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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Traditional gender norms"”.
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Rocking the gender boat: resistance to traditional gender norms among Surface Warfare-qualified Navy women
… widely recognized as one of the central sites of gender definition and production in society, my dissertation explores the ways in which women who voluntarily enter the military, a traditionally male preserve, may be acting in ways that are subversive to the gender order. Most research on women in …
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Representations of Housewife Identity in BBC Home Front Radio Broadcasts, 1939-1945
… resounding success, it relied on and reinforced traditional gender roles. An equal shares model for food control provided a sense of national solidarity, but housewives were still represented as inferior to men. <p>This thesis examines women’s gender identity as present in BBC radio programmes …
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They throw pebbles in our garden: Women and consumerism in the Soviet Union from Lenin to Khrushchev
<p>My work provides a background to gender equality in the Soviet Union from its inception, the nascent Lenin era, the autocratic Stalin era and it culminates with a focus on the Khrushchev regime. My work demonstrates that although the Khrushchev era sought to ameliorate women's double burden of …
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ESSAYS ON GENDER, ETHNICITY, AND HEALTH IN THE UNITED STATES AND TURKEY
… on the basis of their race, ethnicity, and gender. The first study examines access to care disparities between non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics. I find that observed characteristics explain all of the disparities in access to care between these two groups, a marked change from a decade ago …
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"When He Comes Home, Then He Can Decide": Male Out-Migration, the Feminization of Agriculture, and Integrated Pest Management in the Nepali Mid-Hills
… spaces through the IPM project may contest traditional gender norms. We contend that the heterogeneity of household power dynamics muddies the potentially empowering or disempowering effects of the feminization of agriculture, and we emphasize the importance of community spaces as a locus of …
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Redefining the roles and relationships of men in their families and communities during Covid-19: a time of crisis in Ocean View, Cape Town
… investigates how a time of crisis reshaped traditional gender norms and expectations. The research is embedded in the social construction of masculinity studies. The key research question addressed in this study was: How have men adapted to the changing family dynamics in Ocean View during …
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Media representations of gender in the Scottish public sphere in the context of the 2014 independence referendum
… thesis explores the mediated representation of gender in the Scottish public sphere in the context of the Scottish independence referendum in 2014. In particular it focuses on media samples which centre on key political figures from the campaign. The study combines two corpora: articles from the …
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Testing a Model of Sexual Minority Orientation in Individuals With And Without the Broad Autism Phenotype
… religiosity, heterosexism, and belief in traditional gender norms on sexual minority orientation. ANOVA comparisons between all three groups on these variables and the variable of sexual awareness were conducted due to low sample size of the ASD group. Hierarchical linear regressions were …
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Television sitcom production at the BBC 1973-1984: an integrated approach
… an ecologically-aware suburban household, a more traditional suburban household and a student flat in a large metropolitan city. Audiences had several points of identification with the various characters and were able to adjust their own individual attitude to the private sexual behaviour of the …
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Anderson’s model of homohysteria : a cohort analysis of two generations of athletes and employees
… cohorts – categorised by age (18- 24 and 44-52), gender (male and female), and environment (rugby, hockey and the workplace) – were conducted, having been recruited via social media. Data analysed using both thematic analysis and critical realism. Consistent with McCormack and Anderson’s (2014) …
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Physical self-concept and gender : the role of frame of reference and social comparison among adolescent females
… was to investigate potential explanations for gender discrepancies in physical self-concept among physical education students. One qualitative and one quantitative research study was conducted to address this issue. The purposes of the qualitative study were to capture female students’ personal …
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Representations of unmarried women in the Hong Kong reality television series Bride Wannabes
Over the past decade, with the increasing gender imbalance in Hong Kong, unmarried women in their 30s and 40s are often stigmatised as ‘leftover women’. Despite being a popular media topic, this phenomenon has attracted little scholarly attention. My research illuminates this under-researched topic …
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Intimate Partner Violence among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and perceived barriers and facilitators to the provision of psychosocial interventions in salons
… Innovative intervention models that leverage gendered spaces to provide IPV support have shown great potential in high income countries, but little is known about these in LMIC settings, including in Zimbabwe. The current qualitative study explored the experiences of IPV among AGYW as well as …
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Intimate partner violence among adolescent girls and young women in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and perceived barriers and facilitators to the provision of psychosocial interventions in salons
… Innovative intervention models that leverage gendered spaces to provide IPV support have shown great potential in high income countries, but little is known about these in LMIC settings, including in Zimbabwe. The current qualitative study explored the experiences of IPV among AGYW as well as …
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Trading in sexual currency: Transactional sex, sexual coercion and sexual behaviours among young people in Uganda
… macrosystems such as cultural sexual scripts, gendered sexual scripts, poverty, and globalization influence the contexts in which young people engage in sex, not excluding transactional sex among university students. Finally, Study 4 revealed that among young women, receiving something for sex, …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… (even in cases where fraud is not present in the traditional sense, such as in homeopathic medicine) further increases consumers’ incentive to get informed and accordingly can have a positive effect on product quality. Finally, ex ante regulation can „save” the consumer from both misinformation …
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Refugee Economies: labour market integration, the gender gap in employment, and the impact of refugees in Jordan
… in a host country, the correlation between traditional gender roles and the gender gap in labour force supply, and the impact of refugees on the labour market in order to contribute to the literature in this field. Thus, there are three chapters in this dissertation that focus on refugee …