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  • Gender bias & teachers : college students' perceptions of sexual discrimination in their high school

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    Hostetler, Catherine L.
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    The field of gender bias indicates that teachers are a significant source of gender-role socialization for students. This study focuses on post hoc recollections of college students' perceptions of gender bias exhibited by their high school teachers. Specifically, this study asks students to define sex discrimination, as well as describe...
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    sexual discrimination in their high school AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Catherine L. Hostetler for

  • "A dissonant element" : the difficulty of Anais Nin

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    Burghauser, Sarah B.
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    This thesis is arranged in three main chapters, each of which focuses on a particular type of Anaїs Nin text, and each of which is intended to enlarge Nin's complexities through distinct but overlapping perspectives. The idea connecting these three chapters is that Nin, who has been radically misrepresented by...
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    different kid of critical approach to Nin' s work which allows Nin as an experienta arist to gude us on her

  • A process for evaluating the instructional component of developmental education programs using the educational Opportunities Program at Oregon State University as a case study

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    Fox, Margaret Wynne
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    Although the literature is replete with techniques to assist the researcher with the evaluation task, very few techniques regarding an effective process for evaluating developmental education programs have emerged. Those techniques that have emerged have been criticized for not producing useful results. The central purpose of this research was to...
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    programs, reveals that program evaluation was a focus of much research in the 1970's. In a meta-analytic

  • Confessing Our Sims: The construction of gender and sexuality among women ages 18-22 on MySpace

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    Papaleo, November R.
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    MySpace is a social network phenomenon with over 100 million profiles and a strong presence in over 24 countries. As digital media become more commonplace, social networks are becoming sites where women create and manage relationships and identities. This thesis is a study of how women ages 18-22 are constructing...
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    thespians, reality-TV personalities, millionaires' kids, drag racers, drag queens, religious nuts, D.J.'s

  • Voices of CALYX: Narratives of Feminist Publishing Activism, 1976-2006

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    Steuben, Marieke L.
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    This thesis examines the nature of publishing as a political endeavor through a detailed investigation of the feminist publishing movement in the U.S. since the 1970s. Feminist publishers emerged from an activist context of feminist struggle, and they evolved within changing political and social climates, facing ideological and economic challenges...
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    Masters Thesis

  • An Inquiry into Attitudes Toward Professional Women : Rotary and Zonta Club Members

    Creator:
    Shearman, Nancy Walker
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    Over the past decade, federal as well as state legislation has been passed to eliminate discrimination and create equality in the workplace. However, the attitudes of professionals are not as easily changed. Many barriers still face female executives entering the corporate level. This study examined the attitudes of professionals in...
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    characteristics affecting the promotion of female executives. Aided by legislation in the 1970's, women were

  • Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

    Creator:
    Wood, Amy
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    In This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the importance of wealth as a factor in supporting happiness and fostering the American Dream on an individual basis. With these texts, Fitzgerald acknowledges that wealth is a factor and, simultaneously, a...
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    of culture: “[s]he fed him sections of the “Fetes Galantes” before he was ten; at eleven he could

  • Search images

    Creator:
    Dunham, Karen L.
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    This thesis is a collection of six essays with interconnecting elements and themes. Two overriding themes which pervade the collection are the search for spiritual wholeness and the relationships between humans and their environments. The essays document my recent explorations of and experimentations with the "creative nonfiction" genre. have worked...
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    edges still intact. I turned the stone over and over, running my thumb across its scalloped surface

  • Revisioning grandeur : an exploration of intertextuality in Alice Munro and Virginia Woolf

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    King, Michelle L.
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    In this thesis I argue that Alice Munro’s work takes part in an ongoing feminist discourse that examines alterations in male and female gender relations, as they have been represented in domestic fiction by women writers since the late nineteenth century. I analyze two short stories written by Munro: “Meneseteung,”...
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    trivial” (262). Furthermore, Munro’s earlier work was regarded by some critics as “piece[s] of fluff

  • Abraham's daughter

    Creator:
    Melton, Barbara
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    This thesis is a series of personal essays that explore themes of fundamentalism, family, loss, personal growth and the question of free will. The work reflects my study of the written word, of language, and of how people have tried to define, or have experienced, the numinous. The essays are...
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    came over to talk with Pat and ,s] he introduced me to Frodo, a short, fidgety fellow who lived