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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"gendered practices"”.
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Ghumar: Historical Narratives and Gendered Practices of Dholis in Modern Rajasthan.
Based on several months of fieldwork in Rajasthan, India, this thesis examines the relationship between the Dholis and the Rajputs, formed by their association with Ghumar, in two contemporary locations in Rajasthan: Jaipur, the capital city of Rajasthan, and Jasol, a small town in the Barmer …
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Enacting “Technology” and Everything Else: Gendered Practices and the System of Crop Intensification
… in the rural economy in Uttarakhand has</p> <p>engendered a renewed interest in non-mainstream farming practices. However, the</p> <p>success and/or failure rates of adoption of new agricultural methods and technologies</p> <p>remains a poorly understood phenomenon. Studies of adoption rates tend …
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Gendered Practices and Conceptions in Korean Drumming: On the Negotiation of "Femininity" and "Masculinity" by Korean Female Drummers
… drumming, one of the most popular musical practices in South Korea, currently exists in a state of contradiction as drumming, historically performed by men, is increasingly practiced by women. Women drummers who enter this male-dominated realm confront the "masculinization" of the practice, …
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Factors Influencing the Career Success of Women Lecturers in Private Sector Higher Educational Institutions in Myanmar
… as human capital, family support, coaching and gendered practices, positively affect both the subjective and objective career success of women lecturers. In testing the mediation effects, except demographic variable, subjective career success mediates the relationship between various factors, …
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Taarab Texts, Gender, and Islam in an Urban East African Context: Social Transformations Among the Waswahili of Mombasa, Kenya
… By combining an analysis of musical performance, gendered practices, and song text to understand social and cultural practices and meanings, this study draws upon a combination of the disciplines of ethnomusicology, feminist anthropology, and performance studies. As such, I address the …
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Characterizing the Adolescent Male Reader: A Narrative Inquiry into the Reading Lives of 12th Grade Boys Enrolled in IB Language A: Literature
… of the gender achievement gap in reading and the gendered practices of “the school” as a powerful social institution. This project draws upon the studies of the 1990s-2000s in order to discover the potential impact of the social, cultural, and political movements and shifts that began in 2017. …
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White-collar men and masculinities in contemporary urban China
… and media publications, it examines the gendered practices, aspirations and attitudes of men who identify with or aspire to white-collar status alongside discursive representations of the Chinese white-collar man, interrogating the links between practice and discourse. Drawing on various …
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Raising the bar: gender and the careers of women barristers in Northern Ireland
… <br/><br/>This thesis illustrates how gender practices serve to produce and maintain gendered horizontal and vertical segregation within the barrister profession in Northern Ireland. The female subjugation engendered by these gendered practices, in turn, influences individual identity and …
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Intersectionality in Organisations: Exploring the Relationships between Gender, Ethnicity, Religion and Women’s Work in a Postcolonial African Space.
… to gender which have led to a normalisation of gendered practices in academia and an absence of organisational policies to tackle these issues. Furthermore, minority ethnic and religious women are more likely to experience discrimination in their organisations. Finally, while there is evidence …
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Unruly School Spaces: An Ethnographic Exploration of Year 8 Students Experiences Of Space, Gender and Well-Being in a South Wales Secondary School
… in which these spatial negotiations inform their gendered subjectivities and their sense of well-being in the school. The thesis draws on Doreen Massey’s theorisations of space, as well as feminist ethnographic and qualitative research literature to help formulate understandings of the children’s …
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Unruly School Spaces: an ethnographic exploration of Year Eight student experiences of space, gender and well-being in a South Wales secondary school
… in which these spatial negotiations inform their gendered subjectivities and their sense of well-being in the school. The thesis draws on Doreen Massey’s theorisations of space, as well as feminist ethnographic and qualitative research literature to help formulate understandings of the children’s …
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Latinidad in London: An ethnographic study exploring how Latin American Londoners represent their ethnic community discursively
… attractiveness, beautification, and seduction. Practices linked to appearance and dancing are seen as respectable or as excessive, and are coded in terms of aspiration, thus reflecting processes of stratification. Overall, this thesis finds that latinidad is mediated through linguistic, …
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Black lesbian identities, power and violence in public and private spaces
… that participants assumed multiple and ambiguous gendered subject positions, and vacillated between positions of power and powerlessness in various contexts. The enactment of gendered and sexualised violence on the lesbian body within intimate lesbian relationships, as well as in public and social …
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Representations of soldiering: British army uniform and the male body during the First World War
… collective myth to consider the role of clothing practices to the formation of ideas about gender, class and the relationship between the body and technology during the First World War. The discussion explores themes of gender and visuality through a focused analysis of the ways in which British …
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The woman in the moon : the moon as a dramatic character in the works of John Lyly and William Shakespeare
… a stance apart from the social and relational practices encoded onto what is presented as earthly and ‘natural’ within drama. It specifically focuses on how the moon-character, through the act of encountering other characters on the stage, can have a transformative effect on the social practice …
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Trans-Pacific Popular Mediascape: In Search of Girlhood Through Korean Immigrant Teenage Girls' Image-Production and Webculture
… use their digital images and texts to unpack gendered practices across national boundaries. Since the late 1990s, South Korea's national movement towards globalization has propelled unprecedented immigration of middle class Korean girls to the U.S. This phenomenon reflects their social desire …
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Performing Black Feminisms in Diasporic Contexts: Sub-Saharan Women Negotiating Identity across Cultures
… U.S. define, understand and orient to feminist practices in everyday life and how such processes shape their identities as diasporic subjects. By doing so, it seeks to examine how Black feminisms can operate as a tool for promoting social justice through the analysis of Sub-Saharan women’s …
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Interrogating the nature, process and politics of female headed dance collaborations: the growth project (Scenkonst Sӧrmland, Sweden & Baxter Theatre Centre, Cape Town, South Africa) 2012-2016
… to provide insight into such collaborative dance practices in order to highlight gendered practices in Dance in the Western Cape. It will outline all three parts of the Growth Project but focuses on the dance work I hit the ground running (2013), in which I performed. This dissertation considered …
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Local Implications of International Human Rights Treaties: The Impact of a CEDAW Right to Public Life in the Republic of Maldives
… how limited capabilities arising out of gendered practices, cultures and structures affect the successful local implementation of a CEDAW right to public life. The findings from the rights-in-practice segment of the research demonstrate a highly gendered world, where links between …