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Showing 1 to 20 of 121 for “"Feminist thought."”.
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Partial Figures: Sound in Queer and Feminist Thought
… integrated into how gender and sexuality are thought. The dissertation’s title, “Partial Figures,” refers to its aims: not to exhaustively document the status of sound within discourses of sexual difference and dissidence, but rather to sketch how queer and feminist thought might draw on …
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Woman Has Two Faces: Re-Examining Eve and Lilith in Jewish Feminist Thought
… religious history of American feminism, Jewish feminist biblical interpretation shifted attention away from Eve as a viable example of women's identities. Instead, Lilith, the independent, "demon" and "first wife" of Adam is praised as a symbol of female sexuality for "Transformationist" Jewish …
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From the Movement to the Post -Movement: Rethinking Anti-Hegemonic Discourses in Chicana Feminist Thought
… feminism and the disarticulation of the white feminist universal, (2) the class-based and politically defined literary genealogy constructed retrospectively by the Chicano Movement, (3) the loosely ethnic literary genealogy constructed by the ""post-Movement"" or what I identify as the …
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Developmental Networks, Black Feminist Thought, and Black Women Federal Senior Executives: A Case Study Approach
… Applying the conceptual framework of Black feminist thought and developmental network support theories the study examined the developmental relationships of three Black women senior executives. This research highlights the development of a group of high achievers and the contributions of …
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Education from the "Bottom" Up: Black Women Navigating the Community College Transfer Experience
… four-year institutions. This study employs Black Feminist Thought to help analyze the experiences of Black women who transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions. This framework is particularly applicable to this study because Black Feminist Thought recognizes the varied experiences …
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"""They're My Babies..."": The Role and Professional Development of Instructional Aides"
I have chosen black feminist thought and critical race theory as the theoretical foundation of this work because they complement the lenses through which I see the world. Black feminist thought is important because it deals with the intersectionality of race, class and gender. Critical race theory …
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Now You See Me: A Black Feminist Autoethnographic Poetic Polemic of Radical Reflexivity and Critical Arts-Based Inquiry
… in the epistemological tradition of Black Feminist Thought and presented in alignment with the emergent methodological paradigm of critical arts-based inquiry. The purpose of the project is for the author to develop and articulate a radical reflexive praxis within the paradigm of critical …
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Race and Gender in the Leadership Experiences of Three Female African American High School Principals: A Multiple Case Study
… theoretical foundation for the study was black feminist thought as defined by Patricia Hill Collins. Black feminist thought focuses on the marginalized status of African American women and places their experiences at the center of the discourse. In examining the narratives of each of the …
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Explicit Content: Hip Hop, Feminism, and the Black Woman
… uses grounded theory and the framework of Black feminist thought to analyze the messages in contemporary hip hop music. Grounded theory was chosen to create an unbiased setting that allowed the themes to emerge rather than looking for specific occurrences. The beginning sections focus on the …
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Centralizing Ambiguity: Simone de Beauvoir and a Twenty-First Century Ethics
… Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity to contemporary feminist thought on the self, autonomy, and ethics. More specifically, I argue that this text has the potential to make unique contributions to these areas of contemporary feminist philosophy.</p>
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Outsiders within : a phenomenological qualitative study of how Black female faculty navigate race and gender in predominately White institutions.
… of racist and sexist experiences. Black Feminist Thought was used as the framework for analysis in this study. Black Feminist Thought is the study of how the political and economic status of Black women results in a distinctive set of experiences that lead to a different view of reality …
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The voices of African American women's transition experiences from a community college to a four-year college sharing a campus
… design and theoretical framework, such as Black feminist thought are prudent. The purpose of this descriptive phenomenological study was to describe the lived transition experiences of African American women transferring from a community college to a four-year university that share a campus. …
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A seat at the table : an instrumental case study on the personal and professional strategies of resistance Black women professionals adapt while employed at a predominantly White institution.
… environment and sense of agency. Applying Black Feminist Thought as a guiding principle and framework encourages Black women professionals to exhibit personal and professional strategies of resistance in their pursuit of self-preservation and belonging. Black Feminist Thought also gives Black …
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Self, Other, and Jump Rope Community: The Triumphs of African American Women
… Critical Race Theory, Critical Literacy, Black Feminist Thought as a theoretical framework and Oral History as research methodology, the lives of four young African American women are explored as they leave their culturally insular surroundings, Jump Rope Communities, to seek access to the codes …
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Colonial legacies and the trafficking of Indigenous women in Canada
… drawing on Critical Race Theory and Indigenous feminist thought. This analysis finds that current legislation inadequately addresses root causes of trafficking and lacks inclusion of Indigenous voices. This paper argues that meaningful change requires Indigenous-led frameworks, redistribution of …
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Overrepresented Man: Genre, Violence, and Hegemony
… by the rich, interdisciplinary body of Black Feminist thought. To address the continued practices of social, political, and material violence which sustain the Wynterian onto-epistemological "Overrepresentation of Man," an emergent archipelagic politics of heterogenous coalition-building …
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“IT’S LEVELS TO THIS”: BLACK UNDERGRADUATE FEMALE STUDENT PERCEPTIONS REGARDING THEIR LEVEL OF INVOLVEMENT IN BLACK STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
… Involvement and Patricia Hill Collins’ Black Feminist Thought: How do Black undergraduate women describe their experience as members of a Black student organization on a predominantly White campus?, How do Black undergraduate women make meaning of their extracurricular involvement in a Black …
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"If It Is Sincere, It Will Rouse Hostility": The Freewoman, Feminisms, and Print Culture in Early Twentieth-Century England
… an examination of The Freewoman (1911-12) as a feminist publication, and its editor Dora Marsdens (1882-1960) particular role in the journal. It examines periodical culture and feminisms, and the possibilities that periodicals open up for feminist thought and politics through the characteristics …
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We've Only Just Begun: A Black Feminist Analysis of Eleanor Smeal's National Press Club Address
… approach. Despite the little attention black feminist thought has received, black women have long been articulating the unique intersection of oppressions they face and have been developing critical epistemologies.This study analyzes the National Press Club address given by NOW President …
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