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Torn : A Cluster Analysis

Creator:: Mulatero Ferrando, Oriana
Abstract:: Pornography remains one of the most controversial topics in our culture. Politicians, religious groups, and special interest organizations tend to focus on the ‘effects’ pornography has on those who consume it, and fear that pornography is a threat to public health. The general discourse surrounding pornography is that men produce...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: presented on November 28, 2016. Title: Torn: A Cluster Analysis. Abstract approved

Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

Creator:: McHugh, Kathleen M.
Abstract:: Across from the Memorial Union on Oregon State University’s campus sits Milam Hall, the former site of the Department of Home Economics. The building is named for Ava Milam Clark, the dean of home economics for thirty-three years, from 1917 to 1950. I aim to understand Ava Milam’s early career...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at

Producing possibility : glimmering alternatives in Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf

Creator:: Nipper, Sarah
Abstract:: This thesis examines alternative modes and forms of production in texts by Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf. Applying queer methodologies drawn from the work of Michel Foucault, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Lee Edelman, and Elizabeth Freeman, I show how Cather’s The Professor’s House and Woolf’s To the Lighthouse demonstrate and interrogate...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: not named” can be interpreted as a refracted or displaced lesbian desire. Eve Sedgwick and Judith

Talking Story, Writing Proper : Pidgin-Speaking Hawaii Writers at Oregon State University

Creator:: Lum, Kristina H. J.
Abstract:: This thesis is based on a two-part study that analyzes the cultural and linguistic characteristics of the Hawaii student population at Oregon State University (OSU). I designed and conducted a survey among Hawaii students at OSU. Then I interviewed ten Hawaii students who self-identified as Hawaii Creole English (a.k.a. Pidgin)...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Vicki Tolar Burton This thesis is based on a two-part study that analyzes the cultural and

“Missed the Best Months of the War”: Masculinity, Homosociality, and Empire among British Royal Flying Corps Interned in First World War German Prisoner of War Camps

Creator:: Graham, Devon E.
Abstract:: This thesis focuses on performances of masculinity by British Royal Flying Corps (RFC) airmen in the charged landscape of the First World War prisoner of war (POW) camp. I examine how captive airmen coped with imprisonment by reasserting the familiar homosocial communities of pre-capture squadron life, particularly through practices associated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to Judith Butler’s understanding of gender as a reiterative performance, I conceptualize the

“I couldn’t bring myself to say it” : challenging heteronormativity in teacher education programs

Creator:: Ollivier, Amélie G.
Abstract:: School is a hostile environment for many LGBTQ youth. Teachers participate, consciously or unconsciously, in perpetuating oppressive heteronormative expectations in the classroom both through the overt and covert curriculum. Yet, pre-service teachers are under-trained about questions related to gender and sexuality during their teacher preparation. This qualitative study explores the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Nana Osei-Kofi School is a hostile environment for many LGBTQ youth. Teachers

Negotiating conflicted climates : the experiences of transgender students attending women's colleges

Creator:: Jones, Whitney K.
Abstract:: The conversation regarding transgender students in the context of women's colleges is inherently complicated due to the binary gender system that the existence of women's colleges reinforce. The primary goal of this phenomenological research was to examine the lived experiences of transgender college students at U.S. women's colleges. Because the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: participants are uniquely situated in the context of a women’s college, a secondary goal was to examine the

Everyday Religious Spiritualities: Navigating Inequalities Through Orientations, Interactions, and Reflexivity

Creator:: Lopez, Andres L.
Abstract:: The research and analysis presented in this dissertation illustrate how individuals enact lived religion as they seek to navigate social inequalities. The enactment of lived religion involves directing attention towards orientations. I use the term orientations in the sense articulated by Ahmed (2004), to allude to how bodies are situated...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: some things and not others within reach. Examining a lived religion shows the daily directives

Constituting the Invisible : An Examination of the Social Construction and Communication of Female Bisexual Identity

Creator:: Whitney, April L.
Abstract:: Bisexual females experience unique forms of discrimination, but are often overlooked in scholarship. Recent research focuses on various aspects of bisexuality, yet female bisexuality is largely overlooked. Many existing studies focus on the experiences of bisexuals, rather than on social constructions of the identity and the role communication plays in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: particular identity construction are influential in the way it is understood on a social level. When female

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Torn : A Cluster Analysis

Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

Producing possibility : glimmering alternatives in Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf

Talking Story, Writing Proper : Pidgin-Speaking Hawaii Writers at Oregon State University

“Missed the Best Months of the War”: Masculinity, Homosociality, and Empire among British Royal Flying Corps Interned in First World War German Prisoner of War Camps

“I couldn’t bring myself to say it” : challenging heteronormativity in teacher education programs

Negotiating conflicted climates : the experiences of transgender students attending women's colleges

Everyday Religious Spiritualities: Navigating Inequalities Through Orientations, Interactions, and Reflexivity

Constituting the Invisible : An Examination of the Social Construction and Communication of Female Bisexual Identity

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