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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Western Women"”.
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Modern Yoginis: How Western Women Have Fundamentally Changed the Practice of Yoga
<p>Western women yoga practitioners, yoginis, have played an essential role in the evolution, teaching, and propagation of modem yoga and are deserving of recognition previously overlooked in academic and popular literature. For millennia, yoga was an esoteric practice taught by and for select …
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The Fashion Choices of Expatriate Western Women in Hong Kong from 1960 to 1997
… of identities through dress by expatriate Western women in Hong Kong between 1960 and 1997. Tracing a history of production, mediation, retailing, and consumption, it forms the first comprehensive examination of Hong Kong fashion during the period. In thirtyseven years Hong Kong developed …
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A phenomenological enquiry into the experience of western women who found a significant other after a course of psychotherapy
… & Paul, 2015), no research has focused on women who found a significant other during or after a course of psychotherapy. This study explored the experience of women who overcome their previous difficulty entering healthy romantic relationships during or after attending a course of …
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No place for a white woman? An exploration of the interplay of gender, race and class on power relations experienced by white western women in cross-cultural settings
‘What happens when the discourses we inhabit contrast strongly with or are in direct conflict with the discourses which swirl around us?’ asks feminist activist and academic Lekkie Hopkins (2009, pp. 75-76). More particularly, how does a life writer interact with the discourses that swirl around …
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Between the Left and the Right: Jihadi Brides' British Media Frames Post ISIS Fall
… analyzes the media frames/representations of Western women who migrated to ISIS, known as "Jihadi Brides," after the fall of ISIS in December 2017. ISIS is a terrorist group that used attractive strategies and techniques in recruiting Western women to join ISIS as Jihadi Brides, building on …
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Romancing Strangers: The Intimate Politics of Beach Tourism in Kenya
… behind interpersonal relationships between Western women and Kenyan men who work in coastal tourism destinations, such as Lamu and Malindi. As such, questions of power and social positionality are both fluid and conditional. I argue that the intimate collisions of these two social groups, …
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An explanation for differential career progression for women in Nigerian banking industry.
This thesis evaluated a current snapshot of women's experiences and career progression in the Nigerian banking industry. Women globally (including Nigeria) are underrepresented in the upper echelons in corporate settings. Several studies have previously been conducted to explain the …
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The impact of commercial global television on cultural change and identity formation. A study of Kurdish women and the Turkish soap opera 'Noor'.
… and cultural change in relation to Kurdish women. Currently, Kurdish women live in a cultural context where traditional values often conflict with modern values when it comes to behaviour deemed appropriate for their gender. Through the impact of international television soap operas, Kurdish …
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Framing analysis of British newspaper representation of Saudi women from 2005- 2013
… 6, 1990, in a historic first, a group of Saudi women protested against the prohibition against women driving. Very few previous studies have examined Saudi Arabia’s image in the British press concerning the treatment of Saudi women. However, in 2005, King Abdullah began supporting efforts by …
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Body/sexuality/control : female identity in four Fay Weldon novels
… are shown to exist for female subjects within western culture. The thesis's conclusion suggests ways in which this lack of definitive answers might in its turn be interpreted. The first chapter, dealing with Puffball, examines the novel's depiction of the effects of pregnancy on a woman's body …
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Possessing the secret of black womanhood : reading African women in Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy, The Color Purple, and Warrior Marks
… becoming clear that the assumed homogeneity of women within social groups is not realistic. It has become clear that difference can no longer be analysed in terms of race, gender and sexuality alone. Other factors such as history, nationality, and culture demand more attention than they have …
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’Only a Woman’: women travel writers and imperialism
My study of women travel writers and imperialism is informed by four inseparable concerns, namely the distinctive characteristics of travel writing by women; how these reflected and reproduced spatial differentiation, notably between spheres of patriarchal and imperial power and authority; how the …
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WRITING NEXT TO THE WEST: A SPATIAL CONSIDERATION OF WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN WEST
… Clearman Blew and Judy Blunt are contemporary women writers of the American West. Both women grew up on ranches in Montana but left in adulthood. Despite leaving, each woman maintains significant intellectual and emotional connections to the land and culture of her youth in her writing. Blew's …
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WRITING NEXT TO THE WEST: A SPATIAL CONSIDERATION OF WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN WEST
… Clearman Blew and Judy Blunt are contemporary women writers of the American West. Both women grew up on ranches in Montana but left in adulthood. Despite leaving, each woman maintains significant intellectual and emotional connections to the land and culture of her youth in her writing. Blew's …