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Interpreting Female-Female Love in the Early Poetry of Michael Field
… I also question whether their representations of female-female love can be understood as part of a feminist or radical development of ideas. My findings are that while these poems show a strong interest in the formation of identity for the poets, and while that process has some resemblance to the …
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Male-Female Earnings Differentials
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:13:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7511639.pdf: 7769613 bytes, checksum: 1fc714b23986e98e72acafa03553ca81 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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When Oppressed Women Attack: Female-Enacted Violence Through Minority American Female Playwrights' Works
… something that has always captivated me. When a female combat instructor once told me that even though I throw a great punch I will never be able to use it because women are always on the receiving end of violence in theatre, I wondered if this was truly the case. After a thorough exploration of …
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Regional Welfare and Female Schooling: Do Microfinance and Female Stipends Matter in Bangladesh?
… look at two facets of welfare: consumption and female schooling outcomes. We seek to evaluate the impact of microfinance on regional and household welfare and female stipends on female schooling outcomes. The first chapter examines the impact of Grameen Bank and BRAC on regional welfare in …
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Understanding female gang involvement in Mitchells Plain, Western Cape: exploring female gang involvement
The dissertation focuses on understanding female gang involvement in Mitchells Plain, Western Cape: Exploring Female Gang Involvement. The purpose of this study was to explore realities of female gang involvement in the Western Cape, South Africa in a township called Mitchells Plain making use of …
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Class and Gender in the Phillippines: Ethnographic Interviews with Female Employer-Female Domestic Dyads
… analysis of the relationship between female employers and female domestics in the Philippines focusing on how it maintains and reproduces the intersecting class and gender relations of power that brought the two women together. It also explores relationality - how the privileging of …
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The female saints of Cornwall.
This thesis seeks to identify the female saints of Cornwall and their connections to each other and to the saints of other Celtic regions. The aim of the research was to establish if there were common links and themes between these saints, given that so many of them are found and remembered solely …
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Improving female fertility preservation care
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Who's Afraid of Female Pleasure?
My work is an exploration of female sexuality and the use of the body in conceptual photography. I use photography as a sensual medium that acts similarly to paint conveying visceral and ambiguous qualities in abstract forms. The medium of film becomes eroticized, intertwining the image of body …
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Female Types in Literary History
Constancy has never been considered one of the attributes of woman, which makes it entirely proper that heroines should have altered their characters in fiction almost as often as they have changed their styles in dress; each age has modeled anew the face of woman altering her vices and her virtues …
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Tamed: Hair and Female Subjectivity
This thesis explores the continued discrimination against women in China today, and examines my art research throughout the study of the Master of Fine Arts degree at University of Calgary. Although, since 1949, Mao Zedong had proclaimed that “women hold up half of the sky,” in fact societal …
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Diabetes and the Female Heart
… and mechanical efficiency between males and females. Second, I investigated to establish a type 2 diabetes model in both sexes using a high-fat diet and low-dose streptozotocin injections. Third, using the work-loop calorimeter, I studied isolated diabetic left ventricular trabeculae to …
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Female Bonds in Shakespeare's Plays
… Shakespeare's representations of bonds between female friends, mistresses and servants, and mothers and daughters in the context of early modern discourses on female friendship, focusing specifically on the ways female characters mediate for one another. Although the majority of Renaissance …
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Female Superintendents: Does Gender Matter?
… research and statistics surrounding the topic of female superintendents, which indicated that women moved into the position at a disproportionate rate when compared to men, this study sought to understand the experiences of female public-school superintendents. Further, the research provided a …
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Female athletics: Exploring the impact of female coaches on perceived levels of athletic self-efficacy among female athletes and their career pursuits in athletics
… However, there has been a sharp decline in female representation in athletic leadership positions. This study examined the relationship between female athletes' perceived levels of self-efficacy and their willingness to explore a career in athletic coaching. The research focused on the …
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Authenticity and female leaders: a qualitative study exploring the leadership practices of female university administrators
… study explored the leadership practices of seven female university leaders. Authentic leadership involves self-awareness, balanced processing, authentic action and relational transparency. Self-awareness is a lifelong process that involves understanding one's values and priorities. Balanced …
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Female adolescents identified with emotional disturbance and adjudicated female adolescents: A comparison of self-concepts.
… social, and self-image self-concepts of females ages 13-17 who are labeled emotionally and behaviorally disordered by their public school systems and are in residential treatment, and females ages 13-17 who are adjudicated, or labeled “juvenile offenders” and are involved with the …
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