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Self-Empowerment Strategies Reflected by the Main Character in Gebeyehu Ayele’s Escape (2011)

open access: yesNobel: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching
African women developed indigenous feminist theories because they believed that Western Feminism could not answer the needs of African women. The reasons are cultural differences and differences in African women’s experiences compared to those of Western
Kidist Belete, Olga Yazbec
doaj   +1 more source

The dialectics of trauma and political conscientization: A psychosocial study of activism for supporting sexual and gender minoritized communities in Brazil

open access: yesJournal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.
Abstract This qualitative study examined the dialectical association between psychosocial trauma and political conscientization in the lives of activists advocating for persons with marginalized sexual orientations and gender identities (2SLGBTQIA+) in São José dos Campos, Brazil.
Gab C. Siqueira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patriarchy Ideology and Workload Inequality within Household

open access: yes, 2016
This paper bases on the fact that Patriarchy as a social system and structure enables men in all the roles to which high status is attributed in any society is crucial in understanding the dominance of men over women and therefore being a stepping ...
Deodatus Katabaro Buberwa
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The Female Face in Patriarchy [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
The Female Face in Patriarchy discusses women's complicity in patriarchal dominance and their role in fostering their own oppression. This work, the result of a two-year study by Frances O'Connor and Becky Drury focusing on Brazil and the United States ...
Drury, Becky S., O'Connor , Frances B.
core   +1 more source

A Framework for Understanding and Evaluating Localization: The Case of HelpAge International

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many transnational non‐governmental organizations (TNGOs) are reevaluating their organizational forms and norms as they pursue localization. Localization itself is a contested and multifaceted concept, however, complicating the design, implementation, and evaluation of localization efforts.
Hans Peter Schmitz, George E. Mitchell
wiley   +1 more source

The daughter who gave up her inheritance: Ethnography of women’s inheritance rights and their application in contemporary Macedonian context

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2017
This text examines the experiences of several women ethnologists / anthropologists in regard to women’s inheritance rights and the traditional practices used in contemporary context in Macedonia.
Ana Ashtalkovska Gajtanoska
doaj   +1 more source

Dalit or Brahmanical Patriarchy? Rethinking Indian Feminism

open access: yesCaste, 2020
The present paper argues that the conceptualisation of notions like ‘dalit’ or ‘intracaste’ or ‘multiple’ patriarchies results from a misunderstanding of the concept brahmanical patriarchy.
Sunaina Arya
doaj   +1 more source

Anatomy of early modern patriarchy

open access: yes, 2018
Thanks to the emergence and dynamism of new research fields over the past forty years, women and gender historians have been able to (re)define essential concepts and tools of analysis in order to examine women's past.
Dermineur, Elise M.,
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Localizing Efforts to Prevent Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Humanitarian Aid: Evolving Experiences of Power and Agency in Lebanon

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Efforts to address gender‐based violence in humanitarian settings increasingly call for recognition of and funding to local women‐led organizations and women's rights organizations for long‐term response. The Empowered Aid initiative seeks to address sexual exploitation and abuse by working with local organizations as well as the refugee women
Jihan Kaisi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiating War and Patriarchy

open access: yesActa Neophilologica
The horrific scenes of the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990), which left the country in ruins, had a traumatic effect on the entire nation particularly the Lebanese author, Hanan al-Shaykh who was haunted by the nightmarish war memories until she managed ...
Haithm Zinhom
doaj   +1 more source

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