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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"sisterhood"”.
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Elizabeth Madox Roberts : Ritual, Selfhood and Sisterhood
In 1926 Elizabeth Madox Roberts published her first novel, The Time of Man, a work that plunged her into the literary limelight. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection and hailed by some as the "most beautiful piece of writing to come out of America," the novel established her as a major American …
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Solidarity versus Sisterhood: Women's Issues, Feminism and Potential in Poland
Exploring the history and trajectory of women's issues and activism in Poland, this work begins discussing the early twentieth century, moving through to the time period of the Solidarity trade union movement, continuing through the political transitions during the 1990s and ending in the present …
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The Dynamics of Sisterhood In the Modern Chinese Imaginary, 1890S-1930S
… attention to one specific instrumental term - sisterhood - which brought female subjects together in the making of Chinese modernity. Little account has been taken of the group identification of “modern sisters” and the re-invention of “sisterhood” in the modern Chinese discourse, despite the …
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Redefining Sisterhood: The New Nuns, Laywomen and Catholic Feminist Activism, 1953-1992
… more with women and the idea of a universal sisterhood, rather than Catholicism.</p>
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Sisterhood or surveillance?: the development of working girls' clubs in London 1880-1939
… Questions are raised about the possibility of 'sisterhood' within unequal class relations and 'social mothering' is considered as a form of humanized policing.
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From Womanhood to Sisterhood: The Evolution of the Brigham Young University Women's Conference
… the opportunity to go beyond womanhood and share sisterhood. Spurred by the women's movement of the 1970s, LDS women were pressed to define for themselves what it meant to be a woman in the Church. This discovery and defining process often brought confusion, criticism and conflict. As women sought …
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Encircled by Sisterhood: Mentoring Experiences of African American Women in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
Research suggests that African American women are minorities by race and gender and the intersectionality of these constructs poses obstacles for African American women seeking to attain positions of power. Mentoring can aid African American women in overcoming these barriers. The purpose of this …
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Seeking Sisterhood: An Exploratory Qualitative Inquiry into the Sorority Rejection Experiences of Black Women
<p>In response to a call to fill the gap left by previous studies on collegiate sorority rejection, this study explored the meaning Black women ascribe to experiences of rejection from historically Black sororities. Using Black feminist thought and sista circle methodology, this study introduced …
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Telling The Stories of My Life as a Twin: Understanding Sisterhood through Black Women’s Feminist Life Narratives
… including elements of Black feminist thought and Sisterhood, I explore how racism, classism, sexism, and place formed who I was as a Black girl living in the South, as well as the Black educator that I am today. I will explore my life experiences and the life of my sister and through that my …
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Sisterhood and Socioeconomic Status: A Qualitative Narrative Inquiry Study of Low-Income Women in National Panhellenic Conference Sororities
<p>This dissertation examines the experiences of low-socioeconomic (SES) women in the 26 National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) sororities, investigating how they perceive and reflect on their interactions and relationships within their chapters. Guided by Social Identity, Self-Categorization, and …
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The Contradictory Faces of “Sisterhood”: A Case-Study on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Its Theatrical Adaptation by James Willing and Leonard Rae, Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place, and Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies and Its Miniseries Adaptation on HBO
<p>Feminist “Sisterhood” has been a debatable term throughout multiple generations and its ideology is mostly rejected by feminists in the younger generation. The concept mainly denotes a sense of collectivity and it is viewed as a gendered term due to its coinage by second wave feminists as a …
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Strength in sisterhood : a multiple case study describing the intrapersonal and interpersonal experiences of adolescent Christian women in a holistic wellness program.
Young women are experiencing significant struggles with their total wellness of mind, body, and spirit. High school-aged young women’s mental and emotional wellness has become increasingly at risk in the past decade. More specifically, young Christian women face the same stressors and detractors to …
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A friend that sticks closer than a brother: a hermeneutic phenomenological analysis of resilience in Black bereaved mothers that have lost a child to gun violence
… this present study examined the role of Black sisterhood and spirituality as tools of resilience for 15 Black bereaved mothers that have lost a child to gun violence. Semi-structured interviews were combined with hermeneutic phenomenology, the communication theory of resilience, and the strong …
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Twinless
… to engage with issues of identity, grief, sisterhood, and selfhood. It’s interested in the ways that spiritual experience is borne out in the body, and in interrogating the manner in which we’re all made and marked by our own particular hieroglyphs of loss.
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Craving What You Still Have
… feminine stereotypes, and the innate bonds of sisterhood reinforced through generations of desperate women. The relationship between the narrative speaker and the women (and men) portrayed in the poems evolves as the collection culminates to an almost euphoric realization of the need and …
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Eve and the creation cycle: Christina Rossetti's reaction to John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
… of Dante's works, her interest in the Anglican sisterhood, her own Tractarian obsession, the influence of her association with the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, and most specifically, her reaction to Milton's depiction of Eve in Paradise Lost. She reconstructs Milton's Eve in her own poetry. This …
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BRICK
… and imagination. The text engages with themes of sisterhood, trauma, and ideology through the lens of transfeminism as they relate to history, family, and the state. <em>Brick </em>is the search for chosen family and a place of belonging as it narrates the life of and creates dialogue between its …
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Critical Black feminist mentorship: A review of a middle school and university-sponsored program for adolescent Black girls
… of voice, the creation and preservation of sisterhood and solidarity, and consciousness raising. The results, implications, and future research possibilities are discussed.</p>
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