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Showing 1 to 20 of 136 for “"Gender Identities"”.
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Gender expression varies within diverse gender identities in adolescents and adults
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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Border crossings: transgressions of national and gender identities in twentieth century Polish fiction
… the works I analyze transgression of normative identities takes on a quite deliberate, politically charged character. The limit is clear, and entirely unambiguous. The act of crossing that limit is purposeful, the goal being to subvert hegemonic institutions such as, in the works I read, …
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Gender identities at play : children's digital gaming in two settings in Cape Town.
… their interpretation of digital games as gendered media texts. As an interdisciplinary study, it combines insights from Childhood Studies, Cultural Studies, Game Studies, domestication and performance theory. The concept ludic gendering is developed in order to explain how gender "works" …
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A corpus-based analysis of the discursive construction of gender identities via abusive language
… investigates the discursive construction of gender identities through the use of abusive language in YouTube comments sections. The study attempts to answer the following overarching research question: How is abusive language used in the construction of gendered identities by Arabic-speaking …
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'Bunnies with steel tails?' : an exploration of gender identities within an independent single-sex girls' school
… It explores the way girls construct their gender identities within the single-sex school. The starting point for the research was an interest in the popular perceptions of gender differences in achievement. The girls in this school achieve impressive examination results and the popular …
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The Chivalrous and Feminist King: How the Arthurian Legends Chronicled the Formation of Two Gender Identities
… also as works that illuminate the formation of gender identity within their respective time periods. Malory’s unique experience as an acting knight throughout the fifteenth century influenced his version of the existing legends of Arthur and his court injecting then-current chivalric ideals into …
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Shifting identities of Bengali female learners in ESOL : a poststructuralist feminist exploration of classed, ‘raced’ and gender identities
… the social construction of classed, ‘raced’ and gendered identities of Bengali female learners of ESOL (English for Speakers of other languages) from a post-structuralist feminist position. My research is conducted within the post-compulsory educational context, exploring how Bengali women …
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Popular working-class song in industrial Lancashire c. 1832 - 1862: An investigation of local, political and gender identities
… working people. Chapter 6 is an examination of gender issues portrayed in popular song culture, both in the home and the workplace. The relative lack of study in this area is emphasised. The thesis ends with an Overall Conclusion, which recapitulates and appraises the main points raised in this …
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Gender identities and roles : the representation of women and children in South African films about HIV and AIDS
… two films represent marginalised communities and identities. Yesterday focuses on the experiences of rural women, while Life Above All focuses on women and children living in a small town on the urban periphery. In order to contextualise the two films as well as the textual and theoretical …
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“If you’re not that as an Asian woman, you’re not shit as an Asian woman.”: (re)negotiating racial and gender identities
… Asian-American women are (re)negotiating their gender and sexual identities within the contemporary United States. Through the use of empirical research, as well historical content and discourse analyses, this M.A. thesis deconstructs the ways in which Western society has constructed …
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Modifying the Minority Strengths Model for Binary Trans and Nonbinary Individuals: An Examination of the Relationships among Strength-Promoting Factors, Mental Health, and Health-Promoting Behaviours
… umbrella term used to describe people with sex/gender identities and expressions that do not align with their sex/gender assigned at birth (American Psychological Association, 2015). Historically, very little mental health scholarship has focused on trans individuals. Instead, models (e.g., …
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Mother Nature: Gender's Impact on Individual Environmental Actions
This research studies the relationship between gender and the individual’s perceptions of environmentally conscious actions. This study examines whether specific gender identities are more likely to partake in environmentally conscious actions and if individuals see any patterns in their life …
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Women writing men : female Victorian authors and their representations of masculinity
… sphere, often promoted middle-class masculine gender identities as the dominant, ideal masculinity for others. I will argue that female authors in the Victorian period took part in this struggle over re/defining hegemonic male gender identity in different ways, in different genres, for …
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Caring biographies : qualitative explorations of South African informal sector workers' gendered subjectivities of care
This study examines how gender identities shape the experiences of informal sector workers, particularly street traders, as they balance work and caregiving responsibilities. Focusing on 20 street traders (10 women and 10 men) in rural Venda, South Africa, the research aims to understand the …
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Preferred Learning Styles Among Interior Design Students of Generation Z- How Do They Learn
… styles of interior design students and their gender identities. Interestingly the analysis did not find any dependent relationships between unimodal style and bimodal style however there was a marginally significant relationship between the participants’ AR/CR and CS dominant learning styles …
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Rewriting the Future: The Construction of Masculine Subjectivity Within Articulations of Russia's Post-Soviet National Idea
… define itself after years of turmoil and strife, gender identities have become deeply enmeshed in understandings of quintessential Russianness. From discourses of the state under Vladimir Putin to those of the Russian Orthodox Church, actors with significant social and political power have …
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The Queer Subjectivities and Visual Culture of Stephen Tennant, Oliver Messel and Rex Whistler, 1922-1939
… and analyse the ways queer male sexual and gender identities and these men in particular, were contemporaneously and subsequently received by particular audiences in specific historical and cultural contexts. The wide range of Tennant, Messel and Whistler’s visual works has not been directly …
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Visualising the Transexual Self: Photography, Strategies, and Identities
… the role of the visual world in negotiations of gender, selfimage, the body, and the social domain, and the impact this has on the visualisation of transsexual gender identities. These issues are brought into sharp analytical focus through the personal experiences of transsexual people. The …
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