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Johansson, Lena. ""The Speciesism Gaze!?" : An ethical discursive analysis of animal right posters from a postcolonial, eco-critical and new materialist feminist perspective." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-55367.
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Our western society and lifestyle is to a considerable extent depended on the way we perceive and treat our co-existing non-human species. Industrial farming, vivisection, sports, circuses etcetera are just a few examples of how human use and exploit animal bodies for own gain. A phenomenon that in many ways, is perceived, as natural and normal, and therefore seldom discussed. The thesis purpose is to problematize this phenomenon by examine, what I call “The Speciesism Gaze”, through analysis of posters that promote animal rights, selected online, through the search domain Google. The theoretical framework used, are theories focusing on intersectionality, derived within postcolonial-, eco-critical and new materialist feminism. A brief introduction of animal right movements, its linking to feminism activism and theories derived within affect theory is presented as background for the analysis. As method, I use critical discourse analysis, focusing on intertextuality of the posters context. Asking what discourses emerge, challenging the anthropocentric and androcentric western dualistic hierarchy, whilst displaying mutually reinforced structures of sexism, racism and speciesism? I discuss the western historical and cultural human idea that the human species is separated from nature and animal, and where the “right” human subject standard is perceived as male, white, heterosexual and western in the Anthropocene age. I found that, this standard is displayed, played on, and questioned in the posters selected, in relation to animal materiality, grievability, killability, species necropolitics, sexism and racism. I discuss in my conclusion that oppression based on speciesism is not a power relation discussed in society today to the same extent as expressions of sexism and racism are. It is however an oppression that we all take part in every day and that affect all of us, despite species belonging. In that context, I hope the theorization and meaning of the speciesism gaze will have significance within the field of feminist theorizations and practices.
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Ozbarlas, Yesim. "Perspective on Multicultural Education: Case Studies of a German and an American Female Minority Teacher." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04232008-125014/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2008.Title from file title page. Mary Ariail, committee chair; Peggy Albers, Amy Flint, Stephanie Lindemann, committee members. Electronic text (373 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed July 7, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-365).
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Kain, Carina. ""Män skall inte grubbla över sin manlighet, de ska inte vara feminister och genusvetare" : En litteraturstudie av maskulint ifrågasättande." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-30889.
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The aim of this thesis is to study male questioning of masculinity. The study of the questioning will be conducted through a literature study, that will be done using an anthology that holds a critical perspective towards masculinity. The study of the questioning, will be done through mapping the most common patterns within the questioning together with patterns in the form used for presenting the questioning. Apart from the focus on the questioning and its form, which norms that are being questioned will also be studied. Apart from the focuses mentioned above, the last focus is directed towards finding patterns within the chosen themes vulnerability and homosociality. Since the focuses of the thesis will be studied through finding patterns within the material, thematic analysis will be used as a method. The method queer reading will also be used for studying norms. What has been found is that the form of the questioning mainly contains alternative thinking and reflections about ideals, as well as frustration related to trying to live up to these ideals. Overall few innovatory perspectives were brought up in the questioning, but the own father was rather commonly brought up in relation to reflection of the own masculinity. Regarding the chosen themes, avoiding to express emotions of vulnerability openly was found to be most common regarding vulnerability. Within the theme of homosociality, the most common pattern was that the men maintained a distance to each other. The most interesting discovery was found within the reflective form, which became interesting, since the stories contained an understanding that reflection should be avoided in order to uphold a masculine identity. Paradoxically then, the overall form of the material was reflective stories, making the form of the stories a break against a central norm found within their content.
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Ottosson, Sara. "Spring som en tjej : en studie om könstester inom friidrott och dess förhållande till artikel 8 och 14 EKMR utifrån ett ras- och genusperspektiv." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-444275.
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This thesis examines gender verifications issues in track and field from a feminist and antiracist perspective. In 2019 the international governing body for the sport of athletics (World Athletics) introduced limits on blood testosterone levels for women with some types of Differences in sex development (DSD) in races from 400 metres to 1 mile. According the eligibility rules Caster Semenya and other athletes with heightened testosterone levels need to lower their testosterone levels in order to be eligible to compete in middle distance running races in the women’s class. This thesis discuss the relationship between gender verifications in athletics and the protection of athletes right to privacy according to article 8 ECHR and prohibition of gender and race discrimination according to article 14 ECHR. The balance between the interests for fair competition in sports and the protection of athletes human rights is an ongoing discussion. Complex relationship between states accountability and international non-governmental sports organizations can put athletes in a vulnerable position. This paper includes three research questions. Firstly, can the state parties to the ECHR be accountable if the eligibility rules infringe human rights? Secondly, is the eligibility rules in compliance with the right to respect for private and family life according to article 8 ECHR? Thirdly, is the eligibility rules in compliance with prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of sex and race according to article 14 ECHR.
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López, Melonio María Noel. "Asking “the child question” : - an analysis of the child perspective of Swedish legislation concerning child marriage with special focus on the recognition of those enacted in other countries." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-175438.
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Ståhl, Marie. "Kemiämnets normer och värden : Diskursanalytiska studier av nationella prov i kemi och tillhörande elevtexter." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-281449.
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The aim of this thesis was to examine the conditions for democratic bildung-oriented education for students in the school science discourse. This is something that the Swedish curriculum is based on and thereby the education should develop students' capacity for social, political and cultural awareness. The theoretical framework used is grounded in critical didactics and feminist theories which assume that students should feel involved and get their voices heard. The Swedish national test in chemistry (2009-2012) and student answers (198n) from one of the items in the 2009 test have been analyzed using discourse analysis. The first study explored the norms and values present in the national tests in chemistry, in relation to people, society and nature. The second study focused on student’s evaluative language in their free-text answers to one of the items. Thereby attitudes in student answers were projected in relation to the norms and values found in the first study. Finally, the student answers were used once more in a third study, where students’ positioning in relation to the scientific discourse in the chemistry test (2009) was explored, as well as which feminist figurations these subject positions express. The results show that the national tests harbor an elitist image and anandrocentric bias.The normative message is that students should adopt an objective, rational, non-judgmental and non-emotional role. Topics connected to young people’s everyday life, that might interest students, are rare. Contrary to the normative messages mediated by the tests, students use evaluative and embodied language to a high extent in their answers. They choose to write about topics that are close to their everyday life and they show that they are emotionally engaged. Through feminist figurations theories used in the third study one can see how the student-subject positions offer resistance in different ways. This is shown in their criticism of science and technology, human society and nature. The students' responses have embraced an embodied chemistry that can be interpreted as teaching based on bildung and deliberative discussions.
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Naqvi, Zainab Batul. "Critical feminist perspectives on the legal recognition of polygamous marriages in the UK." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8127/.
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In this thesis, I explore the desirability of including polygamous marriages within contemporary legal understandings of marriage in the UK. I develop existing research in this area to undertake a contextualised, historically-conscious examination of English legal and judicial responses towards polygamous marriages which I then use to underpin my analysis of real women’s narratives. My thesis addresses five research questions: 1.) How are legal and judicial responses towards polygamous marriage framed in English law? 2.) What is the impact of current legal and judicial attitudes towards polygamous marriages on women in the UK? 3.) How are women’s views, experiences and perceptions of polygamous marriage constructed in relation to law, religion, culture and society in the UK? 4.) How might the UK’s legal regulation of polygamy be changed to better reflect the needs of women? 5.) Is legal recognition for polygamous marriages in the UK, a desirable or viable option for reform? I argue that current English legal and judicial responses towards polygamous marriages are archaic and remain underscored by colonial imperialist, orientalist and sexist attitudes. These attitudes have also permeated wider social and cultural attitudes towards polygamy. The debate surrounding the legal recognition of polygamous marriages has evolved very little because the same arguments concerning equality and harm have been made for centuries. A more sensitive engagement with the advantages and implications of legal recognition for polygamous marriages is required to promote a nuanced model of recognition.
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Tamboukou, Maria. "Women, education and the self : a Foucauldian perspective /." Houndmills : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol041/2003051423.html.
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Åkesson, Emilia. "Affectivity in the classroom : A contribution to a feminist corpomaterial intersectional pedagogy." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-107163.
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In this study I aim to contribute to the field of feminist corpomaterial intersectional pedagogies, which I understand as a part of the broader field of feminist postconstructionist pedagogies. Against the background of feminist postconstructionism I wish to overcome binary understandings of for example discourse/materiality, theory/practice, male/female and mind/body in pedagogies. To follow this through I have analysed how affects and emotions are present in a classroom by studying the possibility of taking a starting point in the body while rethinking the anti-oppressive and norm critical pedagogical idea of the self-reflective teacher. In order to challenge the idea of the teacher as a neutral, universal and rational knowledge producer, I have in this study analysed how one can affectively and emotionally situate teacher-bodies and participant-bodies in a classroom. The analysis was carried out on the basis of empirical material collected at a workshop on corporeality and norm critical pedagogy organised in a teacher-training program at a Swedish university. The workshop was conducted as intra-active-research and the material consists of my field diary, eight written interviews, one oral interview and my experiences from leading the workshop. I argue in this study that teacher-bodies affectively and emotionally could be situated as both following a corporeal schema, an expected plan for how a teacher-body should act and move, and also as stepping away from and disrupting this schema. Further on I argue that teacher-bodies could be situated as memory banks and as working from memory. I stress how important it is in pedagogic situations to be aware of the ways in which bodies in a room affect and are affected by each other, in other words; how bodies “do not end at the skin”. This affective and emotional situatedness shows how it is possible to overcome the idea of teachers and students as bodily neutral. I also argue that it might be important to integrate workshops on corporealities in teacher training. This could be one possible way to start to think on one’s affectively and emotionally situatedness as teacher, something I claim as required if one aspires for a feminist intersectional corpomaterial pedagogy.
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Törnegren, Gull. "Utmaningen från andra berättelser : En studie om moraliskt omdöme, utvidgat tänkande och kritiskt reflekterande berättelser i dialogbaserad feministisk etik." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Etik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-206500.
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The present study has a threefold aim: First, the theoretical aim is to give a contribution to refinement of the theory of dialogue based feminist ethics, concerning the understanding of judgment and narration within such an ethics. The study also has an empirical aim, defined as to clarify what kind of knowledge, relevant to the moral judgment of an engaged outsider actor, can be received from dialogical interpretation and analysis of a limited selection of critically reflecting life stories. Third, a methodological aim is defined as to develop an approach to interpretation and analysis of reflecting life stories, which renders the storyteller visible as a reflecting moral subject, and makes the story accessible as a source of knowledge for the moral judgment of an engaged outsider actor. The thesis combines philosophical reflection and argumentation, with a narrative-hermeneutic method for interpretation of life stories, relating the two to each other in a hermeneutic process. The theoretical reflection draws on Seyla Benhabibs theory of communicative ethics. A dialogue based model for moral justification and a likewise dialogue based model for political legitimacy are at the heart of this universalistic theory, although in combination with a conception of a narratively and hermeneutically constituted context sensitive moral judgment, based on Hannah Arendt’s concept “enlarged thought”. In the reflection, this model is related to other feminist theorizing within the tradition of dialogue based feminist ethics, as found in the works of Iris M. Young, Georgia Warnke and Shari Stone-Mediatore. The empirical study draws on three critically reflecting life stories from Israeli-Palestinian women activists for a just peace. The methodology for interpretation and analysis that is worked out combines dialogical interpretation as presented in Arthur W. Frank’s socio-narratology with a method for structural analysis derived from Shari Stone-Mediatores theory of storytelling as an expression of political resistance struggle. The results show that some stories drawing on marginalized experiences have a potential to stimulate further public debate through their capacity to enable a stereoscopic seeing, elucidating a tension between ideologically structured discourse and non-linguistic experience; implying that narrative-hermeneutic competence should be considered crucial for public debate.
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Butler, Elaine, and n/a. "Curriculum work : post modern positions and problematics : a personal perspective." University of Canberra. Education, 1995. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060622.133222.
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This thesis presents an interrogation of curriculum practices and positionings, over
time, of a feminist educator and curriculum worker seeking to centre gender and
subjugated knowledges in a curriculum framework with the potential for
transformative outcomes. The interrogation offers an opportunity to consider
discourses in operation, to frame curriculum and pedagogy as sites of discursive
struggle around knowledges, gender and power.
The thesis, presented as a critical narrative, interweaves theories and theoretical ideas
from four key areas: post modernism and post structuralism; feminism/s; education
and curriculum, and critical social sciences, including critical theory. Interpretative
feminist praxis is employed as the methodological approach.
Central to the investigation is a curriculum project undertaken in Papua New Guinea
(the Goroka Curriculum Project). This Project which is positioned as a case study,
provides text for conceptual and contextual interrogation of a specific site of
curriculum work, and a corrective moment in which the limitations of the writer's
endeavours and position/s of advantage are acknowledged.
Curriculum positionings described as oppositional are challenged as a result of the
lack of attention to gender by radical and critical theorists. Further, the disjuncture
between such theorising, and the development of curriculum models to inform
oppositional work is made overt and problematic.
Curriculum models and practices associated with the work of traditional empiricist
approaches found to be dominant in Papua New Guinea, reify western intellectual
endeavours to the disadvantage of indigenous and women's knowledges and
knowledge practices. This naturalisation is framed as an example of a meta narrative
in education, whereby the discursive practices associated with traditional / rational
curriculum models both colonise the endeavours of curriculum workers, and position
learners as colonised subjects. A central outcome of the traditional/rational model is
the inherent positioning of such individuals and groups as marginalised, devalued
Other. Such curriculum work is framed as a technology of governance, privileging
attempts to establish order and homogeneity in an increasingly disorderly and
fragmented world.
The investigation by the curriculum writer of her theory/practice leads to recognition
of oppositional work as a site of power, that also has the potential to 'oppress',
extending the colonial project. Following this, the thesis investigates transformative
curriculum work as problematic potentiality, questioning what the work of a feminist
curriculum writer in a post modern world is to do and to be.
While acknowledging there are no innocent discourses of liberation, the potential of
the 'courage to know', to attend to pedagogical ethics and ethics of self, and
acknowledge the messy, contradictory and deeply political work of curriculum design
are posited. An emergent notion of curriculum work as textual practice, within a
multi-dimensional framework that conceptualises curriculum as representation is
advanced.
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Silva, Marília Rodrigues da. "Refigurando monstros: a perspectiva parcial de Donna Haraway como crítica da ciência." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2009. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=5544.
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Esta dissertação trata das relações de poder que marcam a produção científica ocidental moderna a partir da abordagem dos estudos sobre Gênero e Ciência da feminista historiadora
da ciência estadunidense Donna Haraway. Esta autora propõe a concepção de toda a produção de conhecimento como pratica política, assumindo a perspectiva parcial como fundamento para uma ciência objetiva e apontando a perspectiva de objetividade calcada na ideia de imparcialidade como produtora de um tipo de saber que historicamente serviu como instrumento de dominação: o conhecimento que se propõe como universal. Em sua narrativa, o androcentrismo, o etnocentrismo, o racismo e as divisões de classe operam na conformação e nas transformações desta ciência a partir da construção de um sujeito privilegiado do conhecimento, o cientista, figura constituída a imagem e semelhança do homem branco
ocidental independente. Meu recorte de sua obra são as reformulações dessas relações ao longo da historia da ciência ocidental moderna observadas por ela na emergência e nas
produções de um conjunto especifico de disciplinas do campo das ciências naturais biológicas, fortemente marcadas pelas teorias e tecnologias da informação e da comunicação
produzidas no campo da cibernética. Na construção de um discurso critico sobre os saberes / poderes hegemônicos, Haraway traz para a cena da ciência figuras monstruosas, entre
elas o ciborgue, tanto como meio de revelar categorias culturais atuando na produção do conhecimento como para materializar novos significados para natureza, os corpos e as relações de diferença. Em conexão com esses monstros, refigurados em suas narrativas, a autora defende uma relação de conexão, e não de divisão, entre sujeito e objeto do saber.This dissertation abords the power relations that mark the modern occidental scientific production from the point of view of the Gender and Science studies of the north-american feminist and historian of science Donna Haraway. The author proposes a conception of all the knowledge production as a political practice, assuming a partial perspective as a fundament to an objective science and pointing the objectivity perspective based on the idea of impartiality as a producer of a type of knowledge that historically served as an instrument of domination: the knowledge that proposes itself as universal. In her narrative, the androcentrism, ethnocentrism, racism and the class divisions operate on the conformation and the transformations of this science from the construction of a knowledge privileged persona, the scientist, character developed from the image and similarity of an independent western white man. My extract of the book is the reformulations of these relationships along with the modern western science observed by the author in the emerging and in the productions of a specific group of disciplines in the field of biological natural science, which were strongly marked by the theory and technology of information and communication produced in the cybernetic science. In the construction of a critic discussion about the hegemonic nowerpowers, Haraway brings monstrous characters to light, among them a cyborg, as much as a way to revel cultural categories acting in the knowledge production as to materialize new meanings to the nature, bodies and the differences relationships. Compromised with these monsters, human figures and non-human redefined in her narratives, the author defends a relationship of connection, and not of division, between the subject and the object of knowledge.
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Anderson, Fiona E. "Being 50: A psycho-social study of a cohort of women in contemporary society from a life course perspective." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4898.
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The economic, demographic and social changes of the latter half of the C20th
have influenced the experience of individuals now at 'midlife'. Arguably the
impact of these changes has been more profound for women; specifically in the
UK for those educated to be the wives, mothers and carers of industrial Britain
(Newsom, 1963). Now around 50 years old this group of women are likely to
experience a lengthy period of 'postmaternity' (Sheriff and Weatherall, 2009)
extending to over thirty years in many cases. This research considers the
experience of this metaphorically entitled 'telescopic' cohort (Goldstein and
Schlag, 1999). The major corpus of age related research assumes a linear
developmental progression of life stages (Erikson, 1951, 1968; Gould, 1978;
Levinson, 1978; Levinson, 1996; Klohnen et al., 1996; Miner-Rubinio, 2004).
Drawing on life course theory (Elder, 1995; Runyan, 1982; Super, 1980)
enables this research to explore how women may have changed assumptions
about themselves and their expectations as the social world has changed
around them, moreover offers an alternative to the essentialist, linear,
deterministic models of ageing. This feminist poststructuralist examination of the
experience of women at 'midlife' is divided into two parts; firstly the 'lived life'
which examines demographic changes, and drawing on material from 'Jackie'
magazine, considers discourses of femininity and the expectations for, and of,
girls. The 'told story' is then explored using narrative interview material. How
women 'story' their lives and their understanding of 'self' at midlife is examined
within the context of the changing world and their ageing bodies. The research
revealed that the experience of 'midlife' for this cohort of women is narrated as
a time of change in social circumstances with some 'gains' and some 'losses',
however it is not storied as a time of inevitable 'crisis'. Moreover despite the
plethora of literature portraying the menopause as problematic, this was not
supported by the interview material.
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Anderson, Fiona Ellen. "Being 50 : a psycho-social study of a cohort of women in contemporary society from a life course perspective." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4898.
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The economic, demographic and social changes of the latter half of the C20th have influenced the experience of individuals now at 'midlife'. Arguably the impact of these changes has been more profound for women; specifically in the UK for those educated to be the wives, mothers and carers of industrial Britain (Newsom, 1963). Now around 50 years old this group of women are likely to experience a lengthy period of 'postmaternity' (Sheriff and Weatherall, 2009) extending to over thirty years in many cases. This research considers the experience of this metaphorically entitled 'telescopic' cohort (Goldstein and Schlag, 1999). The major corpus of age related research assumes a linear developmental progression of life stages (Erikson, 1951, 1968; Gould, 1978; Levinson, 1978; Levinson, 1996; Klohnen et al., 1996; Miner-Rubinio, 2004). Drawing on life course theory (Elder, 1995; Runyan, 1982; Super, 1980) enables this research to explore how women may have changed assumptions about themselves and their expectations as the social world has changed around them, moreover offers an alternative to the essentialist, linear, deterministic models of ageing. This feminist poststructuralist examination of the experience of women at 'midlife' is divided into two parts; firstly the 'lived life' which examines demographic changes, and drawing on material from 'Jackie' magazine, considers discourses of femininity and the expectations for, and of, girls. The 'told story' is then explored using narrative interview material. How women 'story' their lives and their understanding of 'self' at midlife is examined within the context of the changing world and their ageing bodies. The research revealed that the experience of 'midlife' for this cohort of women is narrated as a time of change in social circumstances with some 'gains' and some 'losses', however it is not storied as a time of inevitable 'crisis'. Moreover despite the plethora of literature portraying the menopause as problematic, this was not supported by the interview material.
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Ivic, Maria, and Anna Österberg. "Makt- och genusrelationer i års- och hållbarhetsrapporter : En kvantitativ innehållsanalys om avbildning och reproducering av könsroller utifrån bilder." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Företagsekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-45848.
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Studiens syfte är att undersöka hur genus- och maktrelationer avbildas samt reproduceras genom bilder från The Big Fours års- och hållbarhetsrapporter. Tidigare forskning har klarlagt behovet att på ett adekvat sätt särskilja mellan kön och genus inom kritisk redovisningsforskning. Således grundas studien i en rad feministiska teorier och kritisk organisationsteori, såväl som tidigare forskning där genus står i fokus. Dessa teorier tillämpas vid en kvantitativ innehållsanalys och efterföljande slutledning. Detta för att identifiera dolda processer inom organisationerna som inverkar på hur hierarkier utformas inom dessa. Resultaten påvisar att det existerar ett könande inom organisationerna som är till mannens fördel. Dock är generaliserbarheten av studiens empiri begränsad utifrån resultatet av den logistiska regressionen. Symboler för ett starkt ledarskap förknippas med maskulinitet och mannen avbildas oftare som stående inom urvalet, vilket studien härleder till uttryck för rådande och önskade hierarkier. Därtill påvisar empirin att aktivitet till högre grad avbildas som ett manligt attribut vilket studien förklarar som ett uttryck för ett rådande informationsövertag. Det återfinns dock frekvenser som gör gällande att kvinnan ges utrymme att komma till tals och således att dennes perspektiv tas tillvara på. Detta då kvinnan till en högre grad avbildas som seriös i sällskap av män än ensam. Genusrelationer identifieras men processerna är genomgående subtila. Sociala koder och normativa påtryckningar kan dock påpekas.The purpose of this study is to examine how gender and power dynamics are depicted and reproduced through images from The Big Four’s Swedish branches, in their annual and sustainability reports. Previous research clarifies the need for a separation between sex and gender within critical accounting research in order to expand the current empirical reach. Hence this study utilizes several feminist perspectives as well as critical organizational theory combined with previous research where gender has been at the center. The study’s content analysis and deduction, along with its conclusion, is built upon these theories to identify hidden processes that constitute real-life gender based hierarchies within said organizations. Furthermore the results of this study points to a continued gendering within these organizations that favour the male sex. However the generalizability of the empirical findings are limited due to the outcome of the logistic regression. Symbols of strong leadership are continuously associated with a sense of masculinity and the male is more often depicted as standing up, symbolizing being higher up in the organizational hierarchy. Empirical evidence is laid forth stating that a higher frequency of being active is tied to being male and furthermore a masculine attribute. Although, measured frequencies show that the woman is granted the opportunity of having her perspective listened to and through that her epistemic privilege utilized as she’s, to a relatively high degree, represented as serious when accompanied by men. Gender relations are identified as parts of subtle processes that are sometimes even to be labelled as ambiguous.
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Haith-Cooper, Melanie. "Meeting the health and social needs of pregnant asylum seekers - midwifery students' perspectives. A critical discourse analysis of language use by midwifery students in their social constructions of the health and social needs of asylum seekers accessing maternity services." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5364.
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Current literature has indicated a concern about standards of maternity care experienced by pregnant asylum seeking women. As the next generation of midwives, it would appear essential that students are educated in a way that prepares them to effectively care for pregnant asylum seekers. Consequently, this study examined the way in which midwifery students constructed a pregnant asylum seeker's health and social needs, the discourses that influenced their constructions and the implications of these findings for midwifery education.
For the duration of year two of a pre-registration midwifery programme, eleven midwifery students participated in the study. Two focus group interviews using a problem based learning (PBL) scenario were conducted. In addition, three students were individually interviewed and two students' written reflections on practice were used to construct data. Following a critical discourse analysis, dominant discourses were identified which appeared to influence the way that pregnant asylum seekers were perceived. The findings suggested an underpinning discourse around the asylum seeker as different and of a criminal persuasion. In addition, managerial and medico-scientific discourses were identified, which appeared to influence how midwifery students approach their care of women in general, at the expense of a woman centred, midwifery perspective. The findings from this study were used to develop 'the pregnant woman within the global context' model for midwifery education and it is recommended that this be used in midwifery education, to facilitate the holistic assessment of pregnant asylum seekers' and other newly arrived migrants' health and social needs.Became: Haith-Cooper, Melanie. Please search under Haith-Cooper for later articles.
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Cooper, Melanie. "Meeting the health and social needs of pregnant asylum seekers : midwifery students' perspectives : a critical discourse analysis of language use by midwifery students in their social constructions of the health and social needs of asylum seekers accessing maternity services." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5364.
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Current literature has indicated a concern about standards of maternity care experienced by pregnant asylum seeking women. As the next generation of midwives, it would appear essential that students are educated in a way that prepares them to effectively care for pregnant asylum seekers. Consequently, this study examined the way in which midwifery students constructed a pregnant asylum seeker's health and social needs, the discourses that influenced their constructions and the implications of these findings for midwifery education. For the duration of year two of a pre-registration midwifery programme, eleven midwifery students participated in the study. Two focus group interviews using a problem based learning (PBL) scenario were conducted. In addition, three students were individually interviewed and two students' written reflections on practice were used to construct data. Following a critical discourse analysis, dominant discourses were identified which appeared to influence the way that pregnant asylum seekers were perceived. The findings suggested an underpinning discourse around the asylum seeker as different and of a criminal persuasion. In addition, managerial and medico-scientific discourses were identified, which appeared to influence how midwifery students approach their care of women in general, at the expense of a woman centred, midwifery perspective. The findings from this study were used to develop 'the pregnant woman within the global context' model for midwifery education and it is recommended that this be used in midwifery education, to facilitate the holistic assessment of pregnant asylum seekers' and other newly arrived migrants' health and social needs.
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Tosold, Léa. "Autodeterminação em três movimentos: a politização de diferenças sob a perspectiva da (des)naturalização da violência." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8131/tde-05022019-135424/.
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Neste corpascrever, meu argumento é o de que levar a sério o problema da naturalização da violência estrutural confere uma (re)nova(da) perspectiva sobre processos de politização de diferenças. Ao inquirir acerca das precondições para a geração de enquadramentos não hegemônicos em contextos marcados por violências estruturais, proponho a reconceitualização dos projetos de politização de diferenças enquanto defesa de processos de autodeterminação cole(a)tiva. Essa tese é defendida em três movimentos interdependentes: (3) por meio de reflexões filosófico-epistemológico-poéticas sobre a relevância da espacialização cole(a)tiva para a experiência da temporalidade; (2) por meio de considerações teóricopolíticas sobre a relação entre o problema do essencialismo e a possibilidade de agência cole(a)tiva subversiva; bem como (1) por meio do vislumbre da con-figur-ação do processo de (r)existência dos povos munduruku e ribeirinho à construção de barragens no Médio Tapajós. Conforme sugiro, a politização de diferenças, sob o proposto viés, apresenta-se como condição sine qua non para viabilizar a apreensão do modus operandi de violências estruturais, uma vez que apenas movimentos (pro)positivos cole(a)tivos permitem a emergência de imagens capazes de colocar a norma hegemônica fundamentalmente em xeque, de modo a transcender os limites inerentes a posturas exclusivamente reativas, co-movendo no sentido da reestruturação do mundo.In this writingbody, I exam in depth the problem of naturalization of structural violence in order to argue for a (re)new(ed) perspective on the politicization of differences. I suggest a reconceptualization of the politicization of differences as a defense of colle(a)ctive selfdetermination processes through an investigation about the preconditions for the generation of non-hegemonic frames in contexts ruled by structural violence. This thesis is undertaken in three interdependent movements: (3) a philosophical-epistemological-poetical reflexion on the relevance of colle(a)ctive spatialization processes for the experience of temporality; (2) a political-theorical consideration on the relationship between the problem of essentialism and the possibility of subversive colle(a)ctive agency; and (1) a perspective on the con-figura( c)tion of the Munduruku and the riverside peoples (r)existence process to the construction of dams in Middle Tapajós region. I argue that the politicization of differences is conditio sine qua non in order to enable the denaturalization of structural violence, as only (pro)positional colle(a)ctive movements transcend the limits of merely reactive positions, enabling the emergency of images that can call the hegemonic rule into question and, therefore, initiate processes of structural trans-formation.
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Von, Oltersdorff-Kalettka Annette. "A critical reflection on pornography from a feminist theological-ethical perspective." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/4640.
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Nyawo, Pamela. "A Critical race feminist perspective on Section 217 of the Constitution." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/36789.
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Section 217 of the Constitution of South Africa regulates the procurement of goods and
or services by any organ of state. Similarly, this section mandates state-owned
institutions to adhere to a procurement system that promotes groups that were
previously disadvantaged by past colonial and apartheid regimes. In this dissertation I
argue that due to South Africa’s oppressive culture, the law has been ineffective in
promoting the socio economic interests of black women due to race, gender and class
subjugation.
Firstly, central to my argument is the judiciary’s traditional role that is still steeped in an
interpretative process of the law that is detrimental to the transformative spirit of the
Constitution. In identifying the South African judiciary system as positivistic in nature I
will critically analyse the Sonke Gender Justice Network v Malema hate speech court
case. I posit that the Equality Court’s decision was mainly result based and as a result
fell short of addressing the core issues affecting black women on the basis of race,
gender and class which mirror the substantial part of the South African socio economic
structure. Secondly, in support of my argument, I criticise a legislative framework that
perpetuates socio economic disparities at the expense of a group in society it claims to
protect. Whilst I will rely on American Legal Realism and Critical Legal Studies in
support of my arguments, my main theoretical approach will be based on Critical Race
Feminism. Lastly, intersectionality will be used in contextualising the interrelationships
of race, gender and class as they impact on black women’s material circumstances in
the regulatory legislative public procurement process.
When the Constitution came into effect in 1994 South Africa became an egalitarian
state. Nevertheless, the country is struggling with the prevalence of unemployment,
poverty, HIV/Aids, skills shortages, male violence including rape, to name just a few.
These social ills pose a threat to a Constitution that extolls values like dignity, freedom
and equality for all. It so happens also that the majority of the people confronted by
these socio economic challenges are black women. The tender process faces numerous challenges and by identifying the South African
culture as oppressive supported by a legal process that stifles transformation, this study
expounds the experiences of black women by engaging in a contextual analysis of the
courts and legislation. This consciousness raising exercise is not meant to portray black
women as victims or invoking “special treatment” in the legal realm. It resonates with
Steve Biko’s theme of black consciousness, being aware of the marginalisation and
addressing it. Black consciousness represents an emancipatory state and optimistic
outlook. Consciousness raising situates the oppression of black women in any form as a site for struggle, a struggle for social and individual change.Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Zhou, Tsvakai. "Rehabilitating female ex-prisoners in Zimbabwe : a critical analysis from a feminist pastoral care perspective." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/10424.
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The study is a critical analysis from a feminist pastoral care perspective in rehabilitating female ex-prisoners in Zimbabwe. The central research question that the study focused on is: “In what ways can the understanding of the praxis of feminist pastoral care facilitate the rehabilitation of female ex-prisoners for their integration into the Zimbabwean society?”
This empirical qualitative study was facilitated through feminist methods to excavate the lived experiences and perceptions of female ex-prisoners and prisoners, which were analysed through three theories. These theories were: feminist theological anthropology which provided the view male and female as equals before God; feminist cultural hermeneutics which assisted in recognising that culture and religion have a significant influence in shaping women’s identity and experiences, especially in the African context and in particular Zimbabwe; and feminist pastoral care which highlighted that all human beings are entitled to care and dignity and that in view of the pervasive gender injustice, it is essential for women to receive nurturing or support, liberation and empowerment during the pastoral care-giving process.
Field research was undertaken to collect the narratives of female ex-prisoners and prisoners so as to get a fuller picture of their perceptions and experiences. In-depth interviews were conducted with twenty-eight female ex-prisoners and prisoners. The research findings highlighted central themes that emerged about how the participants perceived themselves, society and God. This data thus represented the subjective reality of the women. Their objective reality was ascertained by examining the gendered identity of women in Zimbabwe, and how this identity has been shaped by patriarchal aspects of religion and culture. The impact of these constructed identities on the lives of women in Zimbabwe is most evident in the areas of education, employment, health, access to resources and family life.
The purpose of this study was to identify the rehabilitation needs of female ex-prisoners in Zimbabwe. To achieve this, an examination of the current theories of rehabilitation was conducted, followed by a critical gendered analysis thereof, employing the three theories
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underpinning this study. The theories of rehabilitation revealed wide gender disparities and to address this, an African feminist pastoral care theory of rehabilitation was proposed. Using this proposed theory, current rehabilitation programmes, with special focus on those working with African women prisoners and ex-prisoners in Zimbabwe, while also making reference to those in South Africa, were then interrogated.
Following on from this, a gender-sensitive programme of rehabilitation was put forward, which took into account first, the subjective experiences of the female ex- prisoners and prisoners of this study; second, the objective reality of Zimbabwean women’s daily lives; and third, the main features of current faith-based programmes and where these fall short in terms of the proposed African feminist pastoral care theory of rehabilitation.
The rehabilitation programme that emerged from this process is of potential use to faith- based organisations and chaplains working with African women inmates and released prisoners.Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2013.
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陳安琪. "Exploring intergenerational influences of fatherhood practice and of father-son relationship on middle-aged fathers from the critical feminist perspective." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39924785844113409031.
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Taking the viewpoint of critical feminism, the study explored the intergenerational influences of fatherhood practice and father-son relationship on middle-aged fathers. This study not only focused on the changes in fathering experiences that proceeded generation by generation and the evolution of interactions between father and son due to the progress of time and space context, but also clarified the transformative agency generative from intergenerational influences. The study was conducted with qualitative research methodology: Data was collected through interviews, while the interviewees were those middle-aged fathers in their age of 35-60 with boys in their junior high school years; data was analyzed by narrative analysis method. The findings of research were as follows: I Inheritance and reproduction Due to the culture of labor-division of gender in the interviewees’ original family and model demonstrations of their own fathers, gender role stereotype shaped by traditional patriarchal culture still existed in the cognition schema of these middle-aged fathers. The gender housework labor division of “ the male in charge of the outside, while the female the inside,” the status of major bread-winner, ultimate punisher and significant decision-maker, and the power-distribution principle of “Father makes final decisions on major matters, while Mother deals with minor matters,” were the performances of the fatherhood on the interviewees’ fathers. Such behavioral patterns were not weakened by the indifferent and alienated relationship with the interviewees’, but rather these patterns were still inherited and reproduced in family activities by those modern middle-aged fathers. Moreover, in the dyadic relationship of father and son, each one’s reactions toward each other reinforced the solidity of gender stereotype. As to the intergenerational influences of father-son relationship, the research result showed that it was impossible to go beyond the traditional gender characteristics under the control of social norm. Influenced by the economic difficulties in the past, difficult growing up experiences, and the strict body discipline from their fathers, middle-aged fathers also naturally followed the same pattern on the next generation. In addition, being in the transitional period from traditional to modern society, the interviewees’ status and power in family were not challenged, and thus, the fathers’ values and beliefs still dominated the interaction between father and son. No matter in communication, conflicts, or establishment of intimate relationship, the performance of father’s power and the unequal status were obvious. II Modification and transformation According to the research, while adopting the tradition of taking care of their parents, middle-aged fathers had to adjust their attitude at the same time to be self-supporting, not expecting their children’s feedback, and even extending their supply for children. Traditionally, fathers of the older generation play the role as a breadwinner, but nowadays such performance can’t satisfy the demands of the modern society. Moreover, out of the personal feelings of the aloof and lack of interaction with their fathers, not only did the modern middle-aged fathers increase their participating in children’s lives both qualitatively and quantitatively, but also the pattern of father-son interaction became more diverse. Inquiring into the indifference and concealment of father-son relationship of the older generation, the study found that traditional fathers tended to support their families in instrumental and practical ways and to express their love in a negative way. And while middle-aged fathers couldn’t feel the intimate affections from their fathers, they expected themselves to be a father and a friend out of compensation and influenced by modern social culture. They made more multiple intimate contacts with their sons, and more initiative actions which made more opportunities to further affections and closer relationship with their sons. However, the ways of intimate interaction between father and son were apparently hard to get out of the strict framework of traditional gender roles. III Role shifting and transformative agency in surpassing generational influences The self-role shifting process undergone by middle-aged fathers was a kind of relationship correspondence of double roles, both father and son. From observation of being son to empowerment of becoming a father, the self attitude toward relationship of middle-aged fathers changed from passive to active, from inheriting Father’s teachings to practicing their own ideals. Because of the shifting of self roles and increasing depowerment of Father, the interviewees eventually got the fusion of horizon and empathy for their fathers, and emotionally changed from being indifferent to sympathetic and rewarding. Middle-aged fathers’ cognition, affection and behavior in intergenerational influences of father-son relationship were entangled in the dyadic interactions between father and son. Regarding the transformative agency of intergenerational influences, according to this study, the meanings of fatherhood and father-son relationship were more than influenced by differences in values and beliefs in different time and space context, which thus contributed to generational differences in cognition and practice. The enhancement of education and knowledge enlightened middle-aged fathers on awareness and reflection of their own experiences. Guidance and influence of their wives also advanced men’s sensitivity to their roles in family and father-son relationship. The frustration and regret in father-son interaction they experienced while they were growing up stimulated middle-aged fathers’ psychological and emotional compensation and projection, and they constantly took the negative demonstrations as a warning from their past experiences and avoided making the same mistakes. At last, when gradually putting more energy and emotion in managing father-son relationship, middle-aged fathers actually got a taste of the intimacy beyond their imagination and expectation. This relationship, originating in children’s sincere affectional feedback and intimate father-son interactions, only belongs to father and son.
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Damiani, Isabela Resende. "O crime de violência doméstica: das perspectivas feministas na criminologia à legitimação do direito penal no combate ao crime." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/92696.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Direito apresentada à Faculdade de DireitoMesmo com os avanços legislativos, tanto em Portugal quanto no Brasil, a violência doméstica não deixou de ser uma realidade social. Nesse sentido, seria a utilização dos instrumentos legislativos e do direito penal o meio mais adequado e suficiente na proteção das vítimas e/ou diminuição dos casos de violência contra a mulher? O tipo penal da violência doméstica traz em sua essência questões controversas em ambos países, sendo assim, é relevante entender as respostas e soluções jurídico-penais que os países dão a este problema social. Em razão disto, o presente trabalho visa a compreensão da evolução criminológica crítica e as perspectivas feministas à criminologia crítica, tendo em vista que a evolução legislativa, a criminalização e a descriminalização de condutas foram influência das reivindicações feministas. A partir do entendimento da origem e dos fundamentos basilares da criminologia crítica torna-se possível analisar os questionamentos e as perspectivas feministas, assim como, interpretá-los na crítica criminológica e a sua enorme influência nos movimentos feministas atuais que lutam pelos direitos das mulheres. Posteriormente, demonstra-se a evolução da legislação no tocante à violência doméstica, no Brasil e em Portugal, e passa-se a compreender como a mulher é vista e historicamente tutelada (ou não) pelo direito penal. Assim como reflete as principais divergências e discussões doutrinárias acerca do tipo penal da violência doméstica, como o bem jurídico tutelado e o questionamento sobre a natureza pública da ação penal. Sendo assim, correlacionando todos os aspectos abordados, questiona-se se o direito penal é o meio legítimo e efetivo para defesa dos direitos das mulheres, mesmo diante de todas as crises que o sistema judiciário criminal enfrenta.
Despite the legislative advances, both in Portugal and in Brazil, domestic violence has not ceased to be a social reality. In this sense, would the use of legislative instruments and criminal law be the most adequate and sufficient means of protecting victims and/or reducing cases of violence against women? The penal type of domestic violence brings in essence controversial issues in both nations, so it is relevant to understand the responses and legal-penal solutions that countries give to the problem of domestic violence. Consequently, the present work aims to understand the critical criminological evolution and feminist perspectives to critical criminology, considering that the legislative evolution, the criminalization and decriminalization of conduct were influences of feminist claims. From the understanding of the origin and basic foundations of critical criminology, it becomes possible to analyze feminist questions and perspectives, as well as to interpret them in criminological criticism and their enormous influence on current feminist movements that fight for women's rights. It demonstrates the evolution of legislation regarding domestic violence, in Brazil and Portugal, and it is possible to understand how women are seen and historically protected (or not) by criminal law. In this sense, the main divergences and doctrinal discussions about the penal type of domestic violence are faced, such as the protected legal good and the public nature of the crime. Thus, correlating all aspects covered, it is questioned whether criminal law is the legitimate and effective tactics of defending women's rights, even in the face of all the crises that the criminal justice system faces.
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Sullivan, Karen Collamore. "Women, power, and gender a critical analysis of feminist perspectives in anthropology /." 1989. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/22697817.html.
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Locke, Abigail. "The social psychologising of emotion and gender: a critical perspective." 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/7783.
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YesThis chapter offers an overview of psychology’s approach to sex differences in emotion, beginning from a discussion of how psychology has approached emotion. The chapter takes a critical, social-constructionist stance on emotion and critiques psychology’s essentialist stance. Moreover, it introduces a new direction in psychology in which emotion and gender are studied from a discursive perspective, in which emotion words and concepts can function interactionally. The article considers two examples. In the first, a woman is positioned as emotional and by implication, irrational. The second example investigates how the popular concept of ‘emotion work’, one that typically constructs women as down-trodden, can in fact be used as a
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Jordan, Patricia Ann. "A Critical Race-Feminist Examination of the Influence of Prison, Jail, and School Institutions on the Perspectives of Black Middle School Girls and Their Formerly Incarcerated Single Mothers." Diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/24612.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)This study explored the perspectives of Black mothers and daughters as they contemplated how two institutions ---schools and prisons/jails -- influenced their relationship with one another. As the incarceration rates for Black females increase in the U.S., examinations of these perspectives can produce insights about the impacts of schools and jails/prisons on the lives of these girls and women, and more pointedly, about the perceived contributions of racist and misogynistic forces on the Black mother-Black daughter relationship. Three pairs of mother-daughter dyads were selected and interviewed for the study. The daughters were Black middle school-aged girls between the ages 10 and 14, and the mothers were of varying ages. Two specific research questions centered on: (1) the participants’ perceptions of how these institutions have had an influence mother and daughter relationships, and (2) how they dealt with problems they faced either separately or together that were associated with school (for both participants in the dyad) and/or that resulted from the jail/prison experience (for the mother). Interviews were analyzed using phenomenological research methods and metaanalyzed from a critical feminist framework. Findings show that both mother and daughter have been resourceful in maintaining strong ties despite the array of forces that challenged these unions. Participants from both sides of these mothers and daughters dyads expressed how mothers’ parenting styles, lifestyle decisions, and self-perceptions were effected by the institutions of schooling and criminal justice. Although the findings of the study offered a glimpse of participants’ perspectives on racism and sexism as forces that influenced their experiences, the relationship issues between them were most prevalent. Further research is recommended to uncover more of the intricacies of sexism and racism as they relate to relationships and personal issues of Black, formerly incarcerated mothers and their pre-teen and teenaged daughters.
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Steur, Thomas Lieven. "Difference-makers in human affective distress: perspectives on causation and recovery gained from qualitative inquiry into lived experience." 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/32219.
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The biomedical conceptualisation of “depression” as a disease entity stems from biological science rooted in a 17th century paradigm, and is an inappropriately positivist idea which discounts individual agency, disregards social context underscored in the descriptive epidemiology, fails to accommodate inter-subjectivity and process, medicalizes suffering, and serves a managed care model of health administration. A qualitative study using in-depth interviews was undertaken to elicit perspectives from individuals who had lived experience of biomedical (pharmacological) treatment for affective distress and who self-reported having attained satisfactory recovery. Thematic analysis of interview data clustered around three main categories: (1) multifactorial conceptual understandings; (2) context pertinent to the experience of distress and recovery – including a variety of stressors – and (3) trajectories of recovery from acute distress to negotiation of ambivalence toward treatment, enlisting of supports, and reclaiming of agency. Relationships with service providers marked by trust, empathy, and hope were valued as primary difference-makers.May 2017
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Stasko, Carly. "A Pedagogy of Holistic Media Literacy: Reflections on Culture Jamming as Transformative Learning and Healing." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/18109.
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This qualitative study uses narrative inquiry (Connelly & Clandinin, 1988, 1990, 2001) and self-study to investigate ways to further understand and facilitate the integration of holistic philosophies of education with media literacy pedagogies. As founder and director of the Youth Media Literacy Project and a self-titled Imagitator (one who agitates imagination), I have spent over 10 years teaching media literacy in various high schools, universities, and community centres across North America. This study will focus on my own personal practical knowledge (Connelly & Clandinin, 1982) as a culture jammer, educator and cancer survivor to illustrate my original vision of a ‘holistic media literacy pedagogy’. This research reflects on the emergence and impact of holistic media literacy in my personal and professional life and also draws from relevant interdisciplinary literature to challenge and synthesize current insights and theories of media literacy, holistic education and culture jamming.