Browsing by Supervisor "Lapsley, Hilary"
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An investigation into battered women’s shelters: feminist cooperatives or social service institutions, case studies of Canada and New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2001)The battered women’s movement has faced challenges and experienced tensions. The establishment of ongoing government funding for the battered women’s movement was significant as shelters which were established as feminist ... -
Growing up or growing down: Pakeha women's memories of adolescence
(The University of Waikato, 2000)This study investigated the processes by which women construct their “selves” using the memories of adolescent experiences of five Pakeha women who went to school together in the 1960’s. The study used memory-work, an ... -
Health ‘in queer street’: constituting sickness, sexualities and bodies in the spaces of lesbian health
(The University of Waikato, 2001)This thesis explores lesbian health. The appeal of this project is its attention to the constitutions, resistances, and reproductions involved in the construction of ‘lesbian health’. ‘Lesbian health’ provides the context ... -
Living with uncertainty: A grounded theory of psychiatric stigma when seeking or maintaining employment
(The University of Waikato, 2002)The aim of this study was to investigate stigma for people who have experienced psychiatric disorder. Psychiatric stigma can exclude people both from economic roles and from participation in daily community life. Social ... -
Reforming institutional responses to violence against women
(The University of Waikato, 1999)Battering has been described as an example of the total institution (Avni, 1991), within which batterers use violence, threats of violence, isolation, and other tactics of abuse to enforce compliance with their rules. ... -
The postcolonial lesbian text: readings of four novels by Renée
(The University of Waikato, 1998)This thesis addresses the question: “How might a text, written in a signifying relationship to the postcolonial nation Aotearoa New Zealand, be read as a lesbian text?” Part One addresses the possibility of the reading ... -
Women’s experience of emotional abuse in intimate relationships: a qualitative study
(The University of Waikato, 2002)This study investigated emotional abuse that occurs without physical abuse in the context of heterosexual, committed couple relationships. It examined the ways in which men abused women and the impact this had on women’s ...
