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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"disciplining"”.
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Convenient fictions: the disciplining mechanisms of screenplay structure
<p>This thesis takes the recent increase in on-screen and behind-the-scenes representation in Hollywood film and televison as a launching point for a critique of the manner in which contemporary screenwriting paradigms discipline and control progressive representation. It is my contention that …
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Mobility Without Mayhem: Disciplining Mobile America Through Safety
"This dissertation addresses the relationship between culture, discourse, and governing. It focuses on American notions of personal mobility and freedom and argues that they have been increasingly shaped and governed by safety concerns. This is not only evident in public discussions of …
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Disciplining the future. Eugenics and modernization in interwar Romania
"Eugenics, the ideology of controlling the quality and quantity of the human species found many adepts in Romania during the interwar period. They brought to life their various interpretations of eugenics in many embodiments, from programs for physical education and better nutrition, to movements …
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Disciplining Identities: Feminism, New Media, and 21st Century Research Practices
Chapter one grounds the ethnographic methods in feminist theory and claims that the future of feminist work in writing studies must explore new media as a research method. The majority of the chapter examines the connections such work can make with feminist film studies and feminist ethnography, …
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Stylizing, Commodifying, and Disciplining Real Bodies: An Examination of WWE Wrestling
<p>This dissertation examines professional wrestling in the U.S., in particular, live and television shows produced by the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Through the examination, it addresses complex issues of authenticity, audience, commodification, and discipline in contemporary popular …
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Disciplining water – risk, environmental politics, and the return of water infrastructure
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Shaping science with the past : textbooks, history, and the disciplining of genetics
… in which geneticists used history-writing in the disciplining of the foundations, future practitioners, conceptual order, and boundaries of their science. After an introductory chapter identifying some of the ways in which the textbooks and historical accounts of a science may be contributory, …
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Theories of the mind and the disciplining of anthropology, c.1875-1914
This thesis revises key assumptions concerning the organisation of knowledge into social science disciplines at the turn of the twentieth century, taking anthropology as its main case study. Historians of anthropology have approached their subject in a fragmentary manner that centres on national …
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Disciplining Religious Bodies, Forming Secular Bodies: Atatürk, Modern Power and Secular Affect
This work is an investigation into secular and religious male embodiment in Turkey. The explorations in this work are interdisciplinary showing how the European body became coded and formed onto the archetype of a universal secular male body. In particular, I show how the secular male body formed …
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Being Nice is Lethal: Disciplining and Subverting Southern Femininity in Contemporary Southern Popular Culture
<p>This thesis focuses on the performance of southern femininity in contemporary southern popular culture, specifically prescriptive literature and reality television. Both texts provide valuable insight into how southern femininity is disciplined and subverted by individual women and the public. …
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The discipline and disciplining of Margaret Sanger: US birth control rhetoric in the early twentieth century
Margaret Sanger's rhetoric in the US birth control movement demonstrates the social forces that act upon rhetors and women's bodies, conforming both to established gender norms even as they attempt to violate those standards. This project studies Sanger's birth control rhetoric to understand how …
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THE GENEALOGY OF THE PROSTITUTE: DEFINING AND DISCIPLINING PROSTITUTION THROUGH JOURNALISM IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND, 1809-1886
This dissertation is an exploration into the changing definition of a prostitute during the nineteenth century in Britain and the actions taken in response to that changing definition. I argue that different definitions of "prostitute" that emerge during this time correspond to the various means of …
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From re-traumatisation to rightful recourse: designing just and victim-supportive policies for disciplining campus sexual misconduct
The issue of sexual misconduct in universities has come to a head in South Africa in recent years. Among the concerns that have been raised in student protests, scholarly studies, and research by the Department of Higher Education and Training is the question of effective institutional mechanisms …
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From re-traumatisation to rightful recourse: designing just and victim-supportive policies for disciplining campus sexual misconduct
The issue of sexual misconduct in universities has come to a head in South Africa in recent years. Among the concerns that have been raised in student protests, scholarly studies, and research by the Department of Higher Education and Training is the question of effective institutional mechanisms …
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Examination of a behavioral training package for child-abusing parents
… could be used to effectively measure parents’ disciplining attitudes, their feelings about their disciplining practices, and their feelings toward their children.
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Parenting Among Mothers With Bipolar Disorder
… research could explore the causes of problems in disciplining and the ways to handle it.
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Mothering strategies and maternal satisfaction among Latin American, Afro American, and Anglo American groups of at-risk mothers
… a lower use of physical punishment when disciplining a child than its counterparts the Afro American and the Anglo American groups. All three groups of mothers supported the use of reason as a means of disciplining when mothering their child. Most of the participants supported praising …
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Corporal punishment: cultural-historical and socio-cultural practices of teachers in a South African primary school
… pain to children by teachers with the purpose of disciplining them. It is a phenomenon that occurs in South African primary schooling despite its legal abolition two decades ago. Anecdotal evidence suggests that teachers, particularly those who have been culturally exposed to corporal punishment …
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Transcending Private Friendships to Public Hearts: Implications of Interracial Friendships for Public Life
… friendship is critical to developing and disciplining our public hearts.</p><p> While long standing philosophical conceptions and more recent social science perspective of friendship are examined, friendship is conceptualized here using Emerson's notion of "truth" and "tenderness."
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