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Showing 1 to 20 of 106 for “"feminist theories"”.
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Prostitute as sex worker : feminist theories contextualized
Many feminist approaches to prostitution exist, all with the ultimate goal of eliminating gender inequality as a framework for their theories. Using data on street prostitution in Montreal and San Francisco collected by Frances Shaver and Martin Weinberg, the real lived experiences of sex workers …
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Feminist Theories of Autonomy and their Implications for Rape Law Reform
… ourselves. In this paper, I discuss various theories of autonomy, and their problems—specifically their implications for understanding human subjects and their experiences. I am particularly concerned with the role of gender in these theories, and want to know whether women’s autonomy is …
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Feminist Theories of Autonomy and their Implications for Rape Law Reform
… ourselves. In this paper, I discuss various theories of autonomy, and their problems—specifically their implications for understanding human subjects and their experiences. I am particularly concerned with the role of gender in these theories, and want to know whether women’s autonomy is …
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Accumulating Cares: Women, Whiteness, and the Affective Labour of Responsible Reproduction in Neoliberal Times
… in neoliberal conditions. Building on important feminist research in the fields of citizenship, care, and the welfare state, I ask how are mothers being socially responsibilized toward multiple forms of labour simultaneously and to what effect? By engaging feminist theories of citizenship and …
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The Woman Question in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: the interaction of Romanticism and mid-nineteenth-century Victorian England
… declares that "there are indeed Marxist and feminist theories of literature which ... are more valuable" since his hypothesis ts that "literature . . . is vitally engaged with the living situations of men and women: it is concrete rather than abstract". What he means is that literature occurs …
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Living on an horizon : the writings of Bessie Head
… this range by drawing both on postcolonial and feminist theories and on the variety of cultural references that Head acknowledges and that her writing evokes. Postcolonial perspectives are used to confront Head's attention to the discursive foundations of social fictions, relations and …
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Män, kvinnor & omsorg : En studie av omsorg som begrepp och handling i mans- och kvinnodominerade yrken
… The dissertation contains a survey of non-feminist and feminist theories of care and an empirical study of views of care and caring acts in four professional groups: janitors, neighbourhood police, district nurses, and home-helpers. The study, which is based on interviews, participant …
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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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The Discursive Production of Subjectivity in Television News: Reflecting the Other on the Obese Child's Body
In this paper, I expand on poststructuralist and feminist theories of the body, gender, and subjectivity through an analysis of media discourse on childhood obesity. Through textual and narrative analyses of news segments on childhood obesity, I demonstrate that the obese child's body, as an …
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Women in Combat: A Critical Analysis of Responses to the U.S. Military's Recent Inclusion Efforts
… from serving in combat. Specifically, I use feminist theories of embodiment, equality, and difference to interpret how interlocutors represent female service members in the "Letters" section of the Marine Corps Gazette and interviews I collected from members of the military community. I find …
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GET INTO IT: UNPACKING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEGEMONIC NORMS AND THE RACE AND GENDER OF POP ARTISTS
… said hegemony. With the context of understanding feminist theories, hegemonic norms, parasocial relationships, celebrity appeal, and norms, the researcher wanted to understand if there are clear relationship among these frameworks in modern society. This study employed a 2x2 2between subjects …
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Engaging feminism : a pedagogy for Aboriginal peoples
… experiences of Aboriginal people. Drawing on feminist theories, this thesis explores how the ideology and practices of male dominance were imposed through colonization in Aboriginal societies. European male dominance has been modeled throughout colonization and assimilation, and this set the …
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Latin Oxford: dominance, power, and gender roles in dancing salsa
… identity, authority, and obedience. Using feminist theories of dominance, theories of practice, theories of constructed identity, theories of learning, theories of agency, and theories of emotion I explore the interwoven social forces at work in this popular form of recreation.
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Sculpted from clay, shaped by power: Feminine narrative and agency in Wonder Woman
<p>By applying deconstructive and feminist theories to the Wonder Woman saga, this thesis develops a potential definition of feminine narrative in contrast to the normative and exclusionary patriarchal narrative that reigns supreme in popular culture and Western ideology. Though much of comics …
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Adult women with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder: Perspectives on the menarche/menstruation experience
Framed in select MWGS feminist theories, this study’s 335 adult women/assigned-female-at-birth responded to the Autism Spectrum Quotient-10 (AQ-10, 2012) and Menstrual Attitude Questionnaire-2nd version (MAQ, 1980a, 1980b). Although without statistical significance (α = .05), 29/335 (8.7%) reported …
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Receiving A Queen: A Queer and Trans Feminist Classical Reception Rhetorical Historiography of Elagabalus
… history. The project draws on trans, queer, and feminist theories and rhetorics which help highlight the contingent and conflicting nature of Elagabalus's identities across representations without settling them into a singular narrative of being allowing for multiple queer potentialities to …
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"My Gut Has To Feel It": A Participatory Action Research Study of Community College Educators Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Human Rights Education
<p>Informed by feminist theories of emotion and the concept of critical emotional praxis, this PAR study highlights the emotional terrain of four Northern California community college teachers who teach human rights. The following meta-question guided this research: "Given the role of emotions in …
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Hombres Normativos: The Creation and Inculcation of Martial Masculinity during the Franco Regime in Spain (1939—1975)
… Foucauldian, post-structural, ethnographic, and feminist theories and situating its findings in the context of Spain's cultural, economic, and social changes during the 1960s and 1970s, the dissertation argues that the regime failed to normalize its version of masculinity. Soldiers utilized …
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Resilience and Struggle: Exploring the Experiences of Undocumented College Students Through Chicana Feminist Theory and Dialogical Performance
… from dialogical performance and Chicana feminist perspectives. Dialogical performance from the perspective of Dwight Conquergood as a method is bridged with Chicana feminist theories of Gloria Anzaldua, theories of <em>Nepantla</em>, <em>New Tribalism</em>, <em>Spritual Activism</em>, and …
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Revisiting girlhood : defining a postmodern/popular feminist culture /
… YM. Focusing on the issue of the feminine versus feminist polarity and its importance to girls' culture, this thesis attempts to demonstrate how popular feminism can be used as a mode of empowerment and illustrates the mode of consumption of popular feminist texts that frames female selfimage, …
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