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Pregnancy, class and biomedical power : factors influencing the prenatal care experiences of low-income women in an Oregon community

Creator:

Pearce, Laurie Kathleen

Abstract:

Low-income women in an Oregon city of approximately 35,000 inhabitants have limited access to prenatal care services during their pregnancies. The purpose of this study was to uncover the impacts of several factors on the experiences of twenty-seven health department clients with public health department prenatal care practitioners and with...

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Masters Thesis

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would let Carol and Diana,5 the prenatal care practitioners, know that I had arrived. Diana and Carol
Cultivating taste and place in Russia : perspectives from Moscow's alternative food network

Creator:

D'Alessandro, Erica

Abstract:

Limited research has analyzed how the values espoused by Western alternative food systems, such as taste and territoriality, are adopted and refashioned in post-socialist societies. Muscovites now echo the global quality turn that reconnects consumers to their food sources. This research qualitatively explores the perspectives of the cosmopolitan consumers of...

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Masters Thesis
Development projects and questions of empowerment: a Salvadorean women's cooperative

Creator:

Hannigan-Luther, Kristen L.

Abstract:

Many development organizations now recognize the importance of culturally sensitive project design and implementation. Unfortunately most of these groups continue to disregard the significance of gender. This qualitative research examines a women's cooperative in rural El Salvador which formed in order to find a means of generating income and to...

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Masters Thesis