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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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Johnson, Sarah E. "The Female Body as Soul in Queen Anna's Masques." SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 53, no. 2 (2013): 357–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sel.2013.0020.

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Anderson, E. "Dancing Modernism: Ritual, Ecstasy and the Female Body." Literature and Theology 22, no. 3 (2008): 354–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frn024.

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Chastain, Rebecca, and Daniel Taub. "Evolved human male preferences for female body shape." WikiJournal of Science 4, no. 1 (2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.15347/wjs/2021.001.

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Female body shape has an apparent influence on mate value as perceived by males. Some researchers have suggested that human male mate preference has evolved to universally favor a specific body shape which can be quantified with a particular value for Waist-Hip Ratio and/or Body Mass Index. Other research has presented evidence that populations of males exhibit differentiated preferences for female body shape. The research literature largely supports the hypothesis that male mate preference for female body shape is variable and dependent upon local resource availability. These conclusions provide insight into the evolutionary processes that have acted to produce adaptive flexibility in human male mate preferences in accordance with the environment.

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Cooks, Bridget R., Deborah Willis, and Carla Williams. "The Black Female Body: A Photographic History." African American Review 37, no. 2/3 (2003): 468. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1512346.

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Phillips, John. ""Tout dire"?: Sade and the Female Body." South Central Review 19, no. 4 (2002): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3190134.

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Scheidt, Deborah. "Mateship and the Female Body in Barbara Baynton's “Squeaker's Mate”." Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies 68, no. 2 (2015): 067. http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2015v68n2p67.

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Schai-Braun, Stéphanie C., Peter Steiger, Thomas Ruf, Walter Arnold, and Klaus Hackländer. "Maternal effects on reproduction in the precocial European hare (Lepus europaeus)." PLOS ONE 16, no. 2 (2021): e0247174. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247174.

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In female mammals, reproduction, and in particular lactation, is the energetically most exigent life-history phase. Reproduction is strongly controlled by body reserves and food availability, so females with better body condition or food supply are believed to have higher reproductive output. Additionally, the growth and mortality of young mammals depends on their postnatal development. Therefore, the degree of precociality affects energetic demands for both mothers and young. To study the reproductive performance of the precocial European hare (Lepus europaeus), we analysed relationships between six predictor variables describing maternal and environmental effects and nine response variables relating to reproduction from 217 captive females. We compared the data with those of precocial and altricial mammal species from an extensive literature search. For hares, we found: (1) Heavier females had heavier litters at birth. (2) In summer and spring, total litter mass was larger than in winter. (3) At the end of lactation, the litters of multiparous females were heavier than those of primiparous females. (4) Both older females and females giving birth for the first time had relatively high leveret mortality during lactation. Comparing our results with the literature for other mammals revealed that the body condition (i.e., body mass) of females before birth is predictive of reproductive parameters in both precocial and altricial species. In the precocial hare, female body condition is no longer predictive of reproductive parameters at the end of lactation, whereas in altricial species, female body condition remains predictive of reproduction (litter mass at the end of lactation, offspring mortality) until the end of lactation. We conclude that these effects are caused by precocial offspring feeding on solid food soon after birth and, thus, being less dependent on the mother’s body condition during lactation than altricial offspring. In line with this, precociality might have evolved as a way of buffering offspring against maternal effects.

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Argyrides, Marios, Natalie Kkeli, and Marianna Koutsantoni. "The comparison of cyprus to six other european countries on body image satisfaction, appearance investment and weight and appearance-related anxiety." European Journal of Counselling Psychology 8, no. 1 (2020): 32–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejcop.v8i1.182.

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Previous research has pointed out the importance of Cyprus in the body image literature as well as the importance of body-image cross-cultural investigations. The purpose of the current study was to compare appearance satisfaction, investment in appearance and weight and appearance-related anxiety between female university students from Cyprus and female university students from France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Spain and Poland. Participants were 199 females whose scores on the measures of interest were compared to archived published means from the other six countries. Results indicated that Greek-Cypriot female university students scored significantly higher than all countries assessed on investment in appearance and weight and appearance-related anxiety. Additionally, female participants from Cyprus scored in the middle of the appearance satisfaction scale scoring higher than Greece and France, lower than the Netherlands and Germany and having similar results to Spain and Poland. A discussion follows elaborating on the argument of why Cyprus is significant in the body image literature, and the interpretation of the results using the cognitive-behavioral perspective of body image satisfaction. Recommendations for mental health professionals and other professionals in the public health sector are also provided.

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Fabbrini, Marco. "The Madonna’s body: The social construction of a neutralized body." Critical Research on Religion 5, no. 1 (2016): 62–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050303216676518.

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This paper deals with the statue without female forms of Our Lady of Maidens, kept in the parish church of Civitella Roveto in the Abruzzo region, in Italy. After describing the religious rituals involving the statue of this Virgin in order to shed light on her title, the study goes on to analyze vernacular discourses about her and explore the prohibition regarding the touching of her body. The symbolic aspects of the shapeless body of the statue are then investigated and discussed in the light of Marian, anthropological, sociological, and feminist literature, considering them a specific device for expelling female sexual desire from the domain of fertility. The article, focused on the body of the Madonna, hopes to contribute to studies in religious materiality as well as to studies in the social construction of gender inequality.

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Hamilton, G. D., and F. H. Bronson. "Food restriction and reproductive development: male and female mice and male rats." American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 250, no. 3 (1986): R370—R376. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpregu.1986.250.3.r370.

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The effect of food restriction on reproductive development was compared in male and female mice. This was accomplished using an experimental design that allowed us to assess the amount of reproductive development that could occur in the total absence of body growth, when growth was stopped at each of three different body weights. Our results demonstrate that reproductive development has much more inertia in males than in females. Specifically, the final stages of reproductive development can proceed largely independently of body growth in males but not in females. This same design was also employed in an abbreviated study of male rats. When its results are coupled with the existing literature for female rats, it appears as though the sex differences noted above are characteristic of both species.

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Swami, Viren, Natalie Airs, Bhavna Chouhan, Maria Amparo Padilla Leon, and Tony Towell. "Are There Ethnic Differences in Positive Body Image Among Female British Undergraduates?" European Psychologist 14, no. 4 (2009): 288–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040.14.4.288.

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Numerous studies have examined ethnic differences in body image, although the literature has tended to focus on a negative orientation toward one’s body. The present study examined whether there were differences in positive body image among 131 Caucasian, 122 South Asian, 67 African Caribbean, and 67 Hispanic female undergraduates in Britain. Participants completed several scales measuring body appreciation, societal influence on body image, and self-esteem. Results showed that, after controlling for age, Hispanic women had the highest body appreciation scores, followed by African Caribbean, Caucasian, and South Asian women, respectively. Results also showed that Hispanics had the lowest score on media influence and the highest self-esteem. Finally, regressional analyses showed that self-esteem was a strong predictor of body appreciation, over-and-above ethnic affiliation. These results are discussed in relation to the extant literature on ethnic differences in body image.

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Sivanarayanan, Anushiya. "The Black Female Body: A Photographic History (review)." Callaloo 28, no. 4 (2005): 1108–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cal.2006.0036.

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Parsons, Linda T. "The (Re)presentation of Fat Female Protagonists and Food Addiction in Young Adult Literature." Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature 1, no. 2 (2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.15763/issn.2376-5275.2015.1.2.1-30.

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<p class="BodyAA">The goal of this study was to determine how fat female protagonists are (re)presented in young adult literature. A purposeful sample of eight young adult novels was selected based on inclusion of a fat female protagonist, a targeted readership of grades 6-8, and recognized literary quality. Working with a co-analyst, I employed a critical analysis approach to determine how these fat female protagonists are embodied. Three <em>a priori</em> thematic categories guided the initial analysis: 1) the language the protagonist and others use in reference to her body, 2) how those in her immediate community respond to her, and 3) if/how the sociocultural structures that “other” fat women are accepted, interrogated, or challenged. Final analysis entailed creating thematic charts as visual aids to interpret the latent content across novels. This revealed that the dramatic arc creates a trajectory of obsession with and/or addiction to food characterized by self-loathing, binge eating, hoarding food, eating in secret, interventions, a turning point, and a transformation. This construction of addiction perpetuates the stigmatization of fat females and the myth of the ideal body, so I offer critical questions to encourage adolescent readers to critique this (re)presentations of fat female protagonists.</p>

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Pinto-Bailey, Cristina Ferreira. "Memory, history, illness: The female body and the body politic in Ana Maria Machado'sTropical sol da liberdade." Romance Quarterly 63, no. 4 (2016): 183–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2016.1209373.

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Uys, Debbie C., and Douglas R. Wassenaar. "The Perceptual and Affective Components of Body Image Disturbances in Anorexic and Normal Females." South African Journal of Psychology 26, no. 4 (1996): 236–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/008124639602600406.

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The literature is inundated with studies reporting the body image experiences of anorexia nervosa patients and normal weight people. Such studies have not, however, yielded consistent results. The present study reinvestigated the issue bearing in mind the theoretical and methodological limitations of previous research. The perceptual and affective aspects of body image were investigated in 11 white, female anorexic patients and 51 white, female psychology undergraduate university students. A combination of the movable caliper technique and image-marking procedure was used to assess body size perception, that is, the perceptual aspect, and the Body Cathexis scale was used to assess body satisfaction, that is, the affective aspect. It was found that anorexic females overestimate the width of their waist and thighs significantly more than normal females ( p < 0.05) and that they have a significantly lower body satisfaction ( p < 0.001). It was concluded that the DSM IV criterion of a disturbance in body image has specific diagnostic relevance in anorexia nervosa.

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Hobby, Elaine. "“Secrets of the female sex”: jane sharp, the reproductive female body, and early modern midwifery manuals." Women's Writing 8, no. 2 (2001): 201–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09699080100200188.

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Gregory, Justina. "Becoming Female. The Male Body in Greek Tragedy." Mnemosyne 64, no. 2 (2011): 302–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852511x505196.

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de Araújo, Flávia Santos. "Beyond the Flesh: Contemporary Representations of the Black Female Body in Afro-Brazilian Literature." Meridians 14, no. 1 (2016): 148–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/meridians.14.1.10.

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Leavy, Patricia. "Poetic Bodies: Female Body Image, Sexual Identity and Arts-Based Research." LEARNing Landscapes 4, no. 1 (2010): 175–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.36510/learnland.v4i1.370.

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This article reviews the use of a poetic form of analysis and representation of interview data collected on the topic of women’s body image and sexual identity. The researcher developed a tri-voiced poetic method that merges participant, researcher and literature voices. In this article the author advocates tri-voiced poems as a way of sharing researcher viewpoints, opening up dialogue, challenging stereotypes, and reaching and educating broad audiences.

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Wapa, Anchit, Anu Namgyal, and Anu Devi. "Vulval myiasis: a rare entity." International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology 7, no. 3 (2018): 1231. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2320-1770.ijrcog20180924.

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Human myiasis refers to parasitic infestation of body tissues by larvae of several fly species. The entity has a simple management. It is well-documented in the literature however genital myiasis in females is scarcely reported in the literature. We hereby report this entity in a female who presented in postnatal period with ulceration and severe pain in her vulvar region.

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Gordon, Natasha M. "“Tonguing the Body”: Placing Female Circumcision within African Feminist Discourse." Issue: A Journal of Opinion 25, no. 2 (1997): 24–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047160700502662.

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This paper focuses primarily on current debates regarding the place of female circumcision in Third World and western feminist discourse. In examining these debates, I will also draw from its fictional and autobiographical depictions as presented and discussed in contemporary African literature. While female circumcision (FC) is not practiced solely in Africa, I will be limiting my analysis to the effects of the practice within the continent. The paper is divided into three sections. Part one places the discussion on FC within current feminist discourse. Part two provides a historical and cultural background on the practice. The final section wades into the debate on FC and African Feminism.Chandra Mohanty, in her article “Under Western Eyes,” presents a rather intriguing “Third World Woman’s” argument, reflecting as well something of the debate on African feminism.

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Otu, Oyeh O. "AFRICAN WOMEN AND FORBIDDEN GROUNDS: FEMALE SEXUALITY AND SELF-DETERMINATION IN AFRICAN LITERATURE." Imbizo 7, no. 1 (2017): 40–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2078-9785/1773.

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This article examines how female conditioning and sexual repression affect the womanâ€™s sense of self, womanhood, identity and her place in society. It argues that the womanâ€™s body is at the core of the many sites of gender struggles/ politics. Accordingly, the womanâ€™s body must be decolonised for her to attain true emancipation. On the one hand, this study identifies the grave consequences of sexual repression, how it robs women of their freedom to choose whom to love or marry, the freedom to seek legal redress against sexual abuse and terror, and how it hinders their quest for self-determination. On the other hand, it underscores the need to give women sexual freedom that must be respected and enforced by law for the overall good of society.

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Hanold, Maylon T. "Beyond the Marathon: (De)Construction of Female Ultrarunning Bodies." Sociology of Sport Journal 27, no. 2 (2010): 160–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.27.2.160.

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This article examines the ways in which high-performance female ultrarunning bodies are created by and understood through the discourses of the normative running body, the ideal female body and pain. Using a Foucauldian framework, this paper shows how the ultrarunning body becomes a desired body beyond the marathon and how these same desires produce multiple and complex subjectivities for female ultrarunners. In-depth interviews were conducted with 8 high performance female ultrarunners. Findings suggest that ultrarunning is a sporting space which gives rise to more diverse subjectivities than previously found in distance running literature. Simultaneously, this discourse produces disciplined bodies through the mode of desire and “unquestioned” social norms, paralleling the constructs of extreme sports and (re)producing middle-classness.

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Blevins, Jennifer Renee. ""I ain't you": Fat and the Female Body in Flannery O'Connor." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 39, no. 1 (2020): 61–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tsw.2020.0001.

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Ihnatenko, I. "FROM THE HISTORY OF FEMINIST RESEARCH OF FEMALE BODY AND SEXUALITY IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. History, no. 146 (2020): 18–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2640.2020.146.3.

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This article presents the analysis of the feminism history toward the female body, which has figured alternately as the source of women's oppression and as the locus of a specifically female power. Drawing on Europian and American feminist literature, the author of the article shows how feminist scholars focus first of all on the reproductive body and on female's sexuality. The key message of all these scientific works is that corporealities of women may be seen as making vulnerable to male domination and control, both directly through the exercise of superior physical power, and indirectly through social compulsions and the representation of sexual difference across a variety of discourses. It is shown that for feminist scholars, the body has always been of central importance for understanding women embodied experience, cultural and historical construction on the female body in the various contexts of social life.

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Сулейманова and N. Suleymanova. "Risk Factors of Malignant Neoplasms of Female Genital Organs (Review of Literature)." Journal of New Medical Technologies 21, no. 1 (2014): 115–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/3326.

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The scientific review discusses the correlation between the MN morbidity rate of the female genitalia and the factors of the external and internal environment of the body: genetic (hereditary) and environmental (exogenous and endogenous). The author notes that the significance of the factors in the development of oncological process is different depending on the form and localizations of malignant tumors. Identified genes are responsible for the appearance of hereditary ovarian cancer (however, the genes of predisposition to cancer of body and cervix of the uterus don’t identified so far). The role of human papillomavirus infection (in the genesis of pre-cancerous lesions and cervical cancer) in hormone homeostasis due to functional and anatomical changes in the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian system (in formation of cancer of the womb and ovaries) is proved, including the background processes and pre-cancerous changes in the occurrence of all forms of genital cancer. A number of researchers consider benign tumors as an intermediate in the pathological process changes that lead with time under the influence of certain factors to be precancerous and malignant transformation. Significant fluctuations in the frequency of malignant tumors of female genital organs in different ethnic groups of the population are scientifically confirmed. Correlation frequency of cancer of the genitalia in women with age, and state of the immune system are noted.

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Holledge, Julie. "Pastor Hansen's Confirmation Class: Religion, Freedom, and the Female Body inEt dukkehjem." Ibsen Studies 10, no. 1 (2010): 3–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15021866.2010.495528.

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Koblitz, Ann Hibner. "The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature, written by Abir Hamdar." Hawwa 14, no. 1 (2016): 113–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692086-12341301.

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Łowczanin, Agnieszka. "The Monk by M. G. Lewis: Revolution, Religion and the Female Body." Text Matters, no. 6 (November 23, 2016): 15–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/texmat-2016-0002.

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This paper reads The Monk by M. G. Lewis in the context of the literary and visual responses to the French Revolution, suggesting that its digestion of the horrors across the Channel is exhibited especially in its depictions of women. Lewis plays with public and domestic representations of femininity, steeped in social expectation and a rich cultural and religious imaginary. The novel’s ambivalence in the representation of femininity draws on the one hand on Catholic symbolism, especially its depictions of the Madonna and the virgin saints, and on the other, on the way the revolutionaries used the body of the queen, Marie Antoinette, to portray the corruption of the royal family. The Monk fictionalizes the ways in which the female body was exposed, both by the Church and by the Revolution, and appropriated to become a highly politicized entity, a tool in ideological argumentation.

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Matthews, Susan. "Productivity, Fertility and the Romantic ‘Old Maid’." Romanticism 25, no. 3 (2019): 225–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2019.0428.

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William Hayley's Essay on Old Maids (1785, 1793) bafflingly constructs an image of the old maid from libertine fantasy, learned wit, pro-feminine critique and feminist scholarship. This essay traces some of these strands in later treatments of female sexuality and ageing in writing by Hannah More and Joanna Southcott, suggesting ways in which shifting attitudes to fertility enable new accounts of the female body. It argues that the terms of Hayley's Essay constrain later attempts to shift the debate. Whilst More attempts to escape the representation of the ageing body, the topic of female writing allows a renewed focus on reproduction.

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Papp, Julia, and Lincoln Geraghty. "Female body—male body: The valiant Hungarian women of Eger and Szigetvár from the 16th century in historiography, literature, and art." Cogent Arts & Humanities 3, no. 1 (2016): 1147403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2016.1147403.

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Forrester, Sibelan. "Bells and Cupolas: The Formative Role of the Female Body in Marina Tsvetaeva's Poetry." Slavic Review 51, no. 2 (1992): 232–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2499529.

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Like many other Russian women writers, Marina Tsvetaeva did not merely include women's language and physical experience in her poetry; they were central to her concern with poetry and poetic creation. These elements of her work have in recent years evoked an interest from women readers and feminist scholars of Russian literature which is reflected in the number of studies devoted to aspects of her work. Antonina Gove discusses the presence and chronological development of female roles in Tsvetaeva's poetry; Anya Kroth illustrates the importance of gender and specifically androgyny in Tsvetaeva's construction of a dichotomous world-view. Barbara Heldt's landmark study of women in Russian literature, Terrible Perfection, devotes several pages to Tsvetaeva as an autobiographer and a woman poet liberated from the “split selves” of her predecessors.

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Armstrong, Katherine A. "Possets, Pills and Poisons: Physicking the Female Body in Early Seventeenth-Century Drama." Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies 61, no. 1 (2002): 43–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/018476780206100103.

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Roberts, Chadwick. "The Politics of Farrah's Body: The Female Icon as Cultural Embodiment." Journal of Popular Culture 37, no. 1 (2003): 83–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1540-5931.00055.

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Goddard, Maggie Unverzagt. "Brigman Award Winner: Slim Cognito: Spanx and Shaping the Female Body." Journal of Popular Culture 50, no. 1 (2017): 184–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.12521.

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Tesch, Pamela. "Romantic Inscriptions of the Female Body in German Night and Fantasy Pieces." Neophilologus 92, no. 4 (2007): 681–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9085-5.

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Nugraheni, Trianti. "Women, Body, and Space: The Role of Female Figures in the "Wayang Wong Yogyakarta"." International Journal of Literary Humanities 19, no. 2 (2021): 115–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2327-7912/cgp/v19i02/115-127.

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Heller, Deborah. "Dress, Distress and Desire: Clothing and the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Literature by Jennie Batchelor." Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 40, no. 1-2 (2007): 175–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/scb.2007.0047.

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Scholz, Susanne. "Pleasure island, or when Guyon discovered Guiana: Visions of the female body in English Renaissance literature." European Journal of English Studies 2, no. 3 (1998): 285–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13825579808574419.

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Chin, Yit Siew, Mahenderan Appukutty, Masaharu Kagawa, et al. "Comparison of Factors Associated with Disordered Eating between Male and Female Malaysian University Students." Nutrients 12, no. 2 (2020): 318. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12020318.

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Disordered eating is prevalent among university students, especially females. Whilst literature suggests that factors associated with disordered eating may differ according to gender, such an association has not been studied in Malaysia. This cross-sectional study aims to compare factors associated with disordered eating between male and female university students. A total of 716 university students (male: 27.4%; female: 72.6%) were recruited in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, Malaysia. All participants completed a set of self-administered questionnaires and their body weight and height were recorded. About one in five of the university students (20.3%) were found to have disordered eating. There were more female students (22.9%) disordered eating compared to males (13.3%, χ2 = 8.16, p < 0.05). In male students (β = 0.228, p < 0.01), depressive symptoms were the only significant predictor for disordered eating. In females, the strongest predictor was depressive symptoms (β = 0.214, p < 0.001), followed by body size satisfaction (β = −0.145, p < 0.01) and body appreciation (β = −0.101, p < 0.05). These findings suggest that there are gender differences in the factors associated with disordered eating among Malaysian university students. Intervention programmes that address disordered eating should take into account these sex differences and its contributing factors.

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