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  • Silenced voices : maids in Singapore

    Creator:
    Gaulocher, Suzanne M.
    Abstract:
    This paper is a compilation of micro and macro consequences of women migrating into Singapore to work as domestic workers. Singapore's governmental push for Singaporean women to have babies and a career simultaneously has required modern families to seek alternative forms of child care as a means of fulfilling household...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Applied Anthropology. Applied Anthropology and Women Studies presented on February 16. 2001. Title

  • In their own words : divorced and widowed women, retirement, and friendships

    Creator:
    Barlow-Pieterick, Marilyn
    Abstract:
    Friends benefit both our psychological and our emotional well-being by increasing overall happiness, life satisfaction, and a positive sense of self among women. Often, however, friendships decrease in the later years. The purpose of this study is to learn more about divorced or widowed, retired women and their friendships, specifically,...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    social networks than did employed women. Friendships have been clearly identified by women as a

  • Doing time : papers from Framingham prison

    Creator:
    Power, Katherine A.
    Abstract:
    This thesis is an arrangement of essays, poems, and journal entries expressing and exploring experiences from the author's six years in a medium security women's prison. They are collected around the themes of longing and grief, of despair, of survival, of joy, and of the complexity of homecoming.
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    Masters Thesis
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    , like humans, geese form long-mated pairs and stable social groups capable of passing a culture of

  • Ecuador's informal sector : an analysis of gender and empowerment programs

    Creator:
    Ota, Brandy
    Abstract:
    Over the last 25 years structural adjustment programs have challenged Ecuador's ability to provide adequate social services and employment opportunities. In the wake of these policies, many women have turned to non-governmental agencies for possible solutions and assistance. Empowerment programs as a form of development work in particular have been...
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    Masters Thesis
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    branch of the United Nations. UNIFEM seeks to empower women through economic, social and political

  • Depression, acculturation, and relationship power in Mexican immigrant women: an exploratory study

    Creator:
    Helfgott, Gabriela I.
    Abstract:
    One of the largely undetected and untreated health conditions affecting the Latino population in the United States is depression. Although the onset of depression can be influenced by a variety of factors that differ among individuals, Latinos in the United States are subject to certain cultural-specific social and environmental stresses...
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    Masters Thesis
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    machismo,2 perpetuate a gender inequality that places women in an inferior social and economic status

  • Recordando memoria : shaping Chicana identity

    Creator:
    Martinez, Yolanda Tellez
    Abstract:
    This research explored the self-concept of Chicanas in terms of their lived experiences and how those experiences influenced the shaping of their identity. It examined the multiple labels Chicanas use to self-identify and the context or situations in which they use specific labels. Moreover, it took into account the influence...
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    Dissertation
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    participants. During the loosely structured interviews, the women were asked to narrate their life stories as