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321	Combating gender stereotyping in the science and technology classrooms of a primary school Van der Merwe-Muller, Lorna 11 1900 (has links) Gender stereotyping is a phenomenon found in all spheres of life. School children often have to bear the brunt of these prescribed roles and stereotypes. This study includes a literature review of the characteristics of a professional educator as well as the theoretical background on gender issues. It employed Participatory Action Research as a strategy with the aim to empower teachers to improve their classroom practice, and ultimately, to improve the teaching-learning dynamics for learners in the science and technology classrooms. The participants, who are science and technology teachers, are vastly different people whose one common goal it was to empower themselves and to change their classroom practice on a continuous basis. The study looks at some of the beliefs these teachers now hold after the intervention for promoting gender equality in the classroom. Science and technology are the domains of historically male-dominated fields, and by means of this study I aim to equalise the learning opportunities for both boys and girls. / Comparative Education / M. Ed. (Comparative Education) Stereotypes Gender roles Gender equality Classroom environment Value transmission Gender Combating gender stereotyping Science and technology as subjects Classrooms and schools Participatory action research 372.350968 Sexism in education -- South Africa Gender identity -- South Africa
322	Confined by conservatism : power and patriarchy in the novels of Charlotte Brontë White, Jessica Barbara 11 1900 (has links) This dissertation explores the ambiguous nature of the social criticism in Charlotte Brontë’s novels — Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette and The Professor — particularly pertaining to patriarchal ideology and its associated power relations. I shall explore how, through her novels, Brontë sought to redefine subjectivity and the feminine ideal, and in so doing, reconfigure patriarchy’s gender norms and its ideologies which were oppressive to women. However, Brontë’s varying contestation of and acquiescence to female Victorian stereotypes, along with her equivocal representation of ideology, identity, gender, and the self, undermine her efforts to create a new model of womanhood and female empowerment. Nonetheless, through Brontë’s intimate depiction of her characters’ struggles between their desires and patriarchal prescripts, she offers a novel, more indirect and significant challenge to the patriarchal status quo. In this way, Brontë’s social criticism is confined by her conservatism. / English Studies / M.A. (English Literature) 823.8 Patriarchy in literature -- 19th century Sex role in literature -- 19th century Women in literature -- 19th century
323	Shifting identities: representations of Shona women in selected Zimbabwean fiction Muganiwa, Josephine 06 1900 (has links) Bibliography: leaves 215-230 / This thesis uses a postcolonial framework to analyse the construction and representation of identities of Shona women in selected black and white Zimbabwean-authored fiction in English published between 1890 and 2015. The study traces meanings associated with Shona women’s identities as ascribed by dominant powers in every epoch to create narratives that reflect the power dynamics. The thesis argues that identities are complex, characterized by various intersections such as race, gender, class and ethnicity. Shona women have to negotiate their identities in various circumstances resulting in shifting multiple identities. The thesis focuses on how such identities are represented in the selected texts. Findings reveal that the colonial project sought to write the Shona women out of existence, and when they appeared negative images of dirt, slothfulness and immorality were ascribed to them. These images continued after independence to justify male dominance of women. However, the lived experience of women shows they have agency and tend to shift identities in relation to specific circumstances. Shona women’s identities are dynamic and multifarious as they aim at relevance in their socioeconomic and political circumstances. Representations of Shona women’s identities are therefore influenced by the aim of the one representing them. All representations are therefore arbitrary and must be interrogated in order to deconstruct meaning and understand the power dynamics at play. The works analysed are Olive Schreiner’s Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897), Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing (1950), Yvonne Vera’s Nehanda (1993), Cythia Marangwanda’s Shards (2014), Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope (2006), Violet Masilo’s The African Tea Cosy (2010), Eric Harrison’s Jambanja (2006), Dangarembgwa’s The Book of Not (2006), Christopher Mlalazi’s Running with Mother (2012) and Brian Chikwava’s Harare North (2009). / English Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (English) Postcolonialism Representation Identity Shona women Hybridity Multiculturalism Construction of identity Patriarchy Spirit possession Sexuality Feminism Stereotypes 823.91409 Women, Shona -- Identity Postcolonialism in literature Patriarchy in literature
324	The Effect of the Rater's Implicit Person Theory on the Performance Evaluations of Male and Female Managers Bendapudi, Namrita 06 March 2013 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Previous research has found that the clarity of information provided to raters about women managers’ performance affects ratings of their competence, likeability, and overall evaluation. The current study sought to contribute to this literature by examining whether individual differences of raters can explain the reason for differential performance evaluations of male and female managers, despite them both performing equally. For this purpose, the current research extended the findings of Heilman and colleagues by replicating their methodology while introducing a moderator variable, the rater’s Implicit Person Theory (IPT). The IPT differentiates people into either entity theorists (that is, those who believe that behavior is trait-based and therefore fixed and stable) and incremental theorists (those who believe that behavior is situationally mediated and hence, changeable). Specifically, it was proposed that the effects found in the previous study would be stronger when the rater possessed an entity theory as opposed to an incremental theory. In doing so, this research attempted to provide an understanding of why male and female managers might be given different ratings, all other things being equal. Analyses revealed results that were consistent with, as well as some that were quite inconsistent with, previous findings. Rater IPT was found to have a significant effect on ratings provided by male participants but not those of female participants. Other findings and implications are discussed and limitations and future research directions are stated. Stereotypes (Social psychology) Gender identity in the workplace Performance -- Evaluation Sex role in the work environment Sex role -- Psychological aspects Personality -- Research -- Methodology Organizational behavior -- Case studies Management -- Research Attribution (Social psychology) Executive ability -- Testing Psychology -- Research -- Methodology Sex discrimination against women
325	A sociolinguistic investigation of gender stereotypes in AIDS discourse Van de Wouwer, Pascale Martine 30 November 2003 (has links) This research investigates how the speech community living in Maputo city uses language in relation to HIV/AIDS and studies related stigmas which impede women's access to HIV/AIDS counselling services. My hypothesis is that frequent use of gender stereotypes in AIDS discourse aims at stigmatising women as AIDS propagators, while minimizing male sexual transgressions in the AIDS crisis. Interpretation of primary data collected via focus group discussions and interviews is done with five different approaches that study respectively: social meanings and representations of AIDS embedded in context, the stigmatising process correlating gender stereotypes and discrimination against women, stereotypical speech attitudes and speech mechanism as well as the functions and effects of stereotyping. My conclusion is that deeply rooted gender barriers are to be removed in order to combat the social plague of AIDS and that ethnography of communication offers interesting models for development projects that can initiate behavioural changes through speech. / Linguistics / M.A. (Sociolinguistics) HIV/AIDS Gender Stigmas Access to counselling services Speech community Focus Group Discussion Context-embedded meaning Discourse analysis Stereotyping Speech attitudes Functional analysis Ethnography of communication Sociolinguistics Stereotypes 362.1969792009679 Focus groups -- Mozambique Discourse analysis -- Mozambique Communication and culture -- Mozambique Sociolinguistics -- Mozambique Language and culture -- Mozambique Prejudices -- Mozambique Communication -- Mozambique Women -- Diseases -- Mozambique Women -- Sexual behavior -- Mozambique Men -- Sexual behavior -- Mozambique
326	The worlds between, above and below : "growing up" and "falling down" in Alice in Wonderland and Stardust Potter, Mary-Anne 2012 November 1900 (has links) The purpose of my dissertation is to conduct an intertextual study of two fantasy texts — Alice in Wonderland by Victorian author Lewis Carroll, and Stardust by postmodern fantasy author Neil Gaiman — and their filmic re-visionings by Tim Burton and Matthew Vaughn respectively. In scrutinising these texts, drawing on insights from feminist, children’s literature and intertextual theorists, the actions of ‘growing up’ and ‘falling down’ are shown to be indicative of a paradoxical becoming of the text’s central female protagonists, Alice and Yvaine. The social mechanisms of the Victorian age that educate the girl-child into becoming accepting of their domestic roles ultimately alienate her from her true state of being. While she may garner some sense of importance within the imaginary realms of fantasy narratives, as these female protagonists demonstrate, she is reduced to the position of submissive in reality – in ‘growing up’, she must assume a ‘fallen down’ state in relation to the male. / English Studies / M.A. (English) Victorian womanhood Fairy tales Fantasy literature Portals Woman as ‘Other’ Growing up and falling down Self-alienation Neil Gaiman Lewis Carroll 823.8 Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll) Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 -- Influence Literature -- Philosophy Sex role -- Children's literature
327	A sociolinguistic investigation of gender stereotypes in AIDS discourse Van de Wouwer, Pascale Martine 30 November 2003 (has links) This research investigates how the speech community living in Maputo city uses language in relation to HIV/AIDS and studies related stigmas which impede women's access to HIV/AIDS counselling services. My hypothesis is that frequent use of gender stereotypes in AIDS discourse aims at stigmatising women as AIDS propagators, while minimizing male sexual transgressions in the AIDS crisis. Interpretation of primary data collected via focus group discussions and interviews is done with five different approaches that study respectively: social meanings and representations of AIDS embedded in context, the stigmatising process correlating gender stereotypes and discrimination against women, stereotypical speech attitudes and speech mechanism as well as the functions and effects of stereotyping. My conclusion is that deeply rooted gender barriers are to be removed in order to combat the social plague of AIDS and that ethnography of communication offers interesting models for development projects that can initiate behavioural changes through speech. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / M.A. (Sociolinguistics) HIV/AIDS Gender Stigmas Access to counselling services Speech community Focus Group Discussion Context-embedded meaning Discourse analysis Stereotyping Speech attitudes Functional analysis Ethnography of communication Sociolinguistics Stereotypes 362.1969792009679 Focus groups -- Mozambique Discourse analysis -- Mozambique Communication and culture -- Mozambique Sociolinguistics -- Mozambique Language and culture -- Mozambique Prejudices -- Mozambique Communication -- Mozambique Women -- Diseases -- Mozambique Women -- Sexual behavior -- Mozambique Men -- Sexual behavior -- Mozambique
328	The worlds between, above and below : "growing up" and "falling down" in Alice in Wonderland and Stardust Potter, Mary-Anne January 1900 (has links) The purpose of my dissertation is to conduct an intertextual study of two fantasy texts — Alice in Wonderland by Victorian author Lewis Carroll, and Stardust by postmodern fantasy author Neil Gaiman — and their filmic re-visionings by Tim Burton and Matthew Vaughn respectively. In scrutinising these texts, drawing on insights from feminist, children’s literature and intertextual theorists, the actions of ‘growing up’ and ‘falling down’ are shown to be indicative of a paradoxical becoming of the text’s central female protagonists, Alice and Yvaine. The social mechanisms of the Victorian age that educate the girl-child into becoming accepting of their domestic roles ultimately alienate her from her true state of being. While she may garner some sense of importance within the imaginary realms of fantasy narratives, as these female protagonists demonstrate, she is reduced to the position of submissive in reality – in ‘growing up’, she must assume a ‘fallen down’ state in relation to the male. / English Studies / M.A. (English) Victorian womanhood Fairy tales Fantasy literature Portals Woman as ‘Other’ Growing up and falling down Self-alienation Neil Gaiman Lewis Carroll 823.8 Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll) Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 -- Influence Literature -- Philosophy Sex role -- Children's literature
329	The role of appearance in selection for sex-typed jobs Redhead, Megan E. January 2014 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Madeline Heilman’s (1983) Lack of Fit Model, which postulates why discrimination occurs in the selection of sex-typed jobs, has been applied to the interaction of applicant attractiveness. Yet recent research suggests that other appearance variables, namely sex-typed facial features, may be associated with perceptions of fit. Building upon Heilman’s 1983 model, the current study evaluated how sex-typed facial features relate to applicant selection for sex-typed fields. Undergraduate students were recruited for participation during the spring academic semester (n = 413) and data were analyzed using a 2x2x2 ANOVA. Results indicated that selection is significantly impacted by the three-way interaction of applicant sex, facial feature-type, and sex type of the applying field. Further, masculine-featured females and feminine-featured males were significantly less favored for selection within the feminine sex-typed field. Implications of these findings and the differential evaluation of male and female applicants in a feminine field are discussed. Physical Appearance Sex-typed Facial Features Job Selection Applicant Fit Sexual attraction -- Research Employee selection -- Attitudes Sex discrimination in employment Sex role in the work environment Stereotypes (Social psychology) Interpersonal attraction -- Research Sexism Sex role -- Psychological aspects Face perception -- Research
330	Arab hip-hop and politics of identity : intellectuals, identity and inquilab D'Souza, Ryan Arron January 2014 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Opposing the culture of différance created through American cultural media, this thesis argues, Arab hip-hop artists revive the politically conscious sub-genre of hip-hop with the purpose of normalising their Arab existence. Appropriating hip-hop for a cultural protest, Arab artists create for themselves a sub-genre of conscious hip-hop – Arab-conscious hip-hop and function as Gramsci’s organic intellectuals, involved in better representation of Arabs in the mainstream. Critiquing power dynamics, Arab hip-hop artists are counter-hegemonic in challenging popular identity constructions of Arabs and revealing to audiences biases in media production and opportunities for progress towards social justice. Their identity (re)constructions maintain difference while avoiding Otherness. The intersection of Arab-consciousness through hip-hop and politics of identity necessitates a needed cultural protest, which in the case of Arabs has been severely limited. This thesis progresses by reviewing literature on politics of identity, Arabs in American cultural media, Gramsci’s organic intellectuals and conscious hip-hop. Employing criticism, this thesis presents an argument for Arab hip-hop group, The Arab Summit, as organic intellectuals involved in mainstream representation of the Arab community. Arab conscious hip-hop Arab identity Gramsci Organic intellectuals Arab Americans -- Music Arabs -- Politics and government Other (Philosophy) Arab Summit (Musical group) Music -- Political aspects Arabs in popular culture Hegemony -- Social aspects Identity (Psychology) International relations -- Philosophy Orientalism Critical pedagogy -- Research Group identity Islamophobia

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