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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Body Modification"”.
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Authentic bodies : subcultural reactions to the mainstreaming of body modification
"Once a hallmark of Western deviance, body modification has undergone drastic redefinition in recent decades. If body modification is increasingly seen as being an aspect of mainstream culture, it begs the question of what will happen to the subculture which once claimed the practice as its own. …
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Bodily Autonomy and Stress Management in Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) Populations Through Body Modification in Alabama
… of gender identity, bodily autonomy, body modifications and stressors as experienced by TGD individuals living within a legislatively hostile state. I conducted semi-structured interviews (n=16) and collected survey data (n=41) with TGD individuals in Alabama and analyzed this data …
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“Working out our melancholy, our muscles and our masculinities” Depression, anomie, alienation, commodity fetishism, body-modification and masculinity in a de-industrialised Northumbrian Town.
… the areas’ ‘hard core’ (as distinct from casual) body-building community. Steroid use is rife among the gym’s close-knit community. This thesis proposes that three typologies of working class males have co-evolved and currently co-exist in Town A and use Gym D. These typologies, as I have labelled …
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Tattoos and Risky Behaviors in Emerging Adults: Exploration for Possible Moderating Factors
<p>The body modification culture is an under-researched social group. Psychologists have yet to examine a wide range of body modification behaviors to obtain a more robust appreciation for developmental and social factors that influence psychological outcomes specific to emerging adults in college. …
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The management of identity and accountability in online weight loss discourse
… 'femininity', and renew their commitment to the body modification project. Group members employ face-protective mitigation strategies in their delivery of confessions, and responses to confessional posts orient to group norms of solidarity and support while rehabilitating the transgressing …
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Beyond the surface an investigation into the narrative aspects of tattoos
Tattooing, a category of body modification, is a popular artistic form of both aesthetic value and self-expression. This dissertation focuses on unravelling the narrative behind tattoos and understanding their relationship to self-identification by means of in-depth research and data collection. A …
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Reclaiming Embodiment: An Existential-Phenomenological Exploration of Women’s Tattoos
… women who have voluntarily chosen this form of body modification. I conducted phenomenological research interviews with nine participants about personal meanings, decision making processes, and lived experiences of embodiment (capturing existential themes of lived body, spatiality, …
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Driven to look good: the role of narcissism in concerns about body perception and motivations to act on those concerns
… and heightened motivation to acquire a desirable body shape. Past research suggests that narcissistic individuals revel in their own physical appearance but no research looks at the drive these narcissistic individuals have to obtain an acceptable physical form. To examine this drive, 60 …
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Fashionable addiction : the impact of digital identity through the cult of the body (an African perspective, with particular reference to the Democratic Republic of Congo)
… the wearing of hats and jewellery, and even body modification as a social identification with today's society, within which ‘personal media’ are additional accessories for urban status. My reference and use of computer parts critique the way that contemporary technology has become an …
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Morphological Freedom and the Construction of Bodymind Malleability from Eugenics to Transhumanism
This dissertation examines how the human bodymind has been seen as malleable by science, technology, and policy practitioners from the Eugenic era in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, to the future imaginaries of Transhumanists and technology innovators. I critique the main …