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Ploeg, Ymkje Hilda van der. "Prosthetic bodies female embodiment in reproductive technologies /." [Maastricht : Maastricht : Universiteit Maastricht] ; University Library, Maastricht University [Host], 1998. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=6824.

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Pearson, Joanne Clare. "Female bodies on the move : Isadora Duncan and H.D." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404626.

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O'Riordan, Kate. "Case studies of female bodies in computer mediated culture." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.247821.

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This thesis uses the representation of the female body in digital media to examine cultural formations in cyberculture. Through a variety of case studies it analyses gendered bodies across different'new media' domains. The thesis is rooted in computer mediated communication and the history of analysis that has accompanied text-based formations. The theoretical claims of the thesis include: " Computer mediated communication has become part of a visual culture and requires tools of visual analysis in addition to those of textual analysis. " The terms new technologies, internet and cyberspace, ar
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Berk, Anita. "Female bodies as text : disobedient representations of the witch." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13895.

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Bibliography: leaf 40.<br>This paper is an exploration and explication of the ideas and theories that served to fire the journey of my thesis production, Hex, from conception through to performance. As a Masters student in Theatre-making with a leaning towards performance, my particular area of focus is the physical: female bodies as text. To delineate this further, I concentrate on disobedient representations of the witch: what are these; what do they mean and effect in our world and within women themselves? Since as Theatre-maker I variously switched mode from director (in the initial concep
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Snively, Judith. "Female bodies, male politics : women and the female circumcision controversy in Kenyan colonial discourse." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26124.

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At the end of the 1920s in Kenya, Protestant Missionaries, government authorities and Christian Kikuyu clashed when missionaries sought to prohibit female circumcision among their adherents. The mission discourse emphasised the negative moral and physical effects of female circumcision on individual women, while that of the government stressed the function of female circumcision in maintaining the body-politic. The colonial discourse, as whole, is marked by a striking division between issues concerning women and those deemed political. Thus, women seldom appear as actors in historical narrativ
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Persson, Linda. "Women and Their Bodies in Classical Greece : The Hippocratic Female." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-296320.

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The Hippocratic Corpus is a collection of approximately sixty medical treatises that were written by the Hippocratics during the Classical period of Greece. The Hippocratics were a group of practicing physicians and are today considered as one of the first Greek scientists. The treatises in the Corpus are unique and show us what the Hippocratics believed about the human body and how it functioned. This essay aims to investigate the Hippocratics’ knowledge of the female physiology, their reproductive organs and if there is a connection between the Hippocratics’ knowledge and the society’s view
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Kulperger, Shelley. "Disorienting geographies, unsettled bodies : Anglo-Canadian female Gothic / by Shelley Kulperger." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18401.pdf.

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Chasen, Laura Elizabeth. "Dislocated subjects transnational forced prostitution, African female bodies and corporeal resistance /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2010. http://worldcat.org/oclc/649823667/viewonline.

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Landry, Olivia Ryan. "The female corpse: sacrificed bodies of Enlightenment tragedy and Nazi cinema." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22047.

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This thesis approaches the topic of feminine representation through comparative readings of two eighteenth-century Enlightenment tragedies, G. E. Lessing's Emilia Galotti (1772) and Charlotte von Stein's Dido (1794), as well as two twentieth-century Nazi films, Leni Riefenstahl's The Blue Light (1932) and Veit Harlan's Jew Süss (1940). In addition to the obvious diachronic dimension of this project, my framework for examination is thematically structured. Drawing on numerous theories and secondary sources, I will investigate these texts under three specific topics – namely, female sexuality,
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Walker, Amber. "Shakin' Exploitation: Black Female Bodies in Contemporary Hip-Hop and Pornography." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1325121686.

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Griffin, Meridith Brooke. "Health consciousness, running and female bodies : an ethnographic study of 'active ageing'." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3617.

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This thesis is composed of an ethnography of the Women’s Running Network (WRN) – a non-elite women’s-only running group – and explores participant’s lived experiences of health and ageing (and the intersection of these) in this physical context. In-depth interviews (n = 25), inclusive of case studies (n = 3), with women between the ages of 29 and 66 allowed insight into the subjective contours of participant’s lives, and their particular biographical trajectories culminating in WRN participation. Several types of narrative analyses were applied to the emergent data, and results from these reve
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Gauthier, Nicole. "Changing bodies, changing selves?, alterations in female gendered and embodied identity during pregnancy." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ61895.pdf.

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Rowold, Katherina Judith. "The academic woman : minds, bodies and education in Britain and Germany, c.1860 - c.1914." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362433.

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Luksaite, Eva. "The intimate state : female sterilisation, reproductive agency and operable bodies in rural North India." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13511.

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Female sterilisation or tubal ligation remains the most promoted and prevalent method of contraception in India today, especially among the rural and urban poor. This thesis provides an ethnographic account of poor women’s experiences of the sterilisation procedure in order to investigate the intricate relationship between the state, biomedicine and poor women in rural North India. The thesis draws on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in a mixed-caste village in Southern Rajasthan. Besides engaging with women in their daily lives in the village, participant observation was also carried out i
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Pike, Holly Jane. "No/bodies : carcerality, corporeality, and subjectivity in the life narratives by Franco's female prisoners." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5939/.

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This thesis examines female political imprisonment during the early part of Spain’s Franco regime through the life narratives by Carlota O’Neill, Tomasa Cuevas, Juana Doña, and Soledad Real published during the transition. It proposes the foregrounding notion of the ‘No/Body’ to describe the literary, social, and historical eradication and exemplification of the female prisoner as deviant. Using critical theories of genre, gender and sexuality, sociology and philosophy, and human geography, it discusses the concepts of subject, abject, spatiality, habitus, and the mirror to analyse the interse
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Dwyer, Kathleen Angelique. "Performing nation in the twenty first century: female bodies and voices of greater Mexico." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2865.

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This dissertation analyzes how three female artists of Greater Mexico (the Mexican cabaret artist Astrid Hadad, the Mexican-American singer Lila Downs and the Chicana digital artist Alma López) construct and represent national, ethnic, and gender identity in their performances within a border and/or transnational context. I explore how their choice of art form facilitates the construction of their own identities. My theoretical methodology embraces a cultural-studies approach to dramatic, visual and performative texts. All of these play an important role in redefining female Chicana/Mexican- A
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Casey-Williams, Erin V. "The Queen's Three Bodies| Representations Of Female Sovereignty In Early Modern Women's Writing, 1588-1688." Thesis, State University of New York at Albany, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3738504.

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<p> Sovereignty, a mechanism of power around which a state is organized, has emerged as a way to understand the twenty-first-century biopolitical moment. Thinkers including Michel Foucault, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, and Roberto Esposito find sovereignty essential to understanding modern regimes of bodily domination and control. These thinkers look back to early modern England as an originary moment when older theories of sovereign power became attached to emerging modern political systems. Despite the sophistication of these arguments, however, no recent biopolitical theory accounts for th
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Weber, Megan M. "PATRIARCHAL TYRANTS AND FEMALE BODIES: EKPHRASIS IN DRAMA AND THE NOVEL IN ENGLAND, 1609-1798." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1554488740730581.

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Hartman, Erica. "Narrating the War on Terror: Reproducing the Patriarchy through Securitization and Discipline of Female Bodies." Ohio University Art and Sciences Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouashonors1556290142380571.

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Morrison, Carey-Ann. "Intimate Geographies: Bodies, Underwear and Space in Hamilton, New Zealand." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2503.

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This thesis examines the ways in which a small group of young Pākehā women use underwear to construct a range of complex gendered subjectivities. I explore how these subjectivities are influenced by both material and discursive spaces. Three underwear shops in Hamilton, New Zealand - Bendon Lingerie Outlet, Bras N Things and Farmers, and various visual representations depicting contemporary notions of normative femininity, are under investigation Feminist poststructuralist theories and methodologies provide the framework for this research. One focus group and three semi-structured interviews w
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Van, Rensburg Thelma. "Uneasy bodies femininity and death : representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60434.

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This mini-dissertation serves as a framework for my own creative practice. In this research paper my intention is to explore, within a feminist reading, representations of the female corpse in fashion photography and art. The cultural theorist Stuart Hall's theories on the concept of representation are utilised to critically analyse and interogate selected images from fashion magazines, which depicts the female corpse in an idealised way. Such idealisation manifests in Western culture, in fashion magazines, as expressed in depictions of the attractive/ seductive/fine-looking female corp
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McQuarrie, Kylie. "Sacred Things, Sacred Bodies: The Ethics of Materiality and Female Spirituality in Purple Hibiscus." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4409.

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Thing theorist Bill Brown writes that “the thing names less an object than a particular subject-object relation.” This article examines the subject-object relation between African things and African bodies in Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's first novel, Purple Hibiscus. While the main character, Kambili, eventually learns to assimilate Western Catholicism into her Nigerian reality, her Christian fundamentalist father, Eugene, uses Catholicism to justify his self-hating destruction of African things and bodies. This article argues that both reactions are rooted in the characters' ab
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Carnvik, Sofia. "Jag tänker på mig själv som en nakenakt : En studie av Marianne Lindberg De Geers skulptur Jag tänker på mig själv i relation till nakenakten som motivkategori." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-377652.

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The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyze the Swedish artist Marianne Lindberg De Geer’s public sculpture Jag tänker på mig själv in relation to the female nude as a traditional motif within the western art and aesthetic. The artwork in question depicts two naked upright standing women, one of whom is represented as emaciated and skinny and the other one as voluminous and fat. By using previous research on the subject of aberrant bodily representations as its main theoretical framework and with a methodological approach based on visual semiotics, this study has found that Jag tänker på
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Ford, Anna Jane. "Endangered bodies : woman and nature in the contemporary British novel by women writers." Thesis, Brunel University, 2004. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5793.

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Criticism that involves the linkage of the terms ‘environment’ and ‘literature’, or ‘ecocriticism’, has focused largely on texts such as nature writing or on fiction that is set in rural or wilderness settings. This project attempts to widen the scope of ecocriticism by analysing the contemporary British novel, in which nature conceived in such stereotypical ways is largely absent. However, in my analysis of the fifteen texts selected here, I demonstrate that British women writers employ new discursive constructions of nature in order to contest deterministic formulations that subjugate both w
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Risner, Maria. "Undesirable Forms." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3427.

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The Master of Fine Arts exhibition, Undesirable Forms, presents a collection of paintings and sculptures that focus on the repulsion and discomfort a woman can experience within her mind and body. These works were exhibited at the Tipton gallery, in downtown Johnson City. The pieces included in this exhibition consist of encaustic paintings on panel, and sculptures created from plaster life-casts. The ideas discussed in this paper are influenced by Julia Kristeva and Sigmund Freud’s work relating to the abject/grotesque female body. This paper also discusses inspiration from other artists, suc
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Gradskova, Yulia. "Soviet People with Female Bodies : Performing Beauty and Maternity in Soviet Russia in the mid 1930-1960s." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis : Almqvist & Wiksell International [distributör], 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-6980.

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Mo, Lily Anne. "Public bodies and private spaces : locating cloistered contemplative discourses in female Franciscan spirituality in thirteenth-century Umbria." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2002. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3247/.

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The thesis explores how far enclosure was pivotal in shaping the female Franciscan spirituality in thirteenth-century Umbria as cloistered and contemplative. It focuses on how enclosure influenced the development of representations of female urban sainthood, with particular reference to three Umbrian saints; Clare of Assisi, Clare of Montefalco and Angela of Foligno. The issue of enclosure came to the fore because of the success of the Franciscan movement in promoting the apostolic life, which emphasised the itinerant life, evangelisation and participation within the urban community. However,
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Van, der Merwe Leana. "Sacrificial and hunted bodies : ritualistic death and violence in the work of selected South African female artists." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46213.

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This study investigates the multiple occurrence of violent sacrificial imagery associated with animalistic and hunted bodies in the work of selected South African female artists as an articulation of the society in which the art was created. The theoretical framework of corporeal feminism is applied with reference to the postulations of George Bataille (1962), René Girard (1972) as well as Deleuze and Guattari (1984,1987), specifically with regard to the notion of becoming animal. This study shows how such imagery is used to act as a catalyst for social change by challenging Cartesian d
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Miller, Hannah Elizabeth. "A Partner in Their Suffering: Gustav Klimt's Empowered Figure in Hope II." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6429.

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Although much of Gustav Klimt's work is well recognized, his painting Hope II (1907-1908) has received little attention in academic studies. Rejected by his peers on its initial exhibition, this work was found offensive by even his staunchest supporters. Second wave feminists have also been critical of his painting, finding in it an objectification of women. This is likely due in part to the central subject of the piece involving pregnancy. Klimt was unafraid to paint images that shocked and diverged from traditional aesthetic styles. During a time of rapid social change and development of the
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Bark, Persson Anna. ""You must scare the hell out of humans" : Female masculinity, action heroes, and cyborg bodies in feminist science fiction literature." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Centrum för genusvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-325014.

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McManus, Clare. "Silenced voices/speaking bodies : female performance and cultural agency in the court of Anne of Denmark (1603-19)." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1997. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4220/.

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This study investigates the long-neglected cultural engagement of the court of Anne of Denmark, consort of James VI and I, revising her historiographical representation in the light of current gender theory. Focusing upon the masque performances of the English Jacobean court, I examine the genre's anomalous staging of Renaissance female performance and its contribution to the emergence of a more general female performance. Through detailed analysis of masque performances, I assess contemporary courtly attitudes towards female masquing and the performative representation of the courtly woman. T
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Rich, Emma J. "Strong words, tough minds, trained bodies : a life history narrative analysis of female student teachers of physical education." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2002. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/6776.

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This research addresses the construction of gender identities within the context of Initial Teacher Training in Physical Education within England. The life story narratives of ten female student teachers of physical education arc documented and analysed, drawing upon a feminist theoretical framework informed by tenets of poststructuralist thinking. These approaches assisted in accommodating and explaining the contradictory social positions that the women engaged in, within a variety of discourses, as they constructed multiple, diverse and often contradictory gender identities. The participants
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Kober, Ryan Kylie. "Bodies of Evidence: A Qualitative Analysis of the Lived Experiences of Female Central American and Mexican Asylum Seekers in Dallas." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984243/.

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This work addresses the experiences of female asylum seekers from Central and Mexico currently living in Dallas, TX. The main purpose is to analyze how these women engage in the gendered processes of both migrating to and accessing legal resources and protection within the United States. As the women move through male-dominated spaces in their home country, the borderlands, and the asylum court they must challenge the patriarchal institutions that attempt to silence their narratives and criminalize their bodies. Their physical wounds become evidence in the courtroom, while outside of the court
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Lo, Ying-wa, and 盧英華. "Reading schizophrenia and female bodies across cultures: a psychoanalytical approach to selected novels by SylviaPlath, Maxine Hong Kingston and Toni Morrison." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43703756.

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Ahmad, Ebtehal A. "Women's bodies in dramatic confrontations with patriarchal logic : the representation of violence against the female body in contemporary drama by women." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1266037.

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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 medical, and the social violations of the female body. In chapter one, I study the dramatic representation of political violence against women as their bodies become ideological expressions of their lands. This chapter analyzes Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus and Naomi Wallace's In the Heart of America. These
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Lo, Ying-wa. "Reading schizophrenia and female bodies across cultures a psychoanalytical approach to selected novels by Sylvia Plath, Maxine Hong Kingston and Toni Morrison /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2010. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43703756.

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Nylund, Harald. "Bruket av alkohol : En studie om människors förhållande till alkohol och om alkoholens betydelse för människor i deras livsvärld." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34211.

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This essay shows how six adults in the age between 26 and 71 relate to alcohol and talk about the importance of alcohol in their early lives, when they grew up and now in their everyday life. Three men and three women participates in this study. I used the snowball method and Facebook to get in touch with people to interview. A short summary and presentation was sent out through e-mail to a total amount of ten persons. There are six persons participating in this study, four through physically recorded interviews and two answered the interview questions through e-mail. Theoretical perspectives
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Cossa, Segone Ndangalila. "Corpo(u)s de história e províncias de relações empáticas : uma etnografia de corpos de direitos recusados em Moçambique." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/179431.

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As mulheres têm sido retratadas como inertes, sem vida e despojadas de seus lugares de sujeitos-históricos, dizem-nos isso os estudos sobre as relações de gênero em Moçambique. No entanto, os mesmos estudos ao construírem narrativas transversais dominantes sobre os gêneros, tendem a essencializar as mulheres como o único sujeito, oprimido pela cultura/tradição calcada pelo patriarcado. Com efeito, a mulher de que falam tais narrativas é sempre vitimizada, oprimida mesmo pelos estudos que têm a intenção de tornar sua voz audível. Sendo assim, nesta tese, objetivo traçar uma outra alternativa an
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Sjödin, Jennie. "Double Bind Tying Breastfeeding Women to a Liminal Position : Discourses about Public Breastfeeding in the Swedish Media Debate 1980-2016." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-354427.

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This thesis investigates cultural associations and values connected to women in Swedish society, with regard to action space, autonomy and social position. This is done through a discourse analysis of the media debate about public breastfeeding between the years 1980-2016, especially putting focus on the female body, motherhood, and women's access to public space. Main theories are Sara Ahmed’s various works on feelings and public comfort, as well as theories about taboo, mainly Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas. In line with early feminist anthropology on women’s subordinated position, this s
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Jilkén, Olle. "Fiskmannen, Myten, Legenden : En studie om manliga sjöjungfrur ur ett genusperspektiv." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för etnologi, religionshistoria och genusvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-145063.

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This paper addresses the representation of the male equivalent of the mermaid - the merman - in illustrations. The paper relies on a theoretical framework of gender studies, queer theory, masculinity studies and previous studies of the mermaid including psychoanalysis and folkloric studies. The paper focuses on four different representations of the merman: The Pin-up, The Romantic Couple, The Fish Boy and The Elderly Merman. Each type is examined by their portrayal of gender, sexuality, masculinity, the gendered gazes in the picture and the intertextual relation to mermaid mythology, folklore
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Cserhalmi, Nora. "Konstruerad utsatthet : En bildsemiotisk analys av Nathalie Djurbergs stop motion-filmer Greed och Cave." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-378575.

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This essay aims to analyse how the exposedness is constructed in the Swedish contemporary artist Nathalie Djurberg’s two stop motion-films Greed and Cave. Five stills from Greed and three stills from Cave will be examined from a feminist perspective with a theoretical viewpoint based on theories from both art history and film studies. The method applied is visual semiotics which focuses on how meaning is created within an artwork rather than what the meaning is. The stills from Djurberg’s films are analysed first on a denotative level and then on a connotative level. Furthermore, visual semiot
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Summers-Bremner, Eluned. "Speaking as a woman: Female bodily transformations and the divine." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Feminist Studies, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4695.

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This thesis explores French feminist philosopher and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray's articulation of the divine as a means of the reinscription of female bodies in "western" culture. According to Irigaray, the physical excess constituted by female bodies in the patriarchal "west" is denied specific expression through the symbolic function of the Christian God as man's transcendent, disembodied representative. And yet Irigaray's work implies that the "excess" of both female bodiliness and the cultural construction of the divine is ultimately uncontainable and open to symbolic transformation and p
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Lever, Carla. "Assuming the female part : a critique of discourses of bodily normalcy." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8088.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>In this thesis, I examine the concept that discourses which utilise a stable notion of womanhood inevitably exclude some by the very boundedness of their definitions. Such definitions are premised by a notion of gendered normativity, and are often implicit and unconsciously evoked. Principally, I addess the reductive conflation of womanhood with specific biological parts, a common rhetorical strategy I identify as a particularly problematic form of synecdoche. Although feminisms are often highly attuned to questions of social difference amongst women, I
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Knowles, Laura S. "Aerobic Capacity as Assessed by Arm Crank Ergometry in Females Wheelchair Athletes Versus Able-Bodied Athletes." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc504322/.

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Dean, Kimberly Michelle. "Simulacra Of The (un)real: Reading Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle As A Feminist Text Of Bodily Resistance." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2018. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/883.

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This thesis project is centered on the female body, specifically body image, in relation to Western, cultural images of women. This is a problem that has been around, essentially, since the beginning of Western art. While different scholars argue whether or not this problem has become worse, it is nonetheless problematic that we are still, in 2018, fighting patriarchy’s control of our bodies via body image. Grounding my project in Susan Bordo’s 1993 text Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, this thesis explores Bordo’s argument that the female body is culturally produced
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Blunden, Pamela. "Performing the comic side of bodily abjection : a study of twenty-first century female stand-up comedy in a multi-cultural and multi-racial Britain." Thesis, Brunel University, 2011. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6347.

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This thesis is a socio-cultural study of the development of female stand-up comedy in the first decade of the twenty-first century within a multi-racial and multi-cultural Britain. It also engages with the theory and practice of performance and asks the question: ‘In what ways can it be said that female stand-up comics perform the comic side of bodily abjection?’ This question is applied to three groups of female case-studies which include: those who came into stand-up comedy in the 1980s; second-generation transnationals who became established at the end of the twentieth century; and twenty-f
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Gomis, Aimé. "Écritures du corps dans la littérature sénégalaise. Esquisse d'une corporéité et implications plurielles : de Senghor à Ken Bugul." Thesis, Paris 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA030085.

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L'identité constitue une des notions-clés des littératures africaines. Elle prend une résonance particulière chez Senghor et chez Ken Bugul ainsi que chez beaucoup d’écrivains sénégalais. Elle permet d’établir une passerelle épistémologique avec le corps. Ainsi, les discours sur le corps aident à comprendre les enjeux identitaires qui animent la tension dramatique des structures narratives. Par exemple chez Cheikh Hamidou Kane, le corps devient le motif d'une appréhension métaphysique de l'"esse". Dans les autobiographies de Ken Bugul, l’affirmation identitaire du Moi féminin relève tout simpl
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Faraci, Petridis Fiona. "Image du corps féminin : culture et sexuation." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012AIXM3103.

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L'image du corps dessine les contours de la féminité, mais il ne semble possible d'entrevoir une expression proprement féminine qu'à travers les failles de celle-ci. Semblable à une expression incontrôlée de l'inconscient, le féminin se déploie comme le lapsus ou l'acte manqué. Pour ce faire, il semble nécessaire de passer par le rapport différent que semble entretenir une femme à la pulsion. C'est à travers une possible liaison entre pulsion et image du corps que le féminin semble s'exprimer. Aussi, l'inconscient maternel et de ce fait le regard de la mère, nécessitent une particulière attent
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Jager, Michelle Caroline. "Irrelevant bodies." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/113391.

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Vol. 1 Irrelevant bodies : Novel -- v. 2 Violent, antagonistic, morally ambiguous: anti-heroines and the female gothic : Exegesis<br>This creative writing thesis comprises a creative work, the novel ‘Irrelevant Bodies’, and its accompanying exegesis ‘Violent, Antagonistic, Morally Ambiguous: Anti-heroines and the Female Gothic.’ Both the novel and the exegesis are concerned with female protagonists that challenge the traditional image of the Gothic heroine as either a passive, virtuous woman or an heroic figure by interrogating their use of violence, their callousness and morally ambiguous mot
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Slatton, Brittany C. "Deep Frames, White Men's Discourse, and Black Female Bodies." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-08-7028.

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In this qualitative study, I examine the persistent trend of black women as an excluded relationship partner for white men. Integral to understanding the exclusion of black women as relationship partners is the construction of black female bodies, by influential white men historically and contemporarily, as the abject opposite of hegemonic femininity, which holds "middle-class, heterosexual, [w]hite femininity" as the norm (Collins 2005:193). This construction essentially places black women outside the bounds of hegemonic femininity, beauty, sexuality, and womanhood. Using the theoretical conc
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