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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"gendered identities"”.
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Doing entrepreneurship in Uganda : the social construction of gendered identities among male and female entrepreneurs
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-189)
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Neither Male Nor Female in Christ? The Construction of Gendered Identities in Women's Writing of the French Reformation (1521--1561)
Women writers of the French Reformation demonstrate a keen awareness of the mutability of gender, and they alternately highlight or downplay their roles as women in order to serve varying literary, spiritual, political---and feminist---ends.
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Recollections and representations the negotiation of gendered identities and 'safe spaces' in the lives of LGBTI refugees in Cape Town, South Africa
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Talking posh, acting posh? The construction of gendered identities and identifications in the talk of multilingual undergraduate students on an academic writing programme
… a qualitative study exploring the negotiation of gendered identities with primarily British-born multilingual undergraduates, as newcomers to higher education. From a feminist poststructuralist perspective, I examine how the participants are both positioned/ take up positions as they negotiate the …
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The question of gendered voice in some contemporary Irish novels by Brian Moore and John McGahern
… studies in order to examine the ways in which gendered identities are constructed in some Irish Catholic communities in twentieth-century Ireland. With reference to novels by Brian Moore and John McGahern as well as to Judith Butler's theories of performativity and citational practices, it …
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Making Men in the City: Articulating Masculinity and Space in Urban India
… urban India structure the making/ unmaking of gendered identities for young men in a working class, scheduled caste neighborhood in the western Indian city of Pune. Present day Pune, an aspiring metropolis, presents a complex socio-spatial intersection of neoliberal processes and peculiar …
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Women abuse : exploring women's narratives of violence and resistance in Mitchell's Plain
… attempts. Women also constructed particular gendered identities for themselves and their partners. Hegemonic gendered identities were sometimes adopted or resisted and reflected contradictory subjective experiences. This study showed how women in abusive relationships utilised a variety of …
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The Haus of Frau: Radical Drag Queens Disrupting the Visual Fiction of Gendered Appearances
… prompted social consequences that impacted their identities and world views. One aim is to apprehend the experiences of difference that drag appearance manifest and expressed. Another aim is to gain a new perspective on the social construction of gendered appearances from marginalized persons who …
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How to make Facebook your friend: queer self-presentation on a heteronormative social network site.
… the social network site, Facebook, emphasizing gendered functionality, gender and queer politics and presentations of gendered identities. It provides a review of early critical cyberculture studies, identity performance and queer theoretical considerations. This study is based on hermeneutic …
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Power and Perfection in Karen Finley's <em>The Constant State of Desire</em>: Creating a New Discourse.
… of our personal involvement in constructing gendered identities. Finley expresses her abhorrence of the desire for power and perfection by asserting that power is secured in American culture through physical and economic domination. In addition, the pursuit of perfection is engrained in one's …
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Managing More Than Just Athletes: Impression Management Among Canadian High-Performance Sport Coaches
… sport system because of their racialized and gendered identities. This study aims to address these gaps by examining the experiences of racialized and/or women sport coaches working in Canadian high-performance sport and how they may engage in impression management. Impression management …
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Chinese Female Graduate Students' Academic Socialization Across Disciplines - Perspectives On Language, Culture, And Gender
… negotiation of their linguistic, cultural and gendered identities across disciplines. Participants' immediate and imagined communities significantly influenced their learning investment. Instead of being marginalized, all three female Chinese learners were able to participate legitimately, …
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Everyday Exclusions And Empowerment: Social Identities In Neighborhood Associations
… to say, people negotiate multiple social identities based on race, gender, and class. In general, gendered identities were activated far less than racial or nationalistic identities, and when they were activated, it was in the context of a private interview not a public meeting. In the …
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The Performance of Gender Archetypes in Political Campaigns
… I examine how congressional candidates present gendered identities on their campaign websites. In my theory of candidate gendered identity, drawn from literature on presentation of the self and gender performativity, I argue that candidates construct their personal identities in relation to …
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Exploring the role of the postmodern feminist voice in the development of the school language text
… attitudes, values, and the construction of gendered identities. Exploring the Communication, Literacy and Language component of the Outcomes-Based Learning document, and the interim core English second language syllabus, currently at the centre of educational debate, the study attempts to …
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The social construction of the family: family values and the Los Angeles riots
… representation and construction of racial and gendered identities. Using the Los Angeles riots and Dan Quayle's response, I will review the political discourse employed by Bush-Quayle administration on traditional family values to discuss how family is constructed by the dominant political …
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Domestic narratives in the transatlantic community: Elizabeth Gaskell and Louisa May Alcott
… debates in which national, literary and gendered identities are created and contested. Both authors‘ fictions, I demonstrate, exemplify, and have a significant impact upon, a transatlantic literary marketplace.
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Watch Me Disappear: Gendered Bodies, Pro-Anorexia, and Self-Injury in Virtual Communities
<p>This project examines the relationship between gendered identities, virtual communities, and material bodies, with an emphasis on eating disorders and self-injury practices. The use of the internet to represent and foster particular categories of material bodies, such as the anorexic, the …
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Probation domestic abuse programmes: a study of probation domestic abuse perpetrator programmes: interactive dynamics and personal perspectives
… their attendance as a threat to their masculine identities. Consequently, they display resistance and hostility; challenging the legitimacy of their referral. However, as the programmes progress members display increasingly positive orientations. They create bonds through collective emotions and …
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