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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"construction of gender"”.
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The social construction of gender in the practical arts
… the relationship between schooling and gender inequality. The study explores how gender as a social relation is organized and embedded in the daily experiences of classroom life and in the discourses of people who dwell there. The study deals with how classroom encounters contribute to …
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Primary school children's self-construction of gender identity, including heterosexual normativity
The aim of this study is to explore to what extent the link between gender and heterosexist normativity is present in a Year 3 Maltese mixed primary class. In this qualitative research, ethnographic conversations with the teacher and the pupils about gender-identity construction are undertaken. …
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Imaginary Women: Violence and the Postmodern Construction of Gender in DC's New 52
The performance of various forms of violence has been intertwined with superhero comic books since the genre's inception. In 1999, comic book author and industry insider Gail Simone called attention to the genre's tendency to injure, cripple, kill, or disempower its female characters, oftentimes in …
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What Are We Protecting Here? The Cultural Construction of Gender in Obscenity Law
This dissertation then offers a detailed examination of the written decision for Roth v. United States, and the oral transcript of the Supreme Court trial. Roth is a landmark case, not only because of its legal implications, but because it writes out of United States law, in relation to obscenity, …
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A corpus-based analysis of the discursive construction of gender identities via abusive language
This thesis investigates the discursive construction of gender identities through the use of abusive language in YouTube comments sections. The study attempts to answer the following overarching research question: How is abusive language used in the construction of gendered identities by …
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Fake the dawn : digital game mechanics and the construction of gender in fictional worlds
… concerned with the replication and reinforcement of problematic gender roles through game mechanics that express positive ("warm") interactions between characters, namely healing, protection, and building relationships. The method used has been adapted from structural analysis via literary theory, …
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"Motionless as an Idol": The Roles of Art, Modernism, and Religion in William Faulkner's Construction of Gender
<p>William Faulkner's body of work addresses many specific issues and conditions specific to the South, but this project focuses on the place of Southern women in society and Faulkner's exploration of their subjugation through the language and images of art. I will analyze three of his texts: "A …
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The social construction of gender in informal care: a discourse analytic approach to investigating community care practitioners' talk
The world of informal care has become a fruitful ground for investigation particularly in relation to establishing the contextual variables of the population of carers and the recipients of care. Research has highlighted that significantly more women than men are engaged in the informal delivery of …
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"Doing and Viewing Gender" : a lens-model approach to the communicative construction of gender in task-oriented groups
Within the framework of the current gender research this dissertation focuses on applying a joint model and a corresponding method suited for integrating the many dispersed empirical studies on doing and viewing aspects of gender. An application of Brunswik’s lens-model (Brunswik, 1956) to …
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A Theoretical Construction of Gender Issues in Marital Therapy (Qualitative Research, Critical Socialization Theory, Object Relations, Theory Generation, Intimacy)
By enlisting the "ideas in use" of sixteen working marital therapists, this study seeks to generate the beginning outlines of a theory of gender issues in couple relationships and therapy. This "theory" is presented in the form of an interpretive story about a particular couple constructed using …
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Accounting for Gender in International Refugee Law: A Close Reading of the UNHCR Gender Guidelines and the Discursive Construction of Gender as an Identity
<p>This thesis conducts a close reading of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ “Guidelines on International Protection: Gender-Related Persecution within the context of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or its 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees” – a document that …
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Gender inequality in secondary education in Ghana
This thesis examines some of the issues surrounding extensive gender inequalities operating within the school, family and the wider society which affect girls’ rights to education. It reveals that institutional culture within the home, community and school reinforces gender inequality and continue …
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Male and Female, He Created Them: Gender in the Context of Human Embodiment
In this dissertation, I develop a conception of gender that (1) holds that men and women share a common humanity that is grounded in their mutual creation in the image of God and results in the expression of common human properties and common human capacities in ways that are fitting to their …
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Closed systems : Alexandra Luke, Hortense Gordon and the Canadian art history canon
The marginalization of women's art within the Canadian art history canon articulates the dichotomy which exists between the practice of making art in a Canadian context and the selective recording of that practice within written history. Canadian painters Alexandra Luke and Hortense Gordon made …
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Gender at its limits: the erotic and the political in fictional Mexican and Brazilian 20th century texts
This dissertation analyzes the representation of the erotic and sexuality in works of Mexican and Brazilian fiction in the twentieth century. I examine how the erotic motif influences the construction of gender and sexuality. Erotic representations apart from the surface function of displaying what …
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Exploring the Rural Construction of Masculinity and Boys’ Engagement with Schooling
This thesis investigates the construction of masculinities for a group of rural boys in one secondary school in South Western Ontario. It looks specifically at how the construction of gender, specifically masculinity, affects the boys' engagement with schooling. The purpose of this study was to …
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Queering Social Justice Curricula within Higher Education
… has gained significant ground. While issues of gender, race, and class are increasingly addressed and incorporated into classes there remains a lack in inclusive curricula and pedagogies within colleges and universities when it comes to issues of gender and sexual identity. The social …
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