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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"History of Gender"”.
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A Comparative History of Gender and Factory Labour in Ottoman Bursa and Colonial Bombay, c.1850-1910
This thesis explores the gendered dynamics of industrialisation in the late Ottoman Empire and British India. It examines the ways in which gendered notions of skill, waged work, domesticity and technology shaped employment patterns, labour processes and politics in silk factories in Bursa and …
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A Theoretical Construction of Gender Issues in Marital Therapy (Qualitative Research, Critical Socialization Theory, Object Relations, Theory Generation, Intimacy)
By enlisting the "ideas in use" of sixteen working marital therapists, this study seeks to generate the beginning outlines of a theory of gender issues in couple relationships and therapy. This "theory" is presented in the form of an interpretive story about a particular couple constructed using …
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Gender in English pronouns : myth and reality
This study deals with a feature of traditional English dialects in Southwest England and Newfoundland, namely the use of "gendered" pronouns (primarily he and him) to refer to inanimate objects such as a tree or a watch: "I can't climb him" or "He's a good watch". <br> Background analyses include …
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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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The Narratives of Ann Lee as a Core Component of Shaker Theological Evolution
The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, or the Shakers, are a small progressive communal religious group founded in the mid-eighteenth century by a woman named Ann Lee. This thesis follows the stories told about Ann Lee by the Shakers throughout their history and documents how …
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Gender Diversity in Corporate Boards in France: An Analysis
… boards in 2003, governments have looked to gender quotas as a tool to accelerate gender equality. Though the effects in Norway were at first mixed, as the so-called “golden skirt” problem resulted in only a few women occupying multiple board seats, several European countries followed …
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Gender, national identity and political agency in eighteenth-century Scotland
… between the discourse and performance of gender, national identity and political agency in Scotland during the Union debates of 1706-07 and the mid-to-late eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. These two periods are offered in contrast to each other in order to demonstrate the …
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Ourhouse: Gender-Inclusive Student Housing
Since the origins of academia, student housing has predominantly remained segregated and has excluded many people groups. Over the course of academic history, many people groups were slowly allowed to attend university and college, with enrollments gradually expanding from solely white men of a …
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Debating the Ideal Soviet Woman: Public Discussions of Gender and Morality in Khrushchev's Russia
<p>The Communist Party of the Soviet Union's 1961 Third Party Program and its "Moral Code of the Builder of Communism" dictated that Soviet society would be transformed into a Communist utopia over the course of twenty years. As part of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's larger reform program, the …
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The Political Act of Writing Feminism- Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and the Utopian Vision
… Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain lived a life of seclusion and oppression like many middle-class Muslim women in colonial India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. During this period, Rokeya used writing as a tool to fight against the oppression women faced from the …
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Women Writers in Revolution: Feminism in Germaine de Staël and Ding Ling
… essay, the concern is feminism in the writings of the two revolutionary women, Germaine de Stael, who lived and wrote during the French revolutionary era, and Ding Ling, who lived and wrote during the Chinese Communist revolutionary era. The main theme of the essay is to determine whether the …
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Elite Identities in Scottish Family Group Portraits, 1740 - 1790
This thesis considers the interrelation between gender, national identity and elite family life in Scotland between 1740 and 1790. Family group portraits painted by Scottish artists of Scottish families are examined and contrasted with English counterparts to demonstrate the evolving nature of …
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The Belfast Boycott: Consumerism, Gender, and the Irish Border, 1920-1922
… and end Irish partition. The boycott was set off by the expulsion of several thousand Catholic workers from employment in Belfast in July 1920. A total boycott of all goods coming from Belfast was implemented by the Dáil in September 1920. Boycotting provided Irish nationalists with an …
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Marriage and Brotherhood in Muscovite Russia
In Russia today, conservative views about gender are often promoted through reference to the past, to show that supposedly ‘traditional’ gender roles are intrinsic to Russian history. Frequently, this idea is upheld in scholarship. My work explores the historicity of commonly held assumptions about …
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"There was something grotesque": The Application and Limits of Respectability in the Daughters of Bilitis
… “deviant” and “normal” worlds, the leadership of The Daughters of Bilitis generally adhered to a respectable and assimilationist public persona as evidenced through political activities and the publication of their periodical <em>The Ladder</em>. Due to this juxtaposition, the largely …
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The Crisis of Chad: Men’s Rights Movements and Contemporary Anti-feminism
… rights movements. The manosphere is a collection of online videos, forums, blogs, and websites dedicated to raising awareness or promoting masculinist philosophies. Incels in particular are individuals that understand their lack of sexual interaction as inherent, and often interact in digital …
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Soviet Defectors: Sexuality, Gender, and the Family in Cold War Propaganda, 1960-1990
The purpose of this study is to examine the rhetoric of gender, sexuality, and the family used by the media of the Soviet Union to discuss American and Soviet defectors from 1960 to 1990. Utilizing previously established historiographies of gender, sexuality and the family as well as statements …
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“Bury Your Head Between My Knees and Seek Pardon”: Gender, Sexuality, and National Conflict in John Okada’s No-No Boy
… Your Head Between My Knees and Seek Pardon’: Gender, Sexuality, and National Conflict in John Okada’s 1957 novel, <em>No-No Boy,</em>” I analyze the ways in which the complexities of gendered sexuality expressed by protagonist Ichiro Yamada intersect with post-World War II and Internment-era …
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Transgender Digital Embodiments: Questions of the Transgender Body in the 21st Century
… at an intra-community discourse in the transgender community between “transtrenders” and “transmedicalists” or “truscum.” It observes how these different sub-communities conceive of what it means to be transgender and attempts to contextualize these conceptions within transgender history. …
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