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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"embodied identity"”.
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Dispersed Selves, Excessive Flesh: Embodied Identity Flows In Three Middle English Narratives
My dissertation examines the embodied nature of identity circulations in three late fourteenth-century Middle English narratives that operate within and across the generic boundary of romance: The King of Tars, The Siege of Jerusalem, and The Knight's Tale. These narratives take an interest in the …
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Cognitive Fictions: The Evolution of Identity in Late-Nineteenth Century Fiction and Science
… the relationships among aesthetics, science, and embodied identity. Histories of turn-of-the-twentieth century U.S. culture commonly depict a shift from interiorizing to social models of identity: writers first rushed to re-articulate old racial and gender essentialisms in new Darwinian …
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The Embodied Work of Professional Dancers: Understandings of Pain, Injury and Health
… within its specific occupational culture. These embodied workers are at risk of pain, injury and other body-related issues, including image and eating issues, in the pursuit of career goals. In-depth interviews with professional theatrical dancers employed in company settings and working as …
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La Pasionaria: The Ethos of a Leader
… discover how attending to Huerta’s inescapable embodied identities provides a deeper conceptualization of rhetorical strategy. Through the rhetorical analysis of a variety of texts by, and about, Huerta I examine how she was positioned by others as well positions herself through language, and …
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Mouths and meaning : a multisensory, creative and collaborative arts based exploration of food, eating and embodiment towards gaining greater understanding of the experience of eating disorders
… to consider eating disorders as separate to embodied identity and asinfluenced by gender and culture. Yet, academic and linguistic insights alone may noteffectively communicate the distinctive sensuality of embodied subjectivity (Davis,1997; Gillies et al, 2005). This research proposes that …
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Death and Self-Identity in the Contemporary Fantasies of Philip Pullman, Garth Nix, and Steven Erikson
… (in that a self can be in death); or an embodied identity (in that a self can be Death). I apply this framework to contemporary fantasy in case studies of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, Garth Nix’s The Old Kingdom, and Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen to explore how each …
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Queering Addiction
… to the larger public dialogue on the addict’s embodied identity. I am proposing that the addict’s perspective is a valuable resource that can give voice to the often unmentionable.</p> <p>Addicts often negotiate with norms. It is here that we witness their attempts to create a sense of an …
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Opening Our Eyes: How Activist Women in Ecuador Learn Critical Political and Self-Aware Consciousness
… and their relationship to intersectional embodied identities, accompanied by a desire for equality and justice. Critical self-aware consciousness is understood as awareness of: one's own public and subjective identities; agency; how life experiences affect different aspects of the self; …