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Showing 1 to 20 of 606 for “"pleasure"”.
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Pleasure Gardens
This thesis is comprised of a series of paintings that study historical representations of styles, forms and symbols found in gardens. It is less a research project into the history, meaning, and rules of these different gardens throughout time and more of an appreciation, appropriation and …
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Who's Afraid of Female Pleasure?
… a language and performs; acceding to desire and pleasure. My intent is to create an erotic intervention in the content of my images. My research draws from sources that advocate a sexually confident attitude without passivity.
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The pleasure pier of amusements & curios
Collection of short stories.
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Food and Pleasure in Modern American Literature
Food and Pleasure in Modern American Literature is a study of the dynamics of pleasure in literary scenes of food, eating, and hungering in American poetry and novels from the early 20th century to the present. From infamous poetic instances of plums and memorialized moveable feasts in the early …
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The nature, value and paradoxes of pleasure
… Prudential Hedonism consists in the claim that pleasure is the only intrinsic prudential good for the subject’s life and pain the opposite. Formally, Prudential Hedonism claims that pleasantness and painfulness are respectively the only prudential value- and disvalue-makers. In Part 1, …
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The Automatic Prediction of Pleasure and Arousal Ratings
… subjective ratings of music. The dimensions of pleasure and arousal exhibit high reliability. Eighty-five participants’ ratings of 100 song excerpts are used to benchmark the predictive accuracy of several combinations of acoustic preprocessing and statistical learning algorithms. The Euclidean …
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Sexual Pleasure and Enhancement: Implications for College Sexuality Education
… both partnered and solo sexual activities. Pleasure and sexual satisfaction remain largely absent from today's sexuality education curricula, resulting in most young adults not being aware of the importance of "sexual pleasure, including autoeroticism, as a source of physical, psychological, …
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Shopping for Pleasure: The Fashion Lover in Victorian Fiction
… for personal happiness (specifically, the pleasures offered by fashion) in a way that many True Womanhood devotees did not. While these novelists' appreciation for pleasure is steeped in the sense that such pleasure transgresses normative codes of femininity and of morality---very few of …
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Impact of hedonic integration with pain and pleasure stimuli
… specific focus on interaction between pain and pleasure. The system allows creation of stimuli segments with varying degrees of intensity and change based on subject's own discomfort thresholds and provides analysis mechanisms which illustrate the impact of mixing concurrent pain and pleasure.
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For pleasure and profit:Sex Work in Zambia,c.1880-1964
This study reconstructs the history of prostitution in colonial Zambia from about 1880 to 1964. It examines the factors that influenced the development and spread of sex work. The study discusses prostitution in the context of the changing political economy and argues that the changes in this area …
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For pleasure and profit:Sex Work in Zambia,c.1880-1964
This study reconstructs the history of prostitution in colonial Zambia from about 1880 to 1964. It examines the factors that influenced the development and spread of sex work. The study discusses prostitution in the context of the changing political economy and argues that the changes in this area …
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Kinky Reading: Power, Pleasure, and Performance in Middle English Texts
This dissertation expands upon the vibrant field of medieval queer studies by considering literary instances of medieval sexual power play via theory on contemporary BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism). It begins with a chapter outlining the history …
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Black Nerds Pleasure Reading Choices: Race, Representation and Prosocial Skills
… about what African Canadian Black youth read for pleasure. The subject of this study is a group of young people who belong to the Black nerd subculture (aka Blerds) of urban Toronto. The participants are between 16 and 25 years of age and identify as predominantly working class. Research conducted …
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Economies of fantasy, pleasure and desire in explicit sex films
… the field of enquiry into the possible pleasures that these films offer to viewers.
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Void Ecologies: Resistance, Commoning and Pleasure in the Discard Space
<p>This dissertation explores the cultural, theoretical and historical ties between discard spaces (or spaces left “outside systems of spatial configuration and signification” (Dibazar 2016, 212) and practices of re-commoning (or reclaiming resources) that address environmental, racial and gendered …
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Erotic elsewhere: pleasure and fugitive evasion in contemporary Black literature
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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