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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"gender construction"”.
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Poet in a hard hat: Stevie Smith and gender construction
… feminism between essentialists and social constructionists, but also the more current debates that have developed as the constructionist position continues to be explored. She takes an anti-essentialist position as her inaugural point and explores the limits of agency in redefining gender …
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Androgyny and Dominance: Gender Construction in Anaïs Nin's Erotica Series
… but also ask questions about how humans are gendered, and consider the degree to which individuals construct their own gender identities. In exploring these questions, she presages not only the theorists who effectively deconstruct her message, but also the gender-bending society which …
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Gals, guys and gender construction: What's in it for art therapy
… theories, which include critical theory and deconstruction. Critical theory is a social theory integrating the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, which when merged with a feminist praxis (the active relationship between theory and practice) provides a method of critical analysis to …
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Negotiating the boundaries of gender : construction and representation of women in the work of Michael Ondaatje
… and text-based exploration of Michael Ondaatje's construction and representation of female characters in four fictional works: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Coming Through Slaughter, In the Skin of a Lion, and The English Patient. The primary focus is on the demarcating lines or …
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Schooling Gender in Rural Pakistan: An Ethnographic study of the Primary School and its Role in Gender Construction
… focuses on the contribution of schooling to gender construction in rural Sindh Province. It focuses on the Government Main Primary School Khuda Bukhsh Soomro. The school is in Shahdadkot, a rural town in Sindh Province, Pakistan. In principle, education is considered a means to provide …
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"Doing and Viewing Gender" : a lens-model approach to the communicative construction of gender in task-oriented groups
Within the framework of the current gender research this dissertation focuses on applying a joint model and a corresponding method suited for integrating the many dispersed empirical studies on doing and viewing aspects of gender. An application of Brunswik’s lens-model (Brunswik, 1956) to …
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Come As You Are, As I Want You to Be: Grunge/Riot Grrrl Pedagogy and Identity Construction in the Second Year Writing Program
… culture, the notion of the “confessional,” and gender construction. By examining how these identities were constructed, composition students can see how cultural influences mediate their own identity construction. A “grunge/Riot Grrrl” pedagogy is proposed that encourages students to look at how …
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The Construction of Social Identity in Early Iron Age Greek and Eastern Zhou Chinese Burials: A Comparative Approach
… explores the similarities and differences in the construction of individual social identity in the mortuary sphere between Eastern Zhou China (770-256 BC) and Early Iron Age Greece (ca. 1050-650 BC), using Attica and the Jin region as case studies. It aims to understand how social identity is …
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The Visual Exchange: The Intersection of Vision, Gender, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… in fictional and autobiographical texts when gender construction and colonization intersect and create the possibility for reciprocal visual exchange between disparate people. In a visual exchange, the participants actively and meaningfully look at one another, at the same time acknowledging …
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Happily Ever After? Ambiguous Closure in Modernist Children's Literature
… disillusionment, memory, imagination, gender construction, child development, and the disruption of Arcadian myths, I argue that these texts adopt modernist techniques to explore, uphold, or challenge modernity's construction of the child. Embracing modernist indeterminacy and …
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La Vida en el Norte [Life in the North], Three Mexican Women in the Roanoke Valley
… in the women's lives. However, despite the gender construction of Mexican women as passive females, the commonality in the three cases was that they looked for alternatives on how to resist violence by seeking support and resources to escape from it on either side of the border.
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The making of a good woman : analysing children’s narratives on female gender identity and role in pre-school Saudi Arabia
… Arabia (KSA). Exploring the ways in which their gender identities were interpreted and manifested in narratives and stories to identify and analyse the influences, apparent ideologies and discourses that affect female gender construction in pre-school children in the KSA. The data was gathered …
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Saints and Sinners: Saints, Demons, and Constructions of Agender Identity in the Later Middle Ages
… the divine. It also entails the performance of gender. Using Judith Butler’s theory of gender performance, this thesis, focusing on the thirteenth century, examines the hagiographies of six saints — St Margaret, St Juliana, St Martin, St George, St Francis of Assisi, and Christina Mirabilis — to …
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Saints and Sinners: Saints, Demons, and Constructions of Agender Identity in the Later Middle Ages
… the divine. It also entails the performance of gender. Using Judith Butler’s theory of gender performance, this thesis, focusing on the thirteenth century, examines the hagiographies of six saints — St Margaret, St Juliana, St Martin, St George, St Francis of Assisi, and Christina Mirabilis — to …
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Language use and gender in the Italian parliament
This thesis deals with gender construction in the Italian parliament. The increase of female politicians in the public sphere in Italy and throughout the world justifies the investigation of their language use, in relation to that of their male counterparts. In this project, I analyse the use of …
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An investigation into the construction(s) and representation(s) of masculinity(ies) and femininity(ies) in 1 Corinthians
… SRI as an interpretive analytics combined with a gender-critical hermeneutical optic I have traced out some of the ways in which gender is constituted and performed in the discourse of 1 Corinthians. I demonstrate that normative and normalising engendering is operative in the text and that the …
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Tussen mentors en minnaars: ʼn Voorstel vir ʼn nuwe leesmodel vir die lees van werke deur skrywers soos Peter Blum en lna Rousseau, waar ʼn persoonlike verhouding tussen die skrywers bestaan het
… this space. Judith Butler's theories regarding gender construction are also used to inform the interpretation.
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Cuckolds And Codpieces: Early Modern Anxieties In Male Potency
… <em>Two Gentlemen of Verona</em> reveals how gender is materialized and appropriated through the <em>female</em> codpiece, while Shakespeare's <em>The Merry Wives of Windsor</em> and <em>Othello</em> establish the tension between masculine identity and jealousy through the topos of cuckoldry, …
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Body Opera: In Search of the Operatic in the Performance of the Body
… theories concerning performative gender construction to opera and in doing so suggests a reading of opera as potentially queer, gender fluid, subversive and non-normative. This position challenges notions of opera as elitist and pro-establishment. The thesis posits that the …
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The incredible disappearing soldier and other adventures in British military recruitment: How is masculine identity constructed by British military recruitment films in the decades 2000–2020?
… enquiry which explores the visual and discursive construction of masculinities in British military recruitment and promotional films produced during the first two decades of this century. Its title alludes to the 1957 US film The Incredible Shrinking Man, in which the subject becomes smaller and …
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