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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Gender violence"”.
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Uncertainties in gender violence epidemiology
… between 2006 and 2012. The papers focused on gender violence research methods, the prevalence of risk factors for gender violence, and its association with HIV and maternal morbidity. The accompanying commentary addresses three uncertainties that affect gender violence epidemiology. These are …
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Honor, Gender, Violence, and the Life of Robert Potter
No abstract prepared.
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Gender, Violence, and Piety: Performance of Masculinity in Colonial Potosi
… masculinity defined by the contrasting aspects of violence and piety. This dissertation centers on the performance of such masculinity and how it was performed in Colonial Potosí. I ague that three main characteristics displayed by male Potosinos --violent behavior, piety, and gender relations-- …
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Reading Violence: Gender, Violence, and *Representation in India and Pakistan (1947--Present)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.
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Mediating Gender Violence: "Witnessing Publics," Activism, and the Ethics of Human Rights Claim Making
… non-governmental organizations (NGOs) represent violence against indigenous women--in text, image, and action--as human rights "evidence." By ethics I mean the deliberate use of morals, stated or unstated, in the representation of human rights abuses. In New York, my research focuses on the …
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Systematic Gender Violence and the Rule of Law: Aboriginal Communities in Australia and Post-War Liberia
The gender-agenda is borderless. Arguably, legal justice for Indigenous girls and women survivors of violence is unfair, inequitable, and sometimes arbitrary. Systematic violence against girls and women pervades cultures and societies; operates at three main levels: institution and state, …
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Systematic Gender Violence and the Rule of Law: Aboriginal Communities in Australia and Post-War Liberia
The gender-agenda is borderless. Arguably, legal justice for Indigenous girls and women survivors of violence is unfair, inequitable, and sometimes arbitrary. Systematic violence against girls and women pervades cultures and societies; operates at three main levels: institution and state, …
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An evaluation of the representation of gender and gender violence in a sexuality and lifeskills programmes for adolescents
… to understand and engage with issues of gender. This study aimed to evaluate how relations of gender and gender violence are represented in a Lifeskills and Sexuality programme for 15 - 21 year oids.
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Women's experiences and perceptions of domestic violence: The case of beneficiaries of Monica Gender Violence Solution Organisation in Windhoek, Namibia
… women’s experiences and perceptions of domestic violence that was conducted with women from Monica Gender Violence Solution Organisation in Katutura, Windhoek, Namibia. It was a qualitative study, in depth interviews were conducted with a sample of 12 women using structured interviews. These in …
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Taking back the tech: an analysis of take back the S 2015 twitter campaign during 16 days of activism against gender violence
… through their global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign. This study employs various analytical frameworks including feminism, intersectionality, counterpublics, and agenda-setting to investigate TBTT’s tweets and other Twitter users’ responses to the campaign, as suggested by …
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Direito ao grito (explosão): Representações da violência de gênero em contos de Clarice Lispector
… to understand how the literary representation of gender violence is configured in Clarice Lispector's work, based on the relationship between literature and gender, considering the structural nature of gender violence in patriarchal society and its elements highlighted in the writer's texts. To …
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A study of gender violence and its effects on married women : a case study of women at three centres in Lusaka district - YWCA, WLSA and National Legal Aid Clinic for Women
Violence against women is widespread and global but is hidden as most of it goes on unreported. Violence is tolerated and accepted by most societies and cultures world wide and Zambia is no exception. In Zambia, violence has been exacerbated by some aspects of the customs and traditions, socio …
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A study of gender violence and its effects on married women : a case study of women at three centres in Lusaka district - YWCA, WLSA and National Legal Aid Clinic for Women
Violence against women is widespread and global but is hidden as most of it goes on unreported. Violence is tolerated and accepted by most societies and cultures world wide and Zambia is no exception. In Zambia, violence has been exacerbated by some aspects of the customs and traditions, socio …
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Problematizing discourses of feminicide in Guatemala : feminist universalism, neoliberal subject formation and hypervisibility
… unit of feminicide must be expanded beyond gender in order to assess the axis of inequality upon which gender violence in contemporary Guatemala is being waged. Intersectionality and a gendered racial formation theory provide a more nuanced basis from which to undertake an analysis of gender …
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IMPERILED FEMININITY:RECONFIGURING GENDER IN A CONTEXT OF HEIGHTENED VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
This dissertation clarifies the manner in which violence against women is implicated in the re-constitution of gender in Chihuahua. Using data collected with a mixed methods, multi-staged protocol, this dissertation investigates how the routine threat of gender violence and the common presence of …
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Grassroots Governance: Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice Partnerships in an Immigrant City
… organizations involved in the governance of gender violence in Toronto, Ontario. Along with examining the agencies operating on the outskirts of the law, I also observe the organizations that contract directly with the provincial government to counsel abusers prosecuted through the city’s …
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Decolonizing Gender: Indigenous Feminism and Native American Literature
… I explore ways that Native authors depict gender violence and male characters who, like Native women, negotiate colonization and assert sovereignty. Doing so offers a new way of reading Native literature that seeks to also decolonize our analytical approaches for similar use across academic …
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Effect of Militarization and Conflict on Intimate Partner Violence in Israel and South Africa
… many countries have begun to look at domestic violence as asocietal problem, rather than a private one. Though several theories have been proposed as towhat factors are responsible for intimate partner violence (IPV), there is still a paucity ofresearch on the effect of militarization on gender …
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La transtextualidad en El mal querer de Rosalía
… and tells the story of a woman who suffers gender violence at the hands of her husband. This album not only converses with <em>Flamenca</em>, but with a variety of musical and visual texts, as well. Using primarily the notion of transtextuality expressed by Gerard Genette in his work, …
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Born of Coatlicue: Literary Inscriptions of Women in Violence from the Mexican Revolution to the Drug War
… analyzes literary representations of women and violence from Mexican, Chicana, and Spanish authors. It focuses on two historical periods of extreme violence affecting the U.S.-Mexico border region: The Mexican Revolution and the turn-of-the-century crisis of the Nation-State that emerged …
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