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King, Nikole June. "Men's physique standars of embodiment and Middle-class masculinity in Nineteenth-century British and American fiction /". Diss., UC access only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=96&did=1906549281&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=7&retrieveGroup=0&VType=PQD&VInst=PROD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1270483425&clientId=48051.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009.Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 262-274). Issued in print and online. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations.
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Smith, Wayne. "Factions and class fictions : investigating narratives of resistance in representations of lower-class men in post-War British literature in the New Wave & Thatcherite years, &, If I'm ever to find these trees meaningful I must have you by the thighs : a collection of poems". Thesis, Brunel University, 2015. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13791.
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This thesis combines an academic investigation and creative writing practice in an attempt to understand the politics at work within mainstream notions of working-class masculine identity, and the role of literature in these discourses. Beginning with an academic analysis, the formulations and intersection of class and masculinity are outlined, explicating how systems, implemented by the middle-class creation of values, form social narratives whereby men of certain settings with associative lifestyles and practices, are privileged over other less valued groups of men. In this respect, its concerns are primarily with the socio-symbolic. Locating this discourse within an Aristotelian dichotomy of the mind and the body, this theoretical position is then applied in the scrutiny of six mainstream fictional narratives of two historic periods, each originally held to be politically subversive. In calling to question the validity of these original claims, further questions are raised regarding the nature of the mainstream fictional narrative at large, and whether it is an effective way of representing the politics of working-class identity, or whether, by its nature, it serves to reproduce its working-class characters as fixed subjects, immovable from their positions in a stable class system. This line of inquiry is then further explored in the deconstruction of my own creative work, in which I initially sought to represent the concerns of my own working-class heritage. The resulting issues raised with respect to mainstream, linear narrative leading to the investigation of other potential forms of representation for the working-class male, culminating in the exploration of my own shifting identity in a non-linear, multi-directional collection of poetry.
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Behlen, Shawn Lee. "East, West, Somewhere in the Middle". Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277715/.
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A work of creative fiction in novella form, this dissertation follows the first-person travails of Mitch Zeller, a 26-year-old gay man who is faced with an unexpected choice. The dissertation opens with a preface which examines the form of the novella and the content of this particular work.
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Malek, Alard A. "The dissolution of career in the lives of middle-class, middle-aged men". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0021/NQ46384.pdf.
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Tecik, Zeynep. "Fatherhood Experiences Of Lower-middle Class Men: The Case Of Eskisehir". Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615135/index.pdf.
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Like femininity, there is not one type of masculinity. Since there are different kinds of masculinities, there are also various types of fatherhood. Historical, cultural, economic, and social factors can affect fatherhood experiences in different ways. The aim of this thesis is to analyze the fatherhood experiences of lower-middle class men who live in Eskisehir and have at least one son. Within this context men&rsquos relations with their sons and their fathers will be the focus of this study. Issues such as early childhood experiences, maturity, work life, education life, and domestic division of labor will also be included with reference to the fatherhood experiences of the men in the sample.
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Banerjee, Swapna M. "Men, women, and domestics : articulating middle-class identity in colonial Bengal /". New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40029606s.
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Favero, Paolo. "India Dreams : Cultural Identity among Young Middle Class Men in New Delhi". Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Socialantropologiska institutionen, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-344.
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In 1991 the Indian government officially sanctioned the country’s definitive entry into the global market and into a new era. This study focuses on the generation that epitomizes this new era and is based on fieldwork among young English-speaking, educated, Delhi-based men involved in occupations such as tourism, Internet, multinationals, journalism and sports. These young men construct their role in society by promoting themselves as brokers in the ongoing exchanges between India and the outer world. Together they constitute a heterogeneous whole with different class-, caste- and regional background. Yet, they can all be seen as members of the ‘middle class’ occupying a relatively privileged position in society. They consider the opening of India to the global market as the key-event that has made it possible for them to live an “interesting life” and to avoid becoming “boring people”. This exploration into the life-world of these young men addresses in particular how they construct their identities facing the messages and images that they are exposed to through work- and leisure-networks. They understand themselves and what surrounds them by invoking terms such as ‘India’ and ‘West’, ‘tradition’ and ‘modernity’, mirroring the debates on change that have gone on in India since colonization. Yet, they imaginatively re-work the content of these discourses and give the quoted terms new meanings. In their usage ‘being Indian’ is turned into a ‘global’, ‘modern’ and ‘cosmopolitan’ stance while ‘being Westernized’ becomes a marker of ‘backwardness’ and lack of sophistication. Their experiences mark out the popularity of notions of ‘Indianness’ in contemporary metropolitan India. The study focuses on how social actors themselves experience their self-identity and how these experiences are influenced by the actors’ involvement with international flows of images and conceptualizations. It will primarily approach cultural identities through labels of belonging to abstract categories with shifting reference (referred to them as ‘phantasms’) such as ‘India’, ‘West’, etc. The study suggests that the ‘import’ of trans-national imagination into everyday life gives birth to sub-cultural formations, new ‘communities of imagination’. Their members share a similar imagination of themselves, of Delhi, their country and the world.
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Cross, Sandra Jane. "Views from the center: Middle-class white men and perspectives on social privilege". CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2956.
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The purpose of this study was to provide a space in which white, middle-class men could consider and discuss their identity and its relationship to privilege. Transcripts from focus group number three is included in the thesis' appendix.
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Rivers, Bronwyn Anne. "Mid-nineteenth-century women novelists and the question of women's work". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365499.
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Tjeder, David. "The power of character : Middle-class masculinities, 1800–1900". Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Univ. : www.tjeder.nu [distributör], 2003. http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:213690.
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Vassiliou, Ioannis. "Fictions of the middling sort : the myth of the middle class in early modern England /". Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3004391.
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Clawson, Nicole Perry. "Obliterating Middle-Class Culpability: Sarah Grand's New Woman Short Fiction in George Bentleys Temple Bar". BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6317.
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Scholars interested in the popular Victorian periodical Temple Bar have primarily focused on the editorship of George Augustus Sala, under whom the journal paradoxically began delivering controversial content to conservative middle-class readers. But while the Temple Bar's sensation fiction and social realism have already been considered, critics have not yet examined Temple Bar's New Woman fiction, which was published during the last decade of the 19th century and George Bentley's reign as editor-in-chief. While functioning as editor-in-chief, Bentley sought to adhere to the dictates found in the 1860 prospectus, to "inculcate thoroughly English sentiment: respect for authority, attachment to the Church, and loyalty to the Queen." The Temple Bar seems an odd publication venue for the audacious New Woman writer Sarah Grand. And yet, Grand published several short stories in Temple Bar under the editorship of Bentley. Knowing Bentley's infamous editorial hatchet work, we might assume that he would cut from Grand's writing any unsavory bits of traditional New Woman content. Instead, a comparison of Grand's Temple Bar stories, "Kane, A Soldier Servant" and "Janey, A Humble Administrator," with their later unedited, republished versions (found in Grand's Our Manifold Nature) suggests that Bentley had a different editorial agenda. This analysis of Grand's fiction demonstrates that it was not New Woman subjects that Bentley found objectionable but the culpability her texts placed on the upper-middle class for their failure to act on behalf of the lower classes. Examining Bentley's removal of this material thus sheds new light on the dangers of New Woman literature as perceived by its Victorian audiences.
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Davis, Sandra L. Vaidya Sheila R. "Race-related stress, quality of life and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk in middle-class african american men /". Philadelphia, Pa. : Drexel University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1860/3266.
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Barnett, Ashley. "Prudery and Perversion: Domination of the Sexual Body in Middle-Class Men, Women, and Disenfranchised Bodies in Victorian England". Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3172.
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This research argues that with the rise of the middle-class, Victorian England saw the development of a power model in which middle-class men, middle-class women and disenfranchised bodies of children and lower-class women suffered from the demands of bodily domination. Because the bodily health of middle-class men was believed to represent national health, it was imperative that he dominate his body, particularly with regard to sexual urges. Consequently, the bodies of women with whom he sought sexual release suffered from forms of bodily domination as well. Through an analysis of journals and private writings of those living in Victorian England, magazines, books, and advisory texts published during the nineteenth century, and philosophical interpretations of Victorian sexuality by historians, an image emerges in which Victorian sexuality is categorized by the need to dominate the body.
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Masters, Allison. "The sort . . . of people to which I belong Elizabeth Gaskell and the middle class /". Diss., [Missoula, Mont.] : The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06172009-112406.
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Terrell, Billie P. "Impact of ethnic socialization, ethnic identity, and discrimination on self-esteem and parenting attitudes of middle-class African-American men". Click here for text online. The Institute of Clinical Social Work Dissertations website, 2003. http://www.icsw.edu/_dissertations/terrell_2003.pdf.
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Dissertation (Ph.D.) -- The Institute for Clinical Social Work, 2003.A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Institute of Clinical Social Work in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
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Burr, Sandra. "Beneath the Umbrellas of Benevolent Men: Validation of the Middle-Class Woman in "Little Women" and "Five Little Peppers and How They Grew"". W&M ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625669.
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Williams, Rita D. "The Easy Way versus The Hard Way: Middle-Class Black Male Students' Perceptions of Education as it Relates to Success and Career Aspirations". unrestricted, 2009. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04162009-091208/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2009.Title from file title page. Eric Freeman, committee chair; Richard D. Lakes, Carlos R. McCray, Joel Meyers, committee members. Description based on contents viewed Nov. 10, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-155).
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Macdonald, Ronald. "Pagbukadkad ng bulaklak = Blooming of the flower : an ethnographic study of a friendship group of same-sex attracted middle-class young men from Metro Manila in the Philippines". Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2007. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/244.
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In this dissertation I examine “gay” life in the Philippines by focusing on a longstanding friendship group of same-sex attracted middle-class young men living in Metro Manila who identify as bakla/gay/homosexual. I explain how dynamics of gender and sexuality including identity expression are conceptualised, articulated and negotiated through the interphase of Philippine culture, social class, economic status and the cultural appropriation and adaptation of elements of Western gay discourse and lifestyle. Ethnography was selected as the most appropriate qualitative research method because of its theoretical and philosophical “fit” with the methodological assumptions that underpin this study. A key feature in both the theoretical and ideological approaches taken in this project has been the inclusion of Filipino theoretical perspectives rather than coming from a purely Western paradigmatic viewpoint. I argue that collectivism is a fundamental concept and guiding principle that underscores Filipino cultural life and societal worldview, and because of these affectations, dynamically informs on the ways in which social relations of gender and sexuality are structured and experienced. Western societies function on the psychological and ethical principle of individualism (a concept connected with notions of political autonomy rather than group association), and it is because of the inherent differences between these social paradigms that I conclude that local Filipino forms of homoeroticism and gender variance are conceived in cultural conditions unlike those embodied in equivalent Western metropoles. The data presented in this dissertation elucidates these systemic differences by exploring pertinent social issues that link the experience of urban Filipino cultural life with gender and sexuality.
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Fernández, Dávila Percy, e Daniel Ávila. "lndicators of homosexuality in the Human Figure Test: comparison between homosexual and heterosexual men". Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/100939.
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This study reviews graphic indicators (GI) of homosexuality in the Human Figure Drawing Test (HFDT) which have been described in various texts on projective tests. 36 homosexual and 30 heterosexual men were enrolled, all middle-class and aged 18-50. Each participan! drew three figures (man, woman and themselves). Information from the literature, the Gis from the study, and the expertise of a group of psychologists concerning which Gis describe homosexuality in HFDTs were analyzed. Results show that large differences do not exist between Gis of drawings by homosexual men and heterosexual men. However, three characteristic indicators were found in the drawings of homosexual men (Semi-Nude Female and Self Figures, Female Figure with Cupid Arch Mouth, and Self Figure with Large/ Emphasized Eyes) and one indicator in those by heterosexual males (Male Figure with Empty Eyes). Almost al! of the Gis found in the literature fail to describe homosexuality and that clinicians continue to be influenced by stereotypic conceptions of homosexuality.El estudio revisa los indicadores gráficos (IG) sobre homosexualidad en el Dibujo de la Figura Humana descritos en diversos textos sobre pruebas proyectivas. Participaron 36 hombres homosexuales y 30 hombres heterosexuales de clase media (18-50 años), quienes realizaron tres dibujos (hombre, mujer y sí mismo). Se analizaron los IG resultantes del estudio, la información de la literatura y lo que señalan un grupo de psicólogos sobre los IG que describen homosexualidad. Los resultados revelan que no existen mayores diferencias entre los IG de los dibujos de los hombres homosexuales y de los heterosexuales; sólo se encontraron tres indicadores característicos en los hombres homosexuales (Boca Arco de Cupido en la Figura Femenina, Ojos Grandes/Remarcados en la Figura Sí Mismo y Figura Semidesnuda en las figuras Femenina y Sí Mismo) y un indicador en los hombres heterosexuales (Ojos Vacíos en la Figura Masculina). Casi todos los IG que señala la literatura no resultan válidos para describir las homosexualidades y los clínicos manejan concepciones estereotipadas sobre la homosexualidad.
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Stolfa, Sabrina. "The hidden depths of popular fiction : a study of two female writers of Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914". Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/15251.
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This investigation presents two literary case studies that demonstrate the heterogeneity of Wilhelmine popular fiction, both in terms of thematic orientation and aesthetic quality. The chosen authors are women from bourgeois backgrounds who were prolific and well-known during their life-time, but who have since been relegated. They target the ‘new middle class’ of that era as their readership and, respectively, represent two important but contested genres of late nineteenth-century popular fiction: Heimatkunst and the Sozialroman. Heimatkunst has been dismissed as a homogeneous propagator of right-wing ideology. Yet the texts of Charlotte Niese evidence ‘resistant practice’ within and against prevailing discourse parameters. Her autobiographical writing demonstrates a type of nationalism orientated in dignity and independence, rather than competition and militarism, while also showing how political indoctrination and imposition poisoned the vernacular social status quo which otherwise managed to integrate antagonistic values and attitudes. Her fictional narratives highlight how writing dubbed Heimatkunst was subject to hybridisation, at times to amount to an approximation of a modernist aesthetic. The Sozialroman has been dismissed as a trivial ‘variety of social recipes’. Luise Westkirch’s narratives, however, incorporate thorough-going social reform. Her shorter narratives include astute, psychologically-based social critique which facilitates insights into contemporaneous preoccupations and slow perceptual changes. Incorporating tenets derived from the German romantic legacy, her narratives challenge dominant discourse parameters directly. In the process, the internationally ubiquitous interpretation of competition and power as basic instinctual drives is deconstructed as an erroneous and self-destructive assumption. Westkirch’s complex narratives establish sub-textual agendas through ‘thematic compounding’ that directs the reader’s attention overtly at one set of issues while covertly commenting on another. In this way, she constructs gender inequality as an indictment of normative socio-political systems. This study therefore argues that popular fiction located in a time of cultural crisis has the potential to make explicit the parameters of the prevailing dominant discourse, against which specific values are articulated. Since a conscious formulation of these parameters is essential to the loosening of any conceptual hegemony, which depends on implicitness, fiction thus situated can yield new perspectives, not only in terms of historical insight, but in terms of conceptual alternatives that also have contemporary relevance.
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Mower, Christine Leiren. "Wasting women, corporeal citizens : race and the making of the modern woman, 1870-1917 /". Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9387.
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Karsono, Sony. "Indonesia's New Order, 1966-1998: Its Social and Intellectual Origins". Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1367606667.
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Langeo, Gaëlle. "Jeunesse, culture, société en Grande-Bretagne 1978-2009 : l'exemple du "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"". Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BOR30039.
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Cette recherche porte sur The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, une série de science-fiction humoristique britannique créée pour la BBC Radio 4 en 1978. Sur la période étudiée (1978 – 2009), la série a été déclinée sur tous les supports que peut offrir la culture de masse. Dans les premières années, la série trouve un écho important auprès des adolescents, des étudiants et des jeunes adultes. L’auteur de la série - Douglas Adams - a gardé la main sur toutes les incarnations de Hitchhiker’s. Au cours de sa vie, l’auteur de cette science-fiction qui veut faire rire a progressivement été qualifié de « gourou de la technologie » par la presse. Les grandes passions de Douglas Adams étaient effectivement au nombre de quatre : les ordinateurs, l’évolution des espèces, les Beatles et les Monty Pythons. Cette recherche s’attache donc à comprendre comme ces quatre éléments se sont articulés dans la vie de Douglas Adams, l’influence qu’ils ont eu sur Hitchhiker’s et ce que le succès de la série dit des évolutions de la société britannique. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy arrive à un moment où les attentes changent en matière de comédie, comme le montre l’essor de l’Alternative Comedy. La percée de Hitchhiker’s se déroule aussi dans un contexte où la technologie prend de l’importance dans la vie quotidienne et où la culture geek prend forme, à la croisée des mondes imaginaires et de l’informatique. Le retentissement de la série peut aussi se voir comme un témoignage de l’existence de ce que le sociologue Mike Savage a appelé la classe moyenne technique. Par ailleurs, en voulant créer un album de rock pour la radio, Douglas Adams a produit une fiction en adéquation avec l’univers sonore de la jeunesse des années 1970. La technologie du studio stimule la créativité, tout comme l’ordinateur personnel le fera dans les années 1980This research focuses on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a British science-fiction comedy series created for BBC Radio 4 in 1978. Over the study period (1978-2009), the series was provided to the public in all possible formats that mass culture can offer. In its first years the series attracted a strong audience among teenagers, students and young adults. Douglas Adams, the series’ author, maintained control over all the incarnations of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Over the course of his life, the author of this science fiction series, made to make people laugh, gradually became known as a ‘‘technology guru” by the press. Indeed, Douglas Adams had four great passions : computers, evolution of species, the Beatles and the Pythons. Therefore, this research endeavours to understand how these four topics were expressed in Douglas Adams’ life, the influence they had on Hitchhiker’s and how this series’ success shows the evolution of British society. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy occurs at a time when expectations towards comedy were changing, as shown by the rise of Alternative Comedy. Hitchhiker’s breakthrough also takes place at a time when technology was gaining importance in daily life and geek culture was developing, at the crossroads of imaginary worlds and computer science. The series’ impact can also be considered as evidence of what the sociologist Mike Savage called the technical middle class. In addition, by creating a rock album for the radio, Douglas Adams created a fantasy consistent with the musical universe of the 1970s youth. The technology used in the radio studio stimulates creativity, just like the personal computer will do in the 1980s
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Alomes, Stephen. "'Reasonable men' : middle class reformism in Australia, 1928-1939". Phd thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9531.
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The political and economic instability of the Great Depression period produced many dramatic responses. It also gave rise to new public affairs institutions and the social criticism of middle class moderates who were as disturbed by political conflict and social division as by the evils wreaked by the economic depression. Through such forums as the Australian Institute of Political Science and journals of public affairs and social debate, including the Australian Quarterly, they elaborated their own
social critique. Lamenting political Conflict, emotional debate and popular apathy, they declared their belief in the power of rationality and the need for political agreement.
Moderate social thinkers, seeing the world in dualistic psychological terms, aspired for rationality and social harmony but feared division and decay. Social critics and more practical students of public affairs developed these themes, in their analyses of Australian society and their public affairs research. Centred mainly in Sydney and Melbourne clusters of thinkers, sharing these beliefs, added particular stresses and offered varying views on the contemporary situation. Their emphases included: the difficulties of social planning; the defence of freedom of thought; education as a force for 'civilization'; a scientific approach to modern problems; the need for government action to remedy social evils; and the possibility of greater degree of national purpose.
The social critics and students of public affairs produced a large body of research and their criticisms encouraged movements for social and educational reform. Their endeavours were partly confined to a small section of middle class society and to their own institutional milieu as they retreated from the political arena. Their work also contributed however, to a larger transition in the structure of Australian society. Their thought challenged existing attitudes which thwarted change, their institutions were the precursors of government institutions needed to run a complex modern society, and they were influential in several spheres. Their criticism prepared the ground for the changes accelerated by the engine of war during the 1940s and they were to be part of the new administrative elite in post-war Australia.
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Beyreis, David Charles. "Middle-class masculinity and the Klondike gold rush". 2007. http://digital.library.okstate.edu/etd/umi-okstate-2232.pdf.
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Shelley, Maria Tempenis. "Take it like a man a study of men's emotion culture /". Diss., 2007. http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/ETD-db/available/etd-03262007-131344/.
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Nkosi, Thokozani Samuel. "The challenge of the black middle-class men in negotiating the elusive masculine identities". Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/23824.
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Research Report: Masters in psychology - Coursework and research report
, 07 June 2017The study investigated the challenges that black middle class men experience in negotiating the masculine identities within the South African context. The adopted understanding was that of Connell in that there are many ways of being a man. The findings were that men are given a standard or expectations to live by but there are never guided on how to go about meeting them. This was portrayed by the interwoven themes and discourse that in some instances work against each other and render the black middle class men vulnerable in terms of identities.
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Young, Arlene. "The conspiracy of disparagement : representations of the lower middle class in British fiction, 1850-1920". 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/17245.
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Jackson, Phoebe Susan. "Beyond gender: Constructing women's middle-class subjectivity in the fiction of Wharton, Austin, Yezierska, and Hurston". 1997. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9737543.
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This study argues the need to consider the impact of social class in women's narratives. Beginning with the turn of the century, a time of great social and economic change for women, I examine how women writers challenge and redefine traditional notions of middle-class womanhood in order to accommodate emerging feminist ideals, for example, the rejection of marriage for the pursuit of a career. Using the fiction of Wharton, Austin, Yezierska, and Hurston, I explore how the female characters of their novels negotiate between traditional roles ascribed to middle-class women and new definitions of womanhood symbolized by the appearance of the "New Woman." Interestingly, while some middle-class ideals are rejected, i.e. domesticity, two of these writers, Wharton and Austin, nonetheless remain committed to a middle-class ideology. For Yezierska and Hurston, middle-class acceptance means necessarily negotiating the uncertain terrain between a desire for middle-class stability and the reality of one's ethnic and racial background. By highlighting the importance of class in the construction of female subjectivity, my study of women's narratives makes a substantial contribution to the field of feminist literary theory.
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Lewis, Daniel D. "Women writing men : female Victorian authors and their representations of masculinity". 2011. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1653349.
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This dissertation covers five female Victorian authors (Elizabeth Gaskell, M.E. Braddon, Dinah Craik, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Edith Nesbit) and the representations of masculinity in their novels. By taking a masculinity studies approach, this dissertation finds that these novels, in an attempt to gain authority and legitimacy in the male-dominated social sphere, often promoted middle-class masculine gender identities as the dominant, ideal masculinity for others. I will argue that female authors in the Victorian period took part in this struggle over re/defining hegemonic male gender identity in different ways, in different genres, for different purposes. Gaskell’s Mary Barton and North and South seek to ensure middle-class dominance over the working classes. Braddon’s novels Lady Audley’s Secret and Aurora Floyd illustrate the unnaturalness of gender (and thus to call into question notions of “natural” differences between men and women, or men and other men) and broaden the definition of acceptable gender identities for men and, by extension, women. The authors of late-period children’s literature created texts that either changed or shield from change both male and female gender identities to define the proper way to educate children during a time when gender roles were undergoing changes due to innovations in industry, education, and calls for equal rights for women and non-hegemonic men. All of these texts display a great amount of confidence in the power of literature to shape gender identity. The male characters in novels covered in this dissertation help govern the individual from abstract potential to concrete reality in terms of how masculinity is lived in the everyday world. While pamphlets, medical journals, and conduct books can instruct the reader on ideal conduct (or, conversely, warn against inappropriate conduct) for men, women, boys, and girls, these texts often function in the abstract. The belief held by these authors in the power of literature is enables them to position fictional men in the real world under the assumption that these characters are therefore able to “live out” these ideas of what is and what is not appropriate in performing one’s male gender identity.Department of English
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Banerjee, Lopa. "New heroines of the diaspora : reading gender identity in South Asian diasporic fiction". Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4692.
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This thesis looks at literature
by two South Asian, diasporic writers, Jhumpa Lahiri and Monica
Ali, as a space where creative,
cross-cultural and independent
identities for diasporic women might be created.
The central claim of the thesis
is that diasporic migration
affects South Asian women in
particular ways.
The most positive outcome is that
these women adopt new trans-border
identities but that these remain
shaped by class, culture and
gender. Hence a working class
milieu such as the one depicted
by Monica Ali, leads to an
immigrant, ghetto-ised,
community-based identity,
located solely in the land of
adoption, with return or travel to
the homeland no longer possible.
However, the milieu imagined in
Jhumpa Lahiri’s text, a middle-class, suburban environment, creates a solitary, transnational
identity, lived between countries,
where travel between the land of
birth and the land of adoption
remains accessible.English
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Ringmyr, Felix. "Medelklass och Tjänstemannapolitik : En studie om den politiska organiseringen av tjänstemän och medelklassen under mitten av 1900-talet". Thesis, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-77440.
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Syftet med detta arbete är att undersöka socialdemokraternas organisering av medelklassen och tjänstemännen i Karlstad under mitten av 1900-talet och varför det startades en socialdemokratisk tjänstemannaförening i Karlstad. Grunden till arbetet baseras på källmaterial i form av mötesprotokoll, samt års och verksamhetsberättelser från Karlstads socialdemokratiska tjänstemannaförening. Karlstad arbetarekommun och Karlstads kvinnoklubb. Detta källmaterial har granskats kvalitativt för att presentera majoriteten av resultatet men även en kvantitativ analys har genomförts för att presentera medlemsutvecklingen inom tjänstemannaföreningen. Tjänstemännen var den grupp i samhället som växte mest under mitten av 1900-talet vilket förklarar den snabbt växande socialdemokratiska tjänstemannaföreningen. Efter en snabb medlemstillväxt följdes en liten minskning av medlemmar vilket sedan stabiliseras och skiftar fram till slutet av 60-talet då en snabb nedgång får organisationen på fall och resulterar i upplösning år 1972. Eftersom kvinnliga tjänstemän också ökade i antal under 1900-talet kommer detta arbete även att analysera hur de kvinnliga medlemmarna visar sig. Medlemmarna inom tjänstemannaföreningen har granskats ur ett manligt, homosocialt perspektiv för att förstå bristen på kvinnliga medlemmar i den socialdemokratiska tjänstemannaföreningen. Tjänstemännen har även analyserats med hjälp av tre teorier om tjänstemännens klasstillhörighet för att undersöka vilken förklaringsmodell som bäst passar in på källmaterialet och för att förklara varför tjänstemännen inom socialdemokraternas föreningar startar en egen socialdemokratisk tjänstemannaförening år 1948. Arbetet undersöker också varför organisationen hade en snabbt växande medlemsutveckling.The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the social democrat’s organization of the middle class and the working official’s in Karlstad during the mid-2000 century and to analyze the female participation within the working official’s social democratic organization. The foundations of this work are based on meeting minutes, protocols, annual reports and business stories from the working official’s social democratic organization, the social democratic women club and from the social democratic working municipality. These sources have been analyzed qualitatively to provide most of the results, but the members have been analyzed with a quantitative method to explain the member development within the working official’s social democratic organization. The working officials was the group of people in society that grew the most during the mid-2000 century which explains the rapid growth of the working official’s organization within the social democrats. After a rapid growth the organization has a small decline in members but stabilizes until a rapid decline in members during the late sixties which results in the fall of the organization 1972. Since females within the working-officials also rose in numbers during the 2000 century this thesis will also describe the women roles within the working official’s social democratic organization. The members of the working official’s organization have been analyzed with a male homosocial view to understand the shortage of women in the organization. The working officials have also been observed with three different theories about the working official’s class affiliation to help explain which model of explanation fits to the source materials and help explain why the working officials within the social democrats parts from the main party to create their own organization in 1948. This Thesis also examines why the organization had such a rapid membership growth.