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Showing 1 to 20 of 459 for “"ambivalent"”.
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Ambivalent structures
… research and accompanying studio practice titled Ambivalent Structures interrogates the latent connection of the bunker with the urban terrain, channelling its psychological influence while addressing contemporary anxieties regarding power and control. Military bunker facilities have long been the …
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Hermann Hesse as Ambivalent Modernist
… The third chapter examines Der Steppenwolf as an ambivalently Modernist autobiography, using Eugene Stelzig's notion of Seelenbiographie. The last chapter examines Hesse's two final novels, Die Morgenlandfahrt and Das Glasperlenspie as exemplars of Hesse's ambivalence towards modernist literary …
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Revisiting Ambivalent Sexism and the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory: Examining the Effects of Respondents’ and Targets’ Racial Group Membership on Endorsement
… to understanding gender prejudice, particularly ambivalent sexism and its two components, hostile sexism and benevolent sexism (Glick & Fiske, 1996). I argue that ambivalent sexism theory as well as its measure, the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory, are due for an intersectional re-examination to …
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The Ambivalent Agency: Battered Women Who Kill in Turkey
This study focused on the agency of battered women who kill in Turkey by conducting face- to-face interviews and using news articles covering the stories of three battered women who killed their abusers. Using a feminist poststructuralist theory and intersectionality analysis, the study analysed …
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Ambivalent Scales: Methods for Reading Scenes of Sexual Violation
… relation, of which ambivalence is one. To have ambivalent desire is to be overwhelmed by a dialectic of contradictory emotions, perpetually suspended in what Toni Bowers calls the “shadowy realm of ‘or’” in the consent binary. I bring into relation texts that share themes of sexual violation and …
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Ambivalent globalizers, vicarious cosmopolitans: South Korean "geese-dad" academics
… in the process. These geese-dad professors are ambivalent about raising their children abroad. In this vein, they often mask their privilege and motivations through the rhetoric of inevitability. They are at once proud of being competent fathers with a pioneering spirit, but also critical of …
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Ambivalent Sovereignty: Inquiries into the Dual Foundation of Political Realism's Subject
<p><em>Ambivalent Sovereignty</em> inquires into the subject of political realism. This subject, sovereign authority, appears to have a dual foundation. It appears divided against itself, but how can realism nonetheless observe legitimate modes of sovereignty emerge? Against the liberal idea that a …
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The ambivalent worker: A study of supervisors in the shipbuilding industry
… the only way to see the full picture of these "ambivalent workers".
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The Ambivalent Attitude Toward The Orphan in The Early Victorian Novel
… This study analyzes why orphans are treated so ambivalently. It also explains how angelic waifs give serious-minded Victorians a way of contending with destructive change and moral breakdown and why depraved orphans served as scapegoats for authority figures.
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SACO: An ambivalent experience of Sino-American cooperation during World War II
"Entitled ""SACO: An Ambivalent Experience of Sino-American Cooperation during World War II,"" the dissertation focuses on the Sino-American Cooperative Organization (SACO) that was established during World War II. Jointly operated by the American military (mainly the U.S. Navy) and by a Chinese …
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Ambivalent Images, Beloved Objects: Building Bridges between Picture Books and the Tangible World
<p>"Ambivalent Images, Beloved Objects" examines how pedagogical theories prioritizing objects and direct sensory experiences in early childhood can be applied to the creation of picture book illustrations. In doing so, it positions picture books as educational tools, and advocates for the …
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“‘Is this what motherhood is?’: Ambivalent Representations of Motherhood in Black Women’s Novels, 1953-2011”
… written by African-American women that include ambivalent representations of motherhood: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha (1953), Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970), and Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones (2011). Diverging from the image of the strong black mother that frequently appears in black …
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Ambivalent connections: Improving community mental health care for non-psychotic chronic patients perceived as ‘difficult’
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Dominance, Deference, and Disillusionment: An Empirical Comparison Between Ambivalent Sexism and the Red Pill Ideology
… is perceived and functions differently from ambivalent sexism—a relatively well-established construct of sexism that has been extensively researched in social psychology. American men (Studies 1 and 2) and women (Study 2) read about an imagined interaction between themselves and a friend …
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The journey from New Delhi to Islamabad : dependence and subversion in the ambivalent expression of nationhood
This thesis addresses the critical terrain on which the colonial and post-colonial narratives of identity take shape. Taking Gayatri Spivak's aphorism that imperialism requires a rereading "not because Empire ..... is abstract, but because Empire messes with identity" as its premise, it attempts to …
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Réactions des femmes au sexisme ambivalent et santé mentale: une analyse selon la technique du journal quotidien
… la distinction entre les deux types de sexisme ambivalent, soit le sexisme hostile et bienveillant (Glick et Fiske, 1996) dans l'exploration du mode de réponse privilégiée par les femmes. Pourtant, l'étude de Becker et Wright (2011) permet de supposer que les femmes réagissent différemment …
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Positive, negative, and ambivalent attitudes toward one's spouse : longitudinal associations with health and well-being.
… of research on the causes and consequences of ambivalent attitudes toward others. Considerable research has examined the association between ambivalent attitudes and health in intergenerational relationships, yet little work focused specifically on spousal relations. Findings from an analysis …
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