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Chawansky, Megan E. "Scaling Summitt : towards a feminist coaching methodology." Connect to resource, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1140639149.
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Lawrence, Anne. "Feminist Design Methodology: Considering the Case of Maria Kipp." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5538/.
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This thesis uses the work and career of the textile designer Maria Kipp to stage a prolegomena concerning how to write about a female designer active during the middle of the twentieth century. How can design historians incorporate new methodologies in the writing of design history? This thesis explores the current literature of feminist design history for solutions to the potential problems of the traditional biography and applies these to the work and career of Kipp. It generates questions concerning the application of methodologies, specifically looking at a biographical methodology and new methodologies proposed by feminist design historians. Feminist writers encourage scholarship on unknown designers, while also they call for a different kind of writing and methodology. The goal of this thesis is to examine how these new histories are written and in what ways they might inspire the writing of Kipp into design history.
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Howes, Frances A. "From Inclusion to Transformation: Decolonial Feminist Comix Methodology (With Handy Illustrations)." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/64466.
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Feminist rhetorics need to move us from inclusion to transformation: instead of "including" more and more marginalized groups into the scholarly status quo, or "including" comics into methods of analysis that we already use, we need to transform our practices themselves. Seeing comics research as an expedition into comics doesn't work. The spatial metaphor is failing because it's analogous to a takeover in the colonial sense.
I center the both/and experience of being a producer of comics and analyst of them. Drawing from a critical reading of my own comic, I describe "the disobedient how," a way of learning from transgressive models. I argue that instead of "collecting" comics, decolonial feminist methodology asks that we "attend" comics through listening, experiencing, and having a relationship with them and their creators.
As Shawn Wilson's work suggests, knowledge lies in relationships. I use this concept to guide an analysis of Lynda Barry's recent comics work as well as her comments during a panel at the Comics: Philosophy and Practice conference. In order for academics to have true knowledge about Barry's work, we must have a right relationship to her and to it, which requires decolonizing our relationship to texts and taking Barry's comics seriously as sources of theory. Next, I argue for scholars to pay closer attention to Alison Bechdel's comics beyond their engagement with her memoir, Fun Home. I describe her participation in queer rhetoric through a close reading of her comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For and her public discussion of her composing practices. Finally, I perform a retrospective of the history of my own comic book, Oh Shit, I'm in Grad School, drawing on (and developing documentation for) personal archives.Ph. D.
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Gruwell, Leigh C. "Multimodal Feminist Epistemologies: Networked Rhetorical Agency and the Materiality of Digital Composing." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1436810721.
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King, Angela. "WEB-BASED, GENDERED RECRUITMENT OF WOMEN BY ORGANIZED WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUPS." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4029.
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According to the hate group watchdog organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the number of hate groups in the United States rose 54 percent since 2000 (SPLC 2009 a & b). Literature on organized white supremacist groups suggests that women have become increasingly more important to such groups for a variety of reasons, many of which are not always agreed upon by and within said groups. In addition, it is believed by many in the hate monitoring world that the World Wide Web has become progressively more dynamic as a medium of recruitment, as a tool of communication among members, and as a means to propagate the hateful messages espoused by members of these groups. Thus, this research will marry two essential ideas: (1) that women are being sought out and targeted for recruitment by organized white supremacist groups and (2) that the World Wide Web acts as a dynamic tool that aids said groups in accomplishing their goals of recruitment.M.A.
Department of Liberal and Interdisciplinary Studies
Graduate Studies
Interdisciplinary Studies MA
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Johnson, Stacey. "Feminist practice and the problem of "objectivity" : techniques of observation for communications studies." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=68107.
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The thesis examines the problems of the "observer" and "objectivity." I review Thomas Kuhn's concept of "paradigm shift" in order to access wider debates in the history and philosophy of science concerning epistemological development. I argue against traditional notions of "objectivity" and "rationality" that proceed to "naturalize" the binary opposition between the natural sciences and other intellectual pursuits. To make this argument I draw from feminist critics of science, including Sandra Harding, Evelyn Fox Keller, and Donna Haraway, who reconsider more palpable conceptions of "objectivity" and "rationality" for a feminist science project.Jonathan Crary's revisionist, and non-linear approach to a history of vision and the modern observer suggests that feminist critiques of science represent an epistemological shift imperfectly constituted in the nineteenth century. In conclusion, I analyze Donna Haraway's multi-dimensional approach to cultural, and feminist theory as a visual metaphor that resonates with the nineteenth-century technology of the stereoscope.
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Bacon, Hannah Jayne. "This God which is not one : thinking the Trinity in light of feminist methodology." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.722133.
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Markey, Bren April. "Feminist methodologies in moral philosophy." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9107.
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This thesis develops a critique of the methodology of mainstream academic moral philosophy, based on insights from feminist and more generally anti-oppressive political thought. The thesis consists of two parts. In the first, I loosely characterise a certain dominant methodology of philosophy, one based on giving an important epistemological role to existing, 'pre-theoretical' moral attitudes, such as intuitions. I then argue that such methodologies may be critiqued on the basis of theories that identify these moral attitudes as problematically rooted in oppressive social institutions, such as patriarchy and white supremacy; that is, I identify these attitudes as ideological, and so a poor guide to moral reality. In the second part, I identify and explore of a number of themes and tendencies from feminist, anti-racist, and other anti-oppressive traditions of research and activism, in order to draw out the implications of these themes for the methodology of moral philosophy. The first issue I examine is that of how, and how much, moral philosophers should use abstraction; I eventually use the concept of intersectionality to argue for the position that philosophers need to use less, and a different type of, abstraction. The second major theme I examine is that of ignorance, in the context of alternative epistemologies: standpoint epistemology and epistemologies of ignorance. I argue that philosophers must not take themselves to be well placed to understand, using solitary methodologies, any topic of moral interest. Finally, I examine the theme of transformation in moral philosophy. I argue that experiencing certain kinds of personal transformation may be an essential part of developing accurate ethical views, and I draw out the political implications of this position for the methodology of moral philosophy.
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Nordling, Cherith Fee. "'The way things truly are' : the methodology and relational ontology of Elizabeth A. Johnson." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13524.
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This thesis seeks to examine and critique the transcendental feminist methodology and Trinitarian theology of Elizabeth A. Johnson. We will focus on four central, recurring themes that emerge out of her corpus, paying particular attention to how she assimilates these in She Who Is. They are: Johnson's feminist methodology and epistemology, her transcendental anthropology and epistemology, her panentheistic, relational ontology and her feminist 'Trinitarian' God-talk. The thesis will consist of four chapters, which will focus on these four main themes, and a conclusion. Chapter one will look specifically at the Johnson's modern, Catholic reformist feminist methodology and epistemology, which prioritise both the category of experience and the ontological principle of relation. The chapter will conclude with a brief summary of a few feminists who have defined their theological positions in direct opposition to Barth's view of Trinitarian revelation and language, and compare them to Johnson. Chapter Two will deal specifically with Johnson's embrace of Karl Rahner's transcendental metaphysics and her attempt to integrate this anthropology and ontological epistemology with feminist anthropology and epistemology. We will also highlight the various 'dilemmas of difference' Johnson faces in her use of conflicting appeals to experience. Chapter Three will analyse and critique her panentheistic, relational ontology with specific attention paid to her re-schematization of traditional Trinitarian theology and Christology. Barth's theology is used in part to critique Johnson's assertions at this point. In Chapter Four, we analyse Johnson's 'analogical' and 'symbolic' approach to God-talk to determine whether it is safeguarded from univocity, as she intends. We also raise-the question of whether she is kept from the potential equivocity that threatens her agnostic approach. In conclusion, we will summarise our response to the naturally emerging questions of the thesis, assess Johnson's approach overall and raise whatever questions we believe still remain.
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Wakeling, Faye. "Voices in the struggle : the source of hope in a methodology of feminist liberative ethics." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ39780.pdf.
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Wickramasinghe, Maithree. "Making meaning of meaning-making : a case study of feminist research methodology in Sri Lanka." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2007. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10007500/.
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While women-related (WR) research has proliferated in Sri Lanka since 1975, research focusing on such literature and on research methodology is limited. My research concentrates on the theoretical frameworks, ontological and epistemological standpoints, methods, politics and ethics that constitute WR research methodology in Sri Lanka. In effect, it considers the ways in which researchers extract I construct meanings to fulfil feminist objectives in research. Consequently, the work covers the epistemological gap in methodology within local Women's Studies; and enriches international research by highlighting the Sri Lankan situation through being generalisable to wider theoretical objectives. Women-relatedness of research is posited as a paradigmatic shift in knowledge-making within which research activism takes place. The umbrella concept and materiality of WR research methodology is case studied through constituent case studies of method, ontology, epistemology, theory, and politics I ethics. This involves conceptualising I engaging with the particularities of Sri Lankan ontological politics; an epistemology of gender that originates from a sense of being I doing; the method of literature reviewing as an epistemic project; theory on methodology as epistemology and feminisms as a form of ethical politics. Maithree Wickramasinghe- Making Meaning of Meaning-Making 2 Sri Lankan women's studies and discourse compose a somewhat abstract ontology for my research purpose, while WR research methodology is captured I constructed in research through the examination of research texts and interviews. My own methodology is founded on the principle of knowledge as a process of both discovery and construction. Analysis of research is from multiple theoretical locations and methodological intersects of positivism and postrnodernism; as well as feminist standpoints, postcolonialism, and reflexivity. The ultimate aim of the study is not only conceptual unity, but also, conceptual contestation.
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Koelsch, Lori E. "Unlabeled sexual experiences quilting stories and re-envisioning discourses /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1218570250.
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Mcwatts, Susheela. ""Yes madam, I can speak!'': A study of the recovered voice of the domestic worker." University of the Western Cape, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6164.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Women and Gender Studies)Events in the last few years on the global stage have heralded a new era for domestic workers, which may afford them the voice as subaltern that has been silent until now. Despite being constructed as silent and as subjects without agency, unionised domestic workers organised themselves globally, becoming more visible and making their voices heard. This culminated in the promulgation of the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) Convention No.189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers (or C189) in September 2013, and the establishment of the International Domestic Workers' Federation (IDWF) in October 2013. This broadening of the scope of domestic workers' activism has not yet received sufficient attention in academic research. These two historic events on their own have the potential to change the dominant discourse around domestic workers, by mobilising workers with agency to challenge the meaning of the political ideologies informing their identity positions of exploitation and subjugation.
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Long, Anita M. "Feminist Storytelling & Rhetorical Negotiations: The Experiences of Mothers Sharing their Birth Stories Online." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564761551445608.
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Bohannon, Jeanne Law. ""Here in the To-Day, Forgotten in the To-Morrow:" Re-covering and Re-membering the Feminist Rhetorics of 19-Century Actress and Author Adah Menken." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/96.
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This dissertation project, which recovers the feminist invention of 19th-century actress and author Adah Menken, proves the efficacy of conducting historigraphic recoveries of heretofore forgotten and elided female rhetors. I situate Adah’s visual and written performances within the materiality of Victorian social codes, positioning her as a feminist commentator worthy of inclusion in our remembrances of feminist discourses. I use archival sources including carte de visites (CDVs) and Adah’s letters and poetry as heuristics for gendered critique, to analyze how she resisted the master narrative of Victorian society and its accompanying codes governing public and private feminine behavior. My objectives are three-fold: to use archival recovery as a method to unearth and evaluate what feminist inquiry can accomplish; to argue for the feminist intentions of a previously unknown female writer; and to offer an opportunity to discover cross-disciplinary connections for rhetorical recoveries. Feminist inquiry is itself an exemplar of rhetorical invention, the idea of making a path. In my dissertation project, I illustrate how Adah Menken blazed a path in her personal and public rhetorics. For my principal goal of asserting Adah’s importance as a feminist rhetor, I use primary sources to demonstrate that her invention and resistance provide fertile ground for vital feminist inquiry. As a secondary means of asserting the significance of archival feminist research, I also offer my Adah Menken recovery as a case study for examining ideas of resistance and subversion to dominant master narratives. For this application, I use Judith Butler’s theory of performativity and Michel Foucault’s ideas surrounding the topic of resistance. Ultimately, the convergence of theoretical and practical applications for rhetorical recoveries, both of which I describe in-depth in my dissertation, serve to re-connect fields of inquiry and make them relevant to scholars across the Academe.
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Mbongwe, Bathsheba Basathu. "Power-sharing partnerships : teachers’ experiences of participatory methodology." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24127.
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I investigated the experiences of teachers as co-researchers in a long-term partnership with university researchers in an asset-based intervention project known as STAR1. The goal of STAR is to investigate how teachers can promote resilience in scare-resource and high need schools. To inform participatory research methodology, I explored and described how coresearchers (teachers) experience power relations. I conducted the participatory reflection and action (PRA) study by using feminist standpoint theory as guiding epistemological paradigm, Gaventa’s power cube as theoretical framework and participatory research as methodological paradigm. I conveniently chose two cohorts (schools) in the STAR project to partner as the unit of analysis. I thus applied convenience sampling to select information-rich cohorts. The schoolcohorts included a primary school in the Eastern Cape Province and a secondary school in a remote area in the Mpumalanga Province. I then purposefully selected participating coresearchers (n=15: 14 females, 1 male) from the participating schools. Over a two year period, I employed multiple PRA data generation techniques (observation, four focus groups and two semi-structured interviews) and documentation procedures (field notes, research journal, visual data and verbatim transcriptions). I used thematic analysis and categorical aggregation for data analysis, with three themes emerging. In terms of the nature of power in participatory partnerships, co-researchers expressed factors which influenced power and partnership in a participatory project. For co-researchers, these factors enabled them to experience a sense of power-sharing. Regarding the role of agency in relation to power and partnerships, co-researchers indicated that agency resulted from power-sharing and partnerships they had established. The agency meant that they took action through leadership to empower others in school-communities. Co-researchers’ meaning-making of power and partnerships culminated in their construction of power in a participatory project as both a way in which their working environment enabled them to do what they wanted to do, and also as a personal space where they felt capable and had initiative to coordinate project activities. Findings of this study correlate with existing literature where (i) power is seen as the ability of actors to express and act on desires, (ii) power can be redistributed as action for inclusive benefits, (iii) partnerships imply balancing time, and (iv) partnerships evolve over time, are dynamic and involve issues of trust and confidence. In contrast to existing knowledge on power in participatory research, I found that teachers did not view power as dominance or as exclusively owned. I developed a framework of power sharing partnerships to extend Gaventa’s power cube theory. This framework, and its five interrelated elements (leadership as power, identifying vision and mission, synergy, interdependent role of partners, and determination), provide insight into the way co-researchers shared their experiences of participatory research methodology. I posit an evidence-based conceptualisation of power as leadership where community partners play influential roles as co-researchers. I theorise power sharing partnerships as a complimentary platform hosting partners’ shared strengths, skills and experience, creating synergy in collaborative projects. I argue that synergy in power sharing partnerships relies on recognition, appreciation and mutual respect inherent in interdependent roles of partners. Furthermore, the power sharing partnership framework explains how power and partnership depends on determination amongst partners which manifests as agency to drive social change.Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Topkaya, Sevinc Elif. "Mobbing With A Gender Perspective: How Women Perceive, Experience And Are Affected From It?" Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613983/index.pdf.
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This study was carried out with the objective of exploring mobbing with a gender perspective. Studies done so far on mobbing have employed a gender-neutral approach to the phenomenon, suggesting that there was no relationship between gender and mobbing. However, recent feminist studies suggest that, feminist theory,masculinity theory and gendered organizations theory explain how mobbing is in
relation with gender. This study analyzed how women perceive, experience and are affected from mobbing in light of explanations offered by these theories. In this
context, in-depth interviews were carried out with nine women employees from private sector and eleven women employees from public sector, in total 20 women employees. As a result of this study, depending on the reasons of victimization, types of mobbing is divided in to three categories. They are &ldquopolitical mobbing&rdquo
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individual mobbing&rdquo
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organizational mobbing&rdquo
. The mobbing behaviors that these 20 women were exposed to were also identified. According to the findings of the study women move away from the workplace or exit from work life through transfer, retirement or resignation as a result of mobbing they have lived. Findings of the study show that mobbing has serious effects on psychical and psychological health of the individuals. Although gender was not found to be major factor for being chosen as a target, it intensifies the negative consequences for women through the mobbing process and afterwards, in work life and private life social relations. As a result of this study, it is observed that gender significantly influences women&rsquo
s mobbing experiences.
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Rath, Courtney. "“Not a Thing but a Doing”: Reconsidering Teacher Knowledge through Diffractive Storytelling." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19229.
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This project is framed by a dilemma: representations of teaching practice are critical in teacher education, and yet the representations we rely on dangerously oversimplify teaching. My central questions emerge from this dilemma. In telling stories about teaching, how messy can the story be before it becomes unintelligible? Why does messiness matter and what does it produce for teachers-to-be? After examining both canonical accounts of teacher knowledge and emergent research that is productively disrupting the field, I draw on the work of Karen Barad to help me imagine both a new way of telling teaching stories, what I call diffractive storytelling, and a new way of thinking about their use in teacher education. In particular, I take up Barad’s concept of apparatus to consider what knowing is made possible by traditional teacher stories, what knowing is foreclosed, and what these possibilities and limitations mean for teacher education. Finally, I turn to other apparatuses at work in teacher education, especially standardized assessments such as edTPA, the new performance-based assessment of teacher readiness being implemented across the country. I argue that attending carefully to the apparatus-ness of the instruments used in teacher preparation allows us to contest the naturalization of narrow conceptions of teaching practice and sustains the paradox of holding to standards while resisting standardization.
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Moussa, Ghaida. "Narrative (sub)Versions: How Queer Palestinian Womyn 'Queer' Palestinian Identity." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20227.
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In asking ‘How do queer Palestinian womyn ‘queer’ Palestinian identity”, the present research focuses on the various forms of traditional, narrative, and creative resistance practices of Palestinian womyn who challenge the following three narratives: 1) the national narrative which tags ‘queer’ as ‘Other’ and which posits the national movement at the top of the hierarchy of struggles; 2) the colonial narrative which is sustained by the Israeli public relations campaigns aiming to portray Israel as a modern, progressive, safe gay haven for queers, in opposition to a Palestine and Arab World which are said to be integrally homophobic, barbaric, regressive, etc. in an attempt to ‘pinkwash’ the occupation; and 3) the neocolonial narrative in which Western and Israeli Jewish queer movements reproduce colonial dynamics in their attempt to ‘save’ Palestinian queers who are deemed to be powerless, voiceless victims in need of saving.
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Lating, Peter Okidi. "Hybrid e-learning for Rural Secondary Schools in Uganda." Licentiate thesis, Karlskrona : Blekinge Institute of Technology, School of Technoculture, Humanities and Planning, 2006. http://www.bth.se/fou/Forskinfo.nsf/allfirst2/55ff6c6b8b6dbd62c1257248004a52ef?OpenDocument.
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Conway, April Rayana. "Practitioners of Earth: The Literacy Practices and Civic Rhetorics of Grassroots Cartographers and Writing Instructors." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1459792763.
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Bandeen, Heather Mae. "Elusive Practices of Gender, Power, and Silence: Theorizing the Relational Power of Elementary Teachers in the Policy Epidemic." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1248292175.
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Ngabaza, Sisa. "An exploratory study of experiences of parenting among a group of school-going adolescent mothers in a South African township." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_8071_1320757415.
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This study explored adolescent girlsâ subjective experiences of being young mothers in school, focusing on their personal and interpersonal relationships within their social contexts. Participants included 15 young black mothers aged between 16 and 19 years from three high schools in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Conducted within a feminist social constructionist framework, the study adopted an exploratory qualitative structure. Data were collected through life histories that were analysed within a thematic narrative framework. The narratives revealed that the young mothers found motherhood challenging and overly disruptive of school. Although contexts of childcare emerged as pivotal in how young mothers balanced motherhood and schoolwork, these were also presented as characterised by notions of power and control. Because of the gendered nature of care work, the women who supported the young mothers with childcare dominated the mothering spheres. The schools were also experienced as controlled and regulated by authorities in ways that constrained the young mothersâ balancing of school and parenting. Equally constraining to a number of adolescent mothers were structural challenges, for example, parenting in spaces that lacked resources. These challenges were compounded by the immense stigma attached to adolescent motherhood. The study recommended that the Department of Education work closely with all the parties concerned in ensuring that pregnant learners benefit from the policy. It is necessary that educators are encouraged to shift attitudes so that communication with adolescent mothers is improved.
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O'neill, Megan Elizabeth. "From Reflection to Reflexivity: Challenging Students' Conceptions of Writing, Self, and Society in the Community Writing Classroom." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77360.
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This dissertation, "From Reflection to Reflexivity: Challenging Students' Conceptions of Writing, Self, and Society in the Community Writing Classroom," examines the disconnect that characterizes much of the discussion of reflective writing in community writing studies and argues for the potential of reflexivity as a concept to further develop the kinds of reflective writing assigned in community writing classrooms. Many practitioners and scholars view reflective writing as a potentially powerful tool that may help students learn challenging or abstract theories and practices from their own community writing experiences. With such potential, it can be disappointing when student reflective writing does not achieve teacher expectations of critical thinking and analysis, stopping before critical engagement and understanding is achieved. Instead, it often centers on students' personal feelings and motivations that shape or arise from their community experiences. This dissertation argues that one reason for such a disconnect between teacher expectations and actual student writing, comes from the word "reflection" itself. While a traditional understanding of reflective writing asks students to look back on their experiences, observations, feelings, and opinions, community writing teachers use the term "reflection" with qualifiers like "critical," "sustained," or "intellectually rich." In qualifying their expectations for reflective writing, teachers are in fact asking for something very different from reflection, namely, reflexivity. When reflexive thinking is presented to students as "qualified reflection" it loses the considerable theoretical grounding that makes it a particularly unique way of using experiences as the foundation for inquiry. Building on theories of epistemological reflexivity for researchers in the social sciences, this dissertation highlights the methodological reflexivity theorized and practiced by feminist researchers. Feminist reflexivity specifically affords researchers more nuanced ways of looking at issues of positionality, social transformation, and agency. Such strategies have the potential for moving student reflections from private writings toward writings that impact students' understandings of the rhetorical and theoretical issues that community writing hopes to illustrate. This combination of feminist reflexivity and community writing reflections can provide community writing theorists and practitioners with alternative ways to solve reflective writing's challenges.Ph. D.
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Tuckey, Sarah Christine. "Gendering Canada's Whole-of-Government Approach? Militarized Masculinity and the Possibilities of Collaboration in the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39018.
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When Canada took on the leadership role of the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team (K-PRT) in Afghanistan, the liberation of women and children via multi-departmental collaboration was promoted by the government as a critical goal of the operation. Research from the fields of public administration, international development, and critical security studies hypothesizes that collaborative approaches to governance, particularly in fragile states, ensures that greater resources are available to address human rights issues, including gender equality. It is therefore surprising that the gendered implications of Canada’s collaborative governance commitments within the K-PRT have not been deeply explored. Through a feminist frame analysis, informed by critical and post-structural feminist theory, this dissertation asks whether the Canadian collaborative approach permits more attention to be paid to policy and programming on gender equality. Framing the case of the K-PRT from a feminist perspective, this dissertation identifies the hegemony of masculinity within the policy context that guided the Canadian collaborative approaches in Kandahar, highlighting how international guidelines for collaboration legitimized the leadership of the military and instrumentalized gender for militarized purposes. It also exposes the masculine structure of the K-PRT, identifying how the design of the PRT favoured the might of the military, and presented the exceptionalism of women as the only marker of gender. Finally, this dissertation highlights the narrative of masculinity that is threaded throughout the K-PRT, working to normalize the militarization of civilian departments and actors implicated within the Canadian collaborative approach. The application of a gender lens to the case of the K-PRT reveals the necessity of feminist analysis of collaborative approaches, as these are increasingly being seen as best practices for addressing state fragility worldwide.
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Ferrer, Sanz Maria N. "Ontologies and knowledges of autonomous resistances in Barcelona: An ethnographic analysis of Can Batlló." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17368.
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This research is born from a conscious reflection on the roles and judgements
that traditional scientific analyses imprint in its objects of study, especially in the
field of social movement theory. It aims to understand whether and, to which
extent, autonomous resistances knowledges constructed on the ground
challenge the academic interpretations of those movements. For this reason, the
first part of this dissertation focuses on unravelling how traditional ontologies
have been built and underpin majoritarian scientific analyses. Thus, I review most
current debates in the field. Traditional social movement research tends to focus
on dualist discussions related to new and old social movements, European and
American approaches, behavioural or cost-benefits views, structural and agency
approaches, identity-based interpretations, etc. In opposition to that, I argue for
an ontology breaking with dualist views, placing Deleuze’s concept of difference
at the centre of my argument and feminist ontologies of the body as the medium
affecting the political experience. I propose an autoethnographic method focused
on presenting a cartography of urban resistance movements composed by
difference and rhizomatic relationships in opposition to the homogenisation of
ideas and demands of academic research for pilling up patterns, variables or
categories. Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the BwO is presented here as a
theoretical tool that helps to introduce the case study in relation with its contexts,
relationships, affects and networks.
The second part of this research narrates and analyses how the proposed
theory is unwrapped in the field. In doing so, I analyse my participation with and
from within one of those collectives, Can Batlló and, more specifically, a project
named La Fondona. Can Batlló is an autonomous and self-organised social centre in the neighbourhood of La Bordeta in Barcelona with which I worked
during six months between 2013 and 2014. Throughout this period, I participated
actively not only in Can Batlló but also in the actions and events that took place
in the neighbourhood of Sants-Montjuïc and Barcelona. Hence, I present an
analysis of the internal processes, relations and knowledge-practices as well as
the relationships that this collective maintains with the community, its sociopolitical
space and historical context. I argue those relations are constructed
through rhizomatic principles as well as drawing from feminist approaches which
put life and the body at the centre of their arguments. These outcomes will be
finally reflected in chapter IX of this dissertation under the lenses of the research
question posed in this thesis. That is whether current urban resistances challenge
majoritarian social movements’ analyses.Marie Curie Fellow Program and University of Utrecth
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Singh, Robyn. "Exploring psychological distress among a sample of pregnant women from a low income area who self-identify as being distressed." University of the Western Cape, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6256.
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Magister Artium - MA (Psychology)Psychological distress during pregnancy has been a fairly neglected phenomenon and has only recently started emerging as an area of research interest. The existing body of scholarship on distress during pregnancy has largely been conducted from a positivist paradigm, emphasising the identification, incidences and risks. There is thus a dearth of qualitative inquiry into pregnant women's experiences and accounts of distress. In an attempt to address these gaps within the literature, my study explored psychological distress among a group of pregnant women from socio-economically disadvantaged contexts. The specific objectives of my study was to explore how pregnant women conceptualised psychological distress within the context of pregnancy; the feelings or symptoms of psychological distress; what pregnant women perceived as its causes; and the psychosocial needs of pregnant women in relation to antenatal distress. This study was guided by a feminist approach and a feminist standpoint epistemology in particular. This lent itself to exploring the phenomenon while departing from a clinical, decontextualised position which translated into an investigation with pregnant women who subjectively perceived themselves to be distressed.
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Kavas, Serap Turkmen. "Post Divorce Experience Of Higly Educated And Professional Women." Phd thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612159/index.pdf.
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POST-DIVORCE EXPERIENCE OF HIGHLY EDUCATED AND
PROFESSIONAL WOMEN
Kavas, Serap
Ph.D., Department of Sociology
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Ayse Gunduz Hosgor
July 2010, 327 pages
Based on life-story interviews with women this dissertation analyzes post divorce experience of highly-educated and professional women. Economic, social, psychological well-being of divorced womenspecifically, how they manage to adapt to their new lives after legal dissolution were examined. As is shown in our research while divorce caused various difficulties including financial, social and parenting problems, it, on ther other hand provided relief, for the participants. The participants developed wide range of survival strategies in the face of difficulties and challenges they experience which attested to their agency during and after the divorce process. To the study, while an urbanite, educated and professional woman&rsquo
s termination of a failing relationship itself can be considered as liberation on her part, it will be an overstatement to say that women are enjoying their independence and start anew, just as men do. In this connection, this study searched for insights into the question: How does act of divorce affect these women with respect to their empowerment? Feminist theory is used over the duration of this study. The study scrutinized on the emergent themes such as societal attitudes, single parenting, remarriage, intergenerational and intra-family transmission of divorce, financial consequence, and women&rsquo
s varying coping strategies as well as many other common themes emerged. Studying post-divorce experience of women, which is an unexplored area in Turkish context, employing qualitative method and dwelling on grounded theory approach as an inductive way of data analysis, this study intends to be a considerable contribution to the literature.
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Day, Allyson L. "The Ability Contract The Ideological, Affective, and Material Negotiations of Women Living with HIV." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1395399748.
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May, Phillip W. "Cactus" IV. "Between the Lines: Writing Ethics Pedagogy." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1521624213838432.
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Joshi, Tomoyo. "Managing Racist Pasts: the Black Justice League’s Demand for Inclusion and Its Challenge to the Promise of Diversity at Princeton University." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1462201278.
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Ryan, Shay. "Pots of red jam : a performance-as-research project with older women." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1996. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/35875/1/35875_Ryan_1996.pdf.
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The study uses a performance-as-research model to devise an essentially woman-friendly process in a collaborative petformance project called Pots of Red Jam around the theme of older women. A rhizomatic system of validation is used, which involves personal experience, feminist methodology and peer review. The first part explores themes relevant to older women in popular literature. Fallowing chapters investigate feminist methodology
and examples of other women's projects. Application for future projects of this kind are offered. The script of Pots of Red Jam is included in the study.
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Woronzoff-Dashkoff, Elisabeth. "Playing for Their Share: A History of Creative Tradeswomen in Eighteenth Century Virginia." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1403460106.
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Folly, Rebecca P. F. "The subjective experiences of Muslim women in family-related migration to Scotland." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6273.
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Muslim family members constitute a significant migration flow to the UK (Kofman et al., 2013). Despite such observations, this form of mobility is under-explored in geographic scholarship on migration. Accordingly, this thesis examines the subjective experiences of migration of a small group of Muslim women, who migrated either with or to join their families in Scotland. Participant observation, focus groups and the life narratives of eight women are used to gain an in-depth understanding of both the reasons for and the consequences of migration for this group of Muslim women. In addition, this thesis examines the role of a secular community-based organisation in supporting migrants in their everyday lives. Drawing on conceptual approaches to migration, this study reveals diverse and complex motivations among participants in “choosing” to migrate. Far from “victims” or “trailing wives”, participants privileged their children's needs but also the possibility to transform their sense of self through migration. The study draws attention to the struggles of daily life in Scotland where, bereft of extended family, the synchronisation of migration with childbirth resulted in some participants enduring years of isolation. Such struggles resulted in changes in the home, with husbands providing both physical and emotional support. The experience of migration affected the women's religious identities, providing solace as well as a way to assert belonging in Scotland by drawing on Islamic theology. The community-based organisation provided a “safe space”, bridging the secular and non-secular and offering women the chance to socialise, learn and volunteer. The study shows that volunteering provided not only a way into paid work but also shaped women's subjectivities and home lives. However, the re-direction of national government funding towards “Muslim problems” threatens to undermine the organisation's ability to continue to meet the local needs of Muslim migrant women.
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Pini, Barbara. "From the paddock to the boardroom: The gendered path to agricultural leadership in the Australian sugar industry." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2001. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36642/1/36642_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
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The most recurrent theme in the early literature on women and farming is of women's invisibility. By the end of the 1990s, however, an important shift had occurred with farm women's increased visibility. Two international conferences had been held on women and agriculture, numerous rural women's groups had been formed across the world and a substantial literature had emerged documenting women's role and work on farms. However, despite the increased prominence given to the private lives of women farmers, they are still largely unrepresented in the public sphere of agriculture. In the Australian cane industry, for example, women hold none of the 181 elected positions of leadership in their agri-political group, CANEGROWERS. This anomaly between what we now know about women's important role in farming and their absence from decision-making positions in the sector, has shifted the focus of academic work on women and agriculture from examining family farming to studies of organisational culture and leadership.
This thesis contributes to this shift in academic focus by reporting on an in-depth study of a single agri-political organisation, the Australian sugar industry's, CANEGROWERS. Its significance is that it makes important and critical links between the gendered processes and practices on the farm and the gendered processes and practices of the agri-political group. In both metaphorical and real terms it makes links between the 'paddock' and the 'board room'.
This research derives its feminist perspective from a commitment to five key principles. These are focusing on women, valuing women's experiences and knowledge, rejecting the split between subject and object, emphasising consciousness raising and emphasising political change and emancipation.
The research design includes both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods. A case study of CANEGROWERS using in-depth interviews with fifteen elected members, participant observation and document analysis, provides contextual data on the organisation and its practices and processes. A survey of 234 women involved in the industry gives a quantitative perspective on the nature of women's farm work, the barriers to their participation in CANEGROWERS and possible strategies to facilitate greater participation. Two final case studies of the district locations of Mackay and the Herbert River are used to present a descriptive and localised understanding of the issues. Both case studies use a range of methods including focus groups with forty women, in-depth interviews with CANEGROWERS' staff members and women who have stood for election, participant observation and document analysis.
The main finding that emerges from this thesis is that the path to leadership within the agri-political group CANEGROWERS is subjective, closed and distinctly gendered. This is in distinct contrast to the way it is represented by elected members and some CANEGROWERS' staff as a process which is objective, open and gender neutral. This gendered path to leadership begins with how the notion of farmer is constructed solely in terms of the on-farm physical work undertaken largely by men. Thus; importantly, women's work on sugar cane farms, what they do and what they do not do, is intricately connected with their level of participation in the organisation CANEGROWERS.
The research provides evidence of the fact that women are actively involved on sugar cane farms performing a myriad of roles which contribute to the industry's sustainability. However, the roles they perform and the knowledge needed to conduct these roles are not valued. What work and knowledge is valued is that relating to on-farm physical labour. Despite the popular and mainstream rhetoric about the need for new types of farming and new types of farmers, there persists across the industry a view that the farmer is involved solely (or most importantly) in physical work and it is this which is given status. To be a farmer is to do physical work and to do physical work is to be a male. Furthermore, having legitimacy within the industry as an elected leader is equated with one's status as a farmer and the knowledge one has as a result of participation in on-farm physical work. Thus, while elected members cite the importance of having a diversity of knowledge to make up an effective agri-political board, the knowledge to which they refer is extremely narrow. The knowledge that women might have, for example, as a result of their high level of participation in financial management, is not afforded the same status and therefore does not entitle them to be a contender for industry leadership.
Even on those few occasions in the sugar industry, where; because of their involvement in physical work, women have seen themselves as having a right to stand as an elected member, the gendered path to leadership continues to militate against their involvement. They are told to be visible in an industry where women are seldom seen, in an industry which rarely gives visibility to the work they do or the knowledge they have and in an industry where their contribution as partners in a farming enterprise does not necessarily entitle them to :franchise in the organisation. In addition, women do not have access to the same opportunities as men for demonstrating their visibility because the types of forums where visibility is judged (such as at industry meetings) are the very forums where women report their presence as being either denigrated or questioned.
An understanding of rural culture provides further insight into the gendered nature of visibility and the way in which men's visibility is judged very differently from women's visibility. Within this culture, a woman who does demonstrate visibility may find herself censured by both women and men for operating against the status quo.
The gendered path to leadership within CANEGROWERS culminates in both the definition and application of merit. While the term is purported by CANEGROWERS' elected members to be gender neutral an examination of the many extraneous factors which impact on the electoral process and the way in which they have differential meanings for women and men indicate that this is not the case. These factors include lack of options, longevity in office, grooming for office, the concept of tradition and family name, popularity, appointments outside of election, the conservatism of the constituency and protocol. Ultimately, within the organisation CANEGROWERS, merit has been equated with being a male.
The research concludes that, while very few strategies have been initiated by CANEGROWERS to address the question of women's representation, there is some possibility for change in industry-based networks for women. These networks have the potential to challenge homogeneous and androcentric constructions of terms such as 'knowledge' and 'merit' and the potential to give women the confidence, space and opportunity to be 'visible'. Unfortunately, the findings indicate that there has been a high level of resistance to these networks. The resistance has characterised the involvement of women as a divisive force for families, communities and the broader industry. The potency of this discourse in terms of limiting women's involvement in networks is evident when one appreciates the way in which farm women so often subjugate their own needs to ensure that harmonious relationships are maintained.
Overall, to be a successful force for positive change, sugar industry networks for women must be seen as legitimate forums for women to practice industry leadership, must be given unequivocal support from industry leaders and must be adequately resourced by the organisation. Most importantly, the formation of these networks must not be viewed as absolving the organisation from any need to make changes to its culture, processes and practices. The aim must be to make CANEGROWERS not just a 'men's organisation' as it was so often described in this research, with women's networks on the margins, but an organisation where both men and women can participate fully and equally.
It would be unjust and inexcusable if CANEGROWERS' commitment to this research was used to suggest that impediments to women achieving leadership positions exist only in the sugar industry. The evidence that is available from the broader studies cited above is that this is not the case. What is different about CANEGROWERS is that they have commissioned research which has examined the nature of the culture and the construction of merit within the industry. That other agricultural industry groups have not cannot be used to suggest that CANEGROWERS or the sugar industry are particularly different from other agencies or industries. It is likely that very similar cultural constraints exist within their own agencies and industries. At the same time, knowing that women are likely to experience difficulties in participating in leadership in other agricultural agencies does not excuse or justify women's lack of inclusion in CANEGROWERS. This merely indicates that the entire agricultural sector needs to work harder to achieve greater diversity in representative decision-making positions.
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Stephens, Yvonne R. "Embodied Literacies: The Rhetorical/Material Construction of the Senior Body." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1384893521.
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Möllerop, Christian Antoni. "Feminism and foreign policy – the case of Sweden." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-178150.
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There is a lack of a feminist perspective within general theories of international relations, but also in those documents that represents the basis for foreign policy, and a feminist assessment of the same. Assessment-tools for foreign policy that constitute a feminist perspective are therefore very limited, and an explanatory factor for the lack of such tools may be that there are a various number of feminist perspectives that rest on different ontological grounds. The purpose of this thesis was to explore how it is possible to theoretically justify a framework for feminist assessment of foreign policy. Proceeding from this theoretical justification, construct a specific methodology including a framework for feminist assessment of foreign policy, and lastly to test the viability and usefulness of the proposed methodology by using the action plan, “Swedish Foreign Service action plan for feminist foreign policy 2015 - 2018 including focus areas for 2016” as an empirical case study. This study concludes that it is possible to theoretically justify the construction of such an assessment-tool in spite of variations within feminist theorizing. A methodology and a framework was developed and tested on Sweden’s action-plan for its feminist foreign policy. The methodology developed in this study made it possible to identify what type of feminism the action-plan represents, but also which areas that is left alone and should be dealt with. It is also concluded that the plan consist of a type of rights-based feminism that focuses on the inclusion of woman in all areas of society, the particular vulnerability women represent concerning violence, sexual violence, domestic violence and that politics also must be concerned about issues regarding women’s private life and autonomy.
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Bursian, Olga, and olga bursian@arts monash edu au. "Uncovering the well-springs of migrant womens' agency: connecting with Australian public infrastructure." RMIT University. Social Science and Planning, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080131.113605.
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The study sought to uncover the constitution of migrant women's agency as they rebuild their lives in Australia, and to explore how contact with any publicly funded services might influence the capacity to be self determining subjects. The thesis used a framework of lifeworld theories (Bourdieu, Schutz, Giddens), materialist, trans-national feminist and post colonial writings, and a methodological approach based on critical hermeneutics (Ricoeur), feminist standpoint and decolonising theories. Thirty in depth interviews were carried out with 6 women migrating from each of 5 regions: Vietnam, Lebanon, the Horn of Africa, the former Soviet Union and the Philippines. Australian based immigration literature constituted the third corner of triangulation. The interviews were carried out through an exploration of themes format, eliciting data about the different ontological and epistemological assumptions of the cultures of origin. The findings revealed not only the women's remarkable tenacity and resilience as creative agents, but also the indispensability of Australia's publicly funded infrastructure or welfare state. The women were mostly privileged in terms of class, education and affirming relationships with males. Nevertheless, their self determination depended on contact with universal public policies, programs and with local community services. The welfare state seems to be modernity's means for re-establishing human connectedness that is the crux of the human condition. Connecting with fellow Australians in friendships and neighbourliness was also important in resettlement. Conclusions include a policy discussion in agreement with Australian and international scholars proposing that there is no alternative but for governments to invest in a welfare state for the civil societies and knowledge based economies of the 21st Century.
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Bava, Saliha. "Transforming Performances: An Intern-Reseacher's Hypertextual Journey in a Postmodern Community." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/25951.
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I present the dissertation web as a montage of a postmodern inquiry of my doctoral internship and research experiences—concerns and jubilation—positioned within the discourses of postmodern, dissertation, academia, experimentalism and cyberspace innovations among others. I create a social constructionistic interactive interplay, using hypertext, among my various voices of an intern, a researcher and a person.
In the dissertation web—my inquiry—I practice the characterization of postmodernism on numerous fronts—subject of study, context of study, methodology and re-presentation of the inquiry. Implicitly and explicitly, I articulate the various characterizations of postmodernism in my inquiry by challenging the traditional research practices (metanarratives). I challenge the traditional praxis by alternate performances of research practices such as studying myself in a cultural context of an internship using the methodology of autoethnography and performance.
The hypertext docuverse is a further characterization of postmodernism in the styles and structures that are used for re-presentation of the narratives. The styles of narration I useâ such as words and graphics, prose and poetry, first person conversational texts, narratives and collages—blur the boundary of "academic" writing, literature, and art.
The hypertext is intended as a metaphorical experiential, intertextual journey of an intern and a researcher. Rather than a fixed structure, I create numerous structures of possible structures to privilege the readers' navigational choices. I anticipate that the reader's choices in the virtual space might create a sense of meaning-transformation as one traverses through the dissertation web, thus, valuing fragmentation and connection as aspects of sense-making, which are contextualized (among others) by the reader's meaning frames and my hypertextual performances.
The dissertation is submitted in three formats—exclusive dissertation web.pdf, intertextual dissertation web.pdf, and xml version. The exclusive dissertation web.pdf is a web capture in pdf format of all the "files" that compose the dissertation web created in html. The intertextual dissertation web.pdf is a web capture of my dissertation along with the capture of external web resources that contextualize my dissertation web, thus illustrating the intertextuality of hypertexts by making the dissertation part of the larger textual web.
Due to the web capture, the "docuverse" is nonlinear and the pages do not follow any particular or author predefined sequences. So, please use the internal links or the bookmarks to read or browse the dissertation web rather than scroll from the first "page" to the last "page" of the pdf formatted docuverse. The third version in xml will be made available at a later date. An html version of the dissertation is available directly from the researcher-author.
CAUTION! The links from the abstract may be broken due to archiving of the dissertation web.Ph. D.
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Mladenov, Sanja Kojić. "Diskursi o rodu u umetnosti: konstrukcija profesionalnog identiteta umetnica u oblasti novih medija u Vojvodini krajem 20. i početkom 21. veka." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Asocijacija centara za interdisciplinarne i multidisciplinarne studije i istraživanja, 2018. https://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=107328&source=NDLTD&language=en.
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Cilj istraživanja je konstrukcija profesionalnogidentiteta vizuelnih umetnica koje stvaraju uVojvodini krajem 20. i početkom 21. veka,analiza njihovog umetničkog rada i života,ukazivanje na mogućnosti njihovog povoljnijegpoložaja.Hipoteza 1: Nedovoljna je valorizacijavizuelnih umetnica Vojvodine, naročito onihkoje se bave novim tehnologijama.Hipoteza 2: Nevidljiv je njihov doprinosznačaju za razvoj aktuelne umetničke prakse i usistemu visokog obrazovanja.Hipoteza 3: Značaj umetničkog rada ovihvizuelnih umetnica ne prepoznaju masovnimediji, što još više doprinosi njihovojnevidljivosti u javnosti.U istraživanju su primenjene analize:svedočenja (intervjui) umetnica; analizetekstova o umetnicama, analize umetničkihradova umetnica.Osnovni korpus istraživanja čine razgovoriautorke sa umetnicama, ukupno 12 umetnicavezane za Vojvodinu, tekstovi o njima i njihoviumetnički radovi.Rezultati istraživanja su pokazali da jeumetnicama profesionalni identitetnajistaknutiji, ostalim pristupaju kaopromenljivim kategorijama; da pridaju važnostprenošenju znanja i formiranju novih kadrova,te uvođenju ženskog identiteta u umetnost;ističu da im nedostaje finansijska sigurnost uprofesiji, te da rešenje vide u udruživanju iizgradnji mreže saradnica (međugeneracijskih,umetničkih, interdisciplinarnih, lokalnih,regionalnih i internacionalnih).Zaključujem da je istraživanje ukazalo da suumetnice koje se bave novim medijima uVojvodini delimično valorizovane. O njima jepisan veći broj tekstova, ali su oni rasutu porazličitim izvorima, na mnogim jezicima imestima (lokalno, regionalno, internacionalno).Politika institucija kulture im nije posvetiladovoljno pažnje kada su u pitanju monografskepublikacije i retrospektivne izložbe, otkupiumetničkih radova i sl. Njihov doprinos nijedovoljno vidljiv u sistemu visokog obrazovanja,a značaj njihovog umetničkog rada neprepoznaju dovoljno mas-mediji.Istraživanjem su prvi put umetnice koje se bavenovim medijima u Vojvodini krajem 20. ipočetkom 21. veka okupljene u jednu celinu.Izneti podaci o njihovoj generacijskoj,medijskoj, umetničkoj i drugoj povezanostipredstavljaju samo početak budućih istraživanjau okviru istorije i teorije umetnosti. Za njih jeizgrađivanje profesionalnog identiteta kaobogatstva različitosti najvažnije, ali je onuklopljen u mnogostruke ženske mreže ipovezanosti jer je to jedan od načina njegovograzvoja i opstanka.Ukupni podaci o različitim aspektima identitetaumetnica novih medija mogu doprineti opštojdiskusiji o prirodi identiteta.Preporuka je da se uspostavi sistem čuvanja nesamo radova, već arhiviranja dokumentacije oumetnicama novih medija budući da su podacirasuti po različitim izvorima i privatnimkolekcijama, slabo dostupni javnosti; da se ugalerijama i muzejima koji nemaju posebnoizdvojena sredstva za mlade umetnike/ce, zaprodukciju umetničkih radova i sl. uvede sličnapraksa; takođe nedovoljno kritičara i kritičarkikoji prate nove medije predstavlja problem kojitreba rešavati.Iz svega izloženog pokazali smo da je reč oumetničkim izrazima i umetničkim praksamakoje osvajaju prostor i otuda je prvi važanrezultat analize u ovom radu to što su najednom mestu pokazane različite prakse i totako da se sučeljavaju ocene o njihovom radu sasvedočenjem samih umetnica o sopstvenimradovima i dilemama. The aim of the research is the construction ofthe professional identity of female visual artistswho are creating in Vojvodina in the late 20thand early 21st century, an analysis of theirartistic work and life, pointing to thepossibilities of their favorable position.Hypothesis 1: Valorization of female visualartists of Vojvodina is insufficient, especiallythose dealing with new technologies.Hypothesis 2: Their contribution for thedevelopment of current art practice and in thehigher education system is invisible.Hypothesis 3: The importance of the artisticwork of these female visual artists is notrecognized by the mass media, which furthercontributes to their invisibility in the public.The research involved these analyzes: femaleartists testimonies (interviews); analysis of textsabout female artists, analyzes of art works byfemale artists.The main research corpus is the interviews ofthe author with female artists, a total of 12female artists related to Vojvodina, texts aboutthem and their art works.The results of the research have shown that forthe female artists the professional identity is themost prominent identity, to other identities theyapproach as to variable categories; they giveimportance to the transfer of knowledge, to theformation of new personnel and to theintroduction of women's identity in art;emphasize that they lack financial confidence inthe profession and that they see the solution inthe merging and building of a network ofcollaborators (intergenerational, artistic,interdisciplinary, local, regional andinternational).I conclude that the research indicated thatfemale artists dealing with new media inVojvodina are partially valorized. A number oftexts are written about them, but they are spreadacross different sources, in many languages andplaces (locally, regionally, internationally). Thepolitics of the cultural institutions did not givethem enough attention when it comes tomonographic publications and retrospectiveexhibitions, the purchase of art works, etc. Theircontribution is not sufficiently visible in thehigher education system and the importance oftheir artistic work is not sufficiently recognizedby mass media.This research is the first time that female artistswho are engaged in new media art in Vojvodinain the late 20th and early 21st century have beenintegrated into one whole. The presented dataon their generational, media, artistic and otherconnections are only the beginning of futureresearch within the history and theory of art.For them, building the professional identity asthe wealth of diversity is the most important,but it is integrated into multiple women'snetworks and connections because it is one ofthe ways of its development and survival.The overall data on different aspects of theidentity of female new media artists cancontribute to a general discussion of the natureof identity.It is recommended to establish a system forstoring not only works, but also archivingdocumentation about female new media artists,since the data that is scattered across differentsources and private collections is not readilyavailable to the public; that in galleries andmuseums that do not have special fundsallocated for young artists/female artists, for theproduction of works of art, etc., introducesimilar practices; also insufficient critics andfemale critics who follow new media art is aproblem that needs to be addressed.From all of the exhibited we have shown that itis about artistic expressions and artisticpractices that conquer space and hence the firstimportant result of the analysis in this paper isthat different practices have been shown in oneplace, so that the evaluation of their work isconfronted with the testimony of the femaleartists themselves about their own works anddilemmas.
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Silva, Simonete Pereira da. "Aspectos da performance desportivo-motora em voleibol-um estudo diferencial com o escalão de formação do sexo feminino da associação de voleibol do Porto." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UP-Universidade do Porto -- -Faculdade de Ciências do Desporto e de Educação Física, 2000. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29211.
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Watt, Diane P. "Juxtaposing Sonare and Videre Midst Curricular Spaces: Negotiating Muslim, Female Identities in the Discursive Spaces of Schooling and Visual Media Cultures." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19973.
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Muslims have the starring role in the mass media’s curriculum on otherness, which circulates in-between local and global contexts to powerfully constitute subjectivities. This study inquires into what it is like to be a female, Muslim student in Ontario, in this post 9/11 discursive context. Seven young Muslim women share stories of their high schooling experiences and their sense of identity in interviews and focus group sessions. They also respond to images of Muslim females in the print media, offering perspectives on the intersections of visual media discourses with their lived experience. This interdisciplinary project draws from cultural studies, postcolonial feminist theory, and post-reconceptualist curriculum theorizing. Working with auto/ethno/graphy, my own subjectivity is also brought into the study to trouble researcher-as-knower and acknowledge that personal histories are implicated in larger social, cultural, and historical processes. Using bricolage, I compose a hybrid text with multiple layers of meaning by juxtapositing theory, image, and narrative, leaving spaces for the reader’s own biography to become entangled with what is emerging in the text. Issues raised include veiling obsession, Islamophobia, absences in the school curriculum, and mass media as curriculum. Muslim females navigate a complex discursive terrain and their identity negotiations are varied. These include creating Muslim spaces in their schools, wearing hijab to assert their Muslim identity, and downplaying their religious identity at school. I argue for the need to engage students and teacher candidates in complicated conversations on difference via auto/ethno/graphy, pedagogies of tension, and epistemologies of doubt. Educators and researchers might also consider the possibilities of linking visual media literacy with social justice issues.
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Saraiva, Linda Maria Balinha. "Efeitos múltiplos e multilaterais de um programa de treino de força geral no desenvolvimento das diferentes expressões de força : Um Estudo em voleibolistas juvenis do sexo feminino." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UP-Universidade do Porto -- -Faculdade de Ciências do Desporto e de Educação Física, 2000. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29162.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Ciência do Desporto, área de especialização em Treino de Alto Rendimento Desportivo, apresentada à Faculdade de Ciências do Desporto e de Educação Física da Universidade do PortoO treino de força com crianças e jovens deve ser realizado de forma consciente, ajustada e integrada no respectivo processo geral de formação desportiva. Normalmente, a literatura postula um desenvolvimento harmonioso e multilateral da força muscular geral, no sentido do aumento da condição física, realce do rendimento desportivo, como também da prevenção das lesões. Contudo, os efeitos que um treino de força geral pode exercer sobre as diferentes manifestações de força não estão devidamente descritos através de estudos experimentais de carácter empírico, e muito particularmente no sexo feminino onde os estudos ainda são mais escassos. Nesta perspectiva, este trabalho tem como objectivo central verificar se um programa de força geral tem efeitos múltiplos e multilaterais sobre as diferentes manifestações de força. Concretamente, constatar e analisar em que sentido e em que quantidade se fazem sentir esses efeitos. A amostra foi constituída por 29 sujeitos do sexo feminino praticantes de Voleibol no escalão juvenil com 15-16 anos de idade, que disputaram o campeonato regional 98/99 da Associação Voleibol de Viana do Castelo. Esta foi dividida em dois grupos: o grupo de controlo (n=12) não submetido a qualquer treino de força e o grupo experimental (n=17), o qual se submeteu a um plano de treino que se desenvolveu ao longo de 13 semanas. Este plano de treino de força geral contemplou duas fases distintas : 1ª fase - Ciclo de treino dito força de resistência (5 sem.; 3xsem.; 2 x 15-20 rep./ 15-20 RM; 2ª fase - Treino dito de hipertrofia muscular (8 sem.; 3xsem.; 2x (8-12 rep., próximo da exaustão) / 10 RM. Todos os sujeitos foram avaliados no início e no final do plano de treino com testes de força máxima isométrica (dinamometria de mão; extensão dos membros inferiores e de tronco), força máxima dinâmica (supino, latíssimos, gémeos, flexão de pernas, tríceps, pull-over, prensa de pernas), força rápida, explosiva e reactiva (salto horizontal, sêxtuplo, lançamento e ...
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Saraiva, Linda Maria Balinha. "Efeitos múltiplos e multilaterais de um programa de treino de força geral no desenvolvimento das diferentes expressões de força : Um Estudo em voleibolistas juvenis do sexo feminino." Master's thesis, Universidade do Porto. Reitoria, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/10072.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Ciência do Desporto, área de especialização em Treino de Alto Rendimento Desportivo, apresentada à Faculdade de Ciências do Desporto e de Educação Física da Universidade do PortoO treino de força com crianças e jovens deve ser realizado de forma consciente, ajustada e integrada no respectivo processo geral de formação desportiva. Normalmente, a literatura postula um desenvolvimento harmonioso e multilateral da força muscular geral, no sentido do aumento da condição física, realce do rendimento desportivo, como também da prevenção das lesões. Contudo, os efeitos que um treino de força geral pode exercer sobre as diferentes manifestações de força não estão devidamente descritos através de estudos experimentais de carácter empírico, e muito particularmente no sexo feminino onde os estudos ainda são mais escassos. Nesta perspectiva, este trabalho tem como objectivo central verificar se um programa de força geral tem efeitos múltiplos e multilaterais sobre as diferentes manifestações de força. Concretamente, constatar e analisar em que sentido e em que quantidade se fazem sentir esses efeitos. A amostra foi constituída por 29 sujeitos do sexo feminino praticantes de Voleibol no escalão juvenil com 15-16 anos de idade, que disputaram o campeonato regional 98/99 da Associação Voleibol de Viana do Castelo. Esta foi dividida em dois grupos: o grupo de controlo (n=12) não submetido a qualquer treino de força e o grupo experimental (n=17), o qual se submeteu a um plano de treino que se desenvolveu ao longo de 13 semanas. Este plano de treino de força geral contemplou duas fases distintas : 1ª fase - Ciclo de treino dito força de resistência (5 sem.; 3xsem.; 2 x 15-20 rep./ 15-20 RM; 2ª fase - Treino dito de hipertrofia muscular (8 sem.; 3xsem.; 2x (8-12 rep., próximo da exaustão) / 10 RM. Todos os sujeitos foram avaliados no início e no final do plano de treino com testes de força máxima isométrica (dinamometria de mão; extensão dos membros inferiores e de tronco), força máxima dinâmica (supino, latíssimos, gémeos, flexão de pernas, tríceps, pull-over, prensa de pernas), força rápida, explosiva e reactiva (salto horizontal, sêxtuplo, lançamento e ...
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Revelles, Benavente Beatriz. "Literature, Gender and Communication in the making: Understanding Toni Morrison's Work in the Information Society." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/306597.
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La present tesi doctoral examina una comunicació relacional com a objecte d'estudi per a la literatura. Aquesta comunicació es produeix entre autors i autores i lectors i lectores a través de les xarxes socials. Per a tals fins, utilitza una escriptora en particular, Toni Morrisson i una modalitat de xarxa social concreta, la seva pàgina oficial de Facebook. Utilitzant com a marc teòric el nou materialisme (Van der Tuin & Dolphijn, 2010) i una metodologia "difractiva" (Barad, 2007), aquesta tesi desenvolupa un concepte de comunicació literària basada en mecanismes que infereixen diferències substancials fonamentalment en dos aspectes: gènere i política.La presente tesis doctoral examina una comunicación relacional como objeto de estudio para la literatura. Dicha comunicación se produce entre autores y autoras y lectores y lectoras a través de las redes sociales. Para tales fines, utiliza una escritora en particular, Toni Morrisson y una modalidad de red social concreta, su página oficial de Facebook. Utilizando como marco teórico el nuevo materialismo (Van der Tuin & Dolphijn, 2010) y una metodología "difractiva" (Barad, 2007), esta tesis desarrolla un concepto de comunicación literaria basada en mecanismos que infieren diferencias sustanciales fundamentalmente en dos aspectos: géenero y política. El marco teórico nuevo materialista lleva como principal premisa la ruptura de opuestos dicotómicos, tales como el binomio sexual entre hombres y mujeres. Por otra parte, la metodología difractiva se opone al "efecto espejo" en el cual las partes de la investigación (investigador o invcestigadora, metodología, instrumentos de medición y objecto de estudo, entre otros) son claramentes diferenciadas con el objeto de representar una realidad. Este punto de partida supone un cambio referencial por el cual buscamos procesos y no resultados. Así pues, en esta tesis encontramos que el objecto literario es la comunicación en sí (y no la obra o el autor o autora), y que en esta comunicación se produce una materialización de política basada en afinidades y no identidades y un concepto de género relacional situado (Haraway, 1991) racialmente. Estos conceptos teóricos se articulan empíricamente gracias al análisis de los afectos (Colman, 2008), o sentimientos, que se encarnan en las relaciones.
The present doctoral dissertation examines a relational communicacion as an object for Literary Studies. This communicacion between authors and readers is stablished through Social Networking Sites. For those means, it uses a concrete autor, Toni Morrisson and a particular Social Network, like her official Facebook page. Using New materialism (Van der Tuin & Dolphijn, 2010) as a theoretical framework and a "diffractive metodology" (Barad, 2007), this thesis develops a concept of literary communication based on mechanisms that produce differences on two main aspects: gender and politics. The new materialist framework postulates mainly breaking through opposite poles such as the sexual binary between men and women. On the other hand, the diffractive methodology is oppodef to the "mirroring effect" in wich the different elements of a research (such as researcher, methodology, apparatuses and object of study, among others) are separated from each other to represent reality. This requires a referential shift to look for processes instead of results. Therefore, in this thesis we find that the object of Literary Studies is the communication itself (not the novel or the author), and this communication materializes politics based uppon affinities and not identities and a concept of gender as relationally "situated" (Haraway, 1991) in a racial context. Theses theoretical concepts are empirically articulated thanks to the analysis of affects (Colman, 2008), or feelings, embedded in those relationships.
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Sigvardsdotter, Erika. "Presenting the Absent : An Account of Undocumentedness in Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-173196.
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This thesis provides an ethnography and critical phenomenology of undocumentedness in the Swedish context. By attending to the forces and processes that circumscribe the life-worlds of undocumented persons, as well as the phenomenology and essential experiences of their condition, a complex and multi-layered illustration of what undocumentedness is and means is successively presented. Employing a dual conceptualization of the state, as a juridico-political construct as well as a practiced and embodied set of institutions, the undocumented position emerges as a legal category defined only through omission, produced and reproduced through administrative routine and practice. The health care sector provides empirical examples of state-undocumented interaction where the physical and corporeal presence of the officially absent becomes irrefutable. This research suggests that the Swedish welfare state – universalistic, comprehensive and with digitized administrative routines – becomes a particularly austere environment in which to be undocumented. Drawing on interviews with regional and local health care administrators, NGO-clinics’ representatives and health professionals, as well as extensive participatory observation and interviews with undocumented persons, I argue that the undocumented condition is characterized by simultaneous absence and presence, and a correspondingly paradoxical spatiality. I suggest that the official absence and deportability of undocumented persons deprives them of the capacity to define space and, in an Arendtian sense, appear as themselves to others. There are, however, some opportunities for embodied political protest and dissensus. The paradoxical qualities of the absent-present condition manipulate the undocumented mode of being-in-the-world and I argue that alienation and disorientation are essential experiences of the undocumented situation.
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Kainerugaba, Frank Odyek Godfrey. "The involvement of women in mission in the Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (LCSA)." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40332.
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The principle purpose of the study was to investigate the role of women in the mission and
ministry of The Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (LCSA). The researcher raised the question
of why women are viewed as inferior within the LCSA, and whether this is Biblically supported. I
investigated the distinction between men and women with regard to the church culture, tradition,
pastoral office, priesthood, and authority within the LCSA. As a general theoretical framework, I
used two theories in church mission: (1) The unity of the Church and apostolic practice as
propounded by Schenk in 1983. (2) Paradigm shifts in theology: mission as ministry by the
whole people of God as propounded by Bosch in 1991. These theories explain the mission of
proclaiming the Gospel of God as belonging to everyone (both male and female) as His
servants in the Church.
To obtain people’s views and interpretations of Scriptures, culture, church practice, and the
social reality of women’s roles in the LCSA, focus-group and individual interviews were used to
gather qualitative data from 525 respondents. The data was collected and analyzed using the
descriptive qualitative research approach. Based on the research findings in Chapter 2 (pages
37-42), Chapter 6 (page140) presents proposals for the involvement of women in the LCSA.
The findings show that participants were concerned about the topic and those women’s rights
and voices are not yet acknowledged in many societies in Southern Africa. However, the scope
of the study is limited to the LCSA, and its findings cannot be generalized. Valuable insights
were gained into the church’s traditional construction of women’s roles in the LCSA, not allowing
women to preach the Gospel and to administer the Sacraments in the Church mission work.
From a missiological study perspective, the researcher recommended that women should be
allowed to participate fully in the Church mission work. Therefore, the Involvement of Women in
Mission in LCSA was an important dissertation research topic, affecting women in Southern
Africa particularly, and potentially, in the African continent at large.Dissertation (MA Theol)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Bucek, Loren Elizabeth. "Children's Dance-Making: An Autoethnographic Path Towards Transformative Critical Pedagogy." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366147483.
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Johansson, Sara. "Rytmen bor i mina steg : En rytmanalytisk studie om kropp, stad och kunskap." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-204630.
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This thesis brings together a fascination with the city and a keen interest in the knowledge process. The point of departure is the bodily, sensory and emotional experience. That the author uses her own perceptions and experiences and is preoccupied with her own knowledge process means that she writes herself into an autoethnographic context. She also experiments with the writing and allows it to take on a more literary form as she writes about her own sensory impressions and feelings. The term rhythmanalysis is employed as a way of assessing, exploring, interpreting and understanding the world that embraces the embodied experience. Human beings are embodied beings, a claim we can make by referring to our own experiences as well as how we perceive, communicate and interact. The study delves into two aspects of rhythmanalysis, first as a way of describing the knowledge process as rhythm-analytical, which implies that bodily experiences are equally important as intellectual ones, and secondly as a way of talking about the city as polyrhythmic. It follows upon the latter that embodied rhythmanalysis of the city is possible. The rhythmanalysis may ultimately be seen as a project aimed at overthrowing the Cartesian dualism between body and mind. That we are embodied has a methodological consequence that is as simple as it is essential: the scholar exists in the world she studies. The researcher is not a neutral observer. She is a co-creator. She is a body, placed in time, space and history. She is situated, which means that her knowledge is also situated. Thus, the rhythmanalysis encompasses the body, the senses and feelings, and can be described with one key word: movement. It finds support in theories that acknowledge the fluid, the becoming, the situated, the performative, the relational, the dynamic, the material. It seeks methods that experiment, that focus on practices rather than discourses, that are preoccupied with a movable world rather than a static one.
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(6622946), Bianca Batti. "Worldbuilding in Feminist Game Studies: Toward a Methodology of Disruption." Thesis, 2019.
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This project engages in an intersectional and interdisciplinary tracing of the emerging field of feminist game studies and the epistemologies and methodologies that exist within this field. Through such tracing, this project asks—what are feminist game studies’ epistemological goals and frameworks? What methodologies can the field draw from in order to achieve these epistemological goals? Ultimately, this project argues that feminist game studies enacts an epistemology of feminist worldbuilding—that is, an inclusive, embodied, space-claiming mode of producing knowledge—and achieves this worldbuilding through methodologies of intersectional disruption in order to perform disruptive feminist interventions into video game culture.
In the first chapter of this project, I make use of a methodology of narrative autoethnography to discuss my experience with online harassment as an inroad into interrogating the bodies at risk in gaming spaces in order to make a case for the need for feminist interventions to disrupt the violent structures within video game culture. The second chapter traces the ways hegemonic, patriarchal frameworks in game studies epistemologically deprivilege material, representational analyses of bodies and culture in the study of games and, instead, argues for the implementation of intersectional approaches to video game culture. The third chapter maps the intersectional feminist methodologies that can be implemented in feminist game studies in order to perform generative and disruptive interventions into video game culture and build feminist worlds.
In the fourth chapter, I apply some of these methodologies of disruption to the alienation of mothers in the gaming industry’s workplace culture and representations of mothers in the games Among the Sleep and Horizon Zero Dawn in order to intervene into video game culture’s prejudicial attitudes regarding labor, mothers, and women. The final chapter continues my autoethnographic work through the connection of my experiences with online harassment to previous experiences with gendered violence and trauma in order to underscore the stakes of feminist game studies praxis. In all these ways, I argue that feminist game studies builds worlds by performing interventions into video game culture through intersectional and pluralistic methodologies of disruption, for such methodologies imagine new, inclusive models of existence and futurity in video game culture.