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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"women Studies"”.
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Rene Magritte's segmented women: Studies based on two paintings in the Menil Collection (Belgium)
Rene Magritte, Surrealist painter, represented women in segmented forms. He enclosed portions of female anatomy in frames and painted representations of broken, sculpted torsos. In this he was inspired by the example of de Chirico's poetic painting, Rodin's use of partial forms to represent whole …
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Settling for Less: Restricted Awards Steer Women and Students of Color Away From More Lucrative Opportunities
Three studies examined how the presence of a scholarship open only to members of underrepresented groups (i.e., women or people of color) impacts their decision to apply for more lucrative scholarships with no eligibility restrictions. Both people of color (Study 1) and women (Studies 2 and 3) were …
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Reconstructing Resilience: Including African -American Female Students in Educational Resiliency Research
… for urban education, social work practice, and women studies.
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Religion, Electoral Rules and Women's Representation: A Cross National Examination
… there is an increase in interest in gender and women studies through the lenses of comparative politics frameworks; i.e. political culture, structure and economy; there are many controversies and gaps in explaining why women are underrepresented and/or varied in national parliaments. The study …
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Finding oneself far from home: identity construction in contemporary US migrant women’s fiction
This thesis discusses US immigrant women’s narratives in terms of identity construction, adaptation to the host environment, and the resulting effects on the characters’ sense of home and belonging. The thesis also compares women’s immigrant narratives with expatriate fictions focusing on the …
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The Role of Self-efficacy, Social Support, and Neighborhood Environment in Exercise Behavior of Middle-aged Women
… prevalence among Korean middle-aged women. Studies to date have stablished corroboration, regarding the correlates of exercise behavior from intrapersonal and interpersonal perspectives, in which self-efficacy and social support was identified as key influential factors. However, …
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Influences Affecting Career/Life Planning Aspirations as Perceived by Intellectually-Gifted, Ethnically-Diverse Adolescent Girls: A Case Study
With the exception of a few Asian-American women, there continues to be fewer women from ethnically-diverse cultures in high status careers. Yet little is known about the specific variables which affect the life planning and future aspirations of young, gifted black, Hispanic and Pan/Asian women. …
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Anger suppression as a vehicle for gender socialization in girls: A developmental study
A growing body of literature supports the link between anger suppression and depression, and females' greater likelihood of demonstrating both. Anger suppression has been asserted to be involved in gender socialization for girls. Differences between boys and girls in anger suppression and …
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Analysis of radiosensitivity in South African cervical and breast cancer patients
… is the leading cancer amongst South African women, with a lifetime risk of 1 in 34. Since most cancer patients in South Africa present with late-stage disease, chemotherapy and radiotherapy are commonly-used treatments. Several international studies have shown breast cancer patients to be …
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Piecing a quilt: Jessie Carney Smith and the making of African American women's history
… of Jessie Carney Smith’s Notable Black American Women (1992) as an illustration of black feminist knowledge production. It explores the contributions of Dr. Smith to African American women’s and library history during her more than four decades as Head Librarian at historically black Fisk …
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The Roots of Womanism as Identity, Empowerment, and Liberation for Black American Women: Raciolinguistic Genealogical Exploration
<p>Black American women intellectuals, activists, and scholars have grappled with womanism in relation to Black women’s presence in the world, particularly in the context of feminist and Black liberation movements. Since womanism was introduced more than four decades ago, both movements claimed …
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Single Mothers in College: The Effect of Selected Variables
… poverty related issues. This study examined women who had at least one child or dependent, were in poverty, and were first time beginners in college. The purpose for conducting this study was to identify the relationship between poverty and degree completion, institution type, and persistence …
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Women Refugee Students: United Nations' Visual Representation
… educational continuity accommodations for women experiencing (re)location in contemporary refugee crises through the lens of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) website. The researcher used visual analysis of digital media in the UNHCR’s ‘Her Turn’ multimedia report, …
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Weibliche Jugendpflege zwischen Geselligkeit und Sittlichkeit : zur Geschichte des Verbandes der evangelischen Jungfrauenvereine Deutschlands (1890-1918)
Die Arbeit untersucht erstmals die evangelischen Vereine für weibliche Jugendliche, die so genannten Jungfrauenvereine, von ihrer Entstehung in den 1840er Jahren bis zum 1. Weltkrieg, sowie insbesondere den 1893 gegründeten Verband der evangelischen Jungfrauenvereine Deutschlands (später …
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Encontros e desencontros de grupos sociais no feminino : o caso das técnicas da área social e as respectivas utentes
Resumo - Encontros e desencontros de grupos sociais no feminino: o caso das técnicas da área social e as respectivas utentes Esta dissertação pretende estudar alguns aspectos do relacionamento entre dois grupos de mulheres que diariamente se encontram no âmbito de uma grande instituição de …
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Patterns of Health Care Utilization of Mexican American Women
Studies on the health care utilization patterns of Mexican Americans have traditionally focused on cultural differences and, at times, cost constraints to explain use. The type of health care services used (preventive, symptomatic, therapeutic) have seldom been differentiated. This study provides …
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Unintended Pregnancy Prevention and Active Duty Women
Studies have shown that a structured education program for women decreases risky sexual behavior identified as vulnerable for AIDS. However, the outcomes from a structured, repeated, educational intervention in reducing the rates of unintended pregnancies have not been studied in military females …