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the gendered rivalry in power and politics
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2015
- Magazine Number
- 2
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- Ingiriis, Mohamed Haji
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- politieke participatie, macht, kolonialisme, dictatuur, Somalië, 20e eeuw
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- Author examines the role of Somali women in the twentieth-century history of modern Somalia. In demonstrating that the current attempts to position themselves in political circles by Somali women has its roots during the decolonisation and post-colonial successive Somali governments, author argues that women failed to benefit from their feminist agenda as the notion of governmentality changed on the way–from democratisation to the dictatorial military regime.
violence and body politics in South Asian partition literature
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2019
- Magazine Number
- 3
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- Navarro-Tejero, Antonia
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- literatuur, oorlog en vrede, fysiek geweld, borsten, India, Pakistan, 20e eeuw
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- Taking Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel Ice Candy Man/Cracking India (1988) as a narrative example of the importance of women’s point of view and as central figures of the violent conflict between India and Pakistan after the newly created border in 1947. The author examines though the book the symbol of the female breasts, which were mutilated and carved in this period of violent times.
Analysis of Bhutto's Daughter of the East
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2018
- Magazine Number
- 6
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- Daragheh, Mahboubeh Hosseini
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- Rahiminezhad, Vida
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- taal, vrouwbeelden, identiteit, autobiografieën, Pakistan, 20e eeuw
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- The concept of Otherness is portrayed conspicuously in Benazir BhuttoÔÇÖs autobiography entitled Daughter of the East. Bhutto talked about her personal life, strength and her political activity in the twentieth century. This autobiography was translated into Persian in 2009. The purpose of this study is to examine the concept of womenÔÇÖs Otherness in Daughter of the East and then to analyze the changes of this concept in its Persian translation.
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2014
- Magazine Number
- 2
- Creator
- Liu, Dongxiau
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- wereldvrouwenconferenties, emancipatie, gelijke behandeling, vrouwenbewegingen, VN, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1995, 20e eeuw
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- 'Between 1975 and 1995, a total of four world conferences on women took place under the sponsorship of the United Nations. These mega events were accorded a prominent place in the International/global women’s movement. This paper argues that we need to make a distinction between these two kinds of global organizing for gender equality. The former were sponsored by an international bureaucracy whereas the latter was started by women activists. Clarifying the difference helps to recognize the unique challenges posed by the world conferences for activists of the international/global women’s movement in the following aspects: dealing with logistical challenges, setting global priorities, coordinating international lobbying, and pushing for national implementation. Drawing on personal accounts, organizational records and United Nations documents, the paper explores how women activists adapted to the challengesand what lessons they offered for transnational activism in general.'
Increasing Accessibility and Maintaining Girls in School
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2017
- Magazine Number
- 4
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- Coleman, Rebecca
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- onderwijs, gearrangeerde huwelijken, seksueel geweld, Guinea, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
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- This article will cover the lasting influences of the gap between male and female education accessibility in the country of Guinea. Issues such as teen marriage, gender based violence, funding, and infrastructure will be discussed. Alternatives to address these issues will be compared, focusing on what the Guinean population can accomplish themselves, without help from the outside.
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.
Feminism Interacted
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2007
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- 1
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- Mohammadi, Majid
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- vrouwenbewegingen, feminisme, mensenrechten, sociale bewegingen, democratie, Iran, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2006
- Magazine Number
- 1
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- Abushaikha, Lubna
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- verloskundigen, onderwijs, geschiedenis, Jordanië, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
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- Author wants to provide a historical overview of midwifery education in Jordan during the past fifty years with an emphasis on the first bachelor of midwifery program in Jordan. Nine challenges of midwifery education that include expanding midwifery educational needs, accreditation of programs, recruiting qualified faculty members, clinical training, midwifery preceptorship, exit examinations, continuing midwifery education, recognition of midwifery graduates, and lack of graduate midwifery programs are presented. Proposed solutions for these challenges are discussed.
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2017
- Magazine Number
- 3
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- Cattien, Jana
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- Dobson, Eleanor
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- Luta, Isabella
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- Frankfurth, Yvonne
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- Tse, Kelly Yin Nga
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- Mazanderani, Fawzia Haeri
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- vrouwenstudies, feministische ideologiekritiek, postmodernisme, intersectionaliteit, sprookjes, vrouwelijke seksualiteit, medicijnen, politiek, acties, moederschap, abortussen, kinderopvang, schrijvers, Chinees, jongeren, apartheid, Zuidafrikaans, Amerika, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, essay
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- In her paper Jane Cattien takes postmodern and intersectional critiques of feminist standpoint theory as a critical point of departure to re-examine the debate around the relevance of the signifier “women” in feminist epistemology. Her aim is twofold: first, she seeks to shed new light on these criticisms by using the lived experiences of mixedrace women as an innovative lens through which to examine the issue of fragmentation in feminist epistemology. Eleanor Dobson examines the relationship between mummy fiction and the fairy-tale genre in the closing years of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth. Isabella Luta investigates the significance behind this change and explore how myth influenced medicine to tackle the question of why ‘Nymphomania’ became the preferred term for excessive female sexuality in the 19th century. A substantial amount of literature dealing with conceptualisations of the nation has neglected the importance that gender and the politics of reproduction play in the construction of national identities. Analysing images of political campaigns and activists as well as public discourses on motherhood, abortion and childcare, Yvonne Frankfurth will illustrate the importance that gender and sexuality assumed in German nation-building projects before and after its unification in 1990. In her paper Kelly Yin Nga Tse critically examines post/feminist imperatives in relation to neoliberal ethos and class dynamics in The People’s Republic of Desire by transnational Chinese women writer, Annie Wang. While what comprises “feminist research methods” is subject to debate, research with a feminist orientation is often characterised by heightened reflexivity and a recognition of the subjective nature of knowledge claims. By drawing upon ethnographic research conducted among young people in post-apartheid South Africa, Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani interrogates the potential value of audio recordings or “voice notes” during fieldwork, in conjunction with the more traditional form of the fieldwork diary.
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2017
- Magazine Number
- 4
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- Khedher, Rayed
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- wetgeving, religieus recht, islam, mensenrechten, moslima's, Tunesië, 20e eeuw
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- This article focuses on the early years of independence and the role played by Tunisia’s first president in implementing those laws benefiting women and the society at large. It examines the Code, its prominence for the modern independent Tunisian society and the historical trajectory which led to its enactment.
women’s ordinary lives in an East German factory
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2017
- Magazine Number
- 4
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- Kranz, Susanne
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- socialisme, emancipatie, dagelijks leven, Oost-Duitsland, 20e eeuw
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- This article explores the everyday lives of women working in an East German factory (1946 and 1991) and examines the state-sanctioned women’s policies, how they were implemented and how women perceived these policies and the officially accomplished emancipation of men and women. This research shed light on and questions the actually accomplished equality of the sexes that was so imperative in socialist state rhetoric.
reading novels and short stories by Suwarsih Djojopuspito
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2018
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- 2
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- Priyatna, Aquarini
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- schrijvers, feminisme, Indonesië, 20e eeuw
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- Article about the work of Suwarsih Djojopuspito who was one of the early Indonesian women/feminist writers.
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2006
- Magazine Number
- 1
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- Fonchingong, Charles C.
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- literatuur, Afrikaans, feminisme, kolonialisme, gelijke behandeling, historisch, schrijvers, 20e eeuw
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- The last century has witnessed an upsurge in literature triggered by the feminist movement. This unprecedented event has transformed the various literary genres that are being deconstructed to suit the changing times. African literature has not been spared by the universalized world order. The paper attempts a re-analysis of gender inequality from the pre-colonial to post-colonial period from the lenses of literary narratives. Male writers like Chinua Achebe, Elechi Amadi, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, and Cyprain Ekwensi in their literary mass are accused of condoning patriarchy, are deeply entrenched in a macho conviviality and a one dimensional and minimalised presentation of women who are demoted and assume peripheral roles. Their penchant to portray an androcentric narrative is at variance with the female gender that are trivialized through practices like patriarchy, tradition, culture, gender socialization process, marriage and domestic enslavement. The paper concludes with some contemporary showcases and meta-narratives by both male and female writers like Buchi Emecheta, Mariama Bâ, Ama Ata Aidoo, Flora Nwapa, Sembene Ousmane and Leopold Sedar Senghor who attempt to bridge the gender rifts in the African literary landscape.
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2020
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- 1
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- Khafi, Elahe
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- literatuur, ecofeminisme, Iraans, schrijvers, zwarte schrijvers, Amerikaans, 20e eeuw
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- Ecofeminism, the focal point of this paper, deals with the connection between the oppression of women and the exploitation of nature. Oppositions such as culture/nature, human/animal, and male/female culminate in a myriad discrimination. Among many writers around the world whose concerns are the marginalized, one African-American and one Iranian female novelist are selected to be surveyed in this study. Both Ntozoke Shange and Moniro Ravanipor are caring for nature, women, and women’s aesthetics.
concerns for women’s rights or community identity: (Special reference to 1937 and 1939 Acts)
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2015
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- 2
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- Hussain, Sabiha
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- islamitische wetgeving, moslima's, recht, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
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- This paper deals with the discourse of the rights of Muslim women in the preindependence period with particular reference to the Shariat Act 1937 and the Muslim Marriage Dissolution Act 1939 and the socio-historical and political background in the enactment of these Acts. Author tried to put throughout this paper these two acts to be seen more of maintaining community identity and showing numerical strength for political gains than protecting the rights of Muslim women. To this end, author tried to capture various debates that took place among the legislators in the assembly, women’s organizations, social reformers, community leaders and so on with regard to application of Sharia. The paper is based on information collected from secondary sources, and analysis is more from a gender rights perspective with a historical and political background.
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2007
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Khan, Nyla Ali
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- islam, fundamentalisme, nationalisme, armoede, trauma's, vrouwenhandel, plattelandsvrouwen, etniciteit, Pakistan, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
co-producing feminist consciousness across borders
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2018
- Magazine Number
- 3
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- Mohammed, Patricia
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- vrouwenbewegingen, feminisme, toekomst, internationaal, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
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- The current feminist movement appears to be characterized by differences by geography and culture. This paper looks at what elements might sustain for the global nature of the feminist movement into the future.
Loss of Self in Lydia Davis’ Stories and Wang Anyi’s Brothers
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2017
- Magazine Number
- 4
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- Wei, Xue
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- Rose, Kate
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- literatuur, schrijvers, China, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
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- This paper focuses on how contemporary literary works by women authors in China and the U.S. reverse the individualist West/collectivist China assumption. It mainly compares the works of Lydia Davis and Wang Anyi with regards to urban women’s identities. Under the inspiration of revolutionary ideologies that characterize 20th century China, female characters are striving for meaning in their lives as individuals. In U.S.-American writings, however, the individual is becoming more anonymous and interchangeable, particularly in urban spaces. This article traces possible reasons and implications for this contrast.
Campaigns on Gender Violence in Spain
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2018
- Magazine Number
- 6
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- Cepeda, Isabel
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- seksueel geweld, acties, Spanje, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
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- The goal of this study is to determine whether the public awareness campaigns carried out in Spain to promote sensitivity to violence against women are effective. To achieve this goal, the author analyzed the evolution of Spanish society’s perception of the problem of violence against women from 1985 to the present, relative to the Spanish government’s expenditure on sensitization campaigns on violence against women. The joint analysis of expenses and results will enable us to reach conclusions about the relationship between these two variables.
Analyzing the Two Opposing Aspects of a Female Character Through Four Modern Works of Persian Fiction'
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2019
- Magazine Number
- 7
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- Karami, Ronak
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- literatuur, vrouwbeelden, Iran, 20e eeuw
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- This essay aims to discuss why and how the two aspects of the ethereal and the whore appear in four, modern works of Persian fiction. Namely: The Blind Owl (1937), by Hedayat, Prince Ehtejab (1969) by Golshiri, The Night of Terror (1978) by Shahdadi, and Her Eyes (1952) by Alavi.