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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Virility"”.
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Virility and Defeat: Masculinities in Italy between Fascism and the Sexual Revolution
… western European country. Militaristic virility was a core tenet of fascist Italy. World War Two weakened it profoundly, as men’s and women’s conceptions of their own sexual identities were fundamentally reshaped by violence and defeat. At the same time, consumer culture, exemplified by …
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College Football in Turmoil: How Violence, Virility and Social Darwinism Defined College Football, 1880-1915
This study investigates the influence of the reform movement within the United States on college football between 1880 and 1915. In response to industrialization and urbanization, reform advocates used sports and athletics to develop America’s youth. Concern mounted from critics that young boys …
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Masculinidad Como Espectaculo: Modernidad Y Consumismo en Espana (1898--1931)
… Juan as critiques Don Juan as symbol of Spanish virility. In these two works Don Juan is confronted by a protagonist that does not only spend his time seducing women; rather, he is a productive, prosperous and hard-working businessman: the opposite of the idle aristocrat who spends his time in …
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Cuckolds And Codpieces: Early Modern Anxieties In Male Potency
… may emphasize or articulate sexual power and virility, that is, potency, the specter of cuckoldry undermines this power. It is my contention that in order to maintain mastery, the early modern male appropriates the signification of the codpiece, which is in and of itself charged with …
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Masculinities in the Motherland: Gender and Authority in the Soviet Union During the Cold War, 1945--1968
… republics in the 1940s and 1950s, the civilian ""virility"" of scientific research institutions in the 1950s, and the global celebrity performed by the first cosmonauts in the early 1960s, this dissertation reframes the Soviet Cold War as a geopolitical conflict rooted in cultural anxieties about …
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Sexuality in the third age
… to sexual potency and masculinity is tied to virility, and (e) loneliness and sense of duty contribute to complex sexual relationship dynamics in older adulthood. These interpretations provide greater insight for clinicians and professionals working in this area into the importance of sex to …
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Science, animals, and profit-making in the American rodeo arena
… beef demand in the 1980s emphasized the virility and power of bulls, and shows how rodeo used these technologies to make bull riding the centerpiece of its popular appeal. From there, the dissertation argues that the cultural redefinition of wild horses from 1950 to the present created …
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Ruin and Redemption: Losing and Regaining Honour in the Canadian Officer Corps, 1914—1945
… while also exhibiting aggressiveness and virility. Misbehaviour whether in the officers’ mess, in public settings before civilians or on the battlefield revealed how the social conventions and commitments fundamental to an officer’s identity often depended on a sense of honourableness that …
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Face to Face: English Uses and Understanding of the Beard in Early Virginian Contacts
… sexual health; the beard came to represent virility and the beard helped to separate men from women and boys. In this paper I argue that the beard assumed a special significance within early English contacts in the Carolinas and Virginia. I examine the changing meanings of the beard and the …
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Playing the Game: Violence and the Revolt Against Normative Masculinity in John Updike's Rabbit Run, Norman Mailer's an American Dream, and Phil Andros's $tud
… the traditional associations of manhood with the virility of frontierism, these characters violently resist and flee from heterosexual (domestic) normativity. They queer expectations of normative masculinity by subverting their roles as husbands and fathers and by seeking transgressive and violent …
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The New Man: Evolving Masculinity in F. Scott Fitzgerald's <em>This Side of Paradise</em>, "Winter Dreams," and "The Swimmers"
… attempt to exhibit the masculine traits of virility, aggressiveness, and potency, but fall short in some way, either because they are not wealthy, athletic, or do not display a manly dominance in their relationships. Thus, these men form new spaces for themselves in Fitzgerald's …
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Looking at dirty pictures : sur(sous)realism, fascism, and reproducing intoxication in the 1930’s
… driven on all sides by a masculine concept of virility, seen as crucial to the developing historical moment in which war was imminent. The thesis is concluded in the final section of the third chapter, which posits renegade Surrealist Georges Bataille's theory of "convulsive communication" …
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Human anxieties, bovine solutions: Political subtexts of native cattle conservation in north-eastern Siberia
… purity of the Sakha people, but also about the virility of Sakha men, the chastity of Sakha women when tempted by Russian and now Muslim migrant men, and their right to political self-determination within the larger Russian state. I argue that all this is displaced and projected onto the …
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Home under siege: Bab al-Hara, televising morality and everyday life in the Levant
… younger generation that is appreciative of the virility of the “real” Bab al-Hara man that they no longer encounter in their everyday life. The multiple generational readings in regard to the absent idealized strength and authority, became a dominant reading in relation to chastity and unity as …
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Chickens in the archaeological material culture of Roman Britain, France, and Belgium.
… deities, such as Mercury, and ideals, such as virility and abundance, which people may have tried to connect with by owning such items. Through careful contextual and iconographic analysis of these objects, this thesis places chickens into the cultural landscape of Roman Britain, France, and …
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Classical Masculinity in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
<p>This thesis uses the formula of classical masculinity to examine Marc Antony’s value as a Roman man in Shakespeare’s <em>Antony and Cleopatra</em>. Examining Antony’s history as a Roman hero, I distinguish how his reputation is destroyed through his romantic involvement with Cleopatra. …