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Nilsson, Nina. "Gender Performativity and Motherhood in Coraline." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160255.

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Coraline by Neil Gaiman has several characters who in many ways break gender norms. The main protagonist of the novel, Coraline, acts more in accordance with masculine gender norms, and the mother figures are mothers who do not fully conform to the traditional mother role. The purpose of this study is to look at how Coraline and the mother figures perform their gender, and in which ways this breaks with or aligns with traditional gender norms. The analytical approach is based on Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity, and on masculine and feminine gender schemas defined by John Stephe

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Anderson, Samantha. "Gender performativity and ritual performance in South-east China." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23706.

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This thesis explores issues of subjectivity and gender around ritual activity in Xianyou county, Fujian Province, China. It focuses on three groups of women: Buddhist nuns, mediums and village women engaged in the ritual caretaking of their families. It also examines a spirit writing text from the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911). It is suggested that subject positions and kin positions are to a certain extent coextensive and that participation in certain rituals is what constitutes one as a gendered subject (as a "woman") and in certain kin roles (as wife, daughter-in-law, etc.). Other gendered

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Bowers, Kerry. "Gender matters : performativity and its discontents in women's science fiction /." Full text available from ProQuest UM Digital Dissertations, 2009. http://0-proquest.umi.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/pqdweb?index=0&did=1801444221&SrchMode=1&sid=7&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1268678127&clientId=22256.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Mississippi, 2009.<br>Typescript. Vita. "May 2009." Dissertation director: Natalie M. Schroeder Includes bibliographical references (leaves 168-177). Also available online via ProQuest to authorized users.

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Throp, Mo. "Trauma, performativity, and subjectivity in art practice." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2006. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/2039/.

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Abstract: This is a practice based PhD of predominantly video works/installations which seek to examine, alongside the accompanying reflective writing on these works, a particular dynamic set up between the artwork and the spectator which allows a rethinking of the model of the subject's relation to the 'other'. This investigation which is lead by my ongoing practice (presented as six artworks) is informed and underpinned by feminist theoretical concerns seeking a way out of the deadlock of Lacanian thinking which characterises the feminine as problematic (the other of the other). Though I mak

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Willis, Victoria E. "From Orators to Cyborgs: The Evolution of Delivery, Performativity, and Gender." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/66.

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Zaidka, N. (Neha). "Gender construction and performativity in religious folklore:insights from Hindu vrat kathas." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2019. http://jultika.oulu.fi/Record/nbnfioulu-201901121042.

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Abstract. Gender has proved to be an important category of analysis in religious studies. Religions have been criticized by feminists over the decades for the oppression of women. Hinduism, the world’s third largest religion, with a strong story tradition, has a wide cast of characters, both men and women, who display normative views on what it is to be a woman or a man in Hindu society. The Hindu story tradition dates back to Upanishads written during 500 BCE. Today’s vrat kathas are Hindu stories that are a part of the rich folklore tradition. During the last four decades, written pamphlets

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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 femi

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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, whi

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Akurugu, Constance Awinpoka. "Marriage, power and performativity : theorising gender relations in rural northern Ghana." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3794.

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Most studies on gendered relations of power in Ghana have focused on formal and policy issues such as gender parity in education and political representation. Where attention has been paid to marriage relations, it has often been fragmentary, centering on, for instance, male spousal violence or inheritance patterns, rather than targeting holistically the socio-cultural dynamics that engender and reproduce unequal power relations and violence against women. This study directly addresses this deficit. This thesis develops a poststructuralist feminist framework to analyse the rules and expectatio

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Cochran, Shannon M. Phd. "Corporeal (isms): Race, Gender, and Corpulence Performativity in Visual and Narrative Cultures." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1281917081.

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Burroughs, Brady. "Do Bodies Matter? : Stone, water, light, skin and material performativity in Therme Vals." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Ethnology, Comparative Religion and Gender Studies, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-6883.

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<p>The following text is a study of non-normative gender positions and sexualities in the architecture of the senses proposing and encouraging a new way of thinking about the built environment in terms of gender. My assumption is that a change in the way that we think about gender in the theory, practice and education of architecture also will affect the way we think about gender in relation to bodies. By showing that what we usually take for granted as a symbol for male masculinity in the expression of architectural space due to essentialist ideas about gender, can just as well be interpreted

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Brady, Anita, and n/a. "Constituting queer : performativity and commodity culture." University of Otago. Department of Communication Studies, 2008. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20080429.113540.

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This thesis foregrounds a question unanswered in queer theory�s account of the ongoing reproduction of heteronormativity. In Gender Trouble, Judith Butler asks "From where does the performative draw its force, and what happens to the performative whose task it is to undo" that discursively legitimated enacting? (Bodies That Matter 224-5). While queer theory offers a compelling account of how the normative fictions of identity privilege heterosexuality, the first part of Butler�s question remains relatively under-theorised. This thesis addresses this gap and argues that to understand the source

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Le, Blanc Barbara. "Gender Performativity in Nursing; Men, Power and the Construction of the Ideal Nurse." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35631.

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This study explores the pedagogical experience of male nursing students. Research questions explored male students being subjected to feminine gender performance expectations, and an inequitable exercise of power and discipline and the relation of high attrition rates of male nursing students to feminine gender performativity expectations. The framework utilized included Butler's theory of gender performativity, Foucault's concepts of power and discipline and Queer theory. A Van Manen phenomenological method was utilized, with interviews of 20 current and past male and female students. Analysi

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Roy, Somesh. "Flawed bodies: study of gender performances, subversions and formation of sexual identities." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2019. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/3965.

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Pöhlitz, Sandra. ""Prinsessor är vackra, prinsar är tappra" : Böcker för barn ur ett genusperspektiv." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-32577.

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The aim of the study is to examine characters in books for children through a gender perspective. Partly I want to examine how female and male gender are constructed, partly how gender norms reproduce and/or challenges. This study proceeds from the following questions: ● How are female and male characters described in the books? ● What actions do female and male characters perform? ● How do the characters act towards characters of the opposite gender? The investigation is based on text analysis and the material consists of seven books for children. The theoretical basis is based on Butlers the

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Gorney, Allen. "TRULY AN AWESOME SPECTACLE": GENDER PERFORMATIVITY AND THE ALIENATION EFFECT IN ANGELS IN AMERICA." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2284.

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Tony Kushner's two-part play Angels in America uses stereotypical depictions of gay men to deconstruct traditional gender dichotomies. In this thesis, I argue that Kushner has created a continuum of gender performativity to deconstruct these traditional gender dichotomies, thereby empowering the effeminate and disempowering the masculine. I closely examine Kushner's use of Brechtian and Aristotelian tenets in the first Broadway production of the play to demonstrate that Kushner sought to induce social awareness of gay male oppression, contingent on the audience's perception of Kushner's decons

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Alfort, Nils. "“I’d Rather Be a Boy Any Day”: Gender Roles in Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-30093.

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This essay explores gender roles in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by American author Carson McCullers. Theories and texts by Judith Butler, Nancy Chodorow, Raewyn Connell, Don Zimmerman, and Candice West among others, are used to support the thesis statement that stereotypical gender norms serve to compromise the main character Mick Kelly’s identity formation and her early sexual experiences. One important element of this discussion is the idea that gender is socially constructed rather than biologically given. Moreover, it is argued that gender is something that a person does repeatedly

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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 curre

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Hedigan, Blair. "Performativity and Domestic Fiction in Antebellum America: The Power Dynamics of Class and Gender Performance." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/900.

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This thesis analyzes the role of performativity within the domestic novel during antebellum America; specifically, the ways in which E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand and Louisa May Alcott’s Behind a Mask subverted cultural and societal norms by exploring the performative nature of class and gender. Through their respective protagonists, the two authors sought to question the power dynamics of an overwhelmingly patriarchal society. By granting their protagonists agency through performance, Southworth and Alcott explored the ways in which women might alter existing power structures to rejec

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Whitfield, Kirsten/Waker. "Performativity and gameplay: gender, race, and desire amongst a team of League of Legends players." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33085.

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Computer gaming is an important and growing form of popular media that has many cognitive and social benefits for players. It has also developed a reputation for being a white-male pastime and barring access for people who fall outside of that social grouping. While statistics show that this is increasingly not the case, certain games, particularly those that fall under the category of eSports, do attract largely male player bases. League of Legends is one such game. With Butler's Performativity Theory as a theoretical starting point, a qualitative sociolinguistic study was undertaken into the

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Lewin, Jan-Louise. "Power and performativity in prison: exploring male sex workers' experiences and performances of gender and sexuality pre/during/post-incarceration." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27088.

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This study explores the narratives of men who become male sex workers after being in prison. This study looks at prison as a fluid space for sexual expression and gender performativity, which is ironic given the view of prison as punitive and repressive. Sex within the South African prison system is silenced and taboo particularly within the Number prison gang where sex is heavily regulated, ritualized and fiercely guarded. The research question asks how do men who are or become male sex workers construct and perform their gendered and sexual identities in prison and on the street? This qualit

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Schön, Johan, and Isak Westerberg. "Riktiga män arbetar inte i förskolan." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-29187.

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I Sverige i dag, är män underrepresenterade i förskolan, cirka 3% av arbetskraften är män. Utbildningsstyrelsen i Sverige, Skolverket, försöker ändra på detta genom elevrekryteringskampanjer riktade mot män. De upprättar också nätverk inom universiteten för att öka antalet manliga sökande i förskoleutbildningen och för att minska antalet män inom detta område som dra sig tillbaka. Det huvudsakliga syftet med denna studie var att avgöra vilka kvaliteter och / eller egenskaper män har som är tillgångar till förskolor i Sverige. Känner barn och förskollärare ett behov av män i förskolan, och i så

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Knazan, Jennifer. "A vague and lovely thing : gender, cultural identity and performativity in contemporary poetry by Russian women." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=112402.

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Poetry by Russian women which has been published since the fall of the Soviet Union reveals that the quest to explore female identity and experience is no longer inviolable in Russian literature. This thesis examines female personae, gender and cultural identity in the work of Russian poets Nina Iskrenko (1951--1994), Tatiana Voltskaia (b. 1960), and Iuliia Kunina (b. 1966). Although the poetics of these writers' texts are broad-ranging, all of their work takes up the subjects of gender and cultural identity. Their poems explore identity as a discursive practice, rather than a fixed construct

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Hallihan, Mark. "The biological subject : reworking Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity through Henri Bergson's matter and memory." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2015. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/582253/.

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This thesis expands the currently available approaches to theorising the relation between subjectivity and the body – by developing a notion of an embodied subject. This is done by exploring the implications which Henri Bergson’s process philosophy has for understanding Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity. I undertake an analysis of Butler’s account of the gendered subject, demonstrating its value for thinking the politics of sexual difference but emphasising its methodological short comings. Specifically, I criticise her reduction of the body to a signifying effect, her exclusion

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Björkman, Dawid Leonard. "”Clint Eastwood med disktrasa” : En narrativ innehållsanalys av läromedel utifrån ett genusperspektiv." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-30263.

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The aim of this study is to examine how the male characters are portrayed in the television series »Livet i bokstavslandet« based on Connels (1995) theory hegemonic »masculinity« and Butlers theory »gender performativity« and examine if the male characters challenge or maintain gender. The study proceed from the following questions: Does the male characters in »Livet i bokstavslandet« challenge or reproduce traditional gender roles? Are the male characters »participant«, »subordinated« or »marginalized« based on Connells hegemonic masculinity theory? A narrative content analysis has been cond

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Kaur, Surinderpal. "Gender Subjectivities Online : Harnessing Performativity theory in conjunction with other theoretical and analytical approaches in exploring gender and sexuality in online discussion boards." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.524753.

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Gimeno, Carolina. "Performing Jewellery : Jewellery, decoration, gender and performance." Thesis, Konstfack, Ädellab/Metallformgivning, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-4660.

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This essay is about the act of wearing contemporary jewellery has as a way of communication between human beings. I investigate the act of decorating the body as an important and basic human need. This essay investigates the relationship between gender, feminine culture, and decoration within the Western world, thinking of jewellery as a socialisation method and not as a consequence of natural differences between sexes. This investigation presents a brief historical review of the role that jewellery has been playing in the relations between the genders and the changes it has undergone in te

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Yakut, Ozge. "Sexuality And Gender In Jeanette Winterson&#039." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612922/index.pdf.

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This thesis aims to explore the categories of sexuality and gender through an analysis of Jeanette Winterson&rsquo<br>s well-known novels, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Written on the body, against the background of Butler&rsquo<br>s concept of performativity and Cixous&rsquo<br>s &eacute<br>criture feminine. By underlining the constructedness of these categories and questioning the boundaries of patriarchal concepts and transgressing them, Winterson deconstructs the binary oppositions created by phallocentric discourse and problematizes the verdict that sexuality is inborn. Instead of th

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Jayasinghe, Laknath Dhinendra. "The kinesthetics of rock music performance : an examination through performativity, masculinity and Nice Cave /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19805.pdf.

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Bernadet, Marie-Hélène. "Ambiguïté dans le féminin et le masculin. : Une étude de L'Amant et de L'Amant de la Chine du Nord de Marguerite Duras." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Romanska och klassiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-115492.

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The purpose of this study is to explore the manifestations and representations of masculinity and feminity in two novels of Marguerite Duras from a gender studies perspective. We will first review the traditional place of masculine and feminine stereotypes in the phallocentric order, basing our research on Bourdieu’s and Badinter’s work about the role of men and women in our society. Regarding the topic of sexual identity, our theoretical background will include feminist theories as Judith Butler’s gender performativity concept as well as Luce Irigaray’s notion of mimesis. The philosophy part

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Lundhall, Rebecca. "Evil Women in Harry Potter : Breaking Gender Expectations and Representations of Evil." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-137110.

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With a focus on gender expectations, this qualitative study analyses how Bellatrix Lestrange and Dolores Umbridge in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series represent evil. Through close reading the first and the final three books of the series using the feminist criticism perspective performativity, the aim of this study is to highlight how the evil women in the series are portrayed in comparison to both good characters of both sexes as well as evil men. The results show that while the evil women represent evil in the ways that they break their gender expectations, the good men also represent good

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Eriksson, Amanda. "Queera läckage i Henry & June ur Anaïs Nins ocensurerade dagbok." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-22346.

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The study analysis Anaïs Nin's work, Henry & June from a queer theoretical perspective. The purpose is to show what the work makes with text and how it produces ambivalence with sex and gender and thereby demonstrate the queer leakage in heteronormative performativities. The first part analyzes how it is working with self-representation in diary form. In order to view the work historically and linguistically the work has been related to analyzes and essays by other researchers mentioned in the analysis. The analysis shows that the writer Anaïs Nin has a clear agenda with her work. Nin want

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Hunter, Sheena A. "Not Simply Women's Bodybuilding: Gender and the Female Competition Categories." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/wsi_theses/27.

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Once known only as Bodybuilding and Women’s Bodybuilding, the sport has grown to include multiple competition categories that both limit and expand opportunities for female bodybuilders. While the creation of additional categories, such as Fitness, Figure, Bikini, and Physique, appears to make the sport more inclusive to more variations and interpretation of the feminine, muscular physique, it also creates more in-between spaces. This auto ethnographic research explores the ways that multiple female competition categories within the sport of Bodybuilding define, reinforce, and complicate the g

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Laing, Morna. "The 'woman-child' in fashion photography, 1990-2015 : childlike femininities, performativity, and reception studies." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2016. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/9818/.

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The childlike character of ideal femininities has long been critiqued in feminist literature, from Mary Wollstonecraft (1792) to Susan Faludi (1992). Yet, despite the partial gains of feminism the ‘woman-child’ continues to be a prominent subject-position in fashion photography of the West. This thesis builds upon earlier feminist critiques of the infantilisation of women by considering the meaning of childlike femininities in the period spanning 1990 to 2015. In particular, it questions whether representations of childlike femininities can shed their dehumanising, ‘second sex’ connotations an

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Davis, Andrea M. "Dragging Identity: A Critical Ethnography of Nightclub Space(s)." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1213893377.

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Schmidt, Melanie. "Performativität." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-220882.

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Der Begriff Performativität geht zurück auf die Sprechakttheorie und wurde von dem Sprachphilosophen John L. Austin "ins Spiel" gebracht. Er verweist mit dem Terminus auf die handlungspraktische Dimension des Sprechens, d.h. dasjenige zu vollziehen oder zu produzieren, was im Sprechen benannt wird, und es nicht lediglich zu bezeichnen. Vor dem Hintergrund von Derridas Iterabilitätsbegriff hat insbesondere Judith Butler das Konzept in die Gendertheorie eingeführt. Das Sein oder So-Sein eines Geschlechtes ist demnach kein ontologischer Status, der aus einer vordiskursiven Wirklichkeit schöpft, s

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Chiappini, F. "BETWEEN RHETORIC AND PERFORMATIVITY: THE VERBAL AND VISUAL ART OF FOUR MODERNIST WOMEN." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/360449.

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The early twentieth century witnessed a special intensity in the relationship among different forms of artistic expression. Cases of osmosis multiplied between writing and painting, entailing the negotiation of techniques, giving voice to a myriad of hybrid forms. Moving on this fruitful field of research, my thesis aims at investigating the cases of some female writers who were artists at the same time, as they occupy a position of their own in the already fascinating frame of writing-artistic partnership. Specifically, Djuna Barnes, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Mina Loy, and Zelda Fitzgeral

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Cullemo, Jenny. "Tjejgrupp - stärkande eller problematiskt kollektiv? : En analys av erfarenheter och minnen från feministiska tjejgrupper." Thesis, Södertörn University College, Södertörn University College, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-2050.

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<p>This essay investigates the results of participation by teenage girls in feminist groups, the so called girl groups. These groups are descendants of the awareness-raising groups of the 1970’s feminist movement. The essay assumes the relevance of theories of heteronormativity and performativity, as well as theories surrounding two different ways to organize girl groups. It is done either through the Pippi-feminism, named after strong independent book character Pippi Longstocking, or through the collective empowerment feminism. The aim of this essay is to examine the outcome of these groups –

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Richards, Jessica Anne. "Sports Space: A Conceptual Model of Everton Football Club Match-day Fan Movement." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15969.

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When a sport fan speaks of their football teams’ home ground, emotions relating belonging, ritual, and local territory are often evoked. This research examines the making of meaning behind the match-day experience. It highlights the importance of transitioning through physical locations in enhancing and maintaining the social, cultural and masculine histories of a sport fan community. Drawing on ethnographic data generated from participant observation and semi-structured interviews on Everton football club fans throughout the 2012-2015 seasons of Premier League football, I explore how physical

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Shain, Cera R. "“The Most Muscular Woman I Have Ever Seen”: Bev FrancisPerformance of Gender in Pumping Iron II: The Women." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7936.

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The question of what constitutes femininity has been widely debated, not only in gender studies, but also in the broader social world. A venue for this debate is the 1985 documentary, Pumping Iron II: The Women, in which gender and femininity in particular become part of the central plot of the film when Bev Francis, a woman bodybuilder more muscular than any other competitor, enters the competition. While feminist scholars have analyzed gender and sport from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, little attention has been paid to female bodybuilding in particular. To fill this gap, this

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Bruun, Samuel T. "Looking the Part: An Examination of Longitudinal Gender Presentation Among Children with Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Adoptive Parents." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/psychology_etds/136.

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Gender presentation, appearing in a way that fits social expectations of one’s gender role, represents one of the most obvious ways in which one’s gender identity becomes salient to others. This quality is especially relevant to note given the continued controversy surrounding children’s gender role development when raised by non-heterosexual parents. The current study is an examination of how gender presentation develops in adopted children with lesbian, gay, and heterosexual parents across two time points (Wave 1: N = 106, Mage = 36.07 months; Wave 2: N = 90, Mage = 8.34). Children’s gender

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Ryd, Elisabet. "Moody Men and Malicious Maidens : Gender in the Swedish medieval ballad." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Historiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-145634.

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Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att granska hur genus och genusrelationer uttrycks i svenska, medeltida ballader. Genom att förstå balladkaraktärernas handlingar som performativa, ämnar uppsatsen undersöka hur maskulinitet och femininitet etableras och omförhandlas i balladernas narrativ genom att kartlägga handlingsmönster. Av betydelse är att belysa hur karaktärernas handlingsmöjligheter påverkas av faktorer såsom kön, social status och familjerelationer, men även jämföra hur genusmönster i balladen reflekterar eller utmanar normer och ideal i det senmedeltida samhället. Uppsatsen åskådliggö

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Harper, Mark C. "The violent act of femininity sexual politics, narrative futility, and gender performativity in the blood melodramas of Francois Truffaut /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3210040.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Comparative Literature, 2006.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-03, Section: A, page: 0756. Adviser: Joan Hawkins. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed March 16, 2007)."

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Johnson, Matthew. "An Ethnography of the Bay Area Renaissance Festival: Performing Community and Reconfiguring Gender." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3509.

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This performance ethnography analyzes the means by which performers at Tampa, Florida‘s Bay Area Renaissance Festival constitute community and gender through performance. Renaissance Festivals are themed weekend events that ostensibly seek to allow visitors to experience life in an English Renaissance village. Beginning with the theoretical assumption that performance is constitutive of culture, community, and identity, and undergirded by David Boje‘s festivalism, Richard Schechner‘s restored behavior, Victor Turner‘s liminoid communitas and Judith Butler‘s performative agency, The Festival is

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Schmidt, Melanie. "Performativität." Universität Leipzig, 2013. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15425.

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Der Begriff Performativität geht zurück auf die Sprechakttheorie und wurde von dem Sprachphilosophen John L. Austin 'ins Spiel' gebracht. Er verweist mit dem Terminus auf die handlungspraktische Dimension des Sprechens, d.h. dasjenige zu vollziehen oder zu produzieren, was im Sprechen benannt wird, und es nicht lediglich zu bezeichnen. Vor dem Hintergrund von Derridas Iterabilitätsbegriff hat insbesondere Judith Butler das Konzept in die Gendertheorie eingeführt. Das Sein oder So-Sein eines Geschlechtes ist demnach kein ontologischer Status, der aus einer vordiskursiven Wirklichkeit schöpft, s

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Karlsson, Linda. "”It was easy to write about whores, but to write about a good woman was much more difficult” : En queer läsning av Charles Bukowskis Women och Love is a Dog from hell." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-26248.

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A Queer Reading of Charles Bukowskiʼs Women and Love is a dog from hell This thesis aims to examine how the representation of gender is portrayed in relation to sex and power in Charles Bukowski’s novel Women and poetry collection Love is a dog from hell. The theoretical frame of the analysis is based on Judith Butlerʼs queer theory regarding the heterosexual matrix and gender performativity. The analysis consists of a textual comparison where a specific selection of poems is analysed parallel to the novel to see how they interact and how they oppose each other, through a queer reading. The an

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Baqaj, Pleurat. ""Jag är bara där för att ha kul och spela spel"." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-25289.

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Onlinespel fortsätter att växa för varje år och har på ett decennium gått ifrån att vara en trevlig sidosyssla till att tas som arbete. Nutida studier visar att den stereotypiske gamern inte längre existerar. Gruppen gamers är en diversifierad grupp människor ifrån alla världens länder, båda könen inräknade. Trots detta är dock sexism fortfarande väldigt vanligt förekommande inom gamingkulturen. Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur könsroller upplevs för de som definierar sig som kvinnor. Frågeställningarna som ligger till grund för studien är hur könsroller reproduceras online samt hur

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Jeffries, Michelle. "Experiences of gender and sexuality diverse parents in primary schools." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/208076/1/Michelle_Jeffries_Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis examines the enablements and constraints experienced by gender and sexuality diverse (GSD) parents within the context of their child/ren’s primary school/s. It explicates how normative notions of family can create barriers to recognition for GSD parented families in educational contexts and considers the labour this can create for families. This thesis offers a rich understanding of the productions of family within schooling contexts and implications for GSD parented families.

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Xing, Hongru. "Género, cuerpo y performatividad: el Dan masculino en la ópera de Pekín." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667380.

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El Dan masculino, una de las expresiones artísticas de impersonación femenina más estudiada entre los académicos occidentales, es uno de los valores más importantes de las actuaciones teatrales tradicionales de China, especialmente en Jingju, la Ópera de Pekín. En esta tesis, intento releer la dinámica entre la identidad y el cuerpo de dos figuras relevantes: Mei Lanfang y Leslie Cheung, apoyándome en un análisis que también se extiende a dos figuras cinematográficas. La relectura se realizará en términos performativos apelando principalmente a la teoría de la performatividad del género de Jud

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Smart, Deborah Caroline. "Processes of improvisation in change management from the perspective of a UK management consultant." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/20963.

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Organisational improvisation is often seen as a way for corporations to be able to cope with emergent strategies (Cunha, et al, 1999) and a way to meet the challenges of modern ways of working which include agility, flexibility and responsiveness (Vera and Crossan, 2004). However, seeing improvisation as a tool that can be used to deliver desirable organisational change is placing it within a discourse of systemic consultancy techniques that are predicated on assumptions about organisational change which I argue do not reflect the everyday lived experiences of people at work. As a management c

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