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A Femininomenon: Leadership Development Through Representation On‐Screen

New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 67-74, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT Historically, films and television centered men, but there has recently been a shift toward focusing on women and people of color (and women of color) in leading roles. Films and shows like Black Panther, Barbie, and Ashoka reflect this trend, offering more complex stories and diverse representation.
Kathleen Callahan
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Gender, Modernity, and Liberty – Middle Eastern and Western Women’s Writings

American Journal of Islam and Society, 2008
This book presents a dialogue between western and Middle Eastern women that is often presumed never to have happened. It supplies us with a collection of extracts fromOttoman, Egyptian, British, andAmericanwriters, each accompanied with a biography and ...
Efrat E. Aviv
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Contested Feminisms: Women’s Religious Leadership and the Politics of Contemporary Western Feminism

Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 2016
Feminism is a relatively recent social movement of radical reform, emerging from the mass political movements of democratisation, secularisation and liberalism that swept across the western world from the 17th century onwards. The first wave of organised feminist political action was articulated in the abolitionist, temperance and suffrage movements in
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Contemporary Western European Feminism

, 2017
No one can deny that the phenomenon of 'social movements' of the post-World War II era created a unique constellation in human history. The movements of the 1950s and 1960s, which we now consider 'classical' movements, were followed at once by yet ...
Kaplan, Gisela
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When Thriving for More Collapses the System: The Academic Reproduction of Uncaring Structures

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay argues that the widening gap between aspirational aims and visionary orientations and the prevailing practices in neoliberal academia stems from deeper, historically rooted, market‐based logics shaping our institutions, increasingly governed by economic values and academic subjectivities therein.
Lara Pecis, Florian Bauer
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The Personal is Political: Assessing Feminist Fundamentals in the Digital Age

Social Sciences, 2018
The ‘personal is political’ has long been recognised as the definitive slogan of second-wave feminism but can it still inform our understanding of the contemporary practice of feminism?
Frances Rogan, Shelley Budgeon
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Rokeya’s relevance to Palestinian feminism

, 2023
Rokeya's land was under British colonialism and Palestinian women's is under Israeli occupation. During Rokeya's time the anticolonial struggle in Bengal was gaining strength; and for many decades Palestinian women have rejected Israeli land confiscation
Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
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Writing Feminism: The Razzmatazz of Western Feminist Thought

, 2020
Feminism has been an on-going battle of late and considering the condition of women in contemporary times too, it can be safely concluded that the feminist movement shall flow unabated. Women have been undauntedly making stupendous efforts, intellectually, culturally, sociologically and politically, to make their concerns heard but the quintessential ...
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The Purview of the Particular: Power and Method in Foucaultian Genealogy

Constellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT If Foucault was anything, he was a particularist. And yet, if we are to find valuable tools in his method today, they must be able to assist our framing and analysis of non‐particular issues. By what means can Foucault's methods grasp trans‐contextual problems?
Matt Kelley
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The news media, the women’s movement, feminism and gender violence in western Paraná in the 1970s and 1980s

Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2009
This article analyzes some representations of the women’s movement, feminism and gender violence in several newspapers that circulated in the western region of Paraná in the 1970s and 1980s.
Tânia Regina Zimmermann
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