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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Women's Movement"”.
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Mapping Women's Movement in Medieval England
This thesis investigates women’s geographical movement in medieval England from the perspective of mobility and freedom. It uses pilgrimage accounts from medieval miracle story collections and to gather information about individual travel patterns. The study uses GIS to analyze gendered mobility …
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The Zimbabwean Women's Movement, 1995-2000
… of my own 7-year engagement with the Zimbabwe women's movement. It reconstructs a herstory of Zimbabwe Women's organising with the aim of reinstating a herstory in order to challenge malestream narratives that seem intent on disappearing women. In doing this it seeks to examine the nature of …
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Housing and the women's movement, 1860-1914
… thesis sets out to explore the links between the women's movement and the housing reform movement in Britain in the period 1860 to 1914. Both these movements have been well-documented, but the role which women played in housing has received little attention from historians of housing, and …
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Rape laws : have they changed? : did the women's movement help?
Thesis. 1975. B.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Suffrage, solidarity and strife: political partnerships and the women's movement 1880-1930
… in, and attitudes toward, the campaigns for women' s enfranchisement over a fifty year period from 1880 - 1930. The aim of this study is to contribute to our understanding of the gendered nature of political activity and identity through an examination of the women' s suffrage campaigns, in …
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Cooperation over conflict : the women's movement and the state in contemporary Japan
Progress on women's equality in Japan is found to be constrained by state intervention in the women's movement. This intervention takes the form of regulations that limit the independence of women's group, as well as resources that aid and influence their activities. The result is a relationship …
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Growth, decay, and change: Organizations in the contemporary women's movement in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Social movements have three potential trajectories: they can grow; they can change, and they can decay and eventually die. To compare their trajectories, I examine 47 organizations in six women's movements in Buenos Aires, Argentina during the last twenty years. I synthesize data from interviews …
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From Revolution to Devolution: A Social Movements Analysis of the Contemporary Women's Movement in Ireland
… study analyses the evolution of the contemporary women's movement in the Republic of Ireland, from the foundation of the State to the present day. Drawing on a social movement's perspective, the emergence, consolidation and transformation of the Women's Movement in that period is explored. To …
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The Women's Movement and the Development of Family Leave Policies in the United States and Canada
… policies.</p><p>Drawing upon the literature of women's movements, the study examines the impact that women's movements had on the family leave policymaking process in the United States and Canada. Because both countries have strong women's movements, the research finds that the strength of …
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Pop Culture and Protofeminism: The Novels of Jacqueline Susann and the Second Wave of the Women's Movement.
… continues to elicit debate within the feminist movement and in society. Some contemporary feminists see protofeminism in Jacqueline Susann's novels.</p> <p>This work investigates the support Susann's novels offered to the second wave of the feminist movement of the 1960s and the 1970s. A close …
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Chinese women : active revolutionaries or passive followers? : a history of the All-China Women's Federation, 1949 to 1996
… study centers on the history of the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) from 1949 to 1996. The ACWF was the first nation-wide women's organization in the People's Republic of China and has been the official leader of the Chinese women's movement. By reviewing the origins, ideology, structure …
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Women, Medicine, and Power: The Social Transformation of Childbirth in Taiwan
… of birthing centers to extend birthing women's options. Finally, I argue for the alliance with women's movement for effective childbirth reforms in Taiwan.
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The Feminine Mistake: Burkean Frames in Phyllis Schlafly's Equal Rights Amendment Speeches
Situated within the larger scholarship on the women's liberation movement of the 1970s exists a body of literature that analyzes the rhetorical functions of pro- and anti- Equal Rights Amendment messages in relation to communication studies. Although limited in scope, this literature acknowledges …
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Women's Lives and Women's Liberation: Opportunities and Imperatives
… this comprehensive study is the multi-textured women's movement that reemerged in the United States during the 1960s. This history of the movement includes an examination and an analysis of its origins, the organizational development of its various strands, and the subsequent activities of its …
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Women and post-conflict development : a case study on Liberia
… 'poster child' in light of the call by women's rights advocates to insert women in all aspects of the political, social, and economic transition in post-conflict countries. Liberia has elected the first female African President and women head the strategic government ministries of …
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Female Friendships in Doris Lessing's Novels (Zimbabwe)
… Lessing's avowed lack of sympathy with the women's movement, and feminists' persistent interest in her work can be resolved by understanding the parameters of Lessing's identification with women. In a "A Talk with Doris Lessing by Florence Howe" Lessing said, "I wrote from inside a woman's …
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