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Neither ruthless militants nor tentative coffee party ? : a comparative analysis of the aims, activities and accomplishments of the Irish Women Graduates' Associations (IWGAs) and the German Federation of University Women (DAB) during th 1950s and 1960s
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, 2013)This thesis is a comparative analysis of the activities, aims and accomplishments of the German Federation of University Women ("Deutscher Akademikerinnenbund", DAB) and the Irish Women Graduates' Associations (IWGAs) during ... -
Nomadic texts : travel narratives and Interwar women's writing
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, 2009)The years between the wars saw many changes in perceptions of geographical distance, reconfigurations of national boundaries, the destabilization of colonial empires, aesthetic experimentation, and new considerations of ... -
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 ...