Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2007. Graduate Programme in History. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 301-321). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR29327

Thesis (M.A.), Psychology--University of Central Oklahoma, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 42-46).

Thesis (M.A. in sociology)--Washington State University, May 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-49).

The aim of this study is to explain why the Swedish police organisation has difficulties recruiting women into leadership.  Using the Swedish version of the Bem Sex -Role Scale, policemen and policewomen in a smaller Swedish police region identified themselves as having feminine or masculine gender identity. The study specifically looked for differences and similarities between leaders or non leaders. Is there a selection of masculinity over femininity in the Swedish police organisation? The findings in the study were interesting. The results found that there were no significant differences between policewomen and policemen regarding masculine gender identity. And more interesting was that the female police leaders had a tendency of having more masculine gender identity than the female non- leaders. The study takes its course from the Kanter and Acker theory regarding power and gendered institutions, through Connell and hegemonic masculinity and to the doing of gender and contemporary research to explain why the police organization still, after many years of women being present, is overall masculine and reproduce masculine leaders and therefore constantly lack numbers of female police leaders.

This thesis attempts to better understand gender roles portrayed in the media. By using Stuart Hall's theory of audience reception (Hall, 1980) the researcher looks into dance and gender in the media to indicate whether or not LDS participants believe stereotypical gender roles are portrayed on Dancing with the Stars." Through four focus groups containing a total of 30 participants, the researcher analyzed costuming, choreography, and judges' comments through the viewer's eyes. From participant responses, the conclusion was made that audience members do perceive stereotypical gender roles on "Dancing with the Stars." Participants felt that costuming was the biggest indicator of gender roles on the show, and that choreography and judges' comments also contributed to the perception of gender roles.

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Master of Music / School of Music, Theatre, and Dance / Patricia Thompson / This Master’s Report is in the form of extended program notes on works performed on a graduate recital for a mezzo-soprano. The notes include biographical information, and a literary and historical exploration of the piece selected, to discuss the overall theme of the feminine character as she appears in contrasting works. Translations of the texts are included in the body of the text. The pieces discussed are Debussy’s Trois Chansons de Bilitis, Rossini’s “Cruda Sorte!...Già so per practica” from L’Italiana in Algeri, selections from Wolf’s Spaniches Liederbuch, Massenet’s “Va! Laisse couler mes larmes” from Werther, Lori Laitman’s Daughters, Handel’s “In gentle murmurs will I mourn” from Jephtha, and Granados’s La maja dolorosa No. 1, 2, and 3. The graduate recital was given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music degree in vocal performance on March 29th, 2015 performed in All Faiths Chapel at Kansas State University. It featured the piano talents of Amanda Arrington, with the aid of Jillian Emerson on cello, Janice McGregor on violin, and Christopher Gugel on flute.

Dracula was written by Bram Stoker in 1897 but in this thesis I will discuss the different interpretations that can be achieved using reader response theory.  More specifically how gender affects these reader responses.  It is a detail analysis of how a feminine reader with a 21st century perspective can achieve different reactions to the text than that of the previous masculine and patriarchal readings that have been common in the past. This approach to Dracula has shown in more detail how the current representation of vampires in our culture has come to pass.  Dracula was one of the first vampire novels, but it was by no means the last, and the current fascination with vampires is a direct result of ‘reading’ them in a feminine way. It shows how in Dracula demons, victims and heroes, with a new perspective, become tragic, misunderstood and patriarchal oppressors. Also that it is through an integration with the text itself and reading in a feminine way that we are able to see them that way.

REIS, L. M. Sexualidade e câncer de colo de útero: o corpo feminino adoecido na perspectiva de Maurice Merleau-Ponty. 2010. 216f. Tese (Doutorado) Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras, Universidade de São Paulo. Ribeirão Preto. 2010. Atualmente, a saúde da mulher é considerada foco de ação e diretrizes de políticas governamentais de todo o mundo, em especial em agravos de saúde que possuam alta possibilidade de estratégias de prevenção e controle, visando a garantia de acesso à serviços, a cidadania e melhoria das condições de vida. O câncer de colo de útero, embora apresente prevenção simples e alta eficácia no tratamento, quando diagnosticado em fase inicial, ainda acomete considerável número de mulheres, em países em desenvolvimento, como o Brasil. Nosso propósito foi compreender como a mulher vivencia o processo de adoecimento do corpo na interface com o câncer de colo de útero. Para realizar tal intento, serão apresentados os depoimentos de 07 mulheres na faixa etária entre 30 a 59 anos, usuárias do serviço público de saúde, sem escolaridade ou com escolaridade mínima do ensino fundamental. Todas as colaboradoras conviveram com o câncer de colo de útero por pelo menos 18 meses, e elegemos para esta compreensão as vivências durante o tratamento e a cura. Os depoimentos foram mediados pela questão: Fale-me sobre sua história de vida afetiva e sexual, em especial a partir do diagnóstico de câncer de colo de útero. sendo gravados e transcritos e, posteriormente, submetidos ao processo da análise da pesquisa fenomenológica que nos possibilitou criar cinco categorias assim nomeadas: Infância e adolescência: vínculos e afetividade; Sexualidade: primeiras experiências, relacionamentos e vida sexual; Corpo adoecido: impacto e familiaridade; Feminilidade e relações afetivo-sexuais e Projeto de vida. Essas categorias foram interpretadas pela perspectiva do fenomenólogo Maurice Merleau- Ponty e nos revelaram que o ser-no-mundo com um corpo feminino não é percebido como produtor de sentidos existenciais pelas próprias mulheres. Embora para existir, seja fundamental a coexistência, para estas mulheres, a produção de significados e sentidos sobre seu corpo passa pela apropriação do mesmo em relações de gênero, estereótipos e papéis sociais rígidos e naturalizados ao feminino. Submetido ao controle e desautorizado ao prazer, estas mulheres não se apropriam de seu corpo, não o legitimam os significados acerca de si e de seu corpo e tão pouco os sentidos advindos de suas percepções e vivência sobre o feminino, o que reflete em negligenciar o cuidado do mesmo, acarretando em adoecimento. É, no entanto, a partir deste adoecimento que, em uma atitude reflexiva diante da iminência de finitude, que retomam sua historicidade, resignificando a si mesma e seu corpo em uma experiência única, apropriando-se dele e compreendendo seus sentidos de ser-no-mundo. / REIS, L. M. Sexuality and uterine cervix cancer: sick women\'s body in Maurice\'s Merleau- Ponty\'s perspective. 2010. 216f. Thesis (Doctoring) Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras, Universidade de São Paulo. Ribeirão Preto. 2010. Nowadays, women\'s health is considered focus of action and directives of the government politics worldwide, especially in health damages that have greater possibility of prevention strategies and restraint, aiming the guarantee of access to services, citizenship and an increase in quality of life. Although uterine cervix cancer has simple prevention and highly effective treatment when early diagnosed, it still affects a considerable number of women, in developing countries, such as Brazil. Our objective was to understand how women go through the process of body sickening on interface with uterine cervix cancer. In order to perform that, it will be presented the testimony of seven women ranging 30 to 59 years old, users of public health service, with no scholarship or minimal scholarship of elementary school. All the contributors had had uterine cervix cancer for at least 18 months, and we elected for this study the experience of living during the treatment and the cure. The statements were mediated by the inquiry: Tell me about your affective and sexual life, especially after the diagnosis of uterine cervix cancer. They were recorded, transcribed and, afterwards, submitted to the process of analysis of phenomenological research that made it possible for us to create five categories named as: Childhood and Adolescence: bonds and affectivity; Sexuality: first experiences, relationships and sex life; Sick body: impact and familiarity; Femininity and affective-sexual relationships and Life projects. These categories were interpreted by the perspective of the phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty and they revealed to us that the being-in-the-world with a feminine body is not noted as a producer of existential senses by women themselves. Although in order to exist the coexistence is essential, to these women the production of meanings and senses about their bodies passes through the appropriation of them related to gender, stereotypes and social roles that are strict and naturalized to the feminine. Submitted to control and unauthorized to pleasure, these women do not appropriate themselves of their bodies, they do not legitimate the meanings about themselves and their bodies nor their senses that come from their perceptions and from their feminine living, what reflects in neglecting the care of their own bodies, resulting in the sickness. It is, nevertheless, from this sickening that, in a reflexive attitude in face of the imminence of finitude, that they go back to their life history, resigning from themselves and their bodies in an unique experience, appropriating from them and understanding their senses of being-in-the-world.

Standards of female beauty have long been a source of debate within Western society. Determining who dictates these standards of beauty and how these standards inform individual value seemingly become more and more determined by the individuals themselves, yet there remains a high value placed on white, thin and cisgender females. This standard, although increasingly challenged remains the default for beauty in our society and within our literary culture. This thesis works to expose two modern Young Adult texts, John Green’s An Abundance of Katherines and Laura Ruby’s Bone Gap, for the ways in which they continue to reinforce these standards of beauty in women. While presenting challenges to these stereotypes, the standards set out in these texts ultimately portray women as defined and controlled by men. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2018. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection