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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"women's movements"”.
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Message from the State: Uncovering Effects of Public Policy on Women's Movements in Chile and the Czech Republic
… examine the ways in which state policies affect women's movements' emergence under both authoritarian and democratic political regimes. As such, this dissertation provides some important clues into how citizens' experience with certain policies enhances or delimits their future political action, …
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The Women's Movement and the Development of Family Leave Policies in the United States and Canada
… policies.</p><p>Drawing upon the literature of women's movements, the study examines the impact that women's movements had on the family leave policymaking process in the United States and Canada. Because both countries have strong women's movements, the research finds that the strength of …
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Bo Mmaruri: Bosadi
… in the momentum and visibility of Botswana's women's movements, the project asks how non-male resistance and self-determination has and can operate in Botswana, particularly in traditional and cultural spaces. In this work, I identify storytelling and folklore as a device that though …
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MILITANT MAIDS: DOMESTIC WORKERS’ PARTICIPATION IN BUS BOYCOTTS, VOTER REGISTRATION, AND HEAD START PROGRAMS IN THE DEEP SOUTH
… workers engaged in activism by joining unions, women's movements, and the Communist Party to improve their treatment in Northern and Southern cities. Modern historians have expanded their research to explore the participation of domestic workers in the Civil Rights Movement, especially in the …
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Educação e ações afirmativas: desafios da educação etnicorracial na formação de professores da educação de jovens e adultos
… Brazil, mainly in black, indigenous and women's movements, new ideas and practices are emerging and being created as alternatives to improve social conditions and economic. Promoting social and human growth and strong measures, leading throughout our nation on the path of citizenship in …
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Growth, decay, and change: Organizations in the contemporary women's movement in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Social movements have three potential trajectories: they can grow; they can change, and they can decay and eventually die. To compare their trajectories, I examine 47 organizations in six women's movements in Buenos Aires, Argentina during the last twenty years. I synthesize data from interviews …
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Power, legitimation, and drawing distinctions: Rendering of 'public' and 'private' in United States domestic violence policymaKing
… initiatives; From the grassroots battered women's movements of the 1970s to the current network of shelters, community agencies and advocacy groups, the last several decades have seen significant progress toward increasing public and political awareness of domestic violence. In the United …
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RHETORICAL LIFELINES: QUEER AND FEMINIST SURVIVAL IN RIYOKO IKEDA’S THE ROSE OF VERSAILLES
… reflect some of the concerns of 1970s Japanese women's movements, concerns that also echo among many contemporary Western and Eastern queer and feminist movements. The project explores the rhetoric of intellectual places, such as Parisian salons, and personal places, such as homes, to suggest …
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Implementing the National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide in South Africa: The challenges of policy implementation
… in the country. The NSP GBVF was a result of women's and feminist groups organising to bring attention to the government's complicity in the high levels of GBV. South Africa has a strong history of women's movements mobilising behind causes that impact them. Civil society organisations that …
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How Soviet Russia Liberated Women: The Soviet Model in Clara Zetkin's Periodical 'Die Kommunistische Fraueninternationale'
… She concerned herself particularly with women's needs, arguing that women would respond best to a different form of agitation than that used among men. Zetkin asserted that communism was the only way to respond to women's concerns as mothers and that only state involvement in domestic …
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Women and education : social feminism and intellectual emancipation in England and America
… feminism was intellectual emancipation for women. Such intellectual emancipation came about through the blending of ideas emanating from prominent cultural and social centers in the western world. Women had been absorbing the reformist ideas of the Enlightenment philosophies, incorporating …
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Literatur und Emanzipation von Frauen in der Frühromantik : Bettine von Arnim und Karoline von Günderrode
… in literary analysis with the emancipation of women. Two women writers of the time. Bettine von Arnim and Karoline von Günderrode take up the Romantic view of literature as an emancipating medium. The thesis refers to Romanticism to define the concepts of feminity, literature and emancipation …
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Art as craft in the writings of AS Byatt: a study of Byatt's use of devices of metafiction (intertext and autotext) to examine how women transgress the conventions of male-ordered society in their efforts to exercise their creativity and converse with the world
… conventions of male-ordered society on creative women, is undertaken in two parts. The first chapter considers the intertextual creation of Possession's LaMotte from the biography and canon of the American Victorian poet Emily Dickinson. Both the fictive and the real-life poets, possessed by a …
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“Lost in translation?”: Women’s issues in the struggle for national liberation in South Africa (1910-1985)
… study examines the struggles of South African women from the beginning of the Union of South Africa and the period of Segregation to the period of national defiance during Apartheid, throughout all of its ebbs and flows. By contextualizing women’s struggle for political and gender liberation …
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Transnational Women’s Organizing in Colonial Tunisia (1929 – 1963)
… thesis traces the tenure of two international women’s organizations with branches in Tunisia during the colonial period: the Tunisian Section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), founded in 1929 and active until World War II, and the Union des Femmes de Tunisie …