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A Season In Town: Plantation Women And The Urban South, 1790-1877, Marise Bachand
A Season In Town: Plantation Women And The Urban South, 1790-1877, Marise Bachand
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What did the city mean for plantation women in the slaveholding South? This dissertation documents how a privileged group of women experienced and represented urban space in a society primarily defined by its rurality. From the very beginning of colonization and until the end of slavery, cities like Charleston and New Orleans occupied a key place in the lives of these women. Bridging the artificial gap between country and city present in the historiography, this study revises the plantation mythology, which contends that plantation mistresses rarely went to town, and when there, they seldom ventured beyond the domestic space. After …
The Power Of Silence And The Price Of Success: Academic Achievement As Transformational Resistance For Aboriginal Women, Dawn M. Harvard
The Power Of Silence And The Price Of Success: Academic Achievement As Transformational Resistance For Aboriginal Women, Dawn M. Harvard
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Using an anti-racist feminist framework, and revised concepts of resistance, this qualitative study utilizes traditional Aboriginal Sharing Circles and personal interviews for a culturally sensitive exploration of the experiences of successful Aboriginal women in mainstream post-secondary institutions. The research focuses on two questions. What barriers confront Aboriginal women in mainstream post-secondary institutions generally, and how were these particular Aboriginal women able to overcome the challenges they faced, i.e. what coping strategies and support mechanisms had, in their experience, facilitated academic achievement and persistence? Analysis revealed how experiences of discrimination, and an awareness of societal inequities, in combination with a belief …
Capacity-Building And Participatory Research Development Of A Community-Based Nutrition And Exercise Lifestyle Intervention Program (Nelip) For Pregnant And Postpartum Aboriginal Women: Information Gathered From Talking Circles, Michelle F. Mottola, Maggie M. Sopper, Lindsay Doxtator, Katie Big-Canoe, Harry Prapavessis, Stewart Harris, Anthony Hanley
Capacity-Building And Participatory Research Development Of A Community-Based Nutrition And Exercise Lifestyle Intervention Program (Nelip) For Pregnant And Postpartum Aboriginal Women: Information Gathered From Talking Circles, Michelle F. Mottola, Maggie M. Sopper, Lindsay Doxtator, Katie Big-Canoe, Harry Prapavessis, Stewart Harris, Anthony Hanley
Paediatrics Publications
Objectives were to gather information from Talking Circles of Aboriginal women who participated in a maternal Nutrition and Exercise Lifestyle Intervention Program (NELIP) to identify strategies to bring NELIP into the community. Twelve First Nations women participated. Several main themes were identified regarding health: balance, knowledge/education and time management. Benefits of the NELIP were improvement in health, stamina, stress, and a healthy baby, no gestational diabetes and a successful home birth, with social support as an important contributing factor for success. Suggestions for improvement for the NELIP included group walking, and incorporating more traditional foods into the meal plan. The …
Living In This Body: Hearing The Voices Of Women With Disabilities, Wendy Elizabeth Walsh
Living In This Body: Hearing The Voices Of Women With Disabilities, Wendy Elizabeth Walsh
Digitized Theses
This research explored factors associated with self-determination among university-educated women with physical disabilities. Autoethnography and case study methods were employed. Participants were the researcher and five other women. Semi- structured interviews were conducted and the researcher also responded to the interview questions. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and transcripts were analyzed using a content analysis procedure. Journal entries by the researcher were analyzed as part of the autoethnographic data. Themes from the researcher data were compared to themes from the participant data at four levels: identical themes, similar themes, overlapping themes and unique theme. Themes were also compared to available literature …
Run Sprint Interval Training Induces Fat Loss In Women, Craig D. Hamilton
Run Sprint Interval Training Induces Fat Loss In Women, Craig D. Hamilton
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Repeated high intensity, short duration exercise, (sprint interval training, SIT) has been shown to be a time efficient strategy to induce aerobic and anaerobic adaptations in both men and women. Body composition changes have been shown in men but the effects in women are unclear. This study assessed body composition, waist circumference (WC) VC>2max, rating of perceived exertion (RPE), anaerobic peak power, and the blood lipid profile after SIT. Fifteen female participants trained 3x/wk for 6 weeks: 30 sec all-out sprints (manually driven treadmill), 4-6 bouts/session, 4 min recovery/bout vs. control (n=9). The control group did not adhere to …