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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Women's identity"”.
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In the shadow of segregation : women's identity in the modern Iraqi house
… from the authoritative religious environment of women's segregation in the Islamic era associated with the courtyard house, to the seemingly liberated status of women in modern times, as manifested in the design of the house. The primary argument is that there was little substantial change in …
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Longitudinal Indicators of Women's Identity and Family Self and Daughters' Current Perspectives on Relationships with Nonalcoholic and Alcoholic Parents
Change and stability on identity and family self indicators, first studied in 1989, are documented among 54 women aged 47.26 (SD=8.44) years; 26 of these women were interviewed in 1997 as well. The present study examined daughters' perceptions of relationships with parents and their influences on …
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Personal is political: a photo-narrative study exploring young refugee women's identity development and experiences of womanhood in South Africa
… citizens and foreign nationals. Given their identity being the cause of persecution, this study explored young refugee women's identity development and their experiences of womanhood living in South Africa. Eight young refugee women from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya and Congo …
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Bringing home the body: Bi/multi racial Maori women's hybridity in Aotearoa/New Zealand
… examines the exclusion of bi/multi racial Maori women from dominant representations of Maori women's identity. As such, it engages with a new articulation of Maori women's difference through a narrative of cultural hybridity. Presented in two parts, Part One engages with a theoretical overview of …
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Contextualising black women's identity in South Africa through the apartheid archive's system of racial classification: an intersectional African feminist analysis of race, class, and gender within South Africa's political history.
… against apartheid creates avenues for Black women to reconstruct the South African national history archive with their inclusion while making sense of gender roles in the context of oppressive mechanisms of racism, segregation, and neocolonialism. The critical analysis the formation of how …
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Deconstructing Negative Stereotypes, Myths And Microaggressions About Black Women: Reconstructing Black Women’s Narrative, Identity And The Empowering Nature Of Ethnic Identity
… research study retraces the lives of Black women in America through a microscope that emphasize the historical formulation of Black women's identity and how the distorted figures of stereotypes have emerged and manifested into contemporary microaggressions. The work explores two central …
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From the Mouths of Men: A Model of Men's Perception of Social Identity Threat Toward Women in the Workplace and Endorsement of Identity Safety Behaviors
… a moderated mediation model where social identity complexity was hypothesized to predict endorsement of identity safety behaviors intended to mitigate social identity threat for women in a male-dominated work context. Male awareness of systemic social identity threats for women was …
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Recipes for Citizenship: Women, Cookbooks, and Citizenship in the Kitchen, 1941-1945
… to the kitchen, as an obligation for American women in World War II. Building on the work of culinary historians and gender scholars, I argue that the government enlisted women as "kitchen citizens." In contrast to the obligations of male military service, government propaganda, …
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The Bear Went Over the Mountain
… people, events, landscape, and era that shapes a women's identity as she journeys from adolescence to adulthood. The story evolves through accretion with the use of a variety of writing strategies such as third person limited omniscient narrator, auto-fiction, mosaic, and disrupted narrative. …
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Lesbi Honest: Barriers to Identifying and Actualizing Sexuality as a "Later in Life Lesbian"
… has produced a body of research focused on LGBTQ identity formation, while less has been discovered about subsets of this community, including later-life lesbians who were previously partnered in long-term heterosexual relationships with cisgender men. Several theories, including the Cass Theory …
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Bodied knowledges (where our blood is born): maternal narratives and articulations of black women's diaspora identity
… Maternal Narratives and Articulations of Black Women's Diaspora Identity is an intervention in black diasporic criticism and black feminism. It highlights black women's diaspora literature, maternal narratives, and interrogations of identity. I employ a black feminist diaspora literary lens to …
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Living in two worlds: An investigation into the identity of Arab Muslim Women in contemporary Great Britain
… minority group, namely Arab Muslim women living in Great Britain. It investigates the const•uction of a social identity which is challenged by opportunities for integration into a secular society, and contrasting obligations posed by ñmily traditions and the Shariah. The empirical …
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Girl talk : feminist rights discourse and the struggle for equality
… to challenge the way society has marginalized women's existence. Canadian feminists, in particular, have developed a counterdiscourse of rights to challenge the dominant discourse and its formal approach to equality. By lobbying the federal government to entrench a more substantive notion of …
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The effect of making the issue of 'violence against women' salient on the gender identity of women from the Western Cape : an experiment study
… dissertation emerged out of my interest in the identity of South Mrican women. A specific area of interest was which part of South Mrican women's identity was more salient- race or gender. Another specific area of interest, based on the proposition of social identity theory that different …
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Down to the Roots: A Qualitative Analysis of the Psychological Impacts of Messages Black Women Receive Regarding their Hair
… OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF MESSAGES BLACK WOMEN RECIEVE REGARDING THEIR HAIR MAJOR PROFESSOR: Kathleen Chwalisz, Ph.D. Typical Black features such as thick lips, dark skin, and kinky hair have historically been the subject of scrutiny, exploitation, and devaluation in America. Hair is an …
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The Self, the Church, and Medieval Identities: The Evolution of the Individual in Medieval Literature
… construction of literary identities by medieval women, recognizable as an authorial voice that is distinct from those of her contemporaries yet congruent with the gender norms and expectations of her contemporary culture, in both religious and secular literatures from late antiquity through the …
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Feminist Identity
Establishing a sense of identity is a central task in human development. This research pursued questions about how adult, self-identified feminist women conceptualize their identity, the role of feminism in that conceptualization, and the interaction of feminism with race and sexual orientation. …