My thesis exhibition is primarily characterized by research into traditions and taboos related to women and their bodies. While some of the chosen subjects are international matters related to womanhood, others originate from my direct surroundings, specifically, the Iranian cul…
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The life of Dr. Annie Mae McClary Walker is a microcosm of Black History in the United States. The only half Native American-half African American anthropologist in the world, Dr. Walker provides rare insight into the racist culture of her childhood on the Seminole reservation a…
My dissertation is a study of the importance of female impurity for medieval Jewish spirituality. It is striking that of the three major religions in medieval Europe, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Judaism alone cannot boast a single female mystic. I argue that the notion of …
The question of what John is saying about women through his narrative arises within the context of contemporary discussions about women's roles in our society because the subject of women per se was not a Johannine interest. Feminist biblical scholarship should therefore be less…
How does the study of ancient woman, the Queen of Sheba, inform womanist pedagogy? What role does the study of history play in the development of womanist research? This work studies the legends surrounding the Queen of Sheba. It examines evidence that suggests that the Land of …
This thesis is case study of upper-class formation. It is a biography of Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1842–1919), a woman born to a poor farming family in rural Missouri, who became a model of upper-class womanhood to millions of Americans and a prominent leader of reform movements b…
The story of Adam and Eve in Eden (Gen 2:4b-3:24), raises several problems, which critical interpreters generally attribute to a succession of additions. Yet, the consensus on the talent of the writer and the coherence attributed to Biblical narratives warrant a new study of the…
Converse View, Distorted World: Influences and Poetry is a collection of poetry that focuses on themes of culture, transformation, self-understanding, and distorted relationships. The poems respond to issues of contemporary life experienced in nearly every urban Mecca throughout…
Bu çalışmada kadın yazarlarımızın 1990-2000 yılları arasında yayımlanan öykü kitaplarında aile temasını ele alış biçimleri incelenmiştir. Kadın bakış açısıyla yazılan öykülerde aile meselesinin kadın merkezli ele alındığı görülmüştür. Tezin ana konuları ailenin toplum ile ilişki…
Although 60% of university students in Iran are females as a result of huge investments in women’s education, highly educated females occupy only 10% of leadership positions (Arasti, 2012). The purpose of this study was to clarify from Iranian female business leaders’ perspectiv…
The Black female experience in the United States is a colonized existence. This project’s analysis is specific to the North American U.S. geographic space and is not a diasporic project. Black women suffered from the greatest increase in the percentage of inmates incarcerated fo…
The identity of women throughout the history of Islam has been determined by androcentric interpretations of the sacred text; the Qur'an and the semi-sacred aura; the hadith . Although Islam proclaims the equality of men and women, in the course of history men were the primary m…
There are four major arguments in this dissertation. The first is that as a single category, the "Muslim woman" is an invention, whether in the Western discourses of Orientalism and psychoanalytic feminism, or in the Maghrebian discourses of nationalism and Islamic feminism. The…
The purpose of this ethnographic study was to describe and analyze the Gulf Arab woman's perspective of her transition to the role of motherhood within her culture. Leininger's Culture Care Diversity and Universality theory and Chick, Meleis, and Schumacher's Transition Framewor…
This study investigates the effects of higher education among Nizari Ismaili Muslim women, and its impact on traditional cultural mores regarding gender. It explores the lives of seven professional Canadian Ismaili women of Indian descent, from a hitherto traditional society, at…