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When No Means Yes: BDSM, Body Modification, and Japanese Womanhood as Monstrosity in Snakes and Earrings and Hotel Iris [PDF]
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2019 This paper explores the representation of female monstrosity which are relied upon by two female Japanese writers to illustrate modern Japanese women’s process of reclaiming power. Hitomi Kanehara in Snakes and Earrings and Yōko Ogawa in
Jarrel De Matas
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The threshold of the monstrous, between dehumanization and necro-capitalism
Itinera, 2023 The subject of the following contribution is a discussion of the theses in R.L.Smith's volume 'Making Monster,' on the relationship between processes of dehumanization and the production of monstrosity.
Vincenzo Di Mino
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LinguacultureGothic literature frequently employs monstrosity to reveal deep-seated cultural anxieties, symbolically confronting fears of cultural exchange, imperialism, and historical violence.
Bianca Mihaela Crișan
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Autism = Death: The social and medical impact of a catastrophic medical model of autistic spectrum disorders [PDF]
, 2008 This discussion interrogates the continuing impact of the pervasive and persistent usage of debilitating metaphors perpetuating ‘historical’ superstitions, myths and beliefs surrounding disability.
Waltz, Mitzi
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Rigenerare il mostruoso. Un saggio
Itinera, 2023 The article moves from the idea of monster as a “cultural predicate” referable to a wide linguistic and symbolic repertoire proper to the overall human history.
Ubaldo Fadini
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Medieval Feminist Forum, 2021 This paper compares the illuminations in two medieval apocalypses, the Cloisters Apocalypse and Hildegard von Bingen’s Scivias, to inspect their similar constructions of female sexuality, motherhood, and monstrosity. It first analyzes the monstrosity of female sexual organs found in Hildegard’s portrayal of the Church and the Mother of the ...
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Monstrous Mobility in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula [PDF]
, 2019 This thesis explores Late Victorian Gothic texts that are central to theories on monstrosity in terms of mobility by examining Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula. The goal of this project is to survey the ways in which two exemplary monsters, Mr.
Weese, Autumn Danielle
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Mental health problems are common among UK undergraduate students. In response, many universities have put considerable effort into raising awareness about student mental health problems and avenues of support (e.g., via workshops, posters, email newsletters and social media posts).
Sorcha Finan, Lucy Foulkes
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Наука телевидения, 2023 This article examines the cinematic transformations of monstrosity within the context of a growing ecological awareness and the Anthropocene. The authors argue that these transformations reflect a posthumanist shift in popular culture ethics, suggesting ...
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