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Showing 1 to 20 of 187 for “"Female Body"”.
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The Female Body in Roman Visual Culture
This thesis examines the representation of the female body in Roman visual culture, exploring a range of images from mainland Italy that date between the late 1st century BC and the 2nd century AD, from three specific contexts of display: the public, domestic, and funerary. It seeks to understand …
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Sexuality, desire and the ageing female body: An essay
… and an essay, ‘Sexuality, Desire and the Ageing Female Body.’ The novella tells the story of an erotic affair between the female narrator and a man in a hotel room in the neon city of Hong Kong. Told in four parts, the story shifts in time, reflecting on earlier events in the narrator’s life and …
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Relocating the Female Body: "Queering" as Routes for Agency
The representation of the female body throughout literature has a complicated history. My thesis attempts to restructure the historical narrative of the female body through a regional narration. The region is a site for collective experience, it allows for different places, spaces, memories, and …
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Unreliable Narrations: Life and Trauma in a Queer Female Body
<p>The following is a collection of short fiction pieces written from August 2015 to January 2017. Though unlinked, the stories are meant to be read as a collective whole.</p>
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Rethinking the female body : gender and nation in Zee Edgell's Belize
This study explores Zee Edgell's literary representations of women who challenge destructive gender ideologies in Belize, Central America. My analysis focusses on the roles women's bodies play in their oppression, resistance and transformations of consciousness. The aim is to discover where sexual …
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Image, text and the female body : René Magritte and the surrealist publications
… because of the controversial treatment of the female subject in "Le Viol," but also because of the ways in which our culture has been so easily able to strip surrealist images of their political content and subsume them back into mainstream culture for use in those very categories of social …
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Diet, body weight patterns and menstrual status of competitive female body builders
… information on nutritional profiles and body weight (BW) patterns of 6 competitive female body builders (x age = 27) before, during and after a competition. Precompetition (-28 to -26 d); (-9 to -7 d), competition (-2 to 0 d) and post competition (+1 to +3 d); (+26 to +28 d) 3-d diet and …
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Maladamatjuate and the theatre of difference : staging the female body in South Africa
… theatre. I interrogate representations of the female body of' difference' and the theatrical interpretation of complex identity in South Africa. Imperative questions are raised around the renegotiation of perceptions of division and stereotype (especially regarding women) in performance in …
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Locating Albanian otherness via the black female body : an ethnographic inquiry of (non)belonging
… how my identification as a Black American female shapes my day-to-day interactions with Albanian informants, and how these encounters can be used to probe representations of what I term “Albanianess”. In doing so, I reveal the ways in which the ethnographic encounter allows for an …
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Probing the politics of the female body: Robyn Orlin's deconstruction of the Classical Ballet canon
… is placed on the institutional repression of the body as a way to preserve particular power structures. In this instance the theories of Michel Foucault, in particular, are referenced. His concepts serve to illuminate a consideration of Western concert dance, with a particular focus on classical …
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Questions for Amma: Tracing the manifestations of violence on the South African Indian Female body
… a woman is both Eve and Eva. As a pure, fragile female she must be specially protected; as a seductive object, from whom men must be protected. In both cases women are the victims” (Navi Pillay in Gqola, 2015: 36). This research investigates performance as a medium through which the South African …
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Beauty, Breasts, and Brains: An Exploration of Using the Adolescent Female Body as a Resistance Site
… identify my own experiences as a marginalized female adolescent in the school environment and explores new ways in which educators can include the changing female adolescent body within the school. Through exploring my own autobiographical roots, this work is placed in context of a larger group …
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From masculine myths to girl power realities: The athletic female body and the legend of Title IX
… years have brought dramatic changes to America’s female sporting landscape. During this time, the athletic female body, once feared and considered deviant, has emerged as a nationally celebrated and highly commodified popular icon. According to popular narratives, this change in cultural …
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Metamorphoses of the Butterfly in Classical Antiquity: From the Female Body to the Soul of the Dead
… related to the erotic domain and the female body. The scope of this project is to investigate the metamorphoses that the symbol of the butterfly underwent in classical antiquity, and how, from being associated with female eroticism, it moved to symbolising the soul of the dead. My work …
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Reflections on a body of work/water: re-membering the post-slave female body through performance practice
… to ‘re-member' the post-slave South African female body through personal performance practice. It addresses re-membering both as an embodied activity of Recalling erased memory and as a recuperation of the dis-membered post-slave female body. Through reflecting on two examples of personal …
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Women's bodies in dramatic confrontations with patriarchal logic : the representation of violence against the female body in contemporary drama by women
… the dramatization of violence against the female body in contemporary drama by women and the purpose behind their representational approaches. I concentrate on the representation of three types that I consider inclusive of other minor forms of violence: the political, the medical, and the …
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Relationality and theories of the gaze: an analysis of the black female body archetype in the work of contemporary African artists
… with and alongside rather than at the Black female body. This research examines the complex dynamics of duty of care, empathy, and the gaze in relation to the representation of Black female body in artworks by Black women artists, within the context of contemporary exhibition spaces. It …
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The Adolescent Grotesque: Transgressing Boundaries of Female Sexuality in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John
… </em>and <em>Annie John</em>, to amplify the female adolescent voice and provide unmitigated access to the female adolescent experience. During adolescence, the female body is in sexual flux – steadily losing its amorphousness as puberty runs its course. The adolescent female body peregrinates …
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Self-care will take you to freedom: weight-loss reality TV shows in South Korea
"Body-care is regarded as an efficient form of self-care for ordinary Korean females in order to transform themselves into an acceptable part of society. There are two goals for this project. The first is to examine the ways in which dominant ideologies of the Korean female body and body-care are …
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