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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Gendered Body"”.
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Reading the gendered body in contemporary culture, 1980-1990
… the 1980s has been the emphasis on studying the body, gender, and sexuality as complex cultural constructions. As a contribution to the broader feminist project to rethink the body as a cultural construction rather than a nature ""given,"" this dissertation examines the different ways in which …
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The gendered body in virtual space : sexuality, performance and play in four Second Life spaces
… representational and spatial practices of gendered and sexual identities within ‘Second Life’ spaces. As is typical of the internet, sexual freedom is a given, yet representational performance (how one appears through their embodied avatar) is predicated on significations from the …
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Are You Known To Us? Inscribing a Gendered Body Through Play in the Public Built Environment
… It utilises costuming to present a gendered body. One of the first costumes references depictions of ‘Alice’ from Lewis Carroll’s 1865 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a presentation that has enabled the consideration of the mythical status of a generic ‘fictional girl’ within …
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Performing Methods of Undress towards a Re-Imagined African Masculine Identity
… fashion design, drapery and theories around the gendered body and its relation to clothing for such a purpose – performed hereas „methods of undress‟.
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Bringing home the body: Bi/multi racial Maori women's hybridity in Aotearoa/New Zealand
… identity. My research insists that the raced and gendered body must be reinstated within articulations of Maori women's identity through situating corporeal difference within discussions on their subjectivity and related marginalisation. Until then, the materiality of the raced and gendered body …
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DISABILITY, GENDER, AND SOCIO-RELIGIOUS STIGMA IN THE BOOK OF MARGERY KEMPE
… as potentially impairing, such that Margery’s gendered body heightens the visibility of her non-normative cognition. Utilizing a socio-religious perspective on disability and stigma, this thesis argues that while Margery does not view herself as impaired, her account of the stigmatizing …
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Ageing, Gender and Dancers' Bodies : An Interdisciplinary Perspective
… cultural narratives of ageing as decline of body/self. It focuses on the experiences of ageing, and on the meaning of dancing, of practicing and retired theatrical dancers, a group who by virtue of their body-based profession face the impact of ageing earlier than most people in western …
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Undefinitive
… and text. With a deep unease toward my own gendered body, I investigate how vulnerability, both physical and psychological, can become a site of resistance and empowerment. Drawing from feminist theory, Chinese mythology, and stream-of-consciousness narratives, my work explores the monstrous …
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Gender, Body and Parenthood in Muscovite Russia
… Commonwealth, conventions for representing the body and human reproduction in Russian literature underwent a transformation. There was a proliferation of scientific and medical literature, on the one hand, and poetry, on the other hand. As a result, ideologies of family came to be expressed …
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Fitness Culture: Making New Persons in Quasi-Socialist Belarus
… of health, physical activity, leisure, the gendered body, and even public etiquette. Exploring the values carried by fitness culture and their impact on a “still-socialist” place, this dissertation outlines a new research agenda for a politically engaged anthropology of fitness.</p>
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Self-care will take you to freedom: weight-loss reality TV shows in South Korea
"Body-care is regarded as an efficient form of self-care for ordinary Korean females in order to transform themselves into an acceptable part of society. There are two goals for this project. The first is to examine the ways in which dominant ideologies of the Korean female body and body-care are …
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Cover Your Eyes: Considering Empathetic Response in Reviewing Visual Art Conveying Trauma
… seeks to convey the trauma of living within a gendered body that is constrained by society.
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Paradigms of refuse: waste abjection and rejection in contemporary Italian literature and cinema
… the consequent abjectification of the human (gendered) body.
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Rubens, van Dyck, and women's dress in Genoese portraiture, 1606-1627
… with recent histories of the early modern gendered body, artistic and scientific thought, empire, and global commodities. As such, this thesis is a timely interdisciplinary intervention into wider conversations about identity construction, and material and visual cultures in the global past.
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Sojourning in the Margin: Living as Wives of International Students
… the power and the restraints of the formation of gendered body, in-between a discursive truth and fiction about gender, in-between subjecting and subjugation, and between the essentialist and radical constructionist views of gender. The multiple textualities of culture and gender are what make the …
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Visualising the Transexual Self: Photography, Strategies, and Identities
… 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 inquiry brings a new …
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Spectres of Childhood: Spectrality and Hauntology in Children’s Literature
… girlhood, and the associated criticism of the gendered body, in J.K Rowling’s *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets*. Rowling’s girls occupy bodies that can be understood as spectral paradoxes, existing at once as both living and ghostly. Chapter 4 turns to Benjamin Zephaniah’s *Refugee Boy* …
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Självets garderobiär : Självreflexiva genuslekar och queer socialpsykologi
… of self to questions regarding regulation of the gendered body. Historically, social psychological attempts to conceptualize the self have neither sufficiently taken into account questions of embodiment and corporeality, nor sufficiently discussed the regulation of gender and sexuality. In the …
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Bodycloth in Performance Art
Bodycloth is a term coined to describe a third entity which emerges when the boundaries between body and cloth (as separate elements) collapse. This artistic research thesis analyses a variety of inter-relations between body and cloth, as well as various modes of adornment and utilisations in order …