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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Sexed Body"”.
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Undoings: A Feminist Art Practice Investigating Female Sexed Corporeality and Othered Phenomenological Bodies
… research investigates how the female sexed body might elicit sexual difference as an integral subjective perspective through modes of representation, modalities of experience and materiality. This research project seeks to explore, through a visual arts practice, how a woman’s embodied …
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Women in Combat: A Critical Analysis of Responses to the U.S. Military's Recent Inclusion Efforts
… locate gender difference in the physically sexed body, centering primarily on female nature, sexuality, and strength. Throughout this project, I demonstrate how these arguments are persuasive because the discourse understands equality as sameness to a male norm. This equality as sameness …
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The Logic of Sexuation in Deleuze and Lacan
… the problem of the ontological status of the sexed body. In so doing, I turn to the work of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan. I argue that, rather than being antithetical, the two can be productively read together, in particular with regard to this very question. Ultimately basing my reading …
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Philosophical exploration of transsexuality
… medical model is based on an assumption that the sexed body and gender identity are distinct, so that gender is different to sex, which forms the basis of transsexuality. The tension in transsexuality between sex and gender gives rise to suffering. Surgery unifies sex and gender and is offered as …
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Trans history from antiquity for today: reading gender in Imperial Roman literature
… The lack of distinction between gender and the sexed body means that we cannot analyze gender in the Greco-Roman world from a modern binary cisgender framework. Instead, this project provides a trans history that takes clothing seriously as a potential technology for creating, policing, and …
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Health ‘in queer street’: constituting sickness, sexualities and bodies in the spaces of lesbian health
… of hegemonic assumptions. Focusing on the lived, sexed body in health research, using discursive and critical theoretical tools, may offer one more way of challenging assumptions about sexuality and gender, and raise questions in the practice and analysis of health that address diversity and …
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Women's experiences of gender and sexuality within football contexts in England and Wales
… for a re-materialisation of gender and the sexed body. The contribution this thesis offers is to the field of sports sociology. The research reflects an engagement with feminist epistemology and methodology and the analysis draws on poststructuralist theory. Herein lies a particular and …
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Geographies that matter: Pregnant bodies in public places
… that there exists a dichotomy between mind and body and that the mind (rationality and masculinity) is privileged over the body (irrationality and femininity). This dichotomy underpins human geographical knowledge as it is currently constituted. I examine examples from time-geography, humanistic …
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Ethics beyond immanence: rupturing law’s method through sex research
… in limited terms. The law draws lines across the body which force it into identification and categorisation (male, female, straight, gay, human, non-human). These definitions conflict with the materialities of the body and the materialities of the encounter of sex, which are inclined to ‘push’ at …
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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 …