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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"public and private spheres"”.
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The face of the phone: studies of public and private mobile-phone use
… the social impact of the mobile phone on the public and private spheres. Study One focuses upon the interaction management strategies used by people in public contexts: singles; groups; dyads; indoor; and outdoor locations and shows that interaction management strategies are particularly used …
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Would You Believe Me If I Said I Didn't Need You
<p>This thesis is an attempt to expand upon the ideas that permeate the practice of art making that has developed over the past two years. Art criticism, theory, history, and practice are used to give definition to the boundaries of my ever-shifting body of work. Focusing on the elusive nature of …
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Věcná břemena z pohledu finančního práva
… of the Financial law with overflow to Civil and Administrative law issues of the easements, in favour of the public infrastructure of network operators. Its content is an analysis of this legal institute from its historical development, definition, classification of the existing financially …
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Perspectiva da longevidade
… has greatly advanced in the last twenty years, and whether senescence as a biological process itself can be slowed, stopped or even reversed, has become the subject of scientific speculation and current research. There are several research groups in both public and private spheres trying to …
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"All violence is not equal"; Adrienne Rich's Post-9/11 Poetry and the Precarious Life
… concerned with the intersections between public and private spheres. Consequently, Rich's late twentieth and early twenty-first century poetry often blends the personal with the political as it responds to the ever shifting cultural, social, and political landscape of the United States. In …
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The Essence of English Identity: Gender's Role in the Stability of the Nation in English Literature, from the Anglo-Saxons to the Victorians
… poem Beowulf, William Shakespeare's Macbeth, and Charles Dickens's David Copperfield reflect the interdependent spheres of gender relationships that affected societal perceptions of English national identity and stability for over a thousand years. Historian Geoffrey Hindley writes, "the …
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Living the newsmaker story
News stories about victims of violent crime and their families, controversial social cases (e.g. right to die legislation, abortion, AIDS, etc.), and innovative medical transplants, amongst other issues and events which come to involve elements of privacy, present peculiar problems for the ordinary …
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PAPER PEOPLE AND DIGITAL MEMORY: RECREATING THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN JAPAN
<p>This research examines how reading and writing on digital platforms establishes public and private spheres in Tokyo, Japan. Based upon findings from a group of students at an international University, I develop new modes of thinking about people and their use of Internet capable devices by …
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Gender-based violence and gender stereotyping in international law
… women, suggests, women who are empowered “understand that they are not destined to subordination and violence; they resist oppression; and they develop their capabilities as autonomous beings and they increasingly question the terms of their existence in both public and private spheres.” By …
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Complex twists of becoming: debates about elementary education in English periodicals, 1833 -1880
… investigates the tension between traditional and progressive educational ideas and practices expressed in fictionalised representations and non-fiction discourses in English periodicals from 1833 to 1880. The nature and purpose of elementary education featured prominently and constantly in …
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Open journalism: dynamics of change and continuity in news work in the 21st century
… into digital media addresses the methodological and epistemological issues and tensions arising out of the emergence of new communicative spaces that have expanded the range of actors involved in the construction of the news. Until recently, journalism has developed as a relatively closed …
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Letting gendered spaces go: striving toward gender and nature balance through bonding in Disney's Frozen and Maleficent
<p>From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to more contemporary releases such as Brave (2012), scholars have extensively examined the portrayal of gender in the Disney Princess films. A significant shift in representation started to occur in the 21st century with a greater portrayal—albeit …
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'Woman's mission': the temperance and women's suffrage movements in Scotland, c.1870-1914
… the late-nineteenth-century women’s temperance and suffrage movements in Scotland. The importance of women’s temperance reform in the women’s movement has been discussed in other Anglophone contexts, however there has been little scholarly analysis of these links in British historiography. This …
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Rehabilitation for redevelopment : an approach to the conversion of old office buildings to housing
… that old office buildings, built between 1900 and 1930, be rehabilitated and converted for residential use. A specific approach to this rehabilitation and conversion is recommended. A survey was conducted in San Antonio, Texas, of the existing old office buildings within the central business …
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Suffrage, solidarity and strife: political partnerships and the women's movement 1880-1930
… It considers these partnerships involvement in, and attitudes toward, the campaigns for women' s enfranchisement over a fifty year period from 1880 - 1930. The aim of this study is to contribute to our understanding of the gendered nature of political activity and identity through an examination …
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In the shadow of the church: Irish and Quebec cinema
Ireland and the Canadian, largely francophone, province of Quebec share many similarities. Issues of religion, language and cultural identity have marked their history and influenced their relationship with their former English colonizer. The Catholic Church was a formidable force in both societies …
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From housewife to domestic goddess and beyond: an exploration into the significance of women’s role as food providers in a contemporary Irish context
… the context of social change in contemporary Ireland. Through the lens of food work it traces how this work as a specific aspect of gendered roles has evolved historically and is enacted in contemporary Ireland and what implication change in this role may have for gender equity in both public and …
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Institutionalizing Urban Agriculture Can Provide More Than Hope for Poor San Franciscans: An analysis of the Urban Agriculture Incentive Zone Act (UAIZ)
… (UA) as a means of revitalizing neighborhoods and addressing unmet food needs of urbanites. Farming the city has gained momentum and has become an important force in urban social landscapes and economics. UA has also sparked debates about the appropriate development of highly valuable private …
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Words to the Wives: The Jewish Press, Immigrant Women, and Identity Construction, 1924-1925
This dissertation examines how six publications sought to construct Jewish- American identities for Eastern European Jewish immigrant women between 1895 and 1925, beginning in 1895 with the world's first Jewish women's magazine, American Jewess (1895 - 1899), followed by a women's magazine in …
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