Essays about: "importance of dressing"

Found 5 essays containing the words importance of dressing.

1. 1. “She said she was called Theodore” : -        A modality analysis of five transcendental saints in the 1260’s Legenda Aurea and 1430’s Gilte Legende

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Historiska institutionen

   Author : Emmy Atterving; [2017]
   Keywords : saint; saints; transvestites; transvestism; transvestite; saint marina; marina; marinus; saint eugenia; eugenia; eugene; saint theodora; theodora; theodore; saint margaret; margaret pelagius; margaret; margaret pelagia; pelagius; pelagia; saint pelagia; jacopo de fazio; jacobus de voragine; jacopo da varazze; compiler; dominican; Golden legend; legenda aurea; legenda sanctorum; gilte legende; confessor; martyr; virgin; hagiographies; hagiography; biography; England; Middle English sweden; monastery; monk; abbot; social experimentation; space; feminisation of language; jesus as mother; saint bridget of sweden; saint mary; holy virgin; saint catherine of siena; le roman de silences; silence; caroline walker bynum; sanctity; transcendence; homi bhabha; post-colonial; postcolonial; loomba; hybridity; hybridity theory; gender; gender fluidity; crossdressing; cross-dressing; transgender; laqueur; linguistics; modality; nuyts; medieval; late medieval; late middle ages; middle ages; late medieval period;

   Abstract : This thesis explores modalities in two hagiographical collections from the late Middle Ages; the Legenda Aurea and the Gilte Legende by drawing inspiration from post-colonial hybridity theories.. READ MORE

3. 2. OMG(s)! : Investigating the spiritual body

   University essay from Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi

   Author : Sara Lundberg; [2015]
   Keywords : Fashion; body; god-dressing; spirituality; culture;

   Abstract : This work aims to discuss the contemporary view on religion and is an investigation of the body’s capacity for spiritual expression. By combining spirituality with contemporary fashion scene and what is praised today, the result presents a suggestion for a new religion, with references to the development of religion through the history of humanity and how the body has functioned in that, exchanged to materials, shapes and symbols used of the contemporary man. READ MORE

4. 3. Porn 2.0 straight from the horse's mouth. Consumption and Production of User Generated Content

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Aneta Hoszowska; Tomas Janovsky; [2014]
   Keywords : porn; pornography; user generated content; Porn 2.0; netporn; amateur; consumer culture; prosumer; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The research of pornography has always been sorrowful and affected by many accusations of researchers being ‘Porn apologists dressing up personal convictions to look more objective by attaching the word “studies” to the title of their journal’ or often according to anti-porn advocates they were ‘expressing their own opinions rather than producing research’ and were likely to write ‘fulsome articles […] declaring “porn is wonderful for men” (Atwood & Smith, 2014, p. 8). READ MORE

5. 4. When All Comes down to Clothes : An Interpretation of P.G. Wodehouse's The Inimitable Jeeves

   University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

   Author : Tobias Frööjd; [2012]
   Keywords : P. G. Wodehouse; Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse; The Inimitable Jeeves; Jeeves; Wooster; Bertie; Menswear; Clothing; Clothes; Dressing; Dress; Dress codes; Fashion; Style; Tradition; Traditions; Traditional; Conservative; Values; British; Britain; Aristocracy; Class; Society; Social; Upper class; England; English; Valet; Butler; New historicism;

   Abstract : Abstract My aim for this paper is to analyse the character Jeeves' obsession with perfect clothing in     P. G. Wodehouse's The Inimitable Jeeves (1923). READ MORE

6. 5. The Importance of Appearance - A study of the importance of appearance when attending a job interview

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Ellen Särngren; Anna Åberg; [2007-02-06T12:18:52Z]
   Keywords : appearance; recruitment; applicant; employment interview; beauty; performativity; clothing;

   Abstract : We have noticed the increased importance appearance and looks seem to have in Western society today. These new tendencies are all pointing at the same thing; image is everything. The widespread obsession with a beautiful surface now seems to be entering the professional arena as well. READ MORE