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Showing 1 to 20 of 503 for “"gender studies"”.
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Christa Wolfs Kassandra im Spannungsfeld von feministischer Ethnologie, gender studies und Mythosrezeption
Wolfs prosaische Mythosreprise des trojanischen Krieges stellt das empirische Quellenmaterial der im interdisziplinären Diskurs zwischen Ethnologie und Literaturwissenschaft verorteten Arbeit. Die Begriffe Feminismus, Ethnologie, Mythologie und Literatur bilden dabei die Eckpfeiler meiner Lesart …
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Women's and gender studies instruction : teaching to replace the Renaissance man in the face of conservatism
… have long interrogated the merit of Women’s and Gender Studies referring to it as a frivolous investment. At the same time, many students fail to understand the purpose or benefit of a WGS education while instructors struggle to find pedagogical works to utilize in their teaching. Although …
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Femme Theory: Femininity's Challenge to Western Feminist Pedagogies
… the structures, histories, and theories of gender relations, this study dislocates femininity from its ascribed Otherness and, in doing so, demonstrates how empowered femininities have been overlooked or rendered invisible within gender studies. Femme, as the failure or refusal to …
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Final Report: Media Intern Position at CLAGS
… 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 digital …
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Helene Stöcker, Weimar Germany and Prophylactics: An Investigation Into the Context and Effects of the Reichsgesestz zur Bekämpfung Geschlechtskrankheiten
<p>This paper investigates German gender studies in the Weimar Era. It looks at a specific law, passed regarding contraceptive devices. It seeks to show how women were presented with a guise of freedom, while living in a truly paternalistic society.</p>
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'This is like seeing a human body totally from a different angle' : experiences of South African cisgender partners in cisgender-trans* relationships
To date, the knowledge available about cisgender-trans* couples and their experiences is located in the global North. Research situated in the interest of trans*, transgender and transsexual people's lives most often furthers scholars' understanding of gender. In my research, I employed strategies …
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Exploring gender dynamics in sexuality education in Uganda's secondary schools
Within international theory of gender and education, sexuality is implicated as one of the major factors responsible for the differential participation of boys and girls in schooling and the persistent gender inequalities in education in Sub-Saharan African countries and Uganda in particular. In …
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"All the world's a stage": 'gendered performativities of 'transitional' masculinities within a South Africa female-to-male (FTM) transsexual context
… international and South Africa, on questions of gender, performativity, and masculinities. In addition, questions of social justice for those marginalized by gender conventions created the context for a qualitative research process in which transgender men's experiences of their subjectivities as …
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Bodies across borders : embodiment and experiences of migration for southern African international students at the University of Cape Town
In context of increasing global migration and its correlation to heightened tensions around the meaning of a "foreign" body, this research questions the experiences of bodies crossing borders into the social and historical space of Cape Town, South Africa. Grounded in theories of surveillance, …
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Body politics: an illumination of the landscape of sexuality and nationhood? Re-seeing Zimbabwe through elderly women's representations of their sexual and gendered lives
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Lovelife: productions and re-productions of gender constructs and HIV
… of knowledge and values relates to transforming gender relations as they impact on HIV/AIDS in a South African context. The research originated out of a concern that loveLife, the world's largest HIV/AIDS youth education organisation in the world, was possibly replicating gendered inequities in …
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Women and activism : Indian Muslim women's responses to apartheid South Africa
Bibliography: leaves 125-128.
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Gay language in Cape Town: a study of Gayle - attitudes, history and usage
… Africa. With LGBTI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intergender) rights improving in South Africa (same-sex marriages were legalised in 2006 making it the fifth country in the world and the first in Africa to do so), the original function of Gayle, for speakers to avoid prosecution, is no …
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Rethinking home economics careers in the struggle for women's education in Botswana
The purpose of the study was to explore gender experiences of Home economics professionals in Botswana educational institutions with the aim of presenting argument against this colonial mentality that still lingers in the education system of Botswana and result in Home economics teachers suffering …
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Exploring discourses of access and sexual harassment in higher education A study of students' perceptions of University of Nairobi's Institutional Culture, Kenya
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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The Domestic Violence Act (116 of 1998) : increased safety for women experiencing domestic violence in South Africa?
Includes bibliographical references.
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Dancing with dangerous desires : the performance of femininity and experiences of pleasure and danger by young black women within club spaces
… explore the fluidity of identity, in particular gender identity, by exploring the performance of 'normative' femininity and 'hidden/subversive' femininity performed in different spaces. The focus was on 'hidden/subversive' femininity and the experiences of pleasure and danger in clubs spaces in …
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Somewhere there's a silver lining: women's experiences of infertility on the Cape Flats
In the communities of the Cape Flats, it is expected that all women will bear children and become mothers. Motherhood serves as a social and cultural indicator of femininity and enables women to access social and economic networks that knit them into community. The social and cultural valorization …
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The Ladies of Long: how a group of non-gender normative youth construct their identity and perform gender
… appropriately, with) a particular group of non-gender normative persons, interrogating the question of how they construct their own identity and perform gender? I argue that one could not effectively take on this project without simultaneously interrogating the category it purports to describe, …
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