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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"gender hierarchies"”.
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Equal before Allah, unequal before man? : negotiating gender hierarchies in Islam and international law
This study engages in a conceptual analysis of human rights in Islam and international law, and the application of this analytical discourse to explore the nature of women's human rights in the Islamic tradition. It has been argued that women's human rights in Islam are not entirely irreconcilable …
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The Status, Survival, and Current Dilemma of a Female Dalit Cobbler of India
… The structure of Indian society, with its hierarchies and power structures, is an ideal place to better understand the experience of oppression. Women throughout the long established Indian hierarchy, and members of the lower castes and classes, have traditionally born the force of …
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The politics of menstrual shame: gender, injustice, and empowerment in contemporary menstrual experience
… that menstrual shame is not problematically gendered: menstruation, just like other bodily processes, is something many people simply like to keep private. There may be two justifications for this, I argue: one may think that menstruation is disgusting, or one may think that it is important …
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THE INTERPLAY OF MASCULINITIES IN SCHOOL
… particular value system and regime that dictates gender hierarchies. The purpose of this study was to document, articulate, and construct knowledge and awareness about boys’ own understanding of the interplay of masculinities and peer group hierarchies at one particular site. Five Grade eight male …
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Gender and community: Womanist and feminist perspectives in the fiction of Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, and Louise Erdrich
… that are articulated in the constructions of gender identity in the fiction of Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, and Louise Erdrich arise from and vary with their constructions of community. In the U.S., the women's suffrage movement and the mainstream feminist movements of the past …
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Making Waves without Rocking the Boat: Women’s Reinforcement of Gender Status Hierarchies as a Protectant against Discrimination
… support for the idea that women who violate gender roles by succeeding in male-dominated domains elicit hot forms of discrimination. In particular, evidence suggests that a perceivers' conservatism, which represents a preference against gender change toward greater equality, might motivate …
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Dismantling Lost Cause fables : a content analysis examining narrative and visual representations of slavery in U.S. history textbooks.
… lessons about America's racial, social, and gender hierarchies. The findings indicated that current U.S. history textbooks reproduce nineteenth-century Lost Cause ideology by justifying enslavement and normalizing Whiteness. Narrative descriptions of enslavement used sanitized language …
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The Anxiety Of Evolution: Biological And Cultural Adaptation From Marcel Proust To Peter Greenaway
… determined differentiation of sexes and genders, the value of art within utilitarian frameworks, and the reproduction of artworks and organisms in a heteronormalized bioeconomy. Beginning with an overview of the reception of Darwinism and the overlapping discourses concerning media …
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Precarious Empowerments: Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Santiago, Chile
… at the intersection of class, racial, and gender hierarchies. From an intersectional perspective, my study examines how inequalities based on class, gender, race, nationality, and body capital are reproduced and contested by sex workers. Based on the multiple facets of the precariousness …
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Performing dreams in England and Spain, 1570-1670
… preoccupations regarding traditional rank and gender hierarchies. Furthermore, it provides an account of the dream theories in force at that time and underscores that dreams are seen as either negligible or very significant entities. Chapter 2 elucidates why I have chosen to study the dreams …
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What Is the Problem of Gender? Mainstreaming Gender in Migration and Development Policies in the European Union
… analysis of representations and discourses of gender (in)equality contained in policy texts at the EU level. The period under examination is 2005–2010. Following the academic debate, I show that there is certainly agreement on the fact that gender mainstreaming at the EU level has not fulfilled …
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Defining postmodern masculinities: a symptomatic approach to understanding French masculinities
… masculinity a new space to confront social and gender hierarchies while questioning dominant narratives and moving them to the periphery. Throughout each chapter, I am examining the discourse of crisis as it appears in the texts of French authors Michel Houellebecq, Erik Rémès, Guillaume Dustan, …
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After conversion: gender, modernity, and the regeneration of Christianity across three generations of indigenous evangelicals in highland Ecuador
… contexts in and through generational and gender relations. Based on fifteen months of anthropological fieldwork conducted in the Colta Lake region of Chimborazo Province, this dissertation reveals how the dramatic social transformations generated by conversion in one historical context …