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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"self-presentations"”.
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Women Supporting Women: Lifestyle Influencers and Branded Femininity
… their social media brand. These individuals are self-branders who see social and economic returns in exchange for their supposedly authentic self-presentations (Abidin 2015; Duffy 2017; Hearn 2008). These self-presentations often rely on hegemonic logics in order to gain popular attention, …
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The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation
… individual OCAs curate their performances and self-presentations, negotiate their social mobility and identities; and reimagine their realities whilst seeking conviviality on the middlestage. The thesis discusses and demonstrates how ethnographic fiction can be used as an essential tool for …
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Male teachers' perceptions of factors influencing career progress: A study of career-passage strategies
… led teachers to a preoccupation with strategic presentations of self for the advancement of their professional career, and examines the detail of this through the utterances of teacher-respondents in the course of tape-recorded interviews with the researcher. Attention is given to respondents' …
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"Conflicts Experienced by Gifted Women: ""Wasting It"" Versus Being Feminine"
… others' needs, at times at a high cost to self; avoidance of arrogant self-presentation and pressure to present modestly; the importance of not challenging the ""natural"" order of male intellectual superiority; and the importance of becoming ""married."" Conflicts between these sets of …
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Viewing Helen of Sparta and Draupadi of Pancala: A Comparative Approach
This dissertation compares the narrative representations of Helen of Sparta in the Iliad and in the Odyssey along with Krishnā- Draupadī of Pāñcāla in the Mahābhārata. The Trojan War in the Iliad and the devastating war in the Mahābhārata reveal a similar myth that appears in the Cypria of the Epic …
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“WE ARE JUST EVERYDAY PEOPLE AND WOMEN”: AN EXAMINATION OF SELF-PRESENTATION OF NBA WIVES AND THE TWO-PERSON CAREER ON INSTAGRAM
… to assume greater control over their public representations shared with large audiences (Sanderson, 2009). While athletes’ use of social media to control their self-presentations has been studied extensively (e.g., GeurinEagleman & Bruch, 2015; Lebel & Danylchuk, 2012; Pegoraro, 2010; Smith & …
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Sacrificial Acts: Martyrdom and Nationhood in Seventeenth-Century Drama
… to the seventeenth century through popular representations of martyrdom on the page and stage. I argue that drama functions as a gateway between religious and secular conceptions of martyrdom; thus, this dissertation charts the transformation of martyrological narratives from early modern …
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Självets garderobiär : Självreflexiva genuslekar och queer socialpsykologi
… as the somewhat obscure idea of subjectivity, self and corporeality, which Butler’s theorizing implies, this study argues that her theoretical framework can be amended with the help of a social psychological thinking of the subject. Taking its point of departure in an understanding of …
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he Seems Like a Good Kid Lessons in Informal Social Control from a Midwestern Peer Court Program
… management and had the tough job making sure the self-presentations of the offenders were authentic when deciding upon sanctions. In all, these youth jurors took their roles seriously and really provided a space where the offender was not seen as a delinquent teen, but instead "a good kid," who …
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Heroic Self-Fashioning in Statius' Thebaid
… greatness that they claim to have in their self-presentations is therefore called into question by the Thebaid’s narrative and its narrator, who condemns the actions of the heroes throughout the poem. Throughout my project, I will be interested in the gap that forms behind the heroic image, …
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Gender Performance and Social Media Platforms: Identity Presentation among Facebook Users in Iraq
… that occur in the participants’ enactment of the self-online compared to the offline self. The study aims to contribute to the current knowledge of identity presentation by focusing on Iraqi users of both genders and explores how they negotiate the multiple pressures placed on them when they use …
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Building creative digital resistance: Latinas engaging in Chicana practices on social media sites
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Mutor i det godas tjänst? : Biståndsarbetare i samtal om vardaglig korruption
In this dissertation, corruption and bribery are investigated as social and moral, rather than economic, phenomena. The analysis concentrates on the ways in which Swedish and Danish aid workers describe their experiences of everyday or 'petty' corruption. How do they view their encounters with …