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Ahmadi, Vafa. "The impact of the feminist movement in international relations : evaluating the UN decade for women, the Beijing Conference and beyond." Thesis, Keele University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.392160.
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Hartranft, Linda Bussard. "The ninth decade : six central Ohio women /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487778663285454.
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Cathro, Rebecca Ann. "New Zealand's women working free? : a decade of change." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Department of Political Science, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4311.
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This thesis examines the effects and impacts of the Employment Contracts Act 1991 on
women in non-standard from 1991-1999 in New Zealand. It addresses the need for
qualitative research that gives voice to the experiences of women in non-standard work.
The research model developed in this thesis is informed by feminist methodology. It is
argued that the traditional methods of recording employment statistics and of
conducting survey interviews do not account for the personal experiences of the
respondents. This study combines three techniques: analysis of published literature,
analysis of employment statistics and in-depth qualitative interviews with six women in
non-standard employment.
Examination of the political context of the enactment of the Employment Contracts Act
1991 highlighted varied expectations of the legislation. Political parties, feminist
researchers and interest groups differed in their assessment of the implications of the
Act for women in non-standard work. The study compares these views with statistical
data and the findings of interviews with women in non-standard work.
It is argued that the Act has had a significant effect on women. The flexibility of
employment created by the Act has enabled women with young children to work by
lifting the constraints on time, as well as the responsibilities of child-care. However,
flexible working hours imposed significant constraints on women's private time and the
results of the interviews suggest that the affects of the Act are different for women who
no longer require flexibility in work in order to work around child-care responsibilities.
In conclusion, this discussion gives a new perspective to the study of the effects of the
Employment Contracts Act 1991 by supplementing analysis of political debate and statistical records with opportunities for ordinary women workers to reflect on their
experiences. This indicative study provides a basis for further research in this area.
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Kane, Eryn M. "The Guardians of Civilization: Neo-Republican Motherhood in Post-World War II America, 1945-1963." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1366640052.
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Guemar, Latefa Narriman. "Highly skilled Algerian women displaced during the 'Black Decade' : online networks, transnational belonging and political engagement." Thesis, University of East London, 2016. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/5871/.
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The contemporary era of global transformations has re-oriented academic debates on the growth of non-nation-based solidarities and transnational cultural constructions. Despite this, social constructionists suggest that the concept of ‘diaspora’ continues to privilege the notion of ethnicity as the point of origin in the construction of solidarity between migrants, overlooking the differences of social class and gender. This research interrogates this contention by exploring the role of gender in shaping diaspora – a complex process by which migrant women articulate new identities and give new social and political meanings to their relationships with one another, with co-nationals living elsewhere and with an imagined ‘homeland’. It investigates the motivation behind the emigration of highly skilled Algerian women during the ‘Black Decade’ of the 1990s and its aftermath, and looks at the agendas of this particular set of migrants, the extent to which they feel they belong to a diaspora, and their attitude towards returning ‘home’. Their political engagement takes a variety of forms, but the research reveals that certain modes of online discourse and manifestations of a diasporic social consciousness are common to their self-presentation. In order to investigate their networks, I used Social Networking Websites Analysis (mainly Facebook) and a Respondent-Driven-Sampling (RDS) method to sample and recruit participants, coupled with 15 in-depth interviews. The majority of participants cited the amnesty law (which absolved the perpetrators of violence during the 1990s, including violence against women, of their crimes) and the rise of radical Islamist ideology as the main barriers to considering present-day Algeria as ‘home’. Participants appeared to exhibit both a sense of exile and a desire to be part of a diaspora.
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Upton, Taylour M. "The Un-site: by Black Women, for Black Women." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1584001344654082.
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Lotz-Sisitka, Heila 1965. "Participating in the UN Decade of Education for Sustainability: voices in a southern African consultation process." Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/67367.
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publisher versionThis paper documents the outcomes of the consultation process on participating in the UNDESD which was led by the SADC Regional Environmental Education Programme in 2005/2006, assisted by the Rhodes University Environmental Education and Sustainability Unit and Environment Africa. The goals of the consultation process were to explore interpretations and meaning-making around the global discourse of ESD in a southern African context. Findings from the consultation process provide useful baseline information on the status of debate on sustainable development in educational circles; participation and partnerships; insights into environmental and sustainability education (ESD) practice and mechanisms needed for supporting this practice. The paper ends by outlining a research agenda for ESD in southern Africa, as discussed during the consultation process.
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Kraft, Molly. "(Un)belongings : Muslim women in multicultural Canada." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43235.
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In this thesis I explore the way Muslim women in Vancouver, B.C. narrate stories of belonging. Addressing the way in which Muslim women have become a popular symbol for the perceived incompatibility of multiculturalism and specific cultural practices, I focus on how this group has been affected — resists and negotiates — the changes to Canadian policy and the social landscape in the last two decades. I examine how these women come to see themselves in relation to the framing of their social, cultural and religious practices as inherently incompatible with aspects of Canadian society. What stories of belonging do they tell? How are these affected, produced, or outside of, state narratives of being in Canada? I draw from feminist, anti-racist scholarship calling for more nuanced and critical approaches to concepts of integration, multiculturalism and nationalism. I argue that these women’s stories can best be understood through the theoretical lens of (un)belonging; spaces, moments and attachments that develop outside of normative belonging. Finally, I seek to ask whether we can “keep our senses open to emergent and unknown forms of belonging, connectivity” and “intimacy” (Puar 2007, p. xxviii) and what these might inform or enliven in studies of immigration, settlement and multiculturalism in Canada.
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Lee, Jirye. "Stage of Her Own: Autobiographical Solos by Women in New York City in the First Decade in the 21st Century." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1494288492098892.
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Hansen, Christina. "(Un)Conditional Capacity-Building - Aymara Women Organizing for Social Change." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22952.
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Om missgynnade och underordnade kvinnor i strikta klassificeringssystem ska förändra sin position krävs socialt deltagande och kollektiv handling, men hur? Flertalet Aymarakvinnor har upplevt att ”kapacitetslärande” åtgärder har varit framgångsrika, men till vilken nivå? Att vara del av samhälles fattigaste befolkning betyder ett liv under en mångfald sociala orättvisor. I den här uppsatsen argumenterar jag för att kapacitetslärande är ett potentiellt verktyg för social förändring. Detta gör jag genom att hänvisa till den informella utbildningen och det symboliska kapital som åtgärden omfattar, sett ur ett makt- och självbestämmande-perspektiv. Genom att förmedla de förhållanden som Aymarakvinnorna lever under, och med hjälp av intersektionalitetsteorin presenterar jag några av de faktorer som försvårar dessa att nå en radikal social förändring. Likväl är ursprungskvinnornas sociala påverkan och aktivism central i kampen för rättvisa.If deprived and subordinate women in rigorous systems of stratification are to change their position, social agency and collective activism is needed, but how? Several Bolivian Aymara women have experienced processes of “capacity-building” to be a successful measurement, but to what extent? Being part of the poorest sectors of society implies being dominated by a diverse spectrum of social injustices. In this paper I argue that capacity-building may be a potential tool for social change. I will show this by referring to the informal education and the “symbolic capital” this embraces, seen from an empowerment perspective. By illustrating the conditions under which the Aymara women live, I will, with the help of intersectionality theory present some of the factors which impede them to bring about a radical social change. Nevertheless, the indigenous women’s agency and activism are crucial for the achievement of social justice.
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Dharsani, Moez, and Alexandra Ericsson. "Women In Diplomacy : How is the Problem of Absence of Women in Diplomacy Framed by the UN?" Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för juridik, ekonomi, statistik och politik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-5409.
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The following Bachelor’s thesis is analyzing contemporary advocacy for more women in diplomacy by the United Nations (UN), with the help of framing theory. More specifically, it examines, (1) how is the absence of female diplomats represented as a problem? (2) What is represented as the causes of that problem? And finally, (3) what is represented as the solutions to that problem? The thesis examines one UN body: UNITAR, which is the only body that focus on the promotion of women explicitly in diplomacy. This is a single case study with a qualitative approach, and makes use of framing theory, based on social constructivism. Through gathering of outward-focused documents from UNITARs webpage, it has been observed that UNITAR frames the absence of women in diplomacy as an inefficiency problem. The argument is that by promoting more women in foreign policy, there will be greater productivity, enhanced economical growth and less poverty. The main causes of the problem are represented as a mix of societal, individual and organizational barriers. The solution to the problem is represented to be mainly training of individual women to improve skills needed to successfully carry out diplomacy, but also, to a lesser extent, training of organizations to inforce a gender mainstreaming approach. Key Words: Women in diplomacy, framing, United Nations, women in foreign policy, international campaigns.
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Frattina, Federica <1990>. "UN Women A focus on the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/9480.
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In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly, adopting the resolution 64/289 created UN Women: the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.
UN Women works to eliminate the discrimination against women and girls, doing whatever is possible to protect and especially empower them: it is important to intervene with humanitarian actions and peace and security actions, to achieve the equality between women and men because gender equality in addition to being a basic human right, it has a fundamental role in different aspects both social and economic because empowering women help to improve and flourish economies, stimulating productivity and growth.
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) which entered into force in 1981, is one of the most important human rights documents, and the States Parties of CEDAW are 189.
The Entity is present all around the world with more than 70 offices (including Italy) to ensure assistance to all the women, working closely also with NGOs and with national and local governments to implement policies and laws in their favour. UN Women especially deals with: leadership and political participation, economic empowerment, ending violence against women,peace and security, humanitarian action, governance and national planning,the Sustainable Development Agenda, HIV and AIDS.
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O'Beirne, Noeleen P. "The (un)becoming woman : the 'docile/useful' body of the older woman /." View thesis, 1998. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030623.111240/index.html.
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Lotito, Laura. "LE DONNE MIGRANTI E IL LAVORO: Traduzione dall'inglese all'italiano di un articolo di ricerca di UN Women." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/16082/.
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Oggetto di questa tesi è la traduzione dall’inglese all’italiano di capitoli selezionati di un articolo di ricerca pubblicato da UN Women con il contributo della Commissione Europea nel 2017. In questo articolo, gli autori analizzano l’interazione fra donne migranti lavoratrici, i loro contributi allo sviluppo e i costi economici, sociali e personali della loro migrazione. Il motivo principale della scelta di questo tema è un personale interesse per testi istituzionali e tema della migrazione da una prospettiva di genere, economica e sociale.
L’elaborato mira idealmente alla diffusione delle informazioni contenute nell’articolo presso specialisti e responsabili di lingua italiana per contribuire allo sviluppo a livello nazionale e internazionale di politiche orientate al genere nell’ambito della migrazione per motivi di lavoro. Il glossario e la traduzione rappresentano inoltre un punto di partenza terminologico in vista di una eventuale futura traduzione degli altri due articoli di ricerca (l’articolo tradotto rappresenta il terzo di una serie di tre articoli) e di documenti sullo stesso tema.
L’elaborato si compone di cinque capitoli. Nel primo viene presentata UN Women e viene fornita una breve descrizione del tema “donne e migrazione”; il film “Les femmes du 6e étage” offre una prospettiva cinematografica. Il secondo capitolo fornisce una panoramica teorica su lingue speciali, genere e temi dell’articolo tradotto da una prospettiva testuale, sintattica e lessicale e una analisi del testo di partenza. Nel terzo capitolo vengono presentate le risorse create e consultate per questo lavoro, fra cui software e banche dati terminologiche utilizzati durante il tirocinio presso la DGT. Il quarto capitolo presenta la traduzione dell’articolo con testo di partenza a fronte; il quinto include il commento alla traduzione con spiegazione delle principali difficoltà traduttive e delle strategie attuate per risolverle. L’appendice I presenta il glossario Inglese-Italiano.
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Vialard, Ana. "Un estudio del personaje femenino unamuniano que busca eternizarse." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26352.
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In this study I hope to clarify some misconceptions about the female characters which appear in the novels of Miguel de Unamuno. The female agonista follows a slightly different pattern than does the male. Unamuno always includes evidence of social limitations which hinder the female agonista's quest for perpetuation. While she may be as ambitious, egoistic and wilfull as her male counterpart, this does not always ensure success. She must also defy conventional thinking in order to achieve her goals. By studying the agonistas and some of the secondary female characters, I hope to prove that Unamuno's characterization of women is deliberate. The two contrasting types, secondary characters and agonistas, are extremes and should be read as such. The repeated inclusion in the narrative of the female social condition indicates that Unamuno is aware of and concerned by gender distinction. The fact that his agonistas, who challenge convention, are granted conditional success is proof that Unamuno validates their attempts.
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Listl, Bettina [Verfasser], and Michael [Akademischer Betreuer] Hochgeschwender. "In sisterhood and struggle : Black and White feminisms in the United States during the United Nations Decade for Women, 1975-1985 / Bettina Listl ; Betreuer: Michael Hochgeschwender." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2016. http://d-nb.info/113722701X/34.
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SILVA, CAROLINE FERNANDA SANTOS DA. "OBIRIN DUDU: UN OVERVIEW UPON THE IDENTITY AND CITIZENSHIP OF BLACK WOMEN." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2009. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=14617@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIORO presente trabalho tem como objeto de estudo o papel desempenhado pelas religiões de matriz africana na construção da identidade racial de mulheres negras. Ele tem como locus de análise a Comunidade Terreiro Ilè Ase Iyemonja Omi Olodo, localizada em Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Os conceitos território e territorialidade são discutidos e apropriados, dada a sua importância para a construção da identidade negra. Os movimentos de resistência negra no Brasil são aqui tratados no marco da globalização. Nosso objetivo é o de contribuir para a construção do conceito identidade negra positiva, uma meta de diversas expressões dos movimentos de resistência e afirmação da população negra. Entendemos que o tema, tomado pelo Serviço Social, se constitui em desafio e oportunidade para a atuação desse profissional. Abordamos o caminho percorrido pela mulher negra na construção de sua cidadania, enquanto novo sujeito de direitos nos marcos do texto Constitucional de 1988. Considerando a mudança de tendência nas políticas sociais e, conseqüentemente, na construção da cidadania, discutimos também a relação das mulheres negras com as políticas públicas brasileiras. São apresentados aspectos importantes na construção do Batuque no Rio Grande do Sul, com destaque para a centralidade das mulheres nessa religião. O trabalho realizado no campo de pesquisa aponta para a relevância da religião de matriz africana na construção do novo sujeito social mulher negra e para a importância que as políticas públicas têm para a construção da cidadania das mulheres negras.
The present work deals with the role played by the religions of African ancestrality in the construction of black women racial identity. The field work was based on the Comunidade Terreiro Ilè Ase Iyemonja Omi Olodo, located in the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul Estate. The concepts territory and territoriality were discussed to be used as references due to their importance to the construction of black identity. The Brazilian black resistance movements are analysed within the globalization historical frame. Our goal is to contribute to the construction of the concept black positive identity, an idea sustained by many representations of resistance and affirmation movements of the black population. We believe that this theme, if taken by the Social Work area, will serve as a challenge and an opportunity for Social Workers. This work describes the road taken by Black woman towards the construction of her citizenship as a new subject of Rights in the Brazilian Constitution of 1988. Taking in consideration the recent trend changes of the Social Policies and, as a consequence, in the construction of citizenship, we discuss the relationship between black women and Brazilian Public Policies. Furthermore, we present some important aspects of the construction of the Batuque in Rio Grande do Sul, with emphasis on the centrality of women in that religion. The results of the field work sustains the relevance of the religions of African ancestrality for the construction of the new social subjetc black woman and the importance of Public Policies to the construction of black women citizenship.
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Guns, Wendy Maria. "The problems and possibilities of the participation of women in the development of UN standards on the rights of women." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522945.
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Oostland, Rolanda Carina. "Non-discrimination and equality of women a comparative analysis of the interpretation by the UN Human Rights Comittee and the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2006. http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2006-0622-200934/index.htm.
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Bloch, Yanina [Verfasser]. "UN-Women : Ein neues Kapitel für Frauen in den Vereinten Nationen / Yanina Bloch." Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1183471017/34.
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Grenz, Sabine. "(Un)heimliche Lust : über den Konsum sexueller Dienstleistungen /." Wiesbaden : VS, Verl. für Sozialwiss, 2005. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/491604351.pdf.
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Tidblad-Lundholm, Kajsa. "Women’s participation in UN peacekeeping: How does the duration of missions affect the participation of women in UN peace operations?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-325065.
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In this thesis, I explore how the duration of missions affects the participation of women in United Nations (UN) peace operations. I argue that women are less likely to be deployed in the early stages of missions because new missions are associated with high levels of uncertainty which is ultimately a type of risk. Instead, women’s participation will increase as the uncertainty decreases and the operating environment becomes more predictable. I also test if more gender equal force contributing countries are less prone to deploy women to new missions due to a stronger gendered protection norm constraining deployment of women to risky environments. Applying a large-N approach, this thesis studies the proportion of women in military contributions to UN peace operations between 2009 and 2015. Using a set of multilevel mixed-effects generalized linear models, the main argument initially find empirical support. But, when the main findings are challenged through robustness tests, the results become somewhat ambiguous and it is not sound to exclude the possibility that unobserved factors drive the empirical results. This thesis does not find more gender equal countries to be less prone to deploy women to the early stages of missions. Rather, countries which see higher levels of gender equality seem more prone to deploy larger proportions of women, regardless of when the deployment takes place.
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Boyke, Kimberly M. "El cambio del rol de la mujer en la sociedad española dentro del cine : un estudio de películas entre 1999 a 2007 /." Abstract Full Text (HTML) Full Text (PDF), 2009. http://eprints.ccsu.edu/archive/00000560/02/2000FT.htm.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2009.Thesis advisor: Paloma Lapuerta. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Spanish." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-63). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Sanson, Helena Louise. "Donne, precettistica e lingua nell'Italia del Cinquecento : per un contributo alla storia del pensiero linguistico." Thesis, University of Reading, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270923.
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Ryan, Melissa Ann. "(Un)natural law: Women writers, the Indian, and the state in nineteenth-century America." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290048.
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This project explores the intersecting discourses of the "Woman Question" and the "Indian Problem" from the market revolution of Jacksonian America through the early twentieth century. It examines how Indianness was legally and culturally constructed in the nineteenth century, from Jacksonian removal policy to the strategies of allotment and assimilation in later decades, identifying both legal and figurative parallels to the status of white women. As Native peoples were effectively erased under Anglo-American law, married women were likewise dispossessed by the laws of coverture, under which the identity of the wife was absorbed into that of her husband. Both white women and Native peoples experienced a form of "civil death"--or legal nonexistence--and both were deprived of personhood under the guise of protection. For women writers, then, Indian policy provided an opportunity to contemplate fundamental questions of citizenship, of personhood and property, of national and individual identity. Incorporating a wide range of texts, from the early nineteenth-century fiction of Lydia Maria Child and Catharine Maria Sedgwick to the later nineteenth-century writings of suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage and anthropologist Alice Fletcher, this study explores the various tensions--between individual sovereignty and maternal moral authority, between the language of rights and the language of sentiment--that defined the relationship between nineteenth-century white women and their Indian others, and considers how the Anglo-American tradition of possessive individualism often prevented these women from making sense of their experience with Native cultures. This study concludes with an examination of how Native women writers responded to and made use of white women's constructions of the Indian Problem. S. Alice Callahan, author of the first known novel by a Native woman, and writer-activist Zitkala-Sa carefully constructed their stories in the terms set out by women's rights discourse, inviting a readership of white women to engage with the Indian cause as an extension of their own agenda. Ultimately, even as white women's rights activists sought to subordinate the Indian Problem or to appropriate the Indian, these Native writers found in the Woman Question a way of speaking for themselves.
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Chanana, Privilege. "The role of UN women towards the development and advancement of women in Southern Africa : a critical comparison between South Africa and Zimbabwe." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65638.
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Current issues surrounding the development and advancement of women have been a cause of concern over the years, not only in Africa but around the world. Many organisations have come through to assist in eradicating challenges that hinder women’s advancement. Since its establishment in 2010 UN Women has played a crucial role in developing and advancing women around the world. However, despite its efforts through the implementation of programmes and policies, women continue to face all forms of discrimination every day. This paper aims to evaluate the role of UN Women in Southern Africa, looking at South Africa and Zimbabwe as case studies. The first part looks at the background of UN Women in general as an introduction to the study. The second part assesses UN Women’s policies and programmes towards the development and advancement of women. The second part looks explicitly at country programmes established to address challenges faced by women. The third part looks at the core challenges identified that affect women’s development and advancement with specific reference to child marriages, access to education, leadership and political participation. The fourth part assesses the role of UN Women in implementing regional and global instruments that advocate towards the development and advancement of women. The fifth part expands on the organisation’s challenges in attaining its regional and global obligations that have been set out in various human rights instruments. Finally, the study has a sixth chapter that is the conclusion and recommendations. The sixth chapter elaborates on the key findings and provides for recommendations for future research. The main recommendations of this research aim to ensure that the organisation adopts policies that are African oriented to ensure visibility and effective implementation of programmes. A solid relationship between the state, people and other entities is of vital importance to achieve UN Women’s goals.Mini Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Chun, Sara Myung-Su. "The Sun Through My Hair: A Response to (Un)Romantic Imaginations of Asian/American Women." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/268.
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Women of color are still trapped in the colonialist trajectory of Delacroix’s sexualized Women of Algiers (1834) and alienated from the world of Sargent’s Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882) in contemporary media images that serve to exocitize, fetishize, and commodify non-white female bodies. These historical and contemporary images form a psychological weight both imposed on women of color by outside perceptions and by now-cemented internal perceptions. While women do not passively absorb media images, it cannot be ignored that the hypersexual Asian/American woman in representation “haunts the experiences and perceptions of Asian women” despite attempts to reject these images and efforts to identify empowering aspects of images of sexual power (Shimizu 2007). Ideas and expectations of sexual openness in women of color seep into our consciousness at many moments in our personal lives and cast doubt on Asian/American women’s engagements with sexuality. Resistance of and escape from objectification as an erotic racial signifier of difference are attempted through abstraction and self portraiture.
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Chan, Wendy. "The (un)making of an aberration : women who kill their partners in England and Wales." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272751.
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Laflamme, Josée. "Femmes et aire domestique, un mode de vie, modèles, valeurs et comportements." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq26225.pdf.
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Powell, Abigail Social Policy Research Centre Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "The (Un) Balancing Act: The impact of culture on women engineering students' gendered and professional identities." Awarded by:Loughborough University, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/40097.
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This thesis examines the impact of the engineering culture on women engineering students??? gendered and professional identities. It is simultaneously focused on exploring how identity shapes, and is shaped by, women???s experiences of the engineering culture and, the relationship between gendered and professional identities. The research is set within the context of existing research on women in engineering, much of which has focused either on women???s experiences in industry or experiences of staff in academia, failing to recognise the importance of higher education (HE) as a gatekeeper to the engineering professions. Furthermore, despite numerous initiatives aimed at increasing the percentage of women entering engineering, the proportion of women studying engineering has remained stable, around fifteen percent, for the last few years. The research is grounded in an interpretivist approach, although it adopts a multimethod research design. Specifically it draws upon qualitative interviews with 43 women and 18 men engineering students, a questionnaire with responses from 656 engineering undergraduates and two focus groups with 13 women engineering students from seven departments at one university. These datasets are analysed with the aid of NVivo and SPSS to explore women engineering students??? career choices; women???s experiences of the HE engineering culture; the relationship between engineering education culture and women???s identities; whether there are cultural nuances between engineering disciplines; and, implications for strategies to attract and retain more women in engineering. Key findings from the research are that women and men make career choices based on similar factors, including the influence of socialisers, knowledge of the engineering professions, skills, ability and attributes, and career rewards. However, the extent to which each of this factors are important is gendered. The research also highlights key characteristics of the HE engineering culture, including competition, camaraderie, gendered humour, intensity, more theoretical than practical, help and support for women students and reinforcement of gender binaries. These findings all suggest that women are assimilated into the engineering culture or, at least, develop coping mechanisms for surviving in the existing culture. These strategies reveal a complex and difficult balancing act between being a woman and being an engineer by claiming a rightful place as an engineer, denying gendered experiences and becoming critical of other women. The research also tackles two key issues, rarely discussed in the extant literature. Firstly the help and support women students receive from lecturers and other staff, and the negative impact this has, and may continue to have, on women. Secondly, the analysis of discipline differences shows that design and technology is significantly different from other engineering disciplines in terms of culture(s) and women???s experiences. The thesis concludes that women???s enculturation into engineering results in their ???doing gender??? in a particular way. This means that women???s implicit and explicit devaluing and rejection of femaleness, fails to challenge the gendered cultures of engineering and, in many ways, upholds an environment which is hostile to women.
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Powell, Abigail. "The (un)balancing act : the impact of culture on women engineering students' gendered and professional identities." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2009. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/4833.
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This thesis examines the impact of engineering cultures on women engineering students' gendered and professional identities. It is simultaneously focused on exploring how identity shapes, and is shaped by, women's experiences of engineering cultures and the relationship between gendered and professional identities. The research is set within the context of existing research on women in engineering, much of which has focused either on women's experiences in industry or experiences of staff in academia, which does not acknowledge the importance of higher education (HE) as a gatekeeper to the engineering professions. Furthermore, despite numerous initiatives aimed at increasing the percentage of women entering engineering, the proportion of women studying engineering has remained stable, around fifteen percent, for the last few years. The research is grounded in an interpretivist approach, although it adopts a multimethod research design. Specifically it draws upon qualitative interviews with 43 women and 18 men engineering students, a questionnaire with responses from 656 engineering undergraduates and two focus groups with 13 women engineering students from seven departments at one university. These datasets are analysed with the aid of NVivo and SPSS to explore women engineering students' career choices; women's experiences of the HE engineering culture; the relationship between engineering education culture and women's identities; whether there are cultural nuances between engineering disciplines; and, implications for strategies to attract and retain more women in engineering. Key findings from the research are that women and men make career choices based on similar factors, including the influence of socialisers, knowledge of the engineering professions, skills, ability and attributes, and career rewards. However, the extent to which each of these factors are important is gendered. The research also highlights key characteristics of the HE engineering culture, including competition, camaraderie, gendered humour, intensity, more theoretical than practical, help and support for women students and reinforcement of gender binaries. These findings all suggest that women are assimilated into the engineering culture or, at least, develop coping mechanisms for surviving in the existing culture. These strategies reveal a complex and difficult balancing act between being a woman and being an engineer, in claiming a rightful place as an engineer, denying gendered experiences and becoming critical of other women. The research also tackles two key issues, rarely discussed in the extant literature. Firstly the help and support women students receive from lecturers and other staff, and the negative impact this has, and may continue to have, on women. Secondly, the analysis of discipline differences shows that design and technology is significantly different from other engineering disciplines in terms of culture(s) and women's experiences. The thesis concludes that women's enculturation into engineering results in their ‘doing gender' in a particular way. This means that women's implicit and explicit devaluing and rejection of femaleness, fails to challenge the gendered cultures of engineering and, in many ways, upholds an environment which is hostile to women.
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Nordenmark, Mikael. "Unemployment, employment commitment and well-being : the psychosocial meaning of (un)employment among women and men." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 1999. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-94097.
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Larsson, Anna. "Women's Empowerment Through the Lens of UN Women : A Qualitative Discourse Analysis from a Feminist Perspective." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-274199.
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Despite the breakthrough of ‘women’s empowerment’ in the international development field and the continuous emphasis on its importance, there is still no consensus on the concept’s meaning. Many feminist scholars argue that this has affected the concept’s transformative potential as development institutions have tended to adopt overly simplistic understandings. The recent establishment of UN Women can be understood as marking an institutionalization of the women’s empowerment agenda as it was created through development institutions’ joint forces for the increased advancement of gender agendas. With this new institution and the still ambiguous meaning of women’s empowerment, this study examines how UN Women understands women’s empowerment and explores possible implications of this understanding for its practice of empowering women. Via ideal types this study uses feminist critique and visions as reference points to discuss whether UN Women has managed to change previous simplistic understanding of women’s empowerment. The study concludes that UN Women’s understanding of women’s empowerment is similar to the international development institutions’ often adopted understanding of the concept. The results therefore imply that despite the institutionalization of the women’s empowerment agenda via the creation of UN Women, the transformative project of women’s empowerment is likely to be absent.
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Harris, Sabrina Kylie. "Making War for Women? An Analysis of UN Resolution 1325 and the Gendering of International Intervention." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/103959.
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This thesis explores how UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security and its ensuing National Action Plans for gender equality inform justifications of international intervention. I ask the following questions: how does Resolution 1325 and its ensuing National Action Plans for gender equality construct subjectivities of gender? How have states appropriated these gendered subjectivities in the legitimation of conflict? I review feminist, postcolonial, and poststructuralist literatures to argue that Resolution 1325 is aligned with broader United Nations governmental strategies for framing and justifying international intervention. Resolution 1325 produces dualistic subjectivities of gender, where women are constructed either as victims or as empowered, albeit within the limits deemed acceptable in masculinized contexts. I analyze the case of German National Action Plans for gender equality and the official policy texts related to its intervention in Afghanistan. I demonstrate that the foreign policy of a seemingly progressive state embraces Resolution 1325's dualistic subjectifications of women in conflict to construct logics that legitimize the Afghan intervention. My study findings show that Germany discursively constructs women and gender equality in accordance with the UN's guidelines and its good governance framework, which do not challenge existing structures of masculinity. In addition, they function as a means through which Germany legitimizes neoliberal and neocolonial policies as acceptable, ultimately failing to challenge the international war system.Master of Arts
This thesis analyzes UN Security Council Resolution 1325's influence on the development of German gender equality policy and German foreign policy towards intervention in Afghanistan. I ask how the visions of gender produced in Resolution 1325, which primarily frame women as victims or only as empowered, inform the approach of Germany to Afghanistan. I find that German gender equality policy and policy towards Afghanistan are heavily influenced by the UN's framing of gender, as these ideas allow for Germany to justify its role in Afghanistan as a means to empower women further or save them from victimization. This allows Germany to maintain its role as a progressive humanitarian state by aligning its justification for the mission with the UN's broad objectives. However, doing so sets a dangerous precedent by legitimating intervention so long as it fits within the confines of the UN's notion of acceptability. Ultimately, my work shows that gender and attention to women functions to "clean" the German intervention in Afghanistan and portray it as progressive in accordance with the UN's values despite the inherent militarism of the intervention.
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Inga, Pajares Susana Evelyn. "Motivación hacia la práctica de videojuegos online: Un estudio cualitativo en mujeres universitarias." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/626398.
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El objetivo de esta investigación fue explorar las motivaciones de las mujeres hacia la práctica de videojuegos online en Lima. El estudio utilizó una metodología cualitativa descriptiva en donde se escogió a la entrevista semiestructurada como herramienta para obtener la información. Se escogió una muestra de 7 estudiantes universitarias que juegan videojuegos online como Defense of the Ancients 2 y League of Legends. Las respuestas de las estudiantes se agruparon en tres ejes que explican su motivación hacia la práctica de videojuegos; el primer eje se concentra en la motivación extrínseca, el segundo eje en la motivación intrínseca y el tercer eje en el entorno. En conclusión, las motivaciones de las chicas se mantienen a lo largo de su vida que va, en su mayoría, desde su niñez o primer contacto con un videojuego. La motivación intrínseca se presenta en mayor medida que la extrínseca porque están atraídas por los videojuegos debido a la satisfacción que sienten al jugar solas y/o con sus pares, por el diseño y novedades del videojuego y el sentido de competencia para practicarlo. Dentro de su experiencia, también encontraron un ambiente discriminador y/ o acosador que invalida la participación de las mismas en los videojuegos.The aim of this investigation is to explore the motivations of women towards the practice of online video games in Lima. The study used a qualitative descriptive methodology in which the semi-structured interview was chosen as a tool to obtain the information. A sample of 7 university students who play online games such as Defense of the Ancients 2 and League of Legends was chosen. The students' responses were grouped into two axes: intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation. There is also a third axis: the environment, since it influences the experience that the participants have had to play video games. The motivations of the girls are maintained throughout their life that goes, mostly, from childhood or first contact with a video game. Intrinsic motivation is presented to a greater extent than extrinsic motivation because they are attracted to video games because of the satisfaction they feel when playing alone or with their peers, because of the design and novelties of the videogame and the sense of competence to practice it. Within their experience, they also found a discriminating and / or harassing environment that invalidates their participation in video games.
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Silva, Shirley Targino. "O discurso de mulheres educadoras na imprensa paraibana: tessituras do processo histórico de escolarização na Paraíba (1930 - 1939)." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2017. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/9904.
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This dissertation is inserted in the molds of the reflexive process on women’s history in Brazil, more specifically in Paraíba from 1930 to 1939, and make possible to articulate, in a dimensional fashion, the women’s history to the educational phenomenon called schooling. The objective is to analyze the enrollment of the educators Analice Caldas de Barros, Albertina Correia de Lima and Alice de Azevedo Monteiro in the historical schooling process of Paraíba, by means of their writings in the “Boletins de Educação” and “Revista do Ensino” periodic publications. The research builds upon the concept of schooling as established by Luciano Mendes Faria Filho, which converges to the concept of cultural education as defined by Antônio Carlos Ferreira Pinheiro. There for, schooling is conceived as an organized education, tied to a systemized network, as well as the expectations we hold in relationship to the world and the people; expressed in our beliefs; developed in the various situations lived by each individual; in the displays of (in)civility of the human being and in the capacity for socialization, defining itself as a continued process. The schooling process is not reduced to the school institution, other perspectives also define it, the interchange of popular knowledge and sociocultural practices, such as: reading and writing of pedagogic press. The dialogue among the New Cultural History, women’s history, and the winding of the tactics by Michel de Certeau and Pierre Mayol as to the arts of making, living and cooking, was the basis for the theoretical methodological contribution. In the search to prestige women’s history, it is highlighted the contribution of the educators, searched in this dissertation, to Paraiba’s educational scenery, as they founded an association for feminine progress, lectured in various stages of the scholar teaching, fought for the emancipation and for the feminine suffrage, wrote in the press, publicizing their ideas and ideals, permeated spaces that were masculine before, among other actions. Facing what was exposed, it is possible to affirm that the aforementioned educators contributed as much for the schooling process as for the process of sociocultural change and in the debate for gender equality in Paraíba going against relations of power.
Esta dissertação insere-se nos moldes do processo reflexivo sobre os estudos da história das mulheres no Brasil, mais especificamente na Paraíba dos anos 1930 a 1939, e possibilita articular de forma dimensional a história das mulheres ao fenômeno educativo chamado escolarização. O objetivo é analisar o envolvimento das educadoras Analice Caldas de Barros, Albertina Correia de Lima e Alice de Azevedo Monteiro no processo histórico de escolarização da Paraíba, por meio de seus escritos nos periódicos “Boletim de Educação” e “A Revista do Ensino”. A pesquisa apoia-se no conceito de escolarização estabelecido por Luciano Mendes Faria Filho, o qual é convergente ao conceito de cultura educacional definido por Antônio Carlos Ferreira Pinheiro. Assim sendo, concebe-se a escolarização como uma educação organizada, ligada a uma rede sistematizada, bem como, as expectativas que temos em relação ao mundo e às pessoas; expressas em nossas crenças; desenvolvidas nas diversas situações vividas por cada indivíduo; nas demonstrações de (in)civilidade do ser humano e na capacidade de socialização, definindo-se como um processo contínuo. O processo de escolarização não se resume à instituição escolar, outras perspectivas também o definem, o intercruzamento de saberes populares e práticas socioculturais, como: a leitura e escrita da imprensa pedagógica. O diálogo entre a Nova História Cultural, a história das mulheres e a urdidura das táticas de Michel de Certeau, Luce Giard e Pierre Mayol no tocante às artes de fazer, morar e cozinhar, subsidiou o aporte teórico metodológico. Na busca de tentar prestigiar a história das mulheres, destaca-se a contribuição das educadoras, estudadas nesta dissertação, ao cenário educacional paraibano, uma vez que fundaram a Associação Paraibana Pelo Progresso Feminino, lecionaram em variadas etapas do ensino escolarizado, lutaram pela emancipação e pelo sufrágio feminino, escreveram na imprensa visibilizando suas ideias e ideais, permearam espaços antes masculinizados, entre outras ações. Face ao exposto, pode-se afirmar que as educadoras supracitadas contribuíram tanto para processo de escolarização quanto no processo de mudanças socioculturais, como no debate para a igualdade de gênero na Paraíba contravindo relações de poder.
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Garrigosa, Massana Maria Teresa. "Les compositores catalanes del segle XIX: Un impuls creador." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/670264.
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En aquest treball s’ha sistematitzat, descobert i indexat un repertori que fins ara no s’havia estudiat, l’obra de les compositores que visqueren a Catalunya durant el segle XIX, des de la primera de la qual tenim referència, Maria Dolors Vedruna, fins a la darrera de que és objecte aquest estudi, Maria Lluïsa Casagemas, la primera dona a escriure una òpera, Schiava e Regina (1892), a l’edat de 18 anys.
A principis del segle XIX va haver un desvetllament en la consciència creadora de l’univers femení a Catalunya. El desenvolupament econòmic, les transformacions en l’estructura social i la participació de la burgesia en òrgans de decisió tant importants com l’educació, van formar part del context que va permetre que aquestes dones fossin no només educades exquisidament, sinó també instruïdes amb el sentit complet i complex de la paraula.
Els capítols de la tesi estan estructurats amb l’objectiu de donar una visió generalista tant del context social i pedagògic de la dona al segle XIX, com de la vida i obra d’aquestes compositores que van desenvolupar una gran part de la seva creació artística durant el període modernista. S’ha fet èmfasi en explicar la complexitat dels canvis polítics que es van anar succeint al llarg de tot el segle, i com aquests van condicionar en els diferents estadis de reivindicació femenina, els quals es van donar, sobretot, a partir de la segona meitat de segle; des del considerat un dels primers manifestos feministes a Catalunya, La instrucción en la mujer (1869), de l’escriptora Dolors Monserdà, tant vinculada amb els diversos àmbits en que van desenvolupar la seva tasca aquestes compositores, passant per l’antiesclavisme de Clotilde Cerdà i ja en plena Primera Guerra Mundial, el reclam convençut i decidit de Carme Karr defensant a Feminal, ¡El vot a la dona!, l’any 1917.
A la tesi s’exposen les dues etapes diferenciades que hi ha en el camí d’aquesta evolució de la dona creadora a casa nostra. Una la trobem emmarcada en la primera meitat de segle, en ella hi destaquen tres compositores, Maria Dolors Vedruna, Paulina Buxó i Cristina Àngel, sent la més destacada la primera d’elles. En el segon període, el nombre de compositores s’amplia exponencialment, i trobem un nombre aproximat de vint-i-cinc dones amb un nombre important d’obra escrita i una gran part d’ella editada. D’aquestes n’hem triat vint que destaquen per la qualitat artística i per la quantitat de la seva obra.
També es parla de la seva vida en un sentit molt més ampli, ja que en elles no es pot deslligar l’activitat artística de la personal. L’impuls creador no només el projectaran en l’àmbit musical sinó que també es veurà reflectit en les inquietuds de caire social i polític on moltes d’elles assoliran un grau de compromís important, que les portarà a emprendre projectes innovadors per a la millora de la condició de la dona.
La metodologia utilitzada ha estat la recopilació de documentació exhaustiva: buidatge d’hemeroteques, recerca en profunditat de partitures en biblioteques i arxius, confecció d’un llistat d’obres de cada una de les compositores i, recerca d’informació de les mateixes a través dels articles publicats amb motiu de l’estrena d’aquestes composicions. En quant a la seva trajectòria vital, tot i de no disposar a penes, de biografies de les artistes, s’ha consultat un gran nombre de bibliografia, diccionaris i articles especialitzats, contrastant i interpretant aquesta informació.
Tota aquesta valoració ens mostra unes dones que portaren a terme canvis amb un impacte transformador, en àmbits tant diversos com el de la creació artística, la pedagogia i la consciència social.The aim of this work has been to search and go deeper into the lives and works of women composers in Catalonia in the nineteenth century, from the first one that we know of, Maria Dolors Vedruna, to the last one who is the object of this study, Maria Lluïsa Casagemas, the first woman that composed an opera, Schiava e Regina (1892), at the age of eighteen. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there was an awakening of creative awareness in the women's universe of Catalonia. The economic development, the changes in the social structures and the participation of the bourgeoisie in decision-making bodies as important as education were part of the context that made it possible for these women to be not only very finely educated but also learned in the complete and complex sense of the term. The chapters of this thesis are structured in order to provide a general overview, both of the social and educational context of women in the nineteenth century and the life and work of these composers that developed a large part of their artistic creation during the Modernist period. Emphasis has been put on explaining the complexity of the political changes that took place throughout the century, and how they determined the different steps of women's rights development, which mostly took place from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards; from La instrucción en la mujer (1869), by the writer Dolors Monserdà, considered one of the first feminist manifestos, so strongly linked to the different spheres in which these women composers developed their work, the antislavery movement of Clotilde Cerdà, to the convinced and resolute demands of Carme Karr advocating women's vote in the magazine Feminal, in 1917, in the middle of First World War. In the thesis are presented the two different stages of this evolution of creative women in Catalonia. One appears in the context of the first half of the century, where three women composers stand out: Maria Dolors Vedruna, the best known one, Paulina Buxó and Cristina Àngel. In the second period, the number of women composers grew exponentially: about twenty-five composers with written works, for the most part released. From them we have chosen twenty that stand out for the quality of their artistic life and the considerable number of their works. We also refer to their lives in a much broader sense, for we cannot separate their artistic activity from their personal lives. Their creative impulse not only appeared in music, but also in their social and political concerns; many of them achieved a high degree of engagement that led them to begin innovative projects aimed at improving women's status. The methodology applied has been the collection of comprehensive documentation: going through newspaper and periodical libraries, in-depth research of sheet music in libraries and archives, drawing up a list of the works by each one of these women composers, as well as the search for information on them by means of the articles published on the occasion of the débuts of their compositions. Regarding the artists' lives, although there are very few biographies, we have pored over the extensive bibliography available, dictionaries and specialised articles, in order to verify and interpret this information. This analysis presents us with some women that brought about changes that played a major role in transforming different spheres such as artistic creation, teaching and social awareness
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Fitriani. "Pre-deployment training of UN women military peacekeepers : a case study analysis of three South-East Asian countries." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2017. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/12020.
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The purpose of this study is to examine the role and impact that uniformed women play in UN peacekeeping operations, and to further establish how appropriate pre-deployment training (PDT) supports the performance of women in operational zones. The research questions posed are ‘whether women make a difference to peacekeeping operations’ and ‘to what extent PDT enables them to do so’. To answer these questions, the thesis takes a two-pronged approach. Firstly, a literature search evaluates the nature of uniformed women’s participation in UN peacekeeping missions, their contribution to effective peacekeeping and the UN policies supporting women’s participation in its missions. The main resources accessed for the literature research are the UN and contributing countries’ official policies, publication and reports. Secondly, primary data were acquired through field research on the training needs of three Southeast Asian countries, namely Indonesia, the Philippines and Country A. Across these sample states, empirical research data was gathered through in-depth semi-structured interviews with 37 female peacekeepers, 17 trainers and seven decision-makers.
The literature reveals that women participate in UN peacekeeping missions in two ways, those that form part of a contingent and others that act as individual military experts, observers or staff officers. Women make a difference by allowing a UN mission to have greater reach to the local community, especially to the female population in segregated communities, including the survivors of sexual- and gender-based violence. The field research also reveals that the three Southeast Asian country case studies provide different PDT to their personnel, although the UN provides standardised training materials. Interview data from all three countries indicate that women and men receive combined PDT training, with the majority of the respondents arguing that there is no need for segregated gender training. However, they endorse differentiated training for specialist skills, such as for mentoring teams by same sex members to discuss biological and logistical issues in deployment, including, for instance, the best strategy for ensuring continuity in the supply of women’s sanitary requirements. Not all the three sample countries support uniformed women deployment on par with male peacekeeper deployment, and rarely support women holding leadership positions, due to discrimination in military education access, limitations on human resources and apprehension at putting women into dangerous positions. Such constraints limit the roles that women can play in UN field missions.
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Creswick, Helen Emma. "'Women under the radar' : the intersection of migration and domestic violence explored through the framework of '(un)deservingness'." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41494/.
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Victims of domestic violence may commonly be constructed as ‘deserving’ of state support, however the intersection of migration and domestic violence complicates such matters, often rendering migrant women with an irregular immigration status as ‘undeserving’. This thesis bridges the gap between literatures on migration and domestic violence by using the framework of ‘(un)deservingness’ to explore the lives of women with an irregular immigration status who experience domestic violence. Interviews were conducted with women with an irregular immigration status, primarily focusing on those who overstay their visas, as well as professionals who provide support to women. Drawing on interview data, the thesis explores the nuanced ways in which the intersection of migration and domestic violence plays out in the lives of women. It considers how abusive partners use the label and political context around having an irregular immigration status in the UK, as a tool to exacerbate the domestic violence. By focusing on lived experiences, the study also draws attention to women’s fears in managing the complexity around holding this immigration status in their daily lives. Moreover, the thesis explores the structural violence and other barriers which this sub-group of migrant women encounter when seeking support, which is often shaped by their social position and the nature of their immigration status, particularly for those who have No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF). The NRPF label signals that the state construes such women as ‘undeserving’, and this has very real consequences particularly in the context of domestic violence.
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Acacha, Hortensia Vicentia. "Pour un développement local selon le genre : le cas des groupements de femmes de la SNV du Sud Bénin /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Rimouski : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi ;. Université du Québec à Rimouski, 2002. http://theses.uqac.ca.
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Thèse (D.D.R.) -- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, conjointement avec l'Université du Québec à Rimouski, 2003.Bibliogr.: f. [519]-547. Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU
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Jimenez, Eric Michael. "Un cuerpo poderoso Santa Evita de Tomás Eloy Martínez en Eva Perón /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/776.
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Martin, De Almagro Maria. "(Un)globalizing civil society: when the boomerang rebounds :transnational advocacy networks and women groups in post-conflict Burundi and Liberia." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209092.
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To date, few scholars have addressed the internal dynamics of transnational advocacy networks (TANs) and their impact on the production of international norms. The lack of research on the topic seems rather surprising at a time when constructivists produce literature on the significance of global civil society and the role networks play in processes of recruitment and collective identity construction (Crugel 1999; Keck and Sikkink 1998; Boli and Thomas 1999; Anheier et al. 2001; Taylor and Rupp 2001; Keane 2003; Bob 2005). I cover this gap by looking at how power struggles between the international and the local members of a TAN shape the implementation of international norms in post-conflict settings. The purpose of the thesis is twofold: firstly to contribute to a broader literature on global civil society and secondly, to propose a new, more dynamic account on the life-cycle of international norms. The campaign for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security presents an ideal case study. First, it is one of the most successful stories of global norm creation and diffusion thanks to the advocacy efforts of non-state actors. Second, it also shows a case of policy gridlock, where the international efforts to bettering the situation of women in non-Western settings through an implicit liberal normative teleology have shown their limits by the socializee’s formal acceptance of the framework and informal resistance to the dominant norm. Based on extensive fieldwork, my approach combines feminist research methodology (Bar On 1993; Devault 1990; Pillow 2003; Taylor 2000), with the reflexive approach advocated by qualitative researchers in post-colonial and post-structuralist studies (Said 1978; Butler 1990; Escobar 1995). I conducted 60 semi-structured interviews with women activists during 4 field visits in Bujumbura (Burundi) and Monrovia (Liberia) between 2012 and 2013. Following discourse analysis theory (Shepherd 2008; Hansen 2006) and using NViVo8, the interviews were systematically analysed with regard to the reasons they put forward to explain their engagement in the women’s movement and the type of rights they sought to accomplish. The research is conducted through a relational approach in which the interactions of agents are affected by 1) a diversity of structural opportunities through three mechanisms: brokerage, gatekeeping and diffusion and, 2) a compound of ideas forming the master-frame. Those two, in turn, modify interests and identities, both understood as outputs and not as variables determining the interactions of agents. I show how a certain discourse on gender security became accepted as the master frame of the campaign, and how other discourses were left out. That is, I show how discourses created boundaries and identities amongst actors, and how these actors used their agency to stretch those boundaries and identities in order to steer other activists to move towards certain behaviour. Building upon my empirical findings, the thesis sets out a theoretical model of identity boundaries stretching and adaptation in order to analyse the discursive construction of identity and subjectivity as political action. It develops the concept of rebound effect, that is, the point where the ideational boundaries between the thrower of the boomerang (issue entrepreneur) and the receiver (issue follower) are so impervious that the boomerang bounces back and never reaches its destination. I found out that norms based on a liberal peacebuilding approach such as UNSCR1325 are created and maintained by a failure to engage with local and grassroots movements (Richmond 2013). This, in turn, contributes to a process of de-legitimization of NGOs and local associations who form the TAN vis-à-vis the affected population. My findings have important implications for international relation theories of global governance and global activism since they provided a critique of the mainstream norm’s cascade model by introducing new temporalities and geographies in the analysis of the life-cycle of international norms.Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales
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Martín, de Almagro Iniesta María. "(Un) Globalizing Civil Society: When the boomerang rebounds. Transnational Advocacy Networks and Women Groups in post-conflict Burundi and Liberia." Doctoral thesis, Luiss Guido Carli, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11385/200964.
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To date, few scholars have addressed the internal dynamics of transnational advocacy networks (TANs) and their impact on the production of international norms. The lack of research on the topic seems rather surprising at a time when constructivists produce literature on the significance of global civil society and the role networks play in processes of recruitment and collective identity construction (Crugel 1999; Keck and Sikkink 1998; Boli and Thomas 1999; Anheier et al. 2001; Taylor and Rupp 2001; Keane 2003; Bob 2005). I cover this gap by looking at how power struggles between the international and the local members of a TAN shape the implementation of international norms in post-conflict settings. The purpose of the thesis is twofold: firstly to contribute to a broader literature on global civil society and secondly, to propose a new, more dynamic account on the life-cycle of international norms. The campaign for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security presents an ideal case study. First, it is one of the most successful stories of global norm creation and diffusion thanks to the advocacy efforts of non-state actors. Second, it also shows a case of policy gridlock, where the international efforts to bettering the situation of women in non-Western settings through an implicit liberal normative teleology have shown their limits by the socializee’s formal acceptance of the framework and informal resistance to the dominant norm. Based on extensive fieldwork, my approach combines feminist research methodology (Bar On 1993; Devault 1990; Pillow 2003; Taylor 2000), with the reflexive approach advocated by qualitative researchers in post-colonial and post-structuralist studies (Said 1978; Butler 1990; Escobar 1995). I conducted 60 semi-structured interviews with women activists during 4 field visits in Bujumbura (Burundi) and Monrovia (Liberia) between 2012 and 2013. Following discourse analysis theory (Shepherd 2008; Hansen 2006) and using NViVo8, the interviews were systematically analysed with regard to the reasons they put forward to explain their engagement in the women’s movement and the type of rights they sought to accomplish.
The research is conducted through a relational approach in which the interactions of agents are affected by 1) a diversity of structural opportunities through three mechanisms: brokerage, gatekeeping and diffusion and, 2) a compound of ideas forming the master-frame. Those two, in turn, modify interests and identities, both understood as outputs and not as variables determining the interactions of agents. I show how a certain discourse on gender security became accepted as the master frame of the campaign, and how other discourses were left out. That is, I show how discourses created boundaries and identities amongst actors, and how these actors used their agency to stretch those boundaries and identities in order to steer other activists to move towards certain behaviour. Building upon my empirical findings, the thesis sets out a theoretical model of identity boundaries stretching and adaptation in order to analyse the discursive construction of identity and subjectivity as political action. It develops the concept of rebound effect, that is, the point where the ideational boundaries between the thrower of the boomerang (issue entrepreneur) and the receiver (issue follower) are so impervious that the boomerang bounces back and never reaches its destination. I found out that norms based on a liberal peacebuilding approach such as UNSCR1325 are created and maintained by a failure to engage with local and grassroots movements (Richmond 2013). This, in turn, contributes to a process of de-legitimization of NGOs and local associations who form the TAN vis-à-vis the affected population. My findings have important implications for international relation theories of global governance and global activism since they provided a critique of the mainstream norm’s cascade model by introducing new temporalities and geographies in the analysis of the life-cycle of international norms.
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Borguñó, Ventura Isabel. "Personal femenino dependiente en la Grecia antigua Un estudio comparado de los textos micénicos y los poemas homéricos." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672021.
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Aquesta tesi presenta un estudi comparatiu de les dones treballadores a partir de l’anàlisi dels primers testimonis escrits en llengua grega: les inscripcions micèniques i les fonts literàries de la Ilíada i l’Odissea.
Des d’un inici, les tauletes en Lineal B han revelat la presència de nombrosos grups de treball formats per dones que depenen del palau i que es distingeixen d’altres dones que semblen ocupar un lloc privilegiat. Els poemes homèrics sovint distingeixen, en general, dues categories de dones: dones aristocràtiques, `senyores’ o reines, i el col·lectiu de serventes o esclaves que apareixent generalment en grup realitzant les tasques que els són assignades. Aquesta recerca se centra en l’anàlisi de les dones treballadores sense tenir en consideració el personal de culte ni altres categories de dones que podrien formar part de l’elit política i religiosa, com les sacerdotesses i reines.
L’objectiu principal d’aquest estudi és fer una anàlisi comparativa de les característiques d’aquestes dones treballadores deduïbles dels textos micènics i els poemes homèrics. Aquesta recerca busca respondre si hi ha continuïtat o ruptura en el paper que aquestes dones tenien en el món del treball, en l’economia i, en definitiva, en la societat de l’antiga Grècia del segon i primer mil·lenni a.C. Amb aquesta finalitat, s’examina per separat el lèxic i el context que pot aportar informació sobre els sectors econòmics en què estan presents les dones treballadores, els seus oficis, el grau d’especialització, els ètnics que poden ser indicatius dels seus possibles orígens geogràfics i socials, i alguns aspectes importants de l’organització del treball, com el nombre de dones, la jerarquia del treball i la composició dels grups per raó d’edat i de gènere. Només després, s’intenta comparar les dades obtingudes per identificar, si escau, característiques afins o divergents en ambdues fonts. El segon objectiu aborda el grau de dependència d’aquestes dones. Aspectes com el nivell de control del seu treball, l’assignació de racions, productes o béns, o el temps de la prestació de serveis, durant tot o part de l’any, podrien indicar diferents nivells de dependència laboral i econòmica i que algunes dones treballadores poguessin tenir mitjans alternatius o complementaris de subsistència. El tercer objectiu es proposa observar l’estatus i la condició d’aquestes dones en el teixit social del segon i primer mil·lenni a.C.
Una anàlisi comparativa d’aquest tipus implica afrontar problemes de diferents magnituds, alguns de caràcter interpretatiu o lèxic, altres relacionats amb el diferent àmbit palatial i la diversitat de contextos polítics i econòmics dels regnes micènics i homèrics, o la diferent naturalesa de les fonts escrites i la informació limitada que proporcionen. No obstant això, aquests són els primers documents que tenim. Amb aquestes limitacions, l’anàlisi comparativa mostra notables coincidències en ambdues fonts, destacant la importància que tenen com a agents econòmics en alguns sectors productius, l’organització de grups de treball ben estructurats i la continuïtat d’un estatus social que no és tan uniforme com podria semblar inicialment. Dins d’aquesta continuïtat, també es poden observar certes diferències que revelen en el primer mil·lenni una major divisió sexual del treball, una reducció de la seva presència en determinats oficis i sectors econòmics, i una tendència a situar la seva activitat laboral permanentment dins de l’οἶκος, fet que, en la nostra opinió, fa probable un major control laboral i social d’aquestes dones i anuncia un canvi en el paper que jugaran en l’economia i la societat del primer mil·lenni.Esta tesis presenta un estudio comparado de las mujeres trabajadoras a partir del análisis de los primeros testimonios escritos en lengua griega: las inscripciones micénicas y las fuentes literarias de la Ilíada y la Odisea. Desde un inicio, las tablillas en Lineal B han revelado la presencia de numerosos grupos de trabajo formados por mujeres que dependen de la administración palaciega y que se distinguen de otras mujeres que parecen ocupar un lugar privilegiado. Los poemas homéricos suelen distinguir, a grandes rasgos, dos categorías de mujeres: las mujeres aristocráticas, `señoras’ o reinas, y el colectivo de sirvientas o esclavas que aparecen generalmente en grupo realizando las tareas que les son asignadas. Esta investigación se centra en el análisis de las mujeres trabajadoras sin considerar el personal de culto ni otras categorías de mujeres que podrían formar parte de la élite política y religiosa, como las sacerdotisas y las reinas. El objetivo principal de este estudio es hacer un análisis comparativo de las características de esas mujeres trabajadoras deducibles de los textos micénicos y de los poemas homéricos. Esta investigación trata de responder si hay continuidad o ruptura en el rol que estas mujeres tenían en el mundo laboral, en la economía y, en definitiva, en la sociedad de la Grecia antigua del segundo y del primer milenio a.C. Para ello, se examina, de forma separada en cada fuente, el léxico y el contexto que puede aportar información sobre los sectores económicos en los que están presentes, sus oficios, el grado de especialización, los étnicos que pueden ser indicativos de sus posibles orígenes geográficos y sociales, y algunos aspectos importantes de la organización del trabajo, como el número de mujeres, la jerarquía laboral y la composición de los grupos de trabajo por razón de edad y sexo. Sólo después, se intenta comparar los datos obtenidos para identificar, en su caso, características afines o divergentes en ambas fuentes. El segundo objetivo aborda el grado de dependencia de estas mujeres. El nivel de control de su trabajo, la asignación de raciones, productos o bienes, o la duración de la prestación de servicios, durante todo o parte del año, pueden ser indicativos de que entre estos equipos de trabajadoras podría haber distintos niveles de dependencia laboral y económica, y que algunas mujeres podrían tener medios alternativos o complementarios de subsistencia. El tercer objetivo se propone observar el estatus y la condición de estas mujeres en el entramado social del segundo y el primer milenio a.C. Un análisis comparativo de esta clase supone afrontar problemas de distintas magnitudes, algunos de naturaleza interpretativa o léxica, otros relacionados con el distinto ámbito palacial y los diferentes contextos políticos y económicos de los reinos micénicos y homéricos, o la diferente naturaleza de ambas fuentes escritas y la información limitada que proporcionan. Sin embargo, éstos son los primeros testimonios que tenemos. Con estas limitaciones, el análisis comparativo muestra notables coincidencias en ambas fuentes, destacando la importancia que tienen como agentes económicos en algunos sectores productivos, la organización de grupos de trabajo estructurados, y la continuidad de un estatus social que no es tan uniforme como podría inicialmente parecer. Dentro de esta continuidad, se pueden observar también ciertas diferencias que revelan en el primer milenio una mayor división sexual del trabajo, una reducción de su presencia en determinados oficios y sectores económicos, y una tendencia a localizar su actividad laboral permanentemente en el οἶκος lo que, en nuestra opinión, hace probable un mayor control laboral y social de estas mujeres y anuncia un cambio en el papel que tendrán en la economía y la sociedad del primer milenio.
This dissertation presents a comparative study of working women based on the analysis of the first documents written in Greek: Mycenaean inscriptions and literary sources of the Iliad and the Odyssey. From the outset, Mycenaean tablets revealed the presence of numerous working groups formed by women who depend on the palatial administration, and who differ from other women who seem to occupy a privileged place. Homeric poems often distinguish, in general, two categories of women: aristocratic women, `ladies’ or queens, and the collective of maids or slaves who usually appear in group performing the tasks assigned to them. This research focuses on the analysis of working women without considering cult personnel or other categories of women who form part of the political and religious elite, such as priestesses and queens. The main aim of this study is to make a comparative analysis of the characteristics of these women, which could be deduced from Mycenaean texts and Homeric poems. This research intends to answer whether there is continuity or rupture in the role that these women played in the working world, in the economy and, ultimately, in the society of Ancient Greece of the second and first millennium B.C. To this end, it has been separately examined the terms and the context documented in each source that provides information on the economic sectors in which they are present, their occupations, the degree of specialization, some ethnics that may be indicative of their possible geographical and social origins, and some important aspects of work organization, such as the number of women, hierarchy relationship, and the composition of working groups by age and gender. Only then, we attempt to compare the data obtained to identify, if possible, the related or divergent characteristics in both sources. The second objective is to examine the degree of dependence of these women. The level of control over their work, the allocation of rations, products or goods, or the extent to which services are provided during all or part of the year, may indicate that there could be different levels of labour and economic dependence, and that some women might have complementary or alternative livelihoods. The third objective is to observe the status and condition of these women in the social fabric of the second and first millennium B.C. A comparative analysis of the first documents involves facing problems of different magnitudes, some of an interpretative or lexical nature, others related to the different palatial scope and the diverse political and economic contexts of the Mycenaean and Homeric realms, or the different nature of both written sources and the limited information they provide. Nevertheless, these are the first written sources we have. With these limitations, the comparative analysis uncovers remarkable coincidences, highlighting the importance that they have as economic agents in some productive sectors, the organization of structured working groups, and the continuity of a social status that is not as uniform as it might initially appear. Within this continuity, certain differences can also be observed that reveal on the first millennium a greater sexual division of labour, a reduction in their presence in certain trades and economic sectors, and a tendency to locate their work permanently in the οἶκος, what, in our opinion, makes probable a greater labour and social control of these women and heralds a change in the role they will play in the economy and the society of the first millennium.
Universitat Autònomad de Barcelona. Programa de Doctorat en Cultures en Contacte a la Mediterrània
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Roncal, Ramirez Fanny Rocio. "Con un pie dentro y otro fuera: el espacio público y privado en la narrativa femenina del siglo XIX." Diss., University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1388.
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In Latin American literary history, writing has been primarily a male-dominated activity. It is not until the second part of the nineteenth century, when the first generation of women writers appeared, that the act of writing novels, essays, and poetry allowed them to have a voice in the public sphere. Through their writings, women authors redefined women's roles in a society strongly influenced by patriarchal beliefs. This dissertation focuses on three authors from the Peru and Argentina: Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852-1909), Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (1842-1909) and Juana Manuela Gorriti (1818-1892), and has two principal aims. The first is to demonstrate that, through the act of writing, these women writers crossed the boundaries from the private sphere of the home to the public arena of political action. I argue that, once they entered the public space, they openly expressed their opinions about how to improve the social situation of women, concentrating most of their efforts on supporting women's education as a path to social and economic independence. As a second aim, I analyze a set of novels in depth to show that by representing women as subjects in their novels, these nineteenth-century women writers contradicted the patriarchal-liberal ideology that defined women primarily as objects. Some of the existing research on nineteenth-century women writers argues that their representations of women reinforced patriarchal beliefs, since female characters were still kept within the limits of the domestic realm. However, my research shows that there was an important resistance to patriarchal-liberal constraints in Matto, Cabello and Gorrriti' writings. Applying the theory of scholars such as Mary Poovey, Bridget Aldaraca, and Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, I show that even though women characters in these novels do not leave the house to participate completely in public life, they start to exert control over their own lives and become more independent. Thus, I demonstrate that women writers portrayed their female characters as the initiators of political action with direct implications in the public sphere. Women characters also protest against the marginalized conditions of other social and ethnic groups. Female characters reinforce the need for a secular education for women, which can provide them with knowledge in the sciences and arts, and hence with means to become professionals. Women characters and their authors move between the private and the public spheres in order to make their voices heard. This was a real challenge for women in a century that witnessed many changes in social and political life; however, none of those changes aimed at providing women the rights of independence and full participation in the public sphere.
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Gómez, Cares Ximena. "Renaissance women leaders: un estudio comparativo acerca del rol de las mujeres como líderes del cambio lingüístico durante el Renacimiento inglés." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2012. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/110942.
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Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Lingüística mención Lengua InglesaFacultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
el presente trabajo tiene como objetivo realizar un estudio diacrónico de la lengua, específicamente, investigar sobre el rol que tuvieron las mujeres en el cambio lingüístico a través de textos escritos formales durante el Renacimiento inglés de manera de poder dar cuenta de cómo escritoras de la época lograron ser agentes difusores del cambio lingüístico aún cuando los discursos y reglas sociales de la época les negaban tal posición.
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Bunjun, Benita. "The (un)making of home, entitlement, and nation : an intersectional organizational study of power relations in Vancouver Status of Women, 1971-2008." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/38254.
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Women's organizing and organizations in North America emerge at historical moments within the larger women's movement across geographies, political climates, and nation formations. Within all movements, the workings of power relations are active, demanding constant negotiations and contestations. This is a case study of one feminist organization, Vancouver Status of Women (VSW). I illustrate the ways VSW challenged, contested, reproduced and reinforced power relations and specifically nation-building discourses. Drawing on both extensive historical archival data and in-depth expert interviews, I engaged in a qualitative case study of VSW's workings of power relations from its inception in 1971 to 2008. I interviewed thirty-one women who worked in some capacity as staff or board members. Archival research involved locating primary documents such as organizational meeting minutes, policies, annual reports, bylaws, newsletters, publications, organizational correspondence, and other relevant documentation. By engaging in an intersectional critical race feminist discourse analysis, I explicate the construction of VSW as home, and demonstrate how nation-building discourses of belonging and entitlement are embedded within this organizational site. Organizational processes and policies indicate the historical trajectory of how, when and who challenged, responded, and reproduced power relations. This study provides several theoretical, methodological, and substantive implications. My research challenges dominant organizational theory's notion that organizations are neutral sites. I argue that organizations are constituted as sites of colonial encounters by demonstrating how power as relational and archival are invoked and deployed in VSW, and some of its effects. I illustrate how VSW is embedded in the colonial archive of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women which reproduced nation-building discourses of essentialism, racialization, and exclusion. The research also offers a conceptualization of power present in organizations while applying Foucault's understanding of power as a network of relations and discourses that circulates as productive. I also present a theoretical framework of the modalities of entitlement embedded in national belonging and accumulated national capital across multiple sites producing the exalted feminist of the nation. Lastly, I propose a more nuanced ethical Affirmative Action Policy based on participants' lessons learnt that shifts beyond tokenism and representation.
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Barrow, Amy Elizabeth. "Gender mainstreaming in a peace and security context: The challenges of implementing UN security council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488754.
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Telles, Maria Aguayo. "Fuerte Como Acero, Tierno Como un Ángel: A Study of Social/Cultural Capital and Three First-Generation Immigrant Women From Guanajuato Mexico." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/145740.
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The purpose of this study is to review the lives of three immigrant women from the town of Doctor Mora, Guanajuato, Mexico. The following questions were used to gather and analyze the data: 1) How were their lives prior to migrating to the U.S.? 2) What was their experience crossing the border? 3) What are their life experiences in the U.S.? This study is intended to analyze the history and path of acculturation of these three immigrant women. This study analyzes Alejandro Portes's theory of selective acculturation, concept of funds of knowledge, Gordon's classical theory of assimilation, and the concepts of cultural and social capital. Selective acculturation theory is applied as a basis for analysis of the case studies. These studies were conducted using observational, audio-taped and open ended interviews. This study took place in Tucson, Arizona. Interviews took place in Spanish, the interviews were transcribed, translated, verified and analyzed. Findings show the persistence of these participants to become part of American society through education and involvement in the host society, utilizing their inherent cultural and social capital and supporting the theory of selective acculturation path. The next section gives a more detailed introduction of this study.
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Sabatini, Maria Claudia. "A SOCIETY OF YOUNG WOMEN. Opportunities of Place, Power and Reform in Saudi Arabia. Perché alle donne saudite non serve (più) un tutore. Proposta di Traduzione." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018.
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The aim of this dissertation is to propose and analyse the translation from English into Italian of the introduction and the first two chapters of A Society of Young Women. Opportunities of Place, Power and Reform in Saudi Arabia, an essay by the French sociologist and anthropologist Amélie Le Renard. This book was born after a ten - month fieldwork in Riad and concentrates on the emancipation of women in Saudi Arabia and their access to public spaces in a strictly segregated country. Le Renard’s aim is to demonstrate that Saudi women do not need to be saved from their possessive husbands and fathers since they are acquiring more and more authonomy and rights.
The dissertation is composed of four chapters. The first chapter presents an overview of the translation theory, of the translation of essays and of the essay-specific translation strategies, it also analyses the characteristics of the ethonographic essay and of the ethnographic method.
The second chapter analyses the main themes of A Society of Young Women, its stylistic and lexical characteristics and presents an overview of Islam. The second part of this chapter describes Manal al-Sharif’s point of view on the condition of Saudi girls and offers the history of female emancipation in Saudi Arabia from the era of the oil boom.
The third chapter contains the translation of the book.
The fourth chapter presents a systematic comment to the translation with practical examples on culture-specific items, lexicon and syntax with reference to theoretical studies.
In the appendix readers will find the three selected chapters of the source text