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Morrison’s Magical Reality: Disrupting the Politics of Memory

Creator:: Littke, Amanda L.
Abstract:: Novelist Toni Morrison is well-known for using the concept she calls rememory, or the process of actively revisiting and reconstructing a cultural past. Many critics agree that Morrison uses rememory in a strategic way, so that it provides sturdy framework for a larger discussion of issues of race, class, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ” (Byerman 28). Similarly, American studies scholar Nancy J. Peterson contrasts hegemonic, grand

Feminist and Mormon: Reconciling Ideals of Equality and a Culture of Patriarchy

Creator:: George, Julie A. (Julie Ann)
Abstract:: The aim of this study is to explore how women who identify as both active, believing Mormons and as feminists negotiate the contradictions between an ideology that values equality (feminism) and a religion that values patriarchy (Mormonism). Data were gathered through recorded and transcribed interviews with women who identify as...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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:: inherently exploitative to women of color, and Paul Farmer on structural violence as encompassing complex

Are single classified women's needs being addressed by the union in a university environment?

Creator:: Pastre, Nicolette M.
Abstract:: The initial research question for this study asked whether single women were having their employment needs met by the union in a university setting. Twelve single women who were members of a union at a university participated in semi-structured interviews about their experiences with the union. To the surprise of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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
Full Text:: excellent example of liberal feminism. Activists such as Susan B. Anthony and Alice Paul centered their

"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:: Paul Wellstone and included a much more nuanced and broad definition of trafficking than what was

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

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:: Paul Treanor, neoliberal ideology forces individuals to “act in conformity with market forces,” and

Rural Latinas/os of the Pacific Northwest: College and the Experience of Self- Identification

Creator:: Zaragoza, Mariana C.
Abstract:: There is an ever growing number of Latinas/os who reside and have settled permanently in rural America. Unbeknownst to most, rural Latinas/os face adversities unfamiliar to those living outside of this scope. As it stands, the barriers urban Latinas/os students face when transitioning to college has been well documented. However,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of desegregation. In a ruling District Court Judge Paul McCormick cited educational theory focusing

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Morrison’s Magical Reality: Disrupting the Politics of Memory

Feminist and Mormon: Reconciling Ideals of Equality and a Culture of Patriarchy

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

Are single classified women's needs being addressed by the union in a university environment?

The third wave : not your mothers' feminism

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

Saudi Arabian Women Pursuing Higher Education at Oregon State University

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

Rural Latinas/os of the Pacific Northwest: College and the Experience of Self- Identification

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