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Trumpy, Alexa Jane. "Fighting for Life: Pro-Woman Framing in the Pro-life Movement." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306280819.
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Habsari, Sri Kusumo, and habs0001@flinders edu au/kusumohabsari@yahoo com. "Gender and Cultural Transition in the Sinetron, Misteri Gunung Merapi." Flinders University. Women's Studies, 2008. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20090202.191832.
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This thesis offers a feminist cultural analysis of the popular Indonesian television serial (sinetron) Misteri Gunung Merapi (Mysteries of Mount Merapi). It investigates the television text in relation to its various contexts within the social and cultural transformations of contemporary Indonesia. Misteri Gunung Merapi has been produced since 1998, shortly after the financial crisis and the fall of the New Order regime. Since it was first broadcast by the Indosiar television station, it has ranked among the top-rating television programs in Indonesia, and I am interested in its success in this era of social transformation. The purpose of my study is to examine the significance of this success, including exploring the possibility that it is due to the serials engagement with recent issues in contemporary Indonesian culture, in particular the changing roles of women.
The discussion falls into three main parts: a consideration of the contexts of socio-cultural change and the globalisation of the television industry within which the sinetron is produced; an examination of the way the sinetron draws on traditional theatrical performance, popular memory and supernatural belief; and a study of its representation of women and gender issues within the action-adventure genre to which it belongs.
In the context of the television industry, this sinetrons production signals the changing character of the industry, from state control to free market. In the socio-cultural context, as state control grew weaker and civil society flourished, the flow of globalization became more visible, foregrounding conflicts between Islamic and secular groups, often over the roles and representations of women.
As a sinetron kolosal-laga or epic, the series tells historical and legendary stories in such a way that they speak to contemporary Indonesia as it is in the process of reinventing itself. Misteri Gunung Merapi draws on the narrative and dramatic conventions of both traditional theatrical performance and internationally popular genres of action cinema; it constructs popular memory to raise issues about the present; and it employs popular fascination with the supernatural to invoke the mixture of spiritual traditions that has always characterised Javanese culture, in particular.
Focussing on the emergence of warrior women in film and television in both the Hollywood action-adventure and Kung Fu/wuxia genres, the thesis investigates the construction of female fighters on screen. I suggest that the sinetron does not share the same problems of gender representation that feminist criticism has identified in either of these genres. Four areas of analysis - heroism, body, power, and the camera - demonstrate that there is a different concept of gender in Indonesia which is illuminated in this sinetrons representations of women and gender issues.
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Palumbo, Allison P. "STRONG, INDEPENDENT, AND IN LOVE: FIGHTING FEMALE FANTASIES IN POPULAR CULTURE." UKnowledge, 2016. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/35.
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During the late 1970s and 1980s, feminist critics like Janice Radway began to reconsider so-called women’s genres, like romance novels and soap operas and melodramas, in order to address the forms of subversion and expressions of agency they provided female audiences. However, in spite of greater willingness to consider the progressive potential in romance narratives, there has been little such consideration given to stories of romance for the fighting female character—defined as a protagonist who uses violence, via her body or weapons, to save herself and others. The fighting female has received a good deal of attention from critics like Yvonne Tasker, Sherrie Inness, Rikke Schubart, and Phillipa Gates because she enacts transgressive forms of femininity. However, the typical response has been to ignore the intimate or romantic relationships she has with men or to critique them based on the assumption that such hetero-relationships automatically limit her agency and attenuate her representation as a feminist-friendly heroine. This view presumes that female empowerment opposes or can only be imagined outside the dominant cultural narratives that generally organize women’s lives around their hetero-relationships—whether sexual or platonic, familial or vocational.
As I argue, some fighting female relationship narratives merit our attention because they reveal a new cache of plausible empowered female identities that women negotiate through their intimacies and romances with men. These negotiations, in turn, enable innovative representations of male-female relationships that challenge long-standing cultural scripts about the nature of dominance and subordination in such relationships. Combining cultural analysis with close readings of key popular American film and television texts since the 1980s, my dissertation argues that certain fighting female relationship themes question regressive conventions in male-female intimacies and reveal potentially progressive ideologies regarding female agency in mass culture. In essence, certain fighting female relationship narratives project feminist-friendly love fantasies that reassure audiences of the desirability of empowered women while also imagining egalitarian intimacies that further empower women.
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Ouditt, Sharon Ann. "Fighting forces/female identity : women writers of the First World War." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34880.
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Calabre, Roberta Ventura. "Fighting the Strai(gh)tjacket: black women bonding in Loving Her and The Color Purple." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2010. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=2812.
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O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar como as relações lésbicas são retratadas nas obras Loving Her e The Color Purple. Ao analisar as relações entre homens/mulheres e mulheres/mulheres, este estudo também revê e critica o golpe triplo sofrido por lésbicas negras, por serem, ao mesmo tempo, mulheres, afro-americanas e homossexuais. Utilizando fatos históricos para situar as obras em um contexto social, além da teoria do lesbian continuum afim de atestar a riqueza e diversidade do laço afetivo entre mulheres, este trabalho vem por desmistificar as noções simplistas em relação à literatura lésbica Afro-Americana, afugentando a sombra que pairava sobre o tabu e elevando a mulher negra, lésbica ou não, a seu lugar de direito na sociedadeThe aim of this work is to analyze how lesbian relationships are portrayed in the fictional works Loving Her and The Color Purple. By analyzing the relationships between men/women and women/women depicted in the chosen literary works, this study also revises and criticizes the triple strike suffered by black lesbians for being females, African-Americans and homosexuals. Using historical facts to place the fictional works in a social frame, and using the theory of lesbian continuum to attest the richness and diversity of women bonding, this work demystifies the simplistic notions of African-American lesbian literature, casting away the shadow upon the unspeakable and elevating black women, lesbians or not, to their rightful place in society
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Briggs, Catherine. "Fighting for women's equality, the federal Women's Bureau, 1945-1967 : an example of early state feminism in Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ60524.pdf.
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Wheat, Tromila Lanise. "Fighting on the front lines in the war on terror women, education, and security in Pakistan /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2010. http://worldcat.org/oclc/643344462/viewonline.
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Vance, Mona K. "Fighting the wave of change cultural transformation and coeducation at Mississippi University for Women, 1884 to 1982 /." View electronic thesis, 2008. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2008-1/r1/vancem/monavance.pdf.
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McClure, Rosemary O. ""These Are Preying Grounds" - How the Tulalip Tribes of Washington State are Fighting Violence Against Native American Women." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/204.
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Domestic violence and sexual assault rates are higher on Indian reservations than anywhere else in the country. This text works toward an understanding of sexual violence as a legacy of colonialism. Rather than being rooted in inherent racial or cultural differences, current rates of sexual violence on Indian reservations are a continuation of a historical pattern in which colonizers used rape as a weapon to control, contain, and conquer the Indians. The unique history of racist and sexist oppression inflicted on Native Americans through the institutionalized denial of kinship, culture, sovereignty, and body autonomy has exacerbated the violence while frustrating the healing process. This paper describes how the boarding schools, Indian child removal, PL 280, the Oliphant decision, cultural appropriation, and the sexualized stereotyping of Indian women led to high rates of sexual violence on Indian reservations. It then explores how the Tulalip Tribes of Washington State have been proactive in fighting to end sexual assault and violence on their reservation, through retrocession, a holistic approach to batterer reform, and victim advocacy, while simultaneously lobbying in support of legislation such as the Violence Against Women Act, which would allow the Tribes to acquire criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians.
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Ackroyd, Rebecca. "Fighting to survive in a 'woman's world' : an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of men's experiences of having breast cancer." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2016. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/fighting-to-survive-in-a-womans-world-an-interpretative-phenomenological-analysis-of-mens-experiences-of-having-breast-cancer(eb48bd1e-1203-4c6a-9dd9-5cc9b9adb878).html.
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This thesis focuses on men’s experiences of having breast cancer using a qualitative methodology to provide insight into the first-hand accounts of the participants. It aims to enhance the limited existing research in this area through the use of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), exploring the psychological impact of having an illness commonly associated with women. The phenomenological and interpretative nature of IPA allows an in-depth investigation of men’s perspectives of breast cancer and explores the psychological, emotional and social impact on the participants. Interviews were carried out with six men who had been diagnosed with breast cancer in the last five years. Verbatim transcripts of the interviews were analysed using IPA. Three super-ordinate themes emerged from the analysis, with a further nine sub-themes identified. The discussion focuses on Gender & masculinity in line with the first two superordinate themes, ‘Derailment from my illegitimate illness’ and ‘Being in the shadow of pink’. The third super-ordinate theme, ‘Finding value in suffering’ is discussed in line with research on Meaning-Making and ‘Posttraumatic-growth’. Insight gathered by this study is thought to help understand male breast cancer patients’ unique and specific needs, so better tailored forms of psychological support can be provided. Existential and meaning-centered practices are suggested as feasible alternative approaches to traditional psychological treatments.
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Marshall, Maria Sandra Gonzalez. "Sufriendo y luchando por un milagro (Suffering and fighting for a miracle: The meaning of infertility for some Mexican and Mexican American women)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186871.
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Eighteen women were interviewed using focused ethnography to discover what it meant to be infertile women of Mexican descent. Some women reported that the infertility experience and the physical diagnostic procedures and treatments for infertility resulted in physical and psychological suffering (sufrimiento). Other women believed that infertility was a punishment from God and this created spiritual suffering for them. Profound suffering came from the realization that perhaps a dream--giving birth to their biological child and experiencing parenting--would never occur. The infertility experience had eroded their identities as women; in a sense, it was destroying them. Infertility had given these women a sense of abnormality, of being personal failures as women. Infertility implied not only the personal loss of hopes and dreams for the future of a sole individual, the woman, but it also implied the loss of hopes and dreams for the future of her family group, her partner's family group, not excluding the society which the couple was part of as well. Some women withdrew from their families, their friends and other people to avoid the painful and often embarrassing interrogative remarks from others. However, it was this social isolation which also created great suffering for these women since the isolation led to a loss of interaction with friends, family, and other people at a time when these women needed most the support. Fifty-five percent of the women feared that their inability to have a baby would eventually result in future abandonment by their partners. Some women saw their husbands as unsupportive because some men were unwilling to participate in diagnostic infertility evaluations and because some men also refused infertility treatments. The women maintained an attitude of fighting (luchando) which contradicted the stereotypical view of women of Mexican descent as being submissive, passive, and undecisive about handling crucial problems in their lives. Fifty percent of the women had used a combination of medical infertility treatments and folk medicine. Their persistent faith in God, in the Virgen de Guadalupe, and other religious saints had made it possible for these women to tolerate their enormous suffering.
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Marutlulle, Sizakele. "Fighting against erasure: the case of the black, childfree and professional woman in South Africa." Thesis, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/31386.
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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 2020Previous studies have reflected on childfreeness as a growing reproductive choice. What has been lacking in literature is an understanding of childfreeness in Africa in general and among black childfree professional women (BCPW) in particular. This research examined the erasure and lived-experiences of black childfree professional women in South Africa. It also problematised the conflation of woman with mother, and the extent to which such conflation embeds pronatalist cultural imperatives of femininity as well as traditional gender roles. This study investigated the lived-experiences of seven (7) childfree women. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and these were analysed using thematic analysis. The women’s upbringing, values, beliefs, and internal locus of control emerged as cornerstones in their decision to reject motherhood and embrace childfreeness. Their resilience anchored this choice and their resistance enabled them to withstand the negative consequence of childfreeness within a culture that valorises motherhood. Their experiences of social exclusion and ‘Othering’ supported findings of other studies. However, a pointed experience of demonization by black mothers in particular was a key and unique discovery. The findings present childfreeness as agentic decision-making - an activist and feminist stance that challenges as well as broadens the concepts of womanhood, diversity and reproductive freedom. In totality, the study offers new understanding of BCPW and suggests that this unconventional yet legitimate reproductive choice may advance the decoupling of motherhood from feminine identity in ways that are liberatory for all women. The social acceptance of childfreeness as an expression of one of the many diverse feminine experiences accessible to all women, could augur well for the ultimate achievement of reproductive justice
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Li, Ching-Tsung, and 李慶宗. "THE STUDY OF CONSTRUCTING SECURITY KNOWLEDGE DATA BASE OF FIRE FIGHTING AND EMEGENCY RESCUE WITH OPERATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT AND TOPIC MAPS – TO THE RESCUE TRANSPORTATION OF EMERGENCY BIRTH OF A PREGNANT WOMAN AS AN EXEMPLE." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84385139555197933967.
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碩士正修科技大學
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In the age of information explosion, everything is efficient; therefore, researching information becomes the most important issue. Topic Maps can be one of the standard index and information structural method (ISO/IEC 13250:2002). Through association, it constructs each other's connection, by occurrence, it contacts with resources source variety of subject space. The Operating Risk Management (ORM) is by set of system approaches, by the identification analysis, comments the quantity appraisal, the guard to suppress with procedures and so on restoration study, achieves the risk to reduce or the control risk goal, thus achieves result of the best duty, is one kind of preserved resources effective action and the procedure, The main essence is distinguishes and the control risk by the logical way. It is also one kind of balance risk implicit cost and the imaginary profit logical program, but the benefit does not reduce or personnel casualty's reduction limited to the disaster ratio, also possibly is the efficiency or the duty achievement actual promotion. Into the convenience Operating Risk Management's analysis, the induction and the conformity, after and has the accident the person, the matter, the thing, occurs the reason, to pass through, the influence stratification plane and melt risk data storages and so on measure, This research is take first aid as an example, rescues the operational security knowledge library using the Operating Risk Management and the Topic Maps method construction accident prevention. Rescues the organization from the fire prevention to look that the Topic Maps is suitable with the conformity organization to disperse in the fire prevention rescues organizes the internal each kind of non-structurized information. The Topic Maps may and closes using the subject for each kind of social stratum or between the non-social stratum-like information subject constructs the elastic knot, and will penetrate the resources direction to spread in each place information resources and its related subject conformity in the same place, will achieve the construction fire prevention to rescue the operational security to knowledge the storehouse goal.
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Heiskanen, Benita Anitta Foley Neil. "Fighting identities the body in space and place /." 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3142740.
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Heiskanen, Benita Anitta. "Fighting identities: the body in space and place." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1196.
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Serrato, Margie. "Fighting with Gender: Understanding the Contemporary Combat Experiences of Servicewomen and Servicemen in the United States Military." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149622.
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Since the integration of women into the United States armed forces, servicemen have been expected to be the fighters while servicewomen largely occupied safe or nurturing support roles as dictated by American society at large. The ground combat exclusion policy, which officially barred women from all positions involving ground fighting, limited women to support units which, in theory, were strategically located in the rear and far removed from the dangers of the front lines. As we experienced in the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the differentiation of gender roles became irrelevant in asymmetrical wars with no established front lines. Female soldiers found themselves in a variety of combat situations of indirect and direct nature, as I learned through the qualitative interviews that I conducted at Fort Hood, Texas, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
In this dissertation, I examined the narratives of female and male soldiers who experienced combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, to discern: 1) whether females and males discussed their scenarios differently; 2) whether experiencing combat affected soldiers’ ideas about their various gender roles; 3) whether perceptions on servicewomen’s combat participation differed by sex; and 4) whether soldiers’ opinions on women’s inclusion in combat arms military occupation specialties differed by sex. What I found in my study was that: 1) female and male soldiers largely discussed their combat experiences in similar ways; 2) while familial gender roles were largely unchanged as a result of combat deployment, the majority of female and male soldiers perceived changes in their roles as women and men – where women often discussed feeling stronger, empowered, and independent, and men often identified their changes in terms of maturity and personal growth; 3) that exposure to women’s roles in combat deployments had a more positive effect on the perceptions of male soldiers than those of female soldiers; and 4) that both female and male participants largely disagreed with the ground combat exclusion policy for women.
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Richter, Roxane. "Medical outcasts: voices of undocumented Zimbabwean and Mexican women fighting gendered and institutionalized xenophobia in American and South African emergency health care." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/20804.
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A Thesis Submitted to the School of Social Sciences, in the Faculty of Humanities, in Fulfilment of the Requirement for the Degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Political Studies
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
NOVEMBER 2014This thesis is the culmination of medical aid work and 24 one-on-one interviews with undocumented Mexican women in the U.S.A. and Zimbabwean women in South Africa seeking lifesaving emergency healthcare access. The theoretical research combined with practitioner-based fieldwork, shows the direct and deplorable effects of xenophobic policies coupled with a demonstrable failure to enforce healthcare access rights.