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Meinen, Sarah. "POLITICAL FEMININE STYLE AND FIRST LADY RHETORIC: FEMINIST IMPLICATIONS OF A WHITE-GLOVE PULPIT." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1051189500.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Speech Communication, 2003.Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 127 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-114).
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York, Misty. "Dramatism, Feminine Style and Women's Weblogs: Women Speaking in the E-Public." TopSCHOLAR®, 2005. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/437.
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During the 2004 election cycle, online communication technologies emerged as a legitimate influence on political participation and strategy. Weblogs (blogs) played a pivotal role in the Internet's unprecedented sway. This research combined Burke's (1969) dramatism with Campbell's (1989) feminine style to describe and critique three women's political blogs. The pentad highlighted an argument derived from each blogger's master narrative, while feminine style analysis revealed subtle differences among the women's persuasive tactics.
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Åhagen, Marcus, and Johan Nilsson. "Gendered Rhetoric in the UN General Assembly? : The Rhetorical Styles of Male and Female Representatives of Sweden and the United States." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för juridik, ekonomi, statistik och politik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-5402.
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During the last few decades the academic re-gendering has reached the field of rhetorical discourse and differences of speech and rhetoric has been determined. Another gender shift has occurred during the last few decades in the appointments of foreign policy representatives, from being one of the last patriarchal strongholds the change towards equality has been remarkably swift. However, the norms of masculinity and formality within the sphere of foreign policy are still persistent. The first aim of this thesis was to determine if the rhetorical style of men and women differed even in a context heavily laden with norms, such as the UNGA. The secondary aim is based upon the concept of masculinity and femininity in culture, to determine if the gender of culture influenced the speaker’s rhetorical style, even in the UNGA. This thesis generates its own theoretical framework from the works of rhetoric and linguistics to separate masculine and feminine rhetorical style. The method used is a qualitative textual analyze applied to transcribed speeches held by Swedish and U.S. representatives in UNGA. The analysis proved that there is a difference in rhetorical style between genders and culture, even in a context such as the UNGA, but only a small one.
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Boström, Eriksson Linda. "Gender Specific Features of Language : Their Representation in a Popular TV Show." Thesis, Mid Sweden University, Mid Sweden University, Mid Sweden University, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-8557.
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The aim of this study was to find out how features that have been found to be typical of women’s language, such as hedges, tag questions and a high level of talkativeness etc., are represented in a popular TV series. Five cross-sex conversations from one episode of the sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine were analyzed, and the results show that many of the features of interest, as for instance tag questions, minimal responses and indirect style, are unexpectedly used more frequently by men in this small investigation. In fact, the only feature that was used more frequently by the female main character was hedges. Several factors affect the results of the study, as for instance the fact that the conversations are fictional. The special characteristics of the speakers also affect the results, as well as the tone and the topic of the chosen conversations. Many of the features of interest were used to a very small extent, which is probably a result of the fact that the language in a sitcom is to be entertaining and rather quick, which leaves little or no room for the features studied.
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Spencer, Leland G. IV. "Hagiographic Feminist Rhetoric: An Analysis of the Sermons of Bishop Marjorie Matthews." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242914318.
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Isak, Diana, and Kawsar Abdullahi Hassan. "Maskulint kontra feminint ledarskap : Beskriver manliga ledare i kvinnodominerade branscher sin ledarstil som feminin?" Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Företagsekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-41157.
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This study aims to investigate whether male leaders in women-dominated industries describe their leadership as masculine or feminine in accordance with the writers own designed model “Masculine leadership versus feminine leadership”. The model is based on previous research. Furthermore if there are other explanatory models for the leaders description. This study also answers whether male leaders in women-dominated branches seem to adopt a feminine leadership or stick to the typical leadership attached to male leadership. A qualitative approach has been applied throughout the study to create an in-depth understanding of the topic with a total of six male respondents who participated in a semi-structured interview. Historically, and from the theoretical point of view, it is most common for men to exercise a leadership style of masculine leadership. This study concluded that four out of six respondents have leadership styles that are consistent with the typical leadership applied to male leaders and that two respondents describe themselves as adopting a feminine leadership style.Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka och förklara huruvida manliga ledare i kvinnodominerade branscher beskriver sitt ledarskap som maskulint eller feminint i enlighet med författarnas sammanfattade modell “Maskulint ledarskap kontra feminint ledarskap”, baserat på tidigare forskning, eller om andra förklaringsmodeller kan beskriva detta. Vidare undersöker författarna om manliga ledare tycks anamma en kvinnlig ledarskapsstil i kvinnodominerade branscher eller om de behåller den normtypiska ledarskapsstilen för manliga ledare. Ett kvalitativt angreppssätt, tematisk analys och abduktiv metod har tillämpats genom undersökningen för att skapa en djupgående förståelse inom området med totalt sex manliga respondenter som deltagit i en semistrukturerad intervju. Historiskt sett och baserat på teoretiska ståndpunkter har det i stor utsträckning visat sig att män utövar en ledarskapsstil utav maskulina ledaregenskaper. Denna studie resultat visar att fyra av sex respondenter besitter maskulina ledarskapsstilar och att två respondenter beskriver sig som att de anammar en feminin ledarskapsstil.
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Santos, Sofia Carrelhas Canossa. "Modelo de jogo ofensivo no polo aquático feminino de elite-caracterização da organização do processo ofensivo das selecções femininas de elite, no Campeonato Europeu de Sevilha, 1997." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UP-Universidade do Porto -- -Faculdade de Ciências do Desporto e de Educação Física, 2001. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29253.
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Grignard, Éline. "La dynamique ornementale des images : enjeux critiques, formels et perceptifs de l'ornement au cinéma." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA107.
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En s’emparant de la question ornementale, le cinéma s’inscrit dans une réflexion reliant les territoires balkaniques de l’art, au-delà de l’opposition entre les beaux-arts, les arts décoratifs et le design. La pensée de l’ornement au cinéma ne relève pas de l’évidence, tant il est vrai que l’histoire de la notion est marquée par sa relégation au seuil de la création artistique. Pourtant, il semble bien que l’ornement soit présent partout où il faut combler du vide, décorer un objet, embellir le corps. À quoi tient l’attrait de l’ornement au cinéma ? Quelles sont les relations qu’entretient le cinéma avec la pensée ornementale des images ? Contre le préjugé qui frappe l’ornement d’insignifiance, il semble nécessaire d’éclairer ses implications morales, sociales et politiques. À travers un corpus circonstancié qui se déploie à l’entour du cinéma, de l’histoire de l’art et de la culture visuelle, ce travail de recherche entend cartographier les enjeux critiques, formels et perceptifs du régime visuel de l’ornement. Penser l’ornement aujourd’hui, c’est opérer un basculement dans l’ordre des valeurs dont il se fait l’héritier. Il s’agit non seulement de faire retour sur son histoire et son élaboration conceptuelle, mais également d’emmener l’ornement vers un au-delà du discours de la subsidiarité pour établir une pensée dynamique de l’ornemental au cinéma. À travers différentes propositions théoriques, se formulent autant de constellations articulant les enjeux esthétiques, historiques et politiques de l’ornement : le régime de la dépense et le corps féminin en exercice, le processus de réification de « l’ornement de la masse » dans la modernité, le discours sur la couleur ornementale et la hantise cosmétique, les formes naturelles et abstraites, le paradigme du tapis et la texture des images, les états altérés de la perception. Les questions ornementales adressées au cinéma s’intègrent dans une pensée rénovée du style – point vif de la tension qui anime l’art et la vie – en tant que procédure de qualification des formesAs it seized the ornamental issue, cinema has become part of a reflection process relating the scattered territories of arts, beyond the opposition between fine arts, decorative arts and design. Thinking the ornament in cinema is far from obvious, since this notion, throughout its evolution, has always been marginalized at the threshold of artistic creation. Yet, it does seem that the ornament is present wherever a void needs to be filled, an object to be adorned or a body to be embellished. What makes the ornament appealing in cinema? What relationships does the cinema hold with the ornamental visual thinking? To counter prejudices confining the ornament within insignificance, it appears necessary to clarify its moral, social and political implications. Through a detailed corpus spreading around cinema, history of art and visual culture, this research paper aims at mapping the critical, formal and perceptual issues of the visual regime of the ornament. Thinking the ornament today means swaying the order of the values it has inherited. It is not only about looking back on its history and its conceptual elaboration, but also about bringing the ornament beyond the subsidiary speech to establish a dynamic thinking of the ornamental in cinema. By way of different theoretical suggestions, many constellations are being elaborated. They connect the aesthetic, historical and political stakes of the ornament: the regime of consumption and the gestures of the feminine body, the process of reifying the “mass ornament” into modernity, the speech on decorative colour and the cosmetic obsessive fear, the natural and abstract forms, the carpet paradigm and the texture of images, the altered states of the perception of ornaments. The ornamental issues, which are addressed to the cinema, blend into a renovated thinking on style – central in the tension that stirs arts and life – as a process of qualifying forms
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Gamboa, Vera Caisip. "Revolution girl style now, popular music, feminism, and revolution." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ61431.pdf.
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Estenson, Lilly. "(R)Evolution Grrrl Style Now: Disidentification and Evolution within Riot Grrrl Feminism." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/94.
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This thesis examines the evolution of feminist praxis within the riot grrrl movement, focusing on two specific riot grrrl demographics - founding riot grrrls in the early 1990s and currently active riot grrrls in southern California. This thesis argues that riot grrrl activism is still thriving but in diverse, strategically modified ways. Using José Muñoz’s concept of “disidentification,” it analyzes how contemporary riot grrrls have appropriated and adapted the original movement’s tenets to allow for greater accessibility and diversity.
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Castro, Adriana Bertoldi Carretto de. "Inovação e indústria da moda: um modelo de inovação em estilos e tendências." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/3/3136/tde-23062016-155629/.
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Este trabalho tem como intuito propor um modelo de inovação para a indústria da moda feminina. O modelo visa compreender o comportamento de estilos e tendências determinados e difundidos pelas empresas. A construção deste modelo é justificada pela contribuição que um estudo sobre inovação pode proporcionar à indústria da moda, a qual enfrenta baixos padrões de competitividade no mercado externo e interno. Além disso, embora existam muitos artigos sobre o assunto, poucos foram os modelos de inovação para a indústria da moda encontrados por esta pesquisa. Uma avaliação destes modelos indicou que existe espaço para a proposta de um modelo que aborde o comportamento de estilos e tendências ao longo do tempo. A estrutura de composição do modelo é sustentada por três pilares conceituais: teoria econômica neoschumpeteriana, modelos de inovação e modelos de inovação para a indústria da moda. A característica central do modelo é avaliar se existem estilos que permanecem em moda de maneira contínua ou descontínua. Como existe similaridade conceitual entre os estilos, no que se refere à identidade de gênero (androginia e feminilidade), foi efetuada uma aglutinação de alguns estilos dentro desta denominação. Nem todos os estilos se encaixaram nesta classificação. Então, estes estilos foram denominados como neutros. Como a pesquisa tem abordagem fenomenológica, qualitativa e longitudinal, foi adotada a metodologia hipotética dedutiva para a construção do modelo. Para verificação da validade das hipóteses foi usada uma análise exploratória dos dados por meio de estatística descritiva e decomposição da estrutura de variabilidade através de uma análise de componentes principais (PCA). Ambas as análises forneceram evidências a respeito das hipóteses em questão, as quais também foram testadas através de um teste binomial e de uma análise de variância multivariada por meio de permutações. Os resultados comprovaram que existem estilos que permanecem em moda de maneira contínua e que existem períodos de polarização das aglutinações de estilo.This work aims at proposing an innovation model for the women\'s fashion industry, which intends to understand the behavior of styles and trends spread by companies. The justification for building this model lies in the contribution an innovation study can offer to the fashion industry, which faces low competitiveness patterns in the external as well as internal market. In addition, although there are lots of papers related to this topic, there were only few innovation models found by this research. An evaluation of these models indicated that there is room for a model proposal that addresses style and trends over time. The model composition structure is supported by three conceptual pillars: neo-schumpeterian economic theory, innovation models and innovation models for the fashion industry. The central feature of the model is to evaluate whether there are fashion styles that remain in fashion in a continuous or discontinuous manner. As there is conceptual similarity between the styles, related to gender identity (androgyny and femininity), an agglutination of some styles was performed within this description. No all styles fit into this classification, then, these styles were called neutral. As this research is based on a phenomenological, qualitative and longitudinal approach, the methodology adopted was hypothetical deductive. In order to verify the hypotheses, an exploratory data analysis was developed, by means of descriptive statistic and decomposition of variability structure through a principal component analysis (PCA). Both analyses provided evidence about the considered hypotheses, which were tested using a binomial test and a multivariate variance analysis by means of permutations. The results showed there are fashion styles that remain continuously fashionable and there are polarizations periods of style agglutinations.
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Mélo, Valeska Limeira. "Estilo de vida, atividade física e práticas de lazer em adolescentes do gênero feminino da cidade do Recife - PE, Brasil." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UP-Universidade do Porto -- -Faculdade de Letras, 2001. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29545.
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Belz, Elisabeth Helen Rosemarie. "Styles and Themes Supporting a Feminist Perspective in 'Verfuehrungen.' by Marlene Streeruwitz." The University of Montana, 2008. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05302008-131609/.
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This paper discusses the themes and styles Marlene Streeruwitz uses to support a feminist perspective. The themes discussed are silence, motherhood, oppression, and the body. Streeruwitz's text brings the historical and contemporary silence of women to light and exposes personal and social oppression. By including aspects of women's lives, such as the role of mother, Streeruwitz provides a new literary perspective of women. This is further enhanced by the text's insight into the physical aspects of womanhood. Finally, Streeruwitz's writing style, which is characterized by minimalistic sentence structures and phrases, as well as unusual punctuation, endorses a form of writing that is more representative of women's experiences in opposition to the vast history of literature formed from the male's perspective in a patriarchal society.
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Chorão, Maria da Graça Bigotte. "O feminino para lá do espelho na pintura pré-rafaelita-"The mirror gave back all her loveliness"." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UL-Universidade de Lisboa -- -Faculdade de Letras, 1995. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29860.
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Sabino, Ana Rita Trindade. "Liderança no feminino : um estudo de caso numa empresa do setor da consultoria financeira." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/19562.
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Mestrado em Gestão de Recursos HumanosO número de mulheres em cargos de gestão tem vindo a aumentar; no entanto, poucos estudos existem sobre a liderança no feminino. Com o presente estudo, relativo a um Trabalho Final de Mestrado na modalidade de Dissertação, integrado no Mestrado de Gestão de Recursos Humanos, pretende-se analisar as características da liderança exercida por mulheres numa empresa do setor da consultoria financeira e perceber qual a influência nos/as trabalhadores/as em termos de motivação, de satisfação com o trabalho, e com as perceções quanto às oportunidades de progressão na carreira. Pretende-se igualmente analisar as políticas e práticas de GRH e perceber que importância lhes é atribuída no contexto em estudo. Optou-se por se realizar uma investigação assente num estudo de caso, integrando o método qualitativo e quantitativo, através do recurso a entrevistas semi-estruturadas, análise documental e à aplicação de um inquérito por questionário, respetivamente. Foram analisadas as duas perspetivas: de quem lidera a empresa e das pessoas por elas lideradas. Concluímos que as características de liderança identificadas na empresa não estão unicamente associadas a um estilo de liderança, remetendo antes para traços dos diversos estilos de liderança tipificados na literatura. As políticas e práticas de GRH em vigor são valorizadas tanto por quem lidera como pelo coletivo de trabalhadores/as; assim, à semelhança do que sucede com as características reconhecidas às pessoas líderes, estas, contribuem para valores relativamente elevados de satisfação e motivação.
Despite the number of women in management positions having risen in the last years, few studies exist about female leadership. With this study, a dissertation inserted in the Final Masters Paper for the Master's Degree in Human Resources Management, it is intended to analyze the female leadership features present in a financial consulting firm, as well as to understand the degree of influence in the employees, whether it's for motivation, job satisfaction or future career prospects. It is also intended to analyze HRM rules and their practicality, understanding their importance within the object of this study. We have opted to conduct a case study research, incorporating quantitative and qualitative methods, resorting to semi-structured interviews, documental analysis and also a questionnaire survey. Two perspectives were analyzed: who leads and who is leaded. We concluded that the leadership qualities identified within the firm are not uniquely associated to a specific leadership style, steering us towards traits of the various leadership styles present in available literature. Today's HRM policies and rules are valued both by who is leading but also by who is leaded, allowing for them to contribute for high levels of satisfaction and motivation, in the same way as what happens with the classic traits we recognize in a leader.
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Fonseca, Olga Natália Brito da. "Andebol português versus andebol mundial-estudo comparativo da organização ofensiva em equipas femininas de alto rendimento." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UP-Universidade do Porto -- -Faculdade de Ciências do Desporto e de Educação Física, 1999. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29054.
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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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Porter, Deborah Denise Smith. "A study of the perceptions of female leaders' qualifications, leadership style, and effectiveness among elective and selective leaders." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2009. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/44.
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This study examined the perceptions of female leaders' qualifications, leadership style, and effectiveness to lead. Eighty-nine leaders were surveyed using the Leader Perception Questionnaire Inventory (LPQ-i) on a four-point Likert scale and four random selected phone interviews. This study focused on several conceptual frameworks: first, role congruity theory which examined the incongruence of female leaders; second, contingency and transformational theory, which focuses on behavior style based on qualifications, leadership styles, and effectiveness of female leader's; and lastly, feminist theory which examined gender related issues of leadership. This study details current and historical context of female leader's influence in the workplace throughout history. This study utilized a (qualitative and quantitative) mixed methods approach to gain a new perspective using a phi and chi test to test the hypotheses. The findings concluded that women are continually disproportionately outnumbered by a large margin of (62%) males and '37%) females in high level leadership positions. Also, the findings concluded that men and women hold similar views of female leadership.
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Cobb, H., and Karina T. Croucher. "Assembling Archaeology: Teaching, practice and research." Oxford University Press, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17951.
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NoAssembling Archaeology provides a radical rethinking of the relationships between teaching, researching, and practicing as an archaeologist in the twenty-first century. At its heart, this book addresses the marketization of higher education, demonstrating how this fundamentally impacts contemporary archaeological practice. The book proposes a solution which is grounded in a theoretical rethinking of archaeological teaching, training, and practice. Archaeology is currently undergoing a material turn which sees the revaluing of artefacts, objects, and the non-human in understanding the world. Drawing upon this, Cobb and Croucher approach the discipline as a subject of investigation and offer a new perspective founded upon the notion of learning assemblages. The holistic approach they propose challenges traditional power structures and the global marketization of the higher education system. The issues addressed here are global and applicable wherever archaeology is taught, practiced, and researched. This book is therefore valuable to all archaeologists, from academics to those in Cultural Resource Management, from heritage professionals to undergraduate students, and provides significant insights for educators throughout higher education.
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Guerra, Ivone Maria Figueiredo Reis. "As regularidades na aplicação do remate por zona 4 em voleibol, função da oposição situacional estudo aplicado em Cadetes Femininos." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UP-Universidade do Porto -- -Faculdade de Ciências do Desporto e de Educação Física, 2000. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29189.
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Brown, Tamara. "On a women's language." PDXScholar, 1990. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3995.
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Assessing the feminist belief that women have a perspective dramatically differing from the patriarchal perspective, and that this viewpoint is, or could be, couched in a language differing from the norm, this researcher addressed the following three questions: (1) is there a definition of a women's language? (2) does a women's language exist? and (3) if a women's language does exist, in what form does it exist? These questions engendered feminist rhetorical criticism on the work of two radical feminists well known for their interest in, and attention to, the issue of a women's language.
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Gonçalves, Eliane. "Vidas no singular : noções sobre "mulheres sos" no Brasil contemporaneo." [s.n.], 2007. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/280125.
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Orientador: Adriana PiscitelliTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: Nesta tese exploro como são construídas as noções de ¿mulheres sós¿ no Brasil contemporâneo a partir de três contextos distintos: estudos de população, textos da mídia brasileira e narrativas de mulheres de camadas médias, sem filhos, que moram sozinhas na cidade de Goiânia. Nos estudos de população, mulheres que moram sós são contempladas nas discussões sobre os ¿novos arranjos familiares¿ e na tendência de crescimento progressivo do número de pessoas morando sozinhas (¿domicílios unipessoais¿) observada a partir dos anos 1970. A mídia coloca em ¿evidência¿ o alto número de ¿solitárias¿ nas metrópoles brasileiras e chama a atenção para o estilo de vida das ¿novas solteiras¿, consideradas um fenômeno mundial. O debate ganha relevância nas ciências sociaisbrasileiras e assume uma dimensão de notícia em um processo no qual morar sozinha é freqüentemente associado à idéia de estar ¿solteira¿, compreendida enquanto ausência de vínculos amorosos e sexuais e, conseqüentemente, traduzido como ¿solidão¿. Várias noções atribuídas às mulheres ¿sós¿ nos distintos contextos remetem a algumas idéias proclamadas pelo feminismo, sendo a educação e o trabalho qualificado e remunerado percebidos como centrais à autonomia das mulheres. A partir de algumas terminologias recorrentes nos recortes considerados ¿ ¿nova mulher¿, mulher ¿independente¿, ¿livre¿ e ¿autônoma¿, etc. ¿, proponho uma reflexão sobre as possíveis conexões entre a produção da noção da ¿mulher só¿ e algumas noções centrais do ideário feminista
Abstract: In this thesis, I explore how contemporary notions of ¿single women¿ are constructed in three different contexts: Population studies (Demography), the Brazilian media, and the narratives of middle class childless women living alone in the city of Goiânia. In population studies, women living alone are considered in the discussion of ¿new families¿ and the increasing number of ¿single person households¿ observed beginning in the 1970s. The media emphasizes the ¿evidence¿ of the high proportion of ¿single¿ women in Brazilian metropolitan areas, drawing attention to their ways of life, in what is seen as a worldwide phenomenon. The debate becomes relevant in the Brazilian social sciences and draws the attention of the news in a process in which living alone is often associated with the idea of being single (unmarried), understood as the absence of partnership and sexual life, and therefore translated as ¿loneliness¿. Several notions attributed to single women in the three different contexts resonate with ideas proclaimed by feminism, where education and professional and paid work are perceived as central to the autonomy of women. Regarding recurrent terminologies such as the ¿new woman¿, ¿independent¿ woman, ¿free¿ and ¿autonomous¿, etc, I question the potential connections between the production of the notion of the ¿single woman¿ and key ideas in feminist thinking
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Ciencias Sociais
Doutor em Ciências Sociais
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Lan, Pei-Chen, and 藍珮禎. "The Study of Bridal Photography－A Study of Feminine and Photography Style The Study of Bridal Photography－A Study of Feminine and Photography Style." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11277057057097271580.
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商學與管理研究所碩士班
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The bridal photography becomes popular now. Taiwan’s bridal photography is famous in the world. Questionnaires were adopted as survey instruments to collect data on the bridal street in Taipei. The study concentrated on the differences bridal product attribute、photography style and feminine to the customer. The findings are as following︰(1) Female、below 30 ages、collaged pay more attention on service attribute. (2) Female、below 30 ages、collaged regard feminine as independence、keen-wit. Male think the feminine is sex. (3) The costume is western style. The place is in foreign spots. The lens distance is close and middle shot. The image process is the reflection of reality.
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Mack, Ava Marie. "Is feminine style executive style? Textual analysis of State of the State addresses 2001-2016." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/24077.
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Political speeches are powerful communicative capital. Speeches signal policy positions, preferences and priorities to other legislators, executives and constituents. Current literature diverges on the prime factor that influences political speech. One body of literature claims institutions influence speech. The authority and constraints of political offices condition speeches’ purpose. Legislators use speeches to credit claim and executives to agenda set. A second body focuses on gender. These authors unanimously find that female legislators speak with a “feminine style”, emphasizing traditional women’s issues including healthcare, education and social spending. The institutional literature that examines executive speech ignores gender. The gender-based literature only examines legislators, ignoring executives. The overlap, female executive speech, has not been studied. There has never been a female US national executive, but female executives on the state level, governors, are a valuable resource. Using an original data set of 668 State of the State addresses given by US governors 2001-2016, I attempt to answer whether gender conditions executive speech. My textual analysis suggests that institutions are more important, and that regardless of gender, governors emphasize similar issues in their speeches. However, male governors address national issues more frequently than female governors who tend to focus on state-specific issues.
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Quandt, Lindsay Katherine. "“Cookie Mom-ster,” “Mom in Chief,” and “Sugar Mommy” : [de-] constructing ideal femininty of Presidential candidate wives." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/11876.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)A 2004 New York Times’ article regarding the role of potential First Ladies at political conventions wrote, “The public will someday accept a fully independent first lady, Ms. Gibbons predicted, 'I don't see how we can go backwards.’'' (Purnick, 2004) That isn’t to say, however, we have continued moving forward. Perpetuating the trend that began two decades ago, in 2012 both Ann Romney and Michelle Obama delivered speeches at the Republic National Convention (RNC) and Democratic National Convention (DNC) respectively. Prompting a continued study of the first lady include not only Michelle Obama’s self-titled “Mom-in-Chief” speech or the ever present role of fashion and the First Lady, but also her permanent role as the candidate’s feminine counterpart and its close management demand examination. To be sure, this thesis comes at a time of significant importance, with Hillary Clinton vying for the 2016 Democratic Presidential nomination. I agree with past scholars that presidential spouses, as part of the presidential institution, have ushered in a level of public power not previously possible for women (Anderson, Campbell, Jamieson, Sheeler, et al). However, the power of the first lady is constrained by feminine expectations that prevent the emergence of a fully independent first lady. We should question the limitations of the spousal role and challenge the discourses that create those limitations, as they hinder the realization of a fully independent first lady. Since 1992, nearly every spouse has given a public address at the presidential nominating convention, with all candidate wives from 2000-2012 taking part. The emergence of this campaign trend has prompted communication scholars to call for the expansion of research surrounding these speeches (Brown, 2012). Scholars have previously noted that first lady campaign discourse provides a sandbox in which our country experiments with various levels of first lady independence (Parry-Giles, 1996, Campbell, 1998, Anderson, 2002). That is to say, how the wives consistently talk about themselves, their husbands and the country, as well as how the media reports on the potential first lady during coverage of convention oratory, sheds light on the national tone of feminine ideologies. Therefore, I contend that a genre exists governing first lady convention speeches which, along with the mediated discourses surrounding these speeches, constructs and reinforces the ideal femininity of the First Lady. As a result, the hegemonic masculinity of the presidency is further reified with important consequences for our ability to accept an independent first lady which makes it more difficult to accept a woman president. This thesis examines the dual role of the feminine ideal of US first ladies and the masculinity of the presidency. Examining the generic constraints of 20 years of presidential candidate wives convention speeches and the associated media coverage will uncover dominant themes that aim to vilify certain wives—for their speech style and content—and celebrate others. By assessing what points of struggle we witness in these discourses, we note opportunities where first ladies and potential first ladies challenge these generic constraints and have the potential to reveal shifts and expansions in the discourses. The result may lead to a new understanding of gender in relation to the presidency.
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Piersall, Paul. "Gender and Compositional Choice: Four Songs on a Poem of Heinrich Heine by Female and Male Composers." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/64636.
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As an accepted genre of female composition, song lies in a unique position among musical genres. This allows it to stand largely outside the area of Claude Steele’s notion of “stereotype threat,” and being absent such weighty pressures, it could then furnish an arena in which female composers can do their best work. As a genre that combines the arts of music and poetry, song is based upon a given set of symbols that provide the composer with inspiration. The study of these symbols and their possible metaphorical meanings can offer a guide to that inspiration. By studying two settings by male composers and two settings of female composers, we can compare their individual and gendered approach to those symbols for elements of a masculine or feminine style.
Heinrich Heine’s 23rd poem in Die Heimkehr, analyzed thoroughly in Chapter 2, is the focal text in this study. In Chapters 3 through 6 each of the settings is examined at length using both a standard formal analysis and the “Grundgestalt” concept of Schoenberg. The settings examined are “Ihr Bild” by Franz Schubert, “Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen” and “Ihr Bildniss” (two versions of the same work) by Clara Schumann, “Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen” by Hugo Wolf, and a setting of the same name by Ingeborg von Bronsart. Each discussion focuses on the individual reactions to the specific symbols identified in Chapter 2, as well as the global approach to some well-known literary aspects of paternalistic literary culture of the time. The thesis concludes with a summary of the similarities and differences in the preceding four examinations. Chapter 7 also draws conclusions based on those contrasts, which yields an evaluation of gendered reactions and the possibility of a feminine style in the nineteenth century.
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""A Selection of Sacred Hymns": Singing Women into Citizenship in Zion." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.53509.
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abstract: Among the hundreds of hymnals published in the United States during the Second Great Awakening (1790–1850), the first official hymnal of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a rare example of a hymnal compiled by a woman. The Latter-day Saints wanted a hymnal adapted to their unique beliefs and emerging identity, and Emma Smith—the wife of founding prophet Joseph Smith—was given sole charge of selecting the hymns. The hymnal is also significant because Emma Smith selected and arranged hymns from 1830–1835, years of an emerging rhetoric for the early women’s rights movement. Nevertheless, few studies attend to Smith’s agency and priorities as a compiler, being preoccupied with the contributions of W. W. Phelps, the editor, printer, and most represented poet of the hymnal.
Drawing on Karlyn Kohrs Campbell’s theories of agency and of feminine style as well as Kenneth Burke’s theory of form, this thesis uses close textual analysis and coding to examine the rhetorical strategies Smith employed in the hymnal’s preface and in the organization of the Sacred Hymns section. The analysis reveals the hymnal’s recurring themes as well as the ideas it circulates about sex, gender, agency, and community inclusion/exclusion. It also uncovers tension between Smith’s and Phelps’ priorities for the hymnal, particularly in how Smith and Phelps characterize those who should and should not be included with equal authority in Zion, the ideal community the Latter-day Saints sought to build.Dissertation/Thesis
Masters Thesis English 2019
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Duarte, Ana Carina de Oliveira. "Imperium femininis…Uma liderança de sucesso escondido." Master's thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/4104.
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Este artigo tem três objectivos: a) explorar as diferenças na eficácia percebida de
líderes femininos e masculinos; b) conhecer que estilo de liderança adopta o líder feminino
(estilo transformacional vs transaccional); e c) averiguar a relação entre a eficácia percebida
do líder e algumas características individuais dos liderados.
Os 80 participantes deste estudo, 34 do sexo masculino e 46 do sexo feminino, espelharam a
percepção do seu líder respondendo ao Questionário de Liderança Multifactorial. Não foram
encontradas diferenças significativas na percepção de eficácia de líderes femininos e
masculinos pelos seus liderados. Observou-se que o líder feminino adopta um estilo de
liderança transaccional, o que contradiz a literatura. Por último, a eficácia do líder não é uma
variável que possa ser explicada por características próprias dos avaliadores ou mesmo pelo
género do líder. Estes resultados sugerem que a mulher deve ocupar o seu papel não como
líder feminina, mas simplesmente como líder e ser aplaudida pelo seu sucesso.This article has three objectives: a) explore the differences of effectiveness leadership perception of the led respecting feminine and masculine leaders; b) know the leadership style adopted by the feminine leader (transformational vs transactional style); and c) examine the relationship between the perceived effectiveness of leader and some individual characteristics of the led. The 80 participants of this study, 34 men and 46 of women, show the perception of their leader answering the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire. Weren’t found significant differences in the perception of effectiveness of female and male leaders for their led. Noted that the female leader's tending to adopt a transactional leadership style, which contradicts the literature. Finally, the effectiveness of leader is not a variable that can be explained by characteristics of the evaluators or even by gender. These results suggest that women must take the role not as a feminine leader, but simply as a leader and be applauded for success.
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António, Edna de Fátima Linda. "Liderança no feminino." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10437/7884.
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Orientação:Jorge Correia JesuínoA perceção que os portugueses têm da liderança feminina é diferente da que os angolanos têm, embora as diferenças não sejam tão diametrais. Em comum, têm a resistência de serem liderados por uma mulher. Esta resistência faz com que as mulheres estejam na pirâmide das hierarquias das organizações em posições inferiores e na sua maioria chefiarem equipas maioritariamente formada por mulheres. As mulheres acabam mais por elaborar pareceres que são depois decididos pelos homens. O nosso estudo veio comprovar que as mulheres têm um estilo de liderança diferente dos homens. As mulheres lideram destacando mais a relações interpessoais, enquanto os homens estão focados mais nas tarefas. Entre as diferenças constatadas, quer em Angola, como em Portugal, existem ainda vários estereótipos em relação a liderança da mulher. Em Angola, onde predomina à resistência de serem liderados por mulheres com maior relevância, o homem ainda acha que não pode ser liderado por uma mulher por acharem que o papel da mulher é na família e em Portugal, as mulheres com cargos de chefia ganham menos que os homens que ocupam a mesma posição. O stress criado pelo preconceito é maior nas mulheres do que nos homens. Para várias mulheres, ser líder é meio caminho andado para ser rotulada de “machona” e com isso ter problemas inclusive na vida familiar ou afectiva mesmo. Estes preconceitos não ofuscam as suas competências mas influencia na avaliação que lhe são feitas pelos seus superiores hierárquicos.
The perception the Portuguese have about female leadership is different from that Angolans have, although the differences are not very significativo. They have in comuninon attitude and the resistance to being led by a woman. This resistance accounts for the fact that women are normally at the bottom of the hierarchical pyramid of organizations and teams that are mostly made up of women. Furthermore, they are more likely to contribute to opinions and ideas that are then decided by men. Our study proved that women have a different leadership approach and style to men. Female leaders focus more on interpersonal relationships, whilst men are more focused on tasks. Taking into account the differences between female and male leadership found in Angola and in Portugal, there is also a number of others stereotypes in regards to women's leadership. In Angola, for example, where machismo is more predominant, most men still think that a woman cannot lead them because they think that the role of women is to take care of the family and in Portugal, it is common for women in leading positions to earn less than men who take up the same position. This prejudice has a greater effect on the stress level in women than in men. For many women, being a leader is halfway to being labelled as a "butch", as a result, their family and emotional lives become affected. These prejudices do not overshadow their skills but influences in the evaluation that are made by their superiors.
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Vacková, Barbora. "Hudba Geraldiny Muchové: Analýza kompozičního stylu z pohledu feministické muzikologie." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-398765.
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1 Abstract This Master's thesis presents the first look into the music of Scottish-Czech composer Geraldine Mucha (1917-2012) which has never been subject to academic study before. I characterize her compositional style and musical language, as well as their development over time, by analyzing four orchestral compositions written between the 1940s and 1980s - Overture to Tempest, Piano Concerto, Suite from the ballet Macbeth and John Webster Songs. In the thesis, I am also introducing the - in Czech musicological context entirely unknown - discourse on the issue of musical analysis of pieces written by women composers and I critically explore its different strands of thought. When possible, I examine the selected pieces by using Ellie M. Hisama's theoretical model which claims that in women's music, evidence may be found that provides information about their specific female experience in the patriarchal world.
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Thomson, Tara S. ""Behind the cotton wool": Everyday Life and the Gendered Experience of Modernity in Modernist Women's Fiction." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5388.
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This dissertation examines everyday life in selected works by Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, and Katherine Mansfield. It builds on recent scholarship by Bryony Randall (2007) and Liesl Olson (2009), who have argued that modernism marks a turn to the mundane or the ordinary, a view that runs contrary to the long-established understanding of modernism as characterized by its stylistic difficulty, high culture aesthetics, and extraordinary moments. This study makes a departure from these seminal critical works, taking on a feminist perspective to look specifically at how modernist authors use style to enable inquiry into women’s everyday lives during the modernist period. This work draws on everyday life studies, particularly the theories of Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and Rita Felski, to analyze what attention to the everyday can tell us about the feminist aims and arguments of the literary texts.
The literary works studied here include: Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage (predominantly the fourth volume, The Tunnel), Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and The Waves, and Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss” and “Marriage à la Mode.” This dissertation argues that these works reveal the ideological production of everyday life and how patriarchal power relations persist through mundane practices, while at the same time identifying or troubling sites of resistance to that ideology. This sustained attention to the everyday reveals that the transition from Victorian to modern gender roles was not all that straightforward, challenging potentially simplistic discourses of feminist progress. Literary technique and style are central to this study, which claims that Richardson, Woolf, and Mansfield use modernist stylistic techniques to articulate women’s particular experiences of everyday life and to critique the ideological production of everyday life itself. Through careful analysis of their various uses of modernist technique, this dissertation also challenges the vague or uncritical uses of the term ‘stream of consciousness’ that have long dominated modernist studies.
This dissertation makes several original contributions to modernist scholarship. Its sets these three authors alongside one another under the rubric of everyday life to see what reading them together reveals about feminist modernism. The conclusions herein challenge the notion of an essentializing ‘feminine’ modernism that has largely characterized discussion of these authors’ common goals. This dissertation also contributes a new reading of bourgeois everydayness in Mansfield’s stories, and is the first to discuss cycling as a mode of resistance to domesticity in The Tunnel. It argues for the ‘mobile space’ of cycling as a supplement to the common symbol of feminist modernism, the ‘room of one’s own.’ The reading herein of Woolf’s contradictory approach to the everyday challenges the accepted view among Woolf scholars that her theory of ‘moments of being’ has transformative power in everyday life. This dissertation also makes a feminist intervention into everyday studies, which has been criticized for its failure to take account of women’s lives.Graduate
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Kgomo, Salaminah Mankgatle. "Conflict management of women principals in primary schools in Hammanskraal, Gauteng." Diss., 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1715.
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The purpose for this study was to analyze conflict management according to the challenges experienced by the women principals in the Hammanskraal area in the Gauteng Province when they attempt to maintain superior- subordinate relationships in primary schools. The objectives of the study were identified as follows:
1. Literature investigation into the nature of conflict management and the feminist theoretical perspective regarding the under-representation of women in the higher managerial positions in the public institutions
2. The semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect information with regard to conflict management from a woman principal, two heads of the departments and two educators in a primary school in the Hammanskraal area, Gauteng Province. The findings supported the literature review that women principals are more effective in the area of conflict management than are the male principals.
3. The study has recommended that women should be afforded an opportunity to occupy the principalhood in the schools.Educational Studies
M.Ed (Education Management)
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Legodi, Matome Lazarus. "An investigation into gender differences with respect to administrative leadership styles: case of Polokwane Municipality." Diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1041.
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Ogletree, Evelyn 1954. "Voices of Four African American Female Clergy and Their Perceptions of Gender, Equity, and Leadership Styles in the African American Urban Church." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148281.
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The purpose of this qualitative study was to give voice to the experiences of African American female pastors of African American churches and their perceptions of gender and equity as it pertains to their role in the pastorate. This phenomenological study identified the lived experiences of each participant through her personal narrative, which reflects her path from birth to present. Participants’ experiences as a senior pastor provided a personal historical path of the journey of female pastors for a span of four decades. This dissertation shares the challenges, barriers, and support to female pastors.
This study examined personal characteristics, acts of leadership, and acts of negotiating the system within the African American church. The participants’ ages ranged from 40-70+. The findings of this study indicated that there has been a slow change in the acceptance of female pastors. Female pastors have been a part of our culture since biblical times, but resistance is still present.
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Cooper, Lucille. "Is there a woman in the text? : a feminist exploration of Katherine Mansfield's search for authentic selves in a selection of short stories." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2410.
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Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), British Modernist writer whose search for authentic selves in the lives of the characters in her short stories, is reflected in her innovative style of writing in which she examines the interior consciousness of their minds.
Mansfield questions the inauthentic lives of the characters, revealing that the roles they play are socially imposed forcing them to hide their true selves behind masks.
The stories which have been chosen for this study focus on women characters (and men also) who grapple with societal prescriptions for accepted actions, and are rendered mute as a result. The women characters include all age groups and social classes. Some are young and impressionable (The Tiredness of Rosabel, The Little Governess and The Garden Party), others are married and older (Bliss, Prelude and Frau Brechenmacher attends a wedding ), while there are also middle-aged women in Miss Brill and The Life of Ma Parker.English Studies
M.A. (English)
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Townsend, Rosemary. "Narration in the novels of selected nineteenth-century women writers : Jane Austen, The Bronte Sisters, and Elizabeth Gaskell." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18634.
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In this studyi apply a feminist-narratological grid to
the works under discussion. I show how narration is used as
strategy to highlight issues of concern to women, hereby
attempting to make a contribution in the relatively new field
of feminist narratology.
Chapter One provides an analysis of Pride and Prejudice
as an example of a feminist statement by Jane Austen. The use
of omniscient narration and its ironic possibilities are
offset against the central characters' perceptions, presented
by means of free indirect style.
Chapter Two examines The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as a
critique of Wuthering Heights, both in its use of narrative
frames and in its at times moralistic comment. The third and
fourth chapters focus on Charlotte Bronte. Her ambivalences
about the situation of women, be they writers, narrators or
characters, are explored. These are seen to be revealed in her
narrative strategies, particularly in her attainment of
closure, or its lack.
Chapter Five explores the increasing sophistication of
the narrative techniques of Elizabeth Gaskell, whose early
work Mary Barton is shown to have narrative inconsistencies as
opposed to her more complex last novel Wives and Daughters.
Finally, I conclude that while the authors under
discussion use divergent methods, certain commonalities
prevail. Among these are the presentation of alternatives
women have within their constraining circumstances and the
recognition of their moral accountability for the choices they
make.English Studies
D. Litt. et Phil. (English)