Dissertations / Theses: 'Women Adventurers'

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McAnirlin, Olivia E. "Navigating Trailheads: Capturing the Stories of Women Adventurers." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1563886589657888.

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Furbank, Rachel. "The significance of gender in bush adventuring /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envf983.pdf.

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Frith, Hannah. "Young women refusing sex : the epistemological adventures of a feminist." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1997. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/6870.

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Women's sexual refusals are central to both conservative and/or religious campaigns to curb and control sexuality, and to feminist campaigns for sexual freedom. While public health messages implore young women to 'Just Say No' to premarital/teenage sex, the feminist 'No Means No' campaign tries to ensure that women's refusals are not ignored or disregarded. Drawing on data from 15 focus groups with 58 female, heterosexual, school (age range 16-18) and university student (age range 18-50; modal age 20:8) volunteers, I discuss women's talk about saying 'no' in relation to three existing social scientific theories: miscommunication theoiy, emotion work theory and sexual script theory. Each of these theories suggests a different explanation for women's (lack of) sexual refusals: women do not say 'no' clearly enough; women are reluctant to say 'no' because they are protecting their male partner from feelings of rejection; or cultural expectations dictate that women should refuse sex while men should continue to initiate sex. I provide two competing approaches to analysing these three theories. The first (essentialist) approach treats women's talk as transparent evidence of real world events or of psychological phenomenon (i.e. women miscommunicate or women do perform emotion work). The second (constructed) approach treats women's talk as produced in a particular interactional setting in order to serve particular interactional functions. This thesis expands feminist debates about the relative value of essentialism and social constructionism for understanding women's lives and for advancing theory. The majority of feminists, including those who identify their work as social constructionist, adopt an essentialist approach to data analysis. This thesis contributes to the development of feminist psychology both by investigating women's accounts of refusing sex, and by critically evaluating these two different epistemological approaches to analysing qualitative data.

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Martin, Sarah Virginia. "The Representation of Women in Adventure Education Literature." Thesis, Prescott College, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1551564.

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In the United States (U.S.), adventure education (AE) articulates a social mission: It seeks to be inclusive serving members of all communities with their respective diverse complexities. Yet, the needs of many people are not being expressed, heard, or addressed adequately. This study focused specifically on gender, one aspect of this pressing concern, offering evidence to demonstrate that AE needs to routinely examine and expand its practices to effectively meet its social claims. The topic of how women are represented in AE literature was explored by positing the question: What messages about women are manifest in the literature and during the publishing process in AE? Themes emerged regarding the status of women in AE literature by utilizing two qualitative instruments: a feminist content analysis of five major texts and semi-structured interviews on Skype with nine women authors. The third component of this research design was a citation index, created for the entire publication range of the Journal of Experiential Education (JEE) and the Australian Journal of Outdoor Education (AJOE) to display a frequency of citations comparison between female and male authors. Findings from this research demonstrated that women continue to be the predominant authors of social justice writings in AE; their work is published 25% of the time in the journals reviewed, yet once published cited as often as men; and women have found support for publishing their work when they have had opportunities to collaborate with other women. Suggestions are provided to address the ongoing disparity to help foster AE's social mission.

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Puchan, Heike. "Adventure sport, media and social/cultural change." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/19359.

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The turn of the millennium has heralded an explosion in the popularity of adventure sports often also referred to as alternative lifestyle sports or extreme sports. These are offering both new avenues and potential challenges to the traditional ways of conceptualising and practicing sport. This thesis analyses the development of adventure sports, in particular climbing and kayaking, as a subculture. It delivers a socio-economic history of climbing, analyses the role of the media in its development, its participation and its lived experience. Further it investigates the impact of globalisation, commercialisation and consumerism on adventure sports, and considers to what extent they are being brought into the mainstream as a result. The economic impact of participation in adventure sports is reviewed along with a study of how the make up of its participants has changed as the activities have become more accessible. Particular focus is placed on the analysis of the gender order, specifically looking at the experiences of women in adventure sports. For this purpose the sports culture found in climbing and kayaking is examined and the implications for the reconstruction of gender relations are considered. This study employs an ethnographic approach including both semi-structured and structured interviews with both adventure sports experts and participants, document and media analysis, participant observation and the more recent nethnography approach. One of the significant contributions of this thesis has been to provide a comprehensive review and analysis of the social, cultural and media environment of arguably one of the most popular lifestyle sports in the UK. It has also shown the strong interrelationship that exists between the media and adventure sports, and has demonstrated how the increased commercialisation and commodification of the activity has resulted in economic development particularly in some remoter parts of the UK through the packaging and provision of the climbing experience. At the same time some participants see this is ‘selling out’. This research has demonstrated how women’s participation in adventure sports has been subject to marginalisation, sexualisation and trivialisation similar to other mainstream sports. However, this work has also highlighted that there is room for optimism as new discourses of femininity contrary to the traditional male hegemony are emerging. Further research opportunities have been identified concerning issues of ethnicity and participation; the social, cultural and economic relationships between adventure sportspeople and rural communities. Emerging feminist discourses also warrant further investigation.

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Chan, Siu-wai Sylvia, and 陳小惠. "Carnivalesque adventures in Kiss of the spider woman and Nights at thecircus." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29789151.

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Iles, Katharine. "Constructing the eighteenth-century woman : the adventurous history of Sabrina Sidney." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7211/.

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The story of Thomas Day’s attempt to educate a young girl according to the theories of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with the aim of marrying her, has often been referred to as a footnote in Enlightenment history. However, the girl chosen by Day, Sabrina Sidney, has never been placed at the centre of any historical enquiry, nor has the experiment been explored in any depth. This study places Sabrina at its centre to investigate its impact on her and to examine the intellectual and societal debates that informed Thomas Day’s decision to educate a wife. This thesis argues that Sabrina Sidney was in a constant state of construction, which changed depending on a myriad of factors and that constructions of her were fluid and flexible. These constructions were both conscious and unconscious and crucially, they were created as much by Sabrina as by those around her. This research concludes that placing minor historical figures to the centre of historical enquiry fundamentally changes the histories of which they are a part and that it is possible to use a variety of sources to construct a rich and detailed biographical study that offers a new perspective on the English Enlightenment.

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Caslin-Bell, Samantha. "The 'gateway to adventure' : women, urban space and moral purity in Liverpool, c.1908-c.1957." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-gateway-to-adventure-women-urban-space-and-moral-purity-inliverpool-c-1908c-1957(a6fec103-a511-48ff-ac5c-e3c0e5a9b5ca).html.

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This thesis examines the regulation of women in public space in Liverpool between 1908 and 1957. It considers the complex relationship between the laws used to police solicitation, governmental debate about female prostitution and local purity campaigners’ concerns with the moral vulnerability of young, working-class, urban women. It is argued that the ways in which prostitution was understood and managed had an impact upon all women’s access to and use of public space, together with wider definitions of female morality and immorality. The thesis adds to historical understandings about the implications of prostitution regulation in the twentieth century, by moving away from London-focused histories to offer a detailed analysis of the ways in which national debates about vice were taken up at local level and with what consequences. I begin by exploring the problems with policing prostitution in the early-twentieth century and argue that increasing concern about the difficulty in differentiating prostitutes from ‘ordinary’ women provoked anxiety amongst law makers and government officials alike. It is argued that the debates canvassed by the 1927 Macmillan Committee indicate the degree to which moral codes about female sexuality informed official approaches to prostitution. The thesis considers the implications of these broad debates in Liverpool. Focusing on the work of the Liverpool Vigilance Association (LVA), it is proposed that fears about the moral threat of prostitution fuelled the organisation’s belief in the necessity of preventative patrol work centred on the moral surveillance of young, working-class women. This thesis shows that in interwar Liverpool, women’s movements were circumscribed first and foremost by their gender. Traditional, nineteenth-century ideas about women’s place within the domestic sphere created a sense among local purity campaigners that female morality was being threatened by women’s visibility in urban spaces. Other aspects of social status, such as class, race and employment experiences, heightened the interest of the LVA in targeting distinctive groups of women. The thesis demonstrates that in their efforts to regulate women’s movements through the city of Liverpool, local purists singled-out working-class and immigrant (especially Irish) women, as they believed them to be the most susceptible to corruption. This thesis draws on a wide range of archival sources, especially Home Office Records relating to the Public Places (Order) Bill and the establishment of the 1927 Macmillan Committee, as well as the LVA archive, in order to show how national and local policies on prostitution were both interdependent and distinct.

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Richards, Kaye Elizabeth. "A feminist analysis of developing an adventure therapy intervention for the treatment of eating disorders in women." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2008. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/5920/.

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The role of outdoor adventure programmes as a recognised approach for the effective treatment of psychological issues has, in recent years, reflected the growing interest in the development of adventure therapy. Although there has been an increased awareness of the possibilities of such a therapeutic approach there is limited practice, and thus very little instruction for how to implement such approaches, especially from a UK perspective. The aim of this study was to develop adventure therapy practice in the UK by specifically developing an intervention for women with eating disorders. Given that this specific approach for working with eating disorders didn't exist at the time of this study, this thesis is based on the principles of action research -a key aspect of the research process was the development of adventure therapy practice itself. Given the gender considerations of working in an outdoor adventure setting and the fact that eating disorders are largely a female phenomenon this study also took a feminist approach to ensure that disordered eating was in fact not reinforced by any adventure therapy approach developed. The thesis itself describes in detail the processes of developing the adventure therapy intervention and the associated experience of the six women who were recruited and took part in the intervention. The dilemmas and decisions made with regard to a number of issues in implementing an adventure therapy approach are examined, for example, facilitating therapeutic processes in an outdoor setting, identifying issues related to eating disorders that might arise in an outdoor adventure context, and examining feminist principles in action (e. g. reflexivity). As well as the six women's experiences of the different aspects of the adventure therapy intervention, the overall impact of the intervention for each woman is also examined. Data collected from a range of tools completed by the women, including personal information sheets, the Eating Disorders Inventory (EDI), personal journals, individual interviews and a final focus group indicate changes in most, but not all of the women. The results suggests that for the women with less chronic eating disorder symptoms positive change across a range of clinical symptoms were evident, including reduced troubled eating behaviours, improved body image, and motivation for change, albeit to different degrees for each woman. And for the one woman with the most chronic symptoms, although the intervention was a positive experience there was no evidence to suggest the intervention had any sustained impact. Although, the results from this study are not representative of a large clinical population of women, there is an indication that the intervention did initiate therapeutic change for some of the women and thus suggests that adventure therapy has the potential to be an effective therapeutic treatment for eating disorders and is, therefore, worthy of further investigation. Inevitably, in continuing to develop work in this area many questions and issues are raised as result of the action research process and the thesis concludes with a consideration of some of the needs of developing future adventure therapy research and practice in the UK.

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Carter, May. "So-- you do this for a living? : a study of women in adventure recreation in Western Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2000. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1371.

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This study explored the experiences of women working in the adventure recreation industry in Western Australia. Ten women employed in the local adventure recreation industry were selected as a cross-section sample. Selection criteria for this study included employment in the industry for more than five years, competency in several adventure recreation activities and extensive field experience in "hands-on" instructional roles. The women selected ranged in age from twenty-seven to fifty years of age. Years of employment in the adventure recreation industry ranged from five to thirty years. The purpose of this study was to describe the realities of working in the adventure recreation industry; explore the shared meanings held by the women about being a woman employed in adventure recreation; and investigate issues relating to women and non-traditional employment, in particular the adventure recreation industry. Research questions addressed access to employment, attraction of the adventure recreation industry, the meanings associated with women working in adventure recreation, and the influence of gender on their working experience. Interpretive interactionism was chosen as the qualitative research method. Two in-depth interviews were conducted with each of the women. The first interview sought answers to the research questions. The second interview provided an opportunity to clarify emergent themes and ensure the data interpretation was valid. Feminist poststructural theory guided the research process as it focused on power relationships, subjectivity and resistance, and was concerned with disrupting or displacing dominant discourses. The principal findings of this study related to the difficulties of meeting the physical and emotional demands of working in the adventure recreation industry. Lack of recognition of the responsibilities placed on women working in the adventure recreation industry was a major area of concern. Many of the women in this study felt that the perception that their job was easy and enjoyable did not meet the reality of their working life. Lack of adequate financial remuneration was also a major concern. It was felt that the remuneration offered by the industry was insufficient to compensate for its demands. Many women worked long hours and spent extended periods of time away from home, often to the detriment of social and family interactions. Lack of recognition and financial reward was compensated by the diverse range of opportunities offered for personal challenge and flexibility in working arrangements. Many of the women in this study acknowledged a close affinity with the natural environment and expressed their enjoyment of being active outdoors. Sharing their knowledge of technical skills, demonstrating how to appreciate the natural environment and be comfortable outdoors were major factors in career satisfaction. The adventure recreation industry has traditionally adopted male-defined attitudes and practices. Gender-based discrimination was often tolerated and seldom challenged. The predominance of masculine values within the adventure recreation industry has made it difficult for women to attain positions of power and influence. It was recognised that the position for women within the Western Australian adventure recreation industry was changing. As more women enter the adventure recreation workplace, traditional values are being challenged. The women in this study were moving into managerial and administrative positions and were gaining the power to create new opportunities and workplace environments that met the needs of women.

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Bube, June Johnson. ""No true woman" : conflicted female subjectivities in women's popular 19th-century western adventure tales /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9508.

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Reid, Jane E. (Jane Elizabeth) Carleton University Dissertation Canadian Studies. "The joys of the long trail : three women adventure-travellers in Canada at the turn of the century." Ottawa, 1990.

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Carrasco, Guzmán Álvaro Ernesto [Verfasser], and Matthias [Akademischer Betreuer] Backenstrass. "Design and pilot study of an adventure video game as a tool in psychotherapeutic processes of adolescent women with symptoms of depression / Alvaro Ernesto Carrasco Guzmán ; Betreuer: Matthias Backenstrass." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1180613880/34.

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Hebert, Joy A. Ms. "A Critical Study of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/117.

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Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees (2002) tells the story of a motherless fourteen-year-old Lily Owens, raised by a cruel father, who desperately searches for clues to unlock her mother’s past. Kidd’s bildungsroman reveals the incredible power of black women, particularly a group of beekeeping sisters and a black Mary, to create a safe haven where Lily can examine her fragmented life and develop psychologically, finally becoming a self-actualized young lady. Lily’s matriarchal world of influence both compares and contrasts with the patriarchal world represented in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, exposing the matriarchy’s aptly structured ways of providing a more healing environment than is Huck Finn’s. Kidd’s novel also showcases the stylistic strategies of first person narrative point of view, language, dialect, and the motif of place in order to contextualize the social awareness and psychological development Lily gains through her journey.

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Blomqvist, Lovisa, and Maia Nyström. "Äventyr och vänner : En undersökning av Facebookgruppen On Edge - En mötesplats för tjejer som söker äventyr." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-158192.

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The purpose of this essay was to investigate how a functional and committed online community was established. We have analyzed a Facebook group named "On Edge - a community for girls who seeks adventures" to explore how On Edge is communicating to create dedication and identification amongst its members in their online community. The study has combined theories such as social identity theory, prosumption, participatory culture and mediatization theory. We have used a multimodal analysis to analyze the administrators and the members posts on Facebook, an online survey for On Edge’s members to answer and an interview with the founder of the community, Ebba Cronqvist. The result of the multimodal analysis showed that On Edge uses text and images to create a united language within the group that leads to dedication and identification to the community. The survey showed that most of the members felt a need of a place where adventurous women could meet other women who are alike. They help each other because of the friendly atmosphere and by the meaningful exchange of thoughts and minds. We also found that there are some fundamental forces that shapes On Edge to such a well working community: the group is driven by a strong “why”, and by using a language appropriate for the target group together with images, it creates a friendly atmosphere amongst the members in the group.

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Stuever-Williford, Marley Katherine. "Hex Appeal: The Body of the Witch in Popular Culture." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1610295587336417.

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Long, Kim Martin. "The American Eve: Gender, Tragedy, and the American Dream." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277633/.

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America has adopted as its own the Eden myth, which has provided the mythology of the American dream. This New Garden of America, consequently, has been a masculine garden because of its dependence on the myth of the Fall. Implied in the American dream is the idea of a garden without Eve, or at least without Eve's sin, traditionally associated with sexuality. Our canonical literature has reflected these attitudes of devaluing feminine power or making it a negative force: The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, and The Sound and the Fury. To recreate the Garden myth, Americans have had to reimagine Eve as the idealized virgin, earth mother and life-giver, or as Adam's loyal helpmeet, the silent figurehead. But Eve resists her new roles: Hester Prynne embellishes her scarlet letter and does not leave Boston; the feminine forces in Moby-Dick defeat the monomaniacal masculinity of Ahab; Miss Watson, the Widow Douglas, and Aunt Sally's threat of civilization chase Huck off to the territory despite the beckoning of the feminine river; Daisy retreats unscathed into her "white palace" after Gatsby's death; and Caddy tours Europe on the arm of a Nazi officer long after Quentin's suicide, Benjy's betrayal, and Jason's condemnation. Each of these male writers--Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner--deals with the American dream differently; however, in each case the dream fails because Eve will not go away, refusing to be the Other, the scapegoat, or the muse to man's dreams. These works all deal in some way with the notion of the masculine American dream of perfection in the Garden at the expense of a fully realized feminine presence. This failure of the American dream accounts for the decidedly tragic tone of these culturally significant American novels.

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Blackadder, Jesse. "Illuminations : casting light upon the earliest female travellers to Antarctica." Thesis, 2013. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/546781.

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This Doctor of Creative Arts thesis (comprising a novel and an exegesis) illuminates the experiences of the earliest women to visit Antarctica. Working within the discipline of polar studies, I pose the questions: how have women been represented in, and excluded from, Antarctic narratives of the continent’s early history? Are the experiences of the earliest women to visit the continent – largely overlooked until now – intrinsically worthy of attention? What issues should be considered in using historical fiction to recreate their stories? In the exegesis I argue that women have been not only physically, but also narratively excluded from Antarctica by the way the ‘grand heroic journey’ functions as a master narrative and foundation myth that privileges the masculine hero struggling for survival. I examine early female memoirs of Antarctica, focusing on those by Dorothy Braxton, Jennie Darlington and Pamela Young, to establish how gender preoccupations influence their narratives. The work of polar scholars, including Lisa Bloom, Tom Griffiths and Gretchen Legler, and literary critics Peter Brooks, Annette Kolodny and Ruth Page form the conceptual framework for this argument. Focusing on the journeys of Ingrid Christensen and her female companions to Antarctica in the 1930s, this thesis places their experiences in the context of decades of struggle by women to reach the southern continent. Archival information about Christensen’s journeys shows evidence that she was the first woman to land on the Antarctic mainland, rather than Caroline Mikkelsen, as is still widely believed. In the absence of primary documents, Christensen’s own experience of travelling to Antarctica remains invisible. I argue that historical fiction is an effective tool for recreating the story of Christensen and her companions and that such fiction is not historical recovery, but a form of imaginative historiography. Works of historical fiction by Ursula Le Guin, Francis Spufford and Mojisola Adebayo, which aim to include previously marginalised voices and engage differently with the heroic 3 narrative of Antarctica, are used to explore the ethics of using real characters and events in historical fiction. The thesis concludes with the historical novel Chasing the Light, a fictional narrative inspired by events from Christensen’s four real life voyages to Antarctica in the 1930s. ACCESS TO EXEGESIS ONLY

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Lin, Chia-Chien, and 林佳蒨. "My Journey- The Experiences of Adventure Tourism for Contemporary Women Travelers." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/sdpzzf.

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國立臺灣師範大學
運動休閒與餐旅管理研究所
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Adventure tourism is part of sport tourism that includes three destinations of land, sea and sky (Muller & Cleaver, 2000). Recently, more women travelers were over taken the ad-venture tourism market (ATTA, 2015). The research of this pinky storm was attached great importance which indicated the research gap between West and East world. The inquiry method of story-telling is well replay the tourist’s experience (Tung & Ritchie, 2011). This study used self-narrative inquiry experience method which describes researcher’s twenty international adventure tours experience from 2010 to 2015. The secleted tours were included the land, sea and sky activities in Taiwan, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. The researcher transformed the experience into useful data via collecting the historical receipt and photos (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000). Those tours adapted the experience model (Pine & Gilmore, 1998) that shows the validation of theory. And it showed the consistency of other women’s experimental self-narrative writing with this study. Through the intanational point of view, it will result women adventure tourism improvement that to have the unforgettable adventure experience. Furthermore, this result will help tours marketing and tours planning in adventure tourism.

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Riley, Tracy Lynne. "Abused women's experiences of a 7-day wilderness trip : exploring processes of empowerment." 2004. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=94850&T=F.

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"The impact of short-term adventure experiences on the body image of women over forty." PRESCOTT COLLEGE, 2009. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1462078.

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Cheng, Chia-Chi, and 鄭嘉琪. "Erotica and Sexuality in Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure and Belle de Jour: The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63096325078976120483.

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世新大學
英語學研究所(含碩專班)
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Erotic literature has existed for centuries, and is now in the trend of being rampant through publications and the Internet in the past decades. But how does it come to exist? What significance it has to be written and produced for centuries? This thesis illustrates the significance and effect of erotic literature by using Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure and Belle de Jour: The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl to figure out what erotic literature is, the meaning of its existence and language, and what kinds of interaction happen between the context and the reader whilst reading. Since literature is not asexual, especially in the field of erotic literature, this thesis discusses what roles the protagonists play and what influences the authors try to make. Chuen-Juei Ho’s notions of sexual liberation are used to demonstrate the possibility of sexual liberation upon female heroines such as Fanny and Belle. Based on the range of this thesis, heterosexual relationship is assumed and a feminine perspective is occurred. The introduction includes the history of western erotic literature, the background of Fanny Hill and Belle de Jour, and the structure of this thesis. Chapter One illustrates the signification of erotic literature by dividing the context into two parts: instruction manual of sexual oppression and structural sex scene. Chuen-Juei Ho’s concept of “Gain and Lose” is brought to support the standpoints in this chapter. Chapter Two deals with sexual liberation. It first examines female’s situation of sexual repression and then develop the possibility of sexual liberation. The context is divided into two parts: myth of phallus and women’s claim to sexual liberation, and Chuen-Juei Ho’s notions of sexual liberation are also used to support the viewpoints in this chapter. Chapter Three indicates the major similarities and differences between Fanny Hill and Belle de Jour. The publication date of the two erotic novels has the distinction for 257 years; they share the same genre, and hold major similarities and differences. The last part is conclusion. It discusses whether or not erotic literature is “the enemy of women” and the possibility for future women to sexually liberated themselves.

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O’Shea, Eileen. "The professional experience of Irish Catholic women teachers in Victoria from 1930 - 1980." Thesis, 2015. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/31017/.

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This qualitative research study focusses on ‘The professional experience of Irish Catholic women teachers in Victoria from 1930 to 1980’. The research is based on a collection of reconstructed oral histories derived from interviews conducted with twenty-two Irish Catholic women, both lay and religious, who were primary and secondary teachers in Victoria, Australia. The professional lives reflected in these stories span from the 1930 to 1980. This study explores how Irish women teachers experienced education in Australian Catholic schools in Victoria in terms of curriculum, pedagogy, discipline, culture and religious traditions.

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Potter, Mary-Anne. "The worlds between, above and below : "growing up" and "falling down" in Alice in Wonderland and Stardust." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/11870.

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The purpose of my dissertation is to conduct an intertextual study of two fantasy texts — Alice in Wonderland by Victorian author Lewis Carroll, and Stardust by postmodern fantasy author Neil Gaiman — and their filmic re-visionings by Tim Burton and Matthew Vaughn respectively. In scrutinising these texts, drawing on insights from feminist, children’s literature and intertextual theorists, the actions of ‘growing up’ and ‘falling down’ are shown to be indicative of a paradoxical becoming of the text’s central female protagonists, Alice and Yvaine. The social mechanisms of the Victorian age that educate the girl-child into becoming accepting of their domestic roles ultimately alienate her from her true state of being. While she may garner some sense of importance within the imaginary realms of fantasy narratives, as these female protagonists demonstrate, she is reduced to the position of submissive in reality – in ‘growing up’, she must assume a ‘fallen down’ state in relation to the male.
English Studies
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