http://hdl.handle.net/1957/7144 2013-05-16T10:36:48Z http://hdl.handle.net/1957/38455 Exiles and rebels : women in the American left 1900-1920 Cummings, Katherine H. Between 1900 and 1920 women were responsible for much of the social and political activity in the United States. Recent work by feminist historians has revealed that women were interested in a broad range of issues at the turn of the twentieth century. The American Left addressed such issues as workers' rights, labor conditions, birth control, suffrage, and socialism. Mother Jones, Kate Richards O'Hare, Margaret Sanger, and Emma Goldman were among the most prominent women in the Left. They found that the Left provided them with forums as writers, speakers, and demonstrators. Jones was critical of women who worked outside the home, although their income often was necessary for the family's survival. Jones did not support woman suffrage, yet she bemoaned the plight of female workers who needed the ballot to improve their working conditions. Like Jones, Kate Richards O'Hare believed that a woman's responsibility was to remain at home with her children. However, O'Hare supported woman suffrage because she believed that women's votes could help usher in socialism. O'Hare supported the Socialist party unflinchingly. Margaret Sanger began her political career as a brash radical. When Sanger no longer found the Left useful in her fight for accessible birth control, she sought out influential conservatives to support her work. Emma Goldman devoted her life to political and social causes. Goldman's primary interest was anarchism, but she also supported such causes as accessible birth control. Goldman's activities brought her into contact with Sanger and O'Hare. As the American Left splintered over the United States' entry into the war, Jones, O'Hare, Sanger, and Goldman women found that many of their opinions changed. A careful examination of speeches, personal letters, essays, and autobiographies reveals how their opinions, activities, and tactics developed and changed during the first two decades of this century. Graduation date: 1990 1989-05-18T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1957/38407 Counseling Burns, Robert N. Counseling is a novel in three parts structurally and metaphorically comparing and contrasting the workings of the brain and mind. Through the story of a man recovering from a head injury I am creating a world in the text which equates the schizophrenia of postmodern criticism with the literal problems associated with such an injury. My character relates his tale in a first person narrative, predominantly in journal-entry form: however, the time sequence is deliberately nonlinear. The plot follows the character from the initial accident, of which he has no memory, through his hospital stay, and over the course of his recovery, about three years. He becomes increasingly fascinated with movies, equating his present and past circumstances to various films, and eventually he takes a job in a theatre, a job which offers him a safe haven to watch the world. Graduation date: 1990 1989-05-23T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1957/38386 Rosa Gonzalez Gomez : a Mexican woman's story Browning, Richard L. Using an oral history method, the author has recorded the life history of Rosa González Gómez, a Mexican woman who spends part of each year in the United States and part in Mexico. Comparing the story of Rosa's life, as told in her own words, with literature in the social sciences and the author's own experiences in Latin America, the author proposes that current anthropological models of the "safety net" function of the Latin American extended family are inadequate for describing the myriad experiences of Latin Americans today and, therefore, must be reexamined. Graduation date: 1990 1990-03-09T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1957/38260 Salvage archaeology of the Ritsch Site, 35J04 : a late prehistoric village site on the central Rogue River, Oregon Wilson, Bart McLean Site 35J04 is located on the south bank of the Rogue River, four miles west of Grants Pass, Oregon. Excavation of the site was conducted in 1976 by Oregon State University under contract to the Corvallis branch of CH2M/Hill. Eight artifact assemblages were distinguished during the analysis of the site. From these assemblages two distinct components were defined. Component I was dated to 460±90 BP. A close affiliation with the coast is evident for this time period from the concaved-base projectile points which are unique to this component. On the coast these concaved-base points are a late development and are usually associated with shell middens. Component II consisted to two circular house pits and the contemporary living surface around them. Carbon 14 dates this component at approximately 1400 BP. The dominant projectile point for this component was small, 9 mm to 18 mm in length, triangular-blade, corner-to-base notched point. An interior adaptation is evident for this component. Light, periodic use of the site was evident between component I and component II. The site had also been used prior to the component II occupation. Cultural debris was present in low frequency to a depth of 1.9 meters below the surface. Graduation date: 1979 1979-02-23T00:00:00Z