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Showing 1 to 20 of 561 for “"femininity"”.
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Elizabeth Tudor: Reconciling Femininity And Authority
… to men. Elizabeth's dilemma was reconciling her femininity with her sovereignty, most notably concerning her justification for power, the issue of marriage and succession, and the conflict over the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. The speeches Elizabeth presented to Parliament illuminate her …
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Maternal memorable messages in understanding femininity.
… and toward their mindsets concerning femininity (Bem, 1983; Colaner & Rittenour, 2015; Fromme & Eccles, 1996; Golombisky, 2001; Green, 2003; Heisler & Morrison, 2000; Lombardi, 2013; O'Reilly, 2002; Reger, 2001). These memorable messages provide more than directives at the time they …
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Circuits of Desire: Science, Therapy, Trauma, Femininity
… on current configurations of masculinity and femininity within neuroscience, cognitive behavioral therapy, and evolutionary and experimental psychology--and I examine how these prolific discourses are used to support the gendering of the newest low desire diagnoses via an "alternative female …
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Feminism for Sale: Commodity Feminism, Femininity, and Subjectivity
… and commodities, and to this relationship I add femininity, social control, and subject formation in sequence. In thinking through these relationships, I critique a variety of trade and scholarly marketing publications and marketing campaigns. I argue that the theory of commodity feminism …
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Southern Discomfort: Performing Femininity In The Deep South
… installation, Southern Discomfort: Performing Femininity in the Deep South, examines this process and its impact on young girls. The young, blonde, female figure who appears multiple times in my installation reveal girls in these gender-norm “policing” encounters. All of the figures are based …
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Women Supporting Women: Lifestyle Influencers and Branded Femininity
… life. This thesis problematizes the branded femininity of beauty and lifestyle influencer, Estée Lalonde. With over 1.1 million YouTube subscribers and 700,000 followers on Instagram, Lalonde uses the postfeminist credibility she established through performing hegemonic femininity to position …
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Growing Up Tween: Femininity, Masculinity, And Coming Of Age
… and performance of gender reveal conceptions of femininity and masculinity that are exclusive to individuals and groups of individuals. As research suggests, societal gender norms are rooted in heteronormative ideologies suggesting that heterosexuality is ideal, and therefore to appropriately …
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Fashion magazine advertising: the constructions of 'Femininity’ in Seventeen
Examining the ways in which 'femininity' is defined and reproduced via cultural representations has become an important part of feminist critical practice. By addressing the power that images of women have to define the feminine in specific ways, this work has contributed to our understanding of …
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Fashion, Femininity, Frivolity: Marie Antoinette and the Rococco Legacy
<p>In the two hundred years since her death, Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) has became a hugely popular subject in academic scholarship and pop culture alike. Her role as a fashion icon in eighteenth-century France has resulted in monumental influence on contemporary fashion and pop culture aimed at …
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Volunteer Women: Militarized Femininity in the 1916 Easter Rising
… bucked conservative Irish society’s notions of femininity and chose to actively participate in combat, which has led to a skewed narrative that favors their contributions over the contributions of other women. Historians and scholars favor these narratives because they are empowering and act as …
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Unprotected Intercourse: The Value of Motherhood, Ambivalence, Masculinity, and Femininity
… value, higher levels of ambivalence, and high femininity and low masculinity would be correlated with higher frequency of Unprotected Intercourse (UI). An online survey was administered to sexually active women at Texas State University, who were not intending to become pregnant within the next …
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The discrimination of masculinity and femininity with the Mosaic Test
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Monstrous bodies: femininity and agency in Young Adult horror fiction
… the monstrous Other is an iteration of femininity whose similarity to the original implies the possibility of resisting restrictive gender roles. Because in Young Adult horror fiction the monstrous Other is nearly always a sympathetic character, it is fairly easy for the reader or viewer …
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Flawed Feminism: An Exploration of Femininity in Contemporary Domestic Noir
… women characters who represent feminism and femininity despite any shortcomings they have. In Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, I argue that reading this novel through the Critical Feminist Theory changes the interpretation of the female experience. Instead of reading the book for …
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Speed and stasis: femininity and symbolism in John Dos Passos's 1919
… that she oversteps the boundaries of acceptable femininity through speed, resulting in her ultimate death and the death of her unborn child. The second chapter is devoted to Janey Williams and Eleanor Stoddard, who both lose momentum and virtually stop moving at all. They become stagnant …
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Dialogues between Feminists and Jacques Lacan on Female Hysteria and Femininity
… on the relationship between hysteria and femininity. The very existence of hysteria has been called into question by the majority of Anglophone feminists, who have criticized its diagnostic proliferation, claiming that it has negative implications for social change and has played a central …
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