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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Gendered space"”.
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NAVIGATING GENDERED SPACE: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF LABOUR MARKETS IN PAKISTAN
… fundamentals of inclusion and exclusion within spaces and places. Women's absence from industrial settings in Pakistan corresponds to an institutionally licensed general deficiency of women in the formal workforce. Pakistan’s labour market is deeply segmented and distinct tiers bifurcate the …
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Building the Body: Gendered Space and Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York City, 1890-1930
… and New York City, this dissertation reveals how gendered space operated as a powerful structuring tool for the cities and for the bodies of inhabitants. As the physical geography of Rio and New York underwent significant growth and development from industrialization, immigration, and surging …
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The clinic as a gendered space: an exploratory study examining men's access to and uptake of voluntary counselling and testing services (VCT) in the context of a male-friendly health facility
… use of VCT. Men's views about a male-friendly space and its influence on VCT uptake had not yet been investigated in South Africa. The Men's Clinic in Khayelitsha allowed me the opportunity to interview men attending the clinic to explore their perceptions and experiences of VCT within this …
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明清以來的寶卷與女性文化—— 文本、歷史與儀式實踐的探索 = BAOJUAN (PRECIOUS SCROLLS) LITERATURE AND FEMALE CULTURE DURING THE MING-QING PERIODS: AN EXPLORATION OF TEXTS, HISTORY AND RITUAL PRACTICES
… of Baojuan texts and practices in terms of gendered symbol, gendered idea, gendered subjectivity and gendered space reflects critically on gender in its interpretative and imaginative dimensions within a broader evolution of Chinese vernacular expression, from Ming-Qing periods to the …
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Roads of Rebellion: Cultural Contributions by Women of the Beat Generation
… of a subculture that mythologized the road as a space for escaping Cold War containment. This project begins by redefining Cold War "containment," typically identified as the strategy for controlling communism's spread, to a cultural narrative whose spatial and gendered implications illuminate …
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Higher education and the gendering of space in England and Wales, 1869–1909
… male and female students through the physical space of the campus. Through focusing on several different types of spaces – such as learning spaces, leisure spaces, and commuting spaces – I argue that physical space, as the site where men and women students interacted (or not, as the case may …
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Electroacoustic composition indicative of human agency
… gesture, phonemic association, identity and gendered space are examined. Seven original works are presented: Moyle, Unconditional is the Dalvil, Dark Noise, Angel, Night Music for Radio, Glitch and the mixed clectroacoustic and instrumental works Red Ganies and Less. Angel was written as a …
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Taxi Industry in Korea: Understanding the Shifts and Working Environment in Platform Economy
… of proximity that reside in taxi rides, and gendered space in Korea. I first discuss how the idea of luck has served as an ontological perspective for the taxi drivers to assess their rides, which used to remain unpredictable. Then, I contemplate how the introduction of taxi-hailing platforms …
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En/gendering representations of childbirth in fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish devotional manuscripts
… interior. These images appear to show a `gendered space' in which women care for each other and men are marginalized. Neglected by medieval art historians, such pictures have been uncritically used by historians of obstetric and social history to prove that childbirth was the one time when …
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Someone else’s gender: locating the transsexual narrative in the gendered landscape
… the transsexuals’ legitimacy as occupiers of gendered space. Transsexuals cause unease to the “normally” gendered, not so much because of the intrinsic pathology of their “condition”, but because of the structural and linguistic limitations of the existing model of engenderment. I have gained …
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Sleep and Sleeplessness in the Victorian Novel, Jane Eyre to Dracula
… sleep and wakefulness as vehicles to navigate gendered fluctuations of power and loss. <em>Jane Eyre, The Woman in White</em>, and <em>Dracula</em> each present sleep as a gendered space in which power is contested. I argue that sleeplessness and restlessness are the methods women adopt, either …
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Playculture: developing a feminist game design
… notion that the house was implicitly known as a gendered space, and I interrogate gender and play and girls' subversive resistance in this space. I argue that it is both possible and useful to identify three main types of subversion in operation by women players: reskinning, un-playing, and …
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Imagining the Home: A practice based critical investigation into the western frontier domestic space and its mediated form
… the tropes and conventions of domestic space in the Western film and the historical landscape. Focusing on narratives that reflect the period of US expansion and settlement in the second half of the nineteenth century, the thesis argues that the frontier home was fundamental not only to …
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Breaking the wall, preserving the barrier: gender, space, and power in contemporary mosque architecture in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
… how gender separation is translated into mosque spaces and internalized through societal life. Guided by postcolonial feminist theory and poststructuralist visual theory, it further questions not only how gender conceptions permeate the architectural space of the mosque but also how architectural …
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A Space of their Own? A feminist exploration of gendered spatial relations in Professional Women’s Organizations in Alberta's Resource Sector
Throughout the life cycle of a geoscience career gender inequalities still exist, even in the face of legislative change. One response in Alberta is the formation of professional women’s groups. Drawing on feminist geography, the objective of this research was to explore the social relations and …
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Documenting trauma : an analysis of the construction of traumatic collective memory in the first and last scenes of the documentary, Mama Marikana
… as five Marikana women struggle to move from a space of oppression to a space of empowerment. The film exposes a personal account of how women fight within a traumatised space: through the growth of the women’s organisation, Sikhala Sonke, one member’s rise to Parliament, personal sacrifices for …