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Gender Studies
2008 - 2008
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Male-On-Male Violence Against Women: Gender Representation and Violence in Rebecca Prichard’s Fair Game
Outlining his’ social Learning Theory of Aggression’, Albert Bandura writes:
Theories of aggression have been largely concerned with individual physically injurious acts that are aversively motiv...
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‘Fat’ Bodies as Virtual Confessors and Medical Morality
In Space, Time & Perversion, Elizabeth Grosz suggests that as subjects, we come to attach certain social and cultural codings to the aesthetic appearance of all bodies (including the ‘obese’ subject). In other wo...
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Cosmetics and the Female Body
The wearing of cosmetics by women in Western culture has been subject to a diverse range of criticisms. One of the most frequently made objections has been that cosmetics conceal the “true” self behind a “false....
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Balancing and Optimising Gender Mainstreaming at German Universities
Although women now comprise the majority of students and graduates at German universities, they are still a rarity in leadership positions. In Germany the so-called “classical” promotion of women, which focuse...
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Sex on Film
On April 22, 2002, Ms. Linda Boreman, age fifty-three, of Denver, Colorado died as a result of injuries suffered in an automobile accident. Linda Boreman’s death would probably not have attracted much attentio...
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Traveling Orientalism: U.S. Echoes of a French Tradition
The dizzying grandeur and sheer magnitude of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago only hints at the amount of time and resources spent on its construction. Even so, it is not the physical structure but rather the i.....
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A Settlement Takes Hold
As the 1880s began Silverton and with it the mining region of the San Juans had been firmly established. As Allen Nossaman put it, town and area had been transformed “from a reticent wallflower to the belle of .....
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Breast Augmentation Surgery: Carving the Flesh as Female
Female breasts carry an interesting symbolic and political history. Their status as a source and object of erotic pleasure has varied within and across cultures. The size and form of breasts have represented r...
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Feminism and the Care of Victims
In 1913 The Vote set out to shock its readers with the above headline. Seventy-five years later criminologist Jock Young argued that it was 1970s feminist studies that provided the beginnings of a ‘radical victim...
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Primary Sector Employment
In this chapter, we devise a scheme for categorising women into primary sector and secondary sector jobs, and conclude that amongst labour market participants, only 47.7% of NESB women had primary jobs, wherea...
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Impossible Differences: Slippages and Auguries
The attempts made throughout this book to outline ‘a feminine cinematics’ depend on a technique of film analysis that incorporates both formal and text-based criticism against a contextual background. In any i...
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Community Life
Whether out of a sense of politeness, linguistic shorthand, or ‘political correctness’, many of the men interviewed for this study used the word ‘community’ to describe all social institutions of the gay milie...
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The Queer Space of the Drive: Rereading Freud with Laplanche
The theory of drives has been possibly the most contested area in the whole of psychoanalytic theory, and the main point of contestation is the location of the drive. Is it endogenous, inherent in the biologic...
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Conclusion
This book has mapped the lives of 80 gay men, aged 20 to 79, in the second half of the twentieth century. It began with an examination of what coming out meant to different generations of men and then looked a...
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Cultural Drop**s: On Bersani and Beckett
How should we account for the relatively unexpected appear-ance of Samuel Beckett on the final page of Leo Bersani’s Homos? By what abject logic can Beckett be linked with the three “Gay Outlaws”—Gide, Proust, an...
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Thelma and Louise and the Politics of Excess
Thelma and Louise Live’: so reads the badge motto sported by fans of Ridley Scott’s 1991 film, in reference to the iconic closing freeze-frame shot of Louise’s Thunder-Bird car, floating mid-air above the Gran...
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Fat Pride and the Insistence on the Voluntarist Subject
In 1998, Marilyn Wann published a book called Fat!So?: Because You Don’t Have to Apologise for your Size. Using the rhetoric of pride movements of the past, Wann makes demands on society in the same way as the Ci...
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Body Art and Men’s Fashion
Tattoos, because of their relatively permanent nature, have been seen by many as being antithetical to fashion, whose governing imperative is that of constant change. As David Curry (1993, 80) states, tattooing....
