Browsing University of Galway Theses by Subject "Gender"
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Challenging assumptions of vulnerability: the significance of gender in the work, lives and identities of women human rights defenders
(2018-02-16)In 1998, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognised Human Rights and Fundamental ... -
Developing climate smart agriculture: Insights from Indonesia, Vietnam, Malawi and Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2019-11-18)The present and future challenges to agricultural development and food security are immense. The agricultural sector is a significant driver of climate change, but at the same time, is highly vulnerable to its impacts. ... -
Doing justice to gender diversity: Narratives of progress and the limits of law
(NUI Galway, 2020-06-22)The core question of my doctoral thesis asks what is meant by the recognition of gender in law, and what effects the emergence of a multiplicity of gender identities onto international human rights law forums has had on ... -
'I'm not going to be able to leave'; The impact of belonging to the Irish farming community on university students' life experiences and transitions to adulthood
(2014-02-10)Despite extensive research into family farming culture little attention has been paid to young people raised in this community who do not become full-time farmers. This thesis explores the childhood experiences of university ... -
Identity Formation Among Teenaged Members of the Muslim Population of Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo
(2012-08-29)Younger members of Muslim populations in Western society are placed at the frontline of the immigration process. As a result of daily school attendance and exposure to the media they are often heavily influenced by the ... -
Narrating in/security: women's activism in Kashmir
(2015-09)This thesis explores women activists’ narratives of everyday experiences of in/security through a qualitative case study in Kashmir, northern India. In order to gather women’s in/security narratives I conducted 13 in-depth ... -
Negotiating Genders from the Page to the Stage: Marina Carr and Suzan-Lori Parks
(2011-09-30)'Negotiating Genders from the Page to the Stage: Marina Carr and Suzan-Lori Parks' explores how two female playwrights, from different cultures and backgrounds, challenge oppressive traditions. It offers the first major ... -
Representations of genders and ethnicities in the historical fiction of Mercedes Valdivieso and Gustavo Frías
(2016-08-26)This thesis analyses the ways in which Chilean authors Mercedes Valdivieso and Gustavo Frías re-examine and engage with ideas of gender and ethnicity through their fictional representation of Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer ... -
Representing experience - diversifying representation: blind and visually impaired men’s voice-centered narratives of self and identity in everyday life
(NUI Galway, 2019-04-11)This research examines disabled men's identities and lived experiences from the perspective of blindness and visual impairment. The first objective is to represent disability, make it visible, with lived accounts that ... -
Selfie surveillance: Exploring postfeminist-neoliberal visibility in young women’s selfie-practices
(NUI Galway, 2020-04-20)This doctoral thesis explores how young women negotiate postfeminist-neoliberal visibility through selfie-practices. It is based on a discourse analysis of twenty interviews with female college students aged 18 to 30 ... -
Sexual violence and the recovery process: An exploration of Rape Crisis Centre counselling in Ireland
(2015-04-10)Sexual violence is a serious and widespread problem internationally and in the Irish context. To date, research and support have placed a focus on women and girls who come to terms with its profound consequences, which ... -
"Sie war; sie wurde; sie wurde nichts." Weiblichkeit, Trauma und Suizid in Texten von Arthur Schnitzler, Ingeborg Bachmann und Peter Handke
(2014-02-14)This study investigates the literary presentation of female suicide in Schnitzler's 'Fräulein Else', Bachmann's 'Das Buch Franza' and Handke's 'Wunschloses Unglück', prose texts situated in a period from the beginning to ... -
Women and modernity: the global and the local in Moroccan women's NGOs' advocacy and public awareness work
(2013-08-30)This thesis examines the referential and linguistic strategies used by Moroccan women's NGOs in their advocacy and public awareness work. The study is based on interviews with 24 NGO directors from geographically and ...