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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"doing gender"”.
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Un/doing gender stereotypes in digital technology journalism
… how the editorial brief impacts the creation of gender stereotyped digital technology entrepreneurs in digital technology journalism in South Africa. A second objective is to explore how journalists can create alternative, nongender stereotyped stories about digital technology entrepreneurs in …
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A critical analysis of men's constructions of paying for sex: doing gender, doing race in the interview context
… intersecting social identities, such as their gender, sexuality, race, and class. Indepth interviews were conducted with 43 men who identified as clients of sex workers, through face-to-face, Skype video call or instant messenger interviews. This study is designed to contribute methodologically …
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Doing gender oder Un/doing "career": Aspekte des vorberuflichen Laufbahnentwicklungsprozesses von Studierenden : eine empirische Untersuchung des Einflusses von unterschiedlichen Parametern auf studentische Karriereorientierung
… theoretischen Gesamtzusammenhang gestellt (z.B. "Gender", "Frauen in Führungspositionen", "Geschlechterasymmetrien"). Dabei sind studentische Berufsaspirationen von besonderem Interesse. Unterscheiden sich die Studierenden eher innerhalb der Studienfächer oder zwischen den Studienfächern? …
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Gespräche über Fernsehen : die Bedeutung der nachrezeptiven Phase zur Konstitution von Geschlechtsidentität im Jugendalter
… nachrezeptiven Phase. Fernsehaneignung wird als doing Gender-Prozess ausgewiesen, welcher in diesem Kontext einen spielerischen Charakter besitzt, da eine geschlechtstypische Abgrenzung im Sinne einer Vergemeinschaftung entsteht und der nachrezeptive Diskurs ein Experimentierfeld für …
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Japanese Expatriate Women in the United States
… Using structuration theory (Giddens, 1984) and doing gender (West & Zimmerman, 1987), gender practices and (re)production of gendered structure at Japanese organizations in the United States are illustrated. It is exploratory research without prior research focusing on the subjects. Literature …
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Butch, Femme, Dyke, Or Lipstick, Aren't All Lesbians The Same?: An Exploration Of Labels And "Looks" Among Lesbians In The U.S. South
… exploratory qualitative sociological analysis of gender, sexuality, and race among "out" lesbians in the U.S. south. In this thesis, I explore the following questions: (1) what labels are self-identified lesbians in the south using and/or applying to themselves, and how do they use them? (2) how …
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Land titling as women's empowerment: critical observations from Recife Brazil
… of land titles for poor women and delineates the gendered impacts of property ownership. The literature lacks insight into two important questions. First, how do the cost and benefit of titles interact to (dis)empower women? Second, what role does the titling processes itself play in empowering …
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Crafting Culture: Scrapbooking and the Lives of Women
… women experience the contradictory qualities of doing gender publicly, of seamlessly integrating traditional femininity into the business world. This is a site where tradition joins with innovation and women combine their business responsibilities with their own needs under the guise of familial …
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Exploring gender division of labour within households: the case of Schoemansdal Village in Nkomazi Local Municipality, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
… issues contributing to the persistence of gender inequality is the gendered division of domestic labour. Women still carry out more domestic labour than men. Housework is shared quite unequally among most married couples. Work performed directly in the service of families including …
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Gendered careers in science, engineering and technology: transforming spaces and changing identities
… can be difficult due to the persistence of gendered organisational cultures within these sectors. The papers collated for this PhD by Published Work bring a critical analysis to the experiences of women who return to work in SET after taking a career break and in particular the locations, …
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From housewife to domestic goddess and beyond: an exploration into the significance of women’s role as food providers in a contemporary Irish context
This thesis is centrally concerned with issues of gender equality in relation to food work in families, in the context of social change in contemporary Ireland. Through the lens of food work it traces how this work as a specific aspect of gendered roles has evolved historically and is enacted in …
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Gender, Martyrdom, and the Management of Stigmatized Identities among Devout Muslims in the U.S.
This dissertation explores the role of gender in contemporary Islam and the daily lives of Muslim minorities. Specifically, I examine how social constructions of masculinity and femininity are manifest in militant jihad, and how young Muslims in America manage the stigma placed on them as a result …
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The Ladies of Long: how a group of non-gender normative youth construct their identity and perform gender
… appropriately, with) a particular group of non-gender normative persons, interrogating the question of how they construct their own identity and perform gender? I argue that one could not effectively take on this project without simultaneously interrogating the category it purports to describe, …
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Die Soziologie Pierre Bourdieus : theoretische Evaluation affiner und kontroverser Beziehungen zur Forschung und Kritik des Feminismus
… überkommene Stereotypen über Geschlechterrollen (Gender) innerhalb moderner, ausdifferenzierter Gesellschaften. Grundlegender jedoch werde so die Vorstellung eines natürlich gegebenen Unterschieds zwischen ‚zwei’ Geschlechtern (Sex) begründet. Feministische Theorie, so Regine Gildemeisters und …
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Gender and Emotions in Family Care – Understanding masculinity and gender equality in Sweden
… responsibilities in families as an arena for gender reproduction and change, primarily in the Swedish context, which includes a long history of gender equality policies, and broad public support for ideals of gender equality. The overall aim is to contribute to understanding of how gender …
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Is it Worth the shot? Ontario Women's Negotiations of Risk, Gender and the Human Papillomavirous(HPV) Vaccine
… Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine policy became gendered in Canada, how women in Ontario negotiated the concepts of “risk” and “gender” deployed in pharmaceutical marketing and public health programming, and how they folded these mediations into decision making about the vaccine. Eighteen months …
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Doing the ideal academic - Gender, excellence and changing academia
… More specifically, to investigate how the gendered social relations organise practices that make the ideal academic within changing academia actionable. The thesis draws on and develops Dorothy Smith's Institutional Ethnography to understand how local everyday practices are shaped within …
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Knowing Leaders: Centering Gender and Identity Among Women Leaders in Higher Education
… researcher considered the impact of race, class, gender, and first-generation status, as well as historical and institutional contexts, as a backdrop for those experiences.</p> <p>The narratives of these women leaders revealed their overlapping identities – who they are as human beings, how they …
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‘A Proper Night Out' : Alcohol and risk among young people in deprived areas in North West England
… This study draws on data from three mixed gender friendship groups of twenty-three young people from deprived communities in the North West of England during a 14-month period. This study focuses on the alcohol consumption of young people from deprived communities in northern England …
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