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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Feminist Activism"”.
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Work as feminist activism: a qualitative case study
<p>The topics examined in this thesis involve a feminist woman integrating the personal and political through her job. The notion of activist is expanded from a possibly more extreme, risk-taking position on the margins of society to include seeing all means for economic subsistence as an extension …
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Redefining Sisterhood: The New Nuns, Laywomen and Catholic Feminist Activism, 1953-1992
… involvement of American Catholic women in the feminist movement after 1960 is considered an anomaly. Yet, Catholic feminist activism thrived in large American cities like Chicago. This dissertation works to explain the origins, trajectory, methods, and eventual radicalization of the Catholic …
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Housework and Social Subversion: Wages, Housework, and Feminist Activism in 1970s Italy and Canada
… and Social Subversion: Wages, Housework, and Feminist Activism in 1970s Italy and Canada, presents a history of the Wages for Housework movements in Italy and Canada (1972-1978), looking at the parallel development of autonomist feminist politics in these locations. Based on a series of …
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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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A Framing Analysis of #MeToo YouTube-based News Coverage in BRICS: Media Censorship, State-controlled Channels & the Obstruction of Online Feminist Activism in China, Russia and Brazil
… inadequate. Various mechanisms also compromise activism for women's rights. This research focuses on the YouTube representation of conditions which gave rise to the campaign and the process of #MeToo in BRICS. This study considers the level of inclusion of women in economic activity, 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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Teaching Activist Intelligence: Feminism, the Educational Experience and the Applied Women's Studies Department at CGU
… the institution of the university. Teaching feminist activism to women's studies students will not only provide them with a context in which to discuss women's issues but should also provide tools for a feminist way of life-whether it be deconstructing institutions, feminist networking, …
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'Spaces to speak' of sour milk : exploring African-Caribbean-British women's activism and agency on childhood sexual abuse from the 1980s to the present day
… abuse. The study also explores Black British feminist activism on CSA from the late 1970s- mid 1980s in order to further explore the issue of spaces to speak. The thesis presents findings from 5 in-depth interviews with Black British feminists (Experts); a partial content analysis of British …
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Hartazgo: Understanding how #YoTeCreo emerged in Venezuela
This thesis explores how digital feminist activism sparked, using as a case study #YoTeCreo movement in Venezuela. Using the FemMesh to connect feminists knowledges, nodes and entanglements together with a transnationalized intersectionality, I discuss how this digital activism occurred locally. As …
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Being “Other”: Ana Mendieta’s Artistic Practice and Feminist Politics within Arts Institutions
… University of Iowa; 2) Heresies: A Journal of Feminist Art and Politics; and 3) Artist in Residence Gallery (A.I.R.). I explore these three institutions specifically to illuminate how their unique structures provided Mendieta with essential opportunities and confronted her with challenging …
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She is also playing; she is also wearing the mask that I am wearing :' investigating the gendered dynamics of implementing a forum theatre project for young women in Manenberg'
… in Manenberg. As a qualitative study embedded in feminist epistemology and feminist activism, this research utilises a range of methods, including participant observation, appreciative inquiry and second hand ethnography. There methods are used to critically analyse the opportunities and gaps that …
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A revolução das feministas portuguesas : 1972-1975
“The Revolution of Portuguese Feminists 1972-1975 – From the ‘The Case of the Three Marias’ to the formation of MLM – Women’s Liberation Movement” aims to analyse, criticize and describe the events that contributed for the emergence of radical feminism in Portugal and for the appearance of the …
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"Doing Their Own Thing": The Impact of Second-Wave Feminism at the University of Southern Mississippi
… of Home Economics on USM’s campus to reveal that feminist activism was not only experienced on the more radical campuses. Without analyzing smaller forms of resistance in the Deep South, the understanding of Second-Wave Feminism is largely incomplete.</p>
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The comfort women: A study exploring the nuances of the movement
… create when dealing with a women's rights issue. Feminist activism grew exponentially during the 1970s and 1980s which contributed to bringing awareness to transnational women's issues such as the ‘comfort women' system. However, in the context of South Korea, there is a growing faction of …
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Millennials and Generation Z: Men's Perspectives on Hashtag Feminism
… critical discourse. In contemporary politics, feminist activism is largely conducted through social media and hashtag activism and is often called "hashtag feminism." The feminist hashtags #MeToo, #HeForShe, and #HowIWillChange are well-known symbols of the modern feminist movement. Despite the …
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Listening to "Silence": Alternative Modes of Communication in Korean and Korean American Women's Literature
South Korean feminist activity may be relatively unknown to many Western readers; however, a distinct form of feminist activism can be seen when considering alternative modes of communication that are not less than, simply different from “speech” or “voice” as forms of agency celebrated in the …
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Feminist counter-geopolitics: knowledges, practices, and spaces of activism in Iranian diasporas
… state authoritarianism, particularly targeting feminist and women’s rights activists in Iran and forcing many to leave the country, the question of whether and how feminist activism outside the country’s national border negotiates and contests political structures of gendered violence and …
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Second-Wave Feminist Approaches to Sexuality in Britain and France, c.1970-c.1983
… and rape, all of which were campaigned on by feminists in each country. There has been a distinct lack of historical comparative works on the two movements, and few attempts to compare their discussions and activism on sexuality, which has resulted in a limited view of each movement, something …
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