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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"asexuality"”.
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Making Something Out of Nothing: Asexuality and Narrative
<p>The existence of asexuality, the non-experience of sexual attraction, forces us to reconsider a great deal of received wisdom about sexuality, subjectivity, and narrative, which are all closely bound together in modernity. These discourses, whose interactions we find in distilled form in the …
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Evolution of asexuality in Daphnia pulex: Implications of mitochondrial-DNA analysis.
… by which such a process could have occurred. Asexuality apparently arose in the north and is presently spreading southward at the expense of sexual populations. These results have important implications for the evaluation of the ecological and evolutionary potential of asexuals. The observed …
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Celibate pleasures: convents, asexuality, and women's agency in British literature, 1660-1760
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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53x+m³=Ø? (Sex+Me=No Result?): Tropes of Asexuality in Literature and Film
<p>This dissertation examines the concept of asexuality and a variety of representations of asexuality in literature, film, and popular media. I argue that asexuality, often defined as a "lack of desire or sexual attraction," challenges the notion that sexual object choice is always a central point …
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Genomic evidence of long-term asexuality at the northern range limit of wetland plant, Decodon verticillatus (Lythraceae)
… on range expansion is largely unknown. If asexuality allows genotypes well-adapted to range edge conditions to persist long-term without recombination, this may allow plant species to expand beyond their sexual niche (“AEH: asexual expansion hypothesis”). Alternatively, asexual populations …
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Psychoanalysis and Asexuality: An Exploration of The Phenomenon and Implications for Therapeutic Work Using A Psychoanalytic Theoretical Framework
… rise in individuals who identify as Asexual. Asexuality has been defined as the lack of sexual attraction to anyone or anything. The current thesis explores this phenomenon from a psychoanalytic perspective and considers the possible implications for therapeutic work with Asexual individuals. …
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Examining the personal and societal factors that inform the development of an asexual identity: a qualitative and quantitative enquiry
… need for research to fully uncover the nature of asexuality and the experiences of asexual people. The asexual community, allies and researchers alike, are becoming increasingly concerned with discovering the processes that surround asexual identity development and in doing so, gain a more nuanced …
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The evolution of online asexual discourse
… and references, historical conceptualizations of asexuality can be seen well before the emergence of asexual communities online, but I can find no evidence of asexual organizing prior to the 1990s. Largely using qualitative analysis of asexual websites, I give a historical account of the …
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Disabled women and socio-spatial 'barriers' to motherhood
… lives and bodies, particularly their assumed asexuality and inappropriateness for undertaking reproductive or mothering roles. Disabled women’s ‘voices’ are to the fore in the contemporary chapters of the thesis, reflecting the reproductive and non-reproductive experiences of 27 disabled women …
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Clinical decision-making and client sexual orientation
… understanding clinicians’ existing knowledge of asexuality and should explore how asexual men are perceived by clinicians.
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Alchemists, Epics, and Heroes: The Rhetorical Construction of the Seventeenth Century Experimental Philosopher
… in terms of their growth and prowess, masculine asexuality, and distinctive linguistic style, and between the experimental and the heroic quest in terms of its command over physical space, communal nature, battle against foes, and specialized weaponry. These parallels, combined with careful …
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Social Representations and Women Who Live as Men in Northern Albania
… preserve masculine leadership. The assumption of asexuality and external motivation to live as a man served to assure respondents that burrnesha did not conflict with heteronormativity. This representation revolved around themes of gender essentialism, utility, sacrifice, family collectivism, …
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Evolution of reproductive mode in the scaly-winged bark louse Echmepteryx hageni
… the relationship between genetic diversity and asexuality has received recent attention, the precise nature of this relationship is dependent on the physiological mechanism (e.g. automixis vs. apomixes) and the details of the origin (e.g. endosymbiont infection or hybridogenesis) of asexual …
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Genomic insights into the evolution of the parasitoid Microctonus aethiopoides
… understanding of adaptation in the context of asexuality and host association in M. aethiopoides.
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Systematics, Phylogeography and Ecology of Elaphomycetaceae
… particular, we examined the possible effects of asexuality, trophic niche, dispersal method, and ocean barriers on population structure. In Chapter 2, we examine the systematics and phylogeography of the Elaphomycetaceae, a family consisting of the truffle genus Elaphomyces and the stalked genus …
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Safer without Sex?
… thereby increasing overall colony efficiency. Asexuality is often thought to constitute an evolutionary dead end as compared with sexual reproduction because genetic recombination is limited or nonexistent in parthenogenetic populations. Microsatellite markers were developed to investigate the …