Browsing by Subject "women"
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Agroecology and Women-Run Farms: A case study of women farmers in the United States
(2021-04-30)Women’s farm labor has always been an integral part of agriculture in the United States. How that labor has been understood and documented has changed over time. Today, women are on record as the primary decision-makers ... -
Case Studies Exploring the Intersection of Gender and Climate Action in the Private Sector
(2020-04-24)Applying a gender lens to climate mitigation and resilience is a developing area of interest for businesses. This project aims to increase industry focus on how companies can integrate gender into climate change mitigation ... -
Dancing in the Squares
(2015)“Guangchangwu,” or what is literally translated as “square-dancing,” is a form of public dance that has been exceedingly popular, albeit controversial, in China over recent years. Most of the participants are elderly women ... -
Discontinuation of rLH two days before hCG may increase the number of oocytes retrieved in IVF
(2010)Background: Administration of recombinant luteinizing hormone (rLH) in controlled ovarian hyperstimulation may benefit a subpopulation of patients. However, late follicular phase administration of high doses of rLH may also ... -
Discursive and political deployments by/of the 2002 Palestinian women suicide bombers/martyrs
(Feminist Review, 2005-11-01)This paper focuses on representations by and deployments of the four Palestinian women who during the first four months of 2002 killed themselves in organized attacks against Israeli military personnel or civilians in the ... -
Empowering Participation: Examining Women’s Access to Formal Financial Resources and Women’s National Parliamentary Representation
(2014-01-31)Women’s access to financial resources is popularly hailed and strongly evidenced to be a development tool that champions women’s economic empowerment. Globally, does economic empowerment through women’s access to formal ... -
Epidemiologic Profile and Underreporting Patterns of Intimate Partner Violence in Maringá, Brazil
(2015)Background: Intimate partner violence is a global burden that disproportionately affects women and has more severe outcomes in women as well. Our objective was to explore the epidemiologic profile for intimate partner violence ... -
Female-focused Business Incubation in the Triangle
(2015-05-17)This Duke University Master’s thesis was completed as a pro-bono research project for the Women’s Business Center of North Carolina (WBC of NC), a Durham-based nonprofit that helps women start and grow businesses throughout ... -
Free(dom)inated: A Feminist Examination of Hookup Culture’s Sexual Empowerment and Sexual Policing of Duke University Undergraduate Women
(2017-05-05)How do Duke University undergraduate women experience the seemingly empowering norms of hookup culture? While debate rages among feminists, scholars, journalists, and others as to whether or not hookup culture is beneficial ... -
Other Caregiving and Other Activism: Foregrounding Women Behind Black Lung Patients
(2021)This ethnographic study looks at women caregivers in pneumoconiosis (also known as black lung) patients’ families in rural China. Based on archival research and ten months of digital fieldwork, this thesis argues that the ... -
Out of the Pew and into the Pulpit: Empowering Women Clergy to Proclaim the Gospel in the 21st Century
(2010-06-07)Since the 1950s, women have made significant strides toward gender equality in the workplace. However, they often encounter greater resistance when entering into leadership roles, both in becoming a leader in the first ... -
Prison of the Womb: Gender, Incarceration, and Capitalism on the Gold Coast of West Africa, c. 1500–1957
(Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2023)<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>To date, studies of imprisonment and incarceration have focused on the growth of male-gendered penal institutions. This essay offers a provocative addition to the global study ... -
Utopian (Post)Colonies: Rewriting Race and Gender after the Haitian Revolution
(2011)"Utopian (Post)Colonies: Rewriting Race and Gender after the Haitian Revolution" examines the works of French women authors writing from just before the first abolition of slavery in the French colonies in 1794 to those ... -
Women in the Global Clothing and Textile Industry
(2016-04-18)This paper examines the current role of women in the clothing and textile industry through oral history of South African union members. I argue that the industry’s particularly exploitative environment is directly related ...
