Future Girls,transcendent femininities and new pedagogies: toward girls' hybrid bodies?

Media provides a material site for girls' identity formation and presents conflicting images of femininity, which challenge young women's self-expression and physicality development. The ‘problem’ with girls' physicality has not been resolved, but rather complicated by discourses of new femininities in sport, fitness and health promoted by the new economies. Girls' conscious and unconscious consumption of messages of new powerful femininities might be troubling for some girls, especially ‘Other’ girls and/or girls ‘at risk,’ whose physicality collides with the emerging image of the new girls. Therefore, in this paper, I contend that an investment in the third-wave feminist agenda is still necessary to engage scholars, educators and girls in critical conversations about media, genders, the body and identity. To this end, first I discuss the feminist reappraisal of Foucault's analysis of the body as an emancipatory socio-educational and political project for (en)gendering research on the feminine ‘docile body’ in society. Second, I highlight emerging contemporary monocultural discourses of the ‘Alpha Girl’ and the ‘Future Girl,’ powerful sporty, fit and healthy femininities that contradict discourses of the traditional feminine docile body, and I analyze the ways these new images subsume race, class, religion and disability. Finally, I conclude this article by advocating the adoption of critical media pedagogies as a potential strategy for schooling girls' hybrid bodies.     

A Consideration of Why Active Participation in Sport and Leisure Might Reduce Criminal Behaviour

This paper contributes to sport, sociology and the body literature by exploring the ‘exposure and effect’ of culture, in particular bodily practices placed on three adolescent swimmers immersed in the Australian swimming culture using an ethnographic framework. The research reported is particularly notable as it addresses two distinct time points in the swimmers’ lives. The first section explores the adolescent experiences of three female swimmers within the cultural context of Australian swimming by articulating some of the specific body practices and ‘memes’ (ideas, symbols and practices) that they were exposed to and/or engaged within relation to the body. The second section of this paper focuses on the same three swimmers in the ‘present day’, some 10–30 years after being immersed in the Australian swimming culture as adolescents. It excavates their body practices and the relationships they now have with their body, and thus pursues the sustained impact of the body practices and ‘memes’ they were exposed to as adolescents. Analysis employs concepts drawn mainly from Foucault, particularly his thesis in regard to ‘disciplinary power’, ‘regulation’ ‘classification’ and ‘surveillance’. At a club (amateur) and National level, Australian swimming is revealed as an institution, a site and culture where particular techniques of power have become concentrated and have been brought to bear on individuals in systematic ways, with sometimes damaging effects arising for athletes’ long-term health and well-being, particularly if the individuals concerned continue to engage with cultural practices in regard to the body post-career.     

Circles with a suspended aid: reducing pommel reaction forces

The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of a suspended aid on the reaction forces during a basic skill on pommel horse. Twenty gymnasts performed three sets of 10 circles with and without a suspended aid on a pommel horse under which two force plates were set. The results confirmed that the suspended aid could reduce the magnitude of the pommel reaction forces during circles while maintaining the general loading pattern. On the left hand, the average and peak forces were attenuated to 0.59 body weight (BW) and 0.85 BW from 0.76 BW and 1.13 BW, respectively. The right hand experienced slightly larger forces with no-aid trials, but the asymmetry between the hands decreased with the aid. Despite a relatively large variability, all gymnasts experienced smaller impact peak forces with the aid. A suspended aid is most commonly used for a beginner gymnast as an introduction to pommel horse exercises. However, this study confirmed that it can also be useful for all levels of gymnasts who would like to practice pommel horse exercises with reduced pommel reaction forces for a purpose such as a progression for learning a new skill, control of training volume, or rehabilitation.     

互成角度的两平面镜成像问题的讨论

夹角为θ的平面镜M和N之间放置一物点P,由反射所成的虚像设为K个,这些像均分布在同一个圆周上,像的总数K=[(180°-α)/θ]+[(180°-β)/θ]。当180°/θ为整数时,K个虚像中有两个像重合,故只有K-1个虚像能被看到;当180°/θ不为整数时,K的值既取决于平面镜M和N之间的夹角,还与物点P所放位置有关。     

试析公共关系的传播特征

公共关系与传播休戚相关.公共关系的传播特征,从形式上来说,是生态传播,即组织与公众之间、组织与环境之间的双向沟通;从内容上来说,是理想传播,即真的传播-信息传播、善的传播-责任传播和美的传播-形象传播的统一.     

全息照相实验异常现象分析与处理

文章对全息照相实验过程中出现的异常干涉现象：再现像变大变胖，再现像模糊现象进行了分析。并提出了相应的处理方法。     

基于混沌系统的双图像交叉混合加密算法

为了提高数字图像在传输过程中的安全性,并实现图像加密仅需依据混沌系统初始密钥,而与明文无关,提出基于明文 hash 值与高维混沌序列的双图像交叉混合加密算法。首先获取明文图像各自的 hash 值,然后对 hash 值进行交叉改造,并利用 hash 值生成混沌序列。加密过程基于前向扩散—置乱—后向扩散的加密体系,最终生成密文图像。仿真结果表明,该算法能够较好地抵御各种攻击,实现数字图像的安全传输。     

《东篱乐府》主体形象探微

散曲辑本《东篱乐府》形象化地记录了马致远由热衷功名到仕进无由,在进退失据的困境中,从尘世逃往山野林泉的心路历程,其中饱受仕与隐两重人格痛苦煎熬的抒情主体形象在元代和元代以后的中国文人中有着很大的普遍性。     

散文的意境及其创构

章探讨了散意境的本质内涵及其与诗歌意境的区别。同时提出了创构散意境的三条途径：抓住动情之物是意境创构的根本；突出寓意之点是意境创构的核心；展开想象之翼是意境创构的关键。     

高中诗歌鉴赏策略探索

高中语文教材中诗歌的比重较大，凸显出诗歌鉴赏教学的重要性。通过对诗歌创作一些规律性东西的分析，从中获取诗歌鉴赏的某些策略，减少诗歌鉴赏教学上的失误。