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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"seduction"”.
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The Seduction of Feminist Theory
<p>My dissertation, "The Seduction of Feminist Theory," comes out of my research on South African fiction and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and focuses broadly on feminist theory and the question of female power. Traditionally feminist theory has sought to empower women by insisting on …
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Faking it : the seduction of surface
This creative research conflates three of my personal obsessions -- the French Rococo, television, and craft materials -- and culminates with a collection of wearable sculptures that satirize the often-ostentatious masquerade of American mating rituals. Channeling a carnivalesque Rococo spirit, I …
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Make me yours: the psychodynamics of seduction through works of art
… work of Sophie Calle, it could be argued that seduction is also an attribute of the visual arts. But what makes a work of art seductive? My research is concerned with the relational and psychodynamic aspects of the encounter between the work of the art and the viewer; one that, when seduction …
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When is it rape? The role of rape and seduction scripts
… be that individuals have scripts for rape and seduction which overlap on a number dimensions, which may lead certain incidents of rape to be labeled seduction. Three studies were conducted to test the possible role of scripts in labeling an incident rape or not. In study 1, unique and …
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Rigging the world : 3D modeling and the seduction of the real
Evidence from history, archaeology, and the social sciences suggests that making models of the world has anchored our understanding of it since the earliest days. From models of deities, dwellings and weapons to molecules and planetary systems, models have been tools for thinking and imagining, as …
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The Danger of Visual Seduction: Netherlandish Prints of Susanna and the Elders
… etchings, and woodcuts portray the attempted seduction of a provocative female nude by two old men, a scene which explicitly manifests "lasciviousness" and "seductive charm." This dissertation examines why these erotically charged prints of Susanna and the Elders flourished amidst the …
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The Ethnic Nationalist Seduction: Populist Radical Right Parties in Denmark and Sweden
Populist radical right (PRR) political parties have become important players in many European countries. These parties generally have a core ideology of ethnic nationalism supported by antiestablishment populism and sociocultural authoritarianism. PRR parties have managed to find electoral success …
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“The Monster of Her Own Creation”: Freud’s Seduction Theory and Algernon Blackwood’s Jimbo: A Fantasy
… seemingly structured around Freud’s long buried seduction theory, a theory of childhood trauma caused by sexual abuse. The novel serves as a case study, while also illustrating how children’s literature can take an active role in shaping and building upon psychoanalytic theory.</p>
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'A Deadly Menace to All Young Womankind': Seduction and Protective Legislation in America, 1850-1923
<p>"A Deadly Menace to All Young Womankind": Seduction and Protective Legislation in America, 1850-1923 looks at sexual harassment before it was an actionable offense. Although female domestic servants have endured unwanted sexual attention for most of American history, the entry of women into wage …
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‘a Deadly Menace To All Young Womankind’: Seduction And Protective Legislation In America, 1850-1923
<p>“A Deadly Menace to All Young Womankind”: Seduction and Protective Legislation in America, 1850-1923 looks at sexual harassment before it was an actionable offense. Although female domestic servants have endured unwanted sexual attention for most of American history, the entry of women into wage …
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Metamorphosis, entropy, and seduction : selected moments from the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo by Moriyama & Teshima
… by and producers of metamorphosis, entropy, and seduction. The emphasis of the materialist discussion is placed on the conservative socio-political catalysts which arbitrate the practice of architecture in the context of a global capitalism bent on privileging governmental and corporate …
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Tales of Seduction and Betrayal: Host Genes Required for Assault of Salmonella by Bacteriophage P22
The goal of this thesis was to learn if there are host factors encoded by Salmonella typhimurium that phage P22 requires for completion of its life cycle, especially at the step where phage DNA is translocated across the cytoplasmic membrane into the cell. Bacteria with mutations in any of these …
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The Art of Seduction and Affect Economy: Neoliberal Class Struggle and Gender Politics in a Tokyo Host Club
… affect economy in Japan. I illuminate how mutual seduction between hosts and their clients intertwines with Japan's neoliberal policymaking and governance that similarly capitalizes on and mobilizes individual hopes, dreams, and self-motivations to satisfy both their own and national interests. In …
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White Women as the Abused and the Abusers: Secret History and the Seduction Plot’s Ties to Capitalism, Colonialism, and Slavery
… literature and thought in this period. The seduction plot in Secret History is both like and differs from the norms of the seduction plot in early American Literature through its inclusion of a married character and domestic violence. Clara’s escape from domestic violence in the novel shows …
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The discourse of New Zealand and French television advertising: a comparative approach
… can be characterised by a heavy reliance on seduction, to the point that advertising and seduction were almost fused. This reliance on seduction was illustrated in the frequent use of feminine soft signs such as female voice-overs and female seductive characters, and the strong reluctance of …
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Ambivalent Scales: Methods for Reading Scenes of Sexual Violation
… an example of everyday desire evident across the seduction plot and the novel tradition. Rather than seeking to make consent more inclusive to oppressed groups, I read between the binary logics of “yes” or “no,” “force” or “fraud,” “seduction” or “rape,” “compulsion” or “unhindered choice,” …
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The Alluring and Manipulative "Spider Women" of the Silver Screen: Femmes Fatales of the Hard-Boiled Fiction, Classic Noir and Contemporary Noir Periods
… significant to the Bound and The Last Seduction films is additionally explored in this thesis. This thesis will discuss the similarities of the femmes fatales of the '30s/1940s-50s and contemporary noir (1980s-90s), while delving into differences between them.
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Staging Modernism
… develops from Jean Baudrillard's philosophy of seduction. I have focused on the representation of the bachelor and his pad in American men's magazines from the mid-twentieth century. During this period, magazines such as Playboy, Escapade and Rogue created features on modern living to reassure …
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Consensus & Colonialism: critiquing technologies of the (de)colonial project
… in the southern United States. I develop techno-seduction as a term to deconstruct the lure of technological determinism promoting static interpretations of democracy, consensus, and participation, and to describe the impact these interpretations have on intrapersonal and group identity formation.
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Children, Adolescents, and English Witchcraft
… of bewitchment or possession, and victims of seduction into witchcraft. The final section of the thesis deals with children and English witchcraft. In England children tended to play the same roles as described by the demonologists.
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