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Hallstein, D. Lynn O'Brien. "Transforming feminist rhetorical theory and schizoanalysis: a collaboration between feminist rhetorical theory and schizoanalytic theory /." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487850665559636.

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Cochrane, Regina M. "Feminism, ecology, and negative dialectics, toward a feminist green political theory." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0022/NQ39260.pdf.

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McFadden, Caroline. "Critical white feminism interrogating privilege, whiteness, and antiracism in feminist theory." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/472.

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It is vital that feminist theory and critical white studies be combined in order to form what I call critical white feminism. Both critical white studies and feminist studies are often limited in their ability to adequately address the complex interconnectivity of racial and gender privilege and oppression. In general, feminist scholarship produced by white feminists excludes and oppresses women of color and is therefore inadequate. I refer to this problem as white feminist racism and argue that white feminists are ignorant of the ways in which whiteness and privilege facilitate problematic th
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Nylund, Mia-Lie. "A fully feminist foreign policy? : A postcolonial feminist analysis of Sweden's Feminist Foreign Policy." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-339481.

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This thesis is a postcolonial feminist discourse analysis of Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy. Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy is unique to the world, but it is not the only case of incorporating a gender perspective as a central part of national or international politics. Feminism and gender perspectives are increasingly receiving attention and space in global politics. The Swedish case could therefore inform us about where politics are heading. Previous research on the Feminist Foreign Policy has aimed mainly at examining what it means and what challenges it likely will face. The aim of the
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Sargisson, Lucy. "Contemporary feminist utopianism." Thesis, Keele University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295799.

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Scott, Shelley. "Feminist theory and Nightwood Theatre (Ontario)." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ45828.pdf.

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Gipson, Michael Eugene. "Asymptotes and metaphors : teaching feminist theory." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001827.

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Lury, Celia. "Feminist literary theory and women's writing." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.370953.

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Cousins, Jane M. "Towards a feminist theory of drama." Thesis, Cousins, Jane M (1987) Towards a feminist theory of drama. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1987. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/52894/.

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The thesis attempts to theorize the conditions of a feminist practice (or practices) of drama through a series of readings of plays, framed by a theoretical introduction and conclusion. In the form of a feminist critique of current theories of subjectivity and signification - notably those of psychoanalysis, semiotics, marxist literary theory, and discourse analysis - the introduction sets the theoretical scene for an exploration of the possibility of producing meaning for feminism, in the practices of reading and writing drama. It examines the conceptual tools provided, in particular, by psyc
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Gibbs, Anna. "Gertrude Stein and feminist literary theory." Thesis, Gibbs, Anna (1989) Gertrude Stein and feminist literary theory. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1989. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/52950/.

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This thesis attempts to render intelligible some significant issues in feminist literary theory - and perhaps 'feminist theory' more generally - through a reading of some of Gertrude Stein's writing, concentrating especially on The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and some of Stein's shorter prose. The issues explored all arise out of the confrontation of Anglo-American empiricism with what has been qualified - too neatly - as French theoretical work in the domains of philosophy, and literary theory. I refer particularly to a body of work that may be broadly termed 'postmodern', though in f
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Illert, Pamela Anne. "Kristevan theory : meanings, contexts, feminist "uses" /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armi29.pdf.

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O'Donnell, Carolynn. "A philosophical account of feminist solidarity between women /." Connect to online version, 2007. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2007/216.pdf.

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Kaufman, Hall Virginia. "Women transforming the workplace : collaborative inquiry into integrity in action /." View thesis View thesis, 1996. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030610.123935/index.html.

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Conway, Joel Sidler Michelle. "Multigenre rhetoric where genre theory and feminist composition theory meet /." Auburn, Ala., 2006. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2006%20Spring/master's/CONWAY_TIMOTHY_23.pdf.

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Blomdahl, Alexandra. "Virginia Woolf's Orlando and the Feminist Reader : Feminist Reader Response Theory in Orlando: a Biography." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-32476.

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This essay is a close reading of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: a Biography that focuses on representation of gender in the novel and the possible response it elicits in the reader. The essay argues that the implied reader of Orlando - as manifested in the novel - is a feminist one, as well as it explores the possibility of this implied feminist reader being a female. The reasons as to why this could be are extensively examined by analyzing the main character Orlando as he metamorphoses from an English nobleman into a grown woman. To support the thesis, the essay looks both into reader response cri
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Smith, Lawrencine. "Towards developing a feminist political economy: a comparative analysis of socialist feminist theory." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1988. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1909.

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The primary intent of this thesis is to analyze socialist feminist literature in order to ascertain conclusions about the nature of this framework of feminist thought. The most distinguishing characteristic of this type of feminist theory is that some form of Marxian economic analysis is utilized. Therefore, understanding the relationship between female oppression and economic exploitation is the orienting problem of all socialist feminist theory. In order to examine this relationship, this thesis explores the methods of analysis found in socialist feminist literature. A case study approach is
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Tobin, Erin C. "Campy Feminisms: The Feminist Camp Gaze in Independent Film." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1594039952349499.

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Gilman, Todd Nathaniel. "Communicative Action as Feminist Epistemology." PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4906.

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This thesis proposes that feminist social and political theory adopt the epistemology inherent in Jurgen Habermas's communicative ethics in order to more coherently work toward the goal of freeing individuals from social oppression. This thesis first examines the fundamental differences that exist between the particular claims for knowledge made by the three major schools of feminist theory; the empirical feminists, the standpoint feminists, and those allied with postmodernism. After illuminating the specifics of these feminist claims, the conception of knowledge central to Habermas's thought
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Todd, Sharon. "The politics of knowledge : a critical theoretical approach to feminist epistemology and its educational implications." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61314.

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Stemming from the dialectical concepts of critical epistemology developed by feminism and Critical Theory (specifically, the Frankfurt School), this thesis attempts to articulate the political dimension of knowledge and to demonstrate how this dimension is incorporated into the liberatory pedagogical theory of Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux and various feminist authors. Hence the epistemological significance of domination and oppression is explored in relation to the concepts of subjectivity and objectivity held by critical epistemology.<br>In ultimately aiming at liberation from social oppression
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Grant, Jane W. "Governance, continuity and change in the organised women's movement." Thesis, University of Kent, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.342137.

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Chen, Szu-chin Hestia. "Reading Julia Kristeva's novels : revisiting French feminist theory." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/24365.

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Internationally known as a practising psychoanalyst, literary theoretician and critic, the French feminist Julia Kristeva has recently shifted her interest from theory to the novel, albeit that the boundary between theory and novel is indeterminate for her. This research is a study of her novels to date, <i>Les Samouraïs, Le vieil homme et les loups, </i>and <i>Possessions,</i> and the way in which they embody her theoretical works in the context of the relationship between French feminist theory and post-colonial (feminist) theory, as well as between French feminist theory and Anglo-American
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Vrablikova, Lenka. "Tremendous pedagogies : feminist theory, deconstruction and the university." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18458/.

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This thesis contributes to the theorization of the concept of the university and strives to imagine its future by bringing together particular threads within feminist and deconstructive thought. Through deconstructive textual analysis of three theoretical debates – on the disciplinarity of women’s studies, on resistance against the so called ‘neoliberalization’ of the university, and on narratives of feminist studies – this study seeks to establish the theoretical ground necessary for generating a university beyond its phallocentric and neoliberal predicament. This attempt is conveyed under a
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Haran, Joan. "Re-visioning feminist futures : literature as social theory." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1239/.

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This thesis explores the relationships between science fiction, social theory and social transformation through an in-depth analysis of three feminist science fiction novels. It develops innovative reading practices that bring together narrative theories and methodologies from a range of disciplines, including Sociology, Cultural Studies and Literary Studies. With reference to feminist psychoanalytic theory, the thesis also develops an original theorisation of the 'utopian impulse' and the workings of passionate identification in the formation of interpretive communities, with particular refer
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Yonamine, Noriko. "Words and action : a feminist theory of pornography." Thesis, University of York, 2005. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10971/.

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Lowe, Julia (Julia Margaret) Carleton University Dissertation English. "Re-inscribing the mother: feminist theory and fiction." Ottawa, 1991.

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Xausa, Chiara <1991&gt. "Feminist environmental humanities: intertwining theory and speculative fiction." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2022. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/10435/1/XAUSA_CHIARA_TESI.pdf.

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This dissertation explores the entanglement between the visionary capacity of feminist theory to shape sustainable futures and the active contribution of feminist speculative fiction to the conceptual debate about the climate crisis. Over the last few years, increasing critical attention has been paid to ecofeminist perspectives on climate change, that see as a core cause of the climate crisis the patriarchal domination of nature, considered to go hand in hand with the oppression of women. What remains to be thoroughly scrutinised is the linkage between ecofeminist theories and other ethical s
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Holst, Cathrine. "Feminism, epistemology & morality." Bergen : University of Bergen, 2005. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/77564206.html.

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Threadgold, Terry. "Feminist textual practice performance and critique." Monash University, School of Literary, Visual and Cultural Studies, 1999. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8576.

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Wallace, Aurora. "Of shadowboxing and straw-women : postfeminist texts and contexts." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26354.

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This thesis is a discursive and historical analysis of the concept and usage of 'postfeminism' in contemporary feminist debates. The importance of the vocabulary used to frame these debates is demonstrated through a survey of popular feminist discourses in the 1920s, and the circulation of the term 'postfeminism' in 1980s and 1990s mainstream and feminist media, academic journals, and bestselling books. Foremost among these contexts are mainstream newspaper and magazine articles in which postfeminism is used as a descriptive term applied to trends in fashion, television and film. Through an in
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Singh, Michelle Marie. "Feminist subjects: issues of sexual politics and the problem of subjectivity." Thesis, Griffith University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366079.

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This dissertation sets out to re-describe (hetero)sexuality as a theoretical and political problem for feminism. I pursue this task two ways: by historicising both heterosexuality and feminist sexual politics, and by critically assessing the effects of the conceptions of subjectivity and power that have shaped primary feminist approaches to sexuality. I begin this project by examining a specific feminist attitude of antagonism towards post-structuralist theories, and drawing out its underlying ideal of feminism as a closed and coherent theoretical and political system. I argue that this concep
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Bedore, Pamela. "Open universes, contemporary feminist science fiction and gender theory." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0023/MQ51297.pdf.

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Hundleby, Catherine. "Feminist standpoint theory as a form of naturalist epistemology." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ58217.pdf.

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Tay, Sharon Lin. "Beyond sexual difference : sustaining feminist politics in film theory." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.405693.

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Potts, Tracey. "Can the Imperialist read? : race and feminist literary theory." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1997. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/63653/.

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Since the mid 1980's it has been unthinkable for white feminist literary critics to neglect race in their theoretical work. Strong challenges from black feminists have been effective in placing race high on the critical agenda. No longer is the kind of exclusivity that marked early (white) feminist literary theory possible. However, despite the evident commitment to addressing the race question in their work, the black feminist challenge has been greeted with a considerable degree of anxiety by white feminist critics. I suggest that the main source of anxiety is a failure to square the pressin
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Chaparro, Martinez A. "Dignity in feminist political theory : rape, prostitution, and pornography." Thesis, University of Essex, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654721.

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This dissertation attempts to make advances in two debates in political theory: the first debate is about the nature of dignity and its demands and the second debate is about how feminists should address key issues of concern to them that involve sexuality. I show that the widespread use of the term "dignity" is accompanied by several objections regarding its nature and demands. Objections to dignity highlight its context-dependent, subjective, empty, and indeterminate nature. I reply to these objections and argue that dignity is a useful concept. My proposal is that in order to give dignity a
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Kaedbey, Dima. "Building Theory Across Struggles: Queer Feminist Thought from Lebanon." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405945625.

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Pinnegar, Simon (Simon Michael) Carleton University Dissertation Geography. "Men, masculinities and feminist theory: having a gender too." Ottawa, 1995.

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Donovan, Kathleen McNerney. "Coming to voice: Native American literature and feminist theory." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186769.

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This dissertation argues that numerous parallels exist between Native American literature, especially that by women, and contemporary feminist literary and cultural theories, as both seek to undermine the hierarchy of voice: who can speak? what can be said? when? how? under what conditions? After the ideas find voice, what action is permitted to women? All of these factors influence what African American cultural theorist bell hooks terms the revolutionary gesture of "coming to voice." These essays explore the ways Native American women have voiced their lives through the oral tradition and th
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Hertrampf, Susanne. ""Zum Wohle der Menschheit" feministisches Denken und Engagement internationaler Aktivistinnen 1945-1975 /." Herbolzheim : Centaurus, 2006. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/70177837.html.

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Layman, Amanda. "The Problem with Pussy Power: A Feminist Analysis of Spike Lee's Chi-Raq." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1490453172203067.

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Richardson-Self, Louise Victoria. "Justifying Same-Sex Marriage: A Feminist Perspective." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9900.

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This research asks whether same-sex marriage can result in the equal regard of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender men and women (LGBTs). Chapter 1 focuses on the advent of ‘small change’ toward LGBT legal inclusion; the emerging transnational norm of same-sex relationship recognition; and the deliberate framing of LGBT equality claims as matters of human right. Chapter 2 considers difficulties particular to rights discourse, arguing that rights rhetoric has not fully redressed the inequalities faced by marked persons. Chapter 3 analyses the ‘personhood account’ of human rights and its jus
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Markey, Bren April. "Feminist methodologies in moral philosophy." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9107.

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This thesis develops a critique of the methodology of mainstream academic moral philosophy, based on insights from feminist and more generally anti-oppressive political thought. The thesis consists of two parts. In the first, I loosely characterise a certain dominant methodology of philosophy, one based on giving an important epistemological role to existing, 'pre-theoretical' moral attitudes, such as intuitions. I then argue that such methodologies may be critiqued on the basis of theories that identify these moral attitudes as problematically rooted in oppressive social institutions, such as
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Cheng, Kin-sang. "Social theory and gender bias /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13671480.

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Bonnevier, Katarina. "Behind Straight Curtains : Towards a queer feminist theory of architecture." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : School of Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology : Axl Books, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4295.

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McGrath, Shelly A. "Explaining the gender gap in voting using feminist consciousness theory." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1266034.

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Previous research shows that women are more likely to vote Democrat than men. Using the 2000 Middletown Area Survey this paper tests the Feminist Consciousness Theory as a possible explanation for the gender gap in voting. Results indicate that women in the study voted more Democrat than men. Those who scored higher on the NonTraditional Gender Role Ideology scale, the Support for Gender Equality Scale and who said that they were a feminist were more likely to vote Democrat. Women were more likely to support gender equality and identify as being a feminist than were men. This means that becaus
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Schmiedel, Stevie. "Contesting the oedipal legacy : Deleuzean vs psychoanalytic feminist critical theory." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289082.

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Bennett, Jane Andrea. "Revisioning boundaries : feminist theory and the space of abstract painting." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.433944.

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Macleod, Patricia. "Conscionable consumption : a feminist grounded theory of porn consumer ethics." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2018. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/25930/.

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Much scholarship on pornography consumption has revolved around porn harms or porn empowerment discourses. Moving away from pro- and anti-porn agendas, the research presented in this thesis was designed as an exploratory, qualitative investigation of consumer experiences of pornography, using grounded theory in an effort to transcend the polarised porn debates. By means of a two-stage data collection process involving an online group activity and in-depth interviews, this research set out to extend our understanding of how feminists experience, understand and articulate their engagements with
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Fibbe, Leigh Ann. "Personal theorizing: a strategic approach to third wave feminist theory." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1382549735.

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Fricker, Miranda. "Perspectival realism : towards a pluralist theory of knowledge." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320948.

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