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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"phallic"”.
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Phallic metaphors and feminist perspectives : unsettling the Linnaean Botanical Archive through historiographic technique and studio practice
This practice-based PhD examines the entanglement of gender, botanical science, and domestic aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain through contemporary fine art methods. Taking the botanical collages of Mary Delany (1700–1788) as a historical point of departure, the research situates women’s …
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Phallic/ies and Hi(s)stories: Masculinity and the Black Nationalist Tradition, From Slave Spirituals to Rap Music
… through an analysis of both lyrics and texts, ""Phallic/ies and His(s)tories: Masculinity and the Black Nationalist Tradition, from Slave Spirituals to Rap Music"" traces the unique---and ironic---survival and transformation of a literary political tradition initiated by the male members of an …
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A phallic play: Examining 5<sup>th</sup> century cultural references to illuminate aristophanes' appeal for peace to a modern audience
<p>Aristophanes’ <em>Lysistrata</em> is a popular work for contemporary production. Written in 411 BCE, the work explores what happens when the females of Athens participate in a sex strike in order to coerce the males to end the Peloponnesian War. By exploring cultural references to symbols in …
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Liminal blankness : mixing race and space in monochrome's psychic surface
… ego and its others, confronting what I call the `Phallic reader' (who sees according to the logic and rules of the Phallogocentric system he inhabits) and potentially disturbing his sense of the visible. The Phallic reader, the visible and the seeing ego's sense of how to see, meet in what I call …
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Reflections On Leaking Men And Abject Masculinities: Challenging Representations Of Male Identity In And Through Body-Based Performance Art
… were usually referred to as being phallic. That is, they reinscribed the behaviours, traits and characteristics of normative masculinity into the performance space. The central thrust of this practice-as-research thesis is that while some male artists deconstruct the performance of …
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Revisão sistemática dos Pyrgomorphidae sul-americanos (Orthoptera, Acridoidea)
… Omurini is confirmed based on the study of the phallic complex, D. volxemi is transferred to another genus and two morphological patterns to D. volxemi are registered. Illustrations of the head, thorax, femur, terminal abdominal segments and genitalia of males and females are given as well as a …
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CONSCIOUSNESS IN CLAY
… fecundity, dark openings, negative-spaces, the phallic-symbol, and budding new life may all come to mind; but nothing finitely specific emerges. Using my knowledge of biology and microbiology as fertile ground for shapes and patterns makes this living territory infinite. Truth and beauty reveal …
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Modern Reinterpretations of the Cuckold
… writers did to the cuckold's position as a non-phallic man, because he allowed his wife sexual freedom. Finally, they saw the cuckold as the other side of the artist; through him, they explore the possibility that the Everyman can be a vehicle for reflected action, rather than heroic action. …
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The Logic of Sexuation in Deleuze and Lacan
… Seminar on sexuation with respect to the phallic function, I argue that we should see sexual difference as a kind of generative void that propels the subject forward in its perpetual processes of becoming. Thus we get a materialist but non-reductive account of sexual difference or …
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The functional and cosmetic outcome of the ventral slit procedure for congenital megaprepuce
… were interviewed post-operatively regarding phallic appearance and functionality following surgery. Results: Overall, the ventral slit procedure successfully restored flow, prevented ballooning and alleviated discomfort during voiding in all patients. Parents interviewed were highly satisfied …
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Living Landscapes: John Dunkley and the Cultural Landscape of Colonial Jamaica
… symbols, this paper will primarily address the phallic and yonic symbols evident apparent in the majority of Dunkley's paintings. By hiding erotic symbolism within the landscape, Dunkley anthropomorphizes the natural world, allowing nature to become a narrative in Dunkley’s decolonial image. In …
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"It was the bruise of the war": The Effects of Injury and Trauma on the Construction of Masculinity in Hemingway and Lawrence
… what scholar Peter Balbert outlines as the “phallic imagination,” while turning away from the control and mastery of the will. This choice that Lawrence’s men would make was often prompted by a physical or psychological wounding. By contrast, a physical injury or psychological trauma …
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Graphic Indicators of Sexual Abuse in Children Using the Human Figure Drawing
… emphasized, elaborated belts, wedges, circle and phallic-like objects. These indicators were not found to be conclusive. The results of this study found six notable indicators that occurred more often with the sexually abused children than the non-abused children. They included figures drawn on …
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D. H. Lawrence and the 'Femme Fatale'
… contradictions, as does the declaration of the "phallic mystery" to be the source of all creativity, since the attitude of manly prayer, a symbolic sexual intercourse which pointedly excludes women from communion with the higher energies of the universe, only forces man into a more direct …
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Gender, text, and the body in Martial’s Epigrams
… the text of the epigrams is often figured as a phallic male, but that the text may be figured as a more vulnerable body (e.g., that of a woman, boy, or an emasculated man, “gallus”) to demonstrate moments when the text is most at risk of theft or alteration; this vulnerability is especially …
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American women sculptors in Rome in the mid-nineteenth century: feminist and psychoanalytic readings of a displaced canon
… novel as a limit, embodying an impossible (for phallic cultural discourses) coincidence of femininity and creativity. Read through a matrixial lens, sculptures by Edmonia Lewis intrude uncannily in these canonical narratives of the nineteenth century, as the woman sculptor of colour in the …
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Identidade e alocação taxonômica de duas formas simpátridas de Oxymycterus (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) do sudeste do Brasil: uma avaliação de hipóteses sobre a diversidade do gênero
… by the analyses of qualitative cranial, phallic and externai characters; and 2) a phylogenetic analysis of cytochrome-b mitochondrial gene nucleotide sequences. The morphological and molecular evidence suggest the following conclusions: 1) the two sympatric forms from Viçosa comprise two …
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Variabilidade morfológica e status taxonômico das amostras populacionais do gênero Clyomys (Rodentia: Echimyidae)
… confronted with the qualitative description of phallic morphology and pelage coloration, for a total of 112 specimens from 16 localities. The results indicate that: 1) criteria used to distinguish Clyomys bishopi are contestable, because presumptive diagnostic characters are shared with other …
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The Feral, the Art Object and the Social
… as plaster-filled condom bombs, at once phallic and breast-like, poised to ignite a pyre of social theory texts in a gallery project space, a former factory; haphazard conglomerations of plant matter and urban debris are strung together in bunting on an inner-city community hall. The …
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