia Perpetua's Gendered Hybridity: A Critical Examination of Perpetua's Androgynous Identity in the Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas
… another possible gender category may be at play: androgyny. In order to support this claim, however, I look to the meaning of masculine, feminine, and androgynous traits in antiquity, as well as investigate whether androgyny was a known and/or popular category during the time of Perpetua's …
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