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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"images of women"”.
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Screens and stereotypes: The transmission of images of women of color on Twitter and television
<p>For decades African-American women and Latinas have lamented the abundance of negative and unrealistic images of them reflected on television. Such images appear to be pervasive today on reality television shows, the most popular television show genre, where many historic negative stereotypes of …
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DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI AND THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE: ENVISIONING AESTHETIC BEAUTY AND THE PAST THROUGH IMAGES OF WOMEN
… Gabriel Rossetti’s knowledge and interpretation of the Italian Renaissance during the 1860s. I argue that there is a relationship between Rossetti’s Aestheticism and his understanding of the Italian Renaissance and that this relationship is visibly manifested in his images of women from the …
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An investigation of images of women : the development of an awareness campaign to boost self-esteem amongst South African women
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree Master of Technology: Graphic Design, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2014.
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Rape myths are the theory--romance novels are the practice: The impact of exposure to images of women in popular culture
… studies examined the links between exposure to images in popular culture and women's rape judgments. Two experiments were conducted, the first of which examined undergraduate women's (N = 204) judgments about rape following priming with images depicted on romance novel covers. Participants were …
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The "toughness conundrum" : contemporary mainstream media images of women in the public sphere during the "war on terror"
… between gender, war, and media constructions of both. Using the theoretical frameworks of the social constructions of gender and the gendered constructions of the public sphere, I have analyzed how Time magazine portrayed Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton in discussions of war. Time …
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Images of Gender and Ethnicity on Fortune Global 500 Company Websites.
<p>This study examined how images of people of different genders and ethnicities were represented on Fortune Global 500 website front-screens. The front-screens produced 975 images of men and women. The images were analyzed using frequency counts and a six-point Body Index Scale.</p><p>A major …
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Depictions of Ethnicity and Gender on the Front Pages of College and University Websites.
<p>This study examined how women and men and people of different ethnicity are represented in the photographs found on the front screens of websites of colleges and universities offering four-year degrees and above in the United States. A content analysis analyzed 1,677 images of men and women …
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War sirens: how the sheet music industry sold World War I
… Information (CPI) sponsored a national culture of war in posters, speeches, and films. Against this war-soaked cultural backdrop, the sheet music industry echoed the pervasive messages of the CPI, often using images of women to appeal to the American people. Connections between sheet music and …
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The Image of Woman as a National Icon in Modern Japanese Art: 1890s-1930s
… place. This thesis aims to analyse the diverse images of women that were primarily produced by artists working under the government regime and to show how these artists seek to resolve through their work the tensions to which modernity, nation and empire give rise. My discussion begins with the …
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Fashion Advertising, Men’s Magazines, and Sex in Advertising: A Critical-Interpretive Study
This study examines sexualized portrayals of women in fashion advertising found in metro-sexual men's magazines as visual rhetoric. Historically, studies on sexual images of women in advertising have focused on content analyses of these images and how they affect women. This study asks how …
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Fashion magazine advertising: the constructions of 'Femininity’ in Seventeen
… representations has become an important part of feminist critical practice. By addressing the power that images of women have to define the feminine in specific ways, this work has contributed to our understanding of 'femininity' as ascribed and not as an intrinsic female quality. …
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Female healers and the boundaries of medical practice in post-plague England
This study is an exploration of the unlicensed and semi-official medical activities of women in England from 1348 to 1500. The emphasis is placed on the diversity of women's medical practice in both urban and rural areas. Some of the issues to be addressed are: the importance of herbalists and wet …
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Un voyage vers une photographie feminine: The gender politics of body and space
… world. The photographs produced are the results of my critical attention as a woman and a feminist to the issues concerning gender, travel and landscape aesthetics. This dissertation is an analysis of my documentary photographs. I am interested in ways in which my photographs correspond with the …
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The sexual marketing of eastern european women through internet pornography
Since the split of the Soviet Union, sexuality in Eastern Europe has developed a new direction in the growth of the sex industry on the Internet. Pornographic images of Eastern European women are internationally available through the Internet. This research analyzes how Russian and Ukrainian women …
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Narrative, Body and gaze; Representations of Action Heroines in Console Video Games and Gamer Subjectivity
… to document the way in which formal features of video games affect the ways in which women are represented in-games or situate video games in the current gender politics of both third-wave feminist and post-feminism. This thesis examines the prevalence of post-feminist in the narrative and …
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"I Wish I Looked Like Her:" the endless pursuit for the ideal body
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the influence that images of models in beauty and fashion magazines had on women's body image satisfaction. Participants were 23 college women. They were randomly assigned to two experimental conditions: ten women were assigned to the fashion …
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"This Beautiful Evil": The Connection between Women, the Natural World, Female Sexuality, and Evil in Western Tradition
Female archetypes reflect a social construction of reality, expressing expected modes of behavior, beliefs, and assumptions about women and are reinforced by repetition of common patterns and themes. Often female archetypes take on the physical characteristics of animals, commune with nature, …
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