Search Constraints

Start Over
Filtering by: Creator Muhling, Barbara A. Remove constraint Creator: Muhling, Barbara A. Committee Member Lee, Janet Remove constraint Committee Member: Lee, Janet

Search Results

  • Women's perceptions of their children's experiences in domestic violence

    Creator:
    Wood, Barbara L.
    Abstract:
    Ten female survivors of physically assaultive domestic violence were interviewed three times each in a feminist, qualitative study designed to access their perceptions about their children's experiences in domestic violence. All participants had children living with them at the time of the abuse and were one to five years out...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Full Text:
    in Domestic Violence by Barbara L. Wood A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in

  • Linking generations : the family legacies of older Armenian mothers

    Creator:
    Manoogian, Margaret M.
    Abstract:
    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...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Full Text:
    mothers residing in California were interviewed. A life course perspective provides the overarching

  • Empathy, Person and Community: the Foundation of the Sciences in the Phenomenology of Edith Stein

    Creator:
    Lovestone, Lauren R.
    Abstract:
    During the first decades of the twentieth century different attempts were made to unify the diversifying and specializing sciences. One of these attempts manifested as the History of Science. Established in 1913 with the academic journal Isis, its first article written by George Sarton clarified that the field was created...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    found that as a result of her phenomenological investigation of empathy, Stein asserted the foundation

  • A conceptual model of women entrepreneurs in small businesses

    Creator:
    Putnam, Carol A.
    Abstract:
    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...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Full Text:
    A conceptual model of women entrepreneurs in small

  • In the words of a woman

    Creator:
    Rose, Kerin G.
    Abstract:
    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
    Full Text:
    In the words of a woman AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF

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

    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
    Full Text:
    : _____________________________________________________ Nancy R. Rosenberger This dissertation is situated as the third work in a series on academic

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

    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:
    "I'm a Mom too!" -- Stigma, Support & Contested Identities

  • Lived Experiences of “Beautiful” Women : A Postmodern Feminist Exploration of Beauty Discourse and Identity

    Creator:
    Marie, Michelle
    Abstract:
    While a great deal is known about the benefits of being culturally identified as attractive, very little is known about the lived experiences of beautiful women. In this study, 21 adult women who are currently employed as models or represented by modeling agencies participated in open-ended interviews, and their responses...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Full Text:
    . Title: Lived Experiences of “Beautiful” Women: A Postmodern Feminist Exploration of Beauty Discourse

  • Boring to the Core: The Archaeology, History, and Dendrochronology of a Railroad Logging Camp, Ladee Flat, Clackamas County, Oregon

    Creator:
    Paullin, Pamela K.
    Abstract:
    Although the timber industry was the major economic force in the lives of several generations of Oregon families, very little archaeological investigation has been done on the dozens of abandoned logging camps that are scattered throughout the forests of the Pacific Northwest. This project focuses on Camp 1, a 1920s...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    Boring to the Core: A dendrochronological investigation into

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

    Creator:
    Steuben, Marieke L.
    Abstract:
    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
    Full Text:
    : ________________________________________________________________________ Laura P. Rice This thesis examines the nature of publishing as a political endeavor through