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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies"”.
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Reading the romance: throught the eyes of a millennial feminist
… we continue to see an ever-increasing embrace of feminist ideology, even if that does not always translate to self-identifying as feminists. This paper seeks to examine the interrelationship between these two popular parts of American culture, with particular regard to the millennial generation. …
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Feminist ritual healing, transformation and empowerment
A number of contemporary Western feminists are re-defining their spiritual beliefs and creating ritual practices to reinforce feminine values in their lives. Advocates of feminist spirituality believe that the personal and spiritual dimensions of women’s lives are interrelated. The experience of …
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A Weave of Women in the context of contemporary feminism and traditional Judaism
… I discuss E.M. Broner’s novel A Weave of Women and show how she uses innovative rituals of status elevation and status reversal to focus her reader’s attention on the problems associated with the patriarchal structures of traditional Judaism, e.g., racism and religious chauvinism. In Part One I …
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The Stories We Tell: Gender-Based Variances in Recovery Narratives
… less about the fundamental efficacy of AA and more about for whom does AA work. As such, the present study set out to analyze recovery narratives drawn from the primary AA text. The stories of four women and four men of early AA significance were selected for a feminist phenomenological …
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Recognizing Race: The Impact of Twentieth-Century Feminist Movements on Race Relations in West Germany
… in the 1980s, Black German women faced both gendered and racial discrimination. It was during this time that these women unified and asserted their presence in Germany through the creation of the Afro-German feminist movement. Much of the historiography surrounding the Afro-German feminist …
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Private, Professional, Public: An Investigation of Teacher Identity Development
… five in-service teachers integrate their private and professional identities to create public identities. Data collection methods included individual interviews, field observations, and artifact analysis. Data analysis focused on the school gender regimes that prescribe the teachers' professional …
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The Fallen Woman: An Exploration of the Voiceless Women in Victorian England through Three Plays of Oscar Wilde
… Wilde’s three plays, calling attention to the gender politics that he fought against in the Victorian era. Through Salomé, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband I will prove the Christological myth that each play adopts and establish Wilde’s ability to make the religion …
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Women, Feminism, and Aging in Appalachia
<p>Aging has become a problem for men and women in Western societies where youth is touted and revered as a standard of success by which individual value is measured and esteemed. Older women in particular find that as they age they face discrimination in the form of ageism and social diminution. …
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Transmission: Premium Television Characters Outside of the Gender Binary
… that blur the traditional male-or-female gender divide. The basics of queer theory (sex, gender, orientation, and transgender) and critical/cultural studies (encoding, decoding, and reading a text) are explained as a basis for the analysis of the characters, which seeks to answer the …
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The Self-(un)Made Mother: Jungian Archetypes in Dickens's Little Dorrit
… </em>(1857) depicts an abundance of surrogate mothers while simultaneously revealing an absence of biological motherhood. The primary female characters become surrogate mothers in their own ways in order to bypass the legal and physical dangers associated with biological motherhood. To do this, …
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Understanding the Role of Women as Leaders in Mexican Politics: Looking Back and Moving Forward
… that occur in a globalized world have pushed gender equality to the forefront of many debates in the western world. Nevertheless, cultural values continue to influence the way in which governments, societies, and individuals behave in regard to the roles that men and women play. In Mexico, …
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Ambivalent Scales: Methods for Reading Scenes of Sexual Violation
… ambiguous even in unambiguous cases of assault. Feminist activists and scholars have started to address ambiguity by arguing for a new epistemology of rape, what Linda Alcoff calls “grey rape.” In this thesis, I interrogate the “grey” embedded in ordinary sexual encounters by looking at …
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Crafting Oppression of Women in Novels by Writers of Color
… <p><em>Domestic / Social: THE JOYS OF MOTHERHOOD Bucchi Emecheta</em></p> <p><em>COMING TO BIRTH Marjory O. Macgoya,</em></p> <p><em>Violent Oppression: THE COLOR PURPLE Alice Walker</em></p> <p><em>PURPLE HIBISCUS Chimamanda N. Adichie </em></p> <p><em>‘Benign’ Non Violent Oppression: …
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Exploring Cultural and Linguistic Aspects within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Youth Community
… of this study was to explore the cultural and linguistic aspects within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) youth community. A qualitative research design with an exploratory approach was utilized in this study. An interview questionnaire was created to explore …
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