This mini-thesis investigates some of the nineteenth century socio-cultural ideals that have structured a connection between virtuosic aerial skill and bodily aesthetics. It views the emergence of a style of aerial kineticism that is structured from the gender ideologies of the period. It investigates the continual recurrence of this nineteenth century style amongst contemporary aerial dance works and outlines the possible frictions between this Victorian style of kineticism and contemporary aerial explorations. From this observation, a possible catalyst may be observed with which to relocate and inspire a study of aerial kinetics sans the nineteenth century aesthetic component. This kinesiological catalyst may be viewed in conjunction with the theories of ground-based kinetic theorist, Rudolph Laban’s choreutic study of the body in space. Thus, it may be possible to suggest and introduce a possible practical dance scholarship for aerial dance. This mini-thesis includes an introductory choreological investigation that draws on and integrates the disciplines of kinesiology; choreutic theory; existing aerial kinetic technique; musicology; and the physical sciences.

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Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree Master of Technology: Graphic Design, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2014. / The aim of this study was to investigate how images of women in the media that espouse women’s empowerment can indeed have the opposite effect and may even contribute to lowered self-esteem in women. To this end, this project is intended to explore issues such as body image and image manufacture in order to find a possible answer to the question of what is ‘real beauty’ in the South African context. A semiotic approach seeking to review the ways in which women are seen through visual communicative images was undertaken. This visual research revealed the importance of the ‘gendered gaze’ at the centre of issues that relate to self-esteem. An in-depth analysis of the literature, pertaining to self-esteem, interrogated the works of Naomi Wolf, John Berger and Susie Orbach, amongst others. This was carried out in order to understand more about how the dictates of consumerism pervade the work of the style industries. These sectors are well supported by the diet, food and cosmetic surgery industries who tend to effectively increase and add to a sense of body related insecurities. In addition, content analysis of selected South African editions of Cosmopolitan magazine was conducted. The images described represents a significant development period in the emergence of certain beauty ideals in South Africa. The British Unilever marketing campaign, The Dove Campaign For Real Beauty, was used as a base model for the applied design component of this study. In addition an action research approach was employed through a series of interviews and questionnaires directed at mostly female participants in South Africa. This method revealed that self-esteem issues have far reaching implications, affecting women of all ages. As a response to the perceived need for a South African based campaign, this research project informed the development of The Sisterhood Self-Esteem Crusade. In contrast to The Dove Campaign For Real Beauty which was created to promote increased sales of beauty products, The Sisterhood Self-Esteem Crusade’s focus is to interrogate and raise awareness of self-esteem. Underpinning this was an attempt to build confidence, cascade new ways of understanding and to propagate sense making, informed through action research, amongst South African women.

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between exercise duration and level of disordered eating, physical self-esteem, and endorsement of societal mores about attractiveness. Two hundred twenty-nine female college students completed the Bulimia-Test Revised, the Physical Self Perception Profile, the Beliefs About Attractiveness Questionnaire, and a demographic questionnaire. Subjects were classified into one of four levels of exercise duration based on the number of hours they reported engaging in planned exercise per week. Significant differences were identified among the four exercise groups in relation to physical self-esteem. The amount of exercise activity individuals engaged in per week, however, was not indicative of their eating disorder symptomatology or beliefs about attractiveness.

This dissertation explores the making of and research for the film, Fattitude, a social justice based documentary that looks to awaken viewers to the reality of weight bias in media representation. This dissertation reviews the filmmaking process and then engages with the nature of stereotypes about fat bodies. Deeply tied to feminist and fat studies theory, the work here seeks to categorize and shape the understanding of weight bias in the media by linking fat tropes to clearly understood images of oppression, for example the monstrous, the fool, they hypersexual and the asexual. The work also seeks to present theory on the nature of creating media representations of fatness that are not oppressive – making note of current media created by grassroots movements for body acceptance and fat positivity. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 174-190).

Orientador: Sidney Chalhoub / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T04:25:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Xavier_Giovana_D.pdf: 23553159 bytes, checksum: 48455bff161cd53573e3132dfabc9ddd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Esta tese investiga as representações femininas presentes em propagandas de produtos de clareamento de pele (bleachings) e crescedores capilares (hair growers) da indústria cosmética, veiculadas pela imprensa afro-americana em Boston, Chicago e Nova York, cidades que, entre os anos 1890 e 1930, passaram por uma série de transformações sociais por conta do fenômeno historicamente conhecido como Grande Migração Negra. Ao considerar o processo de urbanização vivenciado pela população de cor que chegava aos milhares no norte do país, enfatizamos a emergência de um capitalismo negro que tinha no "mercado da beleza" um de seus principais ramos comerciais. Nesse sentido, o estudo do papel de "empresárias da raça" como Annie Minerva Pope Turnbo-Malone e Madam C. J. Walker, à luz das contribuições da Business History, leva-nos a lançar mão do conceito de "cosmética negra", entendida aqui como um conjunto de pequenas, médias e grandes empresas, que conduzidas com o capital e a força de trabalho afro-americanos, tinham como um de seus principais objetivos associar lucro financeiro e defesa da "feminilidade negra", a partir da confecção e venda de manufaturados que prometiam uma "boa aparência" para suas consumidoras. Ao explorar associações ambíguas entre good look e pele clara, a pesquisa também examina a construção de uma noção racializada de beleza específica dos negros num contexto de pós-emancipação. Diferentemente do ocorrido na publicidade da cosmetologia branca, tal noção mostra que companhias afro-americanas como a Poro Hair Beauty Culture, a Overton Hygienic Company e a Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company investiram severos esforços na construção de referenciais visuais que conjugassem honra, distinção e equidade social para as "mulheres da raça". Dentro de uma perspectiva que articula gênero, racialização, classe, cosmética e modernidade, observa-se que ser considerada uma "nova mulher negra", como se dizia à época, não era um feito para todas. Para gozar de tal status era necessário possuir visual discreto, comportamento recatado, alto grau de instrução, mas, sobretudo, pele clara. Assim, ao atrelar físico e comportamento, o referido protótipo marcava a preocupação da comunidade intelectual (editores, jornalistas, publicitários, colunistas, artistas, etc.) em criar representações condizentes com uma noção de "feminilidade respeitada", que, por seu turno, revelava o investimento numa "cultura da pele mulata", facilmente captada pelas inúmeras fotografias de mulheres quase brancas, predominantes nas páginas de dezenas de jornais, revistas e catálogos de beleza da "raça". Nesse sentido, a cosmetologia e a imprensa negras foram duas das maiores responsáveis pela produção de uma "beleza cívica" oriunda de um sistema "colorista" calcado na valorização das mulatas em detrimento das blacks (negras retintas). Fato ainda desconhecido pela historiografia brasileira, tais propagandas descortinam formas múltiplas pelas quais as classes alta e média negras criaram suas próprias interpretações e soluções para questões relacionadas à eugenia, ao higienismo, à miscigenação, à urbanização e à segregação racial, abrindo espaço para futuras investigações sobre uma História Social da Beleza Negra / Abstract: This dissertation examines representations of women in advertisements for skin-bleaching and hair-growing products in the cosmetics industry, which appeared in the African American press in Boston, Chicago and New York. Between the 1890s and 1930s, these cities underwent a series of social transformations as a result of the phenomenon referred to by historians as the Great African American Migration. Analyzing the process of urbanization experienced by the population of color, who arrived in their thousands in the north of the country, emphasis will be placed on the emergence of black capitalism, which one of its greatest commercial interests in the beauty industry. The study of the role of black businesswomen like Annie Minerva Pope Turnbo-Malone and Madam C. J. Walker, and their contributions to business history, leads us to the concept of "black cosmetics." This is herein understood as a group of small, medium and large businesses which, drawing on African American capital and labor, aimed to unite profit with the defense of "black femininity," via the production and sale of products that promised their consumers a "good appearance." By exploring the ambiguous associations between "looking good" and whiteness of skin, the study also examines the construction of a specifically racialized notion of beauty held by blacks in the post-emancipation United States. This notion reveals how, unlike white beauty advertisers, African American companies like Poro Hair Beauty Culture, Overton Hygienic Company and Madam C J Walker Manufacturing Company invested considerable efforts in constructing visual imagery which could confer honor, distinction and social equality on black women. Taking a perspective that brings together gender, racialization, class, beauty and modernity, the dissertation observes how being considered a "new black woman," as the phrase went at the time, was not attainable by all women. In order enjoy such a status, it was important to possess a visual image that emphasized discretion, modest behavior, a high standard of education, but, above all, light skin. Equating looks with behavior, this prototype demonstrated the desire of the intellectual community (editors, journalists, advertising companies, columnists, artists, etc) to create images that chimed with a notion of "respectable femininity." This, in turn, demonstrated a deep investment in a "mulatto culture," easily captured by innumerable photographs of nearly-white women which dominated the pages of dozens of African American newspapers, magazines and beauty catalogues. Thus, the cosmetics industry and the black press were two of the most influential entities in the creation of "civic beauty," derived from a colorist system which favored mixed-race women over black women. Brazilian historiography has yet to examine how such advertisements reveal the many ways in which the black upper and middle classes created their own interpretations and solutions for issues of eugenics, hygiene, miscegenation, urbanization and racial segregation. This, in the future, might lead us to a social history of black beauty / Doutorado / Historia Social / Doutor em História

The sociocultural model of eating pathology is an empirically-supported model explaining eating disorder etiology. The model poses that body dissatisfaction and subsequent eating pathology stems from the unrealistic standards formulated by Westernized society. Although the model has strong empirical support, variables within the model do not account for 100% of the variance in disordered eating. Thus, the current researcher attempted to explore potential moderating factors in the sociocultural model of eating disorders that may help to explain variance currently unaccounted for. In particular, the researcher focused on the relationship between sociocultural internalization and body dissatisfaction, given that this relationship has not been previously explored within the literature. Based on theoretical support, the researcher chose several potential variables to test, including perfectionism, neuroticism, body surveillance, and shame. Primary analyses tested each variable for moderating effects using hierarchical moderated regression, but no significant findings were shown. Results of post hoc analyses showed all variables had significant mediating effects, with the exception of self-oriented perfectionism. The discussion section addresses consistency with previous research, limitations of the present study, treatment implications and guidelines for future research.

CAPES / O imaginário mobilizado pela corrida espacial no segundo período pós-guerra instigou a criação de um repertório visual que logo tornou-se fonte de inspiração em diversos campos da produção cultural. Neste trabalho tenho por objetivo discutir a construção da figura da “mulher do futuro” mediante a articulação entre as produções filiadas a esse imaginário no vestuário e na decoração de interiores. O recorte de estudo abarca as décadas de 1960 e 1970 e está centrado nas representações de interiores domésticos divulgados pela revista Casa & Jardim e nos editoriais e anúncios publicitários de vestuário divulgados pelas revistas Claudia e Manequim. Esses títulos colocaram em circulação uma série de recursos imagéticos e textuais que evidenciam aspectos do comportamento social da época, servindo como base para a investigação das novas representações de feminilidades que surgiram naquele período. A escolha por privilegiar a articulação entre decoração de interiores e vestuário se justifica pela relação historicamente construída entre essas materialidades e o corpo feminino, caracterizando-se como parte integrante na construção de identidades de gênero, classe e geração. Com esse trabalho pretendo evidenciar que as materialidades dos interiores domésticos e do vestuário inspirados pela iconografia espacial atuavam como dispositivos que criavam e reforçavam noções de feminilidades em diálogo com o processo de modernização da sociedade brasileira em curso. / The imagery mobilized by the space race in the second post-war period instigated the creation of a visual repertory that soon became the source of inspiration in several fields of cultural production. In this work I aim to discuss the construction of the "woman of the future" figure through the articulation between the productions affiliated to this imaginary in clothing and interior decoration. The study covers the 1960s and 1970s and is centered on the representations of domestic interiors published by Casa & Jardim magazine and the editorials and advertisements for clothing published by magazines Claudia and Manequim. These publications put into circulation a series of imagery and textual resources that demonstrated aspects of the time’s social behavior, serving as basis for the investigation of the new representations of femininities which appeared in that period. The choice to focus on the articulation between interior decoration and clothing is based on the historically constructed relation between these materialities and the female body, therefore being an important part in the construction of gender, class and generation identities. With this work I intend to show that the materialities of domestic interiors and clothing inspired by the space age iconography acted as devices that created and reinforced notions of femininity.

CAPES / O imaginário mobilizado pela corrida espacial no segundo período pós-guerra instigou a criação de um repertório visual que logo tornou-se fonte de inspiração em diversos campos da produção cultural. Neste trabalho tenho por objetivo discutir a construção da figura da “mulher do futuro” mediante a articulação entre as produções filiadas a esse imaginário no vestuário e na decoração de interiores. O recorte de estudo abarca as décadas de 1960 e 1970 e está centrado nas representações de interiores domésticos divulgados pela revista Casa & Jardim e nos editoriais e anúncios publicitários de vestuário divulgados pelas revistas Claudia e Manequim. Esses títulos colocaram em circulação uma série de recursos imagéticos e textuais que evidenciam aspectos do comportamento social da época, servindo como base para a investigação das novas representações de feminilidades que surgiram naquele período. A escolha por privilegiar a articulação entre decoração de interiores e vestuário se justifica pela relação historicamente construída entre essas materialidades e o corpo feminino, caracterizando-se como parte integrante na construção de identidades de gênero, classe e geração. Com esse trabalho pretendo evidenciar que as materialidades dos interiores domésticos e do vestuário inspirados pela iconografia espacial atuavam como dispositivos que criavam e reforçavam noções de feminilidades em diálogo com o processo de modernização da sociedade brasileira em curso. / The imagery mobilized by the space race in the second post-war period instigated the creation of a visual repertory that soon became the source of inspiration in several fields of cultural production. In this work I aim to discuss the construction of the "woman of the future" figure through the articulation between the productions affiliated to this imaginary in clothing and interior decoration. The study covers the 1960s and 1970s and is centered on the representations of domestic interiors published by Casa & Jardim magazine and the editorials and advertisements for clothing published by magazines Claudia and Manequim. These publications put into circulation a series of imagery and textual resources that demonstrated aspects of the time’s social behavior, serving as basis for the investigation of the new representations of femininities which appeared in that period. The choice to focus on the articulation between interior decoration and clothing is based on the historically constructed relation between these materialities and the female body, therefore being an important part in the construction of gender, class and generation identities. With this work I intend to show that the materialities of domestic interiors and clothing inspired by the space age iconography acted as devices that created and reinforced notions of femininity.