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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Embodied subjectivity"”.
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Characterization, Subjectivity, and Intersectional Considerations in Heathers the Musical
… analytic process through which nuanced, embodied subjectivity is realized, and the performer is highlighted as a vector for intersectional interpretation. The first stage examines the narrative impacts of the text and music written for JD and explores how they serve to individualize him. …
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“My people seem to be falling to bits”: impotence, memory, and the co-possibility of body and mind in Samuel Beckett’s works
… seeks to address the centrality of the body and embodied subjectivity in the experience of memory and indeed in signification and experience more generally. In these terms, Chapter 1 analyzes the representation of the figure of the couple in Beckett’s drama of the 1950s – as a metaphor of the …
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Codependence: A Novel in Essays
… friends, various medical personnel, and her own embodied subjectivity.
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Paradoxical Subjects - Women Telling Birth Stories
This study focuses on the construction of subjectivity in and through the telling of birth stories. Drawing on 50 interviews with middle-class women, most of who "chose" to birth either at home or via elective caesarean section, the thesis explores how women make birth "choices" and "experience" …
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Suffering and the Search for Wholeness: Beauty and the Cross in Hans Urs Von Balthasar and Contemporary Feminist Theologies
… dramatic narrative of redemption, mutes the embodied subjectivity of women by sanctifying the wounds of violence and eclipsing human possibilities for wholeness. Drawing upon the soteriological contributions of feminist and womanist theologians, I argue that beauty must stake a claim in human …
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I write what we like: A textual analysis of Fallist microblogging
… rather than deliberative, and assert a marginal, embodied subjectivity (Papacharissi, 2014; Warner, 2002).
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Reluctant patients: health, sickness and the embodiment of plebeian masculinity in nineteenth-century Britain: evidence from working men's autobiographies
… of modernity which charts a revolution in embodied subjectivity, in which an undisciplined premodern body is gradually rendered docile by a variety of disciplinary processes and effects.
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Performing the new public school: embodied narratives in a Chicago charter school
… and teachers have of their location, their embodied subjectivity, and their participatory performance as charter school students/participants in the city of Chicago. Joining the personal voices of these participants is my own lifelong educational testimony performed as an autoethnography …
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Mouths and meaning : a multisensory, creative and collaborative arts based exploration of food, eating and embodiment towards gaining greater understanding of the experience of eating disorders
… to consider eating disorders as separate to embodied identity and asinfluenced by gender and culture. Yet, academic and linguistic insights alone may noteffectively communicate the distinctive sensuality of embodied subjectivity (Davis,1997; Gillies et al, 2005). This research proposes that …
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The great problems are in the street : a phenomenology of men's stranger intrusions on women in public spaces
… for what it reveals about modalities of embodied subjectivity women enact in public spaces. The research had four central aims and it is the achievement of these aims that forms the unique contribution of this thesis. Firstly it develops the reciprocal practice of translating philosophy …
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The construction of shame in feminist reflexive practice and its manifestations in a research relationship
… the implications this has for meaning-making and embodied subjectivity. Such a consideration would arguably provide invaluable insights for feminist reflexive research and practise as it pays critical attention to positionality, reflexivity, the production of knowledge and the power relations that …
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Parading respectability: an ethnography of the Christmas bands movement in the Western Cape, South Africa
… this period. Drawing on Foucault’s notion of “embodied subjectivity” and Butler’s work on gender and performativity, I explore three main themes, two of which are overlapping, throughout this dissertation. First, I investigate how the bands constitute themselves as respectable members of …
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Denigrata Cervorum: interpretive performance autoethnography and female black metal performance
… to be understood in relation to my research, my embodied subjectivity as performative text, regardless of its reception suggests that my autoethnographic position acts as a counter to women’s lack of category. If there is a lack of category, then there is something important happening to ‘woman …
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Negotiating difference: exploring masculinity and disability in contemporary dance
… to foreground the intricacies of negotiation and subjectivity. Through face-to-face in-depth interviews, watching performances and rehearsals as well as less formal conversations, this project aims to illuminate the lives of Marc Brew (Scotland), David Toole (England) and Zama Sonjica (South …