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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Gender politics"”.
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Gender, Politics, and Radioactivity Research in Vienna, 1910-1938
… in its laboratories and to establish the gendered identities of the physicists it housed. The third examines how the social conditions of the Institute influenced the deployment of instrumentation and experimental procedures especially during the Cambridge-Vienna controversy of the 1920s. …
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More than a Centerfold: Gender, Politics and Playboy, 1954-1988
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Stretching the Limits: journalism and gender politics in women’s sport
… of which included original data and analysis of gender issues in sport. One of the first academic, self-reflective analyses by a sports journalist, this dissertation written for the PhD by prior publication, places my work in the context of the profession and considers my contribution to …
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Femininities Reimagined: Gender Politics in Contemporary British Moving Image Art
… in the twenty-first century. Since feminist politics gained momentum and moving image emerged as an artistic medium in 1970s Britain, both the political movement and medium have undergone a progressive process of institutionalisation and popularisation that threatens their countercultural …
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The Gender Politics of Contemporary Sport: Ethics, Power, and the Body
Gendered power relations in sport pose important problems for mainstream feminist and ethical arguments for the alleviation of gender-based oppression. Though mainstream feminist theorists and applied ethicists have largely left sport undertheorized, some multi- and inter-disciplinary scholarly …
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Institutional Development, Police Practice and Gender Politics in the Colombian National Police
Despite the increase in popularity of policing research, the Colombian National Police (CNP) has remained largely unstudied. The present study is a foundational analysis of the CNP. In order to explore that institution in all its complexity—from both a historical and a current, empirical …
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Un voyage vers une photographie feminine: The gender politics of body and space
… a woman and a feminist to the issues concerning gender, travel and landscape aesthetics. This dissertation is an analysis of my documentary photographs. I am interested in ways in which my photographs correspond with the French feminist theories of Helene Cixous and Lucy Irigaray on ecriture …
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Why Aren't More Heathens Eco-Pagan Vegetarians? The Intersection Of Gender, Politics, And Spiritual Environmentalism
… and adds to our understanding of religion, politics and gender, specifically where these intersect with the environmental movement.</p>
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There Is No Place For African Women: Gender Politics in the Writings of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
… agitates for equality for all regardless of sex, gender, race, and/or other defining identities. Lastly, I argue that Adichie uses the practice of the African novel to rewrite the character of African women in African literature where her uniqueness hinges on her interrogation of the place of …
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Uncovering the Monster of Patriarchy: Women of <em>The Fly</em> (1958, 1986) and Shifting Gender Politics
<p>This thesis compares the two versions of <em>The Fly</em>, the 1958 film directed by Kurt Neumann and the 1986 film directed by David Cronenberg, and places them in conversation with one another to examine the ways in which expressions of patriarchal dominance and the ways women operate within …
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The Art of Seduction and Affect Economy: Neoliberal Class Struggle and Gender Politics in a Tokyo Host Club
… women---while it simultaneously underscores gender subordination, social inequality, and the exploitative nature of the affect economy in Japan. I illuminate how mutual seduction between hosts and their clients intertwines with Japan's neoliberal policymaking and governance that similarly …
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Managing diversity und gender politics. Theoretische Überlegungen und empirische Untersuchung zum Thema "Frauen und Karriere" am Beispiel von zwei Unternehmensbereichen der Siemens AG.
… wird oft in Anbetracht ökonomisch scheinbar zwingenderer Gründe unterlassen. Dass die Teilhabe von Frauen an Management-Funktionen jedoch ökonomisch notwendig ist, soll ein komplexer Begründungszusammenhang verdeutlichen, in dem bisher vernachlässigte Vorteile von Diversity erstmals analysiert …
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Open destinies : modern American women and the short story cycle
… juncture between the short story cycle form and gender politics. It explores how twentieth-century women from the United States have been using the form to represent and question gender identity. The introduction outlines commentaries on the story cycle and considers definitions of the form. It …
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An audience and textual study of gender and caste politics in Indian literature
… the everyday realities of Indian women and the gender politics that currently exist in Indian society from the perspective of an upper caste middle class female audience. The aim of this research is to understand and explore the gender politics at the level of the everyday realities of women, …
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Millennials and Generation Z: Men's Perspectives on Hashtag Feminism
… experiences widespread critical examination on gender and patriarchy, it is important for family therapists to learn how men perceive their masculinity amidst this critical discourse. In contemporary politics, feminist activism is largely conducted through social media and hashtag activism and …
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An Inquiry into the Relationship between Community and Text: Narratives and Iconography Depicting Christian Women with Authority in Late Antiquity
… to illuminate subtly changing cycles of gender politics within the larger cultural and historical context of Late Antiquity.
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Gender, press and revolution: A textual analysis of three newspapers in Nicaragua's Sandinista period, 1979-1988
… dissertation is a study of the intersection of gender, the press, and revolution. As such it bridges disciplinary boundaries between women's studies and mass communications studies. From a gender perspective, this study focuses on Third World women and on the inherent tensions between socialism …
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