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Filtering by: Creator Boschma, Anne L. C. Decade 2010-2019 Degree Field Women Studies

Pushing for natural childbirth : a rhetorical analysis of the alternative birth movement

Creator:

Coffey, Kimberly Ann

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The purpose of this study is to examine how rhetoric functions in the Alternative Birth Movement (ABM). In particular, communication published by movement leaders will be examined to discover how rhetoric propels the movement from one stage to the next as well as how rhetoric facilitates the goals of the...

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Masters Thesis

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). However, Betty-Anne Daviss argues that the home birth movement is an important faction of the ABM
"Flying the plane as we build it" : a qualitative study of an organization's goals and actions toward the prevention of exploited female youth

Creator:

Dubyak, Erin A.

Abstract:

Within the U.S. there is a growing interest in the case of female adolescents being coerced into the sex industry (Bernstein, 2010; Estes & Weiner, 2001; Soderlund, 2010; Williams and Frederick, 2009). This interest, which emerged due to U.S. involvement in the international trafficking phenomena and grassroots organizing, has resulted...

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Masters Thesis
Wedding Bells, Binaries and the Heterosexual Menace

Creator:

McNeill, Elizabeth

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This research explores and aligns a postmodern method in line with a theoretical lens of "strategic political queer/feminism" to understand the construction and positioning of the issue/ problem of same-sex marriage. The method takes shape through a theoretical framework that leads to a political maneuver opening access to the rights...

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Masters Thesis

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