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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Women's Issues"”.
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Solidarity versus Sisterhood: Women's Issues, Feminism and Potential in Poland
Exploring the history and trajectory of women's issues and activism in Poland, this work begins discussing the early twentieth century, moving through to the time period of the Solidarity trade union movement, continuing through the political transitions during the 1990s and ending in the present …
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The Influence of Religiosity and Fundamentalism on White Protestants' Attitudes Toward Women's Issues
… that lead to sexist attitudes toward various women's issues. Analysis of data from the 1996 General Social Survey was implemented to ascertain the dependent variables: the Attitude toward Abortion Scale, the Women in Politics Scale, the Familial Roles Scale, the Attitude toward the Women's …
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The Sheffield Film Co-operative and the Women’s Liberation Movement
… independent film, its working practices and issues its films represented using the Sheffield Film Co-operative (1975-1991) as a case study. The study uses the seven demands of the national Women's Liberation Movement as a framework to analyse issues featured in selected films produced by the …
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Embodying the nation: Post-colonial Irish women's fiction
… separation between public and private that ""women's issues"" have not been considered political topics in Irish literary history and therefore women's writing has been profoundly neglected. The inclusion of women writers demands that we rewrite Irish literary history under a broader …
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A Historical Study of the Emergence of Social Movements: Case Study of the Sierra Leone Women's Forum in the 1990s
The emergence of the Women's Forum during the 1990's in Sierra Leone is analyzed using the political process model proposed by Douglas McAdam. The strength of the indigenous organizations, the political opportunities presented by the civil strife of the period and the emergence of insurgency …
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Exhibiting Women: Sectional Confrontation and Reconciliation in the Woman's Department at the World's Exposition, New Orleans, 1884-85
… Exposition, the Woman's Department offered women of all regions of the country an opportunity to exhibit what they considered "woman's work." As women came together and attempted sectional reconciliation, controversy persisted, especially over the selection of northern suffragist Julia Ward …
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Imaginative methods: a feminist rereading of John Maynard Keynes
… of Keynes's sexuality, his connection to women and women's issues, and the significance of his relationships to friends, family, lovers, and colleagues. Feminist theory questions objectivity in knowledge production, argues for the importance of lived experience, and requires us to grapple …
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The Council on Appalachian Women: Short Lived but Long Lasting
<p>In October 1976, approximately 200 women from seven states met in Boone, North Carolina, at the National Advisory Council on Women's Education. In December 1976, thirty-five of these women met again at Mars Hill College and created a non-profit organization, the Council on Appalachian Women, …
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Teaching Activist Intelligence: Feminism, the Educational Experience and the Applied Women's Studies Department at CGU
… activists becomes increasingly relevant as women's studies continues to evolve from its activist roots. Living in a culture that discourages activist work, many women's studies students feel passionately about activist issues, but with frustrating paralysis. For this reason, many of them …
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“Lost in translation?”: Women’s issues in the struggle for national liberation in South Africa (1910-1985)
… study examines the struggles of South African women from the beginning of the Union of South Africa and the period of Segregation to the period of national defiance during Apartheid, throughout all of its ebbs and flows. By contextualizing women’s struggle for political and gender liberation …
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Spatial and Gender Dimensions of IPM Adoption in Uganda
… money on inputs, and improve health conditions. Women are responsible for the majority of food production in sub-Saharan Africa; therefore, an understanding of women's issues is critical for the success of agricultural projects, such as the IPM program in Uganda. This research seeks to determine …
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The comfort women: A study exploring the nuances of the movement
The term ‘comfort women' refers to victims who were abducted and forced into a system of sex trafficking that started as early as the 1930s until the end of World War II. The system was sanctioned by the Japanese government which saw its Imperial Army abducting an estimated 200,000 women and girls …
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Intercultural factors in the Peace Corps' role as a change agent in the empowerment of rural Guatemalan women
… agent in the empowerment of rural Guatemalan women, and includes an exploration into the intercultural factors that may have affected the outcomes. I used my Peace Corps site of Santa Cruz El Chol, Guatemala as the case study for this research. I reviewed literature in five areas to use as a …
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Exploration of women’s lived experiences and perspectives of maternal stakeholders on the utilisation of maternal healthcare services in Bauchi State, Nigeria
… are designed to provide health care services for women of reproductive age to ensure safe delivery. Over the years, the high rate of maternal mortality, despite the government provision of maternal health centres, has been an issue of concern. From the literature reviewed, these healthcare …
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An Enlarging Influence: Women of New Orleans, Julia Ward Howe, and the Woman's Department at the Cotton Centennial Exposition, 1884-1885
… and the reassessments that post-bellum women made during the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, the region's foremost but atypical city. It traces local women's resistance to the appointment of northern abolitionist and suffragist, Julia Ward Howe, for …
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Connections between gendered constructions and women's lived experiences in light of feminist awareness: An empirical hermeneutic study
This study explored two women's gendered identities in an effort to elucidate oppressive aspects of patriarchal gender constructions. Gender was conceptualized in feminist post-structural terms, which meant that it was seen as an identity conferred upon women in the service of creating a …
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Women, welfare and the nurturing of Afrikaner nationalism : a social history of the Afrikaanse Christelike Vroue Vereniging, c.1870-1939
This thesis focuses on the Afrikaans Christian Women's Organisation (ACVV), placed within the context of Afrikaner nationalist activity, and traces the variety of ways in which white, Afrikaans, middle-class women sought to construct a racially exclusive 'Afrikaner' people. Stereotypical portrayals …
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Ignoring the obvious : women's roles in environmental management in Papua New Guinea
… thesis examines relationships within and between women's issues and environmental management issues in Papua New Guinea. These relationships are social, environmental and economic in nature and are impacted by the dynamics of the development process. The analysis used in the research is based on …
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Women in African Drama: Representation and role
… is to examine the representation and role of women in African theatre. The discussion is based on published and unpublished plays by African writers selected from a pan-African perspective. The thesis is divided into two major parts: Women in Society; The Portrayal of Women by Major …
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