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Paper Proceedings of Second International Conference on Advances in Women’S Studies 2015 Paper Proceedings of Second International Conference on Advances in Women’s Studies 2015 Toronto, Canada 09 – 10 June, 2015 2015 Unique Conferences Canada Publication Toronto, Canada Paper Proceedings of Second International Conference on Advances in Women’s Studies 2015 (978-0-9939889-0-5) Published by Unique Conferences Canada Unique Conferences Canada Suite 2201, 250 Young Street, Toronto ON M5B 2L7 Canada [email protected] http:// www.uniqueca.com June 2015 ISBN 978-0-9939889-0-5 @UCC June 2015 All rights reserved. 2 Paper Proceedings of Second International Conference on Advances in Women’s Studies 2015 (978-0-9939889-0-5) AWS 2015 Conference Chair Prof. Mally Shechory-Bitton (Israel) Conference Convener Prabhath Patabendi (Canada) ORGANIZERS Unique Conferences Canada International Center for Research & Development (ICRD) International Scientific Committee Prof. Tennyson Samraj ( Canada) Prof. Dr. Mally Shechory-Bitton (Israel) Prof. Dr. N.S. Cooray (Japan) Prof. Dr. Sanjukta Ghosh (USA) Prof. Cher Weixia Chen ( USA) Prof. Risa Morimoto ( United Kingdom) Prof. Dr. Toshiichi Endo ( Hong Kong) Prof. Patricia de Pablos (Spain) Dr. Timothy F. Yerima ( Nigeria) Prof. Donathan Brown (USA) Dr. Anuradha Benerjee (India) 3 Paper Proceedings of Second International Conference on Advances in Women’s Studies 2015 (978-0-9939889-0-5) Unique Conference Canada DISCLAIMER: All views expressed in these proceedings are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of, and should not be attributed to, the International Center for Research &Development and Unique Conference Canada. The publishers do not warrant that the information in this report is free from errors or omissions. The publishers do not accept any form of liability, be it contractual, tortuous, or otherwise, for the contents of this report for any consequences arising from its use or any reliance place on it. The information, opinions and advice contained in this report may not relate to, be relevant to, a reader’s particular interest. Portions of this work are copyrighted. Except as permitted under the Copyright Act, the copyrighted parts may not be reproduced by any process, electronic or otherwise, without the specific written permission of the copyright owners. Neither may information be stored electronically in any form whatsoever without such permission. Unique Conferences Canada Email: [email protected] Web: www.uniqueca.com 4 Paper Proceedings of Second International Conference on Advances in Women’s Studies 2015 (978-0-9939889-0-5) TABLE OF CONTENTS Page No Description No Keynote Speakers Session Chairs Abstract Name Battered Women in Closed Communities: A family-related problem 1 Mally Shechory-Bitton 11 or a social problem? Gender and Statelessness: Negotiating gendered challenges 2 among Burmese Chin asylum seeker and refugee girls and young Marilyn METTA 11 women 3 Paintings of Iraqi Women in the Theatre Alyaa Al Shammari 12 Exploring Collegiate Perceptions of Feminism Through 4 Alysha Alani 21 Bem’s Gender Schema Theory Mothers, Immigrants, and Workers: Interviews with pregnant and Taqdir Bhandal 5 22 employed recent South Asian immigrant women in Toronto The Financial Independence of Muslim Women in Shi’ah 6 Mohammad Aminfard 22 Jurisprudence Folklore, creative writing and R. K. Narayan’s The Grandmother’s Abdalsalam M.A 7 27 Tale Albazzour Ashitah Aujayeb 8 Choosing Babies –An Insight into Discrimination 31 Rogbeer 9 How the Woman Described herself in the Andalusia poetry Mohammed Alshakhs 31 Revisiting the Life and Works of Margaret Higgins Sanger: Her Role 10 as a Social Reformer and a Champion of the Birth Control Madhubanti Banerjee 32 Movement of America. A Critical Act of Thai Female Homosexuals in the Film “1448 Love 11 Pogkrong Boon-Long 32 among Us” Interweaving the Professional and the Personal: a Politics of 12 Chiao-ling Yang 39 Gender Education in Teacher Preparation Women in Politics in Rwanda: A Case Study of Rwanda in Christine Agatha 13 39 Comparison to the Other East African Countries. Tumushabe 14 Saudi Perceptions toward the Generic Use of Job Titles in Arabic Miramar Damanhouri 40 Juggling the dual roles of Mothers hood and Student: The lived Emmy Kipsoi 48 15 experiences of student mothers in a Kenyan Universities 5 Paper Proceedings of Second International Conference on Advances in Women’s Studies 2015 (978-0-9939889-0-5) 16 Surrogacy and the Right to Autonomy Ronli Sifris 48 49 17 Women from Kenya Finding Meaningful Employment in Calgary Paisley Dressler Assessment of Gender and Generational Differences in Higher Stella O Odebode 49 18 Education: Options for the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria The Role of Emotions in Feminist Analyses of Violence: A 56 19 Mia Eriksson methodological approach and epistemological implications 20 The Representation of Women In Television Series Lilian Fontes Moreira 63 Jack’s jiboom got bent’: Hypermasculinity and Representations of 68 21 Jessica Floyd the Uncanny in the Sea Shanty ‘Blow the Man Down’ Talking Back, Taking Action: Women Claiming Space in the 69 22 Mary Hames Academy Stories of Yezidi Women Uterus: Untold Stories of Pregnant, 75 23 Suha Hassen Rapped Yezidi Women Effect of Marriage on Female Students’ Academic Achievement in Babayyo Shuaibu; 80 24 Jigawa State College of Education, Gumel Kabiru Musa Women in New Hampshire Politics: The role of Mentorship in Kathy L. DesRoches 83 25 Political Leadership Virtualnegotiation between Prostitute Women and Male Clients: Yeela Lahav-Raz 89 26 Engender a unique discourse on sexuality and power relations. Women, Culture and Society: Determining Iranian Women’s Mozhgan Malekan 90 27 Satisfaction in Marriage 28 Women legislative leadership in India Manpreet Kaur Brar 90 Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling Without Injury: Health Status in Meghan Fitzgerald 98 29 Executive Women Stephanie Lawson, 98 30 The Challenge of Female Youth Tara Finnigan and Donna Fry Reconciling Work and Family with Midwives in German-Speaking 99 31 Switzerland: -A Comparison Between one Group with Children and Andrea B. EISSLER one without. The Image of Mother in the Saudi Novel: Mohammed Al 99 32 A Critical Study of the Novel “Saq AlGurab – Crow’s Leg” Mubarak 33 Criminalizing Marital Rape under Ghanaian Law Renee A. S. Morhe 100 Mobile Bullying and Victimisation: A study of female bully-victims 107 34 in South African High Schools Oluyomi Kabiawu 35 Breaking the Rules of ‘True Narratives’ on Gender Equality Naheed Ghauri 115 36 Female Space in the Poetry of Kamala Surayya Das P. Hannah Padma 119 6 Paper Proceedings of Second International Conference on Advances in Women’s Studies 2015 (978-0-9939889-0-5) The presence of man in Eastern women poetry - A study of the Suad D. Ali Mauof Almuof 37 119 Al-Sabah poetry Aleksandra NIŻYOSKA Women’s Rights and Catholic Church in Poland – Power, Politics Izabela PRZYBYSZ 120 38 and Control Natasha Brien, Sarah 39 Intersecting feminist perspectives on contemporary issues facing Tarshis, Stephanie 127 marginalized women Baird, & three others 40 Impact of Renal Failure on Patients and Their Families: A Case 128 Study of Public Hospitals, Multan Pakistan Syed Hassan Raza Business Strategies of South African women-led SMEs in a Mobile 134 41 Deborah O. Ajumobi Technology Environment Family Size of Older Single Mother Families Created by the aid of Ruth Landau 42 144 Sperm Donation in Israel 147 43 The Rising of Saudi Women Mona Turjoman From Petticoats to Pantsuits: Susan B. Anthony and the Modern 44 Sarah Vogel 148 Political Woman 45 China’s ‘Babe Journalists’: From the Reporters to the Reported Ping WU 148 46 Motivations and Gains of Rural Women Entrepreneurs Cristeta Dulos 149 47 Discrimination on Women in Asia Dzung Nguyen 149 Slavery, Resistance & Womanhood: The Literary Imagination of 48 Rachel D. Williams 150 Morrison 150 49 Traditional Woman in Modern Era Hamidreza Yazdani Mobile Phones, (Dis) Empowerment and Female Headed 50 Achala Abeykoon 157 Households: Trincomalee, Sri Lanka 157 51 Corrective Rape: The Aftermath Stefan P. Frederick The Phenomenon of Twerk Dance in Home Casting Videos on 158 52 Stanley Molefi YouTube 53 Women and Education in India P.N Pabrekar 158 54 Comparing Mindfulness in a College Sample of non-Buddhist and Cynthia Moore 164 Nichiren Buddhist Women Speculative Futures of Feminism: the Role of Designers and Christina White 164 55 Participants In the Exploration of Social Movements 7 Paper Proceedings of Second International Conference on Advances in Women’s Studies 2015 (978-0-9939889-0-5) What are Young Women Searching for on the Internet? A Marie-Eve LANG 56 165 Discussion on Web Uses and Sexual Agency The Imposition of International Political Gender Quotas: Addressing Maria Lungu 57 165 the “Q-word.” Afsaneh Hasanzadeh 58 The Analysis of Form and Content of Iranian Migrate Female Works 173 Dastjerdi Standing committees of the Indonesian National Parliament: 59 Maryuni Maryuni 178 Gendered in the order Gender analysis in Diffusion of entrepreneurship in rural areas; 60 Fazileh Dadvar-Khani 185 Case Study: The North of Tehran in Iran 61 A Study of Feminist Discourse Hamed Al-Belayhed 185 62 Collaborative Poetry and Gender Narges Bagheri 186 63 Revisiting discourse on quota for women: field inputs from India Smita Agarawal 191 Women in popular media : a study of medieval vaishnavite play 64 DiplinaSaharia 199 reconstructing 65 In-school Citizen Training from a Gender Perspective Laura ROMÁN 203 Mirza Muhammad 66 The Desire to Rewrite Texts 208 Zubair Baig 67 Women, Modesty, Marriages and Law: A Case Study of Kashmir’ Sana Kochak 214 Nutritionally Balanced Dietary Menu Booklet for Pregnant Women 68 A.M.N.T.Adikari 220 in Sri Lanka 69 Gender and Political Participation in Pakistan: Issues and Rukhsana Hassan 225 Constraints 8 Paper Proceedings of Second International Conference on Advances in Women’s Studies 2015 (978-0-9939889-0-5) Keynote Speakers Vice Rector Day 1 Prof. Dr. Mally Shechory-Bitton Department of Criminology Ariel University Israel New Century College Day 2 Prof.
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