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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"feminist narratives"”.
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"Our approach is feminist" : feminist action transcending feminist narratives at Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust
… of division have seeped into the way the feminist movement thinks about feminist activism. Broadly, the initial research problem was to find out what the discord in feminist theory meant for feminist action. Because sexual violence is one of the key issues South African feminists seek to …
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Gender responsive penality: A feminist abolitionist analysis of official penal discourse post Corston report (2007).
… The thesis applies the ideas of Canadian feminist penologist Kelly Hannah-Moffat, who has highlighted the potential mutation of feminist narratives of woman-centeredness and empowerment, to that of strategies of responsibilisation (Hannah-Moffat, 2001).
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Black feminist aesthetics and cosmopolitanism, 1920s-present: Narratives of postcolonial Bildungsroman
… on the recent history of twentieth-century black feminist narratives of artists and performers, living out a cosmopolitan existence in a transnational and postcolonial context, in France, Italy, England, and Mexico. Although living outside of the U.S. in pursuit of racial equality and economic …
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Female Transcendence: Approaching the "Experiénce Extrême" in Contemporary French Horror Cinema
… been popular amongst critics, scholars, and feminist writers, and is often criticized for sensationalizing physical and sexual violence. Building off the preexisting literature on the problematic representation of gender in horror, this thesis looks at New French Extremity films that assault …
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IN PURSUIT OF A BLACK IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICA: CULTURE, CLASS, AND GENDER IN WEDDING REALITY TV SHOWS, TV AUDIENCE COMMENTS, AND WEDDING SPEECHES
… the study examines the TV programs’ audience narratives in online spaces. Analyzing online conversations helps to show how audiences actively engage with and interpret messages disseminated by the TV shows as they talk back to the shows and among themselves. The study also examines wedding …
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GLOBALIZED BACKLASH: WOMEN AGAINST FEMINISM’S NEW MEDIA MATRIX OF (ANTI) FEMINIST TESTIMONY
… phenomenon and space for women to post anti-feminist messages—began gaining notoriety in 2013. By 2015, “Women Against Feminism” expanded to multiple social media platforms, gained thousands of anti-feminist submissions, and received ample support and criticism across news outlets. This study …
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Lyginamoji feministinių naratyvų muzikoje JAV ir Švedijoje analizė /
This thesis explores the feminist narratives present in the music of female artists from Sweden and the United States. It employs two feminist theories, neoliberal feminism and postmodern feminism, to analyze and compare the messages conveyed by musicians in these two countries. Through lyrical and …
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Womanhood & the Body: An investigation of experience, community, and reclamation, through Practice as Research.
… Firstly, I propose a return to the<br/>body in Feminist theory as a way of reclaiming it from the violence of<br/>society and its participants – specifically from the societal violence of<br/>negative ‘body image’ and the physical violence of sexual assault and<br/>male-body bias. Secondly, I …
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Phallic metaphors and feminist perspectives : unsettling the Linnaean Botanical Archive through historiographic technique and studio practice
… decorative and domestic practices within broader feminist historiographic debates, responding to interpretations that dismiss them as trivial or reclaim them as subversive. Drawing on feminist historiography, material culture studies, and archival theory, the project interrogates Carl Linnaeus' …
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Nancy Spero: printing, writing, collaging
… that works by American artist Nancy Spero made feminist interventions into the medium of painting and into exclusionary patriarchal narratives as they are presented in museums. The result is an oeuvre visualizing what Gertrude Stein called a “continuous present,” revealing how misogyny recurs in …
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Performing "Camp, Vamp & Femme Fatale": Revisiting, Reinventing & Retelling the Lives of Post-Death, Retro-Gothic Women
… authors' and cast's reappropriation of cultural narratives about female vampires. The chapter goes on to survey the narrative, cinematic and critical work on women as vampires. As many of the texts were developed as part of the fantasy role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, this chapter also …