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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"social oppression"”.
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Styles and Themes Supporting a Feminist Perspective in 'Verfuehrungen.' by Marlene Streeruwitz
… The themes discussed are silence, motherhood, oppression, and the body. Streeruwitz's text brings the historical and contemporary silence of women to light and exposes personal and social oppression. By including aspects of women's lives, such as the role of mother, Streeruwitz provides a new …
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Styles and Themes Supporting a Feminist Perspective in 'Verfuehrungen.' by Marlene Streeruwitz
… The themes discussed are silence, motherhood, oppression, and the body. Streeruwitz's text brings the historical and contemporary silence of women to light and exposes personal and social oppression. By including aspects of women's lives, such as the role of mother, Streeruwitz provides a new …
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The Role of Architecture in Systemic Gender Inequality: National Organization for Women's Headquarters
Nowadays, the world is facing an ocean of social problems and different types of oppressions and systemic inequality from east Asia all the way to North America can be found regarding this issue. With pointing social oppression out, a long list of groups of people is considered including …
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Gender, sex, and race in the gamespace of live action role play
… role play games, are not free from societal oppression, but that interactive games such as live action role play can offer creative ways in which to negotiate and navigate social oppression.
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Using a Learning Community to Manage Pain: A participatory action research study
… with chronic pain may be experiencing a form of social oppression. This justifies the use of participatory action research methods with this group, as these methods are intended to promote wellness and produce liberation from social oppression.<br/>A Dionysian inquiry was established in order to …
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An Examination: Using Participatory Action Research in a Marginalized Coastal Community at Risk to Natural Hazards
… conducting high-quality research to support the social change goals of diverse cultural and ethnic communities, especially as they relate to community involvement, democracy, emancipation, and liberation (Lindsey and McGuinness (1998). PAR is not the typical research methodology for hazards …
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Discrimination against Veiled Women in the West: Social Isolation
… their local communities or lead them to feel socially isolated. Societal prejudice and, in some cases, the laws of the land often solidify this isolation of Muslim women and girls from the rest of the world. These victims of social oppression face discrimination based on multiple factors, such …
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Narrow escapes: A feminist deconstruction of anorexia nervosa in women
… Political imperatives to address causes of social oppression as a vital adjunct to individual counselling are urged, particularly for those clinicians with a social work background. Recommendations for further studies of recovery from AN from the client’s perspective conclude this analysis.
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When Being Normal Isn't the Goal: How Therapists Co-Transform Beyond Normal with their Autistic Clients
… normal, leading to the deep misunderstanding and social oppression of autism and other non-normative ways of being. Presently, autistic people still endure oppressive and traumatic behavioral interventions and minority stressors (such as internalized prejudice and discrimination) in consequence of …
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Exploring the gap between media and practice: a feminist analysis of media representations and practitioner perspectives on sexual exploitation of girls and young women
… considers how gender, power and other systems of social oppression relate to CSE. The study was conducted in two phases. The first phase was a frame analysis of newspaper articles published during two significant periods of increased awareness, policy and practice development in England. The …
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From Injury to Silence: Metaphors for Language in the Work of Herta Muller
… of language in the condition of suffering from social oppression. Drawing on conceptual metaphor theory within the framework of cognitive literary studies, I argue that Müller both relies on and estranges the ways in which people speak and think about language. Language is imagined differently …
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Crafting Oppression of Women in Novels by Writers of Color
<p><em>CRAFTING OPPRESSION OF WOMEN </em></p> <p><em>IN NOVELS BY WRITERS OF COLOR</em></p> <p><em>Abstract: </em></p> <p><em>This thesis explores methods used by the writers of five realist novels, to create oppressive situations for female characters in their work. In writing about these novels, …
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"It Depends on Where You Go!" The Transnational Racial Consciousness of Dominican Immigrants
… people develop awareness and understanding of social oppression (Freire, 1971; Quintana and Segura-Herrera, 2003, p. 274). Fifteen self-identified Dominican immigrants participated in semi-structured interviews, focused on their understandings of skin-color, racialization, racism, and group …
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Social vulnerability, resilience and capital in disasters: Immigrants, refugees and linguistic minorities in the 2010-2011 Canterbury and Tohoku disasters
… Tohoku disasters. This includes their perceived social vulnerabilities and resilience to disasters. Sociological research has found that disasters affect individuals, families and communities differently. Damage and recovery are usually uneven due to the structural inequalities that exist prior …
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Mainstreaming in organisations: strategies for delivering women's equality in UK local government
… approach, which foregrounds women's material and social oppression. The new approach promoted, most notably, by the European Union argues for the need to 'mainstream' the work of equality practitioners so that every member of an organisation routinely and systematically adopts a 'gender …
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“Why Are We Still Reading About Rosa Parks?”: Essential Questions for Continuation Schools
… constructed places of both academic and social rejection. With cultural rhetorics theory providing a context for the research, this inquiry values student stories and experiences. This IRB-approved case study analyzes continuation school education, including classroom …