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Poteet, George Anthony. "Perceptions of pretty people : an experimental study of interpersonal attractiveness." Online access for everyone, 2007. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2007/a_poteet_050307.pdf.
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Mawhood, Rhonda. "Images of feminine beauty in advertisements for beauty products, English Canada, 1901-1941." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60562.
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This thesis is a study of magazine advertisements for beauty products in Canada between 1901 and 1941. It looks at the use of cosmetics and the growth of advertising in the context of the development of North American consumer culture, highlighting the role of gender in that culture. The period studied is divided in two by the mid-1920s to reflect changes in advertisers' views of consumers--from rational decision-makers to irrational creatures driven by their emotions--and in ideals of feminine beauty, as the use of cosmetics became an essential part of the ideal perpetuated by advertising. The thesis attempts to show the link between business history and cultural history by demonstrating how marketing professionals co-opted cultural trends in order to create effective advertising, and how traditional relationships and values were modified by the purchase and use of mass-marketed goods.
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MEDEIROS, SERGIO. "BEAUTY AND DEATH: A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH ON AESTHETICS AND THE FEMININE SUBJECT." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2005. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=6712@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIORConstruindo a hipótese de que a estética é uma estratégia para mitigar a angústia e consubstanciar o desejo, o autor busca estabelecer seu estatuto para o aparelho psíquico. No campo do sujeito, a estética participaria do nasrcisismo primário, momento em que a constituição do Eu é testemunha por uma imagem que dá materialidade ao sujeito e à presença da alteridade. Desenhar um perímetro para o vazio e poder vê-lo é atribuir sentido à existência e conter a angústia da morte. A estética também serviria à causa do desejo. Das cenas do sonho manifesto à imagem do objeto erótico, o desejo não pode dispensar a forma que constituirá o conteúdo de sua ilusão. Caberia a estética apresentar os contornos do recalcado e resgatar a criatividade da polimórfica perversão infantil. Através das obras-de-arte, o autor apresenta a estética como uma relação entre os sujeitos, intermediada pela angústia e pelo desejo. Investigando o sentido da busca pela estética designada como bela, analisa-se o papel desta na atualidade. Tendo como foco a subjetividade feminina contemporânea, o autor destaca sua dupla relação com a imagem. Se há, de um lado, um discurso estético enunciado pela mídia constituindo um corpo destinado ao consumo haveria, por outro, um mandamento estético proferido pelo superego feminino impondo o olhar do Outro como compensação ou negação da castração. O autor conclui sua abordagem do que designou como Doenças de beleza identificando dois grupos distintos um formado por sujeitos que buscam a morte do corpo como estratégia de sobrevivência do Eu. E outro, constituído pelos aderentes à mensagem estética contemporânea e adictos à visibilidade.
In order to build up the hypothesis that aesthetics is a strategy to alleviate anguish and to consubstantiate desire, the author seeks to set up a statute for the psychic system. In the field of the subject, aesthetics would be part of the primary narcissism, a moment when the formation of the Ego is witnessed by an image that lends materiality to the subject and to the presence of alterity. To design a perimeter for the void and to be able to see it is to bestow sense to existence and to restrain the anguish of death. Aesthetics would serve the cause of the desire. From scenes of manifest dreams to the image of the erotic object, desire can not dispense with the shape which will grant form to its illusion. It would be incumbent on aesthetics to present the configurations of the repressed and to redeem the creativity of the polymorphic infantile perversion. By means of works of art the author presents aesthetics as a relation between the subjects, mediated by anguish and desire. Investigating the sense of the quest for aesthetics regarded as beautiful, one analyses its role at the present time. Using as a focus the contemporaneous feminine subjectivity, the author points out its double relation with image. Whereas, on one hand, there is an aesthetic discourse expressed by the media making up a body intended for consumption, on the other hand there would be another, an aesthetic commandment stated by the feminine superego imposing the regard of the Other as compensation for or negation of castration. The author concludes his approach of what he named as Infirmities of Beauty by identifying two distinct groups, one made up by subjects who seek the death of the body as a strategy for the survival of the Ego. And another made up by those who adhere to the contemporaneous aesthetic message and are addicted to visibility.
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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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Boyd, Elizabeth Bronwyn. "Southern beauty : performing femininity in an American region /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Greene, Saara. "Breast cancer : the social construction of beauty and grieving." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23980.
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Coming to terms with breast loss and its effect on body image, femininity and self-esteem are major issues confronting women who have lost a breast to cancer. Furthermore, messages from the media, cosmetic industry and health care profession perpetuate the 'beauty myth' affecting the self-esteem of breast cancer patients. This emphasis on the aesthetic often takes precedence the grief associated with losing a body part that for many women is strongly linked to their self-concept. Based on interviews with nine breast cancer survivors in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Montreal, Quebec, three issues will be addressed: first how the cultural influences that support and perpetuate the 'beauty myth' affect breast cancer survivors; how, as a result of this issue, the grieving process is hindered and third, the experiences of women treated for breast cancer within the medical system. Implications for social work will also be discussed.
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Crossley, Elizabeth Ellen. "Changes in the image of the feminine from Giotto to Raphael." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009448.
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From Introduction: The ideal of femininity which developed in Renaissance painting, was a visual and psychological type which was to become the Western European Christian formula of the feminine. This type has survived until the present day, so a discussion of its origins can be revealing for us in the twentieth century, especially as it has been neglected in traditional art historical works. In this essay, the changes in the image of the feminine, in just under three hundred years of Florentine painting, starting with Giotto1. and ending with Raphael~· will be covered. The images will be taken from the wo rk of artists who were Florentine in training, who worked in the city or who were strongly influenced by the Florentine style of painting. I have divided the paintings I have studied into three sections. In the Religious section the paintings are mainly of Mary. The Mythological images refer to Greek and Roman myths and the humanistic interpretations of them. Finally, the Portrait and Genre images are selected on the following basis: In the genre paintings they are sometimes part of works related to religion or mythology, but, in their handling, the painters treat the figures as real human beings rather than holy or mythological figures. In others they are bona fide portrait representations. 3. I have made the above distinction because I expect that the gap between religio-mythological images and portraits will give some indication of the difference between the ideal and the reality for women of that time. The images will be analysed and changes noted in favoured types, gestures, expressions, movements, placing in the composition, relationships to others, favoured themes, costume, colour and symbols. I will point out as I proceed the effects that these elements had on the mood and tone of each image.
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Holloway, Hannah R. "The thin ideal : the role of positive and negative expectancies /." Read thesis online, 2009. http://library.uco.edu/UCOthesis/HollowayHR2009.pdf.
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Myers, Cerise Joelle. "Between the folly and the impossibility of seeing Orlan, reclaiming the gaze /." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1143500239.
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Burris, Sarah M. "Creatures series of sculptural costumes /." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1227280056.
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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Kent State University, 2008.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jan. 5, 2010). Advisor: Paul O'Keeffe. Keywords: sculpture, performance, fabric, beauty, sewing, feminine. Includes bibliographical references (p. 28).
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Bann, Erin Elaine. "Effects of media representations of a cultural ideal of feminine beauty on self body image in college-aged women : an interactive qualitative analysis /." Thesis, Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1624.
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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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Jeolás, Luiz Carlos Sollberger 1965. "Miss Celânea : Novo Testamento da síndrome fotográfica de misses." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285248.
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Orientador: Fernando Cury de TaccaTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: O objetivo desta pesquisa foi o de depreender convenções estéticas matizadas pela produção e circulação de um conjunto de imagens corpóreas de misses. Interponho ao projeto o conceito, por mim elaborado, de síndrome fotográfica de misses ¿ conjunto de sinais e sintomas resultantes dos processos de observações cinestésicos e sinestésicos das candidatas colaboradoras. Reinterpretei as observações e as reincorporei aos ensaios fotográficos depreendidos dos tri/binômios: miss deficiente visual travesti, miss travesti e miss mulher. Iniciei a pesquisa revolvendo bancos de imagens, álbuns de fotografias pessoais, revistas, sites e minha própria participação como fotógrafo documental em alguns desses eventos. Além disso realizei entrevistas com elas para sub-objetivar suas trajetórias de vida materializadas nas imagens aqui presentes. Através do conceito de síndrome fotográfica aproximei a dinâmica do ensaio fotográfico ao textual, ora pela ficcionalidade controlada, ora pela foto-etnografia, tentando não perder de vista o rigor em conceituar as devidas referências bibliográficas sem, entretanto, fixá-las. Um esforço em zelar pela fruição e polissemia entre texto e imagem resultantes da pesquisa. O resultado final sugerido pelo formato de um Novo Testamento, que também significa "boas novas", busca desestabilizar, pela inversão cronológica das trajetórias de vida neles constantes, a ideia de que esses concursos ou performances são anacrônicos ou apócrifos. A convenção sobre o anacronismo desses jogos de beleza que, via de regra, ocorrem em Centros de Convenções ou ginásios de esportes, refere-se ao formato dos concursos e, portanto, neles se encerra. Anacrônico ou convencional podem ser os eventos ou as performances estéticas dos corpos, mas o mesmo não se pode dizer dos conteúdos corpóreos contingentes em disputa. Hoje, exatos 150 anos depois do primeiro concurso de beleza da era moderna e dos mais de 3000 concursos oficiais espalhados mundo afora, audiência que só perde para a do futebol, esses concursos se revelaram e se revelam indissociáveis do advento do daguerreótipo e da fotografia, respectivamente. Se justapõem. Neles, "modelos" de beleza fruíram, replicaram e transformaram, em boa medida, arquétipos e tipos, através da intermitente fricção das imagens agenciadas nas trajetórias de vida das misses que instituíram "boas novas" visibilidades através de performances sempre políticas
Abstract: The aim of this research is to infer aesthetical conventions hued by the production and circulation of a set of corporeal images from participants in beauty contests (misses). In this project, I interpose the concept, elaborated by me, of photographic syndrome of misses ¿ a set of signs and symptoms resulting from synesthetic and synaesthesic processes of observations of the candidates who collaborated in the research. I reinterpret those observations and reinsert them in my photographic essays produced on the tri/binomials: miss visual impaired transvestite, miss transvestite and miss woman. I have started the research by searching about image banks, personal photographic albums, magazines, websites and my own participation, as one of these events¿ documentary photographer. Besides that, I interviewed the misses in order to sub-objectify their trajectories of life embodied in the images presented here. Through the concept of photographic syndrome I bring the dynamics of the photographic closer to the textual essay, sometimes by means of a controlled fictionality, sometimes through photo-ethnography, always looking for a rigorous conceptualization of the appropriate bibliographic references, and yet without making them steady. There was an effort to keep an observant eye on the fruition and polysemy between the texts and images resulting from the research. The final result suggestive of the format of a New Testament, which also means "good news", aims at destabilizing, by the chronological inversion of life trajectories it comprises, the idea that they are anachronic or apochryph contests or performances. The convention about the anachronism of these beauty contests ¿ which usually occur in Convention Centers or sports gymnasiums ¿ refer to the format of these contests and therefore are circunscribed by it. Anachronic or conventional might be the events or aesthetic performances of the bodies, but the same can¿t be said about the corporeal content in dispute. Today, exact 150 years after the first beauty contest of the modern era and after more than three thousand official contests held worldwide, with an audience that only loses for football, these contests revealed themselves inseparable from the advent of the daguerreotype and the photography, respectively. They are closely juxtaposed. These "standards" of beauty fructified, were replicated and have deeply changed archetypes and types, through the agency of recurrent friction of images in the course of their lives, which established "good new" visibilities through their always political performances
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Jiang, Ru Lian. "Femininity, aesthetic labor, and the myth of transformation :engaging the post-feminist discourse of beauty vlogging in China." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3952611.
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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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Ceccarelli, Serena. "Launching a thousand ships : the beauty of Helen of Troy in Isocrates." University of Western Australia. School of Humanities, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0087.
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[Truncated abstract] This thesis focuses on the significance of the beauty of Helen of Troy in the Encomium of Helen written by the fourth-century philosopher Isocrates. Previous traditions, and especially epic poetry and tragedy, had assessed Helen’s beauty and either blamed or excused her for causing the Trojan War. Isocrates moved beyond this dichotomy to create a new focus on her beauty as the ultimate source of all that made Greek culture distinctive. Modern scholarship, however, has been generally unsympathetic we may almost say blind to this projected beauty. The meaning of beauty in Isocrates’ work has been overlooked by scholars in favor of its rhetorical structure. The work was criticized for its disjointed arrangement and lack of seriousness. The Helen has been interpreted as a reaction to contemporary rhetorical issues or as merely an educational manifesto. This thesis aims to identify and clarify the ideology underlying Isocrates’ construction of Helen’s beauty in his encomium. … The Helen of Isocrates is also compared with the contemporary Platonic work Phaedrus, which explores beauty as a means of arriving at pure knowledge. In this case, comparisons are drawn thematically and reveal that while the two works share similar topics and aims regarding the notions of beauty, Isocrate’s aesthetic idea is much more practically grounded and intended to be of benefit to the entire society when compared to the more idealistic and individual Platonic notion. Finally, the reasons for Isocrates’ choice of beauty as a major theme for the Helen are explored through a comparison of Helen’s beauty to that of Hellas an equation which Isocrates deems important for the fourth-century society.
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Kwan, Lai-shan Clare, and 關麗珊. "Fashioning gender." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29781164.
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Acker, Shaun Albert. "Writing the aerial dancing body a preliminary choreological investigation of the aesthetics and kinetics of the aerial dancing body." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002361.
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This mini-thesis investigates some of the nineteenth century socio-cultural ideals that have structured a connection between virtuosic aerial skill and bodily aesthetics. It views the emergence of a style of aerial kineticism that is structured from the gender ideologies of the period. It investigates the continual recurrence of this nineteenth century style amongst contemporary aerial dance works and outlines the possible frictions between this Victorian style of kineticism and contemporary aerial explorations. From this observation, a possible catalyst may be observed with which to relocate and inspire a study of aerial kinetics sans the nineteenth century aesthetic component. This kinesiological catalyst may be viewed in conjunction with the theories of ground-based kinetic theorist, Rudolph Laban’s choreutic study of the body in space. Thus, it may be possible to suggest and introduce a possible practical dance scholarship for aerial dance. This mini-thesis includes an introductory choreological investigation that draws on and integrates the disciplines of kinesiology; choreutic theory; existing aerial kinetic technique; musicology; and the physical sciences.
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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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Albani, Francesca. "Thinness Matters: The Impact of Magazine Advertising on the Contemporary Beauty Ideal." Connect to this document online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1122572653.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Mass Communication, 2005.Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [1], iii, 80 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-80).
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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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Thorpe, Jennifer. "Harmful scripts : raunch femininity as the disguised reiteration of emphasized feminine goals : an exploration of young women's accounts of sexually explicit forms of public expression." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004521.
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Women are subject to a number of societal recommendations about what it means to be an 'ideal' woman. These recommendations take the form of social scripts, constructing an idea of ideal femininity, which women must perform in order to be socially accepted and successful. 'Emphasized femininity', a white, Western, script of femininity is dominant and has been critiqued by feminists, social theorists, and individual women for the limits that it places on women's behaviour. As a result a number of alternative scripts of femininity have arisen. These scripts can provide alternatives to restrictive understandings of female sexuality and beauty - they can serve to challenge 'appropriate' feminine behaviour and hence allow women to live more freely. Raunch femininity is a contemporary alternative that uses sexually explicit public performance, and encourages specific body and dress norms, in an attempt to challenge the norms of emphasized femininity. This thesis looks at raunch femininity, specifically its norms of sexuality and beauty, in the hopes of understanding what the effects of such a script are on women's behaviour. Theoretical understandings and explanations of women's lives are often contradicted by reports that women provide of their lived experiences. For this reason, this thesis investigates the lived experiences of women who self-identify as subscribers to this script in order to assess to what extent superficial expressions of freedom have deeper effects on women's freedom. The tension between theory and empirical reports is evident. However, in many cases, the reports of research participants reveal that the script of raunch femininity, like other scripts of feminine behaviour, has its own limits that women must abide with in order to be accepted. This thesis argues that these limits outweigh the benefits of this script.KMBT_363
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Fernandez, Senaida. "Body image in Mexican American and white college women : the role of individualism-collectivism /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF formate. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3170273.
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Lau, Allison Sui Me. "The effects of media and social comparison on Asian/Asian American women's body image and acculturation /." view abstract or download file of text, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1417808681&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-170). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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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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Xavier, Giovana 1979. "Brancas de almas negras? = beleza, racialização e cosmética na imprensa negra pós-emancipação (EUA, 1890-1930)." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/280975.
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Orientador: Sidney ChalhoubTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: Esta tese investiga as representações femininas presentes em propagandas de produtos de clareamento de pele (bleachings) e crescedores capilares (hair growers) da indústria cosmética, veiculadas pela imprensa afro-americana em Boston, Chicago e Nova York, cidades que, entre os anos 1890 e 1930, passaram por uma série de transformações sociais por conta do fenômeno historicamente conhecido como Grande Migração Negra. Ao considerar o processo de urbanização vivenciado pela população de cor que chegava aos milhares no norte do país, enfatizamos a emergência de um capitalismo negro que tinha no "mercado da beleza" um de seus principais ramos comerciais. Nesse sentido, o estudo do papel de "empresárias da raça" como Annie Minerva Pope Turnbo-Malone e Madam C. J. Walker, à luz das contribuições da Business History, leva-nos a lançar mão do conceito de "cosmética negra", entendida aqui como um conjunto de pequenas, médias e grandes empresas, que conduzidas com o capital e a força de trabalho afro-americanos, tinham como um de seus principais objetivos associar lucro financeiro e defesa da "feminilidade negra", a partir da confecção e venda de manufaturados que prometiam uma "boa aparência" para suas consumidoras. Ao explorar associações ambíguas entre good look e pele clara, a pesquisa também examina a construção de uma noção racializada de beleza específica dos negros num contexto de pós-emancipação. Diferentemente do ocorrido na publicidade da cosmetologia branca, tal noção mostra que companhias afro-americanas como a Poro Hair Beauty Culture, a Overton Hygienic Company e a Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company investiram severos esforços na construção de referenciais visuais que conjugassem honra, distinção e equidade social para as "mulheres da raça". Dentro de uma perspectiva que articula gênero, racialização, classe, cosmética e modernidade, observa-se que ser considerada uma "nova mulher negra", como se dizia à época, não era um feito para todas. Para gozar de tal status era necessário possuir visual discreto, comportamento recatado, alto grau de instrução, mas, sobretudo, pele clara. Assim, ao atrelar físico e comportamento, o referido protótipo marcava a preocupação da comunidade intelectual (editores, jornalistas, publicitários, colunistas, artistas, etc.) em criar representações condizentes com uma noção de "feminilidade respeitada", que, por seu turno, revelava o investimento numa "cultura da pele mulata", facilmente captada pelas inúmeras fotografias de mulheres quase brancas, predominantes nas páginas de dezenas de jornais, revistas e catálogos de beleza da "raça". Nesse sentido, a cosmetologia e a imprensa negras foram duas das maiores responsáveis pela produção de uma "beleza cívica" oriunda de um sistema "colorista" calcado na valorização das mulatas em detrimento das blacks (negras retintas). Fato ainda desconhecido pela historiografia brasileira, tais propagandas descortinam formas múltiplas pelas quais as classes alta e média negras criaram suas próprias interpretações e soluções para questões relacionadas à eugenia, ao higienismo, à miscigenação, à urbanização e à segregação racial, abrindo espaço para futuras investigações sobre uma História Social da Beleza Negra
Abstract: This dissertation examines representations of women in advertisements for skin-bleaching and hair-growing products in the cosmetics industry, which appeared in the African American press in Boston, Chicago and New York. Between the 1890s and 1930s, these cities underwent a series of social transformations as a result of the phenomenon referred to by historians as the Great African American Migration. Analyzing the process of urbanization experienced by the population of color, who arrived in their thousands in the north of the country, emphasis will be placed on the emergence of black capitalism, which one of its greatest commercial interests in the beauty industry. The study of the role of black businesswomen like Annie Minerva Pope Turnbo-Malone and Madam C. J. Walker, and their contributions to business history, leads us to the concept of "black cosmetics." This is herein understood as a group of small, medium and large businesses which, drawing on African American capital and labor, aimed to unite profit with the defense of "black femininity," via the production and sale of products that promised their consumers a "good appearance." By exploring the ambiguous associations between "looking good" and whiteness of skin, the study also examines the construction of a specifically racialized notion of beauty held by blacks in the post-emancipation United States. This notion reveals how, unlike white beauty advertisers, African American companies like Poro Hair Beauty Culture, Overton Hygienic Company and Madam C J Walker Manufacturing Company invested considerable efforts in constructing visual imagery which could confer honor, distinction and social equality on black women. Taking a perspective that brings together gender, racialization, class, beauty and modernity, the dissertation observes how being considered a "new black woman," as the phrase went at the time, was not attainable by all women. In order enjoy such a status, it was important to possess a visual image that emphasized discretion, modest behavior, a high standard of education, but, above all, light skin. Equating looks with behavior, this prototype demonstrated the desire of the intellectual community (editors, journalists, advertising companies, columnists, artists, etc) to create images that chimed with a notion of "respectable femininity." This, in turn, demonstrated a deep investment in a "mulatto culture," easily captured by innumerable photographs of nearly-white women which dominated the pages of dozens of African American newspapers, magazines and beauty catalogues. Thus, the cosmetics industry and the black press were two of the most influential entities in the creation of "civic beauty," derived from a colorist system which favored mixed-race women over black women. Brazilian historiography has yet to examine how such advertisements reveal the many ways in which the black upper and middle classes created their own interpretations and solutions for issues of eugenics, hygiene, miscegenation, urbanization and racial segregation. This, in the future, might lead us to a social history of black beauty
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Historia Social
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Helmcamp, Annette Marguerite. "The Relationship of Exercise Duration to Disordered Eating, Physical Self-Esteem, and Beliefs About Attractiveness." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500320/.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between exercise duration and level of disordered eating, physical self-esteem, and endorsement of societal mores about attractiveness. Two hundred twenty-nine female college students completed the Bulimia-Test Revised, the Physical Self Perception Profile, the Beliefs About Attractiveness Questionnaire, and a demographic questionnaire. Subjects were classified into one of four levels of exercise duration based on the number of hours they reported engaging in planned exercise per week. Significant differences were identified among the four exercise groups in relation to physical self-esteem. The amount of exercise activity individuals engaged in per week, however, was not indicative of their eating disorder symptomatology or beliefs about attractiveness.
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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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Bostelmann, Pamela. "A “mulher do futuro” em periódicos brasileiros: vestuário e decoração como tecnologias de gênero (1960 e 70)." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2017. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/2664.
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CAPESO imaginário mobilizado pela corrida espacial no segundo período pós-guerra instigou a criação de um repertório visual que logo tornou-se fonte de inspiração em diversos campos da produção cultural. Neste trabalho tenho por objetivo discutir a construção da figura da “mulher do futuro” mediante a articulação entre as produções filiadas a esse imaginário no vestuário e na decoração de interiores. O recorte de estudo abarca as décadas de 1960 e 1970 e está centrado nas representações de interiores domésticos divulgados pela revista Casa & Jardim e nos editoriais e anúncios publicitários de vestuário divulgados pelas revistas Claudia e Manequim. Esses títulos colocaram em circulação uma série de recursos imagéticos e textuais que evidenciam aspectos do comportamento social da época, servindo como base para a investigação das novas representações de feminilidades que surgiram naquele período. A escolha por privilegiar a articulação entre decoração de interiores e vestuário se justifica pela relação historicamente construída entre essas materialidades e o corpo feminino, caracterizando-se como parte integrante na construção de identidades de gênero, classe e geração. Com esse trabalho pretendo evidenciar que as materialidades dos interiores domésticos e do vestuário inspirados pela iconografia espacial atuavam como dispositivos que criavam e reforçavam noções de feminilidades em diálogo com o processo de modernização da sociedade brasileira em curso.
The imagery mobilized by the space race in the second post-war period instigated the creation of a visual repertory that soon became the source of inspiration in several fields of cultural production. In this work I aim to discuss the construction of the "woman of the future" figure through the articulation between the productions affiliated to this imaginary in clothing and interior decoration. The study covers the 1960s and 1970s and is centered on the representations of domestic interiors published by Casa & Jardim magazine and the editorials and advertisements for clothing published by magazines Claudia and Manequim. These publications put into circulation a series of imagery and textual resources that demonstrated aspects of the time’s social behavior, serving as basis for the investigation of the new representations of femininities which appeared in that period. The choice to focus on the articulation between interior decoration and clothing is based on the historically constructed relation between these materialities and the female body, therefore being an important part in the construction of gender, class and generation identities. With this work I intend to show that the materialities of domestic interiors and clothing inspired by the space age iconography acted as devices that created and reinforced notions of femininity.
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Garcia-Rea, Elizabeth Ann. "Acculturation and Sociocultural Influences as Predictors of Family Relationships and Body Image Dissatisfaction in African American, Hispanic American, and European American Women." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5463/.
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Ethnic differences in etiological factors linked to body image dissatisfaction and eating disorders were examined. In addition, the interaction of acculturation and body image dissatisfaction in influencing minority women's relationships with their parents was investigated. Participants consisted of 302 undergraduates from three ethnic groups: Caucasian, Hispanic American, and African American women who were administered self-report measures. Differences were not found between the groups in body image dissatisfaction. Low self-esteem, internalization of the thin ideal, and family emphasis on weight and appearance were all related to more body image dissatisfaction for each of these groups; however, differences in degree of endorsement were also noted between the ethnic groups on these factors. Based on the interaction findings (body image x acculturation) separation from one's mother was found in the area of attitudes and emotions for the Hispanic sample but not for the African American sample on any of the parent scales. Areas for future research and implications for diagnosis and treatment of minority populations are also discussed.
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Lecointe, Mariane. ""Des soins ...à soi" : Modélisation d'un dispositif d'accompagnement psychologique par la socio-esthétique en oncologie gynécologique et mise en évidence de ses effets psychiques thérapeutiques." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSE2032/document.
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Ce travail de recherche tend à la fois à développer une modélisation, ainsi qu’à mettre en évidence les effets psychiques thérapeutiques, d’un Dispositif d’accompagnement psychologique de groupe qui propose d’utiliser la médiation des soins socio-esthétiques dans la prise en charge de patientes rencontrées en oncologie gynécologique. C’est ainsi que nous proposons en premier lieu de développer la présentation du fil cosmétologique qui correspond au déroulement du dispositif de recherche, ainsi que celle du cosmétogramme qui est la grille d’observation construite afin de faciliter dans un deuxième temps le repérage des processus psychiques en jeu dans les ateliers. La présentation clinique de nos groupes de patientes nous permet d’illustrer à la fois le parcours des patientes dans le dispositif de recherche et l’utilisation du cosmétogramme.Nous soutenons que les spécificités de ce Dispositif original, dans le paysage des soins hospitaliers tels qu’ils sont proposés aux femmes atteintes d’un cancer féminin, sont source de restauration somato-psychique individuelle visant à une remobilisation psychocorporelle revivifiante. En effet, nous en avons recensé plusieurs (la multimodalité sensorielle, le groupe, les objets médiateurs et le binôme d’animatrice) qui permettraient la mise en œuvre d’un accompagnement psychodynamique de ré/investissement de soi par la mobilisation de processus psychiques particuliers pour des patientes encore sous l’impact d’effractions somatiques comme psychoaffectives générées et/ou réactivées par l’expérience maladive et celle des soins.L’aire d’expériences psycho-socio-esthétique mobiliserait particulièrement le processus de réflexivité psychique et proposerait un étayage intéressant pour la restauration des enveloppes psychiques des patientes bien mises à mal par la maladie et les soins. Nous avons aussi exploré la mise au travail du processus du féminin, en nous concentrant sur la dimension relationnelle du dispositif, plus spécifiquement sur ses enjeux identificatoires et transférentiels. Ainsi, à partir de cette clinique, nous nous sommes intéressée aux processus psychiques qui semblent favoriser une dynamique de réaménagements narcissiques-identitaires et libidinaux chez nos patientes et conduire à une relance du processus de subjectivation féminine et d’appropriation subjectivante de l’expérience du cancerThis study aims both to develop a model, as well as to highlight the therapeutic psychic effects, of a psychological accompaniment set up group that proposes to use the mediation of socio-aesthetic care in the treatment in charge of patients met in gynaecological oncology.Thus, we propose, in the first place, to develop the presentation of the cosmetological thread which corresponds to the progress of the research set up, as well as that of the cosmetogram which is the observation grid constructed in order to facilitate in a second time the identification of the psychic processes running in the workshops. The clinical presentation of our patient groups allows us to illustrate at the same time the path of patients in the research set up and the use of the cosmetogram.We argue that the specificities of this original set up, in the hospital care landscape as it is proposed to women with female cancer, are source of individual somato-psychic restoration aimed at a revivifying psychocorporal remobilization. Indeed, we have identified several ones (sensory multimodality, the group, the mediating objects and the binomial animator) that would allow the implementation of a psychodynamic accompaniment of re / self-investment by the mobilization of particular psychic processes for patients still under the impact of somatic and psychoaffective break-ins generated and / or reactivated by the experience of disease and of medical care.The area of psycho-socio-aesthetic experiences would particularly mobilize the psychic reflexivity process and offer an interesting support for the restoration of the psychic envelopes of patients well harmed by disease and medical care. We also explored how the process of the feminine works, focusing on the relational dimension of the set up, more specifically on its identificatory and transferential issues. Thus, from this clinic, we have been interested in the psychic processes that seem to favor a dynamic of narcissistic-identity and libidinal readjustments in our patients and lead to a recovery of the process of female subjectivation and subjectivizing appropriation of the experience of cancer
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London, Lauren. "Guiltless girls unpacking 100-calorie snacks/." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10106/1693.
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Phillips, Anna. "Visualisation of the imaginary feminine body : from liquid to solid sculptures." Thesis, 2004. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/21206/1/whole_PhillipsAnna2004_thesis.pdf.
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This research was initiated seeking alternative representations for existing
and conventional depictions of women in western art history and popular
culture. The visual work is founded on the manipulation of oppositional
liquid substances, shampoo and used bath water, to form a new material, an
imaginary substance. This synthetic and organic combination can be altered
from a liquid to a solid state, behaving in a similar manner to an alchemical
unguent, that is, a constructed emollient able to dissolve its appropriated
properties through the layers, both physical and imaginary that surround the
feminine body.
Within this mix of opposites, exist the signified properties and societal
values of the original sources. Its transformable materiality refers to an
absent feminine body and, most importantly, to its surface, mass and odour.
The sculptural pieces acknowledge the relevance and domination of
patriarchal constructs that are employed towards these dominant signifiers of
feminine representation. Within the developed forms the properties of these
constructs are addressed and re-employed to create a type of self-portraiture
and the suggestion of lived bodily experience.
This developed substance is capable of performing as an aesthetic metaphor
for the layers, folds and invaginations of real skin. The created sculptures
visualise the surface and form of the hidden interior and the outer visible
layers that surround the feminine body.
The writer Rebecca Solnit in her essay, 1 suggested that one looks in the
places between desirable and disgusting if interested in seeking a new
feminine aesthetic based upon the unimproved female body. Visualisation of
an Imaginary Body generates a range of interpretations and possibilities.
Indeed, the discovery of this mid-zone offers an alternative that relies on a
much broader range of sensations than is currently acknowledged or given
importance.
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Salvo, Arthur Kemble. "Transformations of the Beautiful: Beauty and Instability in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century German Literature." Thesis, 2015. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8348JHQ.
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Transformations of the Beautiful reexamines a problem that emerges during the mid-eighteenth century: the devaluation of the aesthetic category of the beautiful. In opposition to accounts that identify this problem with the rediscovery of the sublime, this dissertation emphasizes the crucial yet underexamined role that historicization played in the destabilization of beauty’s normative status in German aesthetic discourse. Additionally, I demonstrate that literary discourse became a key mode through which the beautiful’s problematic status was negotiated. Assembling literary texts from 1759-1817 that thematize beautiful objects or phenomena in terms of their historicity or instability, and transform them, I argue that these moments constitute discrete instances in which literature responds to the precarious position of beauty in modernity. With recourse to texts by Winckelmann, Schiller, Jean Paul, Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann and Eichendorff, I focus on the specific literary techniques employed by different genres—description, elegy, and narrative fiction—and how they reconfigure the relationship between the modern subject and the beautiful. In so doing I demonstrate how literary texts intervene in aesthetic discourse to reevaluate and generate alternative conceptions of the beautiful.
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Haidarali, Laila. ""The vampingest vamp is a brownskin" : colour, sex, beauty and African American womanhood, 1920-1954 /." 2007. 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:NR29327.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2007. Graduate Programme in History.Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 301-321). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: 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:NR29327
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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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Kandl, Cecile E. "Beauty and the body in the fiction of Charlotte Brontë, Lewis Carroll, and Sarah Grand /." Diss., 2001. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3036263.
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Shelembe, Thulisile Buhle. "Investigating the body self-relationship in young Black South African women." Thesis, 2014.
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The purpose of this research was to investigate contemporary conceptions of beauty and bodily
modificatory behaviour of young, Black, South African women. In a society where a lot of
emphasis has been placed on a woman’s physical appearance, it was important to determine how
these young women feel about their bodily appearance and if whether this is influenced by their
social milieu. Constructions of beauty are largely constructed around White womanhood, thus
Black women might feel marginalised by the White majority’s Western beauty standards. Data
for this research report was collected by conducting semi-structured interviews with six female,
Black South African, first year psychology students at the University of the Witwatersrand. The
participants received a 1% incentive for their participation which contributed to their end of
semester mark. The findings of the study show that conformity to Western standards of beauty
has a negative bearing on the participants perceptions of how they feel about their bodies. The
media has also become influential in changing perceptions of beauty within Black South African
contemporary culture. Salient features of beauty, such as hair and skin colour seem to be
embedded in the historical processes of oppression.
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Luckie, Patsy Rae, University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, and School of Humanities and Languages. "Writing women's lives : women's autobiographies (exegesis): mourning and memorialisation (creative work)." 2006. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/31847.
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This thesis consists of two parts – a creative work, Memory and Memorialisation, and an exegesis, Writing Women’s Lives: Women’s Autobiographies,that documents the writing process and the theoretical perspectives informing it at various stages. It is the result of a twelve year investigation into the writing process; the nature of memory, death and desire in objects and places; and their role in personal representation. The exegesis highlights the difficulties encountered in simultaneously writing and critiquing one’s own autobiographical works. As autobiography is also written ‘in relation to’ significant others, the emotional, ethical and legal issues inherent in the writing and publication of autobiographical works are explored. The creative work is not a unitary text and comprises a collection of fragmented yet connected autobiographical stories that experiment with form using archival collections – a blending of memory with family and local history – the results of excavating the past to make meaning in the present. Images are used singly and in collages to signify the temporality and intertextuality of these auto/biographical acts. Restriction: View part thesis only. Contact UWS Library for terms of full-access.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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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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De, Beer Anneli. "An investigation of images of women : the development of an awareness campaign to boost self-esteem amongst South African women." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10321/1349.
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Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree Master of Technology: Graphic Design, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2014.The aim of this study was to investigate how images of women in the media that espouse women’s empowerment can indeed have the opposite effect and may even contribute to lowered self-esteem in women. To this end, this project is intended to explore issues such as body image and image manufacture in order to find a possible answer to the question of what is ‘real beauty’ in the South African context. A semiotic approach seeking to review the ways in which women are seen through visual communicative images was undertaken. This visual research revealed the importance of the ‘gendered gaze’ at the centre of issues that relate to self-esteem. An in-depth analysis of the literature, pertaining to self-esteem, interrogated the works of Naomi Wolf, John Berger and Susie Orbach, amongst others. This was carried out in order to understand more about how the dictates of consumerism pervade the work of the style industries. These sectors are well supported by the diet, food and cosmetic surgery industries who tend to effectively increase and add to a sense of body related insecurities. In addition, content analysis of selected South African editions of Cosmopolitan magazine was conducted. The images described represents a significant development period in the emergence of certain beauty ideals in South Africa. The British Unilever marketing campaign, The Dove Campaign For Real Beauty, was used as a base model for the applied design component of this study. In addition an action research approach was employed through a series of interviews and questionnaires directed at mostly female participants in South Africa. This method revealed that self-esteem issues have far reaching implications, affecting women of all ages. As a response to the perceived need for a South African based campaign, this research project informed the development of The Sisterhood Self-Esteem Crusade. In contrast to The Dove Campaign For Real Beauty which was created to promote increased sales of beauty products, The Sisterhood Self-Esteem Crusade’s focus is to interrogate and raise awareness of self-esteem. Underpinning this was an attempt to build confidence, cascade new ways of understanding and to propagate sense making, informed through action research, amongst South African women.
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Luckie, Patsy Rae. "Writing women's lives : women's autobiographies (exegesis): mourning and memorialisation (creative work)." Thesis, 2006. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/31847.
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This thesis consists of two parts – a creative work, Memory and Memorialisation, and an exegesis, Writing Women’s Lives: Women’s Autobiographies,that documents the writing process and the theoretical perspectives informing it at various stages. It is the result of a twelve year investigation into the writing process; the nature of memory, death and desire in objects and places; and their role in personal representation. The exegesis highlights the difficulties encountered in simultaneously writing and critiquing one’s own autobiographical works. As autobiography is also written ‘in relation to’ significant others, the emotional, ethical and legal issues inherent in the writing and publication of autobiographical works are explored. The creative work is not a unitary text and comprises a collection of fragmented yet connected autobiographical stories that experiment with form using archival collections – a blending of memory with family and local history – the results of excavating the past to make meaning in the present. Images are used singly and in collages to signify the temporality and intertextuality of these auto/biographical acts. Restriction: View part thesis only. CONTACT AUTHOR FOR FULL ACCESS.
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Braden, Emily. ""Así me gustas gordita": Representaciones de la gordura en la música popular y la literatura del Caribe hispano." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/279.
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This thesis examines contemporary musical and literary representations of female fatness in the Hispanic Caribbean. Chapter I explores the stereotype of a greater acceptance and valorization of fatness within the African Diaspora using contemporary feminist scholarship on cultural aesthetics and the body. Fatness is discussed as being both sexually transgressive and traditionally feminine. Chapter II juxtaposes male representations of “la gorda” in the lyrics of popular music of from Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico with the feminist politics of underground hip hop. Chapter III analyzes Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s hyperbolic representation of La Estrella, his fictionalization of Cuban bolero singer Fredy Rodriguez, in Ella cantaba boleros y “Metafinal” (1996). The aquatic subtexts and grotesque characterization of La Estrella’s body construct her as an icon of musical authenticity and exceptionality as well as a symbol of strength and resistance.