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Creator:: Weaver, Shauna Q.
Abstract:: The following question guided this research: How do female readers understand the romantic content of Cosmopolitan and/or Glamour magazines, and how do they perceive connections between their readership of this content and their personal ideas and behaviors regarding romantic relationships? This study involved a series of responsive interviews in which...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: Judith K. Bowker The following question guided this research: How do female

Creator:: Biddle, Jeanette M.
Abstract:: This study examines participants' perceptions of the significant messages and meanings communicated to them through the ceremony of the Blessingway (a ritual titled after the Navajo Blessingway), a contemporary women's birth ritual performed by midwives. A narrative approach was used for data gathering based on Fisher's rationale that meaning emerges...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: The Blessingway : a woman's birth ritual AN ABSTRACT OF

Creator:: Bottaro, Michelle Reser
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of a daughter's managerial style and her personal relationship with her father in father-daughter work relationships in family-owned businesses. This research is an attempt to reveal daughters' perceptions of these occurrences and interactions which often are overlooked in current research...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Speech Communication, and Business Administration presented on April 14, 1993 Title: The Influence of a

Creator:: Hanna, Sarah Elizabeth
Abstract:: This thesis investigates the reported communication experiences of married women transitioning to motherhood. The study involves a series of focus groups in which new mothers share their communicative experiences, explaining how they are navigating their new roles as mothers while also performing roles as wives, daughters, and workers. Informed primarily...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Motherhood: A Case Study. Abstract approved

Creator:: Bussler, Andrea C.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine women's perceptions of their physical activity needs and preferences, survey their evaluation of how the Intramural Sports Department accommodates those needs and preferences, and determine if and how intramural sports programming might be adjusted to serve women better. An open-ended survey was...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: a thesis was a rewarding experience. I thank: Dr. Judith Bowker for her expertise, guidance, and

Creator:: O’Donnell, Nicolette
Abstract:: This thesis consists of an autoethnography of a sexual assault survivor written using poems, journal entries, annotations, photographs and song lyrics. The ethnography is a chronological record of feelings the author experienced during the day prior to the attack and emotions she navigated during the year and a half after...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: ___________________________________________ Judith Bowker Abstract: This

Creator:: Cordova, Angela J.
Abstract:: The goal of this research was (1) to identify the patterns or pattern pieces of development for heterosexual, dyadic, romantic relationships that emerge from mixed-sex, friendship groups and (2) to compare and contrast those patterns or pattern pieces to patterns in existing stage theories. To address these goals, data were...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: theories. To address these goals, data were collected from students at a mid-sized, northwestern, land

Creator:: Felesky, C. Leigh
Abstract:: This research examines women's magazine editors' perspectives of the relationship between editorial and advertising content in women's magazines. It specifically investigates how this relationship affects both general editorial content and more specifically, social topic stories. Mainstream women's beauty/fashion magazine editors—including editors-in-chief—were queried as to the nature of these relationships. Interviews...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Judith K. Bowker This research examines women's magazine editors' perspectives of the relationship

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