Dissertations / Theses: 'Sex in literature'

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Graysmith, Leah. "Sex and gender in the equine in literature." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2008.

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Orduz, Aimee R. "Hipsters and chicks : sex, lies and beat literature /." Abstract Full Text (HTML) Full Text (PDF), 2008. http://eprints.ccsu.edu/archive/00000499/02/1955FT.htm.

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Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2008.
Thesis advisor: Aimee Pozorski. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-101). Also available via the World Wide Web.

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Rousso, Shani. "'The dark shimmer of sex' Desire in literature." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.489242.

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How does a writer put into words something as intangible and elusive as sexual desire? What makes a narrative evoke a sense of arousal and longing? If one man's meat is another woman's poison, how can the writer convey what is attractive about the object of desire to all readers? An empathetic understanding of desire is not necessarily reached through the content of the narrative, but through its language, its form and its structure.

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Rasmussen, Kristin. "Sexually abusive children treatment recommendations from the literature and therapists /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2006. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3215405.

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Hartmann, Christine M. "School-based sexuality education a review and critical analysis of relevant literature /." Online version, 2002. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2002/2002hartmannc.pdf.

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Deans, Sharon. "Teen Gothic : sex, death and autonomy in young adult Gothic literature." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/15908.

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Adolescence – that tricky time when children have not yet reached adulthood – is a time of much disturbance, change and growth. Faced with a body that changes, stretches and grows in all directions, as does the mind, the adolescent finds that they are not who they once were, and that their concerns are not what they once were. According to David Punter, the nature of adolescence is integral to Gothic writing; for him, adolescence can be seen as a time when there is a fantasised inversion of boundaries: ‘where what is inside finds itself outside (acne, menstrual blood, rage) and what we think should be visibly outside (heroic dreams, attractiveness, sexual organs) remain resolutely inside and hidden’ (Punter 1998, 6). However, this is to ‘Gothicise’ adolescents - to view adolescents themselves as Gothic beings – rather than to understand what the true nature of their concerns and fears really are. This thesis intends to investigate, therefore, those fears and concerns as they are represented through the medium of Gothic texts written for adolescents. I propose to examine what happens to the Gothic mode in the gap between young children’s literature and adult fiction and will look at, through the Gothic lens, Young Adult literature which explores the teenager's relationships with issues such as sex, death and autonomy. As the Gothic is ‘erotic at root’ (Punter 1996, 191) and often focused on the centrality of sexuality, I explore the nature of ‘changing bodies’ and consider the adolescent’s burgeoning sexuality and desire for romantic relationships; however, the Gothic is not just about sex, and I also examine adolescent engagement with the concept of death, before finally going on to study issues of adolescent power and autonomy.

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Green, Vanessa A. "The effects of non-sexist literature on children's sex-typed toy-play behaviour." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1993. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36702/1/36702_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.

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Sex-role socialisation begins from the day a child is born, and permeates all aspects of his or her life. As the child develops s/he gradually comes to acquire the behaviours and attitudes deemed appropriate for his or her gender. These behaviours begin to appear as early as three years, when a child's choice of play items becomes sex-typed. This development is the product of changes effected in child's behaviour via reinforcement (positive or negative) by the modelling and influence of significant others (especially parents, peers and the mass media). Such behavioural change is accompanied by cognitive development in regard to the child's concepts or schema regarding sex-roles and the child's personal identification with these roles. Of particular importance to the preschool child is storybooks; these act as mirrors to the outside world for the developing child. However, the messages are often stereotyped. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the extent to which children's adoption of sex-roles was amenable to change as a result of direct intervention, in terms of the effect of non-sexist stories on children's sex-typed toy-play behaviour. Eight sex-typed preschool children (four boys, four girls), from a Day Care Centre were selected to participate in the study. The experimental design used was single-case, where each child served as his or her own control. Specifically, the baseline phase involved the individual reading of a gender neutral story, followed by an observation of the child's toyplay behaviour, when presented with a set of sex-typed girl and boy toys. The intervention phase followed the same fonnat, however two non-sexist stories were used: a "girl" story and a "boy" story, with each displaying non-traditional behaviours for the relevant gender. The design was counter-balanced in regard to the order of presentation of the non-traditional stories, both for each child, and across the eight children. Thus four of the subjects' received the stories in the order ABC ACB and for the remaining four it was ACB ABC (A=Neutral, B=boy and C=girl). The 220 observations were conducted over a five month period, with data being plotted on a daily basis. The videotapes of the sessions were coded for any changes in levels of sex-typed play, thus the percentage of total time each child played with either the "girl" toys or "boy" toys was calculated. On completion of the observations the experimenter individually asked the children questions about the story and administered a number of tasks aimed primarily at ascertaining the children's recall and understanding of the stories. The subjects results are discussed on an individual basis, and then this is followed by an analysis of the three distinct trends that emerged. The first trend was that for some of the children the stories appeared to have an effect on their toy-play behaviour by increasing their levels of non-sex-typed play. For the second group, there appeared to be a temporary effect on toy-play behaviour and for the last there appeared to be no effect at all, that is there was no change from baseline. This is followed by an analysis of sex differences in the results, in that girls appeared to be influenced more by the girl stories than the boys were, by the boy stories. The findings are discussed from a number of theoretical perspectives on sex-role development, namely Social Learning, Social Cognitive and Gender Schema theories. The implications of the present research in an educational context are discussed, with particular reference to the importance of future research into the introduction of a more egalitarian curriculum being introduced into the preschool setting to help alleviate the restrictions stereotyping places on the human personality.

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Ross, Oliver Paul. "Same-sex desire and syncretism : 'homosexualities' in Indian literature and film." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609810.

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Albin, Jennifer L. "A subject so shocking the female sex offender in Richardson's Clarissa /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4514.

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Thesis (M.A.) University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 21, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

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Sternik, Maria. "Back to the Garden of Eden the role of erotic love in the process of restoration /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Smeds, Fredrik. "Stildrag i sex noveller av Eyvind Johnson." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-30039.

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Stildrag i sex noveller av Eyvind Johnson (Fredrik Smeds, C-uppsats i Svenska språket, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kom-munikation, 2001). I uppsatsen pekar författaren på olika stildrag i sex av Eyvind Johnsons noveller från tiden 1929–38. I analyserna av de enskilda novellerna ingår alltid en beskrivning av handlingen och dessutom diskuteras person- och miljöbeskrivningen. I ett senare kapitel har statistiska uppgifter om skiljetecken och meningslängd beräknats, men framför allt studeras där dialogen och kompositionen. Även ordvalet och valet av tilltalsord har studerats, liksom det dialektala talspråket i en novell. Syntaxen undersöks också, exempelvis graden av samordning (asyndes, polysyndes etc.).

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Borhan, Burcu. "Gendered narratives in Victorian literature identity formation in empire-focused children's literature /." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/3246.

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Thesis (M.A,)--George Mason University, 2008.
Vita: p. 101. Thesis director: Amelia Rutledge. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Aug. 27, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-100). Also issued in print.

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Pashak, Darlene. "Exploring the relationship between adolescent sex abusers and attachment : a literature review." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=78188.

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This study examined the relationship between attachment and adolescent sex abusers through a literature review. Due to the dearth of literature on this subject, separate literature reviews were conducted on attachment theory and on predisposing factors to adolescent sex abusing. The results indicated that a causal relationship between attachment and the development of adolescent sex abusers is unlikely; however, insecure attachment styles were found to be one of many factors related to adolescent sex abusing. Theories related to emotional stress, the developmental stage of adolescence, intergenerational transmission and sibling incest were generated within the theoretical context of attachment. A typology was constructed that suggests how different attachment styles may be associated with various types of adolescent sex abusers. Implications for primary prevention, treatment interventions and research were discussed.

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Jacobs, Jessica. "The literature of sex tourism and women negotiating modernity in the Sinai." Thesis, Open University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396937.

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Padfield, Lisa Rae. "Colliding constructs : exploring discourses regarding traditional marriage and lesbian marriage : a literature review." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/700.

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Shane, Elisabeth Ann. "Sex, crimes, and common sense: framing femininity from sensation to sexology." Diss., University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1901.

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My dissertation tracks the production of "common sense" about female sexuality and psychology in nineteenth-century sensational British literature. I move from the sensation novel's heyday, represented by Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone (1868) and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1862), through the fin-de-siècle Gothic literary revival with Bram Stoker's Dracula(1895), and conclude with a reading of the representation of aberrant female sexuality in the emergent science of nineteenth-century sexology. For Victorian readers, few things could have seemed further removed from sensation literature--from lurid crime novels to sordid news stories to sexualized science--than common sense. Yet, my project illustrates the role of sensational literature in provoking the dark millennial fantasies that passed as common sense and often animated theories of femininity expressed in late-Victorian science. Common sense retains its rhetorical force through the assumption that its premises arise naturally and apply universally. But if we take a historical view, a troubling pattern emerges: common sense has often worked to preserve reactionary views of femininity. For example, in the nineteenth century, common sense led medical professionals to the belief that a woman's reproductive system left her constitutionally more susceptible to "hysteria." define common sense as the product of the frequent iteration of a particular train of associative logic that results in the naturalization and legitimation of claims about reality, even if those claims are both sensationalized and arbitrary. The rhetorical force of common sense requires the perpetual obscuration of its origins. The elusive and frustrating quality of common sense as a cognitive category derives from its ability, in Stuart Hall's words, to "represent itself as the 'traditional wisdom or truth of the ages,' [when] in fact, it is deeply a product of history, 'part of the historical process'" ("Gramsci's Relevance" 431). Hall describes this type of associative relationship between disparate figures often exemplified in the logic of common sense as "an articulation." What Hall refers to as an "articulation" might also be called, when viewed through the lens of literary theory, a "metonymic chain," wherein the literal term for one thing is applied to another with which it becomes linked, articulated. Both terms—articulation and metonymic chain—effectively describe the illusion of necessary correspondence in mere arbitrary association. My translation of this cultural phenomenon into the framework of literary analysis allows for a precise description of the rhetorical transformations involved in conjuring common sense. With frequent iteration, metonymic association may appear to be based on some more substantial similarity—not circumstantial, but necessary; not the product of sensationalism, but the inevitable conclusion derived from and constituting common sense. Common sense regarding female sexuality has frequently been preserved through sensationalism; but paradoxically, sensationalism is often most effective when its characteristic paranoia seems somehow self-evidently justified, even rational. In other words, sensationalism works best to consolidate the paranoid patterns of associative logic informing the nineteenth-century figuration of femininity when it appears not to be working at all—when sensationalism takes on the weight of common sense.

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Van, Bever Donker Marjolein Hanny C. "Constructions of the subject: sexuality in Rice's "Lestat" and Meyer's "Edward"." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47560630.

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This thesis conducts a comparative analysis of Anne Rice’s Lestat, in her The Vampire Chronicles and Stephenie Meyer’s Edward, in her Twilight Saga, focusing primarily on the construction of their respective sexualities. Beginning by clarifying the theoretical groundwork for the analysis, I first discuss the theory of the Gothic in which I situate the texts and read some of the theory pertaining to the gothic body. From there I turn to queer theory and identity politics, introducing the concept of the thematic / problematic distinction on which to map the differences and debates between the two – an important area to establish as it resonates throughout the paper. Then I proceed to consider Freud’s Uncanny, touching on the work of Joan Copjec and Barbara Creed. Once this groundwork has been established, I work through Foucault’s arguments in The History of Sexuality, Volume One: The Will to Knowledge, detailing its significance as the focalizing theory for my analysis of the novels – particularly the three related elements of power, discourse and the body. Coupled with other theorist’s readings of Foucault’s arguments, this will then set me up to work the three elements into the thematic/problematic relationship, the uncanny and the gothic body. Once this theoretical work is completed, I will return to a literary analysis of the difference between the two characters based on their construction of sexuality in their subjectivity. Finally, after turning to the novels themselves, I show how Lestat engages with the thematic as he is seen to queer the notions of sex that Edward portrays, and is therefore more effective as a monstrous figure, and more effective in evoking the uncanny. Ultimately, The Vampire Chronicles is more successful in utilizing its possibilities for ‘dissent’ as a gothic novel, than the Twilight Saga.
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Guillaud-Marlieu, Anne-Bénédicte Marie-Christine. "Gender Confusion: Sex and Subjection in Anouilh's Antigone." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313713577.

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Marten, Kysa K. "Sex life and sexuality of individuals with developmental disabilities a critical review of the literature /." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2006. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2006/2006martenk.pdf.

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Yang, Xin. "From beauty fear to beauty fever : a critical study of Chinese female writers born in the 1970s /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1232398971&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 182-204). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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McPeters, Annette Lee. "The Virgin Unmask'd: Mandeville's Response to the "Fair-Sex" Debate." W&M ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625394.

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Stockton, William H. "Sex, sense, and nonsense the anal erotics of early modern comedy /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3274908.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of English, 2007.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-07, Section: A, page: 2960. Adviser: Linda Charnes. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Apr. 10, 2008).

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Martinelli, Deena A. "Fundamentalist Christian literature and the perception of womanhood /." View abstract, 1999. http://library.ctstateu.edu/ccsu%5Ftheses/1533.html.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Central Connecticut State University, 1999.
Thesis advisor: Dr Norton Mezvinsky. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." Includes bibliographical references (leaves [79-82]).

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Wills, Clair. "Language, history and sex in the poetry of Paul Muldoon and Medbh McGuckian." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305288.

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Corneliusson, Mimmi. "Identitetsskapande : en analys av sex ungdomsromaner med homosexuella huvudpersoner från 1977-2003." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Gender, Culture and History, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-97.

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The purpose of this study is to analyze how homosexuality is portrayed in young- adult novels. I use books published in Sweden from 1977- 2003. Three of the books have female main characters and the other three have male main characters. My purpose is therefore to compare the different results between the sexes.

I will examine and discuss the homosexuality in the novels with focus on the homosexual identity of the young characters and how it is formed. I relate the results to a queer discussion about identity. My results show that there has been a development in how the homosexuality of the main characters is portrayed; the majority of the late works describe homosexuality as socially constructed and not biological.

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Fonder-Solano, Leah Jean. "Sex, violence and politics: Eroticism in the work of Cristina Peri Rossi." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289489.

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Cristina Peri Rossi (Uruguay, 1941) highly privileges sexual and erotic themes in her writing. Although literary critics have tended to eschew this facet of the author's work in favor of her irreverent social critiques, this study proposes to show how the author's erotic representations act both directly and indirectly to articulate such arguments. In this regard, my objectives are twofold: First, I examine how Peri Rossi inscribes her erotic writing into a male-dominated tradition of erotic literature. To this end, I discuss her revision of canonical works which govern/reflect social norms of gender and sexuality, particularly traditional psychoanalytical theory and classic mythology. I then explore how the author's erotic representations relate to the various social concerns she addresses in her writing, specifically issues of sex/gender, sexuality and authoritarian government. Regarding sex/gender, I focus on Peri Rossi's deconstruction of the binary engendering system, resulting in the possibility of change in and/or ambiguity of both sex and sexuality; the author's literary transgressions of social gender roles are also considered. With respect to sexuality, I discuss how Peri Rossi challenges social norms of sexuality through representations of homosexuality, children's sexuality and incest. Finally, I address the author's allegorical indictment of military abuses though sexual and/or erotic depictions. In each of these cases, Peri Rossi transforms eroticism, a traditionally private matter, into a public vehicle capable of opposing and subverting social oppression.

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Pereira, Fellipe Ramos 1988. "Erotismo e crueldade em Coxas - sex fiction & delírios de Roberto Piva." [s.n.], 2015. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270070.

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Orientador: Marcos Aparecido Lopes
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: O presente trabalho tem por objetivo desenvolver um estudo sobre a obra Coxas ¿ sex fiction & delírios de Roberto Piva. Buscar-se-á analisar os pontos de contato entre a crueldade e o erotismo no interior desta obra. Cabe assinalar que Coxas é uma obra erótica, que tem por tema o erotismo, e não uma obra com passagens eróticas. Por isso o que se busca fundamentalmente neste trabalho é analisar como erotismo e a crueldade são trabalhados pelo poeta. Para isso se desenvolveu dois pontos principais na pesquisa. O primeiro é exatamente o que diz respeito ao erotismo, porque a crueldade que se busca analisar provém deste aspecto e ele se mostra bastante relevante na obra em questão. O segundo é uma análise formal, pois há nitidamente em Coxas certa hibridização dos gêneros poesia e prosa. Para cumprir estas tarefas buscou-se primeiramente compreender como se compunha o quadro poético da época em que Roberto Piva inicia sua trajetória nas letras e como se configura o erotismo em sua obra. Em seguida se procurou alguns parâmetros especulativos que servissem de apoio à análises da obra nos aspectos apontados, por fim o problema formal se mostrou também de grande relevância, por isso há um capítulo destinado a expor os traços formais de Coxas
Abstract: This dissertation aims to develop a study about the book "Coxas" ¿ sex fiction & delirious, by Roberto Piva. We intend to analyze the points of contact between cruelty and eroticism within this work. It is worth highlighting that "Coxas" is an erotic literary work, whose theme is eroticism, and not an erotic passages book. That is why we seek primarily to investigate how eroticism and cruelty were used by the poet. In this regard we had developed two main points in the research. The first is exactly what concerns the eroticism, because the idea of cruelty that we seek to analyze comes from this aspect and it shows high relevance in the mentioned work. The second one is a formal analysis because it is possible to notice that there is poetry and prose genre hybridization into "Coxas". In order to accomplish this goal we sought to understand firstly on how the poetic scenario was composed from the time that Roberto Piva had begun his career in the poetic world and how eroticism had been configured in his work. And then, we tried some speculative parameters that work in order to give us support in the work analysis on what concerns the highlighted aspects. Finally, the formal point had also been showed highly relevant, so there is a chapter that intends to expose the formal features in "Coxas"
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Teoria e Critica Literaria
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Wagner, Darren N. "Sex, spirits, and sensibility : human generation in British medicine, anatomy, and literature, 1660-1780." Thesis, University of York, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/5574/.

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This thesis explores the physiological idea of animal spirits in relation to nerves, sex, and reproduction in the culture of sensibility. That physiology held the sex organs of both females and males to be exceptionally sensitive parts of the body that profoundly affected individuals’ constitutions and minds. Sexual sensations, desires, volition, and behaviour depended upon animal spirits and nerves. A central concern in this perception of the body and mind was the conflict between rationality from the intellectual will and sexual feelings from the genitalia. The idea that the body and mind interacted through animal spirits became influential in Georgian culture through anatomical and medical writings, teachings, and visual displays, but also through its resonance in literature about sensibility. This research predominantly draws upon material and print cultures of medicine, anatomy, and literature from 1660-1780. The analysis highlights the roles of gender, markets, literary modes, scientific practices, visual demonstrations, medical vocations, and broader social and political discourses in conceptions of the body and mind in relation to sex and reproduction. Ultimately, this study fleshes out the sensible and sexual body, which cultural and literary historians have frequently referred to, and emphasizes how the organs of generation commanded particular attention and exercised special influence.

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Su, Lijin. "Mothers’ perceptions of sex education for adolescents with intellectual disabilities : A Systematic Literature Review." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-47198.

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Adolescents with Intellectual disabilities (ID) have the same sexual and physiological developments as typically developing adolescents, including the same sexual feeling and sexual needs. However, because of cognitive limitations and lack of self-care abilities, they have a higher risk of sexual assault than others. As all other youth they need sex education to prevent sexual exploitation and to learn how to protect themselves. Since parents often are the primary caregivers of adolescents with ID, and they are also the primary educators of adolescents’ sexual education, parents play a crucial role in the development of adolescents’ sexual behavior. It is vital to understand what parents’ perceptions on sex education are. In the past, there have been few studies on the perceptions of parents on sexual education for adolescents with ID. Therefore, this paper aims to explore their perceptions through a systematic literature review. A series of electronic databases were searched, and three studies were identified for the review based on inclusion criteria. Content analysis was used to synthesize the results of the included studies. Findings show that mothers want to provide appropriate sex education for their children, including how to protect themselves and education on inappropriate sexual behavior, and family planning is not included in sex education, and believed that school could be the best choice regarding on providing sex education. The study also found that mothers have barriers to providing sexual education, such as lack resources and supports, poor knowledge about the sexuality, lack of confidence and sexuality is a very private matter. But there are also facilitators, the important role and responsibility of the mothers in providing sex education in the family, and the open and honest way in which the mother communicates with her children about sexual issues. These findings will help teachers or practitioners to consider the situation of parents when developing sex education programmes for adolescents with ID.

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Mason, Rebecca Mary. "Mutable Sex, Cross-dressing, and the mujer varonil: Understanding Non-Normative Sex in Early Modern Spain." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460991983.

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Kantartzi, Evagelia. "Sex role stereotypes in Greek primary school textbooks." Thesis, University of Hull, 2000. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:8059.

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My purpose in this research is to examine the way in which the two sexes are presented in school textbooks. The incentive for pursuing my research was my own experience of using school textbooks and the observation of everyday reality. Until the present time research in Greece regarding the image of the two sexes has been limited to the primary school reading-scheme books. With this study I intend to give a detailed picture of the beliefs about sex roles as these are presented through the whole range of school textbooks. My ambition is that my work - in combination with other similar studies - will help instructors to comprehend and point out the traditional standard beliefs about the two sexes depicted in the textbooks which are used on a daily basis in schools in Greece. This research could sensitise instructors and simultaneously help them to be aware of and recognise the stereotype beliefs in the books they use. In this way they will be able, with the appropriate interventions and discussions, to consider their validity in relation to the children they teach. The present study is presented in 14 chapters. It is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the wide theoretical-work related to socialisation and the sex roles (Chapters 1-2). The third chapter discusses the agents of sex role socialisation (the family, peer groups, media, school). The fourth chapter studies the woman's professional role. Chapter 5 includes a brief description of the Greek educational system and an examination of a girl's place within it. The sixth deals with books as a factor in the configuration of the sex role. Chapter 7 includes a review of the related studies. The second part of the thesis includes the main body of the study, the methodology (chapter 8), the analysis of the results (chapters 9-13) and finally the conclusions and suggestions (chapter 14). Chapters 9-13 have their own separate bibliographies to facilitate reference for readers interested in one particular curriculum area.

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Blum, Joanne. "Defying the constraints of gender : the male/female double of women's fiction /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487265555440577.

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Thompson, Jay. "Sex and power in Australian writing during the Culture Wars, 1993-1997 /." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/6714.

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I address a selection of texts published in Australia between 1993 and 1997 which engage with feminist debates about sex and power. These texts are important, I argue, because they signpost the historical moment in which the culture wars and globalisation gained force in Australia. A key word in this thesis is ‘framing’. The debates which my texts engage with have (much like the culture wars in general) commonly been framed as conflicts between polarised political factions. These political factions have, in turn, been framed in terms of generations; that is, an ‘older’ feminism is pitted against a ‘newer’ feminism. Each generation of feminists supposedly holds quite different views about sex. I argue that my texts actually provide an insight into how various feminist perspectives on sex diverge and intersect with each other, as well as with certain New Right discourses about sex. My selected texts also suggest how the printed text has helped transport feminism within and outside Australia
My texts fit into two broad genres, fiction and scholarly non-fiction. The texts are: Helen Garner’s The First Stone (1995), Sheila Jeffreys’ The Lesbian Heresy (1993), Catharine Lumby’s Bad Girls (1997), Linda Jaivin’s Eat Me (1995) and Justine Ettler’s The River Ophelia (1995). I engage with various critical responses to these texts, including reviews, essays and interviews with the authors. I draw also from a range of theoretical sources. These include analyses of the culture wars by the American theorist Lillian S. Robinson and the Australian scholars McKenzie Wark, David McKnight and Mark Davis. Davis has provided a useful overview of how the metaphor of ‘generational conflict’ circulated in Australian culture during the 1990s. I draw on Arjun Appadurai’s model of “global cultural flows” and Ann Curthoys’ history of feminism in Australia. I engage with research into the increasingly ‘globalised’ nature of Australian writing, as well as a number of feminist works on the relationship between sex and power

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Majola, Nontuthuzelo Angelina. "Gender stereotypes versus gender equality: a critical analysis of some characters in Swaartbooi's "UMandisa" and Saule's "Idinga"." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/553.

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The focus of this study will be on gender stereotypes versus gender equality in Swaartbooi's novel “UMandisa” and in Saule's novel “Idinga”. CHAPTER ONE will be the introductory chapter where the aim of the study, methodology, motivation and definition of terms will be given, as well as the biographical outline of Ncedile Saule and that of V.N.M. Swaartbooi. CHAPTER TWO will focus on developing the theoretical framework of the study. Theories are used to advocate a change of approach in the teaching and reading of literature. The theory to be employed in this study will be based on aspects of the female gender and feminism. CHAPTER THREE will explore the issues of gender stereotypes as portrayed in Swaartbooi's “UMANDISA” CHAPTER FOUR will focus on gender equality as portrayed in “IDINGA” by Saule and “UMANDISA” by Swaartbooi. The two novels raised the question of equality between women and men. CHAPTER FIVE will serve as the concluding chapter where the evaluation of the study will be made.

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McGraw, Kenneth W. "Dangerous Discourse: Language and Sex between Men in Eighteenth-Century London." Cleveland, Ohio : Case Western Reserve University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1246630633.

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Thesis(Ph.D.)--Case Western Reserve University, 2009
Title from PDF (viewed on 2009-11-23) Department of English Includes abstract Includes bibliographical references and appendices Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center

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Halleck, Kenia Milagros. "Modernización y género sexual en los melodramas domésticos de autoras centroamericanas, 1940-1960 /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9981957.

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Francis, David Stewart. "Moving Sensibility: Sex Work and Economies of Desire in Latin American Literature and Visual Cultures." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:26718759.

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This dissertation surveys diverse contexts in which sex and migratory labor are sold and conceptualized in, on, and across border zones since the 1990s. It examines texts by Pedro Lemebel, Fernando Vallejo, and Roberto Bolaño in conjunction with the museum installations of Teresa Margolles and films by Ishtar Yasin and Luis Mandoki. It concludes pointing to further research on works by Luisa Valenzuela, Beatriz Flores Silva, and Sebastiano d’Ayala Valva. The filmic narratives and rhetorical constructions I discuss mark what historian Brodwyn Fischer has called Latin America’s recent union of “dystopic terrors” and “deep optimism” or what I propose to be the discourse between a dystopic present and utopian dream. Engaging with narratives that concern a variety of border zones—in Mexico, Central America, Colombia, the Southern Cone, and Spain—I consider what Mary Louise Pratt describes as “a new phase of empire [that] unfurled across the planet,” concomitant with neoliberal economic policies like NAFTA and Mercosur at the end of the 20th century. Following representations of regional and international migratory movements, the thesis homes in on the predicaments of poverty and exploited labor at national dividing lines and in marginal urban spaces. Therein, I note an ongoing flux in literary and visual discourse not only about sex work, trafficking, and modern slavery, but about how the terms used to present migratory labor arise, often in contestation, at sites of intense political, economic, and ethical debate. Recognizing recent theories of love and violence in the so-called Latin American post-national imaginary, this comparative work suggests the need to understand Latin America’s migratory and marginal populations as ethically implicated in both national and transnational literary, visual, and economic discourse.
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Menzie, A. E. "Puns and wordplay on the themes of sex and food in Samuel Beckett's 'How it is'." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.374422.

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Cody, Suzanne Marie. "Love. Sex. Shoes. A collection of performance essays." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4596.

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The essay is an exploration of a thought, an idea, an experience. To essay is simply to attempt. A conclusion is not always reached, a solution is not always found, but the writer is compelled to attempt to contain the thought, the idea, the experience, in words on the page. The performance essay makes the same attempt. But where the written essay is complete on the page, the performance essay is subject to constant transformation by the necessity of the physical body to the finished work. Not the body of the writer, but the body of the performer who stretches and bends the writer-shaped space of the essay to make it fit, completing the work in the creation of this new shape. This is the excitement for the writer of the performance essay. To surrender control of the work to another artist and see what they will make of it.

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Martinson, Melissa M. "Visual depictions of gender in parent magazines." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5627.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on September 8, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.

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Urraro, Laurie Lynne. "EROTICIZING THE MARGINS: SEX AND SEXUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY FEMALE-AUTHORED SPANISH DRAMA." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1300405282.

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Goodloe, Amy Townsend. "My lover, my god : the role of gender in the mystical theology of The Cloud of Unknowing /." Thesis, This resource online, 1993. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09302009-020010/.

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Johnson, Kara A. James Henry. "Living picture, living voice : the public performance of women in Henry James's The Bostonians /." Connect to online version, 2007. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2007/207.pdf.

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Jones, Darryl. "The highest point of extasy : sex and sexuality in the novels of Jane Austen and her predecessors." Thesis, University of York, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.259806.

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Grace, Nancy McCampbell. "The feminized male character in twentieth-century fiction studies in Joyce, Hemingway, Kerouac, and Bellow /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487331541709914.

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Blake, Thomas W. Silverstein Marc. "Staging and upstaging revolt the maternal function in twentieth century drama /." Auburn, Ala, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1811.

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Appleby, Elizabeth C. "Francoise de Graffigny and the sequelization phenomenon." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1123087176.

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Burns, Robert J. "On the limits of culture why biology is important in the study of Victorian sexuality /." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04242007-002125/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2007.
Paul Schmidt, committee chair; Wayne Erickson, George Pullman, committee members. Electronic text (287 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed October 4, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-287).

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Chew, Cynthia Mei-Li. ""It's stupid being a girl!" : the tomboy character in selected children's series fiction /." Murdoch University Digital Theses Program, 2008. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20090430.203438.

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Wiechert, Nora L. "Urban green space and gender in Anglophone Modernist fiction." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Summer2009/n_wiechert_071309.pdf.

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