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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Women's voices"”.
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Feminagerie: A Collection of Women's Voices
Poetry/short fiction/play
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Singing subversion, singing soul : women's voices in feminist music therapy
… of feminist music therapy for the empowerment of women was developed and, using a case study approach, assessed specifically for its effectiveness in increasing self-esteem of women abused by their intimate male partners. Feminist music therapy integrates the principles and practices of feminist …
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Women's Voices in Arabic, French, and English Salons: Literary Impacts
This study presents the voices of women in classical Arabic literature and the literature of eighteenth century France and England. It compares women as writers and sponsors of salons during two different periods of world history.
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Eliciting women's voices: choosing and experiencing a nontraditional occupational program
The trend for women to follow gender-traditional educational and occupational pathways has been resistant to change, even in the face of decreased income potential. Scholars have tested hypotheses regarding women's avoidance of nontraditional occupations, but have given scant attention to the …
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Women's Voices: an anlysis of views on service user involvement in mental health care
… structural inequalities in the treatment of women service users, in particular. Service user perspectives, motivations and accounts of experiences of active involvement are relatively under-represented in the published literature. This study utilised discourse analysis of texts generated by …
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Girls are people who at least know something: Hearing young women's voices and HIV/AIDS
High rates of HIV/AIDS in young women in Sub-Saharan Africa are a serious health problem. As a result, young women are an important target for HIV prevention. For young women a pre-requisite for preventing HIV/AIDS is having a voice in sexual relations. Yet many face significant barriers to …
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Silence Is Golden: Older Women's Voices and The Analysis Of Meaning Among Survivor's Of Domestic Violence
… estimates indicate that upwards of 3,000,000 women a year are physically abused by an intimate partner, however, it is important to note that serious limitations associated with these estimates exist. Despite media campaigns, educational efforts, community outreach, and legislation, the …
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The Impact Of The Indian Act On Indigenous Women's Voices: Rereading Sex-Based Discrimination Case Law Against Indigenous Feminist Theatre Movement Literature
… necessary. The two plays of Strength Of Indian Women and Women Of The Fur Trade are read alongside the cases to contrast the ways in which women's lives are represented and understood in each. This juxtaposition reveals how Indigenous women's challenges to sex-based discrimination have …
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Critical Folkdance Pedagogy: Women's Folkdancing as Feminist Practice
… sources provides evidence that validates women's voices as feminist practices."
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Iranian (Persian)-Francophone Women in Diaspora and the Literature of Exile Reconstructing Self Through Writing
… the narratives of Persian Francophone immigrant women. By positioning these writers as influential voices in the transforming landscape of Francophone literature, this research seeks to illuminate the ways in which Iranian diasporic literature is evolving and how these writers navigate complex …
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Filipino Women's Migration to Japan's Sex Industry: A Case of Transnational Gender Subjection
… from a historically specific context, with women's voices included. Such research will not only develop a better understanding of international sex traffic, but also a more effective strategy to address the inequality of power at the intersection of class, race, nation, as well as gender.
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The question of gendered voice in some contemporary Irish novels by Brian Moore and John McGahern
… the strategies through which conventional Irish women's voices are constructed and questions the validity of the category of 'authentic' women's voices. In the chapter relating to McGahem's The Pornographer, the powerful, abstract male voice is exposed as a performative construct which is …
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Chorister Formation Preferences in a Women's Choir
… included forty-six members of an auditioned women's choir from a large southern university who completed a survey after singing in sectional and mixed formation. These SSAA results maintain previous research findings by James Daugherty, Debra Atkinson, and Christopher Aspaas, et al. from …
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Contemporary discourses on Muslim women and veiling : a critical analysis
… dominant discourses on veiling objectify Muslim women and do not engage with Muslim women dialogically as subjects capable of agency and selfdefinition. In this thesis I explore this problem critically within two different contexts, namely in selected Muslim minority contexts of Europe and …
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other oceans, other skies
… with culture and politics to amplify women's voices. My ultimate aim is to raise awareness and appreciation for the diverse range of people around us.</p> <p>Additionally, I discuss my self-perception of otherness, highlighting the tensions between assimilation and the preservation of …
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From 'Black-Eyed Girls' to the MMU (Mujeres Methotistas Unidas): Race, Religion and Gender in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
… places the stories of Mexican American Methodist women in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands within the context of the organizational history of the United Methodist Women of the Rio Grande Conference of the United Methodist Church: Mujeres Metodistas Unidas, or the MMU. It focuses on the experiences and …
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Austen and Woolf Revisited: Muddy Petticoats, Sally's Kiss, and the Neoliberal Now
… examines the implications of mythologizing women writers, specifically Woolf and Austen, and transforming them into their own famous characters. Using various writings that theorize women's voices, sense of agency, and political autonomy in relationship with the public/private dichotomy, …
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