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Classed Femininities of Black Women: Subjectivities and Agency in Body Reshaping and Body Management Practices
No full textThis thesis presents research investigating how Black women’s intersecting racialised, gendered, and classed identities shape their body management and body reshaping practices through a critical and feminist relational discourse analytical lens. This represents a move away from positivist and essentialist epistemologies which have been used to subordinate and pathologise Black women’s bodies and body management practices. There is vast scholarship on the subordination and marginalisation of Black women by hegemonic cultural ideals typifying Whiteness, White facial features, and thinness as the ideal standard of beauty. This marginalisation has been posited as disadvantageous and impacting upon Black women’s wellbeing (see Bryant, 2013). There is also a call for research to explore the role of social and cultural identities on body reshaping practices in British ethnic minority women (Swami & Hendrikse, 2013) and in Black women (Tallyrand et al., 2017). It is therefore imperative to understand the discursive negotiations of classed femininities of Black women (i.e., class, gender, and race) in the context of their body reshaping and management practices as there is under-representation of Black women in research on body management practices (Goode et al., 2017). As such, this study aims to examine how Black women’s multiple identities influence their body reshaping and body management practices using a two-study analysis: a media-text study and an interview-based study.
For the first study, a Critical discourse analysis (Mullet, 2018) was used to analyse video introductions and talk from the comment sections of five YouTube videos. Three discourses originated from this analysis. First, the curvy body was constructed as natural for African/African-heritage women. Second, the curvy body was constructed as a form of Black female empowerment – where empowerment was constructed through a neoliberal rhetoric of autonomy, choice, and empowerment. As such, participants drew on racialised body discourse and post-feminist/neoliberal discourses. The third discourse pertained to female empowerment and body acceptance. This was found to be contradictory to the second discourse, as female empowerment was related to and performed within a feminist-politics context where body acceptance and self-love were key to doing gender.
The second study of this research adopted a Feminist relational discourse analysis (Thompson et al., 2018) to analyse the discourse and voices in the interviews with Black women and their self-written diaries. Two discourses originated from the first phase of the analysis: curvy body as the ideal body, and reshaping as a (un)healthy pursuit. The I-poems in the second phase demonstrated how Black women position themselves within these broad discursive patterns and dominant discourses through several voices, such as guilt, constructing the self as deficient, normalising pain, constructing feelings of injustice and resistance to a class-based deficient self, and, as such, presenting body work as not providing the desired freedom sought but an arterial for continuous domination. In conclusion, this thesis has focused on Black women's voice and posited that the curvy body, and indeed any body ideal, should be seen as potentially both an oppressive ideology and a form of resistance for Black women. Therefore, targeting healthy body reshaping and body management practices in minority communities is paramount, requiring education and health initiatives that consider and properly understand the multiple and often intersecting identities of Black women.</p
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
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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