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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"female identities"”.
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Frames and cuts : post-millennial representations of West Asian female identities
… visual and written representations of West Asian female identities, and intersects with the fields of postcolonial feminist literary studies, cultural visual studies, and studies in affect theory. More specifically, I examine representations of Afghan and Iranian women in the post-millennial …
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Constructions of Female Identities in Mary Gordon's The Other Side and Maureen Howard's Before My Time
… and their expression through images of the female body as well as a reading of the mother that if tailored on the public image of the Virgin Mary endorsed by patriarchy, proves unsatisfactory. The writers, however, though not launching their explorations beyond the heterosexual matrix, seem …
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Virgins, Mystics, and Reformers: The Creation of Female Constructed Identites in the Medieval and Early Modern Period
… topics. For these women the creation of public identities that would protect them from attacks against their characters were necessary to their success in areas of politics and religious commentary. Aristocratic women who wished to enter into politics tended to construct their public identities …
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"On our way": identities and representations of African women seeking asylum in Ireland
… and representation work hand in hand to force identities, subaltern spaces and bodies to occupy them. Rich biographical data is gathered through mixed art and drama methods over two intensive participatory research projects conducted in a small Irish city. Data analysis critically examines the …
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Quiet Awakening: Spinning Yarns from Granny's Table in the New Rural South
… and contested in-between space and Southern female identities. Family members who raised and nurtured me are the main characters in the stories collected. Using oral history, I documented the place and people that live as a single family entity and collected stories and memories to create a …
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“From Karl Marx to Karl Lagerfeld”: A longitudinal study of how Vogue China navigated and reflected local and global cultural flows between 2005 and 2015
… enabled an interrogation of how modern Chinese female social identities have been constructed in Vogue China’s content and through its production processes, to understand the complex interplay of cultural and global flows in transnational production. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to …
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German Identity in the Court Festivals of the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Holy Roman Empire
… of dynasties and gendered roles, ideals, and identities as noble men and women were visible. This chapter argues that the evidence of these festivals complicates any stark delineation between male and female identities, instead stressing the degree of mutability of these categories as well as …
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Revitalising the representation of Iranian women: A critical and creative exploration of gendered identity in the contemporary art of Iran.
… of a lack of subjectivity and dynamicity in female identities in particular. These burdensome representational practices frustrate many Iranians but can only be discussed explicitly once an individual, such as myself, is outside the context of Iran. This qualitative research project includes …
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Untold Stories and Silenced Voices: Lives Inside a North Georgia Elementary School
… into the lived experiences of Southern, white, female teachers who teach their overwhelmingly Southern, white student populations in a rural/suburban North Georgia elementary school. I explore the obstacles and challenges they face as they experience the negative and crippling effects of the …