Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2007. / Title from file title page. Chara H. Bohan, committee chair; John K. Lee, Susan Talburt, Joyce E. Many, committee members. Electronic text (151 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Oct. 25, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-138).

Historians differ as to whether World War II brought about major changes in women's public and private roles. Using the Vancouver Council of Women as a case study, this thesis argues that its war-time activities were conducted in terms of a continuing ideology about women's roles, which enabled the VCW to adapt to the war-time situation requiring women to take on duties outside their traditional sphere, while limiting its ability to perceive a wider social role for women. The VCW's response to the war was a concerted effort to promote government policies at home while furthering the tenets of its maternal feminist philosophy. Relying on what it considered to be women's feminine talents the VCW maintained that women's efforts were best put to use in war fund drives and the protection of the home front. [The VCW's assistance in the mobilization of women into paid war work that incorporated their traditional work experiences revealed the narrow perception that it had of women's public sphere.] Its resolutions for post-war planning failed to offer broadening possibilities for women in the post-war world. Patriotism, the preservation of the ideals of home life and the promotion of women's feminine qualities were more important to the VCW than the pursuit of broad feminist goals. The war was not to alter the VCW's views regarding women's proper sphere; its beliefs and activities signified a continuation of prewar views regarding women's public and private status. Women's proper sphere was still domestic. / Arts, Faculty of / History, Department of / Graduate

余志明. / 論文 (哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 1999. / 參考文獻 (leaves 114-119). / 附中英文摘要. / Yu Zhiming. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi) -- Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 1999. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 114-119). / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / Chapter (一) --- 引言 --- p.1 / Chapter (二) --- 宋代以前的貞節觀念 --- p.7 / Chapter (三) --- 宋人對婦女改嫁的態度 / Chapter (1) --- 皇室對婦女改嫁的態度 --- p.41 / Chapter (2) --- 士人對婦女改嫁的態度 --- p.49 / Chapter (3) --- 民間對婦女改嫁的態度 --- p.60 / Chapter (四) --- 宋代婦女的守節行爲 / Chapter (1) --- 夫死守節不嫁 --- p.64 / Chapter (2) --- 賊人相逼寧死不從 --- p.70 / Chapter (3) --- 士人對婦女守節的態度 --- p.77 / Chapter (五) --- 宋代法律與貞節 --- p.90 / Chapter (六) --- 宋代理學與婦女守節 --- p.102 / Chapter (七) --- 結語 --- p.113 / Chapter (八) --- 徵引資料 --- p.114

This thesis examines the informational needs of historians researching women as a subject in archives. The research methodology employed combines two types of user studies, the questionnaire and the reference analysis, in order to determine both the use and usefulness of archival materials and finding aids for historians researching women. This study begins with an overview of the literature on user studies. The thesis then outlines both the kinds of materials and the information historians researching women require. Finally, this study looks at the way historians researching women locate relevant materials and concomitantly the effectiveness of current descriptive policies and practices in dealing with the needs of this research group. This thesis concludes by suggesting a number of ways in which archivists can respond to the informational needs of historians researching women in archives. Firstly, a considerable amount of documentation relevant to the study of women remains to be acquired by archival repositories. While archives should continue to acquire textual materials, more emphasis needs to be placed upon the acquisition of non-textual materials since these materials are also very useful to historians researching women in archives. Secondly, archivists must focus more attention on the informational value of their holdings since the majority of historians researching women are interested in the information the records contain about people, events or subject area and not the description of institutional life contained in records. Thirdly this study demonstrates the need for more subject oriented finding aids. Archivists can improve subject access to their holdings through the preparation of thematic guides, by the creation of more analytical inventory descriptions and by indexing or cataloguing women's records. / Arts, Faculty of / Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), School of / Graduate

This thesis is concerned with the participation of women and girls in the Olympic Games. In these days of women's liberation it seemed appropriate to try to put together the knowledge available about women competitors and their participation in the Olympics. I have tried to set out an overall view with some historical background and then an account leading up to the initial and continuing participation of women in the Games and showing the reasons for the slow beginning and the gradual increase in numbers of competitors and sports. I have also tried to evaluate some well known myths and misconceptions concerning participation and made an attempt with the use of research data to disprove many of these.

Poetry clubs composed of gentry women began to emerge during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The earliest female poetry clubs in this period were all kinship-based and organized within gentry families. This phenomenon shows that family was the major source for the foundation of female poetry clubs. The aim of this research is to investigate the impact of family on the formation of kinship-based female poetry clubs from a political, social, and cultural perspective and to examine these clubs within the context of geographical location, family learning and marriage relationships. This thesis treats the Mingyuan Poetry Club founded by female members of the Fang family in Tongcheng city, Anhui province as the main focus of research to illustrate the family’s influence on the formation of gentry women poetry clubs by translating and analyzing the members’ poetic works and family life. / Graduate

Esta pesquisa de doutorado teve como objetivo deslindar trajetórias individuais e coletivas das mulheres no Sul de Moçambique sob o jugo do colonialismo português. A partir de diferentes tipologias documentais atinentes à primeira metade do século XX, a investigação buscou compreender como viveram aquelas com o status de indígenas. Ser indígena era estar atrelado ao um status, determinado por um conjunto de leis, decretos e práticas coloniais, que basicamente estabeleceu as relações entre cidadãos (brancos, indianos e negros e mulatos assimilados) e indígenas (africanos/negros), os últimos considerados pelos colonizadores portugueses como sub-humanos e, por isso, relegados à uma cidadania de segunda classe. Nossa proposta foi fazer uma história social e feminista das mulheres indígenas privilegiando a agência feminina tendo em vista (e apesar d)a violência estrutural do projeto de dominação, patriarcal, colonial e capitalista levado à cabo pelos portugueses. Pretende-se demonstrar que as mulheres que viveram no Sul de Moçambique na primeira metade do século XX, apesar da brutalidade misógina expressa tanto pelas tradições africanas como pela administração colonial, foram capazes de ativar diversas estratégias e práticas que contrariavam a dominação masculina. / This PhD research aimed to disentangle individual and collective trajectories of women in southern Mozambique under the control of Portuguese colonialism. From different document types relating to the first half of the twentieth century, the study aimed to understand how they lived those with the status of indigenous people. Being Indian was to be linked to a status determined by a set of laws, decrees and colonial practices, which basically established the relationship between citizens (whites, Indians and blacks and assimilated mulattoes) and indigenous (African / black), the latter considered by Portuguese colonists as subhuman and therefore relegated to one second-class citizenship. Our proposal was to make a social history and feminist indigenous women focusing on women\'s agency for (and despite of) the structural violence of domination project, patriarchal, colonial and capitalist carried out by the Portuguese. We intend to show that women who lived in southern Mozambique in the first half of the twentieth century, despite the misogynist brutality expressed by both African traditions and the colonial administration, were able to various strategies and practices opposed to male violence.

Orientador: Ana Maria Meregalli Goldani, Alicia Castellanos Guerrero / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-11T21:16:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PonceJimenez_MarthaPatricia_D.pdf: 25310300 bytes, checksum: 9b52e3a181a0ce01087901b42cde98b1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2000 / Resumo: o objetivo central da pesquisa é mostrar o significado do trabalho, do amor e da sexualidade na vida dum grupo de moradores do litoral do Golfo mexicano. Me aproxime, através das histórias de vida, ao estudo das normas, valores e praticas culturais que subjazem á formação da subjetividade. Embora a ênfàse esteja na condição feminina, considerei importante apreender a vida social em seu conjunto, ver as mulheres e os homens como partes intet,Tfantesde um todo social centrando a análise em como se constroem socialmente as diferenças entre os gêneros / Abstract: This study explores concepts of love, sexuality and labor analyzed from a gender perspective. Thirteen testimonies was col1ect in Boca deI Rio, smal! town in Veracruz state from Gulf of Mexico coast, during long period of fieldwork between 1997-1998. The construcÜonof gender differences at individual and col1ectiveleveI is discussed from actor's experience and the perspective of author besides vast bibliographical data / Doutorado / Doutor em Sociologia

Yuk-lin Lui. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 1-7 (last gp.)). / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction / Scope and purpose --- p.1 / Literature Review --- p.3 / Chapter (A) --- Major Approaches In Social Movements --- p.3 / Chapter [1] --- The Resources Mobilization Framework --- p.3 / Chapter [2] --- The political process Model --- p.5 / Chapter -- --- Structure of political Opportunities --- p.5 / Chapter -- --- Organizational Strength --- p.6 / Chapter -- --- Cognitive Liberation --- p.6 / Chapter -- --- Social Control Response to A Movement --- p.7 / Chapter [3] --- The New Social Movement School --- p.9 / Chapter (B) --- The Study of the Feminist Movement in Hong Kong --- p.13 / Methodology --- p.15 / Outline of the Thesis --- p.20 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- The Women's Movement in Hong Kong: A Historical Review / The Women's Movement in Hong Kong: / The Transformation of Women's Collective Identity --- p.1 / The First-wave Women's Movement --- p.7 / Chapter [1] --- The Actors --- p.7 / Chapter [2] --- The Approaches of the Actors --- p.9 / The Second-wave Women's Movement --- p.10 / Chapter [1] --- The proliferation of Women's Concern Groups and the Construction of a New Gender Discourse in the 1980s --- p.10 / Chapter [2] --- The New Wave Movement and Feminism --- p.12 / Chapter [3] --- "Diversification,politicization, Cooperation, and popularization" --- p.16 / Chapter [4] --- The Weak Ideological Orientation of the Movement --- p.18 / Conclusion --- p.20 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- The Awakening --Explaining the Movement in the1980s / Socio-economic Development --- p.1 / Structure of political Opportunities --- p.4 / Chapter [1] --- Government Stance on Women's Issues --- p.5 / Chapter [2] --- The Issue of 1997 --- p.6 / Organizational Strength --- p.9 / Cognitive Liberation --- p.12 / Conclusion --- p.15 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- The Golden Era -- Explaining the Movement in the Early1990s / Socio-economic Development --- p.1 / Structure of political Opportunities --- p.4 / Chapter [1] --- "Direct Elections,party politics, and Women's Issues" --- p.4 / Chapter (a) --- Direct Elections and Women as an Influential Voting Bloc --- p.4 / Chapter (b) --- Theriority Setting of political parties on Women's Issues --- p.9 / Chapter (c) --- The Feminist Consciousness of politicians --- p.11 / Chapter [2] --- Influences of Chinese Government on political Opportunities --- p.13 / Organizational Strength --- p.14 / Chapter [1] --- Declining role of the HKCW --- p.15 / Chapter [2] --- Organizational resources of indigenous feminist groups --- p.16 / Chapter (a) --- Lack of active members and impact of class --- p.16 / Chapter (b) --- Continuous precedence of advocacy over direct organization of grassroots women --- p.17 / Chapter (c) --- Forming coalitions --- p.18 / Chapter (d) --- Reformulation of strategies --- p.20 / Chapter (e) --- Greater grassroots participation --- p.20 / Cognitive Liberation --- p.21 / Social Control Response to the Movement --- p.26 / Limited Achievements in the Early 1990s --- p.35 / Chapter [1] --- Enactment of the SDO --- p.36 / Chapter [2] --- Defeat of the EOB --- p.38 / Conclusion --- p.40 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Further Development Or Decline? / Socio-economic Development --- p.1 / Chapter [1] --- Employment prospects of the middle class women --- p.1 / Chapter [2] --- Employment prospects of the working class women --- p.4 / Structure of political Opportunities --- p.5 / Organizational Strength --- p.9 / Cognitive Liberation --- p.12 / Chapter [1] --- Consciousness-raising of the middle class women --- p.12 / Chapter [2] --- Consciousness-raising of the working class women --- p.13 / Chapter [3] --- Difficulties encountered in both classes --- p.13 / Social Control Response to the Movement --- p.14 / Conclusion --- p.14 / Tables and Figure / Chapter Table 1 --- Details of Interviewees in the Thesis --- p.Chapter 1 /p.17 / Chapter Table 2 --- Women's Concern Groups and Feminist Groups in Hong Kong --- p.Chapter 2 /p.4 / Chapter Table 3 --- Activities Undertaken by Women's Concern Groups and Feminist Groups --- p.Chapter 2 /p.5 / Chapter Table 4 --- Women's Concern Groups in the First-wave Women's Movement and Their Feminist positions --- p.Chapter 2 /p.8 / Chapter Table 5 --- Women's Concern Groups in the Second-wave Women's Movement and Their Feminist positions --- p.Chapter 2 /p.13 / Chapter Table 6 --- Voting Turnout Rates in 1991 District Board Election --- p.Chapter 4/p.6 / Chapter Table 7 --- Voting Turnout Rates in 1991 Urban Council and Regional Council Elections --- p.Chapter 4/p.6 / Chapter Table 8 --- Women's Issues Raised and Discussed in the Legislative Council --- p.Chapter 4 /p.8 / Chapter Table 9 --- rojected Average Annual Employment Growth Rates in Major Industry Groups --- p.Chapter 5 /p.2 / Chapter Figure 1 --- TheP Model of Movement Emergence --- p.Chapter 1/p.8 / Appendix / Chapter Appendix I --- Questionnaire for Feminist Groups and A Women's Group --- p.Appendix /p.1 / Chapter Appendix II --- Contents of the Jointoliticallatform of Women --- p.Appendix /p.5 / Chapter Appendix III --- Contents of the CEDAW --- p.Appendix /p.6 / Chapter Appendix IV --- Composition of the Equal Opportunities Commission --- p.Appendix /p.8 / Chapter Appendix V --- "Voting Records of Legislators on the NTL(E)B, SDB and EOB" --- p.Appendix/p.10 / Chapter (1) --- On NTL(E)B --- p.Appendix /p.10 / Chapter (2) --- On SDB --- p.Appendix /p.12 / Chapter (3) --- On EOB --- p.Appendix /p.14 / Chapter Appendix VI --- "Objectives of the AAF, HKWCC, HKFWC, HKCW, HKWWA, and HKFW" --- p.Appendix/p.16 / Chapter Appendix VII --- Corporate Members of the HKFW --- p.Appendix/p.19 / Chapter Appendix VIII --- Members of the Coalition 1995 --- p.Appendix /p.20 / Bibliography

In this study the term "woman's movement" is defined as any advancement made by women, socially, economically, legally, or politically. In addition to information gathered from various collections, memoirs, diaries, and contemporary newspaper accounts of Louisiana women's activities, material from a number of pertinent secondary works is included. Chapter one gives a brief overview of the women's movement as it developed in America in the latter half of the 19th century. This is followed by a chapter on women in Louisiana before 1879- Evidence suggests that a number of Louisiana women shared a common bond with other southern women in longing for an emancipation from their limited role in society. The last six chapters are devoted to the woman's movement in the state, beginning in 1879 when women first dared to to speak out in public in behalf of women. After the Civil War, a large number of women were forced by post war conditions to depart from the traditional life-style of home and family and venture into public life. Liberated from their societal mold, women slowly expanded their sphere, going beyond the immediate need to provide a livelihood. Early women's organizations, temperance unions, church societies, and women's clubs, provided the necessary training ground as women moved into legal, civic and social reforms. Women entered literary and professionally fields and gradually became active in civic affairs. The movement reached a climax in 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote, and marking the end of an era. While the liberation of women was not complete, from the achievements gained by women of this era emerged the modern woman of today.