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  • The third wave : not your mothers' feminism

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    Bjorkman, Gail M.
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    Examination of all known U.S. Third Wave feminist literature reveals that there is no coherent unitary theory. Explication of the Third Wave addresses the generational and cultural strife within the feminist family and provides a modern feminist response to the changing faces and locations of the isms. Identification of the...
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    , Women Studies, and Philosophy presented on October 29, 2010. Title: The Third Wave: Not Your Mothers

  • A Thematic Feminist Analysis of Best-Selling Children’s Picture Books

    Creator:
    Marie, Michelle
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    Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the top ten best-selling children's picture books of 2006 reveals that these books contain elements of systematic privilege and oppression. Dominant group members are numerically overrepresented in the sample. Major emergent themes are the normalization of racism and white privilege, the stereotypical portrayal of the...
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    Women Studies, Women Studies, and Philosophy presented on September 18, 2007. Title: A Thematic

  • Brown on the inside : multiracial individuals and white privilege

    Creator:
    Quihuiz, Shannon D.
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    Biracial and Multiracial people are one of the fastest growing racial groups in the United States. Individuals with a mixed identity have the ability to choose endless racial/ethnic designations that best exemplify their racial/ethnic social identity. However, people who are racially/ethnically mixed may receive criticism if their proclaimed identity does...
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    and political agendas. The biological construct argues human variation is dependent on biology

  • From sister to sister to woman : the role of sororities in the social transmission of gender

    Creator:
    Gilmore, Jennifer
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    Sororities play an important role in the process by which sorority women become gendered by influencing members' ideas about what it means to be a woman. Women and men become gendered through regular social interaction with other women and men, and sororities have a particularly strong impact on their members...
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    1994). Sex is 11 biology, evidenced through anatomy, hormones, and physiology, and gender, on the

  • Oregon Health & Science University's understanding of cultural competency

    Creator:
    Racansky, Pamela A.
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    The United States population continues to increase and diversify. The cultural composition within the United States embodies a multitude of people from a variety of belief systems, religious backgrounds, and ethnicities. Within current biomedical practice, many of these differences are often marginalized, leaving populations with unsatisfactory experiences in seeking health...
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    , I took part in the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World conference and presented a