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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"working-class women"”.
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Housie as leisure pursuit for older working class women
… the involvement of a group of Christchurch women, sixty five years and over, in the game of housie as a way of exploring the meaning these women ascribe to their leisure behaviour and the role of housie in their lives. In order to achieve this aim qualitative research methods were used …
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Investigating the challenges working-class women face in the construction industry-RSA
… continue to pose daunting challenges to women. This study investigates working-class women's challenges in the construction industry and considers possible avenues to ensure substantive transformation. The study provides critical insights into stubborn and widespread patriarchy within the …
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Intimacy and Family Among Single, Working-Class Women: A Focus on Rural Appalachia
… of their social locations (e.g., racial, gender, class). As central Appalachia is a place characterized by persistent poverty, I interviewed single, midlife White women from a community in West Virginia (N=11) to investigate (a) their experiences with family life and (b) their expectations for …
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In the streets, shops, and mines: The voices of Emile Zola's working-class women
… offer a broad and profound literary portrayal of working-class women. Using a socio-linguistic theoretical approach, this dissertation analyzes Zola's innovations in using literary devices to amplify authentic female working-class voices, and identifies how this discourse differs from male …
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The Impact of the Purchasing Power of Young, Employed, Modern Working-class Women on the Design, Mass Manufacture and Consumption of Fashionable Lightweight Day Dresses, 1930-1939
… demand for cheap, fashionable clothing for young working-class women. The term “agents of change” is of deep significance to this study that argues and proves that the close analysis of the consumption choices and the wearing of lightweight day dresses of this specific social group also became a …
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Invisible Woman
… of this paper is to illuminate the ways in which working class women are invisible within the feminist and ecofeminist movements. Using the faces and forces of oppression as presented by Iris Marion Young and Hilde Lindemann, I show how the working class experiences oppression. I also show how …
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Invisible Woman
… of this paper is to illuminate the ways in which working class women are invisible within the feminist and ecofeminist movements. Using the faces and forces of oppression as presented by Iris Marion Young and Hilde Lindemann, I show how the working class experiences oppression. I also show how …
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A History of English Women’s Cricket, 1880-1939
This thesis is a study of the history of women’s cricket from the 1880s until 1939. Although the primary focus of this thesis is the interwar years, it explores the earliest forms of women’s cricket to provide context for the motivation of individuals to promote the game as acceptable for women, …
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Behind the Fan: Conservative Activists in the New Orleans Christian Woman's Exchange, 1881-1891
… some of the economic suffering "reduced gentlewomen"faced. Despite the Exchange's original mission to help the elite, the group soon crossed class and racial boundaries in a campaign of conservative activism. The Christian Woman's Exchange helped women provide for their families by training …
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Women and class: Power dynamics in contemporary Mexican literature and culture
This dissertation examines the representation of working-class women in the literary and cultural production of 20th Century Mexico. Chapter 2, “Sirvientas, Patronas, and Housework: The Place of Domestic Work in Mexican Culture,” looks at the relationships between women of opposing social strata in …
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An exploration of learning by women in the clothing and textile industry within the context of the National Skills Development Strategy
… study explored the learning experiences of black working class women in the context of the National Skills Development Strategy. The research focused firstly, on how the National Skills Development Strategy facilitated women's learning and secondly, what has helped and hindered their learning and …
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Women's Response to Spousal Unemployment: Economic, Labor Force, and Family Constraints
… I explore the conditions and factors that shape women's choices in response to their husbands' job loss. Access to a unique and under-studied sample of women married to unemployed working-class men necessitates the use of grounded theory research techniques that allow me to "give voice" to …
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Ten Cents a Dance: Taxi Dancers, a Living Wage, and the Sexual Politics of Women's Work, 1912-1952
… 1930, taxi dancers joined thousands of unmarried working-class women who moved beyond the domestic sphere to actively engage in public, market-oriented roles that transformed urban culture. During this time, a new form of commercialized entertainment emerged to bridge women's work with the …
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Gender and community: Womanist and feminist perspectives in the fiction of Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, and Louise Erdrich
… constructions of community. In the U.S., the women's suffrage movement and the mainstream feminist movements of the past three decades have concentrated on challenging middle-class Euroamerican patriarchal definitions of womanhood. Women of color and working class women have, for the most …
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"Seeking and saving": the reform of prostitutes and the prevention of prostitution in Birmingham, 1860-1914
… The first group, composed of Anglican men and women dedicated to reform, founded a Magdalen Asylum. Soon after, a group of middle class Nonconformist women inspired by Ellice Hopkins' vision, established an alternative to the Anglican model. It is argued that this initiative marked a small …
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The Story Less Told: Representations in the Inter-War Years of the American White Working Class by Four Female Authors
… treat gender through their representation of working-class women; exploring the interaction between art and propaganda in their novels; and considering the extent to which their backgrounds and life experiences influence their writing.
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Making little changes: Increasing physical activity levels through feminist community education
… – 30 years. This is a gendered phenomenon, with women engaging in lower levels of physical activity than men across the life cycle. Women and working class people consistently have the lowest levels of physical activity in Ireland. This research project set out to establish a women’s health and …
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Perception of menopause : black and white working-class women's experiences
This thesis aimed to address the ways in which class, race, culture, gender and power shape experiences of menopause by exploring the experiences of South African black and white working-class women. The main implications for theorization on menopause from this study are that (1) there is no single …
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Women and Paid Work in Industrial Britain, c.1945 - c.1971
This thesis is a study of working-class women and their paid employment between the temporal limits c.1945 and c.1971. Centralising women’s experiences, three distinct methodologies – statistical analysis, archival research, and oral history – discretely delivered, explore changing patterns of …
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Women, development, and communities for empowerment: grassroots associations for change in Southwest Virginia
This is a qualitative study of women and change in the coalfields and nearby mining areas of Southwest Virginia in the Central Appalachian mountains, a peripheral region in a core country at the end of the twentieth century. Intensive interviews with working-class women in grassroots associations …
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