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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Gendered Labor"”.
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The limits of exceptional women: the cinema of Stephanie Rothman and the trouble with archives
This dissertation examines the role of gendered authorship in the U.S. film industry and focuses on how women’s directorial labor is represented in film history and its accumulated archives. Specifically, the project evaluates women’s labor in the cinematic paradigm of second wave exploitation …
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The Educational Dimensions of Filipina Migrant Workers’ Activist Identities
… of Filipina migrants working in traditional gendered labor such as domestic work, care giving, nursing, teaching, and factory work (Ruiz, 2013). Because of the private nature of household work, Filipina migrants are vulnerable to mental and physical abuses from their employers in addition to …
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The Power To Protect Themselves: Gender, Protective Labor Legislation, And Public Policy In Michigan, 1883-1913
<p>This study provides a narrative of laborers' fight for legal protection through the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Since American law was one of the most important forces in shaping and limiting workplace reform, both labor unionists and reformers used the law to try to solve labor problems. …
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"""We are here because you were there"": Kinship and loss in 20th- and 21st-century Korean American Narratives"
… is integral to the institutions responsible for gendered and sexual violence in the diaspora. For the last chapter I read Alexander Chee’s Edinburgh (2001) through a queer of color critique, tracing the effects of sexual trauma throughout the narrative to show that the gay, biracial protagonist’s …
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Contextual engineering for sustainable Kalahari melon oil extraction in rural Namibia
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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A Means to An End: Articulations of Diasporic Blackness, Class and Survival among Female Afro-Caribbean Service Workers in New York City
<p>This dissertation examines the oral histories and personal narratives of Afro-Caribbean women who migrated to New York from 1961-2008 and explores how they articulate and negotiate multiple identities surrounding diasporic Blackness, class, and gender. This dissertation studies Afro-Caribbean …