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Hernandez, Marcel Luis. "Optimisation models of courtship and reproduction." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297710.
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Crouch, Daryl L. "A strategy for courtship pastoral transitions /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
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Takhar, Amandeep. "How computer culture is mediating courtship' rituals." Thesis, Keele University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522670.
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This thesis explores the role of consumption in cultural change. The research focuses on how consumption of an ethnic online dating website, known as shaadi.com is mediating Sikh courtship rituals. While many recent studies highlight the significance of online dating and virtual communities in a Western context, there has been no detailed exploration of these in relation to the Sikh sub-culture or other similar communities, nor how these sub-cultures experience marriage processes within Western society. The study adopted an interpretivist approach for a longitudinal case study of shaadi.com. In keeping with the interpretivist approach, multiple methods were employed to collate qualitative data from 3rd generation British Sikh members of shaadi.com and their parents. These methods consisted of participant observation and a series of semi-structured in-depth interviews. Findings illustrated the substantial personalised identity conflicts that were encountered by young British Sikhs as they engaged in the processes leading up to marriage. The integration of Eastern and Western courtship rituals within the space of shaadi. com was a significant aspect of the experiential consumption of this site. Young British Sikhs engaged in a journey of hybrid identity discovery, empowered by the characteristics of shaadi. com culture, such as liminality and ritual transference. This enabled them to negotiate issues relating to intergenerational differences, their British Sikh identity and varying degrees of acculturation (their Britishness") and reacculturation (their "Indianess"). Consequently shaadi.com facilitated young Sikhs in reconfiguring their already hybrid identities. In conclusion a theorisation of this virtual space of hybrid identity negotiation in relation to the British Sikh community is proposed, suggesting four hybrid identity positions. The primary contribution of this study has been to introduce an understanding of how cultural change can be mediated by technology and conceptualise how the computer mediates Sikh courtship rituals. Findings illustrate how shaadi.com mediates cultural transformation and the transition of hybrid identities. This research therefore extends existing knowledge in the field of consumer research in three key areas by examining the intersection of consumption and rituals, ethnicity and acculturation.
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Zhang, Wo Su. "Naphthenic Acids Disrupt Courtship in Silurana tropicalis." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41148.
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Neuroendocrine processes coordinate the behavioural, physiological, and seasonal aspects of reproduction. Some chemicals can disrupt the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal axis, impacting reproductive health. Naphthenic acids (NAs), the carboxylic acids in petroleum, are of emerging concern as they contaminate coastlines after oil spills and aquatic ecosystems of the Athabasca oil sands area. They are acutely toxic in fish and tadpoles and possibly endocrine disrupting at sublethal levels. I characterized courtship behaviours and disruption by NAs in the Western clawed frog, Silurana tropicalis. Courtship primarily consists of males producing low trills and achieving amplexus, a mating position where a male clasps a female. Adult frogs were exposed for five days to 20 mg/L NA, a dose low enough to not affect physical activity. In males, absolute calling activity was reduced. Other acoustic parameters such as dominant frequency, click rate, and trill length were not affected. Injecting human chorionic gonadotropin had a slight rescue effect. Vocalization and amplexus were both inhibited after exposure and restored after 2 weeks of recovery. However, calling behaviour did not predict competitive ability or mating success. In females, NA exposure reduced mating success, possibly through decreased attractiveness or receptivity. Receptivity can be indicated by attraction towards the sound of mating calls (phonotaxis), which is cryptic and subjective. I created an apparatus that measures phonotaxis by placing speakers inside traps with infrared lights to detect the time of entry. This novel method is widely applicable for low-visibility observations and studies of choice and preference. This work shows that an aquatic contaminant can reduce mating success in otherwise healthy frogs, and provides a detailed foundation for further investigation.
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Dallas, Mark B. "Risk factors and correlates of courtship violence." Xavier University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1386598246.
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Meissner, Geoffrey Wilson. "Identifying fundamental elements of drosophila courtship behavior /." May be available electronically:, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
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Richmond, Lucinda Steenbergen. "Courtship following divorce: A grounded theory approach." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289220.
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This study used a grounded theory approach to develop a model of courtship following divorce. To be included in this study, individuals had to be: (1) divorced; (2) have a child or children; and (3) currently involved in a committed heterosexual relationship. In-depth interviews were conducted with ten individuals. Data analysis consisted of open coding, axial coding, and selective coding (Strauss & Corbin, 1990). Desire for connection is the basic social process underlying the model of courtship after divorce. Three stages which describe this process emerged in the current study: reconnecting with self, reconnecting with others, and reconnecting with a partner. The first stage, reconnecting with self, was a time when people stepped back and reflected on their divorce/separation experiences and started redefining themselves outside of the marriage relationship that had ended. The second stage, reconnection with others, was when people began going out with potential partners after divorce. For most, this stage was not marked by a conscious decision to start dating again, but it did include feelings of anxiety about dating. The experience of going out with different individuals helped people realize what they were searching for in a relationship and in a partner. This process was described in the intervening condition of realizing what you want, which facilitated movement from the stage of reconnecting with others to the final stage of reconnecting with a partner. Personal support, companionship/friendship, and similarity were the factors that emerged in realizing what you want. The final stage of the model, reconnecting with a partner, described people's involvement in committed postdivorce relationships. This stage involved a conscious effort not to repeat past mistakes and, for many, a belief that there was no need to get remarried. It included cohabitation for some couples, but not for others. Decisions regarding cohabitation were influenced by the presence or absence of children living with them. Children emerged as a contextual condition in the model. Age of the children, the relationship between the partner and children, and a belief that children come first were the key factors that comprised the contextual condition of children in the model.
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Burak, Hannah. "Latinos and the California GOP: A Troubled Courtship." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/670.
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The Republican Party of California faces a serious demographic challenge as a burgeoning Latino population threatens to turn this majority-minority state a darker shade of blue. The purpose of my research and of this thesis is to explore the relationship between Latino voters in California and the Republican Party and to draw conclusions about the most viable and proven means of attracting Latino votes to Republican candidates. The Latino vote is by no means a lost cause for Republicans. My research supports several claims, which are laid out here and discussed throughout the paper. The first is that the Republican Party waits now at a crucial moment of opportunity for failure or survival in California. The next is that there are multiples issues with which the GOP can make inroads with Hispanic communities. The research available leads me to conclude that it matters less what Republicans might say about these issues, and more how and where (and even in what language) they say it.
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O'Hara, Diana. "Sixteenth-century courtship in the diocese of Canterbury." Thesis, University of Kent, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282467.
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O'Neill, Jane. "Youth, sexuality and courtship in Scotland, 1945-80." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25984.
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The decades following the Second World War witnessed a number of important developments affecting young people’s relationships and sexual lives, including the expansion of sex education initiatives and access to reliable contraception. The period has been heralded by some as one of ‘sexual revolution’, led by a rebellious youth whose views and practices were markedly different from those of their parents. This thesis examines the perspectives of young people growing up through these changes in Scotland, uncovering personal perceptions of their impact, or lack thereof, on their own emerging sexual lives. Whilst extant historical studies of sexuality in Scotland have focused on official perspectives and sexual governance, this thesis contributes to a history of sexuality ‘from below’, exploring the experiences of an untapped majority during a time of great change in heterosexual culture. Drawing on a series of oral history interviews with men and women growing up in various regions of Scotland between 1945 and 1980, evaluated alongside memoirs and contemporary surveys of sexual and contraceptive behaviour, this thesis examines the meanings and significance these developments held for young people in practice. These highly personal and subjective sources are key to understanding how young people learned about sexual matters, developed their ideas of appropriate conduct, and managed their early relationships and sexual behaviour. This research uncovers a piecemeal process of sexual learning against an atmosphere of mystery and shame, where educational initiatives and conversations on the topic were not necessarily comfortable or informative. Though growing numbers of young people were engaging in sexual activity outwith marriage, the illicit atmosphere they absorbed while growing up impacted on their perceptions of acceptable behaviour, and their ability to manage risk effectively and experience sex without anxiety. This was a time of flux for Scottish youth, who had to negotiate a path between traditional and liberal pressures, with resilient continuities evident in the form of rigidly gendered scripts defining appropriate behaviour, which continued to inform young people’s courtship practices and sexual experiences throughout the period. Interviewees detailed ongoing practical difficulties, for instance in obtaining contraception, alongside longstanding cultural concerns including the importance of reputation. Risk and fear of pregnancy remained preeminent throughout, despite the arrival of new options for young women in the form of the pill (latterly made available to the unmarried) and legal abortion. Gender, class, religion and region were all potentially significant in determining one’s experience of these issues. In all, the sources analysed here challenge conventional depictions of ‘sexual revolution’ and a confident, rebellious youth, with many interviewees feeling that the ‘Swinging Sixties’ was something that happened elsewhere. Changing patterns of behaviour were evident, but this was neither sudden nor revolutionary, and conventional attitudes to sex and relationships still held remarkable currency for many young people, with a clear separation of sex, marriage and childbearing only gaining ground from the later 1970s.
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Smith, Douglas Bradford. "Intergenerational Transmission of Courtship Violence: A Meta-Analysis." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34366.
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This study examines the relationship between family of origin violence and dating violence. A meta-analytic approach was used to conduct a quantitative review of the relevant research literature. The results are based on data from 35 studies of dating violence. The gender of respondents, whether family of origin violence was witnessed or experienced, and whether dating violence was perpetrated or received were considered as part of the analysis.
The findings suggest a weak to moderate relationship between violence in the family of origin and dating violence. Separate analysis within and between the male and female sub-samples revealed several significant differences. The findings suggest that witnessing inter-parental violence has a stronger relationship with involvement in a violent dating relationship for males, while experiencing violence as a child has a stronger relationship with involvement in a violent dating relationship for females. The findings also suggest that violence in the family of origin may have a stronger relationship with males perpetrating and females receiving violence in dating relationships.Master of Science
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Klodt, Lindsay M. "Courtship and Marriage Rituals in Seventeenth Century England." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1207872854.
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Schinaman, Joseph Moeller. "INVESTIGATING THE MECHANISM OF COURTSHIP ACCEPTANCE IN DROSOPHILA." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1436446103.
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Flanders, Nathan J. "Marriage and mating aspects of marriage spanning the generations /." Online version, 1998. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1998/1998flandersn.pdf.
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Adams, Melissa Marie. "New world courtship transatlantic fiction and the female American /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3373489.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of English, 2009.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-10, Section: A, page: 3850. Advisers: Jonathan Elmer; Deidre Lynch. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 6, 2010).
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Weiner, Jodi Lynne. "The relationship between early family experience and courtship violence." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/794.
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Biehl, Mary Ann. "Epistolary archaeology piecing together "the self" in Victorian-American love letters /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2008/biehl/BiehlM1208.pdf.
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De, Luca Paul Anthony. "Vibratory signalling during courtship in the meadow katydid Conocephalus nigropleurum." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0014/MQ29354.pdf.
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Furtado, Lucia. "Courtship in the personals : how relationship goals affect signaling patterns." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ54285.pdf.
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Wearing-Wilde, Judy. "Reproductive biology of Lepinotus patruelis (Psocoptera) : implications for courtship theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.318457.
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Bates, Catherine. "Courtship and courtliness : studies in Elizabethan courtly language and literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7d87cb87-8146-4d47-a19e-4cc9aee21467.
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In its current sense, courting means 'wooing'; but its original meaning was 'residing at court'. The amorous sense of the word developed from a purely social sense in most major European languages around the turn of the sixteenth century, a time when, according to some historians, Western states were gradually moving toward the genesis of absolutism and the establishment of courts as symbols and agents of centralised monarchical power. This study examines the shift in meaning of the words courtship and to court, seeking the origins of courtship in court society, with particular reference to the court and literature of the Elizabethan period. Chapter 1 charts the traditional association between courts and love, first in the historiography of 'courtly love', and then in historical and sociological accounts of court society. Recent studies have questioned the quasi- Marxist notion that the amorous practices of the court and the 'bourgeois' ideals of harmonious, fruitful marriage were antithetical, and this thesis examines whether the development of 'romantic love' has a courtly as well as a bourgeois provenance. Chapter 2 conducts a lexical study of the semantic change of the verb to court in French, Italian, and English, with an extended synchronic analysis of the word in Elizabethan literature. Chapter 3 goes on to diversify the functional classification required by semantic analysis and considers the implications of courtship as a social, literary and rhetorical act in the works of Lyly and Sidney. It considers the 'humanist' dilemma of a language that was aimed primarily at seduction, and suggests that, in the largely discursive mode of the courtly questione d'amore, courtship could be condoned as a verbalisation of love, and a postponement of the satisfaction of desire. Chapter 4 then moves away from the distinction between humanist and courtly concerns, to examine the practice of courtship at the court of Elizabeth I. It focuses on allegorical representations of Desire in courtly pageants, and suggests that the ambiguities inherent in the 'legitimised' Desire of Elizabethan shows exemplify the situation of poets and courtiers who found themselves at the court of a female sovereign. In chapter 5 discussions of the equivocation inveterate to courtly texts leads to a study of The Faerie Queene, and specifically to Spenser's presentation of courtship and courtly society in the imperialist themes of Book II and their apparent subversion in Book VI. The study concludes with a brief appraisal of Spenser's Amoretti as a model for the kind of courtship that has been under review.
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Greenacre, Mary Louise. "Genetic analysis of courtship behaviour and biological rhythms in Drosophila." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34417.
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Iglesias, Marisa C. "Secret servants : household domestics and courtship in Eliza Haywood's fiction." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002369.
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Dunaway, Marcella. "The need for control in interpersonal relationships and courtship violence." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2002. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-1108102-113255/unrestricted/DunawayM111902a.pdf.
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Hebets, Eileen Anne. "Evolution and function of complex signaling in spider courtship behavior." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/279966.
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Complex signaling, while common throughout the animal kingdom, is poorly understood and generally understudied. This dissertation provides a framework from which one can approach studies of complex signal function. The semantics involved in studies of signal evolution and complex signaling are discussed and complex signaling is broken down into two categories: multiple signals and multimodal signals. While single signals ultimately reflect the pressures of both tactical and strategic design, so must complex signals. I explore hypotheses relating to the function of complex signaling in terms of both tactical and strategic design pressures and then explore hypotheses allowing for the possibility of inter-signal interactions. Predictions of some tactical design hypotheses of complex signaling suggest that multimodal signals can act independently, as back-ups to each other in the presence of environmental noise, or they can interact in a variety of ways. I tested the tactical back-up hypothesis, among others, using the bimodal signaling wolf spider Schizocosa uetzi. Results suggest that the signals are not independent and that there is an inter-signal interaction in which the vibratory signal redirects and focuses a female's attention to the visual signal. A comparative approach explored the tactical and strategic design components of multimodal signaling across three species of Schizocosa, one unimodal signaling species (S. avida, vibration only) and two bimodally signaling species (S. uetzi and S. stridulans). Signal non-independence was found for both bimodally signaling species but the pattern of inter-signal interaction differed between the species. Inter-population interactions between divergent populations that possess independent, derived traits can also be affected by inter-signal interactions. Results from an empirical study using two divergent populations of the jumping spider Habronattus pugillis in inter-populational reciprocal crosses were compared to predictions of different models of sexual selection. Our results show a xenophilic mating preference with one population of females mating more frequently with foreign males than local males, while the second population of females showed no such difference. While this pattern is inconsistent with Fisherian selection and does not completely fit the predictions of pure sensory exploitation, it is completely consistent with one pattern predicted from a process of antagonistic coevolution.
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Dunaway, Marcella Horn. "The Need for Control in Interpersonal Relationships and Courtship Violence." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2002. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/723.
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This study explored an individual's need for control and the level of violence within a dating relationship.
This was a self-report study. Subjects consisted of 175 students from a university in the southern Appalachian region of the U.S. Questionnaires were combined with a scenario depicting violent behavior. Subjects were asked to rate their level of control on the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Inventory (FIRO-B), to complete the Conflict Tactics Scale - revised (CTS-2), and to rate the acceptability of the scenario. Data were analyzed using an ANOVA.
Results did not support the main hypothesis. No relationship was found between control and violent behavior, or between men and women and their expression of control. There was no connection between violence and level of expressed control. Men showed more approval for violence than women. Individuals with higher levels of expressed control were more accepting of violence than others without the need to control.
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Iglesias, Marisa C. "Secret Servants: Household Domestics and Courtship in Eliza Haywood’s Fiction." Scholar Commons, 2008. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/310.
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In Eliza Haywood's fiction, as in eighteenth-century Britain, social restrictions repress the sexual desires of upper class women and men. Therefore, the secret desires of this social class often rely on a different group: domestic servants. Sometimes acting as confidants and other times as active players in the scheming, these servants are privy to the inner secrets of the households in which they live. In Haywood's Love in Excess (1719), Lasselia (1723), Fantomina (1725), and The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751), the servant class plays significant roles in the narratives.
Since the role of the servant is the central issue in my interpretation of Haywood's works, the historical background of the relationship between master and servant in the eighteenth-century is significant to my investigation. Conduct books, a popular genre of the times, were written to offer practical instruction to domestic servants. Haywood's A Present for A Servant Maid; or the Sure Means of gaining Love and Esteem (1743), offers a view of Haywood's own attitude toward the servant class.
In addition to her career as a writer of amorous intrigue, Haywood worked as both actress and playwright, and, because of her experience, elements of the stage can be seen in her works. I explore the influence of the theatre in Haywood's fiction and connect it to the prominent role of servants in her work.
Though Haywood demonstrates that the servants' loyalty can be bought for the highest price, they are not ruled by the same sexual passion as are their employers. This area is of particular interest to my study. I explore whether the motive of financial gain is greater than sexual desire, or whether it is an awareness that aristocrats are not truly available to the servant class that accounts for the differences in erotic responses. Additionally, I explore how servants affect Haywood's narrative by acting as agents of change and argue that the social restrictions placed on the upper class and the awareness of the sexual freedoms the servant class bring master and servant closer together.
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Joyce, Andrea Lee. "Courtship acoustics and mating in Cotesia, a genus of parasitoid wasps." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1503.
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Copas, Leigh. "Courtship, Loe, and Marriage in Othello: Shakespeare's Mockery of Courtly Love." TopSCHOLAR®, 2006. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/449.
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Othello is the forgery of a comedic play turned tragedy, for the play begins where the ordinary comedy would end. While many critics prefer to discuss the racial and exotic aspects of William Shakespeare's tragedy, there are several critics who focus on the role of love and the marital relationships that are also important in terms of interpreting the actions of key characters. Carol Thomas Neely, Maurice Charney, and several other literary critics have focused primarily on the role of marriage and love in Othello. The topic of marriage is generally discussed in terms of the wooing scene (Act 1, scene 3) and the perverted consummation of the marriage rights (Act 5, scene 1), but there is little reflection on the courtly love rules and conventions from most critical approaches. Courtly lovers were a dying breed in Shakespeare's time, yet he employs the use of basic courtly love principles not only in Othello, but in many of his works, particularly comedies like the Merry Wives of Windsor and As You Like Lt. The use of such principles allows ridicule and scorn to take place in the plays, but in Othello, courtly love introduces the themes of cuckoldry and, most importantly, women's loss of power. Women's loss of power is another issue that critics often deconstruct, yet this concept is also linked to the principles of courtly love. Within the courtly love tradition men were often submissive to women—in Chretien de Troyes' Lancelot and Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale," men tended to bend to the will of women, often finding happiness and true love by doing so. The Moor General Othello is first presented as a submissive husband, but as the play progresses, the embarrassment of Desdemona's presumed infidelity begins to unravel his ideas of love. Instead of following the courtly conventions of dealing with adultery, Othello transforms into the Renaissance ideal Petrarchan lover, one who seeks spiritual love over physical love and views sexuality as sinful. The ideas and rules of courtly love contradicted the principles of the Renaissance Petrarchan lover. However, Shakespeare employed the tradition of courtly love to emphasize mockery and satire as overall themes of the play. For example, Othello and Desdemona are presented first and foremost as lovers that uphold the conventions of courtly love—they try to keep their relationship as secretive as possible and Othello appears subject to the will of his beloved. However, later in the play, instead of listening to the guidance and innocent speeches of his beloved, Othello returns to the love philosophies of antiquity. To the philosophers of classic love philosophy, love, and therefore passion, was considered sinful and untrustworthy, especially as a firm foundation for progress. Ultimately, it is Othello's devotion to his militaristic and social images that outweighs his love for Desdemona. Yet, instead of separating from his wife, the Moor feels that the only way to win control over the lord-vassal relationship is to murder her, or as he claims in Act 5, scene 1, to "sacrifice her." Othello depicts the ideas and rules of courtly love outlined and recorded by Andres Capellanus in The Art of Courtly Love. Whilst his contemporaries still dreamed of fair maidens with sparkling eyes, Shakespeare explored other methods and conventions from the Middle Ages and combined, as well as contrasted, them with the newer conventions of the Renaissance. His story is one of anti-courtly love—a story focusing on the death of chivalry, romantic courting, and Othello's inability to love. The play detests, destroys, and mocks the ideas of courtly wooing, marriage, and fidelity. A play of power, Othello reflects such characteristics through a verisimilitude of circumstances, specifically seen in the wooing of Desdemona, the marriage bed of Othello and Desdemona, and the loss of women's power in the play. Tainted with "honorable" murder, jealousy, and the fabliau tradition of cuckoldry, Othello has been preserved as Shakespeare's great tale of love gone awry.
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Brandmeir, Nicholas James. "The Effects of Serotonin on the Courtship Behavior of Drosophilia melanogaster." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2006. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/BrandmeirNJ2006.pdf.
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Hartley, Mary Anne Lilianne. "Morphology of avian ornaments and courtship in peafowl Pavo cristatus (L.)." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269614.
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Adair, Richard Llewellyn. "Regional variations in illegitimacy and courtship patterns in England, 1538-1754." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272634.
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Lo, Waiping Alice. "Courtship violence: a study of the reasons for continuing the relationship." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/80115.
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This paper presents a survey of 422 college students at Virginia Polytechnic & State University on courtship violence. Those who experienced courtship violence were not different from those who had not experienced courtship violence in a list of background and experiential variables. Thirty-nine percent of the respondents were found to have experienced some form of abuse in their dating relationships in the past year. Twenty-nine percent of the respondents claimed they had experienced both abuse and violence in their dating relationships in the past year, and 1.7% of the respondents experienced the most extreme form of violence.
Thirty-two percent of those who had experienced courtship violence would seek outside help when experiencing violence in their dating relationships. These individuals were those who got used to bringing somebody in to help settle conflicts, who felt humiliated after the violence, and who took no immediate action to reconcile after violence.
Among those who did experience some form of courtship violence, 76.8% planned to continue the relationship. If courtship violence occurred in private and remained unnoticed to those individuals who love their partners more, who invest a lot in the relationships, who have higher commitment, who have more conflicts in their relationships, and who take initiative to reconcile the relationships after the violent episodes, the individual involved would be more likely to continue the relationship, despite the presence of violence.Master of Science
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Swezey, Margaret F. Wittig Joseph S. "Courtship and the making of marriage in early Middle English romance." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2482.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.Title from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 5, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English and Comparative Literature." Discipline: English and Comparative Literature; Department/School: English and Comparative Literature.
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Ovadia, Edward Raoul. "The Role Of Social And Modern Media In Romantic Courtship Initiation." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15812.
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The rise of social and modern media has created new ways to engage in courtship, examined in the current thesis. Passive indirect methods, and information gathering strategies, are becoming the new norm. Study One examined the extent to which people use social and modern media for courtship initiation, their motivations, and the types of relationships that people seek to form. Results suggested that indirect courtship was more popular than direct, for both males and females; and that males were more likely to use social media to seek sex, and females to gather information. Participants were more comfortable ascribing higher motivations to others rather than themselves, indicating that others would use social media due to the ability to gather information, ease of use, and the relative indirectness. Participants also felt that a potential date would judge their information gathering more negatively than the participant reported they would judge their date for the same behaviour. Study Two focused on how people use information gathering, and the role that online anonymity plays in fuelling these behaviours. Results reinforced the increasing reliance on indirect courtship, as well as highlighting the importance of anonymity – when removed, participants reported they would adapt their behaviour by reducing information gathering, and increasing strategies to regain anonymity. Several individual difference variables predicted greater information gathering and an increased importance placed on anonymity. Data from both studies on the perceived acceptability of courtship initiation behaviours, ranging from traditional and mundane to highly maladaptive, were also examined using an exploratory factor analysis. This indicated an underlying structure consisting of four different groups of modern courtship behaviours, which could be labelled as ‘indirect or social media’, ‘direct or traditional’, obsessive’, and ‘threatening’, in order of decreasing acceptability.
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Nordell, Shawn Elizabeth 1957. "The courtship and mating behavior of the round stingray, Urolophus halleri." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278149.
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Biting has been observed to be an important component of male mating behavior in several elasmobranch species. I observed male biting during courtship and mating in a population of Urolophus halleri, the round stingray, in the Sea of Cortez. Females allow males to bite the posterior and medial edge of their pectoral fin during courtship yet often appear to struggle to dislodge the male after they have been bitten. During mating the male bites the anterior edge of the females' pectoral fin and the female is passive. In response to this biting behavior females have relatively thicker discs than males and males have sexually dimorphic dentition. Larger adult males have relatively smaller yet more sharply curved teeth than smaller males that may allow them to hold on to females better during courtship. Therefore there is the potential for assortative mating based on male dentition and his ability to hold a female.
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Hibbins, Stanley W. "A dating and courtship preparation course involving both parents and teens of First Baptist Church, North Bay, Ontario, Canada." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.
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Dingmann, Brian Joseph. "Studies of a mate recognition gene and its product from the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/25371.
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Raxworthy, C. J. "The subspecific evolution of courtship behaviour and sexual dimorphism in the smooth newt Triturus vulgaris." Thesis, Open University, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235382.
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Huttunen, S. (Susanna). "Genetic basis of male courtship song traits in Drosophila virilis." Doctoral thesis, University of Oulu, 2003. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9514269527.
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The pattern and the genetic basis of variation in courtship song of D. virilis were studied using three different approaches: a candidate gene, a biometrical and a quantitative trait locus (QTL) method. Nucleotide variation in a candidate song gene, no-on-transientA, was analysed both within the species (D. virilis and D. littoralis) and between the species of the D. virilis group. Nucleotide variation showed no signs of selection and there was no association between the nucleotide or repeat length variation in nonA gene region and the song characters of the D. virilis group species.
Molecular markers (microsatellites) were isolated for D. virilis and their cross-species amplification was tested in all members of the D. virilis group. Intraspecific variation in D. virilis was studied at the phenotypic level in male song characters and at the genetic level in microsatellites. Significant geographic variation was detected in both levels, grouping the strains according to the main continents of the species' distribution range: America, Asia, Europe and Japan. The strains with most extreme song phenotypes were chosen for further analysis. The inheritance of two courtship song characters, the number of pulses in a pulse train (PN) and the length of a pulse train (PTL) was studied by analysing the means and variances of these characters between parental and reciprocal F1, F2 and backcross males. This biometrical analysis showed the genetic basis of these song characters to be polygenic with significant dominance, epistatic and Y-chromosomal effects on both characters. A subset of these data (F2 generation males) were used to conduct a QTL study with the aid of a recombination linkage map constructed for the microsatellites. Composite interval mapping (CIM) revealed significant QTLs, which were shared in both characters. Altogether, significant QTLs, located on the X, 2nd, 3rd and 4th chromosome, were found to affect PN, whereas only QTLs on the 3rd chromsome was found to affect PTL. The effect of the same QTL on the 3rd chromosome on both characters accounted for 31.8% and 49.1% of the mean difference between the parental strains in PN and PTL, respectively. These results suggest the genetic basis for these song characters is caused mainly by autosomal QTLs with a relatively large effect.
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Stanley, Rosamund Ann. "A genetic and geographic study of IPI courtship song in Drosophila melanogaster." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30322.
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In Drosophila melanogaster, the male produces a song during courtship which is characterised by interpulse intervals, (IPIs), which oscillate around a mean of 30-40 ms. The song characteristics of Australian population of D. melanogaster collected from various latitudes were studied. Because a wide variation of IPI was noted, a selection protocol was performed on single isofemale lines. Males producing long or short IPI's were mated to related females, resulting in two lines of flies singing with long and short IPI means. The selected lines were stored for 32 months without further selection. Regular sampling of these lines showed that the IPI difference was maintained. To understand the genetics of IPI, the long and short lines were mated together. The long line was also mated to a line of Kenyan lines which was found to sing with an unusually short IPI. Analysis of the results showed that although father-son realized heritability was low, there were significant autosomal dominance effects which together reduced IPI by 2-3 ms. Competitive mating tests were undertaken. D. melanogaster had a preference for males producing long song. However it was noted that the long IPI males had larger body size. A screening programme of the Australian flies was undertaken to study the relationship between IPI, body size, latitude and altitude. James et al. (1993) had demonstrated a correlation between latitude and body size. This was confirmed by these experiments, with larger flies existing in cooler latitudes. There was also a correlation between IPI and latitude, with flies from higher latitudes singing with longer IPIs. There was no significant correlation between IPI and body size, or IPI and altitude. The search for IPI variants was extended to include flies from Israel and Kenya. The implications of microhabitats and local environments are also discussed.
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Nelson, Brent. "Holy ambition, the rhetoric of courtship in the sermons of John Donne." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0001/NQ41257.pdf.
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Forbes, Joan S. "Women resisting romance : anti-romantic discourse in English courtship fiction, 1775-1820." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364368.
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Jónsson, Björn Thorin. "A detailed analysis of bioacoustical signals and behaviour during Drosphila melanogaster courtship." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.573148.
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In order to gain access to mating partners, male Drosophila melanogaster produce complex multi-modal behaviours during courtship, signalling intention and quality by means of multiple communication signals. An integral part of male courtship behaviour is the production of species-specific 'love songs', acoustic signals consisting of trains of pulses (pulse song) interspersed with sinusoidal humming (sine song). Females receive these songs and other signals and ultimately decide whether the males' courtship is effective or futile. Despite nearly one hundred years of research on the courtship behaviour, little is known about what constitutes successful courtship in general and successful song in particular. To investigate whether differences in spatial and acoustic courtship between copulating and non-copulating males exist, a method was developed to synchronously record the visual and acoustic components of complete courtship sequences. An array of four miniature particle velocity microphones in combination with video recordings was used, and tracking of individual animals and computational processing of the results allowed for the creation of large datasets characterising the spatio-temporal and acoustic actions of the flies at all times. These datasets were used to establish the songs' spectro-temporal characteristics for entire courtship sequences. Successful males differ from unsuccessful ones in producing shorter song pulses and higher-pitched sine songs. Drosophila proxemics - the description of how courting pairs structure their space - shows that social space is sexually dimorphic, and that unsuccessful males exhibit an increased intersexual distance during pulse song production. Furthermore, accurate measurements and calculations of the absolute intensity of songs were performed to quantify them as they are produced by the male's wing and received by the female's ears. Drosophila courtship is a combination of complex behaviours and this work establishes that it is not only the male's song that is important for success, but also his proxemics.
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Bush, Sarah Louise. "Courtship and male parental care in the Mallorcan Midwife toad Alytes muletensis." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359320.
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Sexual selection theory predicts that the sex with the lower parental investment, usually the male, will be the more competitive and more highly adorned sex. Species in which males have a high investment In the form of parental care or nuptial gifts are instructive for testing the predictions of sexual selection theories. In the Mallorcan Midwife toad (Alytes muletensis), the male performs the parental care by carrying the eggs wrapped in a string around his legs. In laboratory experiments, both sexes were active in courtship and females were observed to compete more frequently than males. Both males and females incurred growth costs as a result of reproduction; males were also susceptible to physical injuries including the loss of limbs during brooding. Because the costs of reproduction are high for both sexes, either sex might be expected to exercise choice when finding a mate. Large males were not significantly better at caring for the eggs than were small males, and there was no correlation between female size and clutch size. Both sexes could benefit by choosing large mates, however, because hatchling size was significantly associated with both male size and female size, and large hatchlings are likely to enjoy fitness benefits. No evidence for female mate choice was evident in two-speaker arena experiments, but it is possible that mate choice in this species is mediated by non-acoustic cues. Double clutching, which enables brooding males to reduce the mating cost of providing parental care, is less common in A. muletensis than in the other species of midwife toads. Experiments and models indicated that the low frequency of double clutching is probably due to a time limit which constrains males to obtaining the second clutch within three days of the first. The potential reproductive rate of females was higher than that of males, suggesting that a female-biased OSR is responsible for the observed competition between females, but the reproductive rates of both sexes are expected to vary with the seasons. The resulting shifts in the OSR should be accompanied by seasonal shifts in the competitive sex
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Dornan, Anthony James. "Structure/function analyses of neural circuitry controlling courtship behaviours in Drosophila melanogaster." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3001/.
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There has been a continuous production of high quality reports focussing on fruitless as the genetic switch for male sexual behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster, and on fruitless’s contributions to creating a male-specific neural circuit within the CNS. However it has become increasingly clear that fruitless is not sufficient in itself to specify the full complement of male-specific behavioural repertoires. One obvious genetic candidate that contributes to the male neural circuit is doublesex. doublesex has long been known to be pivotal to the specification of the sexually dimorphic adult soma but it’s function in specifying sex-specific neural substrates has, up till now, been largely unexplored. While fruitless has so far shown to be found only in insects, doublesex is a more ancient gene and, as member of the Dmrt family of genes, is both structurally and functionally conserved throughout the animal kingdom. Thus the study of doublesex offers great potential for understanding the neuronal, developmental and physiological logic underlying innate and species-specific behaviours, in not one but both sexes, in organisms throughout the animal kingdom. Using the novel dsxGAL4 transgenic tool, generated by ends-in homologous recombination at the doublesex locus, I have been able to perform a systematic temporal and spatial survey of doublesex expression both within, and outwith, the nervous system. Excitingly, as doublesex is endogenously expressed in both males and females, this has uncovered profound dimorphic differences in male and female neural substrates. In the male this circuit is shared with fruitless (whose expression is restricted to adult males) and has allowed myself, and my colleagues in the Goodwin lab, through functional behavioural analyses, to gain greater understanding into how male-specific behavioural outputs may be generated. Further though, functional analyses impinging on the novel doublesex female circuitry has allowed us to gain new insight into the (largely unstudied) role that females play in the courtship ritual. The dsx GAL4 transgenic tool, and the insights gained in this study, are also of import in relation to dissecting out mechanisms involved in the post-mating physiological and behavioural changes the female undergoes after successful copulation with a male. As well as this, as doublesex is known to play a pivotal role in establishing the dimorphic morphology of the fly, this tool has begun to allow us an understanding of how the assembly of these dimorphic neural circuits is coordinated with the development, and maintenance, of a sex-specific anatomy and physiology to produce the complete male or female ‘state’; Integrating both mind (fly brain) and body (fly soma).
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Shively, Elizabeth Lauren. "Happily Ever After: Gender, Romance and Relationships in the Christian Courtship Movement." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345389677.
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deCarvalho, Tagide. "The adaptive significance and prevalence of courtship feeding in Hawaiian swordtail crickets." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8501.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Biology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Eckerle, Kevin P. Thompson Charles F. "An experimental analysis of the mating preferences of female house wrens (Troglodytes aedon)." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3064491.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2001.Title from title page screen, viewed March 28, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Charles F. Thompson (chair), Steven A. Juliano, Sabine S. Loew, Angelo P. Capparella, William L. Perry. Includes bibliographical references and abstract. Also available in print.
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Narvaes, Patrícia. "Comportamento territorial e reprodutivo de uma nova espécie de Hylodes (Amphibia, Anura, Leptodactylidae) da Mata Atlântica do sudeste do Brasil." Connect to this title online, 1997. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/41/41133/tde-22032004-102927/.
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