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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Female power"”.
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Decolonial Daydreams │Taba Aiboli An exploration of the construction of female power Amongst the Lozi people
… offers an exploration of the construction of female power amongst the Lozi people of the western province of Zambia, also known as Barotseland. Colonial empirical texts, contemporary literature on Lozi social history, heritage and public culture gloss over the matriarchal roots of Lozi …
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In Search of Mother: The Libratory Effects of Performance Pedagogy in the Mothering Practices of Black Women
… performance and spirituality. I search for the female power of mother by mining the history of Black women within Western cultural and political economy. I find Mother in the Africana female artists who use their cultural work to nurture, sustain and develop their communities and enhance human …
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Da Alessandro ai Theoi Adelphoi. Fondazione e legittimazione della dinastia tolemaica, tra IV e III secolo a.C.
… in order to study how the Ptolemies had their power legitimated in Africa and in the broader Mediterranean context. Literary sources (both prose and verse, in Greek and Egyptian language), inscriptions, papyri, and iconography are used to set an interdisciplinary approach to the topic. Major …
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Perceptions of height, attractiveness, and power
… how perceptions of physical attractiveness and power changed based on an individual's height and gender. Participants were 117 Rowan University students (53 males and 64 females, mean age = 20.9 years). Students were administered a packet that asked demographic data including their age, sex, …
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Social inequality, reproductive health and child development : a Chhattisgarh village study
… ‘enigma’ emphasises the mediating role of female power, often measured as female decision-making autonomy. I discuss based on research in a village in the rice-growing plains of Chhattisgarh the complex and interrelated cultural, economic and gender-based variables as they bear on …
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“Making ends meet”: Working-class women’s strategies against poverty in West Oxfordshire, c. 1850 – 1900
… of the role and importance of the home as a female power base is required. Second, although strategies are difficult to quantify, certain strategies appear to have been more popular than others; household management emerged as the pivotal strategy to make ends meet. Careful spending and …
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Sarah Palin, Conservative Feminism, and the Politics of Family
Female politicians are heavily constrained by discourses that prescribe masculine values as natural, yet at times they draw on societal expectations of femininity that allow them to utilize such discourses to their advantage. Motherhood, a feminine yet powerful role, provides such an opportunity. …
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Sarah Palin, Conservative Feminism, and the Politics of Family
Female politicians are heavily constrained by discourses that prescribe masculine values as natural, yet at times they draw on societal expectations of femininity that allow them to utilize such discourses to their advantage. Motherhood, a feminine yet powerful role, provides such an opportunity. …
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A comparative study of Urraca of León-Castilla (d. 1126), Melisende of Jerusalem (d. 1161), and Empress Matilda of England (d. 1167) as royal heiresses
… the throne, the methods they employed to keep power, and the unique variations of rulership that are specific to each queen regnant. In general, medieval society expected royal power would be held by men, but in the absence of a male heir, women, on occasion, held royal office. This study …
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In the Voices of Men, Beasts, and Gods: Unmasking the Abject Persona in Postwar and Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry
… dissertation: the fantastic manifestation of female power within the home and the fallen postwar nation-state in Ishigaki Rin's poetry, the rebellious spirit that refuses the notion of dichotomous gender identity in that of Tomioka Taeko's, and the abject wounds of love in Yoshihara Sachiko's …
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The persistent metaphor : gender in the representations of the Cairene house by Edward W. Lane and Hassan Fathy
… identity. This speaks of an internal male-female power hierarchy, as Asish Nandy observes, " ... the internal colonialism in turn uses the fact of external threat to legitimize and perpetuate itself." Caught in the politics of identity, the representations of the Cairene house affirmed the …
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Writing the sheela-na-gig: semiotic complexity, ekphrasis, and poetic persona in the poetry collection Strange Country
… on sheela-na-gigs, stone carvings of naked female figures that prominently depict the vulva, which are found on medieval churches, castles, wells, and town walls in Ireland, England, Scotland, and Wales. Historians and archaeologists, as well as poets, have suggested that they were/are …
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Body/sexuality/control : female identity in four Fay Weldon novels
This thesis explores the manner in which female identity is depicted and the concept itself deployed in four novels by Fay Weldon (1931- ), a contemporary English writer. The novels examined are Puffball (1980), The President's Child (1982), The Cloning of Joanna May (1989) and Growing Rich (1992). …
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Power in Madness : a critical investigation into the musical representation of female madness in the mad scenes of Donizetti’s ‘Lucia’ from Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) and Thomas’s ‘Ophélie’ from Hamlet (1868)
… This research explores the representation of female madness as power in the mad scenes of two famously mad opera characters: Lucia from Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) and Ophélie from Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet (1868). The objective is to investigate the representation of female …
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Contested identities in discourses of colonialism and civil war: Race, gender, and the human/animal in twelfth-century England and Wales
… a medieval postcolonial framework, in which power and resistance are represented in a bifurcated archive, this dissertation explores the textual methods which writers outside the ethnic and political centers of Anglo-Norman Britain used to contest a would-be hegemonic discourse of British …
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Dairy Culture: Industry, Nature and Liminality in the Eighteenth-Century English Ornamental Dairy
… a liminal space, a ritual realm that asserted female power and sexuality, as well as ideas of sanctity and chastity. The native femininity and its legacy as an intuitively feminine task also created an exclusive female space that resisted the male gaze, thus creating a dangerous space, an …
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The Seduction of Feminist Theory
… broadly on feminist theory and the question of female power. Traditionally feminist theory has sought to empower women by insisting on their equality to men and by allowing their voices to be heard. But in trying to understand why women did not speak about their personal victimization at the TRC …
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ANNA DI SAVOIA IMPERATRICE E REGGENTE RUOLI E STRATEGIE DI POTERE FEMMINILE ATTRAVERSO LE CRISI DEL XIV SECOLO A BISANZIO.
This research focuses on the feminine power of Anne of Savoy, empress and regent of the Byzantine Empire between 1341 and 1347, on behalf of the young emperor John V Palaeologus. It focuses on two main areas: the foundations and limits of Anne’s power as a woman and empress, and the exercise of …
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La construction des inégalités au Canada (17e – 19e siècles) : reproduction familiale, mobilité sociale et parcours élitaires au sein de la famille Drapeau
This thesis offers an analysis of the relationships between mechanisms of family reproduction, upward and downward social mobility, the formation of elites, and ultimately the construction of inequality in Canada from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Based on a longitudinal study of five …