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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Gender and power"”.
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Relational Engagement and Empowerment: Establishing a Foundation to Address Gender and Power
… reflection of the influences of larger disempowering discourses resulting in gendered power inequalities in heterosexual couple relationships. These disempowering discourses often manifest in males’ socialization to maintain autonomy compared to females’ socialization to orient toward the …
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Millennials Making Meanings: Social Constructions of Sexual Harassment regarding Gender and Power by Generation Y
… the second wave feminist movement in the 1970s, and has since changed in its meaning over the past four decades, influencing policy, legal action, and the way we, as a society, treat this social problem. Millennials, or those born between 1980 and 2000, will be the next generation of working …
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Physician Couples: A Qualitative Inquiry Focused on Gendered Power and Marital Equality
<p>How couples “do” gender and power in their marriages is a relevant topic for today’s couples. Despite social changes toward equality in many realms, gender continues to organize relationships in ways that give husbands more power than wives. However, some contemporary couples make conscious …
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Islamism and Women’s Movements in Iran: Hijab as a Burden of Representation
… history, Islamic discourse, political Islam, and the status of Muslim women have been subjects of study. Still, few research efforts have concentrated on the changes and dynamics between Islamic discourse and feminist resistance. Particularly in Iran, attention has primarily been given to the …
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Development of a Contextual Model for the Treatment of Infidelity
… 1978). Current research suggests that gendered power processes continue to organize how heterosexual partners relate to each other, making it difficult for couples to build mutually satisfying relationships (Coontz, 2005; Knudson-Martin & Mahoney, 2009). These same societal processes …
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Perception of menopause : black and white working-class women's experiences
… address the ways in which class, race, culture, gender and power shape experiences of menopause by exploring the experiences of South African black and white working-class women. The main implications for theorization on menopause from this study are that (1) there is no single comprehensive …
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Gender, Power, and Trust Issues in Couple Therapy with Adult-Survivor Couples
… intimate partner. Furthermore, asymmetrical gendered power processes often erode trust. Given the propensity for adult-survivor couples to experience a distrusting emotional culture, this dissertation studied the effect of gendered power dynamics on trust in partner interactions, as well as …
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Mother of the Nation: Femininity, Modernity, and Class in the Image of Empress Teimei
… Teimei (1884-1951) with a focus on issues of gender and class. During the first three decades of the twentieth century, Japanese society underwent significant changes in a short amount of time. After the intense modernizations of the late nineteenth century, the start of the twentieth century …
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Exploring Factors in the Relationship Balance Assessment
<p>While studies have highlighted the role of gendered power in relationships, many assumptions have not been quantitatively tested due to a lack of measures for power. This study uses exploratory factor analysis to construct a dyadic assessment of relative power and equality in relationships. This …
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What’s Race Got to Do with It? Race, Gender, and Sexual Politics in East Asian Americans’ Interracial/-Ethnic Relationships
… natal families, among East Asian communities, and within their own relationships. Drawing on 163 in-depth interviews with 1.5- and later-generation East Asian Americans with White, Black, and different-ethnicity Asian partners, I center interracial/-ethnic unions as a critical site where racial …
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The social construction of the family: family values and the Los Angeles riots
… conflicting views over the conceptualization and understanding of just what constitutes a "family" were presented. This thesis examines how the "traditional family" model is used by the majority of Americans to marginalize and ignore the lives and needs of those whose family life does not …
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"Why don't you speak ordinary English?" she said coldly: Linguistic Rebellion in "The Prussian Officer" and Lady Chatterley's Lover
… issues of sexual awakening, the natural world, and figurations of gender and power. However, little examination has been done on the instances of language as a rejection of authority through the character of Mellors, a returning soldier and a gamekeeper. In the novel, Mellors speaks both a …
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Screaming in silence: exploring gender empowerment & representation in contemporary horror narratives
… has been associated with the objectification and victimization of women, portraying them as helpless and disposable. However, in recent years, there has been a significant shift in the portrayal of female characters in horror media, leading to the emergence of more overt feminist perspectives …
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Economic Empowerment of Young Women in Southern Uganda: An embedded mixed-methods Dissertation study
Prioritizing economic empowerment of young women is necessary for achieving gender equality and promoting sustainable development, as it is intertwined with sociocultural, familial, legal, political, and psychological practices that foster gender equality. Empowering women economically can help …
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Gender issues in contemporary sermons
The purpose of this research was to examine gender issues in contemporary sermons. My sample consists of sermons delivered on BBC Radio 4 as part of acts of worship broadcast during 1993-4 which were examined to analyse how language, gender and power intersect to produce these discourses. In order …
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In search for totemic foods: Exploring discursive foodscapes online in Finnish, English and French
… research investigates how chilli and chocolate emerge as totemic foods in online foodie discourse. The corpus is compiled from Social Networking Services (blogs, community websites, recipe sharing sites, and conversation fora) in Finnish, English and French. The theoretical …
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What Are You Crying For?: Renegotiating White Masculine Hegemony through Melodramatic Excess in the 1990s Films of Tom Hanks
… in the 1990s predicated on the expression and containment of anxieties around White masculinity and an appropriation of the melodramatic mode. By establishing a historical and theoretical foundation from which to understand and analyze this unique cultural moment, this thesis demonstrates …
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Universal dimensions of power and gender: consumption, survival and helping
There have been numerous approaches to gender and power to better understand human decision making and behaviors, reflecting the multidimensional nature of power and gender as well as their omnipresent influence on human functioning. However, extant research on power and gender has paid singular …
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Engaging men in gender equality. How social interventions for disadvantaged men in the Netherlands impact on gender+ equality.
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