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Gutierrez, Lorraine; Oh, Hyun Joo; Gillmore, Mary Rogers – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 2000
Used an empowerment perspective to consider the degree to which intrapersonal and interpersonal power dynamics in heterosexual relations have an impact on condom use among high risk youth. Results from 333 African American and European American urban youth show the model to be most useful in predicting condom use among female participants. (SLD)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Black Students, Contraception
Beemyn, Brett Genny; Sanders, Jim – Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, 2005
Despite more representations of transgender people in popular culture today than ten or twenty years ago, the dominant image of a transgender individual continues to be a middle-aged "guy in a dress." Perhaps that "guy" is now perceived to be in a more stylish dress than in the past and to look more feminine, but the image remains one of a male…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Popular Culture, Homosexuality, Photography
Macy, Rebecca J.; Nurius, Paula S.; Norris, Jeanette – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2007
Rape resistance trainings need to prepare women to recognize and resist sexual assault across a range of experiences and contexts. To help address this need, this research used an investigation of 415 college women who completed a survey about their situational responding to an experience of acquaintance sexual assault. A previously established…
Descriptors: Profiles, Sexual Abuse, Drinking, Females
Wisker, Gina – 1996
This book focuses on enabling and empowering women in higher education, and it draws both on research and experience with women-centered teaching and learning practices and professional development and training of women staff. The first section of the book concentrates on women students in higher education. Chapters include: "Women Students and…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Research, Educational Environment
Guhathakurta, Meghna; Lina, Khadija – 1995
Nagorik Uddyog (Citizen's Initiative) is a non-profit, non-governmental Bangladeshi organization focused on empowering women at the grassroots level through human rights education. Although women constitute half of the total population of Bangladesh, their participation in social, cultural, and political activities is limited. Recently,…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Civil Liberties

Walker, Melanie – Gender and Education, 1997
Explores experiences of six women on two senior academic committees at a South African university to understand how practices in such committees contribute to the marginalization and exclusion of women and to constructions of subjectivity. Discusses how the presence of women on such committees challenges the consciousness of all members. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Empowerment, Females, Foreign Countries

Carter, Carolyn S. – Health & Social Work, 2002
This article explores societal responses to perinatal drug abuse, including stigmatic attitudes and behaviors of health care workers. Empowering strategies are suggested by which social workers and clients can potentially redefine perinatal drug abuse as a health problem rather than a legal issue and improve the environment in which perinatal care…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Drug Abuse, Empowerment, Females

Goering, Lois A.; And Others – Journal of Extension, 1990
Presents three articles that examine Extension's role in supporting and empowering women. Looks at historical and current trends in appointing women to Extension management positions; examines an Extension program aimed at women in business; and takes a global view of opportunities for Extension to empower women within Extension and as a special…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Developing Nations, Empowerment, Extension Education

Sousa, Isabela Cabral Felix de – Convergence, 1995
A health education program in Brazil trained 26 women as community health educators. Only four used their roles to foster social change. Discussing women's reproductive health in the context of religion and social values contributed to successful training; economic and political empowerment was hampered by perpetuation of traditional role…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Females, Foreign Countries, Health

Elsey, Barry – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1993
Explores ways in which predominantly female voluntary organizations are empowered to take on roles and responsibilities. Considers significance of volunteerism under a shift from state to free-market social services, through the eighteenth-century "civil society" concept, and an emerging "third-way" alternative. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Economic Change, Empowerment, Females

Pistole, M. Carole; Cogdal, Pamela A. – Initiatives, 1993
Suggests that professional training does not always adequately prepare women to enter and manage university careers. Concludes that women often encounter barriers because they may not know "how to play the game." Proposes two models that provide powerful tools women can use to evaluate their work settings, form realistic expectations, and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Empowerment, Expectation, Females

Will, Katherine – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems, 1994
Reviews childhood trauma/abuse experienced by Maya Angelou and discusses how Angelou survived and triumphed over these experiences. Relates Angelou's story to moral developmental theory for women proposed by Carol Gilligan, focusing on Gilligan's metaphor of having a "voice." (NB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Children, Empowerment

Hill, Miriam R.; Thomas, Volker – Family Relations, 2000
Reports on exploratory study that used individual interviews and a focus group to investigate how women in Black-White heterosexual relationships describe their racial identity development over the course of the relationship. Participants described a process of restorying constraining narratives of racial identity into empowering racial identities…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Blacks, Dating (Social), Empowerment
Allen, Louisa – Gender and Education, 2004
A tradition of predominately feminist literature has revealed that there is a 'missing discourse of desire' in many sex education programmes. Building on this work, this article explores the gendered effects of this de-eroticized and clinical form of education. It is argued that young women and men's (hetero)sexual subjectivities are…
Descriptors: Females, Empowerment, Sexuality, Males
Hertz-Lazarowitz, Rachel; Shapira, Tamar – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2005
This two-year ethnographic study examines the life stories of Muslim women holding mid- and high-level leadership positions in Israeli-Arab segregated schools. The women emerged from their gendered and ethnic/nationality oppression as pathfinders with strong ambitions to further their education and careers. Using strategies that entailed the…
Descriptors: Muslims, Females, Leadership, Ethnography