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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Feminist standpoint theory"”.
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Embodied and Emotional Knowledge of Oppression: Positive Contributions of a Relational Feminist Standpoint Theory
… groups of people. My goals are explicitly feminist in that I aim to work to uncover these understandings so as to dismantle this oppression. With these goals in mind, I defend an epistemology that considers the importance of the social location of knowers. I turn to feminist standpoint …
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Foucault, Rogerian argument, and feminist standpoint theory: intersecting discourses concerning welfare reform during the 1990s
… organizations and methods; and the more recent feminist analysis of women and social welfare, there is limited rhetorical analysis of the language of welfare legislation, the surrounding policy debate, or associated media commentary. Further, there is a paucity of research placing the voices of …
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The Mentoring Relationship as Experienced by Female Counselor Educators
<p>Using Constructivist Grounded Theory as a methodological approach and Feminist Standpoint Theory as a theoretical framework, this study sought to investigate and define the processes throughout the mentoring relationship as experienced by female counselor educators. This study yielded the …
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Funny in a Man's World: Women Comedians' Use of Political Satire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner
… these addresses through three rhetorical lenses: feminist standpoint theory, rhetorical citizenship, and rhetorical and political agency. This study explores the way women’s issues in society exposed to various audiences through Sykes’ and Strong’s satirical addresses. Communication scholars have …
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Women in the Lifestyle: A Qualitative Look at the Perceptions, Attitudes, and Experiences of Women Who Swing
… to their participation in the Lifestyle. Using feminist standpoint theory and pro-sex feminist theory as the theoretical framework, in-depth interviews were conducted via the Internet using instant messaging with sixteen female swingers. The women were asked questions regarding their attitudes …
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Accounting for the Epistemic Benefits of Diversity: Social Location, Identity, and the Politics of Knowledge
… the inclusion of researchers who occupy critical standpoints on knowledge production, and claim that the resources of feminist standpoint theory are vital. In chapter three I expand my discussion to consider other aspects of subjectivity in knowledge productive practices, and argue that feminist …
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The Outsider Within: Sense of Self in Jewish Feminist Women
… of interfering with development among Jewish and feminist people. Because religion, culture, and ideology contribute to adult identity in important ways, and because Judaism and feminism are poorly understood within the general population, research on the experience and meaning of Judaism and …
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NCAA Female Athletic Directors' Reported Barriers, Pathways, and Mentoring
… research questions guided the thesis, with a feminist Standpoint Theory focus: (1) What are some of the organizational barriers that keep women from becoming ADs? (2)What are some of the pathways that women take to become an AD? (3)What are the roles of mentoring in advancing through …
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Effects of social status, religion, and secularization on attitudes toward gender equality among Iranians
… and the attitudes toward gender equality. Feminist standpoint theory and Davis and Robinson’s model of consciousness served as the theoretical framework of this study. Feminist standpoint theory refers to the collective consciousness of women as a subordinate group. Further, Davis and …
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Institutional Ethnography: How Tenured Academic Women Talk About Success
… ruling relations. Institutional ethnography, a feminist methodology, inherently explores where communicative text provides insight into the larger structures of the ruling relations that govern, educate, train and inform. The information provided by tenured academic women, through in-depth …
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Becoming Multicultural Teachers: An Exploration of Transformation in White Female Elementary Educators
… approach to multicultural education. Utilizing feminist standpoint theory informed by postpositivist realism and critical race theory, this study examines the experiences of three White female elementary educators in the same school system in the Metropolitan Atlanta area who have moved beyond …
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Re-Composing Feminism: Australian women composers in the new millennium
… with practising Australian women composers. Feminist musicology has had a large impact on the Australian musicological scene, with theorists such as McClary and Macarthur bringing the subject of women in music to the fore in the 1990s, aiding efforts to advocate for reform on behalf of women …
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Barriers to Lesbian Health Care
… Erving Goffman's stigma and social identity theory, feminist standpoint theory, lesbian feminist theory, and feminist theory provided the theoretical framework utilized in the analysis of barriers to lesbian health care. Combining these three theories allows a discussion of how stigma and …
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An exploratary study of involuntarily childless women's experience from potential parenthood to the acceptance of their non-parenthood status
… to discontinue treatment for infertility. Feminist standpoint theory served as a theoretical framework for the study that recognized that each individual voice be heard. This study was a qualitative exploration, utilizing a short demographic questionnaire and an in-depth semi-structured …
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Gender matters : an investigation of the factors influencing mothers' and fathers' grading of public school performance.
… between parents and schools, and drawing from feminist standpoint theory. Particular focus is brought to the discordant association of parental involvement and the grades awarded to schools by mothers and fathers.
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Lived Experiences of Female Science Majors at a Two-Year College
… their chosen fields of study. Analyzed using the feminist standpoint theory perspective of Sandra Harding, the interviews revealed several emerging themes. First, all of the participants indicated some form of parental support throughout the duration of the study. They all indicated that one or …
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African Culture in the Global Marketplace: The Case of Folklore and Intellectual Property in Ghana
… is informed by neo-Marxist political economy and feminist standpoint theory. The research methodology used also draws upon feminist and interpretive approaches.
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The Right to Support: Severely Disabled Children & Their Mothers
… by government. Using conceptual frameworks from feminist standpoint theory and drawing on Paolo Freires theory of critical consciousness, the author analyzes legal cases, legislation and policies, as being founded upon a series of powerful myths. She assesses the paradigms that underlie current …
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Women academics in engineering : reasons for commitment to the field
… in the field remain committed to it. Using feminist standpoint theory and a qualitative methodology, this study explored the reasons women in engineering academia attribute their commitment to the field to. Interviews were conducted with nine women in academic engineering who participated in …
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An analysis of war trauma and refugee distress among Bosnian Muslim women : exploring social and personal healing in the aftermath
… refugee women. Epistemologically informed by Feminist Standpoint Theory, a mixed methods approach of Grounded Theory, Narrative Analysis and Relational Voice Theory was used to show how recovery from multiple war trauma/violence has occurred only partially. By synthesizing theories of place …
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