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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"masculine identity"”.
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Performing Methods of Undress towards a Re-Imagined African Masculine Identity
… would ultimately lead to a change in African masculine embodiments. The research identifies and applies multiple references from different applications of embodied resistance: sartorial displays, fashion design, drapery and theories around the gendered body and its relation to clothing for …
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The Un'Gathering of the Tribes: performing, writing, and remaking masculine identity at 1990s alternative rock festivals
… and remaking Lollapalooza-style alternative identity--using both the power of the press and the development and championing of new musical styles--bands, fans, and journalists helped create an array of (sometimes incompatible) alternative styles with their own notions of genre-appropriate …
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Hypermasculine Victim or Psycho-Sexual Perpetrator? The Filmic Representation of Postmodern Masculine Identity-Formation in Taxi Driver and Falling Down
… struggle in delivering a convincingly masculine performance of identity in the postmodern US-American urban by investigating the films' narrative structures and filmic techniques. Furthermore, both visuals are critically examined as instruments to reflect, debunk, and reinforce dominant …
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The incredible disappearing soldier and other adventures in British military recruitment: How is masculine identity constructed by British military recruitment films in the decades 2000–2020?
… and conceptual questions surrounding the body, identity and the gendered military subject. It explores a phenomenon where soldiers and enemy targets are often defocused, or they are absented from staged scenes of military action. Attention is often directed away from the heroic individual, away …
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Men on the margin: onscreen outsiders and American masculinity
… of solitude and alienation as they relate to the masculine identity of men - particularly American men as represented in Hollywood films. The subjects include several outsider characters from history and fiction, which are divided into two primary categories: those men who have rejected society …
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Evil men
… of evil as it relates to the formulation of masculine identity. As means of this exploration, the collection engages a multitude of forms and narrative styles, as well as endeavors to build a broad cultural framework for storytelling.
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A Stage for Gentility and the Performance of the Republican Gentleman: Taverns in Richmond, Virginia from 1780 to 1820
… served as a catalyst for the creation of a new masculine identity during the early American republic: the Republican Gentleman. In particular, I utilize taverns in Richmond, Virginia from 1780 to 1820, in which to understand the significance of gentility. This thesis analyzes how Richmond …
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The rise of the ‘new’ lad in men’s lifestyle magazines : an analysis of GQ front covers throughout the last five decades
This study discusses masculinity and masculine identity portrayed via the magazine medium, but more specifically, with how a particular men’s lifestyle magazine, GQ, has changed its way of representing masculine identity through the last five decades. By studying the design as well as the content …
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Predictors of Self-Injurious Behaviors: A Person by Situation Analysis of Health-Compromising Behavior
… for this disparity is the conformity to masculine gender expectations. As masculine gender expectations are often characterized by displays of toughness and invulnerability, it is important to establish under which conditions these expectations effect health behavior. Study 1 examined the …
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"Power always goes on and on" : the limits of masculinity in Marabou Stork Nightmares and Fight Club
… thesis I argue that a particular form of violent masculine identity emerges from within a hegemonic structure of gender relations. I employ two popular, contemporary novels, Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club (1997) and Irvine Welsh's Marabou Stork Nightmares (1996), to examine a form of masculinity …
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The Dignity of Displacement: Syrian and Palestinian Refugees Negotiating Masculinity and Citizenship in Germany
… of inhospitality and the stigma of refugee identity. The study contributes to growing interest in the impact of displacement on the masculine identity of male refugees but seeks to develop this work by situating masculinity in relation to citizenship. The everyday lives of Syrians and …
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An Unstable Container
… Container </em>explores blackness, queerness, masculine identity, growing up in rural Michigan, and the dangers and pleasures of corporeality. The collection also interrogates the social institutions of marriage and religion, gender roles, and non-traditional family structures.</p>
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Reflections On Leaking Men And Abject Masculinities: Challenging Representations Of Male Identity In And Through Body-Based Performance Art
… emphasis on the deconstruction of normative masculine identities. The focus of these investigations tended to position the image of masculinity within Lacan’s sexuation matrix, and as such, these representations were usually referred to as being phallic. That is, they reinscribed the …
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Masculinity and the whoremonger in mid-eighteenth century memoirs does whoremongering conform to contemporary ideals of masculinity?
… at the complexities and contradictions in masculine identity. Yet despite this recent attention on masculinity there remains a male character type that is overlooked in literary criticism: the whoremonger. Seducers are a regular trope in eighteenth-century literature and have been the …
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"No topic is taboo": PETA's post-feminist pivot to human-centric imagery
… allows PETA to denigrate women to reassert masculine power and identity. I argue PETA chose to do this because of the "crisis of masculinity" that permeates popular media. The campaign reasserts masculine power through the reproduction of hypermasculinity, heteronormativity, and whiteness. …
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Destabilizing Machismo: Masculine and Feminine Constructions in the Theater of Susana Torres Molina
… difference is portrayed as occurring within a masculine point of view, wherein it is explicit that men have the power to define, from a self-referential standpoint, their masculine identity, through contrast with a construction of the female. Rather than consider masculine and feminine as two …
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A Distillation of Resilience: Female Masculinity in Form
… gender identities, and the ways in which female masculine identity has been dislodged from the category of trans identity. This research will shed light on the liminal spaces and magical places of identity in which masculine women dwell. The goal of this thesis is to determine and define common …
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Effects Of Gender Role Violations On Hypermasculine Men's Aggression In A Laboratory Paradigm
… indicated that men who adhere strongly to their masculine identity are more aggressive than their less traditional counterparts and that their aggressive tendencies tend to be amplified when they encounter others who violate traditional gender roles. There have been few studies that examined the …
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The oriental flâneur : Khalil Bey and cosmopolitan experience
… complicate the terms in which nineteenth-century masculine identity is cast. The overall aim is not to define anew such Baudelairian categories as flaneur, dandy, artist, and bohemian, but rather allow the possibility of how a cosmopolitan Oriental like Khalil Bey, who seamlessly navigated between …
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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
… cultural pressures to construct the male gender identity towards a traditionally heteronormative masculinity remains relatively the same. This project seeks to discover how my own masculine identity has conformed to these pressures and thus, encouraged me to pursuit acts of violence that are …
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