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The Ethnography of Violent Economies: Neoliberalism, Microcredit NGOs, Power Inequalities, and Capability Deprivations in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
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into local and global development approaches was based on the core neoliberal ideology that the poor’s participation in microcredit would eventually enable them to achieve economic self-reliance and that it would remove constraints of gender injustice. Over the last decade, many empirical studies on
microcredit program impacts have been conducted across the globe. These studies produce contrasting scenarios: one group of studies claim that microcredit has a revolutionary effect in the alleviation of poverty and in the achievement of gender equity while other studies challenge this view and contend that
microcredit traps poor women into further debt and poverty. Little is known about how intersections between local social structures and values, power asymmetries among different ethnicities in addition to gender and social class, and neoliberal economic structures (including microcredit NGOs) concurrently
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Who is More Likely to Self-Injure? Exploring the Risk and Protective Factors for the Engagement of NSSI Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth
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Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) youth have been identified as a high-risk group for those who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). However, there has been little research in understanding the nature of self-injury among SGM youth. This thesis aims to explore the demographics of SGM youth who
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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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Fall 2011
Widows Education and Counseling Centre (MOWECCE), an organization that provides community sensitization seminars, individual counseling, social support, legal advice, and a small loans program. Focusing on gender equality, the organization promotes widows’ rights to raise their children, to protect
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Spring 2019
depression that responds slowly to treatment. It is therefore important to study moderating variables that may buffer the effects of self-criticism on depression. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between self-criticism, fear of compassion from others, gender, social safeness
, and depression. Self-report questionnaires were administered to undergraduate students. Regression analyses were used to test hypotheses predicting that fear of compassion from others, gender, and social safeness would moderate the relationship between self-criticism and depression. Social safeness
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Fall 2013
Online communication has spread into myriad forms in the new millennium, providing more opportunity for misinformation and deceit. In this study, Web users were asked for their personal estimates of authorial age, gender, and veracity for several examples of Web media, as well as on what media
elements the participants used to reach their estimates. In a follow-up study, these elements experimentally manipulated. These manipulations changed participant estimates of authorial age and gender, but not authorial veracity, suggesting that participants cannot accurately identify cues in Web content