Into The Depths Of Reflexivity And Back Again—When Research Mirrors Personal Experience: A Personal Journey Into The Spaces Of Liminality,
2016
Mount Royal University
Into The Depths Of Reflexivity And Back Again—When Research Mirrors Personal Experience: A Personal Journey Into The Spaces Of Liminality, Katherine Janzen
The Qualitative Report
The context of this paper surrounds my Master’s thesis which was written in 2010 related to recovering crack cocaine addicted mothers who had lost custody of their children. Every qualitative thesis has a story attached to it—an impetus for engaging in the research. When the research combines sensitive topics and the research mirrors the experience of the researcher, decisions must be made considering the research processes and methods. This paper explores the reflexive processes that were employed in the 10 months preceding taking my first thesis course. Using the preface of my reflexive journal as data, three themes arose from …
Exposing The “Shadow Side”: Female-Female Competition In Jane Austen’S Emma,
2016
University of New Orleans
Exposing The “Shadow Side”: Female-Female Competition In Jane Austen’S Emma, Melissa M. Lyman
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Many critics have examined the shifting nature of female friendship in Jane Austen’s Emma from cultural and historical angles. However, a comprehensive scientific analysis of female-female alliance and competition in the novel remains incomplete. The Literary Darwinist approach considers the motivations of fictional characters from an evolutionary perspective, focusing primarily on human cognition and behaviors linked to reproductive success, social control, and survival. While overt physical displays of male competition are conspicuous in the actions of the human species and those of their closest primate relatives, female aggression is often brandished psychologically and indirectly, which makes for a much more …
Outliving Love: Marital Estrangement In An African Insurance Market,
2016
University of New Hampshire, Durham
Outliving Love: Marital Estrangement In An African Insurance Market, Casey Golomski
Anthropology
Marital estrangement and formal divorce are vital conjunctures for married women’s kinship relations and life course, where a horizon of future possibilities are revalued and negotiated at the interstices of custom, law, and social and ritual obligations. In this article, after delineating the forms of customary and civil marriage and the possibilities for divorce or estrangement from each, I describe how some married women in Swaziland and South Africa mediate this complex social field for their children and families through pensions and continuing to pay for their partners’ insurance coverage. This was not solely out of avarice to reap future …
Pedagogy And Profit: Multiethnic Literature, Gender And Young Adult Publishing,
2016
Purdue University
Pedagogy And Profit: Multiethnic Literature, Gender And Young Adult Publishing, Allison S. Layfield
Open Access Dissertations
This project argues that the adult/young adult division has the effect of maintaining social difference—especially along the lines of race and gender—while simultaneously ignoring the process of maintaining social hierarchies that occurs during the publication, reviewing and educational selection processes. Chapter One brings together the history of YAL as a pedagogical tool with its publishing history in order to show that both forces have redefined the genre in response to changing notions of social responsibility tied to American citizenship. There were five major eras within the history of young adult literature, each of which responded to changing notions of citizenship. …
Negotiating The Politics Of Representation In Iranian Women’S Cinema Before And After The Islamic Revolution,
2016
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Negotiating The Politics Of Representation In Iranian Women’S Cinema Before And After The Islamic Revolution, Alshaatha Sultan Al Sharji
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
From Mahvash, the Iranian entertainer who sang and danced coquettishly in numerous Iranian films that were produced before the Islamic revolution of 1979, to the skateboarding vampire girl who makes a feast out of abusive men in Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the representation of Iranian women on screen has changed drastically. This comparative study focuses on the politics of representation of Iranian women in the cinema before and after the Islamic revolution, with the aim of deconstructing the readily-available notions of women’s oppression in Iran. It analyzes the works of female Iranian directors Forough …
Verbing History: A Textualist Approach To Gendered Politics In U.S. History Curriculum,
2016
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Verbing History: A Textualist Approach To Gendered Politics In U.S. History Curriculum, Ginney Patricia Norton
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Using three curricular interventions from World War II, I employ an alternative rhetorical history to understand how Social studies curriculum has become a space for the simultaneous deliberation of both national identity and gender politics. In working through the propaganda of Rosie the Riveter, the stories of the women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the experiences of gay men and women in the military during the war, I suggest that Social studies curriculum normalizes and reifies gendered, racial, and queer citizenship in relationship to white, masculine, and heteronormative citizenship. It also utilizes epideictic rhetoric to rhetorically and historically construct problematic …
Women In Gaming: A Study Of Female Players’ Experiences In Online Fps Games,
2016
University of Southern Mississippi
Women In Gaming: A Study Of Female Players’ Experiences In Online Fps Games, M Allison Mcdaniel
Honors Theses
Existing literature has long been divided over whether the gaming world fosters violence and misogyny or provides a space for people to explore diverse identities. Not enough is known about how women experience videogames, especially the hypermasculine environment of first-person shooter (FPS) games. Competition, violence, and war, are dominant features of these games. The following thesis explores what harassment and discrimination women playing FPS games face, how they respond, and in what ways they find games to be empowering. A survey was distributed online to an international sample of 141 female FPS gamers. This research finds that women who play …
Book Review: Women In Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements: A Biographical Approach,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Women In Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements: A Biographical Approach, Madhavi Venkatesan
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements: A Biographical Approach, Susan Blackburn and Helen Ting, editors. National University of Singapore Press, 2013.
Book Review: We Are Our Language: An Ethnography Of Language Revitalization In A Northern Athabaskan Community,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: We Are Our Language: An Ethnography Of Language Revitalization In A Northern Athabaskan Community, Haley Albano
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of We Are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan Community by Barbra A. Meek. University of Arizona Press, 2011.
Book Review: Thinking Sex With The Early Moderns,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Thinking Sex With The Early Moderns, Renee Somers
Journal of International Women's Studies
Book review of Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns by Valerie Traub. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Book Review: Sex, Slavery And The Trafficked Woman: Myths And Misconceptions About Trafficking And Its Victims,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Sex, Slavery And The Trafficked Woman: Myths And Misconceptions About Trafficking And Its Victims, Jennifer A. Fallas
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Woman: Myths and Misconceptions about Trafficking and its Victims by Ramona Vijeyarasa. Ashgate, 2015.
Book Review: The Kaleidoscope Of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, And Possibilities,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: The Kaleidoscope Of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, And Possibilities, Cynthia J.W. Svoboda
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities by Joan Z. Spade and Catherine G. Valentine. Sage, 2014.
Book Review: Big Pharma, Women, And The Labour Of Love,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Big Pharma, Women, And The Labour Of Love, Nayantara Sheoran
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Big Pharma, Women, and the Labour of Love, by Thea Cacchioni. University of Toronto Press, 2015.
Book Review Essay: Not A Choice, Not A Job: Exposing The Myths About Prostitution And The Global Sex Trade,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Book Review Essay: Not A Choice, Not A Job: Exposing The Myths About Prostitution And The Global Sex Trade, Tran Truong
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Not a Choice, Not a Job: Exposing the Myths about Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade, by Janice G. Raymond. Potomac Books, 2013.
Book Review Essay: My Life On The Road,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Book Review Essay: My Life On The Road, Diana J. Fox
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem. Random House, 2015.
Discovering My Own African Feminism: Embarking On A Journey To Explore Kenyan Women's Oppression,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Discovering My Own African Feminism: Embarking On A Journey To Explore Kenyan Women's Oppression, Glory Joy Gatwiri, Helen Jaqueline Mclaren
Journal of International Women's Studies
All Black women have experienced living in a society that devalues them. The scholarship of bell hooks submits that the control of Black women ideologically, economically, socially and politically functions perfectly to form a highly discriminative but effective system that is designed to keep them in a submissive and subordinate place. As a Ph.D. student, in a reflective journey with my research supervisor, I engage in a struggle to define my own feminist perspective in as I prepare to explore the oppression, disadvantage and discrimination experienced by Kenyan women living with vaginal fistulas. I examine how poor and socially disadvantaged …
Oriental Family Law: Case Study Within A Gendered-Citizenship/Inequality Perspective: From Concept To Analytical Status,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Oriental Family Law: Case Study Within A Gendered-Citizenship/Inequality Perspective: From Concept To Analytical Status, Rania F. Al-Rabadi, Anas N. Al-Rabadi
Journal of International Women's Studies
This article presents key findings and empirical work of basic research in Bahrain in regards to active citizenship and gender equality where it analyses the claimed liberal citizenship. The article focuses on pre-existing inequality in the family code and also discusses a significant issue where there is a Sunni-Shi’ite division in Bahrain. This is relevant to citizenship and gender equality for how family codes are debated in regards to women’s rights within the legislative authority. Furthermore, this article analyses the parliamentary organizational structure which attributes and influences the legislation process and decision-making particularly on gender-friendly policies, where the legal system …
On The Relationship Between Gender Roles Attitudes, Religious Ideology And Familism In A Sample Of Adults In The United States,
2016
Bridgewater State University
On The Relationship Between Gender Roles Attitudes, Religious Ideology And Familism In A Sample Of Adults In The United States, Carlos Siordia
Journal of International Women's Studies
Family and religious ideologies may influence gender role attitudes in the United States, where gender inequality persists. Research suggests that family and religious ideologies shape beliefs of how men and women should behave—where gender egalitarianism is lowest amongst those with strong family orientations and/or strong patriarchal religious ideologies. This article investigated if and how family and religious ideologies are related to gender role attitudes by using cross-sectional data from the Longitudinal Study of Generations (n=1,615; mean age=50; 61% female; 32% racial minorities). Results indicate a direct relationship between gender role ideology and the following: religious ideology and familism. Because gender …
Status Of Bahraini Women In The Banking And Financial Sector: Challenges And Opportunities,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Status Of Bahraini Women In The Banking And Financial Sector: Challenges And Opportunities, Adel Ismail Al-Alawi
Journal of International Women's Studies
The purpose of this study is to investigate the current status and the challenges of Bahraini women in the financial and banking sector; this sector is in continuous growth and needs to invest in human resources properly to attract talents. To enhance women’s access to senior positions in this sector, it must acknowledge the factors that influence women leadership, where the significance of this study stands out. The study presents how different factors affect the mainstreaming of women progressing to the top-level management. The study followed both quantitative and qualitative methods in data collection, and three different types of survey …
Which ‘Mountain’ Must Feminism Climb?: Challenges For Feminist Alliances Between Migrant And Autochthonous Women's Groups In The Basque Country,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Which ‘Mountain’ Must Feminism Climb?: Challenges For Feminist Alliances Between Migrant And Autochthonous Women's Groups In The Basque Country, Itziar Gandarias Goikoetxea
Journal of International Women's Studies
Within a post-colonial framework, this paper explores the possibilities and difficulties of feminist alliances among feminist groups in the Basque Country. In particular, it focuses on a close reading of one metaphor that emerged in the joint meetings between the groups: “the metaphor of the mountain”. Using Nayak's (2014) methodology of the ‘political activism of close reading practice”, it examines the implications of the metaphor in the creation of political alliances. This is an active metaphor that exemplifies the dialectic between the universality of the patriarchal subjugation of women and the recognition of the specificity and diversity of women's lived …
