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  • 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...
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    Dissertation
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    College Culture Abstract approved: ____________________________________________________ Larry D

  • 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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    career has been rewarding in large part due to her. Leslie Richards has offered more than could ever be

  • 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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    McCarthy‘s Blood Meridian Abstract approved: Kerry D. Ahearn In this thesis I argue that Cormac

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

    Creator:
    Wood, Barbara L.
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    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...
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    Dissertation
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    committee, Chair, Dr. Clara Pratt, Dr. Leslie Richards, Dr. Janet Lee, Dr. Sally Galleger, Dr. Jim Firth

  • Allocation in Health Care : Antecedent Conditions and Catholic Insights

    Creator:
    Hosford, Laura L.
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    This research was aimed at providing the foundation for changing standards of care in a critical care setting using Catholic concepts of respect for human dignity, subsidiarity, common good, and solidarity as a matter of social justice. I first unpacked the nature of ICU care and the inevitability of the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Richard Miller and Thomas Nagel as an antecedent condition to allocation decisions. Finally I

  • Queering the Birthing Body: Coming Out Fatigue and the Medical Gaze

    Creator:
    Danna, Maria N.
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    Queer birthing parents in the Pacific Northwestern United States have multifaceted and variable paths when it comes to conceiving a family. With the innovations in assisted reproductive technology accompanying the wider acceptance and recognition of gender and sexual difference in mainstream society, a greater number of queer birthing parents are...
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    Masters Thesis
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    the former emerges (Davis-Floyd 2001, 2004; Cheyney 2011; Bohren, et al. 2015: Bowser, D, Hill, K

  • "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
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    ................................................................................................... 245 Appendix D Sample Interview Guide for DSAM Cohort ......................................... 249

  • Birthing Experience: Feminism, Symbolic Interaction, and (Re) Defining Birth

    Creator:
    Roland-Schwartz, Michele L.
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    In this paper, my aim is to call attention to the meanings women attach to their birthing experiences using the symbolic interaction perspective in conjunction with a feminist lens. I argue that the obstetrical model of childbirth defines the course of the relationship between the laboring woman and attendant, limiting...
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    Masters Thesis

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

    Creator:
    Ireland, Heather Montes
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , all practices have a discursive aspect. 11 Judith Baxter (2003) reiterates that discourse

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

    Creator:
    Love, Melanie S.
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    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