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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"feminist perspectives"”.
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Feminist Perspectives on Liberation and Exploitation: A Phenomenological Study of Performance
… liberation for neo burlesque performers using feminist theory as the context for analysis. The project had the following goals: to identify using phenomenology, the essence of new burlesque participant experiences, to analyze those experiences using feminist theories of exploitation and …
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Rethinking parenting of East Asian immigrant families in the United States with Asian feminist perspectives
… a harsh authoritarian style. Based on Asian feminist perspectives, which seek to rethink ‘Asia’ and ‘Asian women’ in different ways, the author attempts to reconceptualize East Asian parenting as the signifier of diversity. East Asian parenting is the process of inviting East Asian immigrant …
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Phallic metaphors and feminist perspectives : unsettling the Linnaean Botanical Archive through historiographic technique and studio practice
… decorative and domestic practices within broader feminist historiographic debates, responding to interpretations that dismiss them as trivial or reclaim them as subversive. Drawing on feminist historiography, material culture studies, and archival theory, the project interrogates Carl Linnaeus' …
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An Inquiry into the Experiences of the African American Woman Principal: Critical Race Theory and Black Feminist Perspectives
… American woman leader was heard), and Black Feminist Thought (Afrocentric feminist thought emphasized the importance that knowledge plays in empowering oppressed people). Data collection methods included interviews, observations, reflective journals, researcher interview reflection log notes, …
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Relative effects of coeducation and single-sex schools on students' schooling, affection, and career choice: Exploring conventional and feminist perspectives
With the purpose of investigating whether two different secondary school types--single-sex and coeducational school--yield different schooling processes and outcomes, four major questions were raised: (a) Do the single-sex secondary schools affect students' schooling experiences? (b) Do the …
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Gender and community: Womanist and feminist perspectives in the fiction of Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, and Louise Erdrich
… the women's suffrage movement and the mainstream feminist movements of the past three decades have concentrated on challenging middle-class Euroamerican patriarchal definitions of womanhood. Women of color and working class women have, for the most part, worked independently of predominantly …
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Persistence factors of women in information tecnology : a multiple case study analysis
… conceptualize their experiences from particular feminist perspectives. The findings provided insights into the following factors that contribute to career persistence among women in information technology. These factors included how a woman 2 transitioned into her first information technology …
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Feminist identity and social tolerance of mental illness: The influence of gender-role deviance
<p>This study examined the influence of feminist identity on social tolerance of mental illness, specifically, the extent to which people with gender deviant mental illnesses (i.e. men with depression, women with antisocial personality disorder) are socially tolerated. Male and female subjects …
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Domestic Violence in the Popular Discourse: A Victim -Centered Problem
… to the marginalization of the sociological and feminist perspectives that emphasize the social and cultural context. The dominance of individualism and self-help ideology in the United States foster the psychological perspective of domestic violence. We need alternative media that focus on the …
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Paving the Road to Peace: Transnational Solidarity for Survivors of Military Sexual Slavery by Imperial Japan through the Observation of the Wednesday Demonstration
… the weekly protests; and, through the lens of feminist perspectives, reviews how the Wednesday Demonstration has evolved into a national and transnational movement to foster solidarity.
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"""La escuela es para estudiar"": Representations of Chicana schooling experiences in young adult literature"
… as depicted in selected texts. Guided by Chicana feminist perspectives, this study engaged in a critical content analysis of four young adult literature texts: Gabi, a Girl in Pieces (Quintero, 2014), Under the Mesquite (Garcia McCall, 2013), What Can(t) Wait (Pérez, 2011), and The Tequila Worm …
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Imprisoned and Empowered: The Women of Edith Wharton's Supernatural Fiction.
… to believe that Wharton expressed different feminist perspectives based on how she was developing as a person and as a writer.</p> <p>The resources and scholarship that are strictly allocated to Wharton’s ghost stories are not as vast as they may be for her other fiction; however, more …
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De-policing queer possibilities
… Bringing together Queer theorist and Black Feminist perspectives to define Queer subjectivity, possibility, and the tactical performance of policing- this project creates a theoretical framework about how de-policing Queer and racialized subjectivity and performance can be a life saving …
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Uncovering the Process by Which Grandparent Couples in Encore Adulthood Engage in Family Leisure
… couples. Guided by life course and critical feminist perspectives, this qualitative inquiry examined the process of family leisure among grandparent couples during the life stage of encore adulthood (Daly, and Beaton, 2005; Moen, 2016). The results of this study, utilizing the method of …
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Creating Space For Seldom Heard Voices
… have been informed by social constructionist and feminist perspectives, which view masculinities as multiple and enacted through a plethora of situations and interactions. This paper presents a critical review of these new developments in help-seeking research, centred around four main themes …
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Physical violence and psychological abuse among siblings: a theoretical and empirical analysis
… model based on social learning, conflict, and feminist perspectives to explain teenage sibling physical violence and psychological abuse. Using regression analysis and data from 796 young adults, considerable support is found for all three theoretical approaches and suggests an integrated model …
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Aktualizace řeckých mýtů v současné anglosaské literatuře a jejich kritický ohlas
… by Madeline Miller - which offer fresh, often feminist perspectives on classical mythological narratives, reimagining well-known characters and events through new lenses. The theoretical part of the thesis provides an overview of Greek mythology, its connection to the fantasy genre, and the …
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Resilience and Struggle: Exploring the Experiences of Undocumented College Students Through Chicana Feminist Theory and Dialogical Performance
… campuses more inclusive spaces.</p> <p>The perspectives of undocumented students are examined through interviews conducted from dialogical performance and Chicana feminist perspectives. Dialogical performance from the perspective of Dwight Conquergood as a method is bridged with Chicana …
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Screaming in silence: exploring gender empowerment & representation in contemporary horror narratives
… media, leading to the emergence of more overt feminist perspectives within the genre. This thesis investigates the evolution of the horror genre through a feminist lens, examining how contemporary horror narratives challenge and subvert traditional gender roles and power dynamics. The study …
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