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Tsaousi, Christiana. "Consuming underwear : fashioning female identity." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9393.
Full textBall, Victoria. "Female identity and the British female ensemble drama 1995-1998." Thesis, Queen Margaret University, 2007. https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/7347.
Full textBerndt, Katrin. "Female identity in contemporary Zimbabwean fiction /." Bayreuth : Thielmann & Breitinger, 2005. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=013041976&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
Full textMunir, Shaheen Sikander. "Identity and anxiety among female adults /." The Ohio State University, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487597424135029.
Full textWalters, Melanie L. "Mother/daughter dyads : female identity construction in three contemporary female Bildungsromane /." Available to subscribers only, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1559850931&sid=10&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textBlackmon, Carlotta M. "Routed Sisterhood: Black American Female Identity and the Black Female Community." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1238090994.
Full textVan, Eijck Jo-Ann. "Constructing contemporary Cuban female identity : female traces in the visual arts." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2004. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29334/.
Full textPrince, Jane. "Processes of identity in female police officers." Thesis, Cranfield University, 1993. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/8753.
Full textOkan, Olgaokan. "Narrative constructions of female identity after suicide." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7419/.
Full textJuliussen-Stevenson, Heather Ann. "Performing christian female identity in Roman Alexandria." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8220.
Full textThesis research directed by: Dept. of History. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
Kirchner, Sandra R. "Following the Thread: Female Identity and Spirituality." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1240678953.
Full textFulton, Katharine Lynn. "Female sexual identity in Toni Morrison's Love." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2009.
Find full textStamou, Eva. "The ageing process and female identity in midlife." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2010. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/8757/.
Full textAnderson, Margaret Kimberly. "A recognition of being, exploring native female identity." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ29139.pdf.
Full textLagamba, Jonette Lauren. "Shaping Identity: Male and Female Interactions in Cinema." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4116.
Full textBroermann, Taylor Marie. "Social Identity and Sport among Adolescents Female Cheerleaders." The Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1618821861052722.
Full textEl, Deek Hosry Manar. "Interrogations into Female Identity in Arab American literature." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040024.
Full textThis dissertation analyses contemporary Arab-American literary productions by female writers, specifically, Shakir’s collection of memoirs Bint Arab and her two short stories “Oh Lebanon” and “Name Calling,” as well as a selection of novels, Abu Jaber’s Arabian Jazz and Crescent, Darraj’s The Inheritance of Exile, Alia Yunis’s The Night Counter, and Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land. It shows how these works construct a space which enables them to investigate questions of identity, culture, ethnicity and gender. Identity conflicts around everyday matters like physical appearance, color, dress codes, veiling, chastity, and marriage are addressed by drawing upon critical works by Arab-American female writers and psycho-social studies on biculturalism. Moreover, this work emphasizes coalition-building with women of color by extending Anzaldua’s concept of the “consciousness of the borderlands” to encompass works by Arab-American female writers. Theories by post-colonial thinkers, particularly Said’s studies on Orientalism, also contribute to the dissertation’s questioning of the Oriental model of womanhood. Finally, this dissertation envisages critical works that study storytelling and its role in creating a surrogate home for “exilic” identities, with special emphasis on the Scheherazadian narrative. This project views literary productions as an appropriate way to investigate social, political, cultural and ethnic issues. It shows how writings by Arab-American women contribute to exploring inner identity conflicts, how they connect with other minority groups, and how they create a new sense of home
Turrill, Amber Renee. "Shred chicks : gender and identity in female guitar players." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3585.
Full textThesis research directed by: School of Music. Musicology Division. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
Dixon, Stephen Michael. "Transsexualism and identity : processes of female to male transition." Thesis, Durham University, 1998. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4790/.
Full textLa, Voie Michael Joseph. "Identity Conversion: Female Muslim Converts in the United States." Thesis, Boston College, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107423.
Full textThis thesis seeks to investigate female conversion to Islam in the United States, and the role of gender and identity in this process. Utilizing various conversion studies, from four different fields, I will provide the background on conversion in general and will attempt to rationalize the decision for conversion to Islam in an environment, which may not be conducive to these beliefs. By looking at individual conversion narratives, the motivations for conversion, as well as the purposes for the conversion process will be revealed. Ultimately, this research attempts to understand the factors which may drive an individual to convert to Islam, when other religious options are easily accessible
Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2017
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Middle Eastern Studies
Davids, Courtney Laurey. "Female identity and landscape in Ann Radcliffe's Gothic Novels." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/2800.
Full textThe purpose of this dissertation is to chart the development of an ambivalent female identity in the Gothic genre, as exemplified by Ann Radcliffe's late eighteenth century fictions. The thesis examines the social and literary context of the emergence of the Gothic in English literature and argues that it is intimately tied up with changes in social, political and gender relations in the period.
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Wan, Pauline Gail. "Female trauma and memory in constructions of black identity." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21510969.
Full textThowsen, Ingfrid. "Identity at Risk. An Analysis of Female Identity in Four of Elizabeth Bowen's Wartime Texts." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-1733.
Full textBeresford, Sarah. "The control and determination of gender and sexual identity in law." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250601.
Full textMacLeod, Alison Jean. "Handsome girls, hellcats and tomboys : a study of the female androgyne in literature." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337353.
Full textBoddington, Ellen. "A qualitative exploration of gender identity in young people who identify as neither male nor female." Thesis, University of East London, 2016. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/5383/.
Full textGuluzar, Ozturk. "The Construction Of Female Identity In Timberlake Wertenbaker'." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614903/index.pdf.
Full texts The Grace of Mary Traverse and The Break of Day. This study is conducted with the historical development of the feminist movement that has had different agendas at different periods of history being taken into account. Fighting for women&rsquo
s emancipation and equality, feminism has helped women attain certain rights
however certain roles imposed on women that have been designed to define fema le identity cannot be said to have been eliminated. Rather, as this study shows, the oppression women have faced has just changed direction
but its nature is still the same. To this end, Wertenbaker presents the situation of women in different contexts of time and circumstances in her plays. Women&rsquo
s quest for identity has been interrupted and diverted by various oppressive mechanisms and institutions which are patriarchy and motherhood as the major focus of analysis throughout this thesis in Wertenbaker&rsquo
s plays.
Atkins, Kristin Gayle. "Investigating Female Identity Formation: From Fairy Tales to Fabulous Lives." NCSU, 2004. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-10202004-205122/.
Full textMcCaffrey, Eileen M. "Muslim Female Youths' Identity Negotiation in Relationship to Life's Opportunities." Thesis, Lewis University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3557138.
Full textThere is continued pressure for girls to formulate a positive identity in a society that privileges specific identity constructions along the lines of race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality and religion. This difficulty, however, may be even greater for a teen girl who also juggles the additional challenges of being Arabic and Muslim. Living in a country where their values, practices and beliefs are not the norm amongst the dominant culture in which they are surrounded contributes to this difficulty. Much research has been done about the Muslim population in general. However, narratives of young Muslim females telling their specific life stories, in relationship to the challenges they may have faced or currently face negotiating their identities in and out of public schools in the post-9/11 era, have not been addressed. In addition, although there have been studies done about Muslims' negotiation of identities, no study has related their negotiations of these identities to life's opportunities. In other words, to what extent do/did Muslim girls need to negotiate multiple identities, which is defined here as to give up and/or alter some cultural and/or religious practices and/or adopt others, in the American public school system and in places of employment in relationship to their perceptions of life's opportunities both while in high school and present day. This study seeks to tell the stories of young, female Muslims, stories about their identity negotiations in public high schools and present day in a post-9/11 world. Only through in-depth examinations of these women's lives can their stories be shared.
Abdulaziz, A. M. "Female and Muslim : a study of identity in the Qur'an." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.503126.
Full textMatteson, Emily G. "Discourses of Menstruation: Public and Private Formations of Female Identity." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/432.
Full textAlexander, Robyn Gaye. "Body/sexuality/control : female identity in four Fay Weldon novels." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20451.
Full textThis thesis explores the manner in which female identity is depicted and the concept itself deployed in four novels by Fay Weldon (1931- ), a contemporary English writer. The novels examined are Puffball (1980), The President's Child (1982), The Cloning of Joanna May (1989) and Growing Rich (1992). The thesis's· theoretical focus is feminist, and it makes use of terms, arguments and insights provided by contemporary feminist literary and cultural theory. It thus in part also explores the usefulness of insights provided by recent feminist poststructuralist theory, with particular reference to psychoanalytic theory. On the whole, these insights are found to be useful, even though they do not entirely answer some of the questions generated by the possibilities which are shown to exist for female subjects within western culture. The thesis's conclusion suggests ways in which this lack of definitive answers might in its turn be interpreted. The first chapter, dealing with Puffball, examines the novel's depiction of the effects of pregnancy on a woman's body and in turn on her sense of her own identity. This is followed by a chapter on The Cloning of Joanna May, which also takes female experience of the maternal as its central focus. This chapter shows how Weldon investigates current meanings of birth, children, identity and the natural via a plot concerned with the uses and abuses of contemporary reproductive technologies. A short chapter on Weldon's prose style, which is seen to manipulate aspects of form in order to generate particular effects, follows. In it, the current reception of Weldon's work and her use of humour in her writing is commented upon. This chapter also anticipates the question of the use of narrative voice, which is crucial to the novels dealt with in the final two chapters. In the first of these, which explores Growing Rich, the manner in which masculine power is shown to impact on the bodies of the two central female characters is central. Like the final chapter on The President's Child, this chapter also deals with the narrator's use of narrative as vehicle for both the stories of the female characters which she relates and for her own story. The final chapter focuses on the increasingly open conflict which Weldon depicts between male and female power, and also explores how the public/private division central to western culture is disrupted in this novel. Throughout the thesis, an attempt is made to show how female identity is at present constructed for and by western women: via their own and others' representations of their bodies and their sexuality, and as a concept over which they have varying degrees of control. It concludes that the often contradictory fictional representations of female subjectivity in the four novels under discussion suggest the constraints and difficulties involved in attempts to create new visions of female bodies, sexualities and identities. However, these depictions of such experiences are in addition shown to suggest the possibility of new and different representations.
Poynter, Leah Jane. "Rewriting female desire and identity: contemporary representations of ecriture feminine." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1400073058.
Full textDe, Camilla Lauren. "Female Leads: Negotiating Minority Identity in Contemporary Italian Horror Cinema." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1595519031355062.
Full textManomaiphibul, Parida. "Performing gender discourses : soap opera and female identity in Thailand." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439875.
Full textBragg, Beauty Lee Woodard Helena. "The body in the text : female engagements with Black identity /." Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 2004. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/etd/d/2004/braggbl21867/braggbl21867.pdf#page=3.
Full textDuvall, Kathryn L., Kelly A. Dorgan, and Sadie P. Hutson. "Personal Identity Changes of Female Cancer Survivors in Southern Appalachia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1228.
Full textMamabolo, Mokgaetji Philistus. "Self-objectification, cultural identity, body dissatisfaction, and health-related behaviours among female among female African University Students." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/3069.
Full textSociocultural pressures, including the thin-ideal internalization, and other aspects of self-objectification, are associated with body dissatisfaction. However, there is limited research regarding the association between self-objectification and engagement in health related behaviours among African females. A quantitative study was conducted with a sample of 411 female African university students from the University of Limpopo, South Africa to investigate the relationship between internalisation of sociocultural beauty standards and body dissatisfaction and engagement in health related behaviours. The study further explored whether cultural identity would moderate the relationship between internalisation of socio-cultural beauty standards and both body dissatisfaction and engagement in health related behaviours. Structural equation modelling (SEM) suggested that internalization of socio-cultural beauty standards significantly predicted students’ body satisfaction. No statistically significant relationship was found between internalization of socio-cultural beauty standards and engagement in health related behaviours. Also, cultural identity did not moderate the relationship between self-objectification and both body dissatisfaction and engagement in health related behaviours. This being a single study, further research is required to determine the relationship between the variables.
Yu, Qingyi. "Womanist Identity, Acculturation, and Gender Role Identity: An Examination of Chinese Female Students in the United States." Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104158.
Full textAs the first generation born after China introduced its "one-child policy," Chinese female students in the United States belong to a special population that is under the dual pressures of their parents' expectations to succeed and the conflicting traditional Chinese stereotypes of women as obedient to men, dependent, and home orientated. Previous research on Chinese female students' acculturative experiences indicates that these women face unique challenges in redefining their gender roles. However, no studies have explored whether womanist and acculturative processes are related to this psychological transition. The current study explored womanist identity and acculturation attitudes as processes influencing Chinese women's negotiations of their gender roles and redefinitions of themselves as women while living in the United States. Chinese female international students (N=192), enrolled in colleges or universities in the US, completed a demographic questionnaire; the Womanist Identity Attitude Scale (Helms, 1990), which assessed their manner of coping with traditional role expectations; and, the Acculturation Scale for Asian International Students (Gu, 2008), which measured acculturation attitudes. Their gender-role traits and stereotypical attitudes toward American women were examined by the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) (Bem, 1974) and Attitudes toward Women Scale (AWS) (Spence, Helmrich, & Stapp, 1978). Canonical correlation analyses were used to investigate relationships among (a) womanist identity and acculturation attitudes, (b) womanist identity and gender-roles, and (c) acculturation attitudes and gender roles. Two identity-acculturation patterns, three identity-gender role patterns, and two acculturation-gender role patterns were identified. When the Chinese women were self-defining their gender-role identity, they were participating in U.S. culture and integrating traditional and non-traditional gender-role traits and attitudes. Traditional womanist attitudes were associated with increased levels of rejecting the U.S. culture, traditional gender roles, and perceived dissimilarities between themselves and U.S. women. The current study is the first to investigate gender-role and acculturation developmental issues of "One-Child" women from a psychological perspective. Obtained results suggest that their adaptive processes are more complex than anticipated. Methodological limitations of the study are discussed
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology
George, Eva Marie. ""Hungry to see ourselves reflected" identity, representation and black female spectatorship /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1940.
Full textThesis research directed by: American Studies. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
Rae, Angela Lynn. "The haunted bedroom: female sexual identity in Gothic literature, 1790-1820." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002294.
Full textBillard, Jennifer Christine. "Relationships between identity and music preferences in female Anangu Pitjantjatjara teenagers /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09mub/09mubb596.pdf.
Full textStarks, Nancy E. "The effects of sobriety on the gender identity of female alcoholics." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1995. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1995.
Full textWeidhaas, Allison Dawn. "An Analysis of How Female Business Owners Construct and Communicate Identity." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4609.
Full textPope, Catherine. "The regulation of female identity in the novels of Florence Marryat." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/49563/.
Full textPibiri, Francesca. "Single-neuron correlates of social identity in freely interacting female rats." Thesis, Durham University, 2018. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12519/.
Full textParker, Sarah Louise. "The lesbian muse : homoeroticism, female poetic identity and contemporary muse figures." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3498/.
Full textOuditt, Sharon Ann. "Fighting forces/female identity : women writers of the First World War." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34880.
Full textNilsson, Tilda. "Ethnic identity and the female native-immigrant employment gap in Sweden." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96233.
Full textLee, Melissa. "Staging the Actress: Dramatic Character and the Performance of Female Identity." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397823196.
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