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Showing 1 to 20 of 117 for “"the female body"”.
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The Female Body in Roman Visual Culture
This thesis examines the representation of the female body in Roman visual culture, exploring a range of images from mainland Italy that date between the late 1st century BC and the 2nd century AD, from three specific contexts of display: the public, domestic, and funerary. It seeks to understand …
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Relocating the Female Body: "Queering" as Routes for Agency
The representation of the female body throughout literature has a complicated history. My thesis attempts to restructure the historical narrative of the female body through a regional narration. The region is a site for collective experience, it allows for different places, spaces, memories, and …
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Rethinking the female body : gender and nation in Zee Edgell's Belize
… Belize, Central America. My analysis focusses on the roles women's bodies play in their oppression, resistance and transformations of consciousness. The aim is to discover where sexual and political issues intersect, parallel or reinforce each other in the novels. My findings are contextualized in …
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Image, text and the female body : René Magritte and the surrealist publications
… with Rene Magritte's drawing, "Le Viol" (The Rape) on its cover. The image, a view of a woman's head in which her facial features have been replaced by her torso, was meant to shock the viewer out of complacent acceptance of present reality into "surreality," that liberated state of being …
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Maladamatjuate and the theatre of difference : staging the female body in South Africa
… representations of women in South African theatre. I interrogate representations of the female body of' difference' and the theatrical interpretation of complex identity in South Africa. Imperative questions are raised around the renegotiation of perceptions of division and stereotype …
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Probing the politics of the female body: Robyn Orlin's deconstruction of the Classical Ballet canon
… interdisciplinary study predominantly focuses on the South African choreographer Robyn Orlin and her deconstructions of classical ballet. To inform a gender-centred investigation of Orlin’s work, attention is given to the origins of patriarchal dualisms and the way in which these manifest in …
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Metamorphoses of the Butterfly in Classical Antiquity: From the Female Body to the Soul of the Dead
This dissertation explores the wide range of meanings assigned to the butterfly in classical antiquity. Although scholars have exclusively focused on its association with the soul in the Greco-Roman world, the butterfly was assigned a broader and more complex range of figurative meanings, …
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Women's bodies in dramatic confrontations with patriarchal logic : the representation of violence against the female body in contemporary drama by women
In this study, I examine the dramatization of violence against the female body in contemporary drama by women and the purpose behind their representational approaches. I concentrate on the representation of three types that I consider inclusive of other minor forms of violence: the political, the …
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The Adolescent Grotesque: Transgressing Boundaries of Female Sexuality in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John
… Edwidge Danticat and Jamaica Kincaid employ the first-person narrative style in their respective debut novels, <em>Breath, Eyes, Memory </em>and <em>Annie John</em>, to amplify the female adolescent voice and provide unmitigated access to the female adolescent experience. During adolescence, …
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A Taxonomy of Ache
… identities in rural spaces, and violence against the female body.
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Cuerpo, mujer y nación: el Bildungsroman posrevolucionario mexicano
This dissertation analyzes the human body’s representation as a discursive space in three coming of age Mexican novels: Cartucho (1931) by Nellie Campobello, Yo soy mi casa (1957) by Guadalupe Amor, and Balún Canán (1957) by Rosario Castellanos. In these novels, the historical, political, and …
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Genital sensation: abrasive bodies in feminist performance
Genital sensation sets out to review the practice of “cunt art” as a diverse range of feminist performative works that represent the female genitalia and questions whether vulvar works can disrupt the phallocentric models of exclusion, absence and lack. Working from a poststructuralist perspective …
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Representations of gender and subjectivity in 21st century American science fiction television
This thesis interrogates representations of gender and subjectivity within 21st century American science fiction television. It recognises a recent convergence of generic concerns, the shifting contexts of television, and the cultural context of 21st century America. Identifying a recent shift in …
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IN THE SPIN
<p>In the Spin is a semi-autobiographical collection of poetry, dealing primarily with themes of family, marital infidelity, loyalty, the female body, and the tension between political vs. aesthetic existence. This is a collection of poems influenced by the work of French Feminism, Shakespeare and …
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American Beauties: The Cult of the Bosom in Early Republican Art and Society
… project offers new research to introduce the American cult of the bosom, which emerged in the years following the Revolutionary War and helped shape the discourse around women’s roles in the early republic. The cult of the bosom sought to shift the way in which the female body, and …
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<i>Sucker Punch</i> and the Political Problem of Fantasy to Female Representation
One of the main tasks of feminism in the twenty first century is to address the way sexual fantasies of women limit the ability to achieve real world change in gender relations and gain political equality. Fantasy, as the means by which capitalism operates (i.e., it is through the use of fantasy …
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Only Underwater Can We Breathe: The Book of Mermaid Contemplations
… as mermaids, many women feel empowered by the mermaid’s hybrid body. Yet there are darker depths to the mermaid myth that continue to be ignored in contemporary mermaid entertainment. In Hans Christian Andersen’s tale, Disney’s animated film, and almost every other Western mermaid myth, the …
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A cultural illness : women, identity and eating problems in Faith Ringgold's 'Change' series
The female body is a "surface" that is inscribed with a plurality of meanings. It stands as a metaphor of our culture and in relation to the construction of femininity. Residing in a consumer culture obsessed with appearances, or the "proper" representation of self, the female body has become a …
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Man Poems: From Beer and Gears to Grills and Girls
… is a collection of poetry aimed at males between the ages of 20-40. From casual observation, including the spectacular wonders of alcohol and the female body, to the humorous: re-visiting the classic heavy rock hits of the 1980s, the varied works of <em>Man Poems</em> offer an interesting look …
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