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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Kinsey"”.
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Reading Alfred C. Kinsey: Sexuality and Discourse in Mid-Century America
… First, I examine the work of Alfred C. Kinsey through the theories of Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault. In the second chapter I look at Kinsey's Female volume and argue that he uses the mid-century concern for marriage as a strategy for sexual liberation. Next, I trace the ways in …
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Stability of a Normal Heterosexual Female Response to Affinity 2.0
… identified as “Exclusively Heterosexual" on the Kinsey Scale, and who took the Affinity 2.0 both at test and at retest (approximately two weeks later). Participants also filled out a questionnaire following the retest composed of demographic questions, a shortened version of the Marlowe-Crowne …
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"""Reverse pictures"": twentieth-century American portraiture and the subversion of the medico-photographic body"
… 2 examines the collaboration between Alfred Kinsey and the artists Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and George Platt Lynes. Surveying the drawings and photographs they gave to the Kinsey Institute during the 1950s, I argue that their contributions served to expand Kinsey’s sexual taxonomies, queer …
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Evaluation of Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) Introductions and Re-introductions Into Four Virginia Blue Ridge Mountain Streams
… streams in September 2008. Garth Run and Kinsey Run were re-introductions, and Wildcat Hollow and Sweet Run were new introductions. Single pass electrofishing (EF) surveys were conducted with a backpack electrofisher five times during the study. Selected trout > 70 mm but < 100 mm and all …
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Sexual orientation self-label, behavior, and preference: College students in Taiwan and the USA
… differences. Sexual orientation self-label, the Kinsey Scale of Sexual Orientation, and a modified version for preference were used to assess participants’ sexual orientation, behavior, and preference, respectively. Additional measures included an adaptation of the Early Sexual Experiences …
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La perception par des homosexuels et par des hétérosexuels dans une situation de rivalité binoculaire
… et les items homosexuels cinq (5) et six (6) du Kinsey Self Rating. Les résultats démontrent qu'il n'y a pas de différence significative entre les perceptions des deux groupes pour huit (8) des neuf (9) paires de photographies présentées. On trouve une différence (p<.05) dans la perception de la …
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Psychological gender : the relationship between sex-role and gender identity
… orientations were described with the aid of the Kinsey Seven-Point Rating Scale. Results indicate a number of unanticipated complexities which need further investigation. The type of picture used in the measurement of gender identity seems to determine whether or not a subject's true gender …
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Crisis intervention as a form of therapy for persons with homosexual concerns : an experimental study
… other upon completion. The first test was the Kinsey Homosexual-Heterosexual rating scale to gauge the level of the patients' undertaking of their homosexual-heterosexual spectrum and to facilitate therapy. The second test consisted of ten items selected from the Manifest Anxiety Scale …
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Coming to understand
… momentum in the mid – late twentieth century (Kinsey, 1953; Krantz, 1958; Masters and Johnson, 1966). The latter piece of research was conducted at the time of the second-wave feminist movement, which “took up arms” in the clitoral vs. vaginal orgasm debate (Freud, 1931, as cited in Rieff, …
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Memory, History, and Forgetting in the Sandra Allen Collection of Papers on Mormonism: A Feminist Rhetorical Historiography of Institutional Intervention in the Equal Rights Amendment
<p>This dissertation leverages archival theory, public memory theory, feminist historiography, and rhetorical theory to argue that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reinterpreted the Mormon past to engender identification and foster political action during the Equal Rights Amendment …
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A Platform for Practical Nanophotonic Systems Nitrides and Oxides for Integrated Plasmonic Devices
The fields of nanophotonics and metamaterials have revolutionized the way we think of optical space (ε,µ), enabling us to engineer the refractive index almost at will, to confine light to the smallest of volumes, as well as to manipulate optical signals with extremely small foot prints and energy …
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Foster families : placement outcomes and psychlogical interventions
Foster care is a complex setting to provide therapeutic interventions due to the high rates of difficulty, poor outcomes and high numbers of professionals and carers involved. This systematic review aims to examine interventions that have been empirically assessed in foster care from a UK …
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Identifying French Compositional Styles: Subtlety Through Familiarity
<p>In this study, I examine two French berceuses for violin and piano to identify common compositional traits, specifically subtlety and familiarity in rhythm and harmony. Both Fauré's <em>Berceuse</em> (1878-9) and Ravel's <em>Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Faur</em>é (1922) are representative of …
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Female Bildung Before Goethe: An Early Modern Rogue's Endowment
<p>My dissertation traces the genealogy of the <em>Bildungsroman</em> hero backwards from Goethe’s<em> Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship</em> to Early Modern Englishwomen writer’s textual negotiations within a male dominant, humanist society. Writers like Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, and Mary …
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Active control of superconductivity by means of the ferromagnetic exchange interaction
Recent theoretical studies have suggested that the observed suppression of superconductivity in superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) heterostructures could be modulated by controlling the ferromagnetic exchange interaction in the superconductor. The exchange interaction in the superconductor is the sum …
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Music for classical guitar by South African composers : a historical survey, notes on selected works and a general catalogue
This is the first comprehensive investigation of music for, or including, the classical guitar by South African composers. The focus of this research has been, firstly, to uncover as much of the repertoire as possible, and, secondly, to collate, study, catalogue and report on the information. A …
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Burning for birds : the response of bird communities to recent fire history in the Serengeti ecosystem
Fire is a ubiquitous ecosystem process with important implications for savanna ecology and conservation. In this study we aimed to explore the short-term and long-term effects of recent fire history on bird communities in the greater Serengeti savanna ecosystem in Tanzania. The study investigated …
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El Desgranamiento de Recursos Humanos Técnicos, en las Industrias Química & Petroquímica y del Petróleo & Gas, en las últimas décadas en Argentina
… Nada general, como fue el Informe Mc Kinsey (1998) en los Estados Unidos (EE.UU). Hubo hechos que contribuyeron a instalar este panorama, como fueron las privatizaciones de los años ́90, junto con una reforma educativa que prácticamente destruyó a las valiosas escuelas técnicas. El …
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Effectiveness of Surrogators As A Propagation Tool for Northern Bobwhites In South-Central Texas
Attempts to restore populations of northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) using game-farm quail have been documented since the early 1900s. Low restoration success rates are likely to the result of low post-release survival rates (8-15 days) and long distance dispersal from release sites …
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A Comparison of IRT and Rasch Procedures in a Mixed-Item Format Test
This study investigated the effects of test length (10, 20 and 30 items), scoring schema (proportion of dichotomous ad polytomous scoring) and item analysis model (IRT and Rasch) on the ability estimates, test information levels and optimization criteria of mixed item format tests. Polytomous item …
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