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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Femininities"”.
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Performing Queer-Femininities: Passing, Playing, and Camp
<p>My dissertation research examines the tensions in queer feminine expressions within the queer community, as femininity is a contentious site of both restriction and liberation. While femininity is often seen as disempowered, artificial, and a replication of heteropatriarchal culture, I argue …
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Just not 'girly': Clothes, appearance and 'alternative' femininities.
The research focuses on 'alternative' femininities through the participants' narratives about their clothing, appearance, and body modifications. It examines how these are used to signal continuing resistance to certain traditional notions about femininity and how this resistance links to wider …
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Femininities Reimagined: Gender Politics in Contemporary British Moving Image Art
This dissertation explores the status of feminist moving image practice within British art institutions in the twenty-first century. Since feminist politics gained momentum and moving image emerged as an artistic medium in 1970s Britain, both the political movement and medium have undergone a …
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Masculinities and Femininities: Romance and Authenticity on American Dating Apps
The phenomenon of dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, and Grindr display the way image-based technologies allow for a new visual literacy. This study investigates how the experience of using dating applications (apps) related to Giddens’s notion of romance and explored the way visual literacy was …
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Negotiating representation in contemporary China's media: masculinities, femininities and alternative identities
… norms surrounding hegemonic masculinities and femininities and emerging non-normative expressions relating to non-traditional gender roles and alternative identities. Correspondingly, the thesis explores how feminism has historically developed in China, particularly in relation to Western …
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Performing Young Womanhood in Neoliberal Britain: Discursive Constructions of New Femininities
This thesis explores how young women negotiate the meanings and dilemmas of young womanhood in Britain today. Gender, womanhood and young adulthood have been variably defined and understood. This thesis will investigate how young women negotiate contemporary discursive constructions of femininity, …
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IN THE COMPANY OF WOMEN? POSTFEMINIST FEMININITIES IN FEMALE FRIENDSHIP APPS
… not for bridging women, but for shaping their femininities via a specific and exclusionary mechanics of female sociality. In this thesis, I argue that friend-finding apps for women form crucial algorithmic sites that operationalize female friendship into a narrow relation accessible only to …
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Walk Feminine, Talk Feminine:A Critical Textual Analysis of Femininities,Performances, and Representations
In this study I examine the multiple ways in which femininity is performed and how those performances intersect with race/ethnicity, class, and sexuality in the anime Bleach and Samurai Champloo. I also interrogate the implications of these performances in relation to hegemonic discourses of …
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A discursive analysis of women’s femininities within the context of Tunisian tourism
Tourism has been hailed as a vehicle for gender equality and women’s empowerment and yet the relationship between these is far from simple. As tourism is created in already gendered societies, the ability of the industry to empower is shaped by existing gender norms and discourses. Therefore …
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Nordestina negotiations: Alternative femininities, gendered and musical self-production in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
… to expand the possibilities for alternative femininities in Pernambuco, and in northeastern Brazil. Through careful manipulation of sound, images, and especially, through performance in multiple registers—including that of the voice—these artists continue to make space for new ways of being …
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The ‘Woman-child’ in Fashion Photography, 1990-2015: Childlike Femininities, Performativity, and Reception Studies
The childlike character of ideal femininities has long been critiqued in feminist literature, from Mary Wollstonecraft (1792) to Susan Faludi (1992). Yet, despite the partial gains of feminism the ‘woman-child’ continues to be a prominent subject-position in fashion photography of the West. This …
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Raras al mando/queer women command: Alternative Spanish-speaking Caribbean femininities on the global stage
… traditional Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican femininities through performance and media. Through words, images and sounds I narrate the multimedia tales and epiphanic moments that served as turning points in my exploration of the different modalities of feminist art and media in the …
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Performing masculinities and femininities : Grade nine learners' construction of sexual identities in the context of HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS is a pandemic infecting and affecting people throughout the world. South Africa in particular has recently recorded high infection rates. In response to this high infection rates the government, the medical field, and civil society have joined hands in creating awareness. Despite the …
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The discursive construction of hegemonic and pariah femininities in the spoken accounts of a group of Japanese women
… (‘hegemonic’) and alternative (‘pariah’) femininities in the spoken accounts of a group of Japanese women. Semi-structured individual and group interviews were conducted with a sample of women and the data was analysed using a Critical Discursive Psychology (CDP) approach. This study makes …
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“Wanna hear my voice, look at my feet!” How Female Sneaker Aficionadas Negotiate their Femininities and Identities Within a Male-centric Subculture.
This dissertation is a feminist inquiry into sneaker culture, using the qualitative method of ethnography to study a community of female sneaker collectors. These women exist in a predominantly male-centric subculture which entails buying, collecting and trading pairs of sneakers. The women or …
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How femininities are shaped by religion and culture: a comparative study of beliefs on 'pollution' during childbirth and menstruation in Hinduism and Christianity
This dissertation is a qualitative study of how femininities are shaped by religion and culture. Since religion and culture is a very broad field, this study attempts to examine how femininities are shaped by notions of 'pollution' during menstruation and childbirth. These beliefs about pollution …
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Representation of Gender and Sexuality in Roman Art with particular reference to that of Roman Britain
… for this research is the representation of femininities and masculinities in Roman art with particular reference to that of Roman Britain. The study focuses on the visual presentation of gender for specific deities, personifications and figural images in funerary art; this includes concepts …
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Re-externalizing the revolution: young women and the neoliberal re-ordering of race, class and gender
… northern-based – representations of neoliberal femininities. The Literature Review provides an overview of existing scholarship on neoliberalism, its intersection with postcolonialism and lastly neoliberal subjectivities/femininities. Given that neoliberalism as an ideology affects all areas of …
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Gender and Nation in Basque Narrative During the Spanish Civil War (1936--1939)
… I investigate the connections between femininities and nationalism, studying in each chapter a key feminine figure in war narratives: the mother, the girlfriend or fiancee and the nurse. In the second part I examine the relationship between masculinities and nationalism, dedicating one …
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Women's career in Vietnamese academia: An analysis from multiple lenses
… (2015) examined the complexities of Vietnamese femininities with a focus on the informal power of Vietnamese women in both spheres of home and work. Although all these studies have confirmed the link between cultural and historical factors and women’s experiences and gender practices in Vietnam, …
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