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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Rural livelihoods, gender and economic restructuring in Mexico : lived realities of neoliberalism (1988-2000)

Preibisch, Kerry January 2000 (has links)
No description available.
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Migration, mobility and health-seeking behaviour of mothers living in rural and peri-urban areas on the Kenyan Coast

Molyneux, Catherine Sarah January 1999 (has links)
No description available.
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Professions of love : the discursive construction of love and romance in intimate heterosexual relationships

Burns, Angela Mary January 1999 (has links)
For this thesis, my aim was to deconstruct the notion of heterosexual love in order to question if and how current stories of love are involved in producing gender inequality. Using discourse analysis, informed by feminist theory, I analysed, in detail, qualitative interviews with eleven women and eleven men about their most important intimate heterosexual relationships and their experiences of love. The traditional view of romantic love as a symbol of freedom and redemption has been challenged by feminist arguments that romantic love obscures male privilege in intimate heterosexual relationships. Mainstream social psychological research has tended to measure and categorize 'love' with little regard to wider historical and social contexts which means that the few in-depth explorations of the complex meanings of love are primarily sociological. Where some research has suggested that gender inequality may proceed from women's investment in romance and men's in emotional illiteracy (e.g. Jackson, 1993; Langford, 1999), others conceive that a wider democratization of social life is producing a shift to more rational and equitable intimate relationships (e.g. Giddens, 1992; Illouz, 1997). My findings demonstrate that talk of love is extremely complex while also cliched and inchoate. I identified two broad and pervasive discourses, in tension with each other - the discourse of romantic love and the work discourse of love and intimacy. The romantic discourse was inextricably inscribed with discourses of emotion where the work discourse was associated with doing rather than feeling. The work discourse allowed the male interviewees, in particular, to construct relationships as contexts for their own personal growth work and exercise of expertise. The democratization of heterosexual love may not be well underway if a shift to rational intimacy involves a transformation of romantic feeling into a narcissistic discourse of personal success. I also identified how male privilege was instantiated in discourses of infidelity.
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Gênero, pentecostalismo e formação de professores na construção da cidadania: as professoras da congregação Cristã no Brasil

Miguel, Iranilde Ferreira [UNESP] 19 November 2008 (has links) (PDF)
Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-11-19Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:14:26Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 miguel_if_me_prud.pdf: 1607945 bytes, checksum: 97f6c179ba4493ea92263b45aea7de20 (MD5) / Secretaria Estadual de Educação / Esse trabalho apresenta alguns questionamentos sobre religiosidade e as relações de gênero dela decorrentes que merecem um espaço nas pautas das discussões cujo tema é a construção da cidadania e da emancipação humana. Procuramos mostrar que tais questões embora presentes no cotidiano escolar, foram se tornando corriqueiras a ponto de tornarem-se imperceptíveis aos sujeitos que as vivenciam. O texto trata das relações de gênero instituídas por meio da religião, com enfoque nas professoras crentes da Congregação Cristã no Brasil, uma igreja que conta com um número considerável de fiéis e que apresenta características diferenciadas das demais igrejas pentecostais. Discute-se alguns conceitos que se cruzam e entrecruzam ao longo do trabalho, e se encerra concluindo que embora o discurso circulante afirme que “religião não se discute”, se faz necessário incluir na pauta das discussões as questões referentes à identidade/diferença, produzidas pelas religiões, apesar da complexidade dessa tarefa já que não se constitui numa questão gerada no interior de movimentos sociais, e nem possui características reivindicatórias de nenhum grupo social. / This paper presents some queries about religiosity and the gender relations related to them that deserve to be discussed whose theme is the construction of citizenship and human emancipation. However, such queries are present in school routine; they were so common that became imperceptible to the ones who lived it, The text deals with gender relations instituted by religion, focusing on protestant teachers from “ Congregação Cristã no Brasil” a church which has a great number of followers and has different characteristics from other Pentecostal churches. Some concepts that crossed and intercrossed throughout the paper are discussed, and it ends concluding that, although circulating speech claims that “we must not discuss religion”, it is an issue needed to be discussed referring to identity/differences, created by religions, in despite of complexity of this task because it is not a query generated inside social movements, and neither has characteristics of vindication from any social group.
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The position of South Asian women in households in the UK

Bhopal, Kalwant January 1996 (has links)
No description available.
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GENDER RELATIONS IN THE ARAB WORLD: A RHETORICAL CRITICISM OF NAGUIB MAHROUZ'S AWLAD HARATINA

Al-Mutawah, Hoda 09 November 2005 (has links)
No description available.
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Men's perceptions of how gender equality  affects gender relations at household levels  in rural Uganda : - A case study conducted in two villages in Isingiro district in South-West                       Uganda

Sjöberg, Josefine, Österlund, Sandra January 2016 (has links)
In Uganda, the constitution provide protection for women´s rights. However, progress is still slow and the situation on household levels are largely unknown. Many focus on the challenges for women when it comes to gender equality, but as there is now a general recognition of the importance to include men in this work, this study aims to focus on men's perceptions and thoughts regarding gender equality, women empowerment, gender roles and social change, to contribute valuable information on this matter. Previous studies have shown signs of male resistance towards gender equality. To best understand the underlying reasons for this resistance, the theory of Hegemonic Masculinities by Connell and Messerschmidt was chosen to analyse the findings. This theory suggests that hierarchies between men, and notions of male ideals, can have an impact on men´s behaviour. A field study was conducted in rural Uganda which used the methods of individual interviews and focus group discussions, targeting men in different ages and socio-economic backgrounds. The questions asked regarded the roles for men and women, how the roles are changing, their perception of gender equality and the impact of women empowerment on gender relations, all with a focus on house hold level. These answers were complemented by key respondents on both local and national level. The main results of this study shows that there seems to be a general change in the role for women, but the male ideal is still tied to being the provider and leader in the family. Gender equality was in somewhat contradictory viewed as something good that could lead to development, as long as the men could remain higher in status than women. Lastly, many men seemed worried about women empowerment leading to disrespect, arguments and divorce, even though some benefits also were recognized. These findings indicate that “universal ideas” of gender equality have a wide range of local interpretations that needs to be taken into consideration when promoting gender equality in a development context.
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Female inequality and the spreading of HIV/AIDS – a gender-based study

Söderström, Sara January 2006 (has links)
<p>The spreading of HIV/AIDS has a gendered dimension. In this essay I focus on the gender roles that create different spheres for the sexes and how they are connected to the spreading of HIV/AIDS. The construction of masculinity hinders the HIV preventing efforts due to the social demands of having several partners and the dislike of using condoms. Sometimes it also results in gender-based violence. The female gender role narrows the possibilities for women to protect themselves. The women are struck harder by the disease because they are in a disadvantageous position in society where they have few means of economic independence and no control over their own bodies in their sexual relationships. The key is to change the gendered domain and the attitudes toward both men and women.</p>
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As relações de gênero na educação infantil a partir da ótica das crianças / Gender relations in early childhood education under the perspective of children

Ohouan, Camila Asato 04 September 2015 (has links)
Uma experiência enquanto professora com um aluno que brincava com bonecas, maquiagem e saias, foi a primeira oportunidade que tive de refletir sobre as questões de gênero na escola e foi a motivação para iniciar os estudos de gênero que redundaram nesta dissertação. A pesquisa foi realizada numa escola municipal de educação infantil em São Bernardo do Campo (SP), a mesma em que atuo como coordenadora pedagógica. Numa abordagem qualitativa, realizei observações dos momentos de brincadeira na escola para compreender, a partir da ótica das crianças, como elas vivenciam as relações de gênero. Esta pesquisa se vincula à área de estudos de gênero e para perceber a criança como protagonista da ação houve aproximação teórica com os autores da área da Sociologia da Infância Os resultados mostraram que os meninos e as meninas participantes desta pesquisa transitavam pelas brincadeiras, em alguns momentos com polarização das expetativas de gênero muito clara (brincadeiras de menino versus brincadeira de menina) e em outros com fronteiras que não se fixavam (como no caso das brincadeiras de super-heróis e salão de beleza). Enquanto em algumas situações era clara a ruptura das expectativas sociais de gênero nas brincadeiras entre as crianças, em outras essas rupturas eram tão sutis que poderiam passar desapercebidas. Conclui-se então que as crianças, nas situações de brincadeira, não só reproduzem, mas também rompem e ressignificam os padrões de gênero esperados e que essa dinâmica contraditória pode ser utilizada pelos/as educadores/as para ampliar os repertórios disponíveis tanto para meninos quanto para meninas. / Working as a teacher, I observed a boy student who played with dolls, makeup and skirts. That was the first opportunity I had to reflect on gender issues at school. Moreover, it was the motivation to start gender studies that resulted in this work. The assessment was conducted in Sao Bernardo do Campo (SP), in a municipal school of early childhood education where I work as educational coordinator. Using the qualitative approach, I realized observations of the recreational moments at the school to understand, from the perspective of children, how they experience gender relations. This research is bounded with the area of gender studies and, as to perceive children as the protagonists of the action, there was theoretical closeness to the authors of the area of Childhood Sociology. The results showed that boys and girls, who participated in this research, were transiting the games. In some moments the polarization of gender expectations was very clear (Boy games vs. Girl games) and at other times the boundaries were not fixed (as in the case of superheroes and beauty salon games). While in some instances the rupture of the social expectations of gender in play among children was very clear, in other circumstances these splits were so subtle that might otherwise go unnoticed. It was concluded that children, when playing, do not only reproduce, but also break and resignify the expected gender patterns. Therefore, this contradictory dynamic can be used by educators to enlarge the available repertory for both boys and girls.
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A woman's place in cyberspace : a critical analysis of discourse, purpose and practice with regard to women and new communication technologies

Beckenham, Annabel, n/a January 2001 (has links)
New information and communication technologies have excited considerable popular and expert attention over the last decades of the twentieth century. Predictions about their social effects range along a continuum from visions of heaven; where people slip the surly bonds of time and space, to glimpses of hell; where such slippage enables new manifestations of dominance and control. Along the continuum there is a basic determinist premise evident, that the technologies have developed in a marginal sphere, and will now bring a new way of life, or at least provide materials for a new way of life, whether this be for good or evil. The notion of cyberspace as a new communicative domain has in particular engaged this kind of attention. This thesis is concerned with the ways in which the rhetoric of cyberspace sheds light on deeper social preoccupations and relations. It is an attempt to move beyond discussion of particular technologies and their possible effects to examine the ways in which habitual social intercourse is reconstructed in and around cyberspace. As a feminist scholar of communication I am particularly interested in the ways in which existing gender relations are maintained in discursive constructions of women in cyberspace, and the ways in which feminist theorists may respond to the new domain. Because I seek to elude simple determinism, I have sought to contextualise the space by some focus on the known social needs, purposes and practices to which the development of cyberspace technologies has been central. Although I acknowledge the power of discourse to maintain extant social relations, I seek to elude discursive determinism by some focus on the ways in which women have creatively appropriated new technologies; on the disjunctions of discourse and practice.

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