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Showing 1 to 20 of 813 for “"Feminine"”.
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The Feminine Metamorphosis
The Feminine Metamorphosis is a fiction collection that explores the ways women adapt and change in order to survive. Eight narratives see their female protagonists grapple with challenges such as the pressures of society, the corrosion of girlhood, or the perils of a difficult home-life. The …
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Stress and the feminine self-concept: responses to feminine and gender-neutral stressors as a function of feminine self-evaluation
Vulnerability to Feminine Gender Role Stress (FGRS), defined as the tendency to evaluate the self along feminine dimensions, was introduced as a psychosocial mediator between environmental stressors and maladaptive outcomes to explain the higher rate of particular mental health problems among women …
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Smita Patil: Fiercely Feminine
… admired. These characters are feisty, fiercely feminine, and have left an indelible impression on critics and audiences alike. What is it about her that enabled Patil to create these portrayals with such honesty and intensity? This thesis looks at her persona, as well as her craft, in order to …
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Feminine fictions: An embodied autobiography : navigating feminine embodied ontologies with/in aesthetic autobiography
… trans Karin Montin, Routledge New York The Feminine Fictions project takes on Irigarays challenge for "A Peaceful Revolution” to find its genesis between men and women through enabling dialectics - an interaction between masculine and feminine subjectivities at the point of difference and …
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Feminine Gemeindemetaphorik im Neuen Testament
… werden Funktion und Bedeutung der jeweiligen femininen Metapher näher entfaltet. Eine abschließende Auswertung (Teil D) zeigt zusammenfassend auf, unter welchen Umständen feminine Gemeindemetaphern zum Einsatz kommen und welche Relevanz sie für die Entwicklung und Konsolidierung christlichen …
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Tattooed feminine bodies: regulation, conformity, and resistance
… to unpack in regard to how women negotiate their feminine positions – tacky versus tasteful, common versus other, visible versus invisible.<br/> <br/>Using an intersectionally informed qualitative approach, this thesis explores the production of discourses both within the media, and from …
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The Paradoxical Feminine - Eating Disorders Beyond Gender
This thesis distils from a mass of research the patterns of expressions and etiological factors in eating disorders. Drawing on a diversity of research fields - epidemiology, historical accounts, femininity theories, clinical and social psychology, neuroscience, and object relations models -, I …
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Feminine interests and influences in early English periodicals
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Finch, Burney, Barbauld and the Brontes: feminine identity
… personal identities, which encodes a distinctly feminine imprint on much of their work. Proponents of the 'nature' camp, on the other hand, suggest that not cultural experience, per se, but the biological differences between men and women are largely responsible for the similarities in women's …
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Dancing the feminine : performances by indonesian migrant women
This thesis is based on ethnographic fieldwork of practicing and performing dances with Indonesian migrant women dancers in Perth, Western Australia and socializing with the women and the communities they belong to. The fieldwork was conducted in 2007 with subsequent annual return trips until 2011, …
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Strings of Sound and Sense: Towards a Feminine Sonic
… art practices as a speculative proposition for a feminine sonic with an emphasis on sound artworks by Canadian women sound artists. The feminine sonic highlights the relational and embodied interconnectivity of material and immaterial, corporeal and incorporeal, and subjective and intersubjective …
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The Feminine Archetype in Selected Works by Flannery O'Connor
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Making Monsters: The Monstrous-Feminine In Horace and Catullus
… in particular, with the abject monstrous-feminine. Barbara Creed, drawing on Julia Kristeva's <em>Powers of Horror</em> and Lacanian psychoanalytic thought, uses the term "monstrous-feminine" to investigate abject, monstrous females in popular horror films.</p><p>This paper utilizes …
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Academic Libraries as Feminine and Feminist Models of Organization.
… decision-making, and communication. Feminine practice in the libraries reflected private sphere attitudes toward work (values of community, emotionality, and caring) and an affirmation of feminine roles in the workplace. The organizational cultures of these libraries affirmed flexible …
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Invisible Scarlet O'Neil and the Whitman Authorized Editions for Girls: Homefront Representations of the American Feminine and the Feminine Heroic During World War II
While studies have been done concerning the intertwining of propaganda imperatives and adult popular fiction, this dissertation helps bridge the literature gap between propaganda studies and children's popular fiction. Further, the cultural definitions and uses of Denning (1987), Cawelti (1976), …
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