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Showing 1 to 20 of 859 for “"Women's Studies."”.
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Women's Studies Worldwide: Cartographies of Transnational Academic Feminism
This dissertation retells the history of women’s studies from a global perspective, challenging traditional U.S. and Eurocentric narratives about this emerging interdisciplinary field. Beginning with questions about why women’s, gender, and sexuality studies has incited backlash across a range of …
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A Narrative Herstory of Women's Studies at the University of North Texas
In the late 1960's the academic field of Women's Studies was created to give women a more equal education and a more accurate reflection of their history and impact on society. At the University of North Texas the effort to implement Women's Studies was not begun seriously until the late 1980's. …
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An Analysis of Feminist Care Networks in the Editorial Intern Position at Women's Studies Quarterly
… my experience working as an Editorial Intern at Women’s Studies Quarterly from September 2022 to December 2022. I will begin by examining my onboarding process as a new member of an already-established team. This exploration will allow for my observation of how Women’s Studies Quarterly has been …
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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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The Effects of a Women's Studies Course on Women Student's Attitudes Toward Self and Other Women
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:47:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7412155.pdf: 6940790 bytes, checksum: 1f74a3aac89d4c20e0e743e76f60c9a0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Gender, press and revolution: A textual analysis of three newspapers in Nicaragua's Sandinista period, 1979-1988
… such it bridges disciplinary boundaries between women's studies and mass communications studies. From a gender perspective, this study focuses on Third World women and on the inherent tensions between socialism and feminism. From communications, this work draws on news and international issues …
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Desert Flowers: Sexualized Industries of Nevada and the Women Who Work In Them
… the struggles and working conditions of young women employed in sexualized industries in the state of Nevada, particularly casinos, gentlemen's clubs, and brothels. Through extended research and interviews, this thesis combines true-life narrative from one-on-one interviews with information in …
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Greek antiquity, women’s modernity: hellenism in the work of Michael Field, Amy Levy and Virginia Woolf [Antichità greca, modernità delle donne: l’ellenismo nelle opere di Michael Field, Amy Levy e Virginia Woolf]
… unitaria. Il lavoro adotta la metodologia dei Women's Studies e degli studi di genere, degli studi culturali, della ricezione dei classici e degli studi mediterranei, considerando il contesto storico e le condizioni materiali con cui, pur escluse da Oxford e Cambridge, queste autrici poterono …
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Reading Democracy: Anthologies of African American Women's Writing and the Legacy of Black Feminist Criticism, 1970-1990
… on the part of interdisciplinary programs like Women's Studies and American Studies, <italic>Reading Democracy</italic> historicizes a black feminist literary critical practice and movement that developed alongside black feminist activism beginning in the 1970s. This dissertation addresses the …
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Practices of Brokering: Between STS and Feminist Engineering Education Research
… therein, and contribute to feminist science studies literature on the challenges and opportunities of interdisciplinary work across women's studies and STEM fields. Building upon Wenger's concept of brokering, I analyze how I brought previously underexplored STS and feminist theory literature …
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We Do Not See Things as They Are. We See Them as We Are. Fictional Point of View and Reader Response: An Empirical Exploration.
This thesis reports the findings of two empirical studies into readers' responses to fictional point of view. The impetus for the research came from my complementary studies in stylistics and Women's Studies. On the one hand, stylisticians often argued that the use of an internal perspective …
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Y B ME? : an analysis of the status of women in mechanical engineering and the Women's Technology Program as a potential long-term solution
The issue of the lack of women in the fields of science and engineering has recently received new attention by the scientific and women's studies communities alike. In fields such as Mechanical Engineering there continues to be a marked lack of women, especially when looking at higher levels of …
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Growing Cold: Postwar Women Writers and the Novel of Development, 1945-1960
Growing Cold: Postwar American Women Writers and the Novel of Development, 1945-1960, examines how women writers developed, negotiated, and struggled with representing adolescent girl selfhood in the novel of development – also termed the Bildungsroman – during the early postwar era. By examining …
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Stretching the Limits: journalism and gender politics in women’s sport
… the cross-disciplinary, inter-linked analysis of women‘s sport in the social sciences and in sport and women's studies, and has been cited in the literature. Contravening conventionalist journalistic stereotyping of female champions, it documents and evaluates how champions have attempted to gain …
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Audience Engagement with Mother-Daughter Relationships in Prime-Time Television of the 21st Century: A Qualitative Analysis of Interpretation, Sensemaking, and Perceived Effects
… 21st century. I used in-depth interviews with women of different backgrounds to explore how real mothers and daughters interpret portrayals of mother-daughter relationships on television; how they make sense of their own mother-daughter relationships through their engagement with these …
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Re-Examining the Female Voice in Chaucer's Italian-Sourced Works: A Study in Paleography, Textual Transmission, and Masculinity
<p>Research on women in medieval literature is abundant but often focused on broad questions of narrative and character development. Among the areas seldom examined is what I will term "female voice," a term that encompasses the thoughts and speech of women in literature. This project analyzes the …
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