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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Sex and sexuality"”.
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Let's talk about sex : exploring sex and sexuality following Spinal Cord Injury
… complete paralysis. Life is completely changed and an individual's reality is instantly disrupted. Persons who acquire a spinal cord injury experience massive changes in their lives as this impairment impacts their physical, psychological, social, emotional and economic well-being. Moreover, …
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Proposal for a Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Curriculum in Undergraduate Medical Education at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Understanding gender, sex, and sexuality is required in order to be a competent, patient-centered physician, and, therefore, inclusion of these topics in undergraduate medical education is essential. Current medical education is not producing physicians equipped to manage the complaints and issues …
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Let’s Talk About Sex: Examining Clinical Training, Attitudes, and Clinician SelfAwareness Around Sexuality
<p>Though sex and sexuality have long been central aspects of the human experience, there is little exclusive focus within many graduate programs in clinical psychology on these topics, as these courses are infrequently offered and many programs do not offer them at all. Some studies have shown …
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Narratives of Exclusion: Gender, Sex, Islamophobia, and Violence in American Political Discourse
… rhetoric within U.S. political, cultural, and media discourses, especially when those discourses concern issues related to gender, sex, and sexuality. I ask why anxieties around gender, sex, and sexuality are negotiated through denigrations of Islam. I argue that the use of Islamophobic …
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Sense and Sexuality: From Teen to Teen Mom: Redefining the Label
… college while being a mom, wife, student, and worker. Throughout my studies and life experience, I realized that there was a lack of teen parent literature, for or by teen parents, and a lack of teen parents being open about their experiences, good or bad. At that point, I realized that I …
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Breaking the culture of silence in checkmating HIV/AIDS as a teacher-researcher
… that has become a major challenge globally and has been on the increase over the past two-and-a-half decades, especially so, in sub-Saharan Africa. This is in spite of an "overflow" of HIV/AIDS information. The thesis documents two action research projects. Both of them are based on an …
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Adolescents' perceptions of sexual wellbeing
This study explored adolescents' personal understanding of sexual wellbeing among young people aged 16-19 in Langa, Cape Town. The study further explored the participants' understanding of possible promoting and inhibiting factors to sexual wellbeing in their interpersonal and societal context. …
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Seen and Heard: A Visual Testimony of Purity Culture Using Qualitative Photovoice Methodology
… shaped individuals’ identities, relationships, and perceptions of sexuality, gender, and faith. While popular culture is talking about the effects of purity culture, scholarly literature is lacking. This study employed photovoice methodology to center the voices of those who grew up in purity …
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Examining religious leaders and traditional healers' experiences and responses to HIV/AIDS in a modern community
With the rampant onslaught of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, concern from various sectors of South Africa has led to the disease receiving much publicity in more than one way. Despite the vast amount of exposure and availability of HIV/AIDS information, infection rates are still souring throughout …
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Constructing Women and Nation: Feminized America in British and American Visual Culture 1760-1800
Early American women's history and the history of visual culture tend to avoid overlapping in terms of both sources and questions. A gendered lens when applied to the origins of America typically seeks to answer the question of how the Revolution affected women, whereas the history of American …
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Human Sexuality Programs in Catholic Secondary Schools in the 80's
Human sexuality programs, or sex education programs, have been a controversial issue for many years. The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of human sexuality programs within Catholic secondary schools. This study investigated the effect of comprehensive or non-comprehensive …
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Access to and knowledge of sexual and reproductive health services among adolescent school girls in Gobabis, Namibia
… study offered unique insight in the challenges and opportunities that exist for adolescent access to sexual and reproductive health services (SRHS) in Gobabis. It focused on exploring adolescent access to reproductive health services through the experiences of adolescent girls and healthcare …
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Shame, Guilt and Society's Conception of Sex
There is a dominant conception of sex in American society that has profound effects on our sexual lives. Often this can be a negative influence because our society’s conception is distorted. My thesis considers how this skewed view on sex and sexuality results in the presence of shame and guilt in …
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Shame, Guilt and Society's Conception of Sex
There is a dominant conception of sex in American society that has profound effects on our sexual lives. Often this can be a negative influence because our society’s conception is distorted. My thesis considers how this skewed view on sex and sexuality results in the presence of shame and guilt in …
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Mothers’ living experience of relationship breakdown and divorce: a heuristic inquiry
Relationship breakdown and divorce are deeply personal, often traumatic transitions that can catalyse profound self-discovery and growth. Despite the growing prevalence of lone mother families in UK and the West, research has largely overlooked the subjective experiences of mothers navigating …
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Lesbian identities and everyday space in contemporary urban Russia
… social sciences, the extensive literature on homosexuality as a socio-cultural construct and on ‘queer’ identities and experiences generally focuses on Western European or Anglo-American societies. Sexuality and homosexuality remain relatively unexplored fields of enquiry within Russian studies, …
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The Consort
… Rowan must learn to navigate both sides of the sexual spectrum in the totalitarian theocracy of The Empire. When Rowan isn't selected to serve deity at the age of twelve, which she feels is her right, she loses faith in the religion that has ruled her since birth. She begins to notice the tight …
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Spanish transitions: representation of transgender characters in Spanish film
… in Spanish films, which become sites of struggle and negotiation of meaning, definition and understanding of gender, sex and sexuality. The cases in which transgender characters have been protagonists of Spanish movies –and thus explored and portrayed in more depth- give us first-hand information …
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A comparative analysis of metaphorical expressions used by rural and urban Ndebele speakers: the contribution of S'ncamtho
This thesis explores language expansion and change through metaphorical expressions that originate with urban youth varieties. It focuses on the impact of S'ncamtho, an Ndebele-based urban youth variety of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe along the variables of rural/urban, sex, age and level of education. The …
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El sabor del amor y del dolor: violence, affect and the (trans)body in the Chican@ historical imaginary
… is a study of the representation of Transgender and gender non-conforming Chican@s and traces the absence and presence of this population in the Chicana/o Historical imaginary. I examine how the transgender and gender non-conforming Chican@ body complicates categories of gender, sex and sexuality …
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