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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Sexual Politics"”.
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Urban Change, Sexual Politics and Women’s Activism in Spain, 1958 to 1982
… that discussion among local activists about sexuality reflected influences from abroad that predated the dissemination of translated feminist texts. The thesis also observes how from the mid-1970s female students travelled to marginal towns and barrios to ‘liberate’ the local housewives. It …
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Badnaam Women of Bollywood: The Combative Sexual Politics of Item Songs in India
… a vampy song with suggestive lyrics and hypersexualized imagery of dancing women, as a crucial cultural artefact reflecting the gender and sexual uneasiness in India. Sex avoidance is a common theme in Bollywood films and in the country, where media and people are heavily censored and policed …
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"Anal is the new oral": The sexual politics of the heteronormalisation of anal sex
… heterosex and the ways in which they facilitate sexual coercion. By the heteronormalisation of anal sex I mean a cultural shift towards its increased reported prevalence and visibility in popular culture. I argue that the heteronormalisation of anal sex is rooted in and shaped by a wider …
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Playboys, Single Girls, and Sexual Rebels: Sexual Politics 1950-1965: A Trilogy of Significant Developments.
… the Cold War era with changing attitudes toward sexuality. Because of these cultural shifts, the developments that dominate the research presented here are; first, the changing elements in the lives of the women who pass through the halls of academia during this time of societal flux; second, the …
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The sexual politics of asylum: lived experiences of sexual minority asylum seekers and refugees in the UK
The thesis explores lived experiences of sexual minority asylum seekers and refugees in the UK and the analysis emerges from a two-year long ethnography with 60 people. I chose to focus on sexuality in the context of asylum in order to trace parallelisms and differences amongst the conditions of …
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Ten Cents a Dance: Taxi Dancers, a Living Wage, and the Sexual Politics of Women's Work, 1912-1952
<p>Between 1912 and 1930, taxi dancers joined thousands of unmarried working-class women who moved beyond the domestic sphere to actively engage in public, market-oriented roles that transformed urban culture. During this time, a new form of commercialized entertainment emerged to bridge women's …
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What’s Race Got to Do with It? Race, Gender, and Sexual Politics in East Asian Americans’ Interracial/-Ethnic Relationships
… examines how East Asian Americans in heterosexual interracial/-ethnic romantic relationships navigate their unions’ mixed-race status across various social contexts—in natal families, among East Asian communities, and within their own relationships. Drawing on 163 in-depth interviews with …
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Sexual politics and resistance to law reform: a critique of the South African Law Commission report on women and sexual offences in South Africa
… Commission published a Report entitled Women and Sexual Offences in South Africa. 1 The Report is the result of almost 3 years' research initiated at the request of the Minister of Justice in 1982. During the period 1979-1981 public attention in South Africa was drawn dramatically to the crime of …
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Contemporary French Queer Cinema: Explicit Sex and the Politics of Normalization
… films may mirror, interrogate and engage with sexual politics in France. The key political changes include the 1999 Pacte Civil de Solidarité legislation and the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2013. The thesis focuses on French queer films which are sexually explicit, including simulated …
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A Patriot for Men: The Politics of Masculinity in John Osborne's "A Patriot for Me"
By applying David Savran’s scholarship on the politics of masculinity to John Osborne’s play <em>A Patriot for Me </em>(1965), I demonstrate that Osborne exemplified contradictory sexual politics in the play, and was criticized as homophobic and praised as revolutionary in similarly contradictory …
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Undermining The Angelic Restrictions Of First-Wave Feminism: What The New Woman Did, Didn't, And Wouldn't Do
… feminism, the marriage debate, and reticent sexual politics of the late-nineteenth century. By examining the ways that The Woman Who heroines discursively and thematically engage with first-wave feminism and by focusing on this dialectical exchange of feminist ideas and practices as they were …
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An investigation of the resources available for interpreting visual cultural production related to male homosexuality in Britain : 1940 to the present
… visual representation, masculinity and male sexual identity in Britain since World War 11. Through oblique encounters with the work of Francis Bacon, Cecil Beaton, Keith Vaughan and David Sockney, detailed readings of popular fiction, literature and literary theory, research in the archives …
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The trajectory of male homosexuality in Nazism
<p>Nazism redefined gender and sexual politics for society during the twentieth century, which determined the trajectory of male homosexuality under the Third Reich. While the party did not actively promote homosexuality, early Nazism valued hypermasculinity and homosocial relationships. Right-wing …
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Revising identification: fairy tales that transform tradition from within
… thematic, a subversion of fairy-tale form and of sexual politics. Because the fairy tale operates largely by encouraging identification (especially in young audiences) with certain roles, producing social conformity, these radical revisions resist social and sexual prescription and in so doing …
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The myth of the Black male beast in postclassical American cinema: ‘Forging’ stereotypes and discovering Black masculinities
… Through the additional application of Black sexual politics and Black cultural theory I consider how Black progressive masculinities, Black gay identity politics and Afrocentric ‘ways of being ’ are currently determining multifarious Black masculinities and reclaiming the Black mind and body …
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Revisioning Popular Narratives of Trans Lives, 1952–1976
… or their failure to adhere to current gender and sexual politics, this dissertation illuminates new trans literary lineages and expands critical discussion of the trans identities and experiences that circulated in this period. Further, by analyzing the texts themselves, rather than attending only …
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Masking the Drama: A Space for Revolution in Aphra Behn's The Rover and The Feign d Courtezans.
… binary thought and imposing a dominant sexual politics. Nevertheless, the Lady Cavaliers in Aphra Behn s comedies The Rover and The Feign d Courtezans enacted a fruitful rhetorical strategy in order to be equal to men. Woman who is depicted through masculine discourse as the mute other …
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The 'Civilizing Process' and the Politics of Conservative Womanhood in America, 1890-1930
This dissertation examines the race, gender and sexual politics of conservative white women in the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century, and explores how these women utilized the concept of the civilizing process to advocate for a more conservative society. Harking back to Victorian …
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"(Un) Privileged Embodiments of Femininity, (Un) Hegemonic Articulations of Desire: The Shifting Grounds of the New Veiling Trend in Jordan"
… stand behind the practice and do not disrupt the sexual politics embedded in it.
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