Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by subject "Women"
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"Dangerously Radical?" - Explaining the position of the Revolutionary Association of Women in Afghanistan in Post Taliban Afghanistan
Published 2007-12-21ABSTRACT The Revolutionary Association of Women in Afghanistan is an organisation that provides a fascinating insight into understandings of gender, national identity and universal human rights. In its construction of a ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Mythos and Eros in Fin de Siecle Russia : Zinaida Gippius’ Sexual Revolution
Published 2007-03-01At the turn of the twentieth century, Russian writer Zinaida Gippius postulated a radical repudiation of the notions of biologically determined gender and sexuality. An active participant in the Russian religious renaissance ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Unwanted Husbands and Adultery : Medieval Marriage in the Twelfth-Century Tristan and Isolde Legend
Published 2008-01-22This thesis discusses the evidence provided by late twelfth-century and early thirteenth-century romances on medieval marriage. During the twelfth century marriage was a much debated topic in the medieval Church, which was ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Women and Work in Contemporary Japan: Deconstructing the "Crisis" of the Gender Order
Published 2007-12-21ABSTRACT The 1990s saw important developments in the employment practices of Japanese women as necessitated by economic recession. Japanese women are increasingly postponing their traditional roles of wife and mother in ...Open AccessThesis, Honours