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Heinemann, Chloe Janelle. "Women's Agency in Gothic Literature." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/595049.

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The objective of this thesis is to argue for and analyze the progression of women's agency in the first century of Gothic literature. Starting with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764), there are stirrings of women's agency as female protagonists begin to challenge male authority and attempt to escape the entrapment of the patriarchal hierarchy. As we move from Otranto to Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), we can see the progression of women's agency as the heroine acquires social, financial, and romantic control through her strong moral disposition. Finally, a new level

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De, Angelis Maria Ivanna. "Human trafficking : women's stories of agency." Thesis, University of Hull, 2012. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5823.

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This thesis is about women’s stories of agency in a trafficking experience. The idea of agency is a difficult concept to fathom, given the unscrupulous acts and exploitative practices which demarcate and define trafficking. In response to the three Ps of trafficking policy (prevention and protection of victims and the simultaneous prosecution of traffickers) official discourse constructs trafficking agency in singular opposition to trafficking victimhood. The ‘true’ victim of trafficking is reified in attributes of passivity and worthiness, whereas signs of women’s agency are read as consent i

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Nomdo, Christina. "Who helps women cope? : women's agency in households, families and communities." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12782.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>Women’s experiences of poverty in post-apartheid South Africa are made real in their struggles to access resources and assets to survive. They survive sudden shocks and entrenched poverty by constructing and drawing on social support networks that provide access to adequate housing, secure tenure and sufficient income to sustain households. The social support networks of households, families and communities are investigated in the adjacent but diverse townships of Manenberg and Guguletu - resettlement areas for those who were forcibly removed from the ci

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Deeks, Emma. "The agency of anonymity : reading women's autobiographical blogs." Thesis, Edge Hill University, 2016. http://repository.edgehill.ac.uk/8942/.

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This thesis uses previously unstudied female authored blog narratives to explore the role the author’s anonymity plays in the way they textually construct themselves and their offline experiences. It thereby reconceptualises not only what it means to be anonymous online, but also how anonymity is utilised by users regardless of their perceived level of hiddenness. Unlike previous research into the genre, it considers blogs as part of the trajectory of life-writing, which includes autobiography and diaries, and therefore examines the narratives using close textual literary analysis. The thesis

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Bosworth, Mary. "Resisting identities : agency and power in women's prisons." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273057.

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Rein, Sandra. "Women's revolutionary agency, re-igniting the Marxist/Feminist debate." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0007/MQ28906.pdf.

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Averett, Paige. "Parental Communications and Young Women's Struggle for Sexual Agency." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30091.

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This qualitative study examined how 14 young women's sexual desire and agency was influenced by the messages communicated from their parents and the quality of the parent-child relationship. Previous research results were supported, such as: parents do not communicate about sex frequently, or only about limited topics; mothers communicate more frequently than fathers, and peers communicate more sexual information. Utilizing a postmodern, feminist position, themes of parental transmission of patriarchal social controls were found, such as: fear of being viewed as a slut, gender roles that deman

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Langsdale, Samantha. "Damaged bodies : women's agency in trecento Florentine soteriological discourses." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2014. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/18251/.

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This thesis examines the formation of identity in religious discourse as necessarily gendered and embodied. I will establish that while theories of corporeality, bodies and embodiment have explored diverse processes of bodily identity formation, the production of bodies within religious discourses has not been adequately addressed. I develop a critical feminist analysis that demonstrates how and why religious discourses are formative of embodied, gendered identities. Specifically, I argue that historically Christian soteriology has been productive of embodied, gendered identities in multiple w

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Garcia, Mariechristine. "Explorations of Women's Narrative Agency in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2155.

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This paper explores the extent to which the female characters in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales exercise any degree of narrative agency. Using both literary and historical approaches, this paper specifically discusses the cases of three of Chaucer’s women: Virginia, Griselda, and the Wife of Bath.

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Petersen, Emily J. ""Reasonably Bright Girls": Theorizing Women's Agency in Technological Systems of Power." DigitalCommons@USU, 2016. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4924.

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A woman’s experience in the workplace is an inductive process into a technological, hierarchical, and often male-dominated system. This study examines how female practitioners in technical and professional communication confront the technological system of the workplace. I trace the forces that contribute to the hierarchy and power struggles women face, I present how they claim authority and agency within such hierarchical and technological systems, and I show how these experiences can lead to activism and advocacy.In addition, my findings suggest that some women leave the workplace altogether

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Robertson, Christie Social Science &amp Policy UNSW. "Social capital, women's agency and the VIEW clubs of Australia." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Social Science and Policy, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/31919.

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Contemporary debates about collective action in civil society have given prominent place to the connections between voluntary associations and social capital. Social capital research, however, commonly over-emphasises the role of associations in generating societal-level outcomes, to the neglect of the specific contexts in which associations reside and the different opportunities individuals and groups have to access resources for and through collective action. Also largely ignored are considerations of gender. This thesis addresses these issues, presenting evidence from a case study of a l

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Andrews, Margaret. "Contemporary Spanish women's agency in the real and virtual city." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271793.

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This thesis explores ways in which women's agency has been theorised and developed within the Spanish city in general and Barcelona in particular between the Transition and the early twenty-first century. It argues that women and feminists in particular have worked to change city cultures for the benefit of their gender, despite the tendency to conceal such agency in both feminist urbanism and dominant accounts of the regeneration of Barcelona. It maintains that women's positive experiences and the effects of their agency on the city, as well as the disadvantages they encounter, should be the

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Holyoak, Rose Erin. "Young women's gendered subjectivity and agency in social movement activism." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/36127.

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This thesis examines the experiences of young women participating in anarchist and environmental activism within the UK as a means of exploring the relationship between youth, gender, and political participation in a postfeminist, neoliberal context. Recent scholarship has identified young women as the ideal subjects of neoliberalism, where flexibility and reflexivity are prized and rewarded. Young women have been presented with new subject positions and forms of citizenship engagement but these are, for the most part, individualised and depoliticised. Concurrently theorists have warned of an

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Quadrelli, Carol A. "Aberrance, agency and social constructions of women offenders." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15849/1/Carol_Quadrelli_Thesis.pdf.

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Traditionally offending women are framed through essentialist discourses of pathologisation and the family. Hence, good women are constructed as passive, compliant, vulnerable to victimisation, and nurturers. Offending women are constructed within criminal justice processes as disordered, physiologically and psychologically flawed. Censure or sympathy dispensed to women within the system is contingent on a number of key factors: the type of offence, the category of women involved, and the way in which women interact and negotiate the discourses used to construct their aberrance. The focus

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Maswikwa, Belinda. "Limits of citizenship : a comparative analysis of Zimbabwean and South African women's citizenship agency." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97111.

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Developmental initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa emphasise participatory citizenship as the means through which poor women can assert and claim their citizenship rights. Although citizenship and agency are crucial elements in this narrative, little is known about the citizenship process for African women. Furthermore, there is no analytic framework to guide an empirical analysis of agency. This dissertation aims to address these gaps by examining how marginalised Black African women understand themselves as citizens, navigate the

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Enck-Wanzer, Suzanne Marie. "Site unseen women's agency in contemporary American constructions of domestic violence /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3195578.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Communication and Culture of, 2005.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4009. Adviser: Robert L. Ivie. Title from dissertation home page (viewed 10/10/2006).

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Muhanna, Aitemad. "Gender relations and women's agency during the second intifada in Gaza." Thesis, Swansea University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.678677.

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Fraiberg, Allison M. "Beyond indiscretion : agency, comedy, and contemporary American women's writing and performance /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9476.

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Acquah, Augusta. "Agents of Change: An Analysis of Gender Planning for Development in Africa at the Canadian International Development Agency." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23389.

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The thesis examines how the social construction of African women in development discourse transformed from the 1970s to the 2000s, focusing in particular on the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). From the 1970s to the 1990s representations of African women were based on women’s economic potential. The mainstreaming of gender in the 1990s resulted in women being represented as agents of change. This approach gave women an opportunity to play roles in decision-making but led to policies that failed to challenge the established institutions. The emphasis on women as agents of chang

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Kimura, Maki. "Modernity, testimonies and women's agency : the issue of 'comfort women' of the Second World War." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408539.

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Raisborough, Jayne. "Included exclusions : an investigation of women's agency in the Sea Cadet Corps." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274214.

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Francis, Jan. "From dreams to reality : a case study of a women's enterprise agency." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Department of Political Science, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3226.

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This study documents the strategies of a feminist organisation directed at enhancing women's access to flexible well paid work in occupations in which women have been under- represented. Founded on the initiative of women working in government departments and local bodies, 'Femco' utilised a variety of state initiatives which provided resources to organisations running training courses, generating employment for 'disadvantaged' groups and enhancing individuals' access to self-employment. While it strategically responded to successive employment schemes developed by both Labour and National gov

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Staniland, Emma. "Towards agency : dialectic Bildung in late twentieth century Spanish American women's writing." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/35088.

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This thesis is an interdisciplinary project formulated within a number of interrelated fields of study. At its broadest it represents a contribution to Latin American studies, but, within that, it has three main concerns: Spanish American women's writing, gender studies, and the intellectual debate on the relationship between gender and genre. Most specifically, it engages with the Bildungsroman, or development novel, whose widely recognised gender bias has generated scholarly interest in the theorisation of its 'female' version. My study of six contemporary Spanish American novels illuminates

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Mortensen, Camilla Henriette. "Healing the handless maiden : women's (counter) narrative and the recuperation of agency /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3061959.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 227-239). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Billot, Jennie Margaret. "Women's agency in the North Shore and Waitakere cities of Auckland (New Zealand)." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/9908064.

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This thesis examines the ways in which women assess and seek resources in their urban contexts. I argue that the struggles of daily life in local communities and institutional groups can produce ideological spaces into which new practices, arising from increased consciousness of issues, can be developed. My aim has been to uncover women's experiences in a way that not only interprets meanings from their practices, but also encourages such practices to be seen as valid renderings of women's understandings. I examine women's initiatives through the analysis of varying contexts. While I acknow

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Purcell, Emma Frances. "Managing aristocratic households : women's agency within the Montagu property network, c.1709-1827." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/42491.

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The English country house has captured people’s interest and imagination for centuries, and has been the subject of many popular and academic studies. However, due to a tendency to focus upon the art and architecture of such properties, how families actually lived in and used these great houses has often been obscured and underexplored. The eighteenth-century Montagu family will be used as a case study through which to explore a number of key themes associated with the social, rather than architectural side of the country house. Their country seat of Boughton House, Northamptonshire will be co

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Mayes-Elma, Ruthann. "A Feminist literary criticism approach to representations of women's agency in Harry Potter." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2003. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?miami1060025232.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of Educational Leadership, 2003.<br>Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 147 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-141).

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Mayes-Elma, Ruthann Elizabeth. "A Feminist Literary Criticism Approach to Representations of Women's Agency in Harry Potter." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2003. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?miami1060025232.

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Pollen, Claudia Mvula. "An analysis of women's agency in the Zambian floriculture industry using a global production network approach : mechanisms and pathways for agency." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18867/.

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The study of women integrated in export markets in developing countries since the rise and spread of neo-liberalism over the past two and half decades attracted wide-ranging interest and scholarship, with findings identifying both the positive and negative effects of such integration for women. On the one hand, the gender literature identifies women as agents operating under complex traditional and institutional constraints, while on the other hand, development economists aiming at improving the wage gap have called for resources to be deployed to improve women’s lives. Examining the ways and

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Carter, Frances Hannah. "Magic toyshops : narrative and meaning in the women's sex shop." Thesis, Kingston University, 2014. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/28758/.

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The sex shop aimed primarily at the female consumer is a phenomenon which forms part of our everyday understanding of the sexualisatian of culture or the mainstreaming of sexual representation and consumption. The women's sex shop privileges notions of female empowerment achieved through the consumption of goods and spaces dedicated to the pursuit of female erotic pleasure. Prioritising women's interpretations of the visual presence of the women's sex shop, this project establishes how the sex shop is re-made for its female consumers, making it both acceptable and desirable to a new audience.

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Jerome, Alexandra Me'av Anne Ellinwood. "Shahrazad in the White City: Muslim Women's Agency through Performance at the Columbian Exposition." W&M ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626645.

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Alvarado, Beatriz Rosa. "Issues of voice and agency in Andean rural young women's education an ethnographic study /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1155670273.

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Haley, Jennifer M. "Encomium, agency, and subversion : the feminist recovery of baby books as women's domestic rhetoric." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1370879.

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In this dissertation I conduct a feminist recovery of the baby book as one kind of ordinary women's domestic rhetoric. I analyze the ways in which the baby book's evolution reflects changes in cultural practices over time and the means by which the baby book constitutes acts of potentially subversive agency in its power to resist patriarchal structuring. I classify the baby book within the ancient rhetorical genre of encomium, allowing us to perceive how a culture, situated in time and place, values the perception and presentation of an infant and the culturally-assigned role of the mother in

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Ellis, Lucy. ""Her panting heart beat measures of consent": Women's Sexual Agency in Eliza Haywood's Fiction." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39135.

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Through her texts depicting amorous adventures, Eliza Haywood engages with critical, contemporary discussions about power relations and consent in both social and legal constructs. Her texts resist the boundary between the private domain of interpersonal relationships and the public domain of political relations. Rather, her fiction engages in a wide-reaching discourse that explores the interrelations between power, agency, consent, and education, and lays bare the ways in which societal roles and expectations are reinforced in damaging ways. This thesis aims to prove that Haywood’s repetitio

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DiClemente, Kristi. "Agency And Expectations: Women’s Experiences In Marriage Disputes In Fourteenth-Century Paris." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5746.

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This study examines the ways Parisians viewed marriage contracts and marital relationships in the late fourteenth century. It focuses on the Archidiaconal court of Paris and the ways men and women used the court to modify their marriages. My argument in this project is two-fold: First, I argue that the Parisian laity had at least a basic understanding of marriage law, especially the importance of consent for the creation of marriages, and that women, in particular, used that knowledge to control their choice of marriage partner. Second, I argue that after the formation of the marriage, society

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Conrath, Julia Annika. "COMPROMISING EFFECTS OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE ON COLLEGE WOMEN'S HEALTH PROMOTING BEHAVIORS." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/372.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the negative effects of intimate partner violence on college women's health promoting behaviors such as physical exercise. Data were collected from 375 college women and 122 male students at a large Midwestern university. Examination of demographic variables and other background factors in both the female and male sample suggested that instances of intimate partner violence frequently occurred in this college student population. Tests of structural equation models with data from the female sample revealed that women's sense of agency and perceived le

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Bloom, Carl Nicholas. "EVIDENCE OF ANXIETY: WOMEN'S AGENCY AND ENGAGEMENT LAW IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND FILM, 1880-1935." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/453.

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During the end of the nineteenth century, breach of promise laws, which had protected unmarried but engaged women for centuries during their vulnerable engagement period, began to come under public scrutiny. The demonization of this legal protection coincided with increased legal agency in other areas of married life for women, but in most historical and critical discussions of this era, breach of promise, also nicknamed Heartbalm, has been overlooked, and the purpose of this dissertation is to examine canonical and non-canonical literature from this period and recontextualize these works in l

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Donawa, Margaret Wendy. "A rebel band of friends, understanding through women's narratives of friendship, identity, and moral agency." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ45348.pdf.

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Kennedy, Catherine Ann. "The implementation of the Glasgow Women's Health Policy : a case-study of multi-agency working." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1999. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6162/.

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Multi-agency working as an approach to tackling complex and inter-related problems has increasingly been advocated in recent years in a variety of policy contexts. The research in this thesis concerns the development and implementation process of one such policy, the Glasgow Women's Health Policy. This Policy was developed by the Glasgow Healthy City Project Women's Health Working Group and is based on a social/holistic model of health. The research analyses, as a case study of multi-agency working, the process through which the Women's Health Policy was implemented, and identifies the enabler

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Mosedale, Sarah Louise. "Women's Empowerment in Development Theory and Practice : A Case Study of an International Development Agency." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508506.

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Fernandez, Antonia. "The impact of women's agency on subjective wellbeing and household welfare : the case of Indonesia." Thesis, University of Reading, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.627940.

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The overall aim of my research is to understand the impact of women's agency on their own subjective wellbeing and the welfare of their households. To do this, I analyse secondary data in the form of the Indonesia Family Life Surveys. The questions I ask are: How does women's agency affect their subjective wellbeing? How does women's agency affect their household and their family? This research posits that agency, which enables a person to make choices and to pursue goals that he or she views as important, has both intrinsic and instrumental value. Agency in my research is measured through hou

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Avery, Cathrine. "Talking back to Chandler and Spillane : gender and agency in women's hard-boiled detective fiction." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2017. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/242/.

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This thesis examines the perceived incompatibility of incorporating feminist values into the hard-boiled detective novel. Critical responses to this crime form have argued that it endorses a formulaic, misogynistic violence. My argument is that this is a literature that offers women writers the means to express female agency and empowerment, through a genre that changes to fulfil current social needs. Through the work of Raymond Chandler and Micky Spillane I establish the model of the ‘tough guy’ detective as a product of the moment of writing, reflecting contemporaneous gender anxieties. Fund

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Kauffman, Alicia Jane. "Agency and Empowerment in the Childbirth Process: The Effect of Medicalization on Women's Decision Making." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27873.

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Over the past decade, rates of caesarean section births and other interventions in childbirth have increased substantially. With increased medicalization of childbirth, it is often viewed as an illness requiring treatment rather than a natural process that women are equipped to handle with little intervention in most cases. A qualitative study was completed that included interviews with nine women participants who had previously given birth to at least one child. The findings elaborate on how women navigated the medical structures of childbirth in order to assert themselves as decision makers

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Taylor, Reed W. "A Postcolonial Inquiry of Women's Political Agency in Aceh, Indonesia: Towards a Muslim Feminist Approach?" Diss., Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39190.

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In this dissertation, I develop a postcolonial theoretical approach to localized Muslim feminism(s) in Aceh, Indonesia, based on interviews with women in Aceh in 2009 and 2010. One of the central aims of this study is to challenge the dominant exclusivist discourse of â Islamicâ feminism by providing a viable alternative for â Muslimâ feminism(s), derived from collaborative, indigenous, and post-secular politics. I address the need for a religious feminist model of subjectivity that incorporates both the political and ethical dimensions of agency in potentially non-patriarchal and non-st

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Barthus, Tatum Terri. "Telling tales of identity: an interpretation of women's narratives." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_1331_1365584189.

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<p>This paper examines selected discourses found in the journals kept by 21 working-class women during a training course for domestic workers in South Africa. The principal aim of the paper is to examine how emotion, voice and agency are expressed through literacy practices such as writing. With critical discourse analysis, the existing literacy levels of these women are revealed as well as the way in which women express identity, agency and emotion through the act of writing and reflecting on their experiences. A secondary aim is to uncover those recurrent discourses and attitudes that either

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Geneve, Anitza A. "Women's participation in the Australian digital content industry." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/60898/3/Anitza_Geneve_Thesis.pdf.

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The research investigated women’s participation in the Australian Digital Content Industry, which encompasses both multimedia and games production. The Digital Content Industry is an area of growing economic and social significance, both in Australia and internationally. Women are under-represented in core Digital Content Industry work but there has been little theoretical or empirical investigation of the underlying issues. This research identified a range of influences on women’s participation and provides a better understanding of this complex social phenomenon by proposing that influences

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Bryant, Joanne. "Sex, subjectivity and agency a life history study of women's sexual relations and practices with men /." University of Sydney. Behavioural and Community Health Sciences, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/575.

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This study explores women’s experiences of sex with men. It is based on qualitative data collected from eighteen life history interviews. Such an approach provides means for examining women’s sexual experiences over time. The study finds that women give meaning to their sexual experiences through two main discursive representations: the passive, “proper” and sexually obliging girlfriend or wife, and the active and “sexually equal” woman. However, these representations do not capture the entirety of women’s sexual experiences. The life history analysis demonstrates that women are not simply ins

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Jeremiah, E. R. "Troubling maternity : mothering, agency and ethics in women's writing in German of the 1970s and 1980s." Thesis, Swansea University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.637425.

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My thesis develops the idea of a 'maternal performativity', harnessing the work of Judith Butler and numerous other feminist theorists, to offer new ways of looking at 1970s and 1980s literary texts by ten German-speaking women writers. In my introduction, I outline previous feminist approaches to mothering, and argue that as yet, maternal agency has not been adequately theorized. The project of theorizing maternal agency is, I contend, vitally important, given the traditional view in Western culture of the mother as passive. Butler's notion of performativity can assist in his project, I sugge

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Thompson, Elisabeth Morgan. "Young women's same-sex experiences under the "male gaze" : Listening for both objectification and sexual agency /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2009. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Thomas, Christopher Scott. "Engendering environmental justice: women's rhetorical collaboration for a more just and sustainable world." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6308.

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This dissertation examines how gender operates as agencies for women’s environmental justice activism. I contend that women’s activism, often taking place through collaborative and collective means, presents new opportunities to theorize rhetorical agency that include women-centric and leaderless forms of grassroots organizing. To this end, I explore various agencies for women’s collaborative environmental communication—motherhood, eco-spirituality, and political calls for recognition—that work to test the boundary conditions of rhetorical studies in ways that find empowerment and resistance i

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