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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"The Second Sex"”.
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The Second Sex of Tomorrow? Constructions of Masculinity in the Moral Panic About Boy's Education. A Content Analysis of Canadian News Media
… Canadian newspapers between 1990 and 2011, this thesis asks how masculinity is represented in discourses about gender and education. My analysis suggests that the public discourse about boys' education is out of touch with scholarly research, and instead relies on a number of problematic tropes: …
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Executive and behavioural functioning in girls with Turner's syndrome
… (TS) is a genetic disorder that arises from the complete or partial absence of the second sex chromosome. The T S behavioural phenotype has been characterised by a specific neuropsychological profile of normal verbal skills, impaired visuo-spatial and/or visuo-perceptual abilities and …
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The Genealogy of the Concept of Situation in Simone de Beauvoir, 1940-49: History, Oppression, and Sexual Difference
The main objective of this thesis is to reconstruct the non-linear but rather genealogical development of Simone de Beauvoir’s concept of “situation” in her works from 1940 to the publication of The Second Sex in 1949. The starting point of this thesis is the belief that situation, which grounds …
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Bernard Shaw's Conception of the "Womanly" Woman
Although the problem of woman's legal emancipation has long since been solved, the question of woman's place in society today is still open to many interpretations. Even contemporary feminine authors have mixed opinions about woman's role. Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, and Sidney Callahan have …
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Memoirs of My Vulva: An Exploration of Female Genitalia as Figures in Autobiographical Graphic Narratives
… embarks on a multidisciplinary inquiry into the representation of female genitalia within the realms of feminist visual arts and autobiographical graphic narratives. Anchored in Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex) and drawing upon the phenomenological perspectives of …
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Regulation of Chromatin Landscape on and by the Human Sex Chromosomes
Sex chromosome constitution is the largest and oldest source of genetic variation in the human population. One sex chromosome—the “active X” (Xa)—is present in all individuals. The second sex chromosome differs between sexes; most males have a Y while most females have a second X, which adopts a …
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Navigating the Wreck: Writing women’s experience of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore. Salvaged from the Wreck: A novel -and- Diving into the Wreck: A critical essay
This thesis is in two parts. The first and major part consists of a historical novel followed, in part two, by an essay. The title of this thesis, “Navigating the Wreck”, refers metaphorically to the Fall of Singapore in 1942, the ensuing human tragedy unleashed on the people of Singapore and …
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Ir-rappreżentazzjoni tas-sess f’Jutta Heim ta’ Immanuel Mifsud
… li ntużaw, hemm dik femminista, b’mod speċjali The Second Sex ta’ Simone de Beauvoir u Sexual Politics ta’ Kate Millett, u xi artikli ta’ femministi oħra. Użajt ukoll żewġ kotba dwar il-psikoloġija tas-sesswalità, Human Sexuality Today ta’ Bruce M. King u The Psychology of Human Sexuality ta’ …
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Combating the Banality of Evil: Portrayals of the Literary Female Villain in Günter Grass's Danziger Trilogie and Novella, Im Krebsgang.
… type makes a repeated appearance. She appears in the guise of Susi Kater and Luzie Rennwand in Die Blechtrommel, and as Tulla Pokriefke in the other works, Katz und Maus, Hundejahre, and Im Krebsgang. This antagonistic female type is not like other women in these works. A review of Le Deuxième …