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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"female nature"”.
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Women in Combat: A Critical Analysis of Responses to the U.S. Military's Recent Inclusion Efforts
… to interpret how interlocutors represent female service members in the "Letters" section of the Marine Corps Gazette and interviews I collected from members of the military community. I find that the most common arguments against women in combat locate gender difference in the physically …
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Allegories of nature, culture, gender : dialogues with Marcel Duchamp's Étant donnés-
… make evident the intersubjective or interactive nature of the art encounter: how the ideological and conceptual positions of the viewer or interlocutor serve to re-write or re-present that object. My first dialogue is from the position of a Duchampian scholar who "strips bare" the artist's …
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The Art of Plantation Authority: Domestic Portraiture in Colonial Virginia
… beings and men as masters over colonial and female nature. Chapter three discusses the influence that enslaved Africans had on portraits of Virginians throughout the colonial period. It argues that the physical presence of enslaved people as audiences caused colonists to erase them from …
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Estructura e ideología en la obra de Ángela Carter y Rikki Ducornet. Escribir desde la posmodernidad
… juxtaposition of psychoanalytical discourses on female identity, and of the Romantic and Surrealistic manifestos about art. The result is the construction of some metafictional intertexts that radically decompose these theoretical systems and reveal their patriarchal bias. In the third chapter …
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Constructing discourses: A postmodern interpretation of a rural public library system
… between fiction and non-fiction; the scientific nature of the Dewey Decimal Classification system; the superiority of professional librarians; the possibility of complete, correct reference transactions; the need to charge penalties to ensure materials are returned on time; the belief that the …
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From 'Hicks' to High Tech: Performative Use in the American Corn Belt
… impacted by unexpressed fundamental views about nature and morality. Statements about these controversies often take the form of proxy arguments that sound 'rational' but mask these unstated ideas, and they often alienate those with opposing views. Current debates over genetically modified …
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Oribasius’ Woman: Medicine, Christianity and Society in Late Antiquity
… interaction. In his borrowed case histories, female subservience in the face of medical authority is expected; whilst the hierarchy of the elite household is shown to dictate his approach to the patients within it. A messier reality of female agency in their own physical and spiritual care is …