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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"women's liberation"”.
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Women's Lives and Women's Liberation: Opportunities and Imperatives
… this comprehensive study is the multi-textured women's movement that reemerged in the United States during the 1960s. This history of the movement includes an examination and an analysis of its origins, the organizational development of its various strands, and the subsequent activities of its …
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A Global History of Australian Women's Liberation, 1968-1985
… offers a global history of the Australian women’s liberation movement. It begins in the 1950s and concludes in the mid-1980s, with most attention being given to the period 1968-1985. Throughout this period the Australian women’s liberation movement changed the fabric of Australian society, …
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A Study of Academic Women's Inventoried Attitudes Toward Women's Liberation
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“A Revolution within a revolution:” the quest for women's liberation in post revolutionary Cuba
<p>Women in Cuba endured centuries of gender inequality in a nation known for its history of machismo, male domination. Cuban women expressed a desire to improve their status since 1898, when Cuba was granted its independence from Spain, and again in 1930 when a new women’s movement mobilized …
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From personal to public: Women's liberation and the print media in the United States, 1968-1974
… and how this affected the development of the women's liberation movement. It specifically analyzes women's liberation rhetoric as it appeared in liberationist publications and the subsequent interpretation of that rhetoric by the popular print media. It addresses liberationist ideas in the …
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Complexity of Women's Liberation in the Era of Westernization: Egyptian Islamic and Secular Feminists in Their Own Context
… meta-questions guided this research: How do women in Egypt who self-identify as feminists define feminism? How do they use this definition in their activism? How is Westernization influencing Egyptian feminists and their participation in national and political conflicts?</p> <p>Data sources …
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Women in Wargasm: The Politics of Womenís Liberation in the Weather Underground Organization
In this thesis I examine women's participation in the violent revolutionary organization, Weatherman/Weather Underground. My attempt is to uncover Weatherman's view of women's liberation, their differences to the women's liberation movement and examine the practices implemented. I discuss …
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Evil No More: The Image of the Witch and Women in the United States From Seventeenth and Twentieth Centuries
<p>Women in both colonial America and the twentieth century United States were impacted by the notions of witches and witchcraft. There was an integral change in witchcraft during the era of growing feminism and equality in political status. In the colonial period, what was once a disguise for …
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We've Only Just Begun: A Black Feminist Analysis of Eleanor Smeal's National Press Club Address
The voices of black women have traditionally been excluded from rhetorical scholarship, both as a subject of study and as a methodological approach. Despite the little attention black feminist thought has received, black women have long been articulating the unique intersection of oppressions they …
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Frances Ellen Colenso, 1849-1887 : her life and times in relation to the Victorian stereotype of the middle class English woman
… feminism began to appear. The influence of the women's liberation movement and of the increasing interest in social history, while stimulating research into Victorian women in England and her colonies, has only penetrated historical research within South Africa in the last decade.
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The Sheffield Film Co-operative and the Women’s Liberation Movement
… The study uses the seven demands of the national Women's Liberation Movement as a framework to analyse issues featured in selected films produced by the Sheffield Film Co-operative. This study will show that there was a strong connection between the Sheffield Film Co-operative's representation of …
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Anxieties and artificial women: disassembling the pop culture gynoid
… gynoids as representing cultural anxieties about women and technology historically and in each case study. This thesis draws from rhetorical analyses of media, sci-fi studies, and previously articulated meanings of the gynoid in order to discern how each text interacts with the gendered and …
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The Feminine Mistake: Burkean Frames in Phyllis Schlafly's Equal Rights Amendment Speeches
Situated within the larger scholarship on the women's liberation movement of the 1970s exists a body of literature that analyzes the rhetorical functions of pro- and anti- Equal Rights Amendment messages in relation to communication studies. Although limited in scope, this literature acknowledges …
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Obstacles to women's participation in post-colonial education in Tanzania : what is to be done?
The issue of insufficient schooling for women in Tanzania is major and complex. Its magnitude has largely been disguised by an ideological rhetoric on social equality through which women's differing experiences across geographical, ethnic, class, gender, and religious boundaries are falsely …
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Holding up half the sky: revisiting "woman" messages in Model Plays during China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
… As images of heroic proletarian revolutionary women were expansively represented onstage, conventional gender norms and boundaries were challenged. This paper assesses the "woman" messages carried by Model Plays and the vision of Chinese women's liberation they depicted on the Cultural …
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"Teamsters are Beautiful" in the Twenty-first Century: The 'Sisterly' Organizing Rhetoric of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
… female members by using rhetoric that invites women to identify themselves as Teamsters. This approach reveals how Teamsters organizing rhetoric relies on reinforcing a particular organizational identity that reflects the union's ideologically conservative roots as a "bread-and-butter" labor …
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Non Traditional Sex Role Socialisation: Parents' Perceptions Of Non-Sexist Childrearing
… learning position originally stressed by the Women's Liberation Movement, with its emphasis on controlling the child's environment in terms of toys, clothes, books, parental models and reinforcement patterns. The parents in this study also took account of the child's active participation in …
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