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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"gender lines"”.
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Growing Up Biracial and Gay in the Deep South: Living between the Color/Gender Lines
… doctoral student growing up in-between the color lines of Black and White and raising a biracial and gay daughter growing up in the deep South. Building on the works of Kincheloe and Pinar (1991), Frantz Fanon (1963), Maria Root (1996), Henry Giroux (1992), Paul Gilroy (1993b), Phillion, He & …
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Blurring the Gender Lines: Margaret of Anjou's use of Gender as Power in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy
… throne of England showcases her ability to bend gender as she embraces the masculine, partaking in violence attributed to men. Throughout the <em>Henry VI</em> plays, she embraces the masculine characteristics that are associated with power. Her foes, note this, calling her “unnatural”. Margaret …
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Toppling the ivory tower: Coded communication in American political discourse
… anti-intellectual communications span party and gender lines.
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The monstrous female: monstrosity in the Anglo-Saxon monstrous and early modern witchcraft traditions
… analyse the medieval monster tradition along gender lines and assess how the gender-monstrosity matrix informed the early modern Scottish and English witchcraft traditions. This new analysis of witchcraft literature will involve re-conceiving it as part of a much longer continuum of …
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Woman's investment pays the best interest: Literature-based dissertation on gender difference in investing in emerging markets
Gender differences in investing is an expanding research area in Behavioural Finance. Research has shown that males and females behave differently in many of their decision-making processes, but this dissertation will focus mainly on the differences in investing behaviours. Because males are …
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Deconstructing Gender in New Orleans: The Impact of Patriarchy and Social Vulnerability Before and After a Natural Disaster
… Orleanians. However, as is typically the case, gender was ignored in most media accounts in the aftermath of the disaster. This project examines the gendered dimensions of the disaster experience using New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina as a case study. Evidence from University of New Orleans …
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The Assessment of Community-Based Approach in Implementing Mother and Child Health Project of Immunization in Tanzania: The Case of Arusha Municipality
… men and women in Community-Based Approach across gender lines in implementing Maternal/Mother and Child Health Project of immunization, and to propose sustainable approaches to men and women involvement in Community-Based Approach in implementing Maternal/Mother and Child Health Project of …
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Gender differences in the responses of ESL students to teacher feedback
… between response to feedback and the variable of gender. Two exploratory studies were conducted to examine perceptions of evaluative feedback as a function of the respondent's gender. In the first study, Study A, eleven undergraduate students in one ESL course completed a questionnaire outside of …
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Returning to School: Narratives of High School Leavers and How the General Equivalency Diploma Affects Financial Stability and Educational Opportunities
… these reasons across racial, cultural and gender lines. This report analyzes why students returned to receive their GEDs and how they believe the receipt of the GED will affect their goals in regards to education, family and career choices. Five themes about “high school leavers†are …
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Ballads, songs and snatches: The appropriation of and responses to folk song and popular music culture in the nineteenth century
… In the course of this discussion it outlines ways in which authors appealed to audiences often stratified along class and gender lines. The chapter and article extend the concerns of the book, especially Chapter 6, with the discourse of popular songs of the early nineteenth-century …
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Gender inequality in secondary education in Ghana
… some of the issues surrounding extensive gender inequalities operating within the school, family and the wider society which affect girls’ rights to education. It reveals that institutional culture within the home, community and school reinforces gender inequality and continue to limit …
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Ethnography of 'Herero Mall' (Windhoek) as a post-apartheid social space
… reproduction of class divides, especially along gender lines is expressed through the interaction of social actors. Invariably, social actors eke out a living within the purview of their social positions. ‘Herero Mall’ is by and large organised around consumption, a distinctive feature of modern …
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The Black Middle-class Marriage Paradox: At the Intersection of Race, Upward Mobility, and Gender
… of the most widely participated in and deeply gendered institutions in the world. Over time, American marriage has also become increasingly classed—selecting on those who are socioeconomically stable and college educated—and racialized—with Black Americans being the least likely group to ever …
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Seeking Holiness: The Contribution of Nine Vernacular Narrative Texts from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Centuries
… to uncover several distinctive definitions of holiness, all of which blend the religious and the secular. Close reading of these texts reveals various paths to holiness, which undermine the Church’s attempts at sole control over spirituality. This study demonstrates that secular authors were …
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Curriculum Decolonization in the University of Cape Town: Research, Policy and Practice
… knowledge systems structured along racial and gender lines. Curriculum decolonization entails dismantling and rethinking HE amidst curriculum diversity, relationality and promoting indigenous knowledges. The DHET transformation agenda is limited to who is at the university and does not consider …
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Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet: Rap Nationalism, The Gangsta, and the Making of the Dirty South.
… U.S. and the globe, crossing race, class, and gender lines like few other art forms have before. Hip-hop music exists on a continuum of historically black musical traditions and draws from various moments in the history of black resistance. My project will focus on an examination of the several …
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Essays on Gender Differences in Educational and Labor Market Outcomes
… than men. As social networks tend to run along gender lines and managers in the labor market are predominantly male, it may be more difficult for women to signal their ability without college credentials. Moreover, women may use education to signal their labor market attachment. A game …
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Beyond behavior: An intersectional analysis of the impact of sexual networks, segregation, and incarceration on disparities in STDs
… diseases is not equally borne along racial and gender lines. In particular, African Americans report substantially higher rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis than do Whites. Generally, women report higher rates of these diseases than do men. Using an intersectional analytical framework, …