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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Women's studies"”.
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Healing, honoring, transforming: The power of spiritual activism in Marilou Awiakta's work
… that can occur with spiritual activism, and how Women's Studies can benefit from increased awareness of and attention to Awiakta's work.
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Can You Pinch More Than An Inch: Understanding Representations of the Healthy Woman in Special K Advertisements
Stereotypical representations of women provide a critical concern to scholars in the realm of communication and women's studies, pertaining particularly to the naturalized and perpetual mass media demand for women's slimness. However the question remains as to why women's attainment and maintenance …
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Fracking freedom: A comparitive analysis of gas drilling in Hurst, Texas
The purpose of this thesis is to educate people about the natural gas drilling industry and the process used to harvest natural gas, hydro-fracturing, also known as fracking. Many natural gas drilling sites are being sited in close proximity to homes, schools, and agriculture, sometimes within …
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Aesthetic detail in the works of Nella Larsen
… gender, race, and sexuality. Female body parts, women's clothing, and skin color are particularly reiterated and fetishized. These evocative descriptions function symbolically and at times act as a counternarrative. Larsen's attempts to create a personal aesthetic are sometimes undercut by the …
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Heroic but unchaste: Thomas Kyd's Bel-imperia and traditional Elizabethan conceptions of women.
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L'expérience des mères justiciables : leurs perceptions de leur rôle de mère lors de l'incarcération et du retour en communauté.
La population carcérale des femmes pose un défi significatif au Service Correctonnel du Canada (SCC). Entre autres, les conséquences de l'incarcération ont des effets différents pour les femmes et les hommes; le système de justice pénale ne reconnait pas facilement les particularités de cette …
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Caught in the mirror: Fictional representations of "cyborgs" and "serials" in postmodern American technoculture.
Cultural fragmentation in Postmodern America has led to a destabilization of the political sphere and created a climate of change and possibility, one in which socialist-feminist Donna J. Haraway labours to redefine feminist politics by constructing a borderless and especially, genderless, cyborg …
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La diversité des modèles de carrière des femmes gestionnaires québécoises.
Abstract Not Available.
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Development and its discontents: NGOs, women and the politics of social mobilization in Bangladesh
… on the strategy pursued by them to "empower poor women." I look at how the extension of credit to "poor women" intersects with existing gender and community relations to produce results that are often in conflict with the stated goals of "empowerment" and "development." While credit can be a …
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Six major women pianists: Clara Schumann, Teresa Carreno, Myra Hess, Clara Haskil, Alicia de Larrocha, and Martha Argerich
… recognition. Clara Schumann, the pioneer of women pianists, performed throughout her life, receiving an enthusiastic reception by the public. Living in an era when women performers were scarce, Clara Schumann was accepted on an equal basis to any male artist. Teresa Carreno, known for her …
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"Keeping up her geography": Women's writing and geocultural space in early twentieth-century United States literature and culture
I argue that the current trend in U.S. studies to move beyond the public-private dichotomy is based on a reductive understanding of that binary as primarily a manifestation of separate spheres ideology. Recently, literary critics and historians have argued that to use the language of separate …
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Poet in a hard hat: Stevie Smith and gender construction
… imagine physical transformations that transport women into other bodies and alternative sexualities. Similarly, the drawings that accompany her poems subvert poetic statements which appear to endorse "proper" feminine concerns and traditional, masculine literary values.
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La obra de Isabel Allende: Recepcion critica en Chile
La obra de Isabel Allende ha recibido una variada critica en estos ultimos trece anos. Se tiende a presentar comentarios en que se puede apreciar el contexto historico general de la obra en concordancia con el tiempo y trasfondo cultural en el cual fue escrita. Las opiniones de la critica academica …
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Gender Biases and Armed Conflict: Assessing the Reintegration Experience of Women from the LRA
Women are actively involved as combatants in many irregular armed forces. This runs counter to a common belief that when involved with an armed group, women are limited to traditional gender roles such as cooking, cleaning, and being a wife. By opposing traditional gender assumptions during …
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Emergent identities: The African American common woman in United States literature, 1831--1903
… a historically grounded evaluation of black women's labor within the context of the West Indian and American slave pasts, Reconstruction, and racial uplift rhetoric. I argue that placing the literary common woman in conversation with black women's labor history destabilizes the emphasis on …
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Antipodal England: Emigration, gender, and portable domesticity in Victorian literature and culture
This dissertation explores representations of nineteenth-century middle-class emigration from Britain to Australia, with particular attention to the gendered dynamics of displacement Building on the work of scholars who have theorized the performative aspects of national identity, I focus on …
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Infanticide in Victorian England, 1856-1878: Thirty legal cases (England)
… and the legal, economic, and social inequities women faced. While a profile of murdering mothers can be drawn from secondary material, this examination of infanticide draws upon primary data from the criminal records of thirty women and two men charged, tried, and convicted of the crime between …
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Promises broken: Breach of promise of marriage in England and Wales, 1753-1970
… homemakers (for men) and solid providers (for women). They indulged in middle-class sentimentality in their letters and poetry, yet their courting was less formal and unsupervised. This mixture of needs was also reflected in their motives for separating, a combination of ideological, structural …
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"Think About the Women!": The New Anti-Abortion Discourse in English Canada
This thesis offers an overview of the new rhetorical strategies of persuasion being implemented by the contemporary English Canadian anti-abortion movement. This thesis analyzes the main arguments, philosophical principles, narratives and other important rhetorical strategies used by the …
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