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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"female trauma"”.
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Bearing Witness to Female Trauma in Comics: An Analysis of Women in Refrigerators
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Gendered Film Criticism and “Intolerable Images”: Representation of Female Trauma in Brady Corbet’s <em>Vox Lux</em> (2018)
… <em>Vox Lux</em>, focusing on its portrayal of female trauma and the subsequent gendered division in its critical reception. The film centers on Celeste, a survivor of a school shooting who rises to pop stardom, depicting an eighteen-year narrative that transforms her personal trauma into a …
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Trauma and psychophysiologic reactivity: menstrual phase, posttraumatic stress disorder, and performance on a loud tones task
The current study examines the effects of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and menstrual cycle phase on psychophysiologic reactivity to a loud tones task in a population of female trauma survivors. Estradiol and progesterone fluctuate throughout the menstrual cycle; prior research has shown the …
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Altered Stories, Altered Lives: An Exploration of Post Traumatic Growth from A Narrative Perspective with a Strengths Based Focus
<p>Complex trauma is prevalent, underrecognized, and difficult to treat. Left untreated, the ongoing negative consequences impact individuals, families and society. Literature indicates traditional modes of treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder have high attrition rates and are ineffective …
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Representations of Space/Place and their Relationship to Trauma in Contemporary Women’s Writing
… between the fictional representation of female trauma and spatial theory. The trauma narratives reflect issues relevant to traumatised fictional women, as depicted in the following: Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker, Paradise by Toni Morrison, Lucky by Alice Sebold, The …
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An End in Herself: Non-Motherhood in Contemporary French Women's Writing
… homonormative queer paradigm. I show how the female protagonists appeal to female biological determinism and normative affective responses towards the childless body to assert their right to become mothers. I also explore the convergence of racial discrimination in the context of (queer) …
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Lack of Affirmative Consent: Trauma in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies”
… and that Mina has thereby “experienced great trauma and suffered the unspeakable pain alone” (172). If Chiu’s reading contains some truth that Mina was raped, then Mina’s character, choices, and language would be highly effected by that event of trauma. This thesis uses literary trauma theory …