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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Gendered Discourse"”.
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An examination of gendered discourse in the discussion forums of online STEM courses
… of this dissertation describes the state of gendered language use in two online STEM courses. The second paper explores how that language interacts with one way of structuring a discussion forum to predict students’ final grades. That structure consisted of giving students the option to post …
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“God loves you but not enough to save you”: Patriarchal Authority and Feminine Punishment in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Ethel Cain’s Preacher’s Daughter
… and contemporary comparative analysis to examine gendered discourse and corporeal feminine punishment in The Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath and Preacher’s Daughter (2022) by Ethel Cain. My research links confessional women’s writing and patriarchal authority to examine the oppressive nature …
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Narrative, Body and gaze; Representations of Action Heroines in Console Video Games and Gamer Subjectivity
… repetition of specific images of women create a gendered discourse in the imagined video game community which in turn constructs and disciplines the woman gamer subject in specific ways.
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Capital Mediators: American Mining Engineers in the U.S. Southwest and Mexico, 1850-1914
… negotiations, elite social networks, and gendered discourse of expertise' invoked by these technocratic professionals were critical influences in bringing the hard-rock mining districts of North America into the economic system of the United States. By integrating the history of technical …
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Patriarchy: The Predominant Discourse and Font of Domestic Violence
… knowledge prompted an investigation into how discourses of different cultural groups shape men's understandings of masculinity and sense of entitlement to use violence in a heterosexual relationship. The study was qualitative, based upon grounded theory and narrative principles. Men from as …
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Care Is Not a Family Value: Gender Frames and the Discourse of "Baby UI"
… focuses on the way Baby UI was framed in public discourse by examining public testimony and press accounts. The research reveals that, regardless of support or opposition to Baby UI, a gendered discourse of deservingness that privileged work over care was consistently invoked in a fashion that …
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Beyond mourning and melancholia: depression in the work of five contemporary North American women writers.
… addresses women's historic exclusion from the discourse of melancholia from a feminist perspective. It will consider the political and theoretical implications of women's absence from this discursive field by focusing on the cultural legacy of their devalorised status. Freud's essay, 'Mourning …
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An Inquiry Into Discourse Choices As Indicators Of Gender Attitudes In A Non-profit Conservative Christian Business
This paper is an inquiry into the discourse styles of men and women who work together in a conservative Protestant Christian business. Many conservative Protestant Christian churches teach that the Bible forbids women from holding positions of authority over men. Yet in the communications …
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Listening to Birth: Metallurgy, Maternity, and Vocality in the Reproduction of the Patriarchal State
… by elites in antiquity, in order to construct gendered ideologies of kingship, civilisation, and nature. I examine these power dynamics as expressed in mythic and magical texts and iconographies, dating from the Bronze Age to later Roman antiquity. Throughout the thesis, I examine the …
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(Re)constructions of the Self and the Nation in Selected Auto/biographies of South African and Zimbabwean Women
… the notion that the self emerges from its gendered private space into the public domain, inadvertently transforms autobiography to protest writing, as well as a political project. The study explored how auto/biographies enable the recovery of women’s voices silenced by history and the …
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Understanding the role and meaning of food for older people through participant-driven photo-elicitation.
… viewed older people’s food roles through gendered discourse identifying women as the main provider with men having minimal involvement. In this research shared roles between older couples were discussed with a less binary male and female divide. A sense of belonging and social connection …
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No Girls Allowed: How incels.is Operates as a Gendered Discursive Space
… from the forum incels.is, utilizing a critical discourse analysis to help identify trends within the acquired data set to explore how users on this site operate as a gendered discursive online community. Disclosed themes throughout the analysis concern the topics of: (1) Gender Essentialism, (2) …