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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Female figure"”.
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How She Haunts: Missed Endings, the Fragmentary, and the Female Figure in British Romanticism
… within fragments, nor have scholars noticed the female figures’ roles in relation to the fragmentary. My contention is that these female figures haunt their texts precisely through their fragmentary incompleteness and that they embody the fragmentary. Repetition of sounds and landscapes …
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Framing Empowerment: Representation and Reception of Mobile Technology and the Female Figure in INGO Advertising
… well-being, and independence, especially for female beneficiaries. These programs, often promoted by International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) and bi-lateral institutions that are headquartered in the Western world, operate these programs in countries where the digital divide, …
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Circulating the Female Figure In the Marketplaces of Print and Reputation: Women and Defamation In Early Modern England
… with the power of print. I examine how women's figures are circulated and misinterpreted by reading audiences, and how their bodies can be imprinted upon with slander or transformed when they make contact with the printed page.</p> <p> In Chapter I, I establish the ties between reputation in the …
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Photography: Locus Suspectus
… and themes, most notably the subject of the female figure within representation. The body of research presents a representation of the female figure which disrupts and questions notions of the female as object rather than subject. The work aims to present and reflect elements of female …
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Black Women’s Bodies as the Site of Malignity: Interrogating (Mis)representations of Black Women in 16th and 17th Century British Literature
… and consistently maligned African/black female figure in 16th and 17th Century literature. Drawing from historical contexts and feminist literary criticism, this thesis accentuates a culturally nuanced and intersectional feminist examination of specific texts from the period in question …
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A White Slave in America: Hiram Powers's <em>Greek Slave</em> and the Cultural Construction of Race
… 1843), a marble sculpture that depicts a white female figure with shackled wrists. During the mid-nineteenth century, the statue appeared in exhibitions throughout Europe and America. In antebellum America, where the work was seen by more than one hundred thousand viewers, the <em>Greek …
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Aspects of feminine mythology and related pictoral imagery as source for the development of a personal sculptural iconography
The representation of the female figure in Western society has been moulded by such diverse forces as religion, economy and geography, nonetheless, certain images of the female form and representations of feminine qualities appear to be archetypal. One example is that of the Venus of Willendorf …
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Mythic Contexts and Marginalized Figures: Unveiling Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's Poetics
… male mythic characters and marginalized female figures to deconstruct gender binaries and offer the latter a more active role. I also discuss her use of the Mary Magdalene figure and nuns to portray an empowered female figure that functions both inside and outside of the patriarchal …
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Ruth Miller and the poetics of literary maternity
… maternity that is not defined in terms of a female figure but in terms of a relation between the earliest parent and the child, or what is referred to in psychoanalytic terms as the preoedipal relation. My thesis is concerned to show how Miller's poetry and a theory on the maternal function …
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The image of the nation as a woman in twentieth century Scottish literature: Hugh MacDiarmid, Naomi Mitchison, Alasdair Gray
… century. Not only is the objectification of the female figure intrinsic to such imagery objectionable from a feminist point of view, but the female stereotypes which surround the figure of the nation are contradictory, and it ultimately reinforces a sexist ideology which constructs women as …
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Organic Angels: Innocence, Conversion, and Consumption in the Antebellum American Novel
… trope of the "organic angel," a developmental female figure whose journey from childhood innocence to saintly womanhood merges the processes of sexual maturation and Protestant conversion. Because she purifies self-interested desire by redirecting it towards spiritual ends, the organic angel …
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Prostitution as Power: Selected Works of Lotte Lenya (1910-1940)
… Weill and Bertolt Brecht, regarding the leading female figure of their works - Lotte Lenya. In an attempt to address this theme within specific confinements, this thesis engages in a scholarly and critical examination of selected songs from the collaborative work of Weill and Brecht. An …
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Mystical Relations: A Study of Feminine Relationships with Christ in the High Middle Ages and Beyond
… perspective, the notion of Christ as a feminized figure appears to stand contrary to long accepted Christian beliefs. However, Christ has been feminized in literature for centuries by women and men, nuns and monks, abbesses and abbots. This is not to say that Christ was not physically and …
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Southern Discomfort: Performing Femininity In The Deep South
… its impact on young girls. The young, blonde, female figure who appears multiple times in my installation reveal girls in these gender-norm “policing” encounters. All of the figures are based on images of my niece, Zoni Lynne, age three, the child whose self-concepts I influence the most. My …
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The Color(s) of Perfection: The Feminine Body, Beauty Ideals, and Identity in Postwar America, 1945-1970
… of "the Sweater girl" - a busty, curvaceous figure more sexual than maternal. Yet, this ideal gave way in little more than a decade. In the late 1960s, youth culture placed a cult-like status on Twiggy, a model with a 31-inch bust and 32-inch hips. How had the ideal female body type changed …
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Gothic Stirrings on the Georgian Stage, 1740-1780
… identity. I explore the metaphorical use of the female figure in the conceptualisation of national identity, observing the birth of the Gothic heroine from this reoccurring trope. Chapter 4 closes with an examination of the highly allegorical content of John Home's Douglas, which locates Gothic …
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The Symbolism of Female Characters in Fedor Sologub's Mythopoetics
This study examines the symbolism of female figures and characters in the full range of Fedor Sologub's literary works over the course of his entire career as a writer and demonstrates their importance in conveying the metaphysical subtexts of his works. Symbolic females console or torture, inspire …
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THE OBSCENE DEVICE. ARCHAEOLOGY OF IMMERSIVE PORNOGRAPHIES
… scopic, social and political – between the female figure and erotic-immersive spectatorship in the same years, hypothesising a form of female resistance to the paradigms of the male gaze. Finally, the dissertation returned to the present. Maintaining the perspectives used so far – posture …
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Gender practices and the business-household nexus: Women’s entrepreneurship in São Paulo, Brazil
… and power relations in the households and female-owned enterprises of the ‘ABC Paulista’, Greater São Paulo. Specifically, the thesis explores the business-household nexus and the ways these distinct, but interrelated social domains impact one another. Analysing the connection between …
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Haunted houses, haunted selves – feminist readings of uncanny domesticity
… associated with the Gothic haunted house. The female subjects at the narratives’ center are in the ambiguous process of disappearing or becoming, this (dis)appearing act is facilitated by their haunted surroundings. In the case of the unnamed narrator in “Wall-Paper” her suppressed rage at her …
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