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Leadbetter, Katharine. "The achievement of female presence on film." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c9239c60-f0a8-41fc-9250-ddea73f9c9c6.
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This thesis examines the different ways films have explored female presence as a narrative and stylistic concern. The role of female presence in the creation of film meaning has often been reductively minimised or altogether neglected within many theoretical approaches to cinema. Depictions of female characters—especially those found in Hollywood films—have been viewed by feminist critics only in terms of the manifestation of sexist ideological principles, whilst more recently, 'affective' film theorists have reduced the role of presence to a simple question of fluctuating physical intensity. This thesis contests these limiting and monolithic understandings of the function of female presence by demonstrating how films have produced complex and diverse meanings through their portrayals of women characters. Closely analysing films by six directors from various styles of cinema, including examples from Classic Hollywood film and more experimental or avant-garde works, the thesis contends that films can raise the question of the condition of a female character's presence as a vital component of meaning. It illuminates how the subject of female presence is advanced, moment-to-moment, as a crucial element in the achievement of these films' intricately wrought dramas. The thesis therefore shows that female film presence is neither simply a symptom of ideology, nor a vehicle for varying degrees of affective intensity. Rather, it is something which is actively at stake in the drama and the design of films.
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Hatherley, Frances. "Sublime dissension : a working-class 'Anti-Pygmalion' aesthetics of the female grotesque." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2017. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/23204/.
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This thesis reclaims and refigures negative stereotypical images of working-class femininity, proposing an “Anti-Pygmalion” aesthetics (referencing Shaw’s Pygmalion)in which pressure to conform to bourgeois notions of respectability is refused in favour of holding onto aspects of working-class female identity which have been treated as faulty and shameful. It examines a previously under-theorised dimension of the “female grotesque”: its formation under a process of classed construction. Contesting the disavowal of class identity in much art writing, I explore how it shapes art reception, showing how images of the Anti-Pygmalion female grotesque can provoke sublime experiences in viewers who share an empathetic connection with the work’s presentation of class difference. Against Enlightenment aesthetic theories which associate the sublime with the lofty, this thesis conceptualises it from the perspective of working-class women, connecting it with an excitement and awe that comes from below and bursts up and out. My approach is auto-ethnographic, drawing on my experiences as a woman from a working-class background to deepen my readings and address gaps in the field. To counter the erasure of working-class artists, I focus on work by working-class British artists and filmmakers from the 1980s –2000s. Exploring the problematic experiences of working-class artists and writers in the institutional spaces of education and the art world, I highlight the resulting internalisation of stigmatised subjectivities. This frames my analysis of three case studies, each addressing aspects of working-class femininity: Jo Spence’s Class-Shame series, the photographs collected in Richard Billingham’s Ray’s a Laugh, and Carol Morley’s film The Alcohol Years. My analysis builds up a dialogue around Anti-Pygmalion aesthetics which forces a reconsideration of the categories of the sublime and the grotesque in the light of working-class identities and creativities, dispelling stereotypes which have hampered existing criticism, and reframing working-class stories and lives as significant and valuable.
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French, Lisa, and lisa french@rmit edu au. "Centring the female: the articulation of female experience in the films of Jane Campion." RMIT University. Applied Communication, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080417.165002.
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This thesis is a study of female authorship that examines the feature films of Jane Campion in order to determine how her preoccupation with the cinematic articulation of 'female experience' is expressed in her films-whether female experience can be aestheticised, and to discover whether her gender can be discerned through the films of a woman director. The exploration of these ideas entails a review of the feminist thinking, methodologies and epistemologies that are relevant to cinema, and that examine relevant theoretical positions within feminism and theories of cinematic authorship. The key lens employed here for theorising Campion's cinema is that of postmodern-feminism. As an approach, this allows an understanding of difference rather than 'Otherness', and an enquiry into gender that is neither essentialist nor constructionist, but facilitates critical thinking about both positions. The central argument of this thesis is that Campion's film practice functions as an investigation into gender difference, how women and men live together in the world-experience that world, and are engendered as female through historic, psychological and cultural experiences. This thesis therefore argues that Campion's aesthetic and perspective is not only feminist, but also, female, and feminine, and her work a cinematic articulation of female experience.
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Lau, Man-chu Sunny, and 劉敏珠. "Postmodernism and semiotics: the tyranny of images of beauty on the female body and postmodern feminist resistance." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31950644.
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Lau, Man-chu Sunny. "Postmodernism and semiotics : the tyranny of images of beauty on the female body and postmodern feminist resistance /." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13787305.
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Schippers, Kristi Marie Klawitter. "Black and white college men's preferred body types for black and white female figures." Open access to IUP's electronic theses and dissertations, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2069/172.
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Latimer-Kern, Kelsey M. Watkins C. Edward. "Moderators of the sociocultural internalization-body dissatisfaction relationship among female undergraduates." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12147.
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Jestratijevic, Iva. "The Body to Die for: Appearance Aesthetics, Body Measurements, and BMI Analysis of Female and Male Runway Models (2012-2018)." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1556626561892404.
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Lynch, Megan S. "An exploration of the relationship between personal ideal(s) of female beauty, self perception(s) of female beauty, and self esteem in women a project based upon an independent investigation /." Click here for text online. Smith College School for Social Work website, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/995.
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Thesis (M.S.W.)--Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Mass., 2007Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Social Work. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-67).
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Gontovnik, Monica. "Another Way of Being: The Performative Practices of Contemporary Female ColombianArtists." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1420473106.
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Latimer-Kern, Kelsey M. "Moderators of the sociocultural internalization-body dissatisfaction relationship among female undergraduates." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12147/.
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The sociocultural model of eating pathology is an empirically-supported model explaining eating disorder etiology. The model poses that body dissatisfaction and subsequent eating pathology stems from the unrealistic standards formulated by Westernized society. Although the model has strong empirical support, variables within the model do not account for 100% of the variance in disordered eating. Thus, the current researcher attempted to explore potential moderating factors in the sociocultural model of eating disorders that may help to explain variance currently unaccounted for. In particular, the researcher focused on the relationship between sociocultural internalization and body dissatisfaction, given that this relationship has not been previously explored within the literature. Based on theoretical support, the researcher chose several potential variables to test, including perfectionism, neuroticism, body surveillance, and shame. Primary analyses tested each variable for moderating effects using hierarchical moderated regression, but no significant findings were shown. Results of post hoc analyses showed all variables had significant mediating effects, with the exception of self-oriented perfectionism. The discussion section addresses consistency with previous research, limitations of the present study, treatment implications and guidelines for future research.
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Aske, Katherine. "'It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty' : understanding female beauty in the eighteenth century." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/17624.
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This thesis addresses how female beauty was understood in the eighteenth century and aims to build on and expand the existing scholarship from Robert Jones, Tita Chico, Tassie Gwilliam, G. J. Barker-Benfield and Naomi Baker, amongst others. Each of these scholars has discussed various areas of beauty, including taste, cosmetics, sensibility, gender and, for Baker, the opposite to beauty, ugliness. Building on these areas of study, this thesis will address the concept of beauty in both its physical and moral sense. That is, the connection of the beautiful body with the ideas or associations it has come to signify. For example, the beautiful female body usually informs readings of virtue, morality, goodness, but, in some cases, beauty can be read as wantonness, immorality and foolishness. In order to navigate these contradictory associations, the thesis has been split into category chapters and divided into two parts. The first part will examine beauty's physiognomic origins, its role in aesthetic philosophy, and its artistic expression. In the second part, with a more literary focus, the concept of beauty will be discussed in connection to its moral associations, the effects of cosmetics and health, and how concerns for reading the body are considered in the mid-century's moral novels. The evidence for the thesis will include various types of literature, including scientific and artistic treatises, fairytales, letters, advertisements, recipe books, cosmetic manuals, poetry and prose fiction. Although the scope of this thesis is wide reaching, the relationship between the body and mind, that is, the legibility of the inner qualities on the external signs of the body, remains very much at its centre. These numerous and varying examples have been chosen to demonstrate how influential this connection really was in the period, and how it informs the understanding of female beauty in the eighteenth-century.
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Lehr, Margit. "Der schöne Körper: afrikanische Weiblichkeitskonzepte." Universität Leipzig, 2011. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A33576.
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This volume examines the relationship between female beauty ideals and concepts of femininity in different ethnic groups. Understanding the body as a carrier of social and cultural signs, it attempts to connect the direct and indirect implications of specific techniques of body modification with the social roles of women within their respective ethnic groups.
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White, Theresa Renee. "Media as pedagogy and socializing agent influences of feminine beauty aesthetics in American teen-oriented films and magazines on African American adolescent female self image /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1610103761&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Bornlöf, Julia. "Bloody Penny Picture Pose : A comparative study on the representation of sexuality and violence within the aesthetics of Victorian Gothic horror." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Modevetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-175535.
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There is an ongoing fascination with the Victorian era as well as the genre of horror, and the characters originating from the first 18th century Gothic tales still appear in our Western popular culture today. The Victorian Gothic novels contain elements of romanticism and violence which often results in strong undertones of heated sexuality. I argue that it is one of the reasons for the genre’s wide popularity. This thesis examines the representation of femininity and female sexuality within a Victorian horror context by a comparative analyse of illustrations from British 19th century Penny Blood publications with contemporary fashion photographs. The images are analysed by applying Erwin Panofsky’s method of Iconography and with the theoretical framework of feminist visual culture, and historical theories on sexuality, biology and violence. The thesis shows how Gothic visualisations are interpreted and appropriated photographically today, where the latter is darker and more exaggerated than the former. Symbols of sexuality, female agency, dominance and submission are equally found in the Victorian and the contemporary material. However, the Victorian aesthetic has become a platform where a nude, sexual female body in a S&M situation can offer a spectrum of meanings and even symbols of feminism. It is a visual culture where women can fight back, taking revenge on their oppressor and looking fierce when doing so.
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Henderson, Abney Louis. "Four Women: An Analysis of the Artistry of Black Women in the Black Arts Movement, 1960s-1980s." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5236.
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This project honors and recognizes the art and activism of four Black woman--Nina Simone, Nikki Giovanni, Elizabeth Catlett, and Ntozake Shange that contributed to the revolutionary movements of the 1960s through the early 1980s. This thesis examines the works and political challenges of Black women by asking what elements in their artistry/activism addressed issues specifically related to Black women's unique position in America during the Black Revolution and feminist movements? Both primary and secondary sources such as literature from advocates of the Black Arts Movements and the lyrics, poetry, and visual art of the four Black women artists were used to gain perspectives to answer the thesis major questions. The creative visions and activism of these Black women expressed the dire need for the issues of Black women to be heard and also to address all forms of oppression that Black women experience with race, gender, social or economic status, and even cultural identity. The works of these Black women were radical and were also cultural reflections of Black women embracing their idiosyncratic position as Black women despite the climate of perpetual deceptions used either by White Western ideologies or Black male chauvinism. This thesis concluded that when the concerns of Black women are attended to by their own strengths of character and merits, they are also able in return to contribute to their own self-empowerment as well as to the development of racial, gender, and community uplift.
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Bastos, Marta Maria. "A mulher (trans) formada na ficção de Fernanda Young." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2014. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/3204.
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This research is grounded in the persperctive of the body, the eroticism and female identity are elements visibly associated with literature. Specifically, in Western context, the female image has always been associated with beauty, grace, youth of a perfect and sexy body which does not allow defects or variations. In contemporary times the body cult especially, the female has become a fashion requirement that guided by midia ordains a pattern of body aesthetics based on thinness for women to follow in order to attend a consumer market each increasingly demanding. It is considered that the individual is materialized by the body and his identity that is formed from habits, customs, tradition, value and belief of a people, a society in relation to itself. From the experience and individual contact with these values it happens his identity formation. We propose to realize a body study, eroticism and identity into A sombra das asas (1997) by contemporary writer Fernanda Young from Rio de Janeiro, because it contains favorable elements to this discussion. In this novel, the protagonist does not mold within the aesthetic standards dictated by current fashion, that leads her to resort to plastic surgery innovations to transform her body to the required model by contemporary standards in order to perform a vengeance causing herself an identity crisis. To do so, we search on David Le Breton (2003); Denise Bernuzzi de Sant‟Anna (2001); Gilles Lipovestsky (2004); Stuart Hall (2004); Georges Vigarello (2006) e Joana Vilhena de Novaes (2013). These ones and other authors were also researched to discussion.
A presente pesquisa está assentada na perspectiva de que o corpo, o erotismo e a identidade feminina são elementos visivelmente associados à literatura. Especificamente, em contexto ocidental, a imagem feminina sempre esteve associada à beleza, à graça, à juventude de um corpo perfeito e sensual, para o qual não se permite defeitos ou variações. Na contemporaneidade, o culto do corpo, em especial, o feminino, tornou-se uma exigência da moda que, guiada pela mídia, dita um padrão de estética corporal fundamentado na magreza para as mulheres seguirem, no sentido de atenderem a um mercado consumidor cada vez mais exigente. Considera-se que o indivíduo é materializado pelo corpo e sua identidade é formada a partir de hábitos, costumes, tradições, valores e crenças de uma sociedade em relação ao mesmo. A partir da vivência e do contato do indivíduo com esses valores é que acontece a formação de sua identidade. Propomos realizar um estudo do corpo, do erotismo e da identidade no romance A sombra das vossas asas (1997) da escritora carioca contemporânea Fernanda Young, uma vez que ele contém os elementos favoráveis a essa discussão. Neste romance, a protagonista não se enquadra nos padrões estéticos ditados pela moda atual, o que a leva a recorrer às inovações da cirurgia plástica para transformar seu corpo ao modelo exigido pelos padrões contemporâneos de beleza, a fim de realizar uma vingança, o que lhe causa uma crise de identidade. Para tanto, acionamos os aportes em David Le Breton (2003), Denise Bernuzzi de Sant‟Anna (2001); Gilles Lipovestsky (2004) Stuart Hall (2004); Georges Vigarello (2006); Joana Vilhena de Novaes (2013). Esses e demais outros autores foram acionados para compor esta discussão.
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Olby, Brian C. "Perceived Attractiveness and Personality Attributes: A Gender and Racial Analysis." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2509/.
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Subjects rated 12 female body shapes with respect to their physical attractiveness, and the extent to which they would be expected to possess various personality characteristics. The shapes were varied using 3 levels of overall weight and 4 levels of body shapeliness. The sample was modified to control for socioeconomic factors and results are based on 297 undergraduates from Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic racial backgrounds.
Loglinear analyses revealed that men and women, regardless of racial background, rated shapely underweight females as most physically attractive, sexy, and ideal for a woman, followed by normal weight figures of similar proportion. African Americans, women in particular, judged the shapely normal weight figures more favorably than the other subjects. Multidimensional scaling and subsequent frequency analyses showed that those figures judged as most attractive, sexy, and ideal were also expected to be fairly emotionally stable, and most successful and interpersonally competitive, but least faithful, kind, and family-oriented. Overweight female shapes, while rated as least physically attractive, sexy, and emotionally stable, were expected to be most family-oriented, kind, and faithful. Shapely normal weight figures were judged to be attractive and sexy, and were assumed to possess a moderate amount of the personality traits in question.
The results suggest that Caucasian and Hispanic subjects prefer shapely underweight women, while African Americans, particularly women, find shapely underweight and shapely normal weight women to be physically appealing. African American women also rate shapely normal weight women favorably with respect to personality traits. This perceptual difference may help inoculate them from developing eating disturbances and account for the low prevalence rate of eating disorders in African Americans compared to women of other racial backgrounds. It is suggested that future research identify those beliefs, values or behaviors that seem to inoculate African American women from developing eating disorders. Once identified, mental health professionals may facilitate their development in those women who are likely to have eating problems.
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Souza, Rinaldo Pereira de. "O SER DA MULHER IDOSA NA LITERATURA: ENTRE O SAGRADO E O PROFANO." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2013. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/3179.
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Previous issue date: 2013-02-07The present dissertation aims to analyze the configuration of the elderly woman being in the literature, considering the sacred and profane symbolizations attributed to her in classical and modern aesthetic. Chiefly, from the filing of Benjamin, to emphasize that in classic work there was the value of cult, while that in modern work, there is the value of exposition, identifies the elderly personage in the literature. In fairytales, the old woman is represented the negative force, being the witch or the sorceress; in juvenile stories about wolf, Dona Benta and Tia Nastácia, as storytellers and educators assume sacred function, thus diverge from the elderly modern in existential crisis, in search of self-affirmation, apart from the classical ideal, being a coming-to-be. Compuses the corpus of this study, texts of classic literature, the fairy tales, Branca de Neve and João e Maria; Monteiro Lobato juvenile stories, Histórias de Tia Nastácia and Serões de Dona Benta ; and the modern tales of Clarice Lispector, A Partida do Trem , and Lygia Fagundes Teles tale, Senhor Diretor . The study is based on the theories about the symbolic power, the sacred and the profane, the beautiful and the ugly, art as representation, narrator and loss of aura.
A presente dissertação tem-se por objetivo analisar a configuração do ser da mulher idosa na literatura, considerando as simbolizações sagradas e profanas a ela atribuída nas estéticas clássica e moderna. Principalmente, a partir da propositura de Walter Benjamin, ao salientar que na obra clássica havia o valor de culto, enquanto que na obra moderna, há o valor de exposição, identifica-se a personagem idosa na literatura. No conto de fadas, a velha é representada como a força negativa, sendo a bruxa ou a feiticeira; nas histórias infanto-juvenis lobatianas, Dona Benta e Tia Nastácia, como contadoras de histórias e educadoras assumem função sagrada, assim divergem das idosas modernas em crise existencial, em busca de autoafirmação, distanciam do ideal clássico, sendo um vir-a-ser. Compõe o corpus deste trabalho textos da literatura clássica, os contos de fadas, Branca de Neve e João e Maria; as histórias infanto-juvenis de Monteiro Lobato, Histórias de Tia Nastácia e Serões de Dona Benta; e os contos modernos de Clarice Lispector, A Partida do Trem, e o conto de Lygia Fagundes Teles, Senhor Diretor. O estudo fundamenta-se nas teorias sobre o poder simbólico, o sagrado e o profano, o Belo e o Feio, arte como representação, narrador e perda da aura.
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Carvalho, Catia Fernandes de. "Presenças femininas na dança de rua coreografando estéticas da existência." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/17844.
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O presente estudo refere-se às presenças femininas na dança de rua, expressão que aparece como um dos elementos do movimento cultural hip hop. Atualmente, o hip hop tem se configurado como território predominantemente masculino nas suas manifestações, sendo atravessado por diferentes significados de corpos e gêneros, os quais se correlacionam com outras marcas culturais tornando complexas as relações humanas e, portanto, de poder, as quais funcionam de múltiplas formas na organização dos grupos sociais. Nesse panorama a atuação dos corpos femininos é pensada dentro de uma rede de relações sociais e de poder, disputando e produzindo significados, inventando suas próprias táticas de inserção, de modo plural e dinâmico. Poderes não tão localizáveis (FOUCAULT,2007c), mas que estão dispersos, circulam nas práticas sociais, produzem e constituem sujeitos. Dessa forma, estabeleço como objetivo desse estudo, mapear como são exercidas as diferentes presenças femininas nos grupos de dança de rua, Original Dancer e Piratas de Rua, ambos da cidade de Pelotas/RS. Para desenvolvimento da pesquisa foi utilizado como caminho metodológico a etnografia urbana a partir de Magnani (2002), associada a elementos do método cartográfico (ROLNIK, 2006). Para tanto, coloco em operação tais questões: como são inventadas táticas de inserção das mulheres na dança de rua? Como são exercidos pelas mulheres poderes-saberes que têm o corpo como arma? Como as mulheres constituem modos de subjetividade nesse contexto? Como emergem novos territórios para a produção de existências femininas? A presente pesquisa é conduzida pela inquietude de uma pesquisadora mulherer que deseja perceber como as mulheres têm se constituído eticamente enquanto presenças femininas nesses espaços de sociabilidades criados pela dança de rua. Ao longo dessa empreitada vou assumindo, incorporando e me apropriando de algumas pistas teóricas que penso importantes para dar visibilidade a essas mulheres de uma maneira positiva, produtiva, respeitando a pluralidade de suas existências. Sou assim, atravessada, movida entre encontros e desencontros no exercício de pensamento com as problematizações de Michel Foucault, especificamente quando ele nos fala de modos de subjetivação, da constituição ética e das micro-rupturas com aquilo que está na fronteira entre a sujeição e as práticas de liberdade do sujeito que estiliza a sua existência.This study refers to the presence of women in street dance, an expression that appears as one of the cultural movement of hip hop. Currently, hip hop has been marked as a male-dominated territory in its manifestations, is traversed by different meanings of bodies and genders, which correlate with other brands making cultural complex human relationships and therefore of power, which operate multiple forms in the organization of social groups. In this scenario, the role of the female body is conceived within a network of social relations and power, playing and producing meanings, inventing their own tactics for integration, so plural and dynamic. Powers not as discoverable (Foucault, 2007c), but they are scattered, circulating in social practices, produce and are subject to. So I set the objective of this study, map and are carried out by women in different groups of street dance, Dancer Original Street and Pirates, both of Pelotas / RS. To develop the research was used as a methodological approach to urban ethnography from Magnani (2002), combined with elements of the mapping method (ROLNIK, 2006). Therefore, put in operation these questions: How are invented tactics for integrating women in street dance? How are powers exercised by women-knowledge that the body is a weapon? As women constitute modes of subjectivity in this context? As new areas emerge for the production of female stocks? This research is conducted by the restlessness of a young woman with a researcher who wants to understand how women have been constituted as ethically female presence in these spaces of sociability created by the street dance. Throughout the contract I assume, incorporating and appropriating me some clues I think theoretical important to give visibility to these women in a positive, productive, while respecting the diversity of their existence. I therefore crossed, moved between agreements and disagreements in the course of thought with the problematization of Michel Foucault, specifically when he speaks of modes of subjectivity, ethics and the establishment of micro-breaks with what is on the border between subject and practices subject to freedom of stylization of its existence.
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Cooper, Andrea K. "Social physique anxiety and Q-EDD based disordered eating in female aesthetic athletes." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26614.
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The purpose of this study was to examine social physique anxiety (SPA) and disordered eating in female aesthetic athletes. Participants included 144 female competitive athletes (M = 19.0 years, SD = 2.08) from the four aesthetic sports of synchronized swimming, figure skating, jazz dance, and gymnastics. The participants completed the SPA scale (SPAS) and the Questionnaire for Eating Disorder Diagnoses (Q-EDD) (which is a new more accurate measure to assess disordered eating) that has not previously been used with female aesthetic athletes. Results revealed that 59.7% of the participants were classified in the asymptomatic category, 29.9% in the symptomatic category, and 10.4% in the eating disordered category. For the two Q-EDD subcategories, there were no participants classified in the chew/spitting category, and three participants classified in the exercise bulimia nervosa category. Also, it was shown that the eating disordered group and the symptomatic group had significantly higher SPA than the asymptomatic group. Thus, these results indicate that in this subpopulation of athletes, there are many who display eating disorder symptomatology, and suggest that interventions that target SPA and disordered eating in these athletes are needed.
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Cha, Eun-Jung. "Return to the body : the aestheticisation of British aestheticism in the work of Christina Rossetti and Rosamund Marriott Watson." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249082.
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Ward, Aaron Francis. "Are male aesthetic preferences for female waist-to-hip ratios domain-specific? : an investigation of two evolutionary psychological assumptions regarding male aesthetic preferences." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Department of Psychology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4673.
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Theoretical models based in Evolutionary Psychology posit that male aesthetic
preference for a female waist-to-hip ratio of 0.7 reflects evolved psychological
mechanisms for identifying high quality males. The current study replicated and
extended previous evolutionary psychological waist-to-hip ratio literature by
surveying 108 male participants on their aesthetic preference for female waist-to-hip
ratios. The results indicated that a female waist-to hip ratio of 0.75 was perceived by
males to be maximally attractive. This finding is consistent with past female waist-to hip
ratio research (e.g. Singh, 1993). The current study also provided evidence that
male preference for female waist-to-hip ratios is domain-specific by documenting that males do not systematically prefer 0.75 concavity in other (non-human female)
stimulus categories. The current study also supported the untested assumption that the
shape contained within the female waist-to-hip ratio, in addition to the actual ratio
itself, contributes to male aesthetic preference. Lastly, the current study also found
that male preference for female waist-to-hip ratios is not solely determined by male
familiarity (as operationalized in the current study by ratings of typicality) with
particular female waist-to-hip ratios. This result is inconsistent with Halberstadt and
Rhodes (2000), who proposed that aesthetic preference is determined by averageness,
a more general feature of the human cognitive system.
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Anderson, Amelia. "Performing Upon Her Painted Piano: The Burne-Jones Pianos and The Victorian Female Gender Performance." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22641.
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This thesis centers around three pianos designed and/or decorated by the Victorian artist Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones: the Priestley Piano, the Graham Piano, and the Ionides Piano. I read and interpret the Burne-Jones pianos not only as examples of the artist’s exploration of the boundaries of visual art and music, but also as reflections of the Victorian era female gender performance. Their physical forms and decorations, both designed and executed by Burne-Jones, enhance the piano as an instrument and accentuate their respective female performers. The music emanating from these pianos and the domestic space in which they inhabit prompt and contribute to the Victorian female performance of gender.
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Mares, Renate. "Stereotypes of men and women, and inequality between the sexes in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice : A didactic essay attempting to show that a gender focused reading of Pride and Prejudice has much to offer both male and female students." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-741.
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This essay will discuss why one would use a literary text such as Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813) in a classroom. There is a certain focus on what Pride and Prejudice might have to offer both male and female students, since research has shown that boys tend to resist reading romantic novels and stories about girls. This essay attempts to show that a gender focused reading of Pride and Prejudice might make it interesting to male students as well, since the way that the unequal relationship between men and women is portrayed concerns them as well as the female students.
Regarding the reasons for using literature in the classroom, I will investigate what it is that literary texts can offer to its readers. This essay will argue that reading literature is an aesthetic experience, which is what separates literary texts from other non-literary texts. Aesthetic experiences have to do with the way student’s feel about and experience certain texts, and also with the artistic values of a text. To have an aesthetic experience is very important since the English classroom is a place where the students´ feelings and experiences normally are not given enough neither time nor space.
This essay attempts to show that by looking at stereotypical characters in Pride and Prejudice, as well as looking at what qualities in men and women were considered desirable, a very interesting discussion might arise in the classroom, concerning gender roles, and inequality between men and women. A discussion of this sort gives the students an opportunity to question the gender roles we have in today’s society, as well as the relationship between men and women.
Keywords: Literature, reading, aesthetic experience, gender, stereotypes.
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Mitchell, Marcus B. "Forms Unconfined: The Figure of the Muscular Woman, Physical Culture, and Victorian Literature." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case153087208063293.
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El-Mereedi, Mary L. "Transactional Literature Discussions in English Language Teaching: An Investigation of Reader Stance and Personal Understanding Among Female Arabic-Speaking Learners of English at Qatar University." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1384349370.
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Price, Fiona Louise. "The female aesthetic subject questions of taste, sublimity and beauty in women's prose, 1778 to 1828, with particular reference to the works of Clara Reeve, Sophia and Harriet Lee, Elizabeth Hamilton and Jane Porter /." Thesis, Boston Spa, U.K. : British Library Document Supply Centre, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.342753.
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Poirier, de Clisson Geoffroy. "L’image de la Femme ou le renversement symboliste de l’idée de vérité." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040218.
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Le symbolisme, d’abord inféodé à la conception idéaliste de la vérité et du beau, expose en réalité, dans sapratique et dans ses oeuvres une position ambiguë. Le symbole compris comme le médium par lequel sedévoilerait une vérité idéale semble en fait valoir en et pour lui-même, indépendamment de tout principesupérieur. L’image de la femme, est, chez les symbolistes, le point nodal du basculement de la théorie de lavérité. De la Femme dans l’Art ! dit Charles Maurice, Elle en est l’objet et le but… L’image de la femme, loinde conforter la conception idéale de la vérité, manifeste au contraire une certaine forme de subversion. Lessymbolistes vénèrent la femme. Non pas parce qu’elle est « le signe du vrai », selon la formule de Plotin, maisparce qu’elle est le symbole même de la superficialité de la représentation. Chez les symbolistes, c’est donc parla représentation de la femme (fuyante, fardée, fatale…) que s’accomplit le renversement de l’idée même devérité. A cet égard, le symbolisme est donc bien davantage un anti-platonisme qu’un idéalisme. La vérité,débarrassée de son substrat s’affirme pour elle-même, dans sa complète autonomie. Ce renversement de lanotion de vérité ne peut s’effectuer, cependant, sans une remise en question radicale du sujet et sans unquestionnement fondamental sur le rôle de l’artiste dans le dévoilement de la vérité. C’est la raison pourlaquelle le symbolisme, au tournant du XIXème et du XXème siècle se tournera vers de nouvelles expériences(affirmation du moi, surréalisme, abstraction…) dont l’objectif sera d’éprouver les limites du moi et derenouveler ainsi le perpétuellement questionnement de l’art sur le réelSymbolism, first subservient to the idealistic conception of Truth and Beauty, actually exposes in its practiceand in its works an ambiguous position. The symbol seen as the medium unveiling an ideal truth appears to beindeed an autonomous object, giving up reference to any higher principle. The image of woman is among thesymbolists, the node of the failover of the theory of Truth. Women in Art! Charles Maurice said, she is theobject and the purpose of art... The image of woman, far from strengthening the ideal conception of Truth,rather shows some form of subversion. The symbolists worship women. Not because her beauty is "the sign ofTruth," to quote Plotinus, but because woman is the very symbol of the superficiality of representation. Withthe symbolists, the representation of women (evasive, fake, fatal...) accomplishes the reversal of the idea ofTruth. In this regard, the symbolism is much more an anti-Platonism than an avatar of idealism. Truth, strippedof its substrate, asserts itself in its full autonomy. This reversal of the notion of Truth can’t be done, however,without a radical rethinking of the notion of subjectivity and without a fundamental questioning on the role ofthe artist in the pursuit of Truth. That is why Symbolism, at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century,will experience new artistic ways (self-assertion, surrealism, abstraction...) with an objective to test the limitsof self and to renew the perpetual questioning of art on reality
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Viljoen, Estella. "From Manet to GQ: a critical investigation of ‘gentlemen’s pornography’." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23114.
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This thesis offers a reading of GQ South Africa 2000, the first glossy men’s magazine to be launched in South Africa (in 2000). It traces the possible iconographical genealogy of glossy men’s magazines to canonical erotic artworks and examines the aesthetic conventions used by GQ to elevate its contents through an implied association with art. This thesis, furthermore, investigates the commonalities between GQ, a ‘mainstream’ publication, and ‘pornography’ (as defined by the United States Civil Rights Ordinance 1985). In this way, the fluid impermanence of ‘art’, ‘pornography’ and ‘popular culture’ as typologies is highlighted. The new taxonomy of ‘gentlemen’s pornography’ is introduced in order to counter the notion that material that has the gloss of ‘high culture’ and is deemed socially acceptable, cannot be pornographic. This thesis submits that a critical reading of glossy men’s magazines from an interdisciplinary perspective is imperative in order to reveal their ideological assumptions. The ideological position that informs this study is the radical feminist belief that pornography objectifies and subordinates women and is, therefore, harmful. The thesis is simultaneously grounded in the theoretical methodologies of visual culture and art history, and as such assumes the intonation of these disciplines. From a Postmodern point-of-view, popular visual culture not only wields power in terms of generalising (capitalist and sexist) western paradigms, but is also skilful at masking its significant influence in doing so. For this reason, this dissertation endeavours to raise a critical dialogue concerning the ideological ‘message’ of glossy men’s magazines. The sometimes antithetical nature of discourse critically centered on gender representation in visual culture may be attributed to the pervasiveness of familiar (and therefore seemingly harmless) female objectification in the popular media. This thesis examines the iconography of gendered stereotypes against the erotic/pornographic, high culture/low culture object/subject binaries, and, furthermore, situates these types in the wider dialectic of ‘obscene’ (off-scene) versus ‘acceptable’ culture. The glossy men’s magazines that form the interest of this study are a trade situated in the alliance of social elitism and representational control over the female body, and, thus, this thesis marks the point of intersection between consumer culture and the politics of display.Dissertation (MA (Visual Arts))--University of Pretoria, 2003.
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Niskala, Marian. "Kvinnlig representation i offentlig skulptur : En receptionsestetisk studie med utgångspunkt i tre mellansvenska städer: Gävle, Uppsala och Västerås." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-454958.
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This essay explores public monuments and memorials raised in dedication to historic women in the Swedish cities of Uppsala, Gävle and Västerås. Through the reception aesthetic method, the chosen works of art are analysed from a gender perspective. The overall history of public sculpture in Sweden, including the female nude sculptures, is examined closely, where the monuments and memorials which have been raised in dedication to historic men are compared to those raised in dedication for historic women. The range of artworks vary from traditional monument to modern and postmodern aestethics. The importance of figurative representation is the main focus of this study, and the purpose is to convey how women are represented in the monuments spatial situation and how it varies from the male sculptural representation.
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Söderman, Viktoria. "Dirty Geometry : Searching for a queer architecture in Stockholm city." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-229840.
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For whom do we draw buildings? Why does contemporary architecture look the way it does?Why are certain aesthetics considered more valid than others? With this project, I propose Dirty Geometry: norm-bending design that could challenge conventions within the field of architecture. It is an investigation of concepts such as ugliness, beauty, architecture and the human body, interiority, femininity and ”bad taste”. The purpose is to, with the aid of parametric design processes, make Stockholm less boring and more dirty. Dirty Geometry is both the creative process sprung from one’s personal desires, and the resulting design. It aims to celebrate the weird, playful and colorful in an empowering way. This thesis project draws a lot of inspiration from camp aesthetics and drag culture, because of the way humour is used in a subversive way to question gender identities, power structures and norms.
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Lipsos, Eleni. "Anatomy of a pin-up : a genealogy of sexualized femininity since the Industrial Age." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/14896.
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Pin-up images have played an important role in American culture, in both their illustrated and photographic configurations. The pin-up is viewed as a significant representational cultural artifact of idealistic and aspirational femininity and of consumerism and material wealth, especially reflective of the mid-twentieth century period in America spanning the 1930s to the 1960s. These images not only reflect great shifts in social mores and women’s social status, but also affected changes in both areas in turn. Furthermore, pin-up images internationally circulated in magazines, advertising and promotional material, contributed to the manner in which America was idealized in Europe and beyond. Crucially, they influenced how an eroticized and glamorous, yet unrealistic, example of femininity came to be generalized as a desirous model of femininity. In recent years there has been vital, though limited, scholarly research into the cultural and social impact of pin-up imagery, to which this thesis adds to. This thesis takes a genealogical approach, charting the development of popular female-centric “pin-up” imagery in America since the 1860s and up to the 1960s, and its resurgence since the 1980s onwards. In doing so this thesis aims to provide a social, political and cultural context to the emergence of a specific archetypal sexualized femininity, with the aim of challenging the tendency to dismiss sexualized imagery as “anti-feminist” or as trivial. Toward that end, I examine the complexity of intentions behind the production of “pin-up” images. In taking this revisionist approach I am better able to conclusively analyze the reasons for the resurgence and reappropriation of pin-up imagery in late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century popular culture, and consider what the gendered cultural implications may be.
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Hsiung, Chen-Yu, and 熊晨妤. "Body Image, Aesthetics and Performance: A Note on Female Belly dancers." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6xwp62.
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碩士輔仁大學
社會學系碩士班
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In the past, most of the studies on the body started from the regulation and control of the body by the social structure. Recently, due to the rising awareness of women's rights, the subject experience and subjectivity of women have drawn more and more attention. How the women speak for themselves become the focus of this study. As a dance from another culture, belly dance is becoming one of the most popular weight-loss and body-building exercise in Taiwan. In addition, the dance movement itself brings about a sexy image of a woman. Even though the belly dance actually carries rich cultural connotations, in the rising tide of the body shaping movement in Taiwan, the belly dancing is more secularized and commercialized into a movement that beautifies the curve of the female body. This study expects to know whether belly dancing as a form of body performance is once again the reinforcement of female body and consciousness by patriarchy or is it a brand new appearance of women's liberation movement? And does such a way of body performance have an impact on the existing institutionalized gender relations in Taiwan? The author believes that the above questions can be answered only through understanding the subjectivity and subject experience of belly dancers. Therefore, this study uses participatory observation and interviews, and unlike most sociological studies, Chapter arrangement and analysis of content as far as possible to the first person narrative manner. With a view to let the female body in contemporary social culture and intimacy in the situation and appearance can also be further depicted and presented. According to the results of observation and interviewing, the body as a text has the most mainstream aesthetic value and is in line with the aesthetical point of view in the West that "thinness is beauty". However, in fact, there are also times in the community concerning the body Culture, constant impact on this mainstream value. When women face their own bodies, they are actually "doing their body" in accordance with these cultural values. The subjects re-establish their own body's identity in the constant manipulation of the body.
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WAN-YUN, WU, and 吳婉筠. "Aesthetics of Differnce--Diasporic Writing, Nu shu, and Transgenerational Female Writing." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54398609404311750193.
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博士輔仁大學
比較文學研究所
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The research of Chinese American and immigrant (oversea) Chinese female writers has shifted from thematic studies to cultural studies, the conflicts between East and West, Orientalist discourse, narratives, translation studies, diasporic writing, etc. There are piles of theses and dissertations on ethnic and cultural studies, but few focus on the study of aesthetics of difference of female writers, and still fewer are the comparative study of Chinese American and immigrant/oversea Chinese female writers. Actually, the different writing techniques, discourse and life experience presented in their writings are diverse and broaden the perspective of world Chinese American Literaure. Nie Hualing and Yan Geling's diasporic writing, Lisa See and Xiaolu Guo's inter-texts of Chinese Nu shu, Amy Tan's transgenerational female writing amd matrilineage are actually different forms of female writers' "aesthetics of difference" and "cultural politics of difference." By creative writing, translation, appropriation and mimicry, female writers struggles to avoid essentialist binary opposition and offer new opportunities for dialogues and communication. Theie "strategic intervention" is practiced in their diverse, fluid, and different life stories.
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Huang, Li-Chun, and 黃勵君. "The Relationship Between Female Life Aesthetics Characteristics and Ceramics Technicalas Exemplified by the Tea Set Design." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/dppg8v.
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創新設計研究所
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There were lots of aesthetics of living-associated research at home and abroad, nonetheless, there were still rooms for discussion if it is discussed from women’s point of view. In this study, the relationship between female life aesthetics characteristics and ceramics technical was explored. The basis of the women living aesthetic characteristics was explored through living aesthetics and womenomics. The study of the applications and characteristics if ceramics was then integrated into principle of pilot interview, and consequently, women aesthetic of living and ceramic application related information was obtained after in-depth interview with experts. Using the result of “pilot interview action” as the design principle, the experimental stage was action research-based. The women’s products and vendor analysis was also added as the design proposal, followed by the stage of “practical design action” where the concept ceramic product was designed. Due to the characteristic of action research where the procedures overlap and steps performed repeatedly, the method was reviewed, re-orientated, and refocused constantly. Also, it was evaluated and discussed with vendor during the various stages of creation, and after the correctional plans had been drawn up, the design of next stage would be carried out until a ceramic product was fully completed. The finished product would serve as the model for the next stage, which is the “questionnaire action”. The experts were being interviewed with the implemented products; the adjectives they provided were compared with the key words from the results of pilot interview action, to analyze the extent of women living aesthetics conveying through the ceramic product created by this study. This study revealed the relation between female life aesthetics characteristics and ceramic products as well as the applications and restrictions of women living aesthetics on actual ceramic craft production. Furthermore, the results of this study is not the representation of all “women living aesthetics characteristics” ceramic products on market, but as a case reference of designing women living ceramic aesthetics.
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Reischer, Erica Lynn. "Muscling in : the female body aesthetic and women's role in contemporary American society /." 2000. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:9965145.
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Chen, Yu-Hsin, and 陳毓芯. "Using the Aesthetics Lifestyle to explore the female Consumers'' preference for the appearance of different types of cars." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77erpf.
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企業管理研究所
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Global automotive markets have reached the new high point in 2015, and the best car selling area is Asia and the United States around the world. Edmunds.com survey shows that nearly 41% of luxury cars in the United States were bought by women in 2016, which is 37% higher than past 5 years, in addition, the higher authority of women facilitates the automotive market to put more attention on the marketing strategy. The appearance of the car design for consumers is an important car factors (King Yee Ling, 2005). Zeng Fenglian (1998) in the "female consumer behavior research" pointed out that female consumer significantly put more emphasis on car’s appearance than man. Since the appearance is one crucial aspests of the aesthetics. This rearch applyes the aesthetic lifestyle and discusses the preference of female consumers toward the appraeance, and we use the Cluster Analysis to classify the automobile appearance. Using the factor analysis and cluster analysis separate the female into the groups. There are two stages of the questionnaires, and the samples are from the females in Taiwan. In the first stage, 30 questionnaires were distursbited to females to select three adjectives as the measurement of car appearance. In the second stage, there are 243 questionnaires are collected to investigate the preference of the female consumers toward aesthetic lifestyle and car appearance and type. The car appearance is classified as Fast & Fashion, Old-School, Simple and Sports, moreover, the female consumers of aesthetic lifestyle are classified into five clusters which are Hedonism, Simple-Life, Top-Fashion, Luxurious and Arty. After ANOVA analysis, women prefer the traditional stable Founder less and perfer the streamlined and modern type more. Female consumers prefer Hatchback more than SUV and Sedan in the type of car. By using two-way ANOVA analysis, we also found that the aesthetic lifestyle has no interactive effect on the appearance and the type of cars. Therefore, we can provide suggestion to the car compains that the design should be streamed and modern instead of stable, complex and edges. When design the apprarence of Hatchback they can put more fashion, simple and sports elements to gain more female customre’s preference.
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HUANG, PEI-HSUAN, and 黃霈瑄. "A Study on Modern Inheritance and Female Image Reproduction of Taiwan Hakka Ballad from the Perspective of Aesthetics of Reception." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53302595971265169281.
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客家語文研究所
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Based on the subject of Hakka female image reproduction, the paper explores the reception situation of Taiwan Hakka ballad tradition and innovation from the perspective of aesthetics of reception referring to British and American feminism theory as the concept basis. The study process applies text analytic method. Firstly,the study takes 63 pieces of traditional ballad texts from the pop Hakka albums from 1981 to 2013 as the text research range. It mainly takes the female image from Jauss’s Expectation Vision on Tradition and Innovation ballad text and applies British and American Feminism School to regard the female image of Taiwan Hakka ballads. The research finds that modern Hakka singers have their different innovation process to traditional ballad reception. Besides, the female images in the Hakka ballads explained from the perspective of British and American feminism are different in the female reproduction processes in different ballads which will be further explored in this study.
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Townsend, Julie Ann. "The choreography of modernism in France the female dancer in artistic production and aesthetic consumption, 1830-1925 /." 2001. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/50415572.html.
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Onofrei, Lydia. "A critical examination of the theoretical and empirical overlap between overt narcissism and male narcissism and between covert narcissism and female narcissism a project based upon an independent investigation /." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/9923.
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LU, CHIA-YI, and 呂家儀. "Taiwan’s Female Aesthetic Transition (1980-2017)." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/juuvfu.
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CHEN, HAN-YU, and 陳函妤. "Exploring Aesthetic Literacy and Aesthetic Labor : Evidence from Female Flight Attendant." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/q4qcg3.
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碩士國立嘉義大學
管院碩士在職專班
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Airline companies expect female flight attendants to meet their aesthetic standards in terms of appearance and aesthetic labor, by which corporate images are created and communicated. Little research has yet been conducted on the fact that aesthetic literacy of each applicant for the position of flight attendant is an important criterion in the hiring process. This study, by means of qualitative analysis, seeks to explore aesthetic literacy and aesthetic labor of female flight attendants. Ten personal, one-on-one in-depth interviews were conducted. The results classify the aesthetic literacy of female flight attendants into the following three categories: (1) Aesthetic affection, including aesthetic preferences and aesthetic awareness; (2) Aesthetic cognition, including aesthetic normalizations, aesthetic adjustments, and aesthetic autonomy; and (3) Aesthetic skills, including aesthetic learning, aesthetic services, and aesthetic routine. The aesthetic labor is divided into three types of burdens: (1) Organizational requirements and workloads, including requirements of clothing and appearance, deportment requirements, burden from aesthetic training, and customer service pressures; (2) Burdens in time off work, including burden from acquiring aesthetic information, burden from maintaining figure and health; and burden from maintaining beauty. (3) Burden of personal psychological stress, including pressure of aesthetic evolution, the boundary pressure between work and life, and pressure from organization and workplace. The results indicate that female attendants use their aesthetic literacy to help them adjust themselves to aesthetic labor. Their work, therefore, leads to a spillover to their perception of beauty and, in the long run, helps develop personal taste from initial interest, which, in turn, contributes positively to the work they perform. This study also offers advice to female attendants on their career developments and may be consulted by human resources management of airline companies.
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Teles, Maria Filipa. "Música pop : da estética, conceitos e preconceitos." Master's thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/1366.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Estudos Americanos apresentada à Universidade AbertaO estudo daquilo que é normalmente definido como Cultura Pop tem-se encontrado tradicionalmente dividido em três linhas gerais: a que não a considera como objecto digno de estudo; a que, embora se dedique ao seu estudo, a considera um objecto menor; e a que a reconhece como objecto de estudo académico válido. Este trabalho procura libertar-se dos preconceitos anteriormente expostos, reflectindo sobre os mesmos e refutando-os à luz dos mais recentes estudos. Pretende ainda avaliar alguns aspectos da Música Pop, ou Pop Music, nas suas vertentes estética e comunicativa, de forma tão objectiva, sucinta e clara quanto possível, de acordo com a terceira linha de abordagem acima. Assim, pretende-se que o presente trabalho constitua uma reflexão acerca das diferentes variáveis implícitas nas relações estabelecidas entre o indivíduo, ou espectador – que ouve e assiste à sua dupla vertente auditiva e visual – e a música que consome. Propomo-nos, ainda, reflectir acerca da evolução das formas de representação, subversão e desconstrução da figura feminina no âmbito da estética do vídeo-clip.
The study of what is generally defined as Pop Culture has been traditionally divided into three main trends: the first one is that which does not consider Pop Culture as a valid object of study; the second, in spite of studying it, deems it to be a minor subject; and the third is the one which recognizes Pop Culture as a valid object of academic study. This paper aims to free itself from prejudices formerly disclosed, by reflecting and refuting them under the most recent studies. It also aims to assess some aspects of Pop Music, regarding its aesthetical and communicative dimensions as objectively, shortly and clearly as possible and always bearing in mind the third of the trends mentioned above. Accordingly, this essay is intended to be a reflection upon the different issues implicit in the relationship between the individual, or spectator – who listens and witnesses both its audio and visual dimension – and the music he chooses. Furthermore, we intend to reflect upon the evolution of the ways of representation, subversion and deconstruction of the female figure within the aesthetics of the video clip.
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chi, Chao ying, and 趙映淇. "Female body image and the aesthetic value： The case of female brassiere print advertisement." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54012025379509365929.
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碩士輔仁大學
織品服裝學系
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The main purpose for this study was to discuss the relationship between female body image and aesthetic value for female brassiere print advertisement; this study also evaluated the impacts of the different demographicvariables (such as age, residence, education, and income) on body image and aesthetic value for female brassiere print advertisement and aesthetic preference for female adults. This study was based on questionnaire and applied body image measurement, aesthetic value measurement, and aesthetic preference measurement to measure self body satisfaction among female participants and their aesthetic value on female brassiere print advertisements. This study also requested participants to select their favorite advertisement catalogs to comprehend their aesthetic preferences among female brassiere print advertisements. This study defined body image as two constructs: one was physical appearances; the other was personality and behaviors. The results of this study indicated that there were significant differences among different female age groups in physical appearances; older participants are more satisfied with their physical appearances than the younger ones. There was no major difference for personality and behaviors for all age groups. There was no major difference for physical appearances among different residence and income groups; but significant statistical differences did exist for personality and behaviors. Moreover, different education groups all showed significant differences in physical appearances and personality and behaviors; higher the participants’ education levels were, they satisfied more with their physical appearances and personality and behaviors. This study also defined aesthetic value for female brassiere print adverstisements as two constructs: extrinsic formal function and intrinsic expressive symbol. The results of this study indicated that females of different age groups all cared about both extrinsic formal function and intrinsic expressive symbol of the aesthetic value for female brassiere print adverstisement. However, there was no major difference among different residence, education, and income groups. Furthermore, this study indicated that there was significant correlation between body image and aesthetic value. The participants who were more satisfied with their personality and behaviors were more satisfied with their physical appearances. Moreover, they cared more about extrinsic formal function and intrinsic expressive symbol in the aesthetic value aspect of female brassiere print adverstisement .
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YU, Hsueh-chin, and 游雪琴. "The female characters in the dramatic aesthetic of Henry de Montherlant." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/90008765477647759181.
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Tseng, Athena, and 曾逸仙. "Motives, effects and information seeking behavior of female underwent aesthetic surgery." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17330996674248491470.
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Kelly, Lauren H. Pargman David. "The relationship between physical self-concept, body image dissatisfaction and competition anxiety in female "aesthetic" and "non-aesthetic" collegiate athletes." 2004. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04072004-162144/.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Florida State University, 2004.Advisor: Dr. David Pargman, Florida State University, College of Education, Dept. of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 29, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.
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Gao, Jen-Hung, and 高甄鴻. "Exploring the relationship between aesthetic information , emotions and behavioral intention of female clothing." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51765576840736879833.
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碩士實踐大學
企業管理學系碩士班
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In this protean era of Internet marketing, information has been overloaded. There are more and more business behaviors are promoting via the Internet. The marketing media techniques are innovated incessantly. Therefore, the precision of marketing practices for the target populations is getting more important. This study speculates and tries to explore how to precise analysis of aesthetic information. And this study also attempts to explore the emotion reactions between the aesthetics information and the behavioral intentions. The questionnaires of this study were conducted through the network and paper survey. Total 226 valid questionnaires was been received. The analysis used the SPSS 17.0 statistical software. And the study verified that making the strength of the information diffusion power needs to affect behavioral intentions through positive and negative emotions. If the aesthetics of information provided a way to attract customers, consumers could feel the positive emotions or negative emotions indirectly. As a result, the probability of consumers spreading the information could be higher. Finally, the study proposed the strategy suggestions for industries as the references.
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Chen, Chih Yi, and 陳芷儀. "Aesthetic labor in the digital environment : female news anchors running Facebook fan pages." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/xn24y9.
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碩士國立政治大學
傳播學院傳播碩士學位學程
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This study analyzes how female news anchors participate in aesthetic labor on social media. Before the digital era, the only field of aesthetic labor for female news anchors was television stations. However, social media have created a new battlefield. Conducting online participant observation, I analyze the contents of female news anchors’ Facebook fan pages. Furthermore, I also conducted in-depth interviews to explore the structural factors of aesthetic labor among female news anchors, identifying factors both inside and outside news organizations. This study demonstrates how aesthetic labor on Facebook fan pages leads to a professional identity crisis among female news anchors. Nonetheless, they seek to maintain their professional identity with several strategies, such as resistance, boundary-work, and economic rationality.