Add to ORKGgrantor: University of TorontoThis thesis is a study of the normalizing practices and discourses inherent in the process of cultural production. The main focus of this thesis is an examination of the constitution of the female body within the location of popular culture, specifically Harlequin Enterprises and popular romance novels. I discuss the (re)presentation of women in popular culture, and how women's experiences of oppression are normalized within these sites and labeled as entertainment. I also interrogate how desire is normalized, and a 'normalized desire' is constructed within the context of the culture of romance action; I ask what constructs constitute the 'normal' and the 'desirable', what roles are upheld, what value...
Melting into the Margins intervenes in the academic and media debate about normality: the white nucl...
Sexual identities are dangerous, Michel Foucault tells us. Categories of desire harden into stereoty...
In this dissertation I argue that cultural ideologies about gender, race and class influence social ...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis is a study of the normalizing practices and disc...
In my dissertation, I introduce a theoretical concept called, “the work of being normal,” which is a...
This studio research project explores and establishes a framework for theinterplay of inner feelings...
This doctoral thesis investigates popular romance, a mass-cultural genre with a large female audienc...
This thesis treats the concept of romantic love in relation to women. It attempts to show that the s...
This paper, based on a Master's thesis in Sociology of Religion at Uppsala University, addresses iss...
272 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.The dissertation looks at the...
This dissertation examines the ways in which cultural definitions of gender, sex, and race have equa...
228 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987.The work studies gender-based...
The exegesis portion of my thesis examines representations of feminine masochism in 20th-century lit...
Thesis. This study tends to show how various social, cultural, and institutional factors work to dis...
The aim of this project is to explore female agency through examining female consciousness. I think ...
Melting into the Margins intervenes in the academic and media debate about normality: the white nucl...
Sexual identities are dangerous, Michel Foucault tells us. Categories of desire harden into stereoty...
In this dissertation I argue that cultural ideologies about gender, race and class influence social ...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis is a study of the normalizing practices and disc...
In my dissertation, I introduce a theoretical concept called, “the work of being normal,” which is a...
This studio research project explores and establishes a framework for theinterplay of inner feelings...
This doctoral thesis investigates popular romance, a mass-cultural genre with a large female audienc...
This thesis treats the concept of romantic love in relation to women. It attempts to show that the s...
This paper, based on a Master's thesis in Sociology of Religion at Uppsala University, addresses iss...
272 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.The dissertation looks at the...
This dissertation examines the ways in which cultural definitions of gender, sex, and race have equa...
228 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987.The work studies gender-based...
The exegesis portion of my thesis examines representations of feminine masochism in 20th-century lit...
Thesis. This study tends to show how various social, cultural, and institutional factors work to dis...
The aim of this project is to explore female agency through examining female consciousness. I think ...
Melting into the Margins intervenes in the academic and media debate about normality: the white nucl...
Sexual identities are dangerous, Michel Foucault tells us. Categories of desire harden into stereoty...
In this dissertation I argue that cultural ideologies about gender, race and class influence social ...