Through her analysis, Shiva points out the critical links between the different development perspectives, the process of change brought about by the development and its impact on the environment and the people dependent on it for their subsistence. ... However, some of the problems with Vandana Shiva's argument are as follows: Shiva's analysis (in Staying Alive 1988) relates to the study of rural women in Northwest India, but she tends to generalize her analysis to cover all Third World women. ... The gap between legal and actual land ownership rights, patrilocal marriages, the segre...

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The First Wave of the feminist movement began in the nineteenth century with the suffragettes' fight for political and legal equality. ... They too were denied the ability to stand up and speak for themselves with legal or social support. ... Combahee explains this concept beautifully, stating that Third Wave feminists are "actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression, and see as our particular task the development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking" (p. ...

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Men and women were not given equal rights even though they were both legal citizens and both of their rights should be protected by the federal government. ... Using intersectionality as a tool of analysis, it was obvious that the coexistence of gender discrimination and class inequalities created the vicious cycle for women, thereby putting women to the subordinate position. ...

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Businesses targeting gays and lesbians have expanded beyond clubs and bookstores to comprise virtually a full-service market that includes media, merchandise catalogs, vacation companies, and legal, medical, financial, and communication services. ... The homosexual body would thus constitute a contradiction in objector, an objective contradiction in the context of our butch-femme analysis; such a contradiction is easily seen in the images that pepper collections of photography, magazines, and books. ...

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Data Analysis For this study, we adopted the framework developed by Miles and Huberman (1994) to distil and analyse the data from the transcripts of three of the most productive focus group discussions. The Miles and Huberman framework can be divided into three major phases of data analysis: data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing and verification (Miles, Huberman, & Saldaña, 2014). ...

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Graham (1973 in Thorne, Kramarae and Henley 1983, 9-10) conducted a computer analysis of one hundred thousand words from children's schoolbooks and found that "male pronouns outnumbered female ones by almost four to one." ... Unfortunately an examination of the realities of legal distinctions between men and women has shown this to simply be false. ...

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Introduction A. Reasons for Undertaking Research. Today, during these democratic transformations, women are becoming more active in many spheres and trying to compete with men and take their rightful place in a new society. Historically the administrative structure is comprised of men and does not reflect the developing level of public potential and therefore on the opportunities or influence of women on affairs of a society, state and family. It also fails to provide the correct social direction for the development of a society and its democratization. ...

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According to Jackson (2012) sometimes this unequal economic access is understood as an expression of gender inequality, sometimes a cause of gender inequality, and sometimes a result but many analysis consider all three. ...

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