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Veale, Beth. "Teaching adolescent girls at risk, stories of voice and silence." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ58953.pdf.
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Saindon, Christina Ellen. "GENDERED EDUCATION: NARRATING THE SILENCE OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN THE CLASSROOM." OpenSIUC, 2017. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1382.
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In this study, I focus on the experiences of self-identified quiet or silent female graduate students in order to understand the reasoning behind our classroom communication. I start by defining silence and continue by reviewing literature surrounding the topic of silence. Then, I focus on my own experiences autoethnographically to understand some of the ways I have come to understand my own experience as a silent student. I further conducted interviews with graduate student women to get a sense of their understanding of their own silence; I use the transcriptions of these interviews as the data for analysis. Because some of the women identified as teachers, they additionally offered suggestions for working with silent students. In the end, I argue that encouraging students to communicate is about the combination of a variety of teacher behaviors that encourage in-class communication.
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Marcus, Geetha Doraisamy. "Breaking the silence : the intersecting invisible experiences of Gypsy/Traveller girls in Scotland." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25716.
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This thesis explores the educational experiences of 17 Scottish Gypsy/Traveller girls supplemented by some 30 other informants involved with education and related areas impacting Gypsy/Travellers. It incorporates published and unpublished literature on the topic and sets out a theoretical framework informed by intersectionality. The girls’ stories are highlighted and juxtaposed alongside the general problems encountered by Gypsy/Travellers in Scotland to reveal a complex narrative. This research attempts to address a gap in the literature in which Gypsy/Traveller girls’ experiences are misrecognised and erased through non-recognition. My thesis offers space for the voices of Gypsy/Traveller girls to be heard and highlights their agency in the private spaces of home and the public spaces of education. Interpretations of the image of Gypsy/Travellers in Scotland are riddled with stereotypes and racialised misperceptions and assumptions. The stubborn persistence of these negative views appears to contribute to policies of neglect, inertia or intervention that largely seeks to ‘civilise’ or further assimilate Gypsy/Travellers into the mainstream settled population. The Scottish Government's Race Equality Statement (2009) accepts that Gypsy/Travellers are ‘a particularly discriminated against and marginalised group’. Within education, research by Wilkin et al. (2009) indicates that Gypsy/Traveller children are the lowest achieving minority group in the United Kingdom. There is currently no research that explores how girls and young women from Gypsy/Traveller communities fare in Scottish schools, and what they think of their experiences. It is against this backdrop that this qualitative inquiry seeks to explore how Gypsy/Traveller girls frame their educational experiences. I argue that traditional unidimensional approaches to investigating experiences of discrimination are inadequate, particularly within marginalised communities. Interview data collected for this doctoral study was analysed, identifying common themes that characterise the experiences of the Gypsy/Traveller girls and the ways in which their experiences differ and various subordinations intersect.
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Louhela, H. (Helena). "Sexual violence:voiced and silenced by girls with multiple vulnerabilities." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2019. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526224152.
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Abstract Inspired by feminist standpoint theory, this doctoral thesis studies what the voices and silences about experiences of sexual violence tell us when voiced by adolescent girls who have been in residential care institutions. This group of girls evidently experience more sexual violence compared to their peers. This dissertation is based on four scientific Articles. In Article I, Erving Goffman’s theory is used to analyse the girls’ experiences of being in residential institutions and Articles II–IV focus on their sexual violence experiences. Data is generated in 2013 through semi-structured interviews with 11 girls aged 14–17 years old, and through interviews with one of these girls from 2013–2017. Data from Bulgaria, Catalonia and Italy regarding the violent experiences of 46 girls is also used in Article II. Qualitative content analysis (Articles I–III) and the Listening Guide method (Article IV) were used in data analysis. The Articles reveal that the girls have multiple vulnerabilities that affect on creating safe connections, as well as voicing their experiences. The majority of the girls did not voice their experiences of sexual violence as violence and based on the data it can be interpreted that the sense of being cared for by someone might impact on what was named and/or recognised as sexual violence. The phenomenon was named abusive illusion of care and proposed to be included in Jenny Pearce’s social model of abused consent. A new term was also suggested for the area of girls’ sexually risky behaviour, which is further developed in this compilation report as sexism-related internalised sexual violence. In this compilation report, the main results of the Articles are combined and re-read in the light of Carol Gilligan’s theorisations. Those findings confirm that girls’ voices and silences about their sexual violence experiences are a complex and multidimensional combination of self-silence and being silenced, connection and resistance. Sexual violence experiences should be considered as contextual, relational, contradictory and situational phenomena. It is suggested that violence prevention programmes be organised in a gender-responsible way for all from an early age. Furthermore, professionals should be educated to recognise the hidden aspects in sexual violence and conceptualisations of sexual violence needs to be developed furtherTiivistelmä Feministisen standpoint-teorian inspiroimana tässä väitöskirjassa tutkitaan, mitä lastensuojelulaitoksissa asuneiden tyttöjen äänellisyydet ja vaikenemiset kertovat heidän kokemastaan seksuaalisesta väkivallasta. Aiempi tutkimustieto osoittaa tämän tyttöryhmän kokevan vertaisiaan enemmän seksuaalista väkivaltaa. Väitöskirjaan sisältyy neljä tieteellistä artikkelia. Artikkeli I:ssa analysoidaan tyttöjen laitoskokemuksia Erving Goffmanin teorian avulla. Artikkeleissa II–IV keskitytään tyttöjen seksuaalisen väkivallan kokemuksiin. Aineisto koostuu yhdentoista 14–17-vuotiaan tytön puolistrukturoidusta haastattelusta vuodelta 2013 sekä yhden tytön haastatteluista vuosilta 2013–2017. Artikkeli II:ssa on otteita Bulgariasta, Italiasta ja Kataloniasta kerätyistä aineistoista koskien neljänkymmenenkuuden tytön väkivaltakokemuksia. Analyysissa käytettiin sisällönanalyysiä (Artikkelit I–III) ja Listening Guide -metodia (Artikkeli IV). Osatutkimuksista selvisi, että tyttöjen moniulotteiset haavoittuvuudet vaikuttavat turvallisten yhteyksien luomiseen sekä omien kokemusten kertomiseen. Suurin osa tytöistä ei sanallistanut seksuaalisen väkivallan kokemuksiaan väkivallaksi, ja tyttöjen kokema välittäminen näytti vaikuttavan siihen, minkä he tunnistivat ja/tai nimesivät seksuaaliseksi väkivallaksi. Ilmiö nimettiin “vahingolliseksi välittämisen illuusioksi,” ja se esitetään lisättäväksi Jenny Pearcen seksuaalista suostumusta koskevaan malliin. Tyttöjen seksuaalisen riskikäyttäytymisen alueelle ehdotettiin uutta termiä, ja tässä yhteenveto-osuudessa se on edelleen kehiteltynä “seksismiin perustuva sisäistetty seksuaalinen väkivalta.” Yhteenveto-osuudessa artikkeleiden päätulokset on yhdistetty ja niitä on uudelleen luettu Carol Gilliganin teoriaa hyödyntäen. Näin saadut tulokset osoittavat, että tyttöjen äänellisyydet ja vaikenemiset seksuaalisesta väkivallasta sisältävät moniulotteisen yhdistelmän vaikenemista ja vaietuksi tulemista, kuulumisen tunnetta sekä vastarintaa. Seksuaalisen väkivallan kokemukset tulisikin nähdä relationaalisena ja moniäänisenä, sekä tilanne- ja kontekstisidonnaisena ilmiönä. Lapsille tulisi suunnata varhaisessa vaiheessa väkivaltaa ennaltaehkäiseviä sukupuolivastuullisia koulutuksia. Lisäksi ammattilaisille tulisi järjestää koulutusta seksuaalisen väkivallan piiloisten muotojen tunnistamiseksi ja seksuaalisen väkivallan sanallistuksia tulisi edelleen kehittää
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Ignatius, Henni. "Den (o)synliga Briseis : En komparativ litteraturanalys av relationen mellan Akilles, Patroklos och Briseis i Homeros Iliaden och Pat Barkers The Silence of the Girls." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-39991.
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The (in)visible Briseis. A comparative literary analysis of the relationship between Achilles, Patroclus and Briseis in Homer’s Iliad and Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls The purpose of this essay is to compare the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus in Homer’s Iliad (700s BC) and Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls (2019), while also looking into the role of Briseis and how the story differs when it is told from her point of view. Through the analysis I find that the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus have always been intense. I argue, however, that the intensity is given more depth and meaning when described from different perspectives, such as that of Briseis and Achilles himself, as is done in The Silence of the Girls. With the help of Kevin Goddard’s theory of the male gaze, the perspective of both Briseis and Achilles become invaluable for interpreting the relationship between the characters, as well as the characters themselves. For Achilles, the gaze of his mother influences him in a negative way in his relationship with Briseis, while the gaze of Patroclus causes changes in his mentality. I argue that this has to do with the Oedipus complex. For once, Briseis is not invisible and even though she continues to be the slave everyone expects her to be, she is, through the gaze, able to create her own story once that of Achilles ends. It is still the story of the great Achilles, but one in which he is also human.
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Cihonski, Deborah A. "The Experience of Loss of Voice in Adolescent Girls: An Existential-Phenomenological Study." Scholar Commons, 2003. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1342.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the meaning of the Loss of Voice experience in adolescent girls using an existential-phenomenological interview approach. An open-ended interview was conducted and participants were asked to "Please think of a specific time when you had something important to say, but did not say it. In as much detail as possible, describe that experience." Each interview was tape-recorded, transcribed by the investigator, and then independently thematized (Jones, 1984) by the author and a doctoral colleague trained in Jones' (1984) analysis method. Interrater reliability of the themes reached 96% agreement for the overall sample. Individual transcription reliabilities ranged between 85-98%. Thematic analysis revealed six superordinate themes and four subthemes. The superordinate themes were Difficult Position, Feeling, Might Explode, Not Worth It, Who Am I?, and Nevermind. The subthemes So Much To Lose and Strong were part of superordinate theme Difficult Position. The subthemes Emotion and Physical were part of the superordinate theme Feeling. Analysis of these themes in their totality suggested a complex meaning structure of co-researchers Loss of Voice experiences. This research supports and expands the current literature on Loss of Voice by providing a more in-depth study of the meaning contained in a Loss of Voice experience. Directions for future research efforts, intervention, and prevention education are discussed.
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LAU, Sui. "Why do girls stay silent? An exploratory research on young women's tolerance toward stranger harassment." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2015. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/soc_etd/37.
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Stranger harassment has been a rising issue regarding gender equality globally. Nevertheless, this issue has been rarely explored in Hong Kong. This study aims at discovering its prevalence, the frequency of its occurrences, local women’s reactions toward it and variables that may determine women’s reactions in a local context. Both personal qualities, including gender-related belief, self-objectification and body image, as well as situational qualities, namely perceived situational norms, are examined.
350 self- administered questionnaires were collected from local women aged between 18 and 25, in either pencil-and-paper or online forms. Results showed that more than 80% of respondents reported experiencing stranger harassment at least once in their lifetimes. The frequency of experiencing certain types of harassment decreases as the severity of harassment increases. Unlike the results found by previous studies, active coping strategy has been reported as the most common reaction adopted by local young women, following by passive, self-blaming and lastly benign coping strategy. As for personal qualities that may determine women’s reactions toward stranger harassment, self-objectification has been found to be positively linked to benign and self-blaming coping strategies, whereas benevolent sexism, which was one of the measurements of gender-related belief, is positively linked to self-blaming and passive coping strategies. Situational qualities were also found to be related to women’s reactions toward stranger harassment. Among the three items that measure perceived situational norms, item B – ‘women should expect stranger harassment in that setting’ is positively correlated to all three nonactive coping strategies. Item C – ‘people nearby will help me if I experience stranger harassment in that setting’ was also found to be positively correlated to active coping strategy. Explanations to the relationships between these variables and women’s coping strategies as well as practical implications are discussed.
This study contributes towards a greater understanding of stranger harassment and women’s reactions toward it, and fills gap in the literature on stranger harassment in the local context.
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Bartolomei, Linda Albina Social Sciences & International Studies Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "Struggling against the silences: exploring rights based responses to the rape and sexual abuse of refugee women and girls." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Social Sciences & International Studies, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/44830.
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This thesis examines the widespread occurrence of rape of women and girls in conflict and refugee settings. It contains many horrendous and complex case studies of rape and sexual violence. Using an intersectional framework, a range of theories is used to analyse these and in doing so the compounding effects of rape and sexual abuse in conflict and refugee situations is identified. The study uses a feminist action research methodology, involving seven complex cycles. These involve field work in Kenya and Thailand and are informed by the theoretical frameworks of post-colonial feminism, critical and anti-oppressive social work, and human rights. The study explores the silences surrounding rape and the reasons why major advances in international law and policy have had such little impact. It begins with an examination of the systematic use of rape as a strategy of war and the ways in which this is addressed in law, policy and practice. It then examines the impact and sequelae of rape on refugee women and girls. This focuses on exploring the reasons for the continued failure of the Women at Risk (WaR) Program to fulfil its potential. An extensive range of risk factors is explored. The almost complete failure of measures to protect refugee women and girls is documented. During the field work, a new research methodology which draws on community development and human rights principles is developed to ensure that the voices and agency of refugee women and girls are included. The study examines the lack of viable risk identification and response mechanisms and critiques the frequent failure to actively involve refugee women in finding and implementing solutions. It also identifies a number of political and ideological barriers, including the damaging impact of negative staff attitudes and the continued characterisation of refugee women as universally vulnerable and oppressed by their cultural contexts. In an activist approach to theory and practice, the study draws on a range of theories to understand the problems and to inform advocacy for changes in policy and practice. These include the development of new tools, law and policy informed by anti-oppressive participatory rights based approaches.
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Boer, Raphael Albuquerque de. "Who is going to save the final girl? the politics of representation in the films halloween and the silence of the lambs." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2014. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/129422.
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Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Inglês: Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, Florianópolis, 2014Made available in DSpace on 2015-02-05T21:04:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 329053.pdf: 1341507 bytes, checksum: d00163e78ad924bf591e9c3fd8125b5d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014
Abstract: This dissertation aims at analyzing female representations in two film productions of the North American horror cinema, specifically of its subgenre slasher films, namely Halloween, directed by John Carpenter (1978) and The Silence of the Lambs, directed by Jonathan Demme (1991). My main theoretical framework is film, representation, gender, feminist and queer theories (Butler, 1990, 1993; Clover, 1989; Dika, 1985, Halberstam, 1995; Hall 1973, 1997; Mulvey, 1975, 1981; 2006; Rockoff, 2006; Weedon, 1995). My hypothesis is that the figure of the final girl, in the two films selected for analysis, is not progressive as suggested by the author Carol Clover in her work Men, Women and Chainsaws (1989). On the contrary, the two female characters are represented, in the narrative, as subjugated by the patriarchal system that has been conventionalized in the slasher subgenre. In order to provide arguments for my hypothesis, I analyze general aspects of both form and content of the two films, as well as specific scenes, using the cinematic elements of mise-en-scène, props, characterization, editing and lighting in order to obtain relevant results for my research.
Esta tese de doutorado objetiva analisar as representações femininas em duas produções cinematográficas do cinema de horror Norte-americano, especificamente do seu subgênero slasher films, intituladas Halloween, dirigido por John Carpenter (1978) e The Silenceof the Lambs, dirigido por Jonathan Demme (1991). Para tal análise, eu utilizo como referencial teórico as teorias de estudos de cinema, representação, gênero, feministas e queer (Butler, 1990, 1993; Clover, 1989; Dika, 1985; Halberstam, 1995; Hall, 1973, 1997; Halberstam, 1995; Mulvey, 1975; 1981; 2006; Rockoff, 2006; Weedon, 1995) para compor os meus argumentos. A minha hipótese consiste no fato de que a figura da final girl não é inovadora como sugere a autora Carol Clover em sua obra Men, Women and Chainsaws (1989). Ao contrário, a personagem feminina é representada na narrativa como subjugada pelo sistema patriarcal que se convencionou em filmes do gênero. Para a investigação da minha hipótese, foram feitas análises gerais dos filmes propostos, tanto considerando suas formas quanto conteúdos, bem como a de cenas específicas, utilizando-se dos elementos de cinema tais como mise-èn-scene, elementos de cena, caracterização de personagens, edição e luz a fim de obter resultados relevantes para a minha pesquisa.
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Studniarek, Amanda. "De silence en silence : auscultation interdisciplinaire du silence pour une auscultation du silence en cinéma." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012TOU20090.
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Le silence est au cœur de tous les tissages musicaux, littéraires, cinématographiques. Son importance constitue l’objet de cette étude. En commençant par mettre en perspective la complexité qui lui est inhérente, il est question d’interroger sa place et ses manifestations dans le champ littéraire, puis dans le champ musical pour en arriver au champ cinématographique qui est toujours resté le moteur de cette recherche. Dans un approfondissement portant sur l’un des films de David Lynch, Wim Wenders, John Huston et Milos Forman, le silence est étudié dans son rapport à la voix, aux dialogues, à la musique, au corps, au mouvement, au montage, autour des questions de mémoire et d’oubli, d’imaginaire, d’errance, d’incommunicabilité ou de fracture, d’intimité, d’introversion ou d’extraversion, de protection ou de communion, de masque, d’enfermement, de mort, d’oppression ou de liberté… Ces cas d’étude permettent d’observer le silence dans sa polymorphie, l’évolution des ses valeurs, ses dualités ou la stratification de ses formesSilence is at the heart of all the musical, literary, movie weaves. This study is based on its importance. Putting first its inherent complexity into perspective enables us to search for its place and expression in the literary field, and then in the musical field to finally reach the movie field that has always been the driving force behind this research. By studying one of the movies by David Lynch, Wim Wenders, John Huston and Milos Forman in much greater depth, silence is to be explored in its connection with voice, dialogues, music, body, movement, film editing, around issues of memory and oblivion, imagination, wandering, incommunicability, break, privacy, introversion or extraversion, protection or communion , mask, imprisonment, death, oppression or freedom ... These case studies allow us to observe silence in its polymorphism, its changing values, dualities or the stratification of its forms
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Garcia, Gonzalo Ceron. "Forgetting silence." Thesis, University of Kent, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654093.
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Schwartz, Lisa. "Understanding silence." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360922.
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Clucas, Graham. "Painting silence." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1102.
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This research examines the history and theory of silent painting to discover why particular paintings were called silent, what the term was meant to signify, and how the quality of silence was discernible in the paintings it described. The imderstanding thus gauied is in tum the subject of further analysis through (documented) reflective practice, which recognises a broader context of contemporary theoretical and practical viewpoints. The purpose is to investigate, through practice, the characteristics and potentialities of silence. From the emergence of'silent' painting in America during the 1950s and 60s, the idea of silence is examined in terms of its associations with Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. An initial assiunption that 'silent painting' is simply another way of referring to monotonal painting is at first expanded to accommodate theories promoting the grid as an equally effective device for achieving silence, but then challenged. Questions arise concemmg intention and the lack of it, degrees of silence, the nature of silence, the different ways in which silence can be read, the impossibility of silence, the feeling of silence, and the quality of silence aimed at in my own practice. An overall concem of the research is the integration of theory and practice. The thesis presented here provides an historical and theoretical explication, guided and shaped by questions arising from practice. It includes a critique of the work produced. The scientifically demonstrated argument that silence is impossible is countered by one foimded on feeling. It is on the basis of feeling (not expression) that, in the later stages of the research, suitable strategies are devised for painting silence.
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Forth, Stephen. "Advocating Silence." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52638.
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The buildings people inhabit everyday frame their existence and provide a backdrop for life.
This relationship is inextricable and, as such, begs the question as to whether buildings can
function as more than mere containers for life or whether they, at some point or in some
capacity, can begin to bare influence over the life or quality of life of their patrons. This
project is an intention to explore this qualitative, unquantifiable aspect of building.
Through a manipulation of volume and mass, constriction and expansion, solid and void,
light and shadow, and the qualities of interiority and exteriority an occupied space will
begin to impress itself upon the user. The main objective of this project is to use these
architectural properties to create a place that fosters introspection through self awareness.
By choosing presence over practicality and content over convention, the construct
proposed in this thesis attempts to create spaces that are imposing and unfamiliar
yet somehow emotionally reminiscent. Confronted by these contradictions and juxtapositions,
this building will stand as an object, in opposition to the occupant, and through
that opposition inspire and promote a greater awareness of, and possibly a reflection
upon, normally unconscious thought processes.Master of Architecture
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Richey, Paul. "Awkward Silence." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2364.
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My work has a strong formal quality and a deep relation to minimalism without ever buying into it. Through tension and inserting my personal experience into the making of the work, but not always within the meaning of the work, I leave the viewer to draw their own conclusions.
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Brown, Melissa Shani. "Cartographies of silence : mapping concepts of silence and their contexts." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2013. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14470/.
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This study offers a contribution to the discourses surrounding 'silence', arguing that the transformation of the meaning of silence as it shifts between contexts depends upon what it is being defined in opposition to, and that in each case, what is posited in the space marked by silence is of central importance to the discourse surrounding this context. Aware of the interdisciplinary engagements with silence, this thesis presupposes that silence is not 'nothing', and that the question of agency is central to the distinctions between silences. Drawing on a number of theoretical perspectives pertinent to each context, this thesis proceeds by engaging with silence as it is featured in discourses surrounding animals, trauma, secrecy, and listening. These theoretical perspectives are explored also through a number of cultural texts - creative nonfiction, short stories, film, poetry, and also testimony. These case studies are not only illustrative, but also offer further perspectives on each context, and the meaning generated for silence. Unlike most other engagements with silence, this thesis not only takes the definition of silence to be unstable and changeable, but also confronts the question of why 'silence' is used in these discourses, positing that it is its association with space that is being drawn upon across these contexts. This thesis argues that it is because 'silence' comes to be figured as a creator of space, what is at issue in these contexts is what is conceived of as being in this space of silence - Otherness, isolation, individuality, intersubjectivity.
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Butler, Jennifer Anne Elizabeth. "Conversations with Silence." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/17405.
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Conversations with Silence is a collage theatre work of approximately 50 minutes in length. It is scored for mezzo-soprano, flute/piccolo/alto flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, cello, piano, percussion, and electroacoustics. The broad subject of the work is an exploration of female creativity and how gender plays a role in creating art. Although Conversations with Silence is an abstract examination of this topic, my inspiration began with four theoretical readings: Eva Rieger’s article "'I Recycle Sounds': Do Women Compose Differently?", Linda Catlin Smith’s essay “Composing Identity: What is a woman composer?”; Susan McClary’s book Feminine Endings; and Sally Macarthur’s book Feminist Aesthetics. In Conversations with Silence I emphasize many of the qualities of “feminist aesthetics” that were already present in my previous compositions in order to explore these musical ideas even further. The work consists of seventeen movements divided into five separate scenes. Each scene includes two to four movements and is centred around a different dramatic character. There is no linear narrative to connect the scenes and characters. In place of one story, Conversations with Silence offers an amalgamation of stories, characters, and ideas. Each scene has a different thematic focus, which relates to the central ideas of female creativity and feminist aesthetics.
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Cloughley, Glenda, of Western Sydney Hawkesbury University, of Health Humanities and Social Ecology Faculty, and School of Social Ecology. "The resounding silence." THESIS_FHHSE_SEL_Cloughley_G.xml, 1996. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/383.
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A Mother and Son Khilim records some of the images and myths from 22000 BCE to the present which locate the Oedipus myth in a history that makes sense of my emotional and intellectual responses to it. This chapter includes summarises of the story and its forbears which the reader will need to hold in mind through the later chapters of the thesis. A Sampler - Hypotheses, Questions, Themes introduces the main arguments as well as a summary of my conclusions from the inquiry, and some poetry and other writing which is intended to establish an atmosphere for the work. Oedipal Kings: Abandoned Boys and the Patriarchal Pattern provides an analysis of Sophocles' King Oedipus in support of my hypothesis that he is the mythic father of patriachal social structures and, therefore, that his life story might be viewed as a template for the formation of new patriachs. The chapter also includes a study of some contemporary eminent men in which I focus on the way early experiences of abandonment typically affect their adult behaviours. Silent Women presents Queen Jocasta as archetypal disempowered mother/ wife along with four contemporary women. The true self of each of the contemporary women was mute for many years as a result of negative or absent paternal experiences during adolescence. The Social Ecology of Mythic Thebes: A Study of Fate and Destiny in Patriarchal Culture extrapolates Jung's ideas about causality and teleology in individuals to the cultural setting of Oedipus's city state. The chapter concludes by contrasting the continuing disaster in Thebes with Oedipus's achievement of individuation. Resounding the silence is the title of the cycle of songs I wrote. This section includes the lyrics of all the songs.Master of Science (Hons) (Social Ecology)
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Penner, David. "Silence against science." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ57571.pdf.
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Paddock, Jeff. "Informed by silence." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ62412.pdf.
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Belonick, Daniel. "Silence in Ignatius." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p015-0480.
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Peterson, Erica. "Challenge the Silence." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc283840/.
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This collection of personal essays about incest, abuse, and depression explores the lasting effects of an invisible childhood. The essays follow the protagonist from the age of five to her early twenties. Her brother, at a young age, becomes sexually abusive of her and her sisters, and her parents fail to protect their daughters. The family is divided as the older girls strive to defend their little sisters, while their parents attempt to excuse their son. When her brother is finally sent away, the protagonist is left to salvage what remains of her relationships with her parents.
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Van, der Nest Megan. "Silence, like breathing." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015246.
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In this collection of free verse lyric poems I have drawn inspiration from childhood memories, as well as from the natural world and encounters with the people around me. Each poem focuses on a small moment, presenting an emotive portrait of a memory or an experience. These small moments lead, cumulatively, to deeper insights into myself and the world around me. The collection is divided into four seasons, in part because the work is strongly influenced by the natural world, but also because the progression of the seasons mirrors something of the personal journey reflected in the poems.
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Correale, Anna. "L'écriture du silence." Nice, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002NICE2006.
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Cette thèse, L'écriture du silence, est une lecture philosophique de thématiques liées à l'écriture et au rapport que l'écriture entretient avec le silence considéré non pas comme l'indicible sous-entendu des mots ou comme fondement innommable mais comme silence propre aux mots eux-mêmes, dans leur lien indissoluble avec l'immanence de la vie et de son impossibilité à être représentée. Le texte analyse ces arguments en les faisant émerger de l'oeuvre littéraire de deux écrivains femmes contemporains : Marguerite Duras et Ingeborg Bachmann, en délinéant comment l'écriture soit une afirmation de mots corporels, qui interrompt l'écoulement ordinaire du temps par une temporalité verticale qui est l'évènement des mots mêmes. L'analyse est menée avec des instruments théorétiques offerts par la philosophie, en particulier par la pensée de F. Nietzsche, M. Heidegger et L. Wittgenstein et soutenue surtout en référence aux moyens interprétatifs de G. Deleuze, J. Derrida, M. Blanchot.
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Fonteneau, Françoise. "L'éthique du silence." Paris 8, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA080910.
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Cette these interroge le lien entre la logique et l'ethique dans deux domaines : celui de la philosophie avec wittgenstein, celui de la psychanalyse avec freud et lacan, au travers d'une notion, celle du silence. Les deux logiques s'interrogent mutuellement au travers de concepts comme ceux d'identite, de verite, de negation, d'objet non identique a lui-meme, pour eclairer les precautions epistemologiques necessaires a la theorie psychanalytique, a son ecriture. La psychanalyse est confrontee tour a tour a la dialectique platonicienne, a la rhetorique, au mythe, a la mystique, pour degager les rapports que le silence entretient dans sa theorie avec la pulsion, le refoulement, l'inhibition, le symptome. De l'observation des formes du silence dans la cure nous degageons des implications ethiques. De meme, les problematiques de l'ecriture du silence, de sa formalisation et de sa representation servent aussi a la mise en place d'une ethique du silence pour qui veut parler de la logique de l'inconscientThis thesis discusses the link between the logic and ethics in two fields - that of philosophy with wittgenstein, that of psychoanalysis with freud and lacan - through one notion, that of the silence. The two logics seek to discuss by examining concepts such as that of identity, truth, negation, objects unidentical to themselves in order to shed light on the epistemological precautions which are necessary for the psychoanalytical theory and its puttinf in writing. Psychoanalysis is confronted with, in turn, plato's dialectics, rhetorics, myths, mystics, in order to understand the relationship which the silence entertains in its theory with instinct, repression, inhibition and the symtom. From our analysis of the different forms of the silence during therapy we infer ethical implications. In the same way, problems relating to the putting in writing of the silence, its formalisation and its representation serve to establish an ethics of the silence for those who speak of the logics of the unconscious
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Bonar, Jeff. "This Terrible Silence." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3662.
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This Terrible Silence is a collection of nineteen stand-alone stories. The work largely focuses on characters on the fringe of society—alcoholics, gamblers, thieves, liars, cheaters, and loners, who feel trapped or destined to repeat their troubles. In the struggle to break free, either by self-fulfillment or outside interference, these stories showcase the characters’ hearts and wills in the face of often daunting or insurmountable desperation.
The stories in this collection are influenced by the work of Raymond Carver, and the Dirty Realism of Larry Brown, Breece DJ Pancake, Jayne Anne Phillips, and others. With minimal exposition, the characters are laid bare with cutting dialogue and active, scenic description. In the title piece, the narrator intends to tell a man vs. nature story of his encounter with a cougar, but quickly dissolves into a battle with his own slipping mental health in the face of a failing relationship. In the first-person point of view, the act of telling the story holds its own exigency for the narrator’s need to understand his or her motives and desires, as is most evident in Carver’s work, such as “Cathedrals.” In theme and style, I’ve sought to put together a collection that might allow readers to find truth and empathy from common, low, sometimes immoral, but largely human characters.
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Donofrio, Anthony J. "In violent silence." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/951.
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My dissertation, In Violent Silence, takes its title from E.E. Cummings' sonnet "Notice the Convulsed Orange Inch of Moon". The piece musically reflects what I have found to be two unifying strings in the poem: the contrast of large and small, and the union of opposing ideas. To portray these elements, the nucleus of the piece is a pitch set that is harmonically rich and allows me to vacillate between tonal and non-tonal ideas. I also utilize the expansion and contraction of pitch register to reflect the dichotomy of large and small. The result is eighteen minutes of music with a clear and defined structure yet is in a state of constant change.
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Tavakoli, Omid. "A Burning Silence." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1556307287955672.
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Greenhorne, David. "Pictures on silence." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.702175.
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The portfolio contains a series of works which explore in different ways the intersection of music and spirituality. The research which underpins this exploration firstly identified points of convergence and then sought ways of reflecting these into the "nuts and bolts" of the musical language itself - its harmony, form, temporality, relation to tradition and use of subject matter. Part I - Orientations, discusses the research generally, drawing on musical examples from the body of the portfolio to illustrate the main points as appropriate. Part II - Commentaries, provides a detailed analysis of each of the works in the ,order of their completion thus highlighting the evolution of ideas and their embodiment. Part III concludes the commentary with a frank evaluation of the project overall.
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Harrison, Jeff. "When Girls Can Be Girls." College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622104.
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Aiken, Suzan E. "Silence as a Rhetor's Tool: Rhetorical Choices for and uses of Silence." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1320804764.
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Richard, Tanya. "An architecture of silence." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21645.
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Chbib, Bachar. "The politics of silence /." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79831.
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Silence has traditionally been analysed in linguistic terms as those moments of non-speech/non-sound interspersed between words and sounds. I will attempt to take this academic reasoning further to deconstruct established notions of silence and incorporate contemporary methods of investigation to arrive at a more viable and dynamic observation of the event. Silence goes beyond this simple dualistic and binary contrast and I believe may reveal itself as negotiator of language, wherein the impossibility of an absolute truth is translated into the imminent. This thesis will be an attempt at a discourse that redefines silence's fleeting site as an impending source for the political as such.
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Little, Andrew. "Before whispers become silence." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0016/MQ48397.pdf.
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Church, Farrell Mary Joanne. "The rhetoric of silence." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0021/NQ55328.pdf.
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Maggel, Avgi-Anna. "Silence in Sophocles' tragedies." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267075.
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Charpentier, Geneviève. "Le silence au théâtre /." [S.l. : s.n], 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41027592k.
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Little, Andrew Clyde Carleton University Dissertation English. ""Before whispers become silence."." Ottawa, 1999.
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Hammer, Justin R. "To End in Silence." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1681.
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This thesis supports the Master of Fine Arts exhibition, To End In Silence, at the Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, March 15-19, 2010. The exhibit consists of fourteen pieces, which are either presented on pedestals or mounted on the wall.
To comment on the title of my thesis, it is a description of the state of calm that I strive to embrace during the creation of my work and the unobtrusive yet engaging tone that I hope for each finished composition to project. This paper explores the aesthetic and conceptual transitions in my work, inspired by a period of personal realization and acceptance. Influences discussed include a number of connections to historical practices including Buddhism, Numerology, and Traditional Japanese Aesthetics, as well as the works of contemporary artists, Agnes Martin, Lee Bontecou, and Manfred Muller.
Also included is a complete catalogue of works from To End In Silence.
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Maitra, Ishani 1974. "Silence, speech, and responsibility." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8150.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2002.Includes bibliographical references.
Pornography deserves special protections, it is often said, because it qualifies as speech; therefore, no matter what we think of it, we must afford it the protections that we extend to most speech, but don't extend to other actions. In response, it has been argued that the case is not so simple: one of the harms of pornography, it is claimed, is that it silences women's speech, thereby preventing women from deriving from speech the very benefits that warrant the special protections in the first place. This dissertation offers a way of making sense of the view that pornography silences women. In Chapter 1, I develop an account of silencing which, unlike other accounts of the same phenomenon, helps make clear why a speaker who is silenced is thereby deprived of the benefits that led us to place a special value on speech. In Chapter 2, I respond to an objection that purports to show that, even if women are silenced, pornography cannot be responsible: in fact, according to this objection, the responsibility for any instance of silencing cannot lie with any party other than the speaker and the audience involved. I show that this objection relies on an overly simplistic picture of what audiences can reasonably be required to do in a speech situation; I also offer an alternate picture, which leaves open the possibility that a speaker may be silenced in a context in which both she and her audience behave competently.
(cont.) In Chapter 3, I consider a view about the way in which pornography contributes to the silencing - and more generally, to the subordination - of women. I argue that this view fails because it is too individualistic: it ignores how the social and political context in which the pornography is consumed helps determine whether it subordinates. I then make some suggestions about what a more satisfactory view would be. Though pornography is the principal case study throughout this dissertation, much of what I say generalizes to other forms of representation that set limits on what speakers are able to convey. The main aim of my discussion is to contribute to the philosophical and feminist understanding of communication, by showing how an individual's social role can constrain her possibilities as a speaker.
by Ishani Maitra.
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Sanders, Ralph Jarrett. "Space, time, and silence." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/56200.
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This thesis is a meditation upon silence, upon its ontological relationship to architecture. As such, it relies more upon insight and contemplation than analysis. It seeks to explore this realm through the making of a trappist monastery, to ask fundamental questions about the nature of human dwelling in the most complete sense, to stir the memory and perhaps to move the heart toward that silence which is beyond thought, which precedes and bounds and yet pervades all human experience.Master of Architecture
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Chartrand, Geneviève. "Dans mon silence vertical." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/29463.
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Ce mémoire se veut principalement une réflexion sur ma pratique en arts visuels. Je tente de présenter les différents concepts qui alimentent mes recherches, ainsi que la manière dont je travaille pour concevoir mes œuvres. J'évoque les notions de fragment et de récit dans l'image peinte et vidéographique. Il est question ici d'un compte rendu subjectif de ma démarche artistique ainsi que du processus de création auquel je participe. Je pose donc un regard analytique sur mon travail ainsi que sur mes inspirations, puisées à même mon expérience personnelle et intime par rapport au quotidien et au banal.
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Adams, Gator. "Is Silence The Answer?" Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1606.
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This study examines the relationship between company management guidance, and ex-ante crash risk over the duration of 2008(Jan 2006-Dec 2009) financial crisis using the implied volatility skew, which is based upon ex-ante volatility implied by the pricing model developed by Black-Scholes (1973). The study finds that over the duration of this crisis period, management guidance decreases with a rise in ex-ante crash risk. Further, the study provides evidence on the relationship of management guidance and earnings volatility, and how that is affected by a firm's industry product concentration based on the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) score.
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Tai, Chin Tong. "Silence in the classroom." HKBU Institutional Repository, 1999. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/392.
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Marchand, Guy. "L'envers : suivi de La part du silence (essai sur le silence en poésie) /." Thèse, Trois-Rivières : Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 1997. http://www.uqtr.ca/biblio/notice/resume/03-2183821R.html.
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Marchand, Guy. "L'envers : suivi de La part du silence (essai sur le silence en poésie)." Thèse, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 1997. http://depot-e.uqtr.ca/5037/1/000645686.pdf.
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Kubik, Elizabeth Knapp. "Social Information-Processing in Adolescent Girls: A Comparison of Sex Offending Girls, Delinquent Girls, and Girls From the Community." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2002. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/KubikEK2002.pdf.
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Bruns, María Alves de Toledo. "Sexual education and visual deficicency: The speech of silence by the silence of speech." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/101832.
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The objective of this study is to analyze and understand the sexual orientation given by mothers to sons and daughters with visual deficiencies. From a phenomenological perspective the narratives of twenty mothers of visual defficients are analyzed. The convergences of these conversations make clear that disinformation about sexuality in general impedes dialogues between mothers and offspring. Evidence was obtained showing that sexual repression stems from stigmas and preconcepts about sexual education of persons with visual defficiencies.El objetivo de este estudio fue conocer y comprender la orientación sexual proveniente de madres de hijos portadores de deficiencia visual. Bajo la perspectiva fenomenológica, se analizan veinte discursos de madres de deficientes visuales. El recorrido por todos los discursos permite conocer que la desinformación sobre la sexualidad en general, impide el diálogo entre madre e hijo(a). Tales recorridos evidencian igualmente, que la represión sexual fundamenta los estigmas y los preconceptos en la educación sexual de los deficientes visuales.
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Aakre, Bjørn Magne. "Ainu A culture of silence?" 名古屋大学大学院教育発達科学研究科 技術・職業教育学研究室, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/12377.
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McMorrow, Joseph Patrick. "A description of deep silence." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ30192.pdf.
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