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Johnson, Lakesia Denise. "The Iconography of the Black Female Revolutionary and New Narratives of Justice." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1213127495.

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Pacheco, Tâmara. "Desconstruindo estereótipos: narrativas da mulher negra no batuque de umbigada paulista." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/100/100134/tde-11122017-155233/.

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Os batuques manifestam-se em cidades brasileiras como práticas de terreiro. Sob a guarda de mulheres negras e homens negros mais velhos, o tambu (tambor) é o meio de comunicação entre os vivos e os mortos, seguindo os fundamentos africanos banto, na região que ficou conhecida como Oeste Paulista. Neste estudo, tratamos como a mulher negra no batuque de umbigada paulista relaciona sua experiência de vida à cultura negra. Em tempos midiáticos da sociedade de consumo, partimos da visão folclórica acerca da batuqueira para refletir de que forma em seu repertório pessoal ela desconstrói essas e out

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Silva, Bianca Dantas Alves Gomes da Silva. "Existir e resistir - mulheres negras no graffiti : a produção cultural de Negahamburguer e Nenesurreal /." Araraquara, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/183248.

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Orientador: Dagoberto José Fonseca<br>Banca: Claudete Camargo Pereira Basaglia<br>Banca: Valquíria Pereira Tonório<br>Resumo: Essa dissertação tem como objetivo compreender de que modo as mulheres negras atuam no mundo do graffiti e quais as possíveis transformações presentes nesse campo majoritariamente ocupado por representações masculinizadas. Buscamos verificar como as relações de gênero se apresentam na prática de graffiti, sob a perspectiva das categorias de raça/etnia, a fim de compreender o lugar das mulheres negras nesse universo. Para tanto, nos atemos à produção cultural de duas gra

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

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Hahlin, Sanna. ""This is my father and he's a woman" : En undersökning av framställningar av transpersoner i tv-serierna Orange Is the New Black och Transparent." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-134684.

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The purpose of this essay is to examine how transgender people are represented in modern day popular fiction. To do this, I have analyzed two tv-programmes, Orange Is the New Black and Transparent. To do this, I have used thematic analysis as well as analyzed the images produced within the programs. The theories that I base my analysis on is largely based on the theories of representation as coined by Stuart Hall as well as queer theory and Judith Butler’s take on gender. I find that they share many common themes such as the process of “coming out” and a clear focus on what transgender peoples

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Howell, Danielle Marie. "Cloning the Ideal? Unpacking the Conflicting Ideologies and Cultural Anxieties in "Orphan Black"." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1460059315.

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Harris, John Rogers. "The performance of black masculinity in contemporary black drama." Columbus, OH : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1054742668.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.<br>Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 233 p. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Stratos E. Constantinidis, Dept. of Theatre. Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-233).

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Kajikawa, Loren Yukio. "Centering the margins black music and American culture, 1980-2000 /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1930277371&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Robinson, Penelope A. "A postfeminist generation : young women, feminism and popular culture." Thesis, View thesis, 2008. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/37397.

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The under-theorisation of the concept of generation within feminism has led to negative and unproductive disputes. In the heated generational exchanges of the 1990s, feminists were cast according to age into opposing sides: old or young, mothers or daughters, second wave or third wave. These categories are limiting and the conflict harmful for feminist politics. In order to avoid these pitfalls, a theoretical framework is developed that draws on the work of Karl Mannheim and post feminist cultural analyses to elucidate the significance of popular culture in marking a generation. This framework

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Robinson, Penelope A. "A postfeminist generation young women, feminism and popular culture /." View thesis, 2008. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/37397.

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Thesis (Ph.D) -- University of Western Sydney, 2008.<br>A thesis submitted to the University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, School of Social Sciences, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Includes bibliographical references.

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Maddison, Stephen. "Queer sisters : gay male culture, women and gender dissent." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362271.

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Gay male culture is suffused with indications of the importance of women and bonds with women. Indeed the Stonewall riots, mythologised moment of the birth of modern gay politics, are often said to have been catalysed by gay male grief at the death of Judy Garland. Why should a culture apparently founded on same-sex desire be so preoccupied with relationships across gender difference? The thesis attempts to map the shape and effects of bonds with women by using a materialist analytical framework in relation to texts and their critical retinue. The first chapter looks at A Streetcar Named Desir

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Tully, Meg. "Trainwreck feminism: women, comedy and postfeminist culture." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6315.

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This dissertation develops the theoretical framework of “trainwreck feminism.” Forwarded by contemporary women in comedy like Mindy Kaling, Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, and Amy Schumer, trainwreck feminists adopt the trope of the trainwreck—excessive in need, sex, and madness—to demonstrate the disastrous consequences of growing up in postfeminist culture that both insists women are finally liberated and continues to police their choices. Engaging ongoing debates about whether postfeminism is over since feminism is becoming a status symbol for celebrities and public figures, I argue that postf

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Jones, Allison. "Saints and sirens : how popular culture creates female icons /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20151044.

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Allen, L. V. "Representation, gender and women in Black South African popular music, 1948-1960." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.595465.

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The emergence of the commercial mass media catering for urban black South African audiences during the 1950s provided opportunities for the negotiation of new professional spaces for women musicians; they became ambiguous icons of urban black aspirant identity, and sites for the contestation of emergent gender relations. From the black Christian, educated elite, which controlled urban, non-traditional moral values and definitions of cultural worth until the late 1940s, they inherited a dichotomous model of respectability versus deviance. However, parallel shifts in power from the elite to the

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Ellis, Aimé Jero. "The "bad nigger" in contemporary Black popular culture : 1940 to the present /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Weekes-Barnard, Debbie. "Understanding young black female subjectivity : theorising the interrelations of #race' and gender." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387522.

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Tolley, Rebecca. "Review of Alcohol in Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia, ed. by Rachel Black." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5639.

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Mangham, Andrew. "Violent women and sensation fiction : crime, medicine and Victorian popular culture /." Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41142635d.

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David, Stephen Morris. "Popular culture in South Africa : the limits of black identity in "Drum" magazine." Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?res_dat=xri:ssbe&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_dat=xri:ssbe:ft:keyresource:Hay_Diss_03.

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Ng, Bo-sze. "Slimming culture in Hong Kong a sociological study /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31478694.

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Hershkowitz, Robin Hershkowitz. "Popular Memoirs of Women Held Captive." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1530381667241048.

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Claiborne, Corrie Beatrice. "Quiet brown Buddha(s) : Black women intellectuals, silence and American culture /." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488199501403452.

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Porterfield, Laura Krstal. "Hidden in plain sight: Young Black women, place, and visual culture." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/238388.

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Urban Education<br>Ph.D.<br>Hidden curriculum scholars have long since recognized the function of the visual in shaping the educational experiences of youth. Scholars have noted that the hidden curriculum of schooling has functioned as a primary socialization mechanism to reproduce capitalism, the state, gender, racial, and class-based inequalities. Today, urban high school spaces present both invisible and visible curricula that are shaped not only by the many images that comprise a school's visual culture, but also by the wider visual landscape. This is of particular import for working-class

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Sullivan, Rebecca. "Revolution in the convent : women religious and American popular culture, 1950-1971." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0020/NQ55383.pdf.

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Franklin, Serena. "Ill beats : black women rap artists and the representations of women in hip hop culture." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2004. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/336.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Sciences<br>Anthropology

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McGee, Adam Michael. "Imagined Voodoo: Terror, Sex, and Racism in American Popular Culture." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11350.

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I analyze the historical and cultural processes by which American racism is reproduced, approaching the issue through the lens of "imagined voodoo" (as distinct from Haitian Vodou). I posit that the American Marine occupation of Haiti (1915-34) was crucial in shaping the American racial imaginary. In film, television, and literature, imagined voodoo continues to serve as an outlet for white racist anxieties. Because it is usually found in low-brow entertainment (like horror) and rarely mentions race explicitly, voodoo is able to evade critique, disseminating racism within a culture that is

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Murphy, Kylie. "Bitch: the politics of angry women." Thesis, Murphy, Kylie (2002) Bitch: the politics of angry women. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2002. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/217/.

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'Bitch: the Politics of Angry Women' investigates the scholarly challenges and strengths in re theorising popular culture and feminism. It traces the connections and schisms between academic feminism and the feminism that punctuates popular culture. By tracing a series of specific bitch trajectories, this thesis accesses an archaeology of women?s battle to gain power. Feminism is a large and brawling paradigm that struggles to incorporate a diversity of feminist voices. This thesis joins the fight. It argues that feminism is partly constituted through popular cultural representations. The s

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Murphy, Kylie. "Bitch : the politics of angry women /." Murphy, Kylie (2002) Bitch: the politics of angry women. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2002. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/217/.

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'Bitch: the Politics of Angry Women' investigates the scholarly challenges and strengths in re theorising popular culture and feminism. It traces the connections and schisms between academic feminism and the feminism that punctuates popular culture. By tracing a series of specific bitch trajectories, this thesis accesses an archaeology of women?s battle to gain power. Feminism is a large and brawling paradigm that struggles to incorporate a diversity of feminist voices. This thesis joins the fight. It argues that feminism is partly constituted through popular cultural representations. The s

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Choyke, Kelly L. "The Power of Popular Romance Culture: Community, Fandom, and Sexual Politics." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1573739424523163.

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Cocarla, Sasha. "Straddling (In)Visibility: Representations of Bisexual Women in Twenty-First Century Popular Culture." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34608.

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Throughout the first decade of the 2000s, LGBTQ+ visibility has steadily increased in North American popular culture, allowing for not only more LGBTQ+ characters/figures to surface, but also establishing more diverse and nuanced representations and storylines. Bisexuality, while being part of the increasingly popular phrase of inclusivity (LGBTQ+), however, is one sexuality that not only continues to be overlooked within popular culture but that also continues to be represented in limited ways. In this doctoral thesis I examine how bisexual women are represented within mainstream popular cu

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Smith, Ashley Lorrain. "Girl Power: Feminism, Girlculture and the Popular Media." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2200/.

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This project is an interrogation of three examples from recent popular culture of girlculture, specifically texts that target young female consumers: the Spice Girls, Scream and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. These examples are fundamentally different than texts from earlier female targeted generic models because they not only reflect the influence of the feminist movement, they work on feminism's behalf. The project's methodology grows out of feminist film theories and cultural studies theories. One chapter is dedicated to each text, and each reading works to reappropriate girlculture texts for a

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Ward, Jonathan D. T. ""What is it?" : containing the threat of the black male body in American popular culture." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2016. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/60782/.

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This thesis takes a critical look at the representation of the black male body in American popular culture throughout the twentieth century, intending to examine the meanings ascribed to this body and analyze the ways that these meanings are communicated to the consumers of these cultural productions. The focus will be on visual examples of popular cultural productions, with the intention of examining representations of the black male body in film, photography, and television, and the viewer. In looking at these cultural texts, the thesis will seek to examine the relationship between visual te

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West, Edmund. "Ebony Magazine, Lerone Bennett, Jr., and the making and selling of modern black history, 1958-1987." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/ebony-magazine-lerone-bennett-jr-and-the-making-and-selling-of-modern-black-history-19581987(398d9db5-507b-44d3-8952-216fd8e03b10).html.

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This thesis is concerned with the ways in which Ebony magazine sought to recover, popularise and utilise black history between the late 1950s and the late 1980s. The dominant scholarly approach to Ebony has focused on the magazine's bourgeois values and visual aesthetics, and has ignored its importance as a creator and disseminator of black history. By contrast, I highlight the multiple ways in which black history became central to Ebony's content from the late 1950s onwards. Far from viewing Ebony as peripheral to or simply reflective of popular debates into the black past, I place the magazi

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Piper, Gemmicka F. "Black intimacy in the popular imagination: re-examining African American women’s fiction from 1965-2000." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6622.

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Contemporary African American fiction repeatedly explores intimacy. These explorations have been most sustained in black women’s writing. Although female authors share an interest in romantic interactions, their portrayals reveal wide-ranging attitudes about this theme. Some accounts depict intimacy as a barrier to female advancement. In other texts, feminine success hinges on maintaining a committed relationship. These distinct outlooks not only reflect competing gender discourses within late 20th, early 21st century America but also significant developments in black women’s literature. In th

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McKenna, Libby. "Audience interpretations of the representation of women in music videos by women artists." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001670.

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Feral, Anne-Lise Louise Josiane. "Genre and gender in translation : the poetological and ideological rewriting of heroine-centred and women-oriented fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/4105.

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This thesis examines the impact of poetics and ideology on the French translations of eight contemporary heroine-centred and women-oriented fictional texts (including Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary). Using a systemic and descriptive framework (Toury 1995) as well as works on manipulation in translation (Lefevere 1992)(Venuti 1998), I explore the various ways in which these generically hybrid and ideologically complex texts have been rewritten according to the dominant poetics and ideology of the French roman sentimental. Interviews undertaken with editors and translators identify the p

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Boyd, Elizabeth Bronwyn. "Southern beauty : performing femininity in an American region /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Williams, Jeanne Pauline. "The Evolution of Social Norms and the Life of Lois Lane: A Rhetorical Analysis of Popular Culture." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1225217886.

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Dinerstein, Joel Norman. "Swinging the machine : White technology and Black culture between the World Wars /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Flournoy, Ellen L. "Powerful submission : popular texts and the subjectivity of Christian right women." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001796.

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Amemate, Amelia AmeDela. "Black Bodies, White Masks?: Straight Hair Culture and Natural Hair Politics Among Ghanaian Women." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu157797167417396.

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Davis, Lisa A. "Feminism and The Women of Stars Hollow: The Gilmore Girls." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1276797081.

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Boone, William. "The Beautiful Struggle: an Analysis of Hip Hop Icons, Archetypes, and Aesthetics." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2008. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/21145.

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African American Studies<br>Ph.D.<br>Hip hop reached its thirty-fifth year of existence in 2008. Hip hop has indeed evolved into a global phenomenon. This dissertation is grounded in Afro-modern, Afrocentric and African-centered theory and utilizes textual and content analysis. This dissertation offers a panoramic view of pre-hip hop era and hip hop era icons, iconology, archetypes and aesthetics and teases out their influence on hip hop aesthetics. I identify specific figures, movements and events within the context of African American and American folk and popular culture traditions and link

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Goodman, Jennifer Robyn Potter. "Mirroring mediated images of women how media images of thin women influence eating disorder-related behaviors and how women negotiate these images /." Digital version:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p9992802.

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Green, Joshua Lumpkin. "Digital Blackface: The Repackaging of the Black Masculine Image." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1154371043.

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Pindi, Nziba Gloria. "Performing Black Feminisms in Diasporic Contexts: Sub-Saharan Women Negotiating Identity across Cultures." OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1101.

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In this study, I argue that theorizing about the lived experiences of Black diasporic subjects, specifically, Sub-Saharan African women living in the U.S., must simultaneously take into account cultural parameters of their home country and host culture. I use the term “Black feminisms” as an umbrella term to advocate for an interdisciplinary approach to Black feminist thought and African feminism as tools for analyzing the lived experiences of Sub-Saharan women in diaspora. Specifically, this dissertation investigates how Sub-Saharan women living in the U.S. define, understand and orient to fe

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Kilbourne, Kylee. "With Great Power: Examining the Representation and Empowerment of Women in DC and Marvel Comics." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/433.

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Throughout history, comic books and the media they inspire have reflected modern society as it changes and grows. But women’s roles in comics have often been diminished as they become victims, damsels in distress, and sidekicks. This thesis explores the problems that female characters often face in comic books, but it also shows the positive representation that new creators have introduced over the years. This project is a genealogy, in which the development of the empowered superwoman is traced in modern age comic books. This discussion includes the characters of Kamala Khan, Harley Quinn, Gw

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Georgelas, Althea. "Media to Medium: Representations of Violence, War & Women in Pop Culture." VCU Scholars Compass, 2009. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1822.

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My work is inspired by the mass Media and how it affects the world around me. I am interested in how violence, war and women are represented in popular culture and how this has trickled down into social behavior. I also wonder how much entertainment media reflects deep social ideals. I define mass media as the viral proliferation of ideas using television, cinema, video gaming and the Internet. I am concerned about the social and psychological affects of violent media and how it impacts the lives of women and girls. This is of particular interest to me because I am a woman who has grown up in

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Hansen, Gitte Marianne. "Navigating contradiction : female characters, normative femininity and self-directed violence in contemporary Japanese narrative and visual culture." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.707971.

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Hopkins, Susan. "Pop heroines and female icons : youthful femininity and popular culture." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999.

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The thesis suggests much feminist theorising on girls' and young women's relationship to popular culture is limited by a 'moral-political' approach which searches for moral and political problems and solutions in the consumption of popular images of femininity. The thesis offers a critique of such 'moral-political' interpretations of the relationship between youthful femininity and popular culture. Following thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean Baudrillard, the thesis opposes the political preoccupation with 'reality' and 'truth'. The study follows Nietzsche's and Baudrillard's noti

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