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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"gender performance"”.
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What a Drag! Censorship and the Criminalization of Alternative Gender Performance
The rise of censorship laws targeting drag performance and gender expression reflects a broader political and ideological effort to regulate LGBTQIA+ visibility and reinforce heteronormative norms. These laws, often justified under child protection rhetoric and morality-based policymaking, rely on …
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Gender performance and political identity at the January 6 Capitol insurrection
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Identities on the Page - Literary Gender Performance in US/Latino Immigrant L
Modern Gender Theory proposes that gender is a behavior based construct that is constantly negotiated and renegotiated interpersonally. This behavior is difficult to analyze due to the fleeting nature of behavior and any knowing recording of behavior is bound to be less than authentic (per the male …
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Carnival Is Woman!: Gender, Performance, and Visual Culture in Contemporary Trinidad Carnival
… articulation impacted the evolution of performance practices and the costume aesthetic in Trinidad Carnival. I</p><p>explore how the predominance of women in Carnival since the 1970s and the bikinibased costume aesthetic that complements this change is suggestive of women's urgent need …
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Gender Performance and Social Media Platforms: Identity Presentation among Facebook Users in Iraq
This thesis investigates individual Iraqis’ performance and use of social network sites, and particularly the Facebook platform to determine the potential challenges and opportunities that this offers when they construct their online identities and use social media in their daily interactions. The …
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Re-Producing Shakespeare, Engendering Anxiety: Women's Cross -Gender Performance and British National Identity
… develops a model for reading women's cross-gender performances of Shakespeare, and the ensuing chapters analyze four representative productions. Chapter Two, ""The King's Many Bodies,"" looks at Fiona Shaw's 1995--96 performance as Richard II. Her interpretation expanded Ernst Kantorowicz's …
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Transgender YouTubers and the Power of Coming Out: Existentialism, Gender Performance, and Self-Actualization
The transgender community has historically faced discrimination and oppression. However, the internet has emerged as a preeminent resource for transgender people to seek community and visibility, with YouTube acting as an especially valuable visual repository of self-representation. The present …
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An ethnographic study of communication and gender performance in a modern day Latino wedding
<p>This study examines how culture, gender roles, and economics intersect at a contemporary Mexican-American wedding. Prior studies have focused on one factor but did not examine how all three can affect a wedding. The bride in this study tries to negotiate challenges between her Mexican-American …
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Gender at Work: The Role of Habitus and Gender-Performance in Service Industry Occupations
This study examines the relationship between gender roles and habitus in service industry occupations. It draws primarily from the works of Pierre Bourdieu and Judith Butler. Data includes an exploratory focus group, non-participant observations and interviews with women currently or formerly …
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New York City Street Theater: Gender, Performance, and the Urban from Plessy to Brown
… dissertation investigates the ordinary, public performances of fictional female characters in novels set on the streets of Manhattan during the years of legal segregation in the United States. I examine a range of actions from bragging to racial passing, and I argue these ordinary performances …
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Making meaning of gender-based violence: Elite subjectivity and gender performance in a Canadian private school
School-related gender-based violence is a global epidemic that affects students at all levels of public and private education. The study outlined in this dissertation started from a need to understand the scope of sexual harassment and sexism in schools to support my daughter through her experience …
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A feminist investigation of gender performance through a reflection on the process of certification in a nontraditional educational leadership program
… this study was to better understand the role of gender performance for aspiring school leaders through a reflection of their journey through the administrative pipeline. The transformation of professional aspirations throughout and following the certification process and during employment was …
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Redefining Blackness in the Age of Whiteness: Mimicry, Ancestry, Gender Performance, and Self-Identity in Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American Literature
… and Hansberry also reveal how race, class, gender, and religion intersect and dictate the lives of black people on a daily basis. Together, Nunez, Wright, and Hansberry reconfigure the often mimicked—or performed—portrayals of black gender roles and sexuality under a white patriarchal …
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The acceptance of womanhood: gender performance and self-actualization in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, and Anne of the island
… of the particularities of human experience, gender is a highly variable aspect of identity that is reliant on both internal and external factors. According to Judith Butler, among these factors is the means by which a given individual performs their gender. Performances that portray gender …
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Giving voice to the extra-normal self with the extra-normal voice: Improvised exploration through the realms of shamanic chaos magick, insight meditation and gender performance
… the illusion of free will, the intersection of gender and timbre theory and the use of the cut-up technique in chaos magick generally and my practice specifically. The second section of the thesis presents in-depth discussion of some of the explicit ritual performances and recordings that I have …
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Saints and Sinners: Saints, Demons, and Constructions of Agender Identity in the Later Middle Ages
Sainthood entails performance — of holiness, of spiritual virtue, of connection to 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 …
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Saints and Sinners: Saints, Demons, and Constructions of Agender Identity in the Later Middle Ages
Sainthood entails performance — of holiness, of spiritual virtue, of connection to 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 …
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Capitalizing on orthodox masculinity: the NFL, capitalism, and the pedagogy of becoming "controlled fury"
… questioning the expectations of speech and gender performance. Using Deleuzian constructs of becoming, gender performance theories, and rhetorics of affect and ambience, this dissertation interrogates the notion of boys-will-be boys and the NFL as a capitalistically motivated institution …
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Places, Please!
… of the theatre and the metaphorical stage of gender performance. Through immersive oil paintings, I seek to visually represent where these two experiences merge, depicting imagery and characters from my childhood staged in theatrical and uncanny environments. In this thesis I explore the …
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The Queer Mummer
… of mummering, The Queer Mummer deconstructs gender norms and homophobic attitudes surrounding being openly queer. The Queer Mummer serves as reminder that mummering, itself, is a custom that queers space. Both drag and mummering are tools for the multi-vocal expression of identity, and both …
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