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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2004
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- 5
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- Ngwainmbi, Jilly M.
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- zwarte vrouwen, Afrikaans, feminisme, vrouwenstudies, samenlevingen, Verenigde Staten
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- How can social integration of African-American women into American society be realistic, meaningfull and substantive achieved is the basic question for this research. The focus is on feminist intellectual and scholarly pursuits and the integration of African-American women into American society.
perceived discrimination among South Asian muslim women in the US and the UAE
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2015
- Magazine Number
- 2
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- Pasha-Zaidi, Nausheen
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- moslima's, Zuidaziatisch, islam, discriminatie, hoofddoeken, arbeid, socialisatie, Verenigde Staten, Verenigde Arabische Emiraten, 2010-2019, onderzoek
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- Authors studied perceived discrimination among South Asian Muslim women living in the United States (US) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). US participants reported greater perceptions of discrimination than UAE participants. In both countries, perceived discrimination mainly took the form of subtle nuances rather than direct harassment. Although participants reported the greatest intensity of perceived discrimination at work, hijabis (women who wear the Islamic headscarf) felt this more than non-hijabis. Conversely, non-hijabis felt greater intensity of discrimination in social spaces within Muslim contexts than hijabis. Despite feeling most comfortable socializing with either Muslims or South Asians, participants felt that, aside from strangers, their greatest sources of perceived discrimination also came from within their religious or cultural groups. Discussion of perceived discrimination touches upon the social aspects of being a South Asian Muslim in a Western secular context and a globalized Islamic one.
an American Sisterhood in Black and White
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2020
- Magazine Number
- 2
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- Bensedik, Ahmed N.
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- zwarte literatuur, zwarte vrouwen, witte vrouwen, feminisme, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
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- The author contends with this article that Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose (1986) is an appeal for an American bond of sisterhood between feminists and womanists. In the process, it examines the relationship between the novel's two Black and White heroines, Dessa Rose and Ruth Sutton respectively, through the lens of Bonnie Thornton Dill's definition of sisterhood in her seminal work, Race, Class, and Gender: Prospects for an All-Inclusive Sisterhood. While discomfort and distrust encircle their first encounter in the Sutton's Glen, equality, reciprocation, and trust adorn their sisterhood in their last encounter in jail. Such a sisterhood is the aftermath of both women's realization that they are both subjects to White men's patriarchy. Williams's use of both heroines as microcosms for Black and White women addresses the widening gap in the 1980s and today between feminists and womanists for an American sisterhood in black and white.
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2014
- Magazine Number
- 2
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- Rocha, Lauren
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- films, televisie, fantasy, vrouwbeelden, uiterlijk, Verenigde Staten, 2000-2009, 21e eeuw
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- 'This article explores a feminist critique of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series (2005-2008), analyzing the ways in which the tv-series is a symbolic backlash against feminism. Whereas previous vampire works depicted vampires as threats and outsiders to society, the Twilight series depicts the vampire characters as accepted in society, integrating their lives into mainstream society: as such, they highlight modern society’s fascination with female beauty ideals and physical beauty. '
An Insider Analysis
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2006
- Magazine Number
- 1
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- Hamdan, Amani
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- moslima's, islam, gender, onderwijs, identiteit, etniciteit, Verenigde Staten
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- Studies focusing exclusively on the connection between Arab Muslim women's educational pursuits and their gender perceptions, and how their gender perceptions may have changed as a result of living in two different cultures, are rarely conducted. Additionally, the factors that may influence an Arab Muslim woman's educational pursuits seem seldom investigated. This article is highlighting some factors that may influence Arab Muslim women's gender perceptions. In researching Arab Muslim women's experiences, I considered the diversity and multiplicity of their race, ethnicity, class, and experience. How Arab Muslim women construct the gender aspect of their identities and how these identities may have changed or shifted as a result of living in Canada and attending Canadian educational institutions is explored. The cultural and religious reproduction of gender socialization is a major part of the analysis in this article.
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2020
- Magazine Number
- 1
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- Biana, Hazel T.
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- Even before “intersectionality” became a buzzword in feminist circles, hooks has already been talking about the interlocking webs of oppression, a concept that most feminists associate with intersectionality. Despite her novel ideas though, most critics raise concerns about her inconsistencies, lack of methodology, and critical awareness. The author aims to re-evaluate hooks and propose ways to address some of these supposed contradictions. To enrich hooks’ feminist theory, the author proposes three main points: the emphasis on the crossing of borders, feminist solidarity and global transgression.
corporate responsibility and breast cancer activism
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2001
- Magazine Number
- 3
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- Potts, Laura
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- borstkanker, actiegroepen, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Verenigde Staten
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- Author looks at the social, political, and cultural contexts of breast cancer activism in the United Kingdom and America.
re-storying the self in the light of contemporary feminist understandings of power and subjectivity
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2001
- Magazine Number
- 2
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- Hopkins, Lekkie
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- feminisme, universiteiten, onderwijs, vakbonden, Verenigde Staten, 1990-1999, onderzoek
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- In this paper an attempt is made to uncover the complex processes of re-storying the self in the light of contemporary feminist understandings of subjectivity and power. The author, a feminist teacher and researcher/biographer, explores some dimensions of one student's encounter during 1992-1995 at university. The narrative focus of this paper is both on student's engagement with the learning process and on the author's own experience as a feminist teacher and researcher/biographer. The paper also contains archival material in the form of essays written by the student, and the voices, real and imagined, of several of the other participants in this study. As part of the research into the ways in which the student has taken up feminist knowledges in her journey towards becoming a trade union activist.
a first account
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2001
- Magazine Number
- 2
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- Ebeling, Smilla
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- Götschel, Helene
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- bètawetenschappen, gender, Duitsland, Verenigde Staten
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- Different from the humanities and social sciences, women's and gender-specific contents in research and teaching could hardly be established in mathematics, natural and technical sciences so far. Making everything even more difficult, courses at German universities are very disciplinary and there don't exist women's studies programs so far. By comparison with the situation in the USA, students of science and engineering fields hardly get in touch with gender studies and feminist theories. Up to now the long-standing efforts for an institutionalization of feminist science studies into science and engineering departments at German universities are still scarcely successful and have just recently taken a promising turn.
New Writings in Feminist and Women’s Studies—Winning and Short-listed Entries from the 2020 Feminist Studies Association’s (FSA) Annual Student Essay Competition [Special Issue]
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2020
- Magazine Number
- 3
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- Rowell, Carli > (ed.)
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- emancipatie, LHBT, televisie, literatuur, wetgeving, politiek, seksueel geweld, vrouwenbewegingen, mannelijkheid, Verenigde Staten, India, essays
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- In this special issue FSA provides a platform to showcasing the work and fresh novel thinking of emerging feminist scholars with the articles: - Unending and uncertain: thinking through a phenomenological consideration of self-harm towards a feminist understanding of embodied agency / Veronica Heney - Postfeminist Hegemony in a Precarious World: Lessons in Neoliberal Survival from RuPaul’s Drag Race / Phoebe Chetwynd - Liminal Space and Minority Communities in Kate O’Brien’s Mary Lavelle (1936) / Amy Finlay-Jeffrey - The Communal Violence Bill: Women’s Bodies as Repositories of Communal Honour / Zara Ismail - A Critique of Anti-Carceral Feminism / Amy Masson - The Pussyhat Project: Texturing the Struggle for Feminist Solidarity / Katja May - Masculine Failure and Male Violence in Noah Hawley’s Fargo / J. T. Weisser