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Browsing by Author "Christiansen-Ruffman, Linda"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2001)This thesis examines the specific experiences of Somali refugee women who have lived in exile for over ten years. With no option to emigrate to urban centers or third countries, these women occupy the three United Nations ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)The last decade has seen a wave of national campaigns against violence against women in Latin America, yet little research exists on the topic. Based on fieldwork and using grounded theory, this thesis offers a case study ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Mount Saint Vincent University, Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's University, 2001)The present conjuncture in which Sudanese women's changing consciousness about their status is unfolding contrasts markedly with the decline in their confidence in the organised women's movement. The author's personal ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1996)Abstract unavailable.
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1997)This thesis addresses the issues and intersections of where development, feminisms, and popular education meet both in theory and in practice. It is argued that, at the intersection of these three diverging fields, we see ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University : Mount Saint Vincent University, 2006)Most theories designed to appraise literary works by Africans and people of African descent have acknowledged the major influence of orature, but the concept (or conceptualisation) of orature in these works, mainly by men, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2007)This thesis explores how indigenous Achí widows experienced the internal armed conflict in Rabinal, Guatemala (especially during the period of La Violencia, 1978-1985) and the implications that this experience has had for ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008)This thesis uses a feminist perspective to analyse the local and global conditions that affect Iraqi women's lives and the history of women's movements. It investigates the mechanisms that overshadow, subordinate and ...
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Maidens, mothers and rabble rousers : women's political involvement in Northern Ireland, 1790-2001 (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, Mount Saint Vincent University, Dalhousie University, 2001)Historically, women's political participation in Northern Ireland has long been neglected, giving the impression that women in Northern Ireland are agentless "victims" of history, and politically irrelevant to Northern ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1969)This study explores the nature and extent of the female juvenile delinquent’s involvement with peers. The particular concern of the study is whether the female delinquent experiences peer relations prior to being ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1969)This study was part of a joint study, undertaken by three students of the 1969 class of the Maritime School of Social Work, to determine the nature of the self-identity of the adolescent unmarried mother. This individual ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)This thesis explores feminist articulations and expressions within anarchist culture. Feminists within the anarchist movement have historically critiqued its male-dominated sphere and have, thus, created a new theoretical ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1996)This thesis, grounded in feminist research and analysis, develops an alternative to the orthodox model of economic development. Three interconnected strands form the core of the thesis: economic development, ecologically ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1969)This study examines the use which the paraplegic made of a rehabilitation center. It examines the quality of the paraplegic’s rehabilitation program as a factor in his adjustment to his disability. This is an individual ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1999)This thesis weaves literal, interpretive and metaphoric threads to give a glimpse into African women's ancestral, historical and contemporary agency as lived and experienced in Zimbabwe. Utilizing Afrocentric and feminist ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Mount Saint Vincent University, Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's University, 2004)This thesis explores the situation of sex workers in Bangladesh through a feminist holistic analysis, and using a feminist methodology, it traces the status change of sex workers from the pre-colonial era to the present ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1969)This study investigates the effects of public relations and advertising on potential adoption and foster care applicants. This is an individual thesis written by a member of the 1969 class of the Maritime School of Social ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1997)Collectively and organized, after having lived in refugee camps in Mexico for more than a decade, the Guatemalan refugees were returning home to build a 'New Guatemala'. A group of more than six hundred refugees, speaking ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Mount Saint Vincent University, Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's University, 2002)Within the context of the Nova Scotia women's movement of the 1980s, this thesis examines the relationship between Lesbian and heterosexual women, the processes of Lesbian invisibility, and the paradox of Lesbian visibility ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1969)This is an exploratory study to enquire into the psychosocial factors which affect the adjustment of the paraplegic. It is an individual thesis written as part of a group investigation on Paraplegia. The study was carried ...
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