Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"Women's Rights"”.
-
Republican Motherhood and the Early Road to Women's Rights: 1765-1848
… explores the development and participation of women in American politics from pre-American Revolution through the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. Women's involvement in education, industrialization, and westward expansion are also discussed.
-
Strategic communication in women's rights organizations: Tools, challenges and best practices
1 PDF file (vii, 158 pages)
-
Women's rights in Islam and current discourse of international human rights law
… on the basis of sex as reflected in the UN human rights instrument culminated in 1979 with the adoption of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. With the adoption of the Convention, the separate concepts of women's rights were recast in a global …
-
Colonialism and Christianity: Factors Affecting the Evolution of Women's Rights in Uganda and Zimbabwe
… project is intended to study the evolution of women's rights in Uganda andZimbabwe, specifically within the context of colonialism. Research into these nations,with the methodology of comparing pre-colonialism with the colonial state of affairs,focused on attitudes and practices regarding …
-
'Airing dirty linen': the problems of establishing a women's rights organisation in contemporary Swaziland
… has rendered itself indispensable to Swazi women, it still has a long way to go before realising its goal of the empowerment of abused women. This is due, primarily, to the organisation's adherence to international standards of women's human rights which cannot readily be applied in the …
-
Women's Rights in a Changing Climate: An Intersectional Analysis of Climate Change and Gender Inequality in Nigeria.
Climate change disproportionately impacts women, particularly in Nigeria where poverty and deep-rooted gender inequalities intersect. This dissertation explores how climate change affects women's socio-economic rights, through an intersectional feminist and human rights lens. This study examines …
-
(W)raps of consciousness: articulating women's rights through hip hop in the Middle East and North Africa region
… movement, little attention has been given to women’s participation in various parts of the world and how this participation interacts with and impacts the lives of other women. In this dissertation, I use the lenses of postcolonial aesthetics (McCarthy and Dimitriadi, 2000; Dhillon, 2014), …
-
The Idea Of Women’S' Rights As Equity Versus Women'S Rights As Equality/Sameness The Case Of Saudi Arabia And Beyond""
This dissertation examines the concept of women’s' rights determined as equity versus women's rights as equality/sameness by considering the reservations of Saudi Arabia when ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and highlights the …
-
Negotiating women's rights in Togo - with tight belts and long arms: legal agency between everyday life, civil society and the state
Nach der gewaltsamen Unterdrückung des Demokratisierungsschubes Anfang der 90er Jahre, kann von einem Rechtsstaat in Togo keine Rede sein. Fälschung von Wahlen, Unterdrückung oppositioneller Kräfte, Einschüchterung der Zivilgesellschaft, Einschränkung der Pressefreiheit sowie Korruption und …
-
Lucretia Coffin Mott: Early Leader in the Struggle for Women's Rights Within the Society of Friends and the Anti-Slavery Movement
… Her activism placed her at the forefront of the Women’s Rights Movement. She devoted herself to the crusade for equality in all areas including gender, religion, and race. As a Quaker minister in the early nineteenth century, she was at the center of the 1827 schism within the Society of Friends …
-
Gender-based discrimination and underrepresentation of female judges in the superior courts in South Africa – a critical analysis of international and domestic laws and policies on the protection of women's rights
… resulted in continuous discrimination against women in all spheres of life. Throughout the years, women around the globe were denied basic human rights such as the rights to equality, safety, dignity, education, equal economic opportunities, and the right to vote among others. Today, despite …
-
Tracing Violence Against Women from the Francoist Dictatorship to Democratic Spain
<p>What happens to women’s rights when a country transitions from an authoritarian regime to a democratic state? This thesis examines how Spain’s transition from authoritarianism to democracy impacted the advancements of women’s rights through a specific analysis of violence against women. While …
-
Digital Echoes of a Movement: Analyzing the Evolution of the WomanLifeFreedom Movement through Hashtag Analysis
… Global Solidarity & Support, Activism, and Women's Rights. The analysis underscores the pivotal role of hashtags in Iranian protests, demonstrating how protesters strategically organized collective actions before the regime's repressive actions. Despite the central slogan 'WomanLifeFreedom' …
-
An examination of attitudes toward women as managers in public schools
… States public school superintendents toward women as managers in public schools. The purpose of the study was to see if women were viewed favorably as managers, to see if the sex of the respondent (superintendent) affected attitude scores and to explore the relationship between the …
-
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 …
-
Global responsibility : humanitarian intervention as a justified mechanism to end post-conflict widespread and systemic sexual violence
… violence was internationally acknowledged, women's rights gained recognition and several forms of sexual violence were classified. Finally, sexual violence was labeled as a 'weapon of war'.
-
His, Hers, and Theirs: Domestic Relations and Marital Property Law in Texas to 1850
Texas law regarding the legal status of women and their property rights developed from the mingling of Spanish and English laws. Spanish laws regarding the protection of women's rights developed during the centuries-long Reconquest, when the Spanish Christians slowly took back the Iberian Peninsula …
-
The Hindu Code Bill and the making of the modern Indian state
This dissertation examines debates about women's rights and family law reform in inter-war and early independence India. Focusing on the Hindu Code Bill, an attempt to reform and codify Hindu family law that began in 1941 and culminated in 1956, it argues that these reforms sought to alter the way …
-
Non-Governmental Organizations and the Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in Uzbekistan
… of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is a landmark international treaty aimed at promoting and protecting women's rights globally. Its implementation is monitored by a Committee of experts which, in so doing, relies extensively on the active engagement of non-governmental …
-
Political Participation and Political Repression: Women in Saudi Arabia
<p>In 2015 Saudi Arabian women were for the first time in history granted political space through electoral suffrage. To evaluate whether the new political opening for Saudi Arabian women has improved women's rights and equality in the Kingdom, I sought to conduct interviews to acquire their views …
Page 1 of 6