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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Law and Gender"”.
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Toward an Ecofeminist Environmental Jurisprudence: Nature, Law, and Gender
… legal theory reflecting the insights of feminism and environmental philosophy. I argue that human beings are not ontologically separate, but embedded in webs of relationality with natural others. My primary purposes are to 1) delineate ways in which institutions of modernity (such as law and …
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Transcending pathology, transforming the thinkable transperson: young transpeople, the law and gender self-determination
<p>While contemporary attitudes, laws and policies in the U.S. toward lesbian, gay and bisexual people are increasingly more humane and just, transgender and gender nonconforming people continue to experience widespread structural oppression, discrimination and physical and psychological violence. …
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Intimate Subversions: Minority women encountering laws and patriarchy
This thesis asks: How do multiple laws collude with patriarchy to define minority women’s positions in the state, society, and the community? And How do religious minority women in a postcolonial context selectively seek, apply, and subvert these multiple laws to achieve their own objectives? …
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Intimate Subversions: Minority women encountering laws and patriarchy
This thesis asks: How do multiple laws collude with patriarchy to define minority women’s positions in the state, society, and the community? And How do religious minority women in a postcolonial context selectively seek, apply, and subvert these multiple laws to achieve their own objectives? …
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The Obstacles in Women's Pathway to Principalship
… seeking the principalship in public education; and also to explore major changes of different obstacles to women's principalship because women's roles have changed over time. Different obstacles in women's pathway to principalship are: low self-image; lack of encouragement; myths about women's …
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The semiotics of visible face make-up: The masks women wear
… explores the `sign' of visible face make-up and examines how women consume appearance in everyday life in contemporary Australia. Using a semiotic framework, it presents a novel new method for interpreting and gaining increased meaning into an everyday consumption phenomenon. The purpose of …
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Women's experiences of the workers' compensation system in Queensland, Australia
… a phenomenological study undertaken to understand women's experience of the workers' compensation system. Eleven women were interviewed. They ranged in age from twenty-five to sixty-five years and represented diverse socio-economic and educational backgrounds. All women were from a …
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Shaping the Supreme Court
… has proven itself to be a complicated section of law for both courts and lawmakers. Initially, in the landmark <em>Roe v. Wade</em> (1973) case, the court gave women the right to seek an abortion prior to viability through an inferred constitutional right to privacy. This research aims to …
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Constructing Women Who Do Not Reproduce in Global Neoliberalism: Critical Approach to the Abolition of Legal Ban on Abortion and the Struggle in South Korea
… the abolition of the legal ban on abortion and the struggle in South Korea, focusing on the <em>construction</em> of the status of “women who do not reproduce”, and accordingly aims to critically analyze how neoliberal reproductive crisis in South Korea has been reorganized into the new …
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The Gendered Interpretation of Child Marriage: A Niger Case Study
… to support my analysis of child marriage as a gender issue. Incorporating evidence from annual international reports, scholarly articles, and mixed methods studies, this paper examines a case study of Niger, where child marriage affects more than half the population of girls under the age of …
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Emergent Women's Global Political Leadership: Progress Despite Constraints
… Progress Despite Constraints” seeks to trace why and how female political leaders emerge at the global level. Evidence points to certain cultural factors, often expressed by laws, constraining or supporting women as they seek political advancement. Data shows women leaders are emerging more and …
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Beyond Vulnerability: Refugee Women’s Leadership in Jordan
<p>While both men and women are affected by conflicts and humanitarian crises, 80 percent of the world’s refugees and internally displaced persons are women and children, indicating that women experience conflict and war differently. The emphasis on women’s vulnerability during conflicts and …
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Politics of Refusal: Justice and Liberation for Black Trans Lives
… I will explore how protest is used to highlight and confront the obstacles faced by the Black trans community. I will also examine the cultural work of Black trans people and what they teach us. The Brooklyn Liberation march and the TV show <em>Pose</em> is an important part of Black trans …
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The Legacy of British Rule On LGBT Rights In Jamaica and the Cayman Islands
… relationship between British colonial influence and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) rights in the Caribbean. Comparing the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory, and Jamaica, an independent former colony of the United Kingdom, the situation for LGBT people is evaluated. …
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Why EU Work-Family Reconciliation Policies Fail in Italy: A Feminist Legal Analysis
… the third lowest in the European Union (EU) and Italian women continue to do twice as much household work as Italian men. Parents, especially women, struggle to find a balance between professional work and their family lives in a society that encourages the traditional gendered roles of the …
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The Ill-Treatment of Their Countrywoman: Liberated African Women, Violence, and Power in Tortola, 1807–1834
… Navy’s campaign of policing international waters and seizing ships suspected of illegal trading. As the Royal Navy captured slave ships as prizes of war and condemned enslaved Africans to Vice-Admiralty courts, formerly enslaved Africans became “captured negroes” or “liberated Africans,” making …
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Assessing gender equality in political rights: a comparative study of CEDAW Article 7 implementation in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia
… examining its evolution, application, and impact across various systems and historical periods. It delves into the principle of equality as a cornerstone of justice and human rights, highlighting its complexities and the challenges of achieving absolute parity in wealth and …
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The Plight of Kenyan Domestic Workers in Gulf Countries
… leader within the East African Community (EAC) and among East African countries at large. However, political instability such as the 2007 post-election violence and the region’s social and political instability trickling into Kenya, have negatively affected the country’s economic growth. To …
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