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Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"Second wave"”.
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Exploring the second wave of democratic peace critiques : commonality, territoriality, and selectivity
… of three related but distinct essays on the second-wave debates on the democratic peace. I explore three important caveats remaining in the extensive democratic peace literature: the potential confounding effect of the Cold War, the lack of contentious issues between democracies to manage …
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The Second Wave of the Russian Avant-Garde: The Thaw Generation and Beyond
In Chapter I, I examine the writings and activities of Nikolai Glazkov (1919--79), who must be considered the single most important avant-garde author of the 1940's. In Chapter II, I discuss various avant-garde groups, as well as independent authors who sprang up at the beginning of the Thaw. I …
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Second-Wave Feminist Approaches to Sexuality in Britain and France, c.1970-c.1983
This thesis compares the campaigns and debates on sexuality by the British ‘Women’s Liberation Movement’ (WLM) and the French ‘Mouvement de libération des femmes’ (MLF), in the period c.1970 – c.1983. It examines five significant topics: abortion, lesbianism, pornography, prostitution, and rape, …
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A "Quiet Activist" During The Second-Wave Feminist Movement: Katharine Rea A Historical Case Study
<p>The purpose of this historical case study dissertation is to discover the story of Dr. Katharine Rea in her role as Dean of Women and later faculty member in the higher education and student personnel program at the University of Mississippi. As the Dean of Women in the 1960s Rea was responsible …
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"Doing Their Own Thing": The Impact of Second-Wave Feminism at the University of Southern Mississippi
<p>Second-Wave Feminism was largely responsible for transforming American society’s beliefs about gender roles. However, there is very little attention given to the impact that feminism had on cultural transformations in the South. Much of the historiography of feminism and women’s liberation only …
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The Relationship between Second-Wave Feminist Philosophy and Interpretation of Biblical Gender Roles by Entering Seminary Students
… dissertation analyzed the relationship between second-wave feminist philosophy and the interpretation of biblical gender roles by entering seminary students in select theological schools accredited by the Association of Theological Schools and the Commission on Colleges of the Southern …
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Pop Culture and Protofeminism: The Novels of Jacqueline Susann and the Second Wave of the Women's Movement.
… the support Susann's novels offered to the second wave of the feminist movement of the 1960s and the 1970s. A close reading of Susann's best-selling novels, Valley of the Dolls (1966), The Love Machine (1969), and Once is Not Enough (1973) was combined with a study of the author's biography, …
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Rhetoric on the Margins of the Second Wave: Feminism, Cultural Memory, and the Transformation of the Political
"The displacement of radical forms of women's political practices necessitates not the ""recovery"" of certain histories, but the very ""creation"" of histories which reconsider the meaning of ""eventfulness"" and change. By examining the anomalous rhetorical practices and their infectious …
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Accessing A Global Language: A Comparison of G-TELP and TOEFL Performance
The ESL (English as a Second Language) field has traditionally focused on foreign students who come to the United States to learn English to pursue an academic degree. Those students gain English proficiency, earn a degree, and often return home to be leaders in their countries. The author has …
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DIY
… young man attempting to find himself in the second wave LA punk scene.</p>
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Militant Feminism and the Women of the Weather Underground Organization
… as justified when performed by women as by men. Second, militant feminists hold that militant action can be justified in the pursuit of aims consistent with feminist values. Shortly after the emergence of second-wave feminism in the mid-1960’s, there is a surge of militant feminists among radical …
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Public private equity : an evaluation of public early stage risk capital initiatives in Norway
… describes and evaluates the performance of the "second wave" of seed funds established 2006 to 2008. The investments made by the seed funds are compared with investments made by other private equity investors during the same time period. Firstly, the thesis describes the characteristics of …
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Building Bridges: An Anthology of the War on Prostitution and the Greater Women’s Movement in Kansas City
… in 1977 and the larger women’s movement of second-wave feminism throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The War on Prostitution makes the women’s movement in Kansas City unique because it brought together non-like-minded feminists despite their differences in ideology. A product of both oral history …
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The Private Language Problem
… "private language argument" to date. Two major "waves" of interpretation are identified. Among the characteristics of the first wave is found a tendency to interpret the private language argument as having something crucially to do with memory, and in a way which has stimulated charges of …
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The limits of exceptional women: the cinema of Stephanie Rothman and the trouble with archives
… women’s labor in the cinematic paradigm of second wave exploitation films—films produced under the exploitation style from 1960 to 1980—and utilizes a case study of director Stephanie Rothman to articulate the lack of industrial, disciplinary, and archival attention paid to women’s …
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Synthesis of Communications: A Spiritual Voice Amidst Belligerent Noise
… However, with the added spiritual values of Second–wave Futurism, her work conveys a vision of fantasy, one that never comes to real–world fruition. I address how the constructs of twentieth–century science and technology provided her with a means to create multisensorial depictions of …
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“I'm No Cactus Expert, But I Know A Prick When I See One” -Image, Text, Therapy and Vengeance in Art by Women
… women as it loosely follows a journey from the second wave of feminism in the 1960s to the present day. It also outlines, with reference to a body of artworks made by the author, a personal journey of pain, heartbreak and closure following a relationship breakdown and discusses the healing …
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Women in Public Relations: Our Past, Present, and Future
… the parallel issues that the women of the first wave faced in relation to the second wave, or professional era. The paper will then synthesize these two eras in public relations and discuss the future of women in the profession as seen by researchers and women practicing at this time.
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Fashioning the Self: Performance, Identity and Difference
… and the shaping of identity. Criticisms by second-wave feminist scholars have focused on the fashion industry's overarching male influence; in more recent scholarship, feminist academics have often considered an affinity for fashion to be un-feminist and oppressive. I argue that fashion can …
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Economic Independence For Mothers of Young Children: Impossible Dream or Agenda For Change?
… on mothers who, in spite of the impact of second-wave feminism, continue to provide most of the care of young children. The central thesis of this work is that Australia's arrangements amount to exploitation of the labour of mothers of young children by the rest of the community, and that …
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