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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Marginalised women"”.
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(Re)negotiating the self: homeless women's constructions of home, Homelessness and Identity
… the oft-neglected experiences of ‘homeless’ women. It explores how homelessness impacts on women’s identities and how this is negotiated and/or resisted. An integrated theoretical framework links homelessness and identity literature with feminist insights surrounding marginalised women. By …
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Whoretography – The Sex Worker As Image-Maker: A critical analysis of sex workers’ self-representation in online public spaces
… fascination and repulsion with portraits of women sex workers. The sex worker’s role as image-sitter is assumed in the public imagination and remains a steadfast part of contemporary popular culture. However, the ways in which sex workers photograph themselves remain largely unknown. The sex …
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Liberté - The Positivity Coffee Bar: Challenging Perceptions
… Prisons, 2022). But there are no prisons for women, in Wales (Fraser, 2018; Gov. Wales, 2022). Society and community suffer from preconceived ideas, often based on fear and rumour, labelling women ex-offenders or persons formally in prison (PFiP), and women victims of domestic abuse as …
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Exploring whether learning can contribute towards sustainable development : a case study of a social enterprise in the clothing and textile industry in the Western Cape
… Shanti was founded to provide unemployed and marginalised women with an opportunity to earn a living through establishing sewing cooperatives. The cooperatives are women’s worker cooperatives that are located in several townships in the Western Cape, South Africa. Through training it was …
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Blithe Spirits: Absent British Women Couturiers – The Rahvis Sisters (1928 – 1981)
… explores the Rahvis Sisters as ‘Absent British Women Couturiers’ in the established canon. As my title states, here they become ‘Blithe Spirits’ located in the virtual world. My project is multifarious: it repeats, returns and is polymorphic, in approach, methodology and outputs. I start with …
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Stepping in Time and Space with Circum-Atlantic Performance: A Cultural and Historical Geography of Tap Dance
… the microhistories and lived experiences of marginalised dancers across critical historical moments: from tap dance’s early origins across circum-Atlantic geographies (from the seventeenth to nineteenth century), to its appropriation into nineteenth and twentieth-century popular cultures, and …
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Smart Bras: Developing an Experience-Centred Bra Wearables Design Process with and for Mature Women
… technology” (Almeida, 2017), created with women’s involvement, needs, and experience at the centre. Moreover, focus should be on marginalised women, such as mature women (MW) who are often omitted from the fashion and technology space. Underpinned by a Deweyan Pragmatist framework, a …
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Women sex workers’ embodied experiences of sport, exercise and physical leisure in Aotearoa New Zealand
This thesis focuses on women’s bodies that occupy and move in and between spaces of sex work and sport, exercise and physical leisure. Extending the literature that continues to describe women sex workers as victims, this thesis gives voice to women’s everyday lived experiences, capturing the …
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Poverty, women and development: Evaluating women's perspectives and experiences of participation in World Vision area development programmes in rural Bangladesh
The study aimed to evaluate the impact on women of development initiatives by World Vision (WV), one of the world's largest development-focused Non Government Organisations (NGOs). Evidence of the impact on poverty through development initiatives is weak because many agencies have not monitored the …