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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 ... -
A Power to Bite upon the Imagination' : ecclesiastical, ideological, and cultural controversies in the domestic novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, 2012)This dissertation investigates and interprets the ways in which Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901), one of the most popular and prolific authors of the nineteenth century, was read, represented, reviewed, and remembered. It ... -
Eudaimonic well-being and narrative scaffolds : the creation of later life happiness and well-being through the story of self
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, 2012)This doctoral research investigates the factors linked to eudaimonic happiness and well-being in later life through analysis of personal life stories and narrative identity. The study addresses two primary research questions: ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
