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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"feminist poststructuralism"”.
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Islamic feminist reflection of pedagogy and gender praxis in South African madaris.
… institutions in South Africa. Informed by a feminist imperative that recognizes education to be both a site for gender struggle and also a tool for change-making, this thesis adopts a feminist pedagogical approach to examine some of the ways that young Muslim girls in South Africa learn about …
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An investigation into the discourses of secondary aged girls’ emotions and emotional difficulties
… from social constructionism (Gergen,2001) and feminist poststructuralism (Weedon, 1999), in order to explore how the emotions of secondary aged girls are constructed. Two research methods were used; focus groups with Year 9 girls and semi-structured interviews with their teachers. Discourse …
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The relational construction of woman abuse : narratives of gender, subjectivity and violence in South Africa
… men). Narrative analytical methods, informed by feminist poststructuralism, revealed that participants located themselves within multiple and ambiguous gendered subject positions. In their talk about violence and relationships, women and men 'performed' gender and enacted diverse culturally …
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Respectability, morality and reputation: social representations of intimate partner violence against women in Cape Town
… framed within social representations theory and feminist poststructuralism. In-depth individual interviews were conducted with 11 men, recruited from two men's programmes at an NGO, and seven focus group discussions were conducted with the men's social networks. A total of 11 3 reports on …
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Women's access to the superintendency: Pathways from the elementary ranks
… frameworks – expectations states theory and feminist poststructuralism – provided the context for this research. Portraits of each of the six participants were shared to provide detailed descriptions.</p> <p>Four emergent themes common across all six participants were revealed. Those findings …
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Circuits of Desire: Science, Therapy, Trauma, Femininity
<p>In this dissertation, I utilize feminist poststructuralism, affect theory, psychoanalytic theory, and sociological critiques of medicalization and biopolitical/biocapitalist investment in bodies to analyze the diagnosis and lived experience of low sexual desire in women. In the most recent …
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Policing domestic abuse in an English police force: navigating definitional boundaries and exploring tensions between policy and practice
… incidents that are flagged as DA. Drawing on feminist poststructuralism, attention is given to how police officers navigate and resist definitional categories when identifying and responding to DA, with particular focus on the operational definition of DA, as well as the categories of …
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Agency as dynamic and rhizomatic: An exploration of learner identities in two secondary classrooms
… theoretical landscapes of socioculturalism and feminist poststructuralism, this study investigates agency through a rhizo-textual analysis in two year nine classrooms. The dynamic poststructural view of agency theorised in this thesis is derived from Judith Butler’s (1993) notion of …
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Sites of resistance: language, intertextuality, and subjectivity in the poetry of Diane Wakoski
… and women’s subjectivity. The poststructuralist feminist enterprise of examining and critiquing language and signifying practices for the ways in which they impose social values and of interrogating and undermining the fixity of meanings in cultural texts will serve as my primary frame. Concerned …
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Making meaning of gender-based violence: Elite subjectivity and gender performance in a Canadian private school
… theorizing the ethnographic experience through a feminist poststructural lens, I was able to question normative gender discourses and assumptions by observing student performances of masculinity and femininity, which revealed a deeper understanding of the cultural narratives and social practices …
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The Ambivalent Agency: Battered Women Who Kill in Turkey
… battered women who killed their abusers. Using a feminist poststructuralist theory and intersectionality analysis, the study analysed the patterns surrounding the agency of battered women who kill. Male violence in Turkey continues to be an unresolved problem, which continues to only grow. In the …
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Heterosexual couples, gender discourse, and the production of relational subjectivity
This study is situated in feminist and poststructural theory. The focus of the study is heterosexual relationships. In particular, the study investigates the shaping effects of patriarchal discourses on the relational subjectivity of a woman partner; how a woman partner responds to and refuses this …
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Things seemed to fall apart when he was in the room: Survivors' representations of violence, agency, power, and resistance in their online posts
… and resistance and Baxter’s (2003, 2008) feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis. The integrated findings demonstrated that the survivors drew from multiple competing discourses in their constructions of men’s violence and in constituting themselves as women, partners, mothers, and …