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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"gender constructs"”.
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Lovelife: productions and re-productions of gender constructs and HIV
… of knowledge and values relates to transforming gender relations as they impact on HIV/AIDS in a South African context. The research originated out of a concern that loveLife, the world's largest HIV/AIDS youth education organisation in the world, was possibly replicating gendered inequities in …
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The Futility of Conformity: The Danger of Gender Constructs In the <em>Sound and theFury</em>
… these characters illustrate the danger of social constructs regarding sexuality, the false logic behind class divisions and the absurdity of maintaining appearances that are simply illusions.
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"A Shade Too Unreserved": Destabilizing Sexuality and Gender Constructs of the New Negro Identity in Harlem Renaissance Literature
… and stylistically explored such social constructs through their fiction, Thurman, Larsen, and Hurston simultaneously gave voice to those perspectives unrepresented within such restrictive constructs. This project examines these authors' subversion of such social constructs through the …
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Masters, master, masturbate (a master's debate) - relooking at the home, body and self through seventeenth century Dutch still life painting
… Such dictates of propriety were indicative of gender constructs that relegated women to the private sphere of society and the domestic environment. As an accompaniment to my Masters in Fine Art exhibition titled Masters, Master, Masturbate (A master's debate), this text explores what still life …
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A Gendered Faust : the portrayal of gender in the opera Faust (1859) by Gounod (1818-1893)
This thesis deconstructs the gender symbolism evident in the opera Faust (1859) by Gounod. The objective is to determine the gendered authenticity, originality and contributing nature of the work, acknowledging the Catholic nineteenth-century French context in which it was written. The study aims …
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Women as Perpetrators: Male Rape
… This research paper will explore society’s gender constructs of masculinity and femininity, considering how they contribute to the lack of understanding relating to male victims of SV (Hine, 2021). It will also critically analyse current UK legislation’s reluctance to acknowledge that males …
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Examining the underlying currents of high school girls' perceived STEM self-efficacy and science course options: a mixed methods study
… theory, this study sought to examine how gender and earth science resources inform high school girls' efficacy-activated processes related to their perceptions of potential science course pursuits. This mixed methods study followed a sequential, explanatory design, collecting data from …
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The Dandelion diary : die perdeblom kalender
… own creative processes and is an analysis of the gender constructs projected by my poetry and that of Ingrid Jonker and Anljie Krog . The work of C. G. Jung and secondary interpretations of his theories form the basis of this inquiry. The conflicting pOints of view around the terms anima and …
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Trans-masc tits: why not chop them off. Volume 2: the phenomenology of trans-masculine gender flux in performance
This dissertation tackles the lived experience of gender dysphoria and states of gender flux from my perspective as a trans-masculine artist-performer, capturing my journey through an intimate lens of phenomenological practice as research. The work is presented in two volumes, a practice portfolio …
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A phenomenological inquiry into heterosexual men’s experience of gender identity in couples therapy as client
… ones. Aware of societal changes in terms of gender roles, the participants describe key influencers on them in terms of being a man and as a man in relationship with a woman. The active consideration of the effect of the gender of the couples therapist on therapy is also revealed by …
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Mining masculinities in the Canadian military
Gender is a contested category of analysis, generally understood to describe the characteristics and practices of its end products, men and women. Alternatively, this interdisciplinary study of changing masculinity in the Canadian Forces conceptualizes gender as characterizing the social worlds …
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Women of Color in K-12 Educational Leadership Pursuing Higher-Level District Advancement in Public Education
… on the inequities in leadership along with gender and racial intersections that may contribute to barriers for Women of Color who have already acquired mid-level leadership positions and are seeking opportunities to acquire positions deemed as senior district-level positions. This …
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Lilian Westcott Hale and Nancy Hale: From Victorian to Modern in Art and Text
… Westcott Hale and Nancy Hale both engage the gender constructs of their periods through their work. Lilian Westcott Hale‘s art is divided here into three distinct genres: her still lifes and landscapes express the confining environment the Victorian woman occupied; her idealized women reflect …
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The comradeship of the "Happy Few": Henry James, Edith Wharton, and the pederastic tradition
… expectations both in terms of traditional gender constructs and heteronormativity. This postfeminist analysis of these two authors and their "band of brothers," draws upon the theoretical frameworks conceived by Butler, Riviere, and Girard, all of whom address the performance of gender and …
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Canadian feminist women directors : using the canon for social change
… while the plays’ valorized status masks social constructs that are continually reinforced and surreptitiously naturalized through their repetition. At the crux of this thesis is the notion that while repetition is used as a tool for social instruction, it can also be used as a tool for social …
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Negotiating Marital Care: Co-Creating the Connected Egalitarian Relationship
… due to the continued impact of traditional gender ideologies (Coontz, 2006; Knudson-Martin & Mahoney 2009). The current body of literature reveals little about how specific relational negotiation practices contribute to attaining an equal and connected relationship over time. This study …
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Suspension of Belief
… when we regain cognizance of the mythology that constructs so much of our cultural underpinning? Are there parts of these myths worth holding on to?
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Suspension of Belief
… when we regain cognizance of the mythology that constructs so much of our cultural underpinning? Are there parts of these myths worth holding on to?
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Masculinities in the plays of Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
… masculinity. As no historical studies based on gender theory have been made of Golden Age masculinities, the first two chapters, roughly one third of the dissertation, address this lack. Evidence is drawn from various sources, including manuals written specifically to aid the education of young …