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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"women's roles"”.
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O le poutu: Women's roles and Samoan language nests
… new settings within which or through which women's roles may become redefined. This thesis explores the questions of how relationships between Samoan language nests and family systems have developed, and how these relationships may have affected the development of roles within Samoan …
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Ignoring the obvious : women's roles in environmental management in Papua New Guinea
… thesis examines relationships within and between women's issues and environmental management issues in Papua New Guinea. These relationships are social, environmental and economic in nature and are impacted by the dynamics of the development process. The analysis used in the research is based on …
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Women's Domestic Power: A Study of Women's Roles in A Tunisian Town
The study of women's roles in the Tunisian town of Ksar-Hellal was predicated on the assumption that the women of a society have different cultural perspectives from those of men. This is particularly significant in an Islamic society, since such societies traditionally require a social separation …
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Attitudes toward women's roles: a study of selected undergraduate students at Rowan University
… study was to look at students' attitudes toward women's roles of 381 selected undergraduate female and male students at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, in March, 2008. Also investigated was the impact of demographic factors such as age, class level, class status, major, gender and race. The data …
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`SHE WILL NOT SUBMIT TO BE IGNORED': KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AND PERFORMING AMERICAN FEMININITY AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
… so as an example of the complex restructuring of women's roles in early twentieth-century American culture via the public performance of self. This dissertation explores how Wiggin performed her different personae throughout her life, how she shifted between the different roles she personified, …
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"For Country and For Home": Elite Richmond Women and Changing Southern Womanhood during the First World War
… of the First World War on elite white Richmond women's roles as southern women? This thesis argues that, while white southern women's roles had been changing since the Civil War, it was not until World War I that southern women's traditional roles were challenged by ideas of national patriotism …
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The Obstacles in Women's Pathway to Principalship
… problem is to investigate the obstacles of women seeking the principalship in public education; and also to explore major changes of different obstacles to women's principalship because women's roles have changed over time. Different obstacles in women's pathway to principalship are: low …
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Masculinities and fatherhood in a South African context: exploring Xhosa men's experiences of fatherhood and ideas about masculinities
… themes: challenging notions of nurturing as women's roles, changing patterns in fatherhood, fatherhood as a process, multiple ways of fathering, communal and familial support structures, and deviation from ‘traditional' norms and ‘traditional' ideas around fathering. The fathers in this study …
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Women in the workforce: Overcoming time and space constraints
More women are in the workforce today than in the history of America. This has upset our previous notions of women's roles in American society as well as our definition of family. Dual career couples, single parent families and singles living alone have replaced the traditional male wage earner, …
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"""They'll Not Love You if You're Witty"": The Literary Humor of American Women Before 1900"
… which emerged to challenge assumptions about women's roles as passive and humorless angels in the house as well as to expose the male bias of definitions of the national character and its humor. It traces the tradition from precursors such as Anne Bradstreet, Sarah Kemble Knight, and Judith …
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Determinants of Choice of College Major Among Women and Men: Comparisons of Cohorts in the Late 1960s and 1970s (Sex Differences)
… to the choice of college major among young women. The study compares a cohort of women in the late 1970s with one in the late 1960s to explain the dramatic increase in the relative representation of women in nontraditional fields during the 1970s. This study also examines samples of men in …
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Sexuality: Social and Cultural Constructs of Women Represented through Art
… from these social constructs, I have explored women's roles as artists: how women and their sexuality have been portrayed in the past through artworks using various media; how the viewers of these artworks saw the women that were portrayed and society's reactions to these works of art. My …
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Asatru in America: A New American Religion
… solutions within Asatru, including the family, women's roles, and the environment. As parts of the movement shift toward lower tension with American culture, Asatru is in the process of emerging as a viable and complex religion that achieves a degree of cultural continuity by reinvigorating …
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Women, the household economy and the informal sector in Hanoi
This thesis explores the role of women in a transitional economy. Doi moi, the process of 'renovation', is the restructuring of the economy from centrally-planned to market-driven. The consequences of this restructuring is affecting women’s economic roles in the economy and in the household in very …
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ENTRE EL DESEO Y EL PUDOR, EL AMOR HEREOS EN LA NOVELA SENTIMENTAL: GRISEL Y MIRABELLA DE JUAN DE FLORES
… a more nuanced and complete understanding of women’s roles and actual behavior can be reached by analyzing the same medical and philosophical treatises that deny them the possibility of suffering from lovesickness. In fact, my readings of texts such as Grisel y Mirabella (ca. 1475), Celestina …
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Mobility Without Mayhem: Disciplining Mobile America Through Safety
… was an increase in ""dangerous and incompetent"" women drivers, primarily due to suburbanization. Countless popular press articles responded to and helped create this crisis, most notably in women's magazines. They assisted in altering women's relationships to mobility and technology, while also …
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Reading prostitution in American fiction, 1893-1917
… depict the harsh conditions which caused many women to prostitute themselves for survival. Contemporary critical interpretations of novels addressed in this dissertation began before major shifts in women's roles in the workplace, before trends towards family planning, before women could …
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Sex, Labor, And The American Way: Detroit Aesthetic In Mid-Twentieth-Century Literature
… and order rein in desire and sexuality. Women in the workforce cause traditional gender codes to be redesigned, resulting in fear of the loss of efficiency. Masculine identity is as equally shaped by capitalism as women's roles are. Production and consumption are tied to sexual …
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Adoption of Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices and Their Impacts on the Welfare of Livestock Farming Households in Pakistan
… sustainably increase agricultural productivity. Women’s role in livestock rearing is significant and can have an impact on the adoption decision of CSA practices. To identify effective CSA practices, it is critical to understand the adoption process of these practices, the role of women in the …
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