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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"gender discourse"”.
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Gender, discourse and the public sphere
… that will combine the insights of critical discourse analysis and a range of feminist perspectives on discourse as social practice. This framework is then employed in an investigation of women's participation in a number of 'communities of practice('Eckert and McConnell-Ginet 1992) …
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Heterosexual couples, gender discourse, and the production of relational subjectivity
… investigates the shaping effects of patriarchal discourses on the relational subjectivity of a woman partner; how a woman partner responds to and refuses this shaping; and why and how a man might change his positioning in relation to his partner. The data were generated through focus group …
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GENDER DISCOURSE BEYOND THE BINARY: THE REPRESENTATION OF NON-BINARY IDENTITY, EMBODIMENT AND COMMUNITY ON INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE
… la ricerca combina Corpus-assisted Discourse Analysis (Baker, 2006; Gillings et al., 2023) e Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (Ledin & Machin, 2018; Machin, 2013); sul piano teorico, impiega la teoria del framing (Entman, 1993) e dello stance triangle di Du Bois (2007) per …
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Kind Girls, Evil Sisters, And Wise Women: Coded Gender Discourse In Literary Fairy Tales By German Women In The 19th Century
… these coded critiques fit into specific gendered discourses of the nineteenth century, such as pedagogy for women and girls, scientific theories of gender difference, and the role of women workers in society. These women writers utilized fairy tales as a vehicle for entering into these …
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Thinking through the politics of shame as a contemporary form of colonial discourse : analysing media representations of the Baby Tshepang rape case
… through the mobilization of colonial and gender discourse. Quickly the town was known for its "barbarism" and "savage" existence; a town with no future and a disgrace to the country. Essentialist thinking about woman was used to condemn and blame the mother of baby Tshepang, concretizing …
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From Typologies to Portraits: Catherine Opie's Photographic Manipulations of Physiognomic Imagery
… (1993-1996) parody the constraining binary gender discourse and stereotypes that emanate from it. In her art Opie uses familiar codes and identity discourses associated with traditional portrait photography and typological photographs to promote a postmodern and fluid model of gender …
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Gender, community and identity : women and Afrikaner nationalism in the Volksmoeder discourse of Die Boerevrou (1919-1931)
… accompanied by the articulation of a distinctive gender discourse, the study of which is central to this thesis. Within this discourse, which may be termed the "volksmoeder" discourse, a new identity and new roles were contrived for Afrikaner women. We first investigate the social and historical …
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The socio-legal response(s) to women who kill : a proposed model for acknowledging their agency
… “woman” and “femininity” within criminal legal discourse it will argue that the agency (that is, the ability of an individual to choose to act in a particular way) of women who kill is denied, both passively and actively within criminal legal discourse. It will be argued that denying the agency …
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A relação sintatico-semântica dos verbos e seus argumentos na língua brasileira de sinais (Libras)
… into classes in order to their agreement system: gender, discourse person/number and locative. The research results give a contribution to general language theory because they demonstrate the application of the same principles used to oral languages.
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Women's actions, women’s words: female political and cultural responses to the Argentine state
This thesis explores the interaction of gender and the construction of the Argentine state. It pays particular attention to the emergence of women’s movements as well as women’s writing and the way in which both reflect and express the history of the Argentine state after independence. Beginning …
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Exploring teachers’ use of physical activity in Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) senior secondary physical education
… was adopted by investigating any influence of gender discourse in this process. Given the non-mandatory nature of the selection of VCE Physical Education as a subject by students, and the articulation within the prescribed curriculum that theoretical understanding will be underpinned by …
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(RE)MAKING MESTIZAJE: THE ROLE OF RACE AND GENDER NORMS IN LATINA COLLEGE STUDENTS DISCOURSE
… critique project focused on the race and gender discourse of 20 self-identified Latina community college students between the ages of 18-30. Participants were purposively sampled and recruited from a large community college within the state of New Mexico. Over a period of eight months, two …
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Translation, gender in Disney’s live-action productions: a translation studies perspective on the representation of gender stereotypes in Pinocchio, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast
This study investigates how gender representation is rewritten in Disney’s live-action adaptations of Beauty and the Beast (Condon 2017), Aladdin (Ritchie 2019), and Pinocchio (Zemeckis 2022), through the lens of Translation Studies. It draws on Lefevere’s theory of translation as rewriting, …
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EMPOWERING NARRATIVES OR MARKETING STRATEGY? NIGERIAN AUDIENCE REACTIONS TO FEMVERTISING IN THE “JOY SOAP ‘MY LIFE, MY SCRIPT’ CAMPAIGN”
… campaign reflect, reinforce, or resist dominant gender norms in Nigerian society. Positioned as a form of femvertising, the campaign aims to challenge traditional expectations placed on women and promote narratives of empowerment. However, audience reactions reveal a complex negotiation of …
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The Rhetoric of Distance: Symbolic Capital and Women's Textual Practices in Seventeenth-Century England
… the complex intersections between class and gender discourse in England during the tumultuous years surrounding the Civil War. Much of the work done on women writers in England during the early modern period has stressed such tropes as ""community"" and ""alliance"" to describe relationships …
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"On our way": identities and representations of African women seeking asylum in Ireland
… encounter that re-scripts colonial race/class/gender discourse through a humanitarian alibi to naturalize European/white supremacy, reinscribe patriarchal power and justify racialised incarceration of bodies seeking asylum in the North. This study takes an interdisciplinary approach that …
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Grammatical Gender and Human Differences in Literature: France and England, 1100-1300
This thesis argues that the modern concept of ‘gender’ as a fact of social organisation and an aspect of individual identity is the metaphorisation of a grammatical concept, and that this metaphor has a history. A major inflection point in this history is the period between 1100 and 1300, when the …
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Multiple literacies in a multicultural setting: Contextualizing nontraditional students' appropriation of virtuality and reality
… I look at the acquisition of academic discourse(s) in a basic writing class and at the strategies students bring to the task. I problematize research that takes an undifferentiated approach to gender discourse and to discourse strategies used by basic writers. Instead, I foreground the …
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Destabilizing gender norms: Women in masculine occupations in the Islamic Republic of Iran
… to patriarchal states and their conservative gender ideologies, the narratives of women who participated in this research show that the mechanisms that “gender” and “sexualize” the arena of work against women are multi-faceted and multi-level, and that the concept of state patriarchy does not …
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Women, welfare and the nurturing of Afrikaner nationalism : a social history of the Afrikaanse Christelike Vroue Vereniging, c.1870-1939
… ideology constructed by men are challenged. The gendered construction of nationalism is initially examined by tracing the transition from a religious, evangelical, late nineteenth century gender discourse to an increasingly explicit Afrikaner nationalist discourse in the early twentieth century. …
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