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  • The Conseciuences and Effects for Male Students in the Women Studies Classroom

    Creator:
    Love, Melanie S.
    Abstract:
    This research explores the consequences and effects for men enrolled in introductory Women Studies courses at Oregon State University. Men are enrolling in the feminist classroom in larger numbers due to institutional changes allowing Women Studies to provide credit for baccalaureate core curriculum. The intention of this study is to...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Transnational feminism and the microfinance (r)evolution : excavating microlending from neoliberalism

    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
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    inherently exploitative to women of color, and Paul Farmer on structural violence as encompassing complex

  • Fostering Authority in Readers and Writers

    Creator:
    Love, Jennifer Mary
    Abstract:
    As a reader and as a teacher of introductory reading and writing courses, I am persuaded by the concept of a genuine authority in which all readers both value and seek to examine their early readings of texts. What I have come to regard as a pretended authority or mastery,...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    other members of my thesis committee--Anita He lle, Paul Kopperman, Janet Lee--and for each person's

  • In the words of a woman

    Creator:
    Rose, Kerin G.
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    I am a woman who writes. I am a writer who is a woman. In the Words of a Woman is an exploration of how these two facts of my life merge and influence each other. It is a work written to mediate between the supposed dichotomies of creative and...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    , Paul, and Nicholas Hochfeld. Thank you for bringing me into your family circle. I thank my mother

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

    Creator:
    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...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis