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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Cultural Discourses"”.
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Tracing the Collective Endeavors: The Cultural Discourses of Women Printmakers Throughout History
<p>The purpose of the dissertation is to examine the women who paved the way for future generations of women printmakers by tracing the influences and practices of women printmakers throughout history within collective workshops. In the West, the concept of a collective endeavor began during the …
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Post-GDR memory--cultural discourses of loss and assertion in reunified Germany
… of a nuanced GDR memory within post-unification discourses, the historical moment of 1989 can be understood as a moment of loss for East Germans. While post-unification scholarship has addressed questions of GDR identity and generational memory in other post-1989 contexts, there is an absence of …
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(Re)covering Women: The State, Morality, and Cultural Discourses of Sex -Work in Cuba
… difference. Through an ethnographic analysis of discourses and practices surrounding the body and sex-work, I explore how categories of difference (race, gender, sexuality), considered to be the effects of capital by the Revolution, are lived, experienced, negotiated, and played out in everyday …
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Navigating the fat queer body: the impact of cultural discourses on identity construction and belonging
<p>Dominant discourses about fat bodies construct the fat body as undesirable, a failed thin body, and immoral. Similarly, the culture of the United States constructs the queer body in very particular ways. This thesis explores how normative discourses and ideas about fatness and queerness come …
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Dames of Distress: Female Violence and Revised Socio-Cultural Discourses in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood
… point for the re-evaluation of various socio-cultural debates. Emerging from Atwood’s conviction that art, in its various forms, is often involved in the re-writing of convention, I begin by re-defining traditional constructions of womanhood and violence in order to evince the reformative work …
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Optimism and its Bargains: Cultural Discourses of Motherhood and the Accounts of Mothers with Experiences of Anxiety and/or Depression
… and motherhood by advancing our understanding of cultural discourses of motherhood and of mothers' experiences of them. This is achieved by integrating an analytical framework derived from the works of Lauren Berlant to theorise the ambivalence of maternal discourses and experiences. The other is …
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Regular Wild Irish: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Irish American Fiction
… which borrow from and respond to literary and cultural discourses in the United States and Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It analyzes the short fiction and novels of Irish immigrant and Irish American authors writing from the antebellum period through the early …
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Reading restitution in District Six: law, discourse and 'governmentality'
… concepts with heterogeneous political and cultural discourses emanating from District Six's unique history. It is argued that the hybridised configurations of discourse generated by this encounter serve as new instruments of power in the space of this restitution project, lending themselves …
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Imagining possibilities: Trans representations in mainstream film
… audiences as well as the role they play in cultural discourses about heteronormativity. The ways that the films construct trans narratives and characters tends to be closely tied to the genre they are intended to be part of, and they are understood according to these conventions. This …
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The Myth of Intellectuality and Development: Exploiting the Feebleminded Subject in Discourses of American Philanthropy
… on comparing how U.S. charity and philanthropy discourses have drawn upon, reinforced, or contested configurations of intellectuality and development. This dissertation is a political and intellectual project that seeks to explain the material ways in which the cultural discourses that conjured …
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Trying Times: Disability, Activism, and Education in Samoa, 1970-1980
… and analysis of archival documents, stories, cultural myths, legends related to people with disabilities, pamphlets, and newspaper media, I examine how disability advocates and people with disabilities interact with educational and cultural discourses to shape programs for the empowerment of …
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Continuing professional education: the experiences and perceptions of nurses working in perioperative patient care
… 'Background', including managers' attitudes and cultural discourses 2) 'Going In', relating to motivations and deterrents in accessing CPE 3) 'Process', including participants' experiences as students and 4) 'Going Out', describing the personal, professional and practice outcomes which …
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Spirituality and identity at work
… of their whole life stories and within the socio-cultural discourses surrounding them.
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The Inescapable Quest for Happiness: Exploring How the Ideology of Happiness Shapes the Contemporary Consumer Marketplace
… an ideology associated with different values and cultural meanings. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of heterotopia (Foucault and Miskowiec 1986), this study shifts the focus away from the individual experience of happiness to a cultural level of understanding, exploring the following question: How …
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The anonymous portrait: a creative and critical investigation of diaspora, portraiture, subjectivity
… on the critical vocabulary of postmodernist cultural discourses of globalisation and dispersion while examining how contemporary portraiture can reflect such an understanding of the world, and in particular how it interacts with and “thinks through” notions of identity, subjectivity and …
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Revisiting girlhood : defining a postmodern/popular feminist culture /
… dead, but in fact feminism is alive in popular cultural fonlls that offer pleasure, style, fUll and advice, as well as political messages that are internalized alld continuously enacted in the lives of North American female youth. This thesis discusses popular feminism with respect to mainstream …
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The design and social meaning of Australian type specimen books, 1880-1901
… between 1880 and 1901, analysing them as cultural artefacts that offer a rich and previously unexplored source of information on colonial typography. The books were designed to promote typography, showcasing the various letterforms and visual devices used by colonial printers, though we …
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Reframing crusading discourses in seventeenth-century English drama
Portrayals of Turks in early modern cultural discourses resisted historical accuracy: Turks are represented as violent, lustful, barbaric, and despotic despite the existence of numerous seventeenth-century Anglo-Ottoman correspondence documents, in which Turks are often associated with wealth, …
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Half the world away : a qualitative study exploring migration and motherhood in New Zealand : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University
… conflict caused by migration. It explores how cultural discourses and master narratives split us into (n)either/(n)or and how women negotiate migration and motherhood by adopting pluralistic identities that transcend the conflicting realities of living between two cultures. Half the World Away …
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'Like a playground should be?' Experiencing and Producing Bi Subjectivities in Bisexual Space.
… and why it is so difficult to articulate a culturally intelligible bisexual subjectivity. This thesis responds to such work by suggesting that a move towards a multi-modal methodological approach, with a focus on the features of the lifeworld, might enable participants to articulate accounts …
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