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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"femininity and masculinity"”.
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The Representation of Femininity and Masculinity in Andrew Lang’s Fairy Book Series (1889-1910)
… thesis is to provide a comprehensive analysis of Andrew Lang’s Fairy Book Series (1889-1910) and examine the representation of femininity and masculinity by using a methodology that includes analysing the language, imagery and symbolism of individual fairy tales from the collection. This thesis …
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Contemporary Perceptions of Femininity and Masculinity and How These Influence Female Athletes’ Actions and Behaviours
… the impact of contemporary perceptions of ‘femininity’ on the experiences, beliefs, and actions of female university athletes. In particular, the paper considers where these expectations are influential to how these female athletes act and behave. The actions and behaviours of the athletes …
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Pagkababae at Pagkalalake (Femininity and Masculinity): Developing a Filipino Gender Trait Inventory and predicting self-esteem and sexism
… social constructionist, symbolic interactionist, and feminist theories. Traits that were identified as being typical of Filipino men and women were grouped into positive (i.e., socially desirable) and negative (i.e., socially undesirable) subscales. Development and validity testing were conducted …
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Gendered Practices and Conceptions in Korean Drumming: On the Negotiation of "Femininity" and "Masculinity" by Korean Female Drummers
… of the practice, which is naturalized and normalized through the field's discourse and performance. At the same time, they seek a "femininity" that may help them to survive in the field. To examine these gendered conceptions and practices, I draw on the ways in which contemporary Korean …
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Clinical aspects of traditional and contemporary narratives of femininity and masculinity in intimate relationships in China today: Jungian and post-Jungian perspectives
To understand and deal with difficulties of contemporary marriages in China, I investigate the notions of masculinity and femininity as they are related to intimate relationships, from depth psychological perspectives. I argue that these notions are not universal, but are, rather, …
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The role of gender relations in decision-making for access to antiretrovirals. A study of the AIDS Support Organisation (TASO) clients, Kampala district, Uganda
The way gender relations influence access to care and treatment particularly access to antiretroviral medicines is a challenge to HIV/AIDS programmes and to the individuals and families with HIV. Gender norms that push women and men to adhere to dominant ideals of femininity and masculinity may …
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The Love Ethic in Selected Works of Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy, and D. H. Lawrence
… roles, sexual morality, reproductive practices, and the psychology of love. The three writers present their love ethics both directly and indirectly. However, we can always deduce their ideas and attitudes towards the concepts of femininity and masculinity; pre- and extra-marital sex, and sexual …
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Content Analysis of Sports Illustrated Articles Depicting Women's and Men's College Basketball
… in basketball, equal representation and portrayal of female athletes in comprehensive media coverage remains in question. This study examines the portrayal of femininity and masculinity in sports magazine articles and explores how they may reinforce hegemonic masculinity. A content …
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Growing Up Tween: Femininity, Masculinity, And Coming Of Age
<p>The construction 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 …
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Disconnects: Expectation and Experience in Intimate Interpersonal Relationships
In the latter part of the 20th century and early 21st century, egalitarian views regarding gender communication have been dominant in the theory and practice of intimate interpersonal communication (IPC). During the same period research continued to report that the healthiest and most satisfying …
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The Feminine Metamorphosis
… collection that explores the ways women adapt and change in order to survive. Eight narratives see their female protagonists grapple with challenges such as the pressures of society, the corrosion of girlhood, or the perils of a difficult home-life. The feminine ability to persevere intrigues …
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The Representation of Gender in Contemporary Chinese Television Advertising: An Analysis of Content, Meaning, and Production
… is portrayed in Chinese television commercials and how these representations reflect the social and cultural contexts of their production and the institutional practices of advertising production personnel. To date, while there have been a plethora of studies on gender representation in …
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Gender values, schooling, and transition to adulthood: a study of female and male pupils from two urban primary schools in Kenya.
Studies on gender and education in Kenya have portrayed girls and women as passive victims of the patriarchal structures of family and school that reflect gender relations within a macro-system that defines femininity and masculinity as exclusive of each other. Analyses of the Kenyan educational …
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The Female Body in Roman Visual Culture
… culture, exploring a range of images from mainland Italy that date between the late 1st century BC and the 2nd century AD, from three specific contexts of display: the public, domestic, and funerary. It seeks to understand how the two parts of its title – ‘the female body’ and ‘Roman visual …
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Performing masculinities and femininities : Grade nine learners' construction of sexual identities in the context of HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS is a pandemic infecting and affecting people throughout the world. South Africa in particular has recently recorded high infection rates. In response to this high infection rates the government, the medical field, and civil society have joined hands in creating awareness. Despite the …
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The relational construction of woman abuse : narratives of gender, subjectivity and violence in South Africa
This study examined how women and men in intimate heterosexual relationships attribute meaning to the man's perpetration of violence against a woman partner. Narrative interviews were conducted with women and men who constituted 15 heterosexual couples (30 individual women and men). Narrative …
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Threats to success in mathematics: examining the combined effects of choking under pressure and stereotype threat
Girls and boys do not choose to go into mathematics dependent careers at the same rate. Understanding this gap is more complicated than simply looking at performance differences between boys and girls. This disparity in career choice could stem from differences in motivation that can be seen as …
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Ourself Behind Ourself, Concealed: The Thematic Importance Of Doubling In Nineteenth And Early Twentieth-Century American Gothic Literature
… venue for the expression of societal anxieties and frustrations, especially those concerning power, patriarchy, and the socially sanctioned roles of women (i.e. to be obediently passive wives and nurturing mothers) and men (i.e. to be representatives of strength, rationality, morality, and …
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Selling wellness : the cultural politics of holistic health in the U.S.
Currently, holistic health and lifestyle medicine are growing sectors of the U.S. health care market (Fadlon 2005). The term "holistic" entered the U.S. medical discourse in the 1970s and refers to the treatment of the whole person as opposed to the biomedical treatment of the medical condition …
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Taking Time and Making Journeys : Narratives on Self and the Other among Backpackers
… for identity work, for expressing individuality and a ‘strong character’. Rather than merely being a parenthetic detour in time and space a backpacker’s trip to the tropics can be understood as a creative effort by the individual to regain the control over time and space thought to be lost in …
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