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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Women in the public sphere"”.
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The "toughness conundrum" : contemporary mainstream media images of women in the public sphere during the "war on terror"
This dissertation explores the relationship between gender, war, and media constructions of both. Using the theoretical frameworks of the social constructions of gender and the gendered constructions of the public sphere, I have analyzed how Time magazine portrayed Condoleezza Rice and Hillary …
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Stop the Presses: Representations of Women's Progress in Corporate America Reported through Popular News Media.
<p>This study investigated the following key areas: women in the public sphere, women in the private sphere, and how media portrayals in these areas portray women's progress in obtaining executive positions in corporate America.</p><p>Topics of interest include wage differences between genders, …
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Women in the Context of Industrialization and Labor in Nineteenth-Century German Literature by Women
<p>This dissertation explores women writers' literary representations of women in the context of nineteenth-century industrialization in Germany with the intention of showing to what extent women's lives and labor were influenced and shaped by the overarching changes in the wake of …
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Three Women, Two Spheres, and A Contract: A Comparative Study of Mary Astell and Mary Wollstonecraft Through the Lens of Carole Pateman's "The Sexual Contract"
<p>This project examines the writings of Mary Astell (1666-1731) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) regarding women in light of ideas articulated by Carole Pateman (1940- ) in her book, <em>The Sexual Contract</em> (1988). In her work, Pateman critiques the prescriptions for the management of …
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The sins of the father: a study of patrilineality in Colm Toibins' The Heather Blazing and Dermot Bolger's The Valparaiso Voyage
Inspired by Anthony Clare's notion of a "masculinity in crisis", my thesis explores two narratives written by male authors from the Irish Republic in an effort to determine if (and how) an ongoing and often heavily resisted "feminist" and gendered "revolution" (Clare 4) has shaped men's …
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A very dim light, a very steep hill: women in the Victorian Branch of the Australian Labor Party
This thesis presents a contemporary approach to the problem of the lack of recognition of women in Australian society and politics using the Australian Labor Party (ALP) as background and the Victorian Branch of the Australian Labor Party as a test case. It examines the paradox that women have had …