Browsing Centre for Gender & Womens Studies by Subject "Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin"
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Eating disorders as distraction from problems of self and meaning for women in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, 2008)The research presented in this thesis aims to contribute to the understanding of the complex factors that lead to the development of Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Compulsive Overeating, as well as the multiple variations ... -
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 ... -
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 ...