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  • The Experiences of Male Students in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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    Viveros Cespedes, Marcos Andres
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    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...
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    education, it has its roots and origins in the social movements of the 1960’s and 1970’s, specifically the

  • Disparities in Health Outcomes and Health Care Access : A Quantitative Intersectional Approach

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    Alvarado, Carla S.
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    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...
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Carla S

  • "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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    construction(s) of young maternal age; cross-cultural discourses of teen childbearing, while often not

  • 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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    , and sold goods and services (Fisher, 1990). This history of commerce could be the corner- stone on

  • 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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    Phallus," considers Leslie Feinberg's novel about Butch-Femme lesbian culture, Stone Butch Blues

  • 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

  • Is family beyond justice? : exploring determinants of wives' perceived fairness about the division of household labor and child care in Thailand

    Creator:
    Surinya, Tippavan
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    The researcher 1) explored Thai employed wives' perceived fairness in the division of household labor and child care, 2) investigated factors determining Thai's working wives' perception of fairness in the division of household labor and child care, and 3) developed a model of the determinants of wives' perceived fairness in...
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    Dissertation
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    of her husband. It is assessed by subtracting the husband' s reported monthly income from the wife's

  • 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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    & Zeitlin, 1983; Martin, Hagestad, & Diedrick, 1988; Stone, 1989). Some researchers have proposed that

  • East Meets East: Cross-Cultural Communication between Japanese Managers and Thai Subordinates

    Creator:
    Mekratri, Yaowarej
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    This research mainly examines the superior-subordinate relationship between Japanese managers and Thai subordinates working in joint ventures in Thailand, especially the management style of the Japanese and the reactions of the Thais, Cultural adaptation of Japanese expatriates and Thai subordinates is also explored. Through this study, we gain better understanding...
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    Masters Thesis

  • 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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    ....................................................................................................................92  Chapter Three: Academic Organization(s