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Creator:: Freehling-Burton, Kryn
Abstract:: Passage through The Vagina Monologues: A College Anti-Violence Rite examines the ways in which the audience at Oregon State University (OSU) responds to the annual production of the play in connection with the international college campaign to raise awareness about violence against women and to raise money for community organizations...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: theories. Using a mixed methods approach, I utilize quantitative survey data and qualitative interview

Creator:: Gunewardena, Sriyanthi Lorna Antoinette
Abstract:: The recognition that women are not in a fixed position but are dynamic and active in any of the processes of migration and post-migration adjustment helps us to see the complexity of women's participation in migration. Using life history interviews, three Sri-Lankan womens' migration experiences are examined for the ways...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: instances the data did not fully support Boyd's (1989) predictions of the ways in which personal networks

Creator:: Willis, Gloria
Abstract:: The feminist beliefs of abortion service providers and the effects of these beliefs on the delivery of health care to patients is examined by the author who is herself a feminist and member of an abortion clinic staff. Discussion includes abortion rates, abortion safety, characteristics of patients, and accessibility of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , supporting patients in the operating room, and attending patients during recovery. The data is presented in

Creator:: Leer-Beyerlein, Amy L.
Abstract:: This thesis explores outcomes of women's participation in the American welfare system. The primary goal of this research was to determine the impact certain segments of the welfare system in the United States have on women's ability to obtain and retain human capital. The primary resources were formulated around participants...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Creator:: Almquist, Jennifer Marie
Abstract:: This research summarizes the cumulative efforts of in-depth research, extensive participant observation, and archival analysis focused on Southern Oregon lesbian lands. This community of womyn has persisted in rural Southern Oregon for nearly 30 years. The intention of this study is to examine both the accumulation of knowledge of issues...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Ethnography 30 Interview Format 32 Participant Observation 33 Data Analysis 34 PARTICIPANTS 35 RESULTS AND

Creator:: Marie, Michelle
Abstract:: Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the top ten best-selling children's picture books of 2006 reveals that these books contain elements of systematic privilege and oppression. Dominant group members are numerically overrepresented in the sample. Major emergent themes are the normalization of racism and white privilege, the stereotypical portrayal of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: better remain women, too. Gillespie, Powell, Clements and Swearingen’s (1994) survey of race in 1922

Creator:: Filan, Trina Robin
Abstract:: This research is based on in-depth interviews with 20 women farmers and ranchers from the state of Oregon. These women employ a variety of methods and subscribe to a number of divergent philosophies regarding agricultural practices. The intention of this study is to examine how women who are the primary...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: knowledge. Although this philosophical standpoint allows me some measure of critical examination of my data

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