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The thesis explores current debates about postfeminism, social class and new forms of femininity within the context of young women’s social drinking practices. A pervasive culture of intoxication has emerged amongst contemporary young drinkers where drunkenness is constructed as integral to a good night out. This is played out in highly visible public displays where gender, femininities and class are performed, positioned and reconfigured. The culture of intoxication therefore provides a productive arena to undertake an in depth analysis of how postfeminism works and how different social groups of young women navigate gender relations, new formations of femininity and class within this terrain. Data are in the form of middle-class and working-class young women’s accounts of their social drinking in bars and clubs within a relatively small city in the South West of England. The data was collected through 2 phases of semi-structured focus groups with 6 friendship groups of 24 women between 19-24 years of age. A Foucauldian discourse analysis was employed to identify key discourses in young women’s talk, focusing on the intersection between postfeminism and the culture of intoxication. These young women are called on to occupy positions of excess through drinking practices and display a hyper-sexualised form of femininity. This produces an impossible dilemma for young women. The young women drew on four discourses to construct drunkenness as a cultural norm. Within these discourses a particular level of drunkenness was constituted as highly desirable but also as a precarious risky state. Femininity was defined around a ‘right’ look and a ‘wrong’ look within two interlinking discourses and the young women drew on discourses that re-inscribed the gendered politics of drinking. The working-class and middle-class young women drew on different discourses to articulate class differentiation and class was reproduced through highly coded terms. There was an absence of feminist discourse throughout the young women’s accounts and this was involved with re-producing the sexual double standard and with constructing classed postfeminist subjectivities. The thesis concludes by considering the implications of a new classed femininity within an absence of feminist discourse in the context of postfeminism.

by Leung Tak. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-77). / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- Elliptic curve --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1 --- Elliptic Curve in Normal Form --- p.4 / Chapter 2.2 --- Geometry and Group Law --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3 --- Special Class of Elliptic Curves --- p.10 / Chapter 2.4 --- Mordell's Conjecture --- p.12 / Chapter 2.5 --- Torsion Group --- p.14 / Chapter 2.6 --- Selmer Group and Tate-Shafarevitch. Group --- p.16 / Chapter 2.7 --- Endomorphism of Elliptic Curves --- p.19 / Chapter 2.8 --- Formal Group over Elliptic Curves --- p.23 / Chapter 2.9 --- The Finite Field Case --- p.26 / Chapter 2.10 --- The Local Field Case --- p.27 / Chapter 2.11 --- The Global Field Case --- p.29 / Chapter 3 --- Class Field Theory --- p.31 / Chapter 3.1 --- Valuation and Local Field --- p.31 / Chapter 3.2 --- Unramified and Totally Ramified Extensions and Their Norm Groups --- p.35 / Chapter 3.3 --- Formal Group and Abelian Extension of Local Field --- p.36 / Chapter 3.4 --- Abelian Extenion and Norm Residue Map --- p.41 / Chapter 3.5 --- Finite Extension and Ramification Group --- p.43 / Chapter 3.6 --- "Hilbert Symbols [α, β］w and (α, β)f" --- p.46 / Chapter 3.7 --- Adele and Idele --- p.48 / Chapter 3.8 --- Galois Extension and Kummer Extension --- p.50 / Chapter 3.9 --- Global Reciprocity Law and Global Class Field --- p.52 / Chapter 3.10 --- Ideal-Theoretic Formulation of Class Field Theory --- p.57 / Chapter 4 --- Hasse-Weil L-function of elliptic curves --- p.60 / Chapter 4.1 --- Classical Zeta Functions and L-functions --- p.60 / Chapter 4.2 --- Congruence Zeta Function --- p.63 / Chapter 4.3 --- Hasse-Weil L-function and Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture --- p.64 / Chapter 4.4 --- A Sketch of the Proof from the Joint Paper of Coates and Wiles --- p.67 / Chapter 4.5 --- The works of other mathematicians --- p.73

This thesis discusses hand-painted decoration on British ceramics in the period 1870 to 1920 in the context of changing economic and social climates and gendered employment and occupation. The original impetus for this research came from analysis of ware produced at the South Wales Pottery in Llanelli sometime in the period 1877 to 1920. As the research expanded and links with other potteries were established, it became evident that varied innovations in hand-painted ceramic decoration were influenced by national, local and gendered responses to a period of transition in Britain.

This thesis investigates how white working-class boys experience social and learner identities in three educational sites. It presents the findings of an in-depth sociological study of teenage boys from one locality in South London, focusing on the practices of ‘meaning-making’ and ‘identity work,’ the boys’ experience and the various disjunctures and commonalities between the social and learner identities. Working-class boys are often presented in homogeneous terms and this study explores the heterogeneity of being a working-class boy and the diversity of their experiences in education. The work is positioned within the debates regarding masculinity in schooling and working-class disadvantage; my focus is on how boys’ ‘lifeworlds’ are created in contrast and in relation to their schooling experience. How boys contend with neoliberal educational processes which are fundamentally about “continually changing the self, making informed choices, engaging in competition, and taking chances” (Phoenix 2004: 229) and the construction of what I call ‘egalitarianism’ was an important homogenous feature in the data. The methodological approach employed is integral to gaining this understanding. I draw on Bourdieu’s signature concepts and theoretical framework in order to understand the complexities and negotiations surrounding reconciling educational success with working-class values. To further my understanding, I also utilise elements of intersectionality questioning, in order to address the interplay between class, gender and ethnicity in the social and learner identities the boys constitute and reconstitute through the various discursive practices in which they participate.

Em 2005, o pedagogo e violinista Eric Rosenblith foi convidado por seu ex-aluno Fredi Gerling para dar uma série de Master-classes em Porto Alegre, Brasil. Na ocasião, Rosenblith deu um total de 36 aulas de violino para 26 participantes. Todas as aulas foram filmadas gerando um total de 22 horas de vídeo. Aproveitando o potencial pedagógico do material, escolhi cinco aulas específicas para estudar em profundidade a metodologia do professor, aplicando metodologias de análises de aulas gravadas em vídeo utilizadas por pesquisadores como Robert Duke e Elaine Colprit. Dessa forma, o principal objetivo da presente pesquisa é analisar as práticas pedagógicas de Rosenblith com o intuito de contribuir com o campo da pesquisa relacionada ao ensino de instrumentos musicais no contexto de Master-class, a partir da análise dos padrões de comportamentos do professor e da análise do conteúdo de suas falas. / In 2005, violin pedagogue Eric Rosenblith was invited by former student Fredi Gerling to give a series of master classes in Porto Alegre, Brazil. In that occasion, Rosenblith gave a total of 36 violin lessons to 26 participants. All lessons were filmed and generated a total of 22 hours of video. Exploring the educational potential of the material, I have chosen five classes to do an in depth study of the teacher's methodology, applying analyzes methodologies for videotaped classes used by researchers like Robert Duke and Elaine Colprit. Thereby, the main goal of the present research is to analyze Rosenblith’s pedagogical practices, contributing to the research field related to teaching of musical instruments in the Master class context, using analysis of teacher behavior patterns and analysis of the content of teacher verbalization.

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Human Ecology-Personal Financial Planning / Maurice M. MacDonald / The 2016 Survey of Consumer Finances was used to investigate the impact of scarcity on the savings motives and debt of middle-class, non-retired households. This project adds to financial planning literature by incorporating previously unobserved variables, financial and time scarcity, in financial decision-making. Its use of the scarcity lens has also provided new insights for serving the middle-class with financial planning. Middle-class household decision-making was impacted by financial and time scarcity. Objective financial scarcity was related to increased odds of saving for basic needs and negatively related to saving for retirement. Objective financial scarcity was negatively associated with household debt, which can be attributed to credit constraints lenders want. Subjective financial scarcity was negatively associated with saving for retirement and at the same time positively associated with saving for esteem or luxury. Objective time scarcity was positively related to higher levels of household debt. Subjective time scarcity had a significant but mixed relationship with household debt. Financial planners and financial counselors working with the middle-class should consider the impact of scarcity for managing debt and shaping goals that will influence saving for retirement.

Notre Travail s’inscrit dans le cadre théorique du traitement informatique des langues, élaboré et développé au sein du laboratoire Lexiques, Dictionnaires, Informatique (LDI), à l’université de Paris 13. Nous avons proposé l’étude de la notion de cause et de finalité en arabe contemporain, à partir d’un corpus varié. Cette étude se subdivise en deux grands axes. D’abord, il nous a paru nécessaire d’analyser le phénomène, tel qu’il était traité dans la tradition grammaticale arabe. A ce niveau, nous avons concentré notre analyse sur les notions fondamentales et leurs répercussions sur les choix méthodiques des grammairiens et les résultats de leurs descriptions. Montrant l’insuffisance de ces descriptions, plus particulièrement, au niveau de la distinction syntactico-sémantique entre les connecteurs, notre approche trouve sa raison d’application. Nous avons, donc, décrit les emplois des connecteurs causaux et finaux, tout en argumentant leur statut prédicatif de second ordre. Ce nouveau statut attribué à ces connecteurs (verbaux, nominaux, adjectivaux, prépositionnels, ou encore comme locations) conçoit la phrase complexe, comme une structure triadique, à la différence de l’approche grammaticale et linguistique arabe (conception dyadique). La description syntactico-sémantique a permis de montrer qu’on ne peut pas réduire les connecteurs à des simples éléments polysémiques. Chacun apporte une nuance sémantique à l’expression de la cause et de de la finalité. Toutefois, bien que la cause et la finalité s’interfèrent à plusieurs niveaux, elles se distinguent à la base d’une orientation logico-sémantique. L’orientation « rétrospective » caractérise la valeur causale de l’expression, alors que l’orientation « prospective » distingue l’expression finale. Bref, ce travail essaie d’apporter une nouvelle analyse sur un sujet qui n’a pas été traité dans la linguistique arabe. / Our work is conducted within the theoretical framework of computer language processing, designed and developed in the laborary “Lexiques, Dictionnaires, Informatiques” (LDI), at the University of Paris 13. We proposed the study of the concept of cause and purpose in contemporary Arabic language, based on a varied corpus. This study is two-fold. First, we felt it necessary to analyze the phenomenon, as it was treated in the Arab grammatical tradition. At this level, we focused our analysis on the basic concepts and their implications on systematic selection of grammarians’ methodology and the findings of their descriptions. Our approach finds its reason for application by showing the inadequacy of these descriptions. Our approach finds its reason for distinction between connectors. We, therefore, describe the cause and purpose connectors, while arguing their predicative second-class status. This new status assigned to these connectors (verbal, nominal, adjectival, prepositional, or as special) perceives the complex sentence as a triadic structure, unlike the Arabic linguistic and grammatical approach (dyadic design). The syntactic-semantic description showed that we cannot reduce connectors to mere items of meaning. Each brings a semantic nuance to the expression of the cause and the purpose. However, although the cause and purpose do interfere at several levels, they still differ on the basis of a logical-semantic orientation. The “retrospective” orientation characterizes the causal value of the expression, while the “prospective” one distinguishes the expression of purpose. In short, this work tries to bring a new analysis of a topic that was not dealt with in the Arabic linguistics.

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