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The Nancy N. Boothe papers, 1980-2009 [bulk 1990-1997], are composed of articles, notes, reports and a wide variety of feminist publications. Much of the material documents the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women, which Ms. Boothe attended as Executive Director of Atlanta's Feminist Women's Health Center. Artifacts, artwork and textiles relate to the conference and to other women's and health issues. ; Born in Battles Wharf, Alabama (1948), Nancy N. Boothe graduated from the University of South Alabama as a registered nurse (1971). She received a B.S. in nursing from the Medical College of Georgia (1976), and a master's degree in Counseling from Troy State University [Florida Region] (1981). Boothe served in the U.S. Nurse Corps in the U.S. and Korea (1970-1984), and worked as clinical director and consultant at a number of health facilities in Louisiana and Florida. She became Executive Director of the Atlanta Feminist Women's Health Center in 1994. In 1995, she attended the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, where she taught the workshop, ""GYN Self-Help."" Boothe has served on the boards of All Women's Health Services in Portland and Eugene, Oregon; the Sexual Assault Center, Atlanta, Georgia; and the Jeanette Rankin Foundation, Athens, Georgia. She is also a member of the Feminist Majority Foundation's ""Women's Commission for Congressional Oversight"" and A.P.D. Citizen Review Panel.; Founded in California in 1971 by Carol Downer (1933-) and Lorraine Rothman (1932-2007), the Feminist Women's Health Center was established to empower women through self-knowledge, education and self-help groups. The Atlanta Feminist Women's Health Center was established in 1977. Its mission is to ""provide accessible, comprehensive gynecological healthcare to all who need it without judgment. As innovative healthcare leaders, [they] work collaboratively within [their] community and nationally to promote reproductive health, rights and justice. [They] advocate for wellness, uncensored health information and fair public policies by educating the larger community and empowering [their] clients to make their own decisions.""; The United Nations convened the Fourth World Conference on Women, September 4-15, 1995, in Beijing, China, with a Platform for Action that aimed at achieving greater equality and opportunity for women. Three previous World Conferences were held in Mexico City (International Women's Year, 1975), Copenhagen (1980) and Nairobi (1985). 189 governments and more than 5,000 representatives from 2,100 non-governmental organizations participated in the Beijing Conference. The principal themes were the advancement and empowerment of women in relation to women's human rights, women and poverty, women and decision-making, the girl-child, violence against women and other areas of concern. The resulting documents of the Conference are The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women manifested a global women's movement for change and has been called ""the Woodstock of the women's movement.""; The World Conference on Women was also accompanied by an informal meeting (August 30-September 8) of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This NGO Forum on Women, Beijing '95, brought together thousands of women from around the world to exchange information and ideas, celebrate women's achievements and contributions and draw attention and develop solutions to discrimination facing women world-wide.

submitted by Chong King Man. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves [76-84]). ; Abstract also in Chinese. ; Chapter Chapter I. --- Introduction --- p.1 ; Chapter {A} --- Introduction --- p.1 ; Chapter {B} --- Research Questions --- p.2 ; Chapter {C} --- Contribution --- p.4 ; Chapter {D} --- Issues in Politics and Language --- p.7 ; Chapter [1] --- Colonialism and importation of languages --- p.10 ; Chapter [2] --- Nationhood and language --- p.18 ; Chapter [3] --- Decolonization and language policy in education --- p.27 ; Chapter [4] --- Summary --- p.35 ; Chapter {E} --- Research Methodology --- p.37 ; Chapter {F} --- Outline of Thesis --- p.41 ; Chapter Chapter II. --- Contending Explanations and Framework of Analysis --- p.43 ; Chapter {A} --- "Contending Explanations, Models, and Theories" --- p.44 ; Chapter [1] --- Conspiracy explanation I: to exacerbate the gap between English and mother-tongue trained students --- p.44 ; Chapter [2] --- Conspiracy explanation II: to confuse Hong Kong people's identity and add a language-divisive factor in China --- p.47 ; Chapter [3] --- Pluralist explanation: local societal pressures --- p.50 ; Chapter [4] --- Muddling-through model --- p.53 ; Chapter [5] --- Institutionalism --- p.55 ; Chapter [6] --- China's pressure --- p.57 ; Chapter {B} --- Policy Window Approach --- p.59 ; Chapter [1] --- Problem stream --- p.64 ; Chapter [2] --- Political stream --- p.67 ; Chapter [3] --- Policy stream --- p.74 ; Chapter [4] --- Coupling of streams and policy windows --- p.78 ; Chapter Chapter III. --- Language-in-Education Policy in Hong Kong: The Colonial Setting --- p.82 ; Chapter {A} --- English Language as Prestige --- p.82 ; Chapter {B} --- Colonial Language Policy in Education-a brief review from the establishment of the colony to the early 1970s --- p.84 ; Chapter {C} --- Language Medium Policy from the 1970s to the early 1980s --- p.94 ; Chapter Chapter IV. --- Teaching medium policy during decolonization ...

Adelaide Nga-yan Lau. ; Thesis submitted in: December 2001. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-158). ; Abstracts in English and Chinese. ; Introduction --- p.p. 1 -4 ; Theoretical Framework --- p.p.5-25 ; The Habermasian public sphere ; Chapter ■ --- Universal access ; Chapter ■ --- Topics of public concern ; Chapter ■ --- Rational discussion ; Gatekeeping in production ; Chapter ■ --- Individual gatekeeping ; Chapter ■ --- Organizational gatekeeping ; Chapter ■ --- Impact of commercialization ; Phone-in Programs as Media Public Spheres --- p.p.26-46 ; Factors for developing public sphere ; Chapter ■ --- Capitalism ; Chapter ■ --- Freedom of expression ; Media and political communication in Hong Kong ; Political and social contexts of radio phone-in programs ; Chapter ■ --- Period of germination ; Chapter ■ --- Period of recognition ; Chapter ■ --- Period of flourishing ; Three radio phone-in programs in Hong Kong ; Chapter ■ --- RTHK's Talkabout ; Chapter ■ --- Commercial Radio's Teacup in a Storm ; Chapter ■ --- Metro Radio's Metropolitics ; Methodology --- p.p.47-55 ; Data collection ; Chapter ■ --- The Robert Chung case ; Data analysis ; Chapter ■ --- Content analysis ; Chapter ■ --- Discourse analysis ; Analysis I - Universal Access --- p.p.56-76 ; Technologies enhance accessibility ; Equal opportunity for callers ; Selecting calls ; Chapter ■ --- Screening in Talkabout ; Chapter ■ --- Screening in Teacup in a Storm ; Chapter ■ --- Screening in Metropolitics ; What is universal access? ; Analysis II - Topics of Public Concern --- p.p.77-96 ; Topics initiated by the public ; Handling of topics initiated by the public ; Characteristics of pre-set discussion topics ; Chapter ■ --- Characteristics of discussion topics in Talkabout ; Chapter ■ --- Characteristics of discussion topics in Teacup in a Storm ; Chapter ■ --- Characteristics of discussion topics in Metropolitics ; Who sets the media agenda? ; Analysis III - Rational Discussion ...

The Nancy N. Boothe papers, 1980-2009 [bulk 1990-1997], are composed of articles, notes, reports and a wide variety of feminist publications. Much of the material documents the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women, which Ms. Boothe attended as Executive Director of Atlanta's Feminist Women's Health Center. Artifacts, artwork and textiles relate to the conference and to other women's and health issues. ; Born in Battles Wharf, Alabama (1948), Nancy N. Boothe graduated from the University of South Alabama as a registered nurse (1971). She received a B.S. in nursing from the Medical College of Georgia (1976), and a master's degree in Counseling from Troy State University [Florida Region] (1981). Boothe served in the U.S. Nurse Corps in the U.S. and Korea (1970-1984), and worked as clinical director and consultant at a number of health facilities in Louisiana and Florida. She became Executive Director of the Atlanta Feminist Women's Health Center in 1994. In 1995, she attended the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, where she taught the workshop, ""GYN Self-Help."" Boothe has served on the boards of All Women's Health Services in Portland and Eugene, Oregon; the Sexual Assault Center, Atlanta, Georgia; and the Jeanette Rankin Foundation, Athens, Georgia. She is also a member of the Feminist Majority Foundation's ""Women's Commission for Congressional Oversight"" and A.P.D. Citizen Review Panel.; Founded in California in 1971 by Carol Downer (1933-) and Lorraine Rothman (1932-2007), the Feminist Women's Health Center was established to empower women through self-knowledge, education and self-help groups. The Atlanta Feminist Women's Health Center was established in 1977. Its mission is to ""provide accessible, comprehensive gynecological healthcare to all who need it without judgment. As innovative healthcare leaders, [they] work collaboratively within [their] community and nationally to promote reproductive health, rights and justice. [They] advocate for wellness, uncensored health information and fair public policies by educating the larger community and empowering [their] clients to make their own decisions.""; The United Nations convened the Fourth World Conference on Women, September 4-15, 1995, in Beijing, China, with a Platform for Action that aimed at achieving greater equality and opportunity for women. Three previous World Conferences were held in Mexico City (International Women's Year, 1975), Copenhagen (1980) and Nairobi (1985). 189 governments and more than 5,000 representatives from 2,100 non-governmental organizations participated in the Beijing Conference. The principal themes were the advancement and empowerment of women in relation to women's human rights, women and poverty, women and decision-making, the girl-child, violence against women and other areas of concern. The resulting documents of the Conference are The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women manifested a global women's movement for change and has been called ""the Woodstock of the women's movement.""; The World Conference on Women was also accompanied by an informal meeting (August 30-September 8) of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This NGO Forum on Women, Beijing '95, brought together thousands of women from around the world to exchange information and ideas, celebrate women's achievements and contributions and draw attention and develop solutions to discrimination facing women world-wide.

by Gu Gang. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-142). ; Abstract also in Chinese. ; ABSTRACT --- p.v ; Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 ; Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK --- p.7 ; Chapter 2.1 --- Grammaticality and Acceptability --- p.7 ; Chapter 2.2 --- The X-bar Theory --- p.9 ; Chapter 2.3 --- C-command --- p.10 ; Chapter 2.4 --- Barrier --- p.11 ; Chapter 2.5 --- Government --- p.12 ; Chapter 2.6 --- The Binding Theory --- p.13 ; Chapter 2.7 --- Indexation --- p.16 ; Chapter 2.7.1 --- Lexical Words --- p.17 ; Chapter 2.7.2 --- Trace --- p.19 ; Chapter 2.7.2.1 --- The ECP --- p.21 ; Chapter 2.7.2.2 --- The Overt Trace --- p.23 ; Chapter 2.7.3 --- PRO --- p.25 ; Chapter 2.7.4 --- pro --- p.28 ; Chapter 2.7.5 --- Summary --- p.29 ; Chapter 2.8 --- The General Control --- p.30 ; Chapter 2.9 --- Summary --- p.33 ; Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- THE CLASSIFICATION OF TOPIC STRUCTURES --- p.35 ; Chapter 3.1 --- The Definition --- p.35 ; Chapter 3.2 --- Topicalized Topics and Left-Dislocalized Topics --- p.40 ; Chapter 3.3 --- Pure Topics and Contrastive Topics --- p.42 ; Chapter 3.4 --- The Topic PP --- p.47 ; Chapter 3.5 --- Covert Passive Structures --- p.50 ; Chapter 3.6 --- Summary --- p.54 ; Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- SOME APPROACHES ON THE GENERATION OF THE TOPIC STRUCTURE --- p.56 ; Chapter 4.1 --- Ross (1967) --- p.56 ; Chapter 4.2 --- Chomsky (1977) --- p.59 ; Chapter 4.3 --- Brunson (1992) --- p.60 ; Chapter 4.4 --- "Huang (1984, 1987,1989, 1991)" --- p.61 ; Chapter 4.5 --- "Xu (1985,1986, 1994)" --- p.64 ; Chapter 4.6 --- Summary --- p.65 ; Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- The BASE-GENERATION APPROACH --- p.67 ; Chapter 5.1 --- The Identification of the Gap in the Comment --- p.67 ; Chapter 5.2 --- Subjacency Effect or Control Failure? --- p.70 ; Chapter 5.3 --- Free Empty Categories --- p.76 ; Chapter 5.4 --- The Base-Generated Variable --- p.82 ; Chapter 5.5 --- Summary --- p.84 ; Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- THE TOPIC PP --- p.85 ...

by Chu Yiu Wai, Stephen. ; Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 316-336). ; Acknowledgments --- p.ii ; Chapter Chapter One --- "Introduction: The Politics of an ""Other"" Critical Discourse" --- p.1 ; Chapter Chapter Two --- "Interpretation, Textuality, Paradox: Towards an ""Other"" Reading Position" --- p.25 ; Chapter Chapter Three --- De/Formation of the Hermeneutical Framework in Chinese-Western Comparative Discourse --- p.76 ; Chapter Chapter Four --- Reading Feminist Reading and a Critique of Chinese Critical Discourse --- p.129 ; Chapter Chapter Five --- The Problem of Reading in Contemporary Chinese Critics: Three Exemplary Positions --- p.170 ; Chapter i. --- James J.Y. Liu --- p.172 ; Chapter ii. --- Stephen Owen --- p.208 ; Chapter iii. --- Wai-lim Yip --- p.227 ; Chapter Chapter Six --- "An ""Other"" Conclusion: Towards an Oppositional Reading in the (Post)Colonial Context" --- p.257 ; Select Bibliography --- p.316 ; Glossary --- p.337