What role did the figure of dancing female play in negotiating cultural anxieties Great War era? I explore this question by looking at performer Maud Allan who was famous for her danced interpretations Salomé pre-War London and cause a sensational libel suit 1918 bring together deviant sexuality wartime espionage. juxtapose with ballerina Anna Pavlova, contemporary, model par excellence proper ...

Abstract This paper examines the depiction of matriarch Leah in Book Jubilees . It argues that, through a careful rewriting tradition found Genesis, author transforms into model wife, and doing so provides discursive reconfiguration notions about idealised femininity. The silencing Leah’s voice is central to transformative which becomes perfect wife embodiment femininity

Abstract Authoritarian regimes place significant emphasis on gender roles as part of their ‘imagined communities’, where everyone has attributed through evocation the nation’s ‘history’ and ‘mission’. By placing at core historical analysis, this article examines antinomies related to role women, shifting perceptions femininity, under Metaxas regime. It female branch National Youth Organisation ...

Perceptions of masculinity and femininity influence behaviors and can be identified in young children and adolescents (Brannon, 2004). Thus, adolescents' engagement in health risk or promoting behaviors is influenced by perceptions of masculinity and femininity and the differences in expectations, norms and responsibilities for girls and boys (WHO, 2007). Girls and boys have different needs, an...

OBJECTIVES This study investigates differences between the self-assessment and external rating of a person's voice with regard to sex characteristics, age, and attractiveness of the voice and mean fundamental frequency (F0). STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. METHODS A group of 47 participants with a balanced sex distribution was recruited and the following data were collected: videostrobo...

Fundamental frequency (F(0)) of speech is used to measure the success of voice therapy in male-to-female transgender clients. This study evaluates the relationship between F(0) and patients' happiness with their voice. The study design used was a cross-sectional evaluation of client satisfaction questionnaires and voice recordings from transgender clients. This study was a comparative evaluatio...

While our culture constantly evokes anger, it also places constraints on the expression of anger. The constraints for women are different, and more restrictive, than those for men. Women’s assigned subordinate position generates anger. Women’s traditional roles and internalized cultural concepts of “femininity,” however, entwine to characterize their expressions of anger as pathological. Men, i...

This paper examines the representation of men as domestic experts in British lifestyle television programmes. It considers contemporary representations of the home, locating these in relation to changes in British primetime programming where a movement towards hybrid TV forms appears to rearticulate the mission to ‘inform, educate and entertain’ and to transform private matters into public spec...