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Showing 1 to 20 of 379 for “"gender and sexuality studies"”.
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Narrative Justice Playmaking: A toolkit for transformative theatre
… which addresses the research question: How can and do theatre practitioners tell stories of ongoing traumatic subject matter in ways that are not just trauma- informed, but capable of generating social justice? To answer this question I engage in interdisciplinary research across Theatre and …
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Women's Studies Worldwide: Cartographies of Transnational Academic Feminism
This dissertation retells the history of women’s studies from a global perspective, challenging traditional U.S. and Eurocentric narratives about this emerging interdisciplinary field. Beginning with questions about why women’s, gender, and sexuality studies has incited backlash across a range of …
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Community of Counter-Conduct: Politics and Practices of LGBTQ Christian Activism in Evangelicalism
… at the intersections of American religious studies and gender and sexuality studies have broadened our understanding of the overlapping histories of faith communities and LGBTQ social movements in the US. Despite recent contributions to the history of LGBTQ activism in American religious …
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The Janissaries and their bedfellows: Masculinity and male homosexuality in early modern Ottoman Istanbul 1500-1826
… investigates the relationships between male homosexuality, social transgression and the construction of masculinities in the early modem Ottoman Empire. To this end, it primarily focuses on Ottoman conduct and advice literature, court chronicles, sumptuary regulations and state rulings related to …
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Inner Dilemmas of LGBTQ+ Movements in Brazil: A Queer Intersectional Approach
… dynamics within Brazilian LGBTQ+ movements and their influence on movements’ strategic choices and subsequent results. The main argument is that LGBTQ+ groups have been pushed to formalise their structures to access material, cultural, and political resources to mobilise within a …
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Final Report: Media Intern Position at CLAGS
… fulfillment for the completion of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The capstone project consisted of an internship position at CLAGS as a media producer, director and editor. The Media Intern opportunity allowed me to create …
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Bricolage Propriety: The Queer Practice of Black Uplift, 1890–1905
… nineteenth century. Through literary analysis and archival research on leading and marginal figures of Post-Reconstruction African American culture, this dissertation considers the progenitorial relationship of late-nineteenth century black uplift novels to modern-day queer theory. …
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Often treated harshly: Girls and young women in 1957 Perth
… various aspects of life for young women and teenage girls in Perth in 1957, that contrast with the idealised youthful femininity promoted by women’s magazines such as The Australian Women’s Weekly. It discusses status offences in the context of child welfare legislation and the …
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Women, Feminism, and Aging in Appalachia
<p>Aging has become a problem for men and women in Western societies where youth is touted and revered as a standard of success by which individual value is measured and esteemed. Older women in particular find that as they age they face discrimination in the form of ageism and social diminution. …
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Exclusion from gender counter-stereotypic activities: Proximal and distal effects
… we investigated whether exclusion from gender stereotypic vs. counter-stereotypic activities affects both how threatening the experience is and beliefs about gender stereotypes. The effects of exclusion activity on need threat and beliefs about gender stereotypes were explored in a …
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UNDERSTANDING THE SOURCES OF GENDER DISPARITIES IN STEM
… the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79 and 97 datasets, Todd and I assess the importance of adolescent skill profiles and high school coursetaking in explaining gender disparities in four-year college completion, college major, and occupational choices. We consider five cognitive skill …
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The trajectory of male homosexuality in Nazism
<p>Nazism redefined gender and sexual politics for society during the twentieth century, which determined the trajectory of male homosexuality under the Third Reich. While the party did not actively promote homosexuality, early Nazism valued hypermasculinity and homosocial relationships. Right-wing …
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Reading the romance: throught the eyes of a millennial feminist
… in the past or currently, read romance novels, and their thoughts on the intersection of these two things. The survey involved 135 participants aged 18-29 primarily came from the Northwest area of the United States. The research found that overall, a majority of millennial consumers that …
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Growing Up Gay and Latino
… are well documented in academic journals and popular press, this dissertation insinuates that those experiences are inflected by the Anglo setting in which students attend school. This study investigates the experiences using a multiple choice and open-ended survey and a personal interview …
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By Beauty Damned: Millennial Feminism and the Exploitation of Women's Empowerment in Pop Culture and Corporate Advertising
… used by capitalists to sell products to women, and yet many of those capitalists fund political campaigns that directly seek to quash or inhibit the advancement of women’s rights. With a little effort, any consumer can find out who their big purveyors are supporting politically. For example, …
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