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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"feminist literature"”.
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Committed to the Fragment: Feminist Literature and the Promise of Wellness
… discontents. These texts are what I read as “feminist literature.” They turn to emergent genres and forms to refigure wellness as a generative relation to difference – a relation that, in Lorde’s Black feminist framework, is always bound up with the pain of others. Specifically, I read Lorde’s …
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The androgynous ideal in twentieth-century feminist literature : Woolf, Carter, Winterson and Harpman
… balanced whole within each individual. Within a feminist epistemology, it offers an opportunity to escape the power structures and value systems of patriarchy, and to attain individual fulfilment in both writing and identity. Virginia Woolf introduces the idea of androgyny into feminist literary …
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Feminist Herstory Through Indian English Literature
… design project, which uses Indian English feminist literature to amplify monolithic understandings of feminism in the Indian context. The purpose of this project was to design a workshop curriculum that uses Indian English feminist literature to define and exemplify the need for feminism in …
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Hannah Arendt and Feminist Agency
… is to articulate an Arendtian conception of feminist agency, that is, agency that aims at resistance from within oppressive situations. There is a tendency in feminist literature to depict women in the global south as if they are passive victims of their oppression, with no opportunities to …
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: the Trapped 'Other'
… and recognized for their early contribution to feminist literature; however, critics have also defined her masculine persona as contradictory to her overall feminist leanings. Using Mikhail Bahktin's theories on the relationship between author and text, I examine Lady Mary's pre-court poem …
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Living With Men : A Novel
… past decade, I have had access to a good deal of Feminist literature. While not specifically in that genre, my book does address the questions raised by such contemporary authors as Midge Dector and Doris Lessing.
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A Weave of Women in the context of contemporary feminism and traditional Judaism
… Part One I provide a description of contemporary feminist rituals to set Broner’s novel into context. Part Two is an exposition of the text of her novel comparing its feminist rites to various Jewish prayer books and descriptions of traditional Jewish rituals. In my conclusion I offer a critique …
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Narrow escapes: A feminist deconstruction of anorexia nervosa in women
This thesis is a feminist deconstruction of anorexia nervosa (AN) in women. It begins with questioning the truth claims about AN established by the psychological and psychiatric fields. After an overview of the medical model literature and the feminist literature on eating problems, a critical …
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A social study of women in contemporary biological sciences
… I compared these themes with issues in the feminist literature and with accounts from the social studies of science. Women in biology are far from developing alternative epistemologies, but see themselves as different from their male colleagues in several important respects. They expressed …
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Third Shift Appearance Work: Experiences Of Career-Oriented Mothers
… children under the age of six. Up until now, feminist literature in the areas of motherhood and paid work has focused on the ways in which working mothers balance the hectic schedules and responsibilities of paid work with the obligations that exist at home. This purpose of this study is to …
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Rediscovering a Fundamentally New and Practical Administrative Alternative
… the two primary types of public administration feminist literature, equity feminism and other voice feminism, and determines that they do not reveal a clear typology that practically outlines the characteristics of an alternative organizational viewpoint from that of the dominant viewpoint. …
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Disqualification by design: Strategic inefficiencies in Canada’s legal response to sexual assault
… barriers to justice. Drawing on intersectional feminist and decolonial theory and autoethnographic methodology, I analyze my own experiences of reporting my SA to the police and serving as a complainant in the SA trial that followed in conversation with selected narratives of other survivors in …
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Childlessness in a child-centered environment : the experiences of voluntarily childless female teachers /
In the literature on voluntary childlessness there is a lack of research on the types of occupations held by women who choose not to mother and how their fertility choice influences their occupational experiences. At the same time, the experience ofwomen with regard to the childfree choice has not …
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The "Silent Scream" of "Pathetic Seeds": exploring a feminist ethics of care as a means to broaden the scope of current GM crop risk assessment practices in South Africa
… achieve this, the research methodologies adopt a feminist- pragmatist approach that allows for the use of mixed methods and emphasises reflexivity to allow new perspectives to appear. The research aims to (1) study current risk assessment procedures for GM crops and their historical evolution; (2) …
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Muslim women's experiences of motherhood: a South African perspective
… realities and faith tradition. Using an Islamic feminist analytical framework, I employed the concepts of experience as an epistemological site, the particularity of mothering experiences, and gender scripts within Islamic perspectives to render visible the layered and nuanced realities of Muslim …
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Vulnerability and the feminist politics of sexual violence
… how does understanding vulnerability enable feminists to engage with sexual violence? Whilst there has been a ‘return to vulnerability’ (Murphy 2012: 70) in the recent feminist literature, sexual violence is notably absent. These contributions to the field emphasise the shared character of …
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University Students' Attitudes Towards Body Hair And Hair Removal: An Exploration Of The Effects Of Background Characteristics, Socialization, And Societal Pressures
… by many women in the United States. Existing feminist literature suggests that body hair removal is a major component of societal norms. This study aimed to contribute to the literature by exploring the social factors that influence the extent of women's depilation from public/visible body …
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Motherhood, social influences and ‘home’: Women’s desistance in Aotearoa New Zealand
… in several areas of existing desistance literature, including the potentially gendered aspects of the desistance process (particularly concerning parenthood and relationships), women’s experiences of desistance in a New Zealand-based context (including those of Indigenous women, Māori), …
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Caring in Nursing Education
… practice of nursing and nursing education from a feminist perspective. I begin with my own personal narrative in which I seek to uncover my own caring essence as a basis for inquiring into issues of caring and feminism in nursing education. Theoretical constructs from educational nursing and …
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Occupational segregation in Namibia: Women's experience doing "men's work" in the construction and manufacturing industries
… this study adds to the existing development and feminist literature related to the interplay between the productive and reproductive spheres of women's lives as well as their options and choices concerning each.
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