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Demiri, Lirika. "Stories of Everyday Resistance, Counter-memory, and Regional Solidarity: Oral Histories of Women Activists in Kosova". The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1524073114946126.
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Hale, Julie Elizabeth. "Creating the Appalachian Woman: An Anthology of Appalachian Women Writers, 1865-1884". Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/990.
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This anthology of nineteenth-century women’s regional fiction, written in the mode of canon revision, explores how persistent stereotypes of Appalachian women originated. These stereotypes are not merely identified but are also considered in the context of women’s studies. Works by the following six authors are included: Elizabeth Appleton, Rebecca Harding Davis, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Constance Fenimore Woolson, Sherwood Bonner, and Mary Noailles Murfree. Topics addressed include nineteenth-century women as authors, the influence of northern literary magazines on regional writing, the image of the Appalachian woman in fiction, and the critical evaluation of primary texts. Original work required for the completion of a master’s thesis comes by way of a thirty-page analytical introduction, six biographical headnote entries, and an extended bibliography of primary works by Appalachian women writers.
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Fitzgerald, Katherine Elizabeth. "No Pure Lands: The Contemporary Buddhism of Tibetan Lay Women". The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1586599037356041.
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Roades, Rebecca Nicole. "Dual Consciousness: Identity Construction Among Appalachian Professional Women in Southern Ohio". Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1317250592.
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Schwartz, Jana E. "The Impact of Cargo Bikes on the Travel Patterns of Women". DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2016. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1584.
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There are a number of issues preventing the rollout of cargo bikes as a transportation mode in the United States. One concern that has been raised is whether cargo bikes can function as a gender equitable transportation solution in the United States, given documented gender gaps in national bike riding statistics and ongoing inequities in childcare in 2-parent heterosexual households. The research is aimed at reviewing the practicality, enjoyment, and outcome of cargo bike use as a gender equitable transportation solution. This research contributes to new knowledge in gender equitable transportation in 2 ways — a) gender-focused analysis of survey data regarding cargo bikes use; b) extended open-ended interviews with mothers with cargo bikes. Qualitative and quantitative data from surveys and interviews explore the influence of cargo bikes on transportation patterns and follow how behavior, attitude, spatial context, and perception varies between riders. Specific attention is given to the use of cargo bikes by women with children, as this demographic represents a minority group in the bicycle community and a group who could benefit most from the capabilities of a cargo bike design. Research shows, mothers spend more hours a day around their children and take part in more child-related activities. Therefore, the comfort and feasibility of the cargo bike for women with children becomes the topic of exploration to determine whether this mode type is a functional substitution for trips usually made by an automobile. Through the collection of a nation-wide survey of cargo bike riders and in-person interviews with mothers in San Luis Obispo, CA who currently use a cargo bike to transport their children and goods, the research assesses the travel patterns of women and the emotional and physical benefits cargo bikes can provide to this specific demographic. Results show that benefits of cargo bike use include boding opportunities with children and a more enjoyable commute, while barriers to use include ill-performing bicycle infrastructure and time allocation for trips made by the cargo bike, in comparison to the automobile. Mode substitution behavior from the automobile to the cargo bike is geographically and culturally specific, but as results from both parts of the study show, women are receptive to cargo bike use and demonstrate a powerful demographic that has the potential to influence the travel patterns of current and future commuters to shift away from automobile dependency.
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Huffman, Debra Kay 1952. "Fear in the landscape: Characteristics of the designed environment as they relate to the perceived and actual safety of women from assault and rape". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278604.
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Research has shown that women perceive, use, and experience space differently than men, in part, because of gender issues and fear of victimization for violent crimes. Recent research has focused on the built environment, violence against women, and the social context of a university. The research study described here investigated women's perception of and actual safety from assault and rape on The University of Arizona campus. Sites perceived as safe and unsafe were identified from responses of 100 women students and administrators. Police reports of 132 campus assaults of women were used to identify sites of past rapes and assaults. Two outdoor sites were assessed in a preliminary study of two environmental audit methods. Findings from this study indicated that respondents perceived the campus as being very safe during the day but unsafe at night. Sites of previous assaults on women overlapped little with the areas women associated with fear.
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Brown, Rebekah A. S. "The League of Women Voters, Social Change, and Civic Education in 1920's Ohio". Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu155473074939274.
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Kegley, Michele Dawn. "Socio-Economic Stability and Independence of Appalachian Women". Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1327600618.
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Fitzgerald, Jenrose D. "SCIENCE WARS AS CULTURE WARS: FRACKING AND THE BATTLE FOR THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF WOMEN". UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/sociology_etds/18.
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In this thesis, I examine how claims regarding the environmental and health impacts of hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” are constructed by industry advocates who promote the practice and environmental and social justice groups who reject it. More specifically, I examine the cultural underpinnings of the debate over fracking, and the prominence of gender as a central framing device in that debate. While the controversy over fracking is often presented as scientific or technical in nature, I maintain that it is as much a culture war as it is a science war. I demonstrate this by showing how both pro-fracking and anti-fracking groups mobilize cultural symbols and identities—motherhood, environmentalism, family farming, family values, individualism, and patriotism among them—in order to persuade the public and advocate for their positions. I contend that engagement with the cultural and ideological dimensions of those debates, including their gendered dimensions, is as important as engagement with its scientific and technical dimensions. Ultimately, I argue that a greater focus on gender contributes to our understanding of environmental risk more broadly, and to the field of environmental sociology as a whole. As such, gender deserves more scholarly attention within the field than it is currently receiving.
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Borges, Elinielle Pinto. "Gênero, ciência e contexto regional: analisando diferenças entre docentes da pós-graduação de duas universidades brasileiras". Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2014. http://ridi.ibict.br/handle/123456789/840.
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Este estudo tem como objetivo verificar desigualdade de gênero nas tarefas acadêmicas dos docentes-pesquisadores da pós-graduação, assim como identificar mecanismos que contribuem para o estabelecimento e perpetuação dessas desigualdades A discussão teórica apresenta argumentos sobre diferenças de gênero na sociedade em geral, e na ciência em particular. A abordagem empírica selecionou como campo de estudo duas universidades federais: a UFRJ e a UFMA, visando também a identificação de diferenças regionais, através de análise quantitativa e qualitativa. Para a abordagem quantitativa foram utilizados dados secundários já trabalhados no estudo de Leta et al. (2013). Um sub-conjunto desses dados sobre as duas instituições foi gerado para este estudo que envolveu informações sobre o total de 2667 docentes-pesquisadores. A abordagem qualitativa envolveu entrevistas realizadas junto a 14 coordenadores da pós-graduação das universidades mencionadas. O roteiro de entrevista buscou conhecer diferenças de uma cultura de gênero nas escolhas profissionais, no exercício das tarefas acadêmicas, no estabelecimento de obstáculos na carreira científica, e na sobrecarga das atividades relacionadas à educação dos filhos. A análise dos dados quantitativos mostrou, entre outros aspectos, que os cursos da UFRJ têm desempenho superior aos da UFMA. Focalizando as desigualdades de gênero, verificou-se um maior equilíbrio entre homens e mulheres no desempenho das tarefas acadêmicas na UFMA do que na UFRJ. A análise das entrevistas mostrou que os docentes-pesquisadores, homens e mulheres, tendem a não ver diferenças de gênero na academia e que ambos os sexos carregam preconceitos em relação a diferenças de habilidades entre homens e mulheres. As falas dos entrevistados sugerem ainda que o peso do desequilíbrio de gênero no exercício das tarefas domésticas, e seu impacto nas atividades das mulheres se faz sentir, inclusive, no sentimento de culpa carregado pelas mulheres que chegaram ao topo da carreira científica. Sobre as diferenças regionais, os pesquisadores da UFMA demonstram sentir barreiras e dificuldades no exercício da atividade científica em região menos desenvolvida.
This study aims to examine gender inequality in academic tasks of graduate faculty, as well as identify mechanisms that contribute to the establishment and perpetuation of these inequalities. The theoretical discussion presents arguments about gender differences in society in general, and science in particular. The empirical approach selected as a field of study two federal universities: UFRJ and UFMA, aiming also to identify regional differences, through quantitative and qualitative analysis. For the quantitative approach we used secondary data already worked on during the study Leta et al. (2013). A subset of this data on the two institutions was generated for this study which involved information about a total of 2667 teachers-researchers. The qualitative approach involved interviews conducted with 14 graduate coordinators of the universities mentioned. The interview script aimed to detect differences in gender culture in career choices, in the exercise of academic tasks, in the establishment of obstacles in a scientific career, and in the overload of activities related to education of children. The analysis of the quantitative data showed, among other things, that the UFRJ courses have outperformed those of UFMA. Focusing on gender inequalities, there was a better balance between men and women in the performance of academic tasks in UFMA than at UFRJ. The analysis of the interviews showed that teachers-researchers, men and women, tend not to see gender differences in academia and that both sexes carry prejudices about the differences in skills between men and women. The statements of the respondents also suggest that the weight of the gender imbalance in the performance of household chores, and their impact on the activities of women is felt even in the sense of guilt carried by women who reached the top of the scientific career. Regarding regional differences, the researchers of UFMA are shown to feel barriers and difficulties in the exercise of scientific activity in a less developed region.
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Chaney, Kathryn Elise. "Work and Women's Empowerment: An Examination of South Asia". Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1514051407055113.
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Culbreth, Mair Wendelin. "Transactional Bodies: Politics, Pedagogies, and Performance Practices of the San Francisco Bay Area". The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1514625617942998.
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Spedalieri, Francesca. "Seeing the Unseen, Staging the Unspoken: The Gender Politics and Political Language of Emma Dante’s Theatre in the Berlusconi Era (1994-2011)". The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1480594504188268.
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Fuchs, Grace Frances. "How Community Concerns about Hydraulic Fracturing and Injection Wells can be Addressed Through the Application of Environmental Monitoring Technology". Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1556136264849063.
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Langeveldt, Veleska. "(De)legitimizing rape as a weapon of war: patriarchy, narratives and the African Union". Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4068.
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Magister Administrationis - MAdminThe African continent has over the past 40 years witnessed a continued scourge of violent conflict and human rights abuses. These conflicts have significantly undermined the social, political, and economic prosperity of African citizens. Additionally, women and children are particularly affected by these conflicts. Women and children are regarded as ‘the most vulnerable’ as they often become the targets of sexual abuse by the enemy. The African Union (AU) is primarily responsible for the resolution of conflicts on the continent. It professes to be committed to the prevention of human rights abuses and the protection of African women (and children) during armed conflicts. It has thus developed an array of mechanisms, protocols, and instruments to address the exploitation and sexual abuse of women during conflict periods. These instruments include: The Constitutive Act of the AU (2000); The Solemn Declaration of Gender Equality in Africa (2003); the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa- ACHPRWA (2004); and the Protocol relating to the Peace and Security Council. In this research project, I consider whether the narratives used in these AU documents sufficiently and explicitly address the use of rape as a strategic weapon during armed conflicts; or whether these narratives inadvertently contribute to a culture that perpetuates war-time rape. My analysis shows that these AU documents deal with war-time rape in very vague and euphemistic terms. Although gender discrimination, sexual violence, exploitation, discrimination, and harmful practices against women are condemned, the delegitimization of rape as a weapon of war is not specifically discussed. This allows for varying interpretations of AU protocols, including interpretations which may diminish the severity of strategic rape. This has lead me to propose that the narratives used in these AU protocols and related documents draw on patriarchy, perpetuate patriarchy, and thus inadvertently perpetuates a culture that perpetuates the use of rape as a weapon of war
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Bauman, Lindsey M. ""A Bitter Wet-Dry Fight:" How an Infantry Regiment Influenced the Nebraska Prohibition Vote of 1944". Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu149753203369463.
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Brandt, Susan Hanket. "Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Delaware Valley, 1740-1830". Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/283870.
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HistoryPh.D.
This dissertation uncovers women healers' vital role in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century healthcare marketplace. Euro-American women healers participated in networks of health information sharing that reached across lines of class and gender, and included female practitioners in American Indian and African American communities. Although their contributions to the healthcare labor force are relatively invisible in the historical record, women healers in the Delaware Valley provided the bulk of healthcare for their families and communities. Nonetheless, apart from a few notable monographs, women healers' practices and authority remain understudied. My project complicates a medical historiography that marginalizes female practitioners and narrates their declining healthcare authority after the mid-eighteenth century due to the emergence of a consumer society, a culture of domesticity, the professionalization of medicine, and the rise of enlightened science, which generated discourses of women's innate irrationality. Using the Philadelphia area as a case study, I argue that women healers were not merely static traditional practitioners destined to fall victim to the march of science, medicine, and capitalism as this older narrative suggests. Instead, I assert that women healers of various classes and ethnicities adapted their practices as they found new sources of healthcare authority through female education in the sciences, manuscript authorship, access to medical print media, the culture of sensibility, and the alternative gender norms of religious groups like the Quakers. Building on a longstanding foundation of recognized female practitioners, medically skilled women continued to fashion healing authority by participating in mutually affirming webs of medical information exchanges that reflected new ideas about science, health, and the body. In addition, women doctresses, herbalists, apothecaries, and druggists empowered themselves by participating in an increasingly commercialized and consumer-oriented healthcare marketplace. Within this unregulated environment, women healers in the colonies and early republic challenged physicians' claims to a monopoly on medical knowledge and practice. The practitioners analyzed in this study represent a bridge between the recognized and skilled women healers of the seventeenth century and the female healthcare professionals of the nineteenth century.
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Sharma, Indu. "Analysis of an Indian Commercial Television Drama Series - "Balika Vadhu: Kacchi Umra Ke Pakke Rishte" (Child Bride: Firm Relations at a Tender Age)". Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1462303597.
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Stankovic, Basaez Aleksandra. "Risk behaviors in the Asian sex circuit : a case study of Latinas in sex work in Hong Kong and Macau". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/193501.
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In this thesis, I use case study methodology to document the experiences of Latinas in sex work in Hong Kong and Macau. By investigating the identities of sex workers in these locations, I analyze risk behaviors related to each identity. I employ two theoretical frameworks; the first to examine the reasons for engaging in sex work, identities and risk behaviors; and the second to examine the women’s perception of the nature of sex work. The first framework consists of four explanatory models for analyzing sex work: a pathological model, a social dislocation and criminal subculture model, an economic position and poverty model, as well as a gender and male violence model. Of these, the economic position and poverty model seems to be a better fit with the background stories of most of the women in the study, who came from a poor socio-economic background. They took up sex work and migrated to other countries for economic reasons. However, I suggest that the agency of the women was not sufficiently taken into account by either of the models, including the economic position and poverty model.
Using the second theoretical framework, I studied the women’s perception of the nature of sex work through the lenses of various feminist theories, including radical feminism, socialist feminism, Marxist feminism, liberal feminism and existentialist feminism. In looking at a systemic societal interpretation, radical, socialist and Marxist feminism views of oppression seemed justified because in most of the cases, sex work could be interpreted as a result of a patriarchal system and class conflict. At the individual level, the liberal and existentialist feminism views fit with the interviews because the women regarded sex work as empowering in view of their former poverty situations.
Each of the women in the study maintained different work and private identities; and each of these identities could be associated with risk behaviors for themselves, for the clients, and for their families (especially spouses and/or boyfriends). The risks both sex workers and the local population faced as a result of the combination of criminalization of sex work and the lack of proper social services (medical, educational, and security), included violence, drug and alcohol abuse, and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS. In addition, sex workers were at high risks of suffering psychological trauma. The findings indicated that to avoid a culture of violence and insecurity, sex work is in need of a deeper understanding and policies that would enable better protection for sex workers, clients and the general population.published_or_final_version
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Knight, Elisabeth D. "The Bird Woman Takes Her Stand : Gene Stratton Porter's Conservancy as seen in "A Girl of the Limberlost" and "The Harvester"". Ohio Dominican University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1572903002523117.
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Dunn, Elizabeth Margaret. "Women's issues and politics : getting the childcare issue onto a municipal political agenda". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30544.
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This thesis examines women's issues and the political agenda. Several factors affect the likelihood of a women's issue getting onto the formal political agenda of government (municipal, provincial, and federal). The nature of the issue (the degree to which it challenges the status quo) affects the political outcome: those issues which have fit into current and historical legislative patterns (such as welfare state guidelines) have been more successful. A patriarchal family ideology places limitations on the proper role of women: women have held primary responsibility for the care of children and family. Women's labour force participation creates parameters for government involvement in issues such as childcare. The lobbying and organizational skills of the political actors involved are prerequisites for gaining access to government decision-makers. While the entry of women into the political arena has not insured the entry of women's issues onto the political agenda, female politicians have been especially important in bringing women's issues forward for debate and action. However, government bureaucracy has often been a barrier in the implementation of legislation concerning women's issues.
I present a case study of a particular women's issue (childcare) at the municipal level of government. Five locations are examined in the Greater Vancouver area, using a combination of qualitative methods (personal interviews) and quantitative research
techniques (government statistics, official documents, and reports from a variety of community organizations). In spite of the steadily increasing labour force participation of women in all locations, the response of local governments to the childcare issue has varied greatly — childcare is on Vancouver's political agenda but not that of the four district municipalities examined. Vancouver's involvement has been more comprehensive and longterm (more childcare spaces, an involved Social Planning Department, two task forces, a Children's Advocate, and buildings and sites for childcare purposes). The response of municipal councils continues to reflect patriarchal notions of the family (where childcare is a private, family responsibility). Alternatively, Vancouver council has recognized a permanent restructuring of the family and the ongoing involvement of the larger community in childcare. At the same time, the lobbying approach of Vancouver childcare advocates has followed long established patterns concerning childcare and governments -- the argument has been based on child welfare, not the rights or welfare of women.Arts, Faculty of
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Batist, Elizabeth Sheilah. "A case-control study of risk factors for low birth weight in the Western Cape : Winelands/West Coast region". Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2003. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
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Birthweight is powerful predictor of infant growth and survival. Premature birth and intrauterine growth retardation of birthweight. Maternal environment is important underlying determinant of birthweight. Common lifestyle risk factors include maternal under-nutrition, smoking, alcohol and social factors and stress. The Winelands/West Coast region has high rates of low birthweight. In addition, alcohol abuse and smoking are major problems in this area. The aim of this quantitative case-control study was to determine the epidemiology of low birthweight, related to lifestyle behaviours in pregnant women, with particular attention to lifestyle factors such as alcohol, smoking, and stress-related factors.
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Petronelli, Barbara Elizabeth. "“TO SECURE LITERARY CULTURE AND PROMOTE A SOCIAL FEELING”:RURAL OHIO CLUBWOMEN AS STEWARDS OF LOCAL LITERACY PRACTICE,1915". Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1544379283827385.
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Swoger, Megan R. "Analysis of the Prevailing Practice of FGM in the Upper West Region of Ghana: Are International Laws and Domestic Policy Effective in Eradicating FGM Within the State?" Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1527422662295883.
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Wiggins, Leticia Rose. "Planting the "Uprooted Ones:" La Raza in the Midwest, 1970 - 1979". The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468604290.
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Patel, Raakhee Navin. "An Ethnographic Study of Doctor-Patient Communication within Biomedicine and Its Indian Variant in Mumbai". Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1619705858186443.
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Wyss, Rebecca. "Troubling Northern Irish Herstories: The Drama of Anne Devlin and Christina Reid". Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1429992523.
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North, Naomi. "Fall Like a Man". Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1460115929.
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Sinclair, Donna Lynn. "Caring for the Land, Serving People: Creating a Multicultural Forest Service in the Civil Rights Era". PDXScholar, 2015. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2463.
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This qualitative study of representative bureaucracy examines the extension and limitations of liberal democratic rights by connecting environmental and social history with policy, individual decision making, gender, race, and class in American history. It documents major cultural shifts in a homogeneous patriarchal organization, constraints, advancement, and the historical agency of women and minorities. "Creating a Multicultural Forest Service" identifies a relationship between natural and human resources and tells a story of expanding and contracting civil liberties that shifted over time from women and people of color to include the differently-abled and LGBT communities. It includes oral history as a key to uncovering individual decision points, relational networks, organizational activism, and human/nature relations to shape meaningful explanations of historical institutional change. With gender and race as primary categories, this inquiry forms a history that is critical to understanding federal bureaucratic efforts to meet workforce diversity goals in natural resource organizations.
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Nur, Rif'ah Erwin. "Women under Sharia : case studies in the implementation of Sharia-influenced regional regulations (Perda Sharia) in Indonesia". Thesis, 2014. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/26282/.
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This study examines the religious, social and political dynamics of Perda Sharia and how the implementation of these regulations has affected women rights and women's security. This study also explores the concept of women's security based on women's own experiences. It employed qualitative methodologies, including in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and analysis of primary source documentation. It examined Perda Sharia in two district governments: Cianjur, West Java and Bulukumba, South Sulawesi.
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"Afghani Women's Resistance: Their Struggle for Autonomy under the Soviet Occupation and Taliban Rule". Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.45471.
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abstract: The American-led 'war on terror' affected how media outlets and some contemporary literature addressed and stereotyped Islam. One of the most common stereotypes regarded the status of women in society. The constant images of oppressed Afghani women generated a wave of negativity toward Islam. Afghani women were portrayed as passive characters during the Taliban rule awaiting liberation from the west. Defending their rights became one of the moral justifications for waging the 'war on terror' after the tragedy of 9/11. Gender politics in Afghanistan is closely tied to the regime in power. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and the social and cultural transformation of society that followed also directly affected women and their identity as Muslims. Both the Soviet and the Taliban regimes envisioned a drastic transformation of women's participation in the public sphere. Each regime's gender politics oppressed Afghani women and sought to take away their agency. Some women welcomed the freedom under the Soviets, but others found the freedoms to be oppressive. The Taliban aimed to preserve men's authority over women. However, Afghani women never gave up the hope of freedom and equality. My main argument is to challenge the contemporary belief that Afghani women were passive characters in their history. This study introduces a fresh perspective on to women's role as change makers in the society. I argue that Afghani women maintained their autonomy and fought for their rights, before the rest of the world rushed to liberate them. They engaged in different forms of resistance from directly attacking the oppressors to keeping their resistance hidden. This thesis challenges the notion of Afghani women as victims in need of saving. On the contrary, they were the agents of change in their communities. On the basis of ethnographic interviews and three memoirs written by women who lived in Afghanistan during Soviet and Taliban rule. Their resistance against the oppressors is an affirmation of their courage and bravery.Dissertation/Thesis
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Ndinda, Catherine. "Women's participation in housing delivery in South Africa : the extent of empowerment in post-1994 era, with specific reference to case studies in KwaZulu-Natal". Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/4796.
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This study, Women's participation in housing delivery in South Africa: the extent of
empowerment in post 1994 era, with specific reference to case studies in KwciZulu-Natal,
begins with the premise that post-apartheid housing policies, compared to those of the
apartheid era, have provided women with greater access to housing. In 1994 the housing
backlog was estimated to be about 3.5 million units, with the majority of those in need of
shelter being African women. This backlog was due to past policies that largely excluded
women from ownership and access to capital or resources to build formal housing. The
changes wrought by the democratic dispensation, such as constitutional provision for
gender equality, promised women greater participation in the social , political and
economic spheres of the country. The recognition of gender equality and housing as
rights protected within the constitution was reinforced by pronouncements in various
policy documents, such as the housing White Paper that underlined the need for women's
involvement in shelter development.
The aims of this study are to examine women's participation in housing delivery and to
assess the extent of empowerment arising from their involvement in post-1994 housing
development. The emphasis in this study on empowerment arises from the fact that
housing development.is set within a participatory and empowerment paradigm in the
current housing policy. The study discusses participation in "shelter" as embodied in
notions of self-help and as appl ied by implementing agencies such as the World Bank,
local government municipals and non-governmental organisations. The analysis indicates
that to understand women's role in the housing process, there is a need to move beyond
the project approach used by implementing agencies, to a multi-relational approach that
focuses on the relationships, processes, and levels of involvement at the implementation
and post-implementation stages. The scope of empirical material is confined to KwaZuluNatal
, although South African national past and present policy is analysed in the earl y
chapters. The question this study raises is whether women will be able to make
substantial improvements to the core structure provided through the subsidy, due to their weak economic position. Through a gender analysis of the participation process, the study
sheds light on women's roles and examines the extent to which women, in particular,
have been empowered. Both qualitative and quantitative research instruments were
employed to gather data on women's involvement in housing development in the
KwaZulu-Natal region chosen for the case studies. The specific areas studied were
Nthutukoville, Glenwood II and Thembalihle in Pietermaritzburg and Luganda and
Ezilweleni in Durban. The findings of this study show that women were involved at
various levels in the housing delivery process and at varying degrees.
The findings of this study yielded different levels of participation which were taken to be
indicators of the level of empowerment. These were for instance, decision-making,
implementation, post-implementation activities and small business development. In all
the areas studied, all the top leadership positions were held by men; in the lower levels
the gender representation was equal. In two areas, women played a central role in
decision-making and this appears to have been influenced by the high level of
consultation with the community. In three areas, women played a marginal role in
decision-making, an issue that appears to have been influenced by their roles in the
household as well as the influence of the local authorities in the projects. In all the areas
except one, women held their stereotypical position of secretary. Where they held the
position of treasurer, it was based on the stereotypical notion that they were more
trustworthy in money matters than men. The representation of women in decision-making
did not challenge the gender ideology that entrenches their subordination, an area that has
to be addressed in housing projects if women are to take control of their lives. Few
women compared to men were trained in construction. The reasons for this point to both
a strong male bias as well as societal attitudes about gender roles in society. Both men
and women learnt skills such as plumbing, plastering, and painting, on the job through
their involvement in providing labour. The role of women in housing delivery extended
to the post-implementation level where they were involved in urban greening and microenterprises.
Women were also involved in the production and distribution of bricks in
three communities but they did not benefit from selling to the subsidy beneficiaries, a situation that calls for government support of their activities through the awarding of
supply contracts.
The elements of these indicators point to the level of women's empowerment as shown in
the areas studied. These indicators combined to form what this study refers to as the
multi-relational linkages approach to women's participation in shelter delivery. Although
various factors are shown to constrain women's involvement at the different levels, the
model highlights the role of women and the sustainability of their empowerment as well
as the gaps, and points to ways in which these can be addressed. This study therefore
recommends the adoption of the multi-relational linkages approach in understanding
women's empowerment in shelter delivery and future policy framing . The conclusion
argues that women's participation in shelter development cannot be understood by
examining their role in one aspect of delivery; the role of women in various aspects is
what constitutes their empowerment.Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2002.
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Kruss, Julie L. ""Country women are resilient but....” : family planning access in rural Victoria". Thesis, 2012. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/21315/.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
Most women use family planning services during their reproductive lifetime, but many lack ready access to such services, particularly in a rural area. The aim of this study was to document and thus develop an understanding of the facilitators and barriers to accessing three types of family planning services (emergency contraception, termination of pregnancy, and options counselling) within a particular rural area of Victoria, Australia, and how these might affect women’s psychosocial health and their ability to make timely decisions about continuation of a pregnancy.
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Cheng, Tai-hsiang. "Forms, Transitions, and Design Approaches: Women as Creators of Built Landscapes". 2013. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/1111.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
Gender issues in the landscape, for a long time, have belonged to the fields of social and political science, which remain relatively unfamiliar to both practitioners and students in the discipline of landscape architecture. Previous scholars have put effort into examining questions of gender, culture and landscape in order to clarify the issues that researchers may encounter in today’s field of study. Among these gender classifications, questions in feminist inquiry have provided a historical setting to this study: what are the forms, transitions and design approaches that women employ as creators of the built landscapes?
Through reviewing the past literature and surveying today’s practitioners, an understanding emerges of how female landscape designers think about their gender identity as a variable in the design process. In addition, several issues are further identified, including the female awareness of their gender identity in the workplace, types of female work, transitions in design approach since the 1899 American Society of Landscape Architects was founded to the present day, cultural discourse in female landscape forms, and so on.
The major goal of this study is not to build a description of history that asks how women may design differently than men, but to reexamine the idea that has made such stereotypes invalid; gender may influence design approaches but not outcome. Furthermore, this study also attempts to identify the potential gender issues in today’s profession, and to provide a viewpoint to landscape designers of any gender: How does our innate gender identity potentially influence design thinking? Finally, as a designer who is drawn to the cultural dimension of landscape architecture, I hope this study will be helpful to landscape professionals in developing a more complex approach and critical eye for looking at designed landscape forms as cultural vehicles for gender construction.
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Annecke, Wendy Jill. "We are so poor : an investigation into the lives of ten women living in an informal area in the Durban Functional Region with particular reference to the role of domestic fuels". Thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/6324.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
This dissertation explores the texture of women's lives in an urban informal
area, with the particular aim of highlighting their use of domestic energies in
the absence of their access to electricity. The investigation into domestic fuel usage is situated within the context of other basic needs: shelter, water and food and the acquisition of these. Each is separately explored.
The domestic fuel sources used by the women were primarily paraffin and
candles. The dissertation argues that there is no simple equation between
household income and fuel purchase but that the acquisition of food and fuel are mutually dependent and contingent upon a complex set of variables which include the perceived physical and emotional well-being of the woman and her household. Furthermore the dissertation argues that given the extent of informal settlements and poverty nationally, candles and paraffin are likely to continue to be extensively used in the future. despite their disadvantages and the desirability of electricity. The dissertation submits that the reasons for this pertain to the accessibility and relative affordability of paraffin to households whose buying power is constrained as much by the form in which their income is derived as by its inadequacy. These arguments are elucidated through case studies of ten women who live in non-electrified homes in Canaan. The women concerned monitored their consumption of and expenditure on water, food, and fuel for a month, and met once a week as a group while they were doing so.
Finally the dissertation suggests that national energy planners should take
into account the manner in which women perceive and manage their
housekeeping roles, particularly cooking, as well as the form in which
household income is derived in order to determine strategies and energy
policies which would would be women-friendly and support the needs of the
extensive numbers of impoverished households in South Africa.Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1992.
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Hiebert, Luann E. "Encountering maternal silence: writing strategies for negotiating margins of mother/ing in contemporary Canadian prairie women's poetry". 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/31201.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
Contemporary Canadian prairie women poets write about the mother figure to counter maternal suppression and the homogenization of maternal representations in literature. Critics, like Marianne Hirsch and Andrea O’Reilly, insist that mothers tell their own stories, yet many mothers are unable to. Daughter and mother stories, Jo Malin argues, overlap. The mother “becomes a subject, or rather an ‘intersubject’” in the text (2). Literary depictions of daughter-mother or mother-child intersubjectivities, however, are not confined to auto/biographical or fictional narratives. As a genre and potential site for representing maternal subjectivities, poetry continues to reside on the margins of motherhood studies and literary criticism.
In the following chapters, I examine the writing strategies of selected poets and their representations of mothers specific to three transformative occasions: mourning mother-loss, becoming a mother, and reclaiming a maternal lineage. Several daughter-poets adapt the elegy to remember their deceased mothers and to maintain a connection with them. In accord with Tanis MacDonald and Priscila Uppal, these poets resist closure and interrogate the past. Moreover, they counter maternal absence and preserve her subjectivity in their texts. Similarly, a number of mother-poets begin constructing their mother-child (self-other) relationship prior to childbirth. Drawing on Lisa Guenther’s notions of “birth as a gift of the feminine other” and welcoming the stranger (49), as well as Emily Jeremiah’s link between “‘maternal’ mutuality” and writing and reading practices (“Trouble” 13), I investigate poetic strategies for negotiating and engaging with the “other,” the unborn/newborn and the reader. Other poets explore and interweave bits of stories, memories, dreams and inklings into their own motherlines, an identification with their matrilineage. Poetic discourse(s) reveal the limits of language, but also attest to the benefits of extra-linguistic qualities that poetry provides. The poets I study here make room for the interplay of language and what lies beyond language, engaging the reader and augmenting perceptions of the maternal subject. They offer new ways of signifying maternal subjectivities and relationships, and therefore contribute to the ongoing research into the ever-changing relations among maternal and cultural ideologies, mothering and feminisms, and regional women’s literatures.May 2016
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Lange, Bålman Miriam. "GRAVIDA KVINNORS INTAG AV KOSTTILLSKOTT : En kvantitativ studie med fokus på järn och probiotika". Thesis, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-157637.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
Sammanfattning Bakgrund Vitamin- och mineralbrister hos gravida kvinnor kan leda till missfall och allvarliga störningar i barnets utveckling. Moderns tarmflora överförs med stor sannolikhet till barnet under förlossningen och kan därför innebära ett viktigt steg i utvecklingen av barnets tarmflora. En tänkbar lösning för att säkra ett adekvat intag kan vara konsumtion av kosttillskott och probiotika. I dagsläget finns osäkra uppgifter om hur många gravida kvinnor som intar tillskott. Syfte Att undersöka hur många gravida kvinnor i Västerbottens län som valde att inta kosttillskott, främst järn och probiotika, samt om det fanns en skillnad mellan olika faktorer och intag. Metod En kvantitativ tvärsnittsstudie där gravida kvinnor (n=1473) från Northpop-studien i Västerbottens län svarade på ett frågeformulär gällande intag av kosttillskott och faktorer som ålder, utbildning, kostregim etc. De statistiska tester som användes var Chi-2-test, oberoende t-test och Mann Whitney U-test. Materialet analyserades i SPSS. Signifikansnivån sattes till p<0,05. Resultat Majoriteten av deltagarna svarade att de intog kosttillskott. Faktorer som ökade intaget av kosttillskott hos gravida kvinnor var högre ålder (p=0,030) jämfört med lägre ålder, högre utbildningsnivå (p=0,006) jämfört med lägre utbildningsnivå och vegetarisk/vegansk kost (p=0,021) jämfört med blandkost. Femtiofem procent uppgav att de intog järntillskott. De faktorer som ökade intaget av järntillskott hos gravida kvinnor var vegetarisk/vegansk kost (p=0,001) jämfört med blandkost. Probiotika intogs av 2 procent. Ett högre intag av probiotika sågs hos personer boende i stadsområde (p=0,024) jämfört med övriga boenderegioner samt de som åt vegetarisk/vegansk kost (p=0,001) jämfört med blandkost. Slutsats Majoriteten av deltagarna intog någon typ av kosttillskott, hälften intog järntillskott och en liten andel intog probiotika. Lågutbildade, yngre, de som äter blandkost och bor utanför stadsområde verkar vara i riskgruppen för att inte inta kosttillskott.Abstract Background Vitamin and mineral deficiencies in pregnant women can lead to miscarriage and serious disturbances in children’s development. The intestinal flora of the mother is most likely transmitted to the child during childbirth and may lay the foundation for the child's health. One possible solution to ensure an adequate intake may be the consumption of dietary supplements and probiotics. At present, there is insufficient data on supplement consumption among pregnant women. Objective The purpose of the study was to examine how many pregnant women in Västerbotten County chose to consume dietary supplements, mainly iron and probiotics, and whether there was a difference between different factors and intake. Method A quantitative cross-sectional study where pregnant women (n=1473) from the Northpop-study in Västerbotten County responded to a questionnaire regarding consumption of dietary supplements and factors such as age, education, diet etc. The material was analyzed in SPSS with Chi-2-test, independent T-Test and Mann-Whitney U-Test. Using significance level <0.05. Results The majority of participants, 90 percent, responded that they consumed dietary supplements. The factors that increased the intake of dietary supplements in pregnant women were higher age (p=0.030), higher education (p=0.006) and vegetarian/vegan diet (p=0.021). Iron was reported to be consumed by 804 people, 55 percent. The factors that increased the intake of iron supplement in pregnant women were vegetarian/vegan diet (p=0.001). Probiotics were consumed by 25 people, 2 percent. Living in urban areas (p=0.024) and eating vegetarian/vegan diet (p=0.002) increased consumption of probiotics. Conclusion The majority of participants chose to consume some type of dietary supplement, half of the participants consumed iron supplements and a small part consumed probiotics. It appears that pregnant women who are low educated, younger, eating an omnivorous diet and living outside urban areas are in the risk zone for not consuming dietary supplements.
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