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Doing Gender on and off the Pitch: the World of Female Football Players [PDF]

open access: yes
The following paper looks at the experiences of female football (soccer) players at a College of Higher Education in the South of England. Association Football occupies a special place in English society where it has traditionally been linked to notions ...
John Harris
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Spectral Femininity

open access: yes, 2016
‘Spectral Femininity’ examines the troubling spectres of femininity that have haunted the Gothic imagination since the eighteenth century. Etymologically related as much to the field of looking as to the realm of phantoms, the ‘spectre’ occupies a vital ...
Rebecca Munford
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Beyond the Default: How Customizable Artificial Intelligence Agents Can Attenuate Stereotypical Preferences

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT AI agents are typically deployed with gender cues that match traditional role expectations, such as female voices or avatars in assistive and support roles, because stereotype‐congruent designs enhance consumer adoption, trust, and engagement. However, prior research suggests that this practice risks entrenching occupational gender stereotypes
Marius Claudy   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human environment and cultural influence on the development of international business [PDF]

open access: yesEastern European Journal of Regional Studies, 2017
Peoples always seek to improve their life conditions. This sought had significantly contributed to the improvement of human life. Urbanization was a major turning point in the history of human development.
Nicolae ȚÂU   +1 more
doaj  

The Long and Short of It: A Warmth‐Based Explanation of the Effects of Brand Name Length on Brand Equity

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite a consensus that shorter (vs. longer) brand names positively influence consumer mindset metrics, the mechanisms driving this influence remain unclear, as does the effect of brand name length on brands' financial performance. This article helps fill these literature gaps.
Ammara Mahmood, Jonathan Luffarelli
wiley   +1 more source

Femininity and Dance at the Interface of Performance: An Exploration of Femininity through Performance in Suit Up, a Choreographic/Performance Dance Thesis

open access: yes, 2015
Femininity and Dance at the Interface of Performance: An exploration of Femininity through Performance in Suit Up, a choreographic/performance dance thesis compiles the research behind Suit Up, a ten-minute dance for six women, which investigates the ...
Ho, Christiana K
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Soviet Femininity in Ice Dancing

open access: yes, 2022
Soviet cultural codes of femininity can be examined through the biography and career of Liudmila Pakhomova, a gold standard for femininity in the Soviet ice dancing world. This paper will analyze how she came to be renowned for her femininity and thereby
Glass, Elyana
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Beyond Initial Adoption: How Lean Six Sigma Is Sustained, Adapted, and Used in the U.S. Textile and Apparel Industry

open access: yesQuality and Reliability Engineering International, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how Lean Six Sigma (LSS) currently functions in the U.S. textile and apparel industry after years of adoption and use. Moving beyond isolated project‐level evidence, this study investigates whether LSS has been implemented as an organizational capability and integrated into the corporate culture, adapted to textile‐specific
Alireza Vahedi Fakhr   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The feminine

open access: yesAta: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand, 2005
This paper attempts to introduce a concept very rarely, if at all, mentioned in psychotherapy: "the feminine". It proposes that psychotherapy would benefit from better understanding masculine and feminine principles, particularly the latter one, in view of the neglect they have suffered over the years.
openaire   +1 more source

Who Can Afford to Fail? Investigating Science Students' Perceptions of Failure Through the Lens of Their Identities

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scientists agree that learning to cope with failures is an important skill for science students to develop, and students who participate in science research often have positive outcomes after coping with science failures. However, the experience of failure in undergraduate science education more broadly seems to have an overall negative impact
Sandhya Krishnan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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