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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"sexual division of labour"”.
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Foraging and Menstruation in the Hadza of Tanzania
… Lake Eyasi in northern Tanzania, represent one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer populations. Inhabiting the same area as our hominin ancestors and exploiting very similar resources, the Hadza maintain a foraging lifestyle characterised by a sexual division of labour. Studies of their …
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Interpersonal violence and fracture patterns in 18th and 19th century London.
… linked to culture. As such, the analysis of skeletal material presents excellent physical evidence of violent occurrences within communities. The current thesis looks to understand the possible presence of fracture patterns and interpersonal violence in London during the 18th and 19th …
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Making it work : aspects of marriage, motherhood and money-earning among white South African women 1960-1990
… study provides a feminist perspective on aspects of change in white women's lives in South Africa between 1960 and 1990. Changing patterns of women's work, where work encompasses unpaid domestic labour as well as paid employment outside the home, are traced. The different ways in which women have …
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Homeless women: A social, economic and historical analysis
This study of single homeless women looks at the way our society defines and generates "needs", at the way housing is provided and allocated to exclude specific forms of households, and at the experiences of a particular group - single women - for whom the impact of these processes is dire. The …
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Body size, skeletal biomechanics and habitual behaviour: a bioarchaeological approach to social and economic change in the Neolithic and Copper Age central Mediterranean
… BC is traditionally considered a period of economic and social transformation between the Neolithic and Bronze Age, characterised by agricultural intensification, technological innovation, and the emergence of gendered society. This project directly investigates these social and economic …
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A comparative study of activity-related skeletal changes in 3rd-2nd millennium BC coastal fishers and 1st millenium AD inland agriculturists in Chile, South America
The reconstruction of patterns of physical activities, behaviour, and lifestyle in past populations is one of the goals most often pursued by bioarchaeologists. This study considers the presence of a group of markers of occupational stress (MOS) that are accepted by many in bioarchaeology as …
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The significance of gender to Australian psychiatric nursing
… a historical method and discourse analysis, some of the many issues related to gender in Australian psychiatric nursing. More specifically, it has explored how gender and gender differences amongst Australian psychiatric nurses evolved, their significance, how they are maintained, and some of …
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She stays and she pays: Rural Women’s Labour and Empowerment in Atakora, Northern Benin
This thesis investigates the potential effect of employment in rural agricultural value chains on the empowerment of rural women in Benin, West Africa. A decolonial feminist approach is taken to critically deconstruct the meaning and applicability of the concept of `empowerment.' New empirical …
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Domestic service : changing relations of class domination 1841-1948 : a focus on Cape Town
… the historical and sociological significance of domestic service in Cape and Cape Town class relations. The forces which led to the present class structure with its particular colour and sexual division of labour, where the majority of domestic workers were and are Black women were examined. …
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Gender and Agricultural Development in Zambia, 1890-1990
… Utilising primary and secondary sources of information and analysing data qualitatively, the study examines gender roles in agriculture in the colonial and post-colonial periods. It is argued that prior to the advent of colonialism, gender roles in agriculture among the country’s ethnic …
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Gender and Agricultural Development in Zambia, 1890-1990
… Utilising primary and secondary sources of information and analysing data qualitatively, the study examines gender roles in agriculture in the colonial and post-colonial periods. It is argued that prior to the advent of colonialism, gender roles in agriculture among the country’s ethnic …
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The Australian Football League and the closet
This thesis examines the complete absence of openly gay males from the ranksof the professional players in the Australian Football League (AFL). It seeks to explain this absence in the context of the modern gay rights movement. incontemporary Australian society. It compares and contrasts the …