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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Dominant ideologies"”.
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Creating a government that works better and costs less: A historical analysis of Civil Service reform
… going. This study includes an examination of the dominant ideologies of past reform eras.
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Representation and Regulation: A Critical Analysis of the Woman in Jail
… and practices to manage crime emerge within dominant political ideologies. Using institutional ethnography, in-depth interviews and analysis of authorizing and interfacing texts inside the women’s unit of a provincial prison in Alberta, Canada, I examine power and decision making. The …
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Hand-Eye
… comprehends its attempted traumatic rift from dominant ideologies for the first time. The second chapter is a comprehensive artist statement which simultaneously outlines the theoretical underpinnings of my work as well as the process leading to the body of work on display at McIntosh Gallery. …
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The adventures of GI Jane: Women in the military
… in-depth focus group interviews to examine the dominant ideologies and discourses that frame women's experiences and the ways in which women reproduce, resist, or construct alternative discourses.
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I've been dressing up like a man: An ideological criticism of "Transparent"
… actors in major roles, and often reinforces dominant ideologies such as heteronormativity and hegemonic masculinity in its identification. As a result, this series ultimately is mixed in advancing LGBTQ+ representation on television.</p>
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Gendered positions in a church youth group: a discourse analysis
… are able to affirm, challenge and perpetuate dominant discourses. The role of this context, namely the social and religious context is pivotal to shaping this interaction.The analysis of the data uses the Appraisal framework particularly the attitudinal and engagement systems to analyse how …
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The politics of biopics: Analyzing propaganda films in Bangladesh's political context
… and character portrayals to assess how dominant ideologies are constructed and circulated through these cinematic texts. The analysis aims to uncover the films' functions as propaganda in reinforcing political narratives to legitimize the Bangladesh Awami League (BAL) regime's hold on …
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A Feminist Political Economy Analysis of Medical Broker and Fertility Clinic Websites
… broker and fertility clinic websites reproduce dominant ideologies and how these websites portray reproductive tourists, egg providers and surrogates. Using a feminist political economy approach, I situate the practice of reproductive tourism within particular historical, economic and political …
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The Response of the Voluntary and Statutory Sectors to the Problem of Domestic Violence
… sad truth that the victims of this crime are predominantly female. Feminist scholars believe that the exertion or threat of violence by males is a reflection of dominant ideologies about male supremacy. The female victim may be easily suppressed, or controlled be it with violent words or actions. …
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Paradoxical Subjects - Women Telling Birth Stories
… within or in relation to cultural story lines, dominant ideologies and material contexts. However, at the same time, through the use of a Kristevan theory of bodieslanguage- subjectivity, the thesis also demonstrates how "the body" itself often becomes transfused into women's talk about birth, …
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Televisual sports videogames
… at how sports videogames reflect or reinforce dominant ideologies of hegemonic sports culture. Building on critical theories in sports studies, and through critical close readings of videogame texts, this thesis explores the relationship between sports television production, and sports …
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The plight of women in Egyptian cinema (1940s 1960s)
… approach is tounderstand the function of the dominant theme in both literary text and film, and scrutinise its visible or latent realistic meanings vis ii vis the structures of thought which dominated the Egyptian society of the 1940s to the 1960s. It is these structures of thought that impose …
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'Designing its own shadow' – reading Ann Quin
… rebellion to and ironic interrogation of the dominant ideologies and literary practices of its time. In this, Quin’s is writing both of the shadows and designing its own.
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Laughing in the Void: Comic Elements in Joseph Conrad's Tragic Vision
… lens reveals that Conrad's fiction attacks the dominant ideologies of his day and unveils them as fictions. Nonetheless, the comic structure deflects the subversive effects of his vision, allowing it to function as a safe space to consider the absurdity of the universe without facing the problem …
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A language in decline ? :a constrastive study of the use of, and motivation and de-motivation for, learning Afrikaans among two groups of learners at an English medium high school in Cape Town, South Africa
… compulsory subject. The thesis also examines the dominant ideologies held towards Afrikaans by the learners and by the school in question which contributes towards shaping their attitudes and motivations for learning the language as well as their actual use of the language. The study finds a …
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"Getting along in the world" : exploring future teachers' responses to children's literature through a framework of critical literacy
… a predilection toward preserving existing dominant ideologies. Therefore, future elementary school teachers' written responses to children's literature (as well as individual interviews with seven students) were investigated in order to describe their current thinking about literature, …
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Black in the Non-Black Imagination: How Anti-Black Ideology Shapes Non-Black Racial Discourse
… study unpacks and interprets the presence of dominant ideologies that endeavor to maintain a hierarchical racial order.
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Examining the CEO-Owner Dyad: A Dynamic Model of Interrelationship Influences on Innovation Capability
… CEOs are in accord. Companies may have varying dominant ideologies, such as entrepreneurialism, managerialism, and paternalism, which likely influence their innovation capability. Using primary data from three different German MSEs, selected for their contrasting ideologies, this study examines …
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Creating the Present From the Ideological Margins of Society: Pseudo -Autobiographies in Post -Dictatorship Spain
… developed by these authors to battle society's dominant ideologies and discusses the dramatic changes both in Spanish society and in the authors themselves, which contributed to the rise of the new historical novel in Spain. To comprehend the rise of pseudo-autobiography, Chapter one reviews …
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Kwasuka Sukela: re-imagined bodies of a (South African) 1990s born woman
… resistance and self-assertion in response to dominant ideologies in the public space.
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