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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Native women"”.
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Staging Intervention: Native Women, Decolonization, and the American Theatre
… the representational history of American Indian women in American theatre cloaked in a doubly determined silence. The present study begins at these sites of exclusion and silence."
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Attainment Of Doctoral Degree For American Indian And Alaska Native Women
<p>The American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) population is challenged with diverse learning styles, high-risk behaviors, low economic status, low enrollment predictions, lower total education achievement, or lower graduate level higher education. However, AI/AN doctoral degree recipients may be …
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Vision and Revision: Demography, Maternal and Child Health Development, and the Representation of Native Women in Colonial Tanzania
… in addition to tracing the representations of native women in colonial texts and at the colony level (Tanganyika), I interrogate the colonial numbers, the official and extra-governmental demographic indices, and analyze the texts and numbers produced about local-level Kilimanjaro. In …
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Building bodies, (un)making empire: gender, sport, and colonialism in the United States, 1880-1930
… sport, and gender at Haskell Institute. Now a Native American tribal college, Haskell Institute was originally built in the 1880s as part of the colonial boarding school movement, which sought to assimilate Native youth into white culture and undermine Indigenous communities. My project focuses …
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Te ahi tawhito, te ahi tipua, te ahi nā Mahuika: Re-igniting native women’s ceremony
… multiple ways in which Māori, and Hawai’ian and Native American women, are re-activating feminine ceremonial forms and recovering sacred relationships with customary feminine deities. Attention is focused on the creation of personal ritual practices that respond to contemporary decolonising and …
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THE "OTHER" WOMAN: EARLY MODERN ENGLISH REPRESENTATIONS OF NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN, 1579-1690
… in textual and visual representations of Native American women in trans-Atlantic texts about the Americas. I explore the relationship between representations of English and Native women by investigating the ways English authors link the two figures through comparisons that reveal …
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Sentimental Ideology, Women's Pedagogy, and American Indian Women's Writing: 1815-1921
… OF THE DISSERTATION Sentimental Ideology, Women's Pedagogy, and American Indian Women's Writing: 1815-1921 by Christine Renée Cavalier Washington University in St. Louis, 2011 Professor Vivian Pollak, Chairperson This dissertation examines how sentimental notions of respectable womanhood …
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Being your own best teacher in the light of being an other
… is based on two years I spent teaching eight native women living in a small community in northern Quebec. I combined into collages, selected photographs taken throughout this teaching experience. Ways in which the photographs impacted each other determined the content of the layering of images …
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A Comparative Study of Labor Force Participation of Married Native and Immigrant Women
… concerning the wages of immigrant men and women and the transfer payments received by immigrants. Our study adds to this body of knowledge by examining the labor force participation rate of immigrant married women using native women as a reference group. To assess the economic impact of …
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Examining the Relational Space of Native Faculty Members in Higher Education
<p>Currently, the available research on Native faculty experiences emphasizes the challenges and hardships of being an Indigenous faculty member. Native faculty members are often underrepresented and rarely appreciated for the cultural teachings and knowledge they contribute within settler-colonial …
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The politics of needs interpretation : a study of three CJS-funded job-entry programs for women
… explored the everyday struggles of several women who worked as coordinators and instructors in three government-funded job-entry programs for women in the non-profit sector. The programs studied included an entry program for native women, a program which trained immigrant women in …
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Native American Women Perceptions In Pk-12 Administrative Positions In North Dakota Public Schools
<p>Historically Native American women have experienced barriers in their rise to Pk-12 educational leadership positions. There is limited research available on Native American women in educational leadership. Therefore, the purpose for this survey study was to discover what inspired current Pk-12 …
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Reproductive Injustice: Abortion Restrictions and Maternal Mortality Rates
… with maternal mortality rising among Hispanic women by 0.40% (p < 0.001); among non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaskan Native women increasing by 0.29% (p < 0.05); among non-Hispanic Asian, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacfic Islander women by 0.53% (p < 0.001); and non-Hispanic Black women by …
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A phenomenological exploration of the experiences of aboriginal women who were sexually abused
… While there may be similarities between the native and non-native experience of incest and child sexual abuse, there are a number of cultural and historical factors that may present wholesale application of existing research to native experience. The purpose of this phenomenological study was …
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Decolonizing Gender: Indigenous Feminism and Native American Literature
An Indigenous feminist approach to Native literature reveals the ways in which Native authors attempt to build balanced relationships and conversations across cultures, nations, and histories. I explore ways that Native authors depict gender violence and male characters who, like Native women, …
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Fur, fangs and feathers: colonial and counter-colonial portrayals of American Indians in young adult fantasy literature
… many postcolonial studies of the portrayals of Native American characters in children’s and young adult literature, the majority of these have focused on historical novels, rather than analysing fantasy literature. Additionally, I have found no direct comparisons between texts by Native and …
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Aboriginal women in education : Honouring our experiences a vision of access to and success within the university
This thesis explores Aboriginal women's access to and success within universities through an examination of Aboriginal women's educational narratives, along with input from key service providers from both the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal community. Implemented through the Wildfire Research Method, …
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Silence Is Golden: Older Women's Voices and The Analysis Of Meaning Among Survivor's Of Domestic Violence
… estimates indicate that upwards of 3,000,000 women a year are physically abused by an intimate partner, however, it is important to note that serious limitations associated with these estimates exist. Despite media campaigns, educational efforts, community outreach, and legislation, the …