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Journal articles on the topic "Female body in literature"

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Grünhagen, Céline. "The female body in early Buddhist literature." Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis 23 (January 1, 2011): 100–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67383.

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In this paper the author presents Theravāda Buddhist perceptions of the female body and their impact on sexuality, gender equality and salvation. In doing so the author draws on a selection of texts from the Buddhist canonical literature, which are relevant to the Theravāda tradition. Early Buddhist literature reflects an understanding of the female body as being more closely connected to the material world and the cycle of reincarnation, due to its biological qualities. This has a severe impact on the woman’s status and her chances of attaining enlightenment. Considering the early teaching of individuals possessing equal capacities to attain liberation, no matter what sex or social background, Buddhism as it developed over time failed to translate the equality of the sexes into a social reality. In fact, the perception of a distinct female ‘nature’ which was deemed a hindrance could not easily be erased from the collective consciousness. It is, however, important to note that Buddhist countries are subject to diverse influences that affect attitudes towards the female body, sexuality and the status of women—thus one has to be very careful with generalizations regarding norms and practices. Over time the negative attitudes and restrictions have been questioned; social changes have given way to new interpretations and perspectives. Pondering religious and cultural implications of the Buddhist attitude towards the body and its sex while also considering, for example, modern Mahayana Buddhist interpretations—especially by Western Buddhists and Buddhist Feminists—can lead to an acknowledgement of its potential of interpreting anattā, selflessness and an equality of capacity to practice Dhamma in favour of a general sex and gender equality.
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Peakman, Julie. "Sex, gender and the female body." Women's Writing 11, no. 2 (2004): 139–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09699080400200301.

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Ellis, D. "D. H. Lawrence and the female body." Essays in Criticism 46, no. 2 (1996): 136–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eic/46.2.136.

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McCarter, Stephanie. "How (Not) to Translate the Female Body." Sewanee Review 127, no. 3 (2019): 581–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sew.2019.0050.

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Kramer, Kate, Laurence Goldstein, and Wendy Lesser. "The Female Body: Figures, Styles, Speculations." TDR (1988-) 37, no. 3 (1993): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1146319.

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Mezur, Katherine. "Japanese Deconstructions of the Female Body." Theatre Research International 24, no. 3 (1999): 281–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883300019155.

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H Art Chaos stands out from other Japanese performance troupes as it performs against traditions. The troupe is a all-woman ensemble directed by a woman whose aim is to wage war on the culturally constructed Japanese female body. Oshima Sakiko, the director, and Shirakawa Naoko, the main solo performer, combine their visions of violence to extract the most precise gesture, exact timing, flawless shape, and perfect prop to project those images to rigorous excess. They focus on a kind of distortion and extreme manipulation of the female body which evokes painful kinaesthetic sensations. Their choreography produces discomfort, strain, and anguish through frantic, wrenching movement which aims at stressing the performer's body to the point of explosion or dismemberment. While their movement is based in modern, jazz, and ballet dance idioms, they push the stereotyped and classic vocabulary beyond pretty lines and feel-good sensations. They take technique to the point of excess in order to undo its forms They play with the overt meanings of props and costumes and destabilize those readings, like metaphors in a waking dream where their daily meaning drops out.
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MONTEFIORE, JAN. "Socialist realism and the female body." Paragraph 17, no. 1 (1994): 70–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.1994.17.1.70.

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Rebeiz, Mireille. "The female suffering body: illness and disability in modern Arabic literature." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 43, no. 4 (2016): 684–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2016.1182263.

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Sheppard, Emma. "The female suffering body: illness and disability in modern Arabic literature." Disability & Society 30, no. 10 (2015): 1593–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2015.1066977.

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Narbona Carrión, María Dolores. "The Representation of The Female Body in the Contemporary Cultural Context: The Case of HBO’s Girls." Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, no. 22 (2018): 211–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/ren.2018.i22.10.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Female body in literature"

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Gad, Yasmine. ""I take back my body" : mapping the female body in postcolonial literature." Thesis, University of Kent, 2014. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/49618/.

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This dissertation examines the ways in which cultural definitions of gender, sex, and race have equally impacted and disrupted women and their relationships in postcolonial culture. Such relationships can be with either with oneself or with others. My argument throughout this project is that colonialism as an act of systematic physical and psychological violence, together with its residual effects that split the individual and his/her community, is a primary cause of transgression. Breaking social boundaries takes place through a process of coding and decoding the body where female characters portrayed from a selected range of fiction demand agency in environments that deny them such power. In order to track the development or loss of feminine identity, I comparatively study the characters and incidents alongside one another to show how oppression, across time and space, can produce different expressions of revolt. Unlike colonized men who are also forced to question the integrity and wholeness of their body, with women the oppression is twofold: she is made inferior by nature of her race and her sex. Until today, this has serious implications that hinder the cultural development and economic progress of postcolonial cultures. Hence, the discussions presented in this project call for a feminist and postcolonial understanding of the corporeal body and challenges Cartesian ethics which conceptualize the mind as superior to the body. Arguably, they contribute to other dualities which participate in similar hierarchical ideals when discussing racial and sexual difference such as, self/other, masculine/feminine, civil/uncivilized. Crossing over different geographies, writers such as, Ahdaf Soueif and Toni Morrison showcase women who reject the dualisms, even if some of their struggles end tragically. Representing postcolonial women in this light invites a less biased understanding of the body as lived, and its reactions as consequent to where and how it goes about such living.
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Weiss, Katherine. "Sophie Treadwell's Machinal: Electrifying the Female Body." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2006. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2285.

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Horansky, Eileen A. "SEXUALIZING THE BODY POLITIC: NARRATING THE FEMALE BODY ANDTHE GENDER DIVIDE IN SECRET HISTORY." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1431019120.

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Clancy, Kim. "Shaping the sixties : the female body and British culture 1959-1967." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360579.

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Alexander, Robyn Gaye. "Body/sexuality/control : female identity in four Fay Weldon novels." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20451.

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Bibliography: pages 154-163.<br>This thesis explores the manner in which female identity is depicted and the concept itself deployed in four novels by Fay Weldon (1931- ), a contemporary English writer. The novels examined are Puffball (1980), The President's Child (1982), The Cloning of Joanna May (1989) and Growing Rich (1992). The thesis's· theoretical focus is feminist, and it makes use of terms, arguments and insights provided by contemporary feminist literary and cultural theory. It thus in part also explores the usefulness of insights provided by recent feminist poststructuralist theory, with particular reference to psychoanalytic theory. On the whole, these insights are found to be useful, even though they do not entirely answer some of the questions generated by the possibilities which are shown to exist for female subjects within western culture. The thesis's conclusion suggests ways in which this lack of definitive answers might in its turn be interpreted. The first chapter, dealing with Puffball, examines the novel's depiction of the effects of pregnancy on a woman's body and in turn on her sense of her own identity. This is followed by a chapter on The Cloning of Joanna May, which also takes female experience of the maternal as its central focus. This chapter shows how Weldon investigates current meanings of birth, children, identity and the natural via a plot concerned with the uses and abuses of contemporary reproductive technologies. A short chapter on Weldon's prose style, which is seen to manipulate aspects of form in order to generate particular effects, follows. In it, the current reception of Weldon's work and her use of humour in her writing is commented upon. This chapter also anticipates the question of the use of narrative voice, which is crucial to the novels dealt with in the final two chapters. In the first of these, which explores Growing Rich, the manner in which masculine power is shown to impact on the bodies of the two central female characters is central. Like the final chapter on The President's Child, this chapter also deals with the narrator's use of narrative as vehicle for both the stories of the female characters which she relates and for her own story. The final chapter focuses on the increasingly open conflict which Weldon depicts between male and female power, and also explores how the public/private division central to western culture is disrupted in this novel. Throughout the thesis, an attempt is made to show how female identity is at present constructed for and by western women: via their own and others' representations of their bodies and their sexuality, and as a concept over which they have varying degrees of control. It concludes that the often contradictory fictional representations of female subjectivity in the four novels under discussion suggest the constraints and difficulties involved in attempts to create new visions of female bodies, sexualities and identities. However, these depictions of such experiences are in addition shown to suggest the possibility of new and different representations.
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Phillips, Leah Beth. "Myth (un)making : the adolescent female body in mythopoeic YA fantasy." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2016. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/87296/.

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Through a reading of the heroic, female bodies available in Tamora Pierce’s Tortall books (1983–2011) and Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles (2012–2015), this thesis demonstrates how mythopoeic YA fantasy contests the dominant, hegemonic narratives of female adolescence. Owing to the system of binary oppositions structuring this space, the adolescent girl is offered— through the heavily stylised and always-edited images of popular and media culture—a very narrow and limited means of becoming self, one insisting on a discourse of self-through-appearance at the expense of the body’s fleshiness. Demonstrating a creationary or world-building mind-set, this vein of speculative fiction offers a sub or counter-cultural space in which alternative frameworks of living and being an adolescent female body are possible. Through the sometimes-fantastical transformations of the body in Pierce and Meyer’s fantasy, this thesis engages liminality, focusing on the adolescent (between child/adult), the body (between self/other), and young adult literature (YAL) (between children’s/adult literature). Drawing from a variety of fields: YAL and feminist theory, studies of myth and folklore as well as popular culture and cultural anthropology, this thesis speaks to and from the places between oppositions, and does so in order to refuse the individuality and isolation required by hegemonic models, while also offering a re-mapping of the body’s curves and contours, one that takes “lumps,” “bumps,” and “scars” into account. To counter the dominant framework of adolescence, this thesis concludes by offering, through a metaphor of “the Pack,” a model of interdependency and relation. Formed by repetition and connection, this model frustrates the economy of opposition, while also taking into account the body’s raised and irregular surfaces and demonstrating how individuals may be “scored into uniqueness” through relationality.
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Bragg, Beauty Lee Woodard Helena. "The body in the text : female engagements with Black identity /." Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2004. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/etd/d/2004/braggbl21867/braggbl21867.pdf#page=3.

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Hoefel, Roseanne L. "Connecting the French connection : Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf writing the (female) body /." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345128806.

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Greeley, Robin Adèle. "Image, text and the female body : René Magritte and the surrealist publications." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74338.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-73).<br>In 1935, Andre Breton published his speech Qu'est-ce que le Surrealisme? 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 which would foster revolutionary social change. Because "Le Viol" is such a violently charged image and because of the claims made for it by Magritte for its revolutionary potential, the drawing has been the subject of many arguments, both for and against its effectiveness. The feminist community has had a particular interest in this image (and in Magritte's work as a whole) not only because of the controversial treatment of the female subject in "Le Viol," but also because of the ways in which our culture has been so easily able to strip surrealist images of their political content and subsume them back into mainstream culture for use in those very categories of social practice which Surrealism wanted to eradicate. The reincorporation of surrealist works has been especially noticeable and damaging in the case of images of women, as feminists like Susan Gubar and Mary Ann Caws have pointed out Against those claims made against "Le Viol" as an image which affirms phallocentric language and discourse rather than disrupting them, I argue in this paper that the drawing in fact exposes the mechanisms by which female sexuality is formed and controlled within phallocentric language. In exposing these constructions, "Le Viol" forces the viewer to realize them as ideological positions which maintain women as Other, as unable to gain access to coherent meaning within that language. In performing this function, Magritte's picture undermines that process through which women are deprived of a coherent self-image and of the material power which comes with that image in the social realm. To substantiate my arguments, I trace the relationship between several of Magritte's images and the surrealist texts in which they were published, in order to provide a complex understanding of the interrelationships between word and image to which the artist directed much of his work. My use of the theoretical positions of deconstruction, feminism and psychoanalysis allows me to take the observations made onto the terrain of sexuality. These positions provide an understanding of how language and representation operate with respect to each other, and how the human subject (particularly the female) is formed through language.<br>by Robin Adèle Greeley.<br>M.S.
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Swank, Andrea H. "Virtually corporal : the polite articulation of the female body in the 18th century novel /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9841339.

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Books on the topic "Female body in literature"

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Mangham, Andrew, and Greta Depledge, eds. The Female Body in Medicine and Literature. Liverpool University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/upo9781846316289.

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The female body in medicine and literature. Liverpool University Press, 2011.

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Miller, Sarah Alison. Medieval monstrosity and the female body. Routledge, 2010.

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Medieval monstrosity and the female body. Routledge, 2010.

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The Black female body in American literature and art: Performing identity. Routledge, 2012.

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Learning curves: Body image and female sexuality in young adult literature. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

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1942-, Pérez Bustillo Mireya, ed. The female body: Perspectives of Latin American artists. Greenwood Press, 2002.

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Hennessy, Susie. Consumption, domesticity, and the female body in Emile Zola's fiction. The Edwin Mellen Press, 2015.

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The female grotesque: Risk, excess, and modernity. Routledge, 1995.

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Russo, Mary. The Female grotesque: Risk, excess and modernity. Routledge, 1995.

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Book chapters on the topic "Female body in literature"

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Pearman, Tory Vandeventer. "Introduction: Medieval Authoritative Discourse and the Disabled Female Body." In Women and Disability in Medieval Literature. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230117563_1.

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Putnam, EL. "Performances of Situated Knowledge in the Ageing Female Body." In Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63609-2_14.

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Goscilo, Helena. "Inscribing the Female Body in Women’s Fiction Stigmata and Stimulation." In Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature, edited by Mark Lipovetsky and Lisa Wakamiya. Academic Studies Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781618112231-005.

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Shaham, Inbar. "Seeing Red: The Female Body and the Body of the Text in Hitchcock’s Marnie." In Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137363640_18.

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Thomas, Virginie. "The Female Body in Frederick Sandys’s Paintings, or The Sublimation of Desire." In Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137363640_20.

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Lima, Eleonora. "Mechanized Women and Sentient Machines: Language, Gendered Technology, and the Female Body in Luciano Bianciardi and Tiziano Scarpa." In Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39367-0_8.

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Wall, Sinéad. "‘Targets of Shame’: Negotiating the Irish Female Migrant Experience in Kathleen Nevin’s You’ll Never Go Back (1946) and Kate O’Brien’s Mary Lavelle (1936)." In The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture. Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31388-7_9.

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Jennings, Ros, and Hannah Grist. "Future and Present Imaginaries: The Politics of the Ageing Female Body in Lena Dunham’s Girls (HBO, 2012–Present)." In Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63609-2_12.

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Carter, Sarah. "‘That female wanton boy’: Ganymede, Iphis, and Myths of Same Sex Desire." In Ovidian Myth and Sexual Deviance in Early Modern English Literature. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230306073_4.

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De Lorenzi, Francesca, Elena Mascolo, Francesca Albani, and Mario Sideri. "Female Genital Surgery." In Body Rejuvenation. Springer New York, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1093-6_27.

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Conference papers on the topic "Female body in literature"

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"The Symbolic Representation of the Female Body in the Poems by Bertolt Brecht." In International Conference on Humanities, Literature and Management. International Centre of Economics, Humanities and Management, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.15242/icehm.ed0115091.

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Hammad, Anand, Anil Kalra, Prashant Khandelwal, Xin Jin, and King H. Yang. "Development of Upper Extremity Finite Element Model for Elderly Female: Validated Against Dynamic Loading Conditions." In ASME 2017 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2017-72026.

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Injuries to the upper extremities that are caused by dynamic impacts in crashes, including contact with internal instrument panels, has been a major concern, especially for smaller female occupants, and the problem worsens with increasing age due to reduced strength of the bones. From the analysis of 1988–2010 CDS unweighted data, it was found that risk of AIS ≥ 2 level for the arm was 58.2±20.6 percent higher in females than males, and the injury risk for a 75-year-old female occupant relative to a 21-year-old subjected to a similar physical insult was 4.2 times higher. Although injuries to upper extremities are typically not fatal, they can have long-term effects on overall quality of life. Therefore, it is important to minimize risks of injuries related to upper extremities, especially for elderly females, who are most at risk. Current anthropomorphic surrogates, like crash-test dummies, cannot be directly used to study injury limits, as these dummies were developed mainly to represent the younger population. The current study is focused on the development of a finite element (FE) model representing the upper extremity of an elderly female. This can be further used to analyze the injury mechanisms and tolerance limits for this vulnerable population. The FE mesh was developed through Computer Tomography (CT) scanned images of an elderly female cadaver, and the data included for validation of the developed model were taken from the experimental studies published in scientific literature, but only the data directly representing elderly females were used. It was found that the developed model could predict fractures in the long bones of elderly female specimens and could be further used for analyzing injury tolerances for this population. Further, it was determined that the developed segmental model could be integrated with the whole body FE model of the elderly female.
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Howard, Brad, and Jingzhou James Yang. "Optimization-Based Seated Posture Prediction Considering Contact With Environment." In ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2011-48685.

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People can spend much of everyday completing seated tasks. Therefore it is important to understand postures needed to complete seated tasks, and the associated environmental contacts. This paper presents a method to predict seated postures and the general forces needed in order to support resulting postural configurations. This study uses optimization techniques to predict human posture based on a 56 degree of freedom (DOF) 50th percentile female human model. The support reaction forces (SRFs) are predicted using joint torques and the zero-moment point (ZMP) formulation derived from the Lagrangian recursive dynamics. The SRFs are applied at points on the body based on center of pressure (COP) locations gathered from pressure mapping experiments. The specific application points include the two feet, the two thighs, and back. Multiple seated orientations based on an experimental study found in published literature are simulated. When comparing these simulation results to the literature data, a good correlation can be established, which provides an initial validation of the proposed methods.
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Hajizadeh, Khatereh, Mengjie Huang, Ian Gibson, and Gabriel Liu. "Developing a 3D Multi-Body Model of a Scoliotic Spine During Lateral Bending for Comparison of Ribcage Flexibility and Lumbar Joint Loading to the Normal Model." In ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2013-62899.

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Knowledge of the movements of the whole spine and lumbosacral joint is important for evaluating clinical pathologic conditions that may potentially produce unstable situations in human body movements. At present there are few studies that report systematic three-dimensional (3D) movement and force analysis of the whole spine. In this paper, a fully discretized bio-fidelity 3D musculoskeletal simulation model for biomechanical (kinematic) analysis of scoliosis for a patient with right thoracolumbar scoliosis is presented. It is important to note that this method can be used for modeling various types of scoliosis. It should be noted that this is the first time that such a detailed model of this kind has been constructed according to known literature. The combined loading conditions acting on the intervertebral joints and corresponding angles between vertebrae were analyzed during lateral bending through the motion capturing and musculoskeletal modeling of two female subjects, one with normal spine and the other with scoliosis. The scoliosis subject who participated in this study has thoracolumbar scoliosis with convexity to the right. Since lateral bending is one of the typical tasks used by clinicians to determine the severity of scoliosis condition, the motion data of the subjects in lateral bending while standing was captured. These motion data were assigned to train the musculoskeletal multi-body models for the inverse and forward dynamics simulations. The mobility of the ribcage, joint angle, as well as joint force were analyzed using the developed simulation model. According to the results obtained the combined loadings at the lumbar joints in the scoliosis model are considerably higher than the loads of the normal model in this exercise. This research has investigated the effect of thoracolumbar scoliosis on spinal angles and joint forces in lateral bending by the application of motion data capturing and virtual musculoskeletal modeling. The results of this study contribute to a better understanding of human spine biomechanics and help future investigations on scoliosis to understand its development as well as improved treatment processes.
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Fromuth, Robert C., and Matthew B. Parkinson. "Predicting 5th and 95th Percentile Anthropometric Segment Lengths From Population Stature." In ASME 2008 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2008-50091.

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Designing for human variability frequently necessitates an estimation of the spatial requirements of the intended user population. These measures are often obtained from “proportionality constants” which predict the lengths of relevant anthropometry using stature. This approach is attractive because it is readily adapted to new populations—only knowledge of a single input, stature, is necessary to obtain the estimates. The most commonly used ratios are those presented in Drillis and Contini’s report from 1966 [1]. Despite the prevalence of their use, these particular values are limited because the size and diversity of the population from which these ratios were derived is not in the literature, and the actual body dimensions that each ratio represents are not clear. Furthermore, they are often misinterpreted and used inappropriately. This paper introduces a new approach, the “boundary ratio” which mitigates many of these issues. Boundary ratios improve on the traditional application of proportionality constants by: 1) explicitly defining the body dimensions, 2) defining constants for the 5th, 50th, and 95th percentile measures, and 3) providing distinct constants for males and females when necessary. This approach is shown to better model the range of variability exhibited in population body dimensions.
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George Saadé, Raafat, Dennis Kira, Tak Mak, and Fassil Nebebe. "Anxiety & Performance in Online Learning." In InSITE 2017: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences: Vietnam. Informing Science Institute, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3736.

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Aim/Purpose: To investigate the state of anxiety and associated expected performance in online courses at the undergraduate level. Background: Online courses continue to increase dramatically. Computer related anxieties remain an important issue, and, in this context, it has evolved to online learning anxieties with deeper psychological states involved. Consequently, performance is compromised. Methodology: A first semester online course in information technology was used for the study. A survey methodology approach was used for the anxiety scale measurements. A sample of 1377 participants was obtained. Contribution: Although there are many technology and internet related anxieties studies, they are relatively scarce. Characteristics of educational performance as they relate to anxiety have not matured and are still controversial. We contribute to this body of literature. Findings: 30% of students seem to experience some sort of anxiety with online courses. Female students are more anxious about taking online courses than male. Recommendations for Practitioners: Through successive iterations between design and measuring the experience of anxiety, it is important to identify and mitigate sources of anxieties and to design course with greater distribution of marks on more tasks. Recommendation for Researchers: Anxiety in online learning should take front stage as it represents an underlying stream of influence on all research in the field. Impact on Society: It has been shown that the progress of nations depends on the academic performance of its students. As such, studies have also shown that anxiety in learning affects performance. Ultimately this impacts the nation’s progress and quality of life. Future Research: Pedagogy for efficient and effective online courses to reduce anxieties and enhance performance.
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Li, Li. "Montage in the Contemporary Russia Female Literature." In 2nd International Conference on Culture, Education and Economic Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2018). Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/iccese-18.2018.113.

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Chen, Ping, and Yanfeng Si. "Cultural Transformation and Chinese Contemporary Female Literature Development." In 2014 International Conference on Education, Management and Computing Technology (ICEMCT-14). Atlantis Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icemct-14.2014.11.

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Mujahidah, Nanning, Sri Mulianah, Magdahalena, Kalsum, and Irna Maming. "Male and Female Speech Style in Retelling Story: Are They Different?" In English Linguistics, Literature, and Education Conference. SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0009836800650076.

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Vedd, Nidhi. "FATIGUE AND ANXIETY IN BREAST CANCER: THE RELATIONSHIP WITH INTERPRETATION BIAS." In International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends. inScience Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2021inpact018.

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"Background: Research has highlighted both fatigue and anxiety to be two of the most debilitating symptoms of breast cancer that prevail for years into its survivorship, and suggests that these symptoms influence how people interpret information. Harbouring negative interpretation biases also helps to maintain self-destructive beliefs resulting in increased severity of symptoms and disability in those already affected by the illness. This study is the first utilizing an experimental measure of assessing interpretation bias in a population of breast cancer to investigate the contribution of fatigue and anxiety. Method: A cross-sectional study design was used. 53 breast cancer survivors and 62 female healthy controls were recruited via opportunistic sampling. Participants completed an online questionnaire assessing basic demographics, fatigue via the Chalder Fatigue Questionnaire (CFQ) and anxiety using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Following this, an in-person testing session assessed interpretation bias (IB) using a computerised task. Results: Independent sample t-tests found a non-significant result in the comparison of IB indices between populations (t(112.60) =.28, p=.783; d=.05). Significant differences were observed in mean fatigue and anxiety scores in the breast cancer population compared to the healthy controls. Pearson correlation identified a statistically significant positive correlation between CFQ scores and negative interpretation bias (r=.34, n=53, p=.013), however not for anxiety. Hierarchical multiple regression was calculated to predict negative interpretation biases based on potential confounding variables (age, relationship status and level of education), CFQ, HADS anxiety scores (separately). All four regression models were non-significant. The only significant predictor of negative interpretation bias was fatigue (ß =.39, t(53)=2.71, p=.009). Conclusion: The identified significant correlation between fatigue and negative interpretation bias in this study corroborates findings from existing literature. However other results proved inconsistent with the vast body of research suggesting that breast cancer survivors would make more negative interpretations of ambiguous stimuli on an IB task compared to healthy controls. These results highlight the potential for future research investigating strategies of inherent self-adaptive and coping mechanisms that are or could be adopted by these participants to overcome this cognitive bias."
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Reports on the topic "Female body in literature"

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Birch, Izzy. Financial Incentives to Reduce Female Infanticide, Child Marriage and Promote Girl’s Education: Institutional and Monitoring Mechanisms. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.005.

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The focus of this paper is on the complementary mechanisms and interventions likely to increase the effectiveness and impact of conditional cash transfer (CCT) schemes in South Asia that aim to reduce female infanticide and child marriage and promote girls’ education. The literature on the institutional aspects of these particular schemes is limited, but from this and from the wider literature on CCT programmes in similar contexts, the following institutional mechanisms are likely to enhance success: a strong information and communication strategy that enhances programme reach and coverage and ensures stakeholder awareness; advance agreements with financial institutions; a simple and flexible registration process; appropriate use of technology to strengthen access, disbursement, and oversight; adequate implementation capacity to support processes of outreach, enrolment, and monitoring; monitoring and accountability mechanisms embedded in programme design; coordination mechanisms across government across social protection schemes; an effective management information system; and the provision of quality services in the sectors for which conditions are required. There is a very limited body of evidence that explores these institutional issues as they apply to the specific CCT programmes that are the focus of this report, however, there is more available evidence of the potential impact of ‘cash-plus’ programmes, which complement the transfers with other interventions designed to enhance their results or address the structural barriers to well-being
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Zehner, Gregory F., Cay Ervin, Kathleen M. Robinette, and Patricia Daziens. Fit Evaluation of Female Body Armor. Defense Technical Information Center, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada188721.

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Dodd, Molly Catherine, and Patricia Hunt-Hurst. Hollywood's Risque Years: Female Body Exposure in Pre-Code Films. Iowa State University, Digital Repository, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/itaa_proceedings-180814-30.

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Chang, Hyo Jung Julie, Jennifer Yurchisin, and Su-Jeong Hwang Hwang Shin. An Examination of Elderly Female Consumers' Body Shapes, Activewear Preferences and Exercise Behavior. Iowa State University. Library, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/itaa.9481.

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Plunkett Castilla, Brittany. Upper Body Posture and Pain in Division I Female Volleyball and Softball Athletes. Portland State University Library, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.2533.

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Jestratijevic, Iva, and Nancy Ann Ann Rudd. The Body to Die for: Appearance Aesthetics, Body Measurements, and BMI Analysis of a Female and Male Runway Models (2012�2018). Iowa State University. Library, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/itaa.8427.

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Tomchesson, Joshua L. The Effects of Environmental Conditions on Activity, Feeding, and Body Weight in Male and Female Adolescent Rats. Defense Technical Information Center, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ad1014237.

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Weisman, Idelle M. Impact of Smoking on Aerobic and Anaerobic Performance During Upper and Lower Body Exercise in Female Soldiers. Defense Technical Information Center, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada332993.

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Jung, Jaehee, and Choon Sup Hwang. Associations Between Attitudes Toward Cosmetic Surgery, Celebrity Worship, and Body Image Among South Korean and U.S. Female College Students. Iowa State University, Digital Repository, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/itaa_proceedings-180814-1110.

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Yoo, Jeong-Ju (Jay), and Hye-Young Kim. Propensity to Undergo Cosmetic Surgery and Risky Body Modification among Indoor Tanning Bed Users: An Illustration from Female College Students. Iowa State University, Digital Repository, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/itaa_proceedings-180814-1545.

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