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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"gender performativity"”.
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Truly An Awesome Spectacle: Gender Performativity And The Alienation Effect In Angels In America
… depictions of gay men to deconstruct traditional gender dichotomies. In this thesis, I argue that Kushner has created a continuum of gender performativity to deconstruct these traditional gender dichotomies, thereby empowering the effeminate and disempowering the masculine. I closely examine …
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Bodily Autonomy and Stress Management in Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) Populations Through Body Modification in Alabama
… study is to examine the lived experience of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals in Alabama and to identify a preliminary, explanatory cultural model for bodily autonomy in this population. To develop this model, I explored the intersection of gender identity, bodily autonomy, body …
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A Practice-as-Research Project utilizing Butler’s (1990) Feminist/ Post-structuralist theory of Gender Performativity, as well as Connells (2001) system of Hegemony, Complicity, and Subordination to Interrogate the Formation of Toxic Masculinities through Practice-as-Research and Live Art Methodologies
… toxic masculinity? Although the possibility for gender expression is increasingly becoming more available, Western socio- cultural pressures to construct the male gender identity towards a traditionally heteronormative masculinity remains relatively the same. This project seeks to discover how my …
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"All the world's a stage": 'gendered performativities of 'transitional' masculinities within a South Africa female-to-male (FTM) transsexual context
… international and South Africa, on questions of gender, performativity, and masculinities. In addition, questions of social justice for those marginalized by gender conventions created the context for a qualitative research process in which transgender men's experiences of their subjectivities as …
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Deviant domesticity: an exploration of the spatial arrangement of erotic spaces of webcam models
… performers and how these spaces can be linked to gender performativity.
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Women Without Faces: Exemplary Control in Ovid's Amores 2
… and the application of modern literary and gender theories, such as the idea of gender performativity as proposed by Judith Butler, I argue that the poet implies the closure of erotic elegy as a genre of Roman literature, poising Amores as the ultimate gendered product of its genre. This is …
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The Performance of Gender Archetypes in Political Campaigns
… I examine how congressional candidates present gendered identities on their campaign websites. In my theory of candidate gendered identity, drawn from literature on presentation of the self and gender performativity, I argue that candidates construct their personal identities in relation to …
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Keep Austin Queer: Performativity of Queer Space in Austin, Texas
… Expanding on Judith Butler’s theory of “gender performativity,” the participants’ narratives highlight that notion queer space can be performed in such a way that allows queer space to be created anywhere and in abstract ways by anyone who is queer.
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Regime, reputation and resilience: the queer experience of Cape Town's single-sex schools
… theoretical foundation, in addition to Butler's Gendered Performativity. Research findings revealed the strict school environment, moulding an idealised archetype expected of the students, which aligned closely with heteronormative, middle-class, whiteness. This archetype was upheld through the …
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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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Unraveling selves: A Butlerian reading of managerial subjectives during organizational change.
… is presented as inextricably tied up with gender performativity and managerial subjectivity; despite best efforts the emotional ‘dirt’ of organizations cannot be ordered away; there is a constant seepage and spillage of emotion – as illustrated in the vignettes and profiled in the Butlerian …
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"The real world" : a study of domestic abuse in Salford
Research shows that domestic abuse is a deeply gendered experience with women accounting for the majority of its victims. Its impact on individuals cannot be overstated. This study presents an in-depth examination of the impact of domestic abuse on women in Salford. An ethnographic approach was …
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‘Amore Captus:’ Turning Bedtricks in the Arthurian Canon
… usually not violent, still raises questions of gender, power, and identity, particularly within the Arthurian world’s strict codes of gender performativity.</p> <p>Within Arthurian literature, there are two occasions in which the bedtrick ploy is used with the specific intent of engendering a …
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After-Effects: A Feminist Poststructural Exploration of the Young Adult Series “After” and Discourses of Romanticized Abuse
… first relied on Judith Butler’s (1990) theory of gender performativity to explore how gendered power is constructed and maintained through the romanticization of abuse in the series. Then, I drew on Eve Sedgwick’s (2003) concept of reparative reading, to understand how the After series offers a …
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Masculinities, generations and health: Men's sexual health in Bangladesh
… theory of masculinity, Butler’s theory of gender performativity, and Alldred and Fox’s work on the sexuality-assemblage, were utilised to offer a better understanding of the implications of masculinities for men’s sexual health. A multi-site cross-sectional qualitative study was conducted …
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Queering the body: cross-dressing performance and identity politics in Cantonese opera of post-1950s Hong Kong
… of women’s history, fandom, and social identity (gender, cultural, and national). Taking a musicological, ethnographic, and historical approach, I examine gender performativity as it pertains to those women performers who play the leading male role-type (the wenwusheng) in Cantonese …
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Power and performativity in prison: exploring male sex workers' experiences and performances of gender and sexuality pre/during/post-incarceration
… as a fluid space for sexual expression and gender performativity, which is ironic given the view of prison as punitive and repressive. Sex within the South African prison system is silenced and taboo particularly within the Number prison gang where sex is heavily regulated, ritualized and …
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Creative differences : the performativity of gender in the digital media sector
… a starting point to develop an analysis of the performativity of gender in the digital media sector in the North West of England, during the period 2001–2007. Previous feminist research has addressed this paradox by arguing that gender inequalities in the creative and digital industries are …
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Exploring female representation in the entrepreneurship education curriculum and pedagogy in the further education and training phase
… and growth, highlighting the need for a gender-equitable approach in entrepreneurship education (EE). However, pedagogies and a curriculum influences learners’ self-perceptions and entrepreneurial intentions. Basic EE equips learners with entrepreneurial skills; however, specialised EE is …
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Självets garderobiär : Självreflexiva genuslekar och queer socialpsykologi
In her widely quoted and criticised Gender Trouble, Judith Butler elaborates the idea that gender needs to be understood as performative – a certain kind of “doing” within the regulative realm of a hegemonic heterosexuality that is assumed to govern intelligible bodily configurations. Drawing …
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