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Exploring the representation of women’s bodies on the covers of three South African health and fitness magazines : a critical discourse analysis
Get PDFM.A. (Counselling Psychology)Abstract: The aim of this study was to determine how selected health and fitness magazines create certain representations of the women’s body through the use of various discourses. The covers of three different magazines were analysed as this section of the print media reaches large and diverse audiences including those that do not read the actual content of the magazine. A critical discourse analysis, social representation theory and feminist theory, was used to analyse the covers. One cover for each month of the 2015 and 2016 issues was selected. This study delineated the creation of the representation of the women’s body through the language used on the covers of such health and fitness magazines. This representation was seen to be formulated by the ideals of a patriarchal society thereby perpetuating the role of women in society as inferior to men and thus dependant on men. Furthermore, the representations were seen to be widespread and found to be adopted by many institutions and industries, not just the health and fitness sphere. It is evident that the language used on covers of magazines can create a discourse and representation of women’s bodies that may have an influence on the audiences of these magazines. It is recommended that the research is taken further by collecting data from actual women who read these magazines to decipher the reality of the representations and discourses
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
I’m not sure this is rape, but : an exposition of the stealthing trend
Get PDFCitation: Upholding the sexual and reproductive rights of all women and girls has been flagged as a global priority. However, the hetero-patriarchal actions and systems within which female sexuality and reproduction is situated not only disenfranchises women of these rights, but it sometimes usurps these rights from them, without them knowing. One such act, is the practice of stealthing. This conceptual article argues that the stealthing trend is a relevant construct in the human and social sciences because it has a detrimental impact on female sexuality and gender-based sexual violence. Through both a conceptual scrutiny of the construct and through online narratives of stealthing, this article not only establishes stealthing as a distinctive form of gender-based sexual violence, it also establishes it as a practice that deviously subjugates female sexuality and reproduction under the guise of sexual autonomy and sexual consent
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The relationship of investment in self to wellbeing
Get PDFWellbeing has been of paramount concern to scholars since antiquity, and the pursuit of wellbeing has become a central part of western life. This study was dedicated to wellbeing and optimal human functioning. The study aimed to establish the investment in self construct as a wellbeing construct. In the spirit of positive psychology, the focus of the present study was on the salutary constructs of wellbeing and optimal functioning. To this end, the relationships between investment in self, emotional intelligence and wellbeing and optimal functioning were investigated. Satisfaction with life, relationship satisfaction and job satisfaction were chosen to operationalise wellbeing and optimal functioning, as they were seen as the real-life outcomes of wellness. Measures targeting each of the variables were completed by 352 volunteers from the general population. The data was analysed using the Rash measurement model, correlations and structural equation modelling. The results indicated that investment in self has a positive relationship to emotional intelligence. Investment in self is also positively associated with wellbeing and optimal functioning, as it correlated positively with satisfaction with life and job satisfaction. Similarly, emotional intelligence was found to have a significant relationship to satisfaction with life, relationship satisfaction and job satisfaction. Collectively, this study has successfully shown that investment in self can positively improve people’s lives. Similarly, emotional intelligence seems to have positive benefits to everyday lifeProf. G.P. De Brui
Disability porn : the fetishisation and liberation of disabled sex
Get PDFAbstract: Set against dominant ableist discourses of sexuality, engaging in sex in the face of physical disabilities seems not only impossible but also highly improbable. Long-standing myths and discriminatory stereotypes around the sexuality of people with disabilities are commonplace, in part due to the sheer unknowns about the sexual lives and practises of people with disabilities. In recent years, members of the disabled community have emerged professing to thriving sex lives, and one avenue that provides evidence of not only the existence of disabled sexuality but also the multitude of possibilities within disabled sexuality is in the burgeoning genre of disability pornography. While disability and sex merge in pornography, there is limited interchange in the scholarship on disabled sexuality and pornography. In this chapter, I aim to address this privation by examining the intersection of pornography and disabled sexuality. I conclude that disability pornography not only has positive spinoffs, such as enfranchisement of disabled sex, but also negative upshots, which include the fetishisation of disabled sexuality..
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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