Dissertations / Theses: 'Feminitet'

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Robertsson, Sandra. "Att vara eller inte vara en feminin feminist : En kritisk diskursanalys om förhållandet mellan feminism och feminitet." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-96686.

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Offentliga diskurser har historiskt framställt feminitet och feminism som oförenliga med varandra. Feminitet framställs vanligen med en kvinna som besitter normativt feminina egenskaper, medan framställningen av feministen skildrat en radikal och manhaftig kvinna. Tidigare forskning visar att ordet feminist, för många individer, har en negativ laddning samt en otydlighet i innebörden av ordet. Detta speglar hur väl individen identifierar sig med feminism. Denna uppsats handlar om hur bloggaren UnderbaraClara, som aktör i den feministiska diskursen, på sin blogg positionerar sig till feminism och feminitet. Metodologiskt och teoretiskt ramverk i uppsatsen är en kritisk diskursanalys samt identifikations-och disidentifikationsbegreppen. Arton blogginlägg har analyserats för att urskilja subjektspositioner, mästersignifikanter och ekvivalenskedjor. Analysen visar att UnderbaraClara identifierar sig med delar av den normativa feminiteten. Främst identifierar sig UnderbaraClara med feminismer som söker förena feminina ideal med feministiska. Vidare identifierar hon sig med feminismer som vill uppvärdera historiskt kvinnliga arbeten. Det framkommer även att hon identifierar sig med feminismer som ifrågasätter hur normativa föreställningar om kvinnan skapar sociala förväntningar på kvinnan samt problematiserar hur kvinnan skapas socialt. Slutligen framkommer att UnderbaraClara disidentifierar sig med en kvinnosyn där kvinnan nedvärderas i relation till mannen.

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Juberg, Vendela, and Hilda Thomsson. "Normbrytande tjejer : en diskursanalys av konstruktionen av feminitet i LVU-domar jämlikt 3 §." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-64811.

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The aim of this study was to, by a discourse analysis of LVU court cases, display how conceptions of feminity, sexuality and antisocial behaviour related to gender is constructed and examine whether this construction is characterized by continuity or alteration. We have examined 20 LVU court cases by using a discourse analysis. The results were analysed by using gender theory. The results showed among others that the construction of feminity is created by the courts portrayal of the girls in the court cases and what is portrayed as normal or deviant related to the girls’ behaviour. Behaviours which are portrayed as deviant for girls are for example use/abuse of addictive substances, to put yourself in environments filled with risks, to have behaviours which are negatively extrovert and/or criminal, to have a destructive behaviour in succession to mental illness, not to be an “ideal” victim, to see elderly men and express your own sexuality. One of our foremost conclusions is that the court, by our interpretation, incitements that the girls should assume stereotypical gender roles which are, for instance, characterized by vulnerability, caring for others and the need to be controlled.

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Westman, Albin. "Alfons leker inte med tjejer : En diskursanalys av maskulinitet och feminitet i Alfonsböckerna." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-49044.

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Rengart, Madeleine, and Erika Pettersson. "Blommor, bilar och superhjältar : Om skapandet av genus i barnfilm." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-19150.

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Vi vet att barn ser mycket på tv och har därför valt att se på fyra barnfilmer för att se hur genus representeras i dessa filmer. Vi utgår ifrån Judith Butler och att genus är något som hela tiden skapas och vårt syfte är att se hur detta skapas i filmerna. Filmerna följer de normer för maskulinitet och feminitet som finns och underhåller dessa. Även om undantag förekommer så är filmerna i stort stereotypa. Den heterosexuella normativiteten är i centrum och den blir i stort sett inte ifrågasatt. Det maskulina genus som skapas är ett genus med fokus på att vara bäst. De ska vara hårda och självständiga. Det feminina genuset å andra sidan skapar en ram som handlar om att se bra ut, smycka sig med accessoarer och ta ansvar för andra. Utseende är en egenskap som framhålls både för maskulina och feminina genus. I den mån filmerna uppvisar relationer så handlar det om heterosexuella relationer, vilket gör att dessa blir normerade och förutsätter att maskulinitet ska åtrå feminitet.

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Matic, Mislav. "Concerning feminine and feminite approaches to ethics." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0010/MQ32938.pdf.

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Rodrigues, Cláudia Susana Tavares. "Feminine/ Feminist Reflections on Fairy Tales." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/15244.

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Mestrado em Estudos Ingleses
To analyse some fairy tales such as Beauty and the Beast and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs from the perspective of modern feminism is like revising the paradigms which form our romantic expectations and illustrate psychological ambiguities that frequently confuse contemporary women. Portraits of adolescents waiting and dreaming, patterns of enchantment, and the romanticism of marriage contribute to the power of fairy tales. However, such fantasies praise the heroines’ incapacity to act independently, the reliance on exterior rescue and the binding to the father or to a prince. Although many readers recognise obvious elements of fantasy, they sometimes still identify themselves with the heroes and especially with the heroines. Unconsciously, women can transfer from the fairy tales to the real world cultural norms, which exalt passivity, dependency and self-sacrifice as feminine virtues. Intrinsically, fairy tales perpetuate the male status quo, making female subordination seem a desirable fate from which it is impossible to escape. It is this feminine perspective and feminist criticism that I intend to expose in my thesis, touching on the importance that fairy tales still have today, in the 21st century, not only on child rearing but also on the adults’ behaviour. In this thesis, I briefly explain how fairy tales emerged several centuries ago and how they evolved until our time in several versions, with several perspectives. My purpose is to analyse how fairy tales, on the one hand can influence us positively, showing us what is good and what is evil, and on the other hand, can influence us negatively because they present us with the “socially” accepted behaviours expected from women. In fairy tales, women are almost always represented as stepmothers and bad witches or as sweet, passive princesses dependent on the male image (father or prince) in order to be happy. It is this representation of female image that I intend to explore and analyse, showing my point of view of how fairy tales continue to represent behavioural models considered adequate to the female sex and to mirror a female image which is still accepted and seen as the most adequate – the image of a submissive, passive woman waiting for her prince charming to save her and bring her the desired happiness.
Analisar alguns contos de fadas como A Bela e o Monstro e A Branca de Neve e os Sete Anões sob a perspectiva do feminismo moderno é como rever os paradigmas que formam as nossas expectativas românticas e ilustrar ambiguidades psicológicas que frequentemente confundem as mulheres contemporâneas. Retratos de adolescentes à espera e sonhando, padrões de encanto, e o romantismo do casamento contribuem para o poder dos contos de fadas. Contudo, tais fantasias exaltam a incapacidade das heroínas em agir independentemente, a confiança na salvação exterior e a ligação ao pai ou a um príncipe. Apesar de muitos(as) leitores(as) reconhecerem elementos de fantasia óbvios, eles(elas) por vezes ainda se identificam com os heróis e especialmente com as heroínas. Inconscientemente, as mulheres podem transferir dos contos de fadas para o mundo real normas culturais que exaltam a passividade, dependência e auto-sacrifício como virtudes femininas. No fundo, os contos de fadas perpetuam o status quo patriarcal, fazendo a subordinação feminina parecer um destino desejável e ao qual é impossível escapar. É esta perspectiva feminina e de crítica feminista que eu pretendo expor na minha tese de mestrado, abordando a importância que os contos de fadas continuam a ter hoje, em pleno século XXI, não só na educação das crianças como no comportamento dos adultos. Nesta tese, faço um breve resumo explanando como os contos de fadas surgiram há vários séculos atrás e como eles evoluíram até aos nossos dias em várias versões, com perspectivas diversas. O meu intuito é analisar a forma como os contos de fadas, por um lado nos podem influenciar positivamente, mostrando-nos o que é o bem e o mal, e por outro lado nos podem influenciar negativamente pois apresentamnos os comportamentos “socialmente” aceites e esperados das mulheres. Nos contos de fadas, as mulheres são sempre representadas como madrastas e bruxas más ou então como princesas meigas, passivas e dependentes da imagem masculina (pai ou príncipe) para serem felizes. É esta representação da imagem feminina que eu pretendo explorar e analisar, expondo o meu ponto de vista de como os contos de fadas continuam a representar modelos comportamentais considerados adequados ao sexo feminino e a espelhar uma imagem feminina que ainda hoje é aceite e vista como a mais adequada – a imagem da mulher submissa, passiva e à espera do seu príncipe encantado para a salvar e lhe trazer a felicidade tão ambicionada.

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Frisk, Anna. "Höga skolprestationer om feminiserande kapital : En etnografisk studie av högt presterande tjejer på gymnasiekolans språkliga inriktning." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, School of Teacher Education, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-1028.

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Högt presterande tjejer i gymnasieskolan erbjuds positioner som ger dem ett högt feminiserat kulturellt kapital men att de presterar bra behöver inte betyda att de är fria från sitt könshabitus och därmed mer jämställda. Jag har följt tretton tjejer på gymnasiekolans språkliga inriktning och studerat deras vardag i undervisningssituationer samt lyssnat till deras egen syn på sina prestationer. De aspekter jag särskilt lagt vikt vid är hur det feminina kapitalet reproduceras genom könshabitus, symboliskt våld samt det androcentriska synsättet. För att studera deras livsvärld har jag använt den etnografiska metoden och presenterar min empiri i form av en narrativ berättelse. Mitt resultat visar att tjejerna är framgångsrika och kompetenta men eftersom de erbjuds vissa subjektspositioner utifrån skolans förväntningar och utifrån det androcentriska heteronomin är deras höga prestationer dock ett feminiserat kapital.

High achieving girls at upper secondary school are given positions that give them a high feminized cultural capital, however, their high achievement does not translate into a position free from gender habitus. I followed thirteen girls at upper secondary school with language as major in their lifeworld in the classroom. I have also been listening to their own stories about their achievements. I have especially put notice into how the feminine capital is reproduced thru gender habitus, symbolic violence and the androcentric heteronomy. Furthermore, I have used the ethnographic method in order to study their everyday life in school and I present my data as a narrative story. My result shows that high achieving girls are highly competent and successful in the discourse of the school, however, the expectations of the school and the androcentric heteronomy offer them certain subject positions which make their high achievements a feminized capital.

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Jones, Marie F. "Academic Libraries as Feminine and Feminist Models of Organization." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1920.

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Because academic libraries are primarily staffed by women and are relatively autonomous entities in colleges and universities, they offer a unique model of workplace gendering and feminism. This qualitative, ethnographic study examined 3 small college libraries in 3 regions of the United States and explored issues of bureaucracy and gendering in these libraries. Feminist challenges to bureaucracy emerged in the areas of hierarchy, division of labor, competition and collaboration, decision-making, and communication. Feminine practice in the libraries reflected private sphere attitudes toward work (values of community, emotionality, and caring) and an affirmation of feminine roles in the workplace. The organizational cultures of these libraries affirmed flexible scheduling, emotions and friendship at work, and parenting talk and behaviors. The library workers also engaged in an ethic of care for library users and colleagues. Individuals in the organizations expressed motivations for work not based in monetary or status gain and endorsed women's power in leadership roles. The gendering of libraries also placed strong masculinity outside of the norm, creating expectations for men to engage in androgynous or feminine behavior. Overall, the study gives voice to feminine and feminist practice in the workplace.

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Kulle, Therese, and Sofie Edlund. "En svart pärla i patriarkatets kista : En semiotisk analys av genus i Pirates of the Caribbean." Thesis, Södertörn University College, The School of Culture and Communication, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1238.

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Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur filmerna Pirates of the Caribbean – Svarta pärlans förbannelse och Pirates of the Caribbean – Död mans kista förhåller sig till de rådande patriarkala normerna. Uppsatsen bygger på teorier kring patriarkatets upprätthållande i form av Yvonne Hirdmans genussystem, R. W. Connells maskulinitetsteori samt vår egen teori om hegemonisk femininitet baserad på Fanny Ambjörnssons femininitetsdiskussioner.

Vårt material består av filmerna Pirates of the Caribbean – Svarta pärlans förbannelse och Pirates of the Caribbean – Död mans kista, vi har även gjort en djupare analys av fem scener. För att uppnå vårt syfte har vi utgått från en semiotisk metod och använt oss dels av Keith Selby och Ron Cowderys analysmodell för narrativ inom television samt med utgångspunkt hos de samma utarbetat en egen analysmodell för djupanalysen av de fem scenerna.

Vi har i vår analys kommit fram till filmerna både bekräftar och bryter mot de patriarkala normerna främst genom karaktärerna Jack Sparrow och Elizabeth Swann som visar tydligast ambivalens. Vi anser därför att filmerna har ett viss ambivalent förhållande till den patriarkala ordningen och därmed till viss del kan anses kritisera den.

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Hamilton, Jayne. "Gender representation and textual strategies in the films of Pilar Miro." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/286.

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This thesis aims to demonstrate the interrelatedness of the rebellious form and content of Pilar MirO's first six films - La petición (1976), El crimen de Cuenca (1979), Gary Cooper gue estás en los cielos (1980), Hablamos esta noche (1982), Werther (1986) and Beltenebros (1991). The Introduction provides a brief outline of the director's life and an insight into some of the core themes of her cinema, summaries of relevant theoretical arguments from psychoanalysis and gender theory in the context of sociology and film studies and an outline of the situation of men and women in Spain vis-à-vis the law, social prejudices, attitudes to sexuality and work. Part I (chapters 1-6) examines gender issues and character portrayal in each of the films in chronological order using these theories. Part II deals with the metafictional textual strategies of Miró's works. Chapter 7 outlines features of metafiction, such as stylistic intertextuality, literal intertextuality, mise-en-abime devices and other cinematic strategies which highlight the constructed nature of the films by laying bare the processes of fictional creation and disturb the viewer, making him or her an active reader, who cannot acquiesce in a passive spectatorial position. It also discusses the issue of authorship in film to posit that Miró abdicates from the position of onmiscient auteur through intertextuality and her use of assistant authors, another strategy of metafictional, postmodern art. Chapters 8 and 9 look at specific examples of intertextuality. The first section of chapter 8 examines the thematic and stylistic influence of the American artist, Edward Hopper, on the setting of Beltenebros and José Gutiérrez Solana's tremendista paintings as a visual reference for El crimen de Cuenca: the chapter also takes into account the joint stylistic influence of Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949) on Beltenebros. The second section of chapter 8 applies theories of historiographic metafiction and intrahistory to Miró's depiction of a miscarriage of justice in the Spanish legal system and the imprisonment of two innocent men in El crimen de Cuenca. Chapter 9 outlines a special instance of intertextuality in Miró's employment of stars. Using recent work in star studies, I consider the contributions and implications of her choice of two actresses - Ana Belén and Patsy Kensit - to La petición and Beltenebros. The conclusion suggests that, while Miró demonstrates an active interest in and sympathy for the victims of oppression, her use of intertextuality may be unconscious and that this thesis presents just one possible argument or interpretation. An interview with Miró in 1995 is included in an Appendix, as are relevant stills of Ana Belén.

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Meinen, Sarah. "POLITICAL FEMININE STYLE AND FIRST LADY RHETORIC: FEMINIST IMPLICATIONS OF A WHITE-GLOVE PULPIT." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1051189500.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Speech Communication, 2003.
Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 127 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-114).

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Lewis, Maxwell Boudinot 1952. "The feminine and the spiritual: Renowned spiritual figures studied from a feminist point of view." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291701.

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The feminine character, shaped by nurturing experience, includes fundamental spiritual training. Feminist spiritual writers value nurturant other-oriented personality characteristics. Although not necessarily having fulfilled nurturing social roles, men may develop spiritually advanced characteristics by undergoing experiences Christ recommended. Examining four spiritual figures, this study sought to ascertain whether exposure to the experiences recommended by feminists and by Christ facilitates development of spiritually advanced characteristics. The findings did not demonstrate that exposure to the experiences recommended by feminists facilitated this development. Nor did exposure to the experiences recommended by Christ predict this development. Females did not develop spiritually advanced characteristics to a higher degree than males. Exposure to a combination of the experiences recommended by Christ and by feminists did correlate with development of spiritually advanced characteristics. Exposure to a modicum of the experiences recommended by feminists may be necessary. Recommendations for counselors are included.

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Han, Catherine Paula. "Reimagining the Brontës : (post)feminist middlebrow adaptations and representations of feminine creative genius, 1996-2011." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2015. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/83347/.

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Investigating conceptualisations of the feminine creative imagination, this thesis examines representations of the Brontës and adaptations of their novels released between 1996 and 2011. I focus on portrayals of Charlotte and Anne Brontë alongside reworkings of Jane Eyre (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) in various media. Contributing to existing research on the cultural afterlives of the Brontës and their novels, I position the works discussed within contemporary middlebrow culture whilst considering the influence of feminism. The Introduction discusses the gendering of creative genius before identifying the tensions between critical, middlebrow and popular discourses’ conceptualisations of the Brontës’ imaginations. Thereafter, the first chapter proposes the contemporary usefulness and considers the gendering of the concept of the middlebrow. I demonstrate that middlebrow culture is fascinated by the Brontës’ lives, art and feminine creative imaginations. To further this argument, the second chapter analyses neo-Victorian novels’ engagement with Charlotte Brontë’s life, art and creativity. I illustrate that these works draw from second-wave feminist criticism on Jane Eyre and belong to a tradition of middlebrow feminine writing about the Brontës. The third chapter also examines representations of feminine creativity and discusses how screen adaptations portray the artistry of Jane Eyre’s heroine. Additionally, the legacies of second-wave feminism in a wider postfeminist cultural context are explored. In the fourth chapter, the thesis turns to analyse the cultural dissemination and reputations of Anne Brontë and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. I delineate how middlebrow culture has rediscovered the youngest Brontë, her novel and her feminism. Ultimately, this thesis suggests that the works examined indicate middlebrow culture’s efforts to engage with feminism through the feminine creative imagination. Yet these works expose a prevailing tension in feminism between the status of the individual and the collective.

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Surewicz, Anita Wioletta. "Theatre of unreason : the French feminist concept of 'L'Ecriture feminine' and woman as the 'irrational other' /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09ars9613.pdf.

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Volschenk, Jacolien. "Fusions of the feminine and technology : exploring the cyborg as subversive tool for feminist reconstructions of identity." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2013.

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Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.
In this dissertation the dominant metaphor for the fusion between the feminine and technology, the cyborg, will be examined through various texts to assess the value the cyborg has for feminism as a tool to exposes the constructedness of boundaries of identity and gender, thereby enabling a reconstruction of a new feminine identity in a subversive and transgressive space. The main themes which will be addressed are those that often feature in feminist science fiction: reproduction, sexuality, the construction of identity and gender through science, culture and ideology, and the power relations between men and women. Other related concepts which will be dealt with are language, self and Other, representation and perspective. Feminist science fiction and theory attempt to destabilise conventional boundaries concerned with gender and identity and the texts which this dissertation deals with are all, to varying degrees, concerned with this destabilisation, each offering a unique perspective on feminine identity and the attempted transformation of current gender categories which will be explored in detailed analysis.

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Jöves, Helena, and Sjöquist Fiodora Lyche. "Från hyllat fittstim till hatade genuspirayor : en studie av DN:s framställning av feminister." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-12492.

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För en tid sedan var det status att vara en del av fittstimmet. Ordet tycktes andas styrka, självständighet och attityd. Även politiker passade på att surfa i vågorna av stimmets strömmar. Feminismen hade anhängare i både det offentliga och hos gemene man (eller kvinna) och det var inget ögonbrynshöjande ställningstagande. Under det senaste decenniet tycks ordet fått en ny laddning och feminismen är inte längre det enda valet i strävan mot jämställdhet. Fittstimmet är upplöst och kvar finns några tappra genuspirayor som vässar tänderna för strid mot ”jämställdisternas” hotfulla nät. I denna studie undersöks Dagens Nyheters porträttering av feminister under två tolvmånadersperioder med nio års mellanrum. Den kvantitativa studien med kvalitativa inslag besvarar i vilka huvudsakliga sammanhang feminister syns, hur de framställs och vilka skillnader det finns mellan perioderna. Forskning och begreppsdefinitioner samt en gedigen historisk tillbakablick i ämnet presenteras. Resultatet visar hur feminister representeras främst i kulturdebatten men betydligt mer frekvent och spritt under den senare perioden. Under den tidiga perioden förknippas feminister mer med kvinnokampens mål och feminismen som ideologi. Den senare perioden utmärks av diskussioner kring feministhat, högerextremism och exkludering av specifika grupper. Studien visar även hur feminister gått från att porträtteras odramatiskt till att placeras i ett betydligt hårdare klimat med hot och påhopp. De trivialiseras, förminskas och anklagas för att vara ologiska och mot moderskapet. Samtidigt mobiliserar enskilda feminister hårda motangrepp och efterfrågar engagemang kring den fortsatta kvinnokampens mål och betydelse i det framtida samhället. Vi visar även hur feministerna ger tillbaka med liknande strategier som de själva genom tiderna blivit utsatta för. Studien visar trots allt en viss positiv utveckling gentemot tidigare forskning, då vissa av de mest tydliga nidbilderna inte går att finna i DN.

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Bancroft, Nancy Parent. "The Content And Process Of Women’s Decision-Making Viewed Through The Lenses of Feminine/Feminist Ethics And Roman Catholicism." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 1999. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/Bancroft_D.pdf.

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Newton, Anne M. "Mother Knows Better: The Donna Reed Show, The Feminine Mystique and the Rise of the Modern Maternal Feminist Movement." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5458.

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In 1958, actress Donna Reed formed her own production company to create The Donna Reed Show, which ran successfully until 1966. One of only two female television producers working in Hollywood, Reed’s show foreshadowed much of the discontent illustrated in Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique. The series explored Donna’s frustrations with housework, her interest in professional activities outside the home, and her determination to be an equal in her marriage. However, The Donna Reed Show also diverged from Friedan on key issues by elevating the housewife and establishing her moral authority, thus foreshadowing more conservative “maternal” feminism as identified by Christina Hoff Sommers. The Donna Reed Show has been falsely grouped with other family sit-coms as conformist and has been largely overlooked for its contributions to the feminist movement by scholars, when in fact Reed created the most complex mother character on television at the time.

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Barck, Fanny, and Sabina Fridén. "Betyg och bedömning - En fråga om kön? : En studie om gymnasieungdomars syn på betygsgrunder." Thesis, Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan, GIH, Institutionen för idrotts- och hälsovetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:gih:diva-2004.

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Sammanfattning Syfte och frågeställningar Syftet med studien har varit att ur ett genusperspektiv undersöka synen på bedömningsgrunder i betygssättningen inom ämnet idrott och hälsa i relation till svenska, samhällskunskap och matematik bland flickor och pojkar på Natur- och samhällsprogrammet(NS). Detta har undersökts utifrån följande frågeställningar: • På vilket sätt upplever gymnasieelever på NS-programmet att de bedöms i idrott och hälsa i relation till de ämnen som syftet anger? • Vilka förutsättningar upplever eleverna finns för att nå de olika betygsstegen i skolämnena idrott och hälsa, samhällskunskap, matematik och svenska? • Hur tror eleverna att en jämställd betygsbedömning ser ut i de utvalda skolämnena? Utifrån detta kommer vi att diskutera hur eleverna bryter eller återskapar genusordningen i sina resonemang kring betygsbedömningen. Metod Den metod som använts i studien är av kvalitativ karaktär som i det här fallet varit fyra fokusgruppsintervjuer i en årskurs tvåa på NS-programmet. Vi använde oss av ett strategiskt urval för den utvalda målgruppen. För att förstå och tolka elevernas resonemang i vårt resultat har vi använt oss av Yvonne Hirdmans och Raewyn Connells genusteorier. Resultat I relationen mellan idrott och hälsa, matematik, svenska och samhällskunskap finns, enligt vårt resultat, en indikation på att kunskaperna laddas och värderas på olika sätt och får därmed olika dignitet. Idrott och hälsa som det lägsta i hierarkin och matematik som det högsta, däremellan befinner sig samhällskunskap och svenska. En del av bedömningen, enligt eleverna, är intresse och deras beteende och inställning under lektionerna. Beteenden, egenskaper och intressen genusifieras av eleverna. Intresset för idrott och hälsa tillskrivs pojkarna vilket i sin tur leder till att båda könen tillåter pojkarna att dominera idrottsundervisningen. Slutsats Eleverna i vår studie förhandlar sällan, eller aldrig om sina genusidentiter framförallt inte inom intresseområden. Detta menar vi begränsar både flickorna och pojkarna. Alla aktörer i skolan medverkar till att skapa och upprätthålla genussystemet, att diskutera betyg och bedömning är ett sätt att konkretisera detta. Då idrott och hälsa, enligt eleverna, saknar tydliga mål genererar det också att ett högt betyg i idrott och hälsa inte får samma legitimitet som de övriga ämnena vi undersökt. Resonemanget att det är lätt att uppnå ett betyg i idrott och hälsa i jämförelse med matematik, svenska och samhällskunskap medför en förstärkning av detta. Däremot verkar det, enligt vårt resultat och tidigare forskning, som att höga betyg i idrott och hälsa verkar statushöjande för framförallt pojkar. Nyckelord Genus, idrott och hälsa, samhällskunskap, svenska, matematik, genusidentitet, genuskontrakt, ideal, maskulinitet, feminitet, genusregim, betyg, bedömning.
Abstract Aim The aim of this study has been to examine the perception of assessment criteria in the grading of Physical education in relation to Swedish, Social studies and Mathematics among girls and boys in Nature and Society programme (NS) from a gender perspective. This has been examined through using the following questions: • How do high school students at the NS programme experience the assessment in Physical education in relation to other subjects in school? • Which specific terms do the students experience they have to achieve in the various grades in Physical education, Social studies, Mathematics and Swedish? • How do the students perceive that an equal assessment is made in the chosen subjects? From this, we will interpret how students challenge or reproduce the gender order in their discussion of assessment. Method This study has had an qualitative approach and four focus group interviews have been carriedout with second year students at the NS programme. We used a strategic selection for the selected target group. To understand and interpret students' reasoning in our results, we have used the gender theory of Yvonne Hirdman and Raewyn Connell. Results The main result obtained in our study indicates that the students value the relations betweenthe chosen subjects differentially. Physical education as the lowest in the hierarchy and Mathematics as the highest. In between are Social studies, and Swedish. With this setting it is also difficult for the students to define what they should learn in Physical education. This is not seen as a problem in Mathematics. Part of the assessment, according to students, is based on their level of interest and behavior. Behaviors, characteristics and interests of the students are gendered which also becomes a part of the assessment. Interest in Physical education is attributed to the boys, which leads to both sexes allowing them to dominate Physical education. Conclusion The students in this study rarely negotiate their gender identities, especially in areas of interest. This, according to us, limits both girls and boys. All actors at the school in this study helps to create and maintain the gender system. Discussing the grading and assessment are ways of concretizing it. According to the students is there a lack of aim in Physical educationin contrast to Social studies, Mathematics and Swedish. The consequence of these arguments is according to us that the legitimacy of Physical education is minor then the other subjects in our study. However due to our result and previous science do high grades in Physical education bring higher status above all to the boys. Keywords Gender, Physical education, Social studies, Swedish, Mathematics, gender identity, gender contract, ideals, masculinity, femininity, gender regime, grading. assessment.

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Ritzén, Gisela. "The Monstrous Feminine : i Takashi Miikes filmer." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-26942.

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I slutet av 90-talet sköljde en våg med asiatisk skräckfilm in över västvärlden. Filmerna handlade om kvinnor som dött en våldsam eller orättvis död och nu var tillbaka för att hämnas. Takashi Miike är en av de mest kända japanska regissörerna som har bidragit till den japanska skräckfilmsgenren som fick så stor spridning i väst. Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka vilka kvinnoroller som finns representerade i fyra utav Miikes skräckfilmer och hur de framställs. Uppsatsen utgår från klassisk feministisk filmteori och undersöker om Barbara Creeds ”the monstrous feminine” och Carol Clovers ”the final girl” finns representerade i Miikes filmer. Bland uppsatsens slutsatser går det att finna att ”the final girl” delvis finns representerad i Miikes filmer, dock inte i samma utsträckning som i amerikansk skräckfilm, samt att man kan stöta på en viss problematik när man applicerar Creeds och Clovers teorier på filmer som inte följer ett västerländskt berättande.

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Snider, Kathryn. "From real essences to the feminine imaginary : critiques of essentialism in feminist theory in North America in the 1980's." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26330.

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The polemical debate, within feminist theory in North America, in the 1980s, around essentialism is the central focus of this thesis.
In particular, this work attempts to critically examine the notion of essentialism, the resistance to accepting a feminine "essence," and the loosely defined and employed terminology surrounding this field of inquiry. In accomplishing these objectives I draw upon, and critique, the more recent work elaborated around theorizing with/through the "body."
Aspects of feminist theory which are examined as contributive towards the above aim are an analysis of the explicit, and implicit, dangers of accepting or discarding essentialism, and an analysis of the inherent ontological and philosophical tenets that function within this present discourse.
It is maintained that by addressing the issue of essentialism, the relationship between subjectivity, identity, and gender, within feminist theory, will be liberated from further constraining propositions.

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Clake, Jenna. "'A noisy situation' : the feminine and feminist 'New Absurd' in twenty-first-century British and American poetry, and, 'Send Shells'." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8653/.

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This thesis consists of a critical study, ‘“A Noisy Situation”: The Feminine and Feminist New Absurd in Twenty-first Century British and American Poetry’, followed by a poetry collection, 'Send Shells'. The critical study is a guidebook to the New Absurd, and thereby informs the reading of 'Send Shells'. Chapter One introduces the New Absurd as a descendant of male-dominated Absurdism; feminine and feminist humour is explored through Sam Riviere, Heather Phillipson, Selima Hill and Luke Kennard. Chapters Two, Three and Four focus on individual poets: Jennifer L. Knox’s 'A Gingo Like Me', Emily Berry’s 'Dear Boy' and Caroline Bird’s 'The Hat-Stand' 'Union' and 'In These Days of Prohibition'. The following themes are investigated: culture, class, and elitism; reality and imagination; feminine humour and sadness. Chapter Five explores apocalypse and technology through Maxine Chernoff, Jane Yeh, and Anne Carson. Chapter Six analyses failures to communicate through Rebecca Perry, Crispin Best, Rachael Allen, and Sara Woods. In conclusion Kayo Chingonyi, Rishi Dastidar, Mona Arshi and Anne Boyer are read to explore poets utilising the New Absurd, a prominent and influential movement in modern poetry, which does not have a specific membership, and might be seen as an aesthetic rather than a school.

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Pereira, Charles Antonio. "Entre “seios aformoseados” e “viva sua beleza”: feminilidades em contraste na publicidade da imprensa feminina." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2017. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/5366.

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O objetivo do presente trabalho é refletir sobre o fenômeno da imprensa feminina a partir de um viés comparativo de duas revistas de períodos históricos distintos. Com base na análise das peças publicitárias de produtos cosméticos presentes em exemplares da década de 1920 da revista A Cigarra e do ano de 2016 da revista Marie Claire, buscarei demonstrar as permanências e descontinuidades nos discursos regulatórios a respeito das feminilidades vinculadas por essas publicações. Demonstrando assim que, apesar das inúmeras conquistas femininas no decorrer desses quase cem anos que separam essas publicações, muito do discurso publicitário da década de 1920 se apresenta de maneira semelhante nas publicações voltadas para as mulheres na atualidade, por vezes se reinventando em relação a forma, mas se mantendo fiel a um conteúdo historicamente implícito sobre o papel feminino hegemônico em nossa sociedade.
The objective of the present work is to reflect about the phenomenon of the female press from a comparative perspective of two women's magazines of different historical periods. Based on the analysis of the advertisements of cosmetic products present in copies of the 1920s of the magazine A Cigarra and copies of the year 2016 of Marie Claire, I will try to demonstrate the continuities and discontinuities in the regulatory discourses regarding feminities linked to these publications. Thus demonstrating that in spite of the innumerable female achievements in the almost 100 years that separate these publications, much of the advertising discourse of the 1920s is presented in the current publication, sometimes reinventing itself in relation to form, but remaining true to the implicit content in relation to women.

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Delmas, Clément. "La femme et son destin au miroir de la poesie feminine, 1899-1920 : contribution a une recherche historique sur la sensibilite et la mentalite feminines vues a travers la litterature feminine et particulierement la poesie." Paris 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA030030.

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A partir de 1899, en france, le mouvement feministe, jusque-la a peu pres inexistant, s'organise et devient tres actif. Il est encourage par l'evolution de la condition feminine a l'etranger. Dans les pays scandinaves, en angleterre, aux etats-unis, la situation de la femme est plus evoluee. Associations feminines, congres, campagnes de presse eveillent donc l'attention du public et des legislateurs. Peu a peu, de 1892 a 1914, des lois et des institutions se mettent en place pour ameliorer la situation des femmes dans le domaine de l'instruction de la profession et de la vie familiale. La guerre de 1914-1918, confirme la capacite des femmes dans tous les domaines de la responsabilite et l'action. En 1920 toutes les revendications ne sont pas encore satisfaites mais la situation legale des femmes s'est rapprochee de celle de l'homme et ce progres parait irreversible. En meme temps que ces revendications apparait chez les femmes francaises un grand mouvement de creation litteraire. Dans ce domaine, et surtout dans la poesie, les femmes prennent une place tres importante. Mais ce que les femmes poetes expriment dans leur poesie, ce n'est pas l'exigence d'une meilleure insertion sociale, mais l'attente d'une reponse a leurs aspirations affectives, morales, metaphysiques et religieuses. Toutes les poetesses de cette epoque veulent epanouir leur personnalite. Comme ces aspirations demeurent trop souvent inassouvies, leur poesie, d'abord optimiste, devient peu a peu pessimiste. La poesie feminine de cette epoque exprime donc surtout une grande aspiration a la vie, aspiration finalement decue. Le mouvement feministe est en marche vers des ameliorations incompletes mais certaines; l'inquietude feminine traduite par la poesie reste inassouvie
In france, from 1899, the feminist movement, almost non existent, becomes organized and active. It is encouraged by the evolution of the feminine condition abroad. In the scandinavian countries, in greatbritain, in the u. S. A. , the situation of the woman is progressive. Feminine associations, congresses, press campaigns awake the attention of the public and of the legislative bodies. Little by little from 1892 until 1914, laws and institutions are being set in place to improve the situation of woman in the field of education in the professions and in family life. The 1914-1918 war confirms the ability of women in every field of responsability and action. In 1920 the demands of women are not yet satisfied, but the legal situation of women approximates that of men, and this progress becomes irreversible. At the same time as these demands are voiced a significant movement of literary creativity occurs among french women. In this general field and especially in poetry, women occupy a very important place. But what poets women express in their poetry is not the exigency of a better status in society, but the expectation of an answer to their emotional moral, metaphysical and religious aspirations. Every poetess of that time wants to reveal her personality. As these aspirations too often stay unsatisfied, their poetry, initially optimistic, becomes more and more pessimistic. The feminine poetry of that time expresses a great aspiration for a full life; yet this aspiration is ultimately unfulfilled. The feminist movement accomplishes incomplete but genuine improvements, the feminine anxiety communicated through the poetry remains unrelieved

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Torgrimsson, Kristel. "Muslimska feminister : En studie om muslimska feminister i Sverige." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-82667.

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Denna studie utgör en motbild till den homogenabild av muslimska kvinnors politiska engagemang som görs i både politiska och akademiska kretsar. Man talar ofta om ’den muslimska kvinnans’motgångar och problem, i förhållande till större strukturella fenomen så som islamofobi och rasism, men tar inte hänsyn till den mångfald som präglar gruppen muslimska kvinnor. Istället för att ge utrymme för muslimska kvinnor att tala om interna och externa problem, utgörsig politiska och mediala aktörer till deras representanter, någonting som denna studie argumenterar för, reproducerar en slags normativ vithet. Denna normativa vithet skapar en luckai den svenska debattenoch en blindhet inför muslimska kvinnors egna engagemangochleder ytterligare till ett exkluderande och ensidigt samtal om kvinnors rättigheter. Denna kritiska diskursanalys om muslimska feminister i Sverige avser därför att visa den heterogenitet som formar deras politiska intressen och de olika motgångar som var och en möter i förhållande till den svenska debatten om kvinnors rättigheter.

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Nylund, Mia-Lie. "A fully feminist foreign policy? : A postcolonial feminist analysis of Sweden's Feminist Foreign Policy." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-339481.

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This thesis is a postcolonial feminist discourse analysis of Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy. Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy is unique to the world, but it is not the only case of incorporating a gender perspective as a central part of national or international politics. Feminism and gender perspectives are increasingly receiving attention and space in global politics. The Swedish case could therefore inform us about where politics are heading. Previous research on the Feminist Foreign Policy has aimed mainly at examining what it means and what challenges it likely will face. The aim of the analysis is to examine whether and to what extent the discourse of the Feminist Foreign Policy interrelates with gendered postcolonial narratives. Feminist scholars have for decades argued for the need to recognize the ways in which gendered and postcolonial structures are interrelated. Excluding either a gender or postcolonial analysis will convey only part of the problem. The method used is discourse analysis, or more specifically, critical discourse analysis. Discourse is an essential part of our social world. It is both constituted by and constitutive of how we understand our surroundings. Critical discourse analysis in particular is a useful method to illuminate power relations in society and how they are reproduced or countered through discourse. Two opposing ideal types are developed based on ideas from postcolonial theory and postcolonial feminist theory: gendered postcolonial discourse and fully feminist discourse. The ideal types are used in order to measure whether, how and to what extent the Feminist Foreign Policy interacts with gendered postcolonial discourse. The analysis looks at official documents, statements and speeches of different forms issued or produced by the foreign office. Using several texts, with varied aims and settings, the material will arguably be representative of the Feminist Foreign Policy. The results show that the Feminist Foreign Policy cannot be placed exclusively in either ideal type. The texts interrelate with gendered postcolonial discourse, reproducing unequal relations of power. Conversely, other parts of the texts are fully feminist, both transforming discourse and contributing to knowledge about what it can look like when discourse manages to avoid gendered postcolonial narratives.

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Bicheler, Carly S. "Self-Determined Non-Conformity, Feminine Gender Roles, and Feminist Ideals as Resistance Factors Against Internalization of the Thin Ideal Body and Body Dissatisfaction." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1226499111.

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Reitman, Oonagh. "Feminist multiculturalism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.402246.

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Ryan, Ashley M. "Feminist Boyfriend." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2018. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/672.

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Mantecon, Laurie. "Feminine Rhyme." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5220.

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'Feminine Rhyme' is a sequence of objects and paintings that resonate with women's experience in contemporary culture. The components I have used are: the structure of the grid, aggressive surface handling, and language derived from text. I have reconfigured these elements to direct the viewer in exploring layers of information that can be viewed in fragments as well as understood within the containment of a sound whole. I have explored the relationship of gender identity in our culture, and the role women play in association to masculine power. Through repetitive use of the grid, combined with isolated words and images, I have created paintings that can be read either in a formal manner through the use of structure and materials that are visually pleasing, or in context to a visual dialogue of contemporary gender myths. By fragmenting text in the form of torn book pages, I have altered and personalized the order, lending weight to chaos. Words become a form of mark making, a lyrical device to be read at random. I have obscured the imagery by hiding the text, leaving only scattered bits of information. These bits are derived from a 'therapeutic model' found in self help books, diet books and romance novels which exploit "feminism" as a commodity, serve as cultural documents, and influence women as to how they should perceive their bodies, their minds, their freedom. The end result is a visual interplay of form and color within the context of personal testimony and societal conditioning of the female experience in contemporary culture.

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Collins, Denise. "Feminist Identity." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27300.

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Establishing a sense of identity is a central task in human development. This research pursued questions about how adult, self-identified feminist women conceptualize their identity, the role of feminism in that conceptualization, and the interaction of feminism with race and sexual orientation.

Forty women in five geographic regions across the United States were interviewed. The participants were faculty, administrators, classified staff, and graduate students affiliated with a university in the region. The interviews were completed during a week-long visit to each location; each interview lasted from 45 to 75 minutes. Interviews followed a semi-structured format, using a standard protocol. Questions in the interviews asked about the importance of feminism, occupation, relationships, religion, politics, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation in the women's identities. The connection of feminism to each of the other identity areas was also asked of the participants.

The women in this study conceptualized identity as consisting of multiple elements, organized in one of two ways: (a) a whole with multiple parts and (b) a collection of multiple parts. The first is an integrated identity, where all elements are connected to each of the other elements, and the second is a contextual identity, where the connection of elements can depend on situational variables. The multiple identities include traditional categories of occupation, relationships, religion, politics, race, and sexual orientation, but also add other areas such as age, socioeconomic class, avocational interests, and feminism.

Women identify themselves as having multiple identities. The way participants in this study view feminism as an identity is organized in four categories: a set of values, a process to make meaning, a contextual identity, and an underlying construct. The categories of feminism vary in the degree to which feminism is connected with other identity elements. Women who view feminism as a set of values speak of it as a set of beliefs or an ideology that may or may not influence other identity areas. The participants who view feminism as a process to make meaning have either an interconnected or contextual view of feminism, with the added element of seeing feminism as a way to understand, interpret, and make decisions about experiences. Feminism as a contextual identity is connected with some parts of identity but not with all elements. For those whose view of feminism is as an underlying construct, feminism is interconnected and interactive with all of the other identity elements.

This study adds to the literature about feminism and feminist identity in three ways. First, it suggests that for women who identify themselves as feminists, feminism is not only an ideology but also an important element of their identity. Second, it asserts that a shared definition of feminism is not critical to determining its role in identity. Third, this study's findings challenge the Downing and Roush (1985) model of feminist identity as the principal model. The Downing and Roush model focuses on feminist consciousness rather than identity; it employs a singular, liberal definition of feminism; it ignores multiple identities and their interactions; and it hinges its highest achievement on activist participation. Each of these assumptions of the Downing and Roush model are contradicted by the findings of this research.

This study adds to the previous literature about identity in two ways. First, it expands the knowledge about adult women's identity by proposing a definition that takes into account the multiple identities that women have. Second, the findings challenge the limited areas by which identity has been traditionally defined. This study challenges the notion that identity is a singular, core construct based on traditional elements. Individuals must be allowed to identify the elements that make up their own identities. The results of this study also suggest that multiple identities, including race/ethnicity and sexual orientation, are mutually influencing and interconnected rather than independent or singular. Identity is constructed of multiple elements that must be examined together to understand the individual's own definition of self.
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Franklin, Rhonda Deanne. "Feminist artifacts." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1314741090.

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Goredema, Rumbidzai Theresa. ""Our approach is feminist" : feminist action transcending feminist narratives at Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12373.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-107).
Discourses of division have seeped into the way the feminist movement thinks about feminist activism. Broadly, the initial research problem was to find out what the discord in feminist theory meant for feminist action. Because sexual violence is one of the key issues South African feminists seek to address, Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust was used as a case study. Formed in 1976, it provides support for rape survivors and runs public education programmes on issues around gender-based violence. Using Helene Joffe's model of cross-cultural analysis, the responses revealed that Rape Crisis' identity functions by "othering" and projecting perceived risk onto "other" groups: the criminal justice system, men, and feminism itself.

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Gerdin, Gunilla. "Femininitet i modebilder." Thesis, Konstfack, Institutionen för Bildpedagogik (BI), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-524.

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Utifrån frågeställningen hur femininitet representeras i modebilder, eller mer specifikt modeteckningar eller modeillustrationer, undersöks och analyseras tre modebilder som representerar tre konstruerade kategorier: voyeurism-makt-sexualitet; estetik-makt-skönhet och feminina mellangrupper-obestämbara genus. Bilderna analyseras med diskursanalys som teoriram, kompositionsanalys och psykoanalytiskt inspirerad bildtolkning ugör metod. I tolkning och gestaltande arbete undersöks hur subjektet som betraktare formas av modebilder, beroende av genus i denna diskurs. Syftet är att utveckla en modell för hur jag som bildlärare kan arbeta med konst och mode, och hur jag utifrån modebilder, vilka barn och ungdomar kommer i kontakt med genom media, nätet, tv, reklam, tidningar och modeböcker, kan diskutera värderingar som berör femininitet, könsstereotyper, genus och normer. Uppsatsen tittar på hur bilderna är en disciplinering, hur mötet med modediskursen och modebilder konstituerar blicken, hur skönheten och skönhetsidealen speglar den tid som skapar dem. Modet har makt att styra ideal och påverka människors självbild. Modebilderna i kategori voyeurism-makt-sexualitet och estetik-makt-skönhet förekommer mer som regel än undantag för hur femininitet representeras. Dessa bilder ingår i en intertextualitet vilka skapar och producerar makt. I uppsatsens bearbetning och analys samt i avsnittet ideal förespråkar uppsatsen en kritisk inställning till dessa bilder. Min gestaltning består av en serie oljemålningar som handlar om identitet, och en skulptur, en klänning Ideal, överdelen är normal men underdelen, själva kjolen är onormalt jättelång.
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Langley, Alix. "A feminist critique of feminist philosophy : dualisms, difference and equality." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.400458.

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BOCLIN, MONICA CARVALHO PINTO. "TIME, FEMININE AND IDENTITY: THE FEMININE IDENTITY IN OLD AGE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2003. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=4436@1.

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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
A velhice é uma categoria que adquiriu recentemente maior visão social, e apesar de muitos já terem e voltado para o estudo dessa população , a imagem do velho, no Brasil, ainda sofre com alguns preconceitos consequentes da falta de informação e divulgação. Os idosos formam uma população em que o número de mulheres é dominante e mais disponível na busca de melhorias para a sua qualidade de vida. A mulher, ao longo do tempo, sofreu com uma desvalorização social de suas capacidades, considerada como inferior ao homem e por esse motivo depentente dele. Tal condição histórica e cultural teve , não só grande influência nos estudos de Freud sobre o feminino, como desdobramentos na formação da população de mulheres neste estudo, que se apresentam na clínica. Tomando a psicanálise como referêncial teórico, esse trabalho tem como objetivo pesquisar a imagem feminina na velhice. Utilizando para isto, a clínica psicológica das mulheres atendidas em um ambulatório para idosos da UFRJ- Instituto de Psiquiatria- CDA. Devido à preocupação com a qualidade de vida dessa população que vem se tornando mais extensa, a clínica psicológica adquiriu grande importância como agente facilitador de um equilíbrio na saúde das mulheres que buscam atendimento por se sentirem tristes, ansiosas e amedontradas. Através do estudo sobre o feminino e o envelhecimento, baseado na escuta desse sofrimento pudemos traçar uma imagem do feminino na velhice e considerar algumas possibilidades que atenuem esse mal- estar. Ainda aliada à psicanálise, com base nas teorias que ressaltam a importância do corpo e das marcas afetivas pré- verbais na formação psíquica do indivíduo, concluímos que a imagem feminina é sustentada, na fase de decadência do corpo jovem, símbolo do feminino em nossa cultura, por um processo de formação de identidade satisfatório, ou como resultado de um resgate desse afeto por um tratamento de análise.
Old age is a very recente category, in spite of many people having studied already this sector of the population. Nevertheless, the image of na elder in Brazil is still the object of prejudice as a consequence of lack of information and communication. In the population of old persons, the contingent of women is more willing to express itself and struggle for a better quality of life. Women have suffered throughout history because their value as individuals was not appreciated by society, since they were considered inferior to men and therefore, dependent on them. S. Freud has shown that this historical and cultural prejudice has had great influence on the psychology of women. It is obvious in the education of the female population tha presents itself at the clinic where this study has been conducted. Using psychoanalyses as a theoretical reference , this paper has as an object the research of feminine image in old age. The population used in this study is that of the women treated at the psychology clinic in an ambulatory for the elder of the UFRJ-Instituto de Psiquiatria- CDA. The quality of life of this population, which has been growing, has been the main objective of the psychology clinic. The clinic has gained in importance as an agent that is helping the acquisition of mental health and equilibrium by the women who look for help because thy feel sad, anxious and afraid. Listening to their suffering, we were able to draw an image of women facing old age and consider some of the possible causes of their unhappiness. In association with psychoanalyses, and based on theories that emphasize the importance of the body and of non-verbal signs of affection in the psychic development of individual, we have concluded that the feminine image, which is sustained in the period of life that corresponds to the decadence of the young body, symbol of the feminine in our culture, is the result of a satisfactory process of identity acquisition in early life or of an adequate process of analysis in later life, when the previous identity acquisition was not satisfactory.

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An, Jihyun. "Feminist Futures : Futures studies through the lens of feminist epistemologies." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-224522.

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This study explores how futures studies could engage with critical feminist perspectives in an intrinsic manner and what feminist futures might mean. The study brings attention to the less discussed subject of epistemological basis in futures studies. Literature study and semi-structured interviews with practitioners and researchers working with feminist approaches in the fields related to futures development was deployed. I’ve analyzed Wendell Bell’s discussion on epistemological foundation of futures studies from feminist epistemological perspective, and have suggested the potential of feminist epistemology of situated knowledges and partial objectivity for futures studies. Based on the findings from the semi-structured interviews, an alternative feminist scenario set in Swedish society in the year of 2050 in the format of a fiction is presented with the aim to provide a detailed and situated narrative of political and daily lives in feminist futures. The feminist futures scenario should not be understood as the singular feminist future suggested for implementation. The intention is to demonstrate how the visionary dimensions of feminist studies could be articulated in various forms of futures studies, and to open up space for rich debates on envisioning feminist futures.
Denna studie utforskar hur framtidsstudier skulle kunna anta ett kritiskt feministiskt perspektiv på ett djuplodande sätt och vad feministiska framtider skulle kunna innebära. Litteraturstudier och semistrukturerade intervjuer med utövare och forskare som arbetar med feministiska tillvägagångssätt inom fält relaterade till framtidsutveckling har genomförts. Jag har analyserat Wendell Bells diskussion om den epistemologiska grunden för framtidsstudier utifrån ett feministiskt epistemologiskt perspektiv, och har föreslagit feministisk epistemologi om situerad kunskap och partiell objektivitet som potentiell epistemologi för framtidsstudier. Utifrån fynden i de semistrukturerade intervjuerna presenteras ett alternativt feministiskt scenario för ett svenskt samhälle år 2050 i ett fiktivt format med syftet att ge ett detaljerat och situerat narrativ om det politiska och dagliga livet inom feministiska framtider. Det feministiska framtidsscenariot bör inte läsas som den enda feministiska framtiden avsedd för implementering. Avsikten är att visa hur feministiska studiers visionära dimensioner kan uttryckas på olika sätt i framtidsstudier och ge utrymme för en bred debatt om hur feministiska framtider kan gestaltas.

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Little, Philippa Susan. "Images of self : a study of feminine and feminist subjectivity in the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Margaret Atwood and Adrienne Rich, 1950-1980." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1990. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1501.

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The thesis explores the poetry (and some prose) of Plath, Sexton, Atwood and Rich in terms of the changing constructions of self-image predicated upon the female role between approx. 1950-1980.1 am particularly concerned with the question of how the discourses of femininity and feminism contribute to the scope of the images of the self which are presented. The period was chosen because it involved significant upheaval and change in terms of women's role and gender identity. The four poets' work spans this period of change and appears to some extent generally characteristic of its social, political and cultural contexts in America, Britain and Canada. (Other poets' work, for example Rukeyser, Lorde, Levertov, is included too. ) The poets were not chosen to illustrate a pre-feminist vs. feminist opposition since a major concern is to explore what I see to be the symbiotic relation between femininity and feminism (as also between orthodoxy and heresy). However the thesis is organised chronologically because periodisation is important for a consideration of the poetry's social setting. In wanting to connect the poetry with cultural and political circumstances as much as possible I have taken Edward Said's assertion of a text's position of 'being in the world', its potential as a cultural product to help reshape reality, and its value as a 'powerful weapon of both materialism and consciousness'. This is the starting point for the study which is circular and cumulative in shape, fundamentally thematic, though each chapter is a chronological exploration of the work of one specific poet, beginning with Plath and completing with Rich. A conclusion attempts to pull the strands of each together and consider the implications raised. The thesis has four general concerns which run through its particular focus on each poet. The first involves the relations between cultural practice and ideology; the second involves the ideology of gender (through exploration of femininity and feminism); the third involves authorial ideology (through the construction of self-image in relation to femininity and feminism) while the fourth involves these concerns in terms of the overall arena of women's struggle for meaning and selfdetermination in cultural practice. More specific elements of the study include collating and comparing self-images and attempting to make connections or chart changes where images such as witch, queen, handmaid, shamaness, goddess, earth mother, whore, madwoman, etc., re-occur. Usage of myth (particularly Persephone). the Gothic, 'and articulation of lesbian desire are also explored. The emergence of a female 'hero' self-image, in opposition to 'victim', seems to be a corollary of the impact , of feminism in Rich's poetry particularly, but this tendency can be traced back through Plath. I explore the celebration of nature and the power of essentialism in the construction of heroic female images, particularly in the figure of the mother flowing with milk at the centre of 'ecriture feminine'. The concluding chapter suggests that femininity did not constitute such a repressive constraint on self-image and writing practice for women as perhaps might be supposed; and that feminism, while opening up many empowering changes for women, has raised further disturbing and unresolved questions about identity, and even helped, in some of its aspects, to create a new 'orthodoxy' in which various aspects of experience cannot easily be articulated. My example is Rich's later work where it seems to admit itself limited by its own initially liberating strategies and looks further on towards new 'heresies.'

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Miller, Rosalena L. "The Feminine Ideal." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/17.

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While footwear was originally meant to protect the feet and enable the wearer to span larger distances and rough materials, today shoes are often seen as a fashion statement and a sex symbol for women. In his book, Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things, Marcel Danesi examines how high heels have moved away from the original purpose of shoes and now “seem to contravene this function. They are uncomfortable and yet millions of women wear them." They have moved from practicality to a sign of femininity, sexuality, and power.

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Hooper, Elizabeth Anne. "A feminist architecture." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23945.

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Bärdén, Ulrika. "Maskulint och feminint?" Thesis, Stockholm University, The Stockholm Institute of Education, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7795.

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Detta arbete redovisar resultat från en studie om hur barn i en förskoleklass uttrycker och tecknar fram sin representation av sina genussystem. Jag har främst fokuserat på om barnen beskriver aktiviteter som maskulina eller feminina samt hur barnen fokuserar på pojkars och flickors utseende. Studiens resultat visar att det finns lekar/aktiviteter som dessa barn ser som främst maskulina respektive feminina. Exempel på dessa är dans, som anses som en feminin aktivitet samt TV-spel som anses som en maskulin. Enligt de teckningar som barnen producerat finns ingen gemensam aktivitet som anses vanlig för båda könen. Vidare visar teckningarna hur barnen väljer att teckna samma aktiviteter som de andra i gruppen av samma biologiska kön. Detta görs för att undvika de negativa reaktioner som kan komma när någon avviker från de inlärda könsspecifika normerna. Pojkar och flickors utseende presenterar i barngruppen på olika sätt genom kläder, frisyrer etc. På barnens bilder presenteras exempelvis en stor del av flickorna iklädd kjol/klänning samt med längre hår än pojkarna. Jag har analyserat barnens teckningar och svar ur ett genusteoretiskt perspektiv som utgår från konstruktivistisk och poststrukturalistisk teori. Jag har även genomfört kvalitativa intervjuer med fyra av barnen för att få en djupare förståelse för de resultat som teckningarna presenterar. Intervjuerna stöder de resultat som framkommer i analysen av barnens teckningar.

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Sleeman, Lauren. "The forgotten feminine." Click here to access this resource online, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/422.

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The topic of my research is the lived experiences of eight psychotherapists and counsellors who consciously work with unusual phenomena as it arises in the therapeutic encounter. Unusual phenomena in this thesis refers to felt experiences which are considered to be beyond the everyday in the Cartesian paradigm and are often referred to as spiritual and/or mystical phenomena. Exploring these phenomena brings to light the potentialities in the vastness of consciousness which is considered to be an integral aspect of human existence in the thesis. I chose Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenological methodology for the research because it gives credence to the many and varied possibilities and potentialities both in particular lived experiences and in human existence as a whole. Van Manen’s lived existential provides the framework in which the participants’ experiences are explored. What emerged from the research is that unusual phenomena are not unusual for the participants. Although such phenomena are less visible and therefore less familiar in the everyday world, they are recognizable through their consistent presentation. This includes the participants having a powerful sense of ‘knowing’ which is all-encompassing and is beyond familiar landmarks such as the linear models of time and space. The participants bring their ‘knowing’ into the everyday world through embodiment and through their acknowledgment of the interconnectedness of existence. The expression of interconnectedness is experienced by the participants as lovingness, from which the ability for immediate healing in their therapeutic work becomes apparent. The participants’ accounts show a capacity for accessing the subtleties of human existence which emerge in the phenomenological process as the forgotten feminine of consciousness. The feminine of consciousness is a term used to describe a fundamental state of ‘being’ in contrast to the everyday masculine principle of ‘doing’. The research has implications for psychotherapy and counselling as it illuminates the need for a holistic approach which acknowledges the multidimensionality of human existence.

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Golo, Erica Maria 1951. "Exploring feminist pedagogies." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291480.

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Feminist pedagogical aims and strategies have been discussed in a variety of articles and essays and in a few recent books. This thesis explores feminist discourse on pedagogies and attempts to reconstruct the development of these discourses historically. Early writings on feminist pedagogies were the product of the action-oriented feminism of the 1970s and focused on classroom practices, while recent works, rooted in the larger framework of poststructuralist feminism, engage in a complex theoretical dialogue with the philosophical narratives and counternarratives that oriented emancipatory pedagogies and problematized the boundaries between feminist and other emancipatory pedagogies. The thesis comprises an analysis of the historical and theoretical implications of the literature on feminist pedagogies, and an ethnographic part based on six interviews with Professors of Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, who were asked to discuss the meanings, possibilities and predicaments of feminist teaching in a large research University.

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Sargisson, Lucy. "Contemporary feminist utopianism." Thesis, Keele University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295799.

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Gandarias, Goikoetxea Itziar. "Hasta que todas seamos libres: Encuentros, tensiones y retos en la construcción de articulaciones entre colectivos de mujeres migradas y feministas en Euskal Herria." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/399834.

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En el actual contexto europeo de crisis sistémica, la falta de vínculos entre mujeres autóctonas y migradas, en un momento en que el racismo y la xenofobia crecen día a día hace inminente la necesidad de estudiar las posibilidades y límites de una acción política feminista en la que la yuxtaposición de los diferentes intereses de las mujeres sea el punto transversal y arranque para la configuración de articulaciones. Tomando como base la teoría de la interseccionalidad y las perspectivas post-coloniales feministas esta tesis estudia desde una metodología feminista y activista, las posibilidades, dificultades y límites para la articulación de prácticas políticas comunes entre organizaciones de mujeres migrantes y autóctonas feministas en Euskal Herria. Para ello, a través de la técnica de las Producciones Narrativas (PN) se identifican los actuales y potenciales puntos de articulación y tensión entre sus prácticas y proyectos de acción política. Fruto de compartir las narrativas entre los grupos y organizar un encuentro presencial, se inicia un proceso de articulación entre los colectivos dentro del contexto de la Plataforma de la Marcha Mundial de Mujeres de Euskal Herria, donde la investigadora comienza a tomar parte como activista. Como consecuencia de este proceso, a través de la observación –participante y el posterior diálogo y discusión con los colectivos se analiza prácticas de reproducción y ruptura de la herencia colonial y patriarcal entre las participantes. Por un lado, las actitudes racistas, la condescendencia, el pensamiento monógamo y blanco, y la (auto)infravaloración de los saberes no hegemónicos aparecen como prácticas que reproducen el colonialismo entre las mujeres. Por otro lado, se identifican durante el proceso dos prácticas de novedad: los pactos de crítica desde el cuidado y las políticas de intimidad. Se trata de prácticas de ruptura de la lógica colonial y patriarcal donde los afectos, la conciencia de las desigualdades semiótico-materiales entre las participantes y el reconocimiento mutuo se tornan herramientas políticas relevantes para la articulación de las diferencias.
In the current European context of systemic crisis, the lack of links between autochthonous and migrant women, at a time when racism and xenophobia are growing day by day becomes imminent the need to study the possibilities and limits of a feminist political action where the juxtaposition of the different interests of women is the starting point in order to configure articulations. Based on the theory of intersectionality and feminist postcolonial perspectives, this thesis studies from a feminist and activist methodology, possibilities, difficulties and limits for the articulation of common political practices between organizations of migrants women and autochthonous feminists in Euskal Herria. To this end, through Narratives Productions technique, current and potential points of articulation and tension between their practices and political action projects are identified. Product of sharing narratives between groups and organize a physical encounter, a process of articulation between groups within the context of the Platform for the World March of Women in the Basque Country, where the research begins to take part as an activist, started. In this context, through the Observation-Participant technique and subsequent dialogue and discussion with the participants, this thesis analyzes the reproducing and breaking practices of colonial and patriarchal logic between participants. On the one hand, racist attitudes, condescension, monogamous and white thinking, and (self)underestimation of non-hegemonic knowledge appear as practices that reproduce colonialism among women. On the other hand, breaking practices are identified during the process: care pacts for criticism and politics of intimacy where affections, awareness of the semiotic-material inequalities between participants and mutual recognition become relevant policy tools in order articulate the differences.

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ARBONA, MARHOZ NELLY. "Les mutilations sexuelles feminines." Aix-Marseille 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994AIX20171.

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Stabile, Sergei. "The seduction of the feminine : Irigaray and Baudrillard on feminine subjectivity /." Title page, contents and thesis outline only, 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09ars7753.pdf.

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Isherwood, Lisa. "Entering Eden with eyes re-opened : feminist implications of feminist Christology." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683108.

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Gillespie, Betty Lynn. "Stress and the feminine self-concept : responses to feminine and gender-neutral stressors as a function of feminine self-evaluation /." Diss., This resource online, 1993. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02052007-072446/.

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Ladianou, Aikaterini. "Logos Gynaikos: Feminine Voice in Archaic Greek Poetry." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1236711421.

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