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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"women and girls"”.
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Dermatological Concerns For Women and Girls With Turner Syndrome
… is associated with distinct manifestations in women and girls involving many mesoderm-derived body systems, including endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic, and renal. Many TS signs and symptoms may go undetected until teenage years or later. Non-mesoderm-derived manifestations of dermatological …
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GENDERED EDUCATION: NARRATING THE SILENCE OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN THE CLASSROOM
… female graduate students in order to understand the reasoning behind our classroom communication. I start by defining silence and continue by reviewing literature surrounding the topic of silence. Then, I focus on my own experiences autoethnographically to understand some of the ways I have …
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The Intersectional Perspective on Women and Girls with Disabilities: A Comparative Analysis
<p>People, including women and girls with disabilities have faced oppression and exclusion in society for centuries due to negative beliefs, stereotypes and attitudes that have led to stigma, discrimination and lack of support for them. For women and girls in particular, having a disability has …
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Recogimiento for women and girls in colonial Lima: An institutional and cultural practice
Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:23:41-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission
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Indigenous (her)oes and their healing work: ending violence against Indigenous women and girls
… leaders are implementing to prevent violence and educate the public on historical and current violence, and to empower Indigenous women and girls. These strategies that the researcher explores are from programs and events in London and Sudbury, Ontario. Through qualitative interviews, the …
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Transfiguring the female: women and girls engaging the transnational in late twentieth century Japan
This dissertation examines three spheres of women and adolescent girls who overtly challenged gender and sexual norms in late twentieth century Japan: the women involved in the uman ribu [women’s liberation] movement and the rezubian [lesbian] community, as well as young women artists and girl …
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What is She Hiding? Gender, Anti-blackness and the Strip-Searching of Black Women and Girls in Canada
This dissertation analyzes the legal and media archives of three cases of the strip-searching of Black women and girls in Canada. Through an extensive analysis of dominant legal and media discourses, this dissertation explores the ways in which Black women and girls are discursively constituted …
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Feelings of home and belonging amongst Bhutanese women and girls with refugee backgrounds who live in New Zealand
… on the everyday home geographies of Bhutanese women and girls with refugee backgrounds in Aotearoa New Zealand. It examines feelings of being at home and belonging for 37 resettled Bhutanese women and girls, and eight men, aged between 12 and 85 years, all living under the third-country …
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God's School on the Hill: Nannie Helen Burroughs and the National Training School for Women and Girls, 1909-1961
… in shaping the broad educational policy and classroom practices of an African American school. A second theme looks at the central role played by Burroughs, affording the opportunity to analyze an African American woman as educator, school founder and builder of an important educational …
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“Here I come with all my Black girl magic”: Black women and girls’ experiences in predominantly white independent private schools
… independent private schools specifically, Black women and girls endure feelings of rejection, isolation, and inadequacy all whilst trying to maintain their academic or career success and a positive self-perception. Through the lenses of Black Feminist Thought and Critical Race Theory, this …
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“Stuff from which her roots are grown”: sourcing the educational roots of gendered racial intellectual activism for Black women and girls
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Football as an agent or tool to promote women and girls' empowerment: a case study of coaching for hope - Cape Town
Football has been used as a tool for empowering women in numerous countries across the globe. This qualitative case study critically assesses the viability of football as an agent for empowering females. The study is based on Coaching for Hope's, "Empowerment of Women and Girls through Football" …
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'The AIDS is coming and there is nowhere to run...': Culture, gender, and the politics of Kisongo Maasai women and girls' vulnerability to HIV/AIDS (Immune deficiency, Tanzania)
This thesis outlines the research findings and implications for practice generated from the, “A Gender Issue: Reducing the Vulnerability of Kisongo Maasai Girls to HIV/AIDS” project, which was a participatory action research (PAR) study in collaboration with the Kisongo Maasai in Northern Tanzania. …
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How feminist legal theory can help to safeguard the rights and interests of disadvantaged women and girls during crises: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and South Africa
Periods of global and national crisis have a tendency to upend progress made with respect to women's and girls' equality. Laws and policies created during these periods, seemingly neutral on their face, are often hastily constructed in a bid to ensure swift crisis management and an amelioration of …
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Invited but excluded: Examining the underrepresentation of African American women and girls in STEM-based fields of education, and how historically Black colleges and universities are bridging the equity gap
… dissertation explores the social, institutional, and structural conditions believed to be at the center of the racial disparities that influence access and participation within secondary and post-secondary environments of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. More …
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A critical examination of girls’ (dis)empowerment in sport for development and peace.
In recent years, women’s and girls’ development has taken centre stage within the sport for development and peace (SDP) movement so much so that some scholars have referred to the attention on women and girls as the ‘girling of development’ (Hayhurst 2013a; Chawansky 2011). Amongst the increasing …
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Gender and Disability: An Exploration of Reflective Practice for Protection and Access Amid Complex Emergencies
<p><em>Gender and Disability: An Exploration of Reflective Practice for Protection and Access Amid Complex Emergencies</em> is a qualitative research project exploring under what conditions and in what ways disabled persons’ organizations (DPOs) effectively protect and provide access to women and …
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Mathematical Identities and Tracking: An Exploration of Efficacy in Children and Women
<p>This study seeks to understand the impact of elementary school mathematical identities and mathematics tracking on the identities of women and girls. “Tracking” is an institutionalized education method developed in the 1960s and 1970s in which schools sort their students into smaller class-sized …
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The Securitisation of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in the United Nations Women, Peace and Security Agenda: The Case of Liberia, 2000-2013
… of sexual violence in the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda, drawing on the Liberian experience. This study is conducted through a critical discourse analysis of the resolutions adopted by the United Nations Security Council from 2000 to 2019, and the Liberian National Action …
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