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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"body projects"”.
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Protecting the Breast and Promoting Femininity: The Breast Cancer Movement's Production of Fear Through a Rhetoric of Risk
… of risk focuses on lifestyle choices, the body, genes, and the environment in order to encourage women to engage in body projects to prevent breast cancer. The attention to risk factors without reliable facts produces fear of the body. Prevention of breast cancer, really impossible, becomes …
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"(Un) Privileged Embodiments of Femininity, (Un) Hegemonic Articulations of Desire: The Shifting Grounds of the New Veiling Trend in Jordan"
… it into a fashion-based and desire affirming body project. In addition to engaging the embodiment of the practice, the dissertation explores its shifting conceptualization and the discourses that shape the different forms of Muslim femininity in the country. Alongside Muslim veiling, the …
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A Feminist Qualitative Study of Female Self-Mutilation
This study is an exploration of the ways that female self-mutilation has been medicalized in Western society and the consequences of this medicalization. The goal of this study is to provide an alternative approach to the way female self-mutilation is understood—one that views self-mutilation not …
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Yummy Mummies, baby bumps and body image : shaping 'Postmodern' pregnancy in Melbourne, Australia
… on a longitudinal study exploring feelings about body image and `fatness' in a sample of 38 pregnant women living in Melbourne. Framed within discourses of social surveillance, biomedicine, and celebrity, the thesis argues that the most important articulations of body image were located in …