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"Identity" Constructions in Online Learning Events: Gender, Subjectivities, and the Productive Effects of Power
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subjectivities were shaped, including discourses of difference; competence; gender; and connection, conflict, and control.
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Spring 2010
In 2003, Lysistrata was chosen for the Lysistrata Project, a global theatrical protest against the United States’ planned invasion of Iraq. This thesis examines Lysistrata in its original context of the Peloponnesian War, then moves on to the Lysistrata Project in the context of American...
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Spring 2010
literacy to do the social work of gender, of defining themselves, and of placing themselves in their families and peer groups and among their schoolmates with a gendered identity. A gender-based disconnect in reading and writing activities has emerged from our schools. If we want students to embrace school
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Manhood, Rivalry, and the Creation of a Canadian "Hockey World": Media Coverage of Early Stanley Cup Hockey Challenges, 1894-1907
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a mediated Canadian “hockey world” – and a broader “world of sport” – during this time period. By 1903, Stanley Cup hockey games had become “national” Canadian events, followed by audiences across the country. Hockey also played an important role in the construction of gender and class identities
aggregations that included paid imports from outside the town. A growing emphasis on securing the professional athletes that could ensure victory led to praise for a team’s efforts to please its supporters, or “customers.” By investigating key issues related to media, gender, and community identities in
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Access and Engagement in Treatment-Aided Addiction Recovery: Differences between Men and Women
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gender differences in the natural history of drug use are well documented, few studies examined whether access and engagement systematically differ for adult women versus men seeking treatment for addictions. This study is divided into three Research Objectives. Objective 1: To determine whether men and
& Weisner, 1999; Gardner et al., 1993; Miller & Tonigan, 1996; Procidano & Heller, 1983). One month later, follow up surveys (n = 273) assessed treatment engagement (TE) variables using a treatment engagement scale from Simpson and Joe, 2004. Results. Demographic analysis revealed gender difference in
the TE. Conclusion. Men and women differ in their experiences prior to entering treatment, engagement in treatment, and perceptions of coercion, motivation, and social networks. These differences reflect to varying degrees socially constructed gender roles.
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Engendering food meaning and identity for Southern Sudanese refugee women in Brooks, Alberta
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). Women demonstrate agency in their foodways as they utilize cosmopolitan praxis to gain status, address quotidian challenges, and question established gender norms. Ultimately, transnational foodways represent freedom for Southern Sudanese women as they indicate their willingness and ability to move
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Spring 2013
British women significantly impacted the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) during its formative period, 1824-1850. Through the adoption and imaginative use of the female gender norms of nineteenth century British society, philanthropic women influenced their society
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Anger Is A Feeling Too: An exploration of emotional work and the effects of gender based Emotional Language Competency development in heterosexual relationships
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In order to maintain or regain harmony in a romantic relationship, couples must carry out emotional work. It is possible that this work is not equitably distributed across both partners. A number of emotions have been gendered and stigmatized within society over the evolution of humanity with...
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The Influence of Gender and Food Insecurity on the Eating Practices of Poor, Pregnant Women in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the interaction between rising levels of food insecurity in the urban setting and the existing gender structures and their impact on eating practices while pregnant. Using a focused-ethnography with a feminist approach in an urban slum in Dhaka
largely unable to operationalize this knowledge due to poverty. Gender norms in the slum setting appear to be being challenged with respects to mobility and decision-making. However, limited access to sufficient quality and quantities of food overrode women’s seemingly increased level of “freedom” in the
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Fall 2020
Food security in developing countries is an essential component of welfare. However, the food security of households can be constrained by the lack of access to international markets, gender inequality, weak agricultural policies and institutions, climate change, and poverty. Smallholder farmers
on food security: i) a spatial autoregressive effect - how neighbors’ (edges’) food security influence a farmer’s food security; ii) how neighbors’ food security affects differently the food security of men and women; and iii) how the food security of neighbors of the same gender affect their own