Browsing by Subject "women"
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A body of one's own: Representations of women's bodies in the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Anne Sexton, and breaking free of the gendering patriarchy
(The University of Waikato, 2019)Waxing, shaving, plucking, eye-brow tinting, hair dying, makeup, diets, plastic surgery – if all women were instantaneously in love with their natural bodies, millions of people would be out of work. For centuries, women’s ... -
A Historical Analysis of the Status of Women in New Zealand: Has CEDAW had an Impact?
(University of Waikato, 2013)This thesis analyses the current and historical status of women in New Zealand for the purpose of discovering why full equality between men and women has not yet been achieved. This object will be accomplished by analysing, ... -
An Investigation of the Communal and Individual Resilience of Immigrant Women in New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2014)Some immigrant women face triple discrimination due to their, gender, ethnicity and immigrant status. The voices of immigrant women are absent from literature on immigration, furthermore the experience of immigrant women ... -
Becoming smaller: Autobiographical spaces of weight loss
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)This research focuses on the spaces and politics of weight loss. It is informed by “fat studies”, critical geographical scholarship on fat, and two contrasting feminist readings of Michel Foucault's notion of “care of the ... -
Body Image and Eating Attitudes: Comparing Chinese Females with Other Females living in New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2007)Eating disorders affect individuals from most ethnic backgrounds. Research suggests that White females experience the greatest levels of disordered eating and body dissatisfaction. Studies examining Chinese females found ... -
Challenges Faced – Implications for Policy: The Everyday Lives of Eastern European Women in New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2016)This study explored the everyday lives, aspirations, and coping strategies of seven Eastern European immigrant women in New Zealand who came from Bulgaria, the former Eastern Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, and ... -
Cultural Conversations in a Counselling Context
(The University of Waikato, 2008)This research project focuses on counselling practice with Māori women who have engaged in counselling in relation to overcoming the effects of both historic and recent sexual abuse. The researcher / counsellor is pakeha. ... -
Expanding understandings of wellbeing through researching women's experiences of intergenerational somatic dance classes
(Routledge, 2019)Engaging a feminist ethnographic methodology, this article offers a discussion of women’s embodied experiences of wellbeing in intergenerational somatic dance classes. Somatic dance classes aim to develop embodied awareness, ... -
Fear, romance and transience in the lives of homeless women
(Routledge: Taylor & Francis, 2006)This paper takes up the question of what it means to be a woman who lives on the streets and in hostels as a homeless person in London. Using qualitative data from three women respondents, the analysis focuses upon their ... -
Gaming and Gender: Home as a Place of (Non)conformity for Women Gamers
(The University of Waikato, 2009)This research examines interactive multimedia video games that are played on technological devices such as: computers, gameboys, PlayStation, Portable PlayStation (PSP) and Xbox. Particular attention is paid to women 30 ... -
How does culture impact on women's leadership in higher education? A case study in Vietnam
(University of Waikato, 2011)Whilst the subject of women and educational leadership is well documented internationally, research in this field is rare in Vietnam. This scarcity consolidates the commonly held belief that equity has been achieved in ... -
Kitiaga mo fakamahani e hikihikiaga matagi he tau fifine Niue: tau pūhala he tau hiapo Niue women’s perspectives and experiences of climate change: a hiapo approach
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Indigenous communities in the Pacific are on the front-line of some of the most severe climate change impacts. Pacific leaders have consistently stated the urgent need for climate action (Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, ... -
Learning to be leaders in higher education: What helps or hinders women’s advancement as leaders in universities
(SAGE, 2011)This article examines 110 reported incidents from an online survey of 26 women from each of the eight universities in New Zealand. They responded to questions asking them to describe times when work and non-work situations ... -
Lifting the Veil: Muslim women's adjustment to a New Zealand university
(The University of Waikato, 2008)Abstract Due to a decline in the number of domestic students in many New Zealand and other foreign Western countries' universities, there is more recruitment of international students. In New Zealand universities, beside ... -
Ma hea – which way? Mo te aha – what for?
(2003-08)Keynote address to the annual conference of the NZ Psychological Society, 28 August 2004 E rau rangatira ma, tena ra koutou…. This presentation will be in four sections. The first section will introduce two major issues, ... -
Māori women’s perspectives of leadership and wellbeing
(Te Rau Matatini, 2017)Within Aotearoa, New Zealand, Māori women are engaged in leadership roles in community and professional workplace settings, however little is known about how they maintain their wellbeing. This research sought to unravel ... -
Migration: A means to create work-life balance?
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)In this article, we examine the postmigration work–life balance or conflict experiences of 15 Chinese-born mothers living in New Zealand. Our analysis contributes theoretically to the work–life balance and migration ... -
Moving bodies beyond the social/biological divide: Toward theoretical and transdisciplinary adventures
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2012)In this paper I call for ‘new forms of thinking and new ways of theorizing’ the complex relations between the biological and social in sport and physical culture. I illustrate the inseparability of our biological and social ... -
Netball in the lives of New Zealand Women: An Intergenerational Study
(University of Waikato, 2011)This thesis explores the netball experiences of a selection of New Zealand women whom have participated or continue to participate in netball during four distinct historical periods. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, ... -
Photographic portrayal of women in the annual reports of companies listed on the New Zealand stock exchange
(Curtin University of Technology, 2008)Studies suggest that women are underrepresented and portrayed stereotypically in the mainstream media. Stereotypical images of women generally portray them as a wife or mother, in situations where they are depicted as ...
