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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"conflicting identities"”.
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Conceptualizing the undocumented college student's legal status.
… college education face a unique intersection of conflicting identities: one that potentially gives them a higher societal status by joining the social category of "college student," and one that is associated with a social stigma that comes from the label of "undocumented." Higher education …
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Depolarizing Environmental Policy: Identities and Public Opinion on the Environment
… While most Americans rely on their partisan identities to guide their policy preferences on highly polarizing issues, other non-partisan identities may also be relevant in informing environmental policy attitudes. This dissertation investigates the role that partisan and non-partisan …
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Longitudinal Study of LDS Men Reconciling Conflicting Religious and Sexual Identities
… seemingly incompatible sexual and religious identities. The experience of espousing a religious identity which prohibits homosexuality while simultaneously being attracted to others of the same gender is not uncommon. This phenomenon and how individuals navigate it is poorly understood. …
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Passionate blood, Puritan conscience : an intertextual study of the private and public works of L.M. Montgomery
… and Emily's Quest. In this way, Montgomery's conflicting identities, as revealed in her private and public work, are examined
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My Life as I Remember It: Subjectivities, feeling, and narrative in working-class women’s self-representation from late-twentieth-century England
… which they negotiated the intersections of their identities. Moreover, it considers how different historical experiences including class, gender, and race shape literary form and examine what it meant for these women to write in such a way about their lives. These aims are achieved in two ways. …
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Understanding shared experiences of couples and families in which one person has dementia
… analysis. This resulted in five themes (1) conflicting identities: person or ‘dementia patient’; (2) loneliness and isolation: finding ways to maintain belonging and connection; (3) family support: protecting and enabling; (4) feeling trapped: shifting power and control; and (5) fear and …
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Planning for simultaneous transience and stability : neighborhood transformations in Nabaa, Beirut
… the various groups of Nabaa, revealing the conflicting identities and highlighting how they materialize in space. A third lens relates the characteristics that define population flux by looking at the duration of stay, locational mobility, ownership status, as well as comfort and knowledge …
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The pregnant pause: exploring expectations and experiences of pregnancy and motherhood in a Cape Town body positive community
… women is typically polarized into contradictory identities through pro-natal social convention, frames the research. I collected data over a six month period through multi-sited ethnography and the qualitative anthropological techniques of participant observation, semi-structured interviews and …
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The radical south: Grassroots activism, ethnicity, and literary form, 1960-1980
… expressions that embraced multiple, even conflicting, identities. As much as this art was placed within a local context, its political and artistic aesthetics were also inspired by global revolutionary movements in places such as Cuba and the Caribbean, Spain, and Ghana. Whether I am …
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Land rights and land conflicts in Kibaale since the colonial settlement
… which has contributed to unequal access and conflicting identities. By tracing the conflict from the British colonial period, the thesis contributes to an understanding of how it evolved and why it was not resolved by the end of colonial rule and in post-colonial Uganda. The thesis draws on …
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Converting Catholicism: Orestes A. Brownson, Anna H. Dorsey, and Irish America, 1840-1896
… virtues , Dorsey showed them how to harmonize conflicting identities and allegiances. While Brownson sought through a rhetoric of consensus to unite American Catholics against a common Protestant foe, Dorsey, drawing heavily on the conventions of popular Anglo- Protestant fiction, invited her …
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Muslim women in colonial North India circa 1920-1947 : politics, law and community identity
… women's rights than on formulating community identities. The dissertation examines women's conflicting identities as women and as Muslims, particularly as the initial unity among women on social reform issues was eroded due to communal antagonism in the realm of politics. The focus of the …