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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"nature of gender"”.
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Changing Gender Roles During the Great War in Pat Barker’s Regeneration and Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier
The analysis of the changing nature of gender roles and duties after the Great War represented in Pat Barker's and Rebecca West's novels
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Direito ao grito (explosão): Representações da violência de gênero em contos de Clarice Lispector
… to understand how the literary representation of gender violence is configured in Clarice Lispector's work, based on the relationship between literature and gender, considering the structural nature of gender violence in patriarchal society and its elements highlighted in the writer's texts. To …
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Divided Bodies: Nation Formation and the Literary Marketplace in Salman Rushdie's Shame and Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India
Nearly 70 years later, the 1947 Partition of India remains relevant, continues to be written about, and demonstrates the lasting corollaries of such violence. This study examines the disabled, gendered, and violated postcolonial body in Salman Rushdie’s Shame (1983) and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking …
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The skill or the skirt: A qualitative investigation into the lives of women in sport
… primary focus for this study was addressing the nature of gender inequality for women in sport. The aim of the study was to achieve this by examining how women participated in sport. This thesis aimed to contribute to the promotion of gender equality for women in sport and how best to achieve …
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So What, Now What? Using Social Media Activism to Inform Power-Conscious Prevention of Gender-Based Violence
<p>We will not end gender-based violence by responding to it. Experts and national organizations agree that effective primary prevention programs are essential to stopping harmful behaviors before they start (DeGue et al, 2014; American College Health Association, 2016; American College Health …
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Seeking solidarities: a feminist analysis of the discourses on solidarity between activists interested in transforming masculinities
The interests of this thesis lie in the way in which solidarities are imagined within the South African feminist movement, one which is deeply conscious of the intersectional nature of gender and of the politics of sexuality as part and parcel of any analysis of social justice concerns. …
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Exploring psychosocial and therapeutic needs among refugees and asylum-seekers
Part one of this thesis explored the impact of gender on the post-migration experiences of refugees and asylum-seekers. A narrative review was conducted, which examined the findings of existing research in relation to theory and policy. The review identified key areas in which gender appears to …
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The Gender Politics of Contemporary Sport: Ethics, Power, and the Body
Gendered power relations in sport pose important problems for mainstream feminist and ethical arguments for the alleviation of gender-based oppression. Though mainstream feminist theorists and applied ethicists have largely left sport undertheorized, some multi- and inter-disciplinary scholarly …
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Gendered Power Relations and Household Decision Making in Rural Ghana. A study of Zambo in the Lawra District of the Upper West Region of Ghana
… societies and women are mostly the victims of this system. Such patriarchy has created wide gender gaps between men and women, resulting in women being either overlooked, oppressed, or suppressed. The main aim of this research was to examine the nature of gender relations and gendered power …
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Trans history from antiquity for today: reading gender in Imperial Roman literature
… project highlights how modern binary conceptions of gender have limited scholarly discussion of gender within the literature of the Roman Empire by erasing the trans potentiality of these texts’ fluid and multifaceted conception of gender. The lack of distinction between gender and the sexed body …
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Feminist issues in education: developing a theory of class and gender relations
… submitted for this thesis constitute a group of essays completed between 1979 and 1989 on related feminist issues in education. Each publication contributes to the overall project of developing a theory of class and gender relations in education. Three stages in the construction of this theory …
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Gender Affirmative Monopoly: Who is "Trans* Enough" to Receive Gender Affirmative Treatment In Norway?
… elaborates on the current practice and monopoly of the National Treatment Center for Transsexualism, which covers gender affirmative treatment through universal health care in Norway. This thesis examines this topic in the context of a broader debate regarding trans* people’s rights in Norway. …
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How to Get Away with Feminist Propaganda: An Afrocentric Analysis of Gender Ideology and Relationships in Black Female-Lead Television Dramas
… method content analysis to examine the depiction of gender ideology and Black relationships in 21st century Black female lead television dramas. In doing so, this research will determine the prevalence of what this author theorizes as feminist propaganda. All institutions, including media, reflect …
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Recalling the Lineage: Practices of Recitation and Renunciation at Three Thai Bhikkhuni Monasteries, Chiang Mai, Nakhon Pathom, Songkhla
This dissertation is based upon a year and a half of ethnographic fieldwork with three communities of Thai Buddhist female monks (bhikkhuni). Because neither the Thai government nor the Supreme Sangha Council, the monastic body of Thailand, will grant them legitimacy, bhikkhuni build networks …
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An investigation into the construction(s) and representation(s) of masculinity(ies) and femininity(ies) in 1 Corinthians
With the use of 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 …
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"Virgin" as Secondary Gender Identity in 1 Corinthians 7 and Its Jewish and Greco-Roman Background
The first chapter of this project outlines the background of studies about the Bible, gender, and social theory. The second chapter of this project surveys the landscape of contemporary feminist theory and gender studies, with particular focus on approaches that theorize feminine identity as a …
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Work It Out: Three Case Studies Examining Dance and Girls' Body Image in Early Adolescence
For young girls, the self-disciplining of their physical bodies, both in their use and appearance, has resulted in the prevalence of body image issues. Supported by extensive literature on body image, I argue that young girls learn that their self-worth as future women is tied to the evaluation of …
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Gender equality in non-governmental organizations in Eswatini.
Gender equality and empowerment has been identified as a cornerstone and an important aspect to advance human and social development in the world. Even though some countries are making astounding progress in attaining gender equality, some are lagging behind thus undermining the advancement of the …
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Walking on the Red Brick Path: A Portrait of African-American Women's Experiences with the Built Environment of a Predominantly White Institution
… is socially constructed; and like the syntax of language, the spatial arrangements of our buildings and communities reflect and reinforce the nature of gender, race, and class relations in society” (Weisman, 1992, p. 2). While institutions of higher education have granted physical access to …
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Gender and Unpaid Work During Lockdown
… has risen in the 20th and 21st centuries, the gender gap in unpaid work has not narrowed to the same degree; the modern woman continues to do more unpaid labour than the modern man. The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant changes in people’s paid working practises, with remote work becoming …
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