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1	Gender politics in the lion's den / Morton, Bevely. January 1997 (has links) (PDF) Thesis (M.A.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Womens Studies, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-87). Lions International. Lioness Club.
2	Women in voluntary service associations : values and meanings Nathan, Sarah Katheryn 12 March 2014 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This study examines the essential features of women’s experiences as members of a service association. It uses a qualitative method to understand how women make meaning from their membership in an all-female association and a mixed-gender association. The experiences were examined in comparative contexts. The study finds three common features in each association: joining, volunteering, and leading. In the mixed-gender association, women also experienced a process of assimilating into membership activities. The study provides scholars and association practitioners insights into the complex blend of members’ personal and professional interests with implications for membership recruitment and retention. Social -- Analysis Women -- Socialization Women in community organization Voluntarism -- United States Women civic leaders --United States Interviewing -- Technique Volunteers -- Recruiting Clubs -- United States -- Case studies Sex role -- United States Leadership Organizational sociology Lions International Rotary International
3	Informing practice and sabotaging membership growth: an ideological rhetorical analysis of discursive materials from Kiwanis International Stokes, Tonja LaFaye 08 1900 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This study utilizes an ideological rhetorical analysis, applying Marxist and Feminist lenses, to artifacts from Kiwanis International, a prominent global service organization. These artifacts are: "The Permanent Objects of Kiwanis," guiding principles that were codified in 1924; "The Man Who Was God": a brief story about transforming from Kiwanis member to "Kiwanian," published in 1935 and 1985, respectively; and the 2012 "Join the Club" Membership Brochure. The rhetoric of discursive materials is one of the most salient representations of group ideology. In turn, ideology, particularly when it reflects and perpetuates social hegemony, has a normalizing effect on itself. Ideology shapes identity; identity shapes strategies to set process norms that create social cohesion. Norms of social cohesion become culture; culture reinforces ideology. When these components mirror social hegemony and replicate hegemonic power, they create institutions, like service organizations; these institutions then legitimate and normalize positions of social privilege. Ultimately, ideology and social hegemony reveal themselves through organizational and member practices and organizationally-produced discursive material. The purpose of this study is to analyze the historical, socio-political, and socio-cultural roots of Kiwanis International in order to draw logical conclusions about the organization's ideology for the purposes of understanding how that ideology contributes to, justifies, and perpetuates an unconscious, neo-colonial view of philanthropy. Kiwanis International, on an organizational (macro) level and at the club/member (micro) level, is structured around positions of racial, ethnic, socio-economic, linguistic, gender, and religious privilege, and so mimics the hegemonic power centers and dominant ideologies of society at large. In turn, the products and practices of the organization reflect these positions of privilege and inhibits the organization's ability to attract traditionally excluded, disenfranchised, or under-represented groups. Understanding that it is a contentious and futile to simply point where power relations exist and assert themselves, this study emphasizes where "othering" occurs in hopes of mitigating relations of domination and oppression between Kiwanis members and perspective members, and of moving forward the interests of those who have not traditionally been counted among Kiwanis' members but whose presence could save the organization. Rhetoric Rhetorical analysis Ideology Ideological analysis Marxism Feminism Marxist criticism Feminist criticism Reciprocity in community service Community service Membership organizations Voluntarism Neo-colonialism in voluntarism Imperialism in voluntarism Membership campaign Membership drive Kiwanis International Rotary International Lions Club Rhetoric Philosophy, Marxist Feminist theory Ideology Literature and society Social acceptance Social classes Social groups Social norms Social psychology Communication and culture Communism and culture Culture Social evolution Social conflict Marginality, Social Social isolation

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