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Creator:: Viveros Cespedes, Marcos Andres
Abstract:: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) is an interdisciplinary academic field that addresses gender, sexuality, and social justice issues. The research objective of this project was to examine the attitudes of self-identified male students in introductory Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies for winter term 2016 at Oregon State University. This...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: education, it has its roots and origins in the social movements of the 1960’s and 1970’s, specifically the

Creator:: Alvarado, Carla S.
Abstract:: Health disparity scholars and researchers call to expand the conceptualization of health disparities research beyond the predominant and long-standing race-based analyses. The call requests the inclusion of frameworks and theories that reflect the complex, multi-level and multifactorial social processes that yield health disparities. Intersectionality is a theoretical framework that is...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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Creator:: Everson, Courtney L.
Abstract:: This dissertation aims to provide a comprehensive portrayal of doula care in the lives of pregnant and parenting adolescent mothers. The purpose of this research was to examine the relationships between psychosocial stress, social support, institutionalized constraints, and their impacts on health and well-being among adolescent mothers in the Northwestern...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: construction(s) of young maternal age; cross-cultural discourses of teen childbearing, while often not

Creator:: Almquist, Jennifer M.
Abstract:: This dissertation is situated as the third work in a series on academic women. In 1964, Jessie Bernard published Academic Women, which provided a comprehensive assessment of the status of women in academia. Two decades later, in 1987, Angela Simeone offered insight into attempts to achieve equity for women in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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Creator:: Hagan, Matthew T.
Abstract:: In this thesis I argue that Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel Blood Meridian serves as a critique of the American Western mythos by collapsing aspects of myth, ideology, and the sublime into the question of violence's relationship to language. In explicating the novel, I demonstrate how the ironies staged between the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: physical prowess and stoic dominance ―distrust[s] language in part because language tends to be wielded

Creator:: Ireland, Heather Montes
Abstract:: This study employs interdisciplinary methods to make transnational feminist sense of the microfinance phenomenon. Drawing upon a combination of discourse approach, textual analysis, political economics and critical theory construction, I fused a feminist critical discourse approach to excavate microfinance from neoliberalism. I designed an economic justice framework and executed an...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: racialized women. “Controlling black women‟s bodies has been especially important for capitalis[m],” Hill

Creator:: Kandathil, Sonia M.
Abstract:: With women comprising nearly 50% of HIV/AIDS infections globally, the development of new woman-initiated HIV prevention methods has become a public health imperative. To date, the female condom and the diaphragm are the only woman-initiated prevention methods available on the consumer market. Recent research has focused on two HIV/AIDS prevention...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ): Factors Associated with Intentions to Use Microbicides and Tenofovir. Abstract approved: S. Marie

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