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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Women activists"”.
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Critical Consciousness Development of Black Women Activists: A Qualitative Examination
… development among a sample of U.S. Black women involved in social justice work. The study elicited the women’s perceptions of the conditions, influences, and processes that contributed to their conscientization. Such findings afford new insights into Black women’s resistance to multiple …
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Exploring feminist notions of peacebuilding: experiences of women activists in Northern Uganda
… lineage, age, class, and geographic location of women who founded peace groups during and just after some of the most volatile periods of the war in Northern Uganda. The researcher theorised how women's small- scale community interventions manifested as part of broader peacebuilding efforts …
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Empowering women activists : creating a monster : the contentious politics of gender within social justice activism
… in its internal and external work, strengthening women activists in the Community-based organisations and Social Movements which it targets, and contribute to putting women's strategic gender interests on the agenda of these movements, while simultaneously seeking to theorize the meaning of …
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An exploratory study on the perceptions of Zimbabwean women activists regarding the Domestic Violence Act (2007)
… study was to explore the perceptions of Zimbabwe women activists regarding the Domestic Violence Act (2007) in that country. The study surveyed fourteen women activists in Zimbabwe to determine their perceptions on the strengths and weaknesses of the Act, the challenges of implementing the Act, …
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"Somos Parte de la Solución": Women Activists' Knowledge of Gendered Risk and Their Educational Responses to HIV/AIDS in the Peruvian Amazon
… increasingly prevalent, and where AIDS cases in women are on the rise. In recent years, HIV positive and sex worker women activists in Iquitos have made significant strides to respond to the AIDS crisis through social movement organizing and educational outreach. This dissertation exposes the …
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Iranian Women Unveiled (2020): a documentary film about six Iranian women activists produced in relation to a feminist analysis of the representation of Iranian women in cinema
… containing a feature-length documentary, Iranian Women Unveiled, and an accompanying written thesis. The documentary is a portrayal of the lives and struggles of six influential Iranian women activists, now living in exile, engaged in a number of areas of political and social activism. These areas …
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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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O lugar da mulher é onde ela quiser: o engajamento político de mulheres com deficiência.
… advancements and the recognized importance of women activists with disabilities in this trajectory, at national and international levels, studies confirm that women with disabilities live at least at a double social disadvantage, for being a woman and for having disability. Higher unemployment …
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‘But it’s an awfully, awfully slow process’: Women and the Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians (ACTT), 1960-1989
This thesis analyses the relationship between women workers in the British film and television industries and their trade union, the Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians (ACTT), between 1960 and 1989. This thesis contributes a longitudinal case study of an individual …
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South Asian women in Canada and media discourse : a feminist collaborative analysis
… in the representations of the lives of Canadian women of South Asian origin in the Vancouver Sun. The strategy adopted consists in presenting first, the views of three South Asian women activists who acted as collaborators and analyzed the constituted sample of articles; second, feminist …
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Bourgeois Balkans: world-building in Belgrade and Sofia 1830-1912
… workers, domestic servants, and other working women. Activists and state actors were likewise frustrated in their attempts to create productive urban subjects through scientific policing and prison labor. Ultimately, the application of bourgeois visions was both intensive and costly, limited by …
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"Yours For Freedom": The Life and Legacy of Civil Rights Leader Victoria Gray Adams
… the role of middle-aged African-American women activists in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement. She was born and raised in Palmers Crossing, a self-sustaining black community just south of Hattiesburg. Her upbringing fostered pride and a sense of independence in herself as a …
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Racialization, sexualization, and resistance: a “subtle” look at Our Nig and “a subtlety”
… of racialization and sexualization of black women and how those patterns have created visual depictions of black women that are not only still being shown today, but also powerfully reclaimed and resisted by black women activists as forms of protest. With the rise of these careful …
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Housing and the women's movement, 1860-1914
… thesis sets out to explore the links between the women's movement and the housing reform movement in Britain in the period 1860 to 1914. Both these movements have been well-documented, but the role which women played in housing has received little attention from historians of housing, and …
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Archives Of Transnational Modernism: Lost Networks Of Art And Activism
… mainstream media representations that excluded women and people of color, promoted war, or failed to adequately resist fascism. Some of these projects, which have often been forgotten or set aside as minor or too political, reside in archives, especially the archives of women who served as …
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From Sympathy to Synergy: Humane Activism in the Modern Environmental Movement
Animal welfare activists contributed both substance and style to the environmental movement that emerged in the years following the Second World War. Women tended to take a more active role than men in humane politics. A loose network of women activists led campaigns to save marine mammals from …
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Pinnip pinainthu kidakkum oorangattthalkalai kattudaiththal: Reimagining social activism with intersectional subaltern activist consciousness
… activism organised by young trans, intersex and women activists from the margins who seek social justice in post-war Northern Sri Lanka. It searches for voices and experiences pushed to the margins by hegemonic and destructive powers and structures of society. By treating them as credible …
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THE FOUNDATION AND CENTER OF AMERICAN STUDIES; AN INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORIES AND CULTURES - A SYLLABUS
… American Politics and Activism, Indigenous Women and QUILTBAG folks, and Native American Cultural Production. It is designed to be taught in the Southeastern United States, primarily at community colleges, but can also be effective in the first two years at university. For the sake of …
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Associative activism : organizing support for foreign workers in contemporary Japan
… underprivileged in Japanese society. Japanese activists, who found these NGOs, came from other social movement organizations. Christians, community workers unions organizers, women activists, labor lawyers, health workers, and civil rights activists have created separate support groups to help …
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Pembaharuan hukum waris Islam di Indonesia: Telaah sosio historis pembaharuan waris Islam menuju Kompilasi Hukum Islam
… thinking about estate division between men and women. This has sparked many protests, particularly from women activists who later led to the idea that the same division in the Counter Legal Draft Compilation of Islamic Law (CLD-KHI).