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Williams, Joan Walton. "Mayan women : survival, transformation, and hope-living through times of violence and reparation /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p9992937.
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Cifuentes, de Gramajo Luisa. "Nejayote produced at household level by Mayan women in Guatemala : is it a threat to aquatic ecosystems or a resource for food security?" Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för lärande och miljö, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-8557.
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The aim of this study was to find out if nejayote produced at household level in Guatemala represents a threat to aquatic ecosystems and, if so, propose sustainable processing, reuse and disposal methods. First, all aspects related to nejayote production were explored. This study presents combined results from literature study on corn consumption and Guatemalan demography, a survey to Guatemalan women of all ethnical groups, nixtamalization replica and solids removal experiments and laboratory analysis. Findings indicate that the source of nejayote are approximate 600 000 tones of corn nixtamalized yearly by Mayan women from the rural areas of Guatemala to prepare tortillas for a population of about 5 000 000. From this activity approximately 300 000 tones of concentrated nejayote are produced and 800 000 tones of water are polluted yearly. Approximate 63% of these volumes are discharged into water ecosystems without treatment due to lack of knowledge of its potential negative impact or reuse properties. The study was done on nejayote produced at national level, but the isolation of the Mayan population within less than 20% of the national territory, suggests higher punctuality of nejayote discharges. Chemical and physical analyses made to samples from the nixtamalization replica confirmed its similarity to industrial nejayote, which has proven to be highly pollutant due to high content of organic matter from corn grain pericarp and germ. Concentrations ranges from 200 to 300 ppm of nitrogen, 160 to 190 ppm of phosphorus and 25 000 to 28 000 ppm of organic matter make it a potential fertilizer or soil conditioner. Studies indicate that it can be safely reused as supplementary food for chickens and pigs, to prepare additional corn based foods for humans or it could be safely discharged into ponds, wetlands or pits to minimize any environmental impact. Although findings point to nejayote as a potential aquatic ecosystem pollutant, this depends on the capacity of the specific recipient aquatic ecosystem to adsorb and process the nutrients and on the volumes and concentration of nutrients of the nejayote discharged that might vary from household to household. However, the nutrient rich nejayote can be seen as a potential resource, instead of a pollutant, to improve the nutritional, social and economical conditions of the Mayan populations. Specially women, an isolated segment of society that lacks opportunities and who, according to findings of this study, start processing corn into tortillas from early childhood and continue throughout all their lifetime without any benefit on return.
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Blaylock, Kimberly Kay. "Like a Bird on a Dead Brance: Mayan Women and Children in Conflict." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/243872.
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This thesis is a research-based analysis of the experiences of Mayan women and children during the peak years of the Guatemalan Civil War. The paper has two main goals: first, to establish if the brutality used on the part of the Guatemalan army constitutes genocide, and second, to understand why women and children were specifically targeted during the seemingly indiscriminate violence. The research used for this paper includes sources from numerous fields of study, including psychology, political science, sociology, anthropology, and history. The purpose of this is to provide an interdisciplinary approach to the topic, in the hopes of examining all sides of such a complex issue. Possible implications of this work are an increased awareness on the part of the reader of the situation in which Mayan women and their children find themselves, and the possibility that more social scientists will choose to conduct their research in the Guatemalan altiplano to gain more information and insight into the lives of the Mayan people.
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Estrada, Alicia Ivonne. "Textual transversals : activisms and decolonization in Guatemalan Mayan and Ladina women's texts of the Civil War and postwar periods /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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D'Arcangelis, Carol Lynne. "Mayan women and the politics of selfhood, the case of the Guatemalan National Women's Forum." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq62881.pdf.
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Maxwell, Diane D. "Classic period royal Maya women, a feminist analysis." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ30223.pdf.
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Thornton, Rosie. "Rural Maya women in Belize, an assessment of health and educational needs." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ57443.pdf.
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Bayles, Bryan P. ""The belly wants its heat" : cultural models of health and fertility among Tojolab'al Maya midwives /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3074371.
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Lander, Ingrid. "Den flygande maran : En studie om åtta narkotikabrukande kvinnor i Stockholm." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Criminology, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7759.
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<p>Between April 1997 and November 1999, I followed eight socially excluded female drug users in an attempt to describe their lives and living conditions. The study employs an ethnographic approach with the focus being directed at the specific woman and her life in relation to the social context where this life is lived.</p><p>The study’s objective has been to describe the lives and living conditions of the eight drug-using women, as well as the extent of the opportunities available to them, as being determined by mechanisms of social exclusion. Their lives are understood on the basis of a feminist and social constructionist perspective where perceptions of ‘the drug-abusing woman’ are regarded as the result of constructions of gender and deviance. The theoretical perspectives proceeds from the idea that one is not born a woman but rather becomes one. The fundamental idea is that women become women by means of processes of femininisation, in the context of which certain ways of interpreting and presenting oneself as a woman are regarded as good and others as bad. Our images of ‘the female drug addict’ are based on how we define and interpret deviance and on the cultural and social thought and behaviour patterns we ascribe to people on the basis of bodily differences. It is images of ‘the good woman’ that defines what we regard as characteristic of ‘the bad woman’ and vice versa.</p><p>The findings are organised into three main topics: femininity, living conditions and social control. The main findings are: The women described themselves as women by relating to normative messages about how women “are and should be”, and their drug use constituted a means of coping with life from their social position. Their life revolved to a large extent around money via a constant struggle to find enough to cover the rent, food and other basic necessities. And finally, how the women’s relations to societal institutions were formed by their social position as ‘female drug addicts’ and how the asymmetry of these relations produced certain fixed patterns of action for the parties involved.</p>
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Malan, Henk. "Psychological well-being and cardiovascular function in obese African women : the POWIRS study / H. Malan." Thesis, North-West University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1393.
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Burchett, Tabitha S. "Efficacy of the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy on Dysmenorrhea Symptoms in Women." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/109.
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Dysmenorrhea is one of the most reported symptoms by women in OB/GYN departments with an effect on up to 95% of women. Because pain experienced during menstrual cycles influences the mental and physical health of women, it is important to find practical and effective relief.
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a new clinical and scientific field in the practice of Western medicine. The use of CAM by the public has increased dramatically in recent years and among the practiced modalities lies a fairly new massage technique aimed at treatment of uterine abnormalities attributed to misplacement. The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy™ (ATMAT) is rooted in traditional practices by the Maya people of Belize. It is a non-invasive, slow, penetrating external massage of the abdomen that repositions the uterus in women. This study is aimed to measure the patient’s perception of menstrual pain before and after therapy with completion and return of a Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire. Each type of data represents a quantitative index of pain quality and intensity as a result of ATMAT. Percent change calculated through paired t-test analysis will provide data on the effectiveness of the therapy.
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Corrêa, Cláudia Maria Fernandes. "Ecos da solidão: uma autobiografia de Maya Angelou." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-26082009-000822/.
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Este trabalho centra sua atenção sobre a construção identitária por meio da palavra escrita, refletindo sobre o passado por meio da narrativa autobiográfica I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) da escritora afro-americana Maya Angelou. Utilizamos a obra de Maya Angelou devido ao seu esforço pioneiro em confrontar abertamente seu passado e fazer de suas mazelas pessoais um meio catártico: descer aos infernos, ou à morte para retornar transformada.<br>This work focuses its attention on the construction of identity by means of the written word using the autobiographical narrative I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) by the afroamerican writer Maya Angelou. We have utilized the work of Maya Angelou due to her pioneering efforts to openly confront her past and use her personal challenges as a cathartic means to descend to the hells or to death so that she could be transformed.
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McAllister, Carlota Pierce 1969. "This pageant which is not won: The Rabin Ahau, Maya women, and the Guatemalan nation." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278431.
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The "Rabin Ahau," Daughter of the King in Q'eqchi, is elected annually in a pageant in Coban, Guatemala to represent indigenous women before the Guatemalan nation. Although the contest takes the form of a beauty pageant, the criterion on which the candidates are judged is their authenticity as Maya women; their authenticity, in turn, guarentees Guatemala's distinctiveness in the international community of nations. This thesis explores what signifying authenticity requires of would-be Rabin Ahaus, when being Maya at all in Guatemala has historically been life-threatening. It links the aestheticization of Indianness to the ethnocidal racism which literally erases Maya bodies from the national territory, and examines how Guatemalan nationalist discourse uses mimesis and commodification of "the Indian" to create and control an Indian essence; it indicates, also, how the participants in the contest work mimetic excess to triangulate official authenticity and assert different meanings of the Maya.
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Ludwig, Sheryl. "Making fast the thread: Cultural maintenance and transmission of Maya women who weave on backstrap looms." Connect to online resource, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3256375.
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Baker, Brandy Nicole. "The Historical Oppression and Subordination of Indigenous Women| The Tz'utujil Maya of Santiago Atitlan Case Study." Thesis, The American University of Paris (France), 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13871612.
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Williamston, Shabria A. "On Being and Becoming: Re-thinking Identity Through Female Indigenous Artisans in Guatemala." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1535636928044626.
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Herrera, Rivera Kenia 1967. "Mujeres Mayas y Aymaras = transitando entre los derechos culturales y los derechos individuales = Mulheres Mayas e Aymaras: transitando entre os direitos culturais e os direitos individuais." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/279698.
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Previous issue date: 2014<br>Resumo: Há uma presença e protagonismo crescente das mulheres indígenas na América Latina nas lutas e reivindicações relacionadas com diversas problemáticas sociais. No entanto, pouco se tem de produção escrita na qual essas mulheres manifestem, com voz própria, o que para elas significou ou significa sua participação nessas lutas . Neste sentido, o presente estudo centra-se na produção de pensamentos, perspectivas, reivindicações e lutas das mulheres mayas da Guatemala e aymara da Bolívia, na época atual. Os seus seus interesses e reivindicações de prioridade com base em suas experiências e na interpretação que elas têm de suas próprias realidades, são examinados Os dois eixos temáticos principais são os direitos individuais das mulheres e direitos culturais coletivas. Ambos tipos de direitos estão interligados no caso das mulheres indígenas, devido a sua condição de gênero, bem como por sua identidade étnica, mas como se demonstra no estudo, o trenzado de relações de poder abrange outros tipos de relacionamentos (de classe ou geracional, por exemplo) que podem produzir conflitos de interesse para as mulheres indígenas e os conflitos com seus colegas do mesmo grupo étnico. Para o movimento feminista atual, é preciso compreender em que sentido o gênero e a diversidade cultural afeta o pleno exercício da cidadania para as mulheres indígenas. O seja, não se analisa a situação das mulheres indígenas frente à cultura dominante (mestiça ou não indígena), mas sim, sua condição de atoras sociais dentro dos movimentos que lutam para fazer valer os seus direitos como mulheres indígenas, em seus respectivos entornos<br>Abstract: There exists a growing presence of and role for Latin American indigenous woman in the struggles and affirmations related to diverse social issues. However, there is limited written production in which said women manifest themselves, through their own voice, expressing what their participation in these struggles implies or signifies for them. This study focuses on the creation of thoughts, perspectives, claims and struggles by Mayan women from Guatemala and Aymaras from Boliva, in present times. Their prioritized interests and demands are examined based upon their experiences and the interpretation that they have of their own realities. The two main themes are individual rights and collective cultural rights. These both types of rights are intertwined in the case of indigenous women because of their gender and ethnic identities. Furthermore, as is demonstrated in this study, the intertwine of relations of power encompass other types of relationships (class and generational, for example), that can lead to the production of conflicts of interest for indigenous women and also conflicts with peers of the same ethnic group. For today¿s feminist movement, it is necessary to understand in what sense gender and cultural diversity affects the full exercise of citizenship for these indigenous women. In other words, this does not mean analysis of the situation of these women from the point of view of the dominant culture (landino/mestizo) but rather their status as social actors within movements of social change to make validate their rights as indigenous women in their respective environments<br>Mestrado<br>Sociologia<br>Mestra em Sociologia
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Santos, Marcela Ernesto. "Resistindo à tempestade : a interseccionalidade de opressões nas obras de Carolina Maria e Maya Angelou /." Assis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/123321.
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Orientador: Cleide Antonia Rapucci<br>Banca: Kassandra da Silva Muniz<br>Banca: Jarbas Vargas Nascimento<br>Banca: Rubens Pereira dos Santos<br>Banca: Márcio Roberto Pereira<br>Resumo: Este trabalho, valendo-se da leitura das obras I know why the caged Bird sings(1969), Gather together in my name(1974), de Maya Angelou, Diário de Bitita(1982) e Quarto de Despejo(1960), de Carolina Maria de Jesus, tem por objetivo evidenciar a escrita autobiográfica como a forma de expressão que não apenas traz à baila relatos preciosos acerca das mazelas enfrentadas pelas personagens, mas também que sinaliza a tripla opressão vivida pelas mulheres negras. De fato a hierarquia de gênero, raça e classe direcionou as mulheres negras para a fronteira dos acontecimentos, forjando muitas vezes a verdade dos fatos, calando e subjugando as vozes afro-femininas. Nesse sentido, demonstraremos que a opressão por causa da raça, do gênero e da classe social influencia a própria condição existencial das autoras que, por meio de experiências traumáticas, têm suas identidades massacradas. Com o intuito de resgatar a identidade e a subjetividade perdida, Carolina Maria de Jesus e Maya Angelou escrevem e (re)constroem um eu que, mesmo fragmentado pelas vicissitudes da vida, é capaz de expressar seu grito por meio da escrita. Acima de tudo, a interseccionalidade de opressões torna-se a grande temática das obras em questão, e pode ser entendida como uma realidade social conflitiva e tensa, que se quer transformada<br>Abstract: This thesis aims to take a reading of the works I know why the caged bird sings(1969),Gather together in my name(1974) by Maya Angelou, Bitita's Diary(1982) and Child of the Dark(1982) by Carolina Maria de Jesus revealing autobiographical writing as a form of expression that not only brings up precious stories about the difficulties faced by characters but also signaling the triple oppression experienced by black women. In fact the hierarchy of gender, race and class black drove black women to the border of events, often forging true facts, subduing and silencing the afrofemales voices. Accordingly, we demonstrate that oppression due to race, gender and social class influence the existential condition of the authors who through traumatic experiences have massacred their own identities. In order to rescue the lost identity and subjectivity, Carolina Maria de Jesus and Maya Angelou write and (re) construct a self that even fragmented by the vicissitudes of life is able to express their scream through writing. Above all, the intersectionality of oppressions becomes the major theme of the works in question, and can be understood as a confrontational and tense social reality that is either transformed<br>Doutor
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Silva, Monaliza Rios. "Maya Angelou e suas afroamericanidades: o ritmo autobiográfico de The Heart of a Woman." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2011. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/6184.
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Previous issue date: 2011-11-10<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES<br>This study aims at investigating the autobiography The Heart of a Woman (1981), by Maya Angelou, written under the discoursive strategies of a testimonial. One considers the discussions of both cultural identity (HALL, 2006), and liquid post-modernity (BAUMAN, 2001) in order to demonstrate the multiple identity of Maya Angelou, who is immersed into subjectivity. One also refers to both self-writing, and life stories statements presented by Foucault (1992), and Bourdieu (1996). Such authors discuss the quests of illusion upon writing autobiographical genres, once that they are not referred to referential point of views. Starting from concepts of autobiographies in the testimonial format, presented by authors, such as: Nara Araújo (1994), George Yúdice (1992), Joanne Braxton (1989), and Lyman Hagen (1997), one perceives that the autobiography herein referred to lies on discoursive strategies of chronicled testimonials, which is under the perspective of black women writing. These testimonials certify a register of memories in the text. Moreover, one observes a narrative aesthetics which dialogues with terms of music, for instance, rhythm, in The Heart of a Woman. On being so, one searches for a methodological approach which meets the aims before mentioned in authors, such as: Steven Paul Scher (1992), and Solange de Oliveira (2002) due to this rhythmic narrative. To do so, one uses elements of both textuality, and stilystics in language.<br>Esta pesquisa tem o objetivo de investigar a autobiografia The Heart of a Woman (1981), de Maya Angelou, escrita sob a discursividade do testemunho. Ao se utilizar das discussões sobre a identidade cultural (HALL, 2006) e da pós-modernidade líquida (BAUMAN, 2001), espera-se demonstrar a multiplicidade identitária de Maya Angelou imersa em suas marcas de subjetividade. Cabendo, ainda, a égide da escrita de si e das histórias de vida, teóricos como Foucault (1992) e Bourdieu (1996) problematizam a questão da ilusão de se escrever gêneros autobiográficos sob o viés da referencialidade. A partir dos conceitos de autobiografias de testemunho de autores como Nara Araújo (1994), George Yúdice (1992), Joanne Braxton (1989) e Lyman Hagen (1997), percebe-se que a autobiografia mencionada se estabelece na discursividade do testemunho em crônicas, sob a vertente da escrita de mulher negra que imprime um registro memorialístico no texto. Ademais, observa-se em The Heart of a Woman uma estética de narrativa que dialoga com a musicalidade. Desta forma, busca-se em autores como Steven Paul Scher (1992) e Solange de Oliveira (2002) uma abordagem metodológica de investigação de modo a demonstrar esta narrativa de ritmos, através da textualidade e do uso de elementos estilísticos da língua.
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Bartsch, Susanne. "The influence of male-female relationships on the self-development of Maya Angelou /." View online, 1988. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998878769.pdf.
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Beauvais, Junior. "The Impact of Women Health Issues on Agricultural Production in Fondwa." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/96026.
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Agriculture is the backbone of the Haitian economy and provides employment 80% employment to the Haitian population (Lundahl, 1992). Also 85% of people in rural areas generate money from agricultural activities (IFAD, 2008). In the rural areas, men and women participate in agricultural production. However, the women play a vital role in the whole process starting from land preparation to crop sale (Gaspard, 2013). The Haitian women, despite of their function in crop productions (Dor, 2016), face different health issues, which have influence over Haitian agricultural system. Therefore, the research purposed was to investigate the impact of women heath issues on agricultural production Fondwa. A qualitative case study was used to investigate ten women farmers in the community of Fondwa, which is a small farming area in southwest part of Haiti. An interview questionnaire was used for data collection. Findings of the study showed that the women's contribution to farming is vital for promoting agricultural production, and they face different health issues that are linked to the environment and water pollution. Lastly, the women health problems influence agricultural production in the Fondwa area by preventing them from doing their daily agricultural activities, which have a direct impact over family and country's income.<br>MSLFS
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Ashby, Kathleen A. "The impact of the changing weaving industry on the culture and socioeconomic development of maya women in Guatemala." FIU Digital Commons, 1994. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1323.
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Growing demand for handwoven Maya textiles from Guatemala parallels recent international fascination with Maya civilization. This thesis surveys the effects of increases in demands for artisan textiles in Guatemala, and explores the reactions of women involved in Aj Quen, a weavers' association. The hypothesis is that the well-being of Maya women depends on their participation in the association. This is tested by using indicators of the weavers' attitudes defined as their "well-being" regarding 1) health, 2) education levels, 3) child care practices, and 4) economic stability. Interviews were conducted with 127 Maya women. Data were documented, providing a crucial missing link in the current literature of "women in Guatemala."
The results of this study yield baseline data demonstrating that health and child care practices are not directly related to women's participation in the association. Their education levels increased as a direct result of working with the association, as did economic stability, although less consistently.
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Santos, Marcela Ernesto [UNESP]. "Resistindo à tempestade: a interseccionalidade de opressões nas obras de Carolina Maria e Maya Angelou." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/123321.
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Mansbridge, Pamela. "Metaphor, male/female theorists, and the "birth rites" of women, the reclamation projects of Sylvia Plath, Anais Nin and Maya Deren." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ59915.pdf.
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Santos, Marcela Ernesto dos [UNESP]. "Mulher e negra: as memórias de Carolina Maria de Jesus e Maya Angelou." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94065.
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santos_me_me_assis.pdf: 757864 bytes, checksum: 6228de78c6143bf23c2d70acb679a080 (MD5)<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)<br>A produção intelectual do feminismo questionou as representações e os papéis sociais de gênero e também contribuiu para a evolução de uma perspectiva crítica acerca das múltiplas opressões que assolam as mulheres. Entre as minorias femininas que despontaram nesse cenário de articulação, as mulheres negras, com sua escrita engajada e muitas vezes marcada pela autorrepresentação, buscam se inserir no espaço acadêmico e conquistar o reconhecimento de sua obra literária. Nesse sentido, este trabalho pretende fazer uma reflexão crítica sobre a narrativa de memórias das escritoras negras Carolina Maria de Jesus e Maya Angelou, em suas respectivas obras: Diário de Bitita e I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Para tanto, levantamos questões relevantes do enredo e enfocamos o trajeto singular das protagonistas negras rumo à conscientização de uma realidade construída em torno das desigualdades de poder. Deste modo, num primeiro momento, refletimos sobre a condição dos afrodescendentes e sublinhamos a situação da mulher negra durante e depois do período escravocrata. Na sequência tratamos da questão da literatura confessional direcionando seu enfoque para as formas diário e memória, a fim de evidenciar suas congruências e diferenças no universo confessional. Por fim, empreendemos um trabalho de análise das obras, em que salientamos pontos importantes e discutimos as trajetórias de cada personagem rumo à autoaceitação.<br>The intellectual production of feminism questioned the representations and social roles of gender and contributed to an evolution of a critical perspective towards the oppression suffered by women. Among the minorities that emerged in this scenery of articulation, the black women with an engaged writing, and also marked many times by self- representation try to put themselves in the academic space and have the recognition of their work as well. In this sense, this work intends to make a critical reflection about the memoirs of the black writers Carolina Maria de Jesus and Maya Angelou, in their respective books: Diário de Bitita and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. For that we raised questions concerning the plot and emphasize the black protagonists´ peculiar course towards awareness of a reality built around unequal powers. So, we first consider the black people condition and underline the black women situation before and during slavery time. Secondly, we talk about the confessional literature focalizing the diary and memoir forms in order to make evident their similarities and differences in the confessional universe. At last we attempt to a work of analysis of the books where we point out important items and discuss the characters´ course towards self-acceptance.
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Castaneda, Alisha Priolo. "Hues, tresses, and dresses examining the relation of body image, hair, and clothes to female identity in Their eyes were watching God and I know why the caged bird sings /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2010. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
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Eley, Dikeita N. "Color (Sub)Conscious: African American Women, Authors, and the Color Line in Their Literature." VCU Scholars Compass, 2004. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1486.
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Color (sub)Conscious explores the African American female's experience with colorism. Divided into three distinct sections. The first section is a literary analysis of such works as Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place, Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Alice Walker's "If the Present Looks Like the Past, What Does the Future Look Like?" an essay from her collection In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens. The second section is a research project based on data gathered from 12 African American females willing to share their own experiences and insights on colorism. The final section is a creative non-fiction piece of the author's own personal pain growing up and living with the lasting effects of colorism.
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Field, Emma. "Only a trickle? : blood in detail and three women's films /." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://adt.lib.utas.edu.au/public/adt-TU20050315.093920.
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Viscido, Francesca Romana. "So Long Been Dreaming: proposta di traduzione di quattro racconti di postcolonial speculative fiction." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/12701/.
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This dissertation focuses on the translation of four short stories belonging to the Postcolonial, Science Fiction and Fantasy anthology So Long Been Dreaming (SLBD), edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan.
The main objective of this thesis is to introduce the genre known as postcolonial speculative fiction to the Italian readers, not only through the translation of the stories, but also with the help of some analysis of the genre itself and its history.
The first chapter is an analysis of the various ingredients postcolonial speculative fiction is composed of, which are science fiction, fantasy and postcolonial literature itself. Through the definitions and the brief history of those three elements, the first chapter points out the necessity of introducing and dealing with postcolonial speculative fiction as an independent genre with its own tradition and dignity.
The second chapter resumes the history of science fiction written by women, showing the relevance they have always had throughout the history of SF, supporting the decision of translating only short stories written by women.
The third chapter deals with the anthology So Long Been Dreaming. After introducing the anthology itself and its editors, Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan, the chapter goes on analyzing the four short stories selected for this dissertation, together with their authors.
The fourth chapter contains the four translations, with a brief introduction about the parameter used to select the short stories, which are: “Rachel” by Larissa Lai, “When Scarabs Multiply” by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, “The Forgotten Ones” by Karin Lowachee, and “Journey into the Vortex” by Maya Khankhoje.
Last but not least, the fifth chapter contains an overlook about the history of science fiction in Italy and the characteristics of the short story, together with a comment about the translations and the choices made during this challenging and inspiring process.
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Martínez, Salazar Egla J. "The everyday praxis of Guatemalan Maya women : confronting marginalization, racism and contested citizenship /." 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR11598.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2005. Graduate Programme in Sociology.<br>Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 485-497). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR11598
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Mora, Mariana. "Decolonizing politics : Zapatista indigenous autonomy in an era of neoliberal governance and low intensity warfare." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/18194.
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Grounded in the geographies of Chiapas, Mexico, the dissertation maps a cartography of Zapatista indigenous resistance practices and charts the production of decolonial political subjectivities in an era of neoliberal governance and low intensity conflict. It analyzes the relationship between local cultural political expressions of indigenous autonomy, global capitalist interests and neoliberal rationalities of government after more than decade of Zapatista struggle. Since 1996, Zapatista indigenous Mayan communities have engaged in the creation of alternative education, health, agricultural production, justice, and governing bodies as part of the daily practices of autonomy. The dissertation demonstrates that the practices of Zapatista indigenous autonomy reflect current shifts in neoliberal state governing logics, yet it is in this very terrain where key ruptures and destabilizing practices emerge. The dissertation focuses on the recolonization aspects of neoliberal rationalities of government in their particular Latin American post Cold War, post populist manifestations. I argue that in Mexico's indigenous regions, the shift towards the privatization of state social services, the decentralization of state governing techniques and the transformation of state social programs towards an emphasis on greater self-management occurs in a complex relationship to mechanisms of low intensity conflict. Their multiple articulations effect the reproduction of social and biological life in sites, which are themselves terrains of bio-political contention: racialized women's bodies and feminized domestic reproductive and care taking roles; the relationship between governing bodies and that governed; land reform as linked to governability and democracy; and the production of the indigenous subject in a multicultural era. In each of these arenas, the dissertation charts a decolonial cartography drawn by the following cultural political practices: the construction of genealogies of social memories of struggle, a governing relationship established through mandar obedeciendo, land redistribution through zapatista agrarian reform, pedagogical collective selfreflection in women’s collective work, and the formation of political identities of transformation. Finally, the dissertation discusses the possibilities and challenges for engaging in feminist decolonizing dialogic research, specifically by analyzing how Zapatista members critiqued the politics of fieldwork and adopted the genres of the testimony and the popular education inspired workshop as potential decolonizing methodologies.<br>text
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Wallace, Joseph Brandt. "Outward appearance, inward perceptions : preservation of identity among K'ichee' women." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-4016.
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Outward Appearance, Inward Perceptions: Preservation of Identity among K’ichee’ Women offers a look into the changing patterns of identity and regional Maya clothing among the female members of a rural K’ichee’ Maya municipality located in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. It provides a brief framework of the history and importance of Maya clothing in Guatemala as well as in the context of the rural Maya community. Building upon a loose theoretical framework based on works by Irma Otzoy (1992, 1996a, 1996b), Clifford Geertz (1997), and Paul Connerton (1989), the current study was aimed at examining the connections that exist between one municipality’s female regional style of clothing and the redefining of sacred spaces for cultural and identity preservation and an analysis of historical memory related to material culture. This descriptive study was conducted among a sample of K’ichee’ Maya women (N=18) over a two month period in 2010. Qualitative data were collected using an open-ended semi-structured interview guide. Major themes that emerged from the data were the vital roles that female community members play in the preservation of local culture and the changing and adaptive nature of material culture. The findings suggest that local identities and culture change alongside the changes occurring in municipal traje use, and pride and respect for local origins is preserved through performative ritual<br>text
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Burtner, Jennifer Carol Brow James. "Travel and transgression in the Mundo Maya spaces of home and alterity in a Guatemalan tourist market /." 2004. http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/2140/burtnerjc90760.pdf.
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Victoria, Nashielly. "Developing the rural landscape : sustainability efforts through women home gardens in a Yucatec Maya community." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-4171.
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Marginalized rural populations are the main actors in a growing multi-disciplinary effort to conserve some of the most biodiverse and culturally rich regions of the world. Within a context of greater political tensions and environmental worries on a global scale, alternative modes of development are drawing greater attention. Sustainable development, women in development and indigenous land use are all important issues in the rural landscape. This thesis examines these issues in the Felipe Carrillo Puerto (FCP) ejido (communal land-holding) community in Chemax, Yucatan, Mexico, which has been working in collaboration with a national non-governmental organization (NGO), Bioasesores, A.C. Focus is placed on the ‘Women’s Home Gardens Project.’ This new take on an old tradition aims to reduce economic pressures, improve access to nutritious foods, and empower the female group through participatory strategies. The NGO-community relationship, of which there is a growing multitude in Latin America, becomes critical in this endeavor. Through ethnographic data based on interviews with the women and participant observation, it is clear that decisions made by this Yucatec Maya community function within their political environment, economic pressures, and societal norms. The environmental consultants working within the community exercise well-intentioned, participant-based methods that improve upon government actions of the past; however there are several challenges that are not fully addressed. There is a clear potential for these efforts, though there are also problems that call into question the project’s sustainability. In a region that continues to struggle due to external economic pressures, there is a need to ensure that current development efforts in the ejido take both the needs of the people and environmental conservation into account. The rural landscape continues to develop in Mexico, and both NGOs and local communities are actively involved. This research offers a glimpse into the dynamics of one relationship between an NGO and an ejido, and provides suggestions for improvement.<br>text
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Burtner, Jennifer Carol. "Travel and transgression in the Mundo Maya : spaces of home and alterity in a Guatemalan tourist market /." Thesis, 2004. http://www.lib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3150550.
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Mansbridge, Pamela. "Metaphor, male/female theorists, and the "birth rites" of women, the reclamation projects of Sylvia Plath, Anais Nin and Maya Deren." 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/2572.
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Nečasová, Lucie. "Proměny lakandonské společnosti." Doctoral thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-328714.
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The main goal of this thesis is to study the life and customs of the Lacandon Indians, one of the smallest indigenous groups of Maya origin, who live in two villages in the Lacandon jungle, in Chiapas, Mexico. The thesis is focused on Lacandon life from the time when they were living in relative isolation from the outside world, and also on changes that have occurred during the 20th century. It has been particularly considered the changes in the Lacandon family and the position of Lacandon women. The study is based on available ethnographic studies, gender theories and especially on my own research realized in the communities of Lacanjá and Nahá from 2008 to 2012.
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Van, der Merwe Anna Susanna Petronella. "Die perspektief van die vroulike outeur op die Vlaamse koloniale era." Diss., 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16262.
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Text in Afrikaans<br>In hierdie verhandeling word die tekste van onderskeidelik Mireille Cottenje (Dagboek van Carla - 1968), Daisy Ver Boven (Mayana - I974 ), Henriette Claessens (Afscheid van Rumangabo - 1983) en Lieve Joris (Terug naar Kongo - 1987) bespreek as
verteenwoordigend van die koloniale literatuur deur die vroulike outeur.
Die doel is om vas te stel hoe daar deur die vroue outeur in die Vlaamse letterkunde aan die
Afrika-ervaring gestalte gegee is. Eerstens word 'n oorsig van die begrip koloniale literatuur
gegee en daama word literer-histories op die Vlaamse Afrika-literatuur vanaf die
prekoloniale- tot die postkoloniale era gefokus.
Nadat 'n analise van die tekste gedoen is om die individuele perspektiewe te evalueer, blyk
dit dat die vroue outeurs in 'n groot mate gemeenskaplike visies in hul siening van die
koloniale era openbaar. 'n Beeld van die koloniale Kongo soos dit in die ervaringswereld van die vroue outeurs bly voortleefhet, kan so verkry word<br>In this thesis, the texts of Mireille Cottenje (Dagboek van Carla - 1968), Daisy Ver Boven
(Mayana - 1974), Henriette Claessens (Afscheid van Rumangabo - 1983) and Lieve Joris
(Terug naar Kongo - 1987) were respectively studied as representative of the colonial
literature written by female authors.
The aim is to establish how stature is given in the literature to the Africa experience by the
female author. In the first instance the concept colonial literature is discussed followed by a
historical review of the Flemish African literature from the pre-colonial to the postcolonial
era.
After an analysis has been completed to evaluate the individual perspectives of the different
authors, it appears that the female authors reveal shared perspectives in their views on the
colonial era. Through knowledge of the work of these authors, an image of the colonial
Congo can be found, as it lives on in the world of the female literator<br>Afrikaans & Theory of Literature<br>M.A. (Afrikaans)