Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Feminist critique"”.
-
Built environment education : a feminist critique and reconstruction
… focuses on women in the built environment. It critiques the major built environment education programs in Britain, the United States and Canada, from a feminist art teacher's perspective, showing, with one minor exception, that the spatial and structural needs of women are not taken into …
-
Feminist critique and the Pueblos as textual : an architectural translation of Monique Wittig
This thesis poses the question of a feminist architecture that is not based on 'women' per say - their involvement as architects, their difference, or as users - but on the possibilities 1), of the world as perceived, described, invented in feminist theory, and of the facts 2), of the spatial and …
-
Gender and the Political Economy of Oil in the Niger Delta: A Feminist Critique
… Because my dissertation is influenced by African feminist research methodologies, Chapter 3 explains the ways in which I navigate issues of positionality and ethics during my fieldwork trips to Nigeria and how these issues influence data collection and the final dissertation. Chapter 4 argues that …
-
Dividing the political : a feminist critique of the New Right / by Sandra G. Lilburn.
Errata sheet pasted inside front cover.
-
Is Sleeping Beauty still slumbering?: An investigation of the feminist critique of modern romanticism
Feminists have articulated a critique of women's socialization in a culture of romance which suggests that women seek legitimation as persons through their relationships with men. This study outlines women's socialization in romance as well as the feminist critique, and then investigates …
-
A feminist critique of the prostitution/sex work debate: recommendations for legislative change in South Africa
… a complex array of opinion, not least within the Feminist Movement, continually raising sensitive questions about particular core values lying at the heart of the debate. Yet the ideological battlefield which characterizes prostitution does not end with the intellectual sparring of interest …
-
A woman has no mouth' : a feminist critique of the portrayal of woman in siSwati prescribed books
The study examines sexism in siSwati school prescribed books. The study takes the view that textbooks as cultural artifacts are important in the transmission of cultural attitudes, values and ideology, and therefore influence the gendering of identities. The selected prescribed books for …
-
A christian feminist critique of pastors' authority roles: A case study of twelve Pentecostal churches in Lusaka, Zambia
The general objective of the study was to critique from a Christian feminist perspective the unequal religious authority existing among female and male pastors in twelve Pentecostal churches in Lusaka. Specific objectives were to examine the motives behind becoming and training as pastors, pastoral …
-
A christian feminist critique of pastors' authority roles: A case study of twelve Pentecostal churches in Lusaka, Zambia
The general objective of the study was to critique from a Christian feminist perspective the unequal religious authority existing among female and male pastors in twelve Pentecostal churches in Lusaka. Specific objectives were to examine the motives behind becoming and training as pastors, pastoral …
-
A feminist critique of the image of woman in the prose works of selected Xhosa writers (1909 - 1980)
The study examines, from a feminist point of view, the stereotypic image of woman in Xhosa prose fiction from pre-literate times to the era of written literature (1909 - 1980). Attaching feminist critical theory to conventional literary characterisation gives this pioneering study a human dime,n …
-
Love Through a Wide-Angle Lens: A Mythic Narrative and Feminist Critique of the Reality Competition Dating Show More to Love
… how the mythic narrative of love through a feminist lens informed by LeBesco, Bordo, Hill Collins, and hooks are in conversation with each other in More to Love. This study found that the women were written into a fairy tale where they were afforded no ownership in their story. The bachelor, …
-
An investigation of the engagement of grade 12 students with a feminist reading of Romeo and Juliet
… of grade twelve students when they are taught a feminist critique of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Using reader-response pedagogy in a classroom context of constructivism, the students attempted a feminist reading of the play. Their discussions, journals, essays and presentations were …
-
A poor women's pedagogy' : an exploration of learning in a housing social movement
… The conceptual framework developed from a feminist critique of popular education was applied in the methodology and yielded insights with regard to the learning of VM women. The feminist critique allowed for an exploration of the contradictions within popular education and people-centred …
-
Desire and Agency in the Modern Women's Sonnet
… age, have used the sonnet form both to critique and to re-envision the female experience, particularly in regard to the cultural value of love. In addition to its analysis of poetic form, this dissertation also engages a cultural/feminist critique based on an enduring theme in women's …
Page 1 of 3