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  • 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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , inspired by my own reading of Ursula LeGuin, Anne Mac Caffrey, Mary Stewart, Lloyd Alexander, C. S. Lewis

  • A conceptual model of women entrepreneurs in small businesses

    Creator:
    Putnam, Carol A.
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    Women entrepreneurs are an economic force within the American and Oregon economy. Women are starting businesses at two to five times the rate of men. There has been significant research detailing the demographics, barriers, and business management skills of women business owners. Yet, the research to date has been limited...
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    Dissertation
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    69 Barriers 71 Advice for Others 73 Field Notes - Participant 1 74 Participant 2 Anne 75 General

  • 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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    assigned book, Daughters of Copper Woman by Anne Cameron, caught my attention. The note reads (I still

  • "I'm a Mom too!" - Stigma, Support & Contested Identities among Adolescent Mothers in the United States

    Creator:
    Everson, Courtney L.
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    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...
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    Dissertation

  • Codified into the word : the intersections of language and violence in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

    Creator:
    Hagan, Matthew T.
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . 7 Along with Kollin‘s labeling of Blood Meridian as an anti-Western, Inger-Anne Softing, in ―Desert

  • Linking generations : the family legacies of older Armenian mothers

    Creator:
    Manoogian, Margaret M.
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    Families stay connected over time through the intergenerational transmission of legacies. Legacies help family members to articulate family identity, learn more about family history, and provide succeeding generations with information about family culture and ethnicity. This qualitative study examines how older mothers transmit family meanings, history, and culture to family...
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    Dissertation
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    (Alexander, Rubinstein, Goodman, & Luborsky, 1991; Kotre, 1984; McAdams & de St. Aubin, 1992; Unruh, 1983

  • Accessing health care on the asexual spectrum : A feminist analysis of patient-practitioner relationships and compulsory sexuality in medical discourse

    Creator:
    Vanderzee, Vanessa A.
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    The LGBTQ population is widely recognized as an at-risk demographic—as a result ofstigma, studies report sexual and gender minorities experience elevated risk for depression,suicide, anxiety, and substance abuse, as well as greater exposure to sexual, physical, andinterpersonal violence (Logie 1244). Asexuality, a marginalized population traditionallyexcluded from the LGBTQ acronym, poses...
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    Masters Thesis
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    -identifying patient, or outright invalidated the identity via pathologization approaches. Stacey Anne

  • The Internet Usage Habits of Young Women with ADHD : Insights and Implications

    Creator:
    Dakessian, Drew R.
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    Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the most common childhood neurological disorder in the United States, also affects grown women. But girls with ADHD, who tend towards symptoms of inattentiveness, often go undiagnosed until young adulthood. This is because (a) their symptoms are less obvious than the hyperactivity common in ADHD boys, and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    mechanically recorded sources; one of its purposes must be … entertainment. (Anne Pelowski, The Art of

  • Lesbian leaders in action : influencing and transforming community college culture

    Creator:
    Kenney, Rebecca J.
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    The purpose of this study is to explore through their own stories and journeys (storjourns), how lesbian leaders influence and transform dominant community college culture. Five lesbian leaders participated who held the position of Director, Associate Dean, Dean, Executive Vice President, and President/Executive Dean. This microethnographical inquiry divulges and makes...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Academic women : individual considerations and structural forces in navigating academic organizations

    Creator:
    Almquist, Jennifer M.
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    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...
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    Dissertation
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    , Anne!), you have made this journey possible. Specifically, I want to thank Drs. Phyllis Lee and Lani