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Exploring Sri-Lankan women's migration experiences in L.A. county : three stories, three lives

Creator:: Gunewardena, Sriyanthi Lorna Antoinette
Abstract:: The recognition that women are not in a fixed position but are dynamic and active in any of the processes of migration and post-migration adjustment helps us to see the complexity of women's participation in migration. Using life history interviews, three Sri-Lankan womens' migration experiences are examined for the ways...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: chapter I provide a general overview of this thesis, share some general information about women in Sri

Uncovering Women's Magazines: Editors' Perspectives on the Relationship between Editorial and Advertising Content in Women's Fashion/Beauty Magazines

Creator:: Felesky, C. Leigh
Abstract:: This research examines women's magazine editors' perspectives of the relationship between editorial and advertising content in women's magazines. It specifically investigates how this relationship affects both general editorial content and more specifically, social topic stories. Mainstream women's beauty/fashion magazine editors—including editors-in-chief—were queried as to the nature of these relationships. Interviews...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: experience no perceived separation between the purpose of the sociaL/editorial content and the economic

Confessing Our Sims: The construction of gender and sexuality among women ages 18-22 on MySpace

Creator:: Papaleo, November R.
Abstract:: MySpace is a social network phenomenon with over 100 million profiles and a strong presence in over 24 countries. As digital media become more commonplace, social networks are becoming sites where women create and manage relationships and identities. This thesis is a study of how women ages 18-22 are constructing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: diaries), but to date, there is no information, outside of demographics, analyzing the values and

Twin Peaks and the Ideological Problematic of Feminine Representation: An Examination of the Character Audrey Home

Creator:: Wood, Susan (Susan Elaine)
Abstract:: In this thesis, I examine the ways in which the television series Twin Peaks represents the feminine through a textual analysis of the character Audrey Home. Using reader-response theory, I seek to show that while the series conforms to patriarchal media conventions such as the male gaze and narrative stereotypes...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: be 13 seen as . . mere pastiche of past styles thrown together with no other thought other than

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

Creator:: Marie, Michelle
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: any one of our parts. Black feminist theorists in particular have pointed out that there are no

Mothers and Work: Women's Perceptions in Contemporary Japanese Society

Creator:: Yoshizaki, Kimiyo
Abstract:: This paper investigates certain women's problems in contemporary Japan. Historically, Japanese believed ideal women fit in the stereotype of "Good wife, Wise mother." Japanese women's main roles were regarded as wife and mother. Especially, motherhood was the main responsibility of women. However, the advance of industry, technology, and methods of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: competitive situation of this ojuken. According to Ohinata: It is certainly no mistake to say that, as often

Women Farmers and Ranchers and Agricultural Knowledge: Gender. Experience, and Connection

Creator:: Filan, Trina Robin
Abstract:: This research is based on in-depth interviews with 20 women farmers and ranchers from the state of Oregon. These women employ a variety of methods and subscribe to a number of divergent philosophies regarding agricultural practices. The intention of this study is to examine how women who are the primary...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: agricultural knowledge. For example, what are the types of information that women who are the primary or equal

Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

Creator:: Morales-Warming, Melissa
Abstract:: White women’s experiences with major institutions, the church included, often are generalized to other women’s experiences, much like how the experience of men in often represented as the experience of all humankind. In 2001 Elaine Howard Ecklund studied white lay women in the Catholic Church and explored two questions: What...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . 146-7). Looking back in history and becoming aware of women’s church leadership in years past is

InHERitance: The Transmission of Women's Inalienable Possessions, Personal Narrative and the Mother-Daughter Bond

Creator:: Ashley, Jessica
Abstract:: Two companion pieces, a video documentary and written analysis, provide the text for this exploration of how women's life stories and the mother-daughter narrative are preserved through the transmission of inherited objects. The video documentary reveals the lives of six diverse women who each discuss the politics of receiving and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: is no longer centered on white, upper-class women of privilege. Rather, more 4 and more women's

Silenced voices : maids in Singapore

Creator:: Gaulocher, Suzanne M.
Abstract:: This paper is a compilation of micro and macro consequences of women migrating into Singapore to work as domestic workers. Singapore's governmental push for Singaporean women to have babies and a career simultaneously has required modern families to seek alternative forms of child care as a means of fulfilling household...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: or no legal or social support in their countries of origin nor in the host country. Non

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Exploring Sri-Lankan women's migration experiences in L.A. county : three stories, three lives

Uncovering Women's Magazines: Editors' Perspectives on the Relationship between Editorial and Advertising Content in Women's Fashion/Beauty Magazines

Confessing Our Sims: The construction of gender and sexuality among women ages 18-22 on MySpace

Twin Peaks and the Ideological Problematic of Feminine Representation: An Examination of the Character Audrey Home

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

Mothers and Work: Women's Perceptions in Contemporary Japanese Society

Women Farmers and Ranchers and Agricultural Knowledge: Gender. Experience, and Connection

Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

InHERitance: The Transmission of Women's Inalienable Possessions, Personal Narrative and the Mother-Daughter Bond

Silenced voices : maids in Singapore

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