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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"women's agency"”.
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Who helps women cope? : women's agency in households, families and communities
Women’s experiences of poverty in post-apartheid South Africa are made real in their struggles to access resources and assets to survive. They survive sudden shocks and entrenched poverty by constructing and drawing on social support networks that provide access to adequate housing, secure tenure …
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Celibate pleasures: convents, asexuality, and women's agency in British literature, 1660-1760
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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EVIDENCE OF ANXIETY: WOMEN'S AGENCY AND ENGAGEMENT LAW IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND FILM, 1880-1935
… laws, which had protected unmarried but engaged women for centuries during their vulnerable engagement period, began to come under public scrutiny. The demonization of this legal protection coincided with increased legal agency in other areas of married life for women, but in most historical and …
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Gender in a Commodifying World: Recognition, Emotions and Market Women's Agency in the Goroka Marketplace, Papua New Guinea
… the effect this has on relations between men and women. Food has long had gendered meanings in Goroka, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea (PNG), a context where anthropologists have considered social relations to be highly gendered with strict divisions of labour, particularly relating to the …
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The Role of Literacy in Enhancing Women's Agency and Well -Being: A Qualitative Inquiry of the Effects of the Tostan Educational Program on the Lives of Women in a Rural Community in Senegal
… overall empowering education process in which women gained access to skills, knowledge, and greater awareness, that allowed them to critically reflect on their social reality and take collective action to transform it.
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Exploring indigenous knowledge practices concerning health and well-being: a case study of isiXhosa-speaking women in the rural Eastern Cape
… and well-being held by different generations of women and how they are reproduced cross-generationally in a rural isiXhosa-speaking community. It also explores how the relationship between concepts of self, personhood and Ubuntu informs women's agency. Additionally, this thesis explores how the …
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WOMEN FARMERS AND SUSTAINABLE COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE IN JAFFNA, SRI LANKA: Changing farm operation practices in a dry-zone area affected by climate change
… dynamics of sustainable agriculture practiced by women operating commercial-scale, sustainable farms in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, with a focus on women's agency and freedoms within the agricultural sector. Women operate 26% of farms in Jaffna, yet women are notably absent from agricultural development …
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It Takes a Village to Do Microfinance Right: Effects of Microfinance on Gender Relations in Bali
… measure to eradicate poverty and empower women have continued with a bigger question of if an alternative model is available to outweigh the problems of group-based solidarity-based lending scheme. This dissertation aims to study if and how a Lembaga Perkreditan Desa (LPD) – a community …
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Opportunity in Haiti : women as agents of resilience in post-disaster reconstruction
… in an effective and efficient manner, Haitian women, and their organizations, have served a central role in cultivating stability within affected communities. As institutions and communities seek to reconstruct the material and social foundations of Haiti, focusing on the contemporary actions …
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Breaking Borders: Women of Mexican Heritage in Douglas, Arizona
… examines the manifold ways in which fifteen women of Mexican heritage actively participated in the secular, spiritual, and social spheres to improve conditions for themselves and their community in Douglas, Arizona during the first half of the twentieth century. Using interviews, newspapers, …
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Identity, women managers and social change: Comparing Singapore and Britain
This study concerns the examination of women managers' identities in Singapore and Britain, against a context of global, national and corporate change. Identities are multiple, shifting and ambivalent. They are ascribed through structures and cultures, but also subject to negotiation through …
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Girls of the Period Women Critics and Constructions of the Feminine in the Mid-Victorian Novel.
Abstract This thesis addresses women's agency in the mediation and reception of mid nineteenth-century fiction from the end of the 1840s until the beginning of the 1870s. It demonstrates how women participated in shaping an ideology of the feminine by utilising the platform of periodical reviewing …
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Voices and roles of competing groups of elite women in Siam's political and social transitions, 1868-1942
… studies the pivotal roles and voices of elite women of both aristocratic and commoner backgrounds in the significant period of Siam's political and social transitions from the late absolute monarchy to the early post-revolutionary period between 1868 and 1942. A key focus of this study is the …
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Voices and roles of competing groups of elite women in Siam's political and social transitions, 1868-1942
… studies the pivotal roles and voices of elite women of both aristocratic and commoner backgrounds in the significant period of Siam's political and social transitions from the late absolute monarchy to the early post-revolutionary period between 1868 and 1942. A key focus of this study is the …
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Crossing boundaries: religion, sexuality and identity in the lives of Zanele Muholi and Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde
… of the ways that religious ideologies influence women's agency in relation to their sexuality and identity. In particular, I examine how dominant religious and cultural norms framed by patriarchal and heteronormative ideals are negotiated by black lesbian Zulu women. My research is focused on the …
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Monster Mothers and the Confucian Ideal: Korean Horror Cinema in the Park Chung Hee Era
… reading of the family dynamics and female agency in three landmark texts, namely, The Public Cemetery under the Moon (Kwon, Chul-hwi, 1967), Mother's Han (Lee, Yusup, 1970) and Woman's Wail (Lee, Hyuksu, 1986). By closely examining these horror film texts using insights from feminist …
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Encountering Globalization: An Ethnographic Study of Women and Television in China
… the relationship between television and women audiences at different socioeconomic positions in contemporary China. It is based on ethnographic researches undertaken in 1997 and 1998 in the city of Chengdu and the town of Meishan. Through in-depth interviews and observations with …
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Individual patient data (IPD) meta-analysis of the London measure of unplanned pregnancy (LMUP) as used in Cape Town, South Africa
… collected baseline data from 5404 pregnant women seeking antenatal care and enrolled in one of the four included research studies in Cape Town, South Africa that utilized the LMUP to measure pregnancy intention. Data was collected from March 2013 to October 2023 and collated into a single …
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Contextualising black women's identity in South Africa through the apartheid archive's system of racial classification: an intersectional African feminist analysis of race, class, and gender within South Africa's political history.
… against apartheid creates avenues for Black women to reconstruct the South African national history archive with their inclusion while making sense of gender roles in the context of oppressive mechanisms of racism, segregation, and neocolonialism. The critical analysis the formation of how …
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