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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Feminist movements."”.
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Bridging the Gap: Feminist Movements and their Efforts to Advance Abortion Rights in Chile
… not dead, but instead there are numerous small movements that apply different methods in an attempt to change abortion legislation in Chile. Through the dissemination of secondary research and first-person interviews conducted over a period of six months in Chile, the results show that Chilean …
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Speak in Women’s Way: Online Feminist Movements and Social Media Impact of #MeToo China 2018
Since 2017, an online feminist movement sparking debates against sexual harassment has been launched on Twitter using the hashtag “MeToo”, soon going viral from online platforms to the offline world. Starting in the United States, the #MeToo movement has influenced more than 85 countries. Among …
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Recognizing Race: The Impact of Twentieth-Century Feminist Movements on Race Relations in West Germany
… Germany through the creation of the Afro-German feminist movement. Much of the historiography surrounding the Afro-German feminist movement focuses on the significant impact it had on the ability of Afro-German women to establish a collective identity. This thesis, however, will add to this …
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Feminist Movements and Barriers to Participation: A sociological study of Ni Una Menos protest tactics and accessibility
Progressive social movements that contend with issues of marginality, insecurity, and structural oppressions risk inadvertently replicating such power discrepancies in their activism and protest through exclusionary tactics and in-group practices. Protest tactics are differently accessible to …
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A Chronological Study of Discourse on Prostitution Policy, Anti-prostitution Feminist Movements, and Sex Workers' Rights Movements in South Korea
… to prostitution policies and anti-prostitution feminist movements in defense of their rights in South Korea based on a transnational feminist approach. I first analyze the violent impacts of government prostitution policies and anti-prostitution feminisms on sex workers' human rights, showing …
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Models of Claim, Resistance, and Activism in the Novels of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, and Frances Burney
Using corpus linguistics and feminist approaches, this thesis examines the usage and construction of the term “claim” in Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Wrongs of Woman, Mary Hays’s Memoirs of Emma Courtney, and Francis Burney’s The Wanderer. By tracking the frequency of “claim” and its collocates …
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Changing the World One Interaction at a Time
… shape my evolving positionality and inform my feminist leadership philosophy and praxis. Through self-discovery, I considered the symbiotic relationship between self as a woman and societal norms that construct and influence my values, experiences, and leadership philosophy. My research …
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Sexual Difference as Narrative Technique: Cross-Dressing, Redressing, and Undressing Female Protagonists
… early twentieth century American and English feminist movements struggling for women's suffrage to the massive shifts in gender identity of the work force produced by World Wars I and II. My argument in this thesis is that the issue of gender in the modern narrative is also much less stable …
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IL FEMMINISMO PER IL SALARIO AL LAVORO DOMESTICO IN ITALIA: GENEALOGIE, PRATICHE E PROSPETTIVE INTERNAZIONALI
… tensions as well as connections with other feminist movements and with the left, particularly the extra-parliamentary. The analysis combines national and international perspectives, showing how Italian claims intersected with experiences in the United Kingdom and the United States. Situating …
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Cuando Las Mujeres Leen: Teorizando El Sujeto Y La Narrativa en La Novelistica Femenina Hispanoamericana De Los 80
… to democracy coincides with the emergence of feminist movements and women's organizations throughout Latin America. Hence, the textual practice born out of this political reality is beyond question shaped by feminist thought and constitutes itself as an intervention in and against dominant …
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The Compatibility of Containment and Autonomy in Lydia Minatoya's The Strangeness of Beauty
… Japanese women, to gain autonomy. While some feminist movements in Japan substantiate the notion that autonomy must be gained through rebellion, The Strangeness of Beauty suggests that this is merely one possible method for gaining autonomy—and an undesirable method at that. The relationships …
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Engaging in the quota debate: From equal opportunity to equality of presence
… within political institutions and processes, feminist movements have pressed government heads and political parties to adopt “women friendly” policies. Legislation of gender quotas to secure women’s inclusion in electoral politics is one of such policies. In this thesis, through a comparative …
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Queer performance and activism in Cuba: strategies for resisting exclusionary dynamics in feminist spaces
… perpetuation of discriminatory patterns within feminist movements by studying, among other works, the performances of queer feminist hip hop duo from Cuba, Krudxs Cubensi. It takes a multimodal approach, including interview data as well as my lived experience of fieldwork to examine how the …
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Gender and community: Womanist and feminist perspectives in the fiction of Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, and Louise Erdrich
… the women's suffrage movement and the mainstream feminist movements of the past three decades have concentrated on challenging middle-class Euroamerican patriarchal definitions of womanhood. Women of color and working class women have, for the most part, worked independently of predominantly …
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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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Weaving with words: Recording women’s experiences in feminist revisionary adaptations of Greek myth
… patriarchal, and with the emergence of feminist movements came feminist revisionary adaptations of ancient myth. In this thesis, I argue Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad (2005) and Madeline Miller’s Circe (2018) both stand as examples of feminist revisionary mythmaking, and they use …
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Locating the Indian Gendered Subaltern on Digital Platforms: Digital Activism in #section377 and #metooindia
… analysis, and critical digital humanities, feminist and queer frameworks, I study the digital queer movement around #Section377, and the feminist movement around #MeTooIndia on Twitter and Instagram in India. Through this research, I demonstrate how social media platforms such as Twitter and …
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RHETORICAL LIFELINES: QUEER AND FEMINIST SURVIVAL IN RIYOKO IKEDA’S THE ROSE OF VERSAILLES
… explores the rhetorical lifelines of queer and feminist survival in the adapted animation of Riyoko Ikeda's The Rose of Versailles. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this study examines the rhetorics of place/space and embodiment in the animation. Drawing from feminist and queer scholarship …
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Aztec Nation: History, inscription, and indigenista feminism in Chicana literature and political discourse
… nationalist and second wave white American feminist movements. I offer a new critical term: "Chicana indigenista feminism," which recognizes a distinct Chicana feminist discourse that is characterized by an ongoing negotiation of mestiza (mixed blood) identity. My investigation begins with …
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I consign her wretched walk, her words, deeds, and evil talk: erotic magic and women in the ancient Greco-Roman world
… that ancient women expressed agency. Since the feminist movements in 1960's America, scholars have attempted to give a voice to the mostly silent majority of ancient women in Western society. In this thesis, I will attempt to use new methodologies to give ancient women not only voices, but also …
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