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McKay, Alexander. "Sexual ideology and schooling, toward a democratic philosophy of sexuality education." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ28293.pdf.
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Morris, Ronald William. "A philosophical study of values and valuing in sexuality education." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39361.
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The enthusiasm for a positivistic approach to sexuality education has begun to subside. Recognizing that sexuality is more than a biological phenomenon, and that education is more than just information, sexuality educators throughout North America are now acknowledging the importance of values. There are two problems, however, with the philosophical orientation on values within the literature. The first problem is the pervasive view that teachers should remain neutral to facilitate value clarification. The commitment to neutrality is often based on an appreciation and respect for pluralism, on the subjective nature of values, and on the integrity of persons. The commitment to neutrality, however, confuses pluralism with relativism, subjectivity with subjectivism, and integrity with validity.The second problem is the conceptualization of sexual-values education as a solution to problems like unwanted teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. This view of sexuality education reduces education to schooling, valuing to decision-making, and sexuality to problems arising from coitus. It evaluates the success of educational efforts according to strictly utilitarian criteria. In this thesis, sexual-values education is reconceptualized as a life-long process, and a successful sexual-values education is redefined by its capacity to be celebrational, hospitable, meaningful, and life-enhancing.
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Dunkle, Ian Douglas. "Foucauldian Genealogy as Situated Critique or Why is Sexuality So Dangerous?" Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/60.
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This thesis argues for a new understanding of criticism in Foucauldian genealogy based on the role played by the values of Michel Foucault’s audience in motivating suspicion. Secondary literature on Foucault has been concerned with understanding how Foucault’s works can be critical of cultural practices in the contemporary West when his accounts take the form of descriptive history. Commentaries offered heretofore have been insufficient for explaining the basis of Foucault’s criticism of cultural practices because they have failed to articulate the relation of the genealogist to her present normative context—the social and political values and goals that, in part, define the position of the genealogist within her culture. This thesis shows why previous accounts are insufficient for explaining Foucauldian genealogical critique, and it argues for a simple alternative warranted by Foucault’s writing.
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O'Donnell, Neal. "Sexuality, cakras, and "raising consciousness": Synthesising a Western psychology and an Eastern philosophy." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10888.
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Bibliography: leaves 210-218.The hypothesis for this dissertation is that (a) there is an increasing call for something called 'raising consciousness', and (b) sexuality and spirituality are integral to the process. It is, however, argued that sexuality in it's relationship with consciousness is incompletely considered in the mainstream of academic and lay discourse; and seems to not be accorded a positive position in the problematic landscape of human affairs. In this investigation, sex, gender, sexpression (the link between the previous two), sexuality, and spirituality are shown to be generally confused and in need of differentiation, and re-integration into a coherent unit.
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Karademir, Aret. "Foucault, Sexuality, And An Epistemico-ontological Ground For Resistance." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610336/index.pdf.
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Michel Foucault characterizes power as ubiquitous and productive in the sense that there is no power-free truth, subject, and knowledge. Moreover, he studies the historical conditions of truth and subject to have an existence in a way that he historicizes them rather than delineating truth as corresponding to reality and subject as a self-subsistent and ahistorical substance. In this respect, his anti-essentialist account of power, truth, and subject is criticized on the account that he excludes the possibility of resistance against power through deconstructing any firm ground which is absolutely free from history and power and thus a promising substratum on which resistance can be substantiated. In this study, I will argue that these criticisms are ill-founded because they are either based on the misunderstandings of Foucauldian account of power or functioning with an assumption that resistance entails essentialist metaphysics as a ground, the assumption which is itself devoid of justification. Moreover, I will claim that it is an anti-essentialist ground—
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Cover, Rob (Robert) 1972. "(Re)cognising the subject : performativity, subjectivity and sexuality in discourse and media." Monash University, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9281.
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Purdy, Shelby R. "Spaces of Visibility and Identity." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/346.
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“Spaces of Visibility and Identity” is an exploration on how being immersed in constant visibility has an effect on an individual’s identity. Visibility is not a narrow term meant to signify solely observation; rather, visibility is the state of existing within a world that does not allow for total isolation. To exist within the world is to be visible to others, and this visibility is inescapable. Visibility can be seen as a presentation or a disclosure of oneself to other beings. Existing within the world inevitably implies that one is presenting oneself to others, whether or not the presentation is deliberate. I will be going over two different spaces of visibility throughout this paper: “space of surveillance” and “space of appearance.” The “space of surveillance,” discussed by Michel Foucault, is the space where normative standards of identity are created through discursive acts. This space is meant to control, coerce, and normalize. The “space of surveillance” is important for an exploration of identity formation, because it cannot be ignored that each individual is disclosing themselves in the context of a pre-existing world. This ‘pre-existing world’ is full of normative standards that affect identity formation, but it does not have to ultimately determine an identity. The “space of appearance,” as articulated by Hannah Arendt, is meant to be a supplement to the dogmatic normative standards created within a “space of surveillance.” The “space of appearance” gives those that do not, or do not want to, adhere to the normative standards created by the “space of surveillance” a space to disclose an identity that can challenge and rearticulate what is consider normal or culturally intelligible in the first place. The “space of appearance” is not meant to replace the “space of surveillance;” rather, it has the “space of surveillance” as a contextual background that can be challenged. I have found that both spaces of visibility are necessary for an exploration on identity formation, and I have used gender identity as a concrete example to exemplify both spaces.
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Kelleher, Travis. "The ontology of the closet." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2013. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/601.
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This thesis argues that the “queer” identity politics from the early 1990s, read here through the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, have come to fruition in contemporary culture with results that need interrogating. I argue that male hetero/homosexual definition has become even more firmly dichotomised, with the “proliferation” of sexual identities more strongly afforded to heterosexual masculinity that appears to define itself ever more strongly against the “homosexual”. One of the contentions of this thesis is that Sedgwick’s model of “the epistemology of closet” has ontological commitments that remain implicit in her work, and furthermore that this aspect of Sedgwick’s work, a founding moment of queer theory, has been given less critical attention than her articulation of a proliferative queer identity politics. I attempt to refigure queer identity politics through a Lacanian focus on “sexual difference”, and argue that this philosophical frame is the more useful for understanding both Sedgwick’s model of the closet and the cultural and symbolic relationship between heterosexual and homosexual men. This becomes most apparent through a re-reading of Sedgwick’s use of the Gothic, with a closer focus on the “monster” as subject that, through Lacan’s work, looks very much like a homosexual man locked into a relationship of sexual difference with a heterosexual man. Ultimately, building on these arguments and a particular understanding of camp practice, I intend to show that “camp”, a particularly homosexual aesthetic, offers a model of an ethical relationship, subject-to-subject, which asks that we recognise the types of limitations placed on our culturally sexed identities through a relationship that Lacan would characterise as “love”, in the sense that for Lacan to love is “to give what one does not have”.
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Fitzpatrick, Liseli A. "Sexuality Through the Eyes of the Orisa: An Exploration of Ifa/Orisa and Sacred Sexualities inTrinidad and Tobago." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1525787971731433.
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Simuro, Valerie T. "A Woman's Place in Jazz in the 21st Century." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7363.
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Women often harbor ingrained attitudes that restrain them from achieving a successful career. They retain deep-seated attitudes that confine them to a self-defined space based on internalized patriarchal standards. Some women do achieve success in spite of the challenges they face. Esperanza Spalding, a young, African-American woman jazz instrumentalist is one such success story. She defies convention, plays an unconventional musical instrument in a musical genre that is historically deemed a masculine world. My thesis discusses the difficult path she traverses between feminist ideals and commercial success. It discusses what characteristics of femininity she chooses to display. Some intentional, some based on ingrained stereotypical standards set by society. Like wearing a gown to perform at the White House. It seems a normal standard of dress for a female in the West for such an occasion but it is based on a standard of what is appropriate dress for a man and for a woman. It is based on binary gender roles created by a patriarchal system.
Esperanza was relatively unknown by the general public before she beat out Justin Bieber to win the 2011 Grammy for Best New Artist, yet she had already released three solo albums and was highly regarded by both critics and her jazz peers. Although extremely talented, it was not until her performance persona was molded by her management company that she became famous. The music industry and her management team are mostly controlled by men. Her mentors were mostly men. The male ideal of femininity is reinforced by the music industry, mass media, and in some cases, women themselves.
Frequently, a female instrumentalist who plays the upright bass, a seemingly masculine instrument, is perceived as a novelty, but Spalding transcends that patriarchal ideology. She successfully negotiates the chauvinistic world of jazz. This paper explores Spalding’s performance through the lens of feminine consciousness as described by Sandra Bartky, and discusses the social construction of a female jazz instrumentalist’s identity based on Judith Butler’s theory of performativity. While this paper classifies a musician as female or male, which implies that they are each a separate and distinct category, it does not discount that each gender may possess qualities of the other.
Chapter two discusses elements of Esperanza’s physical appearance which embrace feminine ideals and simultaneously fight against them. She uses make-up to enhance her appearance, she wears clothes that adhere to a double standard, yet she defies the white ideal of femininity with her afro hairstyle and callused hands and blunt nails. Spalding is a dedicated professional. Her appearance is important to her livelihood. Feeling good about oneself instills self-confidence to engage with the audience. The patriarchal point of view is so ingrained in a woman’s subconscious, reinforced in the media and in marketing that women often dress with the visualization of the gaze of the ‘Other,’ which reinforces gendered significations.
Signifiers of femininity are not only characterized by physical attributes, but also by elements of sound, body movements, occupied space, and appurtenant objects that historically represent a masculine or feminine frame of reference. Chapter Three discusses how Esperanza Spalding’s music tends to resist society’s views of gender roles. Jazz musicians, in particular, construct a distinctive role or persona based on the conventions of the genre, the marketing strategies of the music industry, and the individual talents of the artist. [rock star and jazz].
Spalding, as band leader, occupies center stage. Standing center stage in the spotlight leading the band on an upright bass is a seemingly aggressive, masculine position. Spalding challenges gender appropriate norms and expectations and embodies a strong, confident band leader, yet not with the negative effects of the Double Bind. Two aspects of the jazz musician is their stance and their ability to improvise. Spalding’s stance communicates to the audience her competence and leadership ability without sexual innuendo. Her improvisational style communicates her musical talents. It is traditionally viewed as a masculine skill and a competitive exercise but Spalding’s display is not aggressive and competitive. She uses her creative musical talent to carry on a musical conversation. Improvisation is creation of music in the moment. Spalding exhibits courage and a willingness to take a risk which are perceived historically as masculine traits. Spalding provides an individualized path to femininity. Women tend not to pursue paths that are not already fully occupied by women. Spalding is doing some remarkable things in terms of a woman in a male-dominated field. Spalding challenges socially constructed gender roles and serves as a role model for future generations.
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Davieau, Nicolas. "Le corps des philosophes : traditions biographiques et construction de la personne du philosophe chez Diogène Laërce." Thesis, Paris 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA010629.
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À partir de l’analyse des traditions biographiques compilées et conservées par Diogène Laërce, cette thèse cherche à évaluer l’intérêt des anecdotes mettant en scène le corps des philosophes dans l’élaboration d’une figure du philosophe idéal ou bien dans la construction de la personne du philosophe. Si les philosophes anciens nous sont avant tout connus comme un ensemble de textes ou de systèmes doctrinaux, les témoignages biographiques antiques fournissent en effet également la mémoire de pratiques corporelles ou d’interrogations sur certaines pratiques corporelles (régime alimentaire, activité physique, vêtement, santé) qu’il convient d’analyser. Cette étude vise à savoir dans quelle mesure et de quelles manières le corps peut être compris comme un terrain de mise en pratique de théories ou de préceptes philosophiques, et par la même, de voir comment le corps intervient dans la reconnaissance du philosophe. Cette recherche envisage successivement ce que peut être un régime de vie philosophique (vêtement, barbe et pilosité, accessoires) avant d’interroger le rapport des philosophes à leurs propres corps mortels (maladie, vieillesse et mort). L’enquête aussi à une lecture pragmatique de l’œuvre de Diogène Laërce, envisagée comme un auteur et non comme un compilateurBased on an analysis of the biographical traditions compiled and preserved by Diogenes Laertius, this thesis assesses the significance of anecdotes depicting the body of philosophers in the development of the figure of an ideal philosopher and in these philosopher’ building of their own persona. Whilst ancient philosophers are primarly known to us through texts and doctrinal systems, the insights into their bodily pratcices and their reflections on the subject – diet, physical activity, clothing health – which are reported in ancient biographical testimonies are also worth investigating. This study examines the extent to which and the different ways in which the body can be ssen as the field of practice for the theories and for the philosopher’s relationship to their own mortal body (disease, old age and death). The investigation also provides a pragmatic reading of the work of Diogene Laertius, considered as an author and not merely as a compiler
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Harris, Lois S. "Effects of Gender and Spirituality on Adults' Resilience to Daily Non-traumatic Stressors." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2978.
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Researchers have conducted several studies of spirituality as it relates to individuals' coping strategies and resilience when facing life trauma. There is less research, however, on spirituality as it relates to adults' resiliency to daily non-traumatic stressors. The purposes of the current study were to examine the relationship between spirituality and adults' resilience to daily, non-traumatic stressors and assess whether gender has a moderating effect on this relationship. A quantitative correlational study based on Lazarus's transactional model of stress and coping using convenience sampling, an online survey (N= 94) was administered. Of the 94 participants ages 19 to 68, 66 were females. Almost half of the sample was African American (58.5%), single (43.6%), and (50%) living in urban areas. Data were collected through demographic questions, Reed's (1986) Spiritual Perspective Scale, Neill's (2006) Resilience Scale and Kanner et al. (1981) Daily Hassles Scale. Hypotheses were tested using bivariate correlations and multiple regression analysis measuring spirituality, resilience and daily stress. Spirituality did not significantly correlate with daily non-traumatic stress (p=0.07). However, the correlation between resiliency and daily non-traumatic stress significantly correlated negatively (p < 0.01). Gender positively influenced resiliency levels (p < 0.01) showing that females and males cope differently with daily non-traumatic stressors. Specifically, the negative relationship between resiliency and daily non-traumatic stressor is stronger for females (p=0.03) than for males (p < 0.001). Using study findings, mental health providers may be able to develop programs to improve adults' resilience to non-traumatic stressors, particularly utilizing the effects of gender on adults' coping skills.
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Romeiro, Artieres Estevão. "Schopenhauer e a metafísica da vontade = confluências éticas e estéticas para uma abordagem da educação e da sexualidade." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/251337.
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Orientador: Cesar Apareciddo NunesDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Resumo: A dissertação vincula-se a linha de pesquisa Ética, Política e Educação, no grupo Paidéia, da Faculdade de Educação da Unicamp e tem como objetivo principal o criterioso estudo analítico e interpretativo do pensamento do filósofo alemão Arthur SCHOPENHAUER. A pesquisa visa identificar e sistematizar as categorias e pressupostos éticos e estéticos para uma teoria da sexualidade em SCHOPENHAUER, relacionando elementos conceituais, filosóficos e políticos aos atuais discursos e práticas acerca da educação e sexualidade. Dada a compreensão de que a educação sexual é objeto de estudo da Educação, quais as concepções, ou ideologias que se movem nos discursos sobre a sexualidade? Quais as abordagens e tensões axiológicas dos discursos filosóficos mais relevantes e como Schopenhauer pode ser situado nesse universo? O estudo de natureza bibliográfica, com base no pessimismo e voluntarismo de SCHOPENHAUER, busca as contribuições filosóficas do autor para questões da educação sexual contemporânea e apresenta as articulações da Metafísica da Vontade, a valorização do amor sexual e a vontade de viver como a decifração do enigma do mundo. O estudo apresenta a centralidade da sexualidade na obra de Schopenhauer e posiciona o autor como o grande referencial da discussão filosófica do tema na modernidade, buscando apresentar elementos para discussão da educação sexual.
Abstract: The dissertation is linked to the now of Ethics, Politics and Education in the Paideia Group, School of Education at Unicamp and has as main objective the study insightful analysis and interpretation of the thought of German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. The research aims to identify and systematize the categories and assumptions for an ethical and aesthetic theory of sexuality in Schopenhauer, relating elements conceptual, philosophical and political discourses and to current practices regarding education and sexuality. Given the understanding that sex education is an object of study of Education, which conceptions or ideologies that move in the discourse on sexuality? What approaches and tensions axiological philosophical discourse more relevant and how Schopenhauer can be placed in this universe? The Nature study literature, based on voluntarism and pessimism of Schopenhauer, search the author's philosophical contributions to contemporary issues of sex education and has the joints of the metaphysics of the will, the recovery of sexual love and desire to live as deciphering the enigma the world. The study presents the centrality of sexuality in the work of Schopenhauer and positions the author as a major benchmark of philosophical discussion of the subject in modernity, seeking to provide elements for discussion of sex education.
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Duque, Tiago 1977. "Gêneros incríveis : identificação, diferenciação e reconhecimento no ato de passar por." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/280487.
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Orientador: Karla Adriana Martins BessaTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: Esta tese de doutorado tem por objetivo estudar a experiência de passar por homem e/ou passarpor mulher como performances contemporâneas de feminilidades e masculinidades que revelam normas e convenções constitutivas de um regime de visibilidade/conhecimento. A partir de uma postura desconstrutivista, reunindo principalmente teóricos queers e feministas, os interlocutores deste estudo não foram classificados a priori de modo identitário. A pesquisa focou em seus processos de autoidentificação, analisando suas multiplas experiências corporais e subjetivas, envolvendo suas agências e percepções de si enquanto lésbica, gay, homem transexual, mulher transexual, andrógino, drag king, drag queem e travesti. Através de uma multiplicidade metodológica, incluindo etnografia (online e offline), documentos, matérias jornalísticas, entrevistas e imagens, considerou-se vários outros marcadores sociais da diferença que constituem esse regime, que não somente gênero e sexualidade, como também classe, raça/cor e idade. A constituição do passar por se dá via a agência dos interlocutores diante de uma diversidade de elementos como a materialidade do corpo, uma legitimidade dos documentos legais, a localidade espacial em que se encontram e a forma como se aprendeu a revestir o corpo, mas, sobretudo, porque há interação com os outros, os olhares dos outros. Por fim, se discute a existência desse regime de visibilidade/conhecimento do passar por considerando o desejo de reconhecimento dos interlocutores num contexto em que, se por um lado, multiplicam-se os discursos de valorização das diferenças, por outro, se constata o quanto aqueles que desafiam as normas e convenções legitimadas do que é ser homem e mulher estão expostos a distintas violências
Abstract: This thesis aims to study the passing as a gender performance, i.e., people acting like a man and / or a woman appropriating femininity and masculinity revealing norms and conventions concerned to a regime of visibility. From a deconstructive theoretical point of view, mostly in dialogue with feminists and queer theorists, the interlocutors of this study were not characterized a priori by her/his gender or sexuality identity. The research focuses on their self-rating process of identification, analyzing their varying corporeal and subjective experiments involving their own agency in being/perceiving themselves as lesbian, gay, transgender man, transsexual woman, androgynous, dragking, drag queen and transvestite. Through the use of multiple methodological tools, including ethnography (online and offline), documents, newspaper articles, interviews and pictures, this study was aware of other social markers that constitute this system of differentiation, which not only gender and sexuality, as well as class, race / color and age matters. This constitution occurs via agency that consider factors such as the materiality of the body, legitimacy of legal documents, spatial locality in which they are and how they learned to get their bodies redressed, but mainly because there are interactions with others, the eyes of others. Finally, the research interrogates the existence of this regime of visibility / awareness of passing, considering the desire for recognition of the interlocutors in a local context in which, on one hand, the speeches of appreciation of differences are multiplied, on the other, it turns out how those who defy the legitimate rules and conventions of what it means to be a man and woman are exposed to violence
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Humphreys, Brianne Alta. "Humans Aren't Boxes, Art Isn't Finite." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5894.
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I am bored. All around me are systems that perpetuate repetitive, reductive, and mundane modes of living. In an attempt to counter a culture obsessed with singular ways of existence and bite-sized perfection, I utilize moving mediums of video and performance to dive head first into a vast array of sloppy sincerity. The crisp, white-washed, analytical, and restrictive is loudly replaced with the empirical, haphazard, and instinctual. My intention is to create and encourage raw, performative-based work that is as multifaceted as unbridled life itself. This alive and physical practice hosts a conglomeration of sweat, memories, heartbreaks, hymn singing, line dancing, cake eating, wig wearing, bedroom jamming, live streaming, code switching, hallway running, body dragging, easter egg hiding, angst, and hair salons.
This is a refusal to slice up, organize, and distill myself and my work into one dish with convoluted, explanatory rhetoric stamped with institutionalized approval and topped with the cherry of MFA status for the sake of being justified and relevant. I have zero obligations to make polished art, resolve things, or pinpoint what makes me “me”, because humans are not boxes and art does not have to be finite.
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Gu, Jing. "Sensing Feminist Epistemology: A Formal and Material Analysis." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/855.
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In this project I outline the current discourse within feminist epistemology and elucidated its limitations of feminist epistemology particularly its lack of formal attention to the modes of theorization and, in complementarity, the generative potential of an analysis foregrounding materiality. The first chapter explores the theories that constitute the field of study and the relationships between both feminist empiricism and standpoint theory illuminate the conceptual concerns of feminist epistemology. Building from this, I present an analysis that examines the rhetorical and disciplinary structures that determine the kinds of arguments and methodologies that are possible within these frameworks. This argument simultaneously presents an analysis of theoretical formation as well as a critique of the lack of attention given to the rhetorical and formal scaffolds which render additional epistemic limitations perceivable. Lastly, I demonstrate a mode of knowledge production that centers materiality and body which exerts pressure on the very frameworks utilized in the analysis of materiality and embodiment. If materiality has the capacity to articulate relationships between knower and knowledges formed by the knower and formal elements of research has the capacity to render the limits of knowledges created from the research, then feminist epistemology should account for the formal and the material in its attempts to explicate the possibilities and limitations of epistemology.
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Merrow, Kathleen. "Nietzsche's "woman" : a metaphor without brakes." PDXScholar, 1990. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4099.
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This thesis reconsiders the generally held view that Friedrich Nietzsche's works are misogynist. In doing so it provides an interpretation of Nietzsche's texts with respect to the metaphor "woman," sets this interpretation into an historical context of Nietzsche reception and follows the extension of Nietzsche's metaphor "woman" into French feminist theory. It provides an interpretation that shows that a misogynist reading of Nietzsche is in error because such a reading fails to consider the multiple perspectives that operate in Nietzsche's texts.
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Winges-Yanez, Nick. "A Foucaultian Discourse Analysis of Person-Centered Practice Using a Genealogical Framework of Intellectual Disability." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4505.
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A genealogical framework highlights the important role sexuality has played in constructing the current label of intellectual disability (ID). The genealogical framework is meant to replace the social, medical, and/or rights-based model(s) that have dominated social work and social services working in the disability field. With this framework, or perspective, I use a Foucaultian discourse analysis to read through seminal texts regarding person-centered practice.
Person-centered practice is the foremost intervention used in social work, and other disciplines, to work with people labeled with intellectual disability. My research questions focus on what is revealed about ID in PCP through a genealogical framework and what implications do these discoveries hold for sexuality education and social services, including social workers?
Predetermined concepts taken from the genealogical framework are used in the Foucaultian discourse analysis. These concepts (subject, government, biopower, and normalization) provide insight into how ID has been constructed and maintained through the practice of person-centered processes. Paradoxes emerge throughout the analysis, providing space for productive resistance by professionals working in sexuality education and social services to improve equity for people labeled with intellectual disability, specifically regarding their sexuality and healthy expression of it.
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Fournier, Maurice. "Philosophie et sexualité : entre Muthos et Logos." Thèse, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 1985. http://depot-e.uqtr.ca/6036/1/000556586.pdf.
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Hirschberg, Claire E. ""A Village Can't Be Built in a Jail" Carceral Humanism and Ethics of Care in Gender Responsive Incarceration." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/655.
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This thesis is built on the knowledge and experience I learned working with CURB and as a member of L.A. No More Jail, particularly in the ongoing fight against the Mira Loma gender responsive “Women’s Village” Jail expansion, which is part of a larger jail building boom on going in California right now. I write this thesis to engage in the reimagining of justice that abolitionist community organizers, formerly and currently incarcerated people and others who work to challenge the prison industrial complex have been envisioning for California.
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Ayres, Jamie K. "Inscriptions of Power: An Argument Against Traditional Gender Roles in Contemporary Culture." UNF Digital Commons, 2013. https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/469.
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In the western culture, historically speaking, there are different ideas of what gives an individual authority or power. There is also historical evidence of an unequal balance between men and women and throughout this thesis I will argue that this is still the case in contemporary society. This unbalance is evident in the ways in which women make use of their bodies in acts such as dieting and pregnancy, how women take on the role of caregivers, and the view of women in leadership positions. I maintain that one of the biggest concerns and contributors to this problem is the subject/object relationship in which women find themselves. In this dichotomy, women find themselves to be a subject and autonomous person while at the same time cognizant of the way they are viewed by others as objects. Within this subject/object dynamic, women become non-subjects and lose their autonomy. A large part of this ongoing relationship is due to the ways in which women use and are expected to use their bodies as well as minds due to social norms that have been passed down through the culture. This can stem from the way women physically maneuver their bodies as well as how others perceive their bodies typically in an inferior or sexualized way. The duality for women as objects is illustrated not only in the way men view women but in how women view other women as well. I will argue that many of the issues surrounding the subject/object dualism can be related back to the ways in which women, throughout their lives, use their bodies. I will illustrate how through the social education of women regarding how to utilize and experience their bodies, women often times lack both in physical ability as well as in leadership roles. I will illustrate how this takes place with young girls and how they maneuver their bodies in regards to physical capabilities. I will then examine the pregnancy process and the ways in which the subject/object relationship manifests due to the female body being seen as a human incubator and a thing that needs medical attention. Finally, I will look at the workplace and the different leadership styles that women are assumed to take as well as the potential resistance that accompanies the challenges to these norms. The types of barriers that are constructed for women to traverse and how those affect the abilities of women to function in a position of power within a university illustrate issues of gender equality for all women. Throughout the thesis, I will explore in detail some of the different barriers that have an impact on women. I argue that barriers have been constructed to hinder women and their perceived abilities within several contexts.
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Provencher, Olga JoAnn. "Ecofeminism and Religion: Christianity and the Ethical Approach to the Environment." UNF Digital Commons, 2013. https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/482.
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In this paper I attempt to formulate the Christianity-based ecocentric ethics, to answer the ecofeminists' quest to spiritually ground such ethics; I use the living example of the practices of the Catholic ''green sisters''.
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Floerke, Jennifer Jodelle. "A queer look at feminist science fiction: Examing Sally Miller Gearhart's The Kanshou." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2889.
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This thesis is a queer theory analysis of the feminist science fiction novel The Kanshou by Sally Miller Gearhart. After exploring both male and female authored science fiction in the literature review, two themes were to be dominant. The goal of this thesis is to answer the questions, can the traditional themes that are prevalent in male authored science fiction and feminist science fiction in representing gender and sexual orientation dichotomies be found in The Kanshou? And does Gearhart challenge these dichotomies by destabilizing them? The analysis found determined that Gearhart's The Kanshou does challenge traditional sociological norms of binary gender identities and sexual orientation the majority of the time.
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Slaight-Brown, Shannon M. "Restoration." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4890.
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The marks I make in clay have different characteristics, and the physical mark of one’s fingertips or visual record of the hand is personal and intimate. This visible activity is the evidence of my constant presence and control within each object. Its repetitive meditation produces a private relief from my persistent anxieties. This exploration for me is not only visual, but also physical. This is the start of my infatuation with the idea of pattern. It has its own discrete visual language and modes of communication; and through my research I am developing a method of intercommunication.
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Yakubov, Katya. "The Monstrous Self: Negotiating the Boundary of the Abject." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4815.
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Through the lens of the horror film and the fairy tale, this thesis explores the notion of the grotesque as a boundary phenomenon—a negotiation of what is self and what is other. As such, it locates the function that the monstrous and the grotesque have in the formation of a personal and social identity. In asking why we take pleasure in the perverse, I explore how permutations of guilt, victimhood, and desire can be actively rewritten, in order to construct a stable sense of self.
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Brice, Dusty A. "The Lawrentian Woman: Monsters in the Margins of 20th-Century British Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2612.
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Despite his own conservative values, D.H. Lawrence writes sexually liberated female characters. The most subversive female characters in Lawrence’s oeuvre are the Brangwens of The Rainbow. The Brangwens are prototypical models of a form of femininity that connects women to Nature while distancing them from society; his women are cast as monsters, but are strengthened from their link with Nature. They represent what I am calling the Lawrentian-Woman.
The Lawrentian-Woman has proven influential for contemporary British authors. I examine the Lawrentian-Woman’s adoption by later writers and her evolution from modernist frame to postmodern appropriation. First, I look at the Brangwens. They establish the tropes of the Lawrentian-Woman and provide the base from which to compare the model’s subsequent mutations. Next, I examine modern British writers and their appropriation of the Lawrentian-Woman. The Lawrentian-Woman’s attributes remain intact, but are deconstructed in ways that explore women’s continued liminality in patriarchal society.
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Davis, Nicole L. "Women in Ministry: How Conflicts Between God's Purpose and Church Doctrine Impact the Efficacy of Female Church Leaders." Diss., NSUWorks, 2019. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/131.
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The following research was a biographical narrative that examined the lived experiences of male and female church leaders and their perspectives on the social, moral, and religious implications of female church leadership. The purpose of this research was to explore the ideologies and identities of women leaders within the faith ministry, the definitions of ministry and leadership, the role of women in church ministry, and their understanding of marketplace ministry. I employed conflict resolution theories relating to power, change, and mental modeling as the basis of analysis for evaluating the impact of church policies and practices on the utilization of female church leaders. Twelve church leaders were invited to participate in this research, comprised of six women and six men from three different church denominations. Results found that the organizational culture had a mediating impact on gender equality and effectiveness of female church leadership. In a sense, female clergymen undermined and challenged the previously well-established patriarchal power within the church, leading to disruption and interpersonal conflicts. Seven salient themes emerged from the analysis: 1) struggle for gender equality; 2) gender vs. competence; 3) male dominated church culture; 4) gender bias and discrimination; 5) kingdom culture debate; 6) women resisting women, and 7) the significance of voice. The research also introduced the strategies for overcoming the patriarchy with critical consciousness and empowering clergywomen via the REFRESH Model.
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Randolph, Ellen P. "Gnosticism, Transformation, and the Role of the Feminine in the Gnostic Mass of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.)." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1686.
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The Gnostic Mass of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.) suggests a heterosexual gender binary in which the female Priestess seated on the altar as the sexual and fertile image of the divine feminine is directed by the male Priest’s activity, desire and speech. The apparent contradiction between the empowered individual and the polarized gender role was examined by comparing the ritual symbolism of the feminine with the interpretations of four Priestesses and three Priests (three pairs plus one). Findings suggest that the Priestess’ role in the Gnostic Mass is associated with channeling, receptivity, womb, cup, and fertility, while the Priest’s role is associated with enthusiasm, activity, phallus, lance, and virility. Despite this strong gender duality, the Priestesses asserted that their role was personally and spiritually empowering, and they maintained heterosexual and polarized gendered roles are necessary in a transformative ritual which ultimately reveals the godlike unified individual.
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March, François de. "La pensée de Georges Bataille peut-elle constituer un apport pour les sciences de gestion ? : l’exemple de la gestion des risques psycho-sociaux dans les organisations." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013CNAM0897.
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L’objectif de ce travail est de questionner l’œuvre de l’écrivain français Georges Bataille (1897-1962) pour déterminer si elle permet ou non d’apporter de nouveaux points de vue ou de nouvelles voies de résolution des problèmes posés en sciences de gestion. Les textes sollicités sont d’abord les essais théoriques, mais aussi certaines œuvres de fiction. Ceux qui sont à l’origine de la notion de « dépense », centrale pour l’ensemble de l’œuvre, les articles correspondant aux diverses activités groupales dans les années 1930, les essais de La Somme Athéologique pendant la guerre et ceux de La Part maudite après-guerre sont examinés. On montre alors que les « notions » que ces textes mettent en jeu, qui témoignent d’une anthropologie déchirée (dépense productive / dépense improductive, homogène / hétérogène, souveraineté, communication, interdit / transgression, possible / impossible…), peuvent ouvrir des pistes de recherche dans de nombreux thèmes de sciences de gestion : le pouvoir, la culture d’entreprise, la criminalité dans les organisations, le changement organisationnel, le sens du travail, l’éthique, l’épistémologie, les rapports entre le management et les sociétés, la sexualité dans les organisations…Trois notions de Bataille (dépense, souveraineté, communication) sont ensuite sollicitées pour analyser en détail les problèmes posés par la « gestion » des risques psychosociaux. Huit cas d’organisations servent de support à l’analyse.Au final, la thèse conclut à la pertinence du recours à la pensée de Bataille pour conduire des recherches en managementThe goal of this thesis is to question the work of the French author Georges Bataille (1897-1962) to determine whether it can bring new points of view or new attempts at solving the issues raised by management sciences. The texts which were studied are primarily theoretical essays, but also some works of fiction. Those which are at the origin of the notion of “expense”, a central notion in the entire work, the articles which correspond to various group activities in the 30’s, the essays of La Somme Athéologique during the war, as well as those of La Part maudite, after the war, were also examined. We then show that the “notions” these texts illustrate, which reflect a torn anthropology (productive/unproductive expense, homogenous/heterogenous, sovereignty, communication, interdiction/transgression, possible/impossible…), can open fields of research in numerous topics associated with management sciences: power, corporate culture, crime within organisations, organisational changes, the meaning of work, ethics, epistemology, the relationship between management and societies, sexuality in organisations…Three of Bataille’s notions (expense, sovereignty, communication) are then called upon to analyse in detail the problems raised when managing psychosocial risks. Eight case studies of organisations back up the demonstration.Finally, the thesis concludes that it is pertinent to refer to Bataille’s thinking when conducting management research
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Recchia, Michel. "Approche psychanalytique et métaphysique de la sexualité humaine." Nancy 2, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987NAN21002.
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S'organisant autour de l'opposition entre deux problématiques antinomiques, cette recherche réflexive porte sur la spécificité de la sexualité humaine, sur ses dimensions implicites ou virtuelles, sur sa signifiance centrale. La psychanalyse freudienne met en avant une sexualité de type psychobiologique. Cette conception nous parait très représentative de la modernité mais lacunaire à un niveau supérieur. Le "scientisme" freudien nous parait marqué par une idéologie morale conservatrice, une anthropologie réductrice, une philosophie négativiste. Ont pesé sur lui le darwinisme et tout un champ religieux occidental caractérisé par une spiritualité dualiste qui tend à déprécier et à sous-estimer le corps et les instincts. Une transcendance abstraite et désincarnée a souvent été définie par l'ontothéologie occidentale comme la seule forme possible de transcendance au prix d'une dévaluation de l'immanence, au prix de l'exclusion de l'ordre du divin de la vie, de la nature, de la femme, de la sexualité. A un discours psychanalytique moderne sur le sexe devenu aujourd'hui particulièrement totalitaire et insidieux, il importe d'opposer un autre discours qui est celui du monde de la tradition. De tous temps et sous des formes diverses, l'homme traditionnel a su reconnaitre les rapports très étroits du sexuel au magique, au sacré, au spirituel, au transcendant. (L’arrière-plan doctrinal est alors une spiritualité il semble judicieux d'opposer méthodologiquement le tantrisme à la psychanalyse car le tantrisme se présente lui-même comme l'expression moderne privilégiée des vérités traditionnelles. Le sexe y est donné comme l'un des derniers moyens dont l'homme dispose encore pour s'élever en-dessus de lui-même. Autant la psychanalyse théorise la sexualité comme une force aliénante et subversive, autant le tantrisme la définit comme une force magico-transcendante pouvant "libérer" l'être humain et lui permettre de dissoudre les habituelles limites de sa conscience empirique. . . . (*) le parallélisme doctrinal conduit aussi à un inévitable questionnement d'ordre sociologique sur la régression des singularismes sexuels, sur les mutations rapides et profondes des identités psychosexuelles sur les enjeux cachés des nouvelles mœurs comportementales. (*) à la primordialité sexuelle subpersonnelle mise en relief par le modèle théorique freudien vient faire contraste la primordialité sexuelle suprapersonnelle du tantrisme. En l'être humain, par une dégradation ou inversion démoniaque, la première s'est de plus en plus imposée et substituée à la seconde dans un processus involutif toujours plus accuséSettled up around the opposition between two antinomous problematics, this reflexive research is based on human sexuality, its virtual or implicit dimensions, its central significance. Freudian psychoanalysis puts forward a psycho-biological type of sexuality. This concept appears to us as very representative of a modernist thesis but quite incomplete to a superior level. The freudian "scientism" appears to us featured by a conservative moral ideology, a restrictive anthropology, a negative philosophy. Darwin theory and all the occidental religious environment featured by a dual spirituality which leads to the depreciation and underevaluation of the body, the instincts. An abstract and disincarnate transcendence has often been defined by the occidental ontotheology as the single possible way of transcendence at the price of a devaluation of immanence, at the price of the exlcusion of the divine part of life, of nature, of women, of sexuality. To a modern, psychoanalytical speech on sex appearing today particularly totalitarian and insidious today, it is important to oppose another speeck which is the one of the traditional world. At all times and under various ways, men have been able to recognize the very light relations between sexual and magic ritual, sacred, spiritual transcendental. It appears judicious to oppose methodoligical tantrism to psychoanalysis, for tantrism presents itself as the modern privileged expression of traditionnal truth. Sex is seen as one of the last ways given to men to rise above themselves. As much psychoanalysis theorizes sexuality as an alienating and subversive strength, as much tantrism defines it as a magico-transcendental strength able to release human being and allow him to dissolve the usual limits of empirical consciousness. . . (*) this doctrinal parallelism leads also to an unavoidable search of sociological order on the regression of sexual singularisms, on quick mutations, on the secrete stakes of new behaviour manners. (*) to the subpersonnal sexual priority brought out by freudian theoritical model makes contrast the suprapersonnal sexual priority of tantrism. In human being, by a degradation or demoniacal inversion, the first one has settled itself more and more and substituted itself for the second in an involutive process always more featured
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Schiller, Lina. "En bur gick ut för att finna en fågel : En tolkning av tolv kvinnors berättelser om mödomshinnan och kvinnlig oskuld." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-24838.
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This paper is an interview study with 12 women between the ages of 17-88 from Bohuslän, Sweden and their thoughts about female virginity and the hymen. Today it has been proven that there exists no hymen that breaks at a woman’s first sexual intercourse. Nonetheless, the study shows that the myth of the hymen is still alive even though it is fading in the younger generations. All the women in the study have at some point in their lives believed there was a hymen but many have via education or media been informed that that’s not the case. Despite education, the hymen was still related to blood, pain, difficulties using feminine care products, or thoughts that something might rupture due to sport activities, like horse riding. Based on the women’s reports, this paper interprets why female virginity has become something that is in need of surveillance and control. As understood from Lévi-Strauss’s theories on the kinship system, the woman becomes a gift unit through the ritual of marriage. The alleged presence of the intact hymen is the valorizing factor in said structure. The semi-structured interviews were analyzed through a content analysis and interpreted by using the post-modernistic theoretical frameworks, with focus on the ideas of Michel Foucault. Further post-structuralist theories are applied to interpret how language and action create norms and truths. The results indicate that the belief in the existence of the hymen as an anatomical structure took hold in medical science and popular culture in line with the hypothesis that power creates knowledge. The results also show that knowledge is not constant: from being an established truth among the older participants in the study, to the youngest generation expressing that the hymen is something “old”. Simultaneously, all women expressed that the hymen and female virginity are connected to discipline and power asymmetries. The results show that the hymen, in this specific context can be seen as a social construction with the aim of maintaining unity and discipline.
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Rocha, Eva. "Antithetical Commentaries on X, Y and the Disruption of Being." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4278.
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Through discursive essays and poetic narrative, Antithetical Commentaries on X, Y and the Disruption of Being explores the tenuous relationship between modes of measurement and the struggle for human relevance in the post-contemporary digital age. In the introductory essay, “Not the Feather, but the Bird”, I give an overview of the inherent problems of object-oriented ontology, and how it relates to aesthetics and social issues of our times. In the Developmental Overview, I detail how I developed my installation approach and techniques, particularly with regard to the three-way dynamic of the artist:work:viewer relationship and how it can encourage a ‘transgression’ that leads to the possibility of a transformative awareness of being. Subsequently, I present a series of ‘antithetical’ commentaries that neither explain nor expand the installation, rather, they create a non-binary duality that, through an entirely non-linear anti-narrative, work to erode the overlay of personal, civic and collective grids present in the memory space/time referenced in the video, TAG. Finally, in “Grid: Towards a Transgressive Humanism.” I propose a path by which installation art might serve to create transgressive opportunities for viewers, rather than the transcendence sought through religious rituals, which often reinforce stigmas, fears and authoritarian social dynamics, or worse, the reductive loop, of many contemporary approaches to art which proclaim
their detachment in wordy displays, essentially leading to a form of aesthetic nihilism. This Transgressive Humanism is not presented as a dogma, but rather a revitalization of the work as a vessel of possibilities, an agent of creative growth for the artist and the viewer.
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Ortega, Laura M. "The Commodification of Queer Virgins in Shakespeare, Spenser, and Keats." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1905.
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The purpose of this thesis was to explore selected works from William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, and John Keats, in order to expose textual instances of feminist thought. This analysis was aided with feminist theorists falling under the main strains of queer theory, materialism, and gender performance. Specifically, this thesis focused on the ways in which women, particularly virgin daughters, were viewed as property by their male kin. It also looked at how these women engaged in various symbolic masquerades and/or actual cross-dressing as a response to the aforementioned phenomenon. Finally, the thesis exposed how these masquerades can be construed as a queering of identity—manifested through reversals of power and rejection of patriarchal institutions like marriage.
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Shin, Eunhwa [Verfasser], and Wilhelm [Akademischer Betreuer] Metz. "Ein philosophisches Nachdenken über die Entfremdung der Sexualität." Freiburg : Universität, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1119328233/34.
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King, Taylor Z. "A Spectacle and Nothing Strange." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5905.
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Working through methods of abstraction and comedic mimicry I choreograph awkwardly balanced sculpture with objects of adornment as a means to defuse personal sensitivities surrounding my experiences of gender, desire, and home. The research that follows is concerned with the adjacent, the in between, above and underneath, because I feel that this kind of looking means that you are, to some degree, aware of what lies at the edges. Maybe this is what Gertrude Stein means to act as though there is no use in a center—because this concerns a way of relating, though there are many things in the room.
‘A spectacle and nothing strange’ is an arrangement of gestures, of made difference, of kinships, of orientations and possible futures, sustained tension, coded adornment, big dyke energy, shifts in hardness, leaning softness, much more than flowers, ...and in any case there is sweetness and some of that.
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Diz, Sabrina. "Spiritual Violence: Queer People and the Sacrament of Communion." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/882.
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This thesis addresses spiritual violence done to queer people in the sacrament of Communion, or Eucharist, in both Protestant and Roman Catholic churches in the U.S. Rooted in the sexual dimorphic interpretation of Genesis, theologians engendered Christianity with sexism and patriarchy, both of which have since developed into intricate intersections of oppressions. Religious abuse is founded on the tradition of exclusionary practices and is validated through narrow interpretations of Scripture that work to reassert the authority of the experiences of the dominant culture. The resultant culture of oppression manifests itself in ritualized spiritual violence. Queer people are deemed “unworthy” to take ‘the body and blood of the Christ’ and, in fact, are excluded altogether. This “unworthiness” is expressed as spiritual violence against queer people who are shunned and humiliated, internalize hateful messages, and are denied spiritual guidance or life-affirming messages. By “queering” Scripture, or reading the Bible anew through a framework of justice, queer people have begun to sacramentalize their experiences and reclaim their place at the table.
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Ogundoro, Oluwafisayo. "In Search of Work-Life Balance: Organizational and Economic Challenges Confronting Women in Banking and Management Consulting Firms in Southwest Nigeria." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3674.
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Married women in the banking and management consulting firms in Nigeria encounter challenges that affect their commitment to their families while working long hours in demanding jobs. This study explores the challenges married women encounter and the impacts they have on women’s family lives, social lives, and health. I analyze primary and secondary sources to understand how organizational work culture such as long working hours, work competitiveness, and Nigeria’s unstable economy negatively affect the work-life balance of married women in banking and management consulting firms. Although participants shared the belief that their workplaces practiced “equality,” their descriptions of daily life activities indicate that women did not enjoy egalitarian conditions at work or at home. This study brings to light the challenges faced by married women and suggests how the Nigerian government can promote gender equality in the workplace through the review and amendment of the Nigerian Labor policy.
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Autran, Isabelle. "Les figures sexuelles de l'altérité : échanges symboliques entre les sexualités animales et humaines." Montpellier 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007MON30043.
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Le « point de départ » de ce travail réside dans une double équation aux frontières poreuses : l’autre/l’animal et l’altérité/l’animalité. Les « échanges symboliques des sexualités animales et humaines » délimitent le champ thématique (la sexualité) selon lequel vont être abordées ces notions. L’« échange symbolique » est ici un retournement rhétorique qui matérialise deux orientations thématiques. Dans la première proposition, la problématique de la sexualité sera le prisme d’intelligibilité qui permettra de penser le vivant animal. La sexualité chez l’animal sera envisagée comme un comportement signifiant dont il conviendra d’analyser les différents paliers de complexifications. Ici, la sexualité constitue – au sens phénoménologique du terme – notre vision de l’altérité animale et cela amène logiquement à se demander comment l’accès à cette altérité est possible. Dans la deuxième proposition, « les figures animales de la sexualité », les configurations argumentatives dans lesquelles sont prises les figures animales permettent de penser la sexualité humaine. Les figures animales déterminent des horizons de sens qui se déploient selon des couples d’oppositions existentielles : exister et ne pas exister ; exister en tant qu’homme et non comme animal (même si cette distinction n’est pas toujours tranchée) ; et enfin, exister en tant qu’être sexué. Le prisme d’analyse des figures animales s’effectue ici par la voie d’une herméneutique qui s’applique dans le champ du sacré, du rite et de la croyance. La question est alors de montrer comment l’animalité en tant construction ontologique se définit et se catégorise dans et par le champ de la sexualitéIf we combine the notions of the Same and of the Other, we obtain the following avenues of research: the animal and man, and the animal in man or the animality of man as an ideological construction which is a reversed ontology from a concept which is defined as the negative of the human element. The notion of figure allows to dialecticize the relationship between human sexualities and animal sexualities by highlighting the modes of alteration of the one (man) by the other (the animal). Here the “symbolic exchange” is a rhetorical reversal which materializes two theme orientations: “the sexual figures of animality” and the “animal figures of sexuality”. In the first proposal, the problematics of sexuality will be the prism of intelligibility which will allow to think the living animal aspect. The animal sexuality will be considered as a significant behaviour, the different stages of complexification of which should be analyzed. In the second proposal, the argument configurations in which animal figures are taken allow to conceive human sexuality. The animal figures determine horizons of senses which unfold according to couples of opposites. The analysis prism of animal figures is effected through a hermeneutics which applies in the domain of the sacred, rite and belief
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Cederholm, Molin Hanna, and Linnéa Lindberg. "Sexualitet och samlevnad ur ett religionsdidaktiskt perspektiv : En studie om hur lärare kan lyfta fram sexualitet och samlevnad i religionskunskapsundervisningen." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-39314.
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Med vår litteraturstudie eftersträvar vi möjligheten att ge lärarstudenter och lärare en inblick i klassrumsundervisning om sexualitet och samlevnad, eftersom det inte behandlas i lärarutbildningen. Syftet med studien är att lyfta fram de utmaningar och möjligheter som förekommer i religionskunskapsundervisning om sexualitet och samlevnad. Genom att granska forskning inom området har vi besvarat en frågeställning anpassad till vårt syfte. Vidare följer en bakgrundsbeskrivning till området som läsaren kan välja att ta del av för att få ökad förståelse för det framställda resultatet. Fortsättningsvis presenteras det tillvägagångsätt vi har använt oss av för att ta fram och analysera material. I resultatet redovisas vetenskaplig forskning om utmaningar och möjligheter för lärare i undervisning om sexualitet och samlevnad. En av de utmaningar som är mest framstående är den dominerande heteronormen som skildras i klassrummen. Vidare skapar det medvetet eller omedvetet grupperingar mellan exempelvis heterosexuella och homosexuella där vi fördelar in oss i grupper om ’vi’ och ’dem’. Därför står lärare inför utmaningar gällande val av metoder i undervisningen för att inkludera alla. Att bli personlig i undervisning om sexualitet och samlevnad visar sig vara en utmaning då det är svårt att förhålla sig mellan det privata och personliga. Samtidigt kan det även ses som en möjlighet då det främjar öppenhet i diskussioner och samtal mellan lärare och elever. För att skapa möjligheter till givande diskussioner är den interpersonella kunskapen en viktig faktor för god undervisning. I litteraturstudiens sista avsnitt kan man avläsa vår diskussion utefter egna erfarenheter i relation till det framställda resultatet.
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Gouws, Andries Stefanus. "Psychoanalysis and the other : an essay on Freud's metapsychology, hermeneutics and theory of sexuality /." Utrecht : Universiteit voor Humanistiek, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37111955q.
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Th. Ph. D.--Utrecht--Universiteit voor Humanistiek, 1998.Mention parallèle de titre ou de responsabilité : Psychoanalyse, de ander en het andere : een verhandeling over Freud's metapsychologie, hermeneutiek en theorie van de seksualiteit. Contient un résumé en néerlandais. Bibliogr. p. 350-358. Index.
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Paludan, Kajsa. "Lisbeth Salander Lost In Translation - An Exploration of the English Version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1935.
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This thesis sets out to explore the cultural differences between Sweden and the United States by examining the substantial changes made to Men Who Hate Women, including the change in the book’s title in English to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. My thesis focuses in particular on changes in the depiction of the female protagonist: Lisbeth Salander. Unfortunately we do not have access to translator Steven T. Murray’s original translation, though we know that the English publisher and rights holder Christopher MacLehose chose to enhance Larsson’s work in order to make the novel more interesting for English-speaking readers, which resulted in Murray translating under the pseudonym Reg Keeland as he did not agree to the translation made by MacLehose and Knopf. Furthermore, this thesis touches on the ethics of translation, and will likewise argue the importance of facilitating a dialog concerning misogyny and rape culture.
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Saveman, Rasmus. "Religion och sexualitet i skolan : En analys av läroböcker för religionskunskap 1." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-403085.
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This essay is about how sexuality is written about in Swedish textbooks for the upper secondary school in Sweden according to the curriculum. Sweden got a new curriculum for the upper secondary school in 2011 and the term sexuality entered the chapter about the religion education for the first time. The essay works through textbooks systematically and see how they write about the subject and how they chose to interpret the curriculum. Some textbooks have editions issued both before and after 2011 and the essay analyses how they have changed in order to fit to the new curriculum.
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Lukong, Paul Foka. "The integration of geospatial data into the surveillance and management of HIV/AIDS in Cameroon : thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2004. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phl9549.pdf.
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Golden, Tasha L. "Push." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1345477184.
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Howell, Danielle Marie. "Cloning the Ideal? Unpacking the Conflicting Ideologies and Cultural Anxieties in "Orphan Black"." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1460059315.
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Icleanu, Constantin C. "A CASE FOR EMPATHY: IMMIGRATION IN SPANISH CONTEMPORARY MEDIA, MUSIC, FILM, AND NOVELS." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/33.
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This dissertation analyzes the representations of immigrants from North Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe in Spain. As engaged scholarship, it seeks to better the portrayal of immigrants in the mass media through the study of literature, film, and music about immigration spanning from the year 2000 to 2016. Because misconceptions continue to propagate in the media, this dissertation works to counteract anti-immigrant, xenophobic representations as well as balance out overly positive and orientalized portrayal of immigrants with a call to recognize immigrants as human beings who deserve the same respect, dignity, and rights as any other citizen.
Chapter 1 examines and analyzes the background to immigration in Spain by covering demographics, the mass media, and political theories related to immigration. Chapter 2 analyzes Spanish music about immigration through Richard Rorty’s social theory of ‘sentimental education’ as a meaningful way to redescribe marginalized minorities as full persons worthy of rights and dignity. Chapter 3 investigates the representation of immigrants in Spanish filmic shorts and cinema. Lastly, Chapter 4 demonstrates how literary portrayals of immigrants written by undocumented immigrants can give rise to strong characters that avoid victimization and rear empathy in their readers in order to affect a social change that minimizes cruelty.
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Senger, Saesha. "Gender, Politics, Market Segmentation, and Taste: Adult Contemporary Radio at the End of the Twentieth Century." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/150.
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This dissertation explores issues of gender politics, market segmentation, and taste through an examination of the contributions of several artists who have achieved Adult Contemporary (AC) chart success. The scope of the project is limited to a period when many artists who figured prominently in both the broader mainstream of American popular music and the more specific Adult Contemporary category were most commercially viable: from the mid-1980s through the 1990s. My contention is that, as gender politics and gendered social norms continued to change in the United States at this time, Adult Contemporary – the chart, the format, and the associated music – was an important, if overlooked or even trivialized, arena in which these shifting gender dynamics played out. This dissertation explores the significance of the Adult Contemporary format at the end of the twentieth century through analysis of chart performance, artist image, musical works, marketing, and contextual factors. By documenting these relevant social, political, economic, and musical factors, the notable role of a format and of artists neglected by scholars becomes clear.
I explore these issues in the form of lengthy case studies. Examinations of how Adult Contemporary artists such as Michael Bolton, Wilson Phillips, Matchbox Twenty, David Gray, and Mariah Carey were produced and marketed, and how their music was disseminated, illustrate record and radio industry strategies for negotiating the musical, political, and social climate of this period. Significantly, musical and lyrical analyses of songs successful on AC stations, and many of their accompanying promotional videos highlight messages about musical genre, gender, race, and age. This dissertation ultimately demonstrates that Adult Contemporary-oriented music figured significantly in the culture wars, second and third wave feminism, expressions of masculinity, Generation-X struggles, postmodern identity, and market segmentation.
This study also illustrates how the record and radio industries have managed audience composition and behavior to effectively and more predictably produce and market music in the United States. This dissertation argues that, amid broader social determinations for taste, the record industry, radio programmers, and Billboard chart compilers and writers have helped to make and reinforce certain assumptions about who listens to which music and why they do so. In addition, critics have weighed in on what different musical genres and artists have offered and for whom, often assigning higher value to music associated with certain genres, socio-political associations, and listeners while claiming over-commercialization, irrelevance, aesthetic insignificance, and bad taste for much other music.
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Yip, Sheenie. "Sinofuturism." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1174.
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Mopsik, Charles. "Recherches autour de la lettre sur la Sainteté : sources, textes, influences." Paris 1, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA010514.
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Nous explorons d'abord les principales expressions de la dualité sexuée dans la littérature théosophique de la Cabale : nous constatons la présence de cette dualité à tous les niveaux : au sein du monde divin, du monde des âmes, du monde démonique, et de l'homme corporel. La structure duelle est la composante clé du système de pensée des cabalistes. Les questions relatives à cette dualité que nous abordons sont les suivantes : unions des pôles contraires, différentiation irréductible, altérité, égalité et eschatologie, fondement métaphysique des relations interdites. Les incestes, la force de ce schème à l’intérieur d'une religion rigoureusement monothéiste : le judaïsme- fait du cabalisme un mouvement de pensée très singulier. Nous examinons ensuite la dimension métaphysique que les cabalistes ont prêtée à la copulation sexuelle ainsi qu'à la procréation. A partir d'un ouvrage du XIIIe siècle, œuvre probable de R. Joseph Gikatila, cabaliste de Castille, nous montrons le haut intérêt spéculatif accordé par les cabalistes à la relation sexuelle ainsi que la puissance théurgique qui lui est impartie. En particulier, le rôle joue par l'"intention" des parents au moment de la copulation sur le futur enfant est souligné et étudié en détail. L'acte sexuel se révèle être finalement un acte de penser créateur qui peut constituer une véritable imitation Dei ou une union mysticaAt first we explore the main expressions of sexual duality in theosophycal literature of kabbalah we consider the presence of that duality at any level of being : in realms of the godhead, in the world of the souls, in the universe of demonic entities and in the human material sphere. The dualistic structure is a key component of the kabbalist systemic thought. The questions we examine about this duality are as follows : unions of contraries, irreductible differentiation, alterity equality and escatology. We learn so about the metaphysical foundation of prohibited intercourses. The power of this scheme into a monotheistic religion -judaism- make kabbalism a very singular trend of thought. After this we examine the metaphysical dimension given by kabbalists to sexual intercourse and to procreation. From a study about a work of the thirteenth century, probably by the hand of r. Joseph gikatila, a castillan kabbalist, we show the high interest taken by kabbalists to sexual intercourse and to its theurgical power they ascribe to it. Especially, the part played by parents' "intention" at instant of copulation on the intended child is emphasied and analysed with details. Sexual act is revealed to be finaly a creatif thinking
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Guetemme, Geneviève. "Les barrières du désir : le corps et ses limites." Paris 1, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA010546.
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Comment l'être se présente-t-il face à l'autre? La question est ici envisagée à travers l'analyse d'un ensemble de compositions qui figurent des corps humains, entiers ou partiels, dont l'épaisseur et le rapport au cadre sont toujours mis en valeur. Ces compositions proposent une approche particulière du corps humain, du tableau, de la notion d'espace et de l'acte pictural. Le corps et le tableau sont appréhendés comme des ensembles spatialisés, solidement contenus, mais toujours tendus vers une extrême limite au-delà de laquelle tout devient autre et par là-même dangereux et fascinant. Il s'agit de rester sur le bord. Blocage "à la limite" que des dispositifs plastiques tels que le gras, l'enchevêtrement textile, le nœud, la condensation ou la série rendent nettement en donnant une cons orce et leurs moyens de pression. En fait, elles sont liées à l'humanité, a l'origine et à la fin de tout être. Elles parlent de l'homme comme d'un système de bords face à d'autres bords et présentent la peinture, elle-même fondée sur un ensemble de séparations, comme le mode d'expression le plus approprie à une transposition de l'être humain et de sa position dans le monde face à ce qui lui est autre. L'être et la peinture sont présentés comme des ensembles suspendus, animés d'un mouvement de va-et-vient entre le désir et la peur : ils ne sont jamais surs de leur propre définitionHow doe the being face the other? This question is dealt with through the analysis of a set of paintings which represent partial or entire human bodies whose thickness and relation to the frame is always emphasied. These paintings suggest a particular approach to the human body, the picture, the notion of space and the pictorial act. The body and the picture are seen as spatialized elements, firmly contained, but always aiming at an extreme limit beyond which everything become "the other" and thus dangerous and fascinating. The aim is to remain on the frontier and plastic means - such as fat, the entanglement of textiles, knots, condensation, or series - clearly convey this by materializing what is on the frontier. The limits are finally studied in themselves, in their flesh, thickness, movements and desires, in a word, in their own existence, strength and means of pressure. In fact, they present man as a system of frontiers opposed to other frontiers and painting (itself based on a set of separations) as the most appropriate way of transposing the opposition between the being (and his position in the world) and the other. The being and the painting are shown as elements suspended in their movement, coming and going from desire to fear. In fact, they never manage to settle their own definition