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Cunningham, Stephanie J. "An Investigation of the Relationship between Feminist Traits and Personal Empowerment for Young Women." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1345938471.
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Lindburg, Emily R. "Feminist Stereotypes: Communal vs. Agentic." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/398.
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This study examined relationships between facial appearance, gender-linked traits, and feminist stereotypes. Naïve college students rated traits based on facial appearance of female CEO's whose companies appeared in the Forbes 1000 list. The photos of each female CEO (n=35) were randomly combined with two descriptive identifiers; an occupation (n=9) and an interest area (n=9), including 'feminist'. Participants then rated the head shots of the CEO's on a 7 point Likert scale of communal (expected feminine) traits like attractiveness, warmth, compassion and cooperativeness, and on agentic (expected masculine) traits like ambition, leadership ability and intelligence. If college students hold negative stereotypes of feminists, feminist identified women are expected to be rated lower on levels of attractiveness, warmth, compassion and cooperativeness, but higher in leadership ability, ambition, and intelligence. Results demonstrated that participants did not hold negative stereotypes of feminists as they rated them similarly to environmentalists, progressives, and liberals. Results demonstrated that participants held negative stereotypes about conservatives and republicans.
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Yusof, Rohana. "Socio-cultural traits and entrepreneurship among Malay rural businesswomen in Malaysia : an analysis through a feminist perspective." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442718.
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Fish, Tamara Lynn. "Feminist traces : women and feminism in college composition and communication, 1963-1992 /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Thompson, Kenny, Loyd Lee Glenn, and Daren Vertein. "Comparison of Masculine and Feminine Traits in a National Sample of Male and Female Nursing Students." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7518.
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The stereotype that male nurses are less masculine has existed for generations and spans all age groups. Several studies have investigated masculinity and femininity in nurses using the Bem Sex-Role Inventory, but the results are conflicting and inconclusive. Therefore, a nationwide survey was conducted across the United States that examined the sex-role identity of individuals who chose nursing as a career path. Twenty-eight males and 81 females from 37 states completed the survey. The males and females in the study both had higher mean scores on masculinity and femininity scales when compared with previous studies. The greatest percentage of participants were classified as androgynous, as opposed to masculine, feminine, or undifferentiated, with half of the males and nearly half of the females falling into this category. © The Author(s) 2011.
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RODRIGUES, CARLA. "TRACES OF THE FEMININE: ETHICS AND POLITICS IN JACQUES DERRIDA." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=17394@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROEste trabalho se propõe a refletir sobre a maneira como o filósofo Jacques Derrida pensa o feminino e faz articulações entre o pensamento do feminino e a maneira como ele pensa a ética e a política. Estão em debate temas caros ao pensamento da desconstrução, como o questionamento da metafísica da presença e sua respectiva garantia de sentido; a suspensão, entre aspas, de todos os conceitos filosóficos, o tratamento do sexual, do identitário e do ontológico e suas relações com o tema da diferença; além das proposições do feminino como estrutura radical de acolhimento. Através de tais tematizações, o autor recoloca em novos termos tanto a ética, renomeada de hospitalidade incondicional, quanto a política, que passa a ser chamada de responsabilidade infinita.
This work intends to reflect on how the philosopher Jacques Derrida thinks the feminine and makes links between the thoughts of the feminine and the way he thinks ethics and politics. Are in discussion topics important to deconstruction, as the questioning of the metaphysics of presence; the suspension in quotation marks, of all philosophical concepts, the treatment of sexual, the identity and ontological and its relationship to the theme of difference, beyond the propositions of the feminine as otherness. Through such discussions, the author brings back in terms of both new ethics, renamed unconditional hospitality, as the policy, which shall be called the infinite responsibility.
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Farias, Filho José Gomes de. "LIDERANÇA FEMININA NA ADMINISTRAÇÃO PÚBLICA: ESTUDO DE CASO NA UEPB." Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, 2007. http://tede.bc.uepb.edu.br/tede/jspui/handle/tede/2084.
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Previous issue date: 2007-11-30The current globalized reality requires that private or public organizations have leadership as influence process so that leaders can use their actions to develop a team with the same interests and shared goals. Regarding this trend, the present research aims to investigate the role of female leadership at Universidade Estadual da Paraíba UEPB, Campus I in Campina Grande, PB besides analyzing its sociodemographic profile, identifying its personality traits and characteristics, as well as detecting the leadership styles exerted by the women sho have management positions. To conduct this study, it was necessary to use personality traits and characteristics that, according to Maximiano (2004), correspond to impulse and achievement motivation, power motivation, selconfidenc, honesty, integrity and openness. As for the leadership styles, the research used Dubrin s view (1998) which relates to autocratica and participating style, and entire freedom, and Jesuino s (2001) which adds the caring and visionary styles. A questionnaire was used to collect data. It consisted of 45 closed questions and an open one for suggestions. The methodology applied into the study was based on descriptive and exploratory surveys with quantitative approach. According to the subjects surveyed, the results showed that the female managers at the Universidade Estadual da Paraíba tend to develop perception, selfconfidence and participating leaderschip style. Indeed, these managers are expected to ponder and enhance the of leading.
Na atual conjuntura globalizada as organizações Pública ou Privada , precisam da liderança como um processo de influência pelo qual os líderes com suas ações facilitam o movimento de uma equipe de pessoas rumo a metas comuns ou compartilhadas. Neste contexto a presente pesquisa tem como objetivo geral averiguar a atuação da liderança feminina na Universidade Estadual da Paraíba Campus I Campina Grande PB, e como objetivos específicos traçar o perfil sociodemográfico, identificar as caracteristicas e os traços da personalidade e conhecer quais são os estilos de liderança exercidos pelas mulheres que ocupam cargos de chefia. Utilizou-se para direcionar tal estudo, as características e traços da personalidade que segundo Maximiano (2004) correspondem a: Impulso e motivação de realização ; Motivação de poder"; Autoconfiança ; e Honestidade, integridade e abertura ; e quanto aos estilos de liderança, optou-se por Dubrin (1998), que destaca: Estilo autocrático ; Participativo ; Liberdade total ; e por (Jesuíno 2001), que acrescenta: os estilos Carismático e Visionário . Para coleta de dados o instrumento adotado foi um questionário, elaborado com 45 perguntas fechadas e uma aberta para sugestões. Quanto à metodologia a mesma foi baseada em pesquisas do tipo descritiva e exploratória com abordagem quantitativa. Os resultados mostram que na Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, conforme o universo pesquisado as mulheres gestoras têm tendência de percepção, autoconfiança e estilo liderança participativo. Espera-se que as gestoras reflitam e melhorem cada vez mais a arte de liderar.
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Panichelli, Meg Rose. "The Intersections of Good Intentions, Criminality, and Anti-Carceral Feminist Logic: a Qualitative Study that Explores Sex Trades Content in Social Work Education." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4512.
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This study uses anti-carceral feminist logic to explore the cultural meanings, criminal implications, and neoliberal influence that shape the landscape of social work education about the sex trades in the United States and transnationally. "What are social work instructors teaching students about the sex trades in coursework?" is the question that directs the study, which uses a feminist qualitative methodology inclusive of intersectional feminist epistemology as well as direct content analysis. To answer this question, I analyzed 20 social work course syllabi from sex trade related courses across the contiguous United States and interviewed 20 social work instructors from 14 different states.
Study findings show that course content represents people in the sex trades primarily as victimized cisgender women and girls with a significant focus on sex trafficking, especially within the Global South. While there is some course content that portrays sex trade workers as having complex and autonomous experiences, this material is limited to courses that have "sex" or "sexuality" in the title (i.e. "sex trafficking" or "sexuality and social work" courses). Furthermore, course content that represents the intersectional experiences and impact of systemic violence encountered by trans women of color and LGBTQ+ people is underrepresented in the sample--confined to two course syllabi and visibly absent from remaining syllabi. The sample indicates the prevalence of carceral approaches to the sex trades with an unexamined and racially-biased emphasis upon rescue and/or incarceration. This project provides significant implications for social work education about the necessity of an anti-carceral feminist, intersectional, and consequently, an anti-oppressive approach to teaching about the sex trades.
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Odenmo, Emma. "Empowerment of the Oppressed in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing and Louise Erdrich’s Tracks : A Comparative Study of Feminism and Postcolonialism." Thesis, Mid Sweden University, Department of Humanities, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-11221.
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A comparative essay to show links between empowerment in feminism and postcolonialism by comparing the development of the protagonist in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing to the development of Pauline in Louise Erdrich's Tracks.
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Doré, Pascale. "Les traces d'un trauma ou le feminin insoutenable dans l'ecriture de marguerite yourcenar." Paris 7, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA070038.
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Le travail propose une lecture analytique, d'inspiration freudienne, des ecrits de marguerite yourcenar, en prenant pour axe principal la notion de feminin, et en visant conjointement a demeler quelques-uns des ressorts inconscients qui ont preside a l'ecriture. La premiere partie s'articule autour du deni dont la mere est l'objet : representation de la mere et de la mort maternelle survenue a la naissance de l'enfant, liens avec le glacage des affects, deplacement sur la figure animale, mise a jour d'une structure fantasmatique recurrente. La seconde partie est consacree a la representation clivee du feminin. Elle met en evidence une topologie singuliere propre aux figures feminines, celle d'un espace de l'entre-deux morts ou le sado-masochisme et l'abject voisinent avec le sublime en temoignant d'un deuil maternel non accompli. La troisieme partie interroge la fonction structurante de l'ecriture, ses conditions operantes, comme ses limites. Elle s'attache a suivre la recherche d'une enonciation ideale, quete d'un modele masculin, accroche symbolique qui permet une identification imaginaire et en meme temps une nomination de l'insoutenable. Elle en degage les paradoxes, analyse l'enjeu attache au respect de la loi symbolique et surprend les sourds echos de sa remise en cause, trace de l'abime melancoliqueThis study, based upon marguerite yourcenar's writings, is a psychoanalytic reading, in a freudian way, focused on the notion of the feminine and on the unconscious factors which presided over the writing. The first part points out the denial abouth the mother who died at the child's birth. The mother's and mother's death's representations, the link with the affects' "freezing", the displacement on the animal figure, the presence of a recurrent phantasmatic structure are described. The second part deals with the splitting of the feminine's representation. It points out a specific topology related to feminine figures, a "between-two-deaths' space", where the sado-masochism and the abject cohabit with the sublime, giving evidence to a non-achieved mother's mourning. The third part questions the structuring function of the writing, its operating conditions and its limits. The search of an ideal enunciation is analysed as the quest of a masculine model, whose works as a symbolic grip which gives access to an imaginary identification and a nomination of the unbearable. The paradox of this quest are pointed out, especially the meaning of the attention given to the respect of the symbolic law and the tenuous echos of its questioning, traces of the melancholic abyss
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Si, Mohamed Ali. "Dynamique de la replication du virus de l'immunodeficience humaine et selection de variants resistants aux molecules antiretrovirales dans le tractus genital feminin (doctorat : microbiologie)." Paris 11, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA114827.
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Boinet, Pauline. "Adolescence scarifiée : traces et mouvements symboliques d'un groupe à médiation écriture." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSE2004.
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La spécificité de l’adolescence est la venue au premier plan de la génitalité. Cela entraîne à la fois une métamorphose du corps et un remaniement psychique. À l’adolescence, le corps est aussi un lieu de contradiction que tantôt il attaque, tantôt il embellit dans un érotisme effréné. En effet, la contradiction peut se traduire sous forme symptomatique et manifester l’encombrement que l’adolescent ressent devant son corps qui lui échappe. Il ne sait pas repérer ce qu’il ressent, il ne sait pas le nommer et même il ne sait pas qu’il ne sait pas. Parfois le rapport qu’il entretient avec son corps est suffisamment paradoxal pour qu’il ne puisse pas se l’approprier. C’est cette étrangeté qui va provoquer un clivage chez l’adolescent. Les deux perspectives qui émanent de ces positions sont assez différentes quant à l’avenir du sujet. Ce travail s’inscrit dans la continuité de divers travaux de recherche sur la problématique adolescente. Il vient rendre compte de la mise en place dans un service de Pédiatrie générale d’un groupe thérapeutique à médiation écriture avec des adolescentes qui se scarifient. C’est en considérant ces scarifications comme un langage du corps au coeur de la problématique adolescente et pubertaire, et au regard des difficultés que ces adolescentes ont à mettre des mots sur l’indicible de leur douleur, que le groupe a été créé. La mise en place de celui-ci correspond plus globalement à une réflexion sur le processus d’adolescence, de subjectivation, et le rapport au corps, notamment à travers le travail de symbolisation à l’adolescence. Nous interrogeons également à l’endroit de notre réflexion, la médiation écriture en tant que dépôt d’une trace sur un support, qui au même titre que la rencontre de la lame sur la peau, viendrait comme une butée (Le Breton, 2002) ; la rencontre avec la feuille par analogie au corps viendrait recréer et offrir un contenant à la souffrance psychique. Le groupe quant à lui pourrait être vécu comme espace transitionnel au sens où l'entend Winnicott, au fondement de l’expérience créatrice et rassurante pour l’adolescente. Le corps aurait alors une fonction semblable dans ce qu'il incarnerait une frontière entre un dedans et un dehors. Une des fonctions de la pratique scarificatoire serait alors de restaurer les limites du Soi dans une lutte contre un possible effondrementThe specificity of adolescence is the coming to the fore of genitality. This involves both a metamorphosis of the body and a psychic reworking. The body is also a place of contradiction that sometimes attacks, sometimes it embellishes in a frenzied eroticism. Indeed, the contradiction can be translated in symptomatic form and manifest the clutter that the adolescent feels in front of his body that escapes him. He does not know how to identify what he feels, he does not know how to name it and he does not even know he does not know. Sometimes the relationship he has with his body is sufficiently paradoxical that he can't appropriate it. It is this strangeness that will cause a cleavage in the adolescent. The two perspectives that emanate from these positions are quite different as to the future of the subject. This work is a continuation of various research works on the adolescent problem. He reports on the establishment of a therapeutic group in writing in a Pediatric General Service, writing with teenagers who are scarifying themselves. It is by considering these scarifications as a body language at the heart of the adolescent and pubertal problem, and in view of the difficulties that these teenagers have to put words on the indescribable of their pain, that the group was created. The setting up of this one corresponds more generally to a reflection on the process of adolescence, of subjectivation, and the relation with the body, in particular through the work of symbolization in adolescence. We also question the place of our reflection, the mediation writing as a deposit of a trace on a support, which as well as the meeting of the blade on the skin, would come as a stop (Le Breton, 2002); the encounter with the sheet by analogy with the body would come to recreate and offer a container for psychic suffering. The group could be seen as a transitional space in Winnicott's sense, at the root of the creative and reassuring experience for the teenager. The body would then have a similar function in what it would incarnate a border between an inside and an outside. One of the functions of the scarificatory practice would then be to restore the limits of the Self in a fight against a possible collapse
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Kusi-Mensah, Rita. "A Gendered Analysis of Formal Vocational Education, Skills Development, and Self-employment in Accra, Ghana: Exploring enterprise development and outcomes of women’s self-employment in the feminized trades." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17344.
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This research is an exploration of the extent to which formal vocational education in the domestic trades (catering and dressmaking) for women in Ghana leads to sustainable self-employment in the urban informal sector (UIS) in Accra.
The research adopts a qualitative methodological approach using interpretive analysis to gain an in-depth understanding of the primary data collected. A case study approach is adopted to articulate emerging themes in a manner that is comprehensive and intelligible.
Two conceptual frameworks are employed: firstly, the research builds on the work of McCauley et al (1995), to ascertain the developmental dimensions of VE catering job roles that provide graduates with the capabilities and opportunities needed for sustainable self-employment. Secondly, the concept of Gender Role Socialization is drawn on to ascertain the gender-specific factors that influence women’s engagement in VE and constrain women’s MSE growth.
The research identified three key factors which affect VE graduates gaining employment and prospects for sustainable self-employment. They are: 1) The VE programme pursued and the presence or absence of a transformative environment of skill utilization. 2) The attainment of post-graduation specialist training or advanced certification which provide VE graduates with enhanced prospects for employment. 3) Post-graduation quality workplace development experience (QWDE). Gender-specific factors include traditional Ghanaian expectations of “womanhood”, and the streaming of women towards occupational paths that maintain their gendered role obligations within the household and family. These include ‘domestic provisioning’; male prerogative as principal decision-maker in the household; weak inheritance rights and access to property.
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Albran, Abraham Youbi. "Les conisations : étude rétrospective de 247 cas traités à l'hôpital St André entre 1990 et 1996." Bordeaux 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000BOR2M022.
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MORA, GRISALES OFIR MARYURI. "RASTROS DE EROS: INTUIÇÕES SOBRE UMA ER/ÉTICA POSSÍVEL." Universidade Metodista de Sao Paulo, 2016. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/1610.
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Eros is a vital and dynamic energy very difficult to define and frame. Thus I decided to grasp with it through the fragments and tracks I could glimpse within the impetus and beauty of its journey in the lives of people and through human relationships. My interest in eroticism was triggered by some initial concrete suspicions regarding its peripheral, almost absent location in theological discourses, the erotization of violence and domination as a common phenomenon in Latin America, the racialization of the eroticism and finally an excessive sexualization of eroticism in Western culture. I aimed at a reconstruction of eroticism from an ethical and transformative perspective. Deconstruction and interruption were used as feminist and subaltern strategies of searching for other meanings, other practices and even another language. This led my way through a destabilizing dynamic of the hegemonic thinking that underpinned eroticism in theory and practice. Feminist critical theologies, as well as liberation and indecent theologies, walked together along this erratic route that ended up transcending the theoretical framework of theological discourses. Thus I proposed that er/ethics shall be a plausible expression for an open and new space of meaning and negotiation of eroticism which can only be discovered in its transgressive potential in that it is able to discover and keep alive the flow of energy that moves us in the depths of our bodily experience, individually and collectively and beyond domination, beyond the way in which time is experienced in our capitalist and postcolonial world. The fragmented character of the word make the borders fluid, destabilizing disciplinary boundaries, and at the same time, it creates the conditions of its relatedness.
Eros é uma força vital, um fluir de energia difícil de definir e emoldurar. Optei assim, por percebê-la a partir dos fragmentos, dos rastros que consegui vislumbrar no ímpeto e beleza do seu percurso nas vidas e nas relações humanas. O meu interesse pelo erótico decorreu inicialmente de algumas suspeitas concretas: o lugar periférico, quase ausente do erótico na teologia, a erotização da violência e da dominação como prática recorrente na América Latina, a racialização do erótico e finalmente uma excessiva sexualização do erotismo na cultura ocidental. Visei, pois, reconstruir o erótico desde uma perspectiva ética e transformadora. Para tanto, o caminho foi a desconstrução e a interrupção enquanto estratégias feministas e subalternas de busca por outros significados, outras práticas e inclusive outra linguagem. Tal caminho me endereçou num processo de desestabilização da compreensão hegemônica que informava teológica e simbolicamente teorias e práticas do erotismo. Teologias críticas feministas, de libertação e indecentes, caminharam junto nesse percurso errático que inevitavelmente excedeu os limites do discurso teológico. Finalmente então, propus que a er/ética seja a expressão para um novo e aberto espaço de significação e negociação do erótico, o qual só pode ser compreendido no seu potencial transgressor, na medida em que é capaz de descobrir e manter vivo o fluxo de energia que nos move, no profundo da nossa experiência corpórea, individual e coletiva e para além da dominação e da utilidade do tempo e mundo capitalista e colonial. A fragmentação da palavra coloca as fronteiras em aberto, desestabiliza os limites disciplinares, ao mesmo tempo em que cria as condições para sua relação.
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Newby, Alison Michelle. "'Women's sphere' and religious activity in America, 1800-1860 : dynamic negotiation of reality and meaning in a time of cultural distortion." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1992. http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:230201.
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The thesis uses the case study of the experience of middle-class northern white women in America during the period 1800-1860 to explore several issues of wider significance. Firstly, the research focuses upon the dynamic relationships between the culturally-constructed categories of public/formal and private/informal power and participation at both the practical and symbolic levels, suggesting ways in which they intersected on the lives of women. Secondly, consideration is given to the validity of the stereotyped view that 'domestic' women were necessarily disadvantaged and dominated relative to those who aspired to public political and economic roles. Thirdly, the relationship of religious belief to these two areas is discussed, in order to discover its relevance to the way in which women both perceived themselves and were perceived by others. In seeking to explore these issues, the research has analysed the patterns of social and cultural change in the era under question, indicating how those changes influenced the perceptions and experiences of both women and men. Their reactions in terms of discourse and activity are located as strategies of negotiation in redefining both social role and participation for the sexes. The rhetoric of 'separate spheres', which was used by men and women to order their mental and physical surroundings, is reduced to its symbolic constituents in order to illustrate that the distinction between male and female arenas was more perceptual than actual. The motivating forces behind the activities and ideas of women themselves are investigated to determine the role of religion in the construction of both female self-images and wider negotiational strategies. The context of nineteenth-century social dynamics has been revealed by detailed analysis of extensive primary sources originated by both women and men for private as well as public consumption. Feminist tools of analysis which enable the conceptualisation of 'meaningful discourse' as including female contributions have further enhanced the specific focus on how women constructed their own world-views and approaches to reality. 'Traditional' approaches and tools are shown to have seriously skewed and misrepresented the reality and variety of both discourse and female experience in the era. Great efforts have been made to allow women to speak in their own words. This has produced an insight into a richness of female social participation and discourse which would otherwise be obscured. The research indicates that women were indeed actors and negotiators during the period. Those women who advocated as primary the duties of women in the domestic and social arenas were by no means setting narrow limitations on female participation in both society and discourse. The religious impulses and eschatological frameworks derived by women (varied as they were) served to order and renegotiate reality and meaning, whilst they produced female roles and influence of great significance. Women were not passive victims of male oppression. Religion can thus be perceived as a positive force which women were able to approach both for its own sake, and for their own particular ends.
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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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Seger-Jacob, Liliana. "Stress e ansiedade em casais submetidos à reprodução assistida." Universidade de São Paulo, 2001. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/47/47134/tde-11102001-141733/.
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Este trabalhou avaliou o stress e a ansiedade em 30 casais, que se submeteram à reprodução assistida no momento anterior à coleta dos óvulos e/ou espermatozóides, tendo um tempo de infertilidade que variou de 1 a 17 anos. Para avaliação da ansiedade foi aplicado o STAI-STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY (STAI) e o Stress foi avaliado através do SCOPE-STRESS. No STAI foi acrescentada uma escala visual analógica para medir também a intensidade da ansiedade. A Ficha de Identificação avaliou questões como: idade, sexo, nacionalidade, profissão, ocupação, religião, grau de instrução, renda mensal, estado civil, tempo de casado e questões como: tempo de infertilidade, filhos naturais ou adotivos, profissionais implicados no tratamento, a existência de tentativas anteriores e os momentos de maior tensão emocional nas tentativas anteriores e a atual. Dentre os 36 sujeitos que já haviam feito tentativas anteriores de Reprodução Assistida, um dos três momentos de maior tensão emocional foi o de aguardar a gravidez. Dentre os 60 sujeitos, ou seja, todos os que estão na tentativa atual, aguardar a gravidez foi também um dos três momentos que geraram maior tensão. O diagnóstico de infertilidade foi misto em 33,3% dos casais, apenas feminino em 20% e apenas masculino em 46,7% dos casais. As mulheres apresentaram grau de ansiedade significantemente maior que os homens quanto às escalas Stai-Trait freqüência e intensidade e semelhantes quanto às escalas Stai-State freqüência e intensidade. Não houve diferença significante entre os escores médios dos homens e mulheres quanto às medidas descritivas do Scope-Stress.This work evaluated stress and anxiety in 30 couples submitted to assisted reproduction, with an infertility period that ranged from 1 to 17 years, the moment just before the oocyte retrieval and/or semen sample. For anxiety evaluation the Stai-State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) was applied, and stress was evaluated using the Scope-Stress. While applying STAI, a visual analogic scale was added to measure the intensity of anxiety. The identification form included information such as: age, gender, nationality, profession, occupation, religion, school level, monthly income, marital status, married time and issues such as: infertility period, existence of natural or adoptive children, professionals involved in infertility treatment, existence of previous attempts and the moments of major emotional stress during the previous attempts and during the present one. Among the 36 subjects submitted to previous attempts of Assisted Reproduction, one of the three moments of major emotional stress was the attendance of pregnancy confirmation. Among the all 60 subjects submitted to the present attempt, attendance of pregnancy confirmation also was one of the three moments of major emotional stress. Infertility diagnosis was mixed in 33,3% of the couples, exclusively feminine in 20% and exclusively masculine in 46,7% of the couples. Women presented a significantly higher anxiety degree than men, regarding the STAI-TRAIT scales of frequency and intensity and similar regarding the STAI-STATE scales of frequency and intensity. There was no significant difference between the mean scores of men and women regarding descriptive measures of the SCOPE-STRESS.
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Yello, Nicole. "A contact analysis of Caldecott medal and honor books from 2001-2011 examining gender issues and equity in 21st century children's picture books." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/645.
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An abundance of research has been conducted about the importance of including books and literature as part of a young child's developmental process. Much of this research suggests that picture books are vital to a young child's healthy development and "are important influences that shape us by reflecting the politics and values of our society" (Fox, 1993, p. 656). This study was completed to analyze character roles and gender representation of male and female characters exclusively in children's picture books. The entire population of Caldecott Award and Honor Medal books published between 2001 and 2011 was utilized for a frequency analysis. Each Caldecott Award and Honor Medal book meeting this study's criteria was examined, read and analyzed. Books included only works of fiction and were delimited to exclude biographies, autobiographies, informational books, concept books and poetry. A total of 24 books were used in the data analysis. This research attempted to answer the following question: Are males and females equitably represented in recently published children's literature? From a content-analysis approach, within a historical perspective, this research aimed at examining if gender bias still dominates the literature, and if so, to what extent. The intellectual interest of this project is in discovering male and female presence and imagery in children's picture books.B.S.
Bachelors
Education and Human Performance
Elementary Education
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Parris, Sandra A. "Encouragement, Enticement, and/or Deterrent: A Case Study Exploring Female Experience in a Vocational Education (VET) Initiative in Northern England." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26295.
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This case study examined how a group of young girls at a secondary school in northern England made sense of their participation in a gender specific vocational education initiative designed to encourage female interest in skilled trade education and professions. The investigation consists of a qualitative case study that included ‘practical’ and historical components. On the practical side, the study looked at a gender specific initiative (girls only) aimed at Year 9 students (12-14 years old) at Garden Road Community and Technology School. The one-day sessions were held at local area colleges or vocational education and training (VET) training facilities and covered skilled trade fields that are traditionally male-dominated (e.g. automotive, construction and engineering). My methodology for the study consisted of two data sources, interviews and a review of public VET policy-related documents. The data was gathered using two methods, with individual and group interviews as the primary one, and public VET policy-related document analysis as the secondary one. In total, 13 current, 2 former and an additional 2 formerly registered (now graduates who decided to pursue non-traditional vocational education and professions) students at the school were interviewed. Beside former and current students, interviews were conducted with 2 instructors and 1 senior administrator at the school. The selection of government policy-related documents covered 2002 to 2011.
The study is framed by a feminist informed genealogy that invokes Foucault’s (1990) notion of ‘biopower’ and Pillow’s (2003) notion of the ‘gendered body.’ Meanwhile, Ted Aoki’s (2003) concepts of curriculum-as-plan and curricula-as-lived are used to analyze and discuss the review of UK government policy-related documents and participant narratives. The theme-based presentation of student narratives centred on the girls’ understanding and experience of: the session process and content; gender; non-traditional VET as educational and occupational options; and the impact of the sessions on their educational and professional choices.
The student narratives suggest several things that relate to their understanding of gender and non-traditional VET. First, the sessions proved to be both interesting and informative and students expressed an interest in taking part in more (and) varied gender-specific sessions. Second, traditional constructions of gender and gendered behavior are commonly used in job-related discourse as evidenced by the use of the terms ‘boys jobs’ and ‘girls jobs’ among the students. In addition, students had limited opportunities for exposure to non-traditional VET education and professions; and what knowledge they do have is generally dependent upon family knowledge and experience in the area. From a document review standpoint, the findings show that government commitment in terms of interest and financial backing for VET has been inconsistent. Resultantly, schools are left to identify and maintain a range of community-based partnerships that may not always see gender segregation in VET as a major concern.
The significance of this study rests in the presentation of the girls’ ‘lived curriculum’ and ‘gendered’ experiences as points that can offer insight into what transpires within vocational education initiatives and settings. Furthermore, from a feminist perspective the research also highlights the continued need to work with schools on how gender is presented, discussed and understood among students. Failure to consider the gendered nature of discourse about education and professional options that takes place within school and class settings limits students’ perspectives about what is available and possible.
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You, Chia-Sheng, and 游家盛. "Attitudes toward Non-traditional Masculine/Feminine Traits and Homosexuality among Junior High School Students." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78431364857980654331.
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課程設計與潛能開發學系
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The purpose of this study is to investigate junior high school students’ attitudes toward non-traditional masculine/feminine traits and homosexuality. The sample consists of 813 (398 males and 415 females) junior high school students. Four research instruments used in this study are: Attitudes toward Feminine Males (AFM), Attitudes toward Masculine Females (AMF), Attitudes toward Gay Peers (AGP), and Attitudes toward Lesbian Peers (ALP). Results are indicated as follows: 1.Students with different backgrounds report significant attitudes in AFM, AMF and AGP. Female students are more friendly than males, 9th graders are more friendly than 8th graders ,and students who have gay and lesbian friends have more positive attitudes than those who don’t have gay and lesbian friends. 2.Students with different backgrounds express significantly different scores in ALP. Female students are more friendly than males, and students who have gay and lesbian friends have more positive attitudes than do their courterparts. 3.There is a moderate positive correlation between AFM and AGP. 4.There is a low positive correlation between AMF and ALP. 5.The partial mediation of AFM is significant between students’ backgrounds and AGP. 6.The partial mediation of AMF is significant between students’ backgrounds and ALP. Finally, suggestions for education administrators, junior high school teachers, and students are presented.
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Chen, Mei-Ying, and 陳美瑩. "Snow White’s Subjectivity in Mirror Mirror: The Representations of Feminine Traits in Three Different Versions of Snow White." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4pzquq.
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英國語文學系
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This thesis aims to examine Snow White’s development of subjectivity in her re lationship with her stepmother, the Seven Dwarfs and the Prince throughout Gri mm Brothers’ Little Snow White, Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Tarsem Singh’s Mirror Mirror. Using Claude Levi-Strauss’ structural theory of binary opposition and Rebecca Walker’s theory of subjectivity, this thesis proves that Snow White’s subjectivity and power relations with her stepmother and the male characters in Singh’s film become more flexible and balanced than in Grimms’ and Disney’s versions. The thesis is divided into five chapters. Chapter One introduces the motivatio n, literature reviews, methodology, and research questions. Chapter Two discus ses how Snow White in the Grimms’ fairy tale fits with the German bourgeois id ea of femininity and discloses how the stepmother and the male characters domi nate Snow White’s behavior and subjectivity. Chapter Three explores how Snow W hite in Disney’s adaptation complies with the female images in the American De pression era and proves that Snow White is limited by her stepmother’s power a nd the male characters’ discourses. Chapter Four examines how Snow White in Si ngh’s film breaks the binary oppositions, fits with female characteristics in the twenty-first century, and achieves equal relations with her stepmother and the male characters. Snow White in the end of Singh’s film, accepting the men’ s help, cannot be recognized as a weak woman, but a respectable woman, who als o receives men’s appreciation and respect. Thus, Mirror Mirror is a film to pr omote the idea of equality and give women confidence to believe in themselves and present their ideas to others for forming a harmonious society.
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Walker, Melissa. "On Their Own: The Single Woman, Feminism, and Self-Help in British Women's Print Culture (1850-1900)." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10214/3581.
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Cultural and historical accounts of self-help literature typically describe its development and focus in terms of the autonomous, public male subject of the nineteenth century. This literary study recognizes that as masculine self-help discourse became widely accessible in the mid nineteenth century, mid-Victorian feminist novels, periodicals, and tracts developed versions of self-help that disrupted the dominant cultural view that the single female was helpless and “redundant” if she did not become a wife and mother. I argue that the dual focus of Victorian self-help discourse on the ability to help oneself and others was attractive for Victorian feminist writers who needed to manipulate the terms of the domestic ideal of woman as influential helpmeet, if women’s independence and civic duty were to be made culturally palatable.
Chapter One focuses on how Dinah Mulock Craik drew on self-help values popularized in mid-century articles and collective biographies by Samuel Smiles, while rejecting the genre of biography for its invasiveness into female lives. By imagining a deformed single artist heroine in the context of her 1851 bildungsroman, Olive, Craik highlighted and contested the objectification of women within Victorian culture while reproducing other forms of female difference based on dominant constructions of class, sexuality, and race. Chapter Two extends formal and thematic considerations of self-help discourse to a comparison of masculine colonial accounts of class-climbing and the projection of a self-reliant, yet deeply unstable, domestic female by Maria Rye and the Female Middle-Class Emigration Society. Chapter Three exerts critical pressure on the tension between individual and mutual help by charting the debate that raged between liberal individualism and collectivism in the labour movement, particularly in The Women’s Union Journal. Returning to a focus on the binary of female aberrance and normalcy within Victorian culture, Chapter Four analyzes late-century case studies of nervous illnesses alongside Ella Hepworth Dixon’s 1894 New Woman novel that promoted self-help for women as desirable yet unattainable in a society still largely structured around the domestic ideal. At its broadest, this dissertation explores points of convergence and departure between Victorian masculine and feminine self-help texts, and touches on reverberations of this Victorian discourse in today’s self-help works directed at women in Western culture.
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Conway, Judith (Jude). "The Newcastle women’s movement in the 1970s and 1980s through the lens of Josephine Conway’s activism and archives." Thesis, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1430745.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)From the late 1960s, women in the Australian industrial city of Newcastle, New South Wales (NSW), joined women around the world in agitating for a broader role in all areas of society and Josephine Conway was one of those women. Josephine raised awareness of, and campaigned on, many of the feminist causes of the 1970s and 1980s. She was passionate about women’s healthcare, protested against women’s objectification in the media, and lobbied for legislation that offered legal parity for women. She fought never-ending battles for the right to legal and affordable pregnancy terminations; and campaigned for equal employment opportunities and the provision of childcare services. Josephine supported women’s activism in the peace movement and for women’s ordination; and was involved in the blossoming of feminist spirituality and creativity in Newcastle. Using Josephine’s extensive archives as a lens, supplemented with oral histories from campaign allies, the thesis explores their pathways to feminism and shared activism. It dissects the women’s groups which Josephine joined, and the modes of operation and relationships within them, as well as the actions that were carried out in pursuing their feminist causes. The themes that emerge are, first that Josephine’s role in the women’s movement was that of the ‘committed individual’ posited by Gerda Lerner as necessary for social change. Second, the thesis demonstrates the wide range and value of the macro and micro-actions undertaken by Josephine and her cohorts in mounting and maintaining effective campaigns. Third, this study reveals the web of relationships and the flow of ideas, tactics and artefacts along transnational and national feminist pathways, and between the capital cities and the regions, which were essential for bringing about nationwide change. In doing so it reveals an important regional story which has not previously been included in histories of the Australian women’s movement.