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A study of relationships between colonial women and black Australians.Sharp, Pamela Agnes, mikewood@deakin.edu.au January 1991 (has links)
The study is concerned with the history of black and white women in Australia during the colonial period. Particular emphasis is on the variety of cross-cultural relationships which developed between women during that time.
As a starting point, male frontier violence is discussed and compared with the more moderate approach taken by women faced with threatening situations. Among Europeans, women are revealed as being generally less racist than men. This was a significant factor in their ability to forge bonds with black women and occasionally with black men.
The way in which contacts with Aborigines were made is explored and the impact of them on the women concerned is assessed, as far as possible from both points of view. Until now, these experiences have been omitted from colonial history, yet I believe they were an important element in racial relations. It will be seen that some of these associations were warm, friendly and satisfying to both sides, and often included a good deal of mutual assistance. Others involved degrees of exploitation. Both are examined in detail, using a variety of sources which include the works of modern Aboriginal writers.
This study presents a new aspect of the female experiences which was neglected until the emergence of the feminist historians in the 1960s. It properly places women, both black and white, within Australian colonial history.
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Female friendships in the workplace: A qualitative study of women's relationships in the Kuwaiti education sectorAlkandari, Anwaar M. January 2018 (has links)
This thesis draws upon the qualitative findings of 20 interviews undertaken with
female teachers in order to explore the topic of workplace friendships between
women in an all-female organisational setting. The interview data sheds light on
these friendships within the all-female workplace context, examining how the
workplace setting can influence the forms of friendship women build with one
another. This thesis explores this topic across three main areas:
1) the way in which women develop workplace friendships, and the forms that women-women
relations take in all-female workplaces;
2) the importance of workplace friendships and the meanings attached to these friendships; and
3) the blurred boundaries between family and friends, which result in unique workplace-friendship relationships.
This study contributes to current knowledge on
friendship development and, specifically, the issues associated with women’s
development of friendships within the all-female workplace context. The findings
highlight the difficulties that some women experience in creating and developing
friendships based on cultural boundaries. The findings also emphasise the
weaker utility in female friendships, which remains both unacceptable and
unchallenged yet nonetheless recognised by women. Furthermore, women are
argued to create “other-self” friends and to experience another form of suffusion
process in the workplace context. This study also contributes to the current
literature on the barriers and opportunities associated with female friendship-building by highlighting how female misogyny employed in the workplace and that workplace friendship is a surviving tool used, adopting a sociological perspective to explore and analyse the findings.
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Female Friendship Films: A Post-Feminist Examination of Representations of Women in the Fashion IndustryGeloğullari, Gülin 12 1900 (has links)
This thesis focuses on three fashion industry themed female friendship films: Pret-a-Porter/Ready to Wear (1994) by Robert Altman, The Devil Wears Prada (2006) by David Frankel, and The September Issue (2009) by R.J. Cutler. Female interpersonal relationships are complex – women often work to motivate, encourage and transform one another but can just as easily use tactics like intimidation, manipulation, and exploitation in order to save their own jobs and reputations. Through the lens of post-feminist theory, this thesis examines significant female interpersonal relationships in each film to illustrate how femininity is constructed and driven by consumer culture in the fashion industry themed films.
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