Revisiting girlhood : defining a postmodern/popular feminist culture /

It has bee1l said that feminism is dead, but in fact feminism is alive in popular cultural fonlls that offer pleasure, style, fUll and advice, as well as political messages that are internalized alld continuously enacted in the lives of North American female youth. This thesis discusses popular feminism with respect to mainstream girls' cultural discourses in music alld magazine reading. Specifically this thesis examines the importance of Madonna, Gwen Stefani, and the Spice Girls, in addition to the numerous girl magazines available on the market today, such as Seventeen and YM. Focusing on the issue of the feminine versus feminist polarity and its importance to girls' culture, this thesis attempts to demonstrate how popular feminism can be used as a mode of empowerment and illustrates the mode of consumption of popular feminist texts that frames female selfimage, attitude, behaviour and speech. Through the employment of popular feminist theories and a discourse alld semiotic analysis of musical lyrics, performance and style, in addition to magazine reading and advertisements, this thesis highlights the use of active media reading and being by girls to gaill an understanding with regards to social positioning and postmodern political identity. More fundamentally, this thesis questions how popular feminism disables, questions and critiques popular ideologies ill a patriarchal society.

Fade to black : picturing mortality in contemporary popular film /

This thesis attempts to understand representations of death in contemporary popular film within a framework that posits mortality as a category of particular social and political importance for the way we understand both individual subjectivity and social responsibility in the postmodern cultural moment. It addresses concerns over the social organizing categories of time and space, and performs a sustained consideration of predominant themes related to the popular representation of death, such as contingency, existential.meaning, and temporal finitude. Death consciousness and social consciousness are shown to be not just intertwined, but also vitally dependent on one another, and the analyses undertaken are ultimately aimed at making these intersections explicit in order • l to think through their potential implications for challenging consumer capitalist hegemony and envisioning the possibility of progressive social change through the lens of our mortality.

The encounter with the real and post-Soviet trauma : fantasy construction in Russian popular cinema /

This thesis examines the impact of the Soviet Union's collapse on the Russian Symbolic as represented through popular cinema of the post-Soviet period. The disintegration of the USSR in 1991 became one of the most traumatic experiences for many Russian people. The trauma of the collapse of the Soviet Union penetrated the everyday reality of the Russian Symbolic, leaving the traces-symptoms in different cultural fonns like literature, arts, television and cinema. Because popular culture usually reacts very quickly to any social, political and economical shifts in society, it is an excellent barometer for deeper changes in society. Focusing on postSoviet popular cinema, this thesis analyzes the symptoms of cultural and individual trauma occasioned by the momentous changes of the 1990's. This study is grounded in post-analytic theory of Jacques Lacan and its interpretation by Slavoj Zizek, which emphases the traumatic encounter with the Real as a "hard core" of our reality. According to this paradigm, a new chain of signifiers is structured around the traumatic breach in the Symbolic, initiating a process of fantasy construction to deal with consequences of trauma and, thus, to support our Symbolic order. This thesis examines three major fantasy constructions - drinking, traveling to a "happy land" and family reunion and money - in popular films by Alexander Rogozhkin, Yurij Mamin, Georgij Shengelia, Dmitrij Astrakhan, Valerij Todorovskij, Alexej Balabanov, Sergej Bodrov Jr. and Petr Buslov. According to Zizek, enjoyment underlies any fantasy constructions, and that is why after the intrusion of the Real every individual and culture should go through the process of fantasizing about some substitutes which can help to minimize the traumatic effect and which can lead to a partial enjoyment. By analyzing the fantasies about drinking, "happy land", reconstruction of the family bonds and money in Russian popular cinema since 1991, this thesis demonstrates how the traumatic engagement with the Real affected the everyday lives of Russian people, and how individuals tried to fill the gap, the lack, in the post-Soviet Symbolic and "return" the lost feeling of unity and plenitude.

La participación popular en colonias urbano-marginadas de los municipios de San Nicolás de los Garza y Apodaca, N. L.

Tesis (Maestría en Trabajo Social) UANL

Adenocarcinoma quístico-papilar del páncreas en un niño reporte de un caso y revisión de la literatura [por] Jesús Tamez González

Tesis (Especialidad en Cirugía General). U. A. N. L.

Embarazo ectópico cervical presentación de un caso y revisión de la literatura [por] Hugo Alberto Cepeda López

Tesis (Especialidad en Ginecología y Obstetricia). U. A. N. L.

Análisis multifactorial de la participación popular comunitaria de la mujer investigación realizada en los sectores 1 y 4 de la colonia San Gilberto, Santa Catarina, N.L. por Ma. Elena Zamora González

Tesis (Maestría en Trabajo Social) U.A.N.L.

Los módulos de la reforma educativa en el área de español (redacción y literatura) en las preparatorias de la U.A.N.L. sistema de evaluación [por] Martha Feliz Flores Guajardo

Tesis (Maestría en Letras Españolas) U.A.N.L

La banca popular en México su operación, regulación y supervisión por Víctor Luján García

Tesis (Maestría en Administración de Empresas con Especialidad en Finanzas) U.A.N.L.

Una propuesta teórico-práctica para la enseñanza de la literatura en preparatoria a través de la creación literaria

[Tesis] (Maestría en Artes con Especialidad en Educación) U.A.N.L.

La novela virtual: intertextualidad y posmodernismo la cita Neobarroca

Tesis ( Maestría en Letras Españolas) U.A.N.L.

Prejuicios de género en la literatura : ¿un problema pasado de moda?

Tesis (Maestría en Letras Españolas) U.A.N.L.

Gestión de proyecto. Propuesta de conjunto habitacional popular como estrategia de desarrollo comunitario y regeneración con enfoque administrativo para el área metropolitana de Monterrey.

Tesis (Maestría en Administración de la Construcción) UANL, 2010.

La medicina popular y la brujería en Nuevo León y Coahuila durantelos siglos XVIII y XIX

UANL