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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Feminist Studies"”.
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Playing with power & possibility: Exploring the ways in which gameplaying can be used as a decolonial feminist tool in the African Feminist Studies (AFS) classroom
… a decolonial pedagogical approach in the African Feminist Studies (AFS) department. Moreover, the purpose of this study thus aims to explore the ways in which playing games functions as a decolonial pedagogic method for teaching and to include students as co-producers of knowledge together with …
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Questioning certainty : cross-cultural experiences of the Master of Business Administration
… ethnography, cultural, post-colonial and feminist studies. The findings of the thesis should assist those who plan, market and implement management programs for Australian and international students.
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(W)raps of consciousness: articulating women's rights through hip hop in the Middle East and North Africa region
… 2000; Dhillon, 2014), U.S. third world feminist studies (Sandoval, 1991; Spivak, 1985; Mansour, 2016) and hip hop feminist studies (Morgan, 1999; Pough, 2004; Brown, 2013; Durham, 2013) to examine the diverse lived experiences of girls and women in the Middle East and North Africa region …
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Rape as a tool of war: a critical study
… and approaches including Anthropological Studies, Feminist Studies and Historical Studies. The analysis also includes Political Studies and its various sub-disciplines, case studies of African conflicts and more specifically studies of the Rwandan conflict, together with the civil war of …
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Gender, Nation, Pronatalism: Encouraging Births in France, Romania, and Israel
"Building on feminist studies that have linked pronatalism with nationalism, I examine right wing nationalisms and more inclusive, citizen-based nationalisms, which are more accepting of ""the other,"" but may still be concerned with reproducing a national group. This study reveals a complex set of …
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Thickening Theory: Memoir, Affect, and Fat Feminist Futures
… of affect and embodiment. While the field of Fat Studies has its roots in liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s (Wykes, 2014), contemporary 'body positivity' has commodified feminist ideologies to promote a sanitized fat politic that seeks participation in normative structures or what …
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Black feminist aesthetics and cosmopolitanism, 1920s-present: Narratives of postcolonial Bildungsroman
… on the recent history of twentieth-century black feminist narratives of artists and performers, living out a cosmopolitan existence in a transnational and postcolonial context, in France, Italy, England, and Mexico. Although living outside of the U.S. in pursuit of racial equality and economic …
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Reading the gendered body in contemporary culture, 1980-1990
"One of the significant developments in feminist studies during the decade of the 1980s has been the emphasis on studying the body, gender, and sexuality as complex cultural constructions. As a contribution to the broader feminist project to rethink the body as a cultural construction rather than a …
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Transnational biopolitics and family-making in secrecy : an ethnography of reproductive travel from Turkey to Northern Cyprus
… By combining anthropology of secrecy with feminist studies of assisted reproductive technologies, this dissertation argues that Turkey's ban on gamete donation has helped to normalize IVF in the country by reinforcing the heteronormative nuclear family ideal: that is, if gamete donation is …
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The poetic oeuvre of 'Michael Field': Collaboration, aestheticism and desire in the writings of Katharine Harris Bradley (1846 - 1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862 - 1913)
… Their recovery ran parallel with the rise of feminist studies in the 1970s, which saw the resurrection and reappraisal of these forgotten, suppressed voices as being central to the intellectual cause.One of the more curious, idiosyncratic voices of women's poetry to re-emerge and take centre …
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Manifestations of the oil encounter: an ecocritical approach to Middle Eastern petro-literature
… industry’s impacts. By drawing from ecocritical studies, feminist and eco-feminist studies, and postcolonial studies, this dissertation highlights the ways in which the authors under study imaginatively subvert Euro-Americans myths regarding the oil industry and foreground counter-stories of the …
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New Orientations: Touch in Women's Experimental Writing
… sexual relations. By engaging with contemporary feminist studies that take up issues of touch, such as Sara Ahmed's Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006), this thesis proposes that touch functions as an 'orientation device' that informs what it means to be in relation to …
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Beside engagement: a queer and feminist reading of socially negotiated art through dialogue, love, and praxis
… artistic process. The research draws upon queer studies, feminist studies, and affect studies to formulate an embodied criticality that self-reflexively confronts the more difficult dimensions of these art practices. The opening chapter analyses and disrupts a selection of influential concepts …
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Black Cyborgs: Blackness Narratives in Technology, Speculative Fiction, and Digital Cultures
… science fiction authors, and popular media case studies and analysis to generate new discourses about Black people and technology. Exploring the ways Black people have taken up both science fiction and technology, I argue that Black feminist thinkers can use both as blueprints for survival, joy, …
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Finding the Rainbow World: Transnational Queer Networks and Literary Translation in Cold War Japan
… translation. Utilizing methodologies drawn from feminist studies, queer studies, and translation studies, this dissertation shows how Japan’s relative tolerance to same-sex sexuality after World War II allowed it to emerge as a transnational hub of queer artistic and literary exchange, conditions …
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Lost in Translation: The Legal appropriation of the voice of child sexual abuse victims in Ireland
… abuse I apply a critical framework derived from feminist studies, Foucault‘s theory of knowledge and power and postcolonial/subaltern theories to highlight the foundations of the knowledge constructions involved. This critical approach is brought to bear on the aspects of knowledge, power, …
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(Dis)identifying female archetypes in live art
My thesis considers a feminist arts practice as a form of political agency. My research is practice-led. It consists of three performances/live art events (Medea/Mothers’ Clothes, Magdalena Makeup and Joan Trial), its documentation on three sets of DVDs and a written dissertation. Female …
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Leadership for Social Change: Learning from Latina/Chicana Activist Educators
… of the literature in the field of Leadership Studies exposes a void in understanding activism as leadership among Latinas/Chicanas. The contemporary theories of scholars including James MacGregor Burns (1978) and Joseph C. Rost (1993) suggest there may be shared qualities between specific …
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Amplifying a public's voice : online news readers' comments impact on journalism and its role as the new public space
… from new forms of journalism, sociological studies in race and gender, critical race and feminist studies, this dissertation focuses on a) the challenges of news organizations as hosts of this new public space and b) the racist and sexist discourse generated by audiences of certain online …
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Konsten att lyckas som par : Populärterapeutiska berättelser, individualisering och kön
… for heterosexual couples is analysed. Three case studies have been carried out; self-help books for couples, TV programs with relationship-focus, and web discussion boards connected to the TV programs. The analysis is made in relation to sociological theories of individualization, therapeutic …
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