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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Salon"”.
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Conversation and Performance in Seventeenth-Century French Salon Culture
… performance in seventeenth-century French salons, and the representation of this aristocratic culture through performance. It seeks to understand how polite amateurs regarded professional performers, and vice versa. I use the study of performance to reveal distinctive constraints and …
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The Mazarin Salon: French Exiles in Seventeenth-Century London
Abstract Annalisa Nicholson: The Mazarin Salon: French Exiles in Seventeenth-Century London This thesis examines the history and literary output of the Mazarin salon, which was formed by French exiles Hortense Mancini, Duchesse de Mazarin, and Charles de Saint-Évremond. Established in London in …
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Bildung, the Beautiful Soul, and the German Enlightenment Salon
… (the Beautiful Soul) in the context of Berlin salon culture around 1800. It is the first systematic examination of the relationship between this philosophy and the institution of the salon. My principal goal is to demonstrate that during the period between the Ancien Régime and the Vormärz, the …
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Multiscalar Toxicities: Mapping Environmental Injustice in and Beyond the Nail Salon
… across generations. This work centers the nail salon a site of potential environmental and occupational health harms due to routine exposure to toxicants, labour exploitation, and verbal and other abuses. These hazards are rooted in structural inequities that position immigrant-settler women of …
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Investigating the Role of Appearance-Based Factors in Predicting Sunbathing and Tanning Salon Use
Understanding the motives for sunbathing and indoor tanning is an extremely important public health issue. UV exposure via sunbathing and utilization of sun lamps and tanning beds are considered important risk factors for the development of skin cancer. Psychosocial models of UV exposure are often …
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Artificial Tanning Salon Behaviors, Intentions, and Attitudes in Terms of Sensuousness and Sensation Seeking.
… and sensation seeking to individuals' tanning salon behaviors, intentions, and attitudes among undergraduates at a Southeastern university.</p> <p>Females, high sensation seekers, those high in warmth sensuousness, and those with darker skin types were more likely to tan. Females were more …
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"Needless parallels" : the visual aesthetic of language in the art and poetry of the Arensberg salon
The Arensberg salon in New York in the 1910s brought together European and American artists and poets as well as individuals from other disciplines. Just as representatives from both sides of the Atlantic were able to mingle in the group, the work of artists and poets seemed to merge as shared …
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Narrating Hospitality: Salons in French Fiction, 1789–1848
… calls for renewed attention to the space of the salon – the primary site of hospitality in an aristocratic or haut-bourgeois household – in early nineteenth- century French literature, particularly within feminist scholarship. It considers fictional discourse on the salon through Derrida’s theory …
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O salão: memória institucional
A historical study on the formation of Salon instituition. The Salon memoaire wore considered on the bases of its original relation to the Stat and Academy.
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Sites of migrant landing: (un)braiding topographies of relations across hair salons in Mowbray
This dissertation explores hair salons in Mowbray as a node for landing amongst African migrant women who have settled in Cape Town, are arriving or in transition. To land is to set foot and to find grounding, and it is also to contend with borders. Therefore, to conceptualise the hair salon as a …
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Occupational Health Hazard and Illnesses Awareness among Hairdresser and Nail Salon Worker’s: A Case of Kinondoni Municipality Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
… and consumers often assume hairdressing, nail salons and the products used are safe. Unfortunately they are subjected to various occupational health risks such as some of chemicals ingredients used in nail and hair products have been tied to cancer, miscarriages and lung diseases. Other …
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The descriptive miniatures of Alphonse Hasselmans and Henriette Renié: an examination of the pedagogical and artistic significance of salon pieces for harp
… and Renié, as well as a study of their salon pieces for harp. Chapter one, an overview of the political and religious environment of France during the Third Republic, explains how government and gender stereotypes affected the lives of these musicians. It also provides a concise history …
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An exploration of the experiences and business related aspirations of youth running their own informal hair salon businesses in Gugulethu, Cape Town
… businesses in Gugulethu. There were fifteen (15) salon owners who participated. These participants were identified using purposive and snowball sampling. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data as part of a qualitative, explorative approach. The findings revealed that participants …
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Intimate Partner Violence among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and perceived barriers and facilitators to the provision of psychosocial interventions in salons
… of the use of pre-existing female spaces such as salons to provide psychosocial interventions in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Methods. Nine AGYW who had experienced IPV participated in virtual and in-person key-informant interviews. Two focus groups were conducted with salon and spa workers to explore the …
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Intimate partner violence among adolescent girls and young women in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and perceived barriers and facilitators to the provision of psychosocial interventions in salons
… of the use of pre-existing female spaces such as salons to provide psychosocial interventions in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Methods. Nine AGYW who had experienced IPV participated in virtual and in-person key informant interviews. Two focus groups were conducted with salon and spa workers to explore the …
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Documenting as Method: Photography in Southeast Asia
… to use, I attempt a revisionist account of salon photography in Southeast Asia. Documenting as method allows me to surface the agency of individual practitioners without losing sight of salon photography’s relationship with political power during the shifting processes of nationalism, …
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Beyond Prima Donna: Pauline Viardot’s Collaboration on Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète, Gounod’s Sapho, and Berlioz’s Arrangement of Orphée
… beginning to be understood. Her Thursday night salon promoted the music of both established and unknown composers, and hosted important guests, including Alfred de Musset, George Sand, Charles Dickens, Charles Gounod, Frédéric Chopin, and Franz Liszt. Viardot’s musical talents were respected and …
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