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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"feminist epistemology"”.
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‘The Most Wonderful Wonderful Parties’ Gossip and anecdote as feminist epistemology in women’s oral histories of the creative community in postwar St Ives
This thesis explores the history of St Ives' creative community using oral history interviews with women from the St Ives Archive. Focusing on gossip and anecdote, I take and develop eavesdropping as a methodology. In doing so, this reveals the importance of feminine sociability and the locus of …
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Performing radical black womanhood: Black women artists as critical public pedagogues
… insight into doing research from Endarkened Feminist and Black Feminist frameworks. The information in this project can provide insight and direction for research related to the role of Critical Public Pedagogy in the exploration of the nuances of the private and public sphere, the creation …
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Experience and practice : gendered knowledge as a challenge to our epistemological paradigm
Feminist epistemology has two aims: to show the androcentrism present in certain paradigmatic accounts of what counts as good knowledge and to provide us with alternatives. In this thesis I will follow that tradition and I will argue for a new epistemological paradigm that avoids androcentrism and …
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Epistemic Emancipation: Essays on Learning about Injustice
… themselves. Radical political philosophy and feminist epistemology have extensively analysed how patriarchal, racist, and other social structures constrain us in what we perceive, how we reason, whom we deem credible, or what we believe. These constraints typically mask themselves and the …
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Being Chinese, Women and Mothers: Stories About Immigration and Children's Education
… on the lives of Chinese mothers. Endarkened feminist epistemology together with poststructuralism and transnational feminism is used as the theoretical frameworks for this research.
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Caring from the margins: Community HIV/AIDS care work as social reproduction in the era of HIV/AIDS
… for the women who do it. With a commitment to feminist research, I was interested in exploring what care work meant for gender equality and commensurate development consequences. Employing the theoretical framework of feminist development economics, I adopted a qualitiative methodology to …
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Lesbian coaches: Personal perspectives on being out
… lesbian in elite coaching. Through the use of a feminist epistemology, a phenomenological methodology, and in-depth interviews with eight high performance coaches who identify as lesbian, it was possible to identify and describe the essence of their experiences being out lesbians in elite …
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Women on Web: seizing the means of reproduction
… in distributing abortion pills. A libertarian feminist epistemology will be used to examine the role of agency and direct action within the feminist struggle for reproductive rights. The role of institutions such as the church and state in opposing campaigns for abortion rights will also be …
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From Surviving to Sustaining: Testimonios Examining the Need for and Impact of Embodied Critical Professional Development Among Educators of Color
… Grounded in Critical Race Theory, Chicana Feminist Epistemology, and somatics as political practice, this inquiry investigated: What conditions lead Educators of Color to cultivate embodied critical pedagogy, and what impacts emerge when they co-create embodied critical professional …
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<em>Pláticas, Reflexiones, y Resistencia</em>: Exploring How First-Generation Latino Males Leverage Community Cultural Wealth in Education-Based Doctoral Programs
… Critical Legal Theory (LatCrit), and Chicana Feminist Epistemology (CFE), this research employs a Mestiza Methodology to center participants’ lived experiences during their doctoral program. Findings revealed how participants utilized CCW’s cultural capital to make meaning of their experiences …
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She is also playing; she is also wearing the mask that I am wearing :' investigating the gendered dynamics of implementing a forum theatre project for young women in Manenberg'
… in Manenberg. As a qualitative study embedded in feminist epistemology and feminist activism, this research utilises a range of methods, including participant observation, appreciative inquiry and second hand ethnography. There methods are used to critically analyse the opportunities and gaps that …
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Narratives of Resistance: Undergraduate Chicanas Navigating the World with Critical Literacy and a Mestiza Praxis
… frameworks of critical pedagogy and Chicana feminist epistemology. Guided by decolonizing methodologies, the findings include the narratives of five Chicanas devised from one-on-one research conversations, as well as cross-case data from small group discussions. The themes that emerged from …
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From Community College to Degree: Examining the Success of Undocumented Community College Transfer Students
… a narrative research design rooted in Chicana feminist epistemology, data were collected through semistructured interviews conceptualized as testimonios, alongside a demographic survey. Findings revealed trust was a critical mechanism enabling students to activate their cultural wealth. …
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A narrative inquiry into key experiences affecting women's persistence in STEM fields following the bachelor's degree
… The theoretical framework was guided by critical feminist theory and intersectionality and examined how race, gender, neurodiversity, sexuality, power relations, and systemic inequity shaped participants’ experiences in STEM. Eight women participated in virtual, recorded, semi-structured narrative …
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Unseen Journeying: Latinx Mothers’ Experiences and Navigation of Pre-Referral Home-School Collaboration
… to student growth. In alignment with Chicana Feminist Epistemology, plática methodology was employed to gather the accounts of 12 Latinx mothers whose children had undergone the pre-referral stage in the last 6 years. A novel conceptual framework and a phronetic iterative approach were used to …
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Mexicana scholars in the making: testimonios from the heartland
… Community Cultural Wealth model and a Chicana Feminist Epistemology (CFE) len(s), this study explores the ways five Mexicanas scholars develop strategies for navigating higher education and beyond such as the doctoral journey at a public, Research I, Predominately White institution (PWI) in the …
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The construction of social problems and the experience of human service programs: contradictory relations in a support group for adolescent mothers
… implications relevant to ongoing discussions of feminist epistemology, and the intersection of gender and social class.
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An Ethical Justification of Weight Loss Surgery
… of responsibility from a perspective informed by feminist epistemology and ethics provide the foundation upon which to consider reform of current clinical practices surrounding treatment of obesity. This dissertation concludes that WLS is both ethically and clinically justified.
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