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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"patriarchal power"”.
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(IL)Legitimate Problems: Instances of Queer Familial Creation and the Reinforcement of Patriarchal Structure in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
… Britain that use queer themes to reinforce the patriarchal and heteronormative power structure of eighteenth-century society. The first two chapters will focus on sapphic sexual initiations and the implications of female same-sex behavior and female sexual agency in conservative texts. The first …
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"Speaking others, practicing selves: Power, identity, and communications in ""Apna Ghar"" (Our Home)"
"This project examines the relationships among power, resistance, gender and immigrant identity construction through discursive and material practices of battered immigrant women in Apna Ghar (Our Home), a shelter for battered immigrant women in Chicago, Illinois. The project extends current …
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Choosing the Best: A Rhetorical Analysis and Discussion of an Abstinence-Centered Sexuality Education Curriculum
… whether the curriculum works to uphold white, patriarchal power structures in an effort to encourage students to remain abstinent until marriage.</p>
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Hermione syndrome: Reexamining feminist sidekicks and power in 2000-2010 children’s and young adult fantasy literature
… that appear feminist but who often uphold patriarchal power structures.</p>
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Probing polygamous marriages in Zimbabwe
… The study further suggests that the patriarchal power structure seems to take a powerful and effective role on polygamous marriages in our societies, particularly in Zimbabwe where this study took place. The study explored the intricacies of polygamous marriages and how these …
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Rape in Revolutionary America, 1760-1815
… correlations between rape and eighteenth-century patriarchal power in America.
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Breaking the silence: an intersectional approach to sexual violence and harm narratives of women living in Lebanon
… in Lebanon and advances masculinization within patriarchal power structures (Accad, 1990; Farr et al., 2009, Holt, 2014; Holt, 2013; Joseph, 2012). This dissertation utilizes a qualitative methodological approach to uncover in-depth narratives detailing the experiences of violence among Lebanese …
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Hombres Normativos: The Creation and Inculcation of Martial Masculinity during the Franco Regime in Spain (1939—1975)
… in the solidification of the Franco regime's power, the intended moral regeneration of Spanish society, and the creation of proper Spaniards. This ideal type of man was the martial, masculine, obedient, and pious member of the nation who fulfilled his role as a dutiful husband and father. …
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Representation of marriage in selected Harold Pinter plays
… the triumph of domestic order that supports patriarchal power while simultaneously confining or disciplining female desire. As a result, the wives in Pinter's plays find that their desires may only be satisfied through infidelity. This infidelity subverts the domestic order, calling into …
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Uncovering the Monster of Patriarchy: Women of <em>The Fly</em> (1958, 1986) and Shifting Gender Politics
… to examine the ways in which expressions of patriarchal dominance and the ways women operate within their contemporaneous patriarchal systems changes over time. I pinpoint two key tenets of patriarchy – women’s subordination to men and women’s role as mother and caretaker – and analyze them …
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She must be quiet: a historical case study of how women created spiritualist education at the Chesterfield Spiritualist college
… participating in, what some have concluded as a patriarchal power struggle. Regardless, women have kept Camp Chesterfield and the Chesterfield Spiritualist College afloat. Who those women are/were, and their contributions are documented in the following pages.
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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
… the nature of gender relations and gendered power dynamics between husbands and wives, and how such power dynamics impact women’s household decision-making powers. Drawing on African feminist epistemologies and feminist standpoint theories, this research drew significantly from the …
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Exploring gender division of labour within households: the case of Schoemansdal Village in Nkomazi Local Municipality, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
… between men and women. This study suggests that patriarchal power structures seem to take a powerful and effective impact on the South African marriage institution, especially in the black communities. The study was therefore conducted in Schoemansdal village situated in Nkomazi region, …
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Role of food street vending in empowering indigenous women in South Africa: Case study of uMhlathuze Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal
… I examined the role of Food Street vending in empowering black women in South Africa, using the case study of women street vendors in uMhlathuze Local Municipality in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. Food street vending was a very popular phenomenon among black people in South Africa. Though …
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Shaping up to womanhood: A study of the relationship between gender and girls' physical education in a city-based Local Education Authority
… an understanding of physicality, sexuality and patriarchal power relations.
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"On our way": identities and representations of African women seeking asylum in Ireland
… (practices that signify) and politics (the powers that govern these practices) and affective economies of global and local NGO visual representations, exposing how they consume, fragment, and appropriate African women’s identities and bodies. Though hypervisible, the women themselves “cannot …
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White Bodies, Black Gaze: Constructions of White Masculinity in White-Male Elite Discourses on Leadership and Diversity
… gender, class, and education, exercise much power and control in their organization. I used grounded theory methodology to highlight the communication strategies that white-male elites employed when talking about leadership and diversity. Techniques in grounded theory methodology yielded …
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Made in the GDR : the changing geographies of women in the post-socialist rural society in Mecklenburg-Westpommerania
… A key concern is to evaluate how dominant patriarchal power structures have impacted upon women's everyday lives under socialism and capitalism. Three main themes are foci of this thesis: the changes in social dynamics in rural villages, the impact of economic rationalisations on women, and …
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Understanding the Practice of Girl Marriage in Northern Nigeria from the Perspectives of Key Decision-Makers
… argues that this practice is strengthened by patriarchal power structures and the male exercise of control over the lives of women. This study suggests that the tendency to generalise about the practice of girl marriage in developing countries misses the relevance of individual country’s …
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Bodycloth in Performance Art
… which uphold and sit within the mechanics of patriarchal power. As a whole, the thesis demonstrates how body and cloth can form part of a resistant feminist methodology revolving around re-presentations of women and womanhood, offering a tool for fluid self-stylisation. In addition, the …
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