Dissertations / Theses: 'Power and gender'

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Cramer, David Wayne. "The power of gender and the gender of power in ancient Rome /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Leung, Ka-kie, and 梁嘉琪. "Dress and gender power." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31953621.

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Leung, Ka-kie. "Dress and gender power." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25262063.

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Balen, Julia Therese. "Embodied subjectivities: Power, gender, language." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186177.

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The speaking subject, or the self, in white Western language and literature predominantly functions as a disembodied construct. Two influential constructions of self exemplify this disembodiment. Cogito ergo sum, as it has been developed outside of Descartes' works, claims subjectivity on the basis of thought alone, potentially relegating all other elements of human existence to non-subjectivity. Desidero ergo sum, as psycho-linguistically developed by Lacan, claims subjectivity only through language, which requires explicitly gender-based disavowals of embodiment. While the desidero disrupts the cogito by theorizing the impossibility of any definitive 'knowledge' of self, both constructions of self function dichotomously (mind/body, male/female; etc.) wherein the "first" element defines itself by not being the "second." These constructs empower those who can effectively disembody themselves (e.g., those who can claim masculinity) at the expense of those who are therefore necessarily, psycho-socially marked with embodiment (e.g., those marked with the feminine). In response, this dissertation conjoins Elaine Scarry's "reading" of torture with mostly Irigarayan developments of gender and subjectivity tempered by Monique Wittig's critique of "the mark of gender," to ironically pose sentio ergo sum in order to tease open both the pretense to universality and the oppressive dichotomizing of hegemonic subjectivity. Calling on a wide range of theories in English and French in an effort to bring the highly theoretical, 'disembodied' discourse that surrounds subjectivity 'down to earth,' I consider the ways in which several contemporary writers and theorists work to create new subjectivities by reconfiguring the relationship between language, self, and embodiment. Roland Barthes' specular search, Luce Irigaray's multivalent "lips", and Julia Kristeva's motherly voice offer problematic theoretical resistance to the dichotomizing heterosexual masculinization of all subjectivity. Similarly in fiction Marguerite Duras's "ravishing" of the subject and Monique Wittig's "lesbianization" of the subject offer very different attempts to alter the patriarchally constructed bounds of subjectivity through radical embodiment. Seen together, the works of these writers offer insights into the importance of embodiment for any challenge to the culturally constructed and personally limiting images of "the speaking subject."

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Mills, Melinda Anne. ""Cooking with Love": Food, Gender, and Power." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/anthro_theses/38.

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This work explores the complex relationships between women, food, and power. Engaging the literature of feminist food studies allowed me to record the narratives and examine the experiences of women living in the United States. I take a close look at how women solidify and strengthen their social relationships to family and community through the use of food, or compromise and weaken these relationships through the denial or refusal of food, in the form of cooking or eating. I also consider both local and global contexts for understanding food, in terms of consumption and chores. Finally, I demonstrate how imagery of food allows women to participate in processes of commodification and fetishism.

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Green, Frida. "Fictional talk : gender, power and Kay Scarpetta." Thesis, University West, Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-1468.

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Bent, Marcus S. "Investigation of male violence and gender power." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488034.

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Yorganci, Ilkay. "Gender, power and sexual harassment in sport." Thesis, University of Brighton, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239851.

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Cornell, Rena. "Power, Control, and the Gender Gap in Delinquency: Reconsidering the Gendered Translation of Power from Workplace to Household." NCSU, 2005. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-03282005-180403/.

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Power-control theory provides one of most comprehensive theoretical explorations of the gender gap in delinquency to date. The theory posits that the relative power of husbands and wives in the workplace translates directly into their relative power within the home. Household power relations, in turn, are played out in the relative control of sons and daughters, influencing ultimately the gender gap in delinquency through social psychological processes of familial control and socialization toward risk. This paper reformulates power-control theory in two important ways. First, it borrows from the family and gender literature on status-reversal and single mother households to critique the simplistic discussion of the translation of gendered power relations from workplaces to households. In doing so, the paper specifies an alternative discussion of power relations and family structures. Second, the paper draws upon criminological research and theorizing on gender and delinquency to posit a more thorough discussion of the social psychological mechanisms linking gendered power differentials to the gender gap in delinquency. Thus, the paper presents a reformulation of power-control theory that reconsiders both structural-level power differentials between mothers and fathers and individual-level processes of control and socialization of sons and daughters. From this reformulation, I derive and test hypotheses using a nationally representative sample of youths. The results suggest that further consideration of how power translates from workplaces to households is necessary and also provide some support for recent theorizing about gender differences in the social psychological mechanisms leading to the gender gap in delinquency.

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Safranoff, Yankillevich Ana. "Analysing gender power relations through intermarriage in Spain." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/286737.

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Esta tesis analiza la interacción entre las desigualdades de género y la inmigración mediante el estudio de las diferencias de género en los matrimonios mixtos en España. La pregunta de investigación principal de la tesis es por qué las mujeres inmigrantes se casan con hombres españoles en mayor número que los hombres inmigrantes. Los resultados muestran que las teorías clásicas que se han utilizado para explicar los matrimonios mixtos y, más específicamente, las diferencias de género en dichos matrimonios, sólo pueden explicar de forma limitada este fenómeno. A diferencia del caso de los hombres inmigrantes en el pasado, en la España contemporánea la mayor propensión de las mujeres inmigrantes a casarse con hombres españoles no puede considerarse como un indicador de un mayor nivel de integración en la sociedad de acogida sino, más bien, como un signo de una forma diferente de integración. De hecho, los resultados sugieren que, en gran parte, las mujeres inmigrantes se casan con más frecuencia que los hombres debido a que son más atractivas para un tipo de hombre español con un perfil cultural tradicional que concibe el rol de la mujer como subordinado al del hombre.
This dissertation seeks to expand and refine our understanding of the interaction between immigrant and gender inequalities. This objective is achieved by analysing gender differences in intermarriage in Spain. The main research question of this thesis is why immigrant women intermarry with Spanish natives in larger numbers than immigrant meno The results of the dissertation show that the classical theories that have been used to explain intermarriage and, more specifically, gender differences in intermarriage, can only Iimitedly explain women's surplus in intermarriage in Spain. Differently from the case of immigrant men in the past, immigrant women 's higher propensity to intermarry in contemporary Spain cannot be simplistically considered an indicator oftheir higher levels of integration in the host society, but rather a sign of a different form of integration. In fact, the results suggest that immigrant women intermarry more often than men largely because they are more attractive to a type of Spanish native man with a traditional cultural profile that considers women's role to be subordinated to men.

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Westmarland, Louise. "Gender and policing sex, power and police culture /." Cullompton : Willan, 2001. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10306157.

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Haaren, April. "Power through gender in the star trek future /." Title page and introduction only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arh1119.pdf.

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Narayanaswamy, Lata. "Gender, power and the knowledge-for-development agenda." Thesis, Durham University, 2010. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/530/.

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In a highly influential report written in 1998, The World Bank promoted the idea that a lack of information and knowledge was one of the key barriers to development in the Global South. The hegemonic discursive and financial control upheld by the World Bank and Northern donors continues to generate considerable criticism in development theory and practice. Yet the consequences of the proliferation of knowledge-based development practices into the routine functions of civil society that followed the establishment of the World Bank knowledge paradigm, even where these initiatives have been explicitly designed to be more ‘progressive’, is an area of development discourse and practice that remains under-researched. Using a qualitative, multi-site ethnography to analyse the discursive ‘site’ created by the information flows between and beyond a Northern-based gender information service and their users and recipients in New Delhi, India, this research investigates the function of knowledge-based development aid. Specifically, this study seeks to interrogate the capacity of donor-funded women’s NGOs and networks acting as information intermediaries to promote more positive development outcomes through the production and dissemination of information for a range of development stakeholders in both Northern and Southern contexts, notably those groups marginalised from the dominant development infrastructure. This research suggests that notions of ‘progressive’ knowledge practice are confronted by three main constraints. Firstly, discursive and pedagogical barriers embedded in information and its delivery persists despite mechanisms designed to improve accessibility. Secondly, the production and dissemination of increased volumes of information has become an end in itself, de-linked from their contribution to development outcomes. Finally, actors based in the ‘South’ remain unproblematised in knowledge-based development discourse and practice, thereby obscuring class and educational divides that reinforce inequalities not just between the North and the South but also within and between Southern contexts.

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Skelton, Tracey Lynn. "Women, men and power : gender relations in Montserrat." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/297.

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This thesis draws on and informs feminist theory and Caribbean studies and is concerned with investigating the particular form of gender relations in Montserrat. Gender relations are conceptualised as power relations between men and women. This argument is derived from an exploration of the possibilities and limitations of a range of feminist literature: marxist feminism, socialist feminism, women's studies, feminist geography, radical feminism and the studies of women and development. The gender relations in Montserrat are explored in four areas of social organisation: the household, the workplace, union patterns and heterosexual behaviour. They are seen as universal features of women's lives and, potentially, the main sites of gender relations. Montserratian gender relations were found to be patriarchal, but varied in strength within the four social areas. The household per se was not a site of patriarchal gender relations unless shared with a male partner. The workplace did not exhibit patriarchal gender relations. Gender relations in marriage and cohabiting unions were strongly patriarchal; those in visiting unions were either egalitarian or weakly patriarchal. Heterosexual behaviour, involving sexuality and biological reproduction, was identified as the main site of the maintenance and reproduction of patriarchal gender relations in Montserrat. Montserratian gender relations are shown to be broadly similar to those of the Caribbean generally; but there are exceptions. Very low levels of marriage and cohabitation mean that household gender relations are less patriarchal than in other islands. In comparison with other Caribbean islands, where MNCs, law wages, strict gender segregation and a lack of employment legislation prevail, Montserratian women experience higher wages, job security and greater employment opportunities. The Montserratian workplace, therefore, cannot be seen as a site of patriarchal gender relations. However, as is commonplace throughout the Caribbean, union patterns, specifically marriage and cohabitation, and heterosexual behaviour are sites of patriarchal gender relations.

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Francis, Becky Jane. "Children's constructions of gender, power, and adult occupation." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321708.

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Grimshaw, Tammy. "Sexuality, gender, and power in Iris Murdoch's fiction /." Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson university press, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40061493w.

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Drack, Sibylle Maria. "Discourse, power and gender in Charlotte Brontë's "Shirley" /." Bern : Selbstverl, 2000. http://www.ub.unibe.ch/content/bibliotheken_sammlungen/sondersammlungen/dissen_bestellformular/index_ger.html.

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Butera, Laura. "Height, power, and gender politicizing the measured body /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1219422665.

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Piasecka-Till, Aleksandra. "Power and gender relations in brazilian television interviews." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 1994. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/157859.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão
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Com o propósito de detectar e expor as relações desiguais de poder causadas pela discriminação sexista, investigo dez entrevistas da televisão brasileira. As entrevistas pertencem a dois programas populares "Cara a Cara" e "Jô Soares Onze e Meia", foram vídeo gravadas, e depois gravadas em fitas cassetes. Para a análise lingüística dos dados obtidos através de transcrição, foi usada a abordagem do Estudo Crítico da Linguagem (Fairclough 1989 e 1992), que leva em conta as características textuais junto com elementos contextuais. Foram analisadas as formas de tratamento usadas por mulheres e homens, assim como as escolhas de termos feitas por mulheres e homens para classificar uns aos outros. Os tópicos desenvolvidos nas entrevistas também foram investigados. Os resultados do estudo confirmam que no Brasil, uma sociedade de classe capitalista, o discurso da televisão diferenciando as mulheres lingüisticamente reproduz as relações de dominação existentes. Adicionalmente, foi mostrado que modelo de análise de Fariclough, originalmente elaborado para o inglês, se aplica ao português.

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Ekenhorst, Johanna. "The hairless imperative: gender, power, sexopolitics and depilation." Universität Leipzig, 2019. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A34894.

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Butera, Laura E. "Height, Power, and Gender: Politicizing the Measured Body." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1219422665.

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Grubb, Caitlyn. "Power Dynamics in Conversation : The Role of Gender." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1462959131.

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Hawkins, Emma B. "Gender, Power, and Language in Anglo-Saxon Poetry." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278983/.

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Many Old English poems reflect the Anglo-Saxon writers's interest in who could exercise power and how language could be used to signal a position of power or powerlessness. In previous Old English studies, the prevailing critical attitude has been to associate the exercise of power with sex—the distinction between males and females based upon biological and physiological differences—or with sex-oriented social roles or sphere of operation. Scholarship of the last twenty years has just begun to explore the connection between power and gender-coded traits, attributes which initially were tied to the heroic code and were primarily male-oriented. By the eighth and ninth centuries, the period in which most of the extant Old English poetry was probably composed, these qualities had become disassociated from biological sex but retained their gender affiliations. A re-examination of "The Dream of the Rood," "The Wanderer," "The Husband's Message," "The Wife's Lament," "Wulf and Eadwacer" and Beowulf confirms that the poets used gender-coded language to indicate which poetic characters, female as well as male, held positions of power and powerlessness. A status of power or powerlessness was signalled by the exercise of particular gendered traits that were open for assumption by men and women. Powerful individuals were depicted with masculine-coded language affiliated with honor, mastery, aggression, victory, bravery, independence, martial prowess, assertiveness, physical strength, verbal acuteness, firmness or hardness, and respect from others. Conversely, the powerless were described with non-masculine or feminine-coded language suggesting dishonor, subservience, passivity, defeat, cowardice, dependence, defenselessness, lack of volition, softness or indecisiveness, and lack of respect from others. Once attained, neither status was permanent; women and men trafficked back and forth between the two. Depending upon the circumstances, members of both sexes could experience reversals of fortunes which would necessitate moving from one category to the other, on more than one occasion in a lifetime.

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Gray, Ellen M. "Gender and negotiating power among separating couples testing a process theory of power /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ56229.pdf.

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Cook, Kathleen E. "Target and perceiver gender in person perception : power as a possible explanation for gender differences /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9063.

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Sanders, Darrell Todd. "Rainmaking, gender and power in Ihanzu, Tanzania, 1885-1995." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1997. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1478/.

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This thesis is about rainmaking amongst the Ihanzu (or Isanzu), a 30,000-strong matrilineal, Bantu-speaking agricultural group of north-central Tanzania. By examining rain rituals and their cosmological underpinnings as locally envisaged, I suggest that central to the Ihanzu cultural imagination lies the notion of gender complementarity. In a number of contexts, but particularly in the context of rainmaking, I show how masculine and feminine principles of a gendered universe, when combined, are seen as a site of cosmic and divine powers. To join the genders is to transform, to create, to rejuvenate. Using oral and archival sources, the first section examines the nature of the Ihanzu dual monarchy between 1885 and 1976. In spite of the radical political, economic and social changes that took place throughout this period, the dual leadership-with one male and one female-and people's understandings of royal power and legitimacy remained constant: control over rains is control over reigns. Section two examines annual rainmaking rites as they occur today. The point is to show the extent to which gender complementarity pervades these rites, and the local logic as to why this must be so. An indigenously grounded, gendered model of transformation is developed that applies equally to making children as to making rain. Power, in Ihanzu eyes, comes in gendered pairs. Section three discusses measures taken when annual rain rites fail to bring rain, and how the gendered model of transformation applies to these remedial rites. The penultimate chapter, on rain-witchcraft, suggests that gendered witches are a cosmological inversion of gendered rulers, yet for both duos their powers are based on gender complementarity. In the conclusion it is argued that the notion of gendered complementarity as developed in the thesis might be equally useful in explaining rain rites elsewhere in Africa.

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Guillen, Marissa E. "The Performance of Tango: Gender, Power and Role Playing." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1213208506.

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Brooks, Ann Irene. "Researching the academic community : gender, power and the academy." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1995. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020247/.

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Mulvihill, Natasha. "Gender, power and the making of English prostitution policy." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.685434.

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This research considers how gender and power are implicated in the making of prostitution policy. Prostitution in England and Wales is patterned by gender: sex buyers are overwhelmingly men, and most of those who sell sex are women. Yet asking how and why this patterning prevails rarely provides the starting point for the development of prostitution policy. In addition, while there is an established literature on feminist or gender analysis of public policy, it is less often considered whether and how gender and power operate within the policy-making process itself. Using the proposal to criminalise the purchase of sex in England and Wales as a case study, and Clause 13/14 of the Policing and Crime Bill 2008-2009 in particular, I analyse almost 60 UK Parliament documents to explore how gender and power are implicated in who speaks on prostitution policy; in what they say; and in how prostitution policy is translated from its initial proposal to its enactment in law. This documentary analysis draws on Mazur (2002) in exploring the relationship between gender representation in Parliament and the gendered content of policy; on Connell's work (1987, 2002) on 'gender regimes' and 'hegemonic masculinity'; and on Freeman's proposal for 'policy translation' (2009). This work offers careful and comprehensive evidence that the making of English prostitution policy is consistent with hegemonic masculinity. This is demonstrated in particular in how criminalisation is discursively contested by policy makers and in how its potential application is narrowed significantly during its translation through the policy process. The analysis also highlights some of the methodological and conceptual difficulties in identifying - and therefore challenging - gender and power in action.

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Hampanda, Karen Marie. "Gender, power, and vertical HIV prevention in urban Zambia." Thesis, University of Colorado at Denver, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10112651.

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Biomedical and behavioral interventions can virtually eliminate the risk of vertical (i.e., mother-to-child) HIV transmission. Pregnant and breastfeeding women’s adherence to prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) interventions, however, remains a challenge across sub-Saharan Africa. Using a concurrent mixed methods approach, including a survey and semi-structured interviews, I test whether a relationship exists between women’s low power within married couples (based on domains from the Theory of Gender and Power) and adherence across the PMTCT cascade of care, including drug adherence during and after pregnancy, safe infant feeding practices, and pediatric HIV testing. The results of this study indicate that intimate partner violence is particularly detrimental to PMTCT adherence. Certain PMTCT protocols are also affected by partner controlling behaviors, participation in household decisions, and economic dependence, but not to the same extent as violence. Women with low power cite a lack of partner support and an unwillingness to disclose their HIV status to the husband due to fear of violence or abandonment as reasons for low PMTCT adherence. Conversely, women with high power cite partner support and the ability to prioritize PMTCT, sometimes even over the marriage, as enabling adherence. Based on these results, augmented efforts to address gender power dynamics both in society and within the home are recommended to promote the health of HIV-positive women and their families.

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Rustin, Carmine Jianni. "Perceptions of Power, Race and Gender in Interracial Rape." University of the Western Cape, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8462.

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Magister Artium (Psychology) - MA(Psych)
Violence against women is a profound social problem which has received much attention from feminists, academics, activists, media, and also government. One such form of violence is interracial rape. In South Africa, little is known about interracial rape (rape across race groups). The main aim of this study is to examine students' perceptions of power, gender and race in interracial rape. This thesis also explores what White male and female students said, and what Black male and female students said about power, race and gender when examining interracial rape. This study is based within an interpretive-hermeneutical paradigm, using qualitative methodology. Data was collected in six focus groups, three of which were held at a historically Black university and three at a historically White university. Both men and women participated in these groups. The data was analysed thematically with the aid of a computerised software package, Atlasti. The analysed text identified dominant and minor themes. The main themes that emerged were as follows: 1) a power and domination theme, 2) a justification of rape theme, 3) a race, racism and apartheid theme. The results indicate that power plays an important role in interracial rape. Power underpins both gendered and racial oppression. In interracial rape, racial oppression becomes dominant and takes on more prominence than gender oppression. It is thus fore mostly perceived as a racial issue

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au, jane lorrimar@challengertafe wa edu, and Jane Lorrimar. "Organisational culture in TAFE colleges : power, gender and identity politics." Murdoch University, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070717.145611.

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This study explores the human face of workplace change in two Technical and Further Education (TAFE) colleges in Western Australia. It analyses the impact of neoliberalism on organisational culture by examining the way vocational education and training (VET) reforms influenced the restructuring and orientation of these colleges, and changed their power dynamics and work practices. It presents the accounts of 100 women and men who were interviewed between 2000-2002 about their working lives. Their stories of passion and angst represent a vertical slice of life in TAFE and include responses from administrative staff, lecturers, academic managers, corporate services managers and executives. This study explores perceptions of power and the mechanisms of control that were exerted upon and within the colleges with a focus on the factors that impact on career satisfaction. In addition, it examines perceptions of fairness in relation to employment, remuneration and promotion issues. Specifically, it reveals a variety of points of view on the attributes of success and outlines the strategies individuals use to get ahead. Furthermore, it seeks to understand the way values and norms guide and justify conduct and how they influence organisational culture. It evaluates whether a climate of sacrifice operates in the colleges and whether individuals will sacrifice personal or professional values to get ahead. Although much has been written on the impact of neoliberalism on the changing nature of work and organisational culture, there has been little investigation of the TAFE experience at the individual, group and institutional level. It is also less common to find analyses of workplace restructuring that conceptualises the changes from a feminist and sociocultural perspective. By investigating the colleges as sites of gender and identity politics, this study explores the way individuals and groups do gender and describes how gender asymmetry is reproduced through social, cultural and institutional practices. It highlights how individuals construct their professional and worker identity and perceive themselves in relations to others in the social and organisational hierarchy of the colleges.

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Lorrimar, Jane. "Organisational culture in TAFE colleges : power, gender and identity politics /." Lorrimar, Jane (2006) Organisational culture in TAFE colleges: power, gender and identity politics. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/164/.

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This study explores the human face of workplace change in two Technical and Further Education (TAFE) colleges in Western Australia. It analyses the impact of neoliberalism on organisational culture by examining the way vocational education and training (VET) reforms influenced the restructuring and orientation of these colleges, and changed their power dynamics and work practices. It presents the accounts of 100 women and men who were interviewed between 2000-2002 about their working lives. Their stories of passion and angst represent a 'vertical slice' of life in TAFE and include responses from administrative staff, lecturers, academic managers, corporate services managers and executives. This study explores perceptions of power and the mechanisms of control that were exerted upon and within the colleges with a focus on the factors that impact on career satisfaction. In addition, it examines perceptions of fairness in relation to employment, remuneration and promotion issues. Specifically, it reveals a variety of points of view on the attributes of success and outlines the strategies individuals use to get ahead. Furthermore, it seeks to understand the way values and norms guide and justify conduct and how they influence organisational culture. It evaluates whether a climate of sacrifice operates in the colleges and whether individuals will sacrifice personal or professional values to get ahead. Although much has been written on the impact of neoliberalism on the changing nature of work and organisational culture, there has been little investigation of the TAFE 'experience' at the individual, group and institutional level. It is also less common to find analyses of workplace restructuring that conceptualises the changes from a feminist and sociocultural perspective. By investigating the colleges as sites of gender and identity politics, this study explores the way individuals and groups do gender and describes how gender asymmetry is reproduced through social, cultural and institutional practices. It highlights how individuals construct their professional and worker identity and perceive themselves in relations to others in the social and organisational hierarchy of the colleges.

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Hempen, Daniela. "The negotiation of gender and power in medieval German writings." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0005/NQ34531.pdf.

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Huang, Belinda. "Gender, race, and power : the Chinese in Canada, 1920-1950." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0002/MQ43885.pdf.

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Peterson, Helen. "Gender, power and post-bureaucracy : work ideals in IT consulting /." Uppsala : Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-6004.

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Prentiss, Barbara Gail. "Latin Oxford : dominance, power, and gender roles in dancing salsa." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.602928.

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As a form of popular entertainer, salsa dancing is an active social and commercial recreation in many places around the world. It has become, in Anglo•European parts of the world, a highly structured partner dance, involving several months of training to become skilled. It is a gendered partner dance, ie, the standard model is men performing the leading role, and women following. Central to this investigation is a social experiment into reversing the roles, involving a group of dancers who take a course in which women lead the dance and men are the followers. By examining the reactions of this group within a context of global experience, my research challenges the norms for learning salsa, and uncovers contemporary opinions about motivation, gender performance, identity, authority, and obedience. Using feminist theories of dominance, theories of practice, theories of constructed identity, theories of learning, theories of agency, and theories of emotion I explore the interwoven social forces at work in this popular form of recreation.

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Li, Hsiao-Jung. "Gender and power in the primary teaching workplace in Taiwan." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.551293.

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The aim of this thesis is to explore how the gendered division of teaching work is shaped, so as to theorise these dynamics of gender and power: male domination and female subordination within the primary teaching workplace. Drawing on empirical data from the ethnographic research in a primary school in Taiwan, men's dominance in higher posts as well as the preference for men in the teaching of PE and computing courses has been observed, despite the fact that female teachers are a majority. By contrast, women and feminine attributes are devalued in the administrative hierarchy. The evidence supports that the teachers, regardless of their gender, value caring and its critical role in their classroom practices. More importantly, the influence of personal attributes, the emphasis on professionalism, and the humanist approach have been identified as providing various accounts of caring. Disciplinary roles, role models, the teaching of older children and difficult classes and leadership roles are considered to be men's work. I argue that male association with authority and power is generated through gendered task segregation. Furthermore, male domination in power is a consequence of the endorsement of women. The differentiation of power is thus embedded in interpersonal interactions as part of this teacher workplace culture. The findings further indicate the complexities of gendered power: female teachers' reliance on men and their masculinity, which revealed not only that women suffer more negative experiences from the principal's leadership but also their lack of confidence in the power struggle. In addition to involving male domination and female subordination, power relations in my research may also indicate the importance of male allies and their sharing of power in the workplace.

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Smith, Deborah J. "Finding power : gender and women's political participation in Rajasthan, India." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2005. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1866/.

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This thesis considers the effects of women's political participation on gender dynamics in the context of the local community. A broad definition of politics is used, which has allowed the research to investigate and analyse the effects of participation in both NGO- initiated women's groups and Panchayati Raj institutions (village/local level councils). The central discussion, therefore, focuses on the extent to which these different types of participation have been or can be empowering for women as individuals and as a group. In relation to this, different conceptualisations of power and the meanings and uses of empowerment and participation are explored. Research data was collected in five villages, a peri-urban area and one town in Bikaner District, Rajasthan, India. Ethnographic data was collected which the researcher uses to stress the importance of disaggregating women not only along the lines of caste, class, religion and so forth but also according to generation and familial position, when considering their changing roles and status in society. While acknowledging that certain aspects of political participation can have empowering effects the thesis argues that political participation is not necessarily empowering for women and in some cases may have the reverse effect. The dangers of instrumentalist arguments used to encourage and initiate women's political participation are highlighted. It is argued that 'empowering' women to participate is not enough to increase their status, quality of life or life choices if disempowering processes and structures within institutions are not also challenged and overcome. The thesis makes the case that family and community members generally support increases in women's political participation so long as it is only certain women who participate in a certain manner. It also argues for the greater inclusion of men into projects aiming to challenge detrimental gender norms.

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Grimshaw, Tammy J. "Gender, sexuality and power in the novels of Iris Murdoch." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.406279.

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Arshad, Y. "Imagining Cleopatra : performing gender and power in early modern England." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2016. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1505746/.

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Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt, is one of the most renowned and enduring figures from antiquity, yet remains one of its most elusive. She has become part of a Western founding myth of Eastern otherness, and many of these perceptions of her as a mesmerising and mercurial siren are mediated through Shakespeare's dramatic creation. There was, however, already a great interest in Cleopatra and her story in the sixteenth century well before Shakespeare wrote his play, and views of her were strongly conflicted and multi-faceted. Although she was condemned as an example of lust and luxury, there was also fascination with the legend of her drinking a priceless pearl, and admiration of her courage and nobility in following Antony in death. This thesis investigates images of Cleopatra in the early modern period and looks at how her story was transmitted and used in different circumstances. It combines a close reading of literary and dramatic works with historical and topical contexts, and considers evidence from material objects too. It looks at the representation of Cleopatra in the innovative neo-Senecan dramas of Mary Sidney and Samuel Daniel, their use of political allegory, and how their Cleopatras inflected Shakespeare's. The thesis also investigates a remarkable portrait of a Jacobean lady, plausibly Lady Anne Clifford, depicted as Cleopatra, with an inscription from Daniel, and discusses what this may add to our understanding of female performance and tragic heroism in the period. Insights gained from a recent UCL staging of Daniel's Cleopatra help to gauge the 'infinite variety' of early modern Cleopatras who emerged from centuries of myth-making about the Egyptian Queen. The thesis offers a new approach to the study of how Elizabethan and Jacobean political and dramatic cultures overlapped, by tracing the representation and reception of a single, catalytic figure.

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Fonseca, Ana Paula de Oliveira Carvalho. "Language, power and gender in the plays of David Mamet." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/2845.

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Mestrado em Estudos Ingleses
Esta tese visa a análise e conclusão sobre uso da linguagem, das relações depoder e da inter-relação entre pessoas do mesmo ou de diferente sexo nas peças mais relevantes da fase intermédia da carreira do dramaturgo DavidMamet. Para dar cumprimento a esta tarefa, iniciarei com uma contextualizaçãohistórica do autor e do teatro na América do Norte dos anos setenta aos anos noventa. Seguidamente, procederei à análise do estilo linguístico de Mamet. Aqui incidirei sobre o estilo do autor relativamente à construção das cenas, dodiálogo, e das suas especificidades linguísticas, tal como a gramática, a sintaxe, o ritmo, a velocidade (o andamento), a prosódia, o recurso à invectiva, à profanidade, ao calão e à linguagem demótica, para concluir sobre a suafunção. De seguida, debruçar-me-ei sobre o modo como as relações de poder são estabelecidas nas peças em apreço. Numa primeira instância, apresentarei osresultados de uma pesquisa sobre os elementos passíveis de constituíremfontes de poder, depois analisarei a forma como as personagens masculinasestabelecemrelações de poder com os seus pares e com as personagens dosexo oposto, para de seguidame debruçar sobre o como e o porquê da transformação de carácter e linguística que se opera em duas daspersonagens principais destas peças. Finalmente, procederei à caracterização da linguagem da masculinidade nas peças, das figuras masculinas e femininas, bem como da natureza da polarização das figuras masculinas e das figuras masculinas versus femininas. ABSTRACT: This thesis aims to analyse Mamet’s mid-career as a playwright and his object of drama through the study of five of his most acclaimed plays of the time. To accomplish my task I am going to provide a historical contextualization ofthe author and of theatre in the 1970s up until the early 1990s America. Then, I am going to carry out a thorough analysis of Mamet’s linguistic style.Here, I will study Mamet’s approach to dialogue and scene setting/building, andhis linguistic specificities such as the use of invective, profanity, grammar, syntax, rhythm, pace, prosody, jargon and demotic language, to concludeabout their effects. After that,I am going to analyse how power relations are established in theplays. First, I am going to present the results of my research onwhat can constitute symbols of power; second, I am going to analyse how men establishpower relations with one another and with women; and third, I am going to account for how and why two major characters in these plays undergo alinguistic and character transformation. Finally, I am going to characterize the language of masculinity in the plays, themale and female figures and the nature of male-male and male-female polarization.

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Wimpelmann, Torunn. "The price of protection : gender, violence and power in Afghanistan." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2013. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/16802/.

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This thesis examines contestations over gender violence as points of entry into an analysis of gender, politics and sovereign power in contemporary Afghanistan. It explores the evolving parameters of what ‘counts’ as violence against women in Afghanistan, articulated in legal frameworks and practices, in public and media debates and in the interventions of political leaders, diplomats and aid workers. The thesis asks whether violence against women has become a governance issue in Afghanistan and what this means for the position of women and for broader relations of power. These questions are investigated through an examination of the origins and fate of a new law on violence against women, a series of controversies over women’s shelters, attempts to bestow recognition on informal justice processes and the trajectories of individual episodes of violence as they travelled through different and sometimes competing legal forums. I show how the outcome of these struggles have the potential to redraw boundaries between government and family domains, and to subordinate women to kinship power, or alternatively, constitute them as independent legal persons. The thesis further analyses negotiations over and interventions into violence against women as revealing of shifting domains and claims of sovereignty, of projects of power and of political technologies. The processes detailed in the thesis illuminate a landscape of plural and competing legal regimes that in specific times and places presided over individual episodes of gender violence The thesis also shows that far from operating as a singular bloc, Western forays in Afghanistan produced multiple and contradictory effects on women’s security and protection.

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Cresswell, Lucy. "Augusta : images of the Empress and Roman imperial power." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272815.

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Pritchard, Annette. "Tourism representation, space and the power perspective." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311204.

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Bonham, Lorie N. "Gender Images and Power in Magazine Advertisements: The Consciousness Scale Revisited." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2005. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_theses/1.

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This study re-evaluates the Consciousness Scale originally formulated by Pingree et al. in 1976. The element of assumed power was added to the Consciousness Scale, which was then used to evaluate 516 magazine advertisements from 1999 to determine if the Consciousness Scale still accurately evaluates sexism in media. A set of advertisements was culled which had contradictory Consciousness Scale and power ratings. The set was evaluated, revealing common themes, which created difficulty in coding these modern images. The study revealed that while the Consciousness Scale can still provide a valuable tool in evaluating media images, the change in the social dynamic of women as well as minorities and how advertisers portray them must be taken into account. The element of power as well as a more nuanced reading of each level of the Consciousness Scale creates a more modern and complex evaluation of gender images in the media.

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Runkle, Susan Catherine Wadley Susan Snow. "Becoming cosmopolitan Constructing gender and power in post-liberalization Bombay (India) /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Oates, Thomas Patrick. "On the block race, gender, and power in the NFL draft /." Diss., University of Iowa, 2004. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/114.

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O'Connell, Michael Charles. "Gender Power and Mate Value: The Evolutionary Psychology of Sexual Harassment." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Psychology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3700.

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Evolutionary psychological principles were applied to the issue of sexual harassment to investigate whether the gender, power, and mate value of harassers were related to perceptions of sexual harassment. One hundred and sixty heterosexual men and women were given descriptions of a target individual whose mate value and power was manipulated, and three behavioural vignettes involving imagined interactions with the target individual. Participants rated their perceived level of sexual harassment (the dependent variable) stemming from the imagined interactions. Participants also provided ratings of their self perceived level of attractiveness, attitude towards social-sexual communication in the workplace, and experience with social-sexual communication in the workplace. As predicted, females perceived higher levels of sexual harassment than males, and participants perceived higher levels of sexual harassment from low mate-value target individuals than high mate-value target individuals. Against predictions, no result was found for power. Additionally, self perceived level of attractiveness was found to moderate the relationship between gender and perceived sexual harassment, and attitude towards social-sexual communication in the workplace was found to moderate the relationship between mate value and perceived sexual harassment. Implications and explanations are discussed with reference to workplace issues, and evolutionary psychology.

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Wang, Min-fen. "Physician-scientists' learning in communities of practice access, culture, gender, power." Saarbrücken VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2005. http://d-nb.info/989267113/04.

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