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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"women's narratives"”.
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Burn injury and self-silencing: a study of women's narratives
… with the degree of distress and that for women, dissatisfaction with their bodies increases in the year after injury. In this study, women’s experiences of their bodies were investigated by asking them about pain, social relationships, mental health, and appearance. In-depth interviews …
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Home and away: British women's narratives of community in Spain
… undertaken with a theoretically sampled group of women who had moved to the Costa Blanca from the UK. The interviews were transcribed and analysed using a narrative approach. Findings: There are multiple forms of belonging to community. Representations of community are multi-dimensional, complex …
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Writing hybridity: identity, dialogics, and women's narratives in the Americas
… This dissertation argues that three women writers, Toni Morrison, Rosario Ferré, and Marysé Condé, reevaluate those theories of hybridity challenging the claim that hybridity have provided a site of resistance to hegemonic and monologic forces. In contrast, their novels redefine …
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Women abuse : exploring women's narratives of violence and resistance in Mitchell's Plain
… is a paucity of South African research exploring women's experiences of violence. This study focused on how women endure abusive relationships by examining how women construct and give meaning to their experiences, within a particular socio-cultural context. Interviews were conducted with 15 …
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Undergraduate African American women's narratives on persistence in science majors at a PWI
While African American women are one of the largest growing populations in college, they continue to be underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields at predominantly white institutions (PWIs) (Bowen, Chingos, & McPherson, 2009; Jordan, 2006; National Science …
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"""That Is What I Said to Him"": American Women's Narratives About Indians, 1879-1934"
… and early-twentieth century American women who wrote and told stories about Native Americans. When not ignored altogether, these women--white and indigenous--are usually seen as reinforcing vanishing-race ideologies. I argue, however, that they gesture daringly toward the legitimacy of …
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Her-story in Motion: Racialized Women's Narratives Resisting Race and Gender-based Violence on Transit
Public transit is essential for racialized women’s access to employment, education, and social opportunities. However, the prevalence of violence against women has established public transit environments that fail to ensure women’s safety. Hierarchical power structures and patriarchal norms within …
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"""Is My Honor Not Honor?"": Women's Narratives of Marriage, Violence and Culture in Lahaul, India"
… documents and historicizes life histories of women at different stages in their life span from the little studied Himalayan valley of Lahaul India. More specifically the project focuses on marriage by abduction, a traditional Lahauli practice of marriage, which in its current form is …
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"Every day is difficult for my body and my heart." Forced evictions in Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Women's narratives of risk and resilience
… impact the psychosocial health of displaced women in Phnom Penh, and what sources of risk and resilience frame how they manage the exigencies of displacement? I use Stress and Coping Theory to frame analysis of the narratives of evicted women in order to understand their lived experiences and …
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Transforming 'selves': a narrative analysis of South African shelter residents' stories of leaving abusive heterosexual relationships
… lack of South African research that explores women's experiences ofleaving abusive relationships, especially within the context of women's shelters. This study looks at the process of disengaging from abusive relationships. It has examined women's experiences of leaving within the context of …
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South African Muslim women's experiences : sexuality and religious discourses
… the experiences of South African Muslim women in relation to sexual dynamics and marital relationships. By using in-depth interviews as the main empirical research method, this feminist study foregrounds women's voices in the production of religious meaning. I explore dominant religious …
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Narrating rape at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa
The seven women who shared their stories of rape at the human rights violation hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ('TRC') in South Africa offer a nascent public record of women's experiences of rape under apartheid. This project is motivated by a desire to examine how these …
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Narratives about God and Gender: Women's experiences
… was to examine complexities which constitute women's narratives in a conservative Christian church context. Complexities often occur around self-perception, religious beliefs, choices and change, in regard to gender relations. A review of literature indicated that social constructions about …
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Living with a spoiled identity : HIV positive women talk of stigma
… purpose of this study is to begin to explore how women experience and deal with AIDS stigma under conditions where they have little support. In-depth, narrative interviews were conducted with ten HIV -positive women, living in a poor, black township in Cape Town. The study used both Social …
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"We are not 100% free": narratives of continuity and change amongst women on the margins of post-apartheid South Africa
… process through the eyes of men and women who have lived extraordinary and spectacular lives. Following Ndebele's (1994) recognition of the radical potential of attending to the lives of ordinary South Africans, this thesis shifts the focus from the extraordinary and spectacular to …
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Imagination and Ancestral Memory in Memorial Drive and the Halsey Family Archive
… how memory, specifically in the context of Black women's narratives, is not merely preserved and documented but engaged with through imagination, shaping memory as dynamic. Engaging Saidiya Hartman's concept of critical fabulation, this project examines how archival absences, gaps, and silences …
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Sexuality and cultural heritage at odds: I Fuck What I Like, an ode to the young queer black woman in South Africa
… line with complicating and archiving queer black women's narratives in the South African performance and literary canon. As a strategy of social reform, I aim to complicate what I argue to be an insistent narrative of queer black womanhood as emblematic of abjection by exploring the concept of …
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Writing a feminist ethnography: A comparative analysis of Iranian women's stories of resistance and agency in Iran and America
… against the stigmatization of Middle Eastern women in the West by examining women's experiences of resistance and agency within the diaspora and in Iran. Through a feminist ethnographic analysis of Iranian women's narratives, I work against Western stereotypes as a way to problematize the …
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