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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"White Femininity"”.
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Confronting White Femininity in Community-based Social Work Practice: An Autoethnography and Foucauldian Discourse Analysis
Understanding the effects of White femininity on social work practice is a worthy endeavour provided the disproportionate numbers of White women that have built and occupied the professional role of social worker from the origins of colonization to present. Mainstream accounts of social work …
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Living clean and shopping green: Environmental domesticity and the nineteenth-century roots of ecoconsumption
… forms defined the model American woman as a white, middle-class domestic sentry, responsible for controlling the purity of the American domicile in its many forms. Using the concept “environmental domesticity”(a collection of ideologies and practices that treat domestic space as an …
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Women Supporting Women: Lifestyle Influencers and Branded Femininity
… life. This thesis problematizes the branded femininity of beauty and lifestyle influencer, Estée Lalonde. With over 1.1 million YouTube subscribers and 700,000 followers on Instagram, Lalonde uses the postfeminist credibility she established through performing hegemonic femininity to position …
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Wearing Yourself or Dressing the Part: Navigating Workplace Dress Codes as Queer, Androgynous Women
… dichotomous gender norms, and notions of white femininity. Participants’ narratives suggest that rigid dress codes reinforce heterosexist dynamics in the work place, and contribute to the ‘othering’ of queer, androgynous women who do not ‘fit in’ to the status quo. I argue that workplace …
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Transgressngroove: an exploration of black girlhood, the body, and education
… of education.Usually, we are compared to our White female or Black male counterparts and/or located within frameworks designed without our bodies and realities considered. Failure to recognize the simultaneity of race and gender operating in the lives of Blackgirls results in a reduction of …
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Femme Theory: Femininity's Challenge to Western Feminist Pedagogies
… of gender relations, this study dislocates femininity from its ascribed Otherness and, in doing so, demonstrates how empowered femininities have been overlooked or rendered invisible within gender studies. Femme, as the failure or refusal to approximate the patriarchal norms of femininity, …
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“The Girls That Get It, Get It”: An Analysis of Womanhood, Platforms, and Digital Wellness Culture
… analyzes how online wellness trends commodify femininity and promote narrowly defined ideals of health and womanhood. The project employs critical technocultural discourse analysis to examine the that girl and cycle synching case studies which serves as representations of how wellness and …
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Negotiating femininity, ethnicity and history : representations of Ruth First in South African struggle narratives
… work in Africa, between performances of a white femininity and the suppressed ramifications of a difficult ethnic past, Ruth First shuttles between unsatisfactory subject positions. I propose here that Ruth First strains against the representative mantle which she is made to wear in …