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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"MAIDS"”.
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The Economic Impacts of Migrant Maids in Malaysia
Demand for migrant maids by households in Malaysia has increased rapidly as more married women choose to participate in the workforce. Simple comparisons of households with maids and those without suggest that hiring maids raises female labour force participation rates of their employers by 26 …
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Maids, Wives and Widows: Female Architectural Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Britain
This thesis explores the extent to which elite women of the eighteenth century commissioned architectural works and the extent to which the type and scale of their projects was dictated by their marital status. Traditionally, architectural historians have advocated that eighteenth-century …
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That Rotten Richness': Old Maids and Reproductive Anxiety In U.S. Southern Fiction, 1923-1946
<p>To date, scholars have focused on the belle as the key organizing figure in the discourse on southern womanhood. My research extends and complicates that critical model. If the belle signifies an idealized and mythic South, the old maid evokes a range of threats to it, including illicit …
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Class Inequality among Third World Women Wage Earners: Mistresses and Maids in the Philippines
… interviews and focus groups with thirty-one maids and ten mistresses between May and August 2000 in a medium-sized city in the Philippines. Recorded interviews were transcribed and processed using QSR NUD*IST N4. Domestic workers, who started as child laborers, live in their mistresses' homes …
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Maids and mistresses in Recife (Brazil): An analysis of linkages between the formal and informal economy
In Brazil, domestic service absorbs a significant number of workers, mostly women. Not only do domestic servants represent a considerable contingent of the working women in Brazil, but they also make it easier for skilled females (their mistresses) to participate in the labor market, mostly in the …
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It Girls and Old Maids: Satiric Wit and the Single Woman in the Anglo-American Novel (1918-1958)
“It Girls and Old Maids: Satiric Wit and the Single Woman in the Anglo-American Novel (1918-1958)” argues for a feminist reconsideration of strategic humor in popular women’s novels. Spanning the decades between the first successful suffrage laws in Britain and the United States and second-wave …
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MILITANT MAIDS: DOMESTIC WORKERS’ PARTICIPATION IN BUS BOYCOTTS, VOTER REGISTRATION, AND HEAD START PROGRAMS IN THE DEEP SOUTH
<p>This thesis examines the participation of domestic workers in the Civil Rights Movement, specifically in Gulf South bus boycotts in Baton Rouge, Montgomery, and Tallahassee; voter registration efforts in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida; and Head Start work in those same Deep South …
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Women who served Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth : Ladies, Gentlewomen and Maids of the Privy Chamber, 1553-1603.
A brief introduction to the history of the Tudor Court and the subject in hand is enlarged upon in the second 'chapter ('The Court'). which describes the nature of the evidence available, the process of admission to the Privy Chamber, the hierarchy within it and the titles given to the various …
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Maids in Their-Land: A Study of the Effects of the Cult of True Womanhood on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915) and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1986)
The "cult of true womanhood," as it came to be called by many modem day feminist critics, began in the early 1800's and thrived until it was trampled by the social and sexual revolution of the 1920's. According to the philosophy of true womanhood, the four basic feminine virtues necessary to being …
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Perlindungan tenaga kerja wanita dalam perspektif maqashid syari'ah: Studi di Balai Latihan Kerja Luar Negeri dan penampungan "Anugerah Usaha Jaya" Kota Malang
… work as Labor Women (TKW) abroad as domestic maids. Before the prospective maids take off overseas, they are accommodated in advance in shelters or in Vocational Training Center of Working Abroad. During the training, the maids have to wait a long waiting period. Most of them get less …
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Writing in the borderlands: A critical review of literary journalism and historiography, 1989-2011
… three historical books, ‘Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Dressed as Men in Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness’ (1989), ‘The Fatal Lover: Mata Hari and the Myth of Women in Espionage’ (1992) and ‘Esther: The Remarkable True Story of Esther Wheelwright: Puritan Child, Native Daughter …
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Cooking and Eating the Other: Contemporary Representations of Domestic Workers in Popular Media
… County</em>, <em>The Nanny</em>, and <em>Devious Maids</em>, this study is an historical and literary analysis explaining how media images create harmful stereotypes about women of color in U.S. society and the capabilities they have as laborers. For women to prosper, substantive change by …
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Domestic Space, Modernity, and Identity: The Apartment in Mid-20th Century Turkey
My analysis of ordinary spaces, such as maids' rooms, balconies, and bathrooms, constitutes a rich and unexplored domain that exposed the continuation and modernization of hierarchical class relations; it also highlights women's gendered identity in domestic space. Most significantly, the analysis …
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Subjectivity in the 'maid'/'madam' relationship and its effects on the occupational child care-giving functions of the domestic worker
… was assessed. Accounts were obtained from both 'maids' and 'madams' through in-depth, semi-structured interviews. The approach to the transcribed data was informed by Hallway's (1989) interpretative discourse analysis whilst analytical concepts from Davies and Harre (1990) were used for the …
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Access to Alternative Income Generation Activity among Commercial Sex Workers the Case of Kibondo Town Kigoma Tanzania
… exploring sexual pattern among sex workers, bar maids, Guest House attendants and Hotel attendants, and how sexual behavior influence individual social and economic aspects and the way it contribute to Commercial sex works. Finally the study will discuss the alternative ways to commercial sex …
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Análise da organização e das condições de trabalho em uma unidade de alimentação e nutrição em relação ao desempenho e à satisfação no trabalho: um estudo de caso
… were: cooks, kitchen assistants and kitchen maids. It has been realized the complexity evolving a Feeding Unity service, which requires from its employees efforts to make their best and often renormalizing the prescribed work, thus, mobilizing different values, knowledge and experiences, …
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Penelope, domestic power and the morality of deceit in Homer's Odyssey.
… at bay until the trick is revealed by one of her maids. This, however, is not the only example of Penelope’s ability to deceive. Although much has been made of the cunning and resourceful means by which Penelope, as the good wife, attempts to preserve the memory and physical household of her …
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Home Movie, Nowhere
… <em>Finally Got the News</em> (1970), <em>Union Maids </em>(1976), <em>With Babies and Banners</em> (1979), <em>Roger and Me</em> (1989), and <em>American Dream</em> (1990) illuminates how the genre shifts the Midwestern landscape in the American imagination through the perspective of working …
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Bewitching The Stage: Elizabethan And Jacobean Witch-Lore And Witch-Hunt
… as well as in nature but she also contaminates maids and mistresses with her mismanagement and overconsumption of household resources. I suggest that the early modern stage appropriated the historical witch, the anti-mother, and cast her as the anti-housewife whose negative example was to …
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