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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"gender-discourses"”.
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Equal but Different: Gender Discourses in the Social Relations of Irish Peacekeepers & Possibilities for Transformation
Equal but Different: Discourses in the Social Relations of Irish Peacekeepers & Possibilities for Transformation Motivated by the lack of action and transformation of gender relations within peacekeeping since the adoption of UNSCR 1325 in 2000, this study explores the gendering processes within …
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Adolescent Sexuality and Gender Discourses in Seventeen, Cosmo Girl, and Teen: A Frame Analysis of Online Teen Magazines
… of online teen magazines in the production of gender ideologies by analyzing the representation of teenage sexuality from a critical perspective. Informed by theories of representation, citationality, and ideology, I used Pan & Kosickis frame analysis to analyze three online teen magazines …
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Islamic feminist reflection of pedagogy and gender praxis in South African madaris.
This thesis explores gender discourses in elementary Islamic learning institutions in South Africa. Informed by a feminist imperative that recognizes education to be both a site for gender struggle and also a tool for change-making, this thesis adopts a feminist pedagogical approach to examine some …
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Making meaning of gender-based violence: Elite subjectivity and gender performance in a Canadian private school
School-related gender-based violence is a global epidemic that affects students at all levels of public and private education. The study outlined in this dissertation started from a need to understand the scope of sexual harassment and sexism in schools to support my daughter through her experience …
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Children's constructions of gender, power, and adult occupation
This thesis argues that children draw on various gender discourses to construct gender in different ways. Using the topic of adult occupation as the context for the investigation, it examines the talk of 145 7 -11 year old children in role plays and interviews, to discover whether children …
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Are All Bodies Good Bodies?: Redefining Femininity Through Discourses of Health, Beauty, and Gender in Body Positivity
… explored the ways in which health, beauty, and gender discourses are used to promote and regulate an ideal of thinness. Further, research has explored how the fat acceptance movement and fitspiration has fought to resist such narratives. However, in the age of hashtag feminism a new group on …
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Queer and Poliical: Exploring Transgender Resistance
… forms of oppression and resistance among transgender individuals. This constructivist grounded theory study answered these research questions: (1) how does oppression affect self-identified transgender individual’s performance of gender, and (2) how does gender performance illustrate collective …
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A cultural history of The Great Book of Ireland – Leabhar Mór na hÉireann
… of the Irish poetry book, word-image relations, gender discourses, and national and transnational politics. The study reveals the ways in which late-twentieth-century internationalism and ideas of globalisation and inclusivity shaped the GBOI’s ideological framework. It shows how the GBOI seeks …
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An investigation into the construction(s) and representation(s) of masculinity(ies) and femininity(ies) in 1 Corinthians
… SRI as an interpretive analytics combined with a gender-critical hermeneutical optic I have traced out some of the ways in which gender is constituted and performed in the discourse of 1 Corinthians. I demonstrate that normative and normalising engendering is operative in the text and that the …
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Power, Arab media Moguldum & gender rights as entertainment in the Middle East
Discourse is a giant field of research and gender related rights are still a disputed area of thinking. Thus, when Arab transnational satellite televisions produce dialogues, images, stories and narratives about the disputed “universal” gender rights in the Middle East, the big questions remain how …
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Defying distance : remembrance, narration, and the gender imaginary in Assia Djebar’s Loin de Médine
… not only by an ethical imperative to respond to gendered silences in the archive but also by a desire to recall beloved figures of Muslim memory and make them speak to her contemporary moment. I attend to the models of narration imagined in the novel and works including La Nouba des femmes du …
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Battered women in Muslim communities in the Western Cape : religious constructions of gender, marriage, sexuality and violence
… This study examines the manner in which Islamic gender discourses inform and impact upon the phenomenon of violence against women. The related tensions between patriarchal and egalitarian Islamic perspectives are explored. This study involves a two-fold feminist analysis of gender ideology in …
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Exploring teachers’ use of physical activity in Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) senior secondary physical education
… was adopted by investigating any influence of gender discourse in this process. Given the non-mandatory nature of the selection of VCE Physical Education as a subject by students, and the articulation within the prescribed curriculum that theoretical understanding will be underpinned by …
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Contradictory discourses, state ideology and policy interpretation: A feminist evaluation of the Reproductive and Child Health Programme (RCH) in Kerala, India
… the process of institutionalization of the ‘gender-sensitive’ discourse of reproductive health within the national population programme in India. This study offers a feminist political analysis of this phenomena; therefore, rather than study reproductive health as demographic or health …
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“Petticoated police,” “intimate watching” and private agency(ies): reading the female detective of Fin-de-siècle British literature
… of “legal, social, moral, institutional and gendered practice” that shaped the representation of female detectives (Kestner 1). In Chapter One, I use vision and related concepts in the analysis of C. L. Pirkis‘s Loveday Brooke. The second stage of my literary investigation focuses upon …
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Negotiating representation in contemporary China's media: masculinities, femininities and alternative identities
… construction, negotiation, and transformation of gender performativities in contemporary China, with a particular focus on the role of traditional and new media. It argues that gender in China should be understood as a contested field shaped by historical and state influences, acting as a bulwark …