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Global Citizen, Global Consumer: Study Abroad, Neoliberal Convergence, and the Eat, Pray, Love Phenomenon

Creator:: Barbour, Nancy Staton
Abstract:: This thesis examines the convergence of neoliberal rhetoric across popular media, academic, and institutional discourses, and draws connections between contemporary women's travel literature and common scripts in study abroad promotion. Finding such narratives to be freighted with ethnocentric constructs and tacit endorsements of market-based globalization, I critique the mainstreaming of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , and the Eat, Pray, Love Phenomenon Abstract approved: Patti L. Duncan This

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

Creator:: Ireland, Heather Montes
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Excavating Microlending from Neoliberalism. Abstract approved: Patti L. Duncan This study

Saudi Arabian Women Pursuing Higher Education at Oregon State University

Creator:: Al-Sheikhly, Nadya A.
Abstract:: Since 2005, the United States has experienced a significant influx of international students from Saudi Arabia, particularly women (Bollang, 2006). The American educational structure is something Saudi women have never experienced due to the vast differences between both cultures in all facets. There is very little to no research conducted...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: committee: Shelley Dubkin-Lee, Patti Duncan, Anita Helle and David Bernell. I will never forget the

Letting Our Students Speak: Enriching the Discourse about Feminist Pedagogy in the Virtual Classroom

Creator:: Hugmeyer, Andrea Doyle
Abstract:: The increasingly corporatized and privatized public university has resulted in significant role changes for students and faculty. Among these changes includes the development of online education and its proliferation among various disciplines to not only increase educational access, but to sustain budgetary program needs. Such processes are occurring in women's...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: through the years. Second, I would like to thank my committee member, Dr. Patti Duncan. Your

"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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: support has carried me through my undergraduate career and now my Masters. Thank you. Dr. Patti Duncan

"Walloped" by the weather? Deflections, diversions, and dubious representations of women in climate change discourse

Creator:: Brinker, Rachel K.
Abstract:: Research shows that women's lives are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change. While the topic of women is largely absent from climate discourse overall, the representations of women that occur reveal underlying structures of power rooted in imperialism and colonial dominance. This thesis presents an analysis of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Patti Duncan, Lani Roberts, Janet Lee, Susan Shaw, Kryn Freehling- Burton, Lori Cramer, Jane Nichols

“My Whole World”: Teen Moms Navigating Identity and Social Discourse

Creator:: Tanner, Laura C.
Abstract:: Social discourse presents teenage childbearing as a “serious problem” that results in significant harm and expense to teenage mothers, their children, and society. Although the discourse of teenage childbearing has been multiple, overlapping, and contested, it has resulted in negative stereotyping and stigmatization of teenage mothers. Much of these stereotypes...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: ”: Teen Moms Navigating Identity and Social Discourse by Laura C. Tanner A PROJECT Submitted to

Wedding Bells, Binaries and the Heterosexual Menace

Creator:: McNeill, Elizabeth
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . I also want to thank Dr. Patti Duncan for her support and encouragement to keep going and finish

The third wave : not your mothers' feminism

Creator:: Bjorkman, Gail M.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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

Creator:: Coffey, Kimberly Ann
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: offering a critique of Michael C. McGee’s essay, “In Search of ‘The People’: A Rhetorical Alternative

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Global Citizen, Global Consumer: Study Abroad, Neoliberal Convergence, and the Eat, Pray, Love Phenomenon

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

Saudi Arabian Women Pursuing Higher Education at Oregon State University

Letting Our Students Speak: Enriching the Discourse about Feminist Pedagogy in the Virtual Classroom

"Flying the plane as we build it" : a qualitative study of an organization's goals and actions toward the prevention of exploited female youth

"Walloped" by the weather? Deflections, diversions, and dubious representations of women in climate change discourse

“My Whole World”: Teen Moms Navigating Identity and Social Discourse

Wedding Bells, Binaries and the Heterosexual Menace

The third wave : not your mothers' feminism

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

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