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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Transnational Feminism"”.
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Transnational Feminism in 21st Century Black American Drama and Performance
“Transnational Feminism in 21st Century Black American Drama and Performance” explores twenty-first century works from playwrights who I group together loosely under the current transnational moment of playwriting. I include works from Tarell Alvin McCraney, Danai Gurira, Nikkole Salter, Lynn …
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Transnational feminism and gender-based violence: Exploring the relationship between feminist theory and V-Day
… has incorporated feminist practices, specfically transnational feminist practices, into its philosophy as well as its style of organizing and activism. Close attention is paid to understanding transnational feminism, intersectionality and diversity within feminisms, body-centered and empowerment …
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"What Is My Environment, I Will Change": Exploring the Possibilities of Transnational Feminism through Kennesaw State University's Middle Eastern and North African Students
<p>Much research has been done on feminism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as well as on the international student experience. This paper combines the two areas of research to study the international student’s role in promoting transnational feminism. Combining select works of fiction …
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"The dream ends there": transnational feminist negotiations in Pauline E. Hopkins and Olive Schreiner
… illuminating a historical moment in which a transnational feminism was both in the making and a historical impossibility. Drawing from Schreiner’s and Hopkins’s literary work and archives, I use transnational feminist analysis, literary analysis, and feminist and black feminist theory to …
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Being Chinese, Women and Mothers: Stories About Immigration and Children's Education
… and the construction of their identities in transnational context. Qualitative research methodology and ethnography are applied to disclose the impact of globalization and immigration on the lives of Chinese mothers. Endarkened feminist epistemology together with poststructuralism and …
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"The Terror Within:" Neoliberalism and the Rhetoric of the Obesity Crisis
… Drawing on research from rhetorical studies, transnational feminism, and disability studies that highlight the way that discourses surrounding the body are used to limit access to citizenship and rhetorical agency, this research analyzes the material and discursive effects of nationalist …
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Escucha Nuestras Voces/Luister Naar Onze Stemmen: Afro-Caribbean Girlhood in the Dutch West Indies
… it using a combination of Black, Caribbean and transnational feminist frameworks which I named Afro-Caribbean transnational feminism. This framework specifically centers the lives and lived experiences of the girls. The findings show that Afro-Caribbean girls in Sint Maarten navigate their …
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Bargaining in a Labor Regime: Plantation Life and the Politics of Development in Sri Lanka
… gender relations and experiences in group life, transnational labor mobilization, and development work that pose radical and deliberate alternatives to economic marginalization and capitalist plantation production in Sri Lanka. Negotiating their place within patriarchal structures on the …
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Decolonial Interstice in Carnaval Montevideano: Murga as Hegemonic Dissent at the Tablado de Barrio
… to as hegemonic dissent. From the perspective of Transnational Feminism, and through the methods of critical discourse analysis and ethnography, murga offers its spectators a lesson in critical thinking through its satirical discourse. When complicity with murga leads to visibility of oppressive …
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Reclaiming Humanity in the Global Borderlands: Collective Homeplace Praxis among Women of Color Educators in International Schools
… racialized and gendered exclusion. Guided by transnational feminism (Mohanty, 2003), borderlands (Anzaldúa, 1987), and storywork (Archibald, 2008), the methodology centered relational witnessing—a practice of deep, reciprocal presence—honoring the intellectual sovereignty of WoC educators and …
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The Educational Dimensions of Filipina Migrant Workers’ Activist Identities
… their lives. The study links FilCrit pedagogy, transnational feminism, and social movements as theoretical sites that can teach us how Filipina migrant workers engage in learning the socio-historical and political dimensions of their lives, and how to take action against social …
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Synthetic Solidarities: Theorizing Queer Affectivity and Trans*national/temporal Emulsification as Embodied Resistance to Global Capitalism
… the everyday experiences of exploitation under transnational capitalism. These solidarities, I argue, are cultivated around the affective, embodied experiences of what José Esteban Muñoz terms "queer time," which I extend to denote the ephemeral, experiential sensations of being "out of sync" …
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The Ambivalence of Altruism: White Canadian Women in International Development in East Africa
… methodological and epistemological frameworks of transnational feminism and critical race and whiteness studies, I draw from primary data collected onsite from September-December 2015 and May-June 2016, including twenty-one semi-structured in-depth formal interviews with self-identified white …
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Gender and identity reflected in the works of Nawāl Al-Sa‘adāwī and Samīḥah Khrais
… I contextualize their views within a broader transnational Arab community and identify the ways in which both writers anchor their ideas within Arabic culture and traditions. As a result, what emerges are responses to (1) the criticisms often leveled at El Saadawi which dismisses her as either …
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Travelling hair pains of the past: The continued impact of colonialism on the construction of black women's hair
… in the areas of Black Feminist Thought and Transnational Feminism. This dissertation also analyzes contemporary material data from academic journals, newspaper articles, and YouTube material from the early 2000s Natural Hair Movement (NHM).
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Privileged Resistance: Prisoners of Conscience in the United States, 1980-2013
<p>This dissertation tells the story of modern anti-war prisoners of conscience in the United States-people who are incarcerated for six months or more as a result of nonviolent resistance. It explores how they intentionally use and learn about their own privilege in solidarity actions that land …
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Redefining the "Ideal Qatari Woman" in the 21st Century: The Role of Qatari Women in Nation Building and Branding
… building and branding. I employ the tools of transnational feminist theory, as well as the methodologies of feminist ethnography and critical discourse analysis, to identify discourses produced about Qatari women’s shifting roles in the nation and the home and to offer new insight into Qatari …
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Caring Work: Opening a Space of Possibility for Exploring Transnational Feminist Solidarity Between Privileged and Marginalized Women
… backdrop, I explore the possibility of fostering transnational feminist solidarity between privileged and marginalized women engaged in formal caring work. I have used narrative inquiry in conducting this study to find out whether the signifying practices of care may potentially organize women …
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(R)Evolutionary Cultural Literacy: Pauli Murray’s Boundary-Crossing Tripartite Pedagogy
… and writing studies, cultural studies, Black feminism, and critical pedagogy has theorized literacy, movement, and commons-making as separate concerns. What the field of cultural literacy lacks is a framework that holds those concerns together, reads them through a focused body of texts, and …
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