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Showing 1 to 20 of 118 for “"Gender and class."”.
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Feeling devalued: the creative industries, motherhood, gender and class inequality
… for workers from different ethnic, disabled, gendered and more recently socially classed backgrounds resulting in the awareness that the majority of those who control the means of production for creative and cultural commodities are male, white and middle class. With regards to women, the …
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Unequal women. Labour market inequalities at the intersection of gender and class.
Inequalities between women and men persist in many areas, over time, and in different contexts, which has led to a growing body of empirical research on gender inequalities and their determinants. However, a major shortcoming of existing research is that it overlooks complex systems of inequality …
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“Leftover women,” media discourses, and gender and class in post-socialist China
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Examining the Role of Race, Gender, and Class in African-American Police Perceptions in Rural Kentucky
… demonstrated the role of race in understanding racial and ethnic differences in perceptions of the police. This research has overwhelmingly shown that Blacks and Latinos hold lower levels of trust and confidence in the police than do Whites and other racial minorities. The increased …
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Work-Family Reconciliation Policies Reexamined: Good or Bad for Gender and Class Inequality in Employment across Twenty-Four High-Income Countries?
… in conversation with the small but influential gendered tradeoffs literature. First, multidimensional, disaggregated, and precise policy measures were developed for two of the most widely studied work-family reconciliation policies—leave and ECEC. I constructed a comprehensive set of leave and …
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Exploring Individual’s Explanations of Economic Mobility through the Gaze of Intersectionality
… theoretical framework allows for a better understanding of individual’s explanations of economic mobility, rather than examining variables such as race, gender, and class as mutually exclusive from one another. The reason for this follows from the understanding that race, gender, and class can …
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A Feminist Analysis of the Implications of Darwin's Theory of Sexual Selection on English Literature
… selection was often misinterpreted by upper class Victorian males in order to justify the mistreatment of both upper and working class women. Literature also reflected some of these misinterpretations of Darwin's theory regarding gender and class. However, I am specifically concerned with …
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“He was the Mirror of the World”: Social Constructivist Reflections in Le Roman de Silence
… attempts to clarify the purpose of ambiguity and indecision within Heldris of Cornwall's <em>Roman de Silence</em>. Using the framework laid out by Judith Butler, it seeks to understand the way that the protagonist's performance of gender and class reflects the social context in which she …
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Gender, class and 'binge' drinking: an ethnography of drinkers in Bournemouth's night-time economy.
… Britain there is a focus by media, government and academia on young people's consumption of alcohol - often using the term 'binge' drinking - and how this should be understood and regulated. This thesis argues that contemporary forms of alcohol regulation can be seen as part of a broader …
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Waste Not: Criminalizing Wastefulness in Early Modern Germany
… in Southwest Germany, as the state, community and small town families struggled to preserve family and household resources. Using local, state, and imperial court trials of “spendthrifts” from early modern Württemberg, the thesis shows that prodigality laws provided litigants with a flexible, …
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From Student to Sorority Girl: Gender, Class, and Presentation of Self in Formal Sorority Recruitment
… from sorority alumnae prior to recruitment and learn about the expectations about the sorority recruitment process at Southern State University. I then describe the bodily practices and behavioral choices of PNMs as they enter the week of formal recruitment, analyzing their interpretations …
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That place such a long way from here
"This short novel is set in mid-town Toronto and details a crisis in the life of a young professional couple... The novel proceeds by offering the protagonist, Elizabeth Pendleton, increasingly broad chances to recognize the nature of her relationship with her lover, Nick, as well as with larger …
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Playing with stereotypes and building a queer community : race, sexuality and the stand-up comedy of Margaret Cho
This project interrogates stand-up comedian Margaret Cho’s queer community-building and cross-identification with her queer fans through her performance of sexual and racial stereotypes, including the fag hag, the Asian American immigrant, and the black drag queen. A close look at Cho’s work in …
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A Critical race feminist perspective on Section 217 of the Constitution
… South Africa regulates the procurement of goods and or services by any organ of state. Similarly, this section mandates state-owned institutions to adhere to a procurement system that promotes groups that were previously disadvantaged by past colonial and apartheid regimes. In this dissertation I …
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'Ourfoodstories@e-mail.com', an Auto/Biographical Study of Relationships with Food.
Popular discourses and current government policy focus on the need for individuals and families to make healthy food choices, without acknowledging the social and cultural milieu in which these are embedded. A neo-liberal focus on responsible individualism is part of a middle class habitus that …
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The Co-Construction of Properties in a Machinic-Complex: A study of the Car and Dunlop Pneumatic Tyres 1900-1925
… the development of Dunlop pneumatic tyres and the car 1900- 1925. It explores the transformation of these artefacts from 'unreliable', 'crafted' luxuries, to 'reliable', 'scientific' products for a middle class market through a process of co-construction. It argues that through the …
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And They Entered as Ladies: When Race, Class and Black Femininity Clashed at Central High School
<p>“And They Entered as Ladies: When Race, Class and Black Femininity Clashed at Central High School,” explores the intersectionality of race, gender and class status as middle-class black women led the integration movement and were the focal point of white backlash during the 1957 Little Rock …
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Trauma and repetition : an intersubjective perspective
… within a South African context to name racial, gender and class differences and their concomitant painful histories within the therapeutic space. The evolution of trauma is followed with particular emphasis on its relationship to gender. This case study focuses particularly on the …
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