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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Women's Sexuality"”.
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Women's Sexual Self Schemas: A Cognitive Approach to Women's Sexuality
… social information. Previously, women's sexual self schemas have been assessed as a unidimensional, bipolar phenomenon. In the current research, the sexual self schema construct has been reconceptualized in terms of a bivariate model, in which positive and negative components of …
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Putting Women Back on Top?: (Re)constituting Power and Audience in The Vagina Monologues
… Monologues was to generate a dialogue regarding women's sexuality to counter the silence that pervades the patriarchal culture that they inhabit. To achieve this goal, Ensler constructs two ideologies—one grounded in patriarchy and another supposedly grounded in female agency and dialogue—to …
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Hacia una poetica feminista Latino Americana: Ana Maria Rodas, Maria Mercedes Carranza y Gioconda Belli
… ways in which three contemporary Latin American women--Ana Maria Rodas from Guatemala, Maria Mercedes Carranza from Colombia, and Gioconda Belli from Nicaragua--deal with the traditional concept ""Woman"" in their poetry. Analysis of their textual responses to that concept shows a rejection of …
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A case study of the use of feminist psychotherapy with women who have had abortions
… to psychotherapy is based on a philosophy that women's pathology is inextricably linked to the patriarchal influences of society that have devalued and disempowered women. Abortion, as a specific women's issue, is contextualised within this framework, illustrating that these influences compound …
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Sex, drugs, and women's desire
… desire is the most common sexual dysfunction in women. Pharmaceuticals are being developed to treat it, most notably Flibanserin, owned by Sprout Pharmaceuticals. Sometimes inaccurately referred to as "female Viagra," Flibanserin actually treats an entirely different problem. Viagra allows men to …
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A living life, a living death: a study of Bessie Head's writings as a survival strategy
… to her absent mother, her feelings about women's sexuality, and her need for love, articulated throughout her writings in terms not only of the threats against her but also the ways in which she empowered herself, and thus survived. I have drawn on a combination of Bessie Head's …
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Cartographic Memories and Geographies of Pain: Bodily Representations in Caribbean Women's Art
… of Caribbean womanhood; and, with black women's bodies located at the center, the goal of this study is to provide new alternatives to understanding "writing the body" by looking to Caribbean women's cultural products as sites of theory formation. The artists and the works selected for …
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The construction of shame in the Hebrew Bible: the prophetic contribution
… Shame is associated particularly with women's sexuality; honour with competition among men of relatively equal status. Although the model has been criticised from within the discipline of anthropology, it has generally-speaking been received with enthusiasm by biblical interpreters. In …
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Crossing boundaries: religion, sexuality and identity in the lives of Zanele Muholi and Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde
… to the fore within South Africa's democracy. Sexuality and the freedom to express one's sexual identity are currently at the forefront of academic writing and investigation in the social sciences in Africa. In following this interdisciplinary line of research, this thesis explores some of the …
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Gardenia
… amidst the rapidly changing landscape of women's rights post-#MeToo, while battling her own demons and justifying to her younger brother her decision to find Isa. In each novella, the main character makes a different choice on what to do with her trauma, when faced with the opportunity to …
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The Other Side of Girls Gone Wild: The Emotional Labor of College Women's Sexual Decision-Making
<p>This research concerns the process of college women's emotional labor in sexual decision-making and how women talk about their sexual decisions via their negotiation of dominant social discourses. The study seeks to determine how the college experience nurtures women's sexual subjectivity; how …
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Three Essays Analyzing the Impact of Community and Neighborhood Factors on Intimate Partner Violence against Women in Uganda
… and neighborhood in preventing violence against women, and how women who have been displaced from their communities may be at increased risk of violence. This three-paper dissertation utilized secondary data sources from two studies of IPV against women in Uganda: the SASA! Study and the Ugandan …
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The Role of Affect and Trait Sexual Desire in Sexual Response among Women with and without Symptoms of Sexual Interest and Arousal Disorder
… cues has been shown to affect sexual response in women with sexual dysfunctions, who have greater negative affect to sexual cues. The aim of the current study was (1) to examine the moderating role of trait sexual desire on the relationship between affect and sexual response, and (2) examine the …
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Contemporary Cinematic Portrayals of Female Sexuality in Top-Grossing R-Rated U.S. Films (2000-2009)
… mass media typically degrades and objectifies women, as the majority of modern mainstream films is produced and directed by men who portray women’s bodies in ways that appeal to the “male gaze.” These portrayals include using stereotypical images and representations, including observable …
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Truth Telling: Exploring Sexuality in Widowed and Single Older Black Women
<p>Interest in older adults’ sexuality is reflected in the significant growth of literature on sexuality and aging, especially in the last few decades, and in growing media interest in this topic. Clinicians, researchers, educators, journalists, policymakers, and other stakeholders continue to …