Dissertations / Theses: 'Girl'

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Madden, Mary. "The Good Girl Bad Girl Dilemma: Exploring Rural Maine Girls' Sexual Desires, Behaviors, and Relationships." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2000. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/MaddenM2000.pdf.

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Rantala, V. (Vappu). "“Who run the world? Girls!”:analysis on girlhood, girl empowerment and girl empowerment organization GENaustin." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2013. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201306051491.

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Gender has a strong impact on individual’s entire life course. However, this impact is also shaped by the culture and society the individual lives in. For girls (and for boys) the consequences of being of certain gender may be positive as well as negative. This master’s thesis focuses on the factors that contribute to the well-being of girls, and more generally, on how girlhood is experienced. These factors are divided according to the biopsychosocial approach, but it is acknowledged that girlhood is constructed culturally and socially too, which guides the research process. Research context is here seen as ‘geography’ according to the theory deliberated in the book Geographies of Girlhood(2005), edited by Paula Bettis and Natalie Adams, in which several authors speak for the diversity of girlhood. Research on girls’ empowerment is part of girlhood studies aiming at empowering the girls holistically; through empowerment girls are equipped to act upon their own well-being. In the study girlhood and girl empowerment are observed through the lens of biopsychosocial theory, taking into consideration the girls’ living environment, i.e. the geographical context (Western, North American society). It is argued that many of the biopsychosocial challenges of girlhood might best be solved with empowerment theory turned into practice. The theoretical discussion on girlhood and girl empowerment is supported by a case study of one of the North American girl empowerment organizations, GENaustin,Texas, where ethnographic data was collected. Based on the analysis of the data, the researcher evaluates how successful the project of empowering the girls was and also, what were the challenges people working for this organization needed to cope with. The conclusions drawn from the theoretical consideration and the case study show that the empowerment of girls is of vital importance for their well-being and further, that in order to get good results, the geographical perspective should be recognized; this became obvious when analyzing the challenges that the organization needed to solve, such as the homogeneity of the local girl groups and prerequisites for funding set by the sponsors
Sukupuoli vaikuttaa yksilön elämänkulkuun voimakkaasti koko eliniän ajan. Tämä vaikutus muokkautuu sen kulttuurin ja yhteiskunnan mukaan, jossa yksilö elää. Tytöille (kuten pojillekin) tämä aiheuttaa sekä positiivisia että negatiivisia seurauksia. Tässä pro gradu -tutkielmassa tarkastellaan nimenomaan tyttöjen hyvinvointiin ja ylipäätään tyttöyden kokemisen vaikuttavia tekijöitä, jotka on jaoteltu biopsykososiaalisen teorian mukaan. Tyttöyden katsotaan olevan kuitenkin myös kulttuurisesti ja sosiaalisesti rakentunutta, mikä ohjaa tutkimusprosessia. Tutkimuskontekstista puhutaan myös maantieteenä; tyttöyden maantieto -teoria perustuu Paula Bettisin ja Natalie Adamsin (2005) teokseen Geographies of Girlhood, jossa useat tutkijat puhuvat tyttöyden moninaisuuden puolesta. Tyttöjen voimaantumisen tutkimus on osa tyttötutkimusta ja siihen perustuvan toiminnan tavoitteena on tyttöjen kokonaisvaltainen voimauttaminen niin, että he pystyvät itse edistämään hyvinvointiaan. Tässä tutkimuksessa tyttöyttä ja erityisesti tyttöjen voimauttamista tarkastellaan biopsykososiaalisen teorian kautta, johon tyttöjen elinpiirin, maantieteellisen kontekstin (länsimainen, pohjoisamerikkalainen yhteiskunta) huomioon ottaminen. Tutkielma suosittaatyttöyteen liittyvien biopsykososiaalisten haasteiden kohtaamiseen voimaantumisen teoriaa ja sen soveltamista käytäntöön. Tyttöyden ja tyttöjen voimaantumisen teoreettista vahvistetaan yhden organisaation, texasilaisen GENaustinin, tapaustutkimuksella. Tutkija on kerännyt organisaation toiminnasta etnografisen aineiston, jonka perusteella hän arvioi tyttöjen voimaanuttamisen onnistumista ja niitä haasteita, joita tämän organisaation toimijat työssään kohtaavat. Teoreettisen tarkastelun ja tapaustutkimuksen perusteella päädytään painottamaan tyttöjen voimaantumisen tärkeyttä hyvinvoinnin edistäjänä; parempaan tulokseen tässä työssä päästään ottamalla huomioon maantieteellinen näkökulma, mikä ilmenee myös haasteissa, joita organisaatio kohtaa, kuten paikallisten tyttöryhmien homogeenisyys ja sponsorien mahdolliset rahoitukselle asettamat ehdot

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McWilliam, Kelly. "Girl Meets Girl: Lesbian Romantic Comedies." Thesis, University of Queensland, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/12503/1/12503.pdf.

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Six decades after the romantic comedy emerged as a Hollywood genre in 1934, the first romantic comedies with a central lesbian couple, including Marita Giovanni’s Bar Girls and Rose Troche’s Go Fish, were released in 1994. This study argues that Bar Girls and Go Fish represent the first in a group of films whose numbers and similarities enable their consideration as a romantic comedy sub-genre, namely the ‘lesbian romantic comedy’. This study identifies and analyses this sub-genre. It contends that these films have emerged as the predominant (and perhaps only) form of mainstream lesbian feature film in the United States of America in the mid to late 1990s and early 2000s. Yet, despite their relative prominence for more than a decade, they remain vastly under-examined areas in scholarship on both film genre and lesbian culture. This project aims to contribute to these areas by producing the first full-length survey of the sub-genre and the first study of any length to focus exclusively on it. This study concentrates on ten lesbian romantic comedies: Bar Girls (1994), Go Fish (1994), Maria Maggenti’s The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love (1995), Kelli Herd’s It’s in the Water (1996), Julia Dyer’s Late Bloomers (1996), Emma-Kate Croghan’s Love and Other Catastrophes (1996), Heidi Arnesen’s Some Prefer Cake (1997), Anne Wheeler’s Better than Chocolate (1999), Jamie Babbit’s But I’m a Cheerleader (1999), and Helen Lesnick’s A Family Affair (2001). While this project employs textual analysis as its primary methodology to examine these films, these analyses take place more broadly within a public sphere framework. Consistent with a wider shift in analyses of lesbian and gay cultural products, this framework allows a consideration of the larger public stakes of lesbian romantic comedies and, in particular, their introduction of lesbian content into a heterocentric genre. Specifically, this project argues that the introduction of lesbian content—or the replacement of ‘boy meets girl’ with ‘girl meets girl’—destabilises the genre in significant ways, but that the genre itself equally restricts the representation of lesbianism possible within it. Ultimately, this project proposes a reading of lesbian romantic comedies as conservative and progressive, conventional and subversive, but as nonetheless complex texts that offer a range of pleasures and readings to their audiences and a range of challenges to the genre itself. Such a reading reveals the complexity and negotiation inherent in these films’ position as independent films presenting culturally and politically marginal content in a mainstream genre.

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Riley, Rosemary McKeon. "The Tween Queens: Little girls and big girl relationships." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/colorado/fullcit?p1425765.

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Constant, Alice. "Girl power? : young women, girl bands, femininities and feminisms." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2002. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246480.

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The thesis is an exploration of how young women are embedded within and (re)construct discourses of gendered identity within consumerist/capitalist culture, in relation to popular music. Theoretical analysis is juxtaposed throughout with interviews I conducted with 46 young women aged between 11 and 18 years old which took place in schools and a youth centre in Manchester and Salford. The importance placed on the interviews reflects my attempt to privilege young women as the primary focus of the research. The interviews were a means of situating young women's discursive engagement with popular culture in relation to gender identities. The main body of the thesis begins with an exploration of how young women are situated in relation to discourses of social class, ethnicity and sexuality, including how social class connects with young women's lives in relation to popular culture, how to theorise blackness and whiteness, and ways of opening up discussions of both heterosexuality and homosexuality. I then widen the remit of the thesis, by considering where the young women I interviewed are situated in relation to discourses of femininity, utilising theories of the 'male gaze', and of representations of the feminine in popular culture. How these young women's lives relate to feminisms, and feminist work, particularly in relation to structural inequalities, equal rights and sexual behaviour, are then investigated. Finally, the thesis analyses the extent to which the young women's talk in the interviews constructs themselves and others as individual consumers, and examines how this may impact on young women's lives. The thesis concludes how young women's accounts are embedded in a discourse of individualism. Societal structures which help to construct or maintain gendered, racial or sexual inequalities are often ignored in the young women's talk, since the individual as consumer is situated at the centre of their talk. Forms of feminism which attempt to explore inequalities beyond those of 'equal rights' then fail to impact on the young women as an audience. The young women's talk demonstrates that inequalities continue to exist in their lives, and yet popular culture does little to provide solutions or even acknowledgement of these inequalities. I suggest that since the analysis of the thesis has indicated that available feminisms have often failed to engage with young women in meaningful ways, in the future feminists need to highlight ways of challenging inequalities which young women encounter in their day-to-day lives.

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Lundgren, Hannah. "Girls' Future is Girls' Future? : Tracing the Girl Effect in Plan International Sweden." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-338774.

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This thesis sets out to answer if, and in that case how, the current development discourse, centring on instrumentalist arguments for gender equality and the “marketization” of aid, is reflected in Plan International Sweden’s campaign on the International Day of the Girl Child. The study draws upon critical feminist theories which stress that the instrumentalist approach, which scholars mean has become more common due to the marketization of aid, essentializes women and men in line with traditional ideas of femininity and masculinity. Through the use of discourse analysis, the study shows that the discourse of Plan’s campaign appeals to traditional constructions of femininity and masculinity where women and girls are ascribed signs such as maternal, responsible, altruistic and efficient, and men self-centred, irresponsible and potentially oppressive. Relatedly, Plan shows clear traces of instrumentalist reasoning, arguing that gender equality, besides being a social right, is an instrument to increase development efficiency. Additionally, the study finds that Plan shows traces of a marketized logic, something that can be seen in the organization’s cooperation with private companies which signifies an acceptance of them as actors in development, and the involvement of several celebrities which help validate, brand and “sell” the organization.

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Svensson, Calle. "The Final Girl." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Bildproduktion, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-24055.

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Den här vetenskapliga uppsatsen analyserar den kvinnliga huvudkaraktären Laurie Strode i John Carpenters original och Rob Zombies remake av slasherfilmen Halloween. Uppsatsens syfte är att studera hur samma karaktär har porträtterats ur ett feministiskt perspektiv och hur vi kan förstå dem utifrån de epoker de skapades i. Med en semiotisk analysmetod besvaras hur porträtteringen skiljer de två filmerna åt. Detta genom att analysera karaktärens denotation och konnotation både visuellt och i dialog. Med hjälp av feministisk filmforskning belyser uppsatsen hur filmen Halloween och slashergenren har vidare utvecklats med tiden. Begreppen Hora-Madonna-komplexet och the Final Girl samt forskning kring kvinnor i skräckfilmer används för att förankra tolkningen. Resultatet visar att denna utveckling lett till en mer öppen och tillåtande porträttering av en kvinna utan att med detta lämna den grund som slasherfilmer byggs på. Den visar också på hur filmens remake har frångått vissa begrepp som man kan anse centrala för slashergenren utan att förlora möjligheten att titulera sig som en sådan.

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Medina, Veronica E. "Theorizing American girl." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4975.

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Thesis (M,A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on October 30, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

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Meredith, Angela Marie. "THE NEW GIRL." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2004. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4367.

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The New Girl is a collection of poems in which the poet assumes a direct, unfeigned voice. These rhythmic poems cover the deeply personal to the universal and social. The body is presented as a record of experiences both good and bad. Feminist issues pertainingto marriage, work, and sexuality are explored. Whether the poem is about a personal relationship or some aspect of society, it is likely to be multi-dimensional and suggest a duality. Overall, the poems are rooted in the spiritual and attempt to relate, with holistic honesty, a sense of reverence for the impure parts of life.
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Department of English
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Gerrard, Bambi. "Everybody els's girl." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 1999. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/61.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.
Bachelors
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Hurter, Jade. "Python Crown Girl." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2156.

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Gonzalez, Karen Brown. "The drowned girl." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002403.

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Kelley, Nancy J. "A particular girl." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2000. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1237.

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Graff, Haili Jones. "About a Girl." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1149.

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About a Girl is a coming-of-age memoir set in Montana, a place that I yearned to belong to, but was also desperate to flee. My girlhood was in some ways idyllic--I was a bright child, the oldest of six, and the bulk of my early education took place in rural one-room schools. When school was out, I ran free and wild in the relative safety of several ranches and farms that my stepdad worked on over the years. But as I entered adolescence, I began experimenting with drugs, alcohol, promiscuity, and other high-risk behaviors. This memoir explores themes of family, identity, isolation, and longing for transformation. My shifting relation to self is mirrored in my shifting relation to place, as my family moves to increasingly isolated locales during my girlhood; as I bounce between my mom's and dad's homes during a turbulent adolescence; and as I seek to establish independence by moving to Denver as soon as I graduate high school. Like many rural kids, I was ill prepared for the urban existence I'd idealized, and once I was on my own, I quickly progressed from being evicted from my first apartment to living on the streets. By using techniques such as dialogue, characterization, and scene building to give my memories narrative form, I seek to reconcile the girl I was with the woman I have become. In exploring the distance between these two selves, I also attempt to make peace with the stories I tell about who I am and how I came to be. For some of us, it is only by nearly destroying ourselves that we are able to find out who we are, and only by leaving home that we are able to make our way back.

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Wahome, Samatha. "Ain’t I a Girl: Black Girls Negotiating Gender, Race, and Class." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313436849.

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Tsoulis-Reay, Alexa. "Convergence, concern & the "real" girl : teenage girls' everyday media cultures /." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/4893.

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Brown, Casson Curling. "Entertaining tweens : re/presenting "the teenage girl" in "girl video games"." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2855.

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Research conducted during the 1990s revealed that video games increasingly represent the medium through which children are first exposed to technology, that early gaming can enhance future technological literacy, and that girls tend to play video games less frequently than boys. These findings preceded efforts by feminist entrepreneurs, followed by established video game producers, to develop ‘girl games.’ Such ‘girl-centred,’ ‘girl-friendly,’ and girl-targeted video games now represent a lucrative branch of the contemporary video game industry. In this project, I utilized a multi-method approach to explore how ‘the ideal teen girl’ is re/constructed in three tween-airned ‘girl games.’ My discourse analysis of the ‘dominant’ messages in the games includes an examination of various available feminine subject positions, and how ‘race,’ class, and (hetero)sexuality are implicated in these positions. My analysis of semi-structured interviews that I conducted with eight tween girls provides insight into their everyday readings of the ‘girl games.’ Unlike earlier research that framed girls as passive recipients of ‘damaging’ messages included in gendered texts, my findings suggest that the girls in my study engaged in active and diverse readings of the interactive texts. The multiple ways in which the girls recognized, identified with, resisted, and/or reworked elements of the feminine subject positions demonstrated their management of such contradictory images of ideal girlhood. According to my analysis, while several girls engaged in sceptical readings, none of the girls ultimately rejected the video game messages, or linked them to the wider social order in which they are produced, and which they work to re/produce. My research also revealed that the girls’ identification of and with the subject positions was shaped and augmented by knowledge they had gained from previous exposure to associated transmediated representations (television, movies, music, and fashion products). My research suggests that while ‘the ideal teen girl’ re/constructed for tween garners reflects contemporary notions of girlhood, as she is active and capable, she reaffirms Western standards of hegemonic femininity. The rules of play, beauty ideals, behaviours, and priorities of consumption included in the games work to re/construct White, middle class, heterogendered ‘teen femininity’ as normal and ideal.

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Rose, Kimberly. "From Modern Girl to Post-Modern Girl: State, Society, and Self." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19677.

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The Japanese state has long attempted to control the choices and behaviors of women through campaigns of moral suasion and social management. These campaigns have varied in terms of their efficacy but have all endeavored to encourage women to embrace the “good wife, wise mother” ideals espoused in ryosai kenbo ideology, often for the purported good of the nation. Leading up to WWII, these campaigns were effective in undermining the Modern Girl and eventually squeezing her out of existence. The bursting of Japan’s economic bubble in the early 1990s, however, created the Post-Modern Girl, who, like the Modern Girl, has particular attitudes about marriage, children, work, and sexuality. Unlike the Modern Girl, however, the Post-Modern Girl has survived nearly three decades since her emergence. This thesis examines these two figures and their converging and diverging trajectories and explores the limits of state control in the lives of modern Japanese women.
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Connolly, Margot. "Lingering." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6082.

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A year after the mysterious death of Petra, her twin sister Dash convinces the scattered and estranged members of her Scout troop to re-form in order to return to Exploration Expedition, the site of her sisters passing. Though the troop have all been dealing with the loss of their defacto leader in different ways, their arrival at Expedition forces them to work together to confront their guilt in the events surrounding Petra’s death and its effect on their own lives and friendships.

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Ammon, Jennifer Lee. "A girl from Ohio." FIU Digital Commons, 2010. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1282.

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Johnston, Pamela Emily. "A girl like you /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9974643.

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Blanton, K. Alexander McKenney W. Thomas Andersen H. C. "The little match girl." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6577.

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The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on October 20, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. W. Thomas McKenney. Includes bibliographical references.

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Gonçalves, Mariane Cechinel. ""I don't speak girl"." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2016. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/167915.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Inglês: Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, Florianópolis, 2016
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Abstract : This research deals with the representation of gender in television. Its general objective is to investigate the portrayal of women in the television series Grey s Anatomy. The focus is specifically on four women, two of whom are heterosexual, namely, Meredith Grey and Cristina Yang, and two of whom are homosexual, namely, Calliope Torres and Arizona Robbins. The purpose is to verify how the four aforementioned characters are presented in terms of their private and professional lives. Aspects such as the portrayal of heterosexual and homosexual relationships, the deconstruction of traditional roles, and the relevance of the series for today s society are taken into account when carrying out the analysis, which considers specific moments from the series and their connection with feminist and media studies, as proposed by bell hooks (1996), Adrienne Rich (1980), Judith Butler (1999), David Gauntlett (2002) among others. In addition, studies regarding television series are discussed as well. Based on the evidences encountered, it can be said that Grey s Anatomy attempts to portray women s different concerns, regarding career, family, and sexual orientation. Moreover, the series is generally recognized for attempting to deconstruct patriarchal values, which is still a relevant issue for the feminist movement today.

Esta pesquisa aborda a representação de gênero na televisão. Seu objetivo geral é investigar a representação das mulheres na série televisiva Grey s Anatomy, especificamente em relação a quatro mulheres, duas das quais são heterossexuais, ou seja, Meredith Grey e Cristina Yang, e duas que são homossexuais, ou seja, Calliope Torres e Arizona Robbins. O objetivo é verificar como as quatro personagens acima mencionadas são retratadas em termos de vida pessoal e profissional. Aspectos como a representação de relações heterossexuais e homossexuais, a desconstrução de papéis tradicionais, e a relevância da série para a sociedade de hoje são levados em consideração na análise, que aborda momentos específicos da série e suas ligações com os estudos feministas e de mídia, propostos por bell hooks (1996), Adrienne Rich (1980), Judith Butler (1999), David Gauntlett (2002), entre outros. Além disso, estudos sobre séries de televisão também são discutidos. Com base nas evidências da série, pode-se dizer que Grey s Anatomy tenta retratar diferentes preocupações das mulheres, quanto a carreira, família e orientação sexual. Além disso, a série é geralmente reconhecida por tentar desconstruir valores patriarcais, que é um tema relevante para o movimento feminista ainda hoje.

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Tombasco, Natalie. "Girl-Junk, Sugar-Funk." Digital Commons @ Butler University, 2018. https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/grtheses/504.

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McCord, Mary Larken. ""So Very," "So Fetch": Constructing Girls on Film in the Era of Girl Power and Girls in Crisis." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11182008-162945/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008.
Title from file title page. Amira Jarmakani, committee chair; Mary Hocks, Marian Meyers, committee members. Description based on contents viewed Oct. 14, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-103).

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Lawton, Stephanie D. "A girl with a book| Improving girls' secondary education in the developing world." Thesis, University of Colorado at Denver, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1605108.

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In many countries, particularly in the developing world, a large number of girls are receiving little or no formal education, in spite of all of the benefits that education can confer. Education has intrinsic value, as girls can experience a sense of agency and empowerment when they are able to achieve their educational goals. It is also important to human development, and there are tangible benefits to be gained from educating girls. This study examines the effects of increased efforts to improve gender equality in education in the developing world. Specifically, I investigate many of the interventions that have been implemented for the purpose of improving girls? secondary education, and consider which have been the most effective, in terms of both numbers of girls in school and the quality of their educational experience. In evaluating quality, I specifically consider what ramifications the different strategies have for girls? capabilities as informed by Martha Nussbaum?s conception of the capabilities approach. The data come primarily from published papers and reports from a variety of countries, and also include a small amount of firsthand information that I collected from contacts that I met during recent travel in Uganda and Rwanda. Details from people who work in schools and in education-related NGOs in these countries, and who have seen up-close the effects of different interventions on girls? education, are utilized to add depth and personal insights to the data from the published reports. At the conclusion of the study, I make recommendations, with girls? capabilities in mind, about which interventions I think are the most beneficial and worth pursuing. Which strategies are the most effective at improving girls? access to schools and the experiences they have once they are there? Those that specifically address issues of quality, rather than just access, seem likely to have the most beneficial effects on girls? capabilities.

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Amy, Worrall. "Not a Girl, Not yet a Woman. : How do I look at Girls?" Thesis, Konstfack, Keramik & Glas, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-6336.

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I’m not a girl, not yet a woman, but I do have popular sensibilities. Pop music plucks ideas and symbols from where ever it pleases to create a new narrative. So do I. Reflecting on how I see women and how the gaze of others affects this. By mapping my magpie like collection of images, songs, paintings and films I tell the story of my girl gang. My ceramic sculptures are a physical manifestation of my research into different ways of looking at girls.

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Wolbe, Susan C. "The Impact of Kolot's Rosh Hodesh: It's a Girl Thing! on Adolescent Girls." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4922/.

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The purpose of this mixed-method study was to examine the impact, if any, of Kolot's Rosh Hodesh: It's A Girl Thing! on adolescent girls in the areas of friendship, school issues, family issues, body image, and assertiveness after participating in the religious-based program for nine monthly modules. Participants completed pretests and posttests in the areas of self-concept and basic Jewish knowledge. Quantitative results demonstrated statistically significant results in the areas of basic knowledge of Jewish female role models, values, and traditions, and statistically significant results in the areas of general, parental/home, and global self-concept. Qualitative results revealed inconsistent results with application of lessons taught, with some effect being acknowledged in the areas of friendship, gossip, bullying, self-defense, and assertiveness.

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Horrex, Emma. "From representation to reception : the gang girl and girl gang in contemporary American film." Thesis, University of Hull, 2016. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:15425.

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Parra, Danielle Elizabeth. "Girl Scouts Empower Other Girl Scouts to Consume 3-A-Day™ of Dairy." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42115.

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Osteoporosis affects half of all women over the age of fifty, but can be prevented through proper nutrition and exercise early in life. Few studies have been conducted that document positive gains in knowledge about osteoporosis prevention in young girls and no research has been completed in which osteoporosis education is delivered by peers in children. A 3-A-Day™ of dairy peer education program was developed by local Girl Scouts with the purpose of teaching other Girl Scouts about the importance of calcium intake and weight-bearing activities in the prevention of osteoporosis, overweight, and hypertension. Peer educators had significant increases in their overall knowledge of dairy (p<0.001) and self-efficacy related to 3-A-Day™ (p<0.05) after teaching peer education programs. Program participants had significant improvements in knowledge of calcium-rich foods (p<0.001) and weight-bearing activities (p<0.001). Participants were able to identify the recommended number of dairy servings per day (p<0.01). Although parents indicated that their daughters' knowledge increased after participation in the peer education program, parents' ratings of knowledge were not significantly related with daughters' ratings. Qualitative evaluation indicated that these Girl Scouts enjoyed serving as peer educators. This research supports the importance of osteoporosis education in young girls and demonstrates positive outcomes of peer education for both educators and program participants.
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Joubert, Jill. "Apple girl : ingesting and transforming Apple girl from fairy tale into sculpture and performance." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13098.

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The submission for my Master of Fine Art degree, which is devoted to the interpretation and transformation of the Italian fairy tale, Apple Girl, into performed sculpture, consists of this document as well as a photographic story-book which illustrates the sculpture component. The sculptured tableaux on wheels, conceived through the properties of carved wood and found-objects, also function as miniature puppet theatres. These are wheeled into the performance arena at relevant moments to be animated by myself, with jazz artist, Athalie Crawford, at times accompanying the performance. Thereafter, the audience is invitedto view the constellation of tableaux as an art work, fixed as an arrangement of sculptures to which the performance has given a framework for presentation and interpretation.

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Lefante, Casey. "Evolution of a Smart Girl." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2008. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/682.

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Evolution of a Smart Girl is a collection of short stories that chronicles the evolution of the modern American female. The stories are arranged in three parts: "Dirty Barbie & Breakable Boys" focuses on adolescent relationships between boys and girls; "Some Things Can't Be Unbroken" centers on Maggie and Charlie Copper's marriage after Maggie is diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the age of twenty-five; and "Of Apples and Broken Scabs" presents four stories about four very different women who experience heartbreak in love, friendship, and lust. This work explores the ways in which a girl's interactions with others shape her into the young woman she becomes. Through same-sex friendships, romantic relationships, and sibling rivalries, the women in these stories experience intellectual and sexual awakenings.

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McTee, Sasha. "But, You're Just A Girl." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1655.

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This paper explores an emerging genre of the female hero archetype that is rooted in Joseph Campbell’s traditional definition and exemplified by Buffy Summers of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Kara “Starbuck” Thrace of Battlestar Galactica. As representations of the female hero within this genre, they reimagine pre-existing stereotypes, such as the female victim and the male hotshot pilot, and then pursue a hero’s journey of death and resurrection that is unique because of their gender. This new trend is the result of third-wave feminism and necessary for the further development of feminist literary works, particularly within the realm of Sci-Fi/Fantasy.

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Savage-Gentry, Rashida S. "Girl Drama: Behind the Scenes." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1367500931.

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Carberry, Catherine Julia. "Girl Cannibals of Salem County." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1394286793.

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Easto, Jessica. "Steady, Girl, and Step Boldly." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1214.

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF JESSICA EASTO, for the Master of Fine Arts degree in FICTION, presented on APRIL 17, 2013, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: STEADY, GIRL, AND STEP BOLDLY MAJOR PROFESSOR: Beth Lordan Steady, Girl, and Step Boldly is a pairing of two long stories.

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Hackett, Sara. "You Build Like A Girl." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5483.

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The thesis explored creating a space for young women to gain confidence and experience in the built environment under the guidance of female mentors. Teaching not only tool skills, but also the fundamentals of design thinking and problem solving to encourage bold decisions and lead to career decisions that expand the skilled workforce candidate pool.

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Sylvester, Nina. "Das Girl crossing spaces and spheres : the function of the girl in the Weimar Republic /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1280134271&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Haire-Sargeant, Lin. "American girl to new woman : themes of transformation in books for girls, 1850-1925 /." Thesis, Connect to Dissertations & Theses @ Tufts University, 2004.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2004.
Director: Carol Houlihan Flynn. Submitted to the Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 296-307). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

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Bäärnhielm, Pousette Sophie. "Young Girl och Strange Girl i den pharmacopornografiska eran : Om techno-flickan hos Tiqqun och Boyd." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Filosofi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-43717.

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In this paper I undertake an investigation of the meaning of sexual difference for Tiqqun’s theory of the Young Girl, which describes a commodified subjectivity in the neoliberal age. Tiqqun’s claim, that Young Girl is not to be understood as a gendered concept but rather as a détournement of the capitalist girl archetype, is put in relation to Jennifer Boyds development of their theory. According to Boyd’s interpretation of Young Girl as an embodied, gendered subjectivity, she can resist the control of the Empire by transforming from non-agency to pure agency, the latter being the state Boyd coins Strange Girl. In order to understand the radical notions that seem to follow from interpreting Young Girl in terms of gendered subjectivity, I apply Paul B. Preciado’s theory of techno-gender in the pharmacopornographic era to Tiqqun and Boyd respectively. Preciado’s theory offers a way of addressing Young Girl as a specific embodied subject and holder of a potentia gaudendi, an orgasmic potential that is either exploiting or being exploited depending on the bearers techno-gender. To conclude, this essay offers up a re-reading of Young Girl as being the exploited techno femininity that transform, via molecular gender and sex-hacking, into Strange Girl and orgasmic agency. Thereby she performs an actual, and not symbolical, resistance against the biopower performed by the Empire.

Presenterad vid Seminariet i feministisk kontinentalfilosofi i Stockholm, 12 oktober 2018

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Kam, Chui Ping Iris. "The girl in contemporary Hong Kong." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2010. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54175/.

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The twin aim of this thesis is to (1) enlarge the field of girl studies at a conceptual level, to as to include the non-western girl, and (2) to develop a detailed case history of the girl in Hong Kong. In order to identify what is distinctive about the everyday life of these girls I focus on three areas of experience – sex education in secondary school, made-for-teens romance films and teenage lifestyle magazines. Particularly, I highlight how the questions of ethnicity, tradition and religion play a greater part in the everyday life of girls in Hong Kong than they do in the life of the girls considered by Driscoll's study. It is the major claim of this thesis that girl studies as it is presently practised is western-centric and its outlook needs to be broadened to include the non-western world. The significance of this thesis lies in the findings of the various form of heterosexuality in different social fields, which provides different space for girls to live in the present. However, this thesis also finds out that the argument of the non-correlation between the female body and the constitution of femininity is not sufficient to the conception of girlhood. This is because, as this thesis has indicated, the concept of Hong Kong girls cannot get rid of the shadow of the theories of modern subjectivity, in which the construction of the girl is in opposition to, or defined otherwise than, the mature, independent woman. In a long run, it is important to strengthen the power of 'becoming' in the construction of the concept of the girl in gender studies and cultural studies.

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Misbach, Abdul Waghied. "The girl with the red flower." University of the Western Cape, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5884.

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For a woman of her age, thirty-seven, freshly divorced, she has, to her mind, not solved the problem of her sex very well. So now her work in the escort business all those years ago will be used against her. This warning is in a note from her lawyers. She is sitting cross-legged, trying to warm up, in a book-sized patch of morning sunlight on her bunk, in a fetid cell meant for five but with thirty crammed in. She has earphones in, with twelve bass-heavy tunes on a continuous loop. It is hard for her sometimes to drum out the hum of the lovemaking, man-hating, babyyearning and fatal stabbings of the women around her - all day long. It is just like being free in the real world outside. The letter is typewritten, but has a handwritten salutation, "Dear Soraya," as if to convince her of its authenticity; and her existence.

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Argus, Stefanie. "Girl Scout Voices| Describing Ecological Identity." Thesis, Prescott College, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10821872.

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This study considered how youth relate, connect, and identify with Nature by exploring how Girl Scouts describe their ecological identities. The purpose of this project was to introduce reflection on ecological identity as a reflective tool for living in Nature, to learn about youth connectedness to and identification with Nature, to utilize arts-based research, and to contribute to the scholarly field of girls in adventure education. Thirty-four youth aged 14 to 16 participated in the pilot and research project phases of the study. The study was a descriptive and exploratory research project, utilizing the methodologies of case study and action research. Data collection methods were anecdote circle, survey, and art creation. Survey results indicate that development of the ecological self can be grown. Three themes emerged from artistic cartography on special places in Nature, including coming of age, earth grief or loss, and summer camp. A feminist, reflexive lens guided the work, culminating in the formulation of a four-point transformation agenda for ecological identity at camps. The four recommendations are that camp administrators and educators: (1) promote a participatory relationship with phenomena through direct experience, (2) expand perceptual experience for reflection, (3) interrogate power and marginality, and (4) advance bioregional thinking and active community citizenship. Future research could investigate the efficacy of implementations of the agenda at camps. New studies should recruit for greater participant diversity and examine how Nature connectedness is defined and developed for individuals without access to green spaces and places.

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Ramadan, Hadeel M. "Jan. 25 ( Story of a Girl )." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71871.

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The work presented in this thesis explores the possibility to integrate two dimensional drawings with three dimensional animated characters in 3D computer graphics. The goal was to preserve the effects of the cartoonish artistic style and produce a strong emotional and moving story without realistic animation feel. Inspiration of the storyboard was based on a true story from the Arab Spring events that occurred in several Arab countries, I focused my work on the context of Egypt.
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Hadermann, Krista C. "Girl Talk: Disclosure Between Adolescent Sisters." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41281.

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In-depth interviews were conducted with 14 adolescent girls (7 sister pairs) between the ages of 13 and 18 years to examine disclosure between adolescent sisters. The content of disclosures between sisters focused on relationships, particularly those with boys, family, and peers. Participants described childhood relationships as play-oriented, whereas adolescent relationships were marked by less overall interaction but more talk. They identified their sisters' ability to understand, be nonjudgmental, and be trustworthy as facilitating disclosure. The possibility that a sister may breach confidentiality through gossip or tattling, however, may limit disclosure. Participants perceived disclosure to bring them closer, to help them understand each other, and to highlight differences between them. Although disclsoure was perceived to be important, participants also valued companionship and playfulness in their relationships Perspectives and opinions of each sister within a dyad were generally congruent. Findings suggested an association between disclosure and closeness. Directions for future research are suggested
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Lundmark, Jessica. "Professionella bloggar - girl power eller genusfälla?" Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-25926.

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Denna uppsats är en kvalitativ studie av de två största professionella bloggarna i Sverige, blondinbella.se och kissies.se. Studiens syfte är att ta reda på vilka markörer för klass och genus som kan hittas på bloggarna och utifrån dessa vilken bild av att vara ung tjej det är som förmedlas till bloggarnas läsare. Debatten om de två aktuella bloggarna pågår i media och speciellt är det författarna bakom bloggarna som uppmärksammas, Isabella Löwengrip och Alexandra Nilsson. Med hjälp av teorier kring kön och klass analyserar jag bloggarnas innehåll och försöker utkristallisera vilka teman som är dominerande på dessa bloggar. Resultatdelen är uppdelad utifrån dessa teman som handlar om shopping, kroppsuppfattning och valmöjligheter. Ett utmärkande drag i bloggarna är betoningen på jaget, den individuella upplevelsen av allt som händer och hur alla omnämnda händelser relaterar till bloggerskorna själva. Det som till en början framstod som två ungefär lika modebloggar, har visat sig rymma fler olikheter och fler dolda sociala mekanismer än vad man först kunnat ana. Hur bloggerskorna förhåller sig till sin vardag, sin omgivning och till kritik och ideal, formas till stor del av deras klasstillhörighet. En annan slutsats är att den kommersiella sidan av bloggarna i stora delar utformar vad det skrivs om, vilket påverkar helhetsupplevelsen som förmedlas.
This is a qualitative study of the two biggest blogs in Sweden, blondinbella.se and kissies.se. The purpose of this study is to find out which characteristics can be found that represent social class and gender, and from that perspective, what image of being a young girl is forwarded to the readers of these blogs. The media debate on the two blogs is ongoing and of special interest are the two writers of these blogs, Isabella Löwengrip and Alexandra Nilsson. With the help of social class and gender theories I analyze the content of the two blogs and try to distinguish which themes are dominant. The result part is divided from those themes that consider shopping, bodily self-esteem and choices. A predominating characteristic on the blogs is the emphasis on the self, the individual experience, and how all that is happening is related to the bloggers themselves. What in the beginning appeared to be two similar fashionblogs, has turned out to be embedding more diversity and hidden social mechanisms than was first apparent. How the bloggers relate to their everyday life, their settings and to critique and ideals, is in big parts shaped by their social class. Another conclusion is that the commercial side of the blogs in large aspects shapes what is written and this affects the subjective total experience of the blogs

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Tussey, Elizabeth Hays. "The Ugliest Girl in Columbiana County." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1334583959.

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Williamson, Amy Lynn. "Dead Things and the Invisible Girl." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1559642565529958.

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Capdeville, Emily. "Can't Blame a Girl for Trying." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2362.

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Rozsa, Eva. "A Girl Disciplined is A Girl Saved? Child Marriage Discourses in U.S. National, Foreign, and Immigration Policy." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21625.

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Child marriage, usually regarded as an issue pertaining to the non-‘developed’ parts of the world, can still be found in the United States (US), though efforts to combat it shape foreign policy goals. Is child marriage represented as a ‘problem’ in the same way internally as externally, and how do human rights play a role? Using Bacchi’s “What’s the Problem Represented to be?” approach, the problem representations emerge, showing that child marriage functions as a ‘solution’ to welfare ‘problems’ in national policy, as an obstacle to economic prosperity in foreign policy; and as a ‘foreign’ culture ‘problem’ in immigration policy. Postcolonial feminist theory’s “Third World Girl” allows for a deeper understanding of some of the subjectivities these representations entail, and the biopolitical nature of the assumptions which underlie these problem representations are explored through Foucault’s theoretical work on sexuality and production.

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