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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Feminist discourse"”.
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WORDS AS DEEDS: GENDER AND FEMINIST DISCOURSE IN BRITISH SUFFRAGE PERIODICALS (1907-14)
… as it led to the creation of a true counter-discourse that also meant to overcome biased views on the matter of votes for women. Lately, scholarly research has focused on re-investigating the suffrage movement in a sort of revisionist emphasis which has also followed a new wave of national …
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(Re)Presentations of Sexual Violence Against Women: An Analysis of Media Reports of Rape
… rape that have been criticized and combatted by feminists. These assumptions are known as “rape myths.” It is important to look at the role newspapers play in contemporary discourse around rape and the extent to which they reproduce rape myths or, alternatively, incorporate a feminist critique. …
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A discursive model of gendered social control: The case of battered women
… statements which undergird the two overarching discourses surrounding the social problem of domestic violence: a social service discourse and a feminist discourse. Two arguments are made. First, there will be a coherence between discourse and the program agendas offered at domestic violence …
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Reconstructing the African and African diasporic woman: gender, race, class and the making of a constructive radical African feminist
… of radicalism should be revisited in African discourse, and especially in African feminist discourse. It argues that Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter and Adichie’s Americanah exhibit an African contextualized radical approach to gender, race/ethnicity, and class issues that are oppressive to …
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Memoirs of My Vulva: An Exploration of Female Genitalia as Figures in Autobiographical Graphic Narratives
… of female genitalia within the realms of feminist visual arts and autobiographical graphic narratives. Anchored in Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex) and drawing upon the phenomenological perspectives of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, the study investigates the dynamics of …
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The Dynamics of Sisterhood In the Modern Chinese Imaginary, 1890S-1930S
… of “sisterhood” in the modern Chinese discourse, despite the fact that “sister” (<italic>zimei/jiemei</italic> 姊妹/姐妹) was perhaps one of the most frequently used term in the nationalist/feminist discourse in late Qing and early Republican China. My dissertation examines the …
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The lonely goddess : the lack of benevolent female relationships in Hindu and Shi'ite mythology
This minor dissertation engages a theoretical feminist discourse to identify the lack of benevolent female relationships in the development of religious mythology. The study explores two diverse belief systems, Hinduism and Shi'ism, in order to demonstrate that the feminine is reduced to a …
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Trouble Every Day
… and anxiety. Operating within, but not bound by, feminist discourse, my work explores the vehicles and effects by which both analog and digital technologies influence the relationship between the self and the object of desire (whether physical or virtual, interior or exterior to the body) and have …
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Institutional Ethnography: How Tenured Academic Women Talk About Success
… The purpose of this study was to use the discourse of tenured academic women to illustrate social interactions that constitute and transform the ruling relations. Institutional ethnography, a feminist methodology, inherently explores where communicative text provides insight into the …
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Facebooking for Feminism: Social Network Sites as Feminist Learning Spaces
… such as feminism. This study explored ways feminists learn, challenge, and reproduce discourses related to gender and feminism through Facebook. This research is positioned within current literature and theory related to gendered contexts of social media engagement and feminist social …
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The Pandemic of Being a Woman: A Qualitative Analysis of the South African Media on GBV at the Time of COVID-19
A decolonial feminist discourse analysis of the media's reporting on Gender Based Violence (GBV) during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic was conducted. One hundred and fifty articles were collected from the Sabinet database. From this eight discourses were identified: GBV as a pandemic; GBV …
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other oceans, other skies
… of belonging. I also highlight my commitment to feminist discourse and its intersection with culture and politics to amplify women's voices. My ultimate aim is to raise awareness and appreciation for the diverse range of people around us.</p> <p>Additionally, I discuss my self-perception of …
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Feminist engagement with law in the new millennium
… a commitment to using law and human rights for feminist ends. They are located within the feminist discourse on the utility of law and human rights, and stress the inherent connection between feminist theory and activism. They counsel against a turning away from law, as suggested by some …
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The Vast Unsaid: Lesbian Erasure and Celebration
… as a result of being buried within queer and feminist discourse. As a result, scholars often classify lesbians into other categories, effectively rendering them invisible and unimportant. Across the literature, there is no cohesive definition of lesbian and it is difficult to be exclusive on …
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Co-Sleeping with Her Baby: A Qualitive Study of Adaptive and Prescriptive Voices in Parenting Decision Making
… with advice sources. The Listening Guide feminist discourse analysis method was used to analyze interviews with five mothers who self-identified as having regularly slept with their babies to identify discourses with particular emphasis on references to self and authority. The context of …
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Aging Ragefully: A Look at Aging Women in Four Contemporary American Dramas
<p>Despite the growing feminist discourse in America, ageism continues to be a problem, partially due to stereotypical representations of aging women in the media and in literature. This thesis examines the portrayals of aging women in four American dramas: Zona Gale’s Miss Lulu Bett, Edward …
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Screaming in silence: exploring gender empowerment & representation in contemporary horror narratives
… media, leading to the emergence of more overt feminist perspectives within the genre. This thesis investigates the evolution of the horror genre through a feminist lens, examining how contemporary horror narratives challenge and subvert traditional gender roles and power dynamics. The study …
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Radical Turns From Gramsci To Negri. Life, Biopolitics And Social Change In Italy
… with Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Marxist neo-feminist discourse on reproduction carried out by Lotta Femminista, and finally the thought of Antonio Negri and its notion of the multitude in the context of the Anti-Globalization Movement. Each of these turning points stages a biopolitical …
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Power Play : An Historiographic about Women and Urban Renewal
… who have traditionally been excluded from white feminist discourse.
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A reflexive understanding of woman/woman marriages among the Gikuyu of Kenya
… to locate a space for these practices in the feminist and family studies literatures, while questioning the absence of woman/woman marriages from both arenas of discourse. I argue that the exclusion of woman/woman marriages from feminist discourse and the family studies literatures is not an …
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