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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"female experience"”.
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Gendering the Pulpit: Religious Discourse and the African -American Female Experience
… Religious Discourse and the African-American Female Experience traces the entry of African-American women into the practice of preaching, focusing on Jarena Lee (1783--185?), Julia Foote (1823--1901), Maria Stewart (1803--1879), and Sojourner Truth (1797--1883). Their entrance took place first …
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Early modern melancholia and present day depression : a comparative study of the female experience in dramatic and medical sources
… between the early modern understanding of female melancholia and women’s depression today. Working with proto-medical treatises and Shakespearean drama from the early modern period (1580-1665), alongside contemporary diagnostic frameworks and psychosocial research (1960-2017), it …
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CRAFTING THE FEVER
… is a collection of poetry investigating the female experience encountering danger. She explores psychic landscapes descended in the unconscious uncanny, the feminine body within the context of horror, and lyrical poems about living in working class communities in San Bernardino. The …
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The effect of pain site on the experience of pain
… and empirical literature relating to male and female experiences of chronic pain is reviewed. Part two is an empirical paper which uses IPA methodology to explore theinfluence of pain site on the female experience of chronic pain. Part three comprises the appendices
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honeypot
… aspects of the human—and specifically the female—experience, such as motherhood, childlessness, oppression, repression, societal expectation, memory, rememory, and mental illness. This full-length collection includes more traditionally structured personal essays and memoir alongside …
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Desire and Agency in the Modern Women's Sonnet
… form both to critique and to re-envision the female experience, particularly in regard to the cultural value of love. In addition to its analysis of poetic form, this dissertation also engages a cultural/feminist critique based on an enduring theme in women's writing: the power of patriarchal …
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Emily Dickinson's Typic Mother From Personal Relationship To Spiritual Metaphor
In her poetry Emily Dickinson portrays the female role in a unique way. Her mother images, in particular, reverse the accepted cultural norms and expand the mother into a heroic, even god-like figure. With the help of the existing body of scholarship on this topic, I have analyzed Dickinson's view …
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Flieder, 1945 / Lilac, 2015 : visibility, memory, gender : writing and re-imagining National Socialist atrocity for the stage
… and Meuselwitz and the fate of the – mostly female – prisoners, forced to work in the factories of the arms manufacturer HASAG. The dissertation itself consists of two parts: In the stage play "Flieder, 1945 / Lilac, 2015", I investigate the history and memory of the camps, factories, and the …
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Virtual Bodies: Probing Fake Flesh
… identity, particularly through the lens of the female experience, employing disruptive erotics to challenge the medical and male gaze and their objectifying tendencies.</p> <p>The work presented aims to provoke thought about the mutable nature of identity in the digital age and to foster a …
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Identifying Contemporary Feminist Awareness Through Art: The History and Role of Empowerment in a Proposed Feminist Art Therapy Working Model
… address the diverse facets of the contemporary female experience. Drawing from the San Francisco Bay Area population, this group would include mothers using the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center services. Centralizing on the theme of empowerment the group would aim to identify the role …
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Photography: Locus Suspectus
… and themes, most notably the subject of the female figure within representation. The body of research presents a representation of the female figure which disrupts and questions notions of the female as object rather than subject. The work aims to present and reflect elements of female …
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Flawed Feminism: An Exploration of Femininity in Contemporary Domestic Noir
<p>Crime fiction is a genre whose female characters are often misunderstood, weak, powerless victims. Domestic noir, a subgenre of crime fiction, does the opposite. Authors of domestic noir fiction dig into the female experiences, seeking to understand and write women characters who represent …
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Exploring the value of 'The Rwandan genocide Film' as a pedagogical tool for raising awareness
… violence and death during the genocide; the female experience of the genocide, with an emphasis on sexual violence; and the abandonment of Rwanda by the West, with a focus on afro-pessimism. Through this analysis, I will argue for the value they possess as a medium in being able to not only …
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Subjugated scientific knowledges : detecting the Victorian female scientist
… to examine the presence and absence of female scientists in Victorian fiction by exploring the female experience of science in fiction and in reality. The impact of culture, society and traditional notions of female ‘knowing’ are explored. Real-life women scientists’ work is considered …
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Between silence and speech : mystical experience in contemporary women's writing
… examines the representation of mysticism and female mystics incontemporary women's writing, with specific reference to fiction by Michele Roberts,Sarah Waters, Margaret Atwood and Janet Frame. Drawing upon a core mysticalproblem (the question of how to articulate the ineffable divine), women's …
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The Power of Coptic Women Saints: Historical and Analytical Study of Coptic Women Saints as Spiritual Models for Coptic Women in the USA and Egypt
… addresses the lack of research concerning Coptic female experience and Coptic female saints through the use of in-depth interviews of 21 Egyptian Coptic women living in Southern California and 21 Egyptian Coptic women living in Egypt. The interviews explore women’s relationships with, and …
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The development and validation of a multidimensional measure of male body dissatisfaction and its preliminary use in exploring the relationship between body dissatisfaction and exercise
… research has focused predominately on female experience of body dissatisfaction (BD). More recently there has been an increased focus upon BD in men. The current literature review indicates that research in BD in men is its infancy compared to BD in females and the review highlights the …
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Living with infertility: an exploratory study of men’s experience
… the infertility realm is mostly dominated by the female experience and on gender differences. Despite the fact that half of the infertility issues are associated with men, research on the male experience remains limited. There has recently been a change since more studies have been carried out, …
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Reclaiming Myth: Feminist Reinterpretations and the Creation of a More Inclusive Narrative
… the literary canon to inclusively reflect human experiences. According to scholars of myth such as Kalloli, Tyagi, and Armstrong, myths are meant to reflect enduring human experiences, making them relatable classics even after thousands of years. However, as the majority of mythological women are …
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