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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Gender oppression"”.
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The Contested Space of Black Female Sexuality: Communal Norms and Female Sexual Agency in Sub -Saharan Francophone Novels
… interpretation allows one to identify how this oppression works and what is at stake in this control: maintenance of racial communal borders, protection of patrilineal descent, and thus male dominance, but also, maintenance of racial dominance, specifically white males controlling black female …
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"I can't carry on like this": a feminist perspective on the process of exiting sex work in a South African context
… sex work, in a South African context where gender-based violence is normalized and widespread. In doing so, this research applies principles of feminist theory to create a contextualized understanding of the process of exit. Two focus groups, with a total of 18 non-transgendered women were …
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A Study of Gender Apartheid: Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran
… the systemic and institutionalized forms of gender-based discrimination termed gender apartheid, focusing on Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran. It argues that gender apartheid, a severe form of discrimination where women and girls are subjugated and denied fundamental rights under …
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Exploring Postsecondary STEM Faculty's Experiences Teaching Underrepresented Minority Students in STEM Introductory Courses in an HSI
… as well as the prevalence of racial and gender oppression. STEM Faculty play a unique role in supporting URM students influenced by their racial identity and their participation in a STEM community of practice. However, the literature lacks research on faculty experiences and perceptions …
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Growing 'homeplace' In Critical Service-Learning: An Urban Womanist Pedagogy
… in racial segregation, structural violence and gender oppression, Detroit is a site of critical learning within a postindustrial/postcolonial context. This intersectionalist approach to service-learning is likened to bell hooks's concept of homeplace, a site of resistance created by Black women …
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Gender and community: Womanist and feminist perspectives in the fiction of Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, and Louise Erdrich
… that are articulated in the constructions of gender identity in the fiction of Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, and Louise Erdrich arise from and vary with their constructions of community. In the U.S., the women's suffrage movement and the mainstream feminist movements of the past …
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Thinking Together: A feminist collaborative inquiry into pedagogical approaches for domestic violence work in Ireland
… for an end to male violence and all forms of oppression. Theoretically the study is informed by a feminist analysis in which domestic violence work is understood to be part of the wider feminist project that aims to end to all forms of gender oppression. Drawing from feminist and critical …
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How Justice System Contact, Race, and Gender Intersect: Examining Their Short- and Long-Term Associations with Mental Health, Educational, and Occupational Outcomes
… vary by race (Black, Hispanic, White) and gender (Women, Men). Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 were analyzed using multilevel modeling techniques, controlling for socio-economic status, family background, and youth issues. Short-term associations were examined …
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"Words Are No Good": The Curse of Signification and the Curse of Faulkner's South
… symbols that attempts to mask class, race, and gender oppression. Eventually, Faulkner suggests, his region will have to recognize those horrors upon which it constructed its society. Finally, in my chapter on Go Down, Moses, I argue that Faulkner places the problems of signification squarely at …
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"Words Are No Good": The Curse of Signification and the Curse of Faulkner's South
… symbols that attempts to mask class, race, and gender oppression. Eventually, Faulkner suggests, his region will have to recognize those horrors upon which it constructed its society. Finally, in my chapter on Go Down, Moses, I argue that Faulkner places the problems of signification squarely at …
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Retextualized transculturations: The emergence of La Malinche as figure in Chicana literature
… their traditional, culturally sanctioned gender roles and to increase their political participation in the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 70s, they faced gender oppression within their own community as well as discrimination from the hegemonic Anglo-American culture. For some Chicanas, …
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Abjection in the novels of Marlene Van Niekerk
… such a society: religious indoctrination, gender oppression and Othering. By writing her novel Triomf (1999) in a demotic register, Van Niekerk furthermore questions the prevalent assumptions about what is deemed proper language for writing a novel. Writing, for her, thus serves the …
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The Black lesbian experience: the intertwining of race and sexuality
… the experiences of race, sexual orientation, and gender oppression in American society. They also experience oppression within their family and the Black community. Participants were 78 adult Black women who completed an on-line survey. Participants completed measures assessing their perceptions …
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Gender, Body, and Wilderness: searching for refuge, connection, and ecological belonging
… identified persons in particular) experience gender and body in wilderness settings. The motivations for this research include: the current context of gender and gender oppression in American society; the potential of wilderness experiences to offer different ways of being and escape from …
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Gender, Body, and Wilderness: searching for refuge, connection, and ecological belonging
… identified persons in particular) experience gender and body in wilderness settings. The motivations for this research include: the current context of gender and gender oppression in American society; the potential of wilderness experiences to offer different ways of being and escape from …
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Made Visible: Women Artists and the Performance of Femininity in Modern Japanese Art, 1900-1930
… Japanese women artists’ work and the systems of gender oppression that characterized modern Japanese art. It does so by engaging with the visualization of Japanese women artists in the early twentieth century. In response to societal anxiety about the increase of women artists in the perceived …
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Experiences of gender policing within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community
… of the social construction and enforcement of gender through social interactions with a specific focus on how gender policing is experienced within the LGBTQ community in Riverdale (pseudonym), the specific location of this study. Gender policing refers to the implicit and explicit feedback …
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Muslim women who veil and Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights: A socio-legal critique
… by competing binaries that label it as a tool of oppression or one of empowerment. Many of the assertions are based not on the veil’s multiple meanings or the wearer’s true motivations but on misplaced assumptions of moral authority by those who oppose or defend the practice, as well as native …
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Development of a Divorce Recovery Program for Korean American Women
… Caucasian American women. Both Confucianism and gender oppression within Korean-American culture contribute to the longer process of divorce and increase depression and other negative impacts on these women. Understanding these processes provides differentiation and supports the creation of …
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Ni una más. International cooperation against gender-based discrimination: the femicide case in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico
… different behavioural patterns. All within a gender discrimination frame based on the idea that women are inferior, interchangeable and disposable according to the patriarchal hierarchy still present in Mexico, but strongly reinforced by a sort of conspiracy of silence provoked either by the …
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