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Showing 1 to 20 of 421 for “"Patriarchy"”.
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Women's Athletics and the Athletic Patriarchy
… had been affected in any way by the athletic patriarchy and how their experiences were similar or different. The purpose of this research was to examine the influences of the athletic patriarchy on women's athletics and to explore issues of power and gender within these influences. Research …
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British Masculinities Beyond Patriarchy, 1689-1702
This research project examines multiple constructions of masculinity during the reign of William III (1689-1702), a period often overlooked by historians of masculinity. Historical interpretations of masculinity in the early modern period have focused heavily on patriarchal models of masculinity …
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Patterns of patriarchy in men's fictions
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1988.
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The woman as a victim of patriarchy
… in.This paper will look at what is the origin of Patriarchy, the kinds of discrimination against women and what measures have been undertaken to end the discrimination as a result of patriarchy.
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Simin Daneshvar's Savushun: Examining Gender Under Patriarchy
<p>The author covers issues of gender and Iranian national identity as reflected in Iran’s first published woman novelist, Simin Daneshvar. Her novel, <em>Savushun</em>, is the first novel to be published by an Iranianwoman in 1969. The novel depicts Iran at the start of the country’s governmental …
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Social Capital's Dark Side and Patriarchy in India
… Survey (N=41,544), I examine social capital and patriarchy and demonstrate that social capital works to enhance restrictions placed on women's autonomy, revealing a darker side. Households which are well tied into their communities avail themselves to greater scrutiny and thus anticipate and …
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Intimate Subversions: Minority women encountering laws and patriarchy
… 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? Broadly …
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Intimate Subversions: Minority women encountering laws and patriarchy
… 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? Broadly …
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Patriarchy: The Predominant Discourse and Font of Domestic Violence
Despite the progress human beings have made in medicine, science and technology, domestic violence continues to occur in many intimate heterosexual relationships. Yet, according to ethnographic accounts of largely indigenous peoples, it is evident that as recently as the twentieth century, there …
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The Factors Contributing to Patriarchy in Contemporary Rural Bangladesh
… that have contributed to the persistence of patriarchy in rural Bangladesh. Patriarchy is a social structure and practice in which men have power and privilege over women, subjecting them to various forms of oppression and exploitation. Previous studies have claimed that government and …
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Women’s Voices in Lebanese Cinema: Crisis, Patriarchy and Empowerment
… while addressing aspects of gender inequality, patriarchy, and ‘orientalism’.
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Emirati women journalists bargaining with patriarchy in search of equality
In recent years, arguments have been made about the absence of Emirati women journalists in analyzing political and economic news stories. The role of Emirati women in journalism has been and remains anonymous. They are rarely seen taking part in this field, in comparison with their peers in other …
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The Romanticism of the Patriarchy versus Poems by Emily Dickinson
<p>Using poems by Emily Dickinson I will disect the closeting of the poet herself, meaning the hidden identity of the author from within her own work. The poems used here reference a writer hiding in plain sight, comparison to womens equality and how women have over centuries hidden their true …
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Beyond patriarchy: a qualitative study of men's experience of domestic abuse
There is a particular death of research into heterosexual men's experiences of domestic abuse (DA) and currently no research from a counselling psychology perspective. The investigation examined heterosexual men's experiences of DA. Nine men who selfidentified as having been subject to DA within a …
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Patriarchy and Property: The Nineteenth-Century Mississippi Married Women's Property Acts
… and 1857 reflected the desire of the Mississippi patriarchy to protect themselves from economic instabilities. Analysis of women's deeds in Jefferson county, Mississippi, from 1792 to 1871 and the rulings of the Mississippi High Court of Error and Appeals demonstrate the patriarchy's attempt to …
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The role of gender, patriarchy and culture in the Asian female travel experience.
… to explore the link between tourism, gender and patriarchy with the focus on the Asian female tourist experience. In order to meet the aim of the research, this study adopts an interpretivist approach and a feminist lens to analyse and interpret the data obtained from narrative interviews with 15 …
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Leveraging bargaining power under patriarchy: the economic development of post-revolutionary Cuban women
This socio-historical investigation discusses education as a key contributor to women’s development in Cuba since 1959 all the while operating under a well-entrenched patriarchal backdrop. Economic indicators through labor participation are emphasized as the primary metrics for women’s development, …
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