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Oppression and caring : a feminist ethnography of working to improve patient care in Ethiopia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, 2002)This dissertation presents a feminist ethnography of working for improved patient care in a hospital in Ethiopia. Its principal focus is on caring (and the absence of it), and how social, cultural and historical issues ... -
Organisational work-life balance : influence of managerial perspectives of gender and justice
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, 2009)Although the role of managers in work-life balance (WLB) has drawn increasing attention from scholars and practitioners, there remains a dearth of critical inquiry into the complexities underlying their decision-making processes. ... -
The "Walking Nuns" are still walking: a study of Mercy sisters in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, 1998)This dissertation looks at the life and work of a remarkable woman called Catherine McAuley in the early part of the 19th century. She emerged out of a distinct social economic background, where women's voices were barely ... -
The empancipation of women and the cultural elite at the turn of the twentieth century : the case of Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, 2016)Using the case study of American poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925), this thesis explores the path Lowell chose to develop her narrative identity and find her own voice in the male-dominated art world at the turn of the twentieth ... -
Unbounded? Gender and body in a recreational drug culture
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, 2006)This dissertation explores how a sample of young adults in Dublin experience issues of gendered embodiment in their recreational engagement with the drug ecstasy (MDMA). The study applies a gender studies theoretical ...