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“Pretty, Pills, and Perspective: The Not-so Charmed Medicalization of Women’s Mental Health”.
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Wilson, Jennifer R., McConnell, William, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Sociology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Using content analysis and in-depth interviews, this study finds variation in perspective of mental health in 1) how it is framed on social media platforms by mental health treatment advertisements and 2) how woman perceive their own mental health struggles, how they sought and maintain treatment, and how the culture of social media influences this perspective. To investigate this topic, this study is separated into two phases: Phase One is a content analysis of 25 mental health treatment...
Show moreUsing content analysis and in-depth interviews, this study finds variation in perspective of mental health in 1) how it is framed on social media platforms by mental health treatment advertisements and 2) how woman perceive their own mental health struggles, how they sought and maintain treatment, and how the culture of social media influences this perspective. To investigate this topic, this study is separated into two phases: Phase One is a content analysis of 25 mental health treatment advertisements for depression and/or anxiety on Facebook and Instagram with three questions in mind: 1. How do advertisements on social media frame depression and anxiety? 2. What are the solutions proposed? And 3. How are women represented in these advertisements? Phase Two consists of 14 in-depth interviews with three questions in mind: 1. How do women understand their mental health problems? 2. How do social media advertisements affect women seeking mental health treatment? And 3. How does social media affect current course of mental health treatment? Social media advertisements do medicalize women’s perspective of mental health and can best be understood in three terms: communication, convenience, and confidence, through an interplay of medicalization and gender framing. Women give meaning to their mental health through their experience in past and current life circumstances and the culture of social media has shifted understanding and engagement with this dynamic.
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Date Issued
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2023
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014163
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Women—Mental health, Medicalization
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CHICKS IN BOWLS: Roller Skaters’ Gender Maneuvering in the Skatepark.
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Thompson, Alessandra, Seeley, J. Lotus, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Sociology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Gender is a primary frame used in social interaction. Using this primary frame guides our relations with another person or a group of people because it is a basic cultural tool that allows for the basic framing of who one is. Our gender ideologies, or our notions of gender, are shaped by varying other aspects of our identities and material realities. Gender strategies draw upon this to solve a specific problem (Hochschild 1989, Wade and Ferree 2019). The skatepark is a masculinist space,...
Show moreGender is a primary frame used in social interaction. Using this primary frame guides our relations with another person or a group of people because it is a basic cultural tool that allows for the basic framing of who one is. Our gender ideologies, or our notions of gender, are shaped by varying other aspects of our identities and material realities. Gender strategies draw upon this to solve a specific problem (Hochschild 1989, Wade and Ferree 2019). The skatepark is a masculinist space, overrun with men and boys who consider themselves the “kings of the park” (Pomerantz et al 2004). In the case of women who roller skate at the skatepark, they are subordinated, harassed both physically and sexually, as well as outright ignored by men inhabiting the park, which poses an additional safety hazard. To understand how women who roller skate solve these problems, I explore the following questions: How do women construct their identities in the skatepark and how does gender structure behavior in this space? What strategies do women employ in order to successfully navigate the masculinist skatepark as a feminized, and thus marginalized, roller skater? Women roller skaters’ gender strategies operate at three levels: individual, interactional, and group. I focus on three themes: First pariah femininity to claim space as women, which contrasts with emphatic sameness of skateboarder women. Second, defensive othering of “Ramp Tramps,” the girlfriends or onlookers whose passivity embodies emphasized femininity and who are rejected by the women roller skaters. Third, the creation of community as an alternative subculture in order to navigate their subordinate status within the park.
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Date Issued
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2022
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013969
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Gender, Skateboarding parks, Women skateboarders
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"THIS GENTLE REVOLUTION": ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF HINDU WOMEN'S SOCIAL REFORM ASSOCIATIONS, 1863-1917.
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HIRST, MELISSA PATTILLO., Florida Atlantic University, Frazer, Heather
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This thesis examines the historical and ideological development of Hindu women's social reform associations from their inception in 1863 up to the women's enfranchisement movement in 1917. Women's associations, founded by male middle class social and religious reform organizations, sought to influence public opinion against child marriage, polygamy, illtreatment of widows, legal restrictions against women, and the denial of education to women. The first independent women's association,...
Show moreThis thesis examines the historical and ideological development of Hindu women's social reform associations from their inception in 1863 up to the women's enfranchisement movement in 1917. Women's associations, founded by male middle class social and religious reform organizations, sought to influence public opinion against child marriage, polygamy, illtreatment of widows, legal restrictions against women, and the denial of education to women. The first independent women's association, established in 1882, encouraged women's education and facilitated women's movement into public life. After 1900, women's associations were no longer exclusively middle class oriented, and goals were extended to include women's occupational training as woman's self-reliance grew in popularity. Hindu women's social reform associations utilized an extraordinary blend of tradition and western liberal humanitarianism which quelled women's fear of departure from normative social behavior as they created new roles for women in Hindu society.
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Date Issued
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1979
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13995
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Hindu women, Women--India--Social conditions, Women's rights--India
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EXPANDING THE NARRATIVE: BLACK FEMALE DOCTORAL STUDENTS CREATING CULTURAL SAFE SPACES AS RESISTANCE.
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Rodgers, Iris, Traci P. Baxley, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Curriculum, Culture, and Educational Inquiry, College of Education
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This narrative research study focuses on the lived experiences of Black female doctoral students navigating predominantly White colleges and universities (PWIs) and their connections within cultural safe spaces. Through the lens of Black Feminist Theory and the application of a Black Feminist-Ecological Perspective, this study investigates how Black female doctoral students are defining cultural safe spaces and how these safe spaces support their academic and personal lives. Specifically,...
Show moreThis narrative research study focuses on the lived experiences of Black female doctoral students navigating predominantly White colleges and universities (PWIs) and their connections within cultural safe spaces. Through the lens of Black Feminist Theory and the application of a Black Feminist-Ecological Perspective, this study investigates how Black female doctoral students are defining cultural safe spaces and how these safe spaces support their academic and personal lives. Specifically, this study explored the narratives of nine Black female doctoral students and how they define and locate cultural safe spaces. This study expanded on the limited existing research on Black women in doctoral programs by delving into a more nuanced look into understanding the specific dynamics of Black female cultural safe spaces and the role they play in supporting Black women pursuing doctoral degrees at PWIs. Using the Rodgers 3-R Framework, three major themes unfold from this narrative, beginning with participants’ initial experiences in their doctoral programs (recognition phase), their journey towards finding a cultural safe space after recognizing that there was a deficit in their doctoral experience (reconciliation phase), and their recounts of how they interpreted their experience after becoming a part of a cultural safe space of their own (reflection phase). Implications for future research are discussed.
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Date Issued
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2023
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014195
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Women, Black, Women doctoral students, Feminist theory, Women's studies, Safe spaces
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Building a template of electoral strategies for women who aspire to the superintendency in appointed school districts within the southern United States.
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Swain, Marianne Russo, Florida Atlantic University, Bogotch, Ira, Acker-Hocevar, Michele A.
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Based on an observation that women have been more successful in ascending to the level of school superintendent within southern school districts that use electoral procedures, this study examined unique electoral strategies women superintendents use that maybe transferable to women who aspire to the superintendency within districts in which appointment is the only means of ascension. The researcher interviewed five superintendents in districts within the southern United States. The data were...
Show moreBased on an observation that women have been more successful in ascending to the level of school superintendent within southern school districts that use electoral procedures, this study examined unique electoral strategies women superintendents use that maybe transferable to women who aspire to the superintendency within districts in which appointment is the only means of ascension. The researcher interviewed five superintendents in districts within the southern United States. The data were analyzed using three conceptual frameworks: (a) Murphy's governance theory, (b) Ferguson's bureaucratic theory, and (c) Lather's emancipatory theory. The data were also evaluated in terms of elected and appointed school districts. Analysis of the data revealed four emerging themes: (a) career pathway and representative democracy, (b) political administrative elite and the bureaucracy, (c) gender dichotomy, the representation of self, and (d) building networks of support. The data revealed information about each superintendent's personal attributes that contributed to her electoral success, which included: (a) career path, (b) support system, and (c) and motivation to run. The superintendents also discussed mediating factors that shaped their campaign strategies and electoral success, which included: (a) negotiating powerbrokers within the community, (b) their relationship with the school board, (c) governance issues, (d) personal leadership philosophy, (e) power, and (f) gender stereotypes. Findings from the study provide guidance to those women aspiring to the superintendency in appointed school districts suggesting that appointed women superintendents recognize, understand, and negotiate the bureaucratic structure and governance framework as supported by the state and administrative elites.
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Date Issued
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2003
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT12037
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Women school superintendents--Selection and appointment, Women school superintendents--Southern States--Attitudes--Interviews, Women school administrators
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Frau und Sozialismus.
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Siemsen, Anna
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Date Issued
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1948
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http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3353111
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Women -- Social and moral questions., Socialism.
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Chinese toiling women, in factories, the peasants, wages, hours, unemployed, housing, imperialist aggression, our task, how they are helping the Chinese Soviets.
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Date Issued
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1932
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/DT/242547
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Women --China --Economic conditions., Labor supply.
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LIVED EXPERIENCES AND LIFE SATISFACTION OF CHILDFREE WOMEN IN LATE LIFE.
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Stahnke, Brittany, Howard, Heather, Florida Atlantic University, School of Social Work, College of Social Work and Criminal Justice
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The purpose of this study was to assess overall life satisfaction of older adult women who have not had children. The study explored the following questions: (1) What is the overall sense of life satisfaction of childfree women over 65? (2) What is the lived experience of being a childfree woman in U.S. society? (3) How does being childfree inform women’s overall life satisfaction? This study utilized a phenomenological research design. Fourteen childfree women over the age of 65 participated...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to assess overall life satisfaction of older adult women who have not had children. The study explored the following questions: (1) What is the overall sense of life satisfaction of childfree women over 65? (2) What is the lived experience of being a childfree woman in U.S. society? (3) How does being childfree inform women’s overall life satisfaction? This study utilized a phenomenological research design. Fourteen childfree women over the age of 65 participated in semistructured interviews aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of the sense of life satisfaction of childfree women in late life. The study’s purpose was to look at the lived experiences of childfree older women and further understand their abilities to live fulfilled lives despite the absence of child bearing. This research explored the experiences of women without children and hopefully will inspire future research on the topic as well as inform practice regarding the unique experiences and perspectives of childfree women.
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2020
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013448
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Childlessness, Phenomenology, Older women, Well-being
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Cognitive deficit in HIV-infected adult women: An event related potentials (P300) study.
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Simpkiss, Jaime L., Florida Atlantic University, Nash, Allan J.
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The P300 (P3) component of the auditory Event-Related Potential (ERP) waveform is a sensitive and clinically useful marker of central nervous system impairment. The amplitude (in muV) and latency (in ms) of the P3 component of the auditory ERP were used in the present study to investigate differences between HIV-asymptomatic, HIV-symptomatic, and HIV-negative control adult (18--35 years old) women under three different task conditions. Results indicated that P3 amplitude measures were...
Show moreThe P300 (P3) component of the auditory Event-Related Potential (ERP) waveform is a sensitive and clinically useful marker of central nervous system impairment. The amplitude (in muV) and latency (in ms) of the P3 component of the auditory ERP were used in the present study to investigate differences between HIV-asymptomatic, HIV-symptomatic, and HIV-negative control adult (18--35 years old) women under three different task conditions. Results indicated that P3 amplitude measures were consistently greater in controls than in the asymptomatic and symptomatic groups for all task conditions and at all electrode locations, suggesting that the available level of attentional resources are reduced similarly in both symptomatics and asymptomatics. P3 latency measures revealed that processing speed by asymptomatics is more similar to controls than it is to symptomatics, indicating that speed of processing is compromised in symptomatics, and possibly, to a lesser degree in asymptomatics.
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Date Issued
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2001
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12731
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HIV-positive women, Evoked potentials (Electrophysiology)
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Double trouble: A cross-cultural, comparative study of blind women.
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Irving, Mary., Florida Atlantic University, Harris, Michael S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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In highly industrialized as well as in developing countries, blind women constitute one of the poorest segments of the population. This thesis explores societies' attitudes towards blind women who are doubly disadvantaged, because of their disability and their gender. In many developing countries this dual discrimination affects women's access to prevention, treatment, education, rehabilitation, and employment. Disabled women are deprived of women's traditional roles of wife, home maker, and...
Show moreIn highly industrialized as well as in developing countries, blind women constitute one of the poorest segments of the population. This thesis explores societies' attitudes towards blind women who are doubly disadvantaged, because of their disability and their gender. In many developing countries this dual discrimination affects women's access to prevention, treatment, education, rehabilitation, and employment. Disabled women are deprived of women's traditional roles of wife, home maker, and mother. This thesis also explores the cross-cultural network of local, national, and regional self-help committees blind women have begun to assemble in response to the worldwide interest in the rights of women and the disabled. The women who are active in these organizations recognize that in order to improve the status of blind women they will have to find ways to overcome the prejudices against the disabled in mainstream groups, and become an integral component of broader movements.
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Date Issued
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1994
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15091
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Blind women, Women with disabilities--Attitudes, People with visual disabilities, Women--Social conditions, Women--Developing countries--Social conditions
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NEGRO WOMEN AS SEEN BY WHITE AMERICAN NOVELISTS, 1925-1935.
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DOHNER, ELLEN H., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
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Date Issued
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1970
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13421
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African Americans in literature, African American women
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Document (PDF)
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Female type I diabetics with eating disorders: Purging by insulin withholding.
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Reilly, Maureen Bridget., Florida Atlantic University, Locsin, Rozzano
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This study provides descriptions of experiences and characteristics of female type I diabetics with eating disorders who purge by insulin withholding. The multiple case study design was used as adapted from Yin. Four female type I diabetics with eating disorders who purge by insulin withholding were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide. From these interviews, common themes emerged which described the experiences and characteristics of the participants. These themes were...
Show moreThis study provides descriptions of experiences and characteristics of female type I diabetics with eating disorders who purge by insulin withholding. The multiple case study design was used as adapted from Yin. Four female type I diabetics with eating disorders who purge by insulin withholding were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide. From these interviews, common themes emerged which described the experiences and characteristics of the participants. These themes were supported by answers to questions in the ATT 39 questionnaire. Themes which emerged are: self-care deficits, anger, shame, secretiveness, guilt, hopelessness, uniqueness, depression, low self esteem, control issues, depression, and body image distortion. These themes provided contextual relevance to participants' lived experiences, interconnected dual diagnoses and the ambivalence of recovering from their eating disorder. Implications for nursing education, practice, and research are discussed.
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Date Issued
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1997
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15467
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Diabetes, Insulin, Women--Diseases, Appetite disorders
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Fashion and power: The representation of gender in store window displays.
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Barrett, Kami T., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
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Fashion and dress have a complex relationship to identity. The clothes we choose to wear can express our identities in terms of gender, race, class, and/or sexuality, among other things. This study examines how gender, race, and class are used to interpellate primarily female shoppers through store window advertising in the city of London, England. Using a feminist cultural and media studies approach, I analyze eight store window display advertisements as texts, and how their portrayals of...
Show moreFashion and dress have a complex relationship to identity. The clothes we choose to wear can express our identities in terms of gender, race, class, and/or sexuality, among other things. This study examines how gender, race, and class are used to interpellate primarily female shoppers through store window advertising in the city of London, England. Using a feminist cultural and media studies approach, I analyze eight store window display advertisements as texts, and how their portrayals of women are presented to consumers. This study concludes that stereotypical, degrading, humiliating and violating representations of women and femininity abound in store window displays. Women are most likely to be portrayed as sex objects and signs of beauty. By representing store mannequins in sexual and fetishized poses, advertisers commodify female sexuality by associating it closely with beautiful, young bodies and the trappings of a glitzy lifestyle.
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2005
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13288
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Business Administration, Marketing, Women's Studies, Mass Communications
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Patriarchal cons: Feminine flirtation in "Twelfth Night".
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Braun, Theresa A., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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There is a linguistic homoerotic flirtation between the characters of Viola and Olivia in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Through Jane Gallop's analysis of Jacques Lacan, readers can view the eroticized exchange between these female characters by observing the manner in which each character utilizes both words containing feminine roots or metaphors that are feminine in nature. While Viola and Olivia express female-female desire, they search for their own identities in the patriarchal system that...
Show moreThere is a linguistic homoerotic flirtation between the characters of Viola and Olivia in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Through Jane Gallop's analysis of Jacques Lacan, readers can view the eroticized exchange between these female characters by observing the manner in which each character utilizes both words containing feminine roots or metaphors that are feminine in nature. While Viola and Olivia express female-female desire, they search for their own identities in the patriarchal system that they must exist. They challenge the idea that women need to be both sexually and verbally passive. Viola represents a woman's removal from and re-emergence into the patriarchal system through her disguise. She is able to use the idea of the phallus in her interaction with Olivia, allowing both characters to experience phallic power---both by wielding power and by affirming their feminine characteristics through specific language.
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Date Issued
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2005
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13281
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Psychology, Social, Women's Studies, Theater, Literature, English
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WORKING WOMEN IN AMERICA, 1870 TO 1914: A STUDY OF ATTITUDES AND OPINIONS.
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YATES, BARBARA JANE., Florida Atlantic University, Mohl, Raymond A.
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This thesis is an examination of the attitudes toward and the opinions about working women in America from 1870 to 1914. It is concerned with the general areas of occupations, wages and working conditions, labor legislation affecting women, and trade unionism among women.
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Date Issued
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1972
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13523
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Women--Employment--United States--History
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Gender, power, interpellation and body image: Creating consumer subjectivities in "Mode Magazine".
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Bolla, Danielle D., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
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Images of beauty are social constructs that exist in historical contexts and are subject to change. A correlation may be made between social inequality and how images of beauty are used to maintain the status quo. Mode Magazine is an unique fashion magazine that depicts women of different sizes. This thesis examines how "realistically sized" images of women are represented, and whether representation challenges beauty hegemony. It critically examines both visual and non-visual textual...
Show moreImages of beauty are social constructs that exist in historical contexts and are subject to change. A correlation may be made between social inequality and how images of beauty are used to maintain the status quo. Mode Magazine is an unique fashion magazine that depicts women of different sizes. This thesis examines how "realistically sized" images of women are represented, and whether representation challenges beauty hegemony. It critically examines both visual and non-visual textual representations using Hall's encoding/decoding model to discern potential meanings. It evaluates advertisements and articles for how women are interpellated by the text. It concludes by asserting that although counter-hegemonic elements are present, Mode's message is hegemonic. Mode posits that women can be realistically-sized and beautiful as long as they participate in all other aspects of beauty consumption and culture by purchasing the products and fashions showcased in the magazine.
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Date Issued
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2001
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12827
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Anthropology, Cultural, Women's Studies, Mass Communications
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THE ROOT AND HUE OF SCIENCE: BLACK FEMALE STEM PROFESSIONALS IN PALM BEACH COUNTY.
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Wildgoose-Carroll, J. Janell, Bryan, Valerie C., Florida Atlantic University, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology, College of Education
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Research shows that the United States of America is losing its competitive stance in the area of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) relative to other countries. One strategy that could solve this problem would be to diversify the field of STEM to include more women of color. The purpose of this narrative, qualitative research study was to explore the lived experiences of Black women with advanced/terminal degrees who are current STEM professionals in Palm Beach County. Fourteen...
Show moreResearch shows that the United States of America is losing its competitive stance in the area of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) relative to other countries. One strategy that could solve this problem would be to diversify the field of STEM to include more women of color. The purpose of this narrative, qualitative research study was to explore the lived experiences of Black women with advanced/terminal degrees who are current STEM professionals in Palm Beach County. Fourteen Black women participated in this study, which yielded four major findings that included early exposure to education’s value. importance of a strong sense of self/self-identity, challenges, and discrimination. The hope is that these findings will provide local administrators and elected officials/decision-makers (e.g., the school district, higher education, and government agencies) with information that could advise future practices and policies to close the gap of under-represented Black women in STEM industries.
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Date Issued
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2021
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013693
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STEM, Women, Black, Palm Beach County (Fla.)
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THE ETHICS OF DIALOGIC AUTHORSHIP: COLLABORATIVE WOMEN’S WRITING IN THE FRENCH, FRANCOPHONE, AND ITALIAN TRADITIONS.
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Pezzullo, Viviana, Munson, Marcella Lee, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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This dissertation investigates the ethics of authorial collaboration in contemporary collaborative women’s writing and its effect on the power dynamics inherent in the writing process. Collaborative writing occupies a continuum, from ethnographic autobiography, in which the writer outranks the generally anonymous subject, to the celebrity “ghostwritten” autobiography, which overturns this hierarchy. This study focuses more narrowly on more covert forms of collaboration implying a differential...
Show moreThis dissertation investigates the ethics of authorial collaboration in contemporary collaborative women’s writing and its effect on the power dynamics inherent in the writing process. Collaborative writing occupies a continuum, from ethnographic autobiography, in which the writer outranks the generally anonymous subject, to the celebrity “ghostwritten” autobiography, which overturns this hierarchy. This study focuses more narrowly on more covert forms of collaboration implying a differential of symbolic capital that foregrounds asymmetrical writing relationships. Importantly, these asymmetrical relationships cannot be unproblematically reduced to the general (or generic) conception of “coauthorship,” turning instead towards a form of paratextual dialogue that acknowledges the presence of diverse and sometimes conflicting authorial voices that manifest themselves in various ways in different parts of the text. By focusing on a variety of covert collaborative forms, including so-told narratives from different epochs and traditions, the dissertation will expand our conception of collaborative writing and simultaneously develop a more dialogic notion of authorship, putting in conversation Bakhtinian concepts of dialogism, heteroglossia, and polyphony with feminist theory. The case studies present in the dissertation, ranging from feminist journals of the 1970s to slave narratives, provide the crucial function of offering a profound and carefully nuanced series of contexts in which to examine the deeper moral principles and obligations that tie collaborators to each other. Simultaneously, this analysis aims to start a discussion about privilege in the writing collaborative process as well as issues of minority representation in literature. The relationship between authorial voices that hold a differential of symbolic capital also invites to reflect on the complicated sociocultural dynamics between socalled “dominant” or “prestige” languages–what Pascale Casanova calls “dominating” languages–and “minority” languages (such as Italian dialects and Guadeloupean Creole). For this reason, starting from the Bakhtinian concept of heteroglossia this dissertation leads to a sociolinguistic analysis of the linguistic habits of collaborators, highlighting how language becomes one of the forms of power imbalance.
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Date Issued
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2021
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013845
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Subject Headings
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Sociolinguistics, Authorship—Collaboration, Ethics, Women's writing
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Homeless mothers' perceptions of their experience of receiving nursing care.
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Moore, Vivian Soeder., Florida Atlantic University, Appleton, Cathy
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This research study is a description of the experience of receiving nursing care for homeless mothers. Nine homeless mothers, who described their experience of receiving nursing care, were selected as participants. Using a phenomenological approach to guide the inquiry, narrative descriptions were generated from interviews with each participant. The homeless mothers' experience of receiving nursing care is described in two essential descriptive themes: (1) being homeless, and (2) receiving...
Show moreThis research study is a description of the experience of receiving nursing care for homeless mothers. Nine homeless mothers, who described their experience of receiving nursing care, were selected as participants. Using a phenomenological approach to guide the inquiry, narrative descriptions were generated from interviews with each participant. The homeless mothers' experience of receiving nursing care is described in two essential descriptive themes: (1) being homeless, and (2) receiving nursing care. The implications of these mothers' experience for nursing education, practice, and research are discussed.
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Date Issued
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1993
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14967
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Nursing assessment, Homeless women--Medical care
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The Representation and Evolution of Abusive Relationships: Harley Quinn and the Joker.
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Creator
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Isaacs, Jenna, Berlatsky, Eric, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Abstract/Description
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This thesis The Representation and Evolution of Abusive Relationships: Harley Quinn and the Joker takes a psychoanalytic, gender, and media studies approach to comics such as Mad Love, The Batman Adventures, Suicide Squad and the film Suicide Squad and The Suicide Squad (2016) Drawing on the work of Lenore Walker, Scott McCloud and other various scholars, this thesis will explore the distinctions in how the comics and film confront, disguise, or conceal the abuse. An analysis of the...
Show moreThis thesis The Representation and Evolution of Abusive Relationships: Harley Quinn and the Joker takes a psychoanalytic, gender, and media studies approach to comics such as Mad Love, The Batman Adventures, Suicide Squad and the film Suicide Squad and The Suicide Squad (2016) Drawing on the work of Lenore Walker, Scott McCloud and other various scholars, this thesis will explore the distinctions in how the comics and film confront, disguise, or conceal the abuse. An analysis of the increasingly romanticized representation of abuse in the comics and film, where audience support for the couple and merchandizing were core concerns, reflect increasing audience participation in responding to and making demands upon narratives of toxic relationships and intimate partner violence.
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Date Issued
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2022
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013938
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Subject Headings
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Media studies, Women's studies, Intimate partner violence
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Format
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Document (PDF)
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