Dissertations / Theses: 'Feminism – evaluation'

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Masuda, Masako. "Evaluation of feminist interpretive approaches to the Book of Ruth." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Witwit, May. "An evaluation of anti-feminist attitudes in selected professional Victorian women." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/294460.

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The Victorian era paved the way for the emancipation of the modern British woman. The women who fought for the parliamentary vote, especially those who were imprisoned and experienced the torture of forcible feeding, eventually won their cause. Women who opposed enfranchisement did so for their own reasons. Both sides of the suffrage campaign claimed the majority was on their side and struggled to prove it. This thesis argues that those women who opposed were a subaltern group and compares them with the colonised subjects of the British Empire. The emancipation of women ran against the interests of the state which treated the cause as an insurgent movement. The political leaders spared no effort to thwart the liberation of women and the middle-and upper-class Anti-Suffrage women sided with ruling class interests. This work divides women into three sub-sections; resistance, colonised public and collaborators. Eliza Lynn Linton, Flora Shaw, Janet Hogarth and Gertrude Bell are well known middle-class Victorian women for whom the emancipation was of more benefit than opposition. The study throws a fresh look at these women by tying the notion of the collaborative elite with the State's exploitation of the intellectual subaltern. Linton, Shaw, Hogarth and Bell are studied in detail as case studies for this theory. Through the textual analysis of selected works, published articles, public and private correspondence, available diaries, biographies and autobiographies it emerges that although these women were ardent 'Antis' in public they were feminists in private. The thesis explains the reasons behind their public opposition to the emancipation of women.

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Eskamani, Anna V. "Iranian feminism: a comparative evaluation of its impact and future." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/377.

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For the casual observer, the term "Iranian feminist" is often considered to be an oxymoron. However, what seems to be an ironic juxtaposition actually holds a great length of truth: for over a century now, Iranian women have been marching, screaming, and fighting for equal gender rights--all the while embracing feminist ideals. In fact, "feminity" is a political symbol that has been influencing Iranian politics for over 150 years. From the very beginning of modern Iranian history, women have always played a pivotal role within Iranian history, constantly connecting the personal to the political. This research aims to explore this phenomenon as an independent movement and as one comparable to American feminism. Three main topics are explored: theocratic restrictions, culture, and globalization. There are three methods of research that I have utilized as resources for this study: previous studies, statistical data, and interviews. The purpose of this study is to understand why and how feminism is increasing within the anti-feminist regime of the IRI. This study holds both theoretical and political significance and is designed to predict the future status of Iranian feminism through examining the conditions of the past and present.
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Swann, Catherine Jane. "Psychology and self-reported PMS : an evaluation of different research strategies." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.294792.

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Lennie, June. "Troubling empowerment: An evaluation and critique of a feminist action research project involving rural women and interactive communication technologies." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2001. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/18365/1/June%20Lennie%20Thesis.pdf.

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Participatory research methodologies and the use of interactive communication technologies (ICTs) such as email are increasingly seen by many researchers, including feminists, as offering ways to enhance women's inclusion, participation and empowerment. However, from critical and poststructuralist perspectives, some researchers suggest the need for greater caution about claims that participatory methodologies and certain communication technologies automatically enhance inclusion and empowerment. These researchers argue that issues of power, agenda and voice in the research context require greater attention (LeCompte, 1995). The major argument made in this thesis is that feminist researchers need to adopt a more critical and rigorous yet pragmatic approach to evaluating women's empowerment, inclusion and participation, and that this approach needs to include an analysis of diversity and difference, macro and micro contexts, power-knowledge relations, and the contradictory effects of participation. The outcomes of this study suggest that this approach can create new knowledge and understanding that will enable the development of more effective strategies for women's empowerment and inclusion. To explore and support this argument, findings are presented from a detailed evaluation and critique of a major feminist action research project that involved women in rural, regional and remote Queensland, Australia and elsewhere, a university research team and several government and industry partners. The project made extensive use of ICTs, including email and the Internet, and aimed to be empowering and inclusive. Given the many contradictory discourses of empowerment that currently circulate, empowerment is seen as a problematic concept. The multiple meanings and discourses of empowerment are therefore identified and considered in the analysis. With the increasing importance of communication technologies in rural community development, this study also evaluates the effectiveness of ICTs as a medium for empowering rural women. The 'politics of difference' (Young, 1990) that underpins attempts to include a diversity of rural women in feminist research projects presents many challenges to feminist praxis. Chapters 1 and 2 propose that, in evaluating such projects, researchers need to take diversity and difference into account to avoid reproducing stereotyped images of rural women, and to identify those who are included and excluded. This is because of the complex nature of the identity 'rural woman', the multiple barriers to women's participation, and the diverse needs, agendas and ideologies of participants and stakeholders. The concept of seriality (Young, 1994) is used in this study to avoid reproducing 'rural women' and feminist researchers as women with a singular identity. Chapters 1 and 2 argue that a comprehensive and critical analysis of these complex issues requires an eclectic, transdisciplinary approach, and that this can be fruitfully achieved by using a combination of two feminist frameworks of theory and epistemology: praxis feminism and feminist poststructuralism. While there are commonalities between these frameworks, the feminist poststructuralist framework takes a much more cautious and critical approach to claims for empowerment than praxis feminism. The praxis feminist framework draws on feminist theories that view power as social, cooperative and enabling. Women's diverse needs, values, issues and experiences are taken into account, and the analysis aims to gives voice to women. The purpose of this is to better understand the processes that meet women's diverse needs and could be empowering and inclusive for women (or otherwise). In contrast, the feminist poststructuralist framework uses Foucault's (1980) analytic of power as positive and strategic, exercised in all our interactions, and intimately connected to knowledge. The power-knowledge relations, and the multiple and shifting discourses and subject positions that were taken up in various research contexts are identified and analysed. The purpose of this is to highlight the contradictions and dangers inherent in feminist practices of empowerment that often go unnoticed. To achieve its practical and critical aims, this study uses two different, but complementary, research methodologies: participatory feminist evaluation and feminist deconstructive ethnography, and multiple research methods, which are outlined in Chapter 3. This eclectic approach is argued to provide maximum flexibility and creativity in the research process, and to enable the complexity and richness of the data to be represented and understood from a diversity of perspectives. Triangulation of the multiple methods and sources of data is employed to increase the validity and rigour of the analysis. Assessing how well feminist projects that use ICTs have met the aim of including a diversity of women requires an analysis of a wide range of complex social, economic,cultural, technological, contextual and methodological issues related to women's participation. Analysing these issues also requires giving voice to a diversity of participants' and stakeholders' assessments and meanings of 'diversity' and 'inclusion'. The results of this analysis, set out in Chapter 4, suggest that differences in perceptions of diversity and inclusion are strongly related to participants' and stakeholders' political and ideological beliefs and values, and their degree of commitment to social justice issues. The evaluation found that a limited diversity of women participated in the project, and identified many barriers to their participation. Feminists argue that women-only activities are often more empowering than mixed gender activities. The evaluation findings detailed in Chapter 5 suggest that the project's women-centred activities, particularly the workshops and online groups, were very successful in meeting the multiple needs of most participants. However, contradictory or undesirable effects of the project's activities were also identified. This analysis demonstrates the need to consider the various groups of participants and their diverse needs in assessing how well feminist methods and activities have met women's needs or are empowering. Chapter 6 identifies various forms and features of empowerment and disempowerment and categorises them as social, technological, political and psychological. A model is developed that illustrates the interrelationships between these four forms of empowerment. Technological empowerment is identified as a new under-theorised form of empowerment that is seen as increasingly important as ICTs become more central to women's networking and participation. However, the findings suggest that the extent to which participants want to be empowered needs to be respected. While many participants were found to have experienced the four forms of empowerment, their participation was also shown to have had various disempowering effects. The project's online group welink (women's electronic link), which linked rural and urban women, including government policy-makers, was assessed as the most empowering project activity. The discourse analysis and deconstructions, undertaken in Chapter 6, identify competing and contradictory discourses of new communication technologies and feminist participatory action research. The various discourses taken up by the researchers and participants were shown to have both empowering and disempowering effects. The analysis demonstrates the intersection between empowerment and disempowerment and the shifting subject positions that were taken up, depending on the research context. It was argued that the discourses of feminist action research operated as a 'regime of truth' (Foucault, 1980) that regulated and constrained the discourses and practices of this form of research. An analysis of a highly contentious welink discussion challenges feminist assumptions that giving voice to women will lead to empowerment, and suggests that silence can, in some circumstances, be empowering. This analysis highlights the intersection of voice and silence, the limitations of the gendered discourse of care and connection, and how this discourse, and other factors, regulated the use of more critical discourses. Critical reflections on the study are made in Chapter 7. They include the suggestion that an 'impossible burden' was placed on the project's feminist researchers who used an egalitarian feminist discourse that produced expectations of 'equal relations' between participants and researchers. However, these relations had to be established in the context of a university-based project that involved senior academic, government and industry staff. Drawing on the new knowledge and understandings developed, this study proposes several principles and strategies for feminist participatory action research projects that seek the inclusion and empowerment of rural women and use ICTs. They include the suggestion that feminists need an awareness of the limits to the politics of difference discourse when power-knowledge relations are ignored. A further principle is that there is value in adopting a Foucauldian analytic of power, since this enables a better understanding of the complex, multifaceted and dynamic nature of power-knowledge relations in the research context. This approach also provides an awareness of how processes that attempt to empower will inevitably produce disempowerment at certain moments. Principles and strategies for undertaking participatory feminist evaluations are also suggested.

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Lennie, June. "Troubling empowerment: An evaluation and critique of a feminist action research project involving rural women and interactive communication technologies." Queensland University of Technology, 2001. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/18365/.

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Participatory research methodologies and the use of interactive communication technologies (ICTs) such as email are increasingly seen by many researchers, including feminists, as offering ways to enhance women’s inclusion, participation and empowerment. However, from critical and poststructuralist perspectives, some researchers suggest the need for greater caution about claims that participatory methodologies and certain communication technologies automatically enhance inclusion and empowerment. These researchers argue that issues of power, agenda and voice in the research context require greater attention (LeCompte, 1995). The major argument made in this thesis is that feminist researchers need to adopt a more critical and rigorous yet pragmatic approach to evaluating women’s empowerment, inclusion and participation, and that this approach needs to include an analysis of diversity and difference, macro and micro contexts, power-knowledge relations, and the contradictory effects of participation. The outcomes of this study suggest that this approach can create new knowledge and understanding that will enable the development of more effective strategies for women’s empowerment and inclusion. To explore and support this argument, findings are presented from a detailed evaluation and critique of a major feminist action research project that involved women in rural, regional and remote Queensland, Australia and elsewhere, a university research team and several government and industry partners. The project made extensive use of ICTs, including email and the Internet, and aimed to be empowering and inclusive. Given the many contradictory discourses of empowerment that currently circulate, empowerment is seen as a problematic concept. The multiple meanings and discourses of empowerment are therefore identified and considered in the analysis. With the increasing importance of communication technologies in rural community development, this study also evaluates the effectiveness of ICTs as a medium for empowering rural women. The ‘politics of difference’ (Young, 1990) that underpins attempts to include a diversity of rural women in feminist research projects presents many challenges to feminist praxis. Chapters 1 and 2 propose that, in evaluating such projects, researchers need to take diversity and difference into account to avoid reproducing stereotyped images of rural women, and to identify those who are included and excluded. This is because of the complex nature of the identity ‘rural woman’, the multiple barriers to women’s participation, and the diverse needs, agendas and ideologies of participants and stakeholders. The concept of seriality (Young, 1994) is used in this study to avoid reproducing ‘rural women’ and feminist researchers as women with a singular identity. Chapters 1 and 2 argue that a comprehensive and critical analysis of these complex issues requires an eclectic, transdisciplinary approach, and that this can be fruitfully achieved by using a combination of two feminist frameworks of theory and epistemology: praxis feminism and feminist poststructuralism. While there are commonalities between these frameworks, the feminist poststructuralist framework takes a much more cautious and critical approach to claims for empowerment than praxis feminism. The praxis feminist framework draws on feminist theories that view power as social, cooperative and enabling. Women’s diverse needs, values, issues and experiences are taken into account, and the analysis aims to gives voice to women. The purpose of this is to better understand the processes that meet women’s diverse needs and could be empowering and inclusive for women (or otherwise). In contrast, the feminist poststructuralist framework uses Foucault’s (1980) analytic of power as positive and strategic, exercised in all our interactions, and intimately connected to knowledge. The power-knowledge relations, and the multiple and shifting discourses and subject positions that were taken up in various research contexts are identified and analysed. The purpose of this is to highlight the contradictions and dangers inherent in feminist practices of empowerment that often go unnoticed. To achieve its practical and critical aims, this study uses two different, but complementary, research methodologies: participatory feminist evaluation and feminist deconstructive ethnography, and multiple research methods, which are outlined in Chapter 3. This eclectic approach is argued to provide maximum flexibility and creativity in the research process, and to enable the complexity and richness of the data to be represented and understood from a diversity of perspectives. Triangulation of the multiple methods and sources of data is employed to increase the validity and rigour of the analysis. Assessing how well feminist projects that use ICTs have met the aim of including a diversity of women requires an analysis of a wide range of complex social, economic, cultural, technological, contextual and methodological issues related to women’s participation. Analysing these issues also requires giving voice to a diversity of participants’ and stakeholders’ assessments and meanings of ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’. The results of this analysis, set out in Chapter 4, suggest that differences in perceptions of diversity and inclusion are strongly related to participants’ and stakeholders’ political and ideological beliefs and values, and their degree of commitment to social justice issues. The evaluation found that a limited diversity of women participated in the project, and identified many barriers to their participation. Feminists argue that women-only activities are often more empowering than mixed gender activities. The evaluation findings detailed in Chapter 5 suggest that the project’s women-centred activities, particularly the workshops and online groups, were very successful in meeting the multiple needs of most participants. However, contradictory or undesirable effects of the project’s activities were also identified. This analysis demonstrates the need to consider the various groups of participants and their diverse needs in assessing how well feminist methods and activities have met women’s needs or are empowering. Chapter 6 identifies various forms and features of empowerment and disempowerment and categorises them as social, technological, political and psychological. A model is developed that illustrates the interrelationships between these four forms of empowerment. Technological empowerment is identified as a new under-theorised form of empowerment that is seen as increasingly important as ICTs become more central to women’s networking and participation. However, the findings suggest that the extent to which participants want to be empowered needs to be respected. While many participants were found to have experienced the four forms of empowerment, their participation was also shown to have had various disempowering effects. The project’s online group welink (women’s electronic link), which linked rural and urban women, including government policy-makers, was assessed as the most empowering project activity. The discourse analysis and deconstructions, undertaken in Chapter 6, identify competing and contradictory discourses of new communication technologies and feminist participatory action research. The various discourses taken up by the researchers and participants were shown to have both empowering and disempowering effects. The analysis demonstrates the intersection between empowerment and disempowerment and the shifting subject positions that were taken up, depending on the research context. It was argued that the discourses of feminist action research operated as a ‘regime of truth’ (Foucault, 1980) that regulated and constrained the discourses and practices of this form of research. An analysis of a highly contentious welink discussion challenges feminist assumptions that giving voice to women will lead to empowerment, and suggests that silence can, in some circumstances, be empowering. This analysis highlights the intersection of voice and silence, the limitations of the gendered discourse of care and connection, and how this discourse, and other factors, regulated the use of more critical discourses. Critical reflections on the study are made in Chapter 7. They include the suggestion that an ‘impossible burden’ was placed on the project’s feminist researchers who used an egalitarian feminist discourse that produced expectations of ‘equal relations’ between participants and researchers. However, these relations had to be established in the context of a university-based project that involved senior academic, government and industry staff. Drawing on the new knowledge and understandings developed, this study proposes several principles and strategies for feminist participatory action research projects that seek the inclusion and empowerment of rural women and use ICTs. They include the suggestion that feminists need an awareness of the limits to the politics of difference discourse when power-knowledge relations are ignored. A further principle is that there is value in adopting a Foucauldian analytic of power, since this enables a better understanding of the complex, multifaceted and dynamic nature of power-knowledge relations in the research context. This approach also provides an awareness of how processes that attempt to empower will inevitably produce disempowerment at certain moments. Principles and strategies for undertaking participatory feminist evaluations are also suggested.

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Wille, Robin. "Die Soziologie Pierre Bourdieus : theoretische Evaluation affiner und kontroverser Beziehungen zur Forschung und Kritik des Feminismus." Master's thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2007. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2007/1302/.

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Die Magisterarbeit (im Studiengang Soziologie an der Universität Potsdam) knüpft an Beate Krais’ Gedankengang an, wonach durch die unreflektierte Präsenz des Parsonschen Rollenkonzepts innerhalb der (soziologischen) Theorie, theoretische Gegensätze von Individuum und Gesellschaft, Natur und Kultur, Körper und Geist, Irrationalismus und Rationalismus etc. konzeptionell reformuliert werden. Auf dieser strukturellen Grundlage, so Krais’ kritische Stoßrichtung, legitimiere auch die Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung nur wieder überkommene Stereotypen über Geschlechterrollen (Gender) innerhalb moderner, ausdifferenzierter Gesellschaften. Grundlegender jedoch werde so die Vorstellung eines natürlich gegebenen Unterschieds zwischen ‚zwei’ Geschlechtern (Sex) begründet. Feministische Theorie, so Regine Gildemeisters und Angelika Wetterers sozialkonstruktivistisch fundierte Betrachtung, konterkariere auf diesem Wege gerade ihren eigenen Anspruch, das Ideologem: „Biologie als Schicksal“ als solches zu entlarven. In theoretisch-methodischer Konsequenz vollziehe man vielmehr eine problematische Positivierung des Geschlechterdualismus. In Überwindung dieser Problematik sind zwei Richtungen theoretischer Entwicklung erkennbar. Einerseits wird im Anschluss an neuere modernistische bzw. poststrukturalistische Argumentationen die Möglichkeit einer kritisch orientierten Sozial- bzw. Geschlechterforschung grundsätzlich bezweifelt. Andererseits wird an dieser Stelle aber auch der paradigmatische Übergang von der Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung zur Geschlechterverhältnisforschung expliziert, welcher die für das feministische Projekt grundlegende Verbindung wissenschaftlicher und kritischer Ambitionen neu reflektiert und im Anspruch auf eine integrative, gendersensible Sozialwissenschaft forschungsstrategisch neu ausrichtet. Mit der Betrachtung der Soziologie Pierre Bourdieus tritt der Diskussion eine theoretische Position hinzu, die in eigener Weise Schwachstellen und Einseitigkeiten postmoderner und postfeministischer Ansätze herausstellt. Auf der Grundlage einer praxeologischen Theorie zeigen sich aber auch besondere Affinitäten zum feministischen Diskurs. Über eine Theorie der symbolischen Gewalt verdeutlicht Bourdieu, wie die Kategorie ‚Geschlecht’ in der sozialen Praxis der Akteure immer wieder konstruiert wird (doing gender). Gleichwohl verweist er, über bisherige Erkenntnisse hinausgehend, auf die soziale Mächtigkeit dieser Kategorie innerhalb der Dialektik sozialer und symbolischer Strukturen. Gegen die Kritik, die im deutschsprachigen Raum von Seiten der Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung an Bourdieus Buch: „Die männliche Herrschaft“ (1997) geübt wurde, versucht die Arbeit einer vorschnellen Lesweise und Aburteilung des Bourdieuschen Werks durch eine evaluative Betrachtung seiner soziologischen Konzepte im Hinblick auf die Herausforderungen feministischer Theorie und Kritik entgegenzuwirken.
The Master’s thesis, written in sociology at the University of Potsdam, focuses on Beate Krais’ criticism of Women and Gender Studies which claims that because of the unreflected presence of Parson’s concept of social roles theoretical oppositions as there are the individual and society, nature and culture, body and mind, irrationalism and rationalism etc. are conceptionally reformulated. This legitimates not only stereotypes of gender roles within modern, differentiated societies but more fundamentally justifies the notion of a natural given difference between ‘two’ sexes. Hence Regine Gildemeister und Angelika Wetterer argue that feminist theory does not do justice to its demand which is to reveal the view of “biology as destiny” as an ideological notion. The consequence is that in a theoretical and methodical way, feminism exercises a problematic affirmation of the gender dualism. There are two types of theoretical developments trying to overcome these contradictions of feminism. On the one hand, following new modernistic or poststructural argumentations, the possibility of a critically orientated Approach to Social and Gender Study is called into question. On the other hand, one can observe the paradigmatic transition from Women and Gender Studies to Gender Relation Studies which not only rethink the connection of academic and critical ambitions but also articulate the demand of an integrative, gendersensitive Social Science instead of reserving an academic niche any longer. The theory of the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu adds to the discussion by pointing out the limits of postmodern and postfeministic theoretical approaches. Nevertheless, within the frame of a praxeological theory, particular affinities to the feminist discourse are apparent. Bourdieu’s theory of symbolic violence understands ‘gender’ as a relational term. However, by going far beyond given insights, Bourdieu reveals this notion to be a powerful social category within a dialectical framework of social and symbolic structures. Trying to oppose to the criticism that representatives of Women and Gender Studies have articulated towards Bourdieu’s work: “Die männliche Herrschaft” (1997), this Master’s thesis intends to counteract a superficial reading and sentencing of Bourdieu’s work by offering an evaluative and reflective consideration of his sociological concepts in terms of feminist demands and challenges.

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Howton, Amy J. "Reform From Within: An Ecological Analysis of Institutionalized Feminism at our University." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1314301641.

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Glasburgh, Michele M. "Chick lit: the new face of postfeminist fiction?" Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/349.

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This study is a content analysis of ten chick lit books, a genre of women’s fiction. Books were analyzed for five postfeminist characteristics as defined by Susan Faludi’s backlash theory, outlined in Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women and in further research on popular culture’s notions of womanhood: 1) negative reaction to second wave feminism, 2) focus on the individual instead of a collective sisterhood, 3) desire for more traditional femininity through domesticity, consumerism, romance, and motherhood, 4) female identity crisis causing fears of a man shortage, a loudly ticking biological clock, and career burnout, and 5) feelings of anxiety over ability to make the correct future decisions. Analysis has found that chick lit does generally reinforce the notions of postfeminism/backlash, however the characters displayed anxiety over how to incorporate feminine paths into their lives and generally disregard motherhood.

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Bettendorf, Sonya Kyrsten. "RESISTANCE TO CULTURAL SEXUAL OBJECTIFICATION: MEASUREMENT DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOMETRIC EVALUATION." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/558.

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U.S. sociocultural expectations regarding women's bodies have been linked with women's psychological distress. In an effort to reveal the transformative ways in which women may be subverting systems of oppression, the current study surrounds development and validation of a quantitative measurement tool centered on resistance to sociocultural beauty ideals and physical standards of appearance. Theoretical reviews, focus group interviews (n =33), and expert feedback formed the basis for item development and modification. An initial pilot sample (n = 169) offered data for initial examination of reliability, while a subsequent validation sample (n = 342) provided data for investigation of factor structure as well as evaluation of reliability and validity performance. A final 63-item Resistance to Sociocultural Appearance Standards (RSAS) Scale was developed. Exploratory factor analytic findings suggested a 3-factor solution represented the data well. Good reliability and mixed evidence for validity of the overall scale and individual subscales derived from the factor analysis were demonstrated. Strengths and limitations as well as directions for future research are discussed.

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Dunn, Emily Anne. "More than Feeding: Lived Experiences of Low-Income Women Receiving Lactation Support." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4472.

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Increasing breastfeeding duration, especially among low-income women, has become a national public health priority. These mothers and their babies have less equitable access to support, resources, and the health benefits of breastfeeding. This thesis examines breastfeeding from a biocultural perspective with a focus on political economy, embodiment, and human rights. This research explores the lived experiences of new mothers who receive services from a community non-profit lactation support program which is aimed at providing in-home postpartum breastfeeding support to low-income/at-risk mothers. Evaluation of program services and analysis of women's narratives will provide insight into improvement of lactation services for all women.

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Murphy, Bethany Wade. "Evangelical and feminist? an evaluation of Nancy Hardesty's assessment of the relationship between evangelicalism and the woman's rights movement in nineteenth-century America /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p048-0338.

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Kiymaz, Bahceci Sehnaz. "Evaluation Of Istanbul Convention Its Contributions And Constraints For Elimination Of Violence Against Women In Turkey." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614897/index.pdf.

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With 2011 womens movement in Turkey has a new tool for combating violence against women in their hands
Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, a.k.a. the Istanbul Convention. The Convention will add several new tools to the ones used by the womens movement in Turkey since 1980s.

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Peix, Batet Maria. "Aprendizajes en una evaluación democrática, con enfoque feminista y de diversidades, de un programa de derechos humanos gestionado por organizaciones no gubernamentales." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672783.

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En el ámbito de la cooperación internacional y la labor de defensa de los derechos humanos, la conceptualización y la práctica de la evaluación son un reto relevante. Y concretamente, la evaluación democrática es muy poco conocida y ha estado escasamente incorporada en el sector. El objetivo de esta investigación es identificar, narrar y analizar qué y cómo, se aprende en una evaluación democrática, con enfoque feminista y de diversidades, de un programa de derechos humanos gestionado por organizaciones no gubernamentales. La investigación se ha llevado a cabo desde la perspectiva construccionista, e incorpora reflexiones de la teoría feminista y la decolonial. Para su desarrollo, me he centrado en el estudio de caso de la evaluación democrática de la Red de Defensoras de Derechos Humanos de Occidente de El Salvador. En la investigación identifico, describo y analizo los aprendizajes y la experiencia de las personas que participan en la evaluación, así como de la propia evaluadora. A través del estudio de caso he identificado aprendizajes personales, colectivos y organizativos sobre la conceptualización y práctica de la evaluación, el poder, la autoridad y la participación. También, he detallado los conocimientos y reflexiones en relación a las preguntas de evaluación del programa (la Red de Defensoras de Derechos Humanos de Occidente), es decir, sobre la defensa de los derechos humanos, el trabajo en red, la seguridad y los cuidados de las defensoras. Asimismo, se describe y reflexiona sobre cómo aprendemos en una evaluación democrática, qué nos facilita este proceso y qué dejamos en los márgenes por temor, por prejuicio o por invisibilidad. Dado que no es frecuente realizar evaluaciones democráticas en este sector, he optado por trabajar a partir de una evaluación democrática, con enfoque feminista y de diversidades, dinamizada por mí misma. De esta manera, como investigadora he tomado un doble rol en el estudio: de evaluadora e de investigadora. Esta decisión ha requerido prestar especial atención en los aspectos éticos y metodológicos durante el proceso, lo que ha supuesto un reto importante. Esta investigación parte de la práctica profesional y pretende enriquecerla, además de contribuir e invitar a la reflexión sobre la evaluación en el sector de la cooperación internacional y los derechos humanos.
En l'àmbit de la cooperació internacional i la labor de defensa dels drets humans, la conceptualització i la pràctica de l'avaluació són un repte rellevant. I, concretament, l'avaluació democràtica és molt poc coneguda i ha estat escassament incorporada en el sector. L'objectiu d'aquesta investigació és identificar, narrar i analitzar què i com, s'aprèn en una avaluació democràtica, amb enfocament feminista i de diversitats, d'un programa de drets humans gestionat per organitzacions no governamentals. La investigació s'ha dut a terme des de la perspectiva construccionista, i incorpora reflexions de la teoria feminista i la decolonial. Per al seu desenvolupament, m'he centrat en l'estudi de cas de l'avaluació democràtica de la Xarxa de Defensores de Drets Humans d'Occident de El Salvador. En la investigació identifico, descric i analitzo els aprenentatges i l'experiència de les persones que participen en l'avaluació, així com de la pròpia avaluadora. A través de l'estudi de cas he identificat aprenentatges personals, col·lectius i organitzatius sobre la conceptualització i pràctica de l'avaluació, el poder, l'autoritat i la participació. També, he detallat els coneixements i reflexions amb relació a les preguntes d'avaluació del programa (la Xarxa de Defensores de Drets Humans d'Occident), és a dir, sobre la defensa dels drets humans, el treball en xarxa, la seguretat i les cures de les defensores. Així mateix, es descriu i reflexiona sobre com aprenem en una avaluació democràtica, què ens facilita aquest procés i què deixem al marge per por, per prejudici o per invisibilitat. Atès que no és freqüent realitzar avaluacions democràtiques en aquest sector, he optat per treballar a partir d'una avaluació democràtica, amb enfocament feminista i de diversitats, dinamitzada per mi mateixa. D'aquesta manera, com a investigadora he pres un doble rol en l'estudi: el d’avaluadora i el d’investigadora. Aquesta decisió ha requerit posar especial atenció als aspectes ètics i metodològics durant el procés, el que ha suposat un repte important. Aquesta recerca parteix de la pràctica professional i pretén enriquir-la, a més de contribuir i convidar a la reflexió sobre l'avaluació en el sector de la cooperació internacional i els drets humans.
In the field of international cooperation and the work to defend human rights, the conceptualization and practice of evaluation are relevant challenges. Specifically, the democratic evaluation isn´t very well known and has been scarcely incorporated into the sector. The objective of this research is to identify, narrate and analyse how and what is learned in a democratic evaluation, with both the feminist and diversities approach of a human rights program managed by non-governmental organizations. The research has been carried out from a constructionist perspective and incorporates reflections from the feminist and decolonial theory. For its development, I have focused on the case study of the democratic evaluation of the Network of Human Rights Defenders of the West of El Salvador. In this research, I identify, describe and analyse the learnings and experiences of the people who participate in the evaluation, as well as myself, the evaluator. Through the case study, I have identified personal, collective and organizational learnings about the conceptualization and practice of evaluation, power, authority and participation. I have also detailed the knowledge and reflections to the evaluation questions, in relation to the Network of Human Rights Defenders of the West program, which is about the defence of human rights, their networking, security and the care of their defenders. In addition, it describes and reflects on how we learn in a democratic evaluation, how this process facilitates us and what we leave aside out of fear, prejudice or invisibility. Given that it is not common to carry out democratic evaluations in this sector, I have chosen to work from a democratic evaluation, with a feminist and diversities approach, facilitated by myself. Through this, as a researcher I have taken on a double role in the study: as both an evaluator and as a researcher. During the process, this decision has required paying special attention to ethical and methodological aspects, which have been a significant challenge. This research starts from a professional practice and aims to enrich it, in addition to contributing and inviting the reflection on evaluation in the field of international cooperation and human rights.

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Ng, E. Y. L. "The feminist theology of Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza : an evaluation." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.593217.

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Central to Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza's feminist theology and to her impact on scholarship is her reconstruction of Christian origins. According to her, there were emancipatory tendencies in both the Jewish and the Graeco-Roman contexts struggling against the predominantly patriarchal ethos, thus providing the plausibility structures for early Christianity in its vision and practice of egalitarianism. However, she tends to paint too rosy a picture of the egalitarian plausibilities in society. By contrast she paints too dark a picture of the patriarchalism in Graeco-Roman society that is not warranted by the data. In addition, the evidence does not warrant her claiming that the Jesus movement was an egalitarian discipleship where men and women had equal leadership roles, though Jesus did reform patriarchal notions of leadership. While certain women definitely played significant roles in various Christian communities, and Gal 3:26-28 has socio-ecclesial implications, the evidence is not conclusive to demonstrate complete egalitarianism in the early church. Moreover she has failed to demonstrate a trajectory towards patriarchalization in the New Testament. Rather, a number of New Testament writers evince a tension between a hierarchical understanding of the roles of men and women and notions of their quality in status before God. She has also exaggerated the difference between different authors, unreasonably imputed evil motives to some of them, and neglected the importance of rheological concerns in the mainline church. Likewise she is wrong to assume in early Christianity a degenerative development of mainline orthodoxy, of "kyriarchal" christology, and of a cultic understanding of Jesus' death. Questionable too are certain of her presuppositions of historical critical scholarship, her views of language and reality, her notion of an open-ended prototype within the "women church", her assumption of the general oppression of women, and her denial of biological causes for gender differences.

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Daspit, Douglas. "Evaluating the feminist critiques of substitutionary atonement." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Shaw, Margaret. "Conflicting agendas : evaluating feminist programmes for women offenders." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1997. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11769/.

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This thesis is concerned with the central rationale of feminism, and thus of feminist perspectives in criminology, to bring about change for women subject to the criminal justice system. It argues that any attempt to influence that system, to bring about change or reform, must be considered within the broader context of policy-making and programme development and their underlying assumptions and purposes, as well as in relation to specific contextually located histories. It does so by tracing the history of a particular feminist initiative in Canada - a community-based programme in Nova Scotia which offered feminist therapy and counselling to women in conflict with the law. It traces the processes of funding and evaluation for the federal government, and the differential experiences of the project and its clients, the researchers, and the funders. In so doing it considers the role of policy and programme development and of feminist attempts to reform and their failure to impact the lives of sentenced women; it examines the development of feminist methodology and contrasts it with mainstream correctional methodology and evaluation; it explores the development of feminist intervention and some of the problems inherent in such approaches and their appropriateness for women in the correctional system; and it examines the difficulties encountered in evaluating a feminist initiative. The views of the project and of its women clients are explored to assess the impact of the intervention, its benefits for the women, as well as its limitations. This analysis shows how the project, while successful in avoiding many of the problems of feminist intervention, was unable to sustain itself beyond the period of federal funding, while the evaluation itself proved to be a difficult process. The discrepancies between feminist ways of working and the dominant correctional models, the assumptions underlying programme development and evaluation, and the limitations of that approach are revealed as a series of over-lapping layers which impact on feminist endeavours.

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Gillespie, Betty Lynn. "Stress and the feminine self-concept : responses to feminine and gender-neutral stressors as a function of feminine self-evaluation /." Diss., This resource online, 1993. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02052007-072446/.

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Moore, Brittany. "Evaluating Rape Myths at a Midwestern University." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1471533323.

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Baichwal, J. S. (Jennifer Suneeta). "Reinhold Niebuhr, sin and contextuality : a re-evaluation of the feminist critique." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23323.

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This thesis comprises a re-evaluation of the feminist theological critique, as given by Valerie Saiving, Judith Plaskow, Daphne Hampson and Susan Nelson Dunfee, of Reinhold Niebuhr's doctrine of sin. The re-evaluation proceeds from a contextual interpretation of Niebuhr's theology in general and a contextual reading of his doctrine of sin in particular. My argument is that Niebuhr is deliberately and consistently a contextual theologian. I locate his contextual methodology in the open-ended approach of Christian realism.
The feminist critique is based on the assumption that Niebuhr universally defines the primary sin as pride. It is argued that pride is in fact a distinctly male characteristic, and, while quite plausibly the primary sin for men, is clearly not the primary sin for women. Niebuhr is guilty, that is, of confusing male reality with human reality in the doctrine. Saiving and Plaskow then develop a definition of women's sin which they correspond with Niebuhr's sin of sensuality. This type of sin, rather than being self-aggrandizing, is characterized by inordinate and destructive self-effacement. Their subsidiary argument is that Niebuhr erroneously treats sensuality, which should be equal but opposite to pride, as a secondary form of sin.
My argument in this thesis is that the critique rests on a mistaken assumption about the universality of Niebuhr's claim. His concerns were with the powerful. The contextual claim that pride is the primary form of sin in those who are empowered is being mistaken for a claim that pride is the primary sin for all people, regardless of gender or context. My subsidiary argument is that the correlation of women's sin with Niebuhr's understanding of sensuality is mistaken. What the feminists refer to as women's sin is in fact not sin at all for Niebuhr but evidence of injustice. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

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Ruiz, Camila 1976. "Avaliação dos cuidados diários dos genitais femininos de médicas ginecologistas = Daily care evaluation of female genitals in gynecologyst physicians." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/312985.

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Orientadores: Paulo César Giraldo, Rose Luce Gomes do Amaral
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
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Resumo: Os cuidados com a genitália feminina quanto à higiene pessoal é assunto de interesse de todas as mulheres. Milhares de dólares são gastos por ano com higiene, vestimentas, uso de produtos para depilação, adornos sem que se determine a eficiência, eficácia, necessidade, consequências ou resultados das mesmas. A forma, frequência e ocasiões não são claras, necessitando de fundamentação científica. Objetivo Avaliar a prática cotidiana do cuidado com a genitália feminina em médicas ginecologistas, incluindo os cuidados diários de higiene, uso de tatuagens e piercings genitais, depilação, vestimentas e uso de absorventes sanitários e hábitos sexuais.Desenho do Estudo: Estudo analítico descritivo. Questionário auto-respondido com 60 perguntas relacionadas aos cuidados diários dos genitais femininos e hábitos de vestimenta, uso de adornos e comportamento sexual foi aplicado em 220 médicas ginecologistas, no período de junho à setembro de 2013 durante congressos da especialidade. O registro e armazenamento dos dados utilizou o programa Microsoft Office Excel. Os resultados foram analisados através de estatísticas descritivas (frequências, média e desvio padrão). Resultados: A média de idade das entrevistadas era de 37,3 anos (DP±12,9), 71,3% eram brancas.A taxa de aceitação foi de 94, 6%. Quase metade (46, 8%) estava formada entre 1 e 10 anos e permaneciam fora de suas casas por períodos acima de 10 horas consecutivas (53,6%). Apesar disto,mais da metade, referiram que tomam 2 banhos por dia (55,9%), A maioria usava apenas papel para secar a vulva após as micções (66,3%).Somente 21,5% lava a região anal com água e sabão após a evacuar, e 48,6% usam desodorantes íntimos com frequentemente. A higiene genital é feita com sabonete líquido por apenas 39% das entrevistadas e 6,8% usam sabonetes bactericidas. Um quinto faz duchas vaginais, 52,7% higienizam-se antes da relação sexual e 78,5% lavam a área genital após o coito apenas com água. O protetor diário (absorventes higiênicos) é usado no período intermenstrual por 41%. Mais de 85% usam roupas íntimas de algodão apesar de que 62,7% usam calças Jeans apertadas. A maioria faz depilação genital (89,15%) e menos da metade destas (48,6%) não usam produtos de hidratação ou para evitar complicações na região. O perfil sexual mostrou que mais da metade das entrevistadas tinham frequência de relações sexuais de 1 a 3 vezes por semana, praticavam sexo oral e anal em 47,2% e 22,2% respectivamente. Mais de 29% delas relataram dor nas relações em intensidades variadas e 24,5% usam condom.
Abstract: The care of the female genitalia as personal hygiene and sexual practice are matters of interest to all women. Thousands of dollars are spent every year on hygiene, clothing, use of products for depilation, ornaments, use of erotic products, without which determine the efficiency, effectiveness, necessity, consequences or results thereof. The form, frequency and timing are unclear and require scientific foundation. Objective: To evaluate the daily practice of care for female genitalia in medical gynecologists, including higyene habits, genital tattoos ands piercings, use of sanitary pads and clothing. Study Way: A descriptive analytical study. A questionnaire was administered to 220 medical gynecologists with 60 questions self-administred , in congress of specialty in the period from june to september related to the daily care of the female genitals and habits of dress, use of ornaments and sexual behavior. The recording and storage of data used Microsoft Office Excel program. The results were analyzed using descriptive statistics (frequencies, means and standard deviations) to identify the interrelationships among the most significant variables. Results: The mean age of respondents was 37.3 years (SD ± 12.9) and 71.3% of them are white. The acceptance rate was 94,6%. Almost half (46, 8%) of the gynecologists were between 1 and 10 years of graduation, and 53.6% remain out of their homes for periods over 10 consecutive hours. Nevertheless 55.9% reported taking 2 showers a day, and 52%, washing genitals 2 times per day, in counter point to the fact that only 66.3% use paper to dry the vulva after urination. Only 21.5% wash the anal area with soap and water after bowel movements and 48.6% of them frequently use intimate deodorants. The genital hygiene with liquid soap is made by only 39% of respondents and 6.8% use antibacterial soaps. About 20% make vaginal douches on frequency and time variables, 52.7% sanitize yourself before sex and 78.5% wash the genital area after intercourse, with just water. Daily Protector (sanitary napkins) is used in the intermenstrual period by 41%. The sexual profile found that 50.9% of respondents had frequency of sexual intercourse 1-3 times a week, engaged in oral and anal sex in 47.2% and 22.2% respectively. Over 29% reported pain in varying intensities intercourse and 24.5% them use condom
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Fisiopatologia Ginecológica
Mestra em Ciências da Saúde

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Pinnuck, Francine. "Who'd be interested in a Hooker's story? : a critical re-evaluation of feminist constructions of prostitution through the eyes of a feminist sex worker /." Title page, contents and chapter one only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armp656.pdf.

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Phiri, Millie Mayiziveyi. "Media representation of South Africas female politicians : the case of the Mail & Guardian – 2010 to 2011." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86556.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is a feminist investigation of the reporting on the female politicians in the Mail & Guardian using the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development media requirements on content as the yardstick. The Protocol is a regional policy adopted in 2008 by regional governments aimed at achieving gender equity in key sectors by 2015. The Protocol is a regional instrument set up to assist in meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The study investigated whether the Protocol’s media requirements were being observed by the Mail&Guardian. The media’s role of providing information can assist the MDGs to be met. These requirements encourage the media in the region to reach gender parity in the use of news sources and writing of news reports that help to reduce gender-based violence and the portrayal of women that is not stereotypic and oppressive. The themes of the study, which were “gender-based violence”, “gender oppression” and “stereotypes against women” were influenced by these requirements. Gender-based violence is a major impediment to development in Africa because of the heavy financial burden it puts on governments and communities to treat victims and offer them shelter and counselling. Gender-based violence affects women’s full productivity in society because it results in death or victims remaining absent from work while they seek treatment. Stereotypes and gender oppression are viewed as dangerous because not only do they deny younger generations role models but they perpetuate the insubordination of women in society. The study linked the themes to female parliamentarians because being legislators and policy makers, they have a strategic and critical role to play in helping to achieve gender equity. There is a perception that female politicians offer different perspectives to issues. The media can be a vehicle through which these female politicians can express their opinions. This is because the media is supposed to offer freedom of expression to all its citizens regardless of gender. In order to examine if the female ideology had a place in the Mail & Guardian a feminist theoretical approach was used. The study employed a triangulation approach in which both the qualitative and quantitative research methodologies were used. The quantitative method was employed to a small extent to quantify the coverage of female politicians. Triangulation in data collection entailed using both the content analysis and in-depth interviews. Findings of the study showed a violation of the Protocol’s media requirements. News reporting about female politicians centred on scandals and controversies and journalists and editors were ignorant of the Protocol’s media requirements.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie was ’n feministiese ondersoek na die Mail & Guardian se verslaggewing oor vrouepolitici. Dis gedoen met die interregeringsorganisasie, die Suider-Afrikaanse Ontwikkelingsgemeenskap (SAOG), se Protokol oor Geslag en Ontwikkeling as maatstaf. Die Protokol is ’n beleid wat in 2008 deur die owerhede van die SAOG-lidlande van stapel gestuur is, met die oog op geslagsgelykheid in sleutelsektore teen 2015. Dit dien as instrument en hulpmiddel in die nastreef van bogenoemde. Die studie stel ondersoek in na die handhawing, al dan nie, van die Protokol se mediavereistes deur die Mail & Guardian. Die media se rol as verskaffer van inligting kan die strewe hierna bevorder. Die vereistes moedig die media in die onderskeie streke aan om geslagsgelykheid toe te pas wat betref die gebruik van nuusbronne, die skep van nuusberigte wat bydra tot die vermindering van geslagsgebaseerde geweld en die uitbeeld van vroue wat wegskram van stereotipering en onderdrukking. Die temas van die studie-"geslagsgebaseerde geweld", "geslagsonderdrukking" en “stereotipering van vroue" is gevolglik deur die Protokol se vereistes beïnvloed. Geslagsgebaseerde geweld is ’n wesenlike struikelblok in die pad van ontwikkeling in Afrika, deels weens die swaar finansiële las wat dit plaas op gemeenskaplike en regeringsvlak. Só moet slagoffers dikwels behandeling, skuiling en berading ontvang. Dit het ook ’n besliste impak op vroue se produktiwiteit in die breër samelewing, aangesien slagoffers van geslagsgebaseerde geweld in sommige gevalle afwesig is uit die werksomgewing om behandel te word of-in meer ernstige gevalle-sterf. Stereotipering en onderdrukking word as uiters gevaarlik beskou, aangesien dit nie nét die ondergeskiktheid van vroue laat voortleef nie; maar boonop jonger generasies van rolmodelle ontneem. Die temas van die studie word verbind met vroulike parlementslede weens hul rolle as beleidsopstellers en wetmakers. Dié vroue het strategiese en belangrike verpligtinge om na te kom in die strewe na geslagsgelykheid. Die persepsie bestaan dat vroue-politici dikwels ’n ander, nuwe perspektief op kwessies bied. Die media kan in dié opsig as ’n waardevolle voertuig aangewend word om die perspektiewe tuis te bring. Die media het ook ’n plig om vryheid van uitdrukking te verseker aan alle landsburgers - ongeag hulle geslag. Ten einde te bepaal of die ideologie deur die Mail & Guardian toegepas is, is ’n feministiese teoretiese aanslag gevolg. Die studie het gebruik gemaak van triangulasie, waartydens beide kwalitatiewe en kwantitatiewe navorsingsmetodologieë ingespan is. Die kwantitatiewe metode is gebruik om die mediadekking van vroue-politici te kwantifiseer. Triangulasie is ook tydens die data-insamelingsproses gebruik. Dit het ingesluit die aanwend van inhoudsanalises, asook in-diepte onderhoude. Die bevinding van die studie dui op die oortreding van die Protokol se mediavereistes. Verslaggewing oor vroue-politici is grootliks toegespits op skandale en omstredenheid en beide joernaliste en inhoudsredakteurs blyk onkundig te wees oor die vereistes.

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Nyh, Johan. "From Snow White to Frozen : An evaluation of popular gender representation indicators applied to Disney’s princess films." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-36877.

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Simple content analysis methods, such as the Bechdel test and measuring percentage of female talk time or characters, have seen a surge of attention from mainstream media and in social media the last couple of years. Underlying assumptions are generally shared with the gender role socialization model and consequently, an importance is stated, due to a high degree to which impressions from media shape in particular young children’s identification processes. For young girls, the Disney Princesses franchise (with Frozen included) stands out as the number one player commercially as well as in customer awareness. The vertical lineup of Disney princesses spans from the passive and domestic working Snow White in 1937 to independent and super-power wielding princess Elsa in 2013, which makes the line of films an optimal test subject in evaluating above-mentioned simple content analysis methods. As a control, a meta-study has been conducted on previous academic studies on the same range of films. The sampled research, within fields spanning from qualitative content analysis and semiotics to coded content analysis, all come to the same conclusions regarding the general changes over time in representations of female characters. The objective of this thesis is to answer whether or not there is a correlation between these changes and those indicated by the simple content analysis methods, i.e. whether or not the simple popular methods are in general coherence with the more intricate academic methods.

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Kollmann, Elizabeth. "Jane Austen re-visited a feminist evaluation of the longevity and relevance of the Austen Oeuvre." Thesis, University of Port Elizabeth, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/299.

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Although many might consider Jane Austen to be outdated and clichéd, her work retains an undying appeal. During the last decade the English-speaking world has experienced an Austen renaissance as it has been treated to a number of film and television adaptations of her work, including Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility. Film critics such as Bill De Lapp (1996) and Sherry Dean (1996) have commented on the phenomenal response these productions received and have been amazed by Austen’s ability to compete with current movie scripts. The reasons for viewers and readers enjoying and identifying with Austen’s fiction are numerous. Readers of varying persuasions have different agendas and hence different views and interpretations of Austen. This thesis follows a gynocritical approach and applies a feminist point of view when reading and discussing Austen. Austen’s novels - Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion – are re-read and reevaluated from a feminist perspective in order to call attention to Austen’s awareness of women’s second-class position in her society. Women’s experiences in Austen’s time are compared to women’s experiences in society today in order to illustrate, in some way, the tremendous progress the feminist movement has made. In addition, by examining what Austen reveals about the material reality of women in her time, it is possible to explore the legacy that modern women have inherited. Literary critics such as André Brink (1998), Claudia Johnson (1988), and Gilbert and Gubar (1979) believe Austen to create feminist awareness in her novels. There are critics, however, who do not view Austen as necessarily feminist in her writing. Nancy Armstrong writes in Desire and Domestic Fiction (1987) that Austen’s objective is not a critique of the Abstract iv old order but rather a redefinition of wealth and status. In Culture and Imperialism (1993) Edward Said implicates Austen in the rationale for imperial expansion, while Barbara Seeber argues in “The Schooling of Marianne Dashwood” (1999) that Austen’s texts should be understood as dialogic. Others, such as Patricia Beer (1974), believe Austen’s fiction primarily to be about marriage since all her novels end with matrimony. My own reading of Austen takes into consideration her social milieu and patriarchal inheritance. It argues that Austen writes within the framework of patriarchy (for example by marrying off her heroines) possibly because she is aware that in order to survive as a woman (writer) in a male-favouring world and in a publishing world dominated by men, her critique needs to be covert. If read from a feminist perspective, Austen’s fiction draws our attention to issues such as women’s (lack of) education, the effects of not being given access to knowledge, marriage as a patriarchal institution of entrapment, and women’s identity. Her fiction reveals the effects of educating women for a life of domesticity, and illustrates that such an education is biased, leaving women powerless and without any means of self-protection in a male-dominated world. Although contemporary women in the Western world mostly enjoy equal education opportunities to men, they suffer the consequences of a legacy which denied them access to a proper education. Feminist writers such as Flis Henwood (2000) show that contemporary women believe certain areas of expertise belong to men exclusively. Others such as Linda Nochlin (1994) reveal that because women did not have access to higher education for so many years, they failed to produce great women artists like Chaucer or Cézanne. Austen’s fiction also exposes the economic and social system (of which education constitutes a major part) for enforcing marriage and for enfeebling women. In addition, it illustrates some of the realities and pitfalls of marriage. While Austen only subtly refers to Abstract v women’s disempowerment within marriage, contemporary feminist scholars such as Germaine Greer (1999) and Arnot, Araújo, Deliyanni, and Ivinson (2000) explicitly warn women that marriage is a patriarchal institution of entrapment and that it often leaves women feeling unfulfilled. The issue of marriage as a patriarchal institution has been thought important and has been addressed by feminists because it contributes to women’s powerlessness. Feminist scholars today find it imperative to expose all forms of power in order to eradicate women’s subordination. bell hooks comments in Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (2000) on the importance of revealing unfair power relations in order to eliminate oppression of any kind. Austen does not necessarily express the wish to eradicate forms of power or oppression in her novels. Yet, if we read her work from a feminist point of view, we are made aware of the social construction of power. From her fiction we can infer that male power is enshrined in the very structure of society, and this makes us aware of women’s lack of power in her time. Austen’s novels, however, are not merely novels of powerlessness but of empowerment. By creating rounded women characters and by giving them the power to judge, to refuse and to write, Austen challenges the stereotyped view of woman as either overpowering monster or weak and fragile angel. In addition, her novels seem to question women’s inherited identity and to suggest that qualities such as emotionality and mothering are not natural aspects of being a woman. Because she suggests ways in which women might empower themselves, albeit within patriarchal parameters, one could argue that she contributes, in a small way, to the transformation of existing power relations and to the eradication of women’s servile position in society.

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Louw, Alyssa. "A Mixed-Methods Investigation of a Rape Crisis Line Volunteer Counselling Program." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36884.

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Rape crisis counsellors play a central role in frontline service delivery to sexual violence (SV) survivors, yet their training has received scarce research attention. To fill this gap, this dissertation presents three studies that sequentially examine a volunteer-based rape crisis line (CL) training program. The first study is an evaluability assessment (EA) that assesses the readiness of a community CL training program for research; the second study quantitatively examines the outcomes of the CL training program; and the third study qualitatively investigates the rape crisis counsellors’ training and practice experiences. Data was gathered from a local Rape Crisis Centre (RCC), and a total of 52 women participated in the research. Two-way mixed factorial ANOVAs were used to analyze the quantitative data, and a general inductive approach (Thomas, 2006), informed by a feminist, empowerment perspective (Nagy Hesse-Biber & Yaiser, 2004) was used to analyze the qualitative data. The EA demonstrated that the CL training program was primarily intended to develop volunteers’ basic counselling skills, suicide intervention skills, and feminist attitudes and beliefs. Based on analyses of the EA data, the program was determined to be evaluable. The second study indicated that following the training, the volunteers’ counselling self-efficacy improved, whereas their suicide intervention skills did not change. Volunteers had strong pre-existing feminist attitudes and beliefs that also did not change. The third study revealed several themes that elucidated the program’s processes and outcomes, such as the volunteers’ perception that after the training they gained basic counselling skills, and an increased knowledge of feminism, yet felt unprepared to respond to suicidal callers. Due to their routine interactions with SV survivors and systems, the volunteers also began to perceive SV as a widespread, systemic problem. A thematic analysis of results across studies, and implications of the findings on anti- violence practice and policy are discussed.

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Huang, Luping. "Pride, experience and transcendence: a critical evaluation of the feminist critique or Reinhold Niebuhr's theology of sin." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2014. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/104.

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In this study I explore the feminist critique of Reinhold Niebuhr’s theology of sin, both to understand what the Niebuhrian and feminist understandings of sin talk about, and to see whether or not, or to what extent they are tenable in theory and in practice. Niebuhr’s feminist critics argue that Niebuhr’s claim of pride as the primary human sin fits only with men’s experience; women’s sin, they contend, is not self-inflation but self-loss. While I acknowledge the value of Niebuhr’s feminist critics’ interpretation of sin, this study provides a Niebuhrian response to the feminist critique. My main contention is that by overemphasizing women’s sin of passivity, some feminist theologians go too far to deny women’s capability of committing sin actively against others and the divine in both socio-moral and religio-theological aspect. The total rejection of the applicability of pride to women’s situation, I contend, undermines the profoundness of the feminist critique. I firstly give detailed expositions of Niebuhr’s theology of sin and the feminist critique of Niebuhr’s theology of sin respectively. The main discrepancies between the Niebuhrian and feminist understandings of sin will be laid out. Then I respond to some feminist criticisms by pointing out that the feminist misreading of Niebuhr on the topics of pride, the self, love, justice and the family is prevalent. I also question the two presuppositions of the feminist critique—the idea of women’s innocence and the spirit of secularity. These two presuppositions, I argue, contain in them some insoluble dilemmas that cause trouble for understanding women’s secular and religious experience. Lastly, I try to pull the insights of Niebuhr and his feminist critics together to form a more integrated view of women’s sin

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Stanton, Alexandra. "Evaluating the specificity of contemporary Italian feminism : the theory of sexual difference and the social-symbolic practice of entrustment." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2005. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1824.

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This study focuses on the particular course taken by the theory of sexual difference (il pensiero della differenza sessuale) in Italy. It examines Italian feminism as a current which has received hitherto little international attention. The first part of the thesis situates Italian feminism in relation to the more familiar French and Anglo-American contexts in order to consider its distinctiveness. The main body of the study then considers the historical and political emergence of contemporary Italian feminism, the elaboration of a social-symbolic practice called "entrustment" ("afdamento "), beginning in 1983, and the hegemony achieved by the theory of sexual difference amongst the majority of feminist groups. Here, I develop the central argument of the thesis: it is the elaboration of entrustment which has first occasioned contemporary Italian feminism, as a whole, to engage with a theory of sexual difference adapted to the highly politicised Italian context. The last section of the thesis critically evaluates entrustment and the symbolic order of the Mother created by it, and considers the debates surrounding such a social-symbolic practice. Adriana Cavarero provides an original point of view on contemporary Italian feminism since she is both a fierce critic of entrustment and one of the leading exponents of il pensiero. The final chapter thus utilises Cavarero's theory in order to postulate that entrustment is best considered as part of a plural but common Italian strategy of "practising" relationships between women. Sexual difference now becomes the political practice of restructuring the order of representation so that feminine sexual difference can be included.

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Waldron, Jean Winifred. "Human agape : an evaluation of the attempts in feminist theologies to re-articulate the concept of Christian neighbour-love." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398980.

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GINER, COURT BERNADETTE. "Evaluation de la qualite de l'ovulation : analyse critique du choix des parametres a partir de l'etude de 24 femmes." Montpellier 1, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988MON11125.

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LARROQUE, JEAN-MARC. "Incontinence urinaire d'effort feminine : evaluation des cervico-suspensions par voie abdomino-perineale : a propos de 73 cas." Toulouse 3, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991TOU31082.

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Ferreira, Constansa. "Bible interpretation : an evaluation of two feminist approaches in the light of recent developments within some South African churches / C. Ferreira." Thesis, North-West University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/2487.

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Ahmadi, Vafa. "The impact of the feminist movement in international relations : evaluating the UN decade for women, the Beijing Conference and beyond." Thesis, Keele University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.392160.

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Witt, Alice Elizabeth Amelia. "The rule of law in platform governance: An empirical evaluation of the moderation of images depicting women's bodies on Instagram." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/199785/1/Alice_Witt_Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis empirically evaluates the moderation of images depicting women's bodies on the social media platform Instagram against the Anglo-American ideal of the rule of law. By developing and applying an innovative black box methodology, based on an input/output method that fuses legal theory with digital methods, this study helps to answer calls for data that can clarify content moderation in practice. Overall, this thesis identifies a concerning trend of inconsistent moderation across two cases studies (5,924 images in total), ultimately contributing to global debate around the risk of arbitrariness in platform governance and the broader project of digital constitutionalism.

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Lust, Caitlyn. "Women’s Work: Re-evaluating the Canon of Graphic Design History." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1556273078639679.

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Jeremiah, Rohan Dexter. "Interrogating Grenadian Masculinities and Violence Against Women: An Evaluation of the United Nations Partnership for Peace Program." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4090.

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This applied anthropology study, guided by a feminist perspective and in particular, Black Feminist Thought is an outgrowth of an evaluation study of the Partnership for Peace Program (PFP) in Grenada, West Indies. The PFP is a Caribbean-specific model that was built into a sixteen-week cycle program by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (UNWomen). Since 2005, the PFP has been geared towards Grenadian men, who have used violence against women to express their masculine identities. PFP focuses exclusively on rehabilitating male perpetrators with a goal to protect the human rights of women. This research evaluated the PFP program, using qualitative and quantitative methods to measure the program's impact based on the behavioral changes that male participants adopted to avoid violence against women. Furthermore, this study investigated the relationship between masculine identities and domestic violence, exploring the significance of violence actions as markers of Grenadian masculinities. The findings presented show the impact of the PFP on the lives of PFP men, the women associated with the PFP men and the PFP stakeholders. The results illustrate the socio-ecological nature of violence and the power leverages that enact gendered messages for Grenadian men and women. Those entities were used to establish some theoretical understandings about Caribbean Violence.

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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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Frieden, Laura Rose. "The Role of Consumer Gender Identity and Brand Concept Consistency in Evaluating Cross-Gender Brand Extensions." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4488.

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Cross-gender brand extensions are a developing and valuable strategy that has quickly grown to become a vital component of strategic communications management. The goal of this study is to gain a greater insight on what makes for a successful cross-gender brand extension. In order to expand upon the Basic Model of Brand Extension Evaluation (Doust & Esfahlan, 2012), this study examines how marketing factors, more specifically product positioning, combined with consumer gender roles and brand concept, affect how consumers evaluate cross-gender brand extensions. In the past gender and brand concept have been studied within cross-gender brand extension research. Yet, the present study focuses on gender roles, conceptualizing gender as levels of masculinity and femininity. The products featured were positioned as having either a symbolic or functional brand concept. The results from this study not only confirm that gender and gender roles are indeed two distinct concepts, but they also indicate that gender roles and brand concept have a significant effect on brand extension evaluations, especially when level of masculinity is a factor.

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Valentin, Ericka Kirsthine. "Abordagem simplificada na avaliação da incontinência urinária não complicada na mulher." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2014. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=8261.

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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Este é um estudo transversal feito com pacientes mulheres que compareceram ao Setor de Endoscopia Urológica e Urodinâmica do Serviço de Urologia do Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto HUPE entre dezembro de 2009 e dezembro de 2012, para a realização de estudo urodinâmico, com encaminhamento médico e agendamento prévio para investigação de queixa de incontinência urinária. O estudo foi realizado nas pacientes do sexo feminino, com idade entre 23 e 86 anos e com queixa de incontinência urinária nao complicada. Os dados utilizados nesse estudo têm três origens: (1) a avaliação primária formada pelo conjunto dos questionário de perda por esforço e ou urgência e International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Short Form (ICIQ-SF) e história padronizada; (2) avaliação médica, realizada pelo médico residente; e (3) avaliação urodinâmica, resultado do estudo urodinâmico conduzido por médico residente, com supervisão e laudos feitos por um dos professores do serviço. O objetivo do trabalho foi analisar se o uso de métodos mais simples poderia diagnosticar incontinência urinária não complicada sem a necessidade de realizar a avaliação urodinâmica. Os nossos achados mostraram que entre a avaliação primária e a médica há elevada sensibilidade e especificidade além de forte concordância. O estudo urodinâmico tem menor probabilidade de fazer o diagnostico de IUM e maior frequencia de falso negativo. Os nossos achados fortalecem a indicação de uma abordagem primária antes de intervenções mais invasivas e dispendiosas como a avaliação urodinâmica. A realização de uma avaliação simplificada pode fornecer informações suficientes para começar um tratamento medicamentoso e fisioterapêutico.
This cross-sectional study of female patients who attended the Department of Urology and Urodynamic of the Endoscopy Department of Urology, Pedro Ernesto University Hospital HUPE/UERJ between December 2009 and December 2012, for performing urodynamic study with medical referral and scheduling prior to investigation of stress urinary incontinence. The study was conducted in female patients, aged between 23 and 86 years with complaints of urinary uncomplicated incontinence. The data used in this study have three origins: (1) the primary assessment formed by the set of questionnaire and loss effort or urgency and International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire - Short Form (ICIQ-SF) and standardized history; (2) medical evaluation performed by a resident physician; and (3) urodynamic evaluation, results of urodynamic study conducted by resident physician, with supervision and reports made by one of the Professors of the service. The objective was to analyze whether the use of simpler methods could diagnose uncomplicated urinary incontinence without the need for urodynamic evaluation. Our findings showed that between primary medical evaluation and there is high sensitivity and specificity in addition to strong agreement. The urodynamic study is less likely to make the diagnosis of MUI and higher frequency of false negative. Our findings strengthen the indication of a primary approach before more invasive and costly interventions such as urodynamic evaluation. The realization of a simplified assessment can provide enough to get a drug and physical therapy information.

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Johnson, Brent E. "Comparing Achievement between Traditional Public Schools and Charter Schools within the Big Eight Urban School Districts in Ohio." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1311693290.

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Graham, Daria-Yvonne J. "Intersectional Leadership: A Critical Narrative Analysis of Servant Leadership by Black Women in Student Affairs." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1523721754342058.

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Huen, Bobby K. "Bloggers and Their Impact on Contemporary Social Movements: A Phenomenological Examination of the Role of Blogs and Their Creators in the LGBT Social Movements in Modern United States." NSUWorks, 2015. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/30.

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The Internet is a ubiquitous feature in everyday life, but its application to social movements has yet to be completely understood. This phenomenological study examines the lived experiences of bloggers who focused on the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement in the United States to understand the impact bloggers and their work as online activists have on existing LGBT social movement organization and operation. Data collection is gathered from semi-structured and open-ended interviews with four social movement bloggers using web-conference software over the course of three months. The results of this study indicated that internet has empowered individual activists, allowing them to gather a following and share their views to a large audience over the web, independent from existing social movement organizations. Consequently, bloggers and online activists maintain a relationship with existing social movement structure that is both collaborative and antagonistic. The results of this study contribute to the current understanding of social movement organizations as well as the impact of technological innovations on social movement advocacy.

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Tuppurainen, Anne Johanna. "Challenges faced by Muslim women : an evaluation of the writings of Leila Ahmed, Elizabeth Fernea, Fatima Mernissi and Amina Wadud." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3951.

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The subject and the scope of this study are the challenges faced by Muslim women in contemporary societies as presented by the four prominent authors: Leila Ahmed, Elizabeth Fernea, Fatima Mernissi and Amina Wadud. The methodology applied to the literary analysis is the feminist-qualitative research approach in religious studies with specific reference to Islamic feminist studies. Many Muslim women scholars criticise the study of Third World women as objects of study-cases who are rarely heeded as serious scholars. Misconceptions about Islam and Muslim women are common in Western society. Previous studies have not dealt with the issue satisfactorily and failed to provide a holistic picture. The challenges faced by Muslim women have been interpreted against a Western feminist framework, thus causing more harm than good. The resultant predicament is the subject of this study in which Muslim women’s own attitudes and responses to their present circumstances and future prospects are explored. How and why Muslim women are challenged? How do they envisage the resolution of these challenges? The purpose of this study is to provide a framework that can give an adequate account of challenges as seen by Muslim women and to evaluate strategies that can provide suitable solutions to these challenges. Firstly, an objective Giele/Smock/Engineer framework was developed with reference to the most pressing challenges (articulated in well-documented definitions and descriptions) faced by Muslim women in contemporary societies. These key issues of women’s rights on political participation, education, work, family, and social participation were discussed and analysed in the light of this women-centred approach with specific reference to the writings of four prominent women authors: Leila Ahmed, Elizabeth Fernea, Fatima Mernissi and Amina Wadud. Each author has brought her own particular perspective and area of expertise into the discussion – sometimes arguing among with the other authors in a virtual ‘roundtable’ discussion; at times joining hands in mutual agreement. Finally, Muslim women’s struggle against injustice was subjected to critical scrutiny with particular attention to common strategies and solutions that the four authors have used and developed in the light of the modern debate. It is in the latter discussion that the study reached its ultimate goal by determining how the challenges have been met. Moreover, Islamic feminism was assessed to determine how it related to and coped with social change and how effective it has been in seeking to assert rights of and find justice for women through historical, anthropological, socio-political and hermeneutical approach.
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Chitnev, Veta. "University assessment practices through a lens of feminist pedagogy." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/11338.

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Assessment is crucial for students’ learning. The theory and practice of assessment, however, has received little attention in the literature on critical feminist pedagogy, due to difficulties in reconciling the notion of feminist pedagogy with that of assessment.This study aims to address that issue by exploring forms of assessment in higher education language learning that align with feminist principles. This research employs both case study and autoethnographic approaches. Data were collected from interviews with six university instructors and from the researcher’s own teaching journal. All participants were full-time faculty at a department of modern languages and literature at a large Canadian research university.This study addresses three questions: 1) What forms of assessment do instructors in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures use that comply with principles of critical feminist pedagogy? 2) What tensions exist for instructors related to assessment in higher education? 3) How can these tensions be addressed using a feminist reconceptualization of assessment? The study revealed that implementing graded summative assessment, especially when teaching large classes, creates pressure and discontent for university instructors. It was also found that formative teacher’s feedback, peer and self-assessment, complete/incomplete grading, and diagnostic assessment reduce competition between students and serve to mitigate the power imbalance between students and teachers. Suggestions are provided to address the discontent and pressures reported by the participants and to recon ceptualize assessment practices to bring them into alignment with feminist pedagogy.
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Houston, William John. "A critical evaluation of the University Christian Movement as an ecumenical mission to students, 1967 -1972." Diss., 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16970.

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This dissertation has examined the University Christian Movement (UCM) over its turbulent five year history from 1967 to 1972 in terms of the original hopes of the sponsoring ecumenical denominations. Contextual factors within the socio-political arena of South Africa as well as broader youth cultural influences are shown to have had a decisive influence. These factors help to explain the negative reaction from the founding churches. While this is not a thesis on Black Consciousness, nevertheless the contribution of the UCM to the rise of Black Consciousness and Black Theology is evaluated. UCM is shown to be a movement well ahead of its time as a forerunner in South Africa of Black Theology, contextual theology, feminism, modem liturgical styles, and intercommunion. As such it was held in suspicion. It suffered repressive action from the government and alienation from the churches. Constant cross referencing to other organisations such as the World Student Christian Federation, the National Union of South African Students, the South African Council of Churches, the Christian Institute, and the Sllldents Christian Association, helps to locate the UCM within the flow of contemporary history. The concluding evaluation differs markedly from the report of the Schlebusch Commission by making both critical and positive judgement from the perspective of the UCM as an ecumenical mission to students.
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Hulbert, LaShonda. "An Outcome Evaluation of the Feminist Women’s Health Center’s: Young Women’s Leadership Program." 2014. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/iph_theses/328.

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Program Description As a part of the community education branch of the Feminist Women’s Health Center (FWHC), there is a leadership & advocacy training program for young women called the Young Women’s Leadership Program. This project was developed in 1999 at the FWHC as a way to connect young women from all walks of life to different communities and prepare them for reproductive justice activism, advocacy, and organizational leadership. Through this program, young women will have the opportunity to develop invaluable skills that include: how to advocate for social justice and women’s rights, how to plan events and recruit new activists, and empowerment through volunteering. The Young Women’s Leadership Program has expanded to the Latina community of Atlanta as well as the African American community. Since inception, over 2,200 young women have graduated from the YWLP program (“Young Women’s Leadership Project”, n.d.). The end result of the YWLP is for the participants to take on leadership roles and to participate actively in the community as well as operate as a board member on a committee at the FWHC. Evaluation Questions Three main questions were posed in order to perform an outcome evaluation of the Young Women’s Leadership Program. These questions coincided with the agenda of the Program Coordinator because the current goal is to regain external funding for the program. Proof of the success of the program through the outcome evaluation would be helpful in meeting that goal. Through the activities of the program, did participants feel that their knowledge of reproductive rights and justice was increased? i. Was volunteer orientation valuable in increasing participant’s knowledge of reproductive health, rights, and justice for women? Did the participants find the advocacy activities of the program valuable in increasing their advocacy skills? Did the participants find the leadership activities of the program valuable in developing their leadership skills? i. Did any of the program participant’s progress to Tier III leadership roles within the Feminist Women’s Health Center? If so, in what capacity? Summary of Results To summarize the findings of the evaluation results, a majority of the program participants did have the perception that five of the Young Women’s Leadership Program activities did increase their knowledge of reproductive health, rights, and justice. Specifically, volunteer orientation and FOCUS: Reproductive Justice Advocacy workshop seemed to have the largest response rates and were favorable towards participants agreeing that their knowledge had increased as a result of the activity. Also, a majority of the participants did agree that 5 out of 6 activities were valuable in increasing their advocacy skills as well as their leadership skills. The evaluation question, “Did any of the program participant’s progress to Tier III leadership roles within the Feminist Women’s Health Center?” returned positive results as there were some 7 participants who moved to Tier III leadership out of 24 participants who responded. In summary, the participants of the Young Women’s Leadership Program, did have a positive perception of the program on increasing the leadership and advocacy skills as well as the knowledge of reproductive health, rights, and justice of the participants surveyed.

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Walsh, Arlene. "From EADHREDIG to GYNG : a feminist re-evaluation of the Legend of St Juliana." Diss., 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17841.

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St Juliana is a legendary saint, whose actual existence is most improbable, although relics purportedly existed. The approximate date of her martyrdom is c. 305-310. According to the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum , the facts of her story are very briefly as follows: her legend is set in the time of the Diocletian persecutions, when Juliana, daughter of Affricanus (a pagan) lived in Nicomedia. She was betrothed to Eleusius, an official ofNicomedia and a cohort of Maximian the emperor. When Eleusius enquired about the wedding, Juliana (already a convert) refused to marry him until he became a prefect When he had achieved this promotion, Juliana now required his conversion to Christianity. First her father and then Eleusius tortured her. Upon being imprisoned, a demon attempted to trick her, but she foiled him and miraculously escaped further harm as an angel appeared to assist her. The tortures meant for her harmed many of Eleusius' soldiers, and others, impressed by her example, converted to Christianity and were immediately beheaded. Juliana, impervious to whatever hideous tortures had been devised for her, was beheaded. Sephonia/Sophia, a devout Christian woman of some material wealth, carried her body to Puzzeoli in Italy and buried it with ceremony. Meanwhile Eleusius and his soldiers drowned at sea and their bodies were eaten by beasts. Cynewulf makes a number of emendations to this story, some in order to improve the character of the heroine, but he was clearly reliant upon the common source, which certainly ante-dated AD 568, when Juliana's remains were removed from Puzzeoli, an event which the source does not mention. The first reference to her legend is found in a martyrology ascribed to Jerome (d. 420) entitled Martyrologium Vetustissium. Bede includes a very short version in his Latin Martyrology, but the first vernacular English version of her tale is Cynewulf's Juliana, which was written in the ninth century. It is generally agreed that the source for Cynewulf's version is either the first of two Latin lives of St Juliana published in the Acta Sanctorum for February 16 by Bolland in the seventeenth century, or a version very close to it. Although Bolland's compilation is a seventeenth-century work, the sources which he used were very inuch older. (Her tale is omitted from Aldhelm's De Virginitate, as well as from Aelfric's Lives of the Saints.) The Liflade is a twelfth-century early Middle English version. Seyn Julien is a fourteenth-century ScDttish version which is based on the Legenda Aurea, but the version from the South English Legendary is not Versions of the tale of St Juliana appear in Anglo-Norman, Irish, Italian (Peter, Archbishop ofNaples 1094-1111), Swedish, Greek (Symeon Metaphrastes (d. 965). Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea, prepared in the thirteenth century by a Dominican, is the basis for many of the versions, most certainly of Caxton's translation of 1483. Her day is remembered on 16 February.
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Mackie, Ardiss Emilie. "Shifting ground: finding a feminist research voice through an evaluation of an ESL curriculum." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5569.

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This study addresses the problem of evaluating one's own work, in this case a task-based ESL (English as a Second Language) for Business curriculum, using a participatory model of evaluation. Participatory evaluation allows for the traditional roles of researcher and researched to be reversed if participants so choose. The study also focusses on the process of change in researcher perspective towards feminist research themes that I experienced, and the link between these themes and the evaluation study. The participants in the evaluation study included 11 adult ESL students, their ESL instructor and Business professor, their course advisor, and myself. In the evaluation study, student and staff participation preferences resulted in traditional forms of data collection, namely questionnaire, interview, and discussion. An analysis of these uncovered specific issues related to the ESL for Business Curriculum such as student and staff difficulties in working with a new program. Also emerging from the student and staff data were findings related to the discrepancy between task-based curricula and the real life tasks of studying in content courses: students preferred teacher-fronted instruction in the ESL support course which was also the type of instruction in the Marketing course. My reflections on participation in this model of evaluation revealed powerful, personal connections to the evaluation process. Alternative sources data in the form of creative texts (poetry and autobiography) were included to express the personal dimension of the study. The study weaves themes such as vulnerability, living within the hierarchy, contradiction, and the power of the personal with the shift from a traditional research perspective to an alternative one embracing feminist principles.

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Berejena, Mhongera Pamhidzayi. "Beyond institutional care : an evaluation of adolescent girls' transitions and livelihood outcomes in Highfield, Harare." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43766.

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Transition to adulthood is a complex phenomenon, yielding varying outcomes for young people in different environments. Hence, adolescent girls transitioning from institutional care are a heterogeneous group with varying transition experiences and livelihood outcomes. Studies suggest that adolescents leaving care have less desirable outcomes compared to their counterparts in familial care (Vaughn, Shook & McMillen, 2008). Therefore, adolescents in the institutional context need specialised transition programmes as they traverse to adulthood and independent living (Storm, Porter & Macaulay, 2010:307). Unfortunately, institutions fail to provide well-structured and gender-sensitive transition programmes that promote the achievement of sustainable livelihoods during and after leaving care (Powell, 2006:143). As a consequence, adolescents are vulnerable to negative social and economic outcomes beyond institutional care. iii. The goal of the study was to evaluate the effects of transition programmes on the livelihood outcomes of adolescent girls post institutional care in Highfield, Harare. This study, which is participatory action research, evaluated the transitions and livelihood outcomes of adolescent girls transitioning from two institutions in Highfield, Harare. To conceptualise the transition phenomena, sustainable livelihoods and feminist theoretical frameworks were applied. Mixed methods approaches were used and qualitative as well as quantitative data were collected, analysed and interpreted concurrently. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with thirty-two adolescent girls, two superintendents and a district social services officer. Focus group discussions were held with participants from Institutions A and B and observations made on their counterparts discharged from the same institutions. A gender assessment questionnaire was administered to superintendents to establish whether the programmes being provided were gender-sensitive. Findings from the study showed that adolescent girls in the two institutions have access to more assets (55.55%) compared to those outside with 49.2%. Hence, adolescent girls leaving institutional care lose 6.35% assets, making them poorer than their counterparts in care. Adolescent girls in the institutional context face increased gender-based constraints resulting in limited access to livelihood opportunities. Findings also indicate that adolescent girls living in resource-constrained institutions and households have more complex and harder transitions compared to those in well-resourced institutions and households. The study concluded that the transition programmes being provided are not adequately preparing adolescent girls for life beyond care and they are also not gender-sensitive. Thus, they have a negative impact on the transitions and livelihood outcomes of adolescent girls. Furthermore, stakeholders in the transition process lack financial and human resources to develop and implement gender-responsive transition policies and programmes, thereby affecting adolescent girls’ access to different kinds of livelihood assets. iv. To facilitate successful transitions, this study recommends the development of gender-sensitive transition policies, transformation of the case management system and more investments in participatory policy development, planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluation of transition programmes. Key words Adolescent girls Assets Case management system Evaluation Feminist approaches Institutional care Livelihood outcomes Poverty Sustainable Livelihoods Approach Transition programmes
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Soares, Maria Moreira. "Evaluation of ageing-related molecular and bioenergetic alterations in bovine oocytes." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/87892.

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Dissertação de Mestrado em Biologia Celular e Molecular apresentada à Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
O envelhecimento do sistema reprodutor feminino, atualmente um problema de saúde emergente, envolve diversas alterações funcionais e estruturais nos gâmetas, nas células somáticas adjacentes e no tecido ovárico. Consequentemente, é de extrema importância estudar as modificações resultantes do envelhecimento, para que novas estratégias terapêuticas sejam criadas, no sentido de melhorar a função reprodutora da mulher de idade mais avançada. Porém, existem alguns constrangimentos a este tipo de estudos tais como, os problemas éticos inerentes a estudos em humanos e o reduzido número de amostras passíveis de serem obtidas. No sentido de superar estes problemas, têm sido utilizados diferentes modelos animais para estudar as modificações relacionadas com o envelhecimento do sistema reprodutor feminino, tendo já sido evidenciado nestes animais diversas alterações morfológicas e biomoleculares. Contudo, ainda não existe um modelo animal único, semelhante ao ser humano, que permita demonstrar todas as alterações até agora detetadas, tornando difícil a extrapolação da informação para o envelhecimento reprodutivo da mulher.Este estudo visa caracterizar as modificações induzidas in vitro relacionadas com o envelhecimento, bem como determinar se o modelo de envelhecimento in vitro é um método adequado para estudar o envelhecimento do sistema reprodutor humano. Assim, utilizando o bovino como modelo animal, foram avaliados diferentes parâmetros morfológicos e biomoleculares no modelo de envelhecimento in vitro, e comparados com as modificações que decorrem in vivo e com outras informações já reportadas na literatura sobre outros modelos animais ou em humanos. Neste estudo, decorrente do envelhecimento in vitro e in vivo, verificaram-se alterações em parâmetros oocitários e nas respetivas células do cúmulos. Foram detetadas alterações como a diminuição do volume ooplásmico e o aumento da espessura da zona pelúcida após o envelhecimento in vitro. Por outro lado, este processo parece não alterar a massa mitocondrial intracelular, causando, porém, um aumento significativo das espécies reativas de oxigénio, como foi avaliado por microscopia de fluorescência. Relativamente à análise biomolecular, detetou-se uma tendência para a diminuição do ADN mitocondrial nos oócitos e respetivas células do cúmulos, envelhecidos in vitro. Assim, com exceção do volume dos oócitos, todas as alterações decorrentes do envelhecimento in vitro parecem ter a mesma tendência que o grupo de oócitos envelhecidos in vivo. Em conclusão, este método de envelhecimento in vitro pode ser considerado um método adequado para o estudo do envelhecimento oocitário.
Female reproductive ageing is an emerging health problem which involves many functional and structural alterations in oocytes, adjacent somatic cells and ovarian tissue. It is of great importance to study these ageing-related alterations to design better therapeutic approaches to improve the reproductive function of women of advanced age. An important constraint to this type of studies are the inherent ethical problems of working with human gametes, and the limited amount of samples. To overcome these difficulties, animal models have been intensively used, and several different morphological and biomolecular modifications have been pointed out. However, there is a lack of a single ageing model similar to humans in which all the important age-related alterations have been detected, making it hard to make robust conclusions and extrapolations for human ageing.This study aims to characterize the in vitro-induced age-related modifications in a bovine model, as well as to determine if our model is a reliable approach to study human ageing. For this purpose, different morphological and biomolecular in vitro-induced alterations in the bovine animal model were compared to the in vivo aged group and to the already reported information regarding humans and other animal models.Oocytes and cumulus cells parameters were altered upon in vitro and in vivo ageing. Indeed, a significant decrease in oocyte cytoplasmic volume was found, whereas zona pellucida thickness increased after in vitro ageing. On the other hand, no influence on mitochondrial mass was found, however, a significant increase in mitochondrial reactive oxygen species was detected, in both cases using fluorescent microscopy. In what concerns the evaluated biomolecular parameters, a decreasing tendency in mitochondrial DNA content was found, in both in vitro aged oocytes and their respective cumulus cells. Therefore, except for cytoplasmic volume, all the in vitro-induced alterations showed the same tendency as the in vivo aged group. In conclusion, our in vitro approach of inducing ageing-related alterations may be considered as a reliable approach to study the ageing process in female gametes.

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