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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Gender hierarchy"”.
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Gender Hierarchy Among Gujarati Immigrants: Linking Immigration Rules and Ethnic Norns
… linking the material and non-material aspects of gender. I focus on Asian Indian Patels, who dominate the budget motel business in the United States. I conducted semi-structured interviews with Patel men, women, and teenagers. I stayed overnight in the motels to observe families at work. I was …
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Making Waves without Rocking the Boat: Women’s Reinforcement of Gender Status Hierarchies as a Protectant against Discrimination
… support for the idea that women who violate gender roles by succeeding in male-dominated domains elicit hot forms of discrimination. In particular, evidence suggests that a perceivers' conservatism, which represents a preference against gender change toward greater equality, might motivate …
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Rucking into New Territory: A Case-Study on the Experiences of Pioneer Female Club Rugby Players in Ontario
The gender hierarchy found within sport has been reinforced through the use of traditional interpretations of masculinity, making sport a well-suited arena to examine gender inequity in its many forms. My thesis explores the challenges experienced by female pioneer rugby players in Ontario and …
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The culpability of men in gender-based violence and their role in its alleviation: The case of Oshakati town, Oshana region, Namibia
Gender-based violence remains highly prevalent in Namibia, with high incidences reflected in the national crime statistics. This study investigated the moral culpability of men in gender-based violence and their role in its alleviation in Oshakati, Oshana region, Namibia. A case study research …
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Bush Allowance: A Phenomenological Study on Sexual Exploitation of Schoolgirls by Male Teachers in Rural Schools in Northern Ghana
In a patriarchal society like Ghana, the gendered hierarchy and socially accepted views of masculinity and femininity have permeated the school environment, thereby making Ghanaian schools the prime site not only for the construction of gender identity but also for reinforcing existing gender …
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The Gender Differences in Subjectivity among Superbeing Characters in the Comic Book Film Genre
… study intends to evaluate the extent to which gender inequality permeates representation in the media. By drawing on the literature of feminist phenomenology I define subjectivity as the tendency of characters to interact with the world around them rather than merely have that world act upon …
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Caught in the mirror: Fictional representations of "cyborgs" and "serials" in postmodern American technoculture.
… by constructing a borderless and especially, genderless, cyborg subjectivity. "Cyborgs" and "serials" are figures of social and fictional "reality," that, together, reflect the normalizing, hierarchical, and psychologically traumatic aspects of operational Harawayan cyborgology. Chapter 1 …
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Fashion Diplomacy at the Court of Henry VIII
… and early modern dress, and the moralised and gendered assessments of fashion in modern society created the perception that dress studies were an intellectually superficial pursuit. The material turn in historical scholarship, however, has resulted in growing scholarly appreciation for the …
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Cosmetic Theology in England, c. 650–1100: Aldhelm of Malmesbury, the Venerable Bede, and Goscelin of St Bertin
… on modesty exerted significant influence on the gendered perception of virtue in early medieval England and that, despite the innovative emphasis on spirituality, cosmetic theology in England nevertheless helped to sustain the gender hierarchy. Individual women may attain holiness, primarily by …
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Pious Critique: Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī and the 11th Century Practice of Juristic Disputation (Munāẓara)
… guides of the community and re-inforced the gender-hierarchy that marginalized women’s voices in the shaping of the law. Transcripts of Shīrāzī’s disputations reflect the impact of the disputation on the development of Shāfi‘ī legal doctrine. The jurists’ acknowledgement of the epistemic …
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Remittances and the Moral Economies of Bangladeshi New York Immigrants in Light of the Economic Crisis
… repertoires on family obligations, kinship, gender, hierarchy, and charity. Drawing on empirical narratives and biographies that combine open-ended interviews with 65 Bangladeshi male immigrants in New York (the majority being Muslim) as well as ethnographic interviews of 7 families in Dhaka, …
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The female quest for enlightenment: Compassion and patience in transforming gender bias in Tibetan Buddhism, with specific reference to Western Tibetan Buddhist nuns and Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
This thesis investigates the nature of gender bias in Tibetan Buddhism and the specific role Western Tibetan Buddhist nuns have played in transforming such prejudice. The afore-mentioned gender bias pertains particularly to the unavailability of full ordination (bhikshuni ordination) for nuns in …
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'These wounds and scars have not healed ': a critical gender analysis of the Kenyan Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission's recommendations for reparations
This dissertation provides a critical gender analysis of the Kenyan Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission's (TJRC) recommendations for reparations. While 'gender' describes the form of analysis undertaken, this dissertation is focused on how gender has interacted with other factors to …
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Sounding Subjectivity: Music, Gender, and Intimacy
… musical sound are understood via racialized and gendered discourses of embodiment, intimacy, pleasure, and danger. Specifically, this project consists of textual analyses of music censorship discourse and ethnographic analyses of female musicians and listeners who seek out shared musical …
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Gender, Body and Parenthood in Muscovite Russia
… forms of conceptualising and representing the gendered body. In so doing, it underscores the need to interrogate modern assumptions about sex to recognise the variable signification and significance of the body in early modern Russian gender ideologies. The first chapter is broadly theoretical. …
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Understanding Childcare Choices amongst Low-Income Employed Mothers in Urban and Rural KwaZulu-Natal
… how women do this within households where gendered roles and a gender hierarchy continue to prevail. In some cases, low-income employed mothers must take on not only do the ‘work' of managing the household but also the additional ‘work' of soliciting the fathers for financial support and …
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Pluralism and social epistemology in economics
… in the way economic research is organised: gender imbalances, a steep internal hierarchy, and a dismissive attitude to outsiders. I show that economic research could be more progressive, representative of the interests of those in society, accepted, and legitimate and less likely to fall …