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Locating Opportunities: Women, Ritualizations, and Social Experimentation in Early Jesus Groups
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associations found the same opportunities. Rather than focus on specific worldviews or beliefs, this project suggests that we should consider what practices granted women the opportunities to challenge the idealized traditional Greco-Roman gender paradigms and obtain leadership positions.
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An Intersectional Feminist Analysis Towards Student Body Image Dis/satisfaction in Alberta Schools
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they actually affect students and what students make of them. This study takes as its premise that the ways in which anti-obesity discourses affect students is nuanced and dependent on a multiplicity of intersecting factors, such as gender, race, socioeconomic status and dis/ability, to name a few
implementation of a new policy that mandates school encouragement for building collective spaces for social action, such as “girls clubs,” to reduce the negative implications of current health discourses. Such spaces would allow girls to demand structural changes that address issues such as gender discrimination
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The Hidden Resilience of Street-Involved and Homeless Sexual and Gender Minority Young Adults Who Engage in Sex Work
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This dissertation explores innovative and nuanced conceptions of resilience useful to understanding this construct, process, and outcome in a diverse population of street-involved and homeless sexual and gender minority (SGM) young adults. These young persons deal with significant adversity and
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Cheechakos, Sourdoughs and Soiled Doves: Men, Women, and Community in a Klondike Gold Rush Boomtown 1896-1904
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‘community’ as a concept and wider concerns with community studies. Working from the perspective that boomtowns differ in fundamental ways relative to more established and enduring settlements, this research explores the influence of gender and socioeconomic stratification upon men and women in remote Dawson
observed that boomtowns can be characterized as places where normal gender roles and relationships that are characteristic of wider society do not necessarily apply. This is due both to the skewed sex ratios that typically characterize boomtown communities, as well as relaxed social controls in these often
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Knowledge and Attitudes towards HIV/AIDS and Associated Current Prevention Practices in the Era of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) in Rwimi, Uganda
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participants (94.1%; 95%CI: 93.8-97.1%) were still fearful of contracting HIV/AIDS. Participants generally expressed a positive attitude toward HIV/AIDS prevention practices, but the mode of prevention practiced were influenced by factors such as policy, gender-based perceptions and trust in their
is still present, condom use as a prevention practice remains surprisingly low. There is the need to take into account socio-cultural influences such as gender-based perceptions; relationship dynamics such as power structure and trust; and socio-economic factors that play into HIV prevention in
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, such as lobbying for LGBTQ-inclusive curricular materials (Micelei, 2005; GSA Network, 2011). The continuing emergence of GSAs has forced intense public discussions and much debated policymaking decisions on how schools engage and grapple with LGBTQ topics, and the spectrum of sexual and gender roles
, citizenship, and diverse sexual and gender identities. This research informs theory, practice, and policy-making around how schools approach youth in general, and LGBTQ and allied youth in particular.
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This thesis argues that the concept of “women’s poetry” in contemporary China emerged not as a feminist critical approach or a methodology for women poets to question gender values of the patriarchy, but as a new analytical method for the critic and a poetic strategy for the poet to refute the
idea of “women’s poetry” and working it into the traditional formalist criticism, Tang essentializes the biological male-female divide and hints at the lower poetic value of gender-marked imagery; while registering female consciousness as both poetic subject and form, Zhai repudiates feminism and
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Three Case Studies of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) in U.S. Sport Media: Deleuzian Analyses of Media Events Surrounding Diana Taurasi, Becky Hammon and Maya Moore
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, 2002). Using critical feminist perspectives, this research has further argued that these celebratory narratives of gender equality masked reproduction of hegemonic ideologies of masculinity and whiteness. Using a poststructuralist Deleuzian perspective, in my dissertation I focus on construction of
illustrated Moore’s ability to redefine the WNBA. I further discuss how her normativity was constructed through athleticism and profitability rather than gender and race in the commodified media scape of women’s professional sports. My Deleuzian analysis revealed a process of constructing normative