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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Female Sexuality"”.
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Female Sexuality And Intimate Partner Violence
Sexuality is a broad term that is used to include biological sex, sexual acts, sexual feelings, gender roles, and attitudes towards sexual behaviour (Jackson & Scott, 1996). It is a dynamic construct that can be influenced by many factors, including experiences of violence and abuse. Intimate …
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Female sexuality and body image during pregnancy
… and developmental perspectives, evaluated female sexuality and body image during pregnancy and the postnatal period. A cross-sectional and longitudinal research design was used. Several female (n = 208) and male ( n = 84) subsamples were evaluated. Assessment included a Biographical …
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How to make a girl: female sexuality in young adult literature
… and social construction of femininity and female sexuality in its pages. How to Make a Girl: Female Sexuality in Young Adult Literature analyzes representations of female sexuality in more than fifty texts. By examining these texts in relation to each other and in terms of historical …
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Undisciplined bodies: Deviant female sexuality in Russian and Yiddish literatures, 1877-1929
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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The use of female sexuality in television advertising and its effect on adolescent girls
… The focus of this thesis is on portrayals of sexuality in advertisements, targeted at female consumers. A wholistic approch to the study of the media is advocated, which involves analysis of the media, the viewer and the nature of the interaction between the two. Sexuality advertisements were …
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Contemporary Cinematic Portrayals of Female Sexuality in Top-Grossing R-Rated U.S. Films (2000-2009)
… observable “gazing” and objectification of female bodies, utilizing visually consistent and unattainable images of female beauty, and ignoring or discouraging the consideration of women's sexual needs, experiences, and pleasures in filmic texts and imagery. Through a qualitative and …
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Three tellings, four models and differing perceptions : the contruction of female sexuality in the Rāmāyaṇa
… conform to or reject this notion of gender and sexuality. In this manner, ideal sexuality is not represented solely by Sita. To illustrate (speaking only in a prescriptive manner) a pan "Hindu" concept of sexuality, the focus of this research will be limited to four characters, Sita, Sabari, …
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‘’It’s not just the rape’’: an ecological exploration of the factors impacting female sexuality after rape
… factors influencing rape recovery and sexuality. However, research into the ecological factors associated with rape recovery is limited and fails to focus on function of behaviour, and the context of an individual’s protective strategies. Furthermore, despite the prevalence of sexual …
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"This Beautiful Evil": The Connection between Women, the Natural World, Female Sexuality, and Evil in Western Tradition
Female archetypes reflect a social construction of reality, expressing expected modes of behavior, beliefs, and assumptions about women and are reinforced by repetition of common patterns and themes. Often female archetypes take on the physical characteristics of animals, commune with nature, …
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‘Transportation is physical, communication is psychical’ : female sexuality and modes of communication in nineteenth-century transatlantic literature
… correspondence, in relation to discourses of female sexuality and power in Anglo-American literature. The exploration of these modes from a feminist point of view will help re-evaluate the presence of women within nineteenth-century transatlantic communication systems and specifically the …
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The Contested Space of Black Female Sexuality: Communal Norms and Female Sexual Agency in Sub -Saharan Francophone Novels
… specifically white males controlling black female sexuality. Most of the female authors in this study offer formal solutions to the elimination of gender oppression in the aesthetic realm, solutions that imagine alternative communities where female sexual agency is an ideological position.
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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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Female sexuality, taste and respectability: an analysis of transatlantic media discourse surrounding Hollywood glamour and film star pin-ups during WWII.
… the varied and nuanced discourse surrounding female sexuality in circulation in Britain during this era and exploring the translation, understanding and acceptance of American mores when such products are imported into differing cultural contexts. Informed by Bourdieu’s theorisations …
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The Social Construction of Sexuality: Personal Meanings, Perceptions of Sexual Experience, and Females' Sexuality in Puerto Rico
… constructionism and feminism. I assumed that sexuality is socially constructed, shaped by social, political, and economic influences, and modified throughout life. Feminist theories assisted in documenting the ways in which females' sexuality in Puerto Rico is shaped by culture and by …
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Dreaming Woman: Argentine Modernity and the Psychoanalytic Diaspora
… These archival materials share a concern for female sexuality as a national problem—that is, a problem tied to national identity and a problem for the nation-state to solve. They also show the transformative impact of clinical encounters with female sexuality, maternal grief, and torture on …
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Re-Appropriation of Patriarchal Female Myths in the Short Fiction of Luisa Valenzuela
… versions were misogynistic and repressed female sexuality. My reading of Valenzuela's story reveals that she has created a female quest and initiation story in which the protagonist discovers her mature sexual identity as a result of the sexual experiences she encounters along the path to …
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Sexuality, desire and the ageing female body: An essay
… ‘One Night in Hong Kong’, 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 …
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Cinematic representations of women in France and Germany, 1918-1933
… through analysis of the presentation of gender, female sexuality and pronatalism, patriarchy and the dichotomised portrayal of women through the Neue Frau and la femme au foyer and class. Furthermore, I examine the similarities and differences in female portrayal which can be found between the …
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