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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"gendered violence"”.
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Racialized gendered violence : ‘domestic’ violence, black women and genocide in Brazil
… also impact women’s experiences with anti-black violence and terror. In order to better understand anti-black genocide in Brazil, we must take into account black women's multiple gendered and sexualized experiences with this violence. As a result, this thesis explores black women’s experiences …
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Digital Wounds, Literary Testimony: Trauma, Trafficking, and Gendered Violence in Jackie Phamotse's Bare Series
… in contemporary South African discourse on gendered violence, economic exploitation, and the psychological consequences of systemic oppression. The analysis reveals that the series offers a Complex portrayal of the complex intersections between digital technologies, the blesser-blessee …
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The Specter Of Gendered Violence: Tracing The Intertwined Legacies Of Colonialism And Sexism In Puerto Rican Literature
In Puerto Rico, the issue of gendered violence has been bubbling under the surface for decades from a centuries-old paternalist culture. Examining culture through literature, my dissertation illuminates the entangled connection between colonialism and gendered violence as my analysis traces in …
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Gendered Violence: An Analysis of State Legal Accountability for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Amongst Refugee Women
<p>Sexual and gender-based violence is a rampant issue affecting women internationally. Its incidence is exacerbated by conflict and the disruption of social patterns caused by displacement. Refugee women are often at greater risk of violence, due to their transient status in their countries of …
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Tracing Responses to Femi(ni)cide in Postconflict Guatemala: A Transnational Feminist Analysis
… advocated for womens right to live free from violence and pressured the state to address the conditions that infringe on this right. This dissertation addresses state and civil society responses to femi(ni)cide, examining the assumptions embedded in these responses and their implications for …
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White men's talk about gender-based violence in South Africa: A thematic narrative analysis of the stories told about race, class, and gender
Gender-based violence (GBV) research in South Africa has been critiqued for producing and perpetuating trauma-saturated narratives that situate gendered violence in poor black individuals, families, and communities (Boonzaier, 2017, 2018; Boonzaier et al., 2020). Young, black, working class men, in …
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The hare and the baboon: intersecting violences experienced by African sexual and gender-expansive individuals in the UK asylum system
… UK asylum regime and how structural and symbolic violences are implicated in the shared narratives. Twenty-seven narratives of the UK asylum system were gathered from diverse sources, including forcibly displaced co-researchers, legal caseworkers, NGO workers and substantive interview documents. …
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The Dark House and its Inhabitants
… be used to address issues of domestic abuse and gendered violence in a nuanced way.</p>
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IMPERILED FEMININITY:RECONFIGURING GENDER IN A CONTEXT OF HEIGHTENED VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
This dissertation clarifies the manner in which violence against women is implicated in the re-constitution of gender in Chihuahua. Using data collected with a mixed methods, multi-staged protocol, this dissertation investigates how the routine threat of gender violence and the common presence of …
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Children's constructions of gender: A participatory project
… younger children narrate and experience their gendered lives, and whether these stories resisted or maintained dominant narratives of gender. Twelve participants between the ages of eight and fourteen participated. The research used participatory action research (PAR) methods. Specifically, …
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Brujería and the Boundaries of Power: Transgression and Punishment in Fernanda Melchor's <em>Hurricane Season</em>
… those marginalized by colonial, patriarchal, and gendered violence. However, in Fernanda Melchor’s <em>Hurricane Season</em>, acts of brujería do not offer a clear path to empowerment or freedom. Instead, the novel reveals how brujería is entangled with the very hierarchies it seeks to subvert, …
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WOMEN, IMAGE BASED SEXUAL ABUSE AND THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE
… approach, this research also highlights the gendered nature of IBSA, including the motivations behind perpetration, the normalisation of sexual violence against women in online environments, and the link between IBSA and domestic abuse. Importantly, by examining IBSA as part of a …
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Feminist counter-geopolitics: knowledges, practices, and spaces of activism in Iranian diasporas
… negotiates and contests political structures of gendered violence and displacement is of growing importance. This dissertation explores how knowledges, practices, and spaces of activism in Iranian diasporas across selected European and Canadian cities create alternatives to state political …
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Nora's Transformative Journey: From A Doll's House and The Little Mermaid to The Way Home
… performance The Way Home. For decades, domestic violence researchers analyzed abused women coping with abuse based on their psyche, which portrayed them as having certain needs that abuse fulfils. The assumption that there is something about abused women that makes them want to be abused …
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Understanding youth experiences in Mitchells Plain: a narrative photovoice investigation
… marked by continuity and change and plagued by violence or the threat of it. Research with youth has historically focussed on educational attainment, employment, and risk factors for disease. Such scholarship, which is frequently decontextualised, offers limited insights into how adolescents' …
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Women Organizations for Peace: Moving Beyond the Rhetoric of the Cyprus Problem
… divisions has resulted in the fight against gendered violence and the marginalization of women’s rights. There is a need to develop a third space in which intersectionality allows women’s groups to engage island-wide with groups fighting other forms of oppression and to create opportunities …
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Deconstructing Sexual Harassment: An Analysis of Constructions of Unwanted Sexual Attention and (Un)resistance in Participant and Policy Accounts
… normalising constructions of unwanted sexual/gendered attention as ‘just sex’ and as a ‘trivial’ part of everyday life. The act of labelling unwanted conduct as sexual harassment has been constituted as an important political step in reframing normalised problematic conduct as gendered …
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Deconstructing sexual harassment: an analysis of constructions of unwanted sexual attention and (un)resistance in participant and policy accounts
… normalising constructions of unwanted sexual/gendered attention as ‘just sex’ and as a ‘trivial’ part of everyday life. The act of labelling unwanted conduct as sexual harassment has been constituted as an important political step in reframing normalised problematic conduct as gendered …
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Socially (de)constructing deepfakes: understanding socio-technical interests and concerns in deepfake media
… of online identity in technology facilitated gendered violence and the need for social and psychological solutions to augment existing technological solutions. I also outline a number of possible future directions for the psychological study of the consequences of deepfake abuse imagery. These …
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