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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"female autonomy"”.
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Essays on development economics
… Chapter 2 examines effect of the same program on female autonomy. Policy makers and planners often view family planning programs (FPP) as being conducive to female autonomy. They argue that when women have fewer children they can earn more income and enjoy more property rights, higher mobility and …
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“I, Too, Am an Occupied Territory”: Border Crossings and Personal Sovereignty in Three Novels by Dominican American Women
… argue that patriarchal forms of authority remove female autonomy by trespassing on personal boundaries, and that the renegotiation of that power is achieved through formations of community, especially with other women, through nonheteronormative relationships that are present inside and extend …
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A Contextual Analysis of Female Education and Discursive Power in Margaret Cavendish's Dramas, the Female Academy and Youths Glory and Deaths Banquet
… have failed to appreciate the ambiguous, female response to seventeenth-century, male imposed gender constraints demonstrated in her work. Self-conscious of her own subjugation to male sanction in attempting to gain the fame she desires, Cavendish specifically uses her dramas The Female …
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The Beauty of Impertinence in World Literature from 1740 to 1977
… of patriarchal oppression, or supporters of female autonomy. In face of this critical impasse, my research looks deeply into character description and character behavior to determine if these authors’ female characters should be viewed as pretty objects or not. As I demonstrate, in Samuel …
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Constructing Women and Nation: Feminized America in British and American Visual Culture 1760-1800
… state seals, complicating arguments that these female embodiments of America are merely a product of national identity formation. The shift from an Indigenous woman to a Roman goddess can be charted parallel to the rise of Republican Motherhood ideology and anxieties about female autonomy. This …
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Uncovering the Monster of Patriarchy: Women of <em>The Fly</em> (1958, 1986) and Shifting Gender Politics
… marked by a heightened violence and threats to female autonomy as masculine insecurities and anxieties grew through the rise of the feminist movement.</p>
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Nome, destino e fuga: a construção de personagens em Rachel de Queiroz
… Moura to address issues of gender, power, and female autonomy. The thesis, therefore, seeks to demonstrate how Rachel de Queiroz uses literature to criticize oppressive structures, create complex characters, and discuss universal issues of identity, autonomy, and resistance.
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Comedy and Social Change in French Cinema 1990-2010: The Rise of the Rom-com
… of singlehood and the increased acceptability of female autonomy; the concomitant decline of marriage; and the increased range of ‘acceptable’ gender roles today - especially the rise of the professional woman, which in turn has implications for masculinity and for the family unit. Do films …
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Peacebuilding in the Context of Displacement: Women’s Groups in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Settlements in Kenya
… on the African context of the settlements, female autonomy and cooperation, the importance of kinship, and the inclusion of all members of the community. The methodology involves the analysis of 28 individual interviews, five focus group discussions with 32 participants, participant …
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Cultural Determinants of Global Health
… traditional/rational, intellectual and affective autonomy, long-term orientation and embeddedness dimensions yield largest effect sizes in predicting health outcomes. I also find a significant and large interaction effects between country’s wealth and selected cultural dimensions Secondly, I …
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Performing to Reclaim: War Trauma and Female Non-Combatant Recovery in Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, and H.D.
… examines narrative representations of female non-combatant identity authored by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, and H.D. between 1916 and 1955, a historical moment consonant with World War I, the interwar era, World War II, and its aftermath. Their depictions of the material …
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Three essays on investments in child welfare in India
… and the first to evaluate whether it improves female empowerment. This study is also the first to explore the how employment and social norm might differ in their impact on female empowerment. In the third essay, I quantify the impact of peer network-based learning and influence on female …
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Hausfreund: Female and Male Concepts of the Literary Figure in the Writings of Female Authors of Realism
… suggests alternative relational structures. His female counterpart, the Hausfreundin, emerges as a counter-image that transcends traditional female roles. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach integrates bourgeois Hausfreund figures into aristocratic milieus, where they act as mediators between the nobility …
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Female agency and the sacramental vision of early modern Catholicism
… latter giving women an opportunity for greater autonomy than their Protestant counterparts. This project explores how religious life was a complement to marriage in the Catholic tradition and what the writings of the religious women in the Benedictine community at Ghent reveal about these …
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Social inequality, reproductive health and child development : a Chhattisgarh village study
… ‘enigma’ emphasises the mediating role of female power, often measured as female decision-making autonomy. I discuss based on research in a village in the rice-growing plains of Chhattisgarh the complex and interrelated cultural, economic and gender-based variables as they bear on …
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Maids, Wives and Widows: Female Architectural Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Britain
This thesis explores the extent to which elite women of the eighteenth century commissioned architectural works and the extent to which the type and scale of their projects was dictated by their marital status. Traditionally, architectural historians have advocated that eighteenth-century …