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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Feminized"”.
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Evaluation of Masculinization Treatments to Produce Feminized Hemp Seed (Cannabis sativa L.)
… glandular trichomes that contain cannabinoids. Feminized (all female) seeds are highly desired, which are produced by crossing a female plant with a masculinized female plant. Masculinization is achieved through the inhibition of ethylene and/or addition of gibberellins before flower initiation …
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Constructing Women and Nation: Feminized America in British and American Visual Culture 1760-1800
Early American women's history and the history of visual culture tend to avoid overlapping in terms of both sources and questions. A gendered lens when applied to the origins of America typically seeks to answer the question of how the Revolution affected women, whereas the history of American …
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A Gendered Analysis of Formal Vocational Education, Skills Development, and Self-employment in Accra, Ghana: Exploring enterprise development and outcomes of women’s self-employment in the feminized trades
This research is an exploration of the extent to which formal vocational education in the domestic trades (catering and dressmaking) for women in Ghana leads to sustainable self-employment in the urban informal sector (UIS) in Accra. The research adopts a qualitative methodological approach using …
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Mystical Relations: A Study of Feminine Relationships with Christ in the High Middle Ages and Beyond
… a modern 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 …
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Brazilian Camming: The Monetization of Intimacy in Online Sex Work
<p>This thesis addresses a form of online feminized labor in Brazil, which employs digital technology to relieve the urges for intimacy and monetary insecurity. Camming is a genre of online sex work, in which cam models sell their body image and attention online through computer-mediated …
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Piecing together creativity: feminist aesthetics and the crafting of quilts
<p>When traditionally feminized crafts such as quilting are embraced as fine art, the discourses surrounding their "elevation" often serve to bolster the power of art world establishments by referencing the tenets of modernism and employing mutually reinforcing aesthetic hierarchies. In this …
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Voices of male teachers in Shanghai public kindergarten: A phenomenological study
… that early childhood education (ECE) is a feminized profession and many men remain invisible and silent gendered subjects in this field and fail to understand or accept the gendered realties. Employing a combination of theory of gendered organizations and concepts of masculinities as the …
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Rhetoric, Gender, Weakness, and Shame: Paul’s somatic self-presentation in the Corinthian correspondence
… with weakness, lack of rhetorical power, and feminized shame. He boasts that his own servile and feminizing sufferings are patterned after those of Christ. Even the apostle’s apparently glorious experiences are accompanied by the infliction of suffering and the removal of an ability or right …
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The Employment of Ex-Military As Teachers: The Military, Masculinity and Moral Regulation
… has overlaid existing discourse regarding the feminized nature of teaching and the marketization of education. This can be viewed as an ideological tension between a pervading centre-right perspective of education as a tool of social order and preparing the young for employment, dominating a …
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Cruel Sorority, Or, Feminizing Enjoyment in American Romance
… of democratic possibility and public life, these feminized figures represent violent reactions against the dominant disciplinary institutions (e.g. marriage, motherhood, domesticity, slavery) that impoverish their lives. In keeping with the rich imaginative possibilities within the romance genre …
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Feminism for Sale: Commodity Feminism, Femininity, and Subjectivity
… the feminism/femininity tension by revaluing feminized commodities and the women who use them, transforms commodities into a form of social control. In other words, commodity feminism makes women entirely unthreatening to the status quo, yet allows them to feel like feminists through their …
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Synthetic Women: Gender, Power, and Humanoid Sex Robots
… humanity. By situating sexbots as proxies for feminized and racialized humans, I argue that the production, portrayal, and proliferation of sexbots are reflections of how we treat marginalized people, reifying existing hierarchal power relations. This project begins by analyzing the creation …
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Hot Girls Don't Worry About Copyright: Trans/Formative Works and the Femmage Lifestyle
… in innovative ways. Through interrogations of feminized labor and the ways in which the art world upholds harmful gender binaries, as well as discussions of Femmage, maladjustment, and obsession, I argue that the fragmentary nature of photomontage, digital collage, and videomontage can …
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The historical consciousness of Ulysses: James Joyce's gendered, national aesthetics
… them to the dialogizing forces produced by his feminized subjects. I wIII develop an argument which suggests that Joyce achieves linguistic and aesthetic metamorphosis through the dialogism produced by his women's interactions with female symbols of Irish Sovereignty, and not a metamorphosis of …
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Ornamenting Fingernails and Roads: Beautification and the Embodiment of Authenticity in Post-War Eastern Sri Lanka
… ‘public,’ which includes often marginalized and feminized public modalities. This view also explores how beauty and ornament are salient technologies of community and cultural authenticity that build on histories of ethnic imaginaries.
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Maritime Sensibility: Sentimentalism, Racial Capitalism, and a Critique of the American Maritime Genre
… hyper-exploited laborers, particularly unwaged feminized laborers. I argue that this trope emerges from the same discourse of financial speculation within the Atlantic trade system that Equiano engages in his narrative—these engagements are what I term “maritime sensibility,” a potentially …
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Males in full-time nursing faculty roles: common themes and shared meanings
… by males, today the profession has been feminized and males are underrepresented. A corresponding lack of male nursing faculty may contribute to the lower number of males in the profession as male nursing students do not find mentors and role models with whom they identify. Little …
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Deconstructing The Winner's Circle
… research has investigated black women in mass feminized sports cultures and spaces such as gymnastics, beauty pageants, and cheerleading, finding patterns of hegemonic ideals and the preference for "white" standards. I expand the narrative to include the twirling culture by investigating how …
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Can I Get a Yee-Haw and an Amen: Collecting and Interpreting Oral Histories of Texas Cowboy Churches
… evangelicalism's assumed sterilized and feminized religion. Despite the cowboy church movement's exponential growth since the late-1980s, few outside the movement understand the complexity cowboy churches envelop. Using Cowboy Christians' oral histories, Jake McAdams argues that the …
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"Proving Yourself" in the Canadian Medical Profession: Gender and the Experiences of Foreign-trained Doctors in Medical Practices
In recent years the medical profession has become feminized. Additionally, there has been an increased representation of foreign-trained professionals in the Canadian medical profession; many of which are women. Thus, there is a significant number of female medical practitioners who are …
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