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Showing 1 to 20 of 934 for “"Gender and Sexuality"”.
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Trends in Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Children's Fairy Tales
… of children’s fairy tales in regard to gender and sexuality. It opens with a brief history of the fairy tale genre and the foundation of the Western fairy tale canon. I will primarily analyze The Walt Disney Company’s recent films, Brave, Frozen, The Princess and the Frog and Tangled as …
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Gender and Sexuality in Blame Attributions for Intimate Partner Violence
In this project I explore how gender and sexuality impact how respondents blame perpetrators and victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). Victims of same sex intimate partner violence (SSIPV) have different experiences with IPV than do heterosexual victims, both in articulating their experiences …
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Queering Medieval Gender and Sexuality: Pre- and Postmodern Representations of Virginity
… depictions of the medieval virgin in both pre- and postmodern literature and cinema, including women who chose physical virginity as well as spiritual virginity in their quests to be sponsae Christi. I argue that unlike much modern cinema, specifically Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring and …
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Awakening from androcentrism: calls for measurement of gender and sexuality in criminology
… journals, such as Feminist Criminology, permit and encourage inclusive and progressive conceptualizations of social constructs such as gender and sexuality, these recent calls have noted mainstream criminology’s historical reluctance to such progress. The current study examined articles …
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The Gender Epidemic: Intersecting Disease, Gender, and Sexuality in a Graphic Novel
… individuals on opposite sides of the law who handle this oppression very differently. Although these characters would easily be able to overpower the non-powered people in charge, they are too afraid to do so. Internalized guilt from possessing abilities they did not ask for adds an additional …
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Race, Gender, and Sexuality Representation in Contemporary Triple-A Video Game Narratives
By conducting both qualitative and quantitative analysis of data from interviews and game content, I examine representations of race, gender, and sexuality in contemporary video-game narratives. I use data from interviews to show how they view their representations in this medium and to set …
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Women's experiences of gender and sexuality within football contexts in England and Wales
… a woman's game, it's not a pastime for milksops and sissies, it's a man's game" Trevor Ford, 1957. As the above quotation indicates football provides a site for the functioning of gender and sexuality. This thesis offers a detailed analysis of women's experiences of football, gender and …
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All the buzzzzz: women making gender and sexuality at sex-toy parties in St. Louis
Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2012-07-02T18:54:46Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 White_Donna.pdf: 4232408 bytes, checksum: e48d8a250d15245f5ea56ef7f06f3ad5 (MD5)
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Representation of Gender and Sexuality in Roman Art with particular reference to that of Roman Britain
… 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 of sexuality …
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Investigating formations of gender and sexuality in the avant-gardes: interventionist art history and scholarly curation
… on scholarly inventories of archives, curating and publishing, with a focus on women artists who started their practice in the 1960s and 1970s. I subsequently expanded my interest in the pioneering practices of women artists and the complex configurations of gender and sexuality in the inter- …
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Navigating “Innocent” Conversations: Early Childhood Educator’s Rationales’ for Addressing Topics of Gender and Sexuality with Young Children
… their decisions on addressing discussions of gender, sexuality, bodies, sex, and consent in early year classrooms. Using Foucault's (1980) power/knowledge and Held's (2006) ethics of care, I analyze how educators navigate discussions with children, highlighting their growing role as both …
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Slash Fan Fiction in China: Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Female Fan Communities and Their Fan Texts.
… literature centring on male-male romantic and/or erotic relationships based on characters from media texts, is widely popular in China. Analysing the Chinese Harry Potter (HP) slash fandom on the Slash Fan Fiction Network (SFFN, pseudonym), this thesis examines how Chinese female slash fans …
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Power and performativity in prison: exploring male sex workers' experiences and performances of gender and sexuality pre/during/post-incarceration
… at prison as a fluid space for sexual expression and gender performativity, which is ironic given the view of prison as punitive and repressive. Sex within the South African prison system is silenced and taboo particularly within the Number prison gang where sex is heavily regulated, ritualized …
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The European Union and the politicization of gender and sexuality in the reforms of the Common European Asylum System (1999-2020)
… intertwined to that of European security, and late developments in European cooperation indeed seem to demonstrate that asylum has become first and foremost a matter of security in Europe. Yet, this tightening of policies contrasts with the flourishing of proposals claiming to mainstream …
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Transforming Gender and Sexuality in-between the Personal and the Professional: The Promise of Legal Change in (Un)Becoming Advocate (Avukat) in Turkey
… oriented towards realizing extensive legal and constitutional amendments, as well as juridical reforms in restructuring the contemporary body of law and judicial institutions based on the promise of strengthening access to justice mechanisms and improving human rights laws and practices in …
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"Hazme un guagüis" : the politics of relajo, humor, gender and sexuality in teatro de revista, teatro de carpa, and cabaret político in Mexico City
… on how teatro de revista, teatro de carpa, and later cabaret político provide an outlet where humor and the politics of class, gender, and sexuality intersect, creating powerful, cultural sites of resistance in past and present day Mexico. More specifically, this study argues that teatro de …
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The Complexity of Royalty: An Exploration into Gender Transgressions and Sexual Deviancy in the Reign of Edward II and the Link Between Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Society.
Current historical research regarding both gender and sexuality has been notably biased and lacking. Appropriate research is currently absent regarding both the nature of transgressive individuals, those not acting in accordance with their assigned gender roles, as well as those engaging in …
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The animated gaystream: how streaming services, social media, adult fandom, and the visibility of creators have influenced representations of gender and sexuality in twenty-first century U.S. children’s animation
… diverse, inclusive queer content in their series and films as new technologies have been introduced and attitudes towards the LGBTQIA+ community in American media have changed. This thesis argues that social media sites such as X and Tumblr as well as streaming services such as Netflix and HBOMax …
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Sexual diversity : inclusiveness in women's club level sport
Safe and supportive spaces are important for women as they explore and affirm diverse and non-conventional discourses and practices of gender and sexuality. Sport, however, does not readily provide such spaces. Historically, many women athletes and women‘s team sports have been stigmatised by a …
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Gender, Sexuality, and Status Foundations of Inequality: Effects of Earnings, Financial Satisfaction, and Perceived Financial Status
… differences are associated with individual and family well-being. Previous research has revealed that hegemonic masculinity and a gendered hierarchy result in economic outcomes that preference white men while devaluing women and non-whites. Sexuality is an additional social status that has …
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