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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Women's activism"”.
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Women's Activism in the Toxic Waste Movement: The Dialectics of Gender and Activism
… relevance of gender identity for understanding activism and the importance of superseding essentialist constructions of gender.
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'Spaces to speak' of sour milk : exploring African-Caribbean-British women's activism and agency on childhood sexual abuse from the 1980s to the present day
… had any bearing on African Caribbean British women’s 'space to speak' of childhood sexual abuse. The study also explores Black British feminist activism on CSA from the late 1970s- mid 1980s in order to further explore the issue of spaces to speak. The thesis presents findings from 5 in-depth …
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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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Women Organizations for Peace: Moving Beyond the Rhetoric of the Cyprus Problem
Abstract This research examines enduring women’s organizations working towards women’s rights and a peaceful solution to the Cyprus Problem which has taken precedence over gender equality on the island. This study was based on a 13-year period from 2001 to 2014 examining Hands Across the Divide …
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Nurturing transitions: Housewife organizations in (colonial) Indonesia, 1900-1972
… in the Netherlands Indies through teaching women household management skills including proper sanitation, hygiene, and food preservation methods. Through educational and social welfare initiatives, Dutch housewives maintained the Netherlands' control over the territory while promoting Dutch …
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Women in the Black Panthers: Building or Departing from Traditions of Activism in the Freedom Struggle
This thesis examines the role of African American women activists in the BlackPanther Party by placing their activism in the broader historical context of blackwomen in the freedom struggle. This thesis sheds light on the continuities anddepartures from earlier work that characterized black women's …
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Wage rage: the struggle for equal pay and pay equity in Australia
This is an interdisciplinary thesis in women's and gender studies combining legal analysis with archival research. It traverses Australian women's struggle for equal pay and pay equity from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginnings of the twenty-first. It recounts and analyses women's …
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Social struggles over breastfeeding : how lactivism reshapes knowledge, meanings, and practices of breastfeeding
This thesis examines women's role in the social struggles over the meanings and practices of breastfeeding. From an initial observation in 2011 and 2012 of two situated flash mob protests in Warsaw, Poland and Bristol, England, the thesis proceeds with an understanding of breastfeeding as a site of …
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British activists, homeworker rights, and transnational organising, 1994-2004
This thesis explores the history of British-based activism around homework, also known as outwork or home-based work, from 1994 to 2004. It examines how the movement changed during this period, shifting from its local and national focus to become more internationally oriented. It argues that these …
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This Woman's Work: The Sociopolitical Activism of Bebe Moore Campbell
… work. This dissertation examines Campbell's activism in two periods: as a student at the University of Pittsburgh during the 1960s Black Student Movement, and later as a mental health advocate near the end of her life in 2006. It also analyzes Campbell's first and final novels, Your Blues …