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Showing 1 to 20 of 3433 for “"Feminist"”.
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Feminist Identity
… questions about how adult, self-identified feminist women conceptualize their identity, the role of feminism in that conceptualization, and the interaction of feminism with race and sexual orientation. Forty women in five geographic regions across the United States were interviewed. The …
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"Our approach is feminist" : feminist action transcending feminist narratives at Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust
… of division have seeped into the way the feminist movement thinks about feminist activism. Broadly, the initial research problem was to find out what the discord in feminist theory meant for feminist action. Because sexual violence is one of the key issues South African feminists seek to …
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Toward feminist aesthetics: feminist provocations to German idealist aesthetics
… to respect for them and their freedom, while the feminist tradition cited here begins with the necessity of respect for otherness and then cultivates new modes of encountering and embracing difference and incomprehensibility between us.</p> <p>My goal in creating these dialogues is to bring these …
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Feminist theory and music therapy : towards a spiritual feminist music therapy
… study were to 1) review several of the major feminist philosophies that have been discussed in the literature on feminism, 2) explain how they have been used and adapted into feminist therapies in general and feminist music therapy in particular, and 3) discuss implications for the development …
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Feminist judgments: interrogating Zimbabwean judgments using anti-essentialist feminist legal theory
In 2004, the first feminist judgments project was launched by a group of Canadian lawyers and scholars. This group, calling themselves the Women's Court of Canada, published a series of six rewritten opinions of the Canadian Supreme Court interpreting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms …
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Susan Glaspell: feminist playwright
… in America, left a valuable legacy for the feminists who would follow her. Her life and writings are examples of what women are capable of doing when given the opportunity. In both she sought to prove that women could participate in life fully--and on their own terms. A woman should not only …
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Geographies of Feminist Activism in Berlin and Dublin: Hybrid Feminist Counterpublic Spaces of Resistance
Feminist activists have long confronted violence against women (VAW), re-defining violence and defying narratives that normalise or excuse it. This thesis explores how feminist activisms challenge violence in place in ways that elucidate the complex reality of violence across a range of spaces and …
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Hannah Arendt and Feminist Agency
… is to articulate an Arendtian conception of feminist agency, that is, agency that aims at resistance from within oppressive situations. There is a tendency in feminist literature to depict women in the global south as if they are passive victims of their oppression, with no opportunities to …
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Altered states: feminist utopian literature
This thesis interrogates the interaction between feminist utopianism and altered states of consciousness in fiction from 1970 onwards. The thesis develops further both Lyman Tower Sargent’s definition of utopianism as “social dreaming” and Tom Moylan’s understanding of critical utopia. It also …
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The Seduction of Feminist Theory
<p>My dissertation, "The Seduction of Feminist Theory," comes out of my research on South African fiction and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and focuses broadly on feminist theory and the question of female power. Traditionally feminist theory has sought to empower women by insisting on …
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The evolution of feminist utopias
The genre of feminist utopias has its origin in the first wave of feminism which rose up in the late nineteenth century. This dissertation follows the evolution the genre, focusing on the changes it reflects in the strategies of utopian writing and, more specifically, on the developments that have …
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Feminist bodies, affect and the radicalisation of democracy: An investigation into feminist mobilisations in Spain
… lens by shedding light to the way in which feminist mobilisations might contribute to the radicalisation of democracy. Understanding the latter as the process of deepening and disrupting democracy, the research engages with literature that theorises the relationship between feminist …
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Sport and Traditions of Feminist Theory
Sport and Traditions of Feminist Theory involves a philosophical examination of the opportunities that are offered to females who seek authority in sporting participation, by an examination of the ideas that emanate from various streams of feminist thought. Chapter One introduces the concepts of …
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Feminist Herstory Through Indian English Literature
… design project, which uses Indian English feminist literature to amplify monolithic understandings of feminism in the Indian context. The purpose of this project was to design a workshop curriculum that uses Indian English feminist literature to define and exemplify the need for feminism in …
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Capturing the experiences of feminist educators
… to capture the lived experiences of contemporary feminist educators, with particular emphasis on their influences, activism, praxis and challenges. There is particular interest in their styles, approaches and pedagogical practices; alongside the formal and informal spaces in which they operate. …
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Feminist Theory and Postwar American Drama
… as a critical tool, to be applied to drama. Feminist theory from anthropology, psychology, literary criticism, and film theory is summarized and one theorist from each field is selected to serve as an example of how feminism in that field can illuminate drama written by both women and …
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