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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Double Binds"”.
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Double binds: an autoethnographic study of gay minority stress
In contemporary and mainstream therapeutic discourse, the concept of ‘minority stress’ remains largely absent. Yet, minority stress offers a crucial psychosocial perspective on the mental health of marginalised groups – one that extends beyond narrowly focused, sometimes overly pathologizing, …
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"The ""strong black woman"": an intersectional analysis of African American women's double bind"
… the conflicting and competing messages or ‘double binds’ that African American women experience when internalizing the SBW race-gender ideology. Three double binds were identified: Be Psychologically Durable yet Do Not Engage in Behaviors that Preserve Psychological Durability, Be Equal yet …
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Becoming a Sex Offender: A Study of Constitution at the Intersection of the Mental Health and Legal Systems
… systems make contradict and at times impose double binds on the people who have to navigate them. The data I collected demonstrate how these contractions and double binds occur, creating practices that are impractical (they do not do what they intend to) and unethical (they do more harm than …
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Going in Circles: Male Cyclic Automobility in U.S. Fictions 1950-1970
… post-war social responsibilities engendered many double-binds, such as choosing between breadwinning and hedonism, between wartime and post-war movement, between economic mobility and self-expression, and between destructive autonomy and constructive conformity. In this thesis, I examine John …
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Cultural Anxieties and Institutional Regulation: "Specialized" Mental Healthcare and "Immigrant Suffering" in Paris, France
… of the cultural anxieties, contradictions and double-binds that arise from the opposition between a regulative, universalist republican ideology, and a field of expertise which strives to promote culturally-sensitive mental healthcare for immigrants. I argue that, as a product of the conflation …
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Account Service and Creative Personnel: Interpersonal Conflict and Dialectical Tensions in Advertising Agencies
… poles, source-splitting, framing tensions as double binds, and framing tensions as complementary. Based on participant responses, framing tensions as complementary was the most constructive way to manage dialectical tensions because it contributed to an advertising agency culture of mutual …
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A "Responsibility to Speak Out": Perspectives on Writing from Black African-Born Male Youth with Limited or Disrupted Formal Education
… like these young men need help with navigating double binds (Engeström, 2009; Russell, 1997) experienced between home and school and benefit from stretch, skill, drill, practice, play, and reflect approaches to build writing proficiency. Participants desired more authentic writing opportunities …
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Per un'etica della letteratura: la cornice il doppio legame nell'opera di J. M. Coetzee
… potentialities of a logic based on frames and double binds in Coetzee's novels. A double bind is a dilemma in communication which consists on tho conflicting messages, with the result that you canâ��t successfully respond to neither. Jacques Derrida highlighted the strategic value of a way of …
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The pain of the pleasure of the text : Tournier, reading and sexuality.
… novels. Throughout the dissertation there is a double emphasis: on textuality and sexuality. Textuality in Tournier is rendered tense and sentient as the writer tries to inscribe his texts in the pain and pleasure of the flesh of the reader. Sexuality, conversely, takes on a metatextual value …
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Negotiating Boundaries from Within: A Feminist-Psychodynamic Investigation of Bulimia and Emotional Expression in Context
… mores which seem to place young women in double bind situations as they desire to become subjects in a world where they are treated as objects. The participants demonstrated their struggle through these double-binds as they often alternated between intense immersion in private subjective …
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Exploring the Influence of Respectability Politics in Special Schooling on the Disability Identities of South Africans with Visual Impairments
… identities in the present. Third, the theme of double binds and double-edged swords captures the paradoxical pressures faced by people who attended special schools, during their school careers and beyond, often forcing those individuals into negotiations where they would have no other recourse …
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The Politics of Interventionist Performance at the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality, and Trauma
… I explore how performers may encounter creative double binds as they attempt to deconstruct binaries, offer alternatives to master narratives, and initiate paradigm shifts regarding gender and sexual identity, sexual behavior, and victimization. I posit that the choices performers make may …
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"Social class consciousness and consumer culture in transition—exploring the ""new poor"" in Taiwan and the U.S."
… societal changes, the new poor are caught in double binds, i.e., the capital into which they have grown does not fit the changing economic environment so that their skills and knowledge have been devalued. Their multi-faceted social class consciousness can thus yield differing and ambivalent …
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Investigating the contradictions in pre-service teachers' perceptions about the process of teaching and learning in South Africa's classrooms : an activity theory analysis
… The presence of these contradictions, these 'double binds' indicates to me that change will happen in these students when they reach the classroom. Contradictions necessarily need to be resolved, whether progressively or regressively. Knowing what types of contradictions arise in pre-service …
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Arendt and Spivak: a feminist approach to political worlding and appearing
… together Arendtian plurality and the Spivakian double bind may yield a feminist model of political appearance. According to Arendt, plurality serves as the foundation for political appearance and is grounded in its twofold nature of equality and distinction. According to Spivak, double binds …
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Investigating the linkage between business objectives and information technology objectives : a multiple case study in the insurance industry
… about the nature of linkage and 3) a "double-bind" for corporate IS departments in which the technology leadership requested by business unit executives was resisted by them when it was provided. It appears likely that the tension between corporate IS and business units could provide …