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Deaton, JoEtta H. "The doctrine of creation and gender subordination a complementarian view /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p018-0111.
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Bittle, Fred L. "From the beginning gender and the theology of the body /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Mills, Hailey L. "Avatar Creation: The Social Construction of "Beauty" in Second Life." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1352436009.
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Elrod, Elizabeth J. "Give us a Gender Neutral Pronoun, Yo!: The Need for and Creation of a Gender Neutral, Singular, Third Person, Personal Pronoun." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/200.
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This essay outlines the problems associated with the history and current absence of a gender-neutral third-person singular personal pronoun in the English language. The combination of the social and grammatical consequences of this language gap results in pronoun choices that are either politically incorrect or verbose. Experts’ attempts to fill this language gap have failed to take root on any widespread basis; but, interestingly, middle school children in Baltimore, Maryland created and started using “yo” as their own gender-neutral third-person singular personal pronoun. Stotko and Troyer’s (2007) study on this development sheds some light on exactly how students use “yo” as a third-person pronoun and proposes some theories regarding the origin of this change in language. This spontaneously produced gender-neutral pronoun has gained as much recognition as many gender-neutral third-person singular personal pronouns proposed by linguistic experts, perhaps as a result of children’s unique understanding of and ability to create language. This recent development indicates that common English speakers will likely spontaneously generate a solution to the current pronoun gap, although this will probably take some time to occur.
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Pauli, Gisela. "The creation of real food and real people : gender complementarity among the Menku of Central Brazil." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11062.
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The thesis aims to provide a first ethnographic description of the Menkü of Central Brazil by focussing on their non-hierarchical gender-complementarity as it realises itself in relationships of production and reproduction. The first part of the thesis comprises of an introduction to the group from a historical point of view by providing a description of the Menkü's historical experiences during this century. This is followed by a description of the settlement, and the social spaces it encompasses. The second part focusses on the creation of real food by firstly elaborating social and physical aspects of material production. Secondly, it explores the metaphysical aspects of production and reproduction by uncovering the relationships human beings engage in with the world of masters of the elements, animals and ancestors. The third part of the thesis investigates processes underlying the creation of real people by focussing on Menkü life cycle, kinship and social organisation. A person's life is depicted in the way it is geared towards the acquisition of gendered skills of production and reproduction, which are fully manifested by the married couple. An outline of the Menkü system of classificatory marriage reveals the stress on the married couple from another point of view. It will be shown that the ideal marriage partners are identified by a conflation of gender and affinity. The last chapter explores the generation of sociality as it reveals itself in happiness, abundance and togetherness. It shows the extent to which a high communal morale is preconditioned upon non-hierarchical gender-relationships.
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Bunyea, Leo Ryan. "Using Research Driven Design to Reimagine Systems of Gender in Final Fantasy XIV." Digital WPI, 2020. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/1355.
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This study explores gender modeling specifically in avatar creation tools through the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV. The design of systems is often limited by the experiences of those who build them. In the video game industry; this means that systems are often designed by white, cisgender, heterosexual men. This demographic does not represent the wealth of people who play games and are subjected to these systems. The needs of marginalized communities, especially queer communities, in terms of affordances and representation tend to be overlooked or forgotten. This issue is apparent in avatar creation tools which define the types of bodies and identities that are allowable in the world of the game. Using Brenda Laurel’s research driven design tactics, modifications to Final Fantasy XIV’s current system were realized through a paper prototype and constant input from a group of self-identifying queer players. Both the feedback from these queer players and the modifications made to the prototype were condensed into a series of suggestions for the creators of these tools. Ultimately, I discovered that there are three key features which vastly improve the affordances of character creators for queer players; the inclusion of pronoun identification, the identification of gender identity, and the separation of both of these options from the character’s physical appearance. Designers who implement these findings in their work will contribute to creating environments that support queer identities.
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Smalberger, Lize-Meri. "Playing sex : the exploration, creation and transmission of gender codes in puppetry through the exploration of Cleansed." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6818.
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Thesis (MDram)--University of Stellenbosch, 2011.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek die verkenning, skepping en oordrag van geslagskodes in toneelpoppe. Die studie ondersoek die gebruik van geslagskodes in die skepping van manlike en vroulike identiteite. Die navorsing word baseer op Judith Butler (1999) se teorieë met betrekking tot geslagsgedrag waarvolgens geslag uit herhaalde gestyleerde aksies bestaan waaruit manlike en vroulike identiteite geskep word. Geslag word dus deur spesifieke geslagskodes weergegee wat in kleding, optrede en kommunikasie gevind word. In die studie word daar gekyk na die drie kenmerkende tekens van kommunikasie wat betrokke is by 'n toneelpop, naamlik ontwerp, beweging en spraak. Verder ondersoek die studie ook die kreatiewe prosesse soos gevind in die verhoogproduksie Cleansed (2009) wat as praktiese verkenning gedoen is om die oordrag van geslagskodes (ontwerp, beweging en spraak) by die toneelpop te illustreer.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the exploration, creation and transmission of gender codes in puppetry. It investigates the gender codes used to construct masculine and feminine identities; this is done through the exploration of Judith Butler's (1999) theories on gender performativity. According to Butler (1999) gender consists of a stylized repetition of acts and through these socially constructed acts, a gendered self is constructed. Gender is thus communicated through gender codes and these codes are found in the way we dress, act and speak. This study also investigates the semiotics of the puppet, with specific reference to design, movement and speech as significant signs. This study also investigates the creative processes of Cleansed (2009). It is through this process that the gender codes (found in the design, movement and speech of the puppet) are explored, created and ultimately transmitted.
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Asfaw, Tihut Yirgu. "Gender, justice and livelihoods in the creation and demise of forests in North Western Ethiopia’s Zeghie Peninsula." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5472.
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This doctoral dissertation explores how the people of Zeghie, living in a designated sacred area, have confronted and attempted to survive internal and external pressures on their forest-based, coffee-dependent livelihoods. For generations the peninsula has embraced strict rules that have helped sustain the forested and coffee-based agro-ecosystem. Today, the Zeghean economy is at a crossroads and rapid forest harvesting is the norm. This research adopted a number of theoretical approaches including environmental history and political ecology to understand determinants of deforestation and environmental degradation and their impact on the long-term sustainability of the natural resources and people’s livelihoods. While Zeghie’s landscape is unquestionably long-inhabited and also unquestionably regarded as sacred in the eyes of most of its inhabitants, a closer look revealed a landscape that is both historically complex and socially troubled wherein coffee is a newer livelihood than most conservation and aid agencies have assumed it to be, and that other agricultural practices have been used in the past and might be used again. It also suggests that the potential for viable livelihoods may well be over-shadowed by discourses of the sacred and of biodiversity. Research and analysis conducted as part of this work also sought to understand deeply rooted gender and power relations, which are currently fuelling poverty and marginalization. Widespread male emigration and increased numbers of female-headed households have resulted in a fierce struggle for land and have highlighted extreme problems pertaining to the absence of fair and equitable justice for women. The use of critical and feminist legal theory and feminist political ecology has been instrumental to understanding the ways in which local legal and rule-based systems reinforce inequality through imposed community harmony for all at the expense of justice for women. The study concludes that deforestation and environmental change in Zeghie are exacerbated by complex social, political-economic, and historical processes—processes entrenched in the micro politics of property ownership and gendered legal and decision-making institutions. A broader set of policies, institutional and technical interventions will be required for the sake of both local livelihoods and the management of natural resources.
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Osborn, Elizabeth R. "The influence of culture and gender on the creation of law in antebellum Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3162255.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2004.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0313. Director: Michael Grossberg. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 12, 2006).
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Schmidt, Vita. "Genusskapande under fri lek i grundskolan." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-363116.
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The study seeks an in-depth understanding of how gender is being constructed in elementary school. More specifically, the essay aims at investigating the creation of gender during free play at the breaks in primary school. On the basis of this purpose, the essay sets the following questions: How is gender created during free play? How are boundaries between male and female / boy and girl established? What scopes are there for violations and breach of the gender contract? The questions are answered based on socio-cultural perspectives and gender theory. A central aspect emphasized by Hirdman is the gender contract. This theory assumes that social contexts are gender coded and governed by invisible “gender contracts” that govern how men and women should think and behave. The study is based on observations throughout the schoolyard made for a total of five days. The focus is on children in one class, from grade 1 to 3. The results confirm that children's play is gender coded and governed by norms for how men and women should behave. Boundaries between male and female / boy and girl are established both through the choice of games, and through how the children act in the different games. An interesting detail here is the way in which teachers at school changed the conditions for children's play by scheduling football games so girls and boys can play separately on certain days of the week. As regards the issue of infringements, the survey has shown that there is both an overrun of the gender contract through "interspersed gender interactions" and an enhancement of the gender contract by children themselves marking when others exceed limits and norms.
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Esquivel-King, Reyna M. "Mexican Film Censorship and the Creation of Regime Legitimacy, 1913-1945." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555601229993353.
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Sluis, Ageeth. "City of Spectacles: Gender Performance, Revolutionary Reform and the Creation of Public Space in Mexico City, 1915-1939." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194775.
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In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, the new State sought to reinvigorate and civilize Mexico City through a series of urban reforms and public works. This dissertation focuses on the intersection of revolutionary reform and the formation of urban space by asking how revolutionary leaders -concerned about acceptable roles for women--envisioned a new city, and how women of different social classes contested these ideas. Through a study of performance and visual culture, I analyze the depiction and concern over "public women," to understand larger debates about gender and urbanization in Mexico City during the 1920s and 1930s.After World War I, a global ideal of the New Woman emerged through which women claimed both political and social mobility. This ideology was articulated through a radically different aesthetic of femininity that postulated a new way of discerning physical beauty. The Deco body, as I call this phenomenon, marked a shift from the ideal of full-figured female bodies to the sleek, elongated lines that dominated nascent fashion and beauty industries, populated the pages of the city's popular magazines, and structured the imagined metropolis, a city where modernity literally was seen and debated in terms of acceptable forms of femininity. By looking at what and who constituted spectacle, I examine how the visibility and invisibility of women in public space influenced urban reform.The Revolution created some new spaces in which women could exercise agency, yet by the mid 1930s, this window of opportunity gradually closed. Despite large cross-class alliances, mobilization, and activism, women did not achieve either gender parity or the right to vote. Modern ideas of femininity ran up against the "cult of masculinity" that glorified war heroes as the quintessential Revolutionary Family. Gender issues occupied an ambiguous place in context of the reformist agenda of the new leadership that sought to return women to traditional roles of wife and mother. In contrast, the Deco bodies of the stage served to symbolize Mexico City's claim to modernity, bridged the gap between Indigenismo and Mestizaje, and paved the way for a mestizo modernity.
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Beya, Sara. "Six feet three of Cheekbones, vanity and attitude : A discourse analysis of the construction of gender in the performance of metal music." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-172996.
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This study focuses on how gender is discursively constructed by the stereotypical metal performer in the metal scene, since these types of performances has been largely un-problematized in previous metal scholarship. Through discourse analysis of music videos and live performances of three metal artists this study presents the doing of gender in the metal scene in a way which portrays every act, body feature, movement, spatial use and sexual display, as equal parts of a gender performance. The results present how gendered identities and gendered bodies are discursively created in the performance of metal music.
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Tsegah, Marian. "Making a difference : a study of the 'social marketing' campaign in awareness creation of gender based violence in Ghana." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/60041/.
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Within feminist scholarship advertising – representing women as wives, mothers and sexual objects – has long been regarded as patriarchal, blocking women's liberation (Talbot 2000) and thus an impossible practice for progressive activism. More recently, however, approaches acknowledge advertising as a ‘tool' deployed for a range of ‘political' ends, encouraging changes in values, understandings and behaviors. Such advertising is often referred to as ‘social marketing'. This thesis focuses on one such campaign in Ghana between 2007 and 2009 attempting to raise awareness about gender violence. This campaign is considered in the context of the position of women in post-colonial Ghana and tracked across the different processes of a ‘circuit of culture' (including production, representation, consumption) through which meanings are made (du Gay et al 1997). The thesis explores the campaign's inception, production, mobilization within educational and ‘consciousness-raising' endeavors, the form and textual construction of the ads (largely posters), women's (and some men's) understanding of the posters and gender violence. Methodologically, the project involved interviewing twelve individuals in key organizations working with the public, victims, and on the campaign. It also involved collecting a sample of ten ad posters and conducting eight ‘focus group' discussions with women and some men. Findings suggest that the campaign did lead to increased awareness of gender violence across gender, generations and literacy levels. Nevertheless, audiences/consumers interpreted the campaign posters in very distinctive ways, depending on the resonance with their own lives. Further, constraints on reporting abuse still held, not least on account of the embarrassment and shame of admission. Overall the thesis contributes to scholarship on social marketing but more particularly to debates about improving women's position in Ghana.
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Hines, Heather. "The LGBT Community Responds: The Lavender Scare and the Creation of Midwestern Gay and Lesbian Publications." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1499359433882651.
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Isaksson, Susanne. "Character Creation Processes in MMORPGs : - A qualitative study of determining important factors." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, fysik och matematik, DFM, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-21028.
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Virtual worlds give us the opportunity to explore another self, a virtual character of the real life you. Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) have become extremely popular over the last decade. It has also grown into a lucrative business. To keep the players, the game needs to be more than just a game. This study aimed at finding out what factors that determine which features of the character creation interface that are most important to players. The following research question was formed; “Which underlying factors affect how important different features of the character creation interface are to experienced MMORPG players? To be able to answer the question an extensive literature review was conducted. A qualitative approach was taken. Long interviews were made with five participants, two female and three male players. The interviews took place while they created a number of avatars in different MMORPGs. The interviews were then followed up. During the follow-ups, the impact the character creation process had for the players, were discussed. The findings indicate that the character creation interface is important for the players to get a good gaming experience. However different types of players require different things. Important features for the users to change were mainly; the head; the name; and adding parts of yourself on your character. The factors that determined the importance of these features were found to be; Player types; Identity types; Immersion levels; and whether or not the game or the gaming experience were new to the player. Another finding showed that the longer you have played a game the less bizarre the different races, classes and gender will seem. The study also indicated that the female participants had a hard time identifying with their male characters.
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Spencer, Brett. "“Casey Saw It Through”: Guy “Machine Gun” Molony and the Creation of a Rugged Individual." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2219.
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This thesis explores the influence of masculinity in twentieth century American foreign policy through examining the career of Guy “Machine Gun” Molony. Molony was an Irish American mercenary from New Orleans, whose career saw the transformation of Honduras from a banana republic to a recipient of dollar diplomacy. Unlike the majority of mercenaries who did not use their experience to build successful careers, Molony made a name for himself in American newspapers, becoming respected and even feared by policemen and politicians. His life tells a fascinating tale of the individual male in American foreign policy, where rebellious youth used war and instability to create heroic images of themselves. This thesis argues that the U.S. State Department borrowed from the independent mercenary model, building on a foundation laid out by men like Molony to implement dollar diplomacy. Guy Molony’s career is a telling example of how perceived ideas of manhood carried imperial intentions during the era of manifest destiny and the Monroe Doctrine. Although scholars tend to focus on Western expansion when examining the ideology of manifest destiny, this thesis explores how mercenaries like Guy Molony, followed by the U.S. State Department, continued to look southward to Central America as a means for American expansion.
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Callen, Tara Ashmore. "Video Art and Photography in Creation of Autobiographical Narratives with Adolescent Girls Aging out of an Orphanage (Hogares de Ni?as) in Peru." Thesis, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10689108.
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This dissertation was designed using a qualitative research mode of inquiry that utilized a mixed methodology approach. This dissertation was an ethnographic narrative study tracking eight young women who were “aging out” or forced to leave their orphanage in Peru, where most of them had spent a majority of their lives. The study examined the way in which a collaborative art community could support the participants as they narrated their lives over a 16-month period of time through photojournaling and social media outlets.
This study relied upon interviews, on-site observations, personal journaling, and photographing, in addition to an overall thematic analysis of the output of each of the eight participants and two nuns. From these data, six key themes emerged concerning the outcomes of each young girl’s continuing life at the Hogar and their endeavors outside of the orphanage. The focal points of this study were community building via art making and building of personal aesthetic, community engagement, reflection on self-identity, cross-cultural art education, and shared experience via photo-art narratives and social media.
This research also examined the role of collaborative art experiences in helping these young women structure new identities and form collaborations with their peers designed to sustain them into their future lives. This dissertation studied not only the formation of singular identities but how these functioned within a collaborative identity that supported the young participants as they moved out of their orphanage and forward into the outside world.
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Borglin, John. "Minnet av Utøya i populärkulturen. : En analys av genus och ideologi i två samtida spelfilmer om Utøya-attentatet." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-80119.
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The following study aims to discuss the impact of Erik Poppes’ and Paul Greengrass’ respective audio-visual texts depicting the July 22 massacre on Utøya, Norway. The study will discuss the impact of said texts on the creation of a cultural memory of the event, as well as the creation of identity which is derived from its remembrance. The cultural memory and formation of identity created by this mediating media have an impact on the reception of the depicted past as well as the ideas and views regarding contemporary times. This gives the study a deeper relation to the historical field, whilst also contextualizing the entire study in the grander field of memory studies. In addition, the method decodes the theoretical perspectives of gender-theory and ideological-theory. Considering the choice of theoretical fields, discourse analysis is implemented as the method of analysis. It is derived from Faucault’s idea of language and its notions of hierarchical carriers of meaning, though in this context with a broader scope as to include both linguistic and non-linguistic signs. The results of the analysis were fruitful. In terms of gender-theoretical portrayal, the films offered similarities as well as differences. Both of them portrayed a nuanced representation of gender-constructions, however in highly different ways, as their respective narratives were dissimilar. Furthermore, the ideological values portrayed were interlinked between the films, though more or less fixed towards different ideas. The discussion that followed connected this study to the wider field of cultural memory and identity creation in relations to mediating popular-historical media.
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Hart, Blaize Robert. "In Visible Bodies: A Phenomenology of Sexuality and the Creation of Repressive Systems in Film." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors158768776757641.
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Clemens-Smucker, Judith A. "Major Kira of Star Trek: DS9: Woman of the Future, Creation of the 90s." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1601300905690302.
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Manes, Caralynn. "I'm Every Woman: Audre Lorde's Creation of an Interior Community in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors151334487983631.
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Byrne, Cara. "Illustrating the Smallest Black Bodies: The Creation of Childhood in African American Children’s Literature, 1836 – 2015." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1458747705.
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Jörnek, Elin, and Kim Lannelind. "Ändras ditt beteende då du reser på utlandssemester? : Studie angående individers resebeteende med fokus på identitet, genus och ojämlikhet." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-24480.
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Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka hur unga män respektive kvinnor boende i Sverige resonerar kring sitt beteende vid resandet till ett annat land och om resandet i sig bidrar till identitetsskapande. Vi ämnar att undersöka om individer bedömer det mer legitimt att utföra handlingar som i hemlandet anses vara mindre accepterat och om det finns någon skillnad mellan dessa föreställningar beroende på individens könstillhörighet. Uppsatsen baseras på ett kvalitativt tillvägagångssätt då tio intervjuer har genomförts med fem män respektive fem kvinnor i åldersspannet 20-30 år. Intervjuerna har kodats och därefter analyserats med hjälp av de valda teorierna vilka bland andra är identitet, genus och ojämlikhet. Vid analysprocessen har även tidigare forskning tillämpats för att stärka de resultat som framkommit under studieprocessen. Studien visar att en utlandssemester är av betydelse för en individs liv och resan bidrar till att individen utvecklar sin identitet. Att resa ses som viktigt för individen för att berätta och stärka vem den är och vill vara. Vidare visar studien på att det inte finns skillnader könen emellan då det gäller beteendeförändringar utan det sker en förändring oavsett kön. Utifrån studiens resultat har vi identifierat att individer som förflyttar sig från sin vardagliga zon till en utlandssemester intar en specifik roll som vi väljer att kalla turistidentitet. Turistidentitet innebär att individen har lämnat sitt vanliga jag hemma för att inta en ny roll där gränserna anses kunna förflyttas. Begreppet turistidentitet blir ett verktyg för att få en förståelse för en individs beteende och att det finns en skillnad individer emellan. I och med att det finns skillnader individer emellan ser turistidentiteten olika ut beroende på vem individen är.The purpose of this paper is to examine how young men and women living in Sweden discuss about their behavior during travel to another country, and if traveling in itself contributes to identity creation. We intend to examine whether individuals consider it more legitimate to perform acts that in their home country is considered to be less accepted, and if there are any difference between these performances depending on the individual's gender. The study are based on a qualitative approach and interviews were conducted with five men and five women in the age 20-30 years. The interviews were coded and then analyzed by means of the chosen theories which among others are, identity, gender and inequality. In the analyzed process previous research has also been applied to strengthen the results that emerged during the process. The study shows that overseas holiday is relevant to an individual's life and the journey helps individuals to develop their identity. Traveling is seen as important for individuals to tell and strengthen who they are and want to be. The study shows that no differences exist between the sexes when it comes to behavior changes, there is a change regardless of gender. Based on the study results, we have identified that individuals who move from their everyday zone to a holiday abroad take a specific role, which we choose to call the tourist identity. The conception of the Tourist Identity is that the individual has left one´s usual self at home to take on a new role where the boundaries are considered to be moved. The concept of tourist identity becomes a tool to gain an understanding of an individual's behavior and that there is a difference between individuals. Depending on who the individual is the tourist identity differs.
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McCoy, Austin C. "The Creation of an African-American Counterpublic: The Impact of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality on Black Radicalism during the Black Freedom Movement, 1965-1981." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1239641963.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Nov. 16, 2009). Advisor: Elizabeth Smith-Pryor. Keywords: Civil Rights Movement; Black Power; Black Feminism; Gender; Race; Class; Sexuality; Nationalism; Black Radicalism. Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-139).
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Beck, Anna-Carrie H. "“MORE THAN JUST A BOX”: THE CO-CREATION OF SOCIAL IDENTITY WITHIN HISPANIC-CAUCASIAN MULTIETHNIC FAMILY SYSTEMS." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/comm_etds/75.
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Approximately 15% of all new marriages in the United States in 2010 were between spouses that shared different racial or ethnic backgrounds from one another. Socha and Diggs (1999) began to examine race as both an outcome of family communication as well as a factor that influences children's communication development in families because of the social pressure multiethnic families endure to fit a nuclear family model. This study utilized dyadic interviews of eleven multiethnic parent couples (N = 22 individuals; 11 dyads) in order to gain a deeper understanding of Hispanic-Caucasian multiethnic family systems. Communication in families plays a foundational role in many aspects of society and socialization of the young. However, slim research has addressed how communication in families affects the understandings of ethnicity and the formation of social identities as a social construction (see Hecht, Collier, & Ribeau, 1993; Socha & Diggs, 1999; Socha, Sanchez-Hucles, Bromley, & Kelly, 1995).
Researchers in the social sciences, especially in communication, must recognize that the sanctuary of the home may be generating the keys to understanding problems concerning social identity formation and diversity. Thus, there is a need for communication research at the crossroads of ethnicity, family, and identity. This dissertation highlights family factors that may influence Hispanic-Caucasian multiethnic children’s social identities as well as family communication within Hispanic-Caucasian multiethnic family systems. This study explicates multiethnic families through the lens of communication accommodation theory (CAT; Giles, 1973), social identity theory (SIT; Tajfel & Turner, 1979), and self-categorization theory (SCT; Turner, 1985; Turner, 1987), explicitly overviewing the intersection of interpersonal and intergroup communication (Giles, 2012).
This study provides insights to both theoretical expansion and practical application within Hispanic-Caucasian multiethnic family systems. Ultimately, this study addresses questions such as: a) How do Hispanic-Caucasian multiethnic family systems communicate surrounding topics of race and ethnicity, b) How do Hispanic-Caucasian multiethnic families discuss components of social identity (e.g., ethnic identification for multiethnic children), and c) What challenges are unique to Hispanic-Caucasian multiethnic family systems?
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Nowlain, Kristine. "Collaborative Storytelling through Contemporary Composition : Examining participation in the creation and performance of meaningful works through Judith Weir’s woman.life.song." Thesis, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för klassisk musik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-2791.
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Through examining Judith Weir’s woman.life.song (2000), the work presented in this written reflection is centered on the power of collaboration and context to create meaningful art and music that express important and often underrepresented experiences. Through a musical and sociological analysis of this piece, it is examined how the personal is political and how the creation of music and art are therefore inherently political projects. This paper argues that musicians have a responsibility to consciously select our repertoire: a conscience based upon an understanding of intersectionality. Such consciousness must take into account structures of sexism and racism, which positions music in its socio-political context and actively challenges the concept of “quality” as it is constructed in the art music canon. Placing the composer and authors within their broader socio-political contexts, it is argued that lifting pieces such woman.life.song are important contributions of a musician’s participation in music. This paper draws upon work in sociology that centers on identity to examine how structures of power impact the voices that are heard and that are represented in the musical canon.Kristine Nowlain, sopran
Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956)
Depuis le jour
Ur Louise(Louise)
Libretto av G. Charpentier
Albert Dahllöf, piano
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)
The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra
1. When the morning of life has passed
2. The dove that nests in the tree-top
3. Wrung with anguish
Text av Moses-Ibn-Ezra (1058-1138)
Gustav Sondén, gitarr
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Bachianas Brasileiras, no. 5 (Aria)
Text av Ruth V. Corrêa
Gustav Sondén, gitarr
Åke Uddén (1903-1987)
Tre sånger ur ”Les Chanson de Bilitis”
1. Tendresses
3. Chanson
Text av Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925)
Johanna Johnsson, piano
Gösta Nyström (1890-1966)
På Reveln
3. Havet Sjunger
Text av Ebba Lindqvist (1908-1995)
Johanna Johnsson, piano
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
The Seal Man
Text ur A Mainsail Haul av John Masefield (1878-1967)
Albert Dahllöf, piano
W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)
Ach, ich Fühl’s
Ur Die Zauberflöte(Pamina)
Libretto av Emanuel Schikaneder (1751-1812)
KMH Kammarorkester
Judith Weir (f. 1954)
woman.life.song
1c. Edge (text av Toni Morrison, f. 1931)
2. Eve Remembering (text av Toni Morrison)
3b. The Mothership: when a good mother sails from this world (Stave II) – (text av Clarissa Pinkola Estés, f. 1945)
KMH Kammarorkester:
Sofia Winiarski, dirigent
Albert Dahllöf, piano
Andreas Nyström, slagverk
Astrid le Clercq, klarinett
Catrin Spångberg Johansson, altflöjt
Enno Leggedör, viola
Gustav Wetterbrandt, basklarinett
Henrik Wassenius, slagverk
Hugo Olsson, klarinett
Isabel Godau, violin
Johanna Moraeus, violin
Kajsa Nilsson, flöjt
Klara Källström, cello
Miia Roiko-Jokela, flöjt
Miriam Liljefors, harpa
Moa Nissfolk, gitarr
Ragnhild Kvist, viola
Simon Landqvist, slagverk
Svante Söderqvist, kontrabas
Viktoria Hillerud, cello
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Blad, Sofie. "The influence of social aspects on new venture creation : A qualitative study on the role of entrepreneurs’ and entrepreneuses’ social capital and social competence in the start-up phase." Thesis, Umeå University, Umeå School of Business, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1783.
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Previous entrepreneurship research has shown that networks are of great importance when discovering and exploiting business opportunities, i.e. in the start up process of new venture (e.g. Davidsson and Honig 2003; Evald, Klyver, and Svendsen 2006; Klyver, Hindle, and Meyer forthcoming). The value of a network is referred to as social capital, which refers to the amount of resources, both tangible and intangible, that an entrepreneur or entrepreneuse might have access to through the members of their network (Nahapiet and Ghoshal 1998). Social capital is the product of social interactions (Anderson et al. 2007), implying that a person’s social abilities, i.e. social competence, can influence the creation of social capital (Baron and Markman 2000, 2003). Social capital the factor that helps the entrepreneur “get through the door”, while the entrepreneur’s social abilities determine the outcome of that interaction (Baron and Markman 2000:107). The focus of this study is, thus, to explore whether entrepreneurs and entrepreneuses utilize different types of the social capital in the process of starting a new venture and whether they perceive social competence to have an influential role in this process.
The theoretical framework consist of three main theoretical areas; social capital, social competence, and psychological gender. The first part is based on Nahapiet and Ghoshal’s (1998) model of social capital and describes theories explaining factors influence social capital embedded within a person’s network relationships. The second part covers social competence and the abilities that constitute this concept. Further, five dimensions are identified as comprising social competence, i.e. social astuteness, interpersonal influence, networking ability, apparent sincerity, and social manipulation (Baron and Markman 2000, 2003; Hoehn-Weiss et al. 2004; Ferris et al. 2005, 2007; Riggio 1986). The last part discusses whether there might exist differences between entrepreneurs and entrepreneuses regarding their behaviours and their psychological gender (Bem 1974, 1975, 1977; Spence et al. 1975).
The research design show similarities with both an inductive and a deductive approach, with a focus on the induction since little research within the entrepreneurship field has combined the different topics comprising the scope of this study. Further, this implies qualitative research methods and the empirical data was collect through conducting 14 semi structured interviews with entrepreneurs and entrepreneuses as well as through a questionnaire aiming at determine the respondents’ psychological gender.
The results of the present study indicate that entrepreneurs and entrepreneuses utilize different the types of social capital in the stages of the start up phase. Further, the study show that social competence plays and important role in the start up process and that there is a circular relation between social capital and social competence. Moreover, the results of the study indicate that male and female entrepreneurs behave differently in the start up phase and that their perceptions about and usage of their social competence might differ.
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Chevillot, Anaïs. "Genre et création : construction d'identités genrées chez les femmes artistes." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017GREAH001/document.
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Ce travail porte sur la construction identitaire des femmes dont la profession est centrée autour d’une activité artistique. L’envie de réaliser cette étude me vient du constat que le sexe féminin est autant (voire plus) représenté que le sexe masculin dans les formations culturelles et artistiques et, pourtant, les femmes qui accèdent au « devant de la scène », celles qui sont reconnues en tant qu’artistes, exposées dans les musées et célébrées comme références restent rares en proportion. Je me suis appuyée sur la notion d'intersectionnalité pour enrichir une analyse de la notion d'identité. Je me suis intéressée au concept de domination masculine pour voir comment s'effectuent les rapports de pouvoir au sein des mondes de l'art. J'ai analysé comment le rôle de l'artiste est socialement construit afin de mieux comprendre les mécanismes d'élaboration de l'identité professionnelle chez les femmes artistes. Cette recherche porte sur les parcours de femmes artistes lus sous trois angles différents. Dans les récits de vie de mes interviewées, j'ai mis en avant les marques d'une socialisation différentielle féminine, les dérèglements des identités genrées et les dépassements des stéréotypes de genre dans la façon dont les femmes artistes se représentent leurs identités. J'ai précisé les éléments de la socialisation primaire qui avaient pu leur permettre, dans l'enfance, de s'orienter vers une carrière artistique. Dans un deuxième temps, j'ai analysé comment, dans leurs socialisations secondaires, les femmes se construisent et se développent des carrières d'artistes, quels modèles donnent envie de créer, quelles formations façonnent les devenirs professionnels et quels réseaux sont mis en place dans le champ de la création. En observant leur parcours scolaire et leur entrée dans le métier j'ai détaillé les modalités d'apprentissage d'une profession ainsi que des codes et des normes qui la régissent. Dans un troisième temps, enfin, j'ai étudié comment se sentent perçues aujourd'hui les femmes artistes, comment elles trouvent leur place dans les mondes de l'art et quels rôles leur sont accordés. Dans un univers professionnel encore majoritairement masculin j'ai notamment examiné la façon dont les femmes se trouvent confrontées aux questions de la famille, du couple, de la maternité, comment elles se débrouillent avec les modèles préexistants et comment elles naviguent dans des réseaux professionnels souvent synonymes d'un entre-soi masculin.Ce travail de recherche apporte une vision de la construction identitaire genrée chez les femmes artistes aujourd'hui. Il nous permet d'entrevoir comment des enquêtées trouvent leur place dans une position professionnelle particulière, profession caractérisée par le peu de femmes qui la constitue et par le rôle que cette activité tient dans la vie sociale. Cette thèse est enfin l'occasion de faire un point plus général sur la façon dont peuvent se combiner au présent identités de genre, de classe et professionnelleThis work is about the construction of identity for the women who work around an artistic activity. The will to do this study came from the statement that women are more represented than men in the artistic training. However the few that came “in the limelight”, are recognized as great artists, exhibited in museum and celebrated as mentors, are really rare.I based my work on the notion of intersectionality to enrich my analysis of the notion of identity. I was interested in the concept of male domination in order to see how the power relationship is built within art worlds. I have analyzed how the artist's role is socially constructed in order to understand the ways in which female artists build their professional identityThis research is about the path of women artists perceived by three different points of view. In the life story of my interviewees, I spotlighted the label from a female differential socialisation, the disruption of the gender identity and, finally, the average of gender stereotypes in the way that women artists saw their identity. I specified the elements of the primary socialisation that has allowed them to move towards an artistic career since their childhood.In a second time I analysed how, in their secondary socialisation, women built and developed an artistic career, whose role model gave inclination to create, whose training shaped professional aspiration and whose network was implemented in the field of creation. Viewing their academic career and the beginning of their work, I detailed the way of learning a profession and codes and standards that regulate them.Finally in a third time I studied how women artists may feel perceived today, how they find their place into art worlds and what roles are approved for them. In a working world still primarily masculine I examined how women are affected by the question of family, couple and maternity, how they manage the pre-existing patterns and how they navigate into professional networks, which often means masculine self-segregation.This research brings a vision of identity building for women artists today. It allows us to envisage how the survey participants find their place into a particular professional position, because of the small number of women in this work and because of the role that this activity plays in social relationships. This research is finally a way to assess, generally speaking, the manner that gender, class and professional identity can be combined
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Crum, Melissa Renee. "THE CREATION OF BLACK CHARACTER FORMULAS: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF STEREOTYPICAL ANTHROPOMORPHIC DEPICTIONS AND THEIR ROLE IN MAINTAINING WHITENESS." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1268255174.
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Nilsson, Lina. "Striden mot genusborgen : En karaktärsanalys om reproduktion/ ifrågasättande av genussystemet i två kapitelböcker för unga." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för svenska språket (SV), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85458.
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Syftet med studien är att, utifrån ett genusteoretiskt perspektiv, beskriva hur genussystemet upprätthålls eller ifrågasätts i böckerna Nidstången och Rum 213, vilka är de verk barn i årskurs 4-6 läser frekvent i sin fria läsning. Detta mot bakgrunden att skolans värdegrundsuppdrag är att arbeta för jämställdhet mellan könen och att elevers identitetsskapande påverkas av den skönlitteratur de läser. Syftet besvaras genom att söka svar på frågorna: vilka egenskaper tillskrivs karaktärerna baserat på deras tankar, känslor och handlingar? Hur framställs de relationer som finns i böckerna? Genom en karaktärsanalys som kombinerar ett mimetiskt och ett semiotiskt perspektiv, visar analysen av resultatet att samtliga karaktärer reproducerar genussystemets premisser, om än på olika sätt och i olika utsträckning.
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Rodin, Therese. "The World of the Sumerian Mother Goddess : An Interpretation of Her Myths." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Religionshistoria, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-228932.
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The present study is an interpretation of the two myths copied in the Old Babylonian period in which the Sumerian mother goddess is one of the main actors. The first myth is commonly called “Enki and Ninḫursaĝa”, and the second “Enki and Ninmaḫ”. The theoretical point of departure is that myths have society as their referents, i.e. they are “talking about” society, and that this is done in an ideological way. This study aims at investigating on the one hand which contexts in the Mesopotamian society each section of the myths refers to, and on the other hand which ideological aspects that the myths express in terms of power relations. The myths are contextualized in relation to their historical and social setting. If the myth for example deals with working men, male work in the area during the relevant period is discussed. The same method of contextualization is used regarding marriage, geographical points of reference and so on. Also constellations of mythical ideas are contextualized, through comparison with similar constellations in other Mesopotamian myths. Besides the method of contextualization, the power relations in the myths are investigated. According to this latter method, the categories at issue, their ranking, as well as their changed ranking, are noted. The topics of the myths is issues important for the kingship and the country, such as irrigation, trade, health and healing, birth, collective work, artisanry and rivalry. All these aspects are used in order to express what the power relations between the goddess Ninḫursaĝa/Ninmaḫ and the god Enki look like. The relations are negotiated and recalibrated, which leads to the goddess getting a lowered status. Part of the negotiations and recalibrations is gender behavior, which is related to historical developments in society. The present work points to the function of these myths as tools of recalibrating not only deities, but also men and women in society.
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Åkesson, Åhlén Elsa, and Jennie Rydberg. "ADHD - en del av identiteten? : En kvalitativ studie om kvinnors & mäns upplevda identitetsprocess i samband med diagnosen ADHD." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Sociologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-40533.
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Att ha ADHD är en diagnos som blir allt vanligare och talas mer om i samhället. Genom denna kvalitativa intervjustudie har vi avsett att undersöka hur vardagen ser ut för de med ADHD samt hur ADHD påverkar individers identitetsskapande utifrån normer, diagnos och kön. Studiens teoretiska del utgår från den symboliska interaktionismen där Mead och Goffmans teorier används för att analysera identitet. För begreppen normer och normalitet har vi tagit hjälp av Anders Östnäs (universitetslektor i socialt arbete) och Kerstin Svensson (docent i socialt arbete) för att reflektera över begreppen. Utöver dessa används även Connell & Pearce samt West & Zimmermans teorier om kön. Resultatet i denna studie indikerar att diagnosen blev en del av ens identitet och att normer i samhället var en bidragande faktor som påverkade självbilden. Däremot var det ingen skillnad mellan könen när det gällde hur diagnosen tog sig uttryck. Vi fann små skillnader i identitetsskapandet men detta är osäkert då ADHD är en diagnos som tar sig olika uttryck hos olika individer och underlaget var för litet.Having ADHD is a diagnosis that is becoming more common and is being talked about more in society. Through this qualitative interview study, we intend to investigate what everyday life looks like for those with ADHD and how ADHD affects individuals' identity creation based on norms, diagnosis and gender. The theoretical part of the study is based on the symbolic interactionism in which Mead and Goffman's theories are used to analyze identity. For the concepts of norms and normality, we have taken the help of Anders Östnäs (senior lecturer in social work) and Kerstin Svensson (associate professor of social work) to reflect on the concepts. In addition to these, Connell & Pearce and West & Zimmerman's theories of gender are also used. The results of this study indicate that the diagnosis became part of one's identity and that norms in society were a contributing factor affecting self-image. However, there was no difference between the sexes when it came to how the diagnosis was expressed. We found small differences in identity creation but this is uncertain as ADHD is a diagnosis that takes on different expressions in different individuals and the basis was too small.
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Gunnarsson, Elin, and Sophia Löfstrand. "Bildskapande, genus och jämställdhet i förskolan : En studie om tre förskollärares syn kring genus och jämställdhet i barns bildskapande." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Pedagogik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-34654.
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Utifrån vårt intresse inom bild så har vi uppmärksammat att det förekommer skillnader i pojkar och flickors bilder, hur dem målar och vad dem målar. Studiens syfte är att belysa hur några förskollärare arbetar kring jämställdhet i sina bildaktiviteter. Utifrån förskolans läroplan står det att förskolläraren ska organisera utbildningen så att barnen möts, leker, lär tillsammans, utvecklar och provar sina förmågor och intressen på lika villkor oavsett könstillhörighet. Studiens metod baserades på semistrukturerade intervjuer där tre förskollärare intervjuades. Vi genomförde studien ur ett jämställdhetsperspektiv för att se om förskollärarna anser att det är skillnader på flickor och pojkar i deras bildskapande. Läroplanens jämställdhetsbegrepp beskrivs att båda könen ska ha samma möjligheter att utveckla intressen och förmågor. Barnen ska inte hindras av de traditionella könsmönstren. Det insamlade materialet analyserades tematisk. Resultatet visade att de tre förskollärarna anser att bild är viktigt i barns utveckling och lärande. De pratade om att man får in de flesta av läroplanens mål i skapande aktiviteter. Det visade sig att det förekommer skillnader i barns bilder, mer i det fria skapandet än i det styrda. Våra respondenter hade svårt med begreppet jämställdhet och beskrev begreppet jämlikhet.Based on our interest in painting, we have noticed that there are differences in boys 'and girls' pictures, how they paint and what they paint. The purpose of the study is to shed light on how some preschool teachers work around gender equality in their visual activities. Based on the preschool curriculum, it says that the preschool teacher must organize the education so that the children meet, play, learn together, develop and test their abilities and interests on equal terms regardless of gender. The study method was based on semi-structured interviews where three preschool teachers were interviewed. We conducted the study from a gender equality perspective to see if the preschool teachers believe there is any differences between girls and boys in their image creation. The curriculum's concept of gender equality describes that both sexes must have the same opportunities to develop interests and abilities. Children should not be hindered by the traditional gender patterns. The collected material was analyzed thematically. The results showed that the three preschool teachers believe that image is important in children's development and learning. They talked about getting most of the curriculum's goals into creative activities. It turned out that there are differences in children's images, more in free creation than in controlled. Our respondents had difficulty with the concept of gender equality and described the concept of equality.
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Masih, Sandy, and Sare Nbaate. "Bildskapande på fritidshemmet : En kvalitativ studie om bildskapande på fritidshemmet." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-40791.
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The purpose of the study is to elucidate how students use image creation at the youth leisure centre. We also want to highlight the the differences that exist between the students' image creation from a gender perspective as well as how the students interact with each other during the image creation. We have chosen to use a qualitative approach when we use observations as a method for the data collection. In the study, we have used socio-cultural and gender perspectives. The result shows that tools and materials are very central to the creation of the image. The result also show that during the image creation, social interaction appears between the students through communication and the choice of classmate is based on gender. Furthermore, the results show that the students most often use image creation based on their own interests, which then leads to the students' image creation being gender-typical. This usually depends on whether the image acitivity is free or teacher controlled.Syftet med studien är att belysa hur eleverna använder bildskapande i fritidshemmet. Vi vill även belysa hur eleverna samspelar och interagerar med varandra under bildskapandet ur ett genusperspektiv samt skillnader som finns mellan elevernas bildskapande ur ett genusperspektiv. Vi har valt att använda oss utav en kvalitativ ansats då vi använder observationer som metod för insamling av data. I studien har vi använt oss utav sociokulturella perspektiv samt genusperspektiv. Resultatet visar att redskap och material är väldigt centrala för bildskapandet att ske. Resultatet visar även att under bildskapandet sker sociala samspel mellan eleverna genom kommunikation samt val av kamrat baserat på kön. Vidare visar resultaten att eleverna oftast använder bildskapande utifrån egna intressen som sedan leder till att elevernas bildskapande är könstypiska. Detta beror oftast på ifall bildaktiviteten är fri eller lärarstyrd.
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Kalogeropoulou, Konstantina. "Den oändliga jakten på frihet : En analys av patriarkatets kvinnoförtryck i Jonas Gardells släktkrönika Till minne av en villkorslös kärlek." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-82555.
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Genom en närläsning av släktkrönikan Till minne av en villkorslöskärlek, analyserar denna uppsats hur det patriarkala samhället begränsar huvudkaraktären Ingegärd Rasmussen. Med utgångspunkt i Yvonne Hirdmans teori om genusskapande samt Lois Tysons feministiska teori och litteraturkritik, presenterar jag de rådande könsroller, könsnormer samt genusordningar som begränsar Ingegärd Rasmussen under hela hennes livstid. Hennes normbrytande och normföljande beteende, resulterar i att hon aldrig riktigt lyckas befria sig från patriarkatets begränsningar.Through a close reading of the family chronicle In memory of an unconditional love, this essay analyzes how the patriarchal society limits the main character Ingegärd Rasmussen. Based on Yvonne Hirdman's theory of gender creation and Lois Tyson's feminist theory and literary criticism, I present the prevailing gender roles, gender norms and gender arrangements that limit Ingegärd Rasmussen throughout her life. Her norm-breaking and norm-following behavior results in her never really succeeding in freeing herself from the limitations of patriarchy.
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Johannesson, Sara, and Emma Olsson. "Medvetenhet och osäkerhet: hur vill jag att du ska bli? : – en fenomenografisk studie om barnskötares och förskollärares uppfattningar om hur genus påverkar barnets identitetsskapande." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för lärande och miljö, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-10558.
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Syftet med denna studie är att bidra med en ökad förståelse för hur genus kan påverka barnets identitetsskapande. Studiens forskningsfråga är: hur kan genus påverka barnets identitetsskapande? I litteraturgenomgången belyses studiens forskningsfråga utifrån olika aspekter, såsom vilka förväntningar det finns på flickor och pojkar, språkets betydelse för barnets identitetsskapande och hur genus och identitet skapas. Studiens problemprecisering är: hur beskriver barnskötare och förskollärare verbalt att deras genusperspektiv kan påverka barnets identitetsskapande? För att besvara studiens problemprecisering har två barnskötare och fyra förskollärare intervjuats utifrån en kvalitativ intervjuform. Analysprocessen utgår från den fenomenografiska forskningsansatsen, då studien fokuserar på att urskilja variation i uppfattningarna om studiens problemprecisering. Resultatet urskiljer barnskötares och förskollärares uppfattningar om studiens fenomen utifrån olika betydelsefulla aspekter som tillsammans besvarar studiens problemprecisering. Resultatet visar att barnskötare och förskollärare strävar efter att bemöta barnet som individ men att barnets könstillhörighet avgör för hur det blir bemött som flicka eller pojke går att urskilja som en avgörande aspekt för hur barnet skapar sin identitet.The purpose of this study is to contribute to a better understanding of how gender can affect the child's identity. The study's research question is: how can gender affect the child's identity? The literature review investigates the research question from different aspects, such as what expectations there are for girls and boys, the importance of language for the child’s identity and how gender and identity is created. The study's problem specification is: how describe nanny and preschool teacher verbally that their gender perspective can affect the child's identity? To address the research question two teaching assistants’ and four preschool teachers were interviewed using a qualitative interview form. The analysis process uses a phenomenographic research approach, which focus on identifying variation in perceptions of the research question. The study investigates the perception of child minders and preschool teacher on a number of important aspects, each of which acts as an important factor in fully answering the research question. From the results it is possible to discern that teaching assistants’ and preschool teachers’ do attempt to treat each child as an individual. It is also clear that a child's sex determines how it will be treated, and that this can be identified as a crucial aspect of how the child creates its own identity.
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Brännlund, Angelika. "Bildskapande i relation till genus i förskolans verksamhet : Att skapa sig själv och genus." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för pedagogiska studier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-66388.
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Studiens syfte är att bidra till ökad medvetenhet för verksamma inom förskolans område kring frågor som rör pedagogers förhållningssätt kring relationen mellan bildskapande och genus, men även hur dessa förhållningssätt kan påverka barnens möjligheter i deras bildskapande. En viktig fråga som burits med från starten av arbetet och som lyser igenom i resultatdelen har varit: Vilka möjligheter att förhålla sig till bildskapande och genus kan uppstå om ett kritiskt sätt att tänka kring könsstereotypa mönster tas tillvara inom bildskapande? Metoden har utgått från en intervjustudie vilket inneburit intervjuer av sju pedagoger som arbetar inom förskolan. Halvstrukturerade intervjuer har varit av stort värde för mig som intervjuare för frågeformuleringens skull under intervjuerna, men även för informanterna för att kunna formulera sitt förhållningssätt till relationen mellan bildskapande och genus. Resultat som framkommit har visat på olika och ambivalenta förhållningssätt till bildskapande i relation till genus. Analys av resultaten visar på vikten av ett medvetet förhållningssätt i bildskapande sett till barnens möjligheter i bildskapande.The purpose of the study is to contribute to increased awareness for those active in pre-school setting regarding the pre-school teachers’ approach to the relationship between art and creation and gender, but also how these attitudes can affect children's art and creation possibilities. An important issue right from the very beginning of this study, which is prevalent in the discussion of the results, has been: What kind of attitudes regarding art and creation and gender can occur if a critical way of thinking about gender and stereotypes is used in art and creation? The method was based on an interview study, which involved interviews of seven educators working in a pre-school environment. Semi-structured interviews have been of great value personally as an interviewer asking questions, but also for the sake of the interviewees abilities to express their attitudes concerning the relation between art and creation and gender. Emerged results have shown different and ambivalent approaches to the relation between art and creation and gender. Analysis of the results shows the importance of the use of a conscious approach in art and creation as seen in the children’s approach to art and creation.
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Long, Brittany. "Creating Gender in Disney/Pixar's WALL-E." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/149.
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In this thesis I will look at Disney/Pixar’s creation and portrayal of gender in the film WALL-E. In particular I will be looking at two areas of interest: (1) The ways in which Disney/ Pixar anthropomorphizes and creates gender for WALL-E and EVE, the two main robots featured in the movie, and (2) whether or not Disney/Pixar’s representations of masculinity and femininity follow the stereotypical representations of male dominance or if this representations challenge this stereotype. In this chapter, I will begin with a brief overview of previous studies in the areas of anthropomorphism, gender representation in children’s media, and the effects of gender portrayal in children’s media. In Chapter 2 I will then move into a description of feminist criticism, the method by which I plan to analyze WALL-E. In Chapter 3, my analysis will be looking at Disney/Pixar’s creation of gender for WALL-E and EVE, the degree of male centeredness and male dominance present in WALL-E, and the ways in which females are marginalized and femininity is portrayed as non-normative.
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Tomic, Maria. ""Gender Fund" : creating a virtual mutual fund investing in firms with gender diversity." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98991.
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Thesis: S.M. in Management Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2015.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 52-53).
"Companies with more women board directors experience higher financial performance" (Bottom Line report from Catalyst). This shows that gender diversity at the board level is a hot topic. In October 2014, Credit Suisse came to similar conclusions; "Diversity is in focus today, not just for equality and governance priorities, but for the benefits for companies and shareholders"¹. During a financial research project sponsored by Acadian Asset Management² our team of 3 people investigated whether these conclusions were reliable. We adopted an approach comparing portfolios with at least one woman on board to portfolios with no women on board. However, our results on average did not show much evidence of a statistically significant correlation between performance and gender diversity at board level. On the one hand, one could argue that a portfolio manager hardly ever gets statistically significant results that his or her strategy will work. S/He always has to make a bet at some point and trust his or her instinct. On the other hand, one could wonder whether the number of women on board is the right metric for gender diversity within a firm. Indeed, depending on which board committee these women are on, they have more or less impact. Sometimes they might just be figureheads rather than decision makers and sometimes the board itself may just be an echo of the CEO's decisions.
by Maria Tomic.
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Carey, Charlotte. "Gender and entrepreneurship in creative industry career journeys." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.631681.
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This thesis represents an interdisciplinary study with original theoretical contributions to knowledge identified across three distinct disciplines: Entrepreneurship, the Creative Industries and Gender Studies along with methodological contributions with regards the use of research diaries as a data source. The last fifteen years have seen a huge focus, from policy makers and researchers, on entrepreneurship and the creative industries. Both have been seen as key drivers for economic growth in the UK and beyond. Studies have been wide and varied, looking at both disciplines individually and more recently where they converge. However, there is a paucity of research into the role that gender plays within this sector, and specifically the impact of gender on entrepreneurship within the creative industries. Using a highly reflexive approach, this study examined the career stories of a cohort of fine art graduates, the cohort with whom the researcher had graduated (1991-94, BA Fine Art, Wolverhampton School of Art and Design). The rationale was to make the best use of insider perspective and to access a group who had all had the same starting point, were within a similar age group (38-44), had worked through the ‘Blairite’ creative industries/economy policy framework and most likely had had to consider their ambitions as parents. It was considered that this group would offer a concentrated sample of creative graduates’ experience. Participants were interviewed using a narrative methodology and detailed career stories were gathered. The study took an inductive, grounded theory approach, making use of memoing and research diaries to aid reflexivity. Though a process of open, axial and thematic coding (Strauss and Corbin, 2003) themes emerged which, although linked to the original literature, also extended to new themes and topics which helped to better understand and explain where entrepreneurship fits within creative industry career journeys. Both theoretical and methodological contributions to knowledge are made:
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López, Rodriguez Fernando. "Mutations du désir en danse : tablao et flamenco contemporain : genre, contextes de production et catégories esthétiques (Espagne 1808-2018)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA080037.
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Cette thèse s’interroge sur le surgissement de la danse flamenca contemporaine en Espagne dans les an-nées 1990-2000. Cette danse est ici analysée comme un phénomène artistique qui naît en réaction à la danse flamenca dite traditionnelle produite dans des tablaos à partir des années 1950. Les tablaos, qui offrent des spectacles de flamenco pour des touristes, sont analysés depuis le moment de sa création jusqu’à l’actualité ainsi qu’en rapport avec le café chantant, son ancêtre esthétique (1850-1920), ayant comme perspective principale d’analyse celle des études de genre.Dans un premier moment, j’analyse les continuités et les discontinuités entre le café chantant et le tablao. Après, le focus est mis sur l’apparition de la « danse flamenca contemporaine », en explicitant autant les facteurs contextuels qui ont favorisé sa naissance que les motivations personnelles des artistes et les enjeux esthétiques à l’œuvre. J’analyse aussi les conséquences esthétiques et communautaires qu’un tel phénomène a produites chez les différents acteurs du milieu flamenco. Enfin, je montre les effets que la crise économique de 2008 a eus dans le milieu du flamenco et comment les artistes ont dû développer une diversité de stratégies de survie qui se sont traduites par une complexification des posi-tionnements esthétiques à partir des éléments construits pendant la période antérieure des années 1990 et 2000. Le développement de cette recherche s’articule aussi à l’analyse de trois études de cas en relation directe avec mon travail artistique, et s’achève sur un épilogue qui décrit Pensaor, pièce chorégraphique créée en parallèle à la thèse écrite où je « performe ma recherche »This thesis examines the emergence of contemporary flamenco dance in Spain in the years 1990-2000. This dance is analyzed here as an artistic phenomenon that arises in reaction to the so-called traditional flamenco dance produced in tablaos from the 1950s. Tablaos, which offer flamenco shows for tourists, are analyzed from the moment of its creation until today as well as in relation to the café cantante, its esthetic ancestor (1850-1920), having as main perspective of analysis the one of gender studies. In a first moment, I analyze the continuities and the discontinuities between the café cantante and the tablao. After, the focus is on the emergence of « contemporary flamenco dance » , explaining as much the contextual factors that favored its birth as the personal motivations of the artists and the aes-thetic stakes at work. I also analyze the aesthetic and social consequences that such a phenomenon has produced among the various actors of the flamenco milieu. Finally, I show the effects that the economic crisis of 2008 had on the flamenco scene and how the artists had to develop a variety of survival strate-gies that resulted in a complexification of aesthetic positions based on the elements built during the pe-riod. previous years of the 1990s and 2000s. The development of this research is also based on the analysis of three case studies directly relat-ed to my artistic work, and ends with an epilogue that describes Pensaor, a choreographic piece created in parallel with the written thesis where I « perform my research »
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Clare, K. "'Creative' careers : gender, social networks and labour market inequality." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597698.
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This thesis examines gender inequality in the ‘new economy’, and specifically looks at gendered patterns of work in the advertising industry through a micro-level social network perspective. This study focuses on the advertising industry because it is an exemplar of a project-based creative industry in the knowledge-based ‘new economy’ where project work is becoming more common and careers are constructed as portfolios of previous experiences rather than life-time employment by one employer. In these creative industries, despite the rhetoric of flexibility, egalitarianism and non-hierarchical structures, I show how categorical inequalities (in particular gender) shape labour market outcomes, demonstrating how gender is often more important than performance in facilitating career trajectories of workers. In contrast to the all-encompassing and simplistic notions of ‘social networks’ commonly employed in much of economic geography, I unpack the concept of social networks and specify how social networks confer advantages, and document what those advantages are so we know why it matters who you know. First, I show that personal ties are important because they direct the flow of power, information, and help workers acquire legitimacy, skills, and jobs. Second, I demonstrate there are important differences in men’s and women’s social networks, which drive differences in the opportunity structures available to men and women. Third, I show how men and women have different ‘creative biographies’ and different experiences of project-based work. Fourth, my thesis develops a specifically geographical understanding of workers’ careers, showing how an appreciation of place-based cultures of working and socialising are crucial to an understanding of employment patterns. Finally, I provide policy implications. Overall, I demonstrate that micro-level processes contribute to macro-level patterns of gender inequality. Crucially, these findings assert the importance of micro-level social networks in determining labour market outcomes.
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Dent, Tamsyn. "Feeling devalued : the creative industries, motherhood, gender and class inequality." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2017. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/29424/.
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There is a growing body of data that illustrates how work in the creative media industries is marked by bleak inequalities. Critical sociological accounts of the industry have explored the barriers to employment opportunities for workers from different ethnic, disabled, gendered and more recently socially classed backgrounds resulting in the awareness that the majority of those who control the means of production for creative and cultural commodities are male, white and middle class. With regards to women, the problem of gender inequality has commonly been linked to women’s childbearing capabilities citing the demands of childcare as a key reason for women’s withdrawal from and under-representation within the industry. Linking gender inequality in the creative workforce to motherhood creates a smokescreen, a framework which allows for concepts of ‘choice’ and ‘preference’ to mask deeply complicated processes of oppression and exclusion. Motherhood also places the issue of gender inequality into a singular axis, failing therefore to consider the multiple axes of exclusion that operate within the workforce. This thesis takes this issue of motherhood, gender inequality and work in the creative industries as its focus point to explore how motherhood has become synonymous with female withdrawal from the industry. It responds to literature on modes and practices of work in modern society drawing from those who have equated work in the creative sector as emblematic of a “brave new world of work” (Beck 2002 in Deuze 2007, p.21) and exposed a paradox between celebratory concepts of creative practice and the lived realities of the creative workforce. My own contribution has been drawn from a series of in-depth interviews with mothers who either work or have left work in the creative sector following the birth of a child/children. The research findings emerged inductively, following a grounded theoretical approach but one that was informed by a feminist epistemological framework to knowledge production. Thinking about motherhood as a fluid and constructed concept enables an exploration into the relationship between motherhood, gender and class-based inequalities and how they operate within the industry.
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Parker, Kayla. "Every frame counts : creative practice and gender in direct animation." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/4309.
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This thesis interrogates the ways in which the body-centred practices of women film artists embrace the materiality of direct animation in order to foreground gendered, subjective positions. Through the researcher's own creative practice, it investigates how this mode of film-making, in which the artist works through physical engagement with the film materials and the material processes of film-making, might be understood as feminine and/or feminist. Direct animation foregrounds touch as the primary sense. Its practices are process-based and highly experimental, because images are made through the agency of the body operating within restrictive parameters, making results difficult to predict or control with precision. For these reasons, direct animation has not been embraced by mainstream, narrative-focused, studio-based models of production, unlike other forms of two and three dimensional animation. It has remained a specialist area for the individual artist and auteur, and, to date, there is a paucity of commentary about direct animation practices, and what exists has been dominated by male voices. In order to develop ideas about the ways in which women represent themselves in an expanded film-making praxis that is focused on the body and materiality of process, this PhD inquiry, encompassing a body of films with written contextualisation, is situated in the context of the direct animation practices of three artists (Caroline Leaf, Annabel Nicolson, and Margaret Tait); and informed by conceptual frameworks provided by Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous. This thesis proposes, via interaction between these three axes of research, that women film artists, operating independently, are able to create a female imaginary that represents women and is recognised by them, by constructing positions of practice outside the dominant symbolic modes of patriarchy, which evolve through the maternal body and the materialities of the feminine.
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Proctor-Thomson, Sarah. "Creative differences : the performativity of gender in the digital media sector." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2009. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/61629/.
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The digital media sector is a site for competing claims about women’s equality in employment. On the one hand, commentators have claimed that the digital media sector is exemplary as an open and egalitarian domain for all workers, including women. On the other hand, feminist researchers have identified persistent inequalities in the quality and quantity of women’s participation in this sector. I use this apparent paradox as a starting point to develop an analysis of the performativity of gender in the digital media sector in the North West of England, during the period 2001–2007. Previous feminist research has addressed this paradox by arguing that gender inequalities in the creative and digital industries are obscured by emancipatory accounts of new forms of work. I take an alternative route. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler, I investigate how positive articulations of work in the digital media sector might ‘perform’ gender inequalities. The theory of gender performativity employed in this study views gender as produced through repetitive discursive practices. In this study I analyse qualitative data from four sites in the ‘discursive field’ of the digital media sector. These data consist of: 1) statements in policy documentation from UK government agencies; 2) textual and visual representations of workers in careers and recruitment literature; 3) field notes from a participant observation of a digital industries training event; and 4) interviews with 23 female and male industry brokers and practitioners working in and around the digital media sector. I distinguish four apparently progressive articulations of work and women’s participation in these sites. These address changing skills requirements, shifting images of work and workers, and increased recognition and valuing of ‘difference’ and ‘diversity’ for creativity in the digital industries. I denaturalise these pervasive articulations by showing the discursive practices involved in their formation. I argue that there are shifts away from the sector’s previous characterisation as an exclusively technical, ‘geeky’ and male domain and that there has recently been a proliferation of possible worker subject positions in this work domain. Moreover, in a context of increasing attention to creativity, women are identified as ‘different’ and thus as potentially valuable creative workers. Yet, despite these shifts, women workers continue to be marginalised through repeated differentiation from some of the most valued subject positions in the sector. While women are seen to bring ‘difference’ and ‘diversity’ into the digital media sector, they also bring gender. Differences attributed to women are consistently devalued and are seldom recognised as ‘creative differences’. My thesis contributes an analysis of gender to debates about work in the creative economy. It also contributes to the development of feminist investigations of gender, work and organisation by providing a case study of the discursive construction of ideal and normalised workers in the creative work domain of the digital media sector.
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Todd, Emerson A. "Creative Gender Expression Performativity As a Coping Mechanism for Minority Stress." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/591.
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Creative Gender Expression Performativity may be a coping mechanism for dealing with minority stress in sexual and gender minority populations. The current study suggests the creation of a new scale that measures effortful presentation rather than directional presentation. Rather than examining whether someone identifies as masculine or feminine – the proposed model would instead look at how much effort an individual is putting into their gender expression. In this mixed methods study, participants (N = 187) completed a survey based on gender expression, minority stress, and mental health, while 10 participants completed a qualitative post-survey interview via email. Multiple regressions were performed to examine the relationships between gender expression and negative health outcomes. Tests performed examined relationships amongst factors such as positive gender expression outlook, gender congruence, and self-esteem; and outcomes including depression, anxiety, and anticipated discrimination. Multiple regression analyses revealed that positive perceptions of gender expression acted as a buffer to anticipated discrimination. TGNC individuals experienced lower self-esteem and higher depression levels than cisgender individuals. Qualitative themes uncovered motives behind gender expression, such as coping with minority stress.
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Santos, Ana Claudia Costa dos. "Fabulário : criação poética e reflexão teórica." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/181610.
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Esta dissertação é composta por um conjunto inédito de poemas e três capítulos teóricos relacionados à obra. No primeiro capítulo, são apresentadas reflexões sobre a escrita do livro e sobre o processo de criação literária em geral. Além disso, considerando-se o fato de que muitos poemas da obra baseiam-se em gêneros textuais de aplicação prática (carta, notícia etc.), são comentados certos aspectos distintivos da linguagem poética, bem como a natureza do sujeito lírico. O segundo capítulo apresenta o livro em questão, intitulado Fabulário. No capítulo três, comenta-se a gênese de um poema específico – “Retrato de família”. Por fim, o quarto capítulo consiste em um exercício crítico posterior ao momento da criação: com base em conceitos ligados ao espaço, é feita uma tentativa de análise do poema “Anúncio imobiliário”.This dissertation is made up of an unpublished poetry collection and three theoretical chapters related to it. The first chapter is a reflection on the author’s creative process and on literary creation as a whole. Considering that most poems in the book are inspired by text genres which are used in practical situations (a letter, a news story etc.), this chapter also presents comments on some distinctive aspects of poetic language, as well as on the notion of lyrical subject. The second chapter consists of the poetry collection at issue, titled Fabulário. In chapter three, the creation of a specific poem – “Retrato de família” – is discussed. The final chapter is a critical exercise following the writing of another poem – “Anúncio imobiliário” –, which is analyzed according to concepts related to space.
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Nolan, Marissa. "The Rhetoric of Queer: Subverting Heteronormative Social Institutions and Creating New Meaning." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/149.
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The word “queer” generates mixed feelings. For some, it is a way to denigrate gays and lesbians, though, in recent years, those in LGBT communities have re-appropriated the term and have given it a more positive spin. This project aims to investigate exactly that kind of social action, specifically, looking at the way some take socially constructed norms and queer them in order to develop new meanings. First, this thesis explores how social norms impacted identity creation in ancient Rome and Greece. It then surveys the theories behind norms, along with their formation and maintenance in current society. Next, this project looks at queer theory and how norms have shaped the ways we build our identities, and vice versa. Finally, this research takes a rhetorical perspective by applying components of the canon to different elements of identity cultivation and presentation, with invention representing the former and delivery the latter.
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Adrian, Stine. "Nye skabelsesberetninger om æg, sæd og embryoner : Et etnografisk studie af skabelser på sædbanker og fertilitetsklinikker." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Filosofiska fakulteten, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-7543.
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Avhandlingen handlar om användandet av assisterad befruktning i Danmark och Sverige. Teknologierna är intressanta eftersom de skapar möjligheter för barn att födas som annars inte skulle ha blivit till. De utmanar också normerande föreställningar om sexualitet, etnicitet, normalitet, ålder, kön och släktskap. Genom att undersöka vad som sker i mötet mellan normer, patienter, personal, teknologi och könsceller på fertilitetskliniker och spermabanker, skapar avhandlingen insikt i de skapelse- och förändringsprocesser som äger rum. Analysen visar hur beslutsfattare, personal och patienter förhåller sig till teknologierna. Den genomgående princip som används för att sätta etiska gränser utgörs av försök att imitera naturen. Denna princip omförhandlas och förändras dock ständigt. Omförhandlingar kan äga rum i möten med teknologin eller genom kroppars sätt att reagera på. De äger också rum då naturaliseringsprincipen skapar absurda situationer, t.ex. sådana i vilka patienter och deras kommande barn stigmatiseras och marginaliseras. Med utgångspunkt i den empiriska analysen bidrar avhandlingen dessutom till en teoretisk förståelse av hur materialiseringsprocesser (skapelseprocesser) äger rum i mötet mellan diskurser och materiell agens. Avhandlingen är skriven med utgångspunkt i feministiska och teknovetenskapliga studier och kan läsas som ett bidrag till feministisk ny materialtetsteori och metod.This thesis investigates the use of assisted reproduction in Denmark and Sweden. Assisted reproduction is fascinating, because it enables the creation of children who would not have been born otherwise. At the same time, it challenges existing norms concerning sexuality, ethnicity, normality, age, gender and kinship. The processes of creation and change that take place at fertility clinics and sperm banks are analyzed by exploring the encounters between norms, patients, employees, technology and gametes. The analysis shows how legislators, patients and employees relate to and manage the use of these technologies. It illustrates that the predominant principle used for setting ethical limits is the mimicking of nature. However, this principle is constantly negotiated and changed. One reason is that negotiations take place in an encounter with the agency of the technology, gametes and body. Another reason for the change of the naturalization principle is that absurd situations, such as stigmatization and marginalization of patients and their technologically conceived children, take place. The empirical analysis also contributes to a theoretical understanding of how materialization processes (creation processes) take place in the encounters between discourse and material agency. The thesis is written with a point of departure in feminist science studies, and can be read as a contribution to feminist new materialist theory and method.