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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"sexual subjectivity"”.
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Sexual subjects : a feminist post-structuralist analysis of female adolescent sexual subjectivity and agency
Research and intervention into female adolescent sexual health in the context of HIV/AIDS have been dominated by individualistic, cognitive perspectives, which present sexuality as a site of rational, individual choice and agency. A paradigm shift has occurred in recent years, advanced with the …
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Playing on-line : sexual subjectivity, gender play and the construction of the dyke SM fantasy
… erotic interplay between the dyke SM fantasy, sexual and gender identity and the computer mediated communication practices of on-line chatting and email correspondence. The dyke SM fantasy, when toyed with in cyberspace produces a multiplicity and fluidity of sexual and gender perspectives and …
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The Other Side of Girls Gone Wild: The Emotional Labor of College Women's Sexual Decision-Making
… process of college women's emotional labor in sexual decision-making and how women talk about their sexual decisions via their negotiation of dominant social discourses. The study seeks to determine how the college experience nurtures women's sexual subjectivity; how it affects their …
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Turning the light on : the negotiation and representation of condom use
… subjects, developing the concept 'safer sexual subjectivity'. The discursive construction of ' safer subjects' was found to work in complex ways with existing social categories such as 'race', class and gender, with particular subjects marked as more 'risky' than others. Talk about condom …
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Renegotiating the sexual self after an HIV-diagnosis: listening to white, European women
Research in the fields of HIV and female sexuality share a contentious past which centred on prevention and often vilified or victimised women. Psychological research, including that in Counselling Psychology (CoP), has proven more sensitive to women’s needs, yet continues to portray the sexual …
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Songs of Deviance and Defiance: Subjectivity, emotions and authenticity in Bhawaiya Folk Songs of North Bengal
… are not always bound to marital or ‘legitimate’ sexual relations. In this research, through the lens of these songs, I wanted to locate those emotions that are often seems deviant but at the same time can defy the normative control, to construct the female subversive subjectivities. To situate …
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Eighteenth-century fiction and the production of shame, 1680-1753
… fiction and the representation of female subjectivity. Chapter 1 argues that Behn’s amatory fiction, Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684), The Fair Jilt (1688), and The History of the Nun (1689), resist the culture of shame and guilt surrounding the sexually available, …
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`Exploring relationships': a study of young people's (hetero)sexual subjectivities, knowledge and practices
… examine the relationships between young people's sexual knowledge, sexual subjectivities and (hetero)sexual practices. It also aims to investigate how young people's articulation and experiences of their sexual knowledge, subjectivities and practices are gendered. A further goal is to re-examine …
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The Sex Chronicles: Young Women’s Recollections of Learning About Sex
… is a pervasive social fear surrounding girls’ sexuality. In 2015, Ontario public schools mandated a new version of sex education. There was, and still is, public outcry by many parents over the new curriculum. The concern? We should be protecting children from, and not exposing them to, sexual …
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'As a Lover' & 'Exploring the Wreck': (Re)creating the lesbian past through historical fiction
CREATIVE COMPONENT <br/>'As a Lover' is a novel about identity, belonging and repression. It tells the story of the impact of the publication and subsequent banning of Radclyffe Hall’s 'The Well of Loneliness' (1928), which is considered to be the first overtly lesbian novel in English. It was …