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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Womens studies"”.
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"Nothing New Under the Sun": Woolf and Joyce, the New Woman and the New Man
The answer to the first of the Sphinx's riddles — "which two sisters are born, the first to the second and the second to the first?"— is also the title of Virginia Woolf's second novel, Night and Day. The parallactic structure of the riddle is duplicated in the composition of the text …
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Derriere Zola: Le corps feminin par le petit bout de la lorgnette
"Dans cette these, nous tenons a etudier et a dechiffrer les representations multiples du corps feminin dans l'oeuvre de Zola dans un effort de resoudre le conflit entre la theorie et la representation de la femme dans les Rougon-Macquart. Vers cette fin de ""dechiffrage"", nous etudierons …
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The matter of sex and gender: A dialogue between trans bodies and feminist theory
Despite significant social and political gains derived from gender theory, feminist scholars, progressive thinkers, and those in the transgender community do not critically examine the pre-supposed meanings of sex in gender theory. Instead, they simply assume its significance, thus erasing its …
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Angles of otherness: Subjectivity and difference in the fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas
Cristina Fernandez Cubas has published four collections of short stories, Mi hermana Elba (1980), Los altillos de Brumal (1983), El angulo del horror (1990), Con Agatha en Estambul (1994); and two novels, El ano de Gracia (1985) and El columpio (1995). I analyze these six works to explore the …
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Breaking through the binary, shifting the conversation: A multi-perspective conversation on gay marriage and queer equality
The dominant conversation of gay marriage legalization is currently centered on a limited "for or against" debate which places the Queer community and its allies in favor of legalization and everyone else in opposition. This limited "movement/countermovement" dynamic obscures and denies the …
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Republican Motherhood and the Early Road to Women's Rights: 1765-1848
This paper explores the development and participation of women in American politics from pre-American Revolution through the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. Women's involvement in education, industrialization, and westward expansion are also discussed.
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Healing, honoring, transforming: The power of spiritual activism in Marilou Awiakta's work
… occur with spiritual activism, and how Women's Studies can benefit from increased awareness of and attention to Awiakta's work.
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Effect of lifewave patches on fat metabolism in moderately active women
Lifewave patches are purported to restore the body's electromagnetic field, resulting in increased energy and fat metabolism. PURPOSE: To determine the effects of wearing Lifewave patches on body mass (BM), percent body fat (%BF), VO2 Peak, and mean exercise respiratory exchange ratio (RER) over 2 …
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The Heart and Mind of Simone de Beauvoir
This thesis will examine Beauvoir's views on women, her unique brand of feminism. The following questions will be pursued: How did Beauvoir break out of the traditional female role as a young woman? What were Beauvoir's views on women in general? On various types of women? How do Beauvoir's novels …
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The relationship between health value, self-efficacy, health locus of control, health benefits, health barriers, and health behavior practices in mothers
The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between health value, self-efficacy, health locus of control, health barriers, health benefits, and the health behavior of women who are mothers. Selected demographic variables were also examined. In addition, the study presented a …
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Total, abdominal, and hip fat mass and markers for coronary heart disease in pre and postmenopausal obese women
The purpose of this investigation is to examine the relationship between total, abdominal, and hip fat mass and serum markers for CHD in pre and postmenopausal obese women. Participants included non-smoking, sedentary and obese premenopausal women (n = 19) and postmenopausal women (n = 13). Resting …
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Sexual adjustment of women undergoing pelvic exenteration with vaginal reconstruction
A total pelvic exenteration is an aggressive attempt to surgically cure the patient with cervical cancer. A total pelvic exenteration includes removal of the bladder, lower portion of the bowel, and the female reproductive organs (including the uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and vagina). The …
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American Women's Intellectual History in the Revolutionary and New Republican Era: Charting a Shift in Feminist Theory
<p>This paper is a study of American women's intellectual history in the period 1770-1815. My aim is to develop a coherent conception of women's moral point of view as it is presented in prescriptive literature, political tracts, and women's own writing. Because of the nature of my goal, I will …
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"Taming" Feminism: Tracing Women and Culture Through Adaptation
Shakespearean adaptation is not just about Shakespeare. Rather, Shakespearean adaptation tells us as much about the cultures that adapt the plays as it does about Shakespeare. My particular focus in this thesis is film adaptations of <i>The Taming of the Shrew</i> and the messages that these …
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Weight control for low-income black and Hispanic women
Small-scaled studies of a free weight control program for low-income, low-literate black women were conducted with intact groups from a literacy program or a recreational center. The program was then modified, translated into Spanish, and pilot-tested with Hispanic women at two churches. The 11 …
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Women and the Violent Workplace
Globally workplace violence is a pressing concern. It is an ever increasing problem and thus an extensive field to research. Despite an increase in interest, there are specific areas of workplace violence that remain relatively unexplored, and this is further compounded because workplace violence …
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Women and Humor: A Linguistic and Rhetorical Analysis of Joke Target
Authors Marietta Holley, Fanny Fern and Harriet Beecher Stowe produced works of humorous fiction, parody and satire to advance discussion on the question of women’s suffrage and equality. Using The General Theory of Verbal Humor (Attardo and Raskin, 1994; Attardo, 1994) to analyze some of the joke …
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Eispéireas mná: an cleachtas cruthaitheach sa damhsa ar an sean-nós
Déanann an togra taighde seo cíoradh ar chleachtais an damhsa ar an sean-nós le béim ar leith ar an eispéireas baineann laistigh den traidisiún. Chun dul i ngleic leis an gcultúr teangeolaíoch a bhaineann leis an traidisiún Gaeltachta seo agus chun doiciméadú a dhéanamh ar shaintearmaíocht a …
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Diverse women aging in America: Attitudes toward menopause and self-objectification in midlife and beyond
… beauty, youth, and value (Kaufert, 1982). Some studies suggest that there are cultural differences in views of menopause (Avis et al., 2001; Holmes-Rovner et al., 1996; Marvan, Islas, Vela, Chrisler, & Warren, 2008; Sampselle, Harris, Harlow, & Sowers, 2002) and attitudes about menopause, …
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