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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"female embodiment"”.
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Adolescent Female Embodiment As A Transformational Experience In The Lives of Women: An Empirical Existential-Phenomenological Investigation
… in the literature related to adolescent female development, a changing body may be at the heart of what can make this a time of profound transition for the adolescent girl as she attempts to negotiate alterations in her identity and self-concept, and consequently her social roles.</p><p> …
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A Woman on the Mind: Aspects of Monomaniacal Love (D'annunzio, Flaubert, Wharton)
… of three young men as they search for the female embodiment of the mother-sister-friend-lover image projected by their imaginations.
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Reclaiming Embodiment: An Existential-Phenomenological Exploration of Women’s Tattoos
… Due to historical and present discourses on female embodiment and persistent stigmas and pathologies often associated with tattoos, I sought to generate meaningful knowledge about the lived experiences of women who have voluntarily chosen this form of body modification. I conducted …
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A Feminist Politics of Discursive Embodiment: Rethinking Iris M. Young's Gender Seriality
Divergent forms of female embodiment have prompted contemporary feminist theorists to depart from gender essentialism and draw attention to the heterogeneity of gender performances in the (re)conceptualisation of 'women'. I argue feminist politics may become ossified and repressive if the public …
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Acting Alone: Solo Female Performers, Their American Audiences, and Embodiment
<p>This project focuses on popular female entertainers--Olive Logan, Annie Oakley, Annette Kellerman, Cornelia Otis Skinner, and Gypsy Rose Lee--who wrote and performed solo works at some point from the 1880s through the 1950s. Whether adopting the guise of a monologist, dancer, swimmer, or …
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The Bloody Truth: A Psychological and Cultural Study of Menstruation as Lived and Experienced by Women
The present research explores the negation and affirmation of menstrual life as found in culture, theory, and the concrete experiences of individual women. A phenomenological and hermeneutical thematic analysis is used throughout. In this study, the aspects of culture analyzed include language, …